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Henitersnn Hatltj Hispatrij ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. pui v '"V >fc^EXTH ^EAR LtheEasS!ciatIdVpSI6sF HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 31; 1940 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY B tain Would Avoid Friction With Neutrals Assures U. S. And Japan f r i n ic M inis ter Ex presses Regret at Forced Curtailment Cr Purchases From The United States; Says Sub Sunk. : —< AT>)— Prime ' • in assured the j >• • • t .f.ipan todav that j t > avo:d friction ■ •• ::: her trade and j •• v then and with 1 Is: the war against! • i. .. luncheon of the! t Cot »nittee. the: \: :c. expressed regret, • - • >n of dollar re A <. ica and of munitions j - ;ppl*e.> had forced , i p.;rcka>es ut other I foremost yis:>s of he >a:d. i.- to return to ■ rj. . .. ->nc nation.-*. p». • «h-.J:ipanese dispute j ire of -1 Germans ' vi:Mi".e>e steamer Asa ma • 2:'. Chamberlain *.' * , c ' :1c: r-.ore distress us " "he Japanese government pie -h u!d iec! that we o exeroed our beiliger _ - th any want of courtesy • . ior ihciv.." I:.::i asserted that a Ger wine had been sunk yes -t: it attempted to attack !a:n *a:ci that this was -i.eh attempt by a sub :■ long time and that the was destroyed by com naval forces. Mailba^s Full Of Dimes Arrive To Fi^ht Paralysis _• Jan. 31. — (AP) — v : 3 ;u!l piled up •» IT. -e Today boosting -i dollar mark funds ■ cfl'-ivati'in of President b:. thcay to combat in »• reported that ;y ,ri been deposited. to ail bans filled with n : e affixed, ar rlv-cu* e Mansion by ()' • bags similarly " ■ ■ <•'] :n to George K. Ii man of the col 'i That contributions •• to [our times as v. hen $2t7.ti02 was - amounted to $!. „ rli;tirs and $!. • day oalls and S192. h*-n*'iits and dona A. j. Maxwell Campaign Is Under Way I'iilv J)i,patch Bureau. Im Thr Sir Walter Hotel. IIKNItV AVKRILL. . Telegraph mes > North Carolina s ' V have big bundles :n to "distribute. ! make house to f; <■ rural sections, ■ • a their loads. : t definite, con ' n current guber ;:i to arouse wide and it is bein^ u : /.ation boosting Fit-venue Allen J honor of beins Xumber 1 man foi years. -o jc distributed ii : .! f d Program o: • Carolina"', just a; olattorm when re lation some weeks :.-j! contents of th( this platform anc ' with a conden . hold face type or ' <• front cover. Fol 'lorin will come ; >n Pitge Three) Nazi Planes Westward r This map shows the routes Nazi planes are following from their base at Sylt to various objectives in Britain. Opening new air offensive, the German bombing: planes roar across the sea, blasting at small Allied and neutral craft off the coast areas. Willis Smith Delays His Announcing Announcement of Possible Seventh En try in Gubernatorial Race Is Ready For M.ailing But Is With held Today. Raleigh, Jan. 31.—(AP)—Willis Smith of Raleigh, planning to seek the Democratic gubernatorial nomi nation as the seventh entry in a rccord-breaking liled, delayed his formal announcement today. Smith, it was learned, is giving '"very, very serious consideration to the business sacrifice involved" if he gives up his law practice, but he still is of a. notion to run. Smith's announcement, with news paper mats accompanying it. was made ready for mailing late yester day and was due for release tomor row but now it may be a day. two days or a week before it goes out— if it does. The Associated Press asked I). I.. Ward of Xew Bern, speaker of the 1939 House of Reuresentatives. for a flat answer on wlielhor he w"'d be a gubernatorial candidate and he reolied he could "not make a definite statement toauy". Ward's friends 1 ouote him as saving he plans to run if six or seven got in the race. The camnaien line1-' are beginning to be definitely drawn. ft j-i i-nnwn th;it D>* T-f•• Ii»h W. McDonald, who opposed Governor Hiipy four ynarv at*o in " hitter fi«ht, i i< backing J. \T. Brow?hton of Ra leigh for the nomination and ex perts the m;ii"i*ilv of his supporters • o back Broughton. Scant Chance For Harmony At Convention Daiiy Dispatch Bureau, In ;tio Sir Walter IIoteL Bv HENRY AVFRILL. j fiil Ijr lit I primary—in order to promote ''party I harmony". 1 »He'll • get the early convention there's little chance of h's missinf "" thnt—but he is quite likely tc urh:it not-so-friendly obsei\ets (Coatluued on P^ge Tluee.) Army To Concentrate On Equipment Rather Than On Manpower UMW Fail | I rsri 1 ic indorse | Third Term i Resolution Adopted j Referring Con troversial Matter to; Its Powerful Inter national Executive Committee; Vote Is Close. Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 31.—(AI *)—| The United Mine Workers ol" Ann'r- j iea convention side tracked today ■ resolutions indorsing a third term for President RooseveH. !t agreed to re fer the matter t<> its powerful inter national executive committee for ac- | tion. The vote appealed to be close but President John L. Lewis, who six days ago predicted renomination of Roosevelt would result in his defeat,' said the majority was "overwhelm- i ing". ! There was one and one-half hours j of hot floor discussion over a resolu- i j tion which the resolutions committee, i substituted for 47 resolutions backing j a third term for President Roosevelt, j j The substitute resolution reeom-; mended that any action of the execu ! tive committee be "predicated on the I basis of the (Democratic) party be i ing united on liberal candidates, on j liberal principles, on a liberal plit ! form for the consummation of the. I New Deal legislative program". Considerable opposition to the sub-j ! stitute resolution developed. Several: | delegates declared their locals were , not in sympathy with Lewis' attitude 1 toward the President. Arrests Made In WPA Conspiracy) Indianapolis. Jan. 31.—(AP)— 1 j Arthur V- Brown, president of two j Indianapolis banks, and four other . persons were indicted today hy a i Federal grand jury on charge-* of conspiracy t«• del'raud the govern- ' 1 ment through diversion of WPA labor. | Among the others indicted wa; . i Karl K. Kortepeter, former Marion ' i county (Indianapolis) WPA direc-; j * I Madden Makes Defense Of ! Labor Board ! Washington, Jan. 31.— fAP;—J. j Warren Madden, chairman of the j National Labor Board, ?"ld Con- i gress today that the Warner act { might have been administered; smoothly and efectively from the : start luid not the National Axso- ! eiation of Manufacturers put em ployers in a "rebellious" mood. The former law professor made ! the statement in defending the law and the board before a House in vestigating committee which for : weeks has been hearing criticism of i them both. On the very day that the Wag ner labor act was signed, July 5. 1935, Madden told the in-estigators. the law department of the Manu facturers Association issued a bulle tin saying than an industry would not be affected unless it was proved to be in interstate commcrce. Later, the Jaw department issued , a bulletin saying that the law was inapplicable to manufacturers and that its provisions for majority rule among workers was unconstitution al. '"Of course." Madden told the committee, "when the principal or ganization of manufacturers in the country announced to its members th'e unconstitutionality and invalidity of the act it created an enormous ■ Tirobk m lor tiif board" Would Complete Sea coast Defenses, Estab lish National Air Raid Warning System And Secure Modern Fight ing Equipment. Wii<l»ingl"in. Jan. .'51. (AI')--ThUj army. sidetracking proposals lor in n casing it manpower, is going lo on completing sear-o^t d<f>-mes, establishing a national air r»id warnine. system, and getting -id ditional modern ccjuipmeiit for its troops. i Members of the House military! comm'ttoe -aid that General George Marshall, army chief of staff, told i them yesterday a $40,000,000 item j chiefly lor creation of an air raid! warning system was of the '"first ; priority" among army need-. Details of the system were with held. but members said that it wouk" include a radio setup and sirens. | Testifying behind closcd doors,! Marshall told the committee, mem- i bers said, that the Army wanted] S300.000.000 lor construction a:id completion of seacoast defenses and $240,000,000 for so-called critical i equipment needs. One committee man said that all of; these funds would be sought in the forthcoming war department approp riation bill. Committee members said that Mar shall was opposed to increasing the) army and national guard beyond 480.000, although there has been tails o! recruiiing both sources to the au thorized limit of 000,000. Radio Priest Investigated Wash ins tun. Jan. 31.—(AP)—The Justice Department said today that it had received "over a period of months" many complaints concern ins the Rev. Charles E. Coughiin, Detroit radio priest, and that all wore being investigated. Each complaint, said a department statement, was acknowledged by a "form reply customarily made to complainers bringing to the attention of the department alleged violations of federal law of this particular kind." "I I appears." I ho :;la1ement added, "that one <>v. the organizations receiv ing such form of response has for reasons bes^ known to itself made the reply public and given erroneous impression that this department has taken action in .special response to the compI■1'n 1 of this particular or ganization." (The .Icwi-h Peoples committee an "Mimeefl 1:i i\ew York last week that it had complained to the department.) Former Salisbury Police Chief Dies Salisbury, -Ian. .'II —f'\P)—Rob ert Lee Rankin, fill, chief of police in Salisbury for eleven years until his retirement in 193R. died this morning at his home here of pneu monia. He is survived by his widow and six children, including Mrs. Carl Pridgen of Lumberton. Rankin and a fellow officer, the late J. VV. Kesler. killed Otto Wood, the Stat'/s notorious one-armed criminal, in a street battle here on December 31, 1930. Jones Appears Before Senate Committee Washington, Jan. 31.—(AP)—Jesse Jones, federal loan administrator, was summoned by the Senate foreign relations committee to testify today on legislation to increase the capital of the Export-Import bank by S100, 000.000 in order to facilitate a $20, 000,000 loan to Finland.' Chairman Pittman said represent atives of the State Department would be asked to appear before the com (Continued on Page Three.) First of Uncle Sam's Eaqles The first c.. ed in the northwest and one of the fir:t in the to maka a solo flight under the federal civil aeronautics program is .Muxine Glad, shown in her plane, at Eugene, Oregon, after a successful solo flight. Honor student at the University of Oregon, she was one of four co-eds and 4tj men taking the course at the university. I Central 1'ixssi Russian Assaults Smashed By Finns Finns Claim Destruc tion of Nine Russian Tanks And Downing Of Five Planes; Pit karanta Recaptured By Finnish Troops. Helsinki, Jan. 31.—(AP)—The smashing of renewed Russian as saults northeast oi' Lake Ladoga villi the destruction of nine Rus sian tanks was reported today ov the Finnish communique. Five Russian planes were said to have been downed in fighting yes terday. About twenty Russians were said to have been killed yesterday as Soviet thrusts along the Karelian isthmus front wore turned back. The communique reported little other action but official reports said the Finns had ree.iplured Pitkaran la, an important city north of Lake Ladoga. Air activity was confined largely to the battle zones, the communique said, remarking that Soviet aerial forays consisted of onlv a few raids against Finnish territory. Pitkaranta was occupied by the Red army- early in the invasion of Finland. Jts recapture was described as an effective gain in the en circling move against the Russian divisions trapped'in the Kilela sec tor. An observer from the Lake Lodo ga front reported two of the Soviet divisions there had been without food more than a week although they still had ammunition. According to this source, the Fin nish strategy now is one of waiting until the Russians run out of bullets, at the same time keeping up punish ing thrusts against the Russian position. Dies Witness Admits Forgeries Washington, Jan. 31.— (AP) — A Dies committee witness has testified, the committee announced after a secret session, that he forged letters purporting to link Chairman Dies with William Dudley Pelley, Silver Shirts leader. Excerpts from the letters were placed in the Congressional Record of January 22 by Representative Hook. Democrat. Michigan, who said they were signed "Pelley". The lat ter's organization has been termed a "fascist" group by the Dies commit tee. The witness was said to have given «'Continued -n P:g«* Tnree.) I Borah Estate Is Left to His Widow Washington. Jan. .'!! —(AIM —The late Senator William E. I Borah left to his widow an estate of approximately $200, 1 000, almost all of it in govern ment bonds. This was disclosed today by Mrs. Borah, who said the be quest was discovered in the senator's safe deposit box when it was opened to obtain his will. The will was written by hand on paper from a senate tablet. It left "everything I have to my beloved .Mary". 93,000 Died Accidentally During 1939 Chicago, J.I (A!'/ • Accident-; killed 93,000 p'-ron- in tin* United Stiites in 1939, injured Ji.5590.000 and I cost ;■ 11 e-timatcd S3.300,000,000 the '■ National Safely Council reported 1o I d;iy. The 1939 accident r»1 •*- of 71 deaths ! per 100,000 (>opuhtion \va> the low i est since 1900 v.'ilh two exceptions j 1921 and 1922. ! Loading the list were motor vc | hide accidents which accounted foi 32,000 deaths, If' percent more than in 1933. and caused approximately 1,150,000 non-fatal injuries. Kcono mle losses were estimated at SI.500, 090,000. Ranking second were accidents in home. They killed 32.000 per-ons in 1939: two percent more than in 1938, injured !,700,00(* and co t an esti mated $000.000.000. fail were blam ed for 17.000 of tli" home deaths. i Occupational deaths decreased I three percent to 10,000 and the mis cellaneous accident i.iil decreased six percent to 15.000. The council said th-'t although traffic deaths were virtually th'; >wme as in I938 travel increased six percent last year and lour percent j more vehicles were on the roads. Consequently, it concluded th/ the death rate based on motor vehicle I mileage dropped more than live ner cent to 12.2 deaths per 100,000,000.' miles. tOnaih&ji FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair tonight and Thursday, slisrhtl.v colder toniTht: slowly r''»)us temperature Thut':dv.y. Says Matter Taken Up With Britain Secretary o f State Says "Every Effort Will Be Made to Ob tain Modification" of British Policies Af fecting Tobacco Growers. Washington, J ;i n. 1. — f AI * > - Secretary Hull said today "every effort will he made to obtain a modification of the British policies" prohibiting imports of American tolvfco. The secretary of state gave Ins assurance to Representative Burch, Democrat. Virginia, in a letter re plying to resolutions of the Danville, Va., Chamber of Commence pro testing the British embargo. "Import control in the United Kingdom over the importation of •American leaf tobacco." j'nll wrote, "has been exercised since Septem ber 11. 1939. by means of control over loreign •xehange transactions. On that date the British treasury discontinued the authorization of foreign exchange for further pur chases of United States tobacco. "The British authorities itate that this action is part of their gen eral policy of regulating the alloca tion of exchange in accordance with their wartime needs. At that time about one-third of the British re quirement lroin the 1939 American flue-cured tobacco crop had already been purchased, leaving about 175, 000,000 pounds with a value of about 850,000,000 unpurchased. Stocks of American tobacco in the United Kingdom amounted to roughly two years supply. "The problems confronting our tobacco growers as the result of action of the British government are naturally a matter of serious concern to the department and have been receiving very serious con sideration for some time", Hull con tinued. "The subject has been taken up with the British authorities and I may assure you that every effort will be made to obtain a modifica tion of iho British policies as re flected in the measures mentioned above." Pittman Bill Seen By Japan As "Affront" Tokyo, Jan. .'{I. — (AI'J —l'as:;age of thr Pittman proposal 1o give the President i»l the United Stales dis cretionary |xiwr to apply an em bargo against Japan would be "a serious affront", the foreign office spokesman declared tod;iy. "Termination of the trade treaty it: ''II i. regarded in many section., of this country as fin unpleasant ;md regrettable incident", s a i d the spokesman ol Hie treaty which ex pired January 20. "Should Congress follow with ;ni embargo bill—even though it only potentially authorized ;m embargo — f arn Irani: to say that it would be regarded by the Japanese people* .•is a .serious affront. "Fortunately I understand three influential senators on the foreign relations committee are opposed to i'iilman's bill on the ground it is rash and unnecessary at this junc ture." Navy Budget Tentatively Approved Washington, Jan. 'i L.—(Al'j—The House naval committee tentatively approved today a two-year building program to cost approximately 5655,000,000. T h e revamped program, de scribed by Chairman Vinson, Dem ocrat. Georgia, as "all the Navy can build in two years" would authorize construction of 21 additional war ships, 22 auxiliary vessels and boost the Navy's minimum air strength to 1,500 planes. When the fleet expansion pro gram first was presented it called (or eventual appropriation of Sl. 300,000,000 to provide for 77 war ships and the same number of air craft <ii.it auxiliaries..
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