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You Must Register This Week If You Would Vote In The May 25 Primary IHenitersnn SJatlu Bispatrb ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. "TT, y; V-SKVENTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 8, 1940 ,'ubus%V™pt1LndaIbnoon FIVE CENTS COPY I '' ' uster Of Chamberlain Asked mmies Back From Norway e C. P. Iiadiophoto |j A P: '• • roop transport, loaded with soldiers returning from the dis N-jiueirian campaign, docks at a Scottish port. The troops told • a taivs of German air attacks during the Allied withdrawal. . iir Edtrand Ironside, however, welcomed them as heroes. Photo j radioed from London to New York. Third Termers Win Big California Vote ! Pledged Convention Delegates Run Six to One Ahead of Garner Ticket; Texas Gives Delegation to Vice President. v \- ociated Pre..-.) •••-.• It third term supporters ad-. . ( tlit'ornia delegation to •'if - t«»c!iiv as the re It . .cn.tic primary sweep. : ■ :i; I convention slate : *" t President defeated a t . i.\ t'» <>ne and held i ti :ee to one majority over > :• "i ■ • te lor Garner and 'ucHd tickets. Ko« >.>eve it ca nd ida tes ■ : u virtu.lily every Cali ify. Garner won the vast delegate.; chosen tor the ' I>noeratie convention • r li-nkhead. Democrat. ... given favorite son sup 2'J national delegates •i in Aalbama. " developments. big blighted '-•i:n ied on Paye Seven) I oreigners In ? *gypt Guarded May —fAP)—C'on 'atives of France. Bri •i tod States and other . contemplating the '.l war in the Mediter '•iicii precautions today .lety «»l" their national ■ere i .-tif'd I » members communities and air • -locked with loud i -Mfdical equipment. v.■*-!•' • made to take ■ . t>l v. hoin there are ri'in.. and another 700 •• .jihoiit Kgypt, to a re !ea at the first hint I m.! 111«they v/ouior board ;h'• first available i ire Rages Near Boone X. C.. May 8.—(AP)—De ' iorK .if more than 400 a forest lire raged urt y in the Elk Creek sec . tauga county northeast ' >i Lenior. district lor r:'- fire already had burn ire than 5.000 acres and '.<>ns for fighting it are Webb Miller Is Found Dead On London Railway London. May 8.—(AP)—Webb Miller. American journalist, was found dead today on a railway near C'lapham Junction station, southwest London. It was be lieved he fell from a train short ly after it pulled out of the sta tion. Miller was Furopean news manager for the I'nited Press Associations. Mystery Killer U'c.-tliclfi. iVlay !S.—(AC)— State ballistics exports and chemist-; joined forces with pathologists iiiul police today in an effort to explain the mysteriou: miirder List night of Pi of. Lewi"? B. Allyn. (56, noted , ure foods authority, in the vestibule of 'lis home. A .stall of detectives headed by District Attorney Thomas F. Mor iarty sought a 22-calibre weapon | from which a I'usillage of bullet-; ! struck down the scholarly chemist in j a nonncr • i;nil;>r to the still-unsolv ed .laying five years ago of Dr. Fl I'otl S:>ee:, headmaster of Mt. Her-j man school in Nortlvficld. 40 miles ;iway. Foes Of Dr. Ralph McDonald May Start Move To Oust Him From Position In University Daily Dispatch Bureau, . In thr Sir Walter Hotel. By IIE.NKY AVEKILL ilaleigh, M;iy u.—Rumblings have f bion heard on many hides lately that an ouster move against Dr. Ralph I YV. McDonald is being worked up by ; conservatives and Roosevelt haters I i all over the state. There are clear indications that ef i forts to toss McDonald out of his job as associate Extension director at the University of North Carolina will be made at the next meeting of ; the U. N. C. board of trustees. Such a move may. of course, gain sufficient strength to achieve its ends (which would include an indirect | slap, at least, at President Frank Graham): but most capital observers v. ho are in touch with the subject! House Rejects FDR's Reorganization Plan Center Of War Fears Reports of German Re quest for Right of Way Through Hungary Met With New Allied Drive for Unity of Balkans. Ilnci."i|>»1. M;cy 8. (AP)—Reports' dI a requc ;t for ;i German army right I i)l' way through Hungary and a strong ■ British drive to wold the Balkans into a "defensive alliance" gave new >hape today to southeastern Europe's! war fears. It was generally felt that the bel-I ligerents. searching for a battlefield, i uid picked this corner ol' Europe as | i likely spot. The reports of a German request on j Hungary for free passage of her le gions into the southeast—presumably; ai action to be taken when strategy ! dictates—was carried by the official Hungarian news agency with a note .•saying that thus far the report could not be verified. It was circulated on the heels of (Continued on Page Seven) INSURANCE ACTION TO FEDERAL COURT Raleigh, May 8.—(AP)—A $5,- I )00 insurance suit filed by the widow :»f G. Irby Holmes, Goldsboro taxi company operator who was found jeaten to death near Goldsboro in January, was transferred to United ' States district court here today. The defendant company requested the transfer. Martha Ryan Still Waits New York, May 8.— (AP)— Mrs. Martha Bark ley Ryan, former Mor gan ton. N. C. girl, awaited today the reaction of her estranged husband. Basil A. (Pat) Ryan, to a court or der directing him to pay her $10,000 a year alimony. Abraham J. Halprin. attorney for the 23-yeai old North Carolina wo man. who is now working as a cafe hostess here, said last night the or der had been served on Ryan after a 21-months search for him. Ryan, 31 -year old grandson of the j late multi-millionaire Thomas For-j tune Ryan, was found working on! the grounds of a Port Chester, N. Y.; sanitoiium, Halprim said. Mrs. Ryan \va< awarded a sepjira-' lion and permanent alimony of $10,-; 000 a year with an allowance ol $7, 500 for attorney's fee:; by the late Supreme Court Justice Salvatoe A. Costillo in 1938. believe that it would be much more ' likely to result in red faces for those hatching the ouster plot. Those who do not like McDonald ' will charge that he has violated all the proprieties, if not actually the j law, by campaigning vigorously for ' a North Carolina delegation favor able to President Roosevelt. They in sist that he has used the University's time, and the salary paid him for University work, in activities which have no proper place under the cir cufiistances. In rebuttal. McDonald's friends contend that he has kept his politics entirely separate from his University work and travel. McDonald, they point out. is fully aware that he has j i Continued on Page Seven) Slayer of Four Verling Spcncer C. P. Phonephoto Crazed by worry over impending loss of his job. Vcrling Spcncer, school principal at Pasadena, Cal., shot io death four persons, wound ing two others and himself. Two victims were members of the school board, meeting to decide his can*. Battle Fleet In Pacific Surprise Announce ment Says American Fleet Will Not Return Now to West Coast. Washington, May —(AP)-- Now demands that Congress build up United States defenses coincided to day with a surpiise announcement that the battle fleet would remain in mid-I'acific. The news that the fleet would stay in the Hawaiian area instead of re turning on schedule to its west coast bases came at a moment when fears ran high that the European war might .explode anew with lightning thrust;; into the Netherlands or other neutral countries. A laconic "further tactical exer cises and training" was the explana tion given last night for the unex pected change in navy plans. Ac'miral James O. Richardson, j fleet commander, said that no sig nificance was attached to the dc-! eision. If a coincidence, the change nevertheless meant that the fighting force would continue operating from! its nearest major base to thr Nether- I lands East Indies, where the United States recently called for a "hands off" policy by Japan and other na-| lions. The fleet announcement shared at tention with a national defense ap praisal which came late yesterday from Bernard H unch, who so, ed in Americas world war councils. Baruch wrote the Senate commit tee studying an Army appropriation bill that the United States was "in- j adequately prepared even for de fense." Italy's Stand Described i Rome, May —(AI'j—A fascist! senate report describing Italy's at titude toward the war as one of! "prc-bclligercncy" rather than •non belligerency" gave fresh support to day to the growing belief that this country is only waiting for an op portune moment to enter the war. This new statement of Italian pol icy tended to re-affirm previous semi-official assertions that Italy could not remain permanently out of the fight. .— — UJsuaihiA FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight; Thurs day increasing cloudiness, fol lowed by rain and cooler in mountains. I 1 About 75 Democrats Vote With Solid Re publican Membership for Nullification of Order Placing CAA Under Hopkins. Washington. May 8.—(A I')—The House pa.-..-en ;iikI .sent to Hie Senate today a rtwolulion rcji;£lin& Presi dent Roosevelt's iourtli governmeni reorganization order, which would place the Civil Acn.n;iuties Author ity in the Commerce department. The resolution was approved by the roll call vote of 232 to 132. About 75 Democrats voted with ii solid Republican membership for nullification ol the reorganization ■ order. The order, wftich would abolish I the safety board of the CAA, will j become operative next month unless ! the Senate also approves the House resolution. President Roosevelt announced April ll that he had decided upon several changes in the makeup of government agencies and depart ments. Congressional opposition immediately developed to one por tion which would shift the CAA from an independent agency to a bureau under Secretary of Commerce Hop kins. Meanwhile, the Senate judiciary committee recommended early Sen ate consideration of the House-ap proved Logan-Walter bill to facilitate judicial review of the decisions of federal administrative agencies. Roosevelt Invited To Fish OffN. C. Washington, May X.— (AIM — Senator Bailey, Democrat. North Carolina, accompanied a delega tion of North Carolinians to the i White House today to invito President Roosevelt to fish off the North Carolina coast. The group was headed by Bruce FtlieredRC, head of the Depart ment of Conservation and Deve lopment. Bailey said the President told them he would "come if you will j just eel rid of Congress." PROMINENT LAWYER OF FAYETTEVILLE DIES EARLY TODAY; Fayltevillo. May 8.—(AP)— V. j I»1111; i irl. 117. prominent Fayetteville lawyer, died early today at his home i ;ift<T an illness of several months. Me had served as mayor of Fay-i ettf'villo. as Cumberland county re-1 preventative in the house, and as city J ;iikI county attorney. The funeral wiil j be at 3 p. m. tomorrow. intense Preparation For j Crisis In The Netherlands! Anist' rii:nn. M;iy 8. —(AP)—In-1 tense militiiy preparations accom panied by ;i partial "blackout" of communications with the outside world during the night kept the Netherlands in a state of suspense today. (Rep'»«» that two German columns are converging on the Netherlands; frontier were said by a highly re liable source in New York last night to be responsible for the unusual precautions, but authorities in Berlin ^ denied any such activity. (In Washington, the Netherlands, minister disclosed his government! bad directed him to act as general paymaster for all the Dutch dip lomats and other officials abroad "in case of emergency.") Wins in Maryland Sen. George L. RadclifTe Smashing the slate administration, Senator George L. RadclifTe won re nomination in ' Maryland's Demo cratic senatorial primary over Democratic National Committee man Howard Bruce, New Dealer. The winner's campaign manager was Senator Millard E. Tydings, who survived President Uooscvcll'is "purge" in l'JIJS. (Central Preas) Reply Denied Hungarian Premier Refuses Direct Reply to British Request For Statement. Budapest, May 8.—(AP)— Great Britain was reported in diplomatic circles tonight tu have asked the Hungarian government to state its attitude toward any German move to send troops through Hungary. Following published reports that Germany had requested such permis sion, these sources said the British minister had asked the Hungarian premier to declare his country's stand. The premier refused a definite answer, according to these inform ants. saying Hungary's attitude would depend on circumstances when and jt Germany gut ready to move. The British ambassador was re- I ported lo have offerer! support ol j the British army and air force if Hungary chose to resist any German attempt to inarch through. GOLDSBORO MEN ON TRIAL AT RALEIGH Raleigh. May «. (AP)- Trial start! ed in federal di: iriet court today of! James I). IIopew"ll, operator of a filling talion near Goldsboro, and seven other men indicted on charge.1? of conspiracy to evade payment of liquor taxes. The jury had just been completed when court recessed for lunch. Charged Willi Hopewell are David Newsom, Norwood Vinson, Lake; Smith. Bruce Worrell, George O. j Thomas, Adrian Hall and Paul Wor- f rell. "SI (CKSSFI L RAIDS" Berlin, .Vla v 8.—(A I*)— Ger- j man airmen were reported to- j day to have made "siieeessful raids" on marching columns of allied troops near Narvik, far northern Norway, and to have ; scored new bomb hits on two ] British cruisers. Outgoing telephone rails to ;t|l [joints abroad were cut off last night unci a government announcement -aid the same restrictions would be imposed again tonight. (Radio announcements picked up in New York said the customary radio weather records would not be j jroadcast "due to conditions which ! ire known to you". The broadcasting >f weather reports has been diseon inued in belligerent countries since! he start of the war.) Meanwhile, civilian railway travel hroughout the Netherlands was iharply curtailed to facilitate the ransportation of soldiers and re iervists called to the colors and re timing to posts after the cancella tion ol all army and navy lecvos. House Vote Is Expected Late Today Prime Minister Rises Quickly To Declare He Welcomes The Chal lenge of the Labor Op position to His Govern ment. London. .May 8.—(AD—A la bor opposition demand Ilia' (lit* house ol' commons oust the Chamberlain government, in stantly accepted by the prime minister as a challenge to a test of votes, was supported today by David l.loyd George. Lloyd George, who led Ilritain to victory in the world war, de nounced tin; Chamberlain ad ministration for "unintelligent" and "half hearted leadership.' Pointing a finger directly at Chamberlain, he said the prime minister bad spoken 01 sacrifice, then added bitterly: "There is nothing that would contribute more to the cause of victory in this war than that he sacrifice the seals of office." London, May 8.—(AP)—His Ma jesty's labor opposition formally asked the house of commons today to oust the Chamberlain government and the prime minister sprang to his feet to declare that he welcomed the challenge. Herbert Morrison, vigorous labor leader, introduced the vote of noii eonlidcnce at the end of a bitter speech in which he declared that if Chamberlain and his principal ad visers stayed in office "we run a grave risk of losing this war." Rising quickly, the prime minister declared he and his colleagues "will (Contnued on Page Seven.) Allied Troops Reach Britain' From Namsos1 By NOKMAN LOIHJK. London, May <!. (Al'j J landed ;• t, ;i northern British port yesterday with an allied expeditionary force from Namsos, Norway, which reach ed home intact despite .'ill attacks by German plane;; which . ank three al lied deslroyer the British Alridi. the French Bison, and the Polish Groin. I had gone to Namsos on a reliable tip that an allied offensive was about to begin north of Trondheiin. That was just one week ago. The next day French troops Steaming up from the Steitikjer embarked, a: I later learned, the same in/jlit. The British, however, assured me lliey had no intention of leaving. Later, however, I was order (Continued on I'age Seven) SIX SHIPS LOST London, .May 8.—(AIM—The admiralty tonight announced that siv British naval trawlers iiad been lost during the allied army's withdrawal from the Trondhcim area. Two of the trawlers sank after air attacks. The other four were so damaged by air raiders that it was thought not advisable for them to attempt to cross the North sea and they were sunk by the British. Pope Fears Spread Of War To Neutrals Rome, May <i.—(AP)—Pope Pius XII made it known today he slimed widespread fears that other coun tries were in danger of invasion. Addres.-ing an audience of 4,000 pilgrims, the Pope said 'a world poisoned with lies and disloyalty has lost the spiritual health of peace." "The earth should be a place of concord," the pontiff declared, "but instead the fire or war has broken aut in various nations and is threat ening to invade others." Meanwhile, tension in the Medi (Continued on Page Seven)
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