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>? R SILVER ,\\ vi VERS ARY 1914-1939 j XTY-SIXTH YEAR lus sia Expelled by League House Committee Investigating NLRB i f fflß BBPIr - *■ '■' Vi#' ..»fh^'; : f iJ&lSmfc i? the first photo of the House Committee investigating the National Lahr Relations Board. Left to :. meeting in Washington: Representatives Abe Murdock of Utah, Ar*' D. Healy of Mass Chair man Howard W. Smith of Virginia. Charles Halleck of Indiana, and Harry N. Routsohn of Ohio. First three named are Democrats; the others are Republicans. Workers Better Off Now Than They Were In 1929 Real Wages Highest in History of Nation Con sidering Cost of Living And Before Taxes, Babson Declares. Bv ROGER W. BABSON, ("P'risrht 1939, Publishers Financial Bureau. Inc. tte. December 14.—Factory - in this and practically every * mdustrial town who have jobs ■ "ter off today than they have 1 • een. Their wages, measured by j ■mount of food and clothing pay envelopes will buy, are ighest in history. The working * ation of 1939 gets far more for dMlar than that of 1929. Only dis- ! Page lacing the employee of ' >y is the tact that a fourth of his ■ e must go for taxes, relief, and In ri.:.cornering the late 1920’s as i ■:’ r.bridled prosperity, we get that many changes have place which benefit the wage and salary worker of 1939. Stocks Slow For A Rest York, Doc. 14.—(AP)—Stocks j d down for a rest in today's ; ' after Wednesday’s brisk up* but most showed little dis '(> blaekslide. Dealings, fair t the start, soon slackened, dial gains running to two or •,t - were chopped down sub .iy in many instances near the hour. oak in recently buoyant cot ■.ares, and some hesitancy a >ther tuples, attributed main prof it-eashing, helped put tin the stock list, brokers sales. °an Radiator 9 5-8 wan Telephone 169 an Tobacco B 83 1-4 •.da . . 31 r Coast Line 23 1-8 Refining 21 1-8 Aviation 29 7-8 A; o;n Steel 84 . • 89 3-8 ea Gas & Elec Co 6 1-8 ■ rial Solvents 13 5-8 olidatcd Oil Co 7 1-4 Wright 10 3-8 Power Light 6 7-8 ■ Electric 39 3-4 i Motors 54 1-4 ' & Myers B 101 3-4 ••‘ay Ward & Co . . . . 55 1-8 'hi.- Tobacco B 37 • n Railway 20 1-4 i d Oil Co N J 42 3-4 WAYNE SCHOOL GETS BiG WPA ALLOTMENT sh. Dec. 14.—(AP)—c. C. j nap, State PWA administra-| announced today approval oJ j projects to cost $88,200 and ork to 452 men. included: Wayne county, to | e county school building, j and 13 workers. I - - Hispatrfa ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA ' W ir E SERVICE OP I he ASSOCIATED press. I Living costs have plummeted while wage rates have skyrocketed. The cost of living, as estimated by au thorities today, is off a seventh from 1929. This means that a man who is receiving the same wage today that he was 10 years ago, actually has been given a 16 per cent pay boost. The worker who today gets 14 per cent less in his pay envelope than in 1929 can buy just as much as he could then. Food and Clothing Cheaper Major savings in the average family’s living costs today are in the weekly market basket. Food now is almost a third cheaper than in 1929. There is not much saving in rent or the cost of building. If you want to build a house today it will cost you (Continued on Page Four) Communists Waning Fast In America i By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington. Dec. 14. —If ever there was enough communistic influence in this country to be worth worrying about, Russia’s at- G , ""V ’ Martin Die* Finns. The other item has been the conviction of our local bund-fuehrer, Fritz Kuhn, as a common swindler. What’s more, the bunds were made ridiculous by the pettiness of Kuhn’s supposed peculations and by the sick ness of his Jove letters, read in con nection with his trial as a grafter on (Continued on Page Four) NASH LAD KILLED BY “UNLOADED GUN” Nashville, I>ec. 14.—(AP) — Joe Hall, 16, was ordered held under $590 bond on a technical charge of manslaughter today as a result of the fatal shoot ing of ten-year-old M. B. Boy kin, Jr., near here, yesterday. Coroner M. C. Gulley, who investigated, said Hall told him he and young Boykin were playing cowboy and quoted him as saying, “I didn’t know the gun was loaded.” tack on Finland has liquidated it. And if ever the Nazis’ influence he r e weighed a cent’s worth a cou ple of things have liquidated that also One 1i q u idating item, as to the Nazis, has been the Ger man official press’ expressions of sympathy with Stalin in his cam paign against the HENDERSON, N. 0., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 14, 1939 German Liner Leaves Mexico For Germany Vera Cruz, Mexico, Dec. 14. (AP) —The 32,581-ton German liner Columbus slipped out of Vera Cruz in the darkness early today on what was an apparent attempt to run the At lantic and reach a German port j through the Allied naval block ade. Also at sea was the German freighter Arauca. which cleared Vera Cruz harbor for New Orleans. La. The Columbus, a rich war prize if it falls into the hands of Allied warships, obtained pa pers for a trans-Atlantic cross ing. The secrecy of her depar ture was because of the pres ence of British warships pa trolling Gulf and Caribbean waters. Germans Held In Wilmington Are Released Washington, Doc. 14. (AP)—The' coast guard released today seven German sailors who had been held aboard the 43-foot yawl Lakala at Wilmington, N. C. They were first detained about ten days ago while Federal authorities sought to deter mine whether they might violate any neutrality or other law. The coast guard released the men on advice of the United States dis trict attorney for Eastern North Car- [ olina. Until the men explained they! bought the ship in an effort to get (Continued on Page Four) ! JUDGE McELROY, OF MARSHALL, IS DEAD Western North Carolina Jurist Passes In Asheville Hospital After Heart Attack Asheville, Dec. 14.—(AP) —Judge i Pender A. McElroy, retired, died in ; i a hospital here today at the age of ! 72. Judge McElroy, who retired from | the superior court bench two years i ago alter serving 20 years, suffered ! a heart attack Tuesday at his home J in Marshall. He is survived by three i children. Funeral services will be held Fri- i day afternoon in Marshall. '• 1 8 Shopping DAys TILL Berlin Says Germ an Battleship Not To Interne At Montevideo 36 Dead On Graf Spee After Fight British Warships That Engaged in Battle ! Wait Outside Neutral Harbor For Pocket Battleship to Attempt Escape. London, Dec. 14. (AP) — The Admiralty announced tonight that naval forces watching for the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee “have been strongly reinforced”. No details were given, how ever, of the additions to the cruisers Ajax and Achilles, which mounted guard outside Montevideo in an effort to pre vent escape of the Nazi warship. Berlin, Dec, 14.—(AP)—The Ger man high command asserted today that the German pocket battleship j Graf Spee was sinking the British | merchantmen Tairoa and Steons Hall | when she was encountered by three British cruisers in the South Atlantic I yesterday. Authorized sources at the same time vigorously denied that the Graf TO DErY BLOCKADE New York. Dec. 14. (AP) A daring attempt by the shell torn German pocket battleship Graf Spee to run the gauntlet of British cruisers holding a “death watch” outside the harbor of Montevideo, Uruguay, as forecast today in an NBC broadcast from the South American port. The NBC ship was rushing repairs and seem ingly desperate efforts were being made to sail out of the harbor before a time deadline intered the Graf Spee for the duration of the war. He also said a reinforced squadron of British cruisers was lying in wait ai the mouth of the Platte river, but did not specify the ships involved. Spee would be interned in Monte video, where it went after being damaged in the sea battle. These sources said the ship went to Monte video merely to bury 36 dead sea men and to provide hospital treat ment for gassed and wounded men, and replenish victuals damaged by (Continued on Page Four) British Used Every Trick Os Naval War Montevideo, Uruguay, Dec. 14. — (AP) —How three British cruisers, like well trained hounds worrying a huge bear, slashed at the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee until the badly damaged warship was forced to take refuge in the neutral harbor of Monevideo was described by eye witnesses and authorities to day. From their account was pierced together a picture of the day-long battle. It showed the British cruisers Exeter, Achilles and Ajax, their guns outranged at least .3,000 yards by the 11-inch German guns, used every trick known to naval warfare to beat down their larger opponent’s de fenses. The British made “magnificent” use of smoke screens, witnesses said, to avoid exposing themselves dis astrously to the Admiral Graf Spee’s heavier gunfire. The cruisers were said to have darted from behind these sheltering smoke screens to fire their own salvos, then retreated swiftly from sight, constantly shifting their position. Although outranged and lacking their opponent’s heavier armor, a British official said the lighter cruis ers had to close in, despite the 850- pound projectiles the pocket battle ship was hurling. To avoid these shells, one of which almost ripped a turret from the Exeter early in the battle, the British cruisers resorted to hit-and-run tactics maneuvering at high speed. Battle Tides In Red Invasion Progress of the Russian-Finnish war is shown on this self-explanatory map. The territory seized by the Red invaders has cost the Soviet a terrific toll in dead and wounded as the Finns continue to fight desperately in the face of overwhelming odds. (Central Prets) Girl Senior From School Killed On Way from Banquet- Fayetteville, Dec. 14.—(AP) Rebecca Kinlaw, 16-year-old high school senior of White Oak, died in a hospital here today of injuries she suffered in an automobile wreck as she was returning home from the annual junior-senior banquet last night. Miss Kinlaw was the daughter of Charlie Kinlaw, a farmer. Also injured in the accident, which occurred when the young people’s automobile struck a bridge abutment, were Kenneth Council, Joan Davis, Ernest Owen and E. F. Owen, all of White Oak. Their injuries were not regarded as serious. South Atlantic Freed, Says Chamberlain London. Dec. 14. (AP) —Prime Minister Chamberlain declared today that “the gallant action” of “three comparatively small British ships a gainst a much more heavily armed adversary” probably would tree the South Atlantic from depredations of the German raider Admiral G: as Spee. Lauding the League of Nations ac tion in condemning Russia for the invasion of Finland, Chamberlain m,d ihe House of Commons that “Germany alone among the nations, even now, is abetting by word and (Continued on i J age Two) BUCHAREST BLAST FATAL FOR EIGHTY Bucharest, Roumania, Dec. 14. (AP) —Eighty persons were killed and 200 others were gravely injured today in an ex plosion at a cellulose plant un der milittary control at Zarnesti. Many of the injured were fear ed to be dying. Whole families were wiped out in their sleep by the early morning blast of an overheated 1,090-gallon kettle of chemicals. (jJocdhsu'i FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, slightly colder near the coast and in extreme north cen tral tonight: Friday fair, slight ly warmer in west portion. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Finns Plan Attacks On Soviet Army Russian Invasion Stepped on Karelian Isthmus; Invaders Stepping Fast in North as Finns Pre pare to Retire There. Helsinki. Dec. 14. (AP) The Finnish army communique asserted tonight that an exten sive area had been recaptured by the Finns in the vicinity of a Talvajarvi, and the Russian invaders forced to retreat. The communique declared that more Russian tanks bad been captured. It accused Ihe invaders of using gas in fight ing at Suomussalimi, 20 miles inside Finland at almost the mid point of the eastern fron tier. hut added that the gas was largely ineffective. Helsinki, Dec. 14.—(AP) —Military observers reported the Finns were in position today to organize counter attacks after stopping the Soviet Russian invasion on the Karelian is thmus. A Finnish army communique re ported last night the red army had (Continued on Page Two) British Destroyer Sinks With Likely Loss Os 120 London, Doc. 14. — (AP)—The Ad miralty reported today the British destroyer Duchess had collided with another warship and sunk with an indicated loss of 120 lives. Only three blows—all dealt by Germany- -have been more disastrous to the British navy since the out break of the war. They were the sinking of the aircraft carrier Courag eous, with a loss of 578 rrren; the battleship Royal Oak, with 786 men, and the armed merchantman Rawl pindi, with 265 men. Details of where or how the col lision occurred were not given, but 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COl’Y Invasion Os Finland Is ! Denounced All Members of League Urged to Aid Finland in Every Possible Way; First Time in History Any Nation Ousted; Neighbors Abstain. Geneva. Dec. 14. (AP) —- The League of Nations, by unanimous vote of its council, today expelled Soviet Russia because of her invasion of Fin land. Four members of the Coun cil, including Finland, ab stained voting on the expul sion motion. The others were China, Yugoslavia and Greece. The vote was on a resolu tion which declared that as a result of Russia's actions to ward Finland, “The U. S. S. R. no longer is a member of the League". This was the first time in League history that a nation had been expelled. NINE SOVIET NEIGHBORS REFRAIN FROM VOTING Geneva, Dec. 14.—(AP)—The Lea gue of Nations Assembly in record time today condemned Russian ag (Continued on Page Two) Casualties of War For Great Britain Are 2,300 So Far London, Dec. 14.—(AP) Great Britain’s total casualties in the first three months of the war was approximately 2,.’100. Prime Minister Chamberlain said today in reply to a ques tion in the House of Commons. This figure, for all British for ces. compared with 12,500 in the firsttwo months of war in 1914, he said. Chamberlain did not divide the casualties according to the various arms of service. How ever, the latest report on Royal Air Fore" fatalities listed 422. Naval losses were approxi mately 1,030. Sharp Verbal Clash Marks NLRB Inquiry Washington, Dec. 14.—(AP)— A bristling verbal exchange between a member and the chief attorney of the House committee investigating the National Labor Relations Board broke out today when the latter out lined proposals for future commit tee action. Representative Murdock, Democrat Utah, disagreed with Edmund M. Toland, committee counsel, over Toland’s statement of what he con sidered some decisions the commit tee must make. Reviewing testimony about NLRB decisions on employee representation (Continued on Page Four'* it was disclosed that it happened yes terday. The Admiralty said the other j ship, which was not immediately ! identified, was undamaged. The Admiralty announced last | night that the same British sub ; marine it asserted retrained from tor pedoing the German liner Bremen ; Tuesday had sunk a German sub | marine and torpedoed a German cruiser. (The German high command com munique today reported “an under-* water explosion near one light cruis er. The damage was unimportant. The ship returned to a home har ! bor.”)
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