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on; sii.vku _ AN ‘Xl\ KKSAirV 1914-1339 \ t|XTH YEAR Last Photo .hi'tice Pierce Butler 1 of the last pictures ■■:' , : nstice Pierce Butler of t - '\ me Court, who died in \\ n hospital. The photo two days before his last .!••■■• Till’d. March 17. His way for a fifth appoint i.. .'.i-sident to High Court. I FDR Laughs At Talk On Third term Reference to Attend ing Jefferson Memo rial Dedication in IJ4I Speculated Widely; Meant What He Said, But Does Not Amplify. Hyde Park, N. Y., Nov. 17.—(AP) ?:• i'.-nt Roosevelt laughed long uidiy todya when reporters : i:a there had been consider speculation about what he ' when, in laying the corner tor the Jefferson Memorial ington Wednesday he said he by January, 1941, to be able ;rn for the dedication of the r.-.-: al itself. S' vng a hand on his knee at a -nference, the chief executive c: •• d that he had made the re de! iberately, but he still did ‘ .plity it. T: e had been numerous attempts lyze his statement about v. 1941, to see whether it throw any light on the third ter. w S ue. President’s present term ex n .January 20, 1941. The me will be dedicated the same (Continued on Page Eight) Pension Relaxed, Finns Returning To Their Capital Isinki. Nov. 17. (AP) 1 !sh and foreign residents returning to Helsinki to ns tension notably relaxed Cu fir*t time in the five ■ F of Finnish-Soviet Rus n''-”otiations over terri (• as changes. m the Finnish point of apparently, the suspended • we-, were ended, unless Russian proposals created -asis for reopening them, leaders yesterday dis d the parleys in a meeting ' I the cabinet. eneral Motors And bHh a /*/»•!« - ree Affiliates ined $5,000 Each Ind.. Nov. 17.—(AP) j dge Walter C. Lindley j of 85,000 each today on j Corporation and . convicted last night o; violating the Sherman po-ing the lines, the :ded by law, the judge o , ms lor a new trial and ; judgment. ;• tributes convicted were oi Sales Corporation, Acceptance Corpora i.p Motors Acceptance 11 oi Indiana, ordered that Generai j’’* General Motors Sales 1 hay hull the cost of the 'Hx'xtiU'rsmt clatht snatch ~V IRE SERVICE OP lUE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Congress May Make Its Own Check On Federal Spendings May Tighten Purse Strings on Lavish Outlay of Public Mbney; Public’s Side To Be Presented, Senator Adams Thinks. Washington, Nov. 17. (AP) — Congress may be asked to tighten the Federal purse strings against ex cessive governmental spending through the creation of a legislative budget office. Senator Adams, Democrat, Colo rado, a membes -of the appropria tions committee, disclosed today that economy-minded legislators have disclosed today that economy-mind ed legislators have discussed pro posals to set up a group of indepen dent experts to ‘‘double check” on the need for all departmental ap propriations. He said the preliminary outline of the proposal contemplated establishment of a joint Senate-House committee similar to the joint com mittee on internal revenue and taxa tion. It would study appropriations needed, he haid, in much the same manner as the revenue committee looks into tax requirements and re ports to Congress. “In the appropriations committee, we have been getting only one side of the picture—that of the depart mental experts, who drew the budget requests, and naturally defend them , enthusiastically,” Adams continued. ‘T have no criticism of these de partment heads. They wouldn't be worth much if they weren't on their toes to get the appropriations they think their bureaus need. But the tax-payers are not represented be fore the appropriations committees by witnesses as they ai’e before other committees.” Daladier Hurries To War Council of British in London Paris, Nov. 17. (AP)—Pre mier Daladier left unexpectedly for London today to attend a meeting of tlio Allied supreme war council. The session was understood to have been called for a discussion of the wear’s economic aspects. A meeting of the French cabinet scheduled for this mor ning was postponed. Th« French high command’s mor ning communique said only “a quiet night on the whole front.” German airplanes continued their flights over southeastern France. An air alarm was sig naled at Lyons and another at Marseilles. Crime Probes Unloaded On State Groups Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Nov. 17, —There’s no rest for the weary—nor for the hard working members of North Carolina’s State Bureau of Identification and Investigation; the Handy-men, so called after the bureau’s Director Frederick C. Handy. The Bureau nowadays is getting on an average, more than one call a day from local authorities scattered (Continued on Page Four) I John Thomas Smith, New York | attorney for the defendants, in argu j ing the motion for arrest of judg ment, question the jury's verdict, which convicted the corporations, but acquitted 17 qfiicials ol tne concein. Smith asserted the indictment charged a conspiracy to violate the anti-trust law. - . “Their acquittal,” Smith said, nas taken the flesh and blood out of this conspiracy.” , , , ~ Government lawyers haled the conviction as a victory in the broad Federal anti-monopoly drive and a blow at factory control of car financ ing. The corporations were charged with forcing dealers to finance sales of cars through G. M. A. C. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA* HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, N OVEMBER 17, 1939 FDR’s Aunt Returns 0m ■ Mrs. Dora Delano Forbes For many years a resident of Paris, Mrs. Dora Delano Forbes, sister of the President’s mother, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, arrives in New York aboard the Manhattan, de serting the French capital for dura tion of the war. (Central Press) Japs Claim Steady Move Into China But Chinese An nounce Stubborn Re sistance And Mini mize Advance of In vaders Near Indo- China Borders, Hong Kong, Nov. 17.—(AP) — Japan officially reported today a steady advance in western Kwang tung providence toward China’s “back door” links with French In do-China and British Burma, but the Chinese minimized both the effectiveness and extent of the cam paign. The Japanese said their forces, which landed Wednesday 45 miles west of the treaty port of Pakhoi, on the Gulf of Tonking, and 85 miles east of the Indo-Chinese boi'der, had driven northward 30 miles. They said Chinese resistance was negligible. The Chinese declared, however, the Japanese landing and “at tempted” advance were resisted stubbornly, with the Chinese gun ners sinking a number of Japanese boats. They did not acknowledge the Japanese reports of an inland advance. Hoey Making Future Hard For Next Man Raily liispacc-n Sureau. fn lhr» !intp| Raleigh, Nov. 17. —Perhaps if the half dozen suspected candidates for governor quite realized how hard Governor Clyde R. Hoey is making it for his successor they would not be so enthusiastic about charming the voters into supporting them. Following the incumbent into of fice is going to be a task none but an unusualiy strong man can accom plish without great loss of prestige. It all comes about from the tre mendous Hoey versatility and the readiness, the anxiety, even, of the sitting governor to comply with any and every request for his presence at any and every function given any where and everywhere throughout the State. He is so good along this line, that the adjective “sitting” is not properly applicable to him; be cause he seldom sits long in any one place, he’s that constantly on the go. (Continued on Page Eight.) tOswdth&Ji FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Sat urday; not much change in tem perature. Dewey Feels Contempt At Fritz Kuhn District Attorney Called As Defense Witness at Bund Leader’s' Trial; De fense Claims Hatred Against Kuhn Fos tered. New York. 17 —' \T" - tiict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, called as a detense witness, testi fied today he felt “contempt” for Fritz Kuhn, German-American Bund leader on trial for the alleged theft of bund funds. The defense subpoenaed Mayor LaGuardia of New York for an ap peai’ance, possibly today and Mon day. The mayor was directed to present all correspondence he may have had with Federal, State or county officials -elating to Kuhn. Dewey was sworn in as a witness —called in an attempt to : upport the defense assertion that the prose cution of Kuhn was in act a “persecution” based on politics, and was for the purpose of “destroying him”. “Never having seen this man,” Dewey said, in reply to a question, “nor ever had having had personal contact with him, I cannot say that I have animus against him, but I must say that I regarded him as a nuisance to the community, and a threat to the civil liberties of the community if he became more im portant than he was.” “You have hatred for Kuhn?” asked Kuhn’s attorney. “If you want to use the word contempt, I’d say I have,” Dewey replied. The attorney thereupon asserted that “such a feeling of hatred and hostility has been created against this defendant that it has affected the district attorney of New York.” Finland Has Right Borrow, FDR Asserts Hyde Park, Nov. 17.—(AP) —Fin- land has a perfect right to borrow money from American banks, Presi dent Roosevelt said today, but he told r-eporters that mere was nothing to stories that the Baltic republic had stiffened her attitude toward Russia after obtaining pi'omises of economic and financial aid from the United States. No such help was promised, he said in response to questions. Admonish ing newsmen to check up on his memory, he added that the Finns (Continued on Page Two) U. S. Stirred By Firing By Canada Ship Seattle Wash., Nov. 17.—(AP)— Puget Sound shipping circles were stiri*ed today by the report of a vet eran American shipper that a Cana dian ship had fired across his steam er’s bow when he failed to heed an order to halt promptly for inspection at Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Captain A. J. Boi'kland, of the steamer North Coast, said the warn ing shots were fired Sunday as his ship headed into Prince Rupert on a trip southward from Alaska. He declared he had reported in advance that he intended taking the North Coast into Prince Rupert, but a Dominion vessel halted his ship, questioned him as to why it was (Continued on Page Two) Here’s The Weather For The ‘Great Day’ Raleigh, Nov. 17.—(AP)—The weather man had good news today for more than 52 000 people ‘tit should be a fine, though rather mild, day for the Duke North Carolina football game.” Scanning his charts and maps, H. E. Kichline, .in charge of the Weather Bureau here, said this section tomorrow should have clear skies with temperature lit tle changed from that which brought a 75-degree read ing here yesterday. “Os course,” Kichline hedged, “there is always a ten to twenty percent chance that our calculations are wrong.” WESTERN FRONT LULL DUE TO DISAGREEMENT IN BERLIN, IS BEILEF New Merchant Ship Launched :T . . . ik -M: , : i The Mormacyork, newest vessel built for the United States Maritime Com mission fleet, slides down the ways to the Delaware River in Chester, Pa., launched by Miss Barbara W. Vickery, daughter of Commander and Mrs. Harold Vickery, of Washington, D. C. Vickery designs all Maritime Commission vessels. The government is pondering how to occupy United States ships, barred from war zones by the neutrality Jaw. Germany Is Indifferent To FDR Act Berlin Says Media tion Offer Now Would Be “U ni n teresting”; Roosevelt Has Said Nothing About Effort Toward Peace. Berlin, No v. i 7. (AP) —Au thorized sources said today any general mediation offer by Presi dent Roosevelt at this time would be “uninteresting”, so far as Ger many is concerned. France’s injection of Austrian restitution into the issues at stake in the European conflict, these sources declared, shows conclusive ly the Allies regard ali peace talk as (Continued on Page Thi’ee) Ecuador President Dies and Successor Has Been Selected Quito, Ecuador, Nov. 17. (AP) —Aurelio Narvez, presi dent of Ecuador, died at 1:15 a. m. today. The president col lapsed at his office Tuesday and 'underwent an emergency operation Wednesday. Arroyo del Rio, president of the congress, was named acting president of the republic yes terday. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. 5 Convicts Flee Camp at Newton Raleigh, Nov. 17. (AP) — Os car ruis, State penal superin tendent, reported today that five prisoners escaped from the Ca tawba penal unit near Newton early this morning. Pitts said the men got away by sawing the bars in a corridor. The getaway was apparently between midnight and one o’clock. A posse of local and State of ficers sought the men, but no trace of them had been found at midday. Pitts expressed the opinion that negligence on the part of employees enabled the prisoners to get away. Nine Killed In Prague’s Disorders Berlin, Nov. 17. ;AP)- A Prague dispatch to 1). N. 8., of ficial German news agency, to day said that nine pel sons had been shot to death and a large number arrested in connection with student disturbances there. The dispatch said that Prague academies had been ordered clos ed for three years. D. N. F>. said these extraor dinary measures were taken after students who were fol lowers of Benes assaulted Ger mans. Dr. Edouard Benes was the last president of independent Czechoslovakia. Prague, Nov. 17. —(AP) —Czech high school and the Karlovy Uni versity Technical Institute were occupied early this morning by Ger man schutzstaffei (SS) detach ments and aoout 1,200 rtudents, boys and girls, were hauled away in buses. Pieasons lor this action by Adolf (Continued on Page Eight) Young and Swope Retire from Duty In Gen’l Electric New York, Nov. 17.—(AP) The General Electric Company announced today retirement of Owen D. Young and Gerald Swope from active management of the company. C. E. Wilson will become president and Philip D. Reed chairman of the board. The changes become ef fective January 1, 1940. Wilson has been executive vice-president of the company, and Reed assistant to the presi [ dent. Young and Swope will as sufhe the titles respectively, of honorary chairman and honor ary president. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Britain Is Ready For Retaliation Lack of German At tacks Believed in Lon don Due to D i In ferences Between Hitler And War Lords; Air Raiders Driven Off. London, Nov. 17.—(AP) —High Britisn military authorities ex pressed “conviction” today that what they called Germany’s “inde cisive tactics” on the western front were the i-esult of disagreement be tween Adolf Hitler and his general stall'. These authorities did not disclose what information they had to sup port this view, but said they con sidered it bolstered because Ger many had not organized direct, hard blows against Britain and France, which, they said, was the usual German plan. There were hints also of sharp retaliation against any bombard ment of British cities. Asked what British policy Would be toward tiny bombing of open cities or any use of gas, one source referred questioners to international law and to provisions for retalia tion where the law is violated. A German war plane flew today over the Shetland Islands, off the northern Scottish coast, scene of ! a Nazi air bombing Monday. Alarms sounded in 13 towns over j a wide area also in southwest Lan- I cash ire, Cheshire and north Wales j after an unidentified plane flew j over the region. An all clear signal wsa given in a few minutes, how i ever. | The alarms constituted the first ! air raid warnings of the war on the west coast, and anti-aircraft guns 1 went into action in Cheshire. The press association said that shortly after the all-clear signal was given in one town, three Brit ish pursuit planes sped after the un identified craft. In the German flight over the Shetlands, the air ministry said, no bombs were dropped. Allies Agree On Plan For Operations London, Nov. 17. (AP) —The upremc allied war council met in London today and announced “com plete agreement” on methods of using French and British forces fox the effective conduct of opera lions. A joint statement issued by Prime Minister Chamberlain and French Premier Daladier said plans had been completed for common action in the fields of air, munitions, raw materials, oils, food, shipping end economic warfare. France was represented at the meeting by Daladier, General Mau rice Gustav Gamelin,' commander in-chief of French and British for ces, end other officials. The communique announced pros pective ' establishment of a co ordinating committee for pooling of economic resources for war. FDR Is Not Worried By Ship Defects Hyde Park, N. Y., Nov. 17.—(AP) —Showing little concern over the fact that syme naval vessels had j been found to be top-heavy, Presi i dent Roosevelt asserted today the j condition had been corrected, and indicated he saw no need of a con ! gressional inquiry into the matter. After Acting Navy Secretary Charles Edison had disclosed ihat some i*ecent destroyers had been top-heavy, some suggestions arose tnat Congress make an investiga tion. Told at a press conference that Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon tana, had suggested one, Mr. Roose velt said that all Congress would learn would be this: When the ships were designed 1 (Continued on Page Two)
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