tomorrow Is Last Day To Register For Primary Election Hettitersmt Daily ©ispatrlj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ,a"vskvexth yeapv Henderson, n. c., Friday afternoon, may 10,1940 five cents copy hamberlain Quits Post ******** #****#* ♦**• Nazis Move On Third Blitzkrieg Invade Luxembourg Holland, Belgium, f,tidn Fighting Planes Rain Bombs and c p Parachute Troops On Neutral Nations V hich Hitler Offers "Protection". Ma\ 10.— (AP)—Germany's powerful war mtichine . .i\>. a today on its third blitzkrieg since September 1, ll;:!> •' announced this was the beginning of a fight ...the late of the German nation for the next 1,000 its way into Holland, Belgium and Luxern <• n-Mnation of the land and air forces that proved so . :tiPoland. Norway and Denmark, the armed forces v lieich under Adolf Hitler's personal direction .<)• Germany"s western borders along the "broadest -1as a high command communique briefly put it. rainc time German fighting planes, with Holland's < * '-it! air no longer a hindrance, darted straight for hn.iriaml. •- ut bombers ancl fight rod over central and : • co and over Belgium : >trking at airports and bjectives, supporting j .•dvanee oiid sharing in j •o ..f a Belgian seaport. .J; tiling action was based . announced the fall of !>t Hague. i/i troops, dropped from the i'-s. ej/ed the airport at Kot i im after a heavy bombard i that destroyed the flying Ul and hangers. were about to attempt to C.t rmanv's industrial sec FJ'thr region with its fam : . ut.-. L'nited Steel works ■ 1 r. y industries. - in Hitler offered three ■ ti countries—Belgium, i Luxembourg—"protec condition that they be I>i H 51 ISI.AN'DS BOMBKD. 1 .■•niton. May 10.— (AP)—A t;sji source said today that ontiinied reports had been ;\: i! that the Dutch Frisian u.(is hi the North sea. facing : inci. had been bombed and waehute troops landed there. Dutch Drive iNazis Back In Rotterdam May 10.—(AP)—Ger ■ '!c and parachute troops '<> li^iit their way through were driven back into a 'iti«>n late U>duy by the Dutch troops and the I) tch artillery. • ;- tachments of Xether . - made repeated rushes v positions on the river and the fighting was '•ndiary shells set fire • M:»as hotel from which were operating on the the -tream which divides :• i-ad rapidly, thi-paten Germaii lines. Belgium Will Defend Self By All Means Brussels. May 10.—(AP)—Belgium is '"resolved to defend herself by all means x x x and cannot be van quished". Germany was told today in a note handed to the German am bassador by Paul Henri Spaak, the Belgian foreign minister. The text of the note said in part: "Germany for the second time has invaded neutral and loyal Belgium. The present invasion is even worse than that of 1914. "No ultimatum was given. No of ficial notification. No protest. "Instead, a direct attack violat ing the neutrality of the country. "This attitude deprives Germany of any justification. This violation will hurt the conscience of the entire world abroad." Two children were killed and 50 persons wounded in an air raid on Brussels. The Brussels airport also was bombed. Bombs fell on numerous railway stations. King Leopold III. taking active com mand of the armed forces as his father, King Albert, did in 11)14, or dered complete mobilization against the invaders. Nazis Claim Full Success Berlin, May 10.—(AP)—Tiie Ger man high command announced to j night that German troops had brok en border resistance on the Dutch j .Belgian and Luxembourg frontiers | The communique stated: "German troops at 5:30 a. m. went { over the Dutch, Luxembourg and ! Belgian borders. Enemy opposition j in the border area was broken every I where in the first attack in the closest collaboration with the ah force. "A "German U-boat sank a Brit ish submarine in the sea region neai Terschelling (Dutch island in thi j North sea.) j "A German speed boat sank ar j enemy destroyer with a torpedo ir I the North Sea.'' SWISS MOBILIZE TO MEET CRISIS i Berne, Switzerland, May 10.—(AP j —The Swiss government today or i dered general mobilization beginning ' tomorrow at dawn and announce< j that a precautionary state of war be I gins at midnight tonight. The official communique, whicl I followed a series of bombings an< sharp air battles over Swiss soil, sai< 1 the mobilization was ordered in vicv | of conditions between the warrinj ! countries. The Swiss army, it was said wa 1 "ready for any eventuality x x x ti | face any menace from whatever sid« | it may come in conformity with tin : absolute desire of the federation fo ! neutrality." Dutch War Chief fill—mii 1 H Gen. H. G. Winkelman Commander in chief of the Dutch army and navy i.s Genera! H. G. Winkelman. Upon his shoulders rests responsibility for defense of the Netherlands as Liic country is invad jed by Germany. Attempt To Kidnap Ruler Nazi Air Squadrons Fail in Daring Plan tc Kidnap Queen Wil helmina. New York, May 10.—(AP)— Two squadrons of Nazi planes loaded with : soldiers were said today by Edwin Hardrieh, Amsterdam correspondent j lor CBS, to have made a "darinf at j tempt to capture Queen Wilhelmina" ; an attempt which evidently "has met ! witli iailure and sudden death for the perpetrators." His cable from Amsterdam to CBS ' said "a daring attempt of the Ger | man air force to capture Queen Wil helmina in ttie early hours today ap parently has met with failure and sudden death for the perpetrators. "A flight of sixteen large Junkers ! and possibly more landed at the air ■ port of Vaikenburg five miles from 1 the queen's summer villa and about seven miles from her residence in the outskirts of The Hague. Each Junker carried 20 soldiers or more. All were equipped with automatic rifles or machine guns. The planes landed in the early hours of the morning. "Other contingents of aerial kid napers landed at Delft, about four I miles south of The Hague. The stra | te^y was to cut oil The Hague from the rest of Holland, surrounding the j capital city, and capture the gov ernment even if only for a few j hours." CABINET THICK. London, May 10.—(Ai*)—Op position labor leaders today eali ed upon their party to devote all its energies to winning the war | —a move interpreted as declara tion o! a temporary truce in Great Britain's cabinet crisis. I Bankers Hear i Cadman Speak i Piriohurst, May 10.—(AP)—Dr. Paul F. Cadman oJ' Now York, econo ■ mist oi' the American Bankers Asso [ ciation, told North Carolina bankers 1 in convention here today that "al the • very heart of a system oi' free enter prise is a free banking system." 1 i 'The deepest issue of our time," I he said, '"is: how far can we sur l render the direction of our economic • life to government and still preserve j! our political liberty?" I After outlining government steps at 5 control and regulation he said "we > cannot spend our way out of debt ; i either as individuals, business en > trrprises or government any more • than we can play our way to suc cess' . Rotterdam Falls Prey To Germans German Army Spans Defenses, Lands Troops by Parachute and Huge Seaplane Transports; Heavy Fighting Reported In City. i Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May I 10.—(AP)—A German army ol' the air spanned the strong land and! waterline defenses of The Nether-' lands today and. landing by para- j chute and in huge seaplane trans ports at the western side of the na tion, fought its way into part of this | seaport city. The troops occupied Rotterdam's' Waalhavcn airport after first leveling it with a tremendous aerial bombard ment; alighted on the Niewe Mass river in the center of Rotterdam, oc cupied a big bridge across the river and captured the Maas railway sta tion in the city. Heavy fighting was going on in Rotterdam itself, with the Dutch troops clinging tenaciously to the i right bank of the Niewe Maas, which bisects the city. On the other side of Holland, across | the main waterline now fed by wide (Continued on Page Two) LEAFLET BARRAGE ON DUTCH CAPITAL The Hague, May 10.—(APJ—Ger- I man leaflets dropped in The Hague 1 by planes told the residents today j that "strong German forces have sur rounded the city and that resistance j is insanity." This dispatch was filed more than ! two hours after the Berlin radio's I announcement that the Germans had occupied The Hague and apparently proved that to be untrue. ALLIES PURCHASE MORE U. S. PLANES Washington, May 10.—(AP) — Aviation autnorities .said today thai i the British and French governments have ordered 2,(100 or more addi tional American made warplanes. The new contracts, for the latest type lighting planes and bombers de veloped for the United States army air corps, were said to have boosted the allied purchases within the last month to 4,000 or more military air craft. AIR VICTORIES ARE CLAIMED BY NAZIS Berlin, May 10.—(AP)—An offi cial announcement tonight said al most 100 "enemy airplanes" either had been shot down in aerial buttles or destroyed on the ground. Seven German airplanes were reported missing in addition to two known to have made forced landings. I DUTCH COLONIES TO BE DISCUSSED Washington, May 10.—(AP)—-Sec retary Hull indicated today that consultations would be held with the Latin-American countries con cerning the status of Dutch posses sions in the western hemisphere. THE HAG IE BOMBED. London. May 10. (AP) An unofficial British statement to day said The Hague, scacoast capital of The Netherlands, had bf»en bombed by German invad ers. Our air attache at The Hague was nearly killed by a bomb which fell close to the Foreign office this morning," the state ment said. t'Ostrth&h FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight and Sat urday. not much change in tem perature. Man of Destiny Winston Churchill, former first lord of the. British admiralty and virtual war dictator, today became Prime Minister of Britain upon the resignation of Neville Chamberlain. The above picture, flashed from Lon don to New York, shows Churchill as he arrived at the admiralty in London during recent parliamentary j debate on the war crisis. No Change in U. S. Stand Roosevelt Sees No Change With Respect to U. S. Keeping Out of Europe's War. Washington, May HJ.—(AP)— President Roosevelt said today he saw no change with respect to the possibilities of the United States' keeping out of Europe's war. At a press conference he told re porters who crowded his office that there was not much that he could say about the situation abroad now, and that it spoke for itself. With reference to possible effects of Germany's invasion of Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg on this country the President asserted a' great many things were being stu- ! died. Jie did not explain further. I But in response to a question he said that a German pledge at the outbreak of the current war not to bomb "open" unfortified towns was being considered in the light of re ports of the bombing of such cities, j A reporter asked him whether i there was "anything you can say at j this time as to what you think the chances are that we can keep out of the war." That, he said, would be specula- j tivc. Then he hastened to add an ! admonition not to say that his words j meant that we might get in. Iceland Placed Under British Protection London, May 10.—CAP) —In a| lightning like move to bar Germany i from a strategic base in the far north, Great Britain today took protective custody of tiny Iceland. The island is linked to German occupied Denmark by its allegiance to King Christian X of Denmark. It was not believed that the Brit ish force—of an undetermined size1 —encountered any opposition frornj German civilians who are known to , iContinued on page two) Winston Churchill *s Minister French Cabinet Is Reorganized I'aris. May 10.— (AIM—Pre mier Kcynuud tonight announced a reorganization of hi* cabinet to face Germany's drive to the west. Holland's office announced the reorganization had been ac complished with the inclusion of two righticsl ministers. Dutch-Belgian Wealth Frozen Washington, May 10. — (AP)— President Roosevelt "freeze" all Dutch and Belgian wealth in the United States today to prevent its falling into German hands. After consultation with financial agents who had been routed out of bed the President signed an executive order extending the freezing decree on Danish and Norwegian wealth in this country to include that of Hol land and Belgium. The emergency order, rushed thro ugh before the country's financial markets opened for the day, was the first precautionary step taken to cope with the new war situation which had risen overnight. Invasion Proves Costlv To Nazis * I i Amsterdam, May 10.—CAP)— The Netherlands officially announced to day that her defense forces had shot down at least 70 German planes, blown up a German armored train at Venlo and were offering strong | resistance along rivers just inside the eastern part of the country. The armored train, described one of four "successfully attacked",! was reported blown up while at tempting to cross the Maas river bridge at Venlo. The announcement said Nether lands troops offered strong resistance on the Ijsscl and Maas rivers a short distance within the Netherlands. DUTCH AND BELGIAN TOWNS ARE TAKEN Berlin, May 10.—(AP)—The Berlin radio announced tonight that Ger man troops had taken Maastricht, Holland, and Malmedy, Belgium. The Nazis crossed the Maas river Willi a few men on the west Dutch German frontier at several points, the announcement said. Maactricht is almost due west of Aachen, Germany, and Malmedy is on a line due west of Coblcntz, Ger many. Chamberlain Steps Down in Face of New War Crisis, Giving Place to Fiery Foe of Hitlerism; To Address Nation. London, M;iy 10.—(AP)—Winston Churchill, belligerent first lord of the admiralty and long time target o£ Hitler's wrath, tonight became Bri tain's man of destiny, succeeding Neville Chamberlain as prime minis ter. The government announced "the right honorable Neville Chamberlain resigned the office of prime minister and the first lord of the treasury, ;md the right honorable Winston Churchill accepted His Majesty's in vitation to fill the position." Chamberlain will broadcast a mes sage to the nation at 9 p. m. (3 p. m. EST) tonight, it was announced. The air ministry announced to night that Britain's air forces in France had bombed German troops. The government warned every Briton tonight to be on the Jookout | for German troops landing by para ! chute in England. German bombers brought the war to England's doorstep with forays up the Thames Estuary along the south cast coast and into Kent but heavy anti-aircrafi fire drove the invaders from Dover and other points. Four incendiary bombs were drop ped near Canterbury in Kent. In response to urgent appeals from Brussels and Amsterdam, Britain promised full military aid to the in vaded nations, but warned that Ger many. through her speed, had again gained an initial advantage. THE IIAGCE FALLS. Berlin, May 10.—(AI»)—(By radio)—The German radio an nounced today that The Hague, capital of The Netherlands, hud been occupied by German forces. The announcement said de tachments of the Germany navy occupied (lie Dutch capital at noon today, according to relia ble sourcc s. A fort near the capi tal also was captured. Belgians Stop German Drive Brmseb, May 10.—(AP; — The German iand forces have been stop ped within a few hundred yards of the frontier after entering Belgium as part of Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg against the low countries, the foreign ministry announced today. General Henri Denis told the chamber of deputies (hat at noon the Germans were halted everywhere on the Belgian defense lines. He said he was convinced the Germans fail ed to obtain their first objective and failed to gain the initial success they expected. Greatest Battle Of All Time Seems Near Paris, May 10.—(AP)—A British French army was authoritatively re ported moving rapidly across the Belgian border today to meet Ger man legions which had entered from the east, and a Paris military spokesman said the "most gigantic battle of all time" appeared near. The spokesman said that the Ger mans must have one of two military purposes in mind. Pointing out it was difficult at the moment to determine the exact Nazi objectives, the spokesman said they may be trying: 1—An operation to gain control of a long strip of coastline facing Eng land, or 2—"A vast strategical movement of invasion comparable to and infinite ly larger than that carried out by the German troops against Belgium in 1914". In the latter ease, "we aro at the beginning of the most gigantic bat tie of all time". The Belgian army was reported to be busy mopping up small detach ments of German parachutists who landed on Belgian territory. Several German planes were shot down from the numerous squadrons which flew over Belgium. The war department spokesman said there was as yet no precise in formation in Paris of the exact line of march of the Germans. The Germans, he continued, are following the usual tactics ol send ing shock troops in advance. The bombardments, he states, arc on a vast scale—including Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and France— those in France being notably in the eastern and northern aieas.