North Carolina Newspapers

Ittrn&^rsoit ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORi n CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. \TY-SEVENTH YEAR LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF the associated press. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 30, 1940 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY entralChina overnment panese bayonets uCrv Proclamation oi e-Time Premier of ina s Nation a 1 i s t crnment, Who 0 W I3 Called Traitor M;>vch 30.—(AP>— y t;-0 ; ot" his •• o: . WVnu Ching-We? !; i'-io'I himself head of v* rumen! of China" • . ; mners of Nanking ' -loudy skie>. v..-: nationalist China's with Generalissimo -SN-k v as the polities! vpublie's founder. Dr. s v \ow his former as Wang "a despicable p'atform Wang re-id a • n ordering immediate the 33-months old war. W.itv; ^ot himself up as Cr Kai-Shek's gov - authority will actually y to areas controlled by Storms Kill At Least Eight In Louisiana :i. La.. March 30.—(AP) >torn> striking hardest in; > and c oiug into three! s .ler least eight per- ! r«d n; ihan 50 others' . e -'Ck aole property de .orday. devastating blow was • • isolated fishing village :.uadted population. Six! \vn dead at Pierrcpart. I were hurt and at least one, i • more, was missing. • rins oi varying intensity; :n many south Louisiana i;sturbances were also re 'oxa.;. Mississippi and Ala investigation Of 2 Percent Clubs Near End • -•■V. March 30.—(AP) — :i . ering. interna! revenue -aid today he expected y's income tax investiga iiana's "two percent clubs": •pcluried shortly. that there would be n1 ;nccmen? of the results: . iry which has been pro several months. • pei cent clubs" were Indiana several years ago. it t. line by reason of the • .te • : ployes are supposed! « : t«> Tin- Democratic state' • i.n two percent of their i<<! campaign purposes. FRKNTII BROADCAST i'aris. March 30.—(AP)—The '•■•■■•■isn office announced today Premier Paul Reynaud ■■m'd deliver a special broad t>i addressed to the Cnited "t.tb's at midnight tonight 6 p. • I. v. S. t.) r o Break In Coed Murder Griliing of Unmarried inspect Fails to Yield Any Clue In Pennsyl vania Case. • ' u >-ge, Pa.. March 30.— ('•: tiling of an unmarried n'.raetor through the long night apparently failed ingle clue toward solving i: h murder of 17-year-old Taylor. Pennsylvania State ' .*■ freshman. ::utor polire, who closed •heir Rockview prison bar II visitors during the more .urs thev grilled the su ly declined to disclose • i- of their inquiry, but Ivh.vard Miller reported no where he had been taken fvidence obtained was brought from Phila • on the tip of an alert ir "« who noted stains on his • ! heard hhn say !i<» had '■<! from St:>te Co'ieg?. For a New Crop of Heroes Anticipating a big crop of heroes when the war on the Western Front starts in earnest, the French government is preparing the laurels in advance. This man is varnishing some of the 500 Croix de Guerre medals and an equal number of the Medaille Militaire turned out daily at the Paris mint. (Central Press) Reciprocal Trade Plan Survives Test Senator Harrison Says "Th e Fight is Over", but Oppon ents of Trade Policy Declare They Will Fight for Other Amendments; R publicans Vote Solidly Washington. March 30.—(AP)— The reciprocal trade program, a fun damental administration policy and potential campaign issue, survived a crucial Senate test late yesterday when a three-vote majority killed an amendment to require Senate rati fication of trade agreements. Administration lieutenants, who considered the amendment a death warrant for the program, were jubilant over the 44 to 41 vote. Sen ator Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi, floor manager for the legislation ex tending the program three years, told reporters: •The fight is over now. I think we'll pass 1ho bill Tuesday." Foes of the trade policy made it| clear, however, that they wmuld keep , on lighting for other restrictive amendments. Senator Johnson. Dem ocrat. Colorado, held out "a dim hope that the bill itself will be de feated.*' Yesterday's vote found Republicans solidly for the ratification amend ment. They made it plain that they i would carry their fight to the elec- i torate and Republican leaders felt! they had goined political advantage! in presenting an unbroken front on the issue. Air Battle Over France British Report Two German Planes Shot Down and Another Disabled in Fight London. March 30.—CAP)—Two German Mess<.»schmitt fighting planes were shot down in flames and a bomber was disabled "by British, war planes in action over the Ger man western front lines yesterday, the air ministry announced today. (The German high command com munique mentioned only fights be tween German and French planes over the western front yesterday, in which it acknowledged that one Ger man pursuit plane was shot down while "three enemy planes were se riously damaged.") The British air force in France said the British planes which ac counted for the Messersch mitts had engaged "strong formations" of Ger man aircraft which crossed the al lied lines. It --aid that the bomber which was cuight v/hilo scouting was last seen "diving steeply into low clouds with one engine disabled." The air victory was in addition to the shooting down of a German plane off the English coast. Ten Georgia Klansmen Are Indicted Atlanta, March CO.—(AP)— Orfi- j j cers set out today to round up ten j j men named as Ku Klux Klansmen I : and charged by the Fulton (Atlanta) j county grand jury with two kid ] nappings and 23 Hoggings in a three j i year period of lash wielding. ! Two deputy sheriffs, both desig- • : mi ted in a grand jury subpoena as | i members of the Klan, were among ; those indicted in the jury's newest J thrust at night rider terrorism last: night. Seven others also were listed as j Klansmen of suburban East Point, home of Isaac Gaston, barbershop ! operator who died in a March 7 flogging. Dan Duke, assistant pros ecutor, said the tenth man was a Klan member from nearby Oakland City. None of the new indictments bringing to 12 the number under flogging charges, mentioned the barber's death. They charged seven of the ten men with one or the other of two | kidnappings and all with from two ! to 15 lashings ;.inee January. 1937. ' The flogging counts charged assault i | with intent to murder. | Deputies Herb Edion and Ed j Burdetto were named in two a.-, ault | counts each, and Edison also in one ' kidnapping count. Gubernatorial Campaigns Not Altogether Of Same Pattern D'lilv -.ureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March .10.- There ore many similarities in the type of cam paign being conduced by the iead •n *5 candidates for Governor of North Carolina, but there are also several differences which make them, on the whole, not entirely cut by the same pattern. All of the aspiring group are. of course, making every effort to or ganize their forces in the various counties: all are making speeches in numerable in an effort t<> get into all the hundred Tar Hee! counties be tween now and May 25: and all are professing the utmost optimism over their prospects. But observers can note some fun d- montn! differences. For instance headquarters for Lieutenant Gover nor W P. Horton seems bent on over awing the others and. perhaps, tin voter.-, v. ith a succcsj.. il of I announcements: while on the other hand A. •!. Maxwell's chief efforts along managerial lines seem to be directed at finding people who are "powerhouses" at home 1 hough their names may be completely unknown ; in the state at large. Running rather roughly over the j iist. and noting a few of the cam | paign characteristics of each: Broughton: Despite the attention , being gb-en (through St;ite Manager j Emery Denny) to >trictly organiza j tional work, the Rnieiuh attorney I ecms to be putting great reliance in j bis personal appeal and the impres sion he makes on visits to various j sections. (A^ witness the levees, so! j to speak, he held in Charlotte and I Asheville.) He is, on the surface at. | least, making no entangling alliances I with any factor -<r group. Even in his announcement |>_. rather point continued on Page Seven) Sec. Edison Ocean Navy Says Idea ot Separate Fleet For Atlantic "Not Only Unneces sary But Altogether Too Costly To Eve-». Consider". Tios Angelas, March 30.---(AP)— Secretary of flip N^vy C'v' • ' '• s-iid todny ho was opposed to the "two ocean" navy plan advo<• ■>tby sonic members "f Contra • K"e:ni "every sound strategical conclusion demands the niainionanee »>f Ilo^t as a smglc coordinated unit in the Pacific." "I Ihink the idea of building a separate fieri fur tho Allantif is not only unnecessa'.v l>iH altogether too costly to oven consider," .said Fdison in an interview. "We are now adding to the fleet in steady incn-a es in type1: and ;i proposal to build up the present fleet by ten percent seems sound to mo. "It should be realized that it would take more th. n ten year in dupli cate the present United Stales :leet." Diphtheria At Fort Bragg Fayeltcville, March 30.—(AP)— Post officials announced today that no leaves or passes would be grant ed soldiers at Fort Bragg until after the 5,000 men had been examined for susceptibility to diphtheria. The action followed discovery of 15 cases of the disease among the soldiers and three among soldiers' wive.-, and chil dren. Officials emphasized that there was no epidemic. Many Killed In Rumanian Siege Gun Explosion Bucharest, March 30.—(AP)—Ex plosion of one of Rumania's largest siege guns with a heavy toll of life during army maneuvers was report ed today. Authorities suppressed the report in Rumanian newspapers but a trainload of wounded soldiers was rushed to Bucharest from Dadilov, where the explosion occurred. Graham Being Pushed For Post With ICC Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March 30.—A tremendous effort is being made to land the vacant post on the Interstate Com merce Commission for Sandy Gra ham, of Hillsboro. North Carolina's Congressional do legation is solidly behind the pro posed appointment and the aid ol Governor Clyde- li. Hocy and other prominent State leaders has been enlisted . The vi. it of Congressman A. U. (Lt;n) Folder of the Fifth to Ra leigh this week \v;> devoted for the (Continued on Page Sevent Murdered Co-Ed Mutilated and lifeless, the body of Rachel H. Taylor (above), 17, Pennsylvania State College fresh man from Wildwood, N. J., was found on the road I '.e four miles from State College. Pa. Her skull was n u hed and her face disfigured by blows. Her clothins had been* stripped froiri the waist uj:. Britain Finds Hope For Improved Trade I In Molotoff Policy Where First British Chilian Died, in fr'azi Kaid First British civilian casualties of acrid war were suffered when Nazi bombing planes raiding Britsh fleet concentrations in Scapn Flow dropped bombs on crofters' eottages ;.icng the shores of the Flow in the Orkney I.s lands. One of the ruined cotiages attests the accuracy of the bobbers' aim. One civilian was killed and seven wounded. Nazi Press Looses Attack On America "Sensational Discov ery" of x411eged Polish Documents is Basis for Claim of Anti-German Diplomacy By Amen-, cans. I Berlin, March 30.—(AD—The 16 I documents which the German for-1 cign office published yesterday a::! "finds'' in the archives of the Polish foreign office were only "cheap j wine" compared with costly vintage:-, i yet to follow, an authorized German j soiircc assorted today. Citing iiu! Bible story of Jesus' comer, ion of water into wine, this: source observed: "Aniei iean statesmen must not go! out on a limb and try to put ye.s- j It rday's publication off with the re mark that these were after all the] opinion: ol Polish ambassadors to' what American policy is. "Remember how at Cana the , ruler of the feast complained to the bridegroom for keeping the best j wine until Ihe end. Maybe that's what we're doing." He furl her intimated that til • Ger man government v a.; in possession j of direct communications by Hi':; United States ambassador to Pari.-;, William C'. Bullitt, and others. l'r rWa. March 30.—(AP)—The , •n i'!!,-(l IV'azi pre s asserted today! (hat the ".en ational di. eovery" of j all «f<i P. ij ii d icmnents proved thai Unit', d Sta'es ofl"i<••!.11 had help- i < d in timate a'Ped plans "to fini h ' pai!"ir l s-]i t Germany through j war." American dnlomats were ac-1 cu ed < f playing "'an ominous role"' •p Pvv«>nr:-n affairs. Ce.tv-;ent op tnn d::euivivnt; whH> i the Germ-n foreign office said last! night haH been uncovered in 1he sec- ' re-t a revives of conquered Poland I pushed other news into the back-j *51*01 t>*' li e mo-'iing paper : bb m-j ed .Arvrie*»n diplomacy in great j measure outbreak of Ihe European conflict. German officialdom side st "P'V I: comment wi'h the assertion that thr dnern"i'>nts "cpea!-: for thenvelvoV but promised puMieation of addi tional o-aners- Healing with Ameri can foreirrn policy. Principal targets of the Nazi prr»-«s j hnrrape wre William C. Bullitt, j TTnit"d rrn^nwsidor to Paris: j Joenh P. Kennedy, ambassador to I London, ard ^nlhony J. Diddle. Jr.. I aivu- — <^< r to Poland. All three as well as President i Ron.-M-rii were mentioned in thei doenments. Holer's panel* sa'^ <Virep «prtl~rr",r»—f'»*~t of "11 n/rr. in ! Pprj^—":rt"pl]v ir<ade a no'nt of j hivov to «win£* Pie etill p^errsi^Tlv 1 ITnurn* ployn^rit in government toward aiootin* Polish (Continued on Page Five) Authenticity Of Documents Denied Washington, March 3D.— (AP) —Authenticity of documents produced by German officials as cvidcncc that "American policy" helped loose war on Europe was challenged cmphaticallv in ad ministration ouarters today. President Roosevelt declared that propaganda from Europe m"st be taken with a grain «f salt. Secretary of Stat;- Hull spoke bluntly. lie declared that the Stale dcpaitsr^nt nlncd rot "the sl«gM"*t eref^ner" in I'"* (•»»; vcrsations related in the Ger man white book and denied that the warlike attitod- they set forth represented "in any way" the country's foreign policy. Application >.o Revoke Appointment oi Eng lish Philosopher Up held by Coi'rt r.i-v: York. MilHi 30.—(AP) -- A ■ t-'U« npi' iii" court jn-tic" t-i'i.iy uii hcld the application of :i Prooklyn !;*ili ' for .'"'l order 1o v/ok" the •sppoinint'-nl of llrrlrssnd Russell as ;> professor ol nuithernnt'e nt the City Co!I'Me r I New York. .Fir tiff .Tnhn K. IVIcOreehnn term "i! I he rii)!)'? i-'trK-n' of Hi" English philosoub'T ,':i eir ir • in I'-r'-iiey,'' Appoiin - ! i ' I r "II. vhl.~!i is to have ' 1 I'oIj nary, r.-'ifed ■ n :»■ j• <ii-»tc slorm of uro •c.-i. Fvi: 'Mi l!-- on 1'-;" f.i'yr h; r.d h, his '• t' i nnr* (he con trover y ;i challenge to "academic freedom''. The court c;ise was brought ny Mrs. Jean Kay. whose high school (Contnucc! on Page Seven.' (jJcailin) FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and slightly ooler tonight; proceeded by t'lundershowers this afternoon; Sunday fair, mild temperature. C'TLOOK FOR THE 'VEEK. Fnir at beginning a".d near erd ef v.^«k; «hrw.?r d,.srhi,r riddle rcrict!; uor*£2l l.xn^'.raiJie. See End To 3-Cornered Axis Hopes Italian Government Sources Say Rome Berlin - Moscow Tri angle Not Possibility of Near Future. London, March 30.—(AP)—Brit ish observers toduy brushed aside Russian Premier Foreign Commissar Molotoff's harsh words about the allies and emphasized his neutrality declaration as ending any Nazi hope of a Rome-Berlin-Moscow axis. Some sources interpreted Molo toff's foreign policy review yester day before a joint session of the Su preme Soviet as throwing out broad hints that the Soviets wanted to re sume trade negotiations with Bri tain. Others, however, declared it fore shadowed a reshaping of Russia foreign policy on the theory th.v Germany would win the war. Russian sources here, meanwhile, stressed that Russia was not bound to Germany as an ally either by po litical or military obligations and wanted to improve her trade and friendly relations with Britain. ITALY STILL REMAINS "ANTI-BOLSHIVIK" Rome, March 30.—(AP)—A source close to the Italian government said today that Italy "remains anti-bol shivik" and insisted that a Rome Berlin-Moscow triangle was not a possibility of the near future. This was interpreted in foreign circlcs as indicating that if Hitler suggested a new friendship between Rome and Moscow in his meeting with Premier Mussolini, March 18, his proposal failed. Authoritative Italian sources sought to dispel reports current since the Brenner Pass meeting of a plan J to share control of the Balkans among Germany, Italy and Russia. Fascists attributed talk of a three cornered arrangement in the Balk ans to French propaganda. EquadorRevolt Is Put Down Ouilo, Kquador, March 30.—(AP) — The government announced today quick precautionary measures by the l>< 1 ir-e and army had forestalled a revolutionary plot timed for today. It said an attack against military barracks here had been scheduled for Ibis morning but the placing of ! soldiers and police in readiness to crush any upri ing kept it from taking place. The government statement said Ihe authorities knew the identity of the ringleaders and that a number of arrests arc expected. More Activity On West Front Par: . March 3-'i.—(AP)— French macnine gunners in ambush south of Saarbrueckrn cut down the advance guard of a German infantry attack, killing the German commanding of ficer; and several others, the war dep-'trtmmt communique said today. It said the Germans were sent cut yesterday under cover of a \ iolent barrage to attack the French flank, but that the ambush frustrat ed the maneuver. Greatly increasing German artil lery Pre west of the Vosges moun tains to the Saar river was intended ! to wipe out several small villages oc cupied by the French, but the French replied shell for shell. In this area, German rcconnois sance planes also were active, one bein.t- brought down by anti-aircraft .ire. On the French home front, the in terior ministry ordered the removal from Paris of several persons intern ed as "dangerous to the national dc | fense and public order". They were a d to be mainly communists. The Siviet ambassador who was Rfo-rmv at France's re quest ieft last night. There were no official farewells.