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i?' ^Ut PtRuY MEMORIAL H£NDc.K3QN,N.<i Henderson Uaily Btspatrlj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. -v::x v "sKVEXTH YEAR "SfinBSUSTgUST HENDERSON, N C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, JANUARY 17, 1940 FIVE CENTS COPY Germany Is Growing Weaker British Search U. S. Freighter A I>7 - - -rEcer. clad in shorts, descends from the bridge of the American UV>-< ('■'s.-tcta, stopped at sea by a British destroyer for contra* : . - The freighter wa- released after 19 minutes, but a number i. A:.:.-..cua vessels have been held for many days, despite U. S. protests. (Central Fress) Active Hostilities Wait Naming Of The "Generals " In Gubernatorial Combat Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. J IT —Active hostilities Carolina's gubernatorial . tgin with narung of the V lerals" who wul command ces ot the halt dozen of more who aspire to the State's. v ioner of Revenue A. J. .<•<> - 'inething ot a jump on the fact that he is already with a State manager.' _ • quite probable that; . * O" the case if this bureau • . • terreted out the appoint-! •: Burgin Pennell and an- J • : a week before there came .. confirmation. - possible that otheis in the! :-..r.e :n:ide similar appoint-1 b.;t so far there have been disclosing lham to tae esier-j . iniquitou- news men with, iiaitri^:. now abounds. h-.ve the candidate* ; t-.r attentions so far that' Dies Report ; Is Surprise io Capital p. < H \KLES P. STKWART ! *mr.»i Press Columnist IRepresents-1 I congressional com-1 • -tiaation of un-Amer :i this country made; >>■ national legislature a; g • that was a surprise to j • •■•b'.dy !n Washington. • .! ► xpectation was that • - would declare Coni >.'••/ .i:. and Fascism to be; throughout rnt«j -S' Instead they say they | -o:.' ,td on Page Four) Missing From I hrcc Submarines Lost b\ Britain J.'dhI'hi. .lun. i7.— (AP)—The \droiralt\ announced today that a total «f 108 officers and i men were missing aboard three British submarines. loss of ■whieh was announced yester- ! but indicated ti»si the ii«aih list ma> be le^s. since f»*rnvdii\ had reported some of them rescued. fsubmarines and their j ' "mplements uere listed as fol lows; Mors-: five officers. 31 i ">• i- tiie T inline, four officers. j •' men. star Fish, five officers, i :*l men. An Admiralty communique *airl thi. Cierman wireless has ,i:i»«unreri that part of the crew , '•I tlx I inline and Star Fish . have been rescued, but their narr.ts are not yet available." 'In- lo>scs were the first sub marine rasualties Britain has a'knuu ledsed. due to German avtii-n »,inn. the war started. nothing mure than a few rather ne bulous predictions can be attempted Before going into the managershi] possibilities, a word on the negativ< <ice. State Senator John D. Laikins Jr., of Jones county, is not now in clined to take over 'he reins of an; one's campaign, although it can b stated on autnoritative inlormatio r^at he was offered the command o two gubernatorial campaigns. r'.e nas a "naturalin view of th fact that within the last two year he has successfully put over thre statewide campaigns, two Jackso Day dinners from whU£ he extract ed the very last possible dollar fo the Democratic campaign fund, an the sheriff's four-year constitutions amendment which he piloted to sue cess despite the fact it had previous ly been rejected and in the face r North Carolina's known aversion t organic changes. Larkins hasn't given up thought c (Continued on Page Four) Flue-Cured Exports Are Sharply Off Washington. Jan. 17. —(AIM— K> ports of unmanufactured lcai tc bacco from the United States droppe almost fifty percent during the fin eleven months of 1939, the Deparl ment of Commerce reported toda; The 1939 export value of $72,429, 249 for 327,551,760 pounds of a types, compared with $139,417,688 ft 434.876.847 pounds during the fir: eleven months of 1938, and SI 13,748 552 for 374.332.349 pounds during th same months of 19»^. The sharpest decline lust year wii in exports of bright fiue-cured, whic were valued at S58,995.401 up to la; December 1. compared with S123 941,121 for the first eleven month of 1938. There were approximatel 115,000,000 fewer pounds of flue cured exported in 1939 than in 1931 Browder Counsel Loses on Motions As to Passport* New York, Jan. 17.—(AP) — Nicholas Dozen bersr, George Morris and Albert Richards. Judge Alfred C. Coxe denied Battle's motion to throw out first two names. Finns Have Russians On : I Run Again Documents Found On Fliers bhot Down Re veal Plans to Bomb Towns in Norway And Sweden, Swed ish Police Chief Says. i 1 Helsinki, Jan. 17.—(AP)—Finnish troops, lighting in suo-zero weath i or, were reported driving the rlus oiuiis .11 1110 b.iua region and i advancing toward a new victory Lo t day. Today's army communique lacon ically confined itself to the asser tion tiiat "our troops are iigmiiig successfully in the direction oi Sal la," Finland's eastern border, just above the Arctic circle. However, other Finnish sources ! said developments in the Si^lla oec ] tor raised hopes of further sue t cesses. The Finns reported they had routed a Russian company north I of Lake Ladoga. Killing iO men and j wupiui mg iwo tanks. The Finnish air force, the army ■ announced, carried out "several : bombing raids" on enemy columns and "concentration sites." One Rus j ~ian ^Tane was reported .snoi down. A Swedish police chief, 'studying ; Finnish air raid precautions today, i .-.aid maps had been taken from cap tured Russian airmen showing de tailed routes from a Soviet air field ! southwest of Leningrad to points in Norway and Sweden. ' "This looks like evidence they ex - pect to do some bombing in Nor .' way and Sweden," Police Chief )i Ernst Fontel, oi' Gothenourg. Swed ; j en, declared. Rep. Doughton To Retire At ] End Of Term V ' i | * I Washington. Jan. 17.—(AP)— Representative Robert L. Doughton, " Democrat. North Carolina, the tall rangy 76-year-old chairman of the 0 House Ways and Means Committee, intends to retire at the end of this •M year "to take life easier."' President Roosevelt expressed ! regret when told at his press con ference yesterday that Doughton had announced he did not plan to seek re-election. Representative Cullen, Democrat, New York, is the ranking Democrat on the committee and will suc ceed Doughton if re-elected this fall and his party retains a majority in the House. Doughton as chairman of the ■ committee has steered through the House such bills as the reciprocal trade program, the social security law, and half a dozen tax measures. - He has served in Congress since - 1911. d I Florida Might 11 Back FDR ejrpi • 1 HP 1 hird 1 erm s h t! "! Washington. Jan. 17.—(AP)—A, s prediction that the Florida delcga V tion to the Democratic National ~ Convention would back President '• Roosevelt for a third term came to day from Senator Pepper, Democrat, j Florida. His statement, made soon after announcement that Ohio dele gates would be in the Roosevelt j camp if their "favorite son", Sena | tor Donahey. failed to develop j strength, kept the capital talking | about the draft Roosevelt move ment. Pepper said he believed that Florida Democrats would elect 14 delegates who were friendly to the President, and would support him or any man of his choice, although they would go to the convention without official instructions. The Republican list of presiden tial contenders was enlarged by the ! announcement last night of Frank Gannett, Rochester, N. Y., publisher, that he would be a candidate. Gannett, outspoken critic of ; President Roosevelt and the New Deal, resigned yesterday as chair man of the Committee To Uphold Constitutional Government. He was , particularly active against Mr. Roosevelt's Supreme Court reor ganization plan, and his proposal for government administrative re ; organization. > », Leopold Takes Army Comtn^nd Mi rr^'lll^ i Threatened by new German troop concentrations on her border, Belgium hurriedly mobilized and King Leopold assumed supreme command of all the armed forces, as his father, King Albert, did during the first World War. King Leopold (right) and Belgian War Minister Dennis inspect a field gun during maneuvers. (Central Preit) Bus Lines Agree On Dividing Up Routes Following Hearing Two Men Dead In Dupont Explosion Gibbstown. N. .T.. Jan. 17.— (AP)—Two men were killed to day and a third was injured in a nitroglycerine explosion that wrecked a unit of the DuPont Company powder works and shook an area of 20 miles. Company officials began an in vestigation to determine the cause. New Jersey State police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation started inquiries — but withheld comment on any possibility of sabotage. Residents of a hall dozen south western New Jersey towns, and of part- of rhilndelphia. 12 miles north, crowded sidewalks fnr half an hour after the mid-morning sock—tearing an earthquake. To Question Hull On Aid rrs ry-v l • lo ine rinns Washington, Jan. 17.—(AP)—The Senate Banking Committee decided today to ask Secretary Hull how American neutrality policies would ! be affected by extending financial assistance to Finland. Pending his appearance at a closed j session next Wednesday, action on j all proposals—among them a p«an suggested by President Rooseveit— j was deferred. In New York today, former Presi- j dent Herbert Hoover declared that j Mr. Roosevelt's suggestion for credit 1 extension "should be supported". ; Credit angles of possible financial as sistance w ere canvassed by the com- , mittec today with Jesse H. Jones, the Federal loan administrator. Jones was quoted later as saying that a $10,000,000 loan already granted Finland was a "sound credit risk." ; It was reported, however, that Jones did not specify how much additional money might properly be advanced. Meanwhile, Senator Brown. Demo crat. Michigan, author of a proposal to make an unrestricted $60,000,000 loan to Finland, said he would re draft the measure to bring it more into line with the views of the ad ministration. (dmJJwi FOK NORTH CAROLINA Mostly cloudy and colder tonight and Thursday: probaWv occasional snow flurries in the mountains. Runs in This Section And Eastern North Carolina Involved in Truce Reached After Argument Before Utilities Head. Raleigh. Jail. 17.—(AP)—A three way agreement between thy At lantic Greyhound Lines, the Carolina Coach Company and the Seashore Transportation Company indicated today a truce would forestall what had promised to be a bitter battle J over bus routes in Eastern North' Carolina. During a hearing yesterday on ap plications of Greyhound and Carolina Coach for franchises from Raleigh to the Virginia line, by way of Louis burg and Warren ton, counsel for the lines announced they had composed their differences. It was said several application-; would be withdrawn and others would bo presented. Carolina Coach would not be op posed on the Louisburg-Virginia line mute. ;>nd v/o»,,rl «r*v) rniim 4i-,P lino by way of Creedmoor and Ox ford to Greyhound, which also would! get a .route from Norlina to War-1 ienton. Carolina Coach would apply for a ( route from K'nston to Dunn, and J Seashore would not oppose it. Sea- ' shore would apply for a New Bern- J Kinston route without opposition, and i would be allowed to operate two \ : chodules doily botvvecn Kinston and Seven Springs on a Carolina Coach (Continued on Pace Four) Sabotage Aim Of Plotters Held By FBI Now York, Jan. 17.—(AP)— Sab- j •-"•Mae or United States war sup plies rather than a primary at tempt to set up a Hitler like dic tatorship was ascribed today as the real motive o: 17 men arrested Sat urday by the FBI on charges of seditious conspiracy. Federal authorities said the men, j in jail in lieu of $50,000 bail, ap- ! parently were being trained to I wreck American supplies and muni tions if and when this country be- j came involved in war. The men, who pleaded innocent ■ vhen arranged Monday, were i charged with conspiring to over throw the government, authorities said, in orders to give the govern- ■ ment jurisdiction. It was. a technical j charge, similar to the income tax I evasion charges lodged against j some gangsters, so that prosecution , might be brought in Federal court. Convict Suicides At State Prison Raleigh, Jan. 17.—(AP) — Wcathcrly DiUard. 31. hanged 'iimsclf in his isolation ell at Central Prison today. Warden Httgli II. Wilson announced. He was serving: a 25 to 40 year term g'ven I im in Richmond county in October, 1936, following his c?nvict'on of a crime against 'We. Wilson said D'llard \va« found h.v a guard shortly before 8 o'clock tbi> morning, suspended by his belt from a heavy iron grili. His ptl-.R was heating faintly when he was cut down, but efforts to reviv* ''im failed. The convict left the following atonic not^: ' ] ;> r d. f'«;m "Toa-dman, \. C." ' Prism records li led liis as St''ve Dillanl and "try St">ne Dillat'd. arMrcsses "n known. Come Early People Told By Fas cist Leader Not to Think Too Highly of Anglo-F r e n c h Ges tures of Friendship Recently Extended. Rome, Jan. 17.—(AP)—Ettorc Muti, secretary of the fascist party, warned Italians today that they m!ight be compelled "at any mo ment" to fight in the European war. His warning was published alter a conference with party leaders from 26 provinces. The communique advised the Italian people not to be too great ly impressed by "ihe recent dem onstrations of international sym pathy" (evidently a reference to the friendly attitude displayed to ward Italy by France and Great Britain since their war with Ger many began). "There is no need to lull oneself with the illusion that Italy's pres ent situation with regard to war may last forever," Muti declared. "Fascist Italy may face the neces sity and duty at any moment of picking up arms." "It must, therefore, be prepared in its resources, and above all in its spirit. It is well to add that it is absurd and dangerous to derive too much satisfaction from the recent demonstrations o I international sympathy which are without justi fication or foundation, and may not even be in harmony with the true (Continued on Page Three) WASHING 1ON-CL1N I UN BUS RIGHTS GRANTED Raleigh. Jan. 17.—(AP)—The Utilities Commission granted the Norfolk Southern Pjiis Corporation a franchise today to operate be tween Washington and Clinton over Route 297. It also granted the com pany a route between Edenton and Plymouth over the new Albemarle bridge. Parliament Advised Of British Ban Nazi Regime After rour Months of War, Has Declined to Point At End of Two Years In World War, Cab inet Member Tells Commons. London, .J;in. 17.—(Al*>—K. I... ross, in mister of economic war fare. declared today that Britain's tiiiiMiriiil ..nd trade war against Germany in tin- last four and a halt months had placed the Nazi re tjiitie in the same economic position a.; the kaiser's empire after two .■rvirs of the World War. "Our economic attack came into operation with a rapidity and I 01 indues:; which was not anticipat I (•('. and it has given German ccon ! "my a sharp shock," Cross toid the Mouse of Commons. "We look for ward to the day when we shall have strangled Germany's economic life so that she can no longer sus ; tr.in her war effort." i Great Britain's 660,000 railway , workers were reported ordered on I ho alert today for acts of sabo tage aguinst the nation's lines. The ' vast "detective system" was under tood to have been set up as the j Daily Mail and Daily Herald re 1 ported that a plot by the German j intelligence service to cripple the nation's railway network had been liiscovered. The L'xly Mail said the plot was i aimed at public works and bridges, j No arrests have been announced. The newspaper declared the con spiracy had been discovered only a few days ago, and that "counter measures" were expected to be put into effcct shortly. NLRB Agent Gave Money To Witness Washington, Jan. 17 —(AP) — Evidence was presented to a House committee that a National Labor Board trial examiner gave a "handful of small bills" short ly before Christmas, 1938, to a Negro who had testified againsl | an employer, charged with violating the Wagner act. The Smith committee inves tigating the hoard put into the ! record a loiter from ('. W. Whit temore, the examiner, to Wash i ingtcn headquarters. telling how 1 he and an associate had fiven the I money to Sarn Bailey,nvhile they were at work on a case involving the Alma .Mills at Gaffney, S. Whittemore, called to the witness stand, was not asked immediately why lie gave the money, but he did s.i.v lhat lie raw nothing wrong with making the gift. Whittemore's letter related timt he and Warren Woods; NLRB trial examiner, walked five i miles to th • N"gro's shack, j "We left Sam a handful of smaff (Continued on Page Three.) Long's Lead Is Almost Majority In Louisiana New Orleans. La., Jan. 17.— (AP) — Ballot tabulations showed today Governor Earle K. Long. chief of the powerful political machine his brother built, must face a self-styled "reform" candidate in a run off Democratic primary in his effort to win re-election. It appeared certain that Long would fail to attain a majority over the field by somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 votes, judging from incomplete and unofficial returns available before noon today, and that he must face Sam If. Jones, "re form" candidate and Lake Charles attorney, in a run-off February 20. New Orleans, La., Jan. 17.—(AP —Democratic gubernatorial primary returns drifting in from country parishes today whittled down ; substantial lead built up in Nev Orleans yesterday by Governo Earle K. Long, seeking to continw in power the political dynasty foun clod by his brother, Huey P. Long. J It was indicated the combined j vote of the four "reform" can I didates would make a second pri mary necessary on February 20. The 12-year-old dictatorship never before has had to go into a run-off election. In sccond place, well behind Long, was Sam Jones, Lake Charles attor , ney, who was being challenged for ; the run-off position by State Sena j tor James A. Noe, former Long i lieutenant, who broke with the ad I ministration after Hucy's death, j James H. Morrison, Hammond at I torney, was fourth, and Vincent | Moseley, Opelousas attorney, fifth. TH* Xew Orleans vote expected j to favor Long, because of the or I ganization headed by Mayor Rob ert S. Maestri was tabulated quick ly, but country precincts counted r votes for local officials before the - Slate tickct, and returns came in i slowly. r The Statewide vote. 500 to 1,703 • precincts: Long 80,292; Jones, 48. » 098: Noe, _ 36,945: Morrison. 8.799; . Moseley, 1,2,72.
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