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Henderson Batlij flispatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. SEVENTH YEAR Lt:ukKaS^(.atsuVprIs°f HENDERSON, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 1,1940 pcb,'1s"l&ceevpltrL^I?rnoon FIVE CENTS COPY 3 r, 1 2X ?■ £j >•? * ft & ORWAY Set for Child Health Day : for "Child Health Day," proclaimed tor Way l Dy President . . Baby Sandy undergoes a physical checkup by Dr. George , L - Angeles chief health officer. Dr. Parrish described the in fant movie star as "a 109 percent perfect baby." 'Central Press) House Committee Kills Hatch Bill Seriate - Approved Measure to Limit Po litical Activities of State Employees Is " 1 abled" By Judiciary Committee. ..ton. May 1.—CAP)— The | < "v committee killed to-: - " . te-approved Hatch bill • ■ p4 >! 11 iCc\ 1 activities of state d with federal funds., •tee ordered the bill ming that it will be y i:i i pigeonhole. . ■ not announced audi ;iers. Democrat. Texas, the matter beyond; > re announcement of • 'ho measure. • i .estricting the poli ' • - by state employees ■•! in part iron, fed-i measure also wouidj • i o»ial campaign con - to $5,000. I • committee members' ' \ -te to table was 11 I ■ • action was disclosed Dempsev. Democrat, enounced that he petition to take the' f> > tu the committee. t r*-quires the signa llou e .sponsor of the | • \ in- ly angered and i i- ured that th« Id .itf lavorablv on the ' I On PROBATION < via.v !.— (AT)—.fudge ■1 Mt-fkins in federal court ' fated Cirad.v Swinsnn of iMijitv f>ti probation for iliN. He was charged i ii'iuor law revenue viola !-HA LOANS ii<!i;:ton. .'May 1.—(AI»>— ■ •: t Roosevelt approved C'.DOO of 1 nited States \iitla>rity loans to pub :-i!iu agencies in live ..'••i™ then: was: New Bern. ^ < .. -1.139.000. orwegians i ck In Storen May I.—(AP)—Uncon ~.i.cl tonight that Nor m's had re-occupied railroad junction 35 ! Ti'' iidhei: . possibly n vanguards had aban •- -<iici Koros, 50 miles ' .<st on the railroad • i.ad been re-entered egians. withdrawals, how d to nave been in line • ;riics of striking with 1 f! t . .-mash allied com :ri Then of waiting for Italian .Attitude Toward 1 he Allies Is Causing Alarm r,iris. May 1.— (A?)— The Italian attitude toward the al lies "has become definitely alarming" in the last two days, foreign ministry spokesman de clared today. The spokesman said the for eign office's eoncern over future relations with France's Mediter ranean neighbor was "frankly uneasy." lie added that the ministry's apprehension was based on the general atmosphere in govern ment and diplomatic circles in ! Rome rather than on specific j facts. Reds Observe May Day :.r<N<v>u\ HI; iv !.—(AP)—War Yor<shi!ol'i declared in :< May Day address from Lenin's tomb today that it is necessary "to double our vigiience and strengthen our army and navy. The USSR is only standing aloof from the war." Speaking to Red army troops which staged an impressive review, the commissar said: '•Today 'here is a deeper differ ence betw >en the capitalistic and Soviet coi ntries and deep is the abyss between them. "The international situation is very tangled, fhe incen .larie.-. of war will try to involve our country in the war." At Least 12 killed And Manylnjured Thousands of Dollars Damage Done by Tor natlic Winds In South ern Illinois, Southeast Missouri and Arkan sas. (By The Associated Press.) Tornadic winds ripping across sections of southern Illinois, south east Missouri and Arkansas and a cloudburst in cast Texas killed at least twelve persons, injured many and caused thousands of dollars dam age last night. Six were killed and eight injured, one critically, near Benton, Ark., as a tornado cut a 75-foot swath through a sparsely settled rural section. At least two were killed and an unestimated number injured as tor nadoes hit southeastern Missouri and southern Illinois. Thirteen persons from both states were taken to a Cairo, 111., hospital. Six were hurt at Marion, 111. J. E. McXeese, 70, of Richland, Tex., and his son, Cecil, o(), were kill ed when wind demolished their home. The 18-months old daughter of Mrs. Ted Cook of Frankston, Tex., was torn from her mother's arms by a flood and drowned. A cloudburst washed the Cook family and others from beneath a culvert where they hud taken refuge. Mrs. Ruby Hawks was killed when a building collapsed during a heavy windstorm at Grand River, Ky. Heavy ram and hail accompanied swirling winds in the mid-south causing damage to crops. Water swept into stores at Thomasville, Ala. A windstorm uprooted trees and unroofed several buildings at Owcns boro, Ky. bimmons Kites Held Today At New Bern New Bern, M;iv 1. — Fun eral services lor former United States Senator F. M. Simmons will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon from Christ Episcopal church, of which he was a member, and interment will follow in Cedar Grove cemetery. The final rites will be conducted by Rev. Charles E. Williams, pastor of the church, and Bishop Thomas C. Darst, of Wilmington. Senator Simmons died yesterday afternoon shortly after 3 o'clock, fol lowing a long period of failing health and a critical illness which began Frfday after his return from a month's stay at a Durham hospital. | Both of Senator Simmons' wives j were loyal Episcopalians and the ! statesman was baptized in the faith I 13 years age at the same time that his* youngest granddaughter, Ella | Meadows, was baptized. Gubernatorial Candidates Unanimously Opposed To "Contingent" Diversion Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh. May I —The seven guber i notorial canciid"ies lot* the Demo j era I ic nomination are unanimously ! against the "contingent diversion" provision of the Revenue law. i In letters to Harry Tucker, chair ! man oi the North Carolina HigTi , way Users Conference, every one of 1 the would-be Governors have record ! ed themselves against the provision, i They used different language, but in | each letter there was a clear-cut ; statement against the section written i in by the 1U39 General Assembly at ' the persistent insistence of Gover nor Clyde R. Hoey. Mr. Tucker will within the next j day or so make public complete texts ! of the replies which were made to a ' letter sent each candidate for Gov ernor and Lieutenant Governor. Only one Republican, guberna-, torial candidate John K. Hoffman, re-, plied. i • i ul ?l.e i-an-.lid.sfes Co f.ieute- i nant Governor, Democrats Iicg Har ris and Erskine Smith, answered. Two other Democrats, Lister A. Mar tin and Dim Tompkins, did not reply, nor did any of the G. O. P.'s. Harris flatly favored repeal of the contingent diversion statement. Smith promised he will, if elected, appoint a committee which will consider ihe matter fairly. Prior to the questionnaire of the Highway Users Conference Allen J. Maxwell was the only candidate who had specifically and categorically up posed the contingent diversion sec tion, though all the others had com mitted themselves against diversion in general. Pertinent extracts from the replies which Tucker will distribute in some 15,(»00 to 20,000 letters follow: (the Tucker ietter specifically asked the candidates' position on repeal of Subsection b. Section 40fJ of the 1939 Revenue Act. the section which per mits transler ol $2,500,000 annually •. Coiitir.v.i?d on two1 Envoy to Berlin mmmmmmmmmzmM Dino Alfieri Considered one of Italy's most strongly pro-German figures, Dino Alfieri was named ambassador to Germany. He exchanges posts with Bernardo Attolico, who rcplacca Alfieri as envoy to the Vatican. (Central Fress) Employment McNutt Reports Priv ate Employers Hire 1£ Percent More in Marcl Than Year Ago. Washington, May —(APj—Fed cral Security Administrator MeNut reported today that private employ ers had hired lf> percent more per sons during March than tliey did ii March a year ago. •'Authoritative reports x x x,'' h .said, "indicate that there is an in creasing demand for workers in in dustry and commerce. Slowly bu surely tiie level of the country's grea reservoir of idle workers is l'ajiin x x x." Despite the optimism voiced in Mc Nutt's report, it was disclosed tha Congressional leaders were weighin a suggestion that additional funds b allocated to the WPA should nee arise before July 1. Approximate!, $1,500,000,000 already had been ap propriated for relief up to that dat( Senator Barkiey said more WI\ money could be obtained by dippin into the $975,000,000 relief approp liation which President Roosevel (Continued on Page Five) I>I1 ITIS11 WITHDRAW London. May 1.—(AI*)—lb" war fit lice announced today that British troops "withdrew to pre pared positions" in the import ant Dombas area, 100 miles south of Trondheim. after stub bornly resisting strong German attacks. Nazis Irade Two Planes For Warship BV J. NORMAN LOIHiK. Namso;, Norway. May 1.— (AI'j : The German.-' sacrificed two bomber | tn sink the British escort vessel Bit tern at anchor in the fjord off Nam sos yesterday. j Observers on a hill overlooking tli I fjord said the Germans tried a j morning l<> nail the little warship bu I were kept so high by British am ■ French anti-aircraft guns they coul< j not lind their target. i Finally, after six unsuecessfu 1 hours, the squadron of three plane . resorted to an old trick. ! They put them; elves between th Bittern and the sun. Then two drop j ped to about 9,000 feet to draw i'ul i barrage of anti-aircraft fire. While the ship's guns were trainei on them a third, which had remain ed high and out of sight in the sur suddenly dived from nowhere. The maneuver succeeded—but a i a cost of two warplanes. j (The German high command re I ported a British destroyer sunk b, I air attack off Namsos.) (jj&athstfi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. C'learir.e and somewhat colder tonight, preceded by showers on roast: Th"rvflav generally fair. High Command An nounces Sinking of British limps and De clares <4Tfie German Advance in Norvvay Continues'. Berlin. May i r\l')—llc\y new blows 1" Brili: li naval p m er and! leacfv stivi'f.t i iiiu'i of t!i> K; /i imlJ ; on Norway v.<-< • reported 1 »y the.* I high c<11iiwind 11•(';<v ;i - t!i<- Herman ; I ;iri:iv, juhilanl over its swift suc I cesses, mapped a seeping attack . aimed al driving allied forces into j the sea. The high command's communique said German aerial bombs had sent a British cruiser, a destroyer and j five transports to the bottom and had damaged another cruiser and! live other transports. "The air lore.- attacked British sea lorcc.; successfully before Namsos," the communique said describing yesterday's operations. "One cruiser was sunk, one transport was 'dam aged ait by a direct hit. "In addition, one destroyer and , | five British transports sank after j i being hit while five others suffered, ■ j severe damage." , | Declaring that "the Gentian ad-1 > vance in Norway continues" the higl\j I command reported that German ' j forces had taken more thai? 4,9001 I prisoners. • Officials Deny British Charge i Washington, M;iy 1.—(AP)—Point * ing to statistics us proof, United I Suites officials today declared that I the country's exports of tin and rub ber to Soviet Russia have cea.sed and ■ that copper shipments have greatly t diminished despite Russia's reeogniz i j ed normal need of those commodities. - They cited export figures for 1939 1! and the first quarter of 1940 in re II plying to assertions of Ronald Cross, (Continued on Page Seven) r I ; Offers Reward For Capture Of Adolf Hitler . iWw York, May I.—(AP)—A Pitts burgh group offered today to pay aj million dollar;; reward for the cap ture of Adolf Hitler unhurt, but spe ciliod Dial Hie German fuehrer must be delivered into Ihe custody of the League of .Nations before the end of | May. Samuel Harden Church, president; of the $-<»,OdO.DOi) Carnegie Institute,' (Continued on Page Seven) Advises Business John W. O'Loary Businessmen should "concontrate m a practical way" on American prob lems despite the war and should avoid emergency controls "which take from us some of the liberty of a free people," declared John W. O'Leary, executive chairman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, ad dressing a convention of the Cham ber councilors in Washington, D. C. (Central Fras) | On Mussolini United States Ambas sador To Receive In formation on Italy's Intentions. Komc, May 1.—(AIM—I'liilcd States Ambassador William Phil lips was understood today to have been assured by Premier .Mussolini that no war move is contemplated by Italy at present. Flome. May I.—(AP) — United Slates Ambassador William Phillips today called upon Premier Mussolini to receive first hand information on Italy's position and intentions in view of recent developments in the international situation. Political circles regarded the visit as particularly tie fly for the op portunity provided to obtain a clari fied view of the li: I'=> 11 policy in the lac of the strained .Mediterranean .--{liiation and con i;:nt rumors con cerning po.' . iLii Inpirc developments. The imprc ion prevailed in poli tical quaiter that no change in Italy':- policy oi non-l.u'!!;ger» ney was in prospect. Meanwhile. Italian authorities con sidered in ol'ljcial silence the "pre cautionary" diversion of through ISrilish I*Ii i pi re -hipping from the Mediierranean to the loiv'er route around the tip of Africa. mi xico m:purs .Mexico Citv. May I.— (A") — .Mexico's reply to the I'nitcd Stal'-s iki!(! siigg'-sting arbitra tion of <!■< dispute over Mexican expropriate:!) of foreign-owned oil properties was delivered to dav to Ambassador Josepluis Daniels. I! will be published Sunday morning. House Labor Committee Begins Drive For Passage Of Wage-Hour Amendments i Washington, May I.—(AP;—The i House labor committee began today j a drive to put its wage-hour law aniondireius through the House i quickly and without substantial | change. Chairman Norton urged the cham ber to approve only amendments which ••improve the law. not destroy it." She asked members also to leave her committee's legislation tree of extraneous matter so that it ! might be passetf .-peedily. "There is now no reason lor long (delay in disposing of the issue," she' I argued, because many proposals al ready have been defeated and "every ! member knows how he intends to vote on the bill." ' "Every member realizes the im-; portance of passing a bill this year' so that many under the coverage of the act may be relieved." she added1 Mrs. Norton announced that she j would propose to strike from i L'osrmiuee's hill wage exemptions fo: the processing of certain iresh 1 ruit.-, jjijf] vegetable: . If-;*viriii tlio.se operation exempt only ij '/iij the hour; . tandard.s for certain periods. Certain members thereupon ask ed whctl « r she intended to leave intact a provision of the present law1 which totally exempts certain farm labor in the "'area of production" a.s delmed by the wage-hour adminis tration. She replied that the committee bill, even with her amendment, would repeal the '"area of produc tion-' .section, a controversial provi sion. Jubilant over defeating the contro versial Barden amendment?, admin-: istration forces in the House push ed ahead with plans to enact less ; sweeping revisions in the wage-hour law. The proposals' of Representative Barden, Democrat. North Carolina, were tinned down 1">6 to 56 Inte '•esterday after the Hou.-e had made . many changes that even their j ' withdrew his support. , Situation Is Described As 'Dangerous' Admitting German Gains, British Report Air Attacks on Nazi Air Bases In Norway; Italian Entrance Into War Is Feared. London, May I.—(AI * >—The sit uation ol Britain's forces in central Norway was described by ;i military spokesman today ;is "dangerous and \cry obscure." hut efforts to relieve them continued and the British air lorce struck savagely ;it three Ger inan air bases in Scandinavia. 'J lie spokesman admitted it was "quite possible" that IJombas and Storen, \ it:iI railway junctions in the Trondheim theatre of war, had been taken by the Germans as reported in Berlin yesterday. Allied anxiety lest German suc cesses In Norway have a damaging sequel in Italy's entrance into the war beside Germany found expres sion in Britain's order suspending her through merchant ship traffic in the Mediterranean. Indications that the British were seeking to relieve the pressure on their forces in Norway was seen in a war office announcement last night that fresh troops had been landed. The military spokesman said thai the situation at Namsos and Steink jer, north of Trondheim, v. as "good" and tiiat the allied forces were mov ing closer to Narvik, nazi-occupied ore port in far northern Norway. The air ministry said seven British bombers were lost in raids on German airdromes at Stavanger, on the southeastern coast of Norway, on Kortebu, near Oslo, and on Aalborg, Denmark, but declared three Ger man planes were shot down and heavy damage was inflicted on the three air fields. The war came home for Britons on the east coast during the night and three civilians were killed and more than 100 injured when a huge Ger man bomber, winged by anti-aircraft fire, crashed and exploded in the center of a resort town 50 miles from London. Five Germans on the bomber were killed. Strike Ties Up Chicago Milk Delivery ("Imago, May 1. (AI'J—Several hlindn d thousand Chicago and mi 1 >• i• i>;i11 if id( nl. wi nl without milk and cream I or breakla.t tin., morn ing. A : 11 tk«* voted by tin* Milk Wagon [ji'i /i r Union halted virlu;illy .'ill liom<- clflivi rn'.s in the metropolitan area. Oliver .topped work because of a dispute over ;i new wage contract Willi ilic A oejnted Mill: Healers of Chicago. 'I'hi w hlil contract expir ed at mi'ink'lit I;*.-1 night. I.'f idenl in the metropolitan ;irc}i con; time ijio' c than I ,'iitlt/Hlll (piaits ol' milk d;iily. An estimated Vtl per cont is home delivered. Secretary To Congressman T estif ies Gainesville, Ga., May I.—(Al'j — 'J tie pretty blonde secretary ol Kep • c : eiitalive ii. Frank Whelchel, Deuiocrat. Georgia, told a federal court jury today the north Georgia congressman conducted an extensive loan business among his mountanT constituents. Called by the prosecution in the trial of Whelchel, accused on eight counts ol selling postal appointments, Mrs. Smith testified the Congress rnan had 516,912.07 on loan to in dividuals in June, 1939, in addition 11 j $2"|000 on deposit with the Motor Finance Corp. of Gainesville. The secretary also disclosed ex st ance of a "little black box" from which she related Whelchel occas ionally made loans. It was from this box, she said, that the congressman once doled out $400 in bills to H. Grady Jones. Pickens county com missioner accused a.-, co-con-plrator with Whelchel in seven counts. The a,(/\i rn: ent moved toward the close of its case today, arranging to call a second rural mail carrier it contend. paid SI,100 for a job.
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