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I R SILVER ANNIVERSARY 1914-1939 .TV-SIXTH YEAR Allies To Send Aid To Finland heeler Says West iio Republican ithout A Liberal i a Belt Decidedly inst Reciprocal ■ie Program, Mon- Senator Says As- Trip; Silent on tier's Candidacy. n. Dec. 19.—(AP)—Sen- Democrat. Montana,; . western speaking trip, j opinion today that would vote the Repub unless the Democrats ■liberal" for President. . t o people in the west of a liberal Democrat," j .. who has indicated that - vk t’ne party nomination Roosevelt does not run. . 'sue lot a Republican J for a reactionary Dem - - their natural tendency l:h the Republican party, i see no reason to change stive Democrat is nom ■»ld reporters that the infinitely opposed" to the trade program.. He ex opinion that it was both j and economic mistake" j r its continuance at the 1 n of Congress. .. ns. he said, are making stal of opposition to the: -ram in the west, "giving 'lie on which they can ap 'd stressed farm population.”! s made no comment on; ■ 'ident Garner's announce -t he is a candidate for the I. .. a tic nomination. £rskine Smith To Be Serious Contender In the Sir Walter HoteL l)ai!v IMs|»ar< ri fsuroau By HENRY AVERILL. ( ic.ii. Dec 19.—Announcement S'su Senator Erskine Smith In ml X ■-* i Carolina’s Democratic nt governor field up to a ‘i.e candidates can have i- . . e. or can sing “Sweet a- a quartet if they so de i • rle man. who was. ' pro ’em of the 1939 Sen now formally declared his j *'• ’ ■ jvc up from the Num • Me Number 2 position in j rfew officialdom. His announce properly timed to “break” ; e town paper, the Stanly i and Press. j ucd no long. detailed state ’ of principles but contented a with declaring, after the clause ol intention. “If nom ar.d elected it will be my on to discharge the duties of igh office fairly and impar ‘o all, having in mind at all the best interest of North ::ii and its entire citizenship.” entry gives the other three •a candidates, L. A. Martin of i i*.. W. W. Neal, of McDowell, g Harris of Person, something to worry about, as there are d cations anywhere that the candidacy will' be other than .us threat to all and sundry wponents. a had a long legislative ca ' Continued on Page Seven) .arse “Pressure Groups” •nde dared On Governor Daily ixspatt u Barnau, I In the Sis' Walter lintel. I, liy IIENRY AVERILL •h. Dec. 19. —An interesting j <,! the coming gubernatorial : gn is going to be watching <: various “pressure groups t the matter of choosing up only the most vague genei l:on about the likes and dislikes : e groups can be indulged in, ' one of them has yet deiiniteiy nreservedly selected its iav -1 n any prediction on the course ; e campaign is attempted, how t is almost imperative to know ' course will be adopted by such orations as: I i United Dry Forces, (2) N. C. iieum Industries Committee j ■HrniU'rsmt IDatht Btspatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Ll r\u^ D v , WIRK SERVICE OP IHE AS.mk lATED PRESS. Ex-NLRB Bos? mm m lilllm \ James P. Miller Deposed regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, James P. Aliller* is pictured before the House committee investigating the agency. He testified that he was fired because he insisted on impar tial administration of the law. (Central Press) Air Battle Was Biggest In History Germans Say British Losses in Helgoland Attack Now 36 In stead of 32 Planes; Own Losses Min i mized; Denial in London. Berlin. Dec. 19.—(AP)—'The great battle between British and German war planes over Germany bay (Hel goland bight) yesterday was the big gest air fight in history, the German official news agency, D. N. 8.. said today. The German high command, re porting that only two German planes had been lost, raised from 44 to 52 the number of British pianes report ed in the engagement. British losses were raised from 3? to 36 by D. N. 8., which said it was established an additional bomber had been shot down and another plane had made an emergency landing. (The British air ministry said that only seven British craft were miss ing. and that 12 German planes had been shot down. Authoritative Bri tish sources agreed, however, with earlier German statements that he battle was the biggest air clash of the present war.) In asserting that the battle was the (Continued on Page Four) (oil lobby), (4) Farm Bureau Fed eration, (4) Grange, (5) Power, (6) tobacco interests, (7) League of Mu nicipalities, (8) Association of Coun ty Commissioners, (9) the railroads, (10) truck operators, (11) labor and (12) bankers and insurance men. That’s not a full list by any means, as there might well be added the Merchants Association, Fair Tax League (Paul Leonard), beer inter ests, bottlers, druggists and many others. Almost all of them main tain permanent or semi-permanent lobbies and all of them have parti cular axes to grind around about election time. Also excluded from the lists so far are the State agencies which, j come election year, are too often (Continued on Page Two) HENDERSON, N. 0., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 19, 1939 U. S. Sells 44 Planes To Finland Need of Them by Navy Not Imperative Now; Credit For Pur chase Advanced by Government 5 Huge Supplies Being Bought Here. Washington. Dec. 19.—(AP) Officials disclo-ed today that 44 high speed fighting planes being manufactured for the navy will be sold to Finland. The army and navy joint aero nautical board approved the sale after a navy report that immediate | delivery of the craft to the navy was not imperative, and that an improved model was available. The planes being manufactured : by the Brewster Aeronautical Cor- | poraiion, Long Island City, N. Y.. ( were designed for use both on land or to operate from an aircraft car- 1 rier. They were said to be superior , in major respects to the bulk of the navy and army planes already in service in this country, and to the fighting craft sold to France. Finland was able to obtain Amer ican-made planes only by official intervention, it seems, since the principal American manufacturers are swamped with American mili- j tary orders and foreign contracts, j It wa° said, however, that no plane j actually delivered to either the ; army or the navy would he trans- I ferred to Finland or any other for- j eign country. ' Finnish officials, meanwhile, av« , negotiating for the purchase in this ; . country of more than 50,000 gas ! masks, machine guns and small j arms ammunition, as wall as non- , . military supplies of all kinds, to be I financed by $10,000,000 credits art- j. vanced by the Reconstruction Fi- ; nance Corporation and the Export- Import Bank. Death Takes Wife Os Engilsh Poet, Rudyard Kipling London, Dec. 19. — (AP) —Mrs. Rudyard Kipling, wife of the author and poet, died at her home today in Sussex. ’ The former Caroline Starr Bales tier was born in Brattleboro, Vt. She and Kipling were married in 1892 in London, but returned to Vermont for a honeymoon, and remained four years while Kipling wrote some of his most famous works. . Mrs. Kipling, who had been ill for an extended time, would have been 74 December 31. The American-born woman met the writer in 1890 when he was col laborating with her brother, Wolcott Balestier, on “The Naulakha.” They were married two years later, the year “Barrack Room Ballads” was i published. They had three children, two daughters and a son. NLRB Chief Admits Wrong; Os Conduct Washington. Dec. 19. —(AP) —A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board conceded to day that his own conduct at a trial examiner’s hearing showed a lack of proper separation of the board’s judicial and prosecuting functions ; in the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company case. Appearing before the House committee investigating the labor board, Philip G. Phillips, regional director at Cincinnati, saw NLBR records introduced which showed that while he was acting as attor ney at the hearing he was also re laying to the trial examiner, Har lowe Hurley, instructions from the boa ] - d. Hurley upheld Phillips’ conten tion on the point covered by the instructions, the evidence brought out, and the case subsequently was dropped because of Phillips’ con duct at the hearing. Questioning brought from the i witness testimony that instructions : he transmitted to Hurley concerned the board’s rules on admissibility of | (Continued on Page Four) tOoaihsb'i FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Showers tonight, Wednesday generally fair and colder. Graf Spec Turns to Sea in Face of Battle *» y-. #>Nv•>. .n sv - ♦♦ ***** .. .. ... 4* ' | * ' : ;, ■ ' ■ • ■ '■ ; v , : \ j -y r > * yT y Cental P--«* Radioohoto He: - ni se pointed toward the sea, the crippled Graf Spec is pictured lying at anchor in the h.aroor of Mon tevideo, Uruguay, set for a dash through a formidable assemblage of Allied warships. Shortly after this pic ture was made, however, her own captain togk her outside the harbor, on orders frem Adolf Hitler, and sank her himself. Welders worked frantically to repair the 10,000-ton German pocket battleship, in which gaping holes were torn by British cruisers during a battle off the South American coast. Photo flashed by radio from Buenos Aires to New York. Two Soviet Bombers Destroyed By Finns; Finns Retreat South Graf Spee’s Fate Result British Trap - Montevideo, Uruguay, Dec. 19. (AP) —Naval sources intimated today the Admiral Graf Spee’s encounter with three British warships in the South Atlantic was no accident, but really a trap that had British-sold fuel oil as the bait. These sources said a German freighter attempted to buy oil from a British concern at an undisclosed Brazilian port ten days before the engagement last Wed nesday. At first it was refused, but later was supplied on instructions from headquarters. Captain Hans Langsdorff, ccmmen der of the German pocket battleship said he was cruising off the coast of Brazil in search of a rendezvous with the supply ship Tacoma wh n he sighted the British cruiser Exeter. Turning southward he found himsei in the presence ol two more British cruisers, the Ajax and Achilles. Lack of fuel forced him to light at a dis (Continued on Page Two) Eight Franchises For Bus Routes in East Are on F ile Raleigh, Dec. 19.—(AP) —R. O. Self, chief cleric of the Utilities Com mission, announced today that eight •applications of bus lines for fran chises have been set for hearing on January 22. Applications follow: Seashore Transportation Company, Vanceboro to Goldsboro via Greenville, and from Rocky Mount to Norlina, and from Wilson to Norlina, and from Greenville to Rocky Mount. Carolina Coach Company, from Wilson to Snow Hill; from New Bern to Norlina. and from Wilson to Nor lina. Southerland Brothers, from Golds boro to Greenville, via Snow Hill and Farmville. / e Swopping 2)AyS TILL LiUle Army Loses Battle in Arctic Area, And Russians Claim Capture of Pitka jarvi, Which Finns Do Not Confirm, Helsinki, Dec. 19.—(AP) —At least two Soviet bombers and possibly more were downed today during an air raid in which eleven bombs were dropped on a Helsinki suburb with out damage. Seven Russian planes roared over i Helsinki, hiding behind cloud banks from volleys of anti-aircraft fire. They disappeared to the northwest j and later only three were sighted re turning. The bombs dropped harm- j lesslv out'ide suburban Malmi. When the air raid sirens sounded, j residents of the capital poured quick ly from r° and into j shelters. Within three minutes the streets were cleared except iur a li ra id wardens, soldiers and an oc casional straggler. Perfect flying weather aided the i attackers. A parachute was sighted as the j raiders were repulsed but whether it carried a flier from a stricken ship or a bundle of propaganda leaflets : could not be discerned. On land the Finnish high com mand reported the invaders were turned back on the east central front and in the Karelian area. RUSSIANS ADVANCE FAST FROM ARCTIC WAR SECTOR Copenhagen, Dec. 19. —(AP) — A motorized Soviet Russian army roll ed south along Finland’s Arctic high way. it was reported today on the heels of retreating Finnish forces. Advices reaching Copenhagen were that the Finns lost a battle yesterday near Pitkajarvi, about 53 miles south- : west of the Arctic pert of Petsamo. j An official Moscow report that Pit kajarvi itself had been captured had not been confirmed by Finnish sour ces, but observers at Norwegian bor der points said the Finns were burn ing buildings, apparently in prepara tion for abandoning the town. The Kirkines correspondent of the newspaper Politikens said the Rus sian vanguard was nearing Grense fors —southernmost border station in south Varanger—and was likely to pass that point before night. MOTOR LINE GIVEN RIGHT TO PURCHASE Charlotte, Dec. 19. (AP) —An Interstate Commerce Commission order received today at the motor carrier bureau office here author ized Matthias & Company, of Wash ington, N. C., motor truck line oper ator. to buy the operating rights of Whitley Transfer Comnany. of Zeblulon. The purchase price was not stated. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Oi! Freighter Os Germany on Coast Fort Lauderdale, FG.. IGe. 19. (AP) —Coast guard headquar ters reported today an oil freigh ter believed to he German was entering the harbor at Port Fversrlades, apparently with a British cruiser in pir-suit. Lieutenant J. W. Matin, execu tive officer of the coast guard base, said he had kept the two vessels under observation since mid morning. Shortly after noon, he left in a guard board to establish their identity. One Trawler Sunk, Four Are Attacked London, Dec. 19.—(AP) — Captain David Southerland, of the 185-ton British fishing trawler Active, today reported his ship was sunk by an “aerial torpedo” fired by one of >ev erol German war planes raiding ship ping off the British coast. Four other small ships were attacked. One of the Active crew was miss ing, and three of the 373-ton British trawler Etruria’s crew were killed. The Etruria did not sink, but was towed to a Scottish port badly dam aged. Captain Southerland said that “an aerial torpedo landed in the water beside us and hit under the water line. Seven bombs aimed at us feh (Continued on Page Four) U. S. ATTORNEY FOR WEST HEART VICTIM Asheville, Dee. 19. — (AP) Marcus Erwin, United States dis trict attorney of the Western North Carolina district, was found dead in his room in a hotel here today. Ife was 6f>. Few de tails were available. Belief was expressed that Erwin's death was due to a heart attack or other natural causes. Ernie Haas, Boxer, Admits Slaying German Consul New York, Dec. 19. — (AP) —John J. Rvan, assistant chief of police in- ! ~ I spectors, announced today that Ernie i Haas, 28, a boxer, had been arrested in Toronto, Candada, for the killing j of Dr. Walter Engeiberg, secretary | of the German consulate here. Ryan said Haas acknowledged he beat Engeiberg to death in his Brook- | lyn home on December 5. Haas’ state- ; ment, Ryan said, was made to Cap- 1 lain Frank Balls, Brooklyn detective. A woman, Ryan said, unwittingly j led to Haas’ arrest. The woman went, to a Brooklyn department store to 1 buy some toys. While she was being waited cn, she talked with a sales Q PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Ail Possible Assistance t o Be Given Chamberlain And Daladier Attend Allied Supreme War Council Meeting in Paris; French in Dar ing Raid on Western Front. Paris, Dec. 19.—(AP)-—The Allied Supreme War Council was reported today to have decided to give all moral and material aid possible to Finland without weakening their own war with Germany. It was understood that the main subject under consideration at the i three-hour meeting was the possi bility of giving effective aid to the Finns in their stand against Russia. Prime Minister Chamberlain, who has been, in France inspecting British troops, attended the meeting. Pre mier Daladier also attended. The war council’s reported decision i to aid Finland was in keeping with the League of Nations resolution con demning Russia as an aggressor, and calling upon League members to give the Finns material and moral assis tance. On the western front, military dis patches said, a French patrol made a daring daylight raid several miles within German lines to defeat a Nazi detachment and carry off its four of ficers. The French patrol left its ad vance post in the heart of the Vosges forest and slipped by German posi tions until they encountered the Nazi detachment, the dispatches said, i After a sharp engagement, they made j their way back to the French lines. Tonnage Lost During War Near Million (By The Associated Press.) The sinking of four more ships today sent the known total of tonnage losses of all nations hurtling toward the million mark as Germany un leashed a series of plane at tacks on small fishing trawlers. German planes, using aerial torpedoes, attacked the fleet of British trawlers in the North Sea, sinking one and damaging four others. Destruction of the British freighter C ity of Kobe, 4,373 (Continued on Page Four) Uruguay To | Hold German Supply Ship Montevideo, Dec. 19.—(AP) —The Uruguayan government today took a step toward internment of the sup ply ship Tacoma, which carried oil supplies intended for the ill-fated battleship Admiral Graf Spec be fore a battle with three British cruisers sent her to her doom. Government vessels escorted the Tacoma from an outer harbor an chorage to an inner basin, where she must pass between two narrow breakwaters, and under the guns of (Continued on Paee Four) girl about the Engeiberg case, and mentioned Haas’ name and the fact that she was going to Toronto. The sale girl notified the store manage ment. Police were called and the wo man was trailed. Fir-t reports the Engeiberg house might have been used tor espionage activities brought J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of In vestigation to New York, but he quickly withdrew from the ease, ap parently satisfied the reports were baseless. Ryan said today that Haas, in de scribing the crime, insisted he killed Engeiberg because the secretary’s be havior became offensive.
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