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| ol'R SILVER I anniversary 1914-1939 1U LXTY-SIXTH YEAR HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL IN U. S. PUT AT 640 General Winter Helps Stop Reds of* [RUSS/AN SUPPLY SHIPS — W' \ L£AVE PETS AMO HARBOR L NN J drive y -.yVi to return to Murmansk \ oV REDS BACK I — 7—* l FINNS BOMB RA/L - IVALO 7 FOR 12- f/ - -- J. f As* fjL. ) > \ Y VUKOSKI V® >KMOALAKSHA/Jpmy LINE NORJH W \<R ~ r \ wi OF KANDALAKSHA t\ A \ fK P -■ NATIONS VOTE TO SEND /r *UI£AVV ' \ T* — * /SUPPLIES INTO FINLAND f * uteA ®°3 6 AsS ■ o'- C d 3 l :<jy isjj f ) YJe J^slruss/ansdriven 0 £* / Ss r ■■ ■/£: ":'■ I border near of/ / s* I ** jr \lS\f REPOLA AND V \ r> ft —-/V-W-T H W^i SOUMOSSALMI -£? 5 /X^'V o —f Jtj > iFimseAmHEAR\ \C j yy —/v orihr —* f § KARELIAN ISTHMUS } c. f o helWnd o V.v \germany SENDS HALF~Of 4 STILL I FLEET INTO BALTIC SEA fi' f BY RUSSIA — —I THROUGH KIEL CANAL; NAIF 3 L- l Hnn -vi~Z TTTI _ LJ\ — r CA~f 'WaV INTO NORTH SEA IN EFFORT TO l X S FINNISH SOIL LOST \a_Ni Xj'V j STOP SUPPLIES FOR FINLAND | {/L I kgHI AWZ? RECAPTURED I -tuuFffpnslffVF liCrERMAN SOURCES HINT [ w' I I ~~~i A, Kjn I A, U n LL fJJfJiJ S Jfjnn AT LAND AND AIR I \ I -WV: FINLAND j >4//? TO ’BLITZKRIEG* NOT LAT£p\ s"' '& uVI: 1 : „ />7 F//AA EAfO j \ ■■■—■■ < Finland and General Winter stopped the western drive of the Communist bear, as shown on this map. Raging blizzards and frigid cold in the third of Finland lying north of the Arctic Circle, coupled with bombing of the vital Murmansk-Leningrad railroad, cut off Reds from food, munitions and shelter. Rus sian supply ships, fearing they would be ice-locked, left Murmansk &k the Russian retreat turned into a near-rout. RICE FOR WOLF? ■ ~ : 5 ■ i ; B ***£s#■* There’s talk that Raymond “Bear” Wolf (above), head football coach at the University of North Carolina, ::.av be considering a possible offer as head coach at Rice Institute in Texas. He is spending the Christ r; as holidays at Graham, Tex., where he rufsed to discuss the ru mor.'. He said he would not make a statement until January 1 or maybe January 15. Wolf To Go To Rice If Freed Here Houston, Texas, Dec. 2.—(AP) — Raymond (Bear) Wolf will be the next Rice Institute football coach, provided the University of North Carolina will release him from his present contract, unofficial sources here insisted today. Meanwhile, the Rice committee on outdoor sports, which will pick the school’s next coach, continued to mark time until after the holi days, when definite action will be taken. The committee has refused to confirm or deny any rumors as to the selection of Wolf. Persons close to the school said Wolf and Rice already have agreed on salary terms and length of the contract, and that the only thing that would prevent Wolf from ’ oming here would be an unfavor able attitude of the University of North Carolina. In event of the failure of the Wolf deal to materialize, the second choice of the downtown pickers is J' s Neely, Clcmson College coach. JAMES J. BRITT, 79, DIES IN ASHEVILLE Asheville, Dec. 26.—(AP)—James J. Britt, former Republican repre ■ > ntative from the eleventh district, and former chief counsel of the Fed ora! prohibition bureau in Washing ton, died at his home here early to day. He was 79 years old. iintiU'rsmt Dtttlu Btstrairh yriRE SERVICE OF IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Finnish Seaport Is Shelled By Soviets Hut Finns Advance Finnish Forces in 75 Miles of Murmansk Railroad, ?.o!e Supply Line of Russians to Arctic Forces; Sov iets Claim Success. Viipuri, Finland, Dec. 26.—'(AP) —Long range artillery shells burst throughout the night on this sea coast city, previously abandoned by most of its citizens. Numerous fires were started, and homes in the southeast section were destroyed, but the damage was comparatively slight. The Soviet Russian forces ap peared to be concentrating on the area by long range hammering and air raids as the Finns took the war into Soviet territory in another sec tor, driving toward the Murmansk railroad, the Russians’ main supply line to the far north. Viipuri firemen kept a constant vigil fighting flames started by the shells, apparently fired from bat teries 25 miles away. Russian war planes, in a four hour raid over the ancient city ves terday, bombed a workers’ section, (Continued on Page Five) JOLSON DIVORCED BY RUBY KEELER Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 26.—(AP) —Actress Dancer Rubby Keeler ob tained a divorce today from A1 Jol son. Week To Be Dull Period Politically Daily Dispatch Tlureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Dec. 26.—The balance of this week, already broken into by Christmas day and with the New Year’s Day holiday just around the corner, is likely to be one of the dull est imaginable in Raleigh from the point of view-of poliical and State departmental news. The way the possible candidates for governor and other offices have been carrying on, there is a possi bility that any or all of them may seize the opportunity to take a fling at making news when there isn’t any thing else to compete with; but on the other hand there is more likelihood that they will not attempt to com pete with the holiday spirit, which has caused most folks to drop con sideration of important matters and put in most of their time celebrating, or just resting. But come next week and things Continued on Page Five) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA HENDERSON, N. 0., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 26, 1939 Hitler Crosses To France’s Soil Berlin, Dec. 26. (AP) Authoritative sources reported today that Adolf Hitler had walked across the frontier into France while he was spending Christmas at the front with sol diers at the Westwall fortifi cations. It was the first time since 1918 that the fuehrer had set foot on French soil, these informants said. Then he was a corporal in the German army. U. S. Clears German Prize Ship In Canal Colon, Panama, Dec. 26.—(AP) — Despite a German diplomatic protest the British prize crew in control of a captive German freighter today was guaranteed clearance from Cristobal for a British port by the United States Army command for the Canal Zone. The protest by Consul Walter Schmidt “has been entertained,” said Major General David L. Stone, Canal Zone commander, and the freighter, the 4,930-ton Dusseldorf, was “free to proceed to sea”. The Duesseldorf was captured De cember 15 off the Chilean coast by the British cruiser two days after putting out from Valparaiso. W’itn ner swastika fluttering underneath a British naval ensign, and with Bri tish seamen pacing her decks with fixed bayonets, the Dusseldorf com pleted her transit of the canal in the late afternoon yesterday. While the freighter was moving across the isthmus, the diplomatic (Continued on Page Five) Davies Is Given New Assignment In State Department Washington, Dec. 26. (AP) • Joseph E. Davies, American am bassador to Belgium, was designa ted by President Roosevelt today as a special assistant to the secretary of state to deal with war emergency problems in international trade negotiations. Davies recently returned from Brussels to report at the State De partment and the White House. Davies went to Brussels last year after a tour of duty as ambassador to Soviet Russia. There was no in dication who Davies’ successor at Brussels would be. Violent Christmas Deaths 25 As Reported Over The State Ten Laid to Traffic Accidents, V/ith Burnings And Other Causes Sharing in Tragedy; Henderson Wreck One of Great est. ! Charlotte, Dec. 26.—(AP) North Carolina’s violent deaths total at least 25 for the Christ mas week-end, a survey showed today. Ten were blamed on traffic accidents, one man was killed by a train, one was shot to death, six persons were burned to death, another was killed by a falling tree and one death was attributed to ex posure. Earl Latham, 21, of Winston- Salem, died yesterday of gunshot wounds, which Sheriff Ernie G. Shore said he received in a road house near there Saturday. Three persons were fatally injur ed in an automobile-truck collision near Henderson. They were Mrs. Judson Knott, her brother, W. T. Richardson, and Arnold W. Huber. Walter M. Arnold, 81, and his 79- year-old sister, Miss Lerena Arnold, b d in Ihe ruins of their home near i Franklin when it was destroyed by fire. The victim of exposure was a Negro who was found dead beside a road near Lumberton. In a remote section of Nash coun ty, two small Negro children burn j ed to death when their home was ] destroyed by fire. { Three other Negro children, the oldest thre eyears old, perished in a | fire Sunday night in the Snowfield | section of Brunswick county. Everett Ryals, 43, Coats farmer, ■ was killed in an automobile accident j Saturday. Magaleen Edwards, 13-year-old j Negro girl, was injured fatally at I Stantonsburg when she jumped into i the path of an automobile to es ; cape an exploding firecracker. D. B. Batten, 57-year-old Zebulon farmer, died of gunshot wounds. An automobile collision in Ashe ville cost the life of Mrs. Frances Barnett, 26. Sheriff John Creech, of Jones count}', said that J. F. Brinkley, a I farmer of Maysvilie, hanged him j self in the county jail here Sunday night, and that Dr. Charles L. Perry, | Holiness preacher, of near Trenton, ended his life with a shotgun charge in the head Monday night. First Contingent Os Australians In England to Fight London, Dec. 26. (AP)—The first contingent of Australian forces to reach England since the war started landed at a south coast port today. All were mem bers of the air force. Arrival of the Australian squadron marked the second such demonstration of empire solidarity in little more than a week. The other was arrival of a division of the Canadian ac tive force Sunday and Monday of last week. The Australian contingent is a fully-trained squadron of air men—pilots, gunners and ob servers. British Steamer Is Torpedoed,Sunk On English Coast London, Dee. 26. (AP) —T h e British steamer Stanholm, 2,473 tons, was reported today to have been torpedoed and sunk with a loss of 14 lives off the west coast of England. Ten survivors said the ship had been torpedoed without 'warning Christmas day. Most of the crew was below deck when a terrific ex plosion sank the ship, only two hours after she left port. Seaman E. L. Evans said: “We had no warning, and no time to launch a life boat. I pushed a small raft we had on deck into the water, and scrambled onto it. We were I picked up by a lifeboat of a Nor ; wegian steamer, whose crew had heard the explosion.” (jUßcdhsNi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Rain on the coast and snow or sleet, probably mixed with rain, in the interior tonight and prob ably Wednesday morning; slight ly colder in the interior tonight and in east portion Wednesday. Figures in Peace Move President Roosevelt made history when he invited Catholic, Jewish and Protestant leaders to confer with him in an effort to secure peace for the world His letter to Pope Pius XII was transmitted through Archbishop Spcl.nan (left) of New York. Rabbi Cyrus Adler (right), president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, represents the Jews. (Central Press) Envoy of Mercy mjjsEgr. «sp|&|Bßg!£ Marking a new contribution by President Roosevelt to the cause of world peace is the appointment of Myron C. Taylor (above), former head of the U. S. Steel Corporation, as representative of the United States at the Vatican. The appoint ment coincides with the efforts of Pope Pius XII to bring peace to war-ridden Europe. (Central Press) Sen. Norris Says He Will Run No More i Washington, Dec. 26.—(AP) — | Senator George W. Norris, Indepen dent, Nebraska, said today that he 1 would never seek public office j again wnen his present term ex- j pires in 1943. The white-haired senator, after 37 years in Congress, said in an , interview. “My work is done; my friends under-stand, and they won’t ask me to run again.” i Norris has said in previous years that he would not run for (Continued on Page Five) Christmas Raids By German Forces Beaten by F rench Paris, Dec. 26. (AP) —The French military reported today the repulse of pre-dawn Christmas raids by Ger man patrols east of the Moselle riv er. (The German high command said its troops had taken no action on Christmas.) The heaviest skirmish, which the French officially described as “ser ious,” began at 4 a. m., on Christ mas, with artillery and mortar pre paration. They said the French did not suffer a casualty in routing the \ Germans in an hour and half fight. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Pope Beads Word Taylor is Welcome Naming of P ersonal Envoy to Vatican by President Draws Fire From Many Quar ters; Religious Lead ers Accept Bid. Washington, Dec. 26. (AP) —Pope Pius XII sent word to President Roosevelt today that the President’s newly-appointed peace emissary, Myron C. Taylor, would be “cor dially received” at the Vatican. This was announced at the White House simultaneously with messages from Dr. George A. Buttrick, a Pro testant leader, and Rabbi Cyrus Ad ler, a leader of the Jewish faith, ac cepting the President’s invitation to confer with him periodically on pro blems of peace and the alleviation of war suffering. The first of these conferences, Stephen Early, presidential press secretary, said .will be Held at the White House tomorrow. The President, in virtually iden tical letters to the pope, to Buttrick, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, and to Alder, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, said that eventually the time would come to re-establish peace in the (Continued on P- Five) So. Americans Seek To Avoid Red Outbreak By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Dec. 26.—It’s a fact that Communists do try to organize revolutions in American countries. I know from per- sonal observation n one country. I law it tried in the Argentine republic hortly after the World War and the establishment of the Bolshevik re gime in Russia. Things were in a state of flux then everywhere. It was an opportune junc- ture for red agila- Hipolito Irigoyen tion. I was running a Yankee-language weekly paper in Buenos Aires at the time. I’d been there for several years (Continued on Page Four) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY 418 Deaths Blamed On Automobiles Death Toll High Above Last Christ mas, With Only Dela ware Having Clean Slate; Illinois Leads List; North Carolina T wenty-Five. (By The Associated Press.) Violent deaths struck at the four corners of the nation over the three-day Christmas holi day, leaving 640 victims. Traffic accidents accounted for 418 of the total, the rest resulting from fire, shootings, stabbings and other tragedies. (By The Associated Press.) Thus year’s three-day Christmas holiday brought death to at least 593 persons in accidents and other forms of sudden death, with the automo bile traffic taking 397 lives. Ln*-t year. 508 persons died in var ious kinds of accidents and as the re sult of violence in a similar three ds v period. Five states Nebraska, Nevada, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wyom ing-kept their death slates clean last year, but this year, Delaware was the only one. Illinois led the list this year with sixty dead—29 of them in traffic, ten by trains, eight by suicide, seven by violence of one kind or another, and seven from other causes. Chicago reported more than 1,400 traffic accidents over the week-end, and five states reported deaths by freezing or exposure, three of them in the South: Tennessee, North Car olina and New Mexico. There were twelve deaths from (Continued on Page Five) Marketing Quota Provisions Again Placed on Sugar Washington, Dec. 26. (AD President Roosevelt issued a pro clamation today restoring mar keting quota provisions of the sugar act. “I have issued a proclamation today,” the President said in a statement, “terminating the sus pension of marketing quotas on sugar, which suspension was made necessary on September 11, 1939, by the extraordinary purchases of sugar by consum ers immediately after the out break of the war in Europe, and the excessive speculative acti vity, and advancing prices which accompanied such purchases. “Since that time, consumer hoarding of sugar has ceased, and the price of raw sugar has declined to the price which was in effect before the war. It should be noted that under the law the quotas may again be suspended if such action becomes necessary to protect the consum ers.” •tensions 10 Aged Start Next Month Mass Security i Monthly Retirement Is Approach to Social Security Goals; SBS Tops Hard To Get. Washington, Dec. 26.—-CAP) —The Federal government puts into opera tion next month its far reaching plan to provide mass security in the form ol monthly retirement pensions for older workers and their depen dents. It will be the beginning of the monthly pay-off of old age insur ance benefits under the social se curity law, and estimates indicate that during 1940 more than SIOO,- 000,000 will be distributed to ap proximately 1,000,000 persons. The social security pay-off will not approach the goals of various (Continueu on Page Five)
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