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OUR SILVER \ XI VERS ARY 1914-1939 XTY-SIXTH YEAR Graf SpeeCommander Suicides ****** y y, ,y, y jy y y <y y Y y y y y y Act Os War B y Germany Feared L rge Liner Scuttled In lira! Zone mans Sank Lux i-ip 250 Miles In 'American Area, \\ ashingtcn Thinks; Hustled to New by U. S. Cruiser. York. n«f. T aval cruiser Tuscaloosa, 79 survivors of the s?ui ti. . : man luvifv liner Colum as reported off Ambrose 1. . iusi outside New York • at noon today. !I nurd in by a thick fog and : rair.. ihc vessel was ex it anchor outside the har -1 .:ntil ihc weather cleared. ..*■ n. Dec. TO.—CAP)—-Stole it (officials disclosed today • Genu an liner Columbus was lm i<t 250 miles in. ido Am utralitv zone. Immediately • _an a study to determine this meant that an act oi d occurred within the zone. 7 ' information yesterday from $• en Early, White House press ■my. was that the scuttling had place when a British m.an-o’- d c ’me upon the big liner out ie. But later, expert cal the ship’s position, given United States cruiser Tus . sh iwed that the Columbus : v 250 miles inside die n a line due east of Washing - g• m American nations, lim. d b • limits of the zone eel r.s in Panama this fall, >ec"' ■ m s 0 m of a possible a-. ‘ • eing the British -0 S; < ‘le u!: tiie coast of Uru guay ia- tw---k. Alt tr ; e. alter burning and bar.o ■ . their luxurious 32.000- sit.; : *.):c approach of the Bri -• m. 570 crew members ■a trie Columbus were - . a t L.i:, Island by the Tus i ./i n e one-time *’ Orman merchant fleet, ■to sink beneath the : the Atlantic in a cloud oi bus. which failed in a • i h for Europe from Vera • x e. •!ready was settling e Tuscaloosa completed a cue at dusk yesterday. ’ •> German sailors were i to have been lost, urvivors, including nine wo re due in New York harbor 4 p. m. eastern standard time, ins examination by immigra -I<aa Is. If they are found to be i< webant seamen, they can ■si ; berty in the United States day But if an inquiry should ;:s* that, they are navy men, t t• liner was armed, tem d( U uti in. or even internment a duration ol the war, might dered. (■i tJW.R WAS THIRD I. \RGFST GERMANY OWNED ington, Dec. 10. —(AP) —The G s wan luxury liner Colum • poll'd to have been scuttled G a British man-of-war was hot on her wake, was Broun*s Fear Os Death is Told At His Funeral York, Dec. 20.—(AP) —The j 1 Icy wood Broun’s conver to the Roman Catholic laith, ; otic account of the colum- | fear of death, and his craving j p: ritual peace, was recited at ■ uneral in St. Patrick’s cathe- ! . : day by the priest who bap- j 'd him there on May 26. < ha!i an hour alter the solemn ol requiem had been sung, i a,nor Fulton A. Sheen spoke thousands of Broun s iriends i admirers who filled the big ; h to the doors. < disclosed that Broun received n. toe of Matthew when he was i ' '<■({. that he was the first per-: n the New York arch diocese mtnbtrsmx ©atilt ©tsttatrh L '^r V H^ D A^ IRE SERVICE op 1 HE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Nazi Liner Scuttled In American Neutrality Zone \ ! , <L- ... -•-•oooc* w : -a Jr . A •» /jf' > > X jgß|HS|j^£ - ■•*■:'' v> / / '*y . ... . v./i.v. •>•••■ • ■ -fv. .S.a._;..S.,?:'iV:.. The 32,581-ton German luxury liner Columbus, pictured here, was scuttled several hundred miles off the United States Atlantic coast Tuesday afternoon when overtaken by a British cruiser and threatened with cap ture as a prize of war. She cleared from Vera Cruz, Mexico, last wek, carrying 20,000 barrels of oil, giving her destination as Oslo, Norway. NewEmkurgo Laid By U. S. On Gasoline Moral Ban on Exports To “Certain Coun State Department; Done “in National In terest”. Washington, Dec. 20.—(AP) —The State Department laid down today a moral embargo on the export to “certain countries” of plans, plants, manufacturing rights or technical information lor the production of high quality aviation gasoline. Without naming any countries, the department announced that the “embargo applies to countries the armed forces of wdiich are engaged in unprovoked bombing or machine gunning of civilian populations from the air.” The anouncement continued: “The department, after consulta tion with the War and Navy De partments. has decided that the na tional interest suggests that for the time being there should be no fur ther delivery to certain countries oi plans, plants, manufacturing rights or technical information required for the production of high quality aviation gasoline. aflame and sinking in the Atlantic while an American naval cruiser performed a dramatic rescue of her entire crew of 579. The 32,381-ton liner, third largest in the Nazi merchant marine, had slipped out of Vera Cruz, Mexico, last Thursday in a desperate attempt to elude the British fleet and pos (Continued on Page Four> to be confirmed by the recently elevated Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, and that on Iris deathbed last week he received the papal blessings from Pope Pius XII. He revealed among otner things: Broun’s bitter disillusionment a month after his conversion at the “illiberal attitude” of “so many of my liberal friends, who spoke elo quently of freedom and would deny it to me.” “I have never, in all my life,” Monsignor Sheen said, “met any one who gave me such an idea of what our Lord’s love for mankind means. 1 have never seen a man who so loved his fellowmen; never seen such a great passion as his for mankind.” ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINOV North Sea Trawlers Os British Raked By German Planes London, Dec. 20. (AP) —T h e Aberdeen trawler Star of Scotland was fowled into port today with two of her crew dead as the result of I machine gunning and bombing by { German planes. Two other fishing trawlers were | unscathed during the raid, although one was attacked twbee. ! Captain Henry Noble, commander oi one of the trawlers, said “one heavy bomb fell only ten feet from cur bows; then gunners fired sev eral hundred rounds at us, hitting our decks, bid doing no damage.” The British press expressed indig- j nation at Nazi attacks on small vessel’:, which the British iden tified os civilian fishing boats. It ! w r as acknowledged, however, that ‘ 1 two lost Monday were naval traw- 1 l_t Politicians ♦ Fear Hoover In Comeback By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Dec. 29. —Although President Roosevelt pooh-poohs j stories of rivalry between the Amer ican Red Cross and’ Herbert Hoover competent to take care of the Finnish f situation. If that doesn’t mean that j the Hoover bunch is superfluous what does it mean? There’s a kind of an implication that Chairman Davis suspects the Hooverites of planning to use some of the money they raise to furnish the Finns with war supplies—American pro-Finnish aid of a belligerent character, which I might be interpreted as unneutral. Dr. Julius Klein, Hoover’s chief lie utenant, promptly sensed this hint, and as promptly issued a counter | statement—to the purport that not a cent of Hoover money will be used for military purposes. In short, despite denials, pro and con, it sounds very much as if Davis and Hoover were competitors. From j all accounts the Hoover concern is I scooping in contributions, as to Fin- ' | land (regardless of general world! j (Continued on Page Three) HENDERSON, N. 0., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 20, 1939 Herbert Hoover’s Finn i s h r e 1 ie f agency, all the: signs are that the two outfits are riv als not inten-' tionel’v, but in- 1 evitably. j Red Cross Chair j man Norman H. j Davis hasn't said j so in that many! words, but he’s j said, in effect, that his outfit is fully) lers engaged in mine sweeping. “Britons fired on as they swim for life,” the Evening News head lined its story of one German raid. The account declared that a Ger man raider “bombed and sank the British trawler Trinity N. 8., and afterwards machine gunned the sur vivors as they clung to bits of wreckage, or tried to swim to rafts.” A British statement accused the Germans of “seeking to justify such flagrant breaches of interna tional law and decency” as the trawler attacks “by inventing a British attack on German towns.” The air ministry issued a statement last, night declaring the German news agency reports of » British “attack on the Isle of Sylt were entirely false.” Philippines Floods Cause Many Deaths Manila, P. 1., Dec. 20.—(AP) Heavy loss of life in Isabella and Cagayan provinces were predicted tonight as the result of flooding of the Cagayan river. Hundreds were homeless. Much livestock was lost. There was heavy destruction of rice and tobacco crops in a wide area flooded by torrential rains which accompanied a typhoon. The postmaster at Tlacan, Isabel le province, reported the flood may exceed the record inundation of 1936, in which hundreds were drowned. The Cagayan river is me largest in the Philippines. The stricken district, northeast of Manila, practically was isolated. All communications had been cut. Red Cross units and government relief parties were rushed into the area. (OlwdJ'lQh Partly cloudy and colder to night: Thursday fair, colder in cast portion. 3 Shopping ©Ays till <3 Washington Offered Armed Aid To Eject Admiral Graf Sper Brazil' And Argentine Joined With United f.tales in Extending Aid to Uruguay in Defending Neutrality Rights Sunday. ■ Montevideo, Dee. 20. —(AP) —Dip- lomatic sources of high authority dis close 1 today the United States Ar gent •ee and Brazil had offered arm ed aid to Uruguay for ejection of + hc German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. The informant stated that in the last tense hours before the German raider acceded to Uruguay’s denar- , ture order Sunday, the United States assumed a leading role in the firm stand taken by representatives of the, Washington, Buenos Aires and Rio! de Janeiro governments in a meet- 1 ing here. The Admiral Graf Spee finally j sailed out oi Montevideo and was i scuttled rather than again face the! British warships it had battled last j Wednesday. It explained that force, had its j use been necessary, would have in- ' volved the American nations con- j corned in putting teeth into the neu- ; trality declaration of the Panama conierenee, which on October 3 w’arn cd belligerents away from the coast .n a wide belt reacning from Maine to Cape Horn, and back to Alaska. Meanwhile ,the British government asked the Uruguayan foreign minis try to investigate whether British warships had used gas shells in at tacking the Admiral Graf Spee last Wednesday. FORESTRY SERVICE ! DIRECTOR IS DEAD | Washington, Dec. 20.—(AP) —F. A. Silcox, 56, chief of the forest ser vice, died today at his home in near by Alexandria, Va. He had been ser iously ill of a heart disease for near ly a week. Silcox came to the capital as chief of tipe forest service about five years ago. He first went with the agency about 30 years ago. Surviving are his widow, a son, five brothers and two sisters. Rice Institute Is Silent on Hiring Carolina’s Coach Houston. Texas, Dec. 20. (AP) —The Rice Institute com mittee on outdoor sports main tained a polite silence on the coaching situation today , ’ other j than to admit that Raymond (Bear) Wolf, of North Carolina, had been here for a discussion, then departed for Fort Worth. Wolf is a Texas Christian pro duet. The Tar Heel coach admit ted he was interested in the po sition vacated by the committee last week with the release of i Jimmie Kitts, but he declared “I’m happy in Carolina.” France Claims Sinking C Os 50 German U-Boats Paris, Dec. 20. (AP) —Official French estimates toda.v placed at more than fifty the number of German submarines sunk by the Allies since the war began Sep tember 3. The French estimated that when the war started, Ger many had some U-boats, and said that at least 12 had been ac counted for by France's fast de stroyer units. The latest sinking was credit ed last night to the destroyer S.'roco, which previously bad sent two submarines to the bot tom in one week. Naval experts have said that they were destrovin y submarines at t ie rate of four a week, twice as fast as Germany’s capacity to PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Germans Claim 23 En emy Ships Sunk Berlin, Dec. 29.(AP)—Destruc tion of 23 British “vanguard” ves sels ty the German air force in three days was renor'ed today by the German command which a!re rrvcl some prisoners had Men tr-k' n in sallies against the Allies on the western l’rork (The British have acknowlcdg -4 <’*- I--- tU f’sMng boats, accusing the Germans of attacking them without provocation.) The German communique said: “Our scouting troops on the west ern front succeeded at several places in breaking into enemy positions, thereby taking a num ber of prisoners.” Below Zero Weather Is Aiding Finns Russian Drive From Arctic Paralyzed by 25 Degrees Below; Finns Throw Soviets Back to Own Border On Karelian Isthmus. Helsinki, Dec. 20. —(Af) Finnish officials announced to night that scores of Russian tanks had been destroyed and more than 20 enemy planes shot down when the red army launch ed a “gigantic attack” with hun dreds of tanks on the Karelian isthmus. Ten tanks were destroyed be hind the Finnish lines, author ities said, and several score with in the Russian lines. More than 209 airplanes par ticipated in the attack, they ad ded. Helsinki, Dec. 29.—(AP)—-Finland called to the colors all able-bodied men of 40 years of age today as mili tary sources declared Russian troops had been thrown back close to their own frontier on the Karelian isth mus, and Soviet bombers renewed raids on Finnish cities. (Blizzards and 25 degrees below zero temperature, said dispatches from Kirkenes, Norway, near the Finnish frontier, apparently have paralyzed a Russian drive in north ern Finland. The Finns, hitherto re treating in this sector, were said to be preparing a new fortified line south of Lake Inari.) Today s mobilization order was the (Continued on Page Three) replace them. (This is the sixteenth week of the war. If Germany had pro duced two submarines a week through last week, she should have added thirty to the sixty with which the British and French estimate she started the war. If 50 have been sunk, 40 would be left.) French military sources said that French Xront line troops re pulsed German raids yesterday between the Moselle river and the Vosges mountains. The stron gest attack, they said, was broken up by artillery fire, which forced the Germans, es timated at about one company, to retire in confusion, abandon ing a:r.u and materials. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COl’V Langsdorff Kills Self In Argentine He And Crew of Poc ket Battleship Had Been Interned in Bue nos Aires; Langsdorff Had Refused to Talk Further of Loss. Buenos Aires, Dec. 20. (AP) —Captain Hans Langs* dorff today shot himself to death “to share the fate of his magnificent ship”, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf I Spee, scuttled Sunday in the | river Platte while an Allied ■’lotilia stood off shore, j His body was found by an aido at 3:30 a. m., in his room at tho Buenos Aires naval arsenal, where he and more than 1,000 of his crew had been interned since arriving here Monday. , Langsdorff killed himself after a three-hour talk with the officers of his staff, ending shortly after mid night. Before he left them, he made u complete circle of his comrades, shook hands gravely with each one, and retired to his room, asking that he not be disturbed, since he was tired. “From the first moment, he made up his mind to share the fate of his magnificent ship,” said a state ment by the German Embassy, and (Continued on Page Three.) Langsdorff Had Great Personality Buenos Aires, Dec. 20.—(AP) — A slight, alert sailor, Captain Hans Langsdorff made up in personality what he lacked in size. He was the kind of a sea fighter who could sink nine merchant ships—the numoor attributed to the Graf Spec before her raiding was ended by last week’s naval battle— and then declare with delight that he was thankful no loss of life had resulted from the sinkings. One of his enemies in the war at sea had this to say to him: There is no mercy from Langsdorff when he has fighting to do, but when | ho is not lighting he is a fine gen tleman.” It w - ‘s Captain Patrick Dove, captain of the tiny British tanker Africa Snell, who said it. Dove knew, for he spent three months as an enforced “guest” aboard the Graf Spec after the Africa Shell was sunk. | German Ship May Remain In Florida Freighter Arauca, Chased in By British Cruiser at Fort Lau derdale Fears to Ven ture Out Again; May Be Interned. Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Dec. 20. I (AP)—A representative of the | Hamburg-American Line was en j route to Fort Lauderdale today to I decide the fate of the German | freighter Arauca, which took ref j uge in Port Everglades harbor yes -1 terday after eluding a British cruiser. Thp freighter’s master, Captain. Frederick Stengier, had assurance t (Continued on Page Three)
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