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K SILVER VIVERSARY 1)14-1939 .TV-SIXTH YEAR Graf Spee Ponders Dash To Sea v. HAT BRITISH GUNS DID TO THE ADMIRAL SPEE { fSb i ■ ■ I , JF |||||||||£ | « jl& I J?; -i - ' f jjjj| I - ; * e in tne Sl de of the Nazi pocket battle hip. Admiral Graf Spee. attests the marksmanship of British na\y. This was one of the man • wounds the German ship received in its spectacular ■ ee British warships in the South Atlamic off Uruguay. The picture was taken in the harbor of ..c.e the Gidf Spee had fled after tiie fignt. It was flown to Buenos Aires and flashed from \ ork bv radio. Labor Board Policy Was intimidation Former Regional Di rector Tells House Probers He Was Taught to “Make In dustry Fear Him And The Board.” • in. Dec. 16.—(AP) — A ■ _ nal 1 vector of the Na- Labw Re’. Tons Board testi g essional invest; - tee t day that a mem : what he called the board’s squad" had t id him to make iU'try*"fea't" him and the board. ... O' P Miller, who served as re c. at Cleveland. Ohio. • . H use committee investigat ed that such advice was oy Fred Krivonos, of the _ n staff of the labor board, g the I itte r’s visit to the Cleve il. Miller said, was sent to ■ • i after Xathan Witt, board a-': y. had written a letter coni ng of the Cleveland office’s : cases involving the Hoov- Cleaner Manufacturing . triers quoted Witt's letter as ' _ that it was plain that a new cadent’’ union of the Hoover y's employees was the same ny dominated” union which seen disestablished earlier, letter 'just burned us up,” asserted. because it had "no \ n in tact.” Then, he con • n. a "goon squad" member was v time you disagreed with Mr. member of the goon squad was in.” he said in reply to questions • unos. Miller said, immediately ' ci to know why the CIO union vctrical workers had not filer -of company domination with :d. Miller said he told Kn *here was no basis for suci Continued on Page Four) iaxwei! Meets Head-On \nger Os Oil Truck Men Dailv Dispafifi Bareau. In the Sir Waiter Hotel Dec. 16. —Commissioner oil v j Maxwell and his de in particular the Highway D.v;-:ion and the Highway Pa ; f- now fairly embarked up .charted and troubled sea as date has arrived for en all the rules and regulations y laid down for trucks and transporting gasoline and bustibles on the roads, x main, truck owners and op big and small, have agreed long with the commissioner! possible. They do not like j i but they have been forced ;f: a choice between the devil ble legislative restrictions or bitions and the witch of depart interference. They have ■ the witch, and it now remains Umiteraott ©ally Htspatrh _____ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORHiCAROLINA AND VIRGINLv UKASE D WT RE SERVICE OF I he ASSOCIATED press. Panama President Is Heart \ ictim Panama. Panama. Dec. 16. (AP)—Dr. Juan Demosthenes Arosemena. 59-year-old presi dent of the Republic of Panama, died of heart disease today at Penonome. 150 miles in the in terior. He suffered an attack here November 8. but was re ported out of danger the next day. and after six weeks in a hospital, apparently was restored to health. The first vice-president was sworn in as provisional presi dent. Finns Claim Russians Are Hurled Back Helsinki. Dec. 16. —(AP) —The i Finnish high command announced tonight that Russian attacks on the Kaaelian isthmus. supported by fifty tanks and “severe artillery j fire", had been repulsed with "great i enemy losses." A communique announced that i fourteen of the tanks were de -1 stroyed. while four “drove up to | our position anu surrendered. Russian attack in a number of j other , sectors also were repulsed I with "losses, it declared. The com munique announced destruction of one Russian patrol boat when Fin j nish shore batteries drove off at j tacks on islands in the eastern Gulf of Finland. The battle on the central front, where the Finn-; previously had re ported Russian units cut off.” is progressing toward a conclusion,’ the communique said. Previously. Russian troops were reported ad vancing steadily through northern Finland, but military sources said the Finns were preparing a counter ttack. However, just north of Lake La doga. in the middle of the little xmntrv. the Finns were said to be Iriving Russian troops before them oward dangerous swamps, with the spoils of war increasing.” only to be seen just how much safety is promoted by the rules and their administration. The operators are not greatly dis pleased with requirements for inspec tions —practically all make them for their own protection; and they cam even be brought around to the speed ! limit of 35 miles an hour; although they think this is more of a menace I than an aid to safety. But the real rub comes in the re quirements regarding the hours truck j drivers can work. And here, too, is, where the department has thrust it self into a twilight zone of regiila-; tion where nobody knows anything about who has the power to do what, it anything. Maxwell has sought the assistance of Commissioner of Labor Forrest on Page Four) HENDERSON, N. C„ SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 16, 1939 U. S. Presses Expert Ban For Planes All Plane-Making Materials Placed Un der “Moral Embar go” For Nations That Bomb Civilians; May Hit Germany Also, Washington, Dec. lb. —(AP) —The i United States government under i took today to stop the shipment of I plane-making materials to nations I which bomb civilian populations. It j reminded manufacturers who ex ! port war materials that the “moral ! embargo” previously invoked ; against plane sales to Russia and i Japan applied as well against any . materials essential to the manufac i Lire of aircraft. Speculation arose in the capital as to whether the broadened ban 1 might pinch Germany as well as Russia and Japan, even though she ! has not mentioned specifically by (Continued on Pago Four) Intensify Search For Schooner Off Cape P ear Coast Norfolk. Va.. Dec. 16.—(AP)—An other coast guard cutter and plane , joined the search today for the two masted schooner Centurion, overdue i at Wilmington, N. C. . The auxiliary sailing vessel, be ! lieved to have two men aboard, noti i fied the passing steamship Dakotan Monday that she had lost her pro -1 peller. but would try to make Wil mington under sail. She asked the j Dakotan to notify the coast guard if I she failed to reach Wilmington by Wednesday. The Centurion was last reported about 200 miles off Cape ' Fear. The cutter Modoc left Wilmington at 6 a. m. today- to join the Sebago. which has been hunting for the ' schooner since Wednesday. ‘Santa Claus’ Held For the Murder of An Infant Stepson Patcnon. X. .T., Doc. 16. (AP)—Samuel J. Dunning, 34, who a week ago played Santa Claus for a charitable organiza tion, was held without bail to day on a charge of beating to death his five-months-old stepson. Robert. His wife. Elsie, also 34, was held with him. the complaint against her alleging she dis played an “attitude of passive - ness, and without protest wit nessed the murdering and i pounding to death of her son" as he lay in bed. The child died in Paterson general hospital yesterday. Arraigned before Recorder Hugh Spernow in police court today, Dunning and his wife were held without bail on charges of murder to aw r ait ac tion of the grand jury. They pleaded innocent. Italy Is Neutral By Agreement Count Ciano Says Hitler Understands Foreign Minister Says Mussolini Still Ready To Help Restore Peace; Explains Italy’s Foreign Policy At Meeting. Rome, Dec. 16.—(AP) —Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano de clared today Italy is staying out of the European war by agreement with her ally. Germany, and re-af firmed Premier Mussolini's readi ness to help restore peace. Ciano, in a lengthy- explanation of Fascist foreign policy to the Chamber of Fasces and Guilds, dis closed that Germany- and Italy ag’ eed at the Milan conference last May, when their alliance was signed, to avoid raising any ques tion which might arouse any new disputes in at least three years, while both countries completed their re-armament. The Italians regarded three years as necessary for “perfection of in ternal reconstruction and comple tion of military preparations,” Ciano said, adding that the Germans es timated their period at four or five years. This agreement showed, accord ing to Ciano. that Germany and (Continued on Page Four) Preacher, 92, And Girl 28, Both of Wilmington, Marry Georgetown. S. C.. Dec. 16. (AP) —Rev. Joseph P. King. 92, and Miss Luciie Carney. 28. both of Wilmington. N. C.. were married here today. It was the third marriage for the bride groom. and the first for the bride. The ceremony was performed in the office of the George town countv judge of probate by Sylvan L. Rosen, a notary public. “It’s the first time I was ever married by a Jewish rabbi,” was the groom's com ment after the ceremony, Manteo Plans Tomorrow To Honor Wrights Manteo, Dec. 16.—(AP)—Thirty six years ago tomorrow the Day-ton. Ohio, bicycle-makers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, with a strange con traption looking more like a box kite on wheels than anything else, flew -1,000 feet. Tomorrow, beneath the Wright pylon on Kill Devil Hill, site of man’s ’’irst flight in a heavier-than-air -raft. the community will lay a wreath at the base of the memorial and aircraft will dip in salute. This year, 50 young pilots, trying their wings for the first time in cross country flight, are coining here from colleges in North Carolina and Vir ginia to pay homage to the inven tors of the airplane. Bloody November Smears Safety Record Os State Daily Dlspatcn liureau, Di ‘lit* Sr Waller Hotrl Raleigh. Dec. 16.—A bloody No ! vember which showed 103 deaths on ! the highways smeared red all over 1 North Carolina’s 1939 safety record i and left it squarely up to the last I month to determine whether the year i will end with any improvemeent i whatsoever over its predecessor. Not all the 103 were properly , chargeable to November, as 14 of the j death list, were accounted for by ae j cidents happening in previous months . (7 in October, 5 in September and ‘ 2 even prior to that), but they were : reported during last month and are, of course, a part of the year’s grim toll. This toll stood at 834 as of De i eember 1, just one below the 835 kill Ready for the Graf Spee I : . f £ || I j I '' ' * s ' I ' * U -vis > I * *aßr ® «su*or |a ,-v* v-4 : : y a off Pictured above is the Achilles, British cruiser which set a death watch on the damaged German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, deter mined the Nazi raider should not escape from Montevideo. Uruguay. The Achilles. Ajar, and Exeter engaged the Spee in battle off Uruguay which ended with the badly damaged Spee rushing for safety. (Central Press) Decisive Battle In Northern Finland Rapidly Developing Firms in New Defense Lines While Russians Speed on Their Heels; Villages Burned And Lake Ice Dynamited in Re treat. Svanvik, Norway. Dec. 16. —(AP) —(Near the Finnish Border) —The possibility- of a decisive battle in northern Finland appeared likely today near Pitkajarvi, 20 miles south of here, as motorized Russian troops rolled The Finns were reported to have occupied new defense lines near Pitkarjarvi, close to the Norwegian- | Finnish frontier after their retreat southwest from Salmijarvi. VILLAGES ARE BURNED AND ICE DYNAMITED GY FINNS Stockholm. Sweden, Dec. 16. — (AP) —Leaving villages in ashes, i ihe Finns were reported falling back todav before the onslaught of Sov- j iet Russian forces in the mining sec tor of Salmajarvi, key objective in the Soviet Arctic campaign. Bridges were dynamited and the , ice on lakes blasted by the Finns ’ as they prepared to face the .(Continued on Page Four) (jJccdhoJl FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy and unsettled tonight and Sunday, preceded by light rain in west portion this after noon; somewhat warmer tonight. WEEKLY WEATHER. Scattered light rain about mid dle and at close cf week: other wise generally fair: mild temper atures followed b.\ colder latter part of week. ed in the first eleven months of 1938. Last December there were 102 high way deaths, and so this month must show 101 or fewer in order that the record for the whole year shall be below that of 1938. The total of injured in November likewise showed a big increase over November. 1938, with 744 against the 647 reported a year ago, but Highway Safety Division officials ascribed this apparent increase almost entirely to better and more complete reporting of accidents all over the state. In sup port of this, they pointed to the big drop from injuries reported in Oc tober, when the total reached 825. There were apparent in the rather appalling November statistics a great (Continued on Page Four) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Russia To Ignore Finland’s Appeal Moscow. Dee. 16—(AP)—Soviet Russia was expected today to ignore the broadcast of Finnish Foreign Minister Vaino Tanner, appealing for a halt to hostilities and resumption of negotiations with Moscow. A foreign office spokesman said ho had no knowledge of the broadcasts, and Russian news papers did not mention it. Most observers expressed belief the Soviet was too far commit ted against the Helsinki govern ment and its military campaign to turn back now. This view was un derscored by an authorized state ment which described Russia’s ex pulsion from the League of Na tions on Finland’s charge of ag gression as an “absurd decision.” Film Actress Dies In Drop Ten Stories New York, Dec. 16.—(AP)— Lola Laszlo, 21, Hungarian motion pic ture actress, and daughter of Aladar Laszlo, composer, plunged to death early today from the tenth floor apartment of Baron Frederick von Oppenheim, of Cologne. Germany. Her body crashed into the marquis of the Gladstone hotel in 52nd street, where the wealthy baron re sides. Passersby heard a shriek from the air and looked up to see the black evening-gowned figure hurtling downward. Detectives William Fox and James Brady said Von Oppen heim, who described himself as a longtime friend of the Laszlo fam ily. told them he and Miss Laszlo had been on a party celebrating his planned departure today for Cali fornia, Japan, China and finally Germany. He said he had purchased gifts for her and her parents, and that, while Miss Laszlo was looking at them, he stepped into another room. He returned, he told the officers, to find her missing, and a low-silled window open. b Shopping Da ys till 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Internment Or Death At Sea Waiting Britain And France Concentrating Arma da of Great Strength To Grab or Destroy German Pocket Bat tleship If She Sails. Montevideo, Dec. 16. —(AP) — The alternative of life in interment or possible death on the high seas faced Germany's shell-torn pocket battle ship Admiral Graf Spee today. The Uruguayan government, ac cepting the report of a naval board that the warship was seaworthy, gave its commander. Captain Hans Langs dorf, until 5 p. m. Sunday (3:30 p. m., eastern standard time) to sail or let his ship become a prisoner here for the duration of the war between Great Britain and Germany. Lurking outside the harbor was a squadron of British warships, in cluding the cruisers Ajax and Achilles, which, with the cruiser Exeter, battered the German ves sel from waterline to fighting top in a 14-hour battle Wednesday. All indicates were the Allies were concentrating an armada of great strength and speed to greet the Admiral Graf Spee should she make her dash. Waterfront reports said a heavy French ship, presumably the battleship Dunkerque, had joined the British. German sources here said the Bri tish flotilla included an aircraft car rier, a battle cruiser, one heavy cruiser, two light cruisers and two or three destroyers. The German battleship missed a chance to slip out to sea under the cover of fog when rain stopped irj mid-morning and visibility increas ed. An inspection showed the crew of the Nazi ship cleaning her guns, loading materials from a barge along side, and repairing battle damage. Workmen also were preparing to in stall new armorplate. Graf Spee’s Commander Tells Story Captain Hans Langs dorff Describes His Plight And Praises Daring of Inferior British Ships in Naval Battle. Montevideo, Uruguay, Dec. 16. (AP) —Depleted fuel and daring Bri tish seamanship, which was “more than seemed credible,” forced the Admiral Graf Spee into a running fight dangerously near shore, Cap tain Flans Langsdorf told port au thorities today. In the first authoritative account of Wednesday’s 14-hour battle with three British cruisers, the German commander spoke with matter-of fact objectivity. About 6 a. m. Wed nesday, he said, he glimpsed the British cruiser Exeter off the Brazil coast. The Admiral Graf Spee head ed to the south, for Langsdorf said his ship already was in a critical condition due to a lack of fuel. While Langsdorf was taking stock of the Exeter, he suddenly found him self in the presence of the British cruisers Ajax and Achilles, and by this time was opposite the Uruguayan coast. The two smaller, faster vessels maneuvered so the German pocket battleship was between them and the shore. Fearing he might go aground in shallow water, and yet unable to run to sea for an open fight, because ot little luel. Langsdorf said he found himself between the devil and the deep blue sea.” Therefore, he went on the offen sive and opened fire on the Plxeter with his I'l-inch guns. The Exeter replied with 8-inch cannon, and a thunderous duel ensued. Langsdorff said he damaged the Exeter severely before the Ajax and Achilles could bring their six-inch guns to bear. When the smaller ships did so, (Continued on Page Four)
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