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Iftenitersntt flatly flispatrlj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOR'li-i CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. H YEAR HENDERSON, N. C„ SATURDAY AFTEHNOO N, FEBRUARY 24. 1940 FIVE CENTS CORY K -s lake us View lip Sale of Belgium Compro l y Purchase . jhips by Bel •:.m, Hitler's vs. . AI'*—S'lif.ve. • indicated ui.vt^ l\ SOrioll:: : eight I'niteu •5,'i? to a Celgum ■ ' ucle here. mo>t > Ad >!;" Hitler'. • the sale "ser the neutrality was the over critical , th' i'i.'xi source . . • iy official . -i government :::■ :it» r > do with ■ jviper said, "it •ue ' hi:> " • «. rnnumf by t«>1 tde it: oil euiity •;.e:: "t :ts obligation 9 Sweden May Haiu Exchange Feb. 24.—(AP)—A .uv ; !l imports and : .reign exchange in c ntrol of a central ui -cussed at a special R.ksdag iparlia . v.. an official com : ced today. proposed setup, itv. - e iish and foreign securi • trough a central ban!; . ivign exchange uan!; •hibited. would not affect ngements with Ger . Turkey and E-tonia :it arrangements with : ued the Riksdag also Wednesday's bomb Swedish t )wn of Pajala. _ vernment attributed to -. but the communique .cif tu this matter. VTE DEFEATS MOVE TO RECALL U. 5. AMBASSADOR . 24.—(AP)—The : ati«»n< vommittee a Republican at the $17,500 salary S^cinhai'dt. ambassa :'n an appropria- , \ State. Justice and : ent>. The com >vrd the measure. lg». Republican, Mass : ; and Senator Hale. M inc were the only <>tf d for the salary i. <ated similar at • n » ii-.it withdrawal of .'i ambassador from . the bill was before raid Hocutt Un Spot" As i)i>putch Bureau. In inc Sir Wilter llutel. SR\ AVERILL K<>nald Hocutt, Highway Safety Di on the well i trie ironic part not his fault and can do about it. saying noth ;-t be doing more urd quirming if ' through the fuss '•ci i ;> about three whltTi have re- j *1 atsoever on the I and the safety ' •. c resigned un :i were tar from • division em- j • ' : -. by some trick j got themselves o tro-.ible through r -rges. The patrol , >d for suggest initions. • Xews and Observer bloody murder on i.'orial pages, with <• a very definite ' .<■ work of Hocutt • ; on P — • Five; r» A \ 7 y Why Rumania's on the Soot Here is a view of one of Rumania's oil refineries, which have placed the country in the comer of a dispute between Germany and the Allies over who shall the petroleum. The oil is piped down from wells in the hills to the larjre tanks, refined, and pumped into tank ears on the sidinj. Extension Of Trade! Facts Is Conceded I Telephone Service From T urkey Broken Istanbul. Fob. '24.— <AP>— Turkey's prolonged telephone isolation from the rest of the world which save rise to exten sive war rumors throughout the Balkans was disclosed tonight to have been caused by a storin destruction of five miles of line in European Turkey. Budapest. Feb. 24.—(AP)—Tele phono communications with Turkey, broken "somewhere in Turkey" "Thursday, still had not beer, restored by mid-day today. Telegrams were received yester day from Istanbul and advices said that snow and high wind had dis rupted service. As the period of rupture in the telephone -vvtem lengthened, a fever of speculation seized south eastern Europeans . The peak of excitement was reached in Athens and Belgrade where citizens gathered on street corner- to discuss rumors of Tur key's "genera! mobilization", only one of the many rumors sweeping southeastern Europe. There was. however, no confirmation in official circles. Snow Storm Moves East Chicago. Feb. J J. (AP; - A snow -torfy uhich left a one to eight inch depo.«>t over most of the middle west moved eastward today, trailed by ex treme coid weather ranging down to 25 below zero at Aberdeen, S. D. Forecaster G. E^. Dunn said the cold front passed Chicago this morning and that the snow-laded siorm moved ea.-t, diminishing in intensity. Clear ing weather coming' down irom the northwest wouid send the mercuty tumbling tins afternoon. The snow impeded highway traf fic over a wide area. Demo Primary In Georgia Donalsonville, Ga.. Feb. 24.— (AP;—Seminole county beat the na tion to a vote on White House can didates toda\ with it.- own presiden tial preference primary in a senti ment-sounding test among at least six Democrats already in the public eye. "As Seminole goes so goes the nation" reminded Joe Johnson, Democratic county chairman. He cited a similar primary here in 1935 in which President Roosevelt was given a 66! to 12l) victory-over then governor Eugene Talmadge, New Deal critic. Offered to the 1,500 voters of this agricultural county were the names ol President Roosevelt. Vice-Presi dent Garner, Federal Security Ad ministrator MeXutt. Senator Wheel er of Montana. Secretary of State Hell, and national Democratic chair man Farley. Senate Opponents, However, Plan Cam paign to Add Restric-i live Measures to Bill | Approved L as t Night In House. _ Washington. Fob. 24.—(AP)—Sen-| ate opponents conceded today that) the triumph of .Secretary Hull's trade agreements program in the House 1 last night 'Ve hadowid continuation of the policy of some form. They served notic.*, however. that! they would make a vigorous efforti to attain restrictive amendments to the extension bi i which the House approved 2 Hi to 163. The house vote, which gave the administration a victory in the first big legislative tost oi the ^etsion and strengths ncd Secretary Hull's posi tion at a time when he was being mentioned as a possible Democratic! presidential nominee. shifted the bat tle over the trade agreements to the Senatt side of the C'apitoi. The Senate opponents indicated that they would attempt to secure passage of the following amendments: 1—An amendment requiring that the agreements be rati Tied by a two thirds majority of the Senate. 2—A proposal to set up a congres sional "yardstick" providing limit* on tariff reductions. 3—An amendment to eliminate the "most favored nation" theory of the existing reciprocal trade program, by which concessions granted one coun try are extended to all others which the government decides are not dis criminating against United Stales goods. I Senator Says Bill would "C r i p p 1 e Democratic Party" at Crucial Time. Washington. Feb. 24. -fAP)—Sen ator Minion, Democrat. Indiana, con tended today that proposed legisla tion to bring many .>tatc employees under the Hatch act's prohibitions against political activities would j "cripple the Democratic party on the j eve of a crucial campaign". His statement presaged a strenuous , controversy over the measure in the Senate where Republicans are ex pected to line up solidly for it while 1 Democrats devide sharply. The bill, by Senator Hatch, Demo-J crat. Xew Mexico, provides that fed I eral loans and grants shall be with- j held from state agencies whose em- J ployees are found by the civil service] | commission to be engaged in for i bidden political activities. Three Republican members of the j | committee lined up with three Dem-! , ocrats in supporting the measure. It1 was opposed by three Democrats. I 1'nder the bill, Minton declared, "the political office holders won't be permitted to do political chores that ; have to be done." I "These chores, will be done instead for the people who have the money to pay for having them done—a lot of 'fat cats' who have always been very liberal with their wealth in tinancmg the c.m paigns of the Re , publican party," he added. Finns Admit Loss Of Kiovisto And Start Of New Red Drives On Isthmus; Red Loss Heavy Rumania Mobilizes in Showdown on Oil Rumania ordered her already large military preparations speeded up following reports that Germany it challenging tha government's ban on export of aviation gas to the Reich. Nearly 200,000 reservists were called u.p fibe&d scheduled date, March 1. Rumanian artillery is pictured being hauled into poai'uoa during maneuvers near Bucharest. fn 1 1 * Chamberlain Lauds Finns Prime Minister Pays Tribute to "Heroic Struggle" Against Russian Invaders. Birmingham. England. Feb. 2-1.— (AP)—Prime Minister Chamberlain today landed Finland's "heroic struggle" against what he called "a gigantic and unwieldy adversely— the Russian apprentice who has nothing to learn from the master in brutality." Speaking in his home city in the last o!' a series of "pep" U.!;<s by cabinet members, Chambeilain de clared of Germany: 'The German tyrants, n<.t content ' with conquest, seek the extermina- J tion of people who resist their ng- | gression." Neutrals, he said, are fearful to! maintain their neutrality before the | "German bully". He made a bristling reference to I the Altmark case in which a Brit ish warship on February Ifi freed captive merchant seamen from a German ship in Norwegian waters. Germany, said the prim" mini-tor. I has sunk ships without warning a;ir! j helpless crews have drowned. However he said "n neutral must ! not complain" if P»ritain "commit;! a mere technical breach of neutral ity, taking no neutral lives and touching no neutral property" in rescuing "300 men illegibly mud" prisoners". Independence of the Pole ; and j Czechs and proof that Germany "has : once and for all abandoned the the- j sis that might is right" were «um- i mod up as basic war aims of thr: j British-French iillios. Hitler Speaks On Radio Berlin, Feb. 24.—(AP)—Adolf j Hitler will broadcast a speech at 8:10 p. m. tonight (2:10 p. m. EST) J on the occasion of the 20th ;>nni- ' versary of his proclamation of the j Nazi party 25-point program. It will be his first speech since hi.s Sports Palast address of Ian-! nary 30 on the seventh anniversary of his elevation to chancellor, when he predicted that England and France alike would get "the light": for which he said they had asked. J iOoaihsih FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy with occasional rain loniirlit and possibly Sunday. Slightly warmer tonight. Colder Sunday. Ol TLOOK FOR THE WEEK. Some rain about middle and asain toward close of week: cold at beginning, warmer Tuesday and Wednesday, colder later in week. One Man Killed In Car-Train Crash Mebane, Feb. 24.—(AP)— Floyd. MeArtam. 19. of Mebane, was killed and Charles Eulias. 20. oi Liberty was seriously injured early this j morning when the ir automobile was struck by an eastbound train here. R. F. Borum. passenger agent. said j the men apparently saw the train, slowed down and then tried to make the crossing. Eulias was taken to the Alamance! general hospital in Burlington. where! his condition was reported as critical. British Newspaper Reports Say four German Submarines Sunk In War at Sea. London, Fe;>. 24.— (Ai') — in the grim give-and-take war on the seas, i Britain today anno'inred the sink- ! ing of the naval trawler Benvolio by i a fine with los.- of ten men, while ' jiie-x reports s:.icJ lour German sub- < marines had b^en sunk by British fliers and a m< n'hantman. In the air then- was givc-and- ] lake also, with the air ministry an- J noiincing a night penetration of greater Germany a> far Prague while German plane: scouted France j even to the outskirts of Paris. The 3a2-ton Benvoiio was the British navy's 30th loss: of the war. t The reports that four German ' submarines had been sunk, three by royal air force bombs and one by ramming by the British steamer Asia lie off the Shetland Islands,, were without official confirmation. ii true, German submarine losses reported by the British now t'>ta! 1 50. Two submarines said in French < advices to have been destioyed yes- I terday in the North -ea were be lieved both here and in Paris to t have been two of the lour the news- i papers 'aid have been sunk. ! The British scouting over Ger- u many co-t one plane- -a pilot lost his i bearings and landed ir: Belgium i wher? the crew of six were ar- t rested. j ' SUES SIGHTED IN COLOMBIA WATERS Bogota. Colombia. Feb 2f.— (AP) —Dispatches from Carthagena today said tlvt several foreign submarines hnd been reported seen recently in Colombia waters near that port on the Carribean sen. There no in dication a.> to their nationality. Sentiment Develops For Giving Army Measure Same Treat ment As Given Re-1 cently to Navy Appro priation. Washington. F«m>. 24.— (AP) —i Members of a House appropriations | ub-committee whetted the economy; :nife for use on the a; my $021,137,-' !4"> budget today although Genera C jrforgc C. Marshall, chief of stall, old them that the seriousness of' vorld conditions made the huge out ay essential. Marshall tej-tified yesterday at the icginning of secret hearings on the '.ar department appropriation for the iscal year beginning July I. Pi-partisan yentimen1 developed within the committee for trimming, he bill wherever possible in con ormity with the current economy; hive. The House recently -lashed SI 12. 100.000 from the n.ivy's estimates, mlding 1ha1 services ao'irnmiatin», or next year to about syfjH.OOO.OOiJ. Congress already has granted the j irmv SI09,416.000 tin- session, chief-; v for e>:pans: n and training "f it. ; oii-es in accordance with the I'resi l'~ill's proclamation ol a limited1 jiiergency. Chairman Sheppard. I)"m?.nat.j 'evas. of ili" Serial" military com- * nittee disclo'-ed today thai Mr. {oose ve It on the grounH of economy! lad advised that action be deferred ; m war department pleas that sol-1 liers' pay 1 e raised fioey Is Not Candidate For Committeeman Daily Dispatch Bnrpaii, lr Ihe Sir Wsiiier Raleigh, Fe!>. 24 - Governor Ciyde !. Hot.y is no> a candidate for Dem eratic national committeeman from i'.rth Carolina. He told your Raleigh reporter so ad^y on the heels of publication of eports that he has designs upon the io.-t held by Congre.-sn:?'n Lon Fol-1 er. There have been repeated <-tate- i lents from supposedly informed pa- j iticians that the governor is seeking' > control the deIegHt,un to the Dem cratic national committee r.ot only : order to throw it to his favored residential candidate h'.it so as to et him.-e'f elected national commit-| seman by these delegates. The governor, in his answers toj ueries by your reporter, would not' o so far as to saj' he would l'latly i elu.se the committee place if he were! drafted"', but he dici state quite em- ] hatically that he i not a candidate! (Continued on Page Eight) Mannerheim OfiiCsfil Welcome to Swedish And Nor wegian Volunteers Taken to Mean Large Numbers Now On Fir ing Line. Helsinki, Feb. 2-1.—(Al*)—The Lmiiiii.-.Ii high command admitted to la y l.'iat t:ie Russians held the i«jrti lied costal area ol Kiovisto and had nacJe il uic starling point for new drives toward V'iipuri and against strategic islands in Viipuri Bay. The uaily communique declared the "enemy's losses were heavy" out iiti not say whether they were suc cessful. Until today the Finns had not ad mitted loss of the Kiovisto region, which had been the western anchor ul the Mannerheim line across the strategic Karelian isthmus. The communique listed Russian dead of more than 2,350 in today's fighting in addition to annihilation ul two detachments of unstated size. To the east, almost in the center of the istlunus front, two Russian detachments "which had penetrated our positions were wholly annihilat ed" and at Salmenkaita "the at tacking enemy was hurled back and compelled to leave on the field over a thousand killed x x x." The Finns said about "a thousand" were killed on the eastern front in one sector northeast of Lake Ladoga and 350 in the Kuhmo sector further north. Meanwhile, Finland's commander in-chief, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, today welcom ed Swedish and Norweigan volun teers into the Finnish army in an order-of-the-day interpreted to mean a large number of these volunteers are now on the firing line. "To you who have left your homes and loved ones to share with us the dangers and trials of war the thanks of the Finish nation", said the field marshal. Take Enemy Mail Off Rex Italian Vessel Carry ing Welles And Tay lor Is Searched at Gibraiter. Gibraller, Feb. 24 (Alr) Jli i1ir.fi authorities annoiinefd today flint "enemy m;ii!" wax removed from the ll;ili'»M Iiii'-r Rf>: which stopped hero briefly, with United States Under secretary Sumner Welles ;md Myron C. Taylor aboard as Naples-bound p:;- sen^rs. An official statement ssijrl th" Rex arrived from Xew York at 3:30 p. in. and departed for Italy at ><'40 p. in. and "enemy mail" was taken off and held. In the Vatican C.' tv. a j>ually well-informed source said Pope Pius will receive Welles when he conies to Rome t'N President Roosevelt's emis sary. This informant said the pope pro bably would receive Taylor, the President's special envoy to the Vatican, eariy next wock so that Tay lor thf n would present Welles. In Berlin a ti^ht oflicial clamp was placed on the visit of Welle- to Germany. Authorized German sources said '.Velle.s' visit "will tal e place entirely outside of the press" Details of the program have been anany'd, they said, but will not be released. BRITISH STEAMER SUNK; CREW SAVED London. Feb. 24.—(AP>—The British steamer Royal Archer. 2.Wifi tons, truck a mine today while i:: tow by I'.ifis and floundered off the Scottish coast. Fourteen of 'he crew wre injured but all reached land salely.
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