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r oV \i SILVER \ ] \ ERSARY 1914-1939 fw kn'TY-SIXTH year FIVE NEW TAX PLANS FOR DEFENSE REVENUE STUDIED A T CAPITAL I Flat Boost I In uirrent I Levy Talked j Exuding Exemptions f Would Also Be Low j e r -d; Defense Tax j Armaments | 1e s Proposed; Tax Is Also « LS * I Mentioned. I .. Doc. 7. —(AP) — Con- I : voerts are studying five I designed to raise I -.o projected record de- I - next year. All would I srage American pocket I o jolt, and it is pro- I :other any of them could I an election year. I a:is which will be sub- I ngressional committees I :ense levies are deemed I how: I percentage increase in I ,a>n of existing exemptions I „ . e "little fellows” under I tax structure, and im- I . higher rates on middle j I .comes. I A aciense profits tax,” which ' I pose special high rates on I - in excess of those a cor- B had made in a designated i I year. I - -pecial levy on the profits of I ns and armaments manufac- I . Such a tax was enacted in I . yielded only nominal re- I A general sales tax. This sug- V - as been criticized by Chair ■ ighton, Democrat, North Car [ : the House Ways and Means t /.tee. and presumably would 1 c nd scant support. I Dutch Deny Claims j Os Germans About Export Blockades I i Hague, The Netherlands, Dec. VP) —A high official of the i ■ nds government too issue th German attacks on neu- i . their lack of strong meas cornbat Great Britain’s sea 0 made. 7: .-e nations, the official de •f'Y are under no obligation to 4 to “violence.” e. he said, “there is no to answer with violence German U-boats or un •'• • 1 1 y long detention by Ger ’ Rarities of numerous Dutch hups out of the Baltic. BAPTIST ministers PICK NEW OFFICERS Bern. Dec. 7. —(AP) —The ‘ Baptist Ministers Associa iected the following offi- T. L. Mauney, Polloskc- : e: ident; Rev. H. B. Hines, I . vice-president, and Rev. j nton, of Swansboro, secre ■ "-treasurer. Georgia Road head Ejected Seat First Ga„ Dec. 7.—(AP)—'W. L ejected bodily, seat first, ■ eiioirman’s office of the ighvvay department today fond time since Governor f, rs ordered him dismissed '■ '-hairman. : -'7ng evicted last Saturday 1 r inaugurated a surprise iy today and walked into unopposed after a tem ction writ had been ser successor, Lawson L. Pat io Saturday night, three nod before the slender as dragged from his of gubernatorial aide S. Mar u gripping both ankles. > previous morning scuffles, Aol guards had not ejected ' >veinor Rivers and Miller, ■nds in Lakeland, Ga., be longed over diversion ot i meet other obligations of funds by executive order of government. Brnhrramt iUiilu Hispatrii ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORHiCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA^ Ll Mof5 D A .^7 IRE SERVICE OP I IIL ASSOCIATED PRESS. King George Visits France 3P>; ■ ® v !fij| i fli ■ Hr f . Central Press Radiophoto At an unnamed port m France, King George of England, followed by Gen. Viscount Gort, cuminander-in-chief of British forces, disembarks from ji destroyer after a rough Channel passage. Ignoring mud ani cold, the King spent eight hours on the Western Front, touring trenches and pill-boxes. Spending to Hit New Top Next Year; No New Taxes Big British Ships Sink In Collision Halifax, N. S., Dec. 7.—(AP) Loss of the 5.989-ton British freighter Manchester Regiment, with an unannounced number of her crew, and of the 4,607-ton freighter Chancellor in collisions at sea was disclosed today with arrival here of survivors. Both collisions occurred in “pea soup” fog. The Manchester Regiment was rammed Monday by the 14,118- ton British passenger liner Oro pesa. crew members said as they reached here aboard the Oro pesa. The Oropesa also brought 42 members of the Chancellor’s crew. The Chancellor went down Saturday after being rammed by the British tanker Athelchief, and her crew were aboard the Oropesa when the Manchester Regiment was struck. 230 Finns Os i U. S. Arrive At Helsinki Will Enlist in Finnish Army in War Against Russia; Finns Deny Soviet Army Has Broken Through De fense Lines. Helsinki, Dec. 7 —(AP)—Two hun dred and thirty Finnish Americans, some of whom never have been in Finland before, arrived today to en list in the Finnish army to fight a gainst Russia. A spokesman for the grout) said they left New York as soon as they learned Finnish inde ! pendence was threatened, j They sailed for Norway and then journeyed by train across Sweden to I Helsinki. Ncv/s of the Russian invasjon i reached them as they were waiting in a railroad station in Sweden. The group expects to be sent to the north central sector of the front, j- More Finnish-Americans will fol low as soon as possible, they said, j Rumors circulating in the capital today that Russian forces had broken through the Mannerhcim line—the system of defenses on the Karelian isthmus —were discounted. Reliable (Continued on Page Four) HENDERSON, N. 0., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 7, 1939 Economy Talk Is Bunk, Babson Says; Administration Pledges to Cut Costs Pure Mockery; Con gress to Be Brief And Routine. By ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1939, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Washington, Dec. 8. Quarters which are usually “in the know” here in Washington are convinced that the 1940 session of Congress will be brief, routine and uneventful. There will be no new reform legisla tion. In fact, if any new laws are ground out of the legislative mill, they will be in the direction of a mending reforms bill already on the books —notably the Wagner Labor act. The spotlight will be focused on defense appropriations and the bud get, but John Q. Citizen need not worry about paying any new taxes next year. There has been a lot of talk in administration circles recently about economics that will result in a slash in the nation’s deficit for 1940. This is sheer nonsense. There is no hope of reducing expenditures next year. The only question is how much the deficit will be increased—not decreased. History shows that con gresses do not cut expenses or enact new taxes —especially in election years—unless the President drives them to it. Mr. Roosevelt has never prodded Congress on this point in an off-year. Why expect him to do so in an election year? Economy Talk The Bunk i Here and there we may see a lit tle paring down of budget estimates (Contnued on Page Seven.) King George Host To Dignitaries At Quarters at Front Paris* Dec. 7. (AP) —King George VI of England, on a tour of expeditionary British forces, to day entertained President Albert Lebrun, Premier Daladier, General issimo Gamelin and Winston Churchill, first lord of the British Admiralty, at lunch “somewhere in Ft"’nee”. Firt announcement that the I president and premier of France ! were visiting the British king came in the Chamber of Deputies. CU&aIJwA FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Fri day; warmer tonight; somewhat colder in north and west por tions Friday afternoon and night. U.S. Holding Its Rights In Blockade Will Not Surrender to British Claims in Bar ring German Exports, Some of Which Are Badly Needed in This Country. Washington, Doc. 7.—(AP) —The United States, it was learned today, has reserved all its rights under in ternational law in connection with Great Britain’s order in council to stop German exports from being made through neutral countries. It is understood this reservation has been communicated to the Brit ish ambasador, Lord Lothian, for transmission to his government. The reservation of rights which were said to be strictly not in the nature of an open protest, was based on two points. One, a question of principle un der international law. In the World War, the United States, as long as it was a neutral, refused to accept the British commercial blockade of Germany. Two, the United States really needs some of the articles it used to purchase in Germany Among these are fine precision instruments. Officials are interested in seeing that these continue to come to the United States. Government Not To Assume Local Relief Problems Washington, Dec. 7. (AP)—- Agri culture Department officials indicat ed today that they had no intention of relieving states or local commun ities of relief problems by increas ing distribution of surplus food among the needy in areas hard press ed for funds to aid the jobless. Philip Maguire, vice-president, said the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation would adhere to a policy of making surplus commodities avail able to state and,Toeal welfare agen cies as a supplement for aid pro vided by those agencies. He said it would be useless for a city claiming a shortage of relief funds to appeal for an increased al lotment of surplus commodities. It would be unfair to cities and stales meeting their share of the relief load, he said, for the corporation to in crease food distribution in areas not meeting their share of the burden. The corporation expects to spend about $135,000,000 this fiscal year on surplus commodities i'or distribution among the needy. Perhaps half of this money will be spent under the stamp plan—a system under which needy persons receive stamps with which to purchase surplus products at regular grocery stores. The grocers in turn get cash from the govern ment for the stamps. NAVAL OF BRITAIN GOES DOWN London, Dec. 7.—(AP) —The Ad miralty announced that the* British naval trawler Washington. 209 tons, was sunk by a mine yes terday in the North Sea with the loss of eight lives. FBI PROBING INTO HELD GERMAN SHIP Washington, Dec. 7. —(AP) —At- torney General Murphy said today that the Federal Bureau of Inves tigation was looking into the case of the Yakala, which was seized by the coast guard near Wilmington, N. C., Tuesday. Murphy said at his press con ference that it was being investi gated, and that he could not dis cuss the case. Vengeance Is Theory For German Death New York, Dec. 7. (AP) A vengeful person with a racial or per sonal grudge was sought today as the bludgeon slayer of Dr. Walter Engelberg, 42, German consulate sec retary. Deputy Medical Examiner Manue E. Martin said Engelberg, who had been in the consular service nearly twenty years, had been struck at least three times while asleep, and that the blows “with an axe or some other heavy weapon” were so severe the man was “practically decapitated.” , No weapon was found in Engelberg’s ' Brooklyn dwelling, which neignbors J called “Hitler House,” and which is on a dead end street that winds up ! at a Jewish burial ground. Engelberg’s battered body, clad in a bloody night shirt, was found in a : second story floor bedroom yester (Continued on Page Four) MOSCOW CLAIMS BREAK ACROSS FINNISH LINE BUT FINNS DENY LOSS The War in the North Sovi ET WARSHIPS^ ,KVI . j I /v— } *SO / V SWEDEN asssaA f / * MASSES \ / I- troops I Pf JsESSSi IsKI UMiTS tfEjcWgjs finnsclaiml / reds CL 2000 REDS /J r O AH§“=|\ KILLED. 80 JcVTm. f" ILI 'T WflEa FINN MIMES -TANKS ” HERE. DESTROYED fsSroS, /G> ly BATTLE \Cdrs2Fai7 H NEW CAprnjggpl 4^ FORMING J BV BOMBED BV /A RI j SSIANS j The map is self-explanatory. The legends, based on Helsinki reports, tend to show that F»land has played David to Russia’s Goliath. Republicans Divided On 1940 Convention Dates Big Netherlands Liner Torpedoed Amsterdam. Dec. 7—(AP) —The 8,159-ton Netherlands motor ship Tanjandoen, with 68 persons aboard, was torpedoed and sunk in the Englijh channel today. It was not immediately known whether there were any casualties Fourteen of those aboard were passengers, all Hollanders, includ ing several children, and the crew numbered 54. The Tanjandoen sailed from Amsterdam November 29 for the Netherlands East Indies, and had stopped at Antwerp, Belgium, and a British blockade control port on the east coast of England. (A life boat containing 28 mem bers of tiie crew and six passen gers of the Tanjandoen were pick ed up, advices received in London said.) It was the eighth Netherlands ship sunk during the war, and the second reported a submarine victim. Japan-Russia Seeking Pact Against War Tokyo, Dec. 7.—(AP) lt was 'earned on reliable authority today hat conversations looking toward a ‘ion-aggression pact with Soviet Rus sia now are in progress, although ob ;ervers expressed belief they might intended by Japan merely for el ect abroad—particularly in the Unit id States. Despite official denials, it was said that both sides had made tentative proposals while seeking to avoid the tppearance of taking the initiative, lending to support observers’ belief, the Japanese news agency Domei published a report yesterday that the United States attitude toward Japan would affect to some extent the iu <Continued on Page Four) /l Shopping B ub ©AYS TILL PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Gathering in Wash ington Studies $700,- 000 Party Deficit; High Praise Given Tom Dewey’s Key note Address Last Night. Washington, Dec. 7. (AP) —A score of Republican leaders, meeting to discuss ways of wiping out the party’s $700,000 deficit, voiced vari ous dissimilar views today on the question of when to hold the 1940 presi dentia 1 non iina ting convention. Opinions ranged from that of R. B. Creager, of Texas, who favored a date in July or early August, to that of Mrs. John E. Hillman, of Colo rado, who declared that she person ally was for a meeting at the usual time in June. Although it will not be decided un til the full Republican National Com mittee meets here in January or Feb ruary, the convention date proved to be a topic sharing interest among the executive committee members of the national committee with discussion of Thomas E. Dewey’s initial presi dential campaign speech in Min neapolis last night. “it was a splendid speech,” saia Henry P. Fletcher, of Rhode island, iormcr national committee chairman, and now its general counsel. Daniel E. Pomeroy, of New Jer sey, the national committee vice tnairman, saici he thought the first speech Dewey has made since an (Continued on Page Four) French Soldiers Beat off Attacks By German Troops Paris, Dec. 7.—(AP) —French ad vance positions withstood repeated shocks of savage German patrol at tacks along the entire northern ilank of the western front today af ter a night of activity in which the French reported inflicting heavy losses with automatic and artillery fire. German strategy was reported by French military reports. After being halted during the night by deadly French fire, the German patrols, in stead of retreating as usual, dug in on bare no-man’s-land. The French countered by raining shells on them and then dislodged them with infantry attacks. A company of German infantry attacked near Wissembourg, which lies a short distance west of the Rhine, where the river flows into Germany. Other units were active near Bitche in the region west of the Vosges. The high command com munique said: “During the night marked ac tivity of patrols on either side. Con sequent artillery reaction. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS CUT 7 Russians Die By Wholesale In Assaults Finns Mow Down Ad vancing Lines of Enemy on Karelian Isthmus; North Sec tor in Arctic Area Is Reported Quiet. Moscow, Dec. 7. —(AP) —A Soviet Russian army has smashed the main Finnish defense line on the Karelian isthmus, the Leningrad command an nounced today, and is thrusting north ' ward. j The Leningrad communique said that “Soviet troops, after artillery preparations broke through the main defense line of the Finns along the Vuoksi water system, known among Finnish white guards as the “Maginot Kirke line.” (If this were really the main Fin nish line on the Karelian isthmus, and if the Russians actually have broken through, the Leningrad com munique marks a victory over what in Finland is called the Mannerheim line. A Swedish woman newspaper correspondent reported to Stockholm that the Finns were exacting a tre mendous price for the invasion of the isthmus. “Whole companies advanc ing in line v/ere mowed down by Fin nish artillery and infantry in thous ands,” the correspondent wrote. "Many Russians had no luggage, only overshoes, which were filled with straw and bound with cord.”) In the Petsamo region, northern most Finland, the Russians reported no new advances. (Finnish reports to j Helsinki asserted that all attacks of j the red army had been repulsed yes j terday, and that eight tanks were ; destroyed among 80 wrecked since j the war started last Thursday morn | ing.) GOVERNORS DISCUSS FREIGHT STRUCTURE Asheville, Dee. 7.—(AP)—Gov srnors of North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama were in executive session here today with a score of representatives of the 1 Southern Traffic League and Util— j ities commissioners of the four j states for the purpose of laying j plans for the southeast’s fight for j freight rates on a parity with those of the North. Germans Are Driven From English Base London, Dec. 7.—(AP) —German war planes raided the vital Firth of I Forth area shortly after noon today, but the air ministry said they were driven off by British fighting planes, and “one of their aircraft was seen I to be hit,” None of the Nazi planes reached land, and there was no bombing on the Firth of Forth, strategic inlet on which lie the city of Edinburgh aoid the Rosyth naval base. It was authoritatively reported that in two North Sea encounters yester day, German flying boats were badly damaged. British reports on the (■Continued on Page Four) G-Men Still Seek Slayer Mattson Boy Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 7.* —(AP) —J. i Edgar Hoover, director of the Fed j eral Bureau of Investigation, reveal : ed today that the FBI still listed 500 i suspects in the fiendish kidnap-slay ; mg of ten-year-old Charles Mattson. Hoover, replying to questions on I the Mattson case submitted to him ! by The Associated Press, said agents ! were still assigned to the almost three ; year-long quest for the man who kid i naped the son of a prominent Tacoma j doctor, and left the boy’s mutilated | body in a snow-covered thicket near | Everett, Wash., 60 miles north of here. “Since Ihe abduction of Charles ! Fletcher Mattson on December 27, (Continued on page two)
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