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UtenltersoH Siatly Htspatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. - . ..Seventh year Henderson, n. c., Saturday afternoon,may4,1940 1,UBL,SHbEDXcEEvpETRk^gi?BN00N five cents copy * ******* ***** *********** Tt/jo- Thirds Of Norway Held By Nazis Ncrse AiiiUSu i $ _. v. <n in n ■- ,, ;\at? W -» ■-■»<*• • florin of Criti Arcused in Eng Against Conduct ci I he War; Norv/eg is Accuse Allies of Desertion, ,tc«l Prrs.O C»< • blitzkrieg has' •. i'-thircl> of N«>r >.v:iy and ousted > t'orccs from all i 1 region, man resistance j w.;i\o "t the allied c.-t Britain not : -ct int southern .> storm of bit— •v' against the „ t rtunent. ventral military com- j v invading Germans • nri accused the al pivhensible action" in , clue notice of their . t^.uns laid down their ng German forces ten itory. occupying G. i"ig and other cen - s.>::;e scattered guer . o- by Norwegians, but in : gh:;ng was over for them. . . - emained in Norway Nar\ '.k sector, where they oust German forces, : 'ire port, and the French I y at Paris announced to ed forces had surround 4.0i»u Germans in tiiei ■ . and that the position ,•> there was desperate, the Chamberlain gov ic-. d a mounting barrage and members of the' li-ter's own conservative ueti on rebellion in protest. • government's conduct of Eight Derby Hopefuls To Barrier ...... M;ty 4. — (Ai*)—The •bio starters in today's .1 the Kentucky Derby : t ight shortly before •• ihe scratching of J. : *t" Tiue Star. ■ . ince True Star had of , . •.!(• $75,000 event disap ■(■■■ ilij rays of a burning Kentucky had seen in The track promised to be! True Star's owner i c?Pertained more than aj that the colt might run • the mud. i \irters in the Kentucky iJ:melech, Mioland, Dit. im. i .ct<>r, Royal Man •clion. • track promised to make even a greater favorite. isazis Enter Norwegian Command > r Issues Order Say in;; Fight Against Ger mans is Ended. • '»!;■!. .May 4.—(AP)—Ger wetrping northward were ■(iay to have entered Nam • >l . Hied withdrawal 100 ■ .!'.i m! Trondheim. newspaper said Nazi • • occupying the destroyed »■<: --pying other points in ■:ie>.-.»rted by the allies. • Get/., acting command >*g!an forces in the cen ' ■!.<• yesterday asked Ger armistice in the district. ». <»der of the day thi he -aid that effec '• • >*i°,ht against the Ger . :.:>hed. One Powerful Reason Why Nazis Won It has be>n acknowledged that one of the most important reasons for the supremacy of the Nazis in Norway is that their troops were sent over fully equipped and were backed up by quantities of supplies. Here, we look through the hatchways of a Nazi transport which landed troops. Supply trucks, already loaded, are ready for road. They even brought beer (cases at right). Police Join In Man Hunt Finding of Tiiree Muti lated Bodies In Box Cars Spurs Mad. Butcher Hunt. Pittsburgh. May 4.—(AP)—Grim faced police off'cials of two states, taunted ten years by a mad butcher who has counted his victims at more than a score, mobilized today for a man hunt from Pittsburgh, dumping ground for three more mutilated bodies. Detectives came from Cleveland, home of the mud man's meanderings, as they did from Youngstown, Ohio and Newcastle. Pa., ports of call in a tour of death that lead yesterday to a railroad siding near here, where three surgically sliced, headless corpses were found in three box cars. The slaughterer's trail, twisted and obscured by perhaps several months of time, apparently traced back to Cleveland, where in the downtown Kingsbury Run section re: idents for years have been terrorized by a man with a knife who has killed and cut a dozen victims and left them dis membered in city dumps. Two of the bodies, uncovered from crude wrappings, had been cut into eight piece.; by what morgue at tendants said was an expert in the surgeon's scalpel or a butcher k.nile. The third had the word "n«>:i" carved across the chest in five-inch letters. There were no identifying clues. 21 DIE IN TRAIN WRECK IN FRANCE Pans, May -1.—(AP)—Twenty-one persons were killed and 2a others in jured today when a local train crashed through a flood-weakened bridge near Vallon in Allier depart I ment. The bridge gave way when the j fourth coach oi the train was cross j ing. ;Utility Claims * Legislation Is Unconstitutional | Washington. May 4.—(AP)—Elec tric Bond and Share Company as serted today that the so-called "death ; sentence" of the holding company act was unconstitutional, and asked the Securities Commission to dismiss j proceedings directed toward disin ■ tregation of its utilities system. Electric Bond and Share, largest ' of the nine major systems against , which the commission has begun 1 proceedings, set out its views in a formal answer to a SEC order is j sued in February. The company said that it "expressly reserved" its right to contest the constitutionality of any provision of the holding com pany act which might be applied to : it. Wage-Ho u r Change j Hopes Abandoned None Injured In Powder Explosion In DuPont Plant | Pensis Grove. N. J. May 4.— (AP)—Two tons of rifie powder exploded this morn ins: in a building of the E. I. DuPont de Nemours company at nearby Carney's Point. The blast shook this south Jersey area for miles, but caus ed no serious injuries or property damage. Two workmen in a building 150 feet distant suf fered shock and were treated at a hospital. Mold Causing To Plants llnleigh. May 4.—(AP)—Eastern! j North Carolina tobacco farmers, al ready well behind schedule :n trans-; planting, are facing new delays be-; i cause of increasingly severe attacks <>! blue mold. Dr. Luther Shaw said ; today following a tour of Pitt county. Dr. Shaw. Extension plant patho I logist at North Carolina State eol i lege, found that the tobacco disea.se had inflicted "heavy damage" in the last ten days. "Some farmers were able to get out their plants before the recent at tack." he said. '"Those who were not so fortunate will have to wait until lhe epidemic abates." House Members, Dis gusted Over Week Long Parliamentary Fiasco, Send Bill Back to Committee, Shelved For Session. Washington, May 4.— (AP)— Dis gusted over a week-long parliamen tary fiasco. House members said to day that their failure to agree on wage-hour amendments meant that thr labor standards lnw would stand unchanged through the election year campaign. The feelings of many were reflect ed in the comment of Representative Short. Republican. Missouri. "Here we spend $500,000, argue for seven days and got nowhere in the end. The action of the hou;e is in defensible," Short said. Chairman Norton of the House la bor committee was fine of the first lo say that the question of revisions was "out the window" for the ses sion. since the Hon e, after slipping into an almost hopeless situation, or dered the committee yesterday to study amendments further. With some members confused by a series of rapid lire votes, the cham ber finally voted 205 to 175 to pass no amendments. The week-long Iree-for-all center ed around attempts to write into law definite exemptions for agricultural operations as a substitute for present exemptions covering only "the area of production" as defined by the wage-hour administration. Meanwhile, relatively swift pro gress was made in the campaign to wrest legislation broadening the Hatch anti-politics bill from the House judiciary committee which voted secretly yesterday to pigeon hole the measure. Warning follows Pub iicatiOii oa British and It'VCiaval Move ments in Mediterran ean, Taking Meet To Aiex&ndi ia. l{111)'". May Hi; t ll;ily w« tC-mpHrrl attai forces muss in was sounded todi Italian e-rc!es. Thi warning ol British and Ki ments. The aitlho1 i'uiti Gayda. wrote that . • (AP) A warning id It,"IT ;"»y i,l_ l-irn allied naval in ilis1 Mediterranean •c!;iv iii authoritative flowed publication nch iicival move <• editor. Viringio "the Italian nation does not u'l really understand ex actly whai particular design inspired j the joint decision of England and 1 France to reinforce their war fleet in the Mediterranean." An allied battle fleet yesterday reached Alexandria. Egypt, in the eastern Mediterranean near the Suez canal. Gayda said that it is certain that the Mediterranean is keeping "com- • pletely quiet." "It is not the first time that Italy sees concentrated in the Mediterran ean with openly anti-Italian aims fleets of England and France operat-; ing in accordance with joint political: plan," he said. "Nevertheless, she never was im-' pressed and ha< continued the free! carrying out of her policy toward; protection of her legitimate national; interests or defense of her views of; the highest European interest." Gotten Bill Fight Planned by Pro ponents of Bill To Ex tend Crop Insurance Measure. Washington, May 4.— (AIM — Flrpie^rntative Fulmcr. Demo crat. South Carolina, said today ho had iearnrd indirectly from the While House that President Roosevelt had vetoed a hill to extend the federal crop insur ance program to cotton. Fulmcr. co-author of the legisla tion. said he and other advocates of the measure planned to appeal to the President ;'l Hyde Park to delay re- i turning the bill to the House until they had an opportunity to discuss: it with him. Fulmcr said he would try to im press upon the Chief Executive the! fact that while losses might be ex-1 pccted under the cotton insurance, phase of the program at the outset,; the cost would ' be nothing in com- i parison to what Ihe government is! spending now in relief of distress due to crop failures resulting from floods, droughts and similar disas-j tors" Governor's Race Is Much Too Close For Comfort, Latest Survey Siiows I Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Bv HENRY AVLRILL Raleigh, May 4.—This governor's race is much too close for comfort— particularly the comfort of the can didates. the news men who are try ing to gain reputations as soothsayers and the host of bandwagon riders jwho want to be on the winning side. Talk for as much as a minute to each of haif a dozen political-wise peo pie who usually know the answers. Get out a pencil and paper and figure .the state county by coi nty. Look long and hard into a crystal ball. Toss a coin. Do almost anything, in fact, except ask the candidates or tlu-ir maii..t(,,-<—you get pure hokum , there. After doing all that you'll probably be wandering round in circles, scratching your head and eventually deciding "to the Devil with it, what do I care who's going to win any way"—that is. unless you are in one ol' the categories enumerated in paragraph one and almost have to make at least a stab at finding a solution to the problem. Your Raleigh reporter has tried just about all the methods of prog nostication known to ancient or modern science or metaphysics; and hasn't yet formed an opinion satis factory even to himself. The latest approach was to make a painstaking survey of reports leaching him about every county in the state—lis'1'1? the candidates who they indicate will run one, two. three I in each county; recapitulating by assigning a value ol 3 to first place, 2 to second place and 1 to third place; then adding up each candidate's , score. The result was to indicate again an astonishingly close battle among the generally conceded tup three, Lieutenant Governor "W. P. Horton, J. M. Broughton and Allen J. Max well. The score?—Horton 134, Brough ton 182. Maxwell 173. Lec Gravely 29. Paul Grady 17, Tom Cooper 15. Simmons 0 i The counties?—With no guarantee of accuracy and with the warning ' (Continued or Prio Five; i Decorated by France ' fp" .17'" '•*r* ~:"*xm»»»kww i Arthur Stratton First American to win a French decoration in the present war is Arthur Stratton, of Clinton, Mass . a volunteer ambulance driver. Ha was awarded the Croix de Guerre with palm for gallantry in action, "somewhere in France." • I Methodists Include Fiea T Sxat Conscien tious Objectors Have Consideration. i Atlantic City, May 4.—(AIM—The Methodist church, in a declaration of its opposition to war, included today a plea that conscientious objectors! be accorded consideration by their! i'ellowmen. j "There is no common judgment among Christians as to what a Chris tian should do when his own nation becomes involved in war." ine com mittee report said. "On this issue ourl own membership is divided. We be lieve, however, that the; Christian church, in a world torn asunder by bitter conflict must not permit itself lo be divided over any matter." The conference also decided it would not pelmit Methodist build-1 ings 10 be used "in preparation for war." The delegates rejected an amend ment which would make the anti war stand refer only to "aggressive" wars. To this proposal Or. Ernest F. Tittle of Kvanston. III., chairman of the committee which dialled the pronouncement, said: "We must not do again v.hat we did 2') year ago when w1 fought a bloody war v.ilh the mi taken idea thai < \ii.vtiniig we held dear was at stake." j Snow Last Ni^ht At Blowing Rock Blowing Kork. May I.—(A!') — Snow fell here last night. The fall was sufficient to he still visible when the sun came out today, when it melted quickly. Residents could noP recall when it l:»sl snowed here in May. i Sinclair Ends Controversy With Mexico Washington, iV&y 4.—(AP;—The Sinclair Oi! Company has reached a settlement with Mexico over seizure of oil properties. reliable sources here and in Mexico City said today. In State department circles, how ever, the opinion was expressed that diplomatic controversy would con tinue. The other United States company involved in the expropriation con troversy, Standard Oil of Xew Jer sey. has not reached any agreement, it was said, and the belief was ex pressed that the department would continue to demand prompt indem nification of this company or sub mission of the problem to arbitra tion. Secretary of State Hull suggested arbitration to Mexico some time ago and Mexico's reply, which is under stood to reject this suggestion, is now ijeing decoded by the department. It ivill be made public tomorrow morn ing. The Mexico City report of the Sin clair settlement was that an agree ment had been reached fo- d^liverv Mexican oil to the Consolidated 0. Company (Sinclair). 30,000-Ton Vessel Sunk Off Namsos Germans Describe Sinking of Mighty Warship as Equivalent To Defeat of An Army; British Sources Decline Comment. Berlin. .May 1.— (AIM—(»er niiiiiy officially reported today a British battleship ant! a heavy cruiser Mere sunk, one cruiser was damaged, anil one destroyer hit in hea\.v German air action yesterday off the Norwegian port of Namsos. An official announcement said constant attacks hy German war planes were carried out on a British naval unit which had embarked British troops from the Namsos area. Announcement also reported raids yesterday on Narvik in the far north, staling that eiithl British warships and transports were sunk or hadl.v damaged in the attacks there and at Namsos. A heavy cruiser reported sunk was described as a vessel of the "York class." (The York is a vessel of X.:if>() tons and has a normal crew of (J00 men). Berlin, May 4.—(AP)—Germany asserted jubilantly today that her bombing planes had sunk one of the mightiest vessels ol the British navy —a 30.000 ton battleship of the Queen Elizabeth class—off Norway's west coast. The sinking was said by the Ger man high command to have taken London. May t.—(AP)—Brit ish sources declined comment to day on the German high com mand claim that a British bat tleship had been sunk by air at tack off Norway. The British have not acknow ledged the loss of a capital ship through air bombs since the war began. place yesterday off Namso;. Authorized .sources said it was the first since the beginning of the cur rent war that German aircraft had sent out with specific orders to keep after a designated battleship until it was sent to the bottom. Adolf Hitler and Air Marshal Goering were represented as over joyed at the news of this latest Ger man succe:.. which they were said to regard as equivalent to the defeat of an army. (Vessels of the Queen Elizabeth class, of which there arc five, nor mally carry ;• crew of 1,1 li4 to 1,181 men). It was al: o announced today that nn enemy submarine had been sunk l,y a pur tiing German U-boat after it had been sighted and bombed by :i German reronnoissanec plane. German authorities said that num ltoii: hits were scored on the battle hip during the attack, which the command said was carried out by Dive bomber: . but it was thought lhat one bomb must have struck the powder magazines. That alone eould have caused, it was said, the flame; which were said to have shot up 1,500 feet into the »ir. Authorize') oiirees speculated whether the commander of the Unt il expeditionary forces to Norway was aboard the warship and a state nent by Win ton Churchill was an <iou. ly awaited. Escape Try Ends In Death Raleigh, March 4.—(AP;—Gary jrison camp officials said today that Steve Gryzv/ana, Jr., 18, sent up "rom Cumberland, was fatally wounded in an escape attempt to iay. Giyzwana. Prison Superintendent D.scar Pitt: said, jumped from a ruck which was bringing a prison .vork gang back to the camp, and ,vas shot by Guard W. O. Rex. Pri son records showed that Gryzwuna was sent up frojji Cumberland in \pril. His home was Otis, Ind. tV&aiJwi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair to partly cloudy and con tinued rather cold; scattered frost in west and central portions to night; Sunday fair. OI TLOOK FOR T1IE WEEK. Fair beginning and near end of week with showers middle pe riod; temperatures will be near or slightly abo\e normal.
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