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Henitersmt Hatly tHstmtrit ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLIN A AND VIRGINIA. ■ •v. \ j\-SEVENTH YEAR l?h1e?s"JciatSsd%prIs1f HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 12, 1940 ™bl,shlfuXcevptrsutoI?rnoon FIVE CENTS COPY Nazis Burn Ship Caught Off America : on of the .">.6f0-ton Gorman steamer Hannover (above) by * British cruiser near Puerto Rico was * • . v! by the British Admiralty, which said the Nazi vessel was fired and abandoned by her crew to .ipture. Survivors, reaching the Dominican Republic by lifeboat, said 55 men were missing. Map . »v:.cre the ship was scuttled in Mona Channel, in the heart of American neutrality zone (shaded). Britain And France Renew pledges Of Aid To Finland War Secretary Stan ley i. iscioses Offer in hesenting "Token" Budget For Army To House of Commons For Approval March 12.—(AP) — War Stanley told the - today that it was : undesirable to attempt • task the British • . e mailed upon to fulfill .■ * ure. ide hi> -tatement in pre the II.>use his secret • :or the army. It fol diselosure by official ■ .-everal communications -ent to Finland offering the Russian-Fmnisn . c great army in process • :.i.n". Stanley said, "and we ••.deed we are duty bound y to take a higher and •. n o! the war on land uiders of our allies, the ■ n the early days of the • Lear such a very great this burden". :d the British troops in ' • day were approximately! - number in October. :;;ce sources declinea to | Britain first offered iu . * Finland but emphasiz ;:unications began "well ..:.ng ot the current peace Moscow. .i tor such help has been : :Finland in the la.-t official sources saiu. j feiiey Wins Stay On Writ Silver Shirts Leader Ordered Extradited But Granted Hearing n Washington. March 12.—(AP)—[ Pel ley, the Silver i v. as ordered extradit-j Crolina today but al-! : toly won a stay under a ; writ. .' f-Kin.-on Letts, hearing >■! piead for the writ 'i- that "violent phy ght bo in store for rgument on it March . '•? at So,000. 4 ought as a witness. • ittee investigating activities, appeared Caoito! Hill a month d on Page Three.) Ger man Sub | Reported Sunk March 12.—(AP)—The •nnoi.nced today that a , r.ad attacked a Ger • " o»T the German coast ed to have sunk it. ;nistry communique j • ».connoissance flight I 'i Bight Monday att-j .craft of the Royal Air; < -o: n mand success ful •i German submarine at • '<> Schillig Roatfc. The - seen to be hit and is ii;»ve been sunk." plane also attacked '• ank" a German sub a me area on March ' d. Peace Prospects In Finland Take Marked Upswing Stomkholm. March 12.— (AP) — The prospects of peace in Fin land appeared to take a marked upswing this afternoon as optim ism replaced uncertainty in poli tical circles here. Afternoon ncw.pmers warned againt loo much optmi-m. how ever. wh;l% carrvipg reports t!iat I the Finnish cabinet. parliament, and parliamentary ft>n-irn af fairs committee now were in constant session. One newspaper asserted that definite Soviet peace terms were delivered to the Finnish dela tion last night and another re norted that the Finnish foreign affairs committee last night had received l>ng code telegrams from the Finnish delegation in [ Moscow. British Peace Aims Stated While Sumner Welle; Confers With Leaders Chamberlain Reite rates Stand London. March 12—(AP)--Whili Sumner Welles was hearing thi views of opposition party leader* in day. Prime Minister Chamberlaii reiterated publicly that the Briiisi peace aims are "freedom -:nd curity lor ourselves and the : mil nations of Europe" and restoiatioi of the "independence of the Pole and Czechs." Chamberlain asked voters in ; Leed s election to express "the nat ional unity behind these aims" b; supporting the House of Common candidacy of J. J. C. Henderson, : conservative party nominee. '•\Ve demand tangible proof tha such pledges and assurances as ar essential to the future peace m< well being of Europe will be ful filled." he wrote in a letter to Hon derson. Welles motored to the Unite* States embassy for talks with oppo sition chieftians. Major Clement Pi. Attloe, leade of the .labor party, and Arthu Greenwood, his deputy in the Hons of Commons, wore closeted for 8 minutes with the American under secretary of state. Of the confidential interview, At (Continued on Page Three") -j British Action To j | Stop U. S. Exports J To Russia Ur^ed 1 | London, March 12.—(AP)—Gocf - j t'rey L. Mandcr, opposition liberal - | in the House of Commons, today urged Britain to "take some very 1 definite action" to prevent exports - from the United States from j-each | ing Germany through Vladivostok, r i Soviet Russia's far eastern seaoort. • j Ronald H. Cross, minister of ^co ^, nomic warfare, said he would be ) glad to hear any suggestions. Mand - ! or reported he would be "very glad" | to offer some - j Cross said over 1,100.000 tons of i contraband had been seized by the allies thus far. NCEA, Muni-County Meets This Week Are Expected To Affect Gubernatorial Race Daily Dmpatrh Bureau. In the Sir Walter (!otp| Raleigh, March 12.—North Caro lina's torpid gubernatorial race is quite likely to get considerable quickening as the result of two im portant events this week—the North Carolina Education Association's con vention here and the beginning of a series of a dozen regional meetings in which the League of Municipal ities and the Association of County Commissioners will for the first time join hands in working out a legisla tive program. v Importance of both these events is obvious in view of the fact that educational appropriations ancl pol icies will, as usual, be among the leading and livest issues of the 1941 General Assembly, while nobody is ignorant of the tremendous political possibilities bound up in a Muni County alliance. With all this coming up, the half dozen seriously-regarded candidate: for Governor will be doing their dead level best to capture such mass sup (Continued en Page Three.) Deladier Tells ! C/lvamber of Deputies That 50,000 French j Troops Are Equipped ; and Assembled Ready • to Depart for Finland n | Paris, March 12.—(AP)—Premier | Deladier told the chamber of depu ties today that 50,000 Fren.ci troops were ready to go to Finland if Fin land publicly asked for help, j These troops, the premier said, !.y> c been ready since February 25— equipped and assembled near em i boikation points. | Deladier said the British-French ! decision to aid Finland in <*a«r> °he | called for help was reached at the j meeting of the supreme war council | February 2. At the premier's request, the dep I uties postponed their scheduled Je j bate on the Finnish situation until ' next Tuesday. "The government is at the disposi I tir.n cf the chamber." Deladier said, - "but the Finnish parliament is as sembled to discuss the peace pro positions that Russia wants to im ! pose on its country , "It seems to hip. therefore, wiser if parliament adjourns this debate." ■ Governors of Ten States Ask Defeat Of Anti-Lynch Bill ' Washington. March 12.—(AP)— Gove'Ttcs 'if ten states joined today ' in asking the Senate to defeat fed . i eral anti-lynching legislation. | Their pleas were filed with a Scn i ate judiciary committee. Governors of Alabama. Arizona, , Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, 'j North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten - I nessec, Virginia and West Virginia • ! ioin»d in the request to the Senate. 1 They said lynchings had been 1 greatly reduced, that the proposal • was an unconstitutional violation ol ' i staiv. right? and that the bill would 1 do the Negro race more harm than ? j good. Russo-Finnish Peace Believed Near; Reports Circulated And Denied; Fighting is Continued Smith Urges Hatch Act Bel South Carolina Sena tor Would Have Presi dent and Cabinet M embers Brought Under Anii - Politics Restrictions of Act Washington, March 12.—(AP)— j Senator Smith, Democrat, South j Carolina, urged in the Senate today j that the President and his cabinet be ; included in Hatch act restrictions. "Let's be brave," Smith told his I colleagues "lot's clean hoiu.e wherej the cleaning should'be done." Without mentioning President i Roosevelt by name, Smith recalled j the Chief Executive's efforts in 1938 j to seel; defeat in the Democratic congressional primaries of such j i candidates as had opposed his poli I dea- , I j Smith was one ci those whose de I "cat tne President sought, but the South Carolinian told the Senate i this was not the reason for his j .statement. The president. Smith said, had gone into many states and used "his ; tremendous power" to defeat certain j | candidates. "Why should we curtail the little fellow and leave out the greatest i political olfice we are capable of! giving a man—the Chief Executive, of the United States who uses his! office to discredit a faithful mem-! ber of this body. "Why don't wc condemn the ^hief Executive of the United States, who rides ruthless nnd roughshod over a lesser one politi cally? "If we're going to be m;*n and have clean politics let's have a j clean president and a clean cabinet." j Replying to Smith, Senator Hatch I declared that some of the restric tions in the existing anti-politics law do apply to the president, j . Russian Spy Reported Held Miami Bcach, Fla., March 12.— | (AP)—Representative Martin Dies, Democrat, Texas, planned to close the Florida phase of his un-Ameri canism investigation today to hurry back to Washington where it was un officially reported an important Rus sian spy had been taken into cus tody. The Miami Herald said it learn°d 1 authoritatively a man supposedly ! heading "a Soviet spy ring" in the | United States had been apprehended j and would be taken before the com- t mittee, probably Friday. The Herald said the agent enter- j cd the United States through Miami, | by way of Cuba. | Baltimore Newspaperman Shot By Bandit Baltimore, March 12.—(AP)—-A Baltimore newspaperman, shot in the chcst by a bandit he tried to cap ture during a downtown holdup, re mained in a serious condition today j as police threw out a dragnet for his assailant. The injured man was Robert Mur- j ray, 47, Baltimore Sun copyreader | and former citv editor of the Nor- , folk Virginian-Pilot. Witnesses said that Murray was in a tavern when two men entered j the place about midnight last night. When one patron sought to 'lee. J one of the bandits fired a shot at; him. Murray tin ned and grappled with | the armed man, who fired one shot1 and missed. A Second shot struck : Murray below the heart. Other pat- ! (■Continued on Page Three.) lOsjcdhsJi FOR NORTH C AROLIN A. Rain tonight and Wednesday not much change in tempera lure. Outcome of Miss ion Is Mystery Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (shown above, left, a he was greeted in Rome by Count Galeaz/.o Ciano, Italian foreign minister), has completed ta!l:s with Premier Mussolini and Pope Pius XII without having evidence of tangible aid from Italy or comi'ort Irom the Vatican. Official secrecy obscured the purpose and accomplishments of the two-day visit, but both Italian and Gennan sources said it was devoid of any new agreements, leaving Italy's non-belligerent status unaffected. (Photo .^ent by telephone from Rome to London and then flashed by radio to New York.) Increasing Of Farm Fund Seems Certain First Test Of New Deal New Hampshire Presi-j dential Preference Primary Is Being Held Today — Manchester, N. H. March 12.—! (AP)—A handful of candidates—i Lipiit in their choice of a Democratic standard hearer—bucked a strong and well organized slate of dclc prInledtfed to President Roose velt's renominating todav in the 1a tion's 1'irst primary ballot box lest >1 the third term issue. Robert il. Sanderson. minority leader in the New Hampshire house i last ycr and treasurer of the Demo- • rralic state emmittee. who ran as 1 an unpledged candidate for dele-! gaic-at-iarge, appeared to have the j strongest ehanee of breaking through the Roo-evelt lineup. A complete late of Roosevelt-1 pledged candidates, including many! of the party's leaders, faced opposi- ' lion from three unpledged candi- j dates, three supporters of James A. : F'irie/ and one candidate indorsing Vice-President John NT. Garner. In all 23 Democrat•;—Hi of them pledged to the President—contested for the twelve convention posts., The Roo cvelt forces were assured® of five places. Manslaughter Verdict In Kehier Case j New York, March 12.—(AP)— a! judge whose voice broke with anger! denounced as "a cheap bum'' a 24 year-old Canadian boxer who had ju^t been convicted of first degree man-daughter in the fatal bludgeon- | ing of Dr. Walter R. Engelberg, Ger- i man consular attache. The jury which had heard counsel | for Ernest Kehier contend he beati Dr. Engelberg to death December 5j alter the later made immoral ad-' vances in his Brooklyn home, reach-' ed its verdict last night in six hours j and 14 minutes. The boxer, who was caught in| Toronto two weeks after the killing,! stood frowning in defiance as Judge! (Continued on Page Three) Economy Blocs I n House Admit That Some of Prospective Senate Increases Will Be Upheld In the House Washington, March 12.—(AP)— Economy blocs reluctantly agreed with jubilant farm state members today that the House would uphold some of the prospective Senate in '.•rcase in farm appropriations. Although the billion dollar meas ure will not he debated iri the Son ate for several day-, it appeared likely that about S200,onr>,000 for parity payments w-nild be added. The House did not discuss the par ity issue when it approved the origi nal bill. The possibility of a parity fund ?et House members to bilking once more about a tax bill which they *aid would be mandator}' if other rconom'es were not effected and the •-latutory dr-bl limit of $4f>,000, 00*1.1)00 actually was reached. "You fellow's remember 'hat n vote- for these increases is the nnic as tiie vote for a tax bill," a Demo cratic member ol' the -ways and means committee privately advised five congressmen from his state. Representative Cannon. Democrat, Missouri, and Dirk^cn, Republican, Illinois, House appropriations com mitteemen, declared that the pro posed oaritv fund would yield farm ers only 75 percent of Ihf* purchas ing power of their 11)00-14 receipts "If' the Senate wants to have par ity why doesn't it appropriate the full S6nfl.000.fin() that would be re quired to achieve that?" Cannor asked. Inquiry Into Investigative Methods Asked Washington, March 12.—(AP)~ The Senate interstate commerce com mittee. charging violations of "th< most fundamental civil rights," todaj accused law enforcement agencies o: having "investigated and cataloguec persons who have committed nc crime but whose economic and po litical views and activities may b< obnoxious to the present incumbent: of law enforcement offices." The committee recommended tha the Senate order an inquiry into wir< tapping and sound recording devices the use of which it said "may leac to a variety of oppression that maj (Continued on Page Three) Soviet Gains On Isthmus Admitted I Stockholm Dispatch j Reports Finnish Dele gation Authorized to Sign Peace Treaty and Hostilities Will Cease Tomorrow. London. March 12.—(AP) — Ex change Telegraph (British news agency) reported today in a Stock holm dispatch that the Finnish dele gation in Moscow had been authoriz ed to sign a peace treaty. The dispatch quoted informed Stockholm sources as saying that the treaty would be signed tomorrow, the terms would be published then, and at the same time hostilities would cease. The British broadcasting company broadcast a message l'rom its Stock holm observer stating that an agree ment had been reached between Fin i land and Russia although no treaty j had been signed and terms of the I peace were not made public. London, March 12—(AP)—Reuters (British news agency) reports that .he Finnish radio stated at 3:25 p. m. (11:45 a. m. EST) that rumors of a peace agreement having been reach ed between Finland and Soviet Rus sia were unfounded. Helsinki, March 12. — (AP)—A 7innish official said tonight that par .iament, which must pass on any Lerms of peace with Soviet Russia, iicid not taken any action up to early Ihis evening. It was indicated that a secret session of parliament would be held later tonight or tomorrow. Officials, however, would not com ment on this possibility. The most common opinion among informed observers here was that some kind of honorable peace was in the immediate oiling. An official announcement was ex pected tonight or tomorrow to clarify the status of the 104-day old war in the north. Finland meanwhile disclosed that the Red army was prcssi.% further along Viipuri Bay, while peace nego tiations were under way in Moscow. Soviet attacks were repulsed •verywhere else excep't in the direc lion of Pali, cast of Viipuri, the high ■orr.mand conun'micuie said, recount ing successes on the ice - coated lanes and rivers of the isthmus front southeast ol Viipuri . Fifteen Rus.ian planes were said to have been shot down during yes I .eruay's lighting. The army's admission of some (Continued on Page Three) Blockade Is Defended Franco-British Repre sentatives Says Steps Taken Have Been Nccessary Washington, March 12.—(AI'J — Franco-British representatives here to wipe out difficulties arising from the blockade said today their nations ' were .so gravely threatened by Ger many that they could not afford to hamper the efficacy of the block ade. The experts, Frank Asbton-Gwat ■<ins and Charles Rift, added, how ever, that they hoped to smooth away some of the points which have created friction with the United ; States. "We believe we arc fighting not ■ I only for our own lives," they said in | a statement issued at a press con ference, "but for the whole future | of the western civilization. We cannot afford to take risks." Responding to questions, they list i ed as points included in week-long discus.1 ions in Washington: Ccnsor ■ ship of American mail, establish ; inent of a contraband control port in Canada, speeding up of examina tion of American ships bound for neutral countries, the effects of the war on direct trade between the United States and the allies and the question of navicerts, which are cer tificates attesting British approval ■ :>f certain shipments to neutrals.
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