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Henitersnn Baily Otspatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. . ———————————— ____ —_______—_______ _ ppj! » U V 17 1 0/111 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON FIV El CENTS COI X H YEAR HENDERSON, N. C„ SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRLARY 17, 1.140 ***„ .«nd*t. Pr, res ident Off on "Mystery" Fishing Trip ; D. Roosevelt waves farewell from the mil of the destroyer Lung, which carried him t o: Pen acola, Fla.. out to the cruiser Tusc;>Ioosa, which is carrying the Chief Executive ■ nu t: :p in the Gulf of Mexico. Details of the voyage have been Kept secret. At right is Com <::n>t n. of the Lang. This is a phonephoto. Finos Evacuate AH Women And Children From Viipuri iMen cf Class of 189S Called to Colors; Rus sian Bombers Indicate ! Peak of Fury in Fight ing on Karelian Isth mus. II Uinki. Feb. 17.— (AP> — Tilt- Finnish r.i?h command t:> <!»'•• i Aim ed an announcement that it* forces on the Karelian Uihmti. :Kitl withdrawn to "new niisiiiorx" with a claim of a srcat victory at Kuhmo on the M»trrn front in which 1.800 were killed. The ?reat battle on the isth mi>». ii> its 17th day. continued unstated, tonight's communique said, admitting that "our forces withdrew in some places to new position* further back." The battle in the Kuhmo sec tor lasted several duvs. the Finn-. declared, and ended in i»mp!rte destruction of Russian ! Nkiins groups" consist ins •>! three battalions and re- j «»nnaw>an.e detachments. Feb. 17.—(AP)—The j • ;• ordered removal of j ning women and Vitmri today, it was' m'*ant:c Soviet Rus- j >d on Pase Five) School Buses j Lost in Snow r<A.. F'-b. !7.- (AP)— CS !i'.'tried with ap I':'» children from • '•."kc!. .*i(» miles south, "U. .uce 4 p. m. yes-; •t "he worst bl'zzj'tds have experienced i i '*• .1 said they were ' ! alarmed." »i rd tractors becan the snowdiifts oni along the routes <>* fbe Lynn Coun ■ i. behoved the chil- j • night shelter in areas; '• > phones. iL'iles remained •ion highwuvs. • . L'i; sehoo! students j ■ :< time last night U>36 Federal Retail Uquor Permits To N. C. Feb. 17.—(AP)—The <-nt issued 1.836 re i' '■>: licenses to North m- in 1939—although liquor sold there is -jtity stores—but in <• officials here point "::.s didn't give anyone ■ ii distilled spirits in t;:te law. government sells t'j all and any who Bankers Favor Vote On Tobacco Control France Sends Arms To Finns Paris Feb. 17.—(AP)—Military sources said today France has opened her stocks of war materials, botli old and modern, to help the ! Finns tight Russia. Planes, anti-tank guns, heavy ar- j tillery. automatic weapons a n d large quantities ot uther munitions : have arrived in Finland, these sour- ; res said. The statement by military sources j was the tirst comprehensive report L»t French aid to Finland since the , League of Nations approved assist- ! ancc. "Many French planes" have joined the Finnish squadrons, the military spokesman said. The French declined to give exact figures on various types of materia! 1 because such information would be of use to Russia. They said, however, that at the request of the Finnish government French artillery of World War typo: and modern anti-tank guns had been dispatched. 1 Rites Sunday For Greensboro Woman Killed In Accident Greensboro, Feb. 17.—(API —Fun-! eral services tor Mrs. Charles W. Gold. 60, prominent Greensboro wo man who was fatally injured y^s-l terday when «truck by an automobile as she crossed the street in front of her home, will he conducted at her J home at 2:30 o'clock Sunday after noon. Burial will be in Green Hill cemetery here. Jrmes Garland lierry. 24, of ! Proximity Mill village, was charged! with manslaughter after police !vid reported that he wa; driving the machine which struck Mrs. Gold, | widow of a former president of the Pilot Life insurance Comoany. The driver posted SI.500 bond for ap pearance at a hearing February 2!. plank down the $25 l'ec and explain ed many legitimate dealers who dis pense wine and Deer buy the liquor licenses rather than seperate permits to dispense wine and beer. It was admitted that perhaps some bootleggers may buy the liquor dealer licenses but officials said a warning was stamped across the per mit that the license does not auth orize violation of state liquor sta tutes. Representative Bank ers From Flue-Cured Area Vote to Ask Ref erendum cn Three Year Program; Form Association. Raleigh, Feb. IT.—(AP)— Twenty representative bankers from Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia voted un animously to request a referendum in July for a vote by growers on a proposal that ihe tobacco control pro gram be continued for three years after 1940. The bankers, meeting simultane ously with AAA oflicials and grow ers and warehousemen from the fluc cuied belt, also organized the Bright Tobacco Bankers association, cover ing all tobacco growing sections of the southeast. Wales R. Harrison, of Danville, Va.. who was named president of the organization, said it wouJd "coor dinate all bankers in tiie bright to bacco districts in cooperative efforts to promote the welfare of tobacco growers and tobacco growing com munities." This afternoon the bankers plan ned to meet with the growers and warehousemen and to ask them also to vote in lavor of the control pro gram. Following the meeting. J. R. Hut son. assistant AAA administrator, ex pressed the opinion that resumption of tobacco buying by the British was (Continued on Five) Madge Evans And Mate Snowbound Oakland, N. J., Feb. 17.—(AP)— Actress Madge Evans and her play wright husband, Sidney Kingsley, have been snowbound since Wednes day on their 50-acre estate two miles from here. Drifts five feet high still block the roadway, Miss Evans reported in a teleohono conversation. "We have enough food and fuel, although they are running low", Miss Evans said. "We expect to be able to get a car through tomorrow or Monday." Fayetteville Man Dies Of Injuries F»yottevillo. Feb. 17.—(AP)— Wade H. Butler. 63. secretary of the Fayettex iHe chamber of commerce, died today of injuries suffered last night when ho was struck by -i truck as he was crossing a street here. Butler, a native of Sampson county, came here three years ago from Gadsden, Ala. City Officer Will Clark said he b;>d detained Jimmie Luper. driver of the truck, and his assistant, .Toe Hamilton, in connection with the death. British Destroyers Attack Nazi Ship In Norwegian F jord; Bitter Protests By Norway, Germany Is Pretestedj —. i Norway Asks Return Of Prisoners IxvT~-ri nities, And Future Re spect of Neutrality; Nazi Spokesmen Are Bitter. Brrlin, Fob. 17.—<AJ') Aut'v >-iz • fl German :ources today described ;is "one <>f lh<> most d-H'irdly >••• :i;-h actions in history", the attack by British warships on the German shjp Altmark and the shooting of mem bers of her crew. A German spokesman said the at tack in Norwegian waters had evok ed the sharpest protest against any action taken by any country in the war—apparently referring to the Norwegian protest to Britain, The German spokesman decided the affair was comparable to a Ger man U-boat's suddenly entering Now York harbor, boarding the Queen Mary, now anchoied there, and lustily shooting down her crew. The German minister to Norway has made a strong protest to Norway, asking return of the prisoners and indemnities for the men killed and injured. "I protest most sharply against this unexampled violation of inter national law", the German minister (Continued on Page Five) Canadian I Weed Exports Are Doubled Washington, Feb. 17.—(AP)—A Dominion agriculture department report just received here showed today that exports of flue-cured to bacco from Canada to the United Kingdom for the January-November period of 1939 more tha:. doubled | exports for the corresponding eleven months of the previous year. As shown by the official publica I tion of the tobacco division. Canad I ian llue-curcd exports to England totaled 27,730,022 pounds for thr> | eleven months of 1939 compared with 12.252,236 in the same month jof 1938. Largely attributed to the British 'embargo on American tobacco, Eng ! land took only 101,036,562 pounds of American flue-cured leaf through November, 1939. compared with ex ports totaling 220,555,739 pounds in the same period of 1938. Ohio's Votes To Support ; Roosevelt Columbus, Ohio. Feb. 17.— (AP)— Ohio's Democratic central and 1 executive committee members for mally declared today that the state'.-; delegation to the national conven ; tion should support President Roose j velt if he desired renomination. The meeting directed that if Mr. ; Roosevelt eliminated himself as a candidate the delegation should j support Senator Donahey as the first choice favorite son and Charles : Sawyer, national committeeman, as I second choice. j Names of Donahey and Sawyer : will be formally designated on bal i lot^ of the Dresidential preferential primary as the choices of delegates j candidates sponsored by the state ' organization. (jJswttwi FOR NORTH CAROLINA Cloudy, with occasional rain tonight and Sunday, probably mixed with sleet or snow in the interior. Slightly warmer in east portion. ! OCTLOOK FOR THE WEEK. Fair except rain about mid dle and possibly again toward i close of week. Cool at beginning and warmer followed by colder in latter part. GOP Leaders At Committee Meet Republican party leaders are pictured above as they met in Washing- j | ton to select the time and place for the party's nominating convention, j Left to right, Harold W. Mason of Vermont, national committee secretary;' 'John D. M. Hamilton, chairman; and Henry P. Fletcher of Rhode Island,1 general v.junsel. The GOP n'ational committee set June 24 as the date for 1 the oponi lg of the convention and selected Philadelphia as (he convention [ i city. Farley Sets July 15 I | As Convention Date Vacation Cruise Details Closely Guarded Secrets Aboard the I'. S. S. Lang at | sea, Fob. 17.—(AP)—President Roosevelt is continuing his | cruise on the cruiser Tuscaloosa —destination unknown—in a j voyage apparently more pro ductive of rough weather than news. While the ships pounded through high waves, cruise de tails remained a closely guarded secret with even the course and I .speed undisclosed. The Presi I dent ostensibly was bound on a I fishing expedition expected to 1 last ten days to two weeks. Grady Scores | With Recent ; Statement I J IViiJ.v I)i-»aM» Uur«v!H. In the Sir W'iller Hotel. j Kalei«!i, F'ci). 27. Some other can didates i jay be ahc-'l » f Paul Grady : of Konly in the Muttrr of routine I organisation work. but none has so far*?hii\v:i lii.s {'bilily to grub an is.:un i which mti:::: !ikr-!y tti gel votes. Latest indention "f the Grady ; celerity of thought and action was! j his pronouncement in fa\(.r ->i reap-, portionm nt. I! wa' '.'cry line poli tics, in the opinion of everyone !his ! reporter has Jieard express an | ! opinion. j Strangely enough, not one of the i'ix candidates menPoned this issue ! in his formal announcement. Willis Smith, who retired nt the la^t min | i:te yft-r h'lvirg bom regarded »s a, I certain entry, had a strong endorse i mcnt of reapportionment in the pls»i | form he never got round to issuing. I The neat thing about ihe Grady; endorsement of a reapportionment is : that nobody on earth can quarrel J with him un'e s nrepared to re pudiate directly and flatly the Con ! stitution of North Carolina: and while five legislatures in a row man ! aged to ignore the plain lan^ua^e of J that fundamental document, not a ! member of any one of them can be' ! found who will say right out that there ought not to be a reapportion (Continued on Page Five) Democratic Nominat-, ing Convention Will' Open at Chicago Three Weeks After Republicans Meet at Philadelphia. —— Miami, Feb. 17.—(AP)—The HH'i Democratic national convention will meet in Chicago begining Monday, July 15, to pick nominees for pres ident and vice-president. Postmaster General James A. Far- j ley, acting as chairman of the Demo- I cratic national committee, made tlu- ■ announcement at a press conference J here today. He had been empowered by the ! committee tr» name the date and I nro'tiised a decision "satisfactory to ! all." He acted just one day after the Republican committee picked Phil- i adelphia and set June 24 as the (ContiniK-M on PjiK'* Five} HOUSE CANDIDATE BARDEN PAYS FEE Kaleigh, Feb. 17.— (AP)—Rep. I Graham A. Barden of the Third Con gressional district paid S100 to the state elections board today as his filing fee as candidate for renomina tion in the Democratic primary in May. ey Believes No New Faxes Will Be Necessary Washington. Fob. IT.—(AP)— •Sony tor Bark ley of Kentucky, the Democratic leader, indicated today that he believed Congressional slashing of appropriations would obviate the necessity for new taxes. President Roosevelt ha-i recom mended S460.000.000 of new levies to meet emergency defense costs and thus keep the federal debt within the 545,000,000.000 limit set by Congress. But Bark ley told report ers "it looks now as if that fight can be avoided". His statement was promoted ob viously by the actions of both House -:r.d Senate in rcd'.cing Jt propria Prisoners Taken From Prison Ship is Climax of Vigorous Search For German Ship Aitmark; Four or Five Germans K il ied In Clash Aboard Ship. London. Feb. 17. (A1' > The Bri ti- h navy thrust its long arm into ;« placid Norwegian fjord In rescue some thrt'e Imndred Hritish merchant seamen after a hand-to-hand clash fi• urcl the German prison ship Alt mark. Thereby Norway, in whose terri torial waters the action occurred, was plunged into the vortex of the bitterest controversy involving a neutral thus far arising from the war. The Admiralty announced todiy l!i:it the destroyer Cossack last night, da hed into Josing Fjord, sent a party aboard the Aitmark, and took oil' Stavanger, Norway, Feb. 17. —(AP)—The German auxiliary vessel Altmark from which a British warship snatched nearly 300 war captives was reported late today stranded in the inner most rcaches of Josing Fjord with British warships still keep ing a close watch outside Nor wegian territorial waters. Indications were'that the 12, 000-ton vessel would not be able to leave soon regardless of what decision the Norwegian govern ment reaches concerning her dis position. men who hud been captive for months since their capture in the south Atlantic by the now destroy ed pocket battleship Admiral CJ.af Spee. The British said four Germans (Continued on Pane Five) British. Ships Must Be Protected London, Feb. 17—(AP)—'I'he Ad miralty announced today all Brit ish ships must provide protection against machine gun attacks from enemy aircraft for Hieir crews be fore leaving any port in the Unitod Kingdom. Simultaneously (;rpa t Britain started registering an estimated 250,000 youths of 2! for war ser vice. The Admiralty order was effec tive immediately and while it was only announced today it was dated February 14. The British stepped up their mobilization program to permit the quick absorption of the new re cruits and place 2.500,000 men un der .'inns before 194!. A British pilot was reported t<> have bombed a German submarine in the North Sea as it submerged. The bomb was said to have struck ju t. ahead »>i the periscope and patches of oil appeared on the sur face. The submarine was not seen again. tions l'rom the budget estimates of President Roosevelt. The House preserved its record in this respect yesterday when it passed a $695,779,000 naval appro priation bill after cutting out $1. •'/00.000 requested to improve the harbor at Guam. Almost without debate the cham ber accepted the action of its appro priations committee in cutting the bill SI 11,700,000 below the Pres ident's budget estimates. The Senate and House and their committee have sliced about $270, 000,000 from Mr. Roosevelt's re quests. Most of the appropriations have not been i.nally acted upon.
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