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stettitersntt Bailu jBtapatrff ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA SEVENTH YEAR L™fAs?ociATSsDPBls0sF HENDERSON. N. C.. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 17, 1940 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY Wax Hurts U. S. Foreign Trade M * * * « - " ~ •p "*• 1* iafe Votes Funds For Locks rease In Met For r Dept. Military Func of War Depart Appropriation Over Esti ll Other Congres : iai Acts. April IT.—(A P>— . ed today a $15. . ppropruition for the ;i third sot of locks .. Canal. i. t* on a committee the $223,302,517 vd appropriation for expenditures ot' the r ites still cling t<» a : t: u an increase of the biil carriers for \i the appropriation i provide 319.889.950 ilar bill approved - ,.nd S2.KG9.91T more Roosevelt's budget .. • •. iced toward a vote j. .--A" a Iter bill, drafted to i'-.ittern for issuance ; • _ ilations by admin and to expedite • w> "t such orders. • • • .o Rogers. Republi «;.>-iii;setts. broke into tiie -.Valter discussion with a I::;* that Congress di State department to estab • >teetorate over Greenland ch time as Denmark re : ^.dependence." H irold R. Stark told the ! affairs committee that y • .uld welcome a genuine di.-armament when the ivan war ends. of naval operations as ,v. . er. that if a disarma •. i rnce were called the ° v- sould insist that other .ake "a clean breast" of ;.i .-trength. British Bomb Norse Bases April IT.—(AP)—The air • :m ;nced today that royal • "• ibers had engaged in .ovations at Trondheins, igian port, and at an nearby. ' :'v's communique fol • night. Trondheim air bed by heavy bomb ! air force. A large fire break out as a result of Hack. < . • ntly. a bombing attack ft< mi an enemy seaplane 'i " vicinity." liegra Guns Are Silenced ii<rtvy Bomb Attack Un Norwegian Fort ss by Germans Ap pears Successful. April 17.—(AP)—A •> attack on the 50-vear ;i fortress at Hcgra. les cast of the German \11; ntic port of Trondheim. ifiav to have silenced the batteries. '• ura gnri.-'. although direct v <igainU an attack from •rmcd an obstacle to Ger > ntrol of the railroad ex ■ -n Trondheim to Sweden, ' h the nazi are consolidat t<ntial line of defense, 'nad of German troops v Hegra's guns yesterday and reached the Swedish • ; is about 50 miles '■ndheim. •\ German troops hast r';)t»ing up operations in \'orway behind the poten • defense from Trondheim ^".odish frontier. apparently planned as (Continued on Page Tv/c; State GOP Adopt Economy Platform Taft Favors Local Relief Administration i Washington. April 17—(AP)— Senator Tatt, Republican, Ohio, de clared today that the administration of ivlief should be turned over to the states and municipalities, with the federal government supplying approximately two thirds of the total cost. The senator, candidate for the Re publican presidential nomination, spoke before an American Federa tion of Labor organization of ope rating engineers. The present federal relic!' program, he said, is inadequate. He al.o ob jected to use of relief labor on pub lic works construction projects. Taft declared that experience here and in England indicated that any attempt to meet the work relief problem "by a large scale public works program is far too expensive to be permanent or even effective." "It is much better to adopt a pub lic works program on its own merits" he said, "and let it be handled by contract then handle the remaining unemployment on a relief basis.*' More Troops To Norway Paris, April IT.—(AP)—Allied reinforcements to Norway to bolster the Norwegian defenses against the German invaders are steadily in creasing. it was understood here to day. It was said that French as well as British troops are on their way. Some estimates placed the number of French troops at about 20,000. Two companies of German in fantry sustained a "severe" defeat when they attacked a sector of the western front held by the British. They said that despite heavy artil lery support the attackers were un able to penetrate the British line. , The Germans, estimated at about 600 men, withdrew after violent fighting, it was said, leaving a number of dead. State Convention Opens At Charlotte | With 1,500 Delegates Attending; Applause Greets Platform Planks. Charlotte. April 17.— (Al*) — I Whooping it up with gusto. Repub licans opened their state convention here today in a festive mood and quickly adopted a platform that call ed for economy in government and discontinuance of "the ruthless sys tem of taxation that is destroying initiative". Clifford Frazier of Greensboro, chairman of the platform committee, presented the document to 1500 Re publican delegates and several thous ands of others amid round uport round of applause. W. H. Bark ley of Morgnnlon, offered a resolution sup plementary to the committee's, invit ing old line Democrats to join with the Republicans in a "return to first principles". The resolution was tabled and the convention proceeded to vote on the platform, which was carried. The platform also called for new election laws "that will guarantee to all parties equal rights and secure to every qualified voter a free ballot and an honest count." The platform asked for a "non partisan judiciary", a "state support ed uniform system of public schools as provided for in the constitution with free education opportunities for every child in the state." On the controversial topic of liquor the platform said: "We oppose the legalized manu facture and sale of intoxicating li quors in any part of the state unless approved by the people in a state wide referendum." The piatform said that "through the so-called economy of scarcity and international trade agreements tbe farmer has lost the cotton markets of the world." That the "supremely important problem that today challenges the Republican party x x x is how it may lead a bewildered people out of j the 'valley of despair'." On peace the committee reported: "We recall that one president of the United States was re-elected be cause he 'kept us out of war.' We were soon in it. Will we permit his tory to repeat itself? We are unal terably opposed to a third term" for any president of the United States. Gubernatorial Candidates Unanimously Silent About Roosevelt Drive In State Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, April 17.—North Caro lina's multitude of gubernatoria candidates arc attempting to tall about almost everything under tii< sun, but so far none has broken th( brooding silence thai has gripped po liticians of all classes about the North Carolina Roosevelt loyalty drive headquarters for which were open ed here Monday. Perhaps this silence may have beer broken by the time these lines ge into print, but up to the moment a which your reporter put them or paper the many "governors" seemec to be unanimous in agreeing with tht old adage about "Silence is Golden' so far as the Roosevelt movement is concerned. Which is more or less astonishing as it would seem the natural thinf to do for one or more of them to at tempt to catch hold of the tail of the I Roosevelt kite and go soaring alof with it. It may be, perchance, tha they do not think the kite is goinj to soar very high, though tha would be at wide variance with wha seems the best-informed comment or I the subject. In one of his speeches this weel —or maybe it was late last week— J. M. Broughton lauded the nationa administration of President Roosevel in almost the same breath wit! which he sang praises of the Hoe? i state regime. To this extent the Ra leigh lawyer seenis to have the eag< on his principal rivals in dcclara i tion of loyalty to FDR. I Tom Cooper, of course, has repeat edly in the past sung the praises o Franklin D. and all his works: bu he hasn't chanted any new chorus , or even a verse, since the North Car olina movement for a third tern I came out into the open. ■ Nor so far as this reporter knows i has any oi' the others. Chances are that all the candidates are waiting to see what, if any, re I action the Roosevelt campaign stirs before committing themselves one ■I way or the other. I There isn't even a Chinaman's chance that any of them will be mis guided enough to come out openly in opposition to the program of loyalty to the head of the current Administration; and it would seem offhand that it would be good stra tegy to plump strongly and loudly for FDR, who has the great mass of the Democratic voters behind him. The objection lies in the fact that the small percentage of Anti-Roose j velt Democrats include most of those I who have what is known in everyday \ parlance as plenty or dough. Now dough is one of the things ; without which a gubernatorial cam ' paign begins to take the status of a (Continued on Pane Two) Cotten Case I j Nears.Jury i II Raleigh. April 17.—(AP)— The de • j fense and the prosecution presented their last witnesses today in the trial: ■ of Woodrow Cotten and his wife, ■ Margaret Herndon Cotten, on charges of killing Mrs. Mary Lee Herndon, • mother of Mrs. Cotten. Coroner Roy M. Banks, called to ; the stand for Mrs. Cotten. said that , she told him "she had prayed to the : . Lord and He had told her to tell the j ! truth" when she repudiated an al-! leged confes-l n that, she shot her mother. Yugoslavia Routs Spies Many Germans Ar rested; Foreigners Ordered T o Leave Leave Country With in Ten Days. Budapest. April 17.—(AP)—South eastern Kurope's little nations, fear ing tluil tin- German war machine may soon turn in tiieir direction, took stern measures today to eliminate Nazi sympathizers within their bor ders. In Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, police launched nationwide investigations of resident German groups and individuals. Government action to stamp out "fifth column" activity (boring from within a country by foreign political interests) was accompanied by in tensified military preparedness in Rumania and Yugoslavia. Belgrade, April 17.—;(AP)—The Yugoslav government began today to clear the country of hundreds of German "visitors" suspected of spreading propaganda and spying for the German secret police. The cleanup was begun in Eel grade, the capital, where thousands of leaflets telling Yugoslavs not to resist Germany had been scattered recently. Officials said that public opinion urgently demands stern mtasures to protect the national security as a re sult of the invasion of Scandinavia. Twenty Germans arrested immedi ately after the leaflet barrage were expelled from Yugoslavia and an order was issued today that all oth er foreigners still in Belgrade must leave within ten days unless they prove that their presence is "a benefit to the Yugoslav government." A house-to-house search was de cided upon by police of .several cities. DNB Describes Sea Victory Berlin, April 17.—(AP)—DNB, of ficial German news agency, today described an air attack off the Nor wegian western coast in which one British cruiser was sunk by a direct bomb hit and two other cruisers were seriously damaged by German bombs. Augmenting earlier reports (and apparently describing an action of yesterday) DNB said the cruiser which sank was hit by a bomb of the heaviest calibre and went down immediately. The agency said the other two cruisers were hit by three heavy calibre bombs and such serious de struction was wrought that presum ably the ships will not be able to return to British harbors. (The DNB report apparently am plified a passage in today's high command communique which re ported the sinking of a British cruis er and a British submarine in an air attack off Mold fjord). Nazis Score In Rumanian Trade Fight Bucharest. April 17.—(AP)— Thel Rumanian senate provisionally ac-; ccpted today a government bill to give Germany a 30-year lease on al most one hundred thousand acres of timber—despite testimony of army officers that the lease would jeopard ize national defense. The minister of agriculture do-' fended the bill on grounds that it I was part of an economic understand ing with Germany which greatly benefited Rumania. Military experts said the vast for est reserve in central Rumania con stituted a natural defense line. High ranking officers declared that enactment of the bill would be a great strategic error, allowing Ger many to send a large corps of experts and workmen into forest located at "the most vulnerable spot in the, country", on the old Rumanian-Gcr man border. Germany previously had protested Bucharest's embargo on wheat ex ports and temporary stoppage of oil shipments, and it was acknowledged in official quarters Rumania is in an extremely diilLul! position. i Nazi Troops Land In Norway Described in the propaganda bureau caption as "German troops dis- I embarking from a warship at Trondhcim", this picture was released by the' German censor and was flashed by radio from Berlin to New York. The J picture was probably made April 9 when Germany launched her blitzkrieg ! on Norway by occupying key points along the coaast. These troops must | have been reinforcements lor the initial landing party. British Submarine AcknowledgedLost Nose Counting Goes Ov er 100,000,000; Small Towns Gain Washington, April 17.—(AP) — The census bureau passed its count of the 100.000.000th Ame rican toda.v with about 30,000,000 yet to ro. Officials figured that the door to-door phase of the decennial population count which started April :! ought to be finished in another week. In the first four small towns report, the 1910 figures averaged 18 percent more than ten years ago. Auto Workers Ballot Today Detroit. April 17.— (AP)—A year- | joi }\ baltlc between CIO and AFLi auto W"i leers unions for dominance in Gener.il Motors Corporation plan!: culminated today in National Laboi Relalinn: Board elections involving nearly 137.0(10 employees. The workers, leaving their jobs at times designed to cause the least in terruption to production, cast their ballots at polling places inside the plants. Most of thorn marked their pref erence eitln r for the United Auto- ; mobile Workers (CIO), the L'ljited Automobile Workers (AFL) or "neither." The ejection was Hie largest ever attempted by the National Laborj Relation Bo. rd. . Tarboro Man Dies Of Gunshot Wound Tarboro. April 17.—(AP)—Craw lord Bryant. 51, a farmer, died at ' the Edgecombe county hospital to day of shot gun injuries rccehed April 7. Matt Mayo, another farmer who, i Sheriff W. E. Bardin said, admitted shooting Bryant "by mistake", is tin der SI.000 bond in connection with! the case. (OoaiksUi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Increasing cloudiness followed by showers and tliundershovreis. The Thistle, 1,575 Tons, Announced As Overdue From Opera tions in North Sea and Must Be Considered Lost. London. April li.—(AI'J—UriUiin disclo.-td il l- I" oi one oi her new . ubmarinitin The lie, today while her fon.< in .\orw:iy ;ipp;iicnlly were racing 11<«• (Icrman. for con trol ol the . trategic port ol' Trond heim. i The Tlii. lie wa: u l.;j75-tnn ves- | • el intended lor g< neral service ;ind noriv. lly canicd ii'.i men. The ad j:iiIl.v merely ;mnofHK.'ed that she v.a. ov< nine lio.n operations in the North se:i ;ind must be considered lo t. Slie v i Hi" lifth acknowledged |o>;. lo I'ritainV under: ens fleet since trie v.;ir !.'u;m. Military o!< < i •. i-i e • (#!•• sed the \ii v. Ih-'it ;i drive from Trondheim v. .i fir-', ( lupin-; a Mi'- !'ir-t phase of Mriti li laud operation. in Norway. Tiie.v .j;f 1 that I*i i«i li forces al ii ily in control of Narvik were be lie<ed to be moving oulh toward a ('•'••ni.vM army pushing north from Oslo and llergen in an a'tempt to cut Norway in two and retain the southern half, which contains almost everything of value in the invaded kingdom. Trondheim seaport and railroad i junction, is the key to this opera lion, they said, because whichever .side controls it has an immense ad vantage. Nazi troops: hold Trondheim, hav >iwf landed ihere in ihe first few hour.-' of the invasion, b:it military -our', es h» i e .aid the (U rui. ill gar rison is rot. strong enough to resist the Unli.-h. Chamberlain Rejects Plan London. April 17. -(AIM - Prime Minister Chamberlain today reject ed in the house of commons a sug gestion for a non-political war ad visory committee. "I see no necessity for the estab lishment of a further body additional to those already established for the survey of economic and commercial problems thrown up by the war," he! . . : -J i Blockades And Hazards Cut Shipping Interruption and Hampering of Ameri can Trade Involving $1,300,000,000 Is Es timated; Russia Now Blockaded. Washington, April 17.—(AP)— Great Britain's blockades in the At lantic and Pacific, coupled with President Roosevelt's extension of the combat area forbidden to Amer ican ships, has interrupted or hamp ered American foreign trade involv ing nearly $1.30(1,0(10,(100. Other wartime hazards and restric tions—the threat of German raid ers, a Japanese blockade in the Far East, and "cash and carry" provi sions of the neutrality act—boost the figure ever higher. Experts here estimate that more than one half of the country's for eign trade has been either eliminat ed or affected. The 1939 foreign trade total was $3,177,344,138. The combat area keeps American shipping from carrying goods to the country's principal market, northern and central Europe, where American exports totaled $1,172, 948.023 last year. Soviet Russia is the object of Britain's latest blockade measure. Ronald II. Cross, British blockade minister, told the house of com mons yesterday that Britain is tak ing all practical steps to detain all American cargoes enroute to Vladi vostok, the Soviet far eastern port, whenever it was suspected they were really destined for Germany. Virtually all American shipments to southwestern and southeastern Europe—totaling $113,046,432 in 1939—go through the Mediterranean and have to pass the Gibralter con trol officials. The control is most rigid on goods consigned to neutrals adjoining German}. Thieves Steal Tons Of Scrap Rocky Mount. April 17.—(AP)— Thieves decided on doing things in a bin way hereabouts and got away with 440,000 pounds of scrap metal before their thievery was uncovered. Deputy Sheriff Shade Felton of Kdgecombc county said he had drawn warrants charging 'six men with the theft of most <if the remains of sev eral hundred freight cars which had been scrapped and sold. Ho said five men had been arrested but he reveal ed no names. Nazis Claim Sea Success British Battleship Hit By Bomb, Destroyer Sunk and Transport Struck. Berlin, April 17.—(AP)—A Brit ish battleship was hit squarely by a heaviest-type air bomb, a destroyer was sunk and a transport ship also struck in an aerial attack, Germany reported officially today. DNB, official German news agency, said that full details of aerial blows in a German attack on British naval forces Off the Norwe gian outhwest coast still were to be learned. A communique enumerated these successes for the German expedi tionary forces: 1.—The sinking of a British de stroyer by a submarine northeast of the Shetland islands. 2.—A large transport ship "hit squarely by the heaviest calibre air bombs." 3.—Norwegian forces in the north routed by Germans taking control of the railroad from Narvik east to the Swedish border. Authorized sources insisted Narvik .-.til! was in German hands despite a heavy British bombardment reported by the high command. 4.—The German navy covered the transport of personnel and "mate rial reinforcements" to Norwegian ports. 5.—Forces ashore broadened the occupied area, developed coastal de fenses and "fully prepared" forti fications iur defense ol Oiiu. \
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