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tr.' >• >* — - Henitersrm 0atlu Bispatrij ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. KNTV-SKVEXTH YEAR • ^£&.BffSSg HENDERSON, N C„ MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 8, 1&40 FIVE CENTS COPY Finns Wipe Out 44th Division J Red Army, Killing Thousands Center of Balkan Move :nt GalcaZiO Ciano (left). Mussolini's son-in-law and Italian tore:<m >:er. and Count Stephan Csaky, Hungarian minister of foreign af . rs. meeting in Venice, are reported putting their heads together on • . - ar.d means to resist German economic aggression against Hi: igary. ii Ur seeks Hungary's rich agricultural, coal and iron supplies, Italy seeks to keep the Balkans free of Nazi domination. Light to Heavy Snows have FaUen Since r.turday in 28 States; Tv/*o Feet Deep in .Missouri; Seven Be low in Maine. Ji> Tlu- Associated Press.) . the United States lay un to', or of snow today as the • >; werither of the season ■ d the Atlantic coast. . • i eavy snows have la lien > " .-cu.y In at !ea>t 23 -tates. -•.ill snowing in Xew Eng here temperatures ranged en Lei; zero at Bangor, ; : . t:d Hi above at New .■n. Conn. 1 . • in ount of snow re jomlng was 24 inches ... Mo. Three to fifteen • iell in Maryland, a :i e winter. .:i rain and sub-freezing ide highways haz Carolina. Stocks Show improvement * • • -t'irt. A if\v speciaiti' ' • 'Hth. and most leader • "•♦ions to around a point. • if : was the slow side, • the ticker tape fre : : ■> near the fourth hour. ■ -iI district seemed fair ;•>» business and politics. ' . :cc of quiet investment teci to overshadow spe • y to a considerable ex • d^c" -. lie., bounded up at Si-'- . it;e-i were steady at • !• >wer at Paris. Spe ■•.dvanci-s were scattered • • >nd division. Commodities .Ian. 8. ■-( A i')- fien , . cp» cyme into the .< t today after a some eptionf >acco lj 21 5-3 29 7-8 80 5-8 89 Elec Co Solvents t< i «>.1 Co 14 3-4 7 3-4 10 1-4 ! 83 Li'-iht 40 ::-4 54 7-3 lo7 3—t 54 1-4 40 5-8 19 3-3 15 3-4 Kii.-ctric Motors & Myers LI t y Ward & Co Tobacco B ... . Railway i '■ >;i Co Nr J . • 0-3 i -u A1 Capone Leaves His Hospital Bed Baltimore. Mel.. Jan. 8.—(AP) —Scarfaee AI Capone left his hospital bed today and moved f into a house here, still facing a long siege 01 medical treatment for the lingering brain malady he contracted in prison. His physician. Dr. Joseph ?fIoore. announced ihe ex-gang chief's departure, and said it was 'too early" to tell whether Ca- • pone would benefit from his hos pitalization. Auto License I Revocations Jump In 1939 Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the .Sir Walter Hotel. ! By HENRY AVERILL fialeigh, Jan. fc».—Guilford, Meek- I lenburg, Forsyth and Wake coun ties showed mure than 200 driver licence revocations last year as the State's t'.lal jumped mote than ten percent m the last six months of I'J'.j'j to oiing the North Carolina toai for the twelve months to 5,536. Through June 30 there were 2 - 63a revocations, while in tiie last six months the total increased to 2, H'j'4. So nearly all these were due to conviction of drunken driving that it can almost be regarded as the sole cause when drawing any deductions from the figures. The four counties mentioned in paragraph one accounted for one fifth of all revocations in the State. Guilford had 494, Mecklenburg 262, Forsytn 253 ana Wake 2u5. No other county showed as many as 200, while ten others passed the hundred mark. The first lifteen counties, in the number ol revocations, accounted lor almost half the total charged against Tar Heel drivers. There were 331 re vocations ol license against out-of state drivers and seven were report ed as "unknown", leaving 5,198 for the 100 counties. The "first fifteen" accounted for 2,403 in all. Without g;;ing into whether or not it means anything, it may be noted that in the fifteen leaders there were eleven legally dry and four legally wet counties. The four with ABC stores were Wake 205, New Hanover Ii6 Johnston 107. and Moore 101, the quartet thus showing 509 revo cations. Highway safety officials ascribed at least a part of the increase in re vocations during the last six months to better law enforcement rather than to more frequent violations of the law: but preferred to wait more crmolete data before commenting at length. The year's revocations by coun (Continued on P:1—e Five) ig Amount 43 Tanks, Arms And i Materials Taken; Second Time Finnish Army Has Annihi lated Soviet Division En 1 wc Week5. Helsinki, Jan. ti.—(AP)—l-'innish « ore s wiped out the 41th Russian livision. 'tilling thousands and < aking mure than 1.00(1 prisoners •.car SitiKMissalnii, a special army •onimunique reported today. * It \va.; in Hie northern part of ! his region at the narrow "waist J inc." of central Finland that the i Finns a week ago reported the vir- i lua! destruction of the invaders' !63rd division. In the new victory, the communi iu- sal.1, large quantities of arms md materials, including 43 tanks, i A'erc captured. Heavy lighting has been reported j u the Suoma.-salimi sector for days, j but today's communique was the ; iiSt mention made of Russia's 44th j di\ ision. (Neutral military experts have 1 •stimat-'d there are from M.'JOO to 17.00') men in a Russian division.) ' Prices Mixed For Cotton I New York, Jan. 8.—(AP)—Cotton j futures opened three points higher to one lower. Mid-morning prices | showed io>ses of two to six points, | March (old) 11.OR, December 9.94. j Around midday, prices held five j points lower to two higher, January i (old) 11.17, March 11.10, October 10.02. Parliament W ill Debate Daladier's Conduct of War Paris. Jan. 8.— (AP)—Parlia ment was summoned today to meet tomorrow in its first ses sion of the war to debate Pre mier Daladier's conduct of the conflict. Daladier called the cabinet for a session tomorrow morning; pre ceding: the opening of Parlia ment in the afternoon. To Continue Case Of Wake Negroes i In Killing Affair Raleigh, Jan. 8.—(AP)—Solicitor W. Y. Bickelt said today he would ask Wednesday for a continuance of j the trial of two Negroes charged with i killing Henry Monk, of Goldsboro, I here October 20. but that he might ' have to go ahead with the trial if | the defendants asked it. Sylvester Evans and Fred Jenkins, alias Fred Jeffreys, are in jail pend-I ing the trial, and a third defendant, j Garland (Buster) Ferrcll, is being! sought. Italy Will Aid Hungary If Invaded i Budapest. Jan. 8.—(AP)—A high' ; authority today reported the foreign, minister.'. of Hungary and Italy had agreed on a defensive military al-1 liance, assuring Hungary of Italian; support against an invasion by Gcr-! many or Russia. The agreement was said to have; | been reached by the two foreign . ministers, Count Istvan Csaky, of] Hungary, and Count Galezzo Cianoj of Italy, in Venice, where they have ] been conferring over the week-end. This authority taid Csaky was ex | pected to arrive in Budapest tomor- \ j row to submit the text of such an ■ ■ agreement to the Hungarian crown j | council. If ihe council approves, he ! then will return to Rome for formal signature of the pact. (In Rome the authoritative fascist, i writer, Virginio Gayda, denied that I j any formal agreements had been' ! reached in the Venice talks, but high j fascists said Italy would support j ! Hungarian territorial ambitions in i return for aid in checking Russia in the Balkans.; t Jackson Dinners To Sound Keynote Washington. Jan. 8.—(AP)— Although President Roosevelt's address at the SI00 a plate Jaek son Day dinner here tonight is expected to be non-partisan, Democratic gatherings in other cities may hear political oratory kcynoting the party's 1940 cam paign. The general Washington opin ion is that the President will I'mit his theme to the end for national unity in facing foreign crises, l«avin'; to administration te nants, rwc'.i as Robert II. Jackson, attorney general-designate, any political ;nes'.;i';e from the New Dril. .lac!:son will speak at Cleve land. Secretary Wallace at D-^s IVioine- and f arl V. McNutt. Fed eral security administrator, n K.'lcigh. N. C'. A?3 F r o rn Florida And Wreck Occurs Near Smithfield on Highway Coated With Ice And Sleet; Thrown Into Truck's Path. Sm i til field, Jan. 8.—(AP)—-Three Florida children were killed today in a three-way automobile collision ind a truck on highway 301, two miles from here, when ice and sleet caused ears to hit, throwing one into the path of a truck. Sergeant V. R. Mallard, of the highway patrol, and Sheriff K. L. Rose, of Johnston county, investi gated the accident and blamed it on the icy Neuse river bridge in their official report. They identified the dead as Kath erine Bowers, 16. of Pensacola, Fla.; Beverly Guthrie. 7, and Patrick Guthrie, 3, sons of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Guthrie, of Pensacola. Mrs. Guthrie was driving one automobile. The officers said they were told that Mrs. Guthrie's car hit the back of an automobile driven by W. A. Powell, of Smith field. This threw Mrs. Guthrie's car into the path of a truck driven by W. O. Shuman. Investigation showed Shuman's truck was well on its proper side of the bridge. Mrs. Guthrie was examined at the Johnston county hospital, but was found not to have been injured. Jap Envoy Admits Power Of Military By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington. Jan. 8.—It's notable that Kensuke Horinoucke, Japan's ambassador in Washington, has in formed the State Department t n a t the Tokyo govern ment ean't con clude an effective treaty with the United States un til it's indorsed by Nippon's military class. Everybody who knows anything about Japan is aware that this a I " U (Iy> /lct.> ULT^II IIIV Kensuke case. However, no HorinouehJ responsible Japan ese spokesman ever has admitted it before. The Jap civil administration un doubtedly means as well as any other country's. Ii intends its word to be good internationally. The qualifica tion is that its pledge invariably i.-, subject to the militarists' veto. "Veto" isn't quite the right word, either. The militarists dun t do any formal vetoing. If their nation's dip lomats make a compact that the militarists don't like, the latter sim ply pay no attention to it. A deal with the Tokyo foreign of lice is different from a deal with, say. Herr Hitler. It's generaly rec ognized that Adolf's word isn't good for much, if he gives it, and wants to keep it, he can do so. If he breaks it. he does it intentionally. If the Jap civil government's word is brok en, it's because the civil government can't help it. In the past, though. Tokyo hasn't (Continued on Page Five) U)mJthsDi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and slightly colder tonight: Tuesday cloudy and continued cold. Debt Limit May Balk Efforts For Further Defense Funds With Approval of Congress In British Cabinet Shakeup Principal figures in the surprise reorganization of the British cabinet were these four men. Top left, Oliver Stanley, shifted from presidency of Board of Trade to Secretary of War, succeeding Leslie Horo-Belisha (lower right). Top right, Sir John Keith, director of British Broadcast ing Corporation and head of Imperial Airways, who succeeds Lord Mac Millan (lower left) Minister of n formation. Lynching Bill And New Budget Talked In Congress Debate j Washington, Jan. 8.—(AP)—The House plunged into its first legisla- j tive controversy of the new session today by voting to start donate to- , morrow on the perennial anti-lynch ing bill. By a standing vote, an- j nounccd by Speaker Bankheadj as 17(1 tn (>7, tne House ratified a petition signed earlier by 21 ft mem- i bers to loice to legislation to the i floor for debate. J Representative Cox, Democrat, Georgia, denounced the legislation as representing "senseless and ignorant hostility" toward the South. Opening the discussion, Rcpresen- t tativc Martin Kennedy. Democrat, New York, expressed a wish the « House debate could be character ized by the "same feeling of good 1 will" that Democrat:; expected at the party's Jackson Day dinners to night. ! Washington, Jan. 8—(AP)—Plung ing quickly into the new session's business, Congress talked today two i argument-provoking issues, the pro-i po.-,al of Senator Harrison. Democrat, Mississippi, lor a special budget making committee and the per;. >»nia!. bill to make lynching a Federal crime. Harrison asked the Senate to ap-j prove at once his resolution to sclert, 12 senators and 12 lionsv members i to examine President IIoose\elt's re venue and spending recommenda tions and then make some sugges tions of their own. He claimed White House .sympathy for his plan, but it has met opposi tion Ironi variou other quarters, and tlipre were indications that it might be allowed to gather dust in a House pigeonhole until the l.'Hi post-elec tion Congress meets. The anti-Jyneh bill was lorcerl on to the House f.oor l>y a petition ot 2I{J inei:iijiioeld over rout last year's .session. A majority of the (Continued on Page Five) G-Men Probe Slaying On Va. Highway Fort Hunt. Va.. .Tan. 8.—(AP)— Strand- of : ilky brown hair clutchod n the hand of a dead man were clues for G-men today in the scarch for a .slayer. The body, its hc=;d battered, was prawlcd 10(1 yards from Mount Ver non memorial highway, about 15 miles south ol Washington, D. C., when passing motorists found it yes terday and called police. A pool of blood colored the new-fallen snow where it lay. Near the dead mm, tentatively identified as S. I.T. Little, 29-year old Fredericksbprg, Va.. tobacco salesman, were a powder puff, two chamois' cloth:; ana a man's hand kerchief. None of the footprints in the fresh snow appeared to be those of a woman. An iron fireplace grating which Dr. C. A. Ransom said was the in strument of death, lay close by. A car in which the man apparently had parked in a small clearing off the vCuiitiliUeu on Page Britain Tries To Gobble Up German Trade London. Jan. 8.—(APj—A Brit ish attempt t« corner Germany's world niarkct> through a drive >or trade treaties with German cus tomers was disclosed today. Objec tives of ti.* tightened economic j warfare, supplement Britain's two- , way sea blockade of German com merce was described as two-folds: 1. To assure maintenance as far as possible of normal, peacetime trade relations with netilrals and expand British export trade to pro vide dollars and other foreign ex change for buying war materials. 2. To assure that not more than normal peace time trade goes on between Germany and the neutrals with whom she can deal overland, and, Germany's European import export business, and deprive her both of supplies and foreign ex change for buying them. The disclosure came with the ' return here ol' a Netherlands com mercial delegation and the arrival of Paul van Zeeland, former Belgian i'ltinie:-, on an undisclosed mission. Many Items In Measure Eliminated If Recommendations MarJe Are Approved, Debt Limit Will Vir tually Be Reached at $45 Billions; Con gress Slow to Act. Wji hiiujtoii. .Jan. ri (AIM C'«>• 1 - !»i i .ssiuiiril wariness ol raising the na ii<>ii;iI debt limit appeared today to I* ss' ii the chances of additional dn fense nr. a mi res which are being drafted by the War and Navy De partments in the hope of adminis tration backing. lioth branches were reported in administration quarters to have been counting on prompt approval of the S2.2J8,000.000 military appropriation which Mr. Roosevelt submitted 'est week to clear the way for requests for supplemental funds later in the session. The army's Sl,007.3">(i,.')!Hi shire fell far short of meeting the general staff's estimate of the cost of "critical items" for the so-called initial pro tective loree. As S8o').(l00.')00 e: timate original ly requested for additional guns, am munition and supplies tor a force of upwards of 1,000.000 men, was slash ed. The War Department said lh;i' only approximately S53.000.000 was included in both regular and emer gency budgets specifically for the purpose. li Congress adopts the Presidents budget, and votes $4(31),000,(Hid tor special defense taxes, the Federal de ficit will approach the $45,000,000, 000 mark, the maximum set by law. There has been no general disposi tion in Congress so far to move to increase that limit. Navy Asks SI.300.000.000. The navy's highest ranking of ficer asked Congress today to ap prove a 81,300,000,000 increase in the fleet because the international sit uation, "in conjunction with Far Eastern conditions, presents a threat of world conflagration." Admiral Harold Stark, chief of naval operations, was a witness be fore the House Naval Committee. He testified that "if the United Stales does not take immediate action to ward increasing the strength of its fleet, the end of the present war will find us in a relatively weak naval position." Secretary Kdison, in a brief pre liminary statement, declared he be lieved the proposed 'AP> percent in crease in the fleet's size was needed "in view of the grave international, situation." Stark's testimony indicated the ex pansion program had been revised since first announced to provide for seme larger ships than contemplated. Stark made the disclosure prior to testifying on tne proposed expansion program befoie the House Naval Commi'tee. He said the program now called for 77 combatant ships and 30 auxiliaries. Chairman Vinson, Democrat, Geor gia, of l!i<' naval committee, original ly announced the proposed 2~> per cent increa.e in the fleet tonnage' would provide 95 warships and 31 auxiliaries. U. S. Working With Finns On Aid Plan Wa-.hington, .Jan. H.—(AP;—The Stci lo {Apartment informed the League of Nations today that it was consulting directly with Finland on Finnish requests lor material and humanitarian assistance. On in structions from Secretary Hull, the American minister at Berne, .Swit zerland, replied thus to a League inquiry as to what extent the Amer ican government was willing to help Finland: "The government of the United States has from the outbreak of hos tilities given tangible indication of its sympathy for the people and government of Finland in the pres ent situation." . The American Red Cross and American private organization al ready have extended medical, fi nancial and other aid to the Finnish people, the note said, and are in consultation with Finnish agencies "with regard to the most effective manner in which such aid may be continue 'i ;md expanded."
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