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SILVER I ANNIVERSARY 1914-1939 ipVENTY-SIXTH YEAR 6 MORE SHIPS LOST IN SHOWING SEA WAR 25 States Sit Down At First Table Os Dual Thanksgiving Old Mullet Road |\ \ s Handsomely , i Hi. Nov. 23. — (AP) —Gov- ;r. v received a letter today .. «! i*. Edwards. who operates r- -owned Atlantic & North ( >l.ll railroad under lease, i »at a $5,000 advance pay , K* l»»*en made on the ren :r M's for the line. ;r:i' advised the governor I . (ui'ir.ess had been unexpect -1 since he took over the between Goldsboro and ;:I ( ity. and that he could make another $5,000 payment if needed to wind up the af lait- I*! the railroad. «in railroad was operated in (l :: i >i t! under a State-con ! a ori: 'ration until Septem i r is a losing proposition. Ed . . u) pay $60,500 yearly as air the iirsi payment being iiiy 1 under his contract. Simms Again Named Head; Or Baptists Campbell C o liege Head Named First Vice-President; Ap pccJ For Temperance And Banishment of Hate Urged in Re port. ton-Salem, Nov. 23. —(AP) —j Carolina Baptist churches,! ' g for the final session of their .mnual convention here today, '■‘ed R. N. Simms, Sr., of Ra convention president for the ; y • r. Simms was elected by u on after Dr. A. J. Barton, ington. refused to be con ed a candidate. h > H. Campbell, president of 1 ••i! College at Buie’s Creek, • "(tod first vice-president; Dr. Brewer, president emeritus of h College, Raleigh, second 1 tent, and Dr. Ralph Her . tor of the First Baptist n: Winston-Salem, was nam r! ice-president, organization meeting of the! board, selected by the con- I t night. Louis Gaines, pas-J ( ( First Baptist church ini n. was elected president, h.ooal for temperance, citing "public enemy No. 1,” was : : in Chairman I. G. Greer’s the social service and ai'eousness committee to the i ■ 'ion. j uirnenting on the European committee report urged all to ban all expressions of i'd any one in their public and suggested that the ■ aeh “earnestly and con-! 1 ' and forgiveness, the offering innocence, and ant re. istance to evil.” Middle West States Feel Earth Shock Mo., Nov. 23.—(AP)— '■(•I which lasted an aver "(ends, did no no major felt in Missouri, ll < and Wisconsin today, reported the tremor -id and 11:20 a. m., central ; 1 ■'•••:>• although others felt •• r a kite as 9:30 a. m. B. MacElwane. St. ‘ • ity seismologist, said 31 miles south of St. " ould place it near Fes- C, . tal City, Mo., but a di..clo,ed no damage. ‘ needles of the St. Louis “i t ograph was knocked so sharp was the shock. v ei'<‘ reported at Kansas - I,)Sf >n City, Ste. Genevieve, (Continued on Page Four; Hrnftrrsmi Satin tltsjfittch L KASE d wire service OT? i he associated press. President And First Lady Lead Obser vance of Earlier Holi day; Paralysis Pa tients at Warm Springs Eat With President. (By The Associated Press.) Families in 25 states sat down to day at the “first table” of the na tion’s dual Thanksgiving, joining in President Roosevelt’s expressed hope that the world soon wili be at peace. The “second table” will not be served until next Thursday in states whose governors declined to follow the President’s decision to advance the holiday a week. Despite the confusion over the date there was unanimity in pulpits and in quiet households in echoing Mr. Roosevelt’s proclamation: "Let us give thanks to the Ruler of the Universe ... to the hope that lives within us of the coming of the day when peace and the productive activities of peace shall reign on every continent.” The President and Mrs. Roosevelt led todays As usual, Mr. Roosevelt will carve a big turkey tonight at the Warm Springs, Ga., infantile paralysis foundation.' Ten patients, chosen by lot, will sit at the same table with the Presi dent, while he piles their plates with turkey, dressing, cranberries and all the. other trimmings of a holiday dinner. NEARLY ALL EXCHANGES CLOSE FOR ENTIRE DAY New York. Nov. 23. — (AP)—Al most complete closing down of Ihe country’s financial and commodity exchanges today accompanied the observance of Thanksgiving a week earlier than the traditional time in most states where important markets are located. Bankers and all securities and commodity markets in New York were shtu down, as well as grain markets at Chicago, Kansas City and St. Louis. Hearings Put Off Indefinitely Upon New Bus Routings Raleigh, Nov. 23. —(AP) —The Utilities Commission today indefi nitely postponed twelve hearings which had been set for December 13. The hearings had been ordered on the following applications: Seashore Transportion Company, routes from Vanceboro to Golds boro; from Rocky Mount to Nor lina; from Wilson to Norlina; from Kinston to New Bern; from Kin ston to Goldsboro, and from Fre mont to Rocky Mount. Carolina Coach Company, routes between Wilson and Snow Hill; be tween New Bern and Dunn; be tween New Bern and Rocky Mount; between Dunn and Sanford, and be tween Wilson and Norlina. Southerland Brothers, to operate from Goldsboro to Snow Hill. 2 Senators Urging New . Jap Treaty Washington, Nov. 23. —(AP) —Two prominent Republican senators — Borah of Idaho and Vandenberg of Michigan urged today that the United States work for a new com mercial treaty with Japan without regard to controversies growing out of the Sino-Japanese war. “I shall contribute everything I can toward bringing about a fair and reasonable treaty between the Unit ed States and Japan to take the place of the old treaty, which expires Jan uary 26,” said Borah, senior Repub lican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Borah made it plain to reporters that he would approach the ques tion of a new treaty from a com mercial standpoint only. He added that if any political considerations were to be involved, it should be up to Japan to suggest them. Vandenberg, who advocated ab rogation of the old treaty, said that the United States should be explor ing “realistically” the possibility of settling its Far Eastern problems by agreement. He said that he favored ! doing away with the old treaty only j to “unite our hands” to negotiate a I new one. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA HENDERSON, N. 0., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 23, 1939 Succeeds Husband * ~ w T 3 • Mrs. Thomas S. McMillan Mrs. Thomas S. McMillan succeeds her late husband as Representative to Congress from South Carolina. Rep. McMillan died at his Charles ton, S. C., home last September. Full Cabinet In Roumania Steps Down C r i e i s Precipitated Over German De mands For Oil And Food at Low e r Prices; King Asks Premier to Tr y Again. Bucharest, Roumania, Nov. 23. (AP) —King Carrel today asked former Premier George Tatarcscu to form a new gov ernment to replace the cabinet which resigned after a break down of trade negotiations with Germany. The Navis sought to obtain more oil and foodstuffs from Roumania at a reduced cost. Bucharest, Roumania, Nov. 23.—• (AP) —The Roumanian government resigned today alter a breakdown of trade negotiations, in which Ger many brought pressure to obtain more oil and foodstuffs from Rou mania at a lower cost. Premier Constantine Argetoianu handed the cabinet’s resignation to King Carol, who asked him to at tempt to form a new government. Argetoianu formed the cabinet Sep tember 28. Carol was expected to call a meet ing of the crown council to consider the crisis and any emergency steps to be taken. Informed persons said that German pressure caused a cab inet split. Some members wanted to yield to demands of the Reich, while others did not. Argetoianu was named premier a week after the assassination of Pre mier Armand Calinescu by members of the outlawed fascist iron guard. The resignation followed closely upon Roumania’s refusal to grant an increase of nearly fifty percent in the exchange rate of the German mark, a blow at German hopes for greater trade with this country. Parliament Ends; Returns Next Tuesday London, Nov. 23.—(AP) — King George VI prorogued Parliament to day. A new session is scheduled to open November 28, with a lull dress debate on all aspects of the war. The king’s statement ending the present session declared the war with Germany was being fought to pre serve the birthright of liberty. He called the invasion of Poland “a challenge which we could not have declined without dishonor to our selves and without peril to the cause of freedom and the progress of man kind.” The king’s statement, read to the members, said that, despite the ef forts of Britain to preserve peace “Germany, ; n violation of her solemn (Continued on Page Four) (jdQjcrfkstil FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; slowly rising tempera ture Friday. Hitler Discusses War Results And Plans With Military Men Western Front Talked at Length, Is Belief; War Of fice Reports Num ber of Enemy Planes Shot Down, But Admits No Loss. Berlin, Nov. 23.—(AP)—Adolf Hitler discussed the progress of the war today with the leaders of Ger many’s armed forces in a meeting at the chancellory. It was the fueh rer’s annual fall reception of the heads of the three branches of the armed forces, with their stalls, at v Rich he gets a report of the past year’.: military activity. It was assumed the Polish cam paign and the future campaign on the western front were the main topics. D.N.8., official German news agency, is a report on war develop ments, asserted German submarines had sunk live fishing steamers guarding the northern entrance of die English channel. The German high command re ported “unusually valuable recon noitering results” from aerial ex cursions over France and Great Britain, “despite strong pursuit piano and anti-aircraft defense.” This morning’s communique re ported five French pursuit planes were shot down in border patrol combat yesterday, but acknow ledged no German losses. ( j his morning’s French com munique reported destruction of six German fighting planes yesterday, while London dispatches told of another shot down off the east coast of England last night.) Man Cornered In Topeka Hotel Room Shoots Self Dead Topeka, Kans., Nov. 23. (AP) Trapped in a tear gas-filled hotel room, a man accused of kidnrmmg shot himself in the head and died early today after a gun and word battle with a detective. Floyd C. Wadden, 30, Davenport, lowa, auto salesman, told, Police* Chief Charles D. fvlcNaught the man, still unidentified, abducted him in Davenport Tuesday morning. Papers in the dead man’s pocket indicated he was registered with the lowa Employment Service at Mar shalltown, lowa, as A. L. Morford, a butcher. Wadden said he slipped away after the man took a sixth floor room at a hotel late yesterday and called police. Detective F. L. Thompson and other officers rushed to the corridor outside the room. Thompson said he called the man to the door, and the man fired, strik ing the detective’s pistol. Thompson fired back, hitting him fjn the hand. All the time he kept talking to the man, trying to get him to surrender. “I’ve got too much hanging over rne,” the man said. “I’ll never drop this gun.” FBI Hoover Not Desirous Os Amateurs By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Nov. 22.—J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Justice Depart ment's Federal Bun# u of Investiga tion (the FBI) is a pretty good de ! tective and one of J»||&|&|fpL the best signs of it is tnat he prefers §R§!C T i to do his own de presses himself: ud' umiduUei'nlcci J. Edgar Hoover fun 0 f it. Since the Euro pean war started various organizations of vigilantes, here and there throughout the coun try, are being framed up to hunt down un-American agitators extra ol'ficially. J. Edgar seems altogether out of sympathy with this movement. His theory evidently is that his FBI( the army and navy intelligence divisions, the Treasury Department’s secret service and post oiiice inves tigators can do all the probing that’s necessary, without a swarm of irre (Continued on Page Four) N Hitler Plot k >> . - ! »»>>>>»av. Capt. Richard Henry Stevens Georg Kiser Three men are under arrest and a fourth, a German living in exile in Paris, is accused in connection with the bombing of November 8 aimed at the life of Adolf Hitler as he visited the “beer putsch” hall in Munich. Georg -Eiser is accused of being the actual bomber, the 36-year-old Ger man allegedly having confessed he placed the time bomb, which Hitler escaped by eleven minutes. Otto Strasser, one-time Nazi leader, and branded by Berlin as “organizer” of the plot, has long rated near top </f the' Nazi list of traitors. He fled from Switzerland to Paris after the bombing, fearing extradition. Best, characterized as “head of the British secret service in western Europe,” and Captain Slovens, “one of his assist ants, were held at Berlin as the Germans accused the British of instigating and financing the bombing plot. German Gestapo Wireless Traps British Spy Radio Hundreds Dead In Turkey Earthquake Ankara, Turkey, Nov. 23. — Hundreds were said today to have been kFled and many villages de stroyed by violent, intermittent earth shocks over a period of 24 hours throughout Anatolia, the western section of Turkey. Six villages were reported level cd in east Anatolia. Deaths were high, especially in Erzingangon, the eastern edge of Anatolia, one report said. ley weather increased the suf fering among hundreds of home less. Workman Dies As Airport Burns At Des Mo ines, lowa Des Moines, lowa, Nov. 23. (AP) —One workman was kill ed and two injured critically to day as flames destroyed the Des Moines municipal airport hangar, destroying 19 airplan/s valued at $70,000. City authorities fixed the total loss at $106,000. The dead man, trapped fol lowing an explosion during weld ing operations, was identified as Martin Barnes, a WPA worker. FUBUISIIEL> EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Four Involved I .. —..... ...... ..—— "ijuT m * J ''' ’‘ y i Sigismund Payne Eest Otto Strasser i Hitler Secret Police Messages For 21 Days Mulct Secrets From British by Wire less, Posing as Anti- Nazi System. Berlin, Nov. 23. —(AP) —“Hearty greetings from your affectionate Ger man opposition, German Gestapo.” With those words, according to a D. N. B. (official news agency) ac count- published today, were ended 21 days of wireless contact between the German secret police and British in telligence 21 days in which the Gor man operatives wormed espionage secrets from their f6e by posing as . anti-Hitler revolutionists. r ihe whiplash disclosure of the j real identity of the “revolutionists” ! was said by D. N. B. to have been given only yesterday. That was one day alter the Gestapo had announced obtaining a confession from Georg Eiser, of Munich, that he planted the Bu.ergerbrau time bomb intended for j Adolf Hitler. The announcement said Eiser had British financial backing. In the same connection, Gestapo had also announced the arrest of two j British secret service men identified I as Captain Richard Henry Stevens, | 42, and chief of the European intel- I ligcnce division, and Sigismund Payne Best, 54, an aide. Yesterday, the two men were ac i (Continued on Page Four) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Britain Pays $23,580,000 Price Daily Most Expensive Con flict in History For England; More Lives Lost in Newest Sea Ravages of Sub marines And Mines. London, Nov. 23. —(AP)—Six more British, French and neutral vessels today were added to heavy maritime losses of the past week from mine and submarine warfare. Losses disclosed today were: The British steamer Darino, 1,351 tons, sunk by a submarine Novem ber 19. Sixteen of the crew were be lieved missing. Eleven survivors landed on the east coast after spend ing three days in a submarine before being transferred to an Italian ship. The 4,576-ton Greek freighter Elena R., sunk by a mine; 24 persons saved. The British steamer Giraldus, 2,- 294 tons; 26 saved. British trawler Sulby, 287 tons; sunk by a submarine off the Scottish coast; seven saved and five missing. French fishing trawler Saint-Claire sunk by a mine; eleven of twelve crew members feared lost. French fishing trawler Bayles 11, sunk by a submarine, 16 saved. Geoffrey Shakespeare, Parliamen tary under secretary to the Ad miralty, told the House of Commons that 15 mines, all German, hud come ashore on the eastern English coast within the last fortnight. In addition, the Exchange Tele graph Agency reported that German planes, flying low over the Thomas estuary last night, had sowed minia ture high explosive mines by para chute. London, Nov. 23. (AP) —New shipping losses were added today to the toll of the war, which Great Bri tain estimates officially is costing her $23,580,000 a day the most expen sive conflict in history. Three more ships were added to (Continued on Page Four) 30 Drifting Mines Seen In North Sea Washington, Nov. 23.—(AP) — A Navy announcement that 30 drifting mines had been sighted in the North Sea in the last two days deepened the convictions of some maritime ex perts today tha l moy had been set adrift to make British waters a no man’s area for all shipping. Stormy weather often has wrested mines rom their moorings, but sel dom in such clusters as indicated by the incomplete reports broadcast by the Navy’s hydrographic office. Most of the reports came from the U. S. S. Trenton. Treaties prescribe automatic de vices to assure that mines accidental ly set adrift will be rendered harm (Continued on Page Four) Paris Chases German Plane Off At Night Paris, May 23. —(AP) — Thunder ing anti-aircraft guns shortly after midnight today turned back an in vading plane while Parisians hud dled in air raid shelters. Alarm gave the city a five-minute margin of warning. The plane was sighted at T2:12 a. m. (7:12 p. m. Wednesday EST). It wheeled over the capital, and then flew out of range of anti-aircraft guns. There were no reports of bomb drops. The all-clear signal came at 1 a. m. One minute before the Paris alarm, northwestern France was put on a state of alert. Several hours earlier, two air raid warnings were sounded in northern France. The French high command report ed today that six German fighting planes were shot down yesterday, live on French soil and the sixth on Belgian territory. This morning’s communique said: “A fairly quiet night on the front. Artillery fire at various points. Dur ing the day of November 22, we brought down five enemy fighters in our territory. Moreover, a German rcconnoitering plane attacked oy our fighters fell on Belgian territory.”
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