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Hetutersmt Daily Uispatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOR'l H CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. \ !'V-SEVE5jTH YEAR LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 28, 1940 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY Sees Better British-Jap i elations .ish Ambassador to an Expresses finite Feeling of .tidence In Fut : Announces Hol to America. • eh l!T.— (AD—British Sir Robert Leslie a surprisingly concilia* p:vd!ct"d today an im • • in relations between •.d Japan. ::af.Mis. he said, "ulti -• \ -v.; for the same ob t v .1 lasting ??eaee and 1 ,;r institutions from - :nvr>ive influences." ve t ne he announced dy Craigie would l^ave • r.. March 28.—(AP) ' «> the State depart ed surprise today at <y • that Britain's am .' o; n had declared that •is w ere striving for the i'etiv e. .v v :.< no official com •Mrrr.ed observer drew •he disparity between dec! ;tiiand one de • .\:. er'can ambassador •st-ph J. Grew, iast Oc t'r.en told the Japanese n: adventure and the : of American rights •• resented by the Amer •bserver speculated on •;. n might be trying to • v- Russia's assistance to • : a est ions were raised: \>s should authorize the :.\r.-go on the shipment ••• ils to Japan, where, stand on the matter? :ain tending to condone <:i ot China and thereby e suuport of Americans meed it? ^ for a two and one halt :) to the United State- on *••• holiday." assador spoke to a dis-i :d;ence at a luncheon of ".-British society. , n mind the declared in the Japanese govern ::ie measure of succes- at . :..eved. I have a definit" . confidence in the future - Japanese relations" he de e: there was "room for sat . r. the thought that the in . ci sense of our two nations 1 - prevented animosities of} .'nt from hardening into * .ted resentment or pcrman ..ngement." Darkley To Favor Limit March -3.—(AP)— d amendment to the Hatch • bill forbidding a national! ! committee to spend more. - >jii)0 in any campaign won; * " day from Senator Bark ley. jonty leader. • ■" should not be any real ob-^ •• that plan because it would. to b«»th sides" he told re-' •vndrr.'-nt by Representative j democrat. Pennsylvania,! • -id expenditures of both the! .(-in and Democrat national' U't" below the 1936 levels. No Probe Of Plane Sales | I i Senate Military Af fairs Committee Votes Against Formal In vestigation. i ngton. March 2o.—(AP)— Senate military affairs commit .'(d 5 to 4 today against con ' u a formal investigation of ?ny plane sales to France and -• itain. • decision followed categorical !roi:i War department offi *.hat such sales had interfered •iy way with production for armed forces. rii:itn Sheppard, Democrat, said he believed all of the used Senator LaFollette, -:ve. Wisconsin, in a resolu '•ouesting the investigation had . >wered satisfactorily in a ••-.-ion by Secretary Woodrmy Assistant Secretary Johnson. l; those voting against report • resolution to the Senate was '?»•> noid > ol \orth Carolina. Testing World's Deadliest Bomb at Baltimore C. P. Phoncpliotoa Thi> terrific blast resulted when what is claimed to be the world's deadliest bomb was tested bctoie naval *nd military experts at the Glenn L. Martin proving grounds near Baltimore, Md. At right, Lester Barlow, inventor of the explosive, i.* shown setting the charge of the liquid oxygen-carbon bomb. George Declares Trade Pacts Might Be "Vitally Necessary9 Freeze May Be Helpful To Peaches Raleigh. March 28.—(AP)—Wintry weather over "last week-end "spot damaged" the North Carolina peach crop but the freeze might prove help ful for a high quality fruit. Randali Etheridge. chief of the agriculture department market division, said to day. "From reports received from the peach belt." Etheridge said, "the red bird variety, trees planted in low areas r.nd weak trees were hard hit. However, the crop was very heavily budded and. generally speaking, the freeze might have proven helpful as it furnished a good thinning." Prospects from strawberry produc tion in both the Eurgaw. Mt. Olive, and Tabor City areas were lowered somewhat as the light bloom and the few formed berries were killed out right. Etheridge said. The damage will also delay opening of the mar ket until about the last of April. Calls Made For Bank Statements Washington, March 28.—(AP)— The comptroller of the currency is sued a call today lor the condition of all national banks at the close of business Tuesday, March 26. Raleigh, March 23.—fAP)—Bank Commissioner Gurncy Hood today called for a report of the rendition of all state banks as of the close of business Tuesday. March 26. J. M. Peace To Aid Broughton K;ileift'i. Ma> xh 28.--J. Merrill Pcacf <>! Henderson has boon ap pointed Vance county manager of J. M. Broughton's campaign for gover nor. it was announced today by E. B. Denny of Gastonia, State manager for Broughton. Mr. Peace is an outstanding law yer in Vance county. A former law partner of Arthur A. Bunn. he has served his county as a member of the House of Representatives and is chairman of the Democratic execu tive committee. Infant Found Murdered Philadelphia. March 28.—(AP) — The mutilated body of an infant git was found today in a cellar coal bir after the mother discovered her chilc was missing from a crib. The head of Beatrice Menichiella three weeks old. hud been severed from her body. The head and bod> were placed in a burlap bag. A new ly cleaned kitchen knife was found in the kitchen. Just before dawn. Mrs. Menichiel la groped for her daughter's crib and found it empty. Her screams awoke neighbors who joined police in s search of the premies which resulted in the discovery. Georgia Senator De fends Reciprocal Agreements As "Only Step Taken'' Looking to Readjustment of World Trade. i Washington, March 2C.—(AP)— Senator George, Democrat. Geor gia, told his colleagues today that ! the administration reciprocal trade program might become "vitally ne I eessarv" to protect American inter ests during rapidly changing condi tions abroad. The Georgia senator, devoting | most of his Senate address to a dc I fense ot' the program's constitution , alitv. declared also that ,:it is the | only step taken by any great com . mercial nation during this hectic pe ' riod looking to the read.ji:Hmcnt of ■ world trade on anything like a:i j equitable basis." Administration leaders hoped to : obtain a vote tomorrow on an amendment by Senator Pitt man, : Democrat, Nev ada, to subject trade agreements to Senate ratification. Both sides in the fight, which began on the floor Monday, conceded that the vote would be extremely close. Other developments in Congress today: The Ho'ise reaffirmed it« decision | of yesterday to increase President i Roosevelt's recommendation for next year's NY A activities from S85. 000,000 to 8102,450.000. The deci sion came on a 162 to 144 teller vote. However, the economy forces in j the House will be permitted to as!; i for still another vote—a roll call vote —later. * 4 1> r» UnlK'O «slhr tl 1 tl^rl down a request by Representative I Tabcr, Republican, Now York, to i slash the fund to $45,000,000. An outstanding trend pointed up in the House was Congress' switch from an attitude of economy to <»no : of election year spending. Girl Student Is Murdered i Pennsylvania State College Co-ed, Brutal ly Attacked, Found Slain Today. | State College. Pa.. March 23.— (_,\P)—a freshman girl student at the Pennsylvania State College who had been brutally attacked was found slain today in the driveway of the Lemont consolidated school near here. State Motor Patrolman James G. Griffith said the victim had been identified as Rachel Hutchinson Tay lor, about 16. a student in the home ; economics department at the college, I and a resident of Wildwood. N. J. Griffith said the girl apparently I arrived at State College by bus early ! today after spending the Easter va j cation at her home. Ho expressed belief she had met someone at the ! bus station because she had never j checked in at the dormitory. Most of the clothing had* been torn j from the girl's badly mutilated body. ! She had been beaten on the head and ! death apparently resulted from a j fractured skull, he added. Bruises and wounds covering the i body. Griffith said, bore testimony | to the mistreatment the girl had rc ; ceived. Many Planes ! Delivered To Allies \ Washington, March 28.— (AP)— American aircraft plants, an official report disclosed today, have deliver ed about 1.600 warplanes to French j and British lighting forces in thei last H month.s and arc rushing pro-j duction on 2.700 more. These initial European war con-J tracts were generally regarded as the; forerunners of a 'urge scale allied; program for the purcnase of an ad-i ditional 0,000 .- hips at an estimated i cost of one billion dollars. Aviation spokesmen, after confer-! ring with army and navy officials, voiced confidence that aircraft plants, could handle 'he expected heavy in crease in foreign buying. They predicted also that the big: buying program would materialize! quickly in view of the war depart-1 ment's decision to permit the export j of latest model American military) craft. Hs.ietofore. the allies have] beeslow to place additional orders,} contending that anything but the! latest planes would be obsolete by the time mass deliveries were made. Secretary of War Woodring ex plained the new export policy to the House military committee yesterday and the arrangement won its genera/ approval. Mrs. Fiermonte, Socialite, Dies At Palm Beach i i Palin IV'iich. F'la.. March 27—(AP) j —Socially prominent Mrs. Madeline } force Astor Dick Fiermonte, whose j first husband, Col. John Jacob Astor, i lost his life in the Titanic sinking of I M)12, died at her winter home early I today of ;i heart ailment. She was > 47 years old. The wealthy society woman cre ated a sensation when she married En/.n Fiermonte. an Italian boxer, November 27. 1933, in a New Yont hospital where she was a patient. The marriage ended in divorce at : Palm Beach June 11, 1938. Shortly after her graduation fmn : ;i New York finishing school Mrs. I Fiermonte—then Miss Madeline I Force—married Astor at his home in I Newport, R. I. 1 hey were returning to America ! frcn Europe in 1912 when the Ti : tantic struck an iceberg and sunk. | Mrs. Fiermonte was saved. Death Plot Disclosed I j New York, March 20.—(AP)—Dis i trict Attorney William O. O'Dwyer j disclosed today that gunmen seeking to silence two prize informers in the investigation of murder, inc., intend to assassinate them in their Manhat tan hotel. The Kings county prosecutor said Ihe mobsters had taken a room di rectly across the courtyard wall from the quarter.-; where Abraham Lavine and Tony Massetore had been held j lor questioning and planned to shoot them through the windows. Britain And France Agree Not To Make Peace Individually Li'ie iiiitiSh Bomber! ttrt-n by iNeifrer Ji ursuit riaiie; German rlane Shot Liown Off Northeast Least of Scotland London, March 27.—(AP)—Brit! i. h fliers shot uown a German war-| plane today oil tiie nonhca.'t coasi ! 01 Scotland, but acunow lodged the1 io...s oi two of tneir own—one to1 fliers oi tne neutral Netherlands— ' duj-iOt the nignt in : coutmg liignts., Keuierlands pursuit planes ma-1 chinc-^unned a iiritish bomber eaily | today o\-er Netherlands territory, an ! Amsterdam communique announced, j and .ent it down in flames south- i west of Rotterdam. One of tne crew jumped to his I death, but the remaining four stayed ! wiin tne ship and escaped being1 bin iied. Netherlands ?authorities j said they would be interned. The other of the two British air- j cratt which the air ministry report ed failed to return from "extensive • reconnoissance flights ovr north- J west Germany" was reported shot down over Helgoland. (The German high command's i communique said the Germans them selves accounted for two British planes. It said German pursuit planes shot down a British bomber at Helgoland while during the night another was shot down bv anti-air craft fire and a portion of the crew captured. (Meanwhile the official Gorman news agency quoted an authorita tive source as denying a British re port that at least five German planes were shot down yesterdav). Dozenberg Is Sentenced New York, March 28.—(AP)— j Nicholas Dozenberg, one-time Soviet i army intelligence agent, was sen-! tenced to a year and a day in federal i prison today on his guilty plea some weeks ago to an indictment charg ing use of two passports obtained by fraudulent statements. Federal Judge Samuel Mandel baum rejected the recommendations of U. S. Attorney John T. Cahill that Dozenberg be sentenced to two and one-half years alter Dozonberg per sonally made a plea for an oppor- j tunity to "tyke my place in American society ys a loyal and patriotic American citizen." Scandinavian Policy Of Allies W atched! Berlin, March 27.—(AP)—The Al lies' attitude toward the neutrality of Norway and Denmark, whose ter ritorial waters provide Germany a tea lane from the north, is being watched with "the most profound i attention," authorized German! sources said today. They taid the Reich was reckon ing with the possibility that the I western powers "might assume the j light to police territorial waters" ol : the northern nations in view of a statement issued in Paris Inst night. Informed quarters left no doubt such a step would be met by Ger- | man counter measures. The semi-official French news I agency Haves, in a statement outlin- j ing the Allied attitude toward neu- ; trals, made a sharp distinction be tween active and passive neutral ! nations. j It said recent activity of British j warships off Jutland was due to "the passive attitude" ol "certain! neutral governments" permitting Germany to carry on a regular "war traffic." The allies intend to police "doubt ful" neutral waters, the statement; declared. The German press echoed a state- ! ment today in Hitler's newspaper I that the western powers "probably j still hope in this wi*e after the fail ure of intrigues in Finland to make a battlefield of the -./hole north." ' /ebruarv Traffic Toil Is Heavy! Chicago, ?/Iarch 23.—(AP)— Feb ruary. s'k rt in d\v •, wu- long in traf fic deaths this year. The national isnfoly council report •d there were 2.17:' d~ 1,r> in Feb ";iry, a ten percent increase over Lr ..-ruary. l!)o9. Not since March. 1!)37, h s any month shoun so sharp an upward iii nd in highway fa tali lies. Traff.c deaths for Hio li 1 .t two' months of ID40 totaled 4,8 ;■» com-j ;» red wslii 'i.aTi in ti,: •"•mij months* >1 11)30, a five perc'i! ii.nca e. IS ritam talis EnvcysHome; R e p r e s crn tahves to iiaikan Countries To Report Early In April ior Conference. London, March 27.—(AP)—The Biitish ambassador to Tin key and1 mini.>u.rs to Bulgaria. Greece. Ru-, mania, Hungary and Yugoslavia have been recalled for consultation with foreign secretary Lord Halifax. | The move, which was interpreted ! as foreshadowing a British diplo matic offensive in the Balkans, was j announced by the foreign office' news department as coming from "authoritative sources." The envoys are expected to arrive in England early next month, when the British ambassador to Rome also I is expected in London. Authoritative sources said "the only thing possible to infer at the moment" from the announcement • was that Lord Halifax wished to 1 confer with men on the spot about German and Russian "economic and diplomatic offensives in the Balk- 1 ans." Great Britain and France are ar ranging immediate consultations on means of intensifying the war j against Germany and on what status ■ to assign Soviet Russia in the con- j ilict. The Russian question was brought into sharper perspective by the re call from Paris of the Sov iet am bassador and the British detention i of two Russian ships in the Farj East. No Comment | From Welles i President's Fact-Find er Returns From Euro pean Tour and De-; clines Discussion. M~w V'M-b. MarHi 2« CAP) - Sumner Welles, sent to Europe on j ;m exhaustive fact-finding tour for; President Roosevelt, returned today! to report in person to the Chief Exe cutive on conditions in that war-torn ; continent. Affable, but silent as usual on his j highly confidential mission. Welles was to entrain immediately for Washington. Tho undersecretary of state, guard- | ing closely the information gathered j in conferences in Italy, Germany, j France, and Great Britain, arrived on the liner Conte di Savoia. These conferences contributed the bas'c facts in his report: An hour-and-a-half talk with Chancellor Hitler. It had been nearly two years since an American ambas sador had last seen him. A discussion with Premier Mus solini in Rome. Long and private discussions with Former Premier Daladier in Paris end with Prime Minister Chamber lain in London. Welles' answer to virtually all questions was "no comment." He steadfastly declined to discuss or comment on any of the personal ities with whom he conferred in Eu rope. "I had every opportunity given to me to get the information lor which I was sent", he said. (OfwdksLh FOR NORTH C AROLINA. Mostly cloudy, probably scat tered showers, slightly warmer tonight, followed by colder in the 'mountains. Also Agree On Alliance After Peace Decisions Reached at Sixth Meeting of Su preme War Council, Attended by Reynaud and General Gamelin in London. London. March 28.—(AP)—The British and French governments agreed today that during the present war they would neither negotiate nor conclude an armistice or treaty of peace except» by mutual agree ment. This decision was taken at the sixth meeting of the allied supreme war council for which France's new premier, Paul Reynaud, came to London, accompanied by the allied gr nerali.ssimo, Maurice Gamelin. The allied war leaders also agreed, said a communique,' not to discuss peace terms before reaching com plete agreement on the conditions necessary to insure effective .and lasting guarantees of security. Finally, they agreed "to maintain after the conclusion of peace com munity of action in all spheres," the communique declared. German Sub Is Interned Oslo. March 28.—(AP)—A Ger man submarine which became stranded in Norwegian waters was interned with its crew today at the port of Mandal on the southern tip of Norway. A Norwegian ship towed the sub marine into harbor. The German minister to Oslo ask ed that the submarine and crew be freed 011 the grounds that the ves sel took refuge in territorial waters because of bad weather and engine trouble. The Norwegian admiralty ruled after an inquiry that the submarine wait stranded due to an error in navigation and that engine trouble resulted. Powers Cited ForCGntempt Pittsburgh Communist is Second Cited Re cently By Dies Com mittee. Washington, March 28.—(AP;— The Dies committee voted today to rite George Powers, Pittsburgh com munist lender, for contempt for his failure to answer questions and pro duce communist party records. The committee's action came at. the conclusion of a hearing at which Powers had refused flatly to give the committee names of communist party members on the ground that "you're trying to blacklist our peo ple in industry." He was the second communist against whom such action was tak en in the last few days. Previously Chairman Dies recommended to House Speaker Bankhead ths't con tempt proceedings be started against James H. Dolsen, another Pittsburgh man, who balked at questions Mon day. Powers, husky, Russian-born man told the committee that he had not brought with him to the hearing rec ords which he had been asked to produce. Powers had been called by the committee investigating un-Ameri can activities to shed what light he could on issuance of a communist party card bearing the name "Frank lin D. Roosevelt." It was in connection with this card that Dolsen had refused to ans wer committee questions. The Powers hearing, however, threw no light upon issuance of the card or persons responsible for it. Powers said he had been an offi cial of the communist party in North Carolina in 1929 while residing at Charlotte und Winston-Salem.
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