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azis Will Not Discuss Peace
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i ssian Army Closes In On Deserted Viipuri
Swarms Of
Planes
Si :>rting
Rt >ive
eh I.—(A P)—Rus
closed in on shell- :
,\1 Viip'.iri from j
•. locking the city I
.•erlike grip while
'unes supported it j
lei ial ot tensive in I
I
F; command's own
'd the Russians
southwest over
of Viipuri bay j
and east along
forcing the!
i:u stand ever i
the
: ilt a mile sep- j
• Ki mguard from
a ti in communi- |
• o. fought
the tit
:-.e- and lo
< Finns >a;d ....
.ndred pi
. <?a in ext«
:-r civilians *
:ed.
.-ian land
nnerheim lii
: Taipale
:> At some
: oped "a
which "\vt
F:nns said i
: . ut several
• rid "bombe
"rat't'ic jane
nns, accord- !
mand com
air battles"
shot down
nselves.
ins sent j
er the
aids in :
led and
against
.dec all
eastern j
if Rus- |
rachute
destrov
r force,
oissance ;
;ain air 1
enemy:
Britain Ma\ Shi t
Bu\ ing Oi (!..>■• :on
From Unit S-rates
London. Marcl i.— AP)—
si: I'fr« > Ashley Br i cot
t.-n controller, sa t »ri that
(">rp^t Britain ' z>. shift
i>f her wa- «r eotton
purchases from i nited
states to Brazil it' iee of
change forces 1 eek a
substitute s< or pres
ent North A .. es.
Mr Percy i at India and
f. pt roul e considered
i> alterna .• rces of sup
plier
The ro asserted that
imports .t now bein?
:itrol!ei . at "the supply
! forei;? i?e and limita
t'-n- of z space" were
t • »»nl> ons.
Would
N iate For
u
ida Islands
March I—(AP)— Sen-1
Democrat, North Car-I
today for introduction
<-• -i resolution urging
-eveit to open negotia
■ -■A Britain for acquisi-,
ida. New Providence
Bunini islands in the
ipo.sed that the United,
»ver the islands as part j
British debt to the
Allied Experts
To Discuss
blockade
• eh 1.—(AP)—The ap- :
peciul British and
" experts to attempt j
- blockade problems i
d States in confer- [
'■•■•igton was announced I
I
-Gwatkin, advisor to
;nL>try of economic
'> Prof. Charles Rist,
governor of the Bank
'■ been chosen for the
•'•iiiont said they would
•nch and British am
hington in examin
"blems with various
government depart
r'" ind would arrive
Nazis Strike
Telling Blow
At Shipping
British Convoy At
tacked at Sea, Nazi
Planes Raid East
Coasi; Britain An
nounces Plane Flights
Over Berlin.
London. March 1.—(AP)—Bomb
ers and submarines, Germany's twin
weapons against Britain's sea-borne
breadline, struck telling blows at
British and neutral shipping today.
An authoritative British source
acknowledged that a British con
voy had been attacked at sea. Nazi
planes raided the east coast and
the 7.418-ton British liner Pyrrhus
was reported sunk off the west
coa>t of England.
Meanwhile Britai-n announced
that her big reconnoissance planes
had flown during the night over
Berlin and other German cities in j
the most extensive scouting flight
of the war.
The authoritative source said the
convoy had been attacked "but nn
ships were hit". It was understood
the attack took place "someway
out" over the sea—to far for British
• ighters to go into action effectively.
(The official German news agency
asserted that German bombers had
attacked "numerous" British ships, j
convoys and armed merchantmen,
today, dispersing a convoy and j
sinking several large- sh*'ps.->~-■ f
Caught in the bomb and machine
gun attacks on trawlers was the
Norwegian steamer Brott. 1.583
tons.
The 5.340 ton Italian steamer
Mirela sank within two minutes af
ter striking a mine off the Suffolk
coast last night.
Prohibition
DaysDecreed
Rules For French
B e 1 t-Tightening I n
clude Three Days
Weekly Without Liq
uor.
Paris. March 1.—(AP)—Three j
"prohibition days" a week were de
creed today as the government an
nounced details of its wartime regi
mentation of civilians.
Among 17 decrees published in
the official journal were these:
The public sale and consumption
of alcoholic drinks was forbidden
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur
days.
Pastry shops were closed Tues
days, Wednesdays and Fridays.
A general census as a prelude t*>
the issuance of ration card? was or- 1
dered completed by April 1.
First of the ration cards were
expected to be for bread.
The decrees were part of the gen
eral belt-tightening program an-1
nounced yesterday which included j
a cold revaluation bookkeeping j
operation which out a 22 oercent
higher value on France's gold sup
ply and provided about SI.120.000,
000 addition to her war funds.
Other decrees provided for ration
ing of gasoline anc order restaur- i
ant-- to limit meals to two olates of;
which only one can be meat.
WPA Projects
Approved
Raleigh, March 1.—(AP)—Ap
proval of 13 projects to cost S642,
267 and to provide employment l'or
1,150 persons was announced today
by C. C. McGinnis, State WPA ad
ministrator.
Projects included: Robeson coun
ty, remodel school and improve
groups at Red Springs, $26,402, and
73 workers; improve streets and
drainage facilities at Lumbcrton,
$36,983, and 131 workers; improve
waterworks ••■1 Lumbcrton. $76,274.
and 101 workers.
Flooded Upper California Takes to Boats
Boats become the only means of transportation in
where between 3,500 and 4.000 persons were made
abandoned automobiles, derelicts
Kentfield, a3 flood waters sweep northern California,
homeless. Height of water can be determined by th«
of the storm which sweDt the a tat*.
I
Drownings Reported As 5,000
Made Homeless By Floods
Babscn Says
Slump To Be
Reversed
Industrial Activity
Dips Six Percent
Since December Peak, I
But Retail Trade And
Service Businesses
Hold Up.
By ROGER YV. BABSON.
Copyright 1940. Publishers Financial
Bureau
Babson Park, Fla., March 1.—Paced
by the fast moving steel business, in
dustrial activity has dipped six per
:ent under the ten-year peak reach
id in December. Statistics show that
retail trade and service businesses,
however, have been holding at the
high level.-, ol late 1939. Most people
with whom I talked on my trip to j
Boston during the past fortnight be- j
lieve that the current sag in industrial 1
activity is no more than a natural i
reaction from the too rapid rise last
fall. They believe the down trend
will be abruptly halted and the trend
reversed in the next month or two.
This same optimistic outlook was j
the keynote of my annual Mid-win- 1
ter Business Conference held here j
(Continued on Page Three)
Long Calls
Louisiana
Legislature
Baton Rouge, La., March ].—(AP)
—Governor Earl K. Long called the
Louisiana legislature to meet in
special session at 4:30 p. m. today.
The governor's action followed re
ports that he was considering call
ing the special session to solidfy his
claim to the office of the secretary
of state in the administration to be
headed by Sam Jones, newly elected"
governor.
Long made no mention of this,
however, in his legislative call.
When the newly elected and in
cumbent secretary or state. E. A.
Conway, died, Long had himself
nominated by the Democratic cen
tral committee. Jones rejected the
api>vuiUut.xit.
California Floods
Take Toll of Lives
And Property; Loot
ing of Victims' Homes
Brings Posses to Seek
Thieves.
San Francisco. March 1.—(AP)—
Flood waters, rushing through a
bursted dike, caught up today near
Meridian with an automobile in
which a family of six was fleeing,
and overturned it.
Six hours later, after five of the
occupants had been given up for
drowned, four were found perched in
a treetop. Mrs. Frank Flehartj- re
mained missing and was believed to
have perished. The 6th person, Frank
Fleharty, was rescued by a motorist.
Mrs Fleharty's death brought to
five the tt.ll of the five-day flood
in California.
Mrs. Fleharty's death brought to
after midnight. The 500 residents of
the town fled to higher ground.
Four other deaths by drowning
have occurred as a result of the five
day California floods. Three addi
tional deaths have occurred i:i
Oregon.
The flood, spreading destruction as
(Con tinned on Page Eight)
Rumanian Army
To Full Strength
Of 1,600,000
Bucharest. M^rch 1.—(Ap)—
Two hundred thousand citizen
soldiers answered Rumania's eall
to the colors today, raisin? her
army to 1.600,000 men against a
broadening of the European war
in the spring:.
A minimum of confusion at
tended the unprceendented con
centration because the new con
tingent iiad been informed months
beforehand of the frontier points
where they should report.
At the same time Rumania an
nounced that "great numbers" of
peasants soon may be released
from iiie army for sowing crops.
Their places will be taken during
leave of absence by non-agricul
tural conscripts.
The heaviest concentration of
Rumanian strength is along the
Russian border where a foitifica
tion program has been huiried.
tOsvnih&A
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy and warmer to
night; Saturday mostly cloudy
followed by rain Saturday night
and in mountains in afternoon.
Warmer on coast and in south
uii,t oaturduy.
Roosevelt
Might Veto
Pending Bill
House Is Told That
Stream Pollution
Control Bill Not Ac
ceptable In Present
Form; Other Congres
sional Actions.
Washington, March 1.— (AP)—The
House was told today that President
Roosevelt might veto a pending
stream pollution control bill provid
ing for interstate compacts unless the
compacts were subjected to Congres
sional ratification.
As the House moved toward a vote
on the legislation which would set
up a pollution control division of the
Public Health Service and would cm
power it to cooperate with the states
on control measures Representative
Mundt, Republican. South Dakota,
announced the House rivers and har
bors committee had agreed to a re
vised form of his amendment to pro
continued on Page Three)
Tobey Still
Fights Census
Washington. March !.—(AP)—
Senator Tobey, Republican, New
Hampshire, loe of the census bu
reau's plan to ask citizens about
their incomes in connection with
the decennial counting of noses this
April, broadened his attack today to
include questions about divorces.
He asked a senate commerce sub
committee to consider the conse
quences which might follow a leak
in census information if "it means
the loss of a job for a woman to
tell she was divorced".
Dr. Leon E. Truesdell. census bu
reau statistician, advised Tobey and
the committee that many women
would not have to bring up the
past because "their present marital
status* is 'married'."
After Tobey had protested the
"broad construction" which he said
the census bureau has placed on
the census lav.' Chairman Bailey,
Democrat. Nortn Carolina, said he
also was "a little afraid of it."
'They also might ask a person's
I polities in connclion with the- eoii
. oUu", Laiiey &tud.
Farm Benefit
Pay System
Is Denounced
Organizer For Ten
ant Farmers Union
Says Southern Land
lords Turn Share
,Croppers Families
Out On The Road.
Washington, March 1.—fAP)—
An nr«nnizpr for a tenant farmers
union testified today that the pres
ent system of government farm
benefit payments had caused South
ern landlords to "turn thousands of
share croppcr families out on the
rr"Hs".
D. A. Griffin, Fair Oaks. Ark., j
wuness belore a Senaie agriculture \
sub-committee considering restric- :
tions on benefit payments. «aid land j
owners had evicted tenant- in or- I
der to get all the soil conservation
and parity payments for them- 1
selves.
"You are suggesting r> mammoth !
fraud on the n«» t of southern farm- [
ers," Senator Bilbo, Democrat, Miss- j
issippi, told Griffin after no:n1ins i
out that the farm act prohibited I
payments to landlords who ousted I
tenants to avoid sharing benefits. |
"I know what the law said," Grif- 1
fin replied. "But I oho know what j
is actually happening, jn three j
southeastern Missouri counties there
have been evictions of 300 families
in our membership alone.''
S lib-committee members agreed
with Griffin that the payment pro
visions of the t farm act needed
tightening up or stricter adminis
tration to pi event ousur of ten
ants.
Yarnell For j
Jap Embargo
Former Commander
of Asiatic Fleet Says
Embargo Would Not
Mean Hostilities.
j Washinglnn, March 1—(AP) —!
I Rear Admiral Harry F Yarnell. re- 1
! tired, former commander of the |
i Asiatic fleei, expressed the opinion j
! today that an embargo on exports to
Japan would not result in hostilities
1 against the United States,
i "It would be suicidal for Japan to
| engage in another inaior wai with a
i major power," Yarnell wn.te Sen
i ator Schwellenbach.
"As for our interest in the Far
East the question arises whether our
I nation can afford to sf-e the domina
tion of that great area by :i power
inspired by the jdeals of lire and
(Continued on Page Three.)
Governor Of
GeorgiaCited
Rivers And Adjuctant
General Stoddard
Face Contempt
Charges In Highway
Row.
Macon, Ga., March 1.— (AP) —
Judge Bascom Beaver today cited
Governor E. V. Rivers and Adjutant
General John Stoddard for civil con
tempt of the United States district
court here in their defiance of or
ders against interference with W. L.
Miller as Georgia highway chairman.
Judge Beaver issued an order for
the two state officials to show cause
at a hearing March 8 at Columbus.
Ga., why they should not be held in
contempt.
Twice this week the deposed of
ficial sought vuinly aj emer ihe state
j highway building in Atlanta. A na
| tional guardsman denied admission
i both times, explaining he was act
ing under orders of Governor Rivers.
vCoutinufcU on ru#; Tiute.;
This Word Is
Given Welles
At Berlin
Von Ribbentrop Un
derstood to Have
Told Undersecretary
That Britain's "Stran
glehold" Must Be
Broken.
Berlin, March 1.—(AP)—<icr
many is not prepared even to dis
cuss peace until and unless Brit
ain's '•stranglehold on the economic
life of the world" is broken—this in
effect is understood to have been
the central thesis of the first talk
today between President Roosevelt's
fact-finding emissary and Adolf
Hitler's foreign minister.
Moreover, Foreign Minister Joa
chim von Ribbentrop is understood
to have told Undersecretary of State
Simmer Welles that until Britain's
dominance is ended Germany is not
ready 10 entertain Secretary Hull's
idctis concerning elimination of
antarchy, regimentation and totali
tarianism from the post-war eco
nomic world.
Sources in von Ribbentrop's con
fidence developed this idea so
strongly to this correspondent that
there can be little doubt that Rib
bentrop himself gave this line of
talk to Welles, with whom he was
closeted soon after the American's
arrival this morning.
The talk began at noon and lasted
until 2:30 o'clock.
Later Welles announced that his
interview with Chancellor Hitler
had been set for 11 a. m. tomorrow
(5 a. m. EST).
The America': was non-committal
on his talk with von Ribbentrop
but said "it was very interesting
and I was shown every courtesy by
the German government."
Bailey to Press
Farm Marketing
Appropriation Bill
Washington. March 1.—(AP)
—Senator Bailey, Democrat,
North Carolina, proposes to
press for C'ongressianal ap
proval of his bill to authorize
S5.000.000 for facilitating the
marketing of farm products.
Bailey, with Representatives
Cooley and Barden of North
Carolina, conferred yesterday
with Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace. Wallace. Bailey said,
is "neither encouraging or dis
couraging."
The secretary recently an
nounced the Bailey hill was op
posed by the department ex
tension scrvice. He proposed
changes but did not say whether
he would approve the measure
if the changes were made.
Cnder the Bailey bill the
autliomcd appropriation would
be apportioned among state de
partments of agriculture who
sponsor marketing programs.
MRS. T. J. WILSON
DIES AT DURHAM
Chapel Hill. March 1.—(AP)—
Mrs. Thomas James Wilson, Jr., 02,
wife of the University of North Car
olina deal <>l admissions and regis
trar, died today in a Durham hos
pital after an illness of three weeks.
Funeral services will be held here
at 4 p. m. tomorrow.
Surviving are four sons, two sis
teis, two nieces and a number o£
nephews and grandchildren.
AFL Finds
More Favor
Atlanta, March 1.—(AP;—South
ern Organizer George L. Googe said
today the American Jr'ederayon o£
Labor was meeting less opposition
than formerly in it organization ef
forts in most small towns oi' the
South.
A new attitude toward labor pro
blems in the last five years, he as
serted, has done away with three
l'ourths of the opposition in the aver
age town not dominated by a single
plant or industry.
"The single industry town or what
we call a 'company owned town' is
still pretty tough for our organizers",
George declared, "but there has been
a definite change of attitude in the
towns with several small industries "
Googe said a plan for an immediate
campaign to organize 100,000 work
ers in 137 southern chemical plants
and allied industries producing war
use goods would be laid before a
ton-state conference ol the fudcru
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