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IHeniiersmt Batlu iltapatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. -r.\KXTH \EAR HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 2, 1940 i-ui.u8iiig>.^vBKr ai^ctnoon FIVE CENTS COPY Qe rmany Demands ^Monroe Doctrine 99 for Central Europe f-Jjilef - aid to Have Told Welles His Price 0f peace is Perma n.-nt Hegemony, End P.-itish "Strangle JwM" noiu . • ° t t r:n«"«'>pv . • • • 'prl pivmfo •. * - <\ Voproo d->c • ope" and restore • —this wa.- cle • - \vuo k"o\v Adolf burden of the •T^d t >d-iv to Presi ■ emissary. Sumner • .. given .... . •, Anvv '"»n uii \ v :r. their 9*-min r.ce is understood to be • d • <: renounce "her c. on strategic 1 \v;• i - raw materials." • 'r :ti-ird • HitlerV declara - :> nanent German »!rru-:.I domination —j i-M v .t. Slovakia. •llur.^uy. making the i solid bloc oi about e. it w - said, he want that Britain and i 't stir up the Balkans i d to have argued lur .latent r.i:>t be;in by mishing n litaiy con v.\ the Suez canal and • _ i points in non-British • • of Genuan-A noricanj also declared to bei if. according to vhi- ver-i •ier"> talk, but to be im i":ig as Washington de re an ambassador to the post in the Berlin em Italy Makes Protest Blockading of Ships Carrying German Coal to Italy Brings Strong Objection. . March 2.—(AP)—Italy an • day that she was protest - " G eat Britain against the .-hips carrying German ' Italy ed fasci.-t spokesman •• protest would be in har 'r.e fasci.-t grand council -t Decer ber that Italy j. rd nev Maritime aaf •;.e most definite manner ■ -ons of prestige and to it:■ iaolc necessities of life." "Our Bob" Rejects (jitt of Racehorse In Fa\or of Goat 4t'>n. March 2.—(AP)— '' yi d>. Democrat, North - decided that a goat is ' 'M a race horse—even ■ '.Vuithowning. ' ;■ offered to the sena .b-committee hearing a proposal to permit ' r/striet of Columbia. Aiicn. one of the com govern the capital, caring Reynolds went new property and re pt.'y in favor of the a goat named Bill. Cotton Export MarketDeemed Essential . Match 2.—(AP)—N. C. ■-! Xtv/ Orleans, presi • American Cotton Co ^ciation, said today of the cotton farm s'>t be solved except on a fj ovided for continuation arkets. - a a witness at a hear •■id bv a group of eleven ( ;.'igressmen, William v-e can't live on the do "t- for our cotton." • i the representatives to t'.d in considering the ■<■■■■> that the coton south at a disadvantage as vu uu Page Five) Mrs. Roosevelt Awaits Court C. P. Phonephoto After hearing testimony >f Betsy : Gushing Roosevelt (aoove) that re-j lations between herself unci her i husband. James Roosevelt. the f'res ident's eldest son. since he first! asked for his freedom in May. 19!!}!. i Judge Thomas C'. Gould set the ca e over until Monday so that Mr-:. Roosevelt'.* brother, Henry K. Cull ing. could appear. In Oetober. 1938. Mrs. Roosevelt re hited. her husband left their home in the east and came to Cali fornia without asking her to ac company him. She followed a month later, then: "He said he wanted a divorce and asked me to leave California." This she did. she told the court, "as I thought it was best for the children". She never was asked to return, she added. Terms of a property settlement i ir,ade «.';t oi court gave Mrs. Roose- ! velt sole custody of their two chil- ! dren. Sara Delano. 7. and Kate, 4. j although the father will be per-! m it ted to confer on such matters j as education. It provides S 167.50 aj month for each until they are 12,; then S250 a month. It also gives them 2 per cent of their father's income above $50, 000 in 1940-43. inclusive, and 5 per cent in 1944 and thereafter. Provision was made for payment i of SI.590 to Mrs. Roosevelt January 7 and February 7 and $65,000 today. At the end of five years, if she is alive and unmarried, she will re ceive $50,000 cash, or $5,000 a year for life. Roosevelt agreed to take out a $25,000 insurance policy for each child. j Enemy Planes Over Britain AndGermany German Raiders Strike at Britain's Shipping Lanes; Brit ish Scouting Planes Scatter Leaflets Over Berlin Area, 1 London. March 2.—(AI')—Gor man air raiders swooping low over j the North sea struck anew at Hrit ' ain's shipping lanes tod;iv as Brit ' ish scouting planes returned to their j bases after a night of reeonnois sance flights which the communique | said had taken them over Berlin and northwest Oermany rnd drawn ; fire from Berlin batteries. Two of the Nazi raiders which appeared off the Scottish coast were driven out to sea by Royal Air Force fighters as the sound of (Continued on Page Five' Five Persons iDie In Blaze ; Wor Chester, Mass., March 2.— j(AP)—Four women and a man per ished early today in a three alarm blaze which destroyed a five story apartment building. Firemen struggled for two hours before bringing the flames under control. 1 State Fire Inspector James A. Traynor said there was "every in dication the fire was set." Three •previous incendiary fires occurred in the same block last month and police began a hunt for a jiyromaniac. Alarms Keep Helsinki In Shelters Airplane Flights Over Finnish Capital Coin cide With Heavy Fighting on Outskirts of Viipuri, Reported In Flames. Helsinki, March 2.— (AI5)— Air alarms kept Helsinki's citizenry in bomb-proof shelters an aggregate of four and one-half hours today as Russian war planes roared over the outskirts of the city. The Russians flew at a greal bound for objectives further north. Th" air activity coincided with heavy fighting on the outskirts of Viipuri, southeastern Finnish sea port and kev to the Karelian isthmus. (A Soviet communique said the Finns were burning the city as they fell back and that the Russians al ready were in the southern suburbs). The Finns themselves acknowl edged that after three months of war, including a month of sustained as sault against this objective, the Rus sians were moving on Viipuri from the south and cast by iand and from the southwest over the ice by Viipuri Bay. Kussian iosses continued to be heavy, the Finns said. Treasury Is Far In Red End of First Eight Months of Fiscal Year Brings Deficit of $2,646,227,978. Washington, March 2.—(AI5)—The Treasury reported today that it went! into the red S2.64fi.227.98T in the first eight months of the current fisc;il year. At the end of February a year ago it was S2.232.267.596 behind in come. Given an extra day because of leap year, receipts for the period amounted to S3,502.609,214, which was still .$150,000,000 behind receipts at the same time a year ago. Spend ing totaled $6,148,837,193, compared with S5,885,053,916 in the first eight months of last year. The gross debt stood at $42,365, 353,180. A year ago it was $39,858, 653.453. Nazi Ship Is Captured Aruba, Dutch West Indies, March 2.—(AP)—The German freighter Heidelberg has been captured by a British cruiser and is being towed to Trinidad, it was reported today. The prize was the second loss for Germany's merchant fleet in this vicinity in two days, the Troja having been set afire yesterday rather than surrender. The Heidelberg left Aruba at the same time as the Troja in an at tempt to slip through the British blockade. Roosevelt Prepares For Fight With Congress For Funds To Strengthen Panama Defenses " i Signals Mixed—12 Die In Mexican Train Wreck Twelve prrsons were killed and thiity-one injured when mixed signals caused this hen.. on wreck between a passenger and freight train near Queretaro, Mexico. Queretaro is on the rail i::.e 1'ium Mexico City to Ciudad Juarez and the United Elates border. Steele Into House Race Rockingham Man Is Fourth Candidate In Eighth District Con gressional Race. Raleigh. March 2.—(AP)—A Rock ingham county delegation today paid SI00 to the state board of elections as the filing fee for Robert Steele III, of; Rockingham, to enter the Democratic primary in May as a candidate for representative in the 8th District. Members of the rive-man group said the money was donated by worker's in three Rockingham mill districts. Steele, 41-year old business man, was the fourth to enter the race in the 8th District. Previous filers were incumbent W. O. Burgin and C. B. Dcane of Rockingham and Gilo:-: Y. Newtoh of Gibson. The number of gubernatorial can didates who have filed was raised to four when Arthur Simmons of Burlington paid his $105 foe. Three announced candidates lor governor have not filed yet. Simmons has distributed cards saying, he was a farmer, lawyer and soldier and describing hinisri! as a "low tax candidate". Earlier today Representative .John H. Carr ol' Warrenton paid his $100 filing fee t<> seek renominalion in the 2nd District. No one has filed again: I him. UeS* Sub Believed To Be Vessel Seen 'Germans Down Belgian Plane In Belgian Territory Brussels, March 2.—(AP) — | One Belgian pursuit plane was , shot down by a German bomber and four other planes were re ported to have crashed in a series of air encounters and ac J cid«Mits today in which three Belgian fliers were killed. The official Belgian version of a batfe in which the pursuit craft was downed -aid three n-1 gian plants encountered a large German bomber in Belgium's Luxembourg province. . Tli^ Belgians surrounded the | h^evilv armed German craff j w-'irh suddenly opened fire. One Belgian pilot was hit scv ; eral times and another lost con trol. The squadron leader was shot down and killed, f lis plane crashed. Bclpi urn's foreign minister. Paul Menri Sn'.ie.k, in an inter view m Hh the German ambas sador "energetically protested j against a grave violation of Bel I gtnm neutrality and an act of igqression by a German avia tor." Highway Commission Likely To I become Center Of Gubernatorial f PelmSe Stage Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March 2.—The present al most issueless governor's race is quite likely to be pepped up greatly be fore many weeks have passed—with the Highway Commission taking the center of the debating stage as the hottest question before the public. This isn't anything strange or un usual in North Carolina politics though reasons for the commission's entrance this time differ somewhal from previous campaigns. In this year of grace there are a least four good and valid reason; why the road body is going to comt in for a good deal of discussion—anc a corresponding amount of criticism These may be briefly summarized a: follows: (1) Sooner or later Commissions of Revenue Allen J. Maxwell, apostl< of a S50,000,000 highway progran for the state, is bound to come int< open conflict with the Commissioi on certain counts. (2) Sooner or later Tom Coope: and perhaps Paul Grady and, con> ceivably, Lee Gravely, are going t< jump on the Commission with botl feet, with the customary indictmen that the road people are improperl; indulging in politics. (3) In the two extremes of th State far northeast and far west there is a bitter unci growing hostility; to the present highway setup and personnel—a hostility which is go ing to make it worthwhile for some candidate to give it voice. (4) Perhaps a rather unimportant reason, but it's there just the same. \ News men, as a whole, are certainly not going out of their way to keep i the Commission and the Commission chairman, in particular, free from' criticism. The consistent Highway policy of "treat cm rough and tell 'em nothing" makes this sure. Enlarging a bit on reason (1) it is i apparent that the Highway commis sion isn't in close accord or harmony with Maxwell. His indorsement of the Greater Albemarle Association's : road policy for Dare. Hyde and Tyr rell was followed almost immediate ' ly by published reports that the pro ! jects involved would cost 54,500,000 i or more. Nobody in the Commission i assumed responsibility for these es i timates, but that's where they came from. It indicated a definite difference in • viewpoint between candidate and > commission, a difference which is i practically certain to end in an open t outbreak of oratorical warfare. r So far Maxwell hasn't taken even an indirect fling at the Highway Com * mission; but there have come to your Raleigh reporter authentic reports ti nt the IJcv'-tuie C'ommi: sioner ie gards it ;is a group which brains shouting "it can'l be done", the mo ment that anyone suggests almost any kind oi' progressive highway project. Holding this point of view and planning to lay such great streess on nis own highway plans, Mr. Max well will almost inevitably be com pelled to hit at the Commission, at least obliquely, in order to justify himself. And wItjr he does, the Commission will probably have something to say in rebuttal. All of which adds up to a little more lively flareup that the campaign has'Vet seen. On reason (2) there is little to add. Every campaign has brought charges of political activity against the road rulers, and this isn't going to be an exception. It is true, of course, that Cooper wrote Chairman Frank Dun lap asking how he stood on the gov ernor's race and it is equally true that Dun lap wrote back that he plans to be neutral unless the Commission I is attacked. | That would indicate it's the part of wisdom for Cooper *o lay off the j Commission; but th^ logic of the sit— I uation is almost sure to drive the Wilmington fnayer into opposition (Continued on Page Five) Two Navy Sub marines' In Area Where British Steam er Reported U-Boat A t ta ck; Souihgate Found In No Danger. Washington, March 2.—(AP)— The Navy was informed today that naval planes had located the Brit ish steamer Southgate. which re ported a submarine attack yester day, and said the vessel was in no apparent danger. The first news of the vessel's fate since her submarine .attacking :-ig nal late yesterday was contained in a brief wireless message from the Carribean saying "Southgate located by plane, no apparent danger". S;in Juan, Puerto Rich, March 2. —(AP)—A peaceable United Slates submarine mistaken for a German U-boat may have caused the 4.8(52 ton British steamer Southgate to believe she was being attacked in ihe Atlantic, United Stales army officers suggested today. Two United States .ubmnrines i were in the vicinity given for the I Southgate when she wirelessed yes terday that a U-boat was attacking her, members of the general staff j in charge of operations in the Car | l ibean defense zone disclosed. Two submarines left San Juan yesterday were headed in a ' direction that would have placed (Continued on Pace Five) DiMaggio Is Holdout San Francisco, Mweh 2.- 'An> Joe DiMaggio, the Yankee outfielder, still was in town today instead of being enroute to Florida for spring training—and he doesn't mind to be called a holdout. ''I don't call myself a holdout but i.lliight. I won't leave San Fiancisc | aiiright 1 won't leave San Francisco ; until I hear from him (Ed Barrow, i Yankee president)''. It was believed DiMaggio was of fered S30.000 for the season, an in i crease of $2,500 over his 1939 salary, : but wants $35,000. UJmllteJi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudv and unsettled with occasional light rain tonight and Sunday: slightly warmer to j night followed b.v colder in mountains and north central por tion. OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK. Fair and slightly cooler at be einnin^ and near end of week, with showers and warm:r in [ middle period. President On Return From Vacation Roosevelt Has Def inite Idea That Num ber of Planes And Anti-Aircraft Guns at Canal Must be Dou bled. Aboard Uoosevolt train enroutc to Washington, March 2.—(AP)—Prov ident Rooseveit rode toward the na tional capital today ready to he gin blue printing additional defen ses I'cr the Panama canal. He was prepared to pick up again the White House duties which he dropped for a la-day cruise on which fi.-hing was subordinated to ii r'v of iho Panama canal defenses. He brought back from his trip <» ■jpiimtc idea that the number of airplanes and anti-aircraft guns already at the canal must be dou Nl:d and thai a third set of canal locks is essential. Shaping up, therefore, is a scrap with Congress for legislation to strengthen the canal. The House appropriations c o 111 m i 11 e e had slashed from the War Department appropriation bill a $15,000,000 fund and a $99,300,000 contract author ization recommended by the Pres ident to permit a start on a new set of canal locks costing $277,000,000. Upon his return to Washington j one of Mr. Roosevelt's first acts will | be to sign a bill which would allow j Finland to obtain a $20,000,000 loan | for non-military purposes. Legislators Refuse Call Long's Second Effort to Call Session Fails to Bring Quorum of Senators. Baton Iiouge, La., March 2.—(AP) —Governor Karl K. Long's second effort to convene a .special session .)i his nitneno obedient legislature Mailed today when the legislators, in iopcn revolt against the repudiated Long machine, failed to answer his summons. Oniy 13 of 39 senators were pre Lsent at roll call nearly an hour after I the body had been called to meet. Senators immediately quit the I chamber and its president said "there lean be no session because there is no quorum." Long, trying to salvage some of jlhe wreckage of the once all-power ful Huey Long political machine, first summoned the legislators to meet yesterday. They didn't show up jbecau.se, Long said, they probably did not receive his first call in time. Then he issued a formal call for this morning. Economy Still Ruling Solons Washington, March 2.—(AP)— Congres.-ional leaders wound up two months of the cui-rent session today with rising hopes that they could avoid two election year buga boos—high taxes and an increase in :he national debt limit. Thus for the ligeislatois have whacked about $290,000,'too from President Roosevelt's budget esti nates but farm state senators want to use about two-thirds of that lor 'jenefits to agriculture. Senator Barkley, of Kentucky, the Democratic leader, said today that it was doubtful whether the Senate would approve the payment ntended to give farmers "parity"— ourchasing power equal to that they ad in 1909-1914. Even if the cham ber voted money for this purpose he amount might be reduced or trickon out when the farm bill ?ached a joint committee which vill adjust Senate-House differ ences.
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