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SEVENTH YEAR
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the ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 27, 1940
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
FIVE CENTS COPY
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■y i British war
-••uttimt attempt.
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vd during the
• »:al captured ton
L'K (rennan ships
art* hst^d a; de
•:< »>: other causes.
>•■ ;•»* uere reported
>■ <'it >pain in at
.. e'\ade to Oer
: c.iptured and
1 i. was reported
- n\'-: alter stri!;
o«ast of Norway,
shipping losses
• Sunday night
> E>i !tisi: authorities
•ny week of the
*r.:ps of 17.778 tons
i 8.8.S0 tons were
; vi -i today tiiat the
i. .-1:i Morrison.
? e: >.;nk by a mine
"STAY OUT OF WAR"
i ;
Joseph I'. Kennedy (facing camera).!
L". S. ambassador t<> Great Britain,
talks to reporters aboard the liner
Manhattan a.- he sails from New
York for Europe. returning to his
post after conferring with President
[{•ionC cfct. "Without question." he
" 'he T.'nited Suites should stay
out <>t war".
U. S, Shuns
Altmark Affair
Arbitration
Two British
Snips Damaged
IT.—<AP)—Win t«>n
irst i.-rd of the Admiralty,
t y ihc t the British bat
- •. hud been damaged
• :: :ne and the battle
hit by a torpedo. H"
were .-»>on to rejoin the I
; edictcd inten^ificrtion
•id declared thrf Brit
n \vr«> to bo reinforced
:- n battleships.
he said, wis damaged
• . !y in September and
: reach port under hoi
rch'I! to!d 'ho House :
:. introducing the navy
that two Gernv.n
>>.-t certainly had i
:r. *he lust two day-,
i increase in U-boat
: < !f)39 the Herman
• hill; their U-boat-.
>' m ■■ !i said, and he
•• on ten fre.-ii U
" ' :r_";".n during the |
r-.th.- of the war.
P.v CHARM'S !\ STFWART
(Vntral Press Columnist
\V;i hington. Feb. 27. Official
Washington ;s sorrv for Norway in
•• o i.itn it's »n over the Aitmark case.
It y n<< P 'vms is sorry enough. how
ever. to show any enthus'a in over'
Ti\e Norse >ueaesti»:ns that President
Rcosevelt arbitrate between thrt iit—
*!.' Scandinavian kingdom an I the
British, on one hand, and the Ger
:.:.ns t," ?•>' other. Nobody que tions
t' at Y. I), is s v»tv than eager to >erve
: a iieacptMi-U-r in ; ny promising
;r'■ -1 t.-n. b-.it thfs evidently isn't one.
The consensus in our ov.*n eanital
is tint the Norwegian authorities
bungled the AI*r.tark matter, too.
It's egrcvd '{'.at the Crnnan -hip
was entitled to seek refuge in Joes
■:nt> t.iord and that Norway was
within its rgi.ts. under international
! iw. to shelter it. <>n the assumption
t!.; ' it v.as a peaceful merchantman.
; - Berlin contends—not a lighting
vessel.
Altmark Armed.
It appears. however, that the craft
carried a coupie of guns. To be sure,
this wasn't a sufficient armament to
enable the boat to put up much of
b;.*tle. Nevertheless, to quote in
ter- nal law again, as soon as an
crsrwhi!e merchantman mounts any
cannon at all it classes technically
as a .-crapoi-r. and alt oar interna
CC'ontnued on Page Seven.)
~ eakership Race Contused
ith ihree Contenders And
;ther Possible Candidates j
i-\u!v Dispatch Bureau.
In T!n> Sir Walter Hotel.
: • 2?.- .\*o certain pro
ir>' until at least ;<ftos
aries, but present |
< that the race for'
the 1941 House is
any entrants and
> f} ; nci confusing as
iI*• tor the Govcr
■ are three avowed
; ight to hang a
■ House, and there,
nari: horses' being:
.tables through
ot the state,
iv come a cropper
• >i:es and may not
g< t a seat on the
dais—but Jill ,
o! the gods.
r ceri and presum
aetive candidates i
of Greensboro,
Salisbury and
•< Sr ,neviile.
' • . !riends, but not |
"«ci to the race are |
Ale county, Odus
I■ <• Li. Vogler
'• '• ctoi S. Bryant of
..i .ii and Bryant
'o make any real
• i*ei; and neii^t
Iikely to make i
• there should
'!• .dlock among the
T.ce the actual bal
:•'! way. Air. Mull,
•o the House, will
:i.'"h term, but he has
' tiii't!! together in
! i '«• possible he will
- year.
'• ii " it for Speakei
■ <.t<> fie ran as an
■ hen-lore estopped
active candidate
. due to go to a
western nr-inher.
Vogler ".'OfI ill th° !O-'T nnd I|
legislatures and their i- little doubt
that he'd lik«- for tlie lightning to ,
strike him next January. His prin
cipal handicap lie., in the fact that he
has consistently i>een anti-adminis- '
tuition on tax mattes, in particular, i
and there seems little chance for j
-uch a legislator to become Speaker, |
barring a tremendous upset at the
polls this spring.
John-ton was a ItlTjil freshmen, but
won his spurs as one of the influen
tial memheis of his first General As
sembly. Strictly regular, except on ,
the question o| highway fund diver
sion. he knows his way around poli
tically, appears to have been person
ally popular with hi colleagues, and i
might make a serious contender
should he decide to make a real try.
Despite tneso po Nihilities, how- j
ever, it iook> at this writing that the I
next Speaker will come from the j
triumvirate of Carruthers, Uzzell and I
Stone.
There's a tremendous effort being :
made in Guilford to beat Carruthers
this time and reports from that i
bailiwick indicate he will be ex-f
tremely lucky to pull through.
Should he fail and the race nar
row down to Stone and Uzzell, the,
fur would be sure to fly.
Reapportionment, for instance, is !
sure to be a burning, oittcr issue next
year: and Stone comes from Rock- j
ingham, a county which will lose a
seat if the reallocation is ever put;
through. L'/./.ell could be depended;
on to favor reapportionment, though !
his home county will hardly be af- j
fected one way or the other.
Uzzell has been more or less j
" Liberal" in his views on labor. Stone I
s ultra conservative. Uzzell is from
n urban center; Stone is the per- i
sanifieation of the rural point of view ;
So there are all tin elements of a
(Continued on Page Seven)
Fund For
Canal Locks
Economy Axe Falls
On President Roose
velt's Request For
Appropriation; Reject
Channel Dredging at
Wake Island.
Washington. Feb. 27.—(AP)—The
House appropriations committee,
whacking away with its economy
axe. turned thumbs down today on
President Roosevelt's request for
immediate appropriation of $15,000.
300 to start a third set of Panama
Canal locks.
Instead, the committee rec
ommended an $850,000 fund for pre
paring pians for the locks, asserting
that "in the absence of such plans
and specification-; the ultimate cost
must largely be conjectural".
The committee also followed up
the House's recent action in re
fusing to appropriate $1,000,000 for
a harbor project at Guam in the
mid-Pacific by rejecting a $700,000
request for dredging the channel at
Wake Island, on the route from
Hawaii to Guam.
•'It feels constrained", the com
mittee said, "to view the proposed
Wake harbor improvement as part
of a projected naval seaplane base
there, estimates for which hm-e
been passed over twice by the
House".
Both the Panama Canal and Wake
items were part of a $203,472,567
appropriation bill for the War de
partment's civil functions. The com
mittee reported the measure to the
House for action tomorrow.
Fish Opposes
Bank Increase
Washington, Feb. 27.—(AP)—Al
though favoring a $20,000,000 loan to
Finland, Representative Fish, He
publican. New York, objected in tue
House today to providing a S100.000,
1)00 increase in Export-Import bank
capital in order to make it possible.
He argued that the S80.000.000
difference between the increase and
the proposed Finnish loan would
permit the bank to lend to nations
other than Finland and thus give it
a voice in foreign policy despite its
position «is a ••subordinate" agency
of the government
"I'm not sure", he told the House
"that the American people want
Congress to surrender its powers and
delegate a subordinate agency the
authority to make indiscriminate
loans to foreign governments and
possibly involve us in war."
Administration leaders predicted a
bill to give the bank the increase—
already approved by the Senate—
would win House passage by the
end of the day's session.
New York G. (). P.
Legislators Slip
"Fast" Measure
Albany. N. V.. FoK 27.— f AIM
— Republicans of President
Roosevelt's state glocfullv rail
roadrd through the legislature
today a Democratic resolution
memorializing Congress to for
bid a third term for any Presi
dent.
Assembly action completed a
coup begun last night when
Democratic Senate leaders were
<a.ught sleeping and permitted
the resolution to pass without
protest on a voice vote.
Republicans controlling the as
sembly 86 to fi5 approved the
action today. 82 to 47. amid
cheers from the majority and
boos from the minority.
"It is the hope and prayer of
Republicans throughout the na
tion that .Mr. Roosevelt won't run
again." shouted Democratic
minority leader Irwin Stcingut,
pleading for dismissal of the res
olution. "They know he can't be
defeated."
ESCAPED CONVICT
IS RE-CAPTURED
Raleigh, Feb. 27.—(AP)— The
penal division said today that Dud
ley Bingley. prisoner who escaped
i'rom the Goldsboro state hospital
February 3. had been arrested in
Greensboro. Bingley was given eight
to ten years for breaking, entering,
receiving and larceny.
OJswlhAJi
FOK NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy with rain in east this
afternoon and tonight and end
in? Wednesday morning. Warmer
tonight. Somewhat colder Wed
nesday night, and in interior
Wednesday afternoon.
They Form Scandinavian Neutrality Bloc
A solid bloc to defend their neutrality, keep out of both European wars and obtain compensation for war
losses was formed by the Scandinavian nations under leadership of these three foreign ministers, meeting
in Copenhagen, Denmark. Left to right, Dr. Feter Munch, of Denmark; Halvden Koht, of Norway; and
Christian Gunther, of Sweden.
Russians Drive Finns Back In
North As Wei! As On Isthmus
Munitions To
11
Rumania !
Secret Agreements
With France Are Re
(
ported as Italianj
Negotiations Begin.
Bucharest. Feb. 21.—(AP)—Three I
secret agreements wnereby Franco'
will supply Rumania with largo!
quantities of war planes, machinc1
guns and other armament? were re
. ported today.
Signing of the contract was re- :
1 ported unofficially as a Rumanian
finance commission returned from
Paris.
Britain already has flown GO war I
I planes to this country.
I The French and British action i
i was described as following upon re
I ceipt ' of assurances that Germany i
| would not bo favored in export; of |
Rumanian oil.
Meanwhile, Italian negotiators be
gan conferences which ob?.ervers!
believed might develop into a Bal- •
kan economic contest with Ger-'
many. |
Most informed circles heir! the ■
belief that Italy was seeking to
nudge out Germany and resell Ru- >
manian goodj in world circles for,
• nold.
At the same time French and
British quarters declared that Ru
j mania must remain "on her go-Kl j
behavior" <>;• there may be a repr,ti- i
tion of their action of January when J
I they stopped all raw material ex- •
j port-' '•> this country becao.e Ru- |
; mania appeared to be favoring the;
j Nazis.
Two German
i !
Planes Downed
I !
London, Feb. 27.— (AP)—The air1
J ministry announced today (h;iI two!
i raiding German pianos have l-cn
I shot down off Britain's coa:;l ;is the!
j German airforce apparently resumed
I its widespread coastal raiding.
One of Hie planes was downed by!
; a patrol of the royai air force off the j
; Firth of Forth. The other was shot!
: down off the coast oi Northniunber- ;
I land.
Further Cuts
i
In Navigation
Project Fund
Washington, Feb. 27.— (AP)—Put
, ting the House economy drive to a
isevere lest, the appropriations com
mittee trimmed $2,051,540 today from '
the budget bureau's already sharply i '
reduced allowance lor navigation
' projects during the fiscal year be- I
ginning July 1.
Despite me traditional generosity
j of Congress to rivers and harbors
I works and the army engineers' warn
j ing that the budget estimate itself i
was insufficient to permit an eco
| nomical program, the committee
J pared the figures for new waterway
! improvements by 5700,000 and the
jl'und for maintenance of existing pro
jects by SI.351,540.
i For general flood control the coin
■ mittee recommended the full budget
I estimate of $70,000,000 and for flood <
control in the Mississippi valley the
' $30,000,00f' allowed by the budget. i
Britain Has Not
Resumed Buying
Of I. S. Tobacco
London. Feb. 27.—(AP)—Sir
Arr'r* v. IV'^ Dun'-an. ;>r"sident
r.r thf J-o-'d of l-ade. told thn
iSousc of Commons today that
file re ' ad been no ro-iimj't'on of
American tobacco purchases by
Britain.
riir ffovor^m^nL be said in re
ply t:> a question. had not agreed
to any su;-h resumption because
Britain was slUi bu.vios from her
non-belli-rerent ally. Turkey.
Last week London trad'j circles
reported that due to increased
consumption t h e irovernment
inKht have to re-enter the Amer
ican leaf market which she aban
doned shortly aaer the outbreak
of the war. in order to conserve
lorei^n t\cj'.«;«ge.
Peiley
Governor Hoey Asks
Return to North Caro
lina of Silver Shirts
Chieftain.
n; ) gh, Keb. —(A!';—Gover
nor lloey :cnt requisition papers to
i!ic i)i !rivl f«l Columbia today ask
ing lor the surrender »»f William
Dudley Pelley io Buncombe county
ill icers.
The papers .'•aid Pelley was in
:usfody in Washington and that a
searing >11 his extradition would bo
leld March 12.
Surrender to Diinc»mt>o county
authorities was asked on a "charge
if judgment on conviction for fel
ony and imposition ol suspended
cntence."
Pelley, ct nvicted of :elling securi
ties in violation of State statute,
ivas given a one-to-two year prison
term, .suspended fur five years. On
1 charge of false pretense in con
icciion with sale of securities iudg
nent was suspended for five years.
The requisition said Pelley had
l iolated the terms of the suspended
>entence in several ways including
'contempt of court." "conduct in
ducing and encouraging the use of
orce against the constituted author
tics in the United States: acts and
conduct constituting un-American
ictivitics and propaganda and ac
;epting pay and doing other acts
;irid things constituting him an
jgeut of foreign government and
foreign propaganda".
Activity On
Western Front
Brussels. Feb. 27.—(AP)—Artillyy
ire of increased intensity was re
ported to be shaking houses of the
rontier villages of neutral Luxem
burg today, while heavy German
rooo movements were sighted acros:
he Moselle river.
Unu.-ually heavy road and rail
rai'iic was visible across the river.
\ »teady stream ol troops has been
loi'ccable since Saturday.
Ob: orvers could not say whether
jtiinon troops wore maneuvering or
einforcing troops in the Saar r,ec
:on.
Finnish High Com
mand Admits Re
verses In Petsamo
Sector As Soviets
Start Drive to Encir
cle Viipuri on Kare
: Han Front.
Helsinki, Feb. 27.—The Finnish .
'Tii command today announced
Russian attacks from the Arctic to
'he CJulf of Finland and acknow- 1
iedued that Finnish forces had with
drawn to new defense positions af
ter an all-day Russian attack in i
J/he Petsamo region in the north.
In the North, the Finns said. they i
i withdrew to new positions at Nautsi,
mi the Norwegian border Go miles ;
oulh of Petsamo.
In the South, the Russians were
iriving across the Bay of Viipuri, '
attacking islands in the southwest
ern part of' the bay after having
occupied the strategic fortifications I
on the islands of Ivoivislo.
The communique indicated that i
the Russians were aiming at some
ori of encirclement of Viipuri, once
Finland's third largest city—now
deserted—and the immediate goal of
the great Russian offensive on the
Karelian isthmus.
It was assumed that ihe Russians
no longer are blocked by Koivixto's
heavy guns which anchored the
western end of the Mannerheim
•inc. and that they were preparing
to swing wide to the west, pcrhao*
attempting to cross the ice on the
Bay of Viipuri in order to effect a
: nincer move against Viipuri itself.
The communique indicated also
: that the Finnish air force now is in
I a position to conduct long range
I bombing f 1 i«ht< as well as to engage
in defensive activity. 11 was '-tated
I that an enemy air ba c "far behind
| 'he enemy lines" was among the
I objectives.
Hearings Set |
For Charlotte
Washington, Feb. 27. fAP> — Aj
Republican committee to study agri- i
cultural problems announced today
11 or 12 members ol Congress would
attend hearings the kioiip would hold j
March 1 an*J 2 al Charlotte, N. ('.
The committee sairl the Charlotte!
meeting would eon id'T agricultural '
problems relating to tobacco, cotton, j
fruits, vegetables and other e;ops.
"During these meetings the con- j
pressmen will have little or nothing j
to say. but they hope that the wit- j
nesses will have much to say about i
the agricultural problems of thej
South", the notice said.
House Members For Cuts,
But With Reservations
Washington, Feb. 27. — (AP)—
House members learned anew today
that some of their colleagues arc all
"or general cuts in federal expendi
.ures but are not eager for the eco
nomy axe to fall on appropriations
affecting their own localities.
Publication of an appropriations
sub-committee's hearing on flood
control and rivers and harbors pro
posals disclosed widespread opposl
ion to indiscriminate reductions.
There were, for instance, these
dentical statements from Represen
latives Thomason and Thomas. Texas j
Democrats, about '"penny wise and
pound foolish politics":
"The appropriations committee has
lone a magnificent j(.b in whittling
i down excuses. x x x However, I.
know of no finer'place to add ;i i.;.*iL
portion .of these whi tilings lh;m to
the appropriation tor rivers and har
bor.s and flood control work."
Representative Kdwin Arthur Hall,
Republican. New York, I'jld the com
mittee:
'"I commend the principle of large
reductions in the budget but at the
.same time I am a little bit afraid
that such extensive reduction would
affect my particular locality.*'
Representative Clayton. Republi
can, Massachusetts, recommended in
creases. saying:
"I would be in favor of that be
cause 1 have seen right in my own
home City and neighboring towns the
tremendous value of these dykes for
protection fJuods".
Hitler Will
Present No
Peace Plans
Informed German
Sources Say Fuehrer
Will Tell Welles That
Nazis Demand Hege
mony and Return of
World War Colonies.
Merlin. Feb. 27.— (AP*—Informed
Herman circles expressed the belief
v that Adolf Hitler would tell
Summer Welles in no uncertain terms
that (!:<■• Reich demands hegemony
I'uni". Fob. :?7.— (AIM —
Sumner Welles. President
Roosevelt's investigator in Eu
rope. today began a series of
t:i Iks w»Ili reoresentatives of
belligerent nations by confer
line: for half an hour with Sir
Perev Loraine, Britain's envoy
to Italy.
i»n the European continent and re
turn of her World War colonies.
The fuehrer, it was generally be
lieved. would propose no peace plan
lo President Roosevelt's envov, who
is on a fact-finding tour of Europe.
From the instance of recently in
spired press articles that non-belli
eerents maintain complete neutral
ity rather than official neutrality,
1h" opinion was advanced that Hit
ler and the American undersecretary
nf state would discuss the preserva
tion of "more complete neutrality"
by 1hc United Stales.
The view was expressed in in
formed quarters 1 h a t Germany
vvo::ld insist upon such "more com
plete neutrality" before there could
be any improvement in relations be
tween the two nations.
WRIGHT MEMORIAL
BRIDGE RE-OPENED
Raleigh, Feb. 27.—(AP) — The
Wright Memorial bridge, connecting
link between Roanoke Island and
the mainland, was reopened to traf
fic at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
The structure was damaged Sun
day night when a barge moored
nearby broke loose in a gale and blew
into the bridge.
Taylor At
Vatican City
Special Envoy From
President Roosevelt
Presents Credentials
To Pope Pius.
Vatican City, Feb. 27. fAi') —
Myron C. Taylor, special envoy from
President Roo-evelt. today banded
Pope Pius XII a letler expressing
the President's hope for "ro-estab
li-hmcnt < f a more permanent peace
:>n the foundations nf freedom and
nrance of the life and integrity
of rill nations under God."
The letter presented Taylor to the
American President's "old and good
friend" who as Cardinal Paeelli
• : :w] him. in the United States in
i
The I'resident told the Pope h»»
hoped "the common ideals of relig
ion and humanity itself can have a
united expression for the re-estab
lishment of a more permanent
peace".
The Vatican released the Presi
dent's letter to the Pope together
with one from Mr. Roosevelt to Tay
lor naming him his special ambassa
dor to the Pope.
Moth messages spoke of Taylor's
job as to >-erve as "a channel of
pommrnication" between the ('resi
dent and the head of the Roman
Catholic church.