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| ()]'K SILVER | vXXIVERSARY 11914-1939 rv, E> TY-SIXTH YEAR BERMANS CLAIM 818 BRITISH BATTLESHIP N ext Year’s Crop Allotments Announced Same As For 1939, With Few Particular Changes payments In Some Cases To Be Less Acreage Goals Low ered For Tobacco But Same For Cotton; Wheat Quotas Larger But Payments Less; Corn Is Cut, n. Nov. 28.—(AP)—The Adjustment Adminis • • • : y >-et the 1940 goal for 4 crops at 270,000.000 to icres. the same as this inn-eased the aci-eage for 1 cut the rate of soil con payments'on that grain to .- a bushel from this year’s t . creage goal was lowered nd the payments to coop : armors set ut ten cents a mpared with nine cents this VrT:" a acreage was unchanged, rate lowered to 1.6 cents a : rom 1.8 cents. ge goals were l-aised also for d type 41 Georgia-Florida tobacco. They were lowered ■.ut s and hurley, flue-cured and dark air-cured tobacco, r as authorized funds per il R. AT. Evans, AAA admin "the 1940 program continues t : its of farmers toward abun e for the nation’s consumers, • .ation of our vital soil resour :.d parity income from agricul ' ' ‘rmal yields, officials said, the i'A pmgram would provide ample (Continued on Page Seven! FDR’s Wife Not Likely To Testify ngton, Nov. 28.—(AP)—Re ' hive Starnes, Democrat, Ala cting chairman, said today v of no questions, which the committee on un-American ’ > had to ask Mrs. Franklin <~evelt, but “if she or any one - any light to shed on sub •ictivities, of course, we would : u >d to hear her.” e absence of Chairman Dies, at, Texas, who was at home a. ? he committee put off a de on calling the first lady, who 'erday, she would be willing y ,! she had information help the investigation, aes said “it is all up to the . : an.” •id Mrs. Roosevelt testify, she ‘ t a precedent in congression b'ontinued on Page Seven) Insistent Demands Heard For Federal Expense Cut K.v ' IIARLES P. STEWART < ( ntral Press Columnist ion, Nov. 28. —Senator - Adams of Colorado is not olon who has expressed himself in favor of • > closer congression V T * / ? k \ ft. mil Se,luto ‘ Adams al control over govern ment ex penditures. How ever, he’s a Dem ocrat, which adds somewhat to the significance of his .implied suggestion that maybe quite a few cf our national executive depart ments and othei agencies have been a bit excessive in mds for public money. Re lawmakers are expected to Mnthrrsmi Bath? Dtspatrlr ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORmCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA ' ' WIRE SERVICE the associ a ted press They Seek Her Immortality Here is Baby Jean, the five-months-old baby adopted by James B. Schafer, master metaphysician, who predicts that if plans work out Jean will live forever. Plans call for Baby Jean to refrain front meats (including eggs, milk and butter) and never to hear the words “sickness” or “death.” Forty master metaphysicians, whose headquarters are in Oakdale, L. L, are cooperating in the “eternal life” program. British Navy Cleared Out, Germans Say Its Threat Removed From North Sea And North Atlantic, Ber lin Experts Claim; Supremacy in Air Over France, Eng land Claimed. Berlin, Nov. 28.—(AP)—The Bri tish fleet, in the opinion of German military experts, now has been clear ed, not only from the North Sea, but .also from the North Atlantic. Authoritative commentators said that the British “auxiliary cruiser” Rawalpindi, destroyed in a naval en gagement off the coast of Iceland, was discovered absolutely alone be tween the Faroe Islands and Green land. Moreover, they quoted 26 Rawalpindi crewmen, whose rescue (Continued on Page Two) be critical of a Democratic admin istration’s spending. It counts more when a Democratic legislator hints that he thinks there’s been extrava gance on the part of a Democratic executive regime. When an executive outfit has cal culated how much it needs to carry it through an ensuing fiscal year it turns its figures over to the budget bureau. The budget bureau, in turn, having assembled all these estimates, refers them to Congress, requesting corresponding appropriations. . Suppose the Navy Department, il lustratively, makes an application for a financial allowance. It’s a depart ment which. is answerable directly to the WhiTe House. Therefore it’s presumable that its plea has presi dential indorsement. The budget bu reau likewise is of presidential crea (Continued on Page Three.) HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 28, 1939 Asheville Is Host Tomorrow to FDR Asheville, Nov. 28. —(AP) White House secret service agents worked out final details here to day for the visit to Asheville to morrow of President Roosevelt, who will stop here enroute from Warm Springs, Ga., to Washing ton. The President is expected to ar rive here at 6:10 p. m. tomorrow and will depart at 8 p. m. He will visit Marvin Mclntyre, one of his secretaries, and Miss Margaret Durand, former secretary of the late Louis Howe. Horton Scoffs At Rumor Os Withdrawal In the Sir Walter Hofei, Daily Disoatcli Bureau. Raleigh, Nov. 28.—Rumors that he will withdraw from his unannounced candidacy for the governorship drew from Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P. Horton, here on business, a denial that he will be influenced in his de cision by “what this group, or that group or any other gi'oup does about my running.” “I am still in the race as much as I ever was”, was the somewhat oracular summing up of the Horton statement with refernce to the re ports. Naturally this settles nothing whatsoever as to the certainly of the Horton intentions. He has never. said for publication that he is in the race. He has never said he isn’t. From all of which there can be logically deduced one of two conclusions, to wit: (1) Horton will run for gover nor or (2) Horton will not run for governor. That’s where we came in, and it seems that no matter how long we hang around, that’s just about where we land in speculating on this gov ernorship race. There was one thing, though, standing out clearly and distinctly in the lieutenant governor’s talk and demeanor. He isn’t going to quit the race because he fears he will not have administration support. That’s where the part about not letting himself be influenced by “what any group does” comes into the picture. The Number Two Tar Heel is a rather positive and steadfast person, even his political opponents concede that, and he spoke with an air of (Continued on Page Two) Big Cruiser Torpedoed, Berlin Says London Denies Sink ing in Note to Editors Declaring There Is no Truth in “Rumor”; Warships Admittedly Lost Listed. Berlin, Nov. 28. — (AP) The German high command announced today that a British heavy cruiser had been tor pedoed and destroyed in the North Sea east of the Shetland Islands by the same submarine commander whose sinking - of the battleship Royal Oak Octo ber 14 made him a German na tional hero. A communique said the British vessel was of the London class —32- knot ships of nearly 10,000 tons. It named Lieutenant-Captain Guenther Prien, 31-year-old U-boal command er, who slipped into Scapa Flow past British mine fields and obstructions to sink the Royal Oak as skipper of the submarine, which torpedoed the ci'uiser. Meanwhile, the German press still was citing the sinking of the British armed merchantman Rawalpindi November 23 off the coast of Iceland as evidence ol German mastery of the North Atlantic. (The London, one of four sister ships, displaces 9,850 tons, carries eight 8-inch guns, and has a normal complement of 650 men.) Britain has acknowledged the loss of eight warships since the start of the war: The merchant cruiser Rawalpindi, the*destroyer Gypsy, the aircraft carrier Courageous, the bat tleship Royal Oak, and an unnamed destroyer; the submarine Oxley, the auxiliary vessel Northern Rover, and the mine sweeping trawler Mastiff. Britain has acknowledged damage to the 9,100-ton cruiser Southamop— ton in an air raid on the Firth of Forth October 1, and the 10,000-ton cruiser Belfast November 21 by (Continued on Page Two) Lawyers In Wordy Duel In Kuhn Case New York, Nov. 28.—(AP)—As sistant District Attorney Herman J. McCarthy, summing up for the State today at the larceny trial of Fritz Kuhn, He attacked Kuhn’s counsel, Peter L. Sabbatino, as “a caliban of ethics”. McCarthy replied to Sabbatino’s intimation, made yesterday, that McCarthy kept a “tryst” in Miami with Mrs. Florence Camp, the “gol den angel” of Kuhn’s love letters. Mrs. Camp testified for the State. “This caliban of ethics hasn’t yet learned the prime requisite of a gentleman or a lawyer—decency,” the young prosecutor declared, looking directly at Sabbatino, a for mer city magistrate. Sabbatino argued in his summa tion yesterday that Kuhn, though he might have fallen in love with Mrs. Camp, was not the first mar ried man to fall in love with anoth er woman. But McCarthy told the jury he would keep to the records. The State, he said, charged that Kuhn stole SSOO listed in the bund ledgers as having been paid to James D. C. Murray, lawyer, for services in a criminal action against bund members. Kuhn is also accused of stealing $717.02 which the State contends paid Mrs. Camp’s moving expenses. Shopping / / ©Ays TILL FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Wednesday not much change in tempera ture. Sea Lanes Are Free And Open Despite Activity Os Germans, King George Assures Empire U. S. Increases Air Defenses | — + ’ ■ . v- - :' • V - . ' “• 4 ” * IPH * Iw i National Guardsmen of B&ttery D, 212th Coast Artillery, load one of three new anti-aircraft guns added to New York City’s defenses, during winter practice at Fort Tilden. The government has ordered 325 of the three-inch weapons, which fire thirty 28-pound shrapnel projectiles a minute, each containing 253 half-inch lead pellets. Finland Will Negotiate But Won’t Capitulate Answer to Soviet De mands For Tr 9 o p Withdrawals F rom Border Leaves Door . Open; Offers to Re tire if Russians Do Also. Helsinki, Nov. 28. —(AP) —Finland left the door open today for arbitra tion of growing differences with Soviet Russia, while apparently de termined to refuse her mighty neigh bor any one-sided concessions which might jeopardize her own defenses. Denying alleged “hostile actions” toward Russia, the government last night notified Moscow it is ready to meet Soviet demands for withdrawal of Finnish Woops along part of their common border, on condition that i'ed army forces likewise retire. In a note addressed to the Krem lin, Foreign Minister Eljas Frkko suggested that the pi’oposal be re feired to a joint commission estab lished in 1938 to consider frontier problems. Erkko’s note replied to an ultimatum-like message from Soviet Premier-Foreign Commissar Molo toff protesting an alleged “border incident” Sunday, in which the Rus sians said 13 red army soldiers were killed or wounded by Finnish artil lery fire on the Karelian isthmus. Molotoff requested that Finnish (Continued on Page Three) Man Who Invented Basketball Passes Os Heart Disease Lawrence, Kans. Nov. 28.—(AP) —Dr. James A. Naisith, 78, inven tor of basketball, died at 1:50 a. m. today of heart disease following a cerebral hemorrhage. Dr. Naismith, professor emeritus of physical education at Kansas University, suffered a critical hemor rhage November 19. but rallied and returned home from a hospital last Wednesdav. He was stricken again Friday with a heart attack. With two peach baskets as equip ment, Dr. Naismith originated bas ketball in 1891 as a winter sport for youth at the Springfield, Mass., Y. M. C. A. training school. There were nine men on a team and baskets were on the floor. Later, he elevated the baskets, reduced the number of players and established rules which have been changed but little in the , intervening years. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Truck Rates Attacked By Other Lines Washington. Nov. 28. (AP) —■ Nearly 50 railroads and steamship companies participating in joint rates between North Atlantic ports and in terior southeastern points today branded as “unreasonably and un necessarily low” the rates of com peting motor carriers. The companies petitioned the In terstate Commerce Commission for an investigation with a view to es tablishing minimum truck rates high er than the ocean mail rates. The rates of motor carriers, the commis sion said, “have - the effect of de priving the water-rail carriers of a fair and reasonable opportunity to compete for this traffic.” The tei'ritory involved embraces the ports of Boston, Providence, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, on the one hand, and the states of Vir ginia, North Carolina, South Cai'o lina, Florida, George, Alabama and Tennessee, on the other. The petition said the truck rates generally are as low as or lower than the joint water-rail rates. RUSSIA BREAKS FINNISH TREATY Helsinki, Nov. 28. (AP) —A foreign office spokesman announced tonight that Russia had denounced her non-ag gression pact with Finland in a note handed to the Finnish minister in Moscow. Soviet Russia and Finland concluded their non-aggression pact in 1932, and supplemented it the following year with an agreement defining an aggressor. Subsequent pacts in 1937 and 1938 pledged them to good neighbor relations, and defined the Finnish-Soviet frontier. The Soviet action, though re ceived with outward calm by the foreign office, shocked Finland more than any other single step in the “war of nerves,” which mounted in the Baltic region after the Ger- ( 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE gENTS COPY Parliament Is Opened By Monarch Blockade Against German Exports De layed Few Days; Ra tioning Not to Start Until After Christ mas; Finnish Row Worries, London, Nov. 28.—(AP) King George assured the British Empire today that the Royal Navy was keep ing the sea lanes tree and open, de spite the sinking of the armed Bri tish merchantman Rawalpindi by two German warships, and recent heavy shipping losses. The monarch’s assurance was given in a speech opening the first war ses sion of Parliament as the conflict with Germany brought these devel opments: 1. An authoritative statement said that application of the British-French blockade against German exports would be delayed until December 4 and perhaps a week longer to soften the blow to neutral shippers. 2. Britain manifested concern over the Finnish-Soviet frontier dispute. 3. It was announced that a British auxiliary cruiser landed 73 German prisoners, including 12 officers, at a Scottish port; they were understood to be the survivors of a sunken sub (Continued on Page Three.) Blockade Os Germany Is Tightened Up London, Nov. 28. (AP) The British government tonight issued a formal order in coun cil extending the naval block ade to Germany’s exports, ef fective December 4. The order is entitled: “Reprisals restrict ing German commerce.” The delay in application of the order, which was signed by King George yesterday, was understood to give neutral ship pers an opportunity to make ar rangements to avoid undue hardships. The new order provides that a merchant vessel which sails from an enemy port or other port after December 4, and “having on hoard goods which are of enemy origin, or are enemy property, may be re quired to discharge such goods in a British or Allied port.” Such goods will be placed in custody of the marshal of a prize court, and, unless the court orders that they be re quistioned for the use of Ilis Majesty, shall be detained or sold under direction of the court. The proceeds of goods so sold shall be paid into the court. man-Soviet partition of Poland. A spokesman said the Russian note was “very unconciliatory”, but declined further comment while the (Continued on Page Seven)
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