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FINLAND TO REFUSE DEMANDS OF SOVIETS
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Passed by the British censors, this picture shows British merchantmen convoyed by warships off the
British coast. On each ship lookouts scan the waters for signs of subs and mines. Germany has avoided
possible loss of submarines by sowing the paths of convoys with mines wherever possible.
(Central Press)
U. S. Has Large Trade Balance
Exports Os
$332 Million
for October
Imports Are $215
Millions For Widest
Trade Balance
Since January, 1938;
Tobacco Shipments
Away Down, Cotton
Up Some.
r.ington. Nov. 27.—(AP) —Ex- :
‘ of American merchandise ex- ;
fried imports in October by the lar- ;
' . argin in nearly two years, the 1
ce Department reported to- j
Ex -rts totaled $332,079,000 and!
■-ts 5215.281.000. The $116,793,- 1
difference was said by the depart l
be the widest spread for any
nee January, 1938.
. ?ev.- war effects were shown by
‘ • 'Hr.' ;<er figures, especially in the
■ ure of tobacco shipments to make
'U; 1 seasonal gains. Tobacco
..pi: ents totaled $6,190,000, com
‘■c with 529.489.000 in October a
ago. England is one country
• K has been cutting down tobacco
purchases.
Cotton exports, which had lagged
< serious manner, increased, how
< 1 $17,254,000 in October, which
o o than double the figure for
me month last year.
Dthfi export increases included
; automobiles and corn.
a is of raw tobacco totaled 28,-
w'. 11 ) pounds in October and 297,-
*o/;00 pounds in the first ten
‘.hs. compared with 82,034,000
■-> and 379,709,000 pounds last
h sports amounted to 6,724,000
• !/ id.-, and 64.544,000 pounds, com
"1 -vith 6,289,000 and 60,968,000
Republicans
To Discuss
1940 Platform
n . Nov. 27.—(AP)— Re
puny managers likely will
!l ir first peek at a possible
of their 1940 platform when
mnal committee’s executive
i ets here December 2.
waders said today that Dr.
nk, former president of the
‘y of Wisconsin, and head
v private committee which
mapping a program for the
national election, would be
; '■ ! l" attend.
E)r. Frank round up all the
w his sub-committee in time,
"id, the latest draft of his
will come in for consider
■'’e. It may furnish at least
lor many ideas to be de
>' i for next year’s platform.
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THE ASSOCIATED press
Budget Director Smith
Confers With President
Week-End Traffic
Toll for State 3
Charlotte, Nov. 27. (AP)
Week-end traffic accidents took
at least three lives in North
Carolina.
James Hatley, four, was killed
by an automobile in a street near
his home a mile north of Greens
boro.
Clyde Self, 21, was fatally in
jured and his companion, Bill
Moss, was seriously hurt when
a car hit them on the Cherry
ville-Bessemer City highway.
Mrs. Annie Wilson, 26, was
killed and two other persons
were injured, not seriously,
when their automobile over
turned on a road near Juna
luska.
Many Angles
In 1941 Race
For Speaker
Dailv inspatcli f»wr«au.
In the Si? Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Nov. 27. —With three al
ready-declared candidates in the
field, the race for speakership of the
1941 House seems quite likely to de
velop into a general free-for-all,
catch-as-catch-can affair which will
have more angles that the much mud
died gubernatorial contest.
There will be this important dif
ference, however, the speaker is us
ually elected on personality rather
than on issues or group support,
while the governorship in North Car
olina has for many, many years gone
to the man the powers-that-be de
cides to back. This might also be true
of the speakership, but tor the fact
that there is seldom a clear-cut race
between a pro and an anti-admin
istrationist, the antis never having
enough members to make such a con
test possible.
The three confessed candidates for
gavel wielding are George Uzzell, of
Rowan; Joe Carruthers, of Guilford,
(Continued on Page Eight.)
Philadelphia Man
Kills Two Women
And Then Himself
Philadelphia, Nov. 27. (AP)
—Stanley Krygier, 30, shot and
killed two women, seriously
wounded his wife and her father,
and then shot and killed himself
early today, Detective Peter Mc-
Cormick, of the homicide squad,
reported.
McCormick identified the dead
as Mrs. Josephine Nieckoski, 45,
and her daughter, 17, and the in
jured as Felix Nieckoski, 57, and
Mrs. Regina Krygier, 22.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINbv
HENDERSON, N. C„ MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 27, 1939
Cutting Expenses Big
Job, He Says at
Warm Springs,
Where He Flies For
Meeting With Roose
velt; Three Big Items
At Issue.
Warm Springs, Ga., Nov. 27.—(AP)
Budget Director Harold D. Smith
upon his arrival here today for a
conference with President Roose
velt, asserted again that efforts were
being made to whittle down exten
sively the government’s expenditures
for non-military activities. But, he
added, “it is a whale of a job.”
Smith carried a brief case contain
ing the budgets for the Treasury
and Justice Departments and the
Panama Canal. He said a presi
dential decision was necessary on
the Treasury budget to prevent a
week’s delay in the work of the
House Appropriations sub-commit
tee, which handles the Treasury sup
ply bill.
An army bomber brought the bud
get director from Washington, and
he said he expected to fly back to
the capital late today after his talk
with the president.
One Filipino
Says Islands
Need America
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Nov. 27. —For variety,
a kaleidoscope has nothing on an
interview with Dr. Vincenete Viliam-
in, a Filipino, Dr.
Villamin is cam
paigning here to
prevent the United
States from grant
ing to the Philip
pines any greater
measure of inde
penden c e than
they enjoy already.
He’s a world-poli
tician, an econo
mist, lawyer, * a
writer, an all -
around savant and
he’s traveled in
more countries than any other globe
trotter I ever encountered.
All the subjects that he’s familiar
with and all the places he’s visited
(from astronomy to retail merchand
ising, from Manila westwardly a
round the earth to San Francisco,
from Canada to Patagonia) he dis
cusses miscellaneously.
He doesn’t deal with them sep
arately. He mixes ’em up # regardless
of consequences.
Os course, his favorite theme is the
Yankee-Filipino relationship.
“Americans,” he says, “are the
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Blockade Os
Germany To
Be Tighter
Further Ship Losses
Reported as Drastic
Counter Measures
Are Ordered in Lon
don; Two German
Freighters Reported
Captured.
London, Nov. 27.—(AP)
Four seamen and an elderly
woman passenger identified as
an American, were killed in the
sinking of the 8.859-ton Hol
land-Amerika freighter Staarn
dam by a mine in the Thames
estuary, it was announced to
day.
A Reuter’s (British news
agency) report from Amsterdam
said the woman passenger was a
“Mrs. Steffen”. Previous re
ports said the crew of about 40
and an elderly woman passen
ger were rescued.
London, Nov. 27. — (AP) —An or
der in council for the seizure of ex
ports was signed today by King
George VI as an avowed reprisal for
German mine-laying warfare.
The order for the complete block
ade of Germany will be published in
the London Gazette tomorrow and
probably will become effective in a
few days.
The action came as new shipping
losses were reported bj r the Ad
miralty. The Hoi land-Amerika 8,-
the Thames estuary. The ci'ew about
(Continued on Page Seven.)
Eight Prisoners
Granted Paroles
By the Governor
Raleigh, Nov. 27.—(AP)—Gover
nor Hoey announced today he had
paroled eight prisoners, including
Gray Woodard, who entered prison
in February, 1937, from Wilson coun
ty, to serve 18 to 20 years for second
degree murder.
Among others paroled were Henry
Wade, given 24 months in Greene
county in January for abandonment
and non-support; Marvin Oxendine.
sent up in April from Robeson coun
ty to serve 12 months for larceny,
and Dock Harper, sentenced in
Greene in May to 12 months for driv
ing drunk, and assault on a female.
Americans
In Protest
On Britain
Washington, Nov. 27.—(AP)
Representatives of the board of
trade of German-American com
merce, urged the State Department
today to protest Great Britain’s de
cision to seize German exports.
Dr. A. J. Reiner, board president,
and Paul Pickrell, board attorney,
both of New York, made their re
quest to Green Hackworth, the
State Department’s legal advisor.
The men argued that seizure of
German exports would violate in
ternational law. They said also that
this country was in need of certain
German products, such as dyes,
precision tools, toys and optical in
struments.
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night; Tuesday fair, with slowly
rising temperature.
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Europe’s war has shifted to the sky as latest dispatches tell of fierce
activities over the Western Front. Allies claim a number of Nazi planes
have been shot down during the air fights in which, they say, large
numbers of planes have been engaged. From the north come reports of
deadly parachute mines being dropped into the North Sea and Thames.
(Central Press)
Vessel in Pacific
Sends SOS Appeal
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 27. —
(AP) —The Quaker Line steamer
Peter Kerr, broadcast a general
call early today asking ships to
“please stand by us.”
Glove wireless said the ship
messaged she had a “hold full
of water”. Her position was
given as about 600 miles east of
Hakodate, Japan. The weather
was clear but the sea was rough,
the message said. The ship sailed
from Los Angeles November 4
for Vladivostok.
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 27.
(AP) —Globe Wireless reported
the freighter Michigan was
moving through rough seas off
the Japanese coast toward the
Quaker Line steamer Peter Kerr,
which broadcast a general call
for ships to “please stand by Us.”
The Globe report quoted a
message from the American
President liner President Cool
idge as follows:
“Peter Kerr No. 1 hold full
water but no immediate danger
as long as bulkhead holds out.
Michigan is bound toward Kerr.”
Abductor Os
Sheriff Is
Still Hunted
Pittsboro, Nov. 27.—(AP) —A
man Sheriff George H. Andrews
said was believed to be Bob O’Con
nor, escaped Florida convict, was
hunted in this section today. The
man was surprised at a still whifch
officers raided near here last Thurs
day. He escaped after forcing the
sheriff to drive him 12 miles up the
road.
The sheriff and his deputies,
while surrounding the still, came
upon the man believed to be O’Con
-nor. The Negroes fled and the depu
ties put out after them. The sheriff
began searching the white man and
a scuffle ensued, during which the
sheriff lost his gun.
The sheriff reported that O’Con
nor, at gunpoints, forced him back
into his car and made him drive
down the highway. Then O’Connor
jumped out of the car and ran.
Bids Called For
Upon 16 Road and
Bridge Projects
Raleigh, Nov. 27. (AP) —The
Highway and Public Works Com
mission today called for bids to be
submitted December 7 for construc
tion of 16 highway and bridge pro
jects.
Among them were Halifax county,
grading, structures and surfacing on
2.76 miles of Route 561 between
Route 321 and Spring Hill.
Pitt, widening 8.70 miles of Route
11, between Ayden and intersection
, with Route 274.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Germany Is
Backing Up
Soviet Act
Berlin, Nov. 27.—(AP)—Ger
many sympathizes with Russia’s de
mands upon Finland, according to
the informational service Dienst
Aus Deutschland, which often re
flects foreign office views.
“This opinion prevails here,” said
the service, “that a first class power
ox the rank of the Soviet Union has
the undeniable right to secure for
itself access to the sea and by an
amicable agreement with its neigh
bors to safeguard vital defense in
terests.
Previously, authorized quarters
had stated that Germany officially
was disinterested in the dispute be
tween Russia and Finland except to
“read with extraordinary interest”
that “Russia regards England and
France as responsible for Finland’s
unyielding stand.”
Kuhn Lawyer
Renews Claim
Os Politics
New York, Nov. 27.—(AP) —
Fritz Kuhn’s counsel today reitera
ted his charge that politics was be
hind the prosecution of the German-
American bund leader on larceny
and forgery charges.
Coming up at Kuhn’s trial, Peter
Sabbatino declared the case was not
a routine matter as the district at
torney’s office contended, but “one
in which the motivating force was
politics.”
Before argument started, Judge
J G. Wallace announced that he
would allow the jury to take the
case on five counts of the original
ten-count indictment, and after he
had dismissed 32 motions for mis
trial based on various grounds.
Arguing against the district at
torney’s statement that the- case
was routine, Sabbatino pointed out
to the jury that Assistant District
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Negro Workers Jeered By
Chrysler Plant Pickets
Detroit, Mich., Nov. 27.—(AP) —
Approximately 200 Negro foundry
workers entered the Chrysler main
Dodge plant today unmolested as
several thousand United Automobile
Workers Union (CIO) pickets
jeered but offered no violence.
“Let the strike-breakers go in,”
a union spokesman cried through
loud speakers. “Don’t stop them.
There aren’t enougTi to operate the
plant and what the corporation
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B Red Army
Men Killed
Near Border
Form Resolutions
Passed Enmasse by
Soviet Soldiers De
manding Triple Blow
By Government;
Finns Accused of
Being Tools of En
emy.
Helsinki, Finland, Nov. 27.—(AP)
—Finland will refuse Soviet Russia’s
demands that Finnish troops be with
drawn from the common border
north of Leningrad, it appeared to
day from comment in government
circles, which suggested that Rus
sian forces themselves fall back.
The cabinet discussed the demand
this morning, and Foreign Minister
Eljas Erkko began immediately to
draft an answer which may be pre
sented today after cabinet approval.
Despite the pressure, implicit in
the note delivered yesterday to Fin
land’s Moscow legation, a Finnish
government spokesman chose to call
it a “friendly proposal,” not an ul
timatum. He pointed out that the
note carried no time limit. It called
for withdrawal “without delay.”
FORM RESOLUTIONS PASSED
BY SOVIET TROOP GROUPS
Moscow, Nov. 27.—(AP) —Soviet
Russian troops, in mass meetings
following a “border incident” yester
day, in which Finnish artillery al
legedly killed or wounded 13 red
army soldiers, today urged the gov
ernment to “adopt strictest measures”
The meetings were held as Moscow
awaited an answer to an ultimatum
like note in which Russia demanded
that Finland withdraw her border
garrisons to prevent a repetition.
The press campaign against Fin
land v/as strikingly similar to that
which preceded the invasion of Po
land, and no mention was made in
the newspapers or over the radio of
the denial issued in Helsinki that
Finns had fired on the Russians.
The press v/as filled with stock re
solutions rushed through mass meet
ings of workers on night shifts urg
ing, among other things in denuncia
tion of Finland, that the Soviet
Union “reply with a triple blow.”
Finnish leaders were accused of
“fulfilling orders of their imperialis
tic masters,” presumably Great Bri
tain and France.
Troops in the Moscow district
adopted resolutions declaring “there
is a limit to patience” and request
ing the government to “bridle pro
vocators of war.”
First Lady
Is Willing
To Testify
Washington, Nov. 27. (AP) —Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt said today she
was willing to be a Dies committee
witness if she had any information
f/hich might be helpful. She made
these remarks at a press conference
about the same time Major Hampden
Wilson, an investigator for the House
committee on un-Americanism, was
testifying that the American Student
Union was an instrument used for
spreading communism among stu
dents.
The first lady, who has addressed
the American Youth Conference, and
said repeatedly that she did not be
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wants is for you to stop them and
start a fight.”
A force of 1,000 police, warned
that an attempt would be made to
enter the strike-bound plant, stood
; by to prevent a possible repetition
; jof Friday’s violence, but they were
I not needed. The picket line began
’ to form at the plant gates long be
i | lore dawn. Police estimates placed
. I the number of pickets on hand when
; the group of workers began to en
-I,l*l* at upwards of 3,500.