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roVB SILVER aN >;IVKRSARY 1914-1939 ]A\ EN -SIXTH YEAR Roosevelt To Make No Delegate Fight, party Chiefs Feel Kuhn Witness If,# jH ■ft? Gustave Elmer National organizer of the German- Ameriean Bund, Gustave Elmer appeared as a state witness in the trial of Fritz Kuhn, his fuehrer. About all the information the court elicited from Elmer was that Kuhn is the boss of the Bund and that the organization operated for more than a year with Kuhn as the only officer. Kuhn is being tried in New York Destroyer Is Launched; To Alter Ships .. p.cy. Mass., Nov. 15.—(AP) — 7 • ation's newest destroyer, nam honor of the late Admiral Wil- S. Benson, and christened by dow, slid down the ways to a . t the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Ac ; ral Benson’s distinguished n:.7A career covered 47 years of ac service, and included command '. Philadelphia Navy Yard, 14 as chiel of naval operations, :ce on a commission which con i with the Allied powers during World War, and on the com as which drew up naval terms Admistice and negotiated peace. !>.*(*'.*!? POR ATE LESSONS IN TWO OF NEW CRUISERSj ngton, Nov. 15.—(AP/ —Act-' 7 c. etary Charles Edison said to- i :.e Navy was considering in- : ting lessons of the European the designs of two new caiiisers. out predicting they would be ' tel than Germany’s raid-I (Continued on Page Four) Hodge Newell, Jr. formally Passed For Flying Cadet Raleigh, Nov. 15. (AP) (f'ptance of seven college 'Wilts as flying cadets was nerved today by F. L. j ' kcr. head of a United States mv Air Corps examining ,:ir d now sitting at N. C. State dege Those passed by the rd l 'eluded Hodge A. New ‘F - r -of Henderson, a student A ike Forest College. Revocations Ot Licenses Listed Slowly Laity Dispatch Bureau. In tli#> Sir Walter Hotel. /. 15.—1 f last week’s '('vocations, issued by Safety Division, is ’ : ■ "re is every reason to oony of the courts of no comply with the law own good sweet time, k to the matter of re 'Vjiuents involving revoca ■r licenses. and to be specific as • and so on; consider F gmald Ben Ball, of F ~!i te 4, Winston-Salem, included in the list of * i used for publication of November 11. h. ’ reveals, was convicted : -Salem’s municipal court ' 01 driving drunk and, Continued on Page Four) •Hritiirrsmt Datltt Dispatch wire service: op IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Won’t Authorize Use Os Name on Primary Ballots, But Depend On Picking Up Strength After Fa vorite Sons Disap pear. Washington, Nov. 15.—(AP) — Persons high in Democratic party councils predicted today that Presi dent Roosevelt would make no fight for Democratic convention delegates in preferential primaries next spring. They expressed the opinion that, even if Mr. Roosevelt in tended to run for a third term, he would noi authorize use of his name on the primary ballots in states re quiring candidates’ consent. Instead, they predicted, he would rely cn instructed delegates, and on his chances of picking up dele gates from states pledged to other candidates after they had recorded their primary preference in initial voting at the convention. Mr. Roosevelt once more declined to shed any light yesterday on his third term intentions. At the White House press conference, a reporter mentioned the week-end announce ment that Vice-President Garner's name would go before the Demo cratic convention. ‘’Does that change your plans in any way, Mr. President?” he asked. The President smiled and told his questioner not to be so subtle. Senator Van Nuys, Democrat, In diana, told reporters today that he ! thought Mr. Roosevelt should state ' immediately whether he intended to I run again. “The next election is going to be crucial”, Van Nuys said, “and the party and public are entitled to this | information, so that they can weigh 1 the several candidates and pick the I best candidate in the event Presi dent Roosevelt declares he will not run. New York Town’s Mayor Shot Dead By Angry Officer Long Beach, N. Y., Nov. 15. (AP) —Mayor Louis F. Edwards, of Long Beach, was shot and killed and his bodyguard. Patrol man James Walsh, was wounded today while on the steps of the mayor’s home, as he was prepar ing to leave for his office. Soon afterward, Patrolman Alvin Dooley presented himself to Long Beach police for ques tioning. Dooley was formerly president of the Patrolman’s Benevolent Association. Last week he was defeated for re election by Patrolman W’alsh, whom the mayor had favored as a candidate. Lambeth May Run Again For Congress In th»* S*r WiiitPT Hotel. Daily Dispatch Bureau Raleigh, Nov. 15.—Two years ago Walter Lambeth of Davidson county announced he v/as through with Con gress. He declined to stand for re nomination and reeiection, which were his for the Risking, and there followed in the eighth district a cam paign which set a new high for bit terness of aftermath in North Car olina. Now, according to reports reaching this bureau from sources which are completely reliable, it appears that Mr. Lambeth is seriously considering a re-entry into the political field and a race for his old seat, in which a (Continued on Page Three.) Tar Heels Ask $1,537,900 In FHA Loans In October Greensboro, Nov. 15. ‘The Fed eral Housing Administration State Office received during the month ot October, 1939, 364 applications for mortgage insurance totaling $1,5? < 900 an increase of approximately oU per’ cent over the corresponding month of last year,” Aubrey G. Mc- Cabe Federal Housing Administra tion State director for North Caro lina, announced today. “This is the largest number oi ap plications ever received in the State Office for any single month since the Federal Housing Administration Lrst began operations in North Carolina more than five years ago,” Mr. Mc- Cabe declared. The applications received were from 76 cities and towns out ot bU counties in North Carolina and the QNLY DAILY NEW&PAIP’fe PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA HENDERSON, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON- NOVEMBER 15, 1939 Reported Beheaded dHH Wm mm LMmmmg In ' Crown Prince Wilhelm Copenhagen reports that former Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany has been beheaded by the Nazis as a result of a growing monarchist movement aimed at putting him on the throne. He is pictured in the uniform of a Nazi storm trooper. Muni Bodies Os 500 Lost In Big Fire Blaze Sweeps Oil Town in Venezuela So Fast Natives Are Unable to Escape; Government Assem bles Huge Relief Fund. Caracas, Venezuela, Nov. 15. (AP) —Volunteer workers searched Lake Maracaibo today _ for the bodies of 500 to 800 persons esti mated to have in a fire Which swept the oil town of Laguinillas, a village of wooden shacks perched on stilts at the water’s edge. While the searchers paddled through floating debris and charred piling—all that remained of the shantytown which housed 2,500 na tives employed in the great oil fields nearby—t h e government mobilized its resources to aid the survivors. Airplanes brought scores of doc tors and nurses to aid in the relief work, while additional first aid par ties and supplies were rushed by boat from the other side of the lake —6O miles away. National guard de tachments took over the task of maintaining order. President Eleazar Lopez Contrer as. who decreed three days of mour ning throughout the nation, quickly raised a relief fund of 355,000 boli vars $110,000), which was swelled (Continued on Page Three) MURRAY GUGGENHEIM, COPPER KING, IS DEAD Capitalist, 111 Several Days, Passes at Fifth Avenue Home at Age of 81 New York, Nov. 15. — (AP)—Mur ray Guggenheim, capitalist member of the famous copper mining family, died today. Guggenheim, long identified with philanthropic work in New York, died at his Fifth Avenue home after an illness of several days. He was 81. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Leonie Bernhjeim Guggenheim; a son and a daughter. He was born in Philadelphia August 12, 1858. With the accumulation of mining millions, Guggenheim and his wife in 1929 established the Murray and Leonie Guggenheim Foundation for organized charitable and benevolent activities, and subscribed more than $3,000,000 for free dental clinics to care for the teeth of poor children in New York. average amount of mortgages on which FHA insurance was asked was approximately $4,000.00. The cities and towns included were: Albemarle, Asheboro, Ashe ville, Ayden, Beaufort, Brevard, Bur lington, Canton, Catawba, Charlotte, Cherryville, Clayton, Columbia, Con cord, Dallas, Draper, Dunn. Durham, Enfield, Elizabeth City, Elizabeth town, Elkin, Fairmont, Farmville, Fayetteville, 7 Gastonia, Goldsboro, Greenville, Graham, Hemp, Hender son, Hickory, High Point, Kanna polis, Kinston, Laurinburg, Louis burg, Leaksville, Lincolnton, Lum berton, Monroe, Morganton, Mur freesboro, New Bern, Newton, Ox ford, Pinehurst, Raleigh, Reidsville, (Continued on Page Four) Byrd’s Ship Starts For Antarctic Motor Ship North Star, Filled With Sup plies, Sails From Bos ton; Admiral Byrd Gives Signal For Take-Off to South. Boston, Mass., Nov. 15. —AP) — Without the slightest fanfare, the first half of Uncle Sam’s first An arctic expedition in 100 years, sailed away from frigid Boston to day on the first leg of the long journey for the frozen southland. Just before dawn, the motor ship North Star—loaded down with everything from food to phonograph records, from sled dogs to a 27-ton snow cruiser—cast off her lines at the army base and slid quietly down the harbor enroute to Philadelphia. All the goodbyes were said, the farewell ceremonies completed, the final kisses exchanged yesterday, and with the declaration that he believed Little America might pro vide a new and “safer” base for a United States Australian air trail, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, the expedition’s leader, gave the sig nal for the take-off. Inland Canal Head Ousted From Office Washington, Nov. 15.—(AP) Major General T. O. Ashburn, who quit the presidency of the govern ment-owned Inland Waterways, to day told reporters he had been given one hour to resign as the cul mination of a disagreement on how to run the agency. The Commerce Department re placed the retired army officer with Chester Thompson, former con gressman from Rock Island, 111. Ashburn said: “There was a constant serious dis agreement of policy ever since the transfer of the corporation to the Department of Commerce as to whether the Inland Waterways Cor poration should continue to operate as a privately owned corporation, as provided for by law, or was to be come a bureau of the Department of Commerce. I was asked for my resignation and I was very glad to give it.” The general declined to explain the policy disagreement. The Com merce Department was expected to issue a statement later. EASTERN SEABOARD SHAKEN BY QUAKE Philndelnhia, Pa., Nov. 15. —(AP) —A ten-second earthquake shook the eastern seaboard from Baltimore to Trenton, N. J., just before 10 o’clock last night, but apparently caused no serious injuries or property damage. Hughes Good Move In 1924 Bad One Now By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Nov. 15.—T0 read the State Department’s current account of it, Charles Evans Hughes, now chief justice of the Federal Supreme Court, but state secretary in 1924, appears to have made a great mis take then, in dis couraging Bra zil from strengthening its navy, as it wanted to do. If the Brazilians had gone ahead with their program, the conclusion is that Justice Hughes today/they’d have been in much bet ter shape than they actually are to help the United States ip the latter’s patrol of Pan-America’s Atlantic neutrality zone. It’s a sound conclusion all right, but it does Justice (and ex-Secre tary) Hughes considerably less than justice. Times aren’t now what they were in 1924. Charles Evans would need to be a good bit of a prophet (Continued on Page Four) l’O&aih&Ji FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair to partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; not much change in temperature; light, scattered frost in southeast portion tonight. Sino-Jap War Breaks Afresh Near French Colony Border Snow Cruiser Taken Aboard In the Boston Army Base, the Snow Cruiser (right) waits to be loaded aboard the North Star. Ten feet of the Snow Cruiser’s stern was sawed otf before the giant car was stowed on ship. Section will be welded on in the Antarctic. Mexican Supreme Court To Rule On Oil Seizure Lower Court Upholds Constitutionality of Expropriation By Government, But Sustains Right of Foreigners For In demnity. Mexico City, Nov. 15. —(AP) —The Mexican Supreme Court today took under consideratioi an opinion rul ing on the validity of the Mexican government’s expropriation of for eign-owned oil properties. Unofficial reports said the opin ion, presented to the court by Jus tice Rodolfo Asian, upheld the con stitutionality of the expropriation of March 18, 1938, and acknowledged the right of the former owners to demand indemnity for their invest ments, but not for oil deposits under ground. According to Mexican court prac tice, one judge prepares an opinion and submits it for discussion and action by his colleagues at a formal session such as the court held today on the oil suits. Some court circles Delieve no decision would be reached today. BRITISH TANKER IS SUNK AFTER BLAST London, Nov. 15. (AP) — The 199-ton British coastwise tanker Wocdtown was reported sunk to day after an explosion, in which nine of her crew of 12 wer t ' lost. Three survivors were taken to a hospital suffering undetermined injuries. TWO LITHUANIAN FREIGHTERS SUNK London, Nov, 15. (AP) —A Reuter’s (British news agency) dispatch from Kaunas, Lithua nia, reported two Lithuanian freighters the 1,697-ton Pane vezys and the 915-ton Nida, were sunk today in Baltic waters off the Estonian coast. The Nida car ried a British coal cargo. Gold Strike In Georgia Is Sensational Dahlonega, Ga., Nov. 15. (AP) —A new gold strike, bear ing a lode of zonanza ore, which a State geologist said essayed 560.000 a ton, was disclosed to day by operators of the cen tury-old Calhoun mine, three miles south of here. State Geologist Garland Pey ton described the strike as “a vein of quartz two inches in thickness and of unknown depth, so thoroughly impreg nated with gold over approxi mately ten inches that it ap pears as one continuous ribbon of yellow' metal.” Peyton, a veteran in his field, and habitually cautious in esti mating mineral wealth, asserted the vein was the richest he has seen in 25 years in Georgia. F ÜBL.ISIIKD EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Czechs Shouting Against Germany Prague, Nov. 15. —(AP) —Two thousand Czech students demon strated against the German pro tectorate government, but were dispersed before clashing with police. The youths attempted to es cort the body of a 24-year-old student who died of injuries Oc tober 28 to a railway station. The demonstrations extended from the medical school, where the funeral was held, to the station. When police prevented the funeral march, the youths, sing ing Slavic songs, tried to enter Wenceslas Square and Karl’s Square from side streets. Finns Home, i Uncertain About Return Helsinki, Nov. 15. —(AP) —A Fin j nish delegation returned home from | Moscow today after steadfastly re- I sisting Soviet Russian demands for j territorial concessions, and prepared at or.ee to report to the government. Tnc delegation was greeted at the station by Premier Caj :, nder, mem- ; bars of his cabinet and ministers of the Scandinavian nations. Dr. Juho K. Paasikivi, who headed the mission, told interview ers he did not know whether the regotiations with Moscow would be ; osumed. “The positions of the Russians and Finns differ greatly”, he de clared. Asked to comment on statements : bv Tass, official Russian news agen cy. which said that Finland would | be forced to come to terms within seven months, Dr. Paasikivi said: “Such calculations are obviously erroneous. We can Certainly hold out much longer.” Diplomatic observers previously; had expressed belief that Russia would continue massing troops on the Finnish border, in the hope that , the economic strain of counter mob- j ilization might force Finland to 1 yield. New Bus Routes In East Carolina Are Applied Lor Raleigh, Nov. 15. (AP) The Carolina Coach Company applied to the Utilities Commis sion today for franchises to oper ate buses over routes in Eastern North Carolina. Routes applied for follow: Lillington to Fayetteville; New Bern to Sanford, via Kinston and Dunn; New Bern to Norlina, via Greenville and Rocky Mount, and Wilson to Norlina. byway of Nashville and Warrenton. Q PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Japs Land Large Force In Kwantung New Offensive in China Planned, Re gardless of Rights of Third Powers, Tokyo Foreign Office An nounces. Hong Kong, Nov. 15—(AP). —Fresh Japanese forces landed today on the Kwantung province coast near Pak hoi and launched an assault, gen erally viewed as the start of a new south China offensive. Japanese headquarters, announc ing that a combined army and navy force was landed at_the southern port, on the Gulf of Tonking, said it was pushing inland against Chi nese defenders. Hong Kong spokesmen for the Chinese government acknowledged ; that an attack had been launched, : but denied that the Japanese had ' accomplished a landing. They said j Chinese shore batteries replied vig : orously to the fire of 40 Japanese Warships lying off the Kwangtung I coast. The Chinese placed the scene of the attack at a point only 35 miles rom the border of French Indo china, indicating the Japanese may be interested in cutting China’s rail and highway “life lines”, which reach the outside world through In do-China. Pokhoi, 300 miles west of Hong Kong, is just north of Hainan island, strategic base which the Japanese j seized last February 10. [ Lending support to the belief that a broader southern offensive had j been launched was a statement by the Japanese foreign office in Tokyo today, saying, “inconnection with the ! operations just undertaken, the Jap anese government will adhere strict ly to the policy hereto pursued to ward third powers.” Pokhoi and Hainan island are near French IndoChina, and have been viewed as lying within the French sphere of influence. Annenberg’s Service Is All Closed Chicago, Nov. 15. — (AP) —The Nationwide Race News Service, turf information .network, serving thous ands of bookmakers across the country, will suspend business to day, counsel for the system an ! flounced n Federal court. Attorney Weymouth Kirkland in formed Judge James H. Wilkerson that the 28 offices of the vast agen cy would close some time during the day, but he said the exact hour for the shutdown had not yet been fixed. Kirkland made the statement af ter the last legal obstacle to aban donment. of the race news empire, dominated by M. L. Annenberg, had been removed. This was accom plished when the judge, acting on the request of Annenberg’s counsel, dismissed petitions for injunctions restraining the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, the Western Union and the Illinois Bell Tele phone Company from withdrawing their wires from Nationwide News, Tnc. Kirkland told the judge that An nenberg had decided to dissolve the system linking race track and bet ting rooms throughout the nation because of government opposition to its operation. Say Problem Os Business Is Unsolved Cleveland, Nov. 15.—(AP) —Steel Master Tom Girdler and Economist Leonard Porter Ayres took a look at business today, and expressed doubt whether it would continue to revive. “Our problems are with us today, just as they were last August,” Girdler said. “The war in Europe has brought no permanent solu tion.” “Financial barometers are record ing that skepticism about the future prospects of this business revival,” Ayres asserted. “There is real doubt (Continued on Page Four)
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