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mpitiSprsnu Baily Hispatcb ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. v ^r ,:\: y->KVENTH YEAR ltoe5J^k£Sd HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 22, 1940 except sondat. flVE CENTS WPA Faces Craft Charge I« Committee Sub-Committee asses With WPA u u Charges of Mis ji.inciiing of Money previously Appropri ated. 22. (AD— In .■ House sub-commit , SiH3.000.000 WPA ; i! discussed with charges that some \ ; o\ iouslv given the i been mishandled. . ntnined in a report Roberts. committee r been made public. W odrum, Democrat. u in general they o travel expenses and -X WPA work done ■ v v rty, and improper persons tor WPA o:als appearing were F. C. Harrington. anfl ^ -orvill. admmistra .. York city. ;" edicted that the ap would not reach the : ee weeks more. Hear . : o at least two weeks - ,i. adding that a third i be needed to prepare • i: -evelt has urged Con it iif!-- it> push the meas • on: as an aid to early • Leaders have tenta • June 10 as the adjourn y'.- of torts t<> obtain Con Pi • val for expansion 01 :v the Senate naval ttoo. where Rear Admiral K T us> -t declared that the developments in the Far • t ontually force the Unit • - rito war against Japan. ... >>: or assistant chief of , n- asserted that he .. o.-sing only his own view Norwegian Towns Said To Be Aflame April 22.—(AP)—DNB. i Ge:.in news agency, said t... t Xamsos and Andalsnes, X'>rwegian towns where .. :!iree> landed, were aflame. 4' ty. in its daily report sup , the high command com dded that the British had d hit by German air bombs. O r: .an expeditionary force. . u :•> this report, had gained ;ead:iy northeast ot Strond . ..-o> is 100 miles north of and Andalsnes is the tice ^outh. i ■ e time, it was announc y that eleven allied planes • ' -h ;tnd two French, were during yesterday's air Xorway. the North sea r western front. t-.itcd that two British etc .-hot down over Stav port, four crashed during on Aalborg in Denmark, the north German coast, ' (.■ remainder were shot down in pursuit planes on the front. i to information received Stockholm, the bomb ' English positions at ted six hours. F oreign Policy i o Be Issue Of Campaign MMgton. April 22.—(AP)—In President Roosevelt's as a*. the United States "was t <>! the wars in Europe Democratic leaders gave ' i r • jn today of making ad ioreign policy a key '• i :r political campaigning, •o.-evelt touched on world in a radio speech Satur ' to Young Democrat rallies he called for nomination >y of "a liberal pair of can nning on a liberal and for .:iplatform.*' ■ dent gave no hint, how ■ what candidates might ;pport in event he does not • ■ tliii-cl term. . v ion of foreign affairs in tatement "we are keep >he wars but I do not sub 'he preachment of a Re f iant to the presidency, u in effect that the Unit hould do nothing to try jout a better order of world hen the times comes." here expressed the be •• "Republican aspirant" to referred was Thomas E. Survivors of British Destroyer In London Some of the 100 survivors ol the British desCl'oyer Hardy are ?hown inarching through the streets of Lon don in this radiol'oto, flashed through the ether from Loudon to New York. Thousands turned out to cheer the I men. missing for eight days and feared lust after the Hardy was beached following a battle with German de stroyers off Norway. The men scrambled ashore and found refuge in the farmhouses of Norwegians. They were picked up by a British warship and taken to an unnamed Scottish port. British Air Force Attempts To Halt Nazis Pouring Into North Hoey Asks Cooperation Of Citizens *> I Winston-Salem. April 22.— (AP)—j All citizens of the state were urged today by Governor Hoey to give "full! cooperation" to a new program to j reclaim criminals and reduce crime, j The governor spoke at a luncheonj meeting of the probation association, meeting in conjunction with the Con-j ference for Social Service. •"The public will be called upon to assist in the work of reclaimation,'') said Hoey. "An effort is now being; made lo aid the vast number—1.500! to 1.800 a month—of prisoners who J serve their sentences and are dis charged." CIO Unionist Wants Added j Security Washington, April 22.—(AP) —i Emil Rieve. general president of the i ; Textile Union Workers of America (CIO), proposed today that social security laws bo liberalized to pro vide for workers displaced from in ! dustry by the introduction of new ! machinery and new methods. He told the national economic com mittee that due to the increased pro i ductivity of industrial employees the j number of man hours of work in the I textile industry had decerased 20.4 percent between 1919 and 1939, de j spite an increase of at least 25 per j cent in the total volume of produc ; tion. 1 4 $ Narvik Residents Warned To Leave Before Bombings Stockholm. April 22.—(AP) — British warnings that the far north Norwegian port of Narvik held by Germany, would he bombarded and advising resi dents to leave the ore town be fore firing starts were broad cast three times today. The British gave Narvik citi zens until 3 p. m. (9 a. m. est) to leave the beleaguered port. The British decision to sub ject Narvik to concentrated bombardment apparently was the allies' answer to the Ger- i man aerial attack yesterday at Namsos. Norwegian port south of Narvik and a landing place for British troops. Newsmen Meet In New York New York, April 22.—.{AP)—Edi torial and business executives of newspapers throughout the United States and Canada, convening here for the annual meeting of the Asso ciated Press and the American News paper Publishers Association, re ported widespread opposition to American participation in the Euro pean war. In rooms and corridors of the hotel Waldorf-Astoria the men who direct the greatest free press in the world drew these conclusions: That without exception business was a little better. That generally an anti-war feeling lirevades the country. Passing Of Another Week Brings Little Change In Gubernatorial Campaign Daily Dispatch Bureau, , In the Sir Walter Ilotel. | Raleigh, April 22.—"Anoihcr day, j another dollar—a million days a mil ■ lion dollars" is an old army quip, but from your Raleigh reporter's point of view the gubernatorial can didates can't do much better thall parapnase it to "Another week, just another week" so far as any visible change in the situation is concerned. A week ago the "wise boys" were predicting that the two second pri j mary contestants will come from the trio J. M. Broughton-W. P. Horton A. J. Maxwell, and there is absolute ly no reason to change the predic tion now. This despite the fact that Tom Cooper has been shouting mightily about the "Raleigh Gang" and "or ganized politicians" from the reai platform of his gaudy sound truck.! This, also, despite the fact that Lee Gravel;/ seem* to be picking up more support than was generally expect- j eel in many quarters. One of the lead- | ing workers for another candidate,' in an "off the record" conversation! with your reporter, paid Lee a fine! compliment when he remarked—I "There's one thing about Lee, he's' strongest where he is best known;] and that's something that can't be I said about all the candidates. Some | have their strongest support where] they are least known." If there was an outstanding fea ture of the week it was the ability i of J. M. Broughton to hold his own, in the reports at least, at the top of the prospect list. He accomplished thos in the face of the most inten sive Horton drive of the entire cam paign. Nobody watching the cam paign could have escaped noting that the Lieutenant Governor's machine was ope ,f>H up wide and the signal j (Continued cn Page Five} German Air Bases in Norway and Denmark Bombed by British; Norwegian and Brit ish Land Forces Pre pare for Battle. London, April 22.—(AP) — The British air force is synchonizing raids on German bases in Norway and Denmark, attempting to choke oil' the Nazi air ferry service which poured German troops into the in vaded north country. Air ministry announcements said today that both Aalborg in northern Denmark and Stavanger, south Nor wegian port, had been raided during the night by British bombers, repeat ing attacks which on the previous night also included Kristiansand and another southern port. The Stavanger airdrome was "bombed and machine gunned" de stroying "a number of enemy air craft." 1hc ministry said. The Aal borg airdrome, which British be lieve is Germany's only large field in Denmark, was said to have suf fered "effective damage by high •ex plosive and incendiary bombs." British reported that all raiders returned safely from the Stavanger attacks and only one was missing after the Aalborg attacks. A well informed source said that Bn>.-h and Norwegian troops had joined at several places and that joint action in eastern Norway had j been extremely effective. Strong allied forces were deployed I along potential battle lines, spotting Norway's snow-packed mountains and valleys, and signs pointed to- , ward impending showdown battles with tho Germans. "The Norwegians rally well" this source said, "getting more and more arms, and the morale of officers and men is very high." Destroyers Investigate British Ship Manila, P. I., April 22.—(AP)— Two destroyers of the United States I Asiatic lleet sped northward late Saturday to investigate activities of a British warship operating in the channel between Formosa and the Philippine Islands. Reports here said the warship was halting merchant shipping, presum ably as part of the British blockade against Germany. The United States destroyers were ordered to see that the British ship does not violate the neutrality of Philippine waters. Some observers believed the Brit ish craft was looking for a fleet of German merchantmen reported en route with full cargoes from Java to Vladivostok. t'Osuodhsh FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair not quite so cold in south and wes. portions tonight: Tues day cloud) and somewhat warm er, Sweden Protests Nazi War Plane Incursions Over Swede Territory U. S. Array Officer Killed By German Bomber In Norway Air Activity Marks War Eleven German Planes Reported Shot Down On Western Front During Weekend. Paris, April 22.—(AP)—Aerial ac tivity by both sides marked the war on the western' front today, with French and British airmen and anti aircraft gunners chalking up a total | of eleven German planes shot down over the week-end. Unverified claims indicated that three additional planes may have been brought down. German pilots flew over northern, eastern and southeastern districts of France as well as the Paris area, military sources said, and allied fliers carried out missions over Germany. Artillery thundered in the Blies river region, while sporadic case mate fire disturbed the Rhine dis trict. Patrols on both sides carried out their customary forays. Tides Damage New England Coast Area Boston, April 22.—(AP)—Immense tides inundated eastern New Eng land coastal communities today, caus ing thousands of dollars damage to homes-and shore roads in the wake of a week-end northeasterly gale which left a snow blanket over much of the area and cut off all communi cations with the northeastern section of Maine. Fears that the storm would swell rivers in the six states to menacing | levels abated as the prospect of con-1 tinning cold weather and snow flur ries prompted weather bureau ex perts to forecast "no iminent flood damage." Although the gale spilled as much as five to ten inches of snow in some northern sections, the weather bu reau foresaw only "a little more run-J Captain Robert M. Losey, Assistant Mili tary Attache at Stock holm, Was Assisting Americans To Leave Norway. • Stockholm. April 22.— (AD — Captain Robert jVI. Losey, assist ant United States military at tache in Stockholm, was killed by a bomb splinter, the Gote bors newspaper Ilandels Tid ningen said today. Losey, it said, was standing upright in a mountain tunnel during a German air bombard ment at Dombas, Norway, yes terday, when a bomb exploded ahead of the tunnel and a frag ment struck him in the heart. The newspaper said nobody else in the tunnel was hurt. Washington, April 22.—(AD — The State department received word today that Captain Robert M. Losey, assistant military at tache at Stockholm, Sweden, was killed in a German bombing raid at Dombas, Norway, yes terday. Losey was the first American killed on land since the Euro pean war started. The State department said Cap Lain Losey had gone from Stockholm into Norway to assist in removing Americans f*om the war /.one. Frederick Sterling, American min ster to Sweden, cabled the State de partment he had just received a tele ■i from Opdal, dated yesterday ind signed by Major Yssum, pre sumable a Norwegian army officer, which read as follows: "American military attache Cap tain Losey was killed by German Dombcr plane at Dombas today. In form Mrs. Harriman (American ninister to Norway). Ho will be' sent tomorrow* (Monday) by way of Roras to Fjellnas where instructions from the legation are awaited." The State department has in structed its legation at Stockholm lo ibtain all possible information on he circumstances of the death. :>ff in the Connecticut and Merrimack river valleys." Meanwhile a crest of nine feet above flood stage in places rolled iown the Ohio valley in Ohio, but the rain-gorged river receded north )f Marietta. Rivermen generally jgrced that the worst was over. Hun ireds of families driven from low land homes up river returned to :lean up. Simpson "Purging" In New I York May Indicate Beginning OfDissention In GOP Ranks I'v (IIARLKS P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, April 22.—Democratic political dopesters are in high glee over the New York Republican state committee's report ousung n.ennuiri r.\ Simpson as the Empire State's Re publican national committeeman be cause of his non support of Thomas E. Dewey as a can didate for his party's presidential nomination. It begiAs, to be sure, only as a New York State Kenneth Simpson Republican un pleasantness, but the Democrats' hope is that it will develop into na tional proportions. They realize, of course, that their own party is badly split, which worries them no end. And oh. how happy they'll be if a lot of ill-feeling characterizes the G. O. P. convention. Conjointly with Simpson's "purg ing." Edwin F. Jaeckle was chosen as chairman of the Republican state committee. Jackie's a strong Dewey ite. However, though Simpson's been purged his friends (and he has some influential ones) insist that he's en titled to continue as his state's na tional committeeman until after the1 convention at the eurlicLt. They iaj they won't recognize any other selec tion in the meantime. Now, if that convention starts off with a pair of contesting national committeemen from as important a state as New York, or with a Dewey ite state chairman and rival Dewey ite and anti-Dewey-ite national com mitteemen, the Democrats reckon that the whole convention will be badly disrupted. Muss Already Spreading. The row already is spreading be yond New York's boundaries. Alf M. Landon, from as far away from New York as Kansas, has sent congratulations to State Chairman Jaeckle, as a booster for a liberal Republican presidential nominee. He named no names, but it was hard to interpret his message otherwise than as an indorsement of Jaeckle's fa vorite candidate—Dewey. Plenty of Republicans, though aver that nobody knows whether Dewey's! a liberal or a conservative. They say! he's too juvenile and inexperienced to be calculable. Some of these Republicans are1 nearly as influential as Alf Landon, j though more or less anti-Dewey-ites. i For instance, there's Representa-j tives James W. Wadsworth of up state New York. He's notable enough | to be a G. O. P. presidential dark! horse. He doesn't call himself anti-! Dewey, but he does call himself pro- j Simpson, which is largely the same! thing. Representative Francis D. '.Continued on page two) Precautions Would Guard Neutrality Conflict in Norway Shaping Into Full Fledgerl War In Mod ern Style, With Per haps 100,000 Men Now In The Field. Stockholm, April 22.—(AP) — Sweden protested strongly to Berlin today against incursions by Nazi war planes over her territory, and asked measures to prevent repetition of flights which "yesterday were espe cially numerous and grave." Faced with a steadily expanding bottle zone next door in Norway, Sweden already has taken sweeping precautions to prevent the conflict from infringing on her neutrality. Fast moving columns of British and French troops, striking swiftly inland from debarkation points 011 Norway's coast, were reported en gaged in a series of fierce clashes ! with German forces on the Trond heim and Oslo fronts. The conflict in Norway was shap ing into a full fledged war in the ■dern style, with perhaps 100,000 | men in the field—British, French Norwegian and German—some mov ing behind tanks and others attack ing under cover of artillery and aerial bombardments. Spurred by fear of further widen ing of the struggle, Sweden achieved peak preparedness short of general mobilization. Swedes were worried by the in cursion of German planes. Extra ordinary air defense precautions j were taken. Focal points of the fighting appa j rently were Vordalsora, 35 miles north of Trondheim, and Elverum, 60 miles north of Oslo, near the Swedish frontier. Approximately 300 miles of rough terrain separates the two battle fronts. Americans Advised To Leave Hungary Budapest, April 22.—(AP)—The United Suites legation today advised American citizens in Hungary to "de cide as to the advisability of leaving for the United States while there still are means of egress available." The legation's notice said Ameri can citizens should "consider the ef fect" which extension of the war to this part of Europe "would have upon the possibility of travel." A prcferatory declaration said the legation "has not information which would lead it to believe the war will be extended to southern Europe." There are about 400 American citizens in Hungary but the legation said that most of them were Hun garian born citizens, who went to the United States, were naturalized and later returned to Hungary to live. Little Saving Under Budget Estimate Seen Washington, April 22.—(AP)— Influential lawmakers predicted to day that Congress would appropri ate about 57,870,000,000 at this ses sion, resulting in little if any saving under President Roosevelt's budget estimates. Although the President told re porters last week that it seemed like ly that Congress might cut about 8200,000,000 off the 1941 expendi tures which he proposed last Jan uary, some senators said this now appears impossible. They pointed to the likelihood that the army and navy would ask supplemental funds of S100,000,000 more for defense needs. An ex penditure of this nature virtually would wipe out the tentative re ductions of 5113,051,334 which have been made in approbation bills made so tar.
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