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Iteftitersnn Hatlg Hiapatrtj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. kx-TY-SKVENTH year LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 5, 1940 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY ■< /13-t© Survey Sliowrs Support For Extending 1 eciprocal Agreements Sentiment For Senate Ratification Canvass of Senators Carried on While Confess Marks lime For Meeting of Demo cm t National Com mittee. , . F.-n r> (AD- A p-e • . by administration ;>>rfed today to indi- I i: -proval of extending ! 1 trade program. .<• survey was incom-! • • v ^nutors who has | . it said there was every •••■ e that ri'»t more than >■ t*r::ts would join the :> - in opposing the legis -• it* >n sirategists said j . ently would be strongei ' • • • -i The Senate for Senate j tor each trade pact, bufj ed confidence they hud , • ■ defeat an amendment of . ..»> "f senators* views has •••ding quietly under the : Senator Byrnes. Demo • - ..';i Carolina, and Harrison. Mississippi, while the .y- and means committee ,-y with hearings on the a ' >n is expected soon after • ..rings end and administra • li.-wers have been confident y n that chamber. TJ?e State • • -t authority to adm:nister .cn will expire June 12 un its? renewed. : v-- marked time today to :\v of its members to attend spectators or participants " ngs of the Democrat na . ittee to make arrange-: the party convention. 1'. •• Senate, however, will have a •.row of its economv ad-; ft will debate the SI.138. propriation bill for indepen i " ifdtral agencies. Two Escape At Goldsboro Feb. 5.—(AP)—The pen-! reported today the es- j <> felons trom the Golds-, r'.-pital over the week tr'.d. f lio-. rd the men sawed ! ••ugh window bars with • i^uied their quarters in j • iiy insane building. They j ■ tTii late Saturday. v-n wore Dudley Bing- j ' n;a. sentenced in Cleve-| •y :•! March. 192", to eight j y . and John Gore, of . sentenced in New Han y in November 1938. to ye-ir> for second degree; - . -y. } 'oXED PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER SUCCUMBS • . • —{AP)—The Rev. | V*'thews. 72. noted Pres • and vice crusader. I onia today- He was j largest Presbyterian in the nation. Wright Bridge May Be Saved Civ\ Fen. 5—(AP)— it ' l <>: ice leaning against ■ ""■orial bridge does no a': to the span, highway • h<r e it open lor Lal I: R. Roper, highway 'i today. liii.> morning on re '!• :n»ige done op the - i.i;m. at he hoped a tide " 'he ice up the sound bridge. T. Davis. pui»lic we! i'u.ied the county's • isoti" (in the failure y department to take • -ueu uii Page Five) Missing in South America Pilot James VV. Alien, Frieda Zylstra (top) and Mrs. Dons Wallace (below), were among three women and two men reported missing on an airplane hop from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Rio de Janeiro (see map). Party originally started from Chicago on an air tour of South America. (Central Press) At Least Nine Died In Weekend Wrecks Jones Demands Probe In Louisiana New Orleans. Feb. 5.—(AP)— Sam H. Jones, anti-administration candidate for governor of Louisiana, I today asked a federal in\ estigation J of alleged misuse of social security j funds by the state department of I public welfare. His campaign headquarters made public a letter mailed to Paul V. ! McNutt, chairman of the federal security administration, at Wash-' ington in which Jones asked Mc Nutt to in\estigate reports that the state department is instructing field workers and social security re cipients to vote for Governor Earl K. Long in the February 20 primary The department of public welfare administers the I'tderally provided | social security funds. j Jones' letter asked McNutt to in vestigate allegations that the de partment is raising or lowering pay ments depending "on the political complexion of the recipients." GERMAN ATTACK ON WEST FRONT FAILS Paris, Feb. .I.—(AP)—French military advices reported today a German attack on French advance lines east of the Pw'yse river had been repulsed. These sources said the Germans were forced to retreat so quickly the French captured two prisoners.. German scouting parties were active but log and rain grounded all air activity. Air Honeymoon Ends In Death Hammon, La.. Feb. 5.—(AP)—An airplane honeymoon trip ended in death last night for a newly-married couple and three other persons fly ing from Denver to New Orleans for the Madri Gras' celebration. Their bodies, burned and mangled, lay in a funeral home here (oday. The five-passenger cabin biplane crashed in wooded swampy country in a thick log six miles east of here after the pilot had tried desperately to "talk" his way into the New Or leans airport 50 miles away. Injuries to At Least Eleven Others Gives North Carolina Gory Record of Traffic Ac ci dents Over Week-End. Charlotte, Fob. 5.—CAP)—At least nine person were killed and at least eleven others were killed in North Carolina highway accidents over the week-end. A head-on collision on ihe Ashe ville-Canton highway killed three nerson and injured seven others. Killed were Adam Knight. 39, of Canton. Pvt. Winston Brickett. o! Fort Bragg, and Pvt. Harry Bur nctte. also of Fort Bragg. Guv McCandless, 25. <>r Stony Creek, was killed and J. F. Jones, also of Stony Creek, were seriously injured when their automobile and an Atlantic Coast line train collided Near Morganton, John Ellis Burns, 32, was killed when his auto mobile left a highway and struck nn electric light pole. At Biscoc. Mrs. Howard Beamon 2.'j, of High Point was killed anc ihrec others were seriously injurec in an automobile collision. Clayton Moody, 27, died in a Roa noke Rapids hospital of injuries suf fered when he was run over by ar automobile. - Wililam Hill. 27, of Smithfield died early Sunday morning of in ffnntimipri nn Pnee Fivel North Carolina Political Scene Grows More Like Jigsaw Puzzle, Averill Says Daily Dispatch Bureau. In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Feb. 5.— Back last fall when there were a whole host of sus pected candidates for governor, de terred from forrnul announcement by Governor Hoey's "short-campaign" ideas, the word in political circles was '•Wait until right after the first of the year and thir^ will begin to take some sort of shape. Then we can tell what's what and why." Now the first of February has come and gone. 1940 is more than a month old and if there has been any change, it has been in the direction of con fusion worse confounded. Instead of a simple blueprint, the political map now looks more and more like a jig saw puzzle. As the result of Friday night's ses sion of the Democratic state commit teemen. who turned out to be liberal ly "minute men", there is the un precedented prospect that North Car olina will select its delegates to a National convention for which quite possibly not even the date has been iixed. Certainly the delegates will bo chosen before there is any definite! and sure indication of the identity of the contenders for the Presiden tial nomination. What it will amount to, it is every where agreed in political circles, is that former Governor O. Max Gard ner and his inner circle will have complete control of the North Caro lina delegation, just as much so as if the state committee had given Ma:' credentials in blank leaving only the | delegates' names for him to fill in. It positively prohibits any real e.x I pression by North Carolina voters on I a third ter mfor President Roosevelt, who probably will nut have made any definite announcement about it prior to the convening of the North Caro lina State Convention. All of which provides Tar Heels : with the somewhat silly sight of | Judge Walter A. Siler trying to build 1 up sentiment for Jack Garner, while State Senator Joe Blythe hustles an* burtles about the business of making North Carolina Paul V. McNutt con I scious. That makes campaign managerr for (Continued on Pa^e Two} British Ship Victim Of Nazi Raiders i j Mine Sweeper Sphinx Capsizes And Sinks While Being Towed Into Port After Being Damaged in Saturday Air Raid. i London, Feb. 5.—(AP)—The Bri- [ ! ti.sh mine sweeper Sphinx, bi>dl> 1 damaged by German air raider- S;M j urday, sank today as she was being i towed toward a port in heavy wealh er. Four officers and 45 men were missing and believed lost. One officer and four men wis i known dead, additionally. The towline broke and the ship eapsized as she entered port. The Sphinx was one of at least | eleven vessels attacked by Nazi raiu i ers Saturday in a damaging sweep | a.loiiK the British coast from Scotland | to the Humber Estuary. One other vessel, the 029-ton Nor wegian steamer Tempo, was sunk and several others were damaged badly but were able to make port. The 875-ton Sphinx was complet ed in December, 1938, at a cost of j about $500,000. Normally she carricc* j a complement of 8i) men but more j were aboard for war duty. Wage Tax Is Upheld Philadelphia, fr eb. 5.—(AP)—A one and one-half percent tax on all wages and earned income in Phila delphia, vigorously attacked by var ious labor groups, was declared con ] stitutional today by the Pennsyl i vania Supreme court. The tribunal upheld a previous lower court ruling which dismissed a ClO-supported suit brought by Mrs. Jennie Gould, widowed SlO-a week shirt factory worker who con tended the levy was "unjust and discriminatory". ONE MAN KILLED IN CAR-TRAIN CRASH Pembroke, Feb. 5.—(AP)—Lofton McMillan, 36. was killed and Law rence Locklear, 25, was injured in a collision today between their iuto rnobile and an east bound Seaboard Air Line passenger train at Tates crossing near here. Hope Seen For Processing Tax Support i Washington, Feb. 5.—(v\P)—Ad ministration farm leaders expressed the belief today that President Roose velt could be induced to support pro cessing taxes to raise farm aid funds if the major agriculture organizations would unite behind such a program. This expression was linked with efforts of Secretary Wallace to win the indorsement of the American Farm Bureau Federation, for the so called "income certificate" plan of processing taxes advocated by the Farmers Union. Some leaders said that House ac tion last week in cutting Agriculture Department appropriations $66,928, 435 below what President Roosevelt had asked might go a long way to ward bringing the farm organizations together. The powerful Farm Bureau Fed ' oration has asked Congress to ap propriate $607,000,000 for parity pay ments in addition to the $500,000,000 for soil conservation payments. With congressional economy sen timent running high farm bloc lead ers saw little hope for obtaining parity payments. Farley Says Democrats' Biggest Job Is To Win Independent Voters Injured rher Rescued by bcouts Central Press Phonepholo Lieutenant William Hindson (inset), U. S. army flier, owes his life to two heroic boy scouts who brought him and Private James P. Brenman to safety after their army plane had crashed into the Pacific 400 yards off Lualualei Beach, Honolulu. The boys, Raymond Kane (loft), 16. and Hyel Ching, 14, (right), plunged into the ocean after the fliers when they saw no rescue craft was available. Britain Contracts t;or Turkish T obacco New Trade Treaty Calls For Ten Times Amount of Turkish Tobacco Normally Used; France May In crease Buying. Washington. Feb. 5.—(AP)—The Agriculture Department received word from London that tho recent ly-concluded British-Turkish trad" treaty provides for importation of about '20.000,000 pounds annually of Turkish tobacco into the United Kingdom for the next 20 years. Signing of the agreement followed action of the British government in imposing an embargo on American tobacco in a move to conserve for eign exchange for purchase of war materials in this country. Hereto fore the United Kingdom has been the largest foreign outlet for Amer ican tobacco. The volume of Turki:-'1 tobacco to be taken by Britain in i(ie future, the department said, is more than ten times the amount used by that country in any year. Heretofore the Turkish tobacco has been used in the Uni'ed King dom in the manufacture of a quan tity of pure Turkish cigarettes. Great Britain normally imports about 215,000,000 pounds of Amer ican tobacco a year. American offi cials hope to regain the British mar ket after the war with Germany is over. The department also reported that information indicated France may increase purchases of Turkish ;obacco. No Agreement On Indian I Independence Now Delhi, India. Fell. 5—(AP)— | Mohandas K. Gandhi and India's i viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, failed to ! day to rcach an agreement on In j dian demands for independence. The Hindu leader left, the con ; ference hinting he would leave New j Delhi tomorrow without waiting for the results of the viceroy's talks 1 with the Moslem fact ion. A com;iuiniquc indicated Britain has only offered an oft repeated as surance to consider India's demands for independence "when the time came" this time being presumably after Ihe European war. Gandhi, the communique said, made it plain that the British pro posal did not meet the demands of the congress (nationalist) party. "He (Gandhi) suggested and the viceroy agreed that in the circum stances it would be preferable to defer for the present further dis j cussions with the object of solution I of difficulties which have arisen", the communique reported. I Finns Are Victorious In Lake Area j Helsinki, Feb. 5.—(AP)—Finnish | forces northeast of Lake Ladoga killed more than 500 Russian sol diers and captured much booty in repulsing three new Russian attacks, the Finnish army declared in today's communique. Two of the Russian attacks were against island positions. The third was against shore • positions on the Jake, the communique said. "Our troops captured another enemy stronghold, killing the major ity of the defenders," the communi que said. "Seven tanks, four guns, large quantities of other arm/i, more than 30 automobiles of^ various types and other war materials fell into our hands". UJ&cdhsA FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, occasional rains, war mer tonight. Convention City May Be Philadelphia Pennsylvania City Delegation Prepared To Offer $125,000 For Convention; Par ty Deficit Wiped Out By Dinners. 1 Washington, Feb. 5.—(AP)—-Chair | man James A. Farley lold the Dem I ccrat national committee today that | the party's biggest job was to win : over some 10,000,000 independent ' voters who "will cast their ballots j for the befct candidate and best pio 1 gram that is offered." ! The committee was gathered lor an all-day session to pick a convention ' city. Farley, predicting "a very active pie-convention campaign" noted that | there were many who would like to I have the "Democrat presidential ] nomination. He mentioned by name omy. however, Vice-President Gar ner. I Garner's name came up in the ! chairman's expression of thanks for the assistance given him by members of the committee "including sturdy, stalwart John Nance Garner". Garner himself had some kinds j words for Farley when he introduced ! him as "one of the most efficient, j kindest and most agreeable fellows i to work with 1 know". As Farley spoke, there were grow ing indications that Philadelphia ' might obtain the 1940 convention, i The Democrats met there in 1936 anfl j a Philadelphia delegation was pre i pared to offer a certified check for j SI25,000 to obtain this year's meet j ing. Earlier in the all-day session 1he : committee cheered the news that .-i j S2.r>0,000 party deficit had been more ! than wiped out by more than $400, j 000 from the recent Jackson Day din I ners. Reds Try To Break Morale Helsinki, Feb. 5.—(Ai'J—A new liussian pi/active, night air raids on I Finland's black-out cities, was de scribed defiantly today oy Finns as a doomed effort to break their morale. The air attacks continued today and official advices said a Swedish ambulance was :;tri:ck. The night forays, a phase of in tcrisilying Soviet air warfare, have developed during an unrelenting Ked army land offensive which so far has lound the Mannerhcim line impregnable. In another futile attempt to break through Karelian isthmus defenses at Summa, Finns said yesterday, the Russians lost more than 1,000 men. "Heavy" Soviet losses also were re ported at Muolaajarvi on the same front. 11,100 Planes Delivered To Allies I . Washington, Feb. 5.—(AP.)—Busy American aircraft plants have de livered more than 1,100 warplanes to the British and French lighting forces an authoritative compilation showed today. The two governments together have placed order tor approximate ' ly 4,000 planes .since they first ; turned to the United States for help ! 18 months ago. Current negotiations for upward j of 4,000 additional bombers and ! planes of other types are under ! way, which Secretary Morgenthau i ii watching to protect this govcrn | ment's interest. These and existing unfilled or j der.s, coupled with the pressure for i speed from purchasing missions promised to .step up materially the rccent delivery rate of more than ' 100 craft a month. I More than 300 planes have been loaded on merchant ships or tugged across the Canadian border since the European war started. Most of I the other planes were delivered last spring and summer.
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