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*1- 1-c.iui- r -»-tN t ftenitersnn HStJOSASUHi*®' , -SEVENTH YEAR ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIP.GLMA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 21, 1940 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY Russian A ttacks Repulsed On Karelian Front Capture Of Kiovisto By ! Rt Is Denied; 80v Russian les Aloft iv iv | - ..•!» Jtussiasi attacks on .;,?- of the Mannerhcim .'A.ir; two Ked army i out' sector . :(> rrpuKed in fighting | : d • !r into the mgm. j } i rrimrted today. i . K il .uray smashed at th;» : cud of the isthmus de . a>id at Taipele on the - rior u hrre the two di v lamulitd their attack. ! ■ :wm offensive meant the . us-re try ins to break u !"!»> nearK the entire s t!>c isthmus and that 11i:' --ili was most critical | I il.isul. :i hopes were raised by ivi of a swirling biiziard impeded to baik the K -sail drive. • K<- 21-—(AP>—Fin- ! :>• resisting defend . K-;»:an attacks r;iat the night along th ; sthmus front. a ittd communique report air raid alarms He'.- as Russian war .■ned !«> Finland to fol • tar-ranging raids of | . •• which ten persons : ed and 20 hurt. •tared Russian planes ' • elv estimated to ' „ p.tted in the raids which ' t.ued on Page Three 1 ijiiiidings Fired In Swedish Town Bombed by Reds >lock:.o!m. Feb. >1.—(AP) — >> ! t Ru»ian bombing planes • ; \ showered between 30 and i bombs m the Swedish fron :i«-r villase of Pajala. setting buildings afire bat cans no casualties, dispatches j "wm the border region report Hi. Four buildings in Pajala. a 'ij,c of .?.0ft0 inhabitants five :ni>> from the frontier, were sbMroyrd and others set afire t!:»» raiders who descended to '• • !"ct before unloading their i-' in'i cargoes. ? terrified inhabitants had i ■ earning of the approach :'i.!ne» from a village which !'i<"r to th<* frontier. Thus. ' residents were ahlo to find retime. l i Attack On U ne mployment Proposed . 2J.—<AE»)— A < I>fmocrats and p< riti.-iucd their col '■"t informally for ■ piov men t '>n the : pie devotion to ti'u'ion.s and its s called lor next .. r;ove to form a p^htical advantage • r any party or any ::the notice to v /.hat it purports to ' a- trier of members *<• -eok to work out ■ r: the answer to the < ! our aKe." d That in 19^9 more ■ciuced th;tn in !9'~3 : \>'.*ople were re *■ ' action "and we 00 and II,0(H). ■ ■ without re-em M'.'ice said. "Under '«■ recovery could ' duct ion is now once ■ ■■' ru>!ade primarily » buying power did _ '«• ith production". Ulsaifwi NOKIH C AROLINA. • loudv tonight and older t"n'^ht. Long Dynasty Loses Louisiana Control Envoy Arrives Richard Gardiner Casey C. P. Phonepholo Smiling: broadly, Richard Gardiner Casey, D.S.O., M.C., comes ashore at Los Anyeles from the liner Monte rey on his way to Washington to present his credentials as Aus tralia's first minister to the U. S Rumania Bans Shipments Of Oil To Nazis Bucharest. Feb. 2i.—(AP)—Pres-1 sure by Britain and France was reported autnoritatively today to have ied to a Rumanian govern ment decree banning shipment of aviation oil to Germany. The reported decree is in direct contradiction with an arrangement made with Germany's trade envoy, Dr. Karl Clodius. by which Ru mania agreed to increase her ship ments i»! aviation oil providing that increased export taxes were paid. The decree was said to be the latest of Rumania's desperate at tempts to keep the balance between Germany's demand lor fuel and lubricants for her war machine and the Allies' counter demands. It was believed to be the result of Britain's recent note asking explanation oC Rumania's petroleum policy toward Germany. It al.o was reported today that Rumanian promises no) to favor Germany have resulted in resump tion ot British shipments of arms and ore to this country. Complete Victory For Reform Forces Led By Jones On Basis of Unofficial, Incomplete Returns Today. New Orleans, Feb. 21.—(AP)~ The Hwey P. Long political dynas ty. born of years of dictatorial violence. died peacefully by ballot yesterday after one of the longest and bitterest election campaigns in Louisiana history. Voters in the Democratic guber natorial run-off primary swept to defeat Governor Ear I K. Long, bro ther of the "Kingfish" and leader of the machine, and nominated Attor ney Sam Jones of Lake Charles to the office. Jones, a new-comer to politics, pledged himself to restore demo cracy to Louisiana, regain much of the millions of dollars he said ad ministration office holders stole from the state, and jail those found guilty of graft and corruption. The machine rout appeared com plete with Jones' slate of secondary state officers engaged in the run off going in without a break together with a new anti-machine legislature and possibly an anti-machine stato central committee. Unofficial returns from 1.481 of the state's 1.703 precincts gave Jones 254,689 votes and Long 234. 274, a lead of 20,415 vote-; for Jones. It was the first time since 1928. when Huey himself was elected gov ernor, that the Long administration had been whipped. Coalition To j Oppose Dewey In Primary Washington. Feb. 21.— (AP)—An j informal coalition of Taft and Van denburg forces was reported today to be trying to keep Thomas E. Dewey from getting a head start for the Republican presidential nomina tion in the Wisconsin primary, April 2. Although Senator Taft of Ohio an- j nounced last Saturday that he would not enter the Wisconsin con test, first major pre-convention hat tic, friends said there was good rea son to believe he would give quiet support to Senator Vandenburg. The theory they explained is that Vandenburg appears to have a bet ter chctncc to beat Dewey in Wis consin. The Democratic picture, mean-: while, continued to place the third j term question in the foreground. Astor Ewing, eastern campaign manager for Paul V. McNutt said i that President Roosevelt would bo "almost the unanimous choice" of j the convention if he chose to be a ! candidate. Vocational Education Is Important And Practical Work In Rural Sections Daily Dispatfh Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Ka.'ci^'li, Feb. 21. Ne:.t month ap proxmiateiy one hundred seniors Irom two : t'ito-. upported colleges u'ili leave their campusc;: for a pe riod oi training during which they will swap tiie theoretical for the practical. They are soon-to-be teachers of home economics and vocational agri culture in Tar Heel schools. They will next veai become part of a rapidly growing system which now numbers 28!> home? economics and 411 vocational agriculture teachers scattered all over the state. These teachers from tiie shock troops of the Department of Public Instruction's division of Vocational training, in which Miss Catherine Dennis is State Supervisor of Home Economics, with Miss Virginia Ward as her assistant. Set up in 1936 en a more or less tentative basis, the division began serious work in 19->3 and nas now become an important and valuable aid in the general program for bal anced prosperity in North Carolina, cne of the dozen states in the South which are pushing such a program energetically. Miss Dennis sa'.'i lhat extension of the program a matter of £tea'. difficulty because oi inadequate' funds', but she cites request < lor 148 additional home economic.; depart ments as proof of the program's suc cess. She rather sadly adds that the outlook at present is that it will be found possible to add no more than Jive new departments next year. The whole program !-• little under stood outside those groups into which it has actually reached and in which it has functioned successfully. Reason for this lack of knowledge is easy to find—the program has so' many angles and is so broad in scope that it is very difficult to explain. ! Of course the primary object of the whole program is to promote bet- , ter liv ing for farm people. It aims to I coordinate purely agricultural and! farming activities wiih home life oi l the farm folk. And so it touches every ! phase of rural life. On the one hand, for instance, is the case in which the home econo mics teacher went into ;i Negro's low ly home with only the most primi tive of living quarters and cooking facilities. By kindly advise and friendly pressure she succeeded in making the home a far better place to live in—with an adequate and at tractive kitchen, and bed rooms (Continued on Page Three.) Panama Defenses Uncovered for F. D. R. Some of 20.000 U. S. army troops inspected by President Roosevelt during visit to the Panama Canal Zone are shown in action. Left, they leap a sea wall near Old Panama during training in repelling landing forces. Top right, a sentry with mosquito headnet makes eerie appearance. Gloves also protect him against malaria peril. Note sign forbidding photographs. Special permission was given your photogra uher. Lower right, doughboys man a 37 millimeter gun. Jungle growth provides a protective screen. (Central Pre»$) Churchill Declares British Sinking Many German U-Boats Reds Recall Hundreds of Tech nicp.l Experts Ordered To Return From Tur key. Istinbul. K«;b. 21.—(Af';~ "Hun dred-; <•! Rn i;,n technical expert-; employed in Turkish indu-try for many years under a Turkish-Rus sian a&reeinen'. were ordered by tine Moscow sovcrnmeni today to re turn to Russia immediately. The Ruwinn-: nrr expected to ",m bark on Russian ships with !lieir families for Odessa, Russian Black Sea port. The aeiion followed the gradual liquidation hy Russia of ii* com mercial organizations in Turk<y. The Turkish press recently has disetissrd the possibility of war 1 hi spring in the Near East with Rus sian Caucasus oil fields a possible center of aeti\ iiy. G e r m a n technic 11 e >: p e r t s omnloyed here in national defense industries recently were sent home by Turkey and a Gcman-owned shipyard here was occupied by Turkish marines. Planes Raid Helgoland Berlin. Feb. 21.—(AP)—An early morning foray of "several enemy planes from the west and north west" over Helgoland Bight was re ported today by the high command communique which, however, did not give results ol' the flight. The communique also reported thai one Germany submarine '•re turning from a distant voyage re ported the sinking of 27.795 gross registered tons" of shipping. Repeating claims made last night by the official agency, the communi que reported the sinking of two mine layers and destruction of an "armored commercial vessel" yes terday by German warplanes along the coast of England and Scotland. From these raids, which extended as far north as the Shetland island-, all German plane.- returned .■safe ly, the communique said. Successes of Recent Weeks Bear Out As ! sertion That Two to Four Submarines Are Sunk, Churchill As serts. London, Feb. 21.—(AP)—Winston , Churchill, first lord of the Admiral- i ty, declared today that ti:c British j iici'.y was maintaining a high rate! in the destruction of German sub-1 marines. "Successes of recent weeks," he; told the House of Commons, show i ihat the weekly sinkings are con- j tinuing at such a rate that his ;ts- ! sertion ol' December thai the Brit- ! i ii navy was sinking two to four U- j coals a week was in no way exag- j geratcd. Two British intelligent? officer.1 ( abducted by the German secrct i police in a mysterious incident on i the Netherlands frontier No\ m >e» j !• were disclosed by Foreign l'nder-J Secretary 1{. A. Builer to have been I engaged in checking German peac | overtures. The two men were captured near! Vtnloo during an encounter in' which one other man was killed. | Isutler declared in the House of I Commons that there was no ques- ! lit n of the men carrying peace j proposals from His Majesty's gov ernment, but that they had been: authorized to Ji ten and report on j an approach from the German side, j $3,000,000 Given Chrysler W orkers As Compensation j i Detroit. Feb. 21.— (A P) —A state referee ruled today that j nearly S3.000.000 in unemploy ment compensation benefits should be paid to 27,000 of the more than 50.000 Chrysler cor poration workers thrown out of their jobs by a prolonged labor dispute last October. The ruling, announced by Re feree Charles Rubinoff of the Michigan unemployment com pensation commission, excludes from benefits approximately 23, 000 employes of three Chrysler plants in which th^re were strikes. It upset a decision by the com mission made last November 10 that all Chrysler employes were ! "directly" interested" in the dis pute and thus were ineligible for compensation under the Mich igan law. juggling Of Fact Charged House Democrats And Republicans Hurl Charges In Re ciprocal Trade Pacts Debate. Washington, Keb. 21. (AP) iJMiiocptls and Republicans .•ecu cd cach other tnriay of juggling figures tn prove their cases lor and a.raln.-J. extension of thr administra tion's reciprocal trade agreements program. r?"pri.-:cn?.iti\p fluck, I)"mocral, f'alifo "in, tarted this line of argu ment «.vhen lie charged Republicans and Democrats v/ith employing "sta tu.lieal legerdemain" in an effort to how lJ1 in!' trade pads had been injurious to American agriculture. Represrnative Reed, Republican, Nc.w York, fated a few minutes later that much oi th" txp'Mis increase which the Democrats "boasted" as due to ':ie trade program actually consisted of war materials being ship ped 1o Ru.sia and Japan. "While you are padding your ex po. t figures with this war traffic" the Ni w Yorker shouted, "Don't for get that the United States is going to bo the most hated nation in the world—hated by those who have suf fered from our war exports; despised as a Shylock by those from whom you are extracting blood money to buy war materials"'. Two Bodies Wash Ashore South port, F e b. 21. — (AP; — Searchers found today the bodies of James Creech, 29. and his brother, Gilbert, 19. washed up on the beach at Ealdhead Island. The men set out Monday in a boat to examine shad rigs in the ocean three miles ofl the ^land, and drowned when high seiif smashed their boat. They drowned on the fourth an niversary of a drowning of an older brother. William Creech. James is survived by his widow and two caildren. Reserves Of American i Leaf Dwindle I British Tobacco In terests Reported Con ferring With Govern ment; War Boom Re sults In Increased Consumption. London. I'V'i). 21.— (Al')—-British Kmpirc tobacco intere. Is were un :'i rstood reliably today to be con ferring with the government on the i|in;stion i;i resuming buying ol American leaf tobacco, halted last S* ntc inocr 8 t>. conserve foreign ex change. Unofficial reports persisted that fie government was likely to relax the ban on United States tobacco at least to the extent of a percentage of pre-WM imports. dwindling reserves of American leal and increased consumption - re: lilting from war-boomed employ ment and greater buying power of British workers—are expected by the trade to result eventually in higher prices for cigarettes. The prices have been boosted twice already since the start of the Win*. The Financial Times, comment ing editorially on the annual meet ing of the Imperial Tobacco Com si«:u it was fortunate that the '•'•srjpany had sufficient reserves of Virginia tobacco to la -I some time. But it added that "at the same time the inadequacy of alternative ! ources of supply means that the I company cannot remain independent of '.lie American market ior long." Empire-produced tobacco and the government':; purchases from Tur key were said to be insufficient to offset the lack of American leaf. British manufacturers, informed sources said, had only about two years of Virginia tobacco reserve on hand when American buying 'Madison County Man Imprisoned After 19 Years Raleigh, Fob. 21.—(AP) — Bcrrv Doe key. Madison county man who had free for nearly 19 years, went through the same routine at state prison to day as a new prisoner as he re sumed service of a 30-year term iinoosrd in July. 1914. Paroles Commissioner Fdwin | Gil! said Dockery's parole was revoked because "we found as a fact that be had not been of food behavior" as was stipulated in the paroU- order of Governor Cameron Morrison in 1921. Doekcry is 56 years old. He was convi-led in 15)11 of sec ond degree murder. Records show that DrnkTV recently was cbarge'd with th~ slaying of Doyle Massey in Madison county and that he i also was charged with assault on his wife after he had been | freed under bond in the Massey case. Suspect In i Mystery Case Surrenders Kcw York. Feb. 21.—(AP)— The shambling figure ol John (Red) Poggi, 42. j financial district news S boy, appeared in the police lineup today as detectives sought to connect him with a baifling case ol suicide and an attempted murder which they have dubbed the "art gallery mys tery". i'oggi denies emphatically that he has any connection with the case. "I never saw the man before in my life," he declared referring to the art gallery executive whose skull he was accused of having cracked. Poggi shuffled into a Staten Island police station yesterday after a vain 48-hour search for him and loudiy inquired il he was "wanted". ; A few hours later in a Manhattan hospi'al Poggi was identified by Mil j ton B. Logan a.^ the man who slug i ged him with a loot-long piece of lead pipe during a wild ride through east side New York last Monday night. i With Logan on the ride was John I T. Geery, secretary-treasurer of tne i art gallery, who three hours later— j after meeting his wife at the Wal ' dorf-Astoria hotel with a bleeding | face c-nd battered skull—shot him ' self to death in the basement of his ' luxurious home at Garden City, , Long I.- luna.
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