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"Utenitersntt UaUy Bispatrfi 'V-I KYENTH YEAR ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. leased wire service of the associated press. '• " * — *** i-iX v A XJXJIUlli-Jiy XA1 — — HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 15, 1940 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY Expansion Of Navy Urged iral Stark Says nsion Would e vV holehearted joi t Of Navy; nittee Hearings tb Most News. April lf>. - (AD — ■ it tees took over , mi I'apitol Hill in '«• : l>y a suggestion Democrat. Marv < navy expand its :i -i percent, t Admiral Harold R. al operations, at Senate naval eom -~t»;i5.000.00() navy • ould not be still i Stark, responded, e our wholehearted r . ;■ i*sident of the As ■ can Railroads, told I ;"<ly committee that i "aId be justified in annually for j •, nt The industry | il. said, if the gov- ; : provide ;t equality . ■ v.: th other forms of tiie Patman bill to • - : • cl a House sub • cr. iin stores should ■ .hat they provided hosiery, vege ^ products and • e S. nate was a bill lum ber of federal Wallace Asks AAA Changes . April 15. — (AP)— .iv asked Congress .• J! nor modifications : ><;:-am. partly to meet " that the AAA act was too . modifications are .t one would permit to .. -.vers, wno voted over marketing quotas approve those limita :e than one year at a Mrs. Burleson Is indicted S. C\. April 15.—(AP) . '.Vainer Burleson, mem ment Galveston. Tex., indicted today bv the .'y grand jury tor the "t the second wife of • : -band. WaJlaceTo Urge Issues mocratic Conven >n Will Be Asked To upport Two Major ; nrm Proposals. April 15—(AP)— | ee will exert his in te< predicted today, j .paign issues of two for boosting farm in ^ farm debt burdens. < - ;<i -. whose sponsors > ■j(- of their enactment ■ ■'ii "f Congress, are: ■ .feting certificate plan j ■>" t prices of farm pro 1 " parity" goals of crop •iation. ■'rwi:"s bill to authorize re fa m debts on the basis productivity and to re ntes from an average .i'-rcent. >i leaders with whom ■'<pen working said he '-k the Democratic na ' *>n to write these pro t/;e party's platform if ned without enact • y said he was confi • ■-■•iues would do much ■Iwest farm vote back <• atic nominee. : !s have encouraged on from Republcans • Hrnocrats. Ovathsfr NORTH CAROLINA. '1 v I'loud.v and somewhat !|,,l tonight and Tuesday, showers in extreme ■ :!•:n. Warmer tonight Britons Bomb Nazis At Stavanger This remarkable picture, taken from a Royal Air Force bombing plane, shows English fliers in Ui£ act of bombing Germans in the Nazi-occupied airport of Slav unger, Norway. At the upper right may be seen four low-flying British bombers. The British planes both bombed and machine-gunned the Nazi craft and set fire to a huge gasoline storage plant. This picture, passed by the British censor^ was flown to London and then flashed by radio to New York. Revised Program Of Balanced Prosperity Offered Governors "Loyalty To Roosevelt" State Headquarters Opened With Folger As Chairman Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh. April 15.—North Caro lina's delegation to the Democratic National convention is not going to be handed over to "machine" lead ers without strings attached: but on the contrary the,-e is going to be a definite, determined drive to secure selection of a complete delegation favorable, it not actually pledged, to support a third term for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Headquarters of a "loyalty to Roosevelt"' campaign was opened here today. Furmcr State Senator John Fol ge:. a brother oi National Commit teeman anci rum uismui ^wugira man Lon Folger, is chairman and head of the campaign, while State Senator John D. Lark ins of Jones county is secretary and in active charge of headquarters. Opening of headquarters follows an intensive preliminary campaign to insure that Roosevelt organizations will be srt up in every county of the state. These preliminary detail-; were worked out after it became certain that the state Democratic organiza tion planned to work for delegates instructed to support Governor Clyde R. Hoey: and after the conviction had grown that there wasn't even mild enthusiam among the "regulars" for a third-term pledged delegation. As soon as announcement was made of State convention dates in May there began tn develop a strong tide of opinion that something should be done to place the State's delega tion in the Roosevelt column. There was widespread belief that the regular organization planned to have the North Carolina delegation ! hand-picked and controlled by for mer Governor O. Max Gardner and his eron'es; to which control there was bitter antagonism. i And so a "Loyalty to Roosevelt" movement sprung up—at first rather inchoate and incoherent. The sen timent finally crystallized in a meet j ing in the Kin? Cotton Hotel in Greensboro some two weeks ago at I which about a hundred persons from most of the counties of the state were j present. It was then it was definitely and j finally determined that a statewide campaign should be waged. Folgcr : was selected chairman and Larkins secretary at this same session. | The meeting escaped any mention I whatever in the press, though there have been of late repeated reports that something was brewing in re ' gard to the- national campaign; and I such writers as the Greensboro Uaiiv j News' veteran correspondent Tom Bust have predicted that there would | be a concerted and organized third . term movement. It is largely a matter of opinion, I impossible to prove or disprove to a i mathematical certainty, but there is | a widespread belie! that the people of IVirtn v iinnin.i ;uv un nwr whelnnngly loyal to the President J and equally willing to give him a I third term should lie desire one. ! Hand in hand there is general be , liel thai the big-.4iot.; of the state j administration, as well as Senator ! Josiah W. Bailey. are very .strongly i opposed to another lour years for 1 Ff)K. Organization of the "Loyalty lo Roosevelt" campaign will ;it least give some method of finding out how the people stand on the question. Hitler's Latest Move May Not Be Pleasing To Stalin By CHADLLS P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, April 15.—American naval strategists are more practically interested in Germany's Scandinavan activities than our army men thus far. The army crowd s proiessiun al interest is in tents, of course. However, if the de veloping situation presently side swipes us the navy will lcel the effect of it first. We can quarantine against the Norwegian coast of course, but a Germanized Ice Janet wouici ue iuu Josef Stalia near a neighbor of ours to be pleasant. And a Germaniz ed Greenland distinctly would be within easy aerial jumping distance from Uncle Sam's shores. Now. Iceland and Greenland have been possessions of Germanlv-oc r-upied Denmark hitherto. Iceland, upon the Nazis' invasion ol iLs home land, virtually declared its indepen dence. Greenland, though, hasn't the population (except Eskimos) even to attmept to "go it alone." Berlin, to be sure, says it isn't grabbing Denmark: it's only "pro tecting" the latter. But nobody in Washington, anyway, has a notion that the Danes arc otherwise than a "gone coon" if the Reich can make its Scandinavian program stick. Sup posing that Denmark is gobbled, it's considered a foregone conclusion that the gobblers will gobble the gobble ees' colonics, too. Iceland's declara tion of independence won't signify: the Icelanders naturally can't defend themselves. Iceland doesn't so much matter to us. either; it's middling dis tant. Greenland, contrariwise, is in Yan kee-land's very dooryard. Oh. it isn't worth much agriculturally, but the southern end of it is a corking good naval and aviation base. It certainly is going to be inside our neutrality zone. * +{' It will be a bit of time before Herr (Continued c.. Three) Dr. Clarence Poe Pre sents Outline of Sug gested Activities To Southern Governors In Session At Charleston. Charleston. S. C., April 15.—(AP) —A revised program of balanced prosperity was prer^nted to southern governors today at the opening of their two-day meeting here. Dr. Clarcnce Poc of Raleigh, general chairman of the southwide commit tee on "decade of balanced prosper ity", presented an outline of sug gested activities. The southern governors confer ence approved the southwide cam paign fur prosperity at a meeting at Atlanta. G;i.. December 14. "Various later efforts to improve this program, based on many sug gestions that have come to us, lead us to suggest the following revisions 1 for general consideration," Poe said: 1 —R:i1«nrf» mnnnv crnns finclud intf forestry) with food, feed, and fertility crops. 2.—Balance crops with livestock, consistent with sound land use. 3.—Balance farms with factories. •}.—Balance quantity production with quality production. 5.—iBaluncc scientific production with .scientific maitcting, including standardization, grading, processing and adequate transportation without trade barriers. (i. — Balance use ot all resources with conservation, restoration and development policies. 7.—Balance work with thrift, home ownership and local invest ment. fi.—Balance education—urban and rural, youth and adult, cultural and vocational, teaching and research, classroom and extension. !l —Balance present living stand ards of our higher income groups with improved efficiency, earning power, nutrition, health and housing standards for industrial workers and farm renters. 10.—Balance economic gains with gains in moral values and human welfare and southwide encourage ment of beauty in nature, art, archi tecture. land Taping, music, litera ture and human conduct. State Rests In Gotten Murder Trial Raleigh, April 15.—(AP)—The State introduced testimony today that Mrs. Mary Lee Herndon had S95J deposited in two Durham banks at the time of her death, as it con tinued to build its case against Wood row Gotten and his wife, Mar garet. The State contends that Cotton and his wife lately shot Mrs. Hern don, mother of Mrs. Gotten, Feb ruary !9. "Saturday State witnesses offered testimony purporting to show that Cotten killed his mother-in-law so that his wife might inherit her money. • The State rested at 12:15. The de fense called 45 witnesses for Cotten and his lawyers said that Cotten would take the ,;md British Forces Landed In Narvik; Ge rmans Are Driven Into Interior British Claim New Advances In North New Mine Field Laid; German Battleship Admiral Sheer Tor pedoed; Two Trans ports Sunk and Con voy Attacked. London, April 10.—(AP)—Great-1 Britain announced today that her navy and air force had liurled new j hulls at the Nazis in widespread sec- ! tions in and around Scandinavia. The brief statement, in a joint j war office-admiralty communique,' that British troops are on Norwegian : soil capped a weekend crammed, with the.se reports by the British: | 1.—The laying of a mine field, across the entire coast from Keil bay ; to Lithuania. 2.—The loipcdoing of the 10,000- I ton German pocket battleship Ad- j miral Scheer by the British subma rine Spearfish. The admiralty did not say whether the Admiral Scheer was sunk. 3.—The linking by British subma rines of two German transports, bringing to twelve the total of trans port and supply ships reported sunk in reccnt days. The admiralty also! said its submarines scored four hits j on a transport convoy in the Skagar rak. 4.—Continued Erit.sh aerial raids ( on Stavanger and on. Bergen. A gasoline dump was believed destroy- j ed in a slight raid, the fifth since i Germany's invasion at Stavanger,1 and the admiralty said one German transport was set afire at Bergen. 5.—A British naval squadron led by the battleship Warspite on Sat urday sank seven German destroy ers at Narvik, northern Norwegian ore port. While official information was lacking on the number of men and the points where the British expedi tionary force landed, Norwegian sources said the British occupied Narvik. Nazis Sink Two Subs Sinking of Allied Ves sels Leads Announce ment of German Gains In Scandinavia. Berlin. April 15.— f A f')—•Ger many today announced two more allied submarines had been sunk in the Skagcrrak, a Norwegian torpedo boat captured, and a German mer chant ship sunk by British air raid ers at Bergen. Establishment of a strong British blockade at Narvik, important north ern Norwegian ore port, also was acknowledged bv the Germans, who said their southern forces had "crushed" Norwegian efforts to mob ilige in the Oslo region. The high command declared the two new submarines raised to seven the losses of allied undersea craft in recent days. Two British air raiders who sank a German merchant ship at Bergen subsequently were shot down, the communique said. Shedding only slight light on Ger many's land operations in Norway, the communique reported capture of Honfoss in the Oslo area and said Norwegian efforts to mobilize had been "crushed" in that region. Danube River Traffic Under Strict Patrol Conference May Condemn Nazis, Soviets I Chattanooga, April 15.—(AI'J— I The Southern Conference for Human Welfare turned its discussion today to "rural life"'al ter having beaten down in effort to limit its program strictly to problems of the South. Following heated debate of more than an hour the 1,000 Negro and white delegates, seated together and sharing in the program, voted i for a liberal interpretation of reso lutions with an agreement the con ference could condemn Germany and Russia for military aggression against "little, weak nations." Dr. frank P. Graham, president of the University of North Carolina and cl airman of the conference, ] said th( door was left open to such I a resolution. Bucharest, April 15.—(Al1)— Strict control of Danube river traf fic was enforced by Rumania today following German threats to send gunboats down the river immediate ly to protect German shipping from alleged English '"sabotage." A Rumanian government spokes man said strong river patrols had been organized "1o maintain peace and order on the Danube." Few Americans Seek To Leave Swedish Homes Washington, April 15.—(AC;—• Frederick A. Sterling, minister to Stockholm, reported today that only about one-tenth of the 1,500 Ameri cans in Sweden wore trying to leave. The 100 to 200 desiring repatria tion to the United States probably will go to Germany by ferry service and then to Genoa, Italy. I Cold Wave Does Damage Throughout The South (By The Associated Press.) Frost-withered leaves, buds andj plants spelled losses totaling millions of dollars today for southern farm ers. fruit, and truck growers as a' result of recent cold weather. Alabama's loss alone from a week- I end of unprecedented low tempera tures for the season was estimated) by Extension Editor P. O. Davis as, "several million dollars." South Ala bama cotton, strawberry and Irish potato fields suffered particularly bc-: fore a springtime sun began dispers-i ing the unseasonable cold yesterday. Georgia's peach crop also was damaged to some extent but just how badly could not be determined until after a survey. Truck crops also were hit in some areas of that state. Nearly all the £oung cotton plants] were killed in the Shreveport, La., area and farmers hitched up their, teams today to begin replanting.1 Louisiana's fruit crops and truck also wore damaged. Losses Id uncovered bean and to mato crops in Mississippi were e.--, timatcd to range ys high as 30 per-I cent. Damage to the corn crop in Texas was estimated at 10 percent.! The frost line barely touched north ' Florida and the rich vegetable areas of that state escaped the cold snap. A. B. Harless, marketing special ist of the North Carolina Department] of Agriculture, said that freezing weather over the week-end badly hurt cucumber and snap bean crops! in the Mt. Olive area. There was little damage to straw- j berries and potatoes around Mt. j Olive, Harless said, and no material i damage to strawberries in the Chad-, bourn sector. He had no reports on the peach j crop. Reports on the damage are still coming in and it may be several dayv before the full extent is known.' Norwegians Prepare To Attack Nazis German Forces, Hav ing Retreated Hastily, Believed Incapable of Strong Defense; Ger m a n s Advance in Southeast. .Stockholm, April 15.—(Al')—{Brit ish forces were reported today to have landed in Narvik under the protection of naval shell fire which drove the Germans from the north ern Norwegian ore port into the i mountainous interior. The British warships which raid ed Narvik Saturday, apparently pre paratory to a landing by British sol diers or marines, were said to have I the city under control of their guns, j This report from the Norwegian ! radio at the port of Bodo, south of ; Narvik, followed a Norwegian army | communique reporting that Norwe Berlin, April 15.— (AP) — German officials asserted today that mi British troops had land ed anywhere at Norwegian points occupied by German sources, either at Narvik or any where else where Germany has established herself, but may have effected landings elsewhere. Their statement was made in comment on the British an nouncement that British forces had landed at several points in Norway. gian troops north and west of Nar vik were ready to attack the Ger mans. The Norwegian commander said the German forces had retreated hastily and were believed to be in capable of strong resistance to the Norwegians, who he said, are now fully mobilized in the north. These sources said that all Ger man warships in Narvik, hopelessly outnumbered by the stronger Brit ish naval force, had been sunk while trying to keep the British out of Rombaks fjord, which controls the ports. According to the Norwegian ver sion, the British battleship Warspite, screened by a division of destroyers, forced the mouth of the fjord. Nor 1 wegi;ins considered it unlikely that | the Germans would be able to land (Continued on Page Three) CottonAcreag.e Is Increased College St;ili'»n( llaloigh, Apr. I;»— Heavy planting. ol cotton are ex pected iIjioughonl the St.-jtc this week, ./• A. Shanklm, cotton special ist ol 111" Slate College Extension Service, .said today. A revival ol interest in this crop, .stimulated by lading tobacco prices and by a slightly higher market price lor lint, may .send the North Carolina acreage within <t7 to 90 per cent of the AAA Stale allotment of one million acres. Since growers are allowed to mar ket all the lint they produce on their allotted acres, more concentrated ef fort is being expended this year to secure higher yields than formerly. In working toward this goal, grow ers arc using improved or certified seed and mapping out a program of stiff resistance to the boll weevil, deadly insect enemy of the crop. Likewise, a steady growth of one variety cotton communities has been recorded this year. From past ex perience, growers have found they can secure a greater net profit by standardizing their cotton. Shanklin suggested that cotton growers belonging to these cotton improvement groups which plan to use the free classing and market news service of the Agricultural Marketing Service file their applica tions as .soon after their cotton is planted as possible. He explained that applications for the service will be considered in the order in which they arc received after allowance lias been made for the different planting dates over the cotton belt Another advantage of applying early, he said, is that applications can be acted upon in plenty of time for aoproved groups to receive their -hipping tag and other supplies.
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