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Ittenitersnn Daily Hispatrb ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOKi n CAROLIN A AND VIRGINIA. ;KVENTH YEAR leased wire service of the associated press. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY ' AFTERNOON, APRIL 11, 1940 PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY <3? urchill Tells x * .it at X. * British Gains r R Plans Reorganization ft, v/ Setup \ M Save 1 $ a v -- ?j £ uitve department a: . several Independ encies Affected si lent s Propos er ^arrization. April II.- (AIM—A reorganization •o S3<H).noo an ■ ; "more effective ::cd to Congress t UtHWi'lt. <■ • the executive e . e:\il independent • • reorganization • -.i: ft .>y Mr. Roosevelt .it re\ i>i> ns in . .-etup: I Aeronautics an independent ■ t it. art : out of com - e:-.anuc the Presi . ••• abolition of the air .s Civil Aeronautics y. and merger of its e-;.gating airplane nct.ons of the civil • - Board. -: oi t*::the weather I ' < Agriculture dopart < C .nerce department. 4 •• • :o'd and drug ad rhe Agriculture t'ie Federal Security 1 • • : except for two acti - cie.ed closely related to — involving insecticides i tores. • ••. ring to the Interior! Agriculture those the soil conservation j •.••.i. to soil and moisture | <>n lands already un -diction of the Interior . - ordered today will within 6" days un- i a - >f Congress, each 1 d- v te. disapprove. ; lE dead, one is INJURED IN FIGHT 7 »i. C"V. April 11.—(AP). • i-..,--! provoked a gun three men and a wo led ; nd her >>>n critical- j southern Colorado mtointfd. .\pill II.—(AP) — Gover • r! ,y rt . ppointed D. S. \Vif;<.-n ti> a three-year • • board "t' examiners o utractors. expiring May Return united States Citizens ■n Scandinavia To Re ; i n Home V ia Genoa, Italy. April 11—(AP)—The • ■ .<-nt announced today M ■ :/.< d tilt- removal from ... Sweden and Denmark of w shing to return to States. ■ ■ ' cat decided to remove ' u to go, on an overland 411 Germany to Genoa, embarkation there on :,:i • hips. • !! -nip owners have as «"<opc.-ration, it was said. *:■ 11 : ent is communicating 'i : 1:.an government to ob ,1' : i-sion. An ofiicial ■ • paftmrnt did not believe : be any question about department listed 1067 732 in Sweden and 552 -a total of 3.271—as of went out from Wash : -A'4 to American dip '•ntatives in the three tcting them as to the 7.1-ngenthau promised ;tate "legitimate busi ":ons" involving Norway whose funds in the ' •'< were impounded yes ;!tive order of Presi As Nazi Troops Occupied Unresisting Denmark German Uv'ps ; rc jhov.n occupying a bridgehead in an unnamed city in Denmark during liie surprise coup • that made Denmark a German ••protectorate." This photo, issued by the German propaganda bureau, is lirs; ' one t > show trie actual occupation ui the invaded coun-lry.—Radiophoto. Senate Committee Approves Large Appropriation For Navy Bergen Said Recaptured F rom Germans Stockholm. April 11.—(AP)— A radio mossag? Iron; the Norwegian commander ai Bergen today reported ti»itt .-eaport had been recaptured from tlto German invaders. Reports pouring into Sweden said the Norwegians were blasting bridges to make German advances difficult and to cut off German force- already in possession of Norwegian territory. The president of the Norwegian parliament. C'arl J. Harnbio, an nounced that Norway's northern forccs now are cooperating fully with British forces 'irist the German in vasion. Hambro. who is in Stockholm on an undisclosed mission, made the an nouncement after communicating with the Norwegian government, which has established headquarters at fclverum. A German advance eastward from Narvik, norihern Norwegian port, al ready has been repulsed and Mama!-, for a time seat of the government, recaptured. Hambro said. Hambro added that German forces near Hamar had been isolated from other contingents except lor com munication by air. GERMANS FIND U. S. PLANES IN NORWAY Berlin. April 11.—(AI*)—Ger man troops who occupied Oslo were said today to have stum bled upon 50 new American C urtiss planes. The shipment of pianos, in formed quarters said, arrived in Oslo only a week ajro and had not been completely assembled as yet. High Point Woman Gofmits Suicide In Washington, i). C. j Washington. April 1!.—(AP)—A young woman identified as Dorothy • Sschnault, 27. of High Point. N. C. J was found shot to death early today j in her apartment. I Police said a revolver was clutch ! ed in one of her hands. The identi l fixation was made by Terry Moy, Chinese cook who to'd reporters he climbed ;i fire escape and entered the apartment through a window ; and discovered the body, j Coroner A. Mngruder RT'cDonald t i cued a certificate of iuivide. Four German Troop Ships Stockholm. April 11.— (AP)—Ad-| vices from Marstrand, Swedish west coast port, said today that four of a! column o! t'.n German troop ships! were believed to have been sunk. These reports said another trans-J port was burning and that a sixth was severely damaged. Some survivors were reported re- | melted by vessels which remained at the scene before scattering toward the north. Two ships apparently seeking haven later entered Marstrand with troops aboard according to this in formation. One of them was under escort of a Swedish warship. Convict Negro! In Murder Case i j Kaleigh. April 11.—(AP)— Fred Jenkins. 21-year old Negro, drew an eight to 15 year prison sentence from I Judge C'lawson Williams today in the l-nii'e slaying of William Henry Monk, 25. of Goldsboro. last October 21. The Wake superior court jury con-| vie ted .Jenkins late yesterday and at1 the same time acquitted Sylvester! Kvans. 2..'-year old Negro, of blame! in the fatal stabbling. • f Charlotte Held Charlotte. April 11.—(AP)—Poiicej ; arrested six men today at the plant ! •of the .Nebel Knitting Company,! j where a strike in protest to a pro- j posed wage cut is in progress. A police report said that when E.; J B. Culhbertson. vice president of the : j firm, stopped his automobile at the; j gate, men swarmed around it and! " tilted it and apparently were on the J I verge of overturning it when of ! ficers arrived. | Then a brick was thrown, strik ! ing the car and shattering a window.; (j)&cdthsLh FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Increasing: cloudinrss and war- I mer: thunders!?ewers in west and north central portions tonight. ! Colder in interior. Much colder Fri;la' uijU. Sum Is Stiii Far Below Roosevelt's Budget Es timates and Less Than Amount Freviously Voted By House. Washington, April 11.—(AT)—The1 Senate appropriations committee stamped approval today on a $963,- I 797.478 outlay lor the Navy in the! fiscal year beginning July 1. Large as it was. the sum still was | $!2o.514.099 under President Roose-J volt's budget estimates and $1,981, 9(>0 below the amount previously vot ed by the House. Increasing conlract authorizations by $15,000,000, the committee opened the way fur the Navy to acquire 471 new warplanos during the year, to bring its aircraft strength up to 3, 023 planes by July 1, 1941. A move by Sum lor Lodge, Repub lican. Massachusetts, to force the Navy to spend in the next fiscal year all of the $41,000,000 in appropria tions ;md $2.i,0(V).ono in contract au thorizations allocated in the bills for' air craft was defeated by a 10 to 7| vote. Lodge's amendment, designed to | prevent intei ferenec by foreign pur-J chases with Navy plane deliveries, was opposed by administration load ers. The Senate committee failed to re store the $8,300.0110 reduction eifeet ed by the Hou: e, making only $1, 000 available to start work on! two new 4f>,000-lon battleships, but! disagreed with the House committee j (Continued on Pace Three) REYNAUD REPORTS 13 GERMAN SHIPS SUNK Paris, April 11.— (AP)— Pre mier Rcynaud today declared that 18 German shi^is. including four crufcers, had been sunk in the naval battles in Norwegian wotcrs in which the allies lost only four vessels. West Front Assault Feared Paris, April 11.— (AP)—Formal' advice to the French to be prepared! for possible heavy fighting on the! western front was issued today by j military authorities and circulated to newspapers by the semi-official. Havas news agency. "The events in north Europe should not lead us to forget our front be- ! tween the Moselle and Rhine," the statement said. French pursuit planes shot down two German scouting planes when they attempted to approach Paris early this morning, it was reported. Nazis Deny Any Great j Sea Battle Germany Is Steadily Tightening Her Grip on Norway, They Con tend, and Is Defying Allies To Loosen Her Held. Berlin. .April 11—(AP)—Nazi Ger many is tightening hrr list of iron on Norway, authorized Ger mans contended today, and is defy ing the allies to loosen her hold. "German positi »ns throughout Nor way are so thoroughly consolidated," these sources asserted, that ihere is not the remotest possibility they world he dislodged by English and Fu nch !arces. 'i'hey pictured a steady stream of G.'jnsvn : ')l*i>er.» bring transported to lii" northern kingdom to strengthen the lore? kindod Tuesday. Authorized sources then made the mo. i c.ite^ rlc-d denial of reports of an "\l; n Jvo sea battle. "In oniy two pi aces did the Ger man air fcrc^ have encounters with ihe British fleet," they said, "but re port; of a clash of maior forces of Ine npvy are wholly unfounded.'' "Uur tiansports continued crossing the Skuggerrak unmolested until the (Continued on Page Tiiree) Two British Vessels Sunk Berlin, April 11.—(AP)—Ger man naval forces last night sunk two more allied destroyers at the west fjord approach to Narvik, the official German news agency reported today. The agency said the newest sinkings brought to six the total of allied destroyers sunk in the Narvik region. The agency did not say wheth er the newest losses had been in flicted by aircraft or shore bat teries. LEGATION AT OSLO RESTORES CONTACTS Washington. April 11.— (AP) — The American legation at Oslo, Norway, has broken through the wall of silrnce separating it from the State department for nearly two days and announced that all Americans there are well so for as known. Norse Puppet Head IVT;ijor Vidkun Quirlm*, (above). liCcsd of the Norwegian Nazi parly, (o;med n now N«Twogi«n Sov ornnirnt, accnrd*:n«* to F.nlin, suc crrdlr.f Premier .Tn'nnn M.vRnards vHd. The nrw p* iriet government i yiio.'l ;» prorlumjition, shvs Berlin, rr>!!in^ v<-n" •» * resist ance to the German invasion. Long Sought "Go Ahead'? Signal Given For Purchase of Latest Type Planes. i Washington, April 11.—(AP)—As Europe's war blazed to its fiercest heights today the Franco-British al lies got the long-sought "go ahead" signal for the purchase of an armada ' of the latest type American fighting | planes. Simultaneously, the Navy, with : one eye on the explosive situation ! abroad, decided to expedite the con i struction of ten new warships with i out delay. In Congress opposition ap ; peared against proposed reductions in the fleet building program. The war department cleared the ' allied way yesterday by rclasing for ! export three of the newest pursuit i ships all credited with speed of 400 ' miles an hour or better. i The action promised an end to the ! allied delay in placing an estimated i one billion dollar order for about , 8.000 American military pianos and ; 13,000 engines. The contracts had i been held up because the allies claim ed that anything but the latest type ■ planes would bo outclassed by the , enemy by the time delivery would be made. Gubernatorial Candidates Continue Efforts To Stir Public Interest In Campaign Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY HENRY AVERILL. Rnlciy-i, /vpnj 11.—Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P. Horton today declared his intention "to deai fair ly i;iiri equitably with ail groups jnd interests in the state." Mayor Thomas E. Cooper of Wilmington expressed the opinion he will sweep the east. Headquarters for Allen .J. Maxwell added new cogs to their organization Machinery. The other candidates continued to make such hay as the political sunshine seem ed to permit. The half-dozen hopefuls found themselves faced with more than ordinary competition for the front page play they all covet so strongly. In fact they leund themselves sadly 'lUf'rn" in their hid for public at tention by the series of spectacular events in the European war. Never theless they kept trying. In his speech before the Gastonia notary Club today, the Lieutenant Governor spoke with gratification over "the splendid progress which has be'.n made in the great program of public service under the wise and a He leadership of Governor Clyde R. Hoey in North Carolina.'' Jn that connection he held "human ization of our laws and of our Stat? activities" to be a large factor. Diver:-if c?tion. agriculturally and otherwise, .was cited as desirable, but crtton was characterized as "a major and very essential commod ity."' In "the normal and profitable development of the textile industry and the economic well-being of our St-ito" the speaker finds intimate relationship, he added. Pka-ure was voiced hecau.e of "the friendly relation and th® con ceit of action prevailing among ou: various industrial, agricultural, com mercial, professional and other groups." J If maintained that "it i.; illegal to assume tliat one particular group should advance at the e:< ptn.-e of some other group or groups." It is his purpose, he con tinued, "to deal fairly arid equit ably with all groups and interest. ! ill the State." "It is imperative thai we secure maximum service at minimum costs [ said Mr. Horton. "This is absolute | ly nece.-sary in order lor us to achieve genuine economy of govern ment, a principle in which I believe with all my heart." Horton was invited to address the Rotary Club by State Senator J. II. Separk of Gastonia, who was named a Horton campaign worker some weeks ago. Tom Cooper took time out from his sound-trucking to drop your re porter a line expressing the utmost confidcnce in the progress of his campaign. In characteristic vein he wrote: •'I am telling you in fill frankness and with the "bull' tied outside, that if this election were to be held to day just in the East I would br nominated the first day—there would be no second primary. I know I have some work to do in the west and will put it over in good shape." Maxwell headquarter-' announced a committee in charge of their Cher okee campaign—R. T. Heaton. wholesale grocer of Andrews; A. W. Mclver of Murphy, former chair man of the county commissioners: and G. W. Cover of Andrews, who had the distinction of being the (Continued on Page Three J Says German Naval Losses Are Heavy Hitler Has Made Great Strategic and Political Error, Churchill Tells House of Commons; Danish Islands Occupied. London, April 11.—(AIM -- The poundinu guns of Britain's iuimi-u' war and bombs bursting f r< u 11 swarming warplanes have crippled the German Meet and sent the allies on the road "to victory in a world cause," Winston Churchill told the house of commons today. The first lord of the admiralty put German sea losses at about 18 ves sels—four of them cruisers—but ad ded to Britain's sorrow with news of the loss of the destroyers Glowwor worm and Gurkha. "We have greatly gained by what I has occurred in Scandinavia and I northern waters in the strategic and I military jense." he said. "Hitler has made as great a sira j tegic and political error as Napoleon I when he invaded Spain." | Churchill said that "we have not re.jccupied Norwegian ports." Ho told the house of commons that the Norwegians "in their wild and mountainous country" should be able to maintain "vigorous and prolonged resistance" against the German in vaders. "If the Norwegian government had not been so very strict and severe in enforcing her neutrality against us," ■ he said, "it would have been very easy to give them more timely aid and more support than is now pos sible.'" He charged that the German in vasion had been "long and elaborate ly prepared." Britain is occupying Denmark's Faroe islands, midway between the Shetland Islands and Iceland, Churchill said. He said that Faroes would be handed back to Denmark when she is liberated from "the foul thraldom into which she had been plunged by German aggression." He announced that the destroyer j Glowworm apparently had been lost : Monday morning off the Norwegian i co*»st in a battle. A very heavy bomb fell on the bat tleship Rodney but her decks, | Churchill said, "resisted it". He said the cruiser Aurora was : attacked unsuccessfully five times i while "the destroyer Gurkha ac.com i panying her was hard hit and sank." "The de ln.yer Zuku rank a Ger i man U-boat oil' the Orkneys" the | first lord disclosed. BRITISH CLAIM 19 NAZI PLANES DOWNED I.owlon. April 11.— (Al1)— Tiir ;tir ministry announced to day that 19 German aircraft have born destroyed hy British war planes since Sun.'lav and that the r9.v:«l air for -e lias li»st only six in that period. Soviets Move Into Odessa Heavy Concentration of Troops Near Ru manian Border Cause New Concern. Bucharest, April 11.—(AI') Large ! numbers of Soviet Russian troop re inforcements were reported today to I have been moved into the Odessa re ! gion. Odessa, on the Black S"a, lies ! about 25 miles from Rumania Be I sarabia border. j The reports reaching this capital i from the frontier region could not be | confirmed on this side of the border. Russia lost Bessarabia to Rumania in the post war territorial changes j and has never renounced her clam I to it. The advices pictured the Russian forces as veteran troops. Meanwhile, the Rumanian govern ment issued a decree that all national defense factories must immediately store supplies for use in case of gen eral mobilization. Supplies must be sufficient for 15 days, the decree said. The government issued a formal denial of what it called "wild re ports" that three German-bound Danube river freight boats had been unk by explosions. The freely expressed fear in the (Continued on Three)
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