North Carolina Newspapers

itenitersou Uafly Stspamj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA - v ! V-SEVENTH YEAR leased wire service of the associated press. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, MARCH 6, 1940 PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY Sixteen-Block Area of Shenandoah Caves In • .'.-bioLA area in the venter ot' Shenandoah, Pa., caved in. ■a- ;.nd splitting business buildings and factories, as the •■.'.t'd and >plit open. Abandoned anthracite mine workings >cction were blamed by Police Chief Frank Alinsky. Police. warned by loud rumblings, aroused residents and icd them to safety. Left, s-chool children, getting an unscheduled holiday, examine one of the .insures which appeared in the ground. Right, a spectator inspects the split which wrecked the wall of the Shenandoah freight station. Nazis Storm British Lines Germans Claim Pris oners Taken In At tack o n Western Front Positions. March G.—(AP)—Twenty •diers were killed and 16 .-oner on th£ western front i..y morning when German ps stormed a British dug ■ Moselle sector, the Ger .al news agency reported • n high command's daily iue reported only the enp • 1*5 prisoners. Elucidating. evjency said they were • the Duke of Cornwall's • •• egiment. • exchange of hand grenade • 'iery fire preceded the dug 'i2. according tn the news d the English left 20 dead • while Germans lost only : • - r.gency jubilantly re ■ it i- -t German shock -ucceeded in getting in _ " with British troops." M I IT « ?'» PORT \TT.*(K T.V (it'RMAXS ON OITPOST irch fi.—' AP) — French troop.- withstood small (tracks on the western y '.\>mm;inique said • n ' ;i British <1.1 west of the ' French said. r. uci e taken by a i !'*>•. according to ;i .'•adquarters com :i fish soldiers were i • ; ' .i ounded, along with as recaptured and the '• ving one dead". th'» • ' d. "Two British lied and one wound Changes Made in Airolanes JL - March 6.—(AP)— ' the European war has . changes in the de A .erican army plane:; aily today following i'.y <n Major General : on> as equipping it mor and installing ch automatically sea! '.•"re decided upon after i.'f'rence of experts. t :e House military d Arnold testified pri '•rday that the cost of -anted about 10 per il:." corpV $300,000. n was voted last year, '•"•s learned. Arnold in \> of army officers that >n were learned "for titv.e." i vrl m <Dite of delay in i «»f wine high nowered arit'cioated delays in of some oursuit and ft tho goal of 5.500 ''! be reached on time !:MI. Fear Italian Demonstrations As British Continue Blockade Full Share Of Rumanian Oil Is Demanded Bucharest, March 6.— (APi — Britain has demanded full equality with Germany in sharing Rumanian exports, including oil. it was re ported today. The British demand, which is i said to have sent Rumanian Minis ter Viorel Tilea hurrying back from London, is believed in diplomatic ouarters to have been prompted by the Allies' resolve to cut deeply into Nazi sources of supply in this country. These quarters see Rumania as being pushed closer to an inevitable choice between Germany and the Allies, as experts say it would be | impossible for Ruir.nnia to furnish the Nazis with 1.600.000 tons of oil contracted for in 1940, and at the j same time supply an equal quan- j tity to Britain. High Court | Hands Down j Decisions Raleigh. March 6.—(AP)—The! Supremo court ruled today that the law requiring plumbing and heat ing contractors to get licenses from j a state examining board does not apply to persons making minor or incidental repairs. The court handed down eight de cisions. One held thn' the death of W. S. , Btassimame from "pulmonary as bestosis resulting in lombar pneu monia" was compensable under the workmen's compensation law. The opinions included: Grimes vs Home Insurance Com- i pany of New York, Edgecombe, er ror and remanded. Lamm et al vs. Mayo et al, Wilson, affirmed. The court held that the constitu tionality of the law regulating plumbing and hr:itir>« contractors; was not invoh ed >n tbr» rase of the st;;ie versus F. C. M!,eheil, appealed fr'»m Buncombe county. In a concurring opinion. Justice I D«\*:n cnH 1 ;■ \v vn • ''"lid. The court recently held that a law re gu'nting dry cleaners was uncon stitutional. j Mitchell, a journeyman plumber, was convicted in Buncombe county of working at plumbing without aj liccnse. j "The terms of the statute do no? extend it to cover every workman i who makes a minor renair," wrote' Associate Justice M. V. Barnhill. CVcailx£y> FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy toniyht: Thurs day mostly cloudy, slierhtly war mer in east and south central portions. i GOP Hail Icwa Victory Republican Wins T w o-to-Three Over New Deal Opponent In Special Election. Dos Moines. Ia.. March fi.—(AP)— Exultant Republicans today hailed the party's victory in the sixth Iowa district special congressional election as an indication that the 1938 G. O. P. comeback in the corn belt has carried over into the presidential ye-r of 1910. Robert K. Goodwin of Redt'icld, la., farmer and manufacturer, yester day won the special election to fill the unexpired term of Representative C. C. Dowell, Des Moines Repub lican who died February 4. Goodwin's margin over Byron G. Alien of Des Moines, his New Deal opponent, was more than three to two. In Washington, Chairman John Hamilton of the Republican national committee declared the G. O. P. tide 'wns moving higher". "Not only was the Now I>al the dear cut issue in this election," lie sairl. "but the success of its farm policies was likewise an issue." Maxine Elliott, Famous Actress, Dies In France Cannes, France, March 6.—(AP)— Maxine Elliott. (37, famous Amer ican actress who achieved success both in Europe and Ihe United States, died last niiht ;it her chateau at Jaun les Pin?:. A famous beauty in the «arly part of the century, Mis- Elliott made her last stage appearance in 1920 at her own theatre in New York, after 30 year- as an actress. Since last June she h-\s been suf fering from a heart ailment. Among the famous friends en tertained :it Miss Elliott'* chateau was the Duke of Windsor, who echoed tbr> admi'-'tion <>!' his grand father, Edward VII. for the actress. Seizure Of Clipper Mail Is Defended London. March 6.—(AP)—A gov ernment spokesman rejected a sug gestion in the House of Commons today that Britain had blundered in searching American clipper mail at Bermuda and asserted "the gov ernment action was correct and, moreover, was justified by what (Continued oa Page Three.) ; Extra Police Guard British Rome Embassy Rome, March 6.—(AP)—Extra police were stationed near the Brit ish embassy today as a precaution against possible Italian demonstra tions against BrH'ish seizure oi' Ger man coal shipments. The demon strations, however, did not mater ialize. There had been rumors that students had been planning to or ganize demonstrations. Seizures of Italian cargoes of German coal by British blockaders tends to bring relations between Rome and London to a crisis, au thoritative Italians declared today. Italy's industrial life hangs upon imports of coal, they said. Studying reports that British warships were escorting ship niter ship into contraband control, these authorities declared: '•It ha- complicated and made the Italian-British dispute more accutc." Allen Files As Candidate For State Treasurer Bal^ffh. Marco 4.—(AP)— C. T. Allen. Republican ol Aurora, paid a $60 filing fee to the state elections board today to run for state treasur er. Allen is Ihc only Republican filer for state office other than governor. Charles M. Johnson. Democratic in euVnbent. is the only qualifier for treasurer so far in his party. W. Kerr Scott To Make His j Formal Entry Tomorrow In Race For Re-Election Daily Dispatch Bureau, In Tin* Sir Waiter Hotel. Raleigh, March 6.—Commissioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott will1 make his formal announcement for: re-election in the morning papers of I tomorrow. Your Raleigh reporter' iearns this on authority so good that, he has no fear whatever of the limb ! breaking beneath him. Were it not i for the misfortune which has too; many times attended use of such an adjective this authority would be described as "unimpeachable." The Scott announcement will, of i coursc, surprise nobody at all; as; it has been looked upon as a fore- ! gone conclusion and little more than a formality for a long, long time, j Frankly, nobody has ever suspected i that he did not want another term. As the well-known "grapevine" j conveys the story to your reporter, I the Commissioner will have almost' nothing to say beyond the fact that Continued oa Page Two) W. KERR SCOTT Italian Coal Cargoes Held By British As I Prizes Of Sea War I | Piles Of Russian | I Dead After Attack \ i ! " r Heavy k: ussian Losses Iniiicted by Finns As Assaults In Vuoski River Sector Are Re paired; Viipuri Still Held. • Helsinki. March fi — (Ai"*) — Pile* of | Rrc-inn rlor.H v.rro left by new Red I r>rmv srsptilIs on tho Karelian if; Ihnmr., according to tho F:nn'«-h com munique, which added that furthei ' thrusts against Viipuri had been turned back. i The heavy Rus-ian los es were l said to have been inflicted in thf Vuok:;i river sector, southeast of the besieged city, where the Finns said seven 1 dozen Soviet tanks had been destroyed. Aircraft, tanks and artillery sup ported the Russian thrust* toward Viipuri aci">ss the ice of Viipuri Bay, j but the Finns, still struggling for j possession of the strategic city, turn 1 ed back the attacks. The red army also attacked in force j at many land points in the Viipuri sector, but the Finns said all hac1 , been repulsed. j The eastern end of the isthmiu i front saw lively artillery activity, ' and further north on the Kuhmo sector Russian attacks were repulsed. Soviet air raids behind the battle lines killed 40 persons and wounded many others yesterday, the com munique said. Hatch Law I Is Debated Senator Lucas Says Proposed4 Change Is "U nconstitution al Delegation of Power". | Washington. March fi—(AP'— A | nroporal to -uthoriz0 the civil sor viro comm^s'on to define what con stitutes political activity by «tatrt nm nloves was assailed today by Sena tor Iycns, Democrat, Illinois, an op ponent of broadening the Hatch anti politic" law as an "unconstitutional de'egation of power." Lucas told the Senate, debating Hatch act amendment for the second day, that "the people of my state i and of other states look with fear 1 on the aggression that Washington already has made again t (he rights I of the stales." i The broadening amendment, spon j sored by Senator Hatch, Democrt, ! New Mexico, would extend to state employees paid in part from federal funds the prohibitions now govern ing federal employees against taking part actively in election campaigns. The battle over the 1940 census. ! started by the demand of Senator < Con tinned on Page T«"»i Remington Arms Charged With Neu- ■ traJi»:y Violations For Mexican Shipment. Ho'" ton. Tp:*.. fi—(Af)—| T!->o T?<-rn8nt;1nn Anv- Comnnny was! indicted hv a fedonl grand inry to-j Hnv for -MlorrrH vio1nt-'>n nl 1h«» PCll- j trality law in the shipm^t "r 27.r>00 •••v-*tMtn*t:nn to Mexico. Indicted witn the company were two Mexican citizens now iuiled atj Lnredo, Teyn*—Lt. Col. Frnnc:scoj Arispe and Gregorio Preito. a retired army mHjor who said he '•••ns .;n j employ of 1"p national revolution-1 ary narty of Mexico. Arispe, 40 years old. was a can didate for renresentativc to the Mexican national congress on the na tional revolutionary nart.v t'cket. George John, assistant to the Unit ed States district attorney, said the government alleged "conspiracy to violate and violation of the neutrality set of 1939 by unlawfully exporting! "nd attempting to export ammuni-l tion to Mexico without obtaining a i permit from the secretary of state." ] G-Men Probe j Marijuana Use In This State I Many Dispatch Bureau, Ii» »he Sir Walter Hotel. By HENHY AVERILL. Raleigh, M a r c h 5. — Federal .agents, from the narcotics division of the FBI, are on the ground in vestigating the situation in Nortn Carolina as it concerns the use of i marijuana, a habit-forming drug urually used in cigarette form, Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, State health offi cer, told your Raleigh reporter to day. The federal probe remits from rc ccnt newspaper prominence given charges by a Tar Heel preacher • that the smoking of marijuana is I widely prevalent among younger North Carolinians. Immediately after these charges were made. Dr. Reynolds called upon the minister for whatever in formation he had on the subject; J but according to the health officer1 nothinc resulted. "Apparently he imitated thrj (Continued on Page Three) Palestine Policy Is Defended London, March 6.— (AT) — The j British government today answered: opposition charges of "shameful be trayal" of its promises to the Jews with the nract'cl wartime declara tion that its attitude was necessary j in view of the situation as regards j the Arabs. Malcolm McDonald, colonial sec-; retary, said the government had had "most stern warnings from Palestine in recent weeks that despite appear- j ances there was beneath the surface a growing unrest among the Arabs." Defending the British govern- : ment's restrictions of transfers of 1 land by Arabs to Jews in Palestine, McDonald told the House of Com mons: ' i j "If there were trouble in Pale«tino Ihere would be repercussion jn Trans Jordan, Iraq, Saudi, Arabia, F.gypt, and India. One has got to be frank 1 about these things." The colonial secretary said the 1 Palestine Arabs had shown sus picions that "His Majesty's govern- ( ment are not sincere in their pro- 1 fessions that they would orotect the 1 interests of the Arab cultivator and ! laborer." The opposition attacked the Pales- ' tine policy as a repudiation of a ! moral contract made with the J<*ws 1 < during the World war as debate on a motion oi ccn_u»s. Nine Ships Taken—One Released British Enemy Ex ports Committee Finds That One Ital ian Ship Sailed From Rotterdam Before Or der Was Issued. London, .March 6.—(AP) — Britain todqy ordered the ear goes of eight Italian ships—de clared to be coal from Germany —held as prizes in her tighten ing campaign to halt all sea borne exports from Germany. Nine Italian ships had been herded into the contraband con trol station at The Downs but the ninth ship, the Laosso, was released by the enemy export committee. It was established that she sailed from Rotterdam on March 1 before the order to halt Ger man coal shipments to Italy was issued. London, March 6.—(AP)—Two more Italian ships were herded by the British navy into the contra band control station at The Downs today, bringing to nine the number of Italian ships detained in the controversy between Britain and Italy over Italian imports of Ger man coal. The ministry of economic war fare said all nine ships were Hying the Italian flag and all were "as sumed to be carrying coal". The British blockade patrol worked in apparent disregard of Italy's bitter week-end protests which asserted the blockade was endangering economic and political relations between Britain and Italy. Meanwhile, the foreign office was drafting a formal reply to the Rome protest. British destroyers were waiting for others of a fleet of Italian col liers preparing to sail from Rotter dam, The Netherlands. Welles To Confer With Polish Chiefs During Paris Visit Paris, March 6.— (AP) —T h e French government announced to day thnt United States undersecre tary of Slate Sumner Welles would confer with the chief of the Polish government in exile when he comes Lo Paris this week on his fact-find ing mission for President Roosevelt. Welles will he received by both President Lebrun and Premier Da ladier tomorrow, immediately after lis arrival from Switzerland. From Paris, Welles will go to London for .similar talks. Nazis Outline Sea Warfare General Stiffening of Treatment of Neu tral Shipping Is Fore shadowed. lierlin, March fi.—(AP)—General stiffening of Germany's treatment ;f neutral shipping was fore shadowed today in an official state nent referring to foreign press as sertions that German fliers were sinking neutral merchantmen with )ut warning. According to the statement Ger nan planes cannot discern from the lir whether neutral vessels arc jeing convoyed or conducted to 3ritish contraband blockade stations. The mere fact of the convoy, the tatement rsserts, is sufficient lor Germans to deal wfth such neu ral vessels as hostile. The German government, there ore, makes the enemy "exclusively esponsible" for Germany's having o regard such vessels as aiding and importing the enemy. The official release fur!her states hat the German air force does not hoot at officers, crews or passen [ers on neutral vessels without ^Continued on page two)