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imtfrrrson Daily Dispatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. SEVENTH YEAR l™bbJ^JSatb?'pSSsb! HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14, 1940 PUBLISH etciP?JundI?RN00N FIVE CENTS COPY F rench City Of Sedan Captured B ian And I h Armies Separated and French Said to be Un to Reach Dutch ; Germane. Ad ' At Rapid Pace ; o Resistance. .11 ha\"C bcdl vcrfnl German ! German news today from the I' • -h and French so to reach the them and that eturc. either must sur •••v't-•'ated. • r ,v. DXH declar ■ t n: •: portunt Bol • n -1 position. i o-s'Hl into France (i iy of the nazi blitz iticis. and the nazi • c' l-'ed they also had >>: Sedan. : 1 .• 11le was fought ■.v:th the Germans • at a rate ol • day. despite solf*1. t- backed up now by •: strength. i Inland. the biggest ^ v* :i!y is the advance ."h into the center de the so-called "fortress : round rotterdam. JONES INAUGURATED LOUISIANA GOVERNOR i,SP. May 14—(AP)—S-im • "s. t; Icins, otfice as a •'onu ■nor." today promised • si Islci t ive feg' tards* v possibility that a dotni :r.acnine again might Lie ted. ' beat the 12-vear old ..r.ded by the late Huty uugurated as 49th gov ■ .r presence of approxi 't.iiDO persons. .usural address Jones said r; n administration of "true t demogogues." with ser inderprivileged continu •. •. ty attacked "from the y hearts and heads to >ide ot' power," the gover - r over me and all r elected officials, x x x y >u is the dictatorship." Peach Crop Hurt \)\ Cold Weather May 14.—(AP) — The crop reporting service • ■>' the 1940 peach crop • c <ir.allest since 1933, • d yield of only 925,000 ••!' !;il orchards in the reported ;i complete loss ■■ ither in April, the re ■ •t '.ns generally were less 1 than a year ago. the , ,j "port poor germination '"'i n many areas," it said ettings considerably I owing to late plants !" :n blue mold in cer Ml.AVV LOSSES ' "lulun. May H-—(API — '•i-'i lighting pilots were of announced tonight to intlictrd on the enemy at !'>iir times the losses they "third themselves today. Coast Guard Hunts Three Durham Men m. May 14.—(AP)—A ;he coast guard euttei dc-d by Lieutenant H. T nding officer, ieft Nov. this morning to search ..cm men reported miss ! i hing camp at Cheny :les down Neu.se rivei \V. J. Croom, Durhan ?<>r. and two Rurhan Wren missing sinc< y niu. i ;ne. when theii :> was found \-acant an< their ear k«'H ther< Nazis Take Over, Luxemburg Watches Silently C. P. Jlatliophr.tn Helplessly, crri7.cn" of T,'.ixrrv!biir£ lire the curbs in rilcnec as thoy watch Nazi raiders in transport trucks roll through the ducky's capital. The li i.v oninuy 'lid i:ot resist, and these soldiers did not ;r:t any fiithtinj? until they met Allied lorce* at the western border. Photo was radioed to New York from B-orlin. | Congress To Decide Financing jOf Appropriations For Defense Italian Stud ents I Burn Allies' flags Flags of Britain and France Burned o n Simulated Coffin in Demonstration O u t side British Embassy In Rome. ! Rome. May 14.—(AP)—St.oi ting | students burned a British and French I flag nn a simulated coffin before tie ! British embass vtoday in a new out-! J burst hi ami-allied demonstrtions. j Earlier they had demonstrated .it j j the French embassy. Several thousand student w-'iv! i halted by a barrier of armed i : »op at the Briti h emba y. a the;. had j been before at the French cuma.-s;>. Massing a short distar.ee away.' however, they set fue t > ti v fin" and threw their clul.s on it to j make a bonfire. Before they disbanded a In »_• i• t of-! ficial congratulated them on .t "• r nifieient demonstration"; toM themj their cry was "a war cry". He declared Franee and Britain' must understand that Italy would ■ never remain a prisoner in the Medi-J terranean. Premier Mussolini drove by the! bonfire and was ioudiy cheered. In Milan, approximately .» o(»ii !u-f dents paraded for more t! an an hour,; cheering Mu. solini and Hitler and; j shouting:' j "Down with Kngland. "Down with France." j Despite tiiese inamle tat ions ol j anti-British teelrng t'ic iir.tsh emi | ill late tool: no steps to urge British subjects to leave Italy, but Britons! j who asked advicc were told it might) I be "wise" to leave. FORMER SHERIFF OF LENOIR FOUND DEAD Kinston, May 14.—(AP) Richard! F. Churchill. 7o, former sheriff of: Lcnior county, was found dead of aj bullet wound at hi - homo today. He had been in declining health for some time. Churchill, father of Sheriff Sam R.: Churchill, was chairman of the; couii ty commissioneiv before serving as ] sheriff. SEA WAR IX XORTII London. May 11. — (AP) — j British submarines off Norway have "successfully attacked" nine German transports and supply \ ships since the beginning: of May, and official sources said today the submarine operations are continuing. COcjcdJuih FOR XORTII (AROI IVa. Fair tonight: Wednesday in creasing cloudiness followed by rain md < onier. Belgian Cabinet Will Not Leave Brussels, May 11.—(AP) — C> IMum s cabinet, with air raid sirens screaming through the city j and an||i-i:.rerafl haitcries in ae- i thai. declared today it would re main in the eity—Use goal of a German army driving westward from the Liege area. 'i'hv KeJ^ian high command acknowledged thai its advance forces were "compelled to retire" i during the night although they resisted enemy attacks "ener getit ail v." Belgium called to arms ail men from i<> to .'!.*> years old who he long in tin* last group of recruit uoii1 M'Si rvr>. MEXICO CONVINCED U. S. TO ENTER WAR | Mexico C ily, May it.—(AP)—a| :!i oiliciai of lric foreign mini.-'try [ aid today H i- Mexican government! • con ilia si that !iic I ni'-'d Stair .-. ili Liit'i the \v«ir on tin- side of the • hits in tli" near luture iind that Mi ico . Iintilfl begin prepai ing fori li'iit eventuality. If and when America enters the 111ii t, !iu^ official said, Mexico— de.-pite a fundamental desire for; pcaci ill observe a ""benevolent neuti i!itv" and will collaborate with the United States as fully us possible without involving her: e|f. ACCIDENT VICTIM DIES IN HOSPITAL Golds!»< ro. May I t, (AP) - Mrs. Thomas Walker. <><• of near Wallace, died in a hospital here last night of injuries she suffered in an automobile accident .Sunday afternoon. Roscoe Sholar. 4!. o! Snow Ifill, hurt in the same accident, remain ed in a critical condition. Ten others were recovering from injuries. Winterville Bank Held Up Green*. ilk*. X. C., May 14.—(AP) - i'w -» white, unmasked bund its hukl lip tin- Bank dI Winterville at Win terville. a small community about six mile.- from here, today and 1'led with cash estimated at $400 t<j $300. H. L. Rollins, cashier, said he was preparing to close up lor lunch whefi the men walked in. One pulled a pis tol and the two scooped up all avail able cvsh. They i'led in an automobile which i.i , .-is found abandoned in a wood lie,! rii«- \** Kf n iujl'tWjy. President Roosevelt Will Leave To Con-j gress the Decision as ; to New Torres or In-1 creasing cf Federal Debt Limit, Washington. May 14.— (AIM — The Navy recommended today thai Congress provide imme diately an additional S300,000.00ft to speed up construction of 68 combat and auxiliary ships now on the ways. A 48-lifiur work 1 week for government and private 1 shipyards also was proposed. President Roosevelt was re ported to have reached complete agreement with his military, naval and fiscal advisors as to the recommendations he would send Congress, probably Thursday. After a White House confer ence attended by War, Navy and Tieasisry department chiefs and nth: r oificials, one said that "this .job is al.out done now and is ready lor < ongre.ss." Wa-hington, May 14.—(AP)~ The! While House di. today that! iYe: ideni .'(oosevelt expected to leave' t«i Congress the decision on whether; to fm. in '1 •- :<| • 'led increased defense' co • ts by enacting new taxes or rais-l ing the h-deral debt limit and bor rowing th" inoney. While .Mi. 1,'oo-evelt continued a . ci it ol «•••»!I« i on speeding up il< leu e pi epar.ilion:'., Stephen Early told report' : tin amount of new ap propriation 1o be requested would not be r< f• ii•«? until the President .vends a deb n " message to Congress, j lie indicated that the request would bo limited to appropriations and would not call for authorization ior no* fl'-IVi '• projects to be met by additional >propriations later on. lieeailaii; tit:*1 lie had told itews men yesterday not to "go out on a limb" over the possibility that the '•Chief E.■:<•( u'.ivc would renew a pro posal for a special national defense tax," Early declared today that it would be sal" b» assume that "the President will leave without any at tempt to pass the buck the question of linanci1 the national defense to the Congress. "in otii. )• word-.," he continued, "it i.s optional wi:!i the Congress. They have apparently two choices. One is to put down a national defense tax. It i.s getting late in the session and (Continued on Page Seven) YUGOSLAVIA SEEKS HELP FROM GREECE Belgrade. -Miy 14.—CAP)—Yugo slavia wa.; i «*|< ' •« fl reliably tonight i to have ounded "'it (J recce on what assistance tli«• Greeks might give this country in the cv»nt of an Italian attack. A Yugoslav minister#told Premier John Motaxas "I Greece of his country's concern over the possibility of an Italian invasion, informed dip- i Jcmats said. Meanwhile, 'tie Yugoslav army I maintained bi.u bordei garrisons on j the alert and worked vigorous]*." on ' 6Greatest Battle Of All Time' Developing A long Meuse River Huge Aerial Force Backs Nazi Troops Between 6,000 and 7, 000 Planes Reported Supporting Mechaniz ed Land Forces; French and Belgian Troops Retreat. (By The Associated i'ress.) The fiercest lighting of the war— fast blazing into the "greatest battle of all time"—raged along the Meuse river between France and Belgium today. French dispatches said the Ger mans supported their mechanized land forces with an air armada of between fi.ooo and 7,000 planes. Historic Sedan, ten miles inside the French frontier, was reported captured. At least 2.000 tanks have already c lashed. The French sa'id Gorman losses in this action were "tremen dous." Nazis reported 150 enemy planes were destroyed yesterday, bringing lo 850 planes the total claimed de stroyed so far in the action. The French said more than 400 German planes had been put out of action in the five-day conflict. Heavy fighting started last night and continued today with undimin ished tury along the Meuse line. French and Belgian troops fell back on strong defenses in a "strategic withdrawal." A great battle was reported develop ing for the possession of Brussels. German parachutists were reported clumped from the sky into Brussels. A French news agency dispatch said they were pounced on by the in habitants as fast as they touched ground, and one was lynched after he tried to use his firearms. In Amsterdam, huge stores of petroleum were set afire today by the Dutch as a defensive measure. The Dutch high command reported that a German drive at the dam across Ihe Zuirler Zee, which holds back the North sea, had been re pulsed. The French conceded the "prob able" fall of Sedan, ten miles inside the French border in the fortified Franco-Belgian defense zone— di rectly before France's "little Mag inot" line extension to the North sea. The British acknowledged that Nazi blitzkrieg legions were driving Ihrowgh southern Holland. The Dutch field army defending western Holland Ml back before the savage German onslaught, retiring to their main waterlinc defense line in Uthcrcht province, the high command announced. ROTTERDAM BURNING Paris, * May 14.—CAP)—A French military spokesman said this afternoon the "greater part" of the Dutch seaport city of Rotterdam is in flames and the situation is growing increasingly grave. Dutch Commander Says Resistance Broken By Nazis London. .May 11—(AD— A broadcast heard in London to night. identified :is coming from (he Dutch radio. (juotcd the Dutch armv commander, General Henry Winkelman. as declaring "our resistance has hcen broken by overwhelming power." (The Associated Press has no direct report on this from Amster dam.) The broadcast said that Hotter dam and I trecht, second and fourth cities of the Netherlands, had surrendered. U.S. To Join In Protest State Department Ex presses Willingness to Join Other American Republics. Washington, May 14.—(AP)—'The United States expressed today its willingness to join with the other American republics in a joint de claration of protest to Germany over Iho invasion of Holland. Belgium and [ Luxembour. The State department lold the I Uruguayan government, which ori j ginated a move for a joint declara : tion. and the Panamaian government, j which communicated the Uruguayan suggestion to the other republics, that the United States would be glad to join in such a declaration. A state department note added that this government was in full agree ment with the draft of a text for the joint declaration of protest as writ ten by Uruguay. I TANK COMPANIES IN FURIOUS COLLISION Berlin, May 14.—(AP)—-French and German tank companies collided today in a furious battle northeast of Namur, Belgium, as the French attempted to keep I lie Germans from moving on (he Dvle river fortifica tions east of Brussels. German planes took part in the battle, diving down on the French units which, German sources said were driven back to their Dyle posi tions. ALLIEDFORCES LAND AT BJERKVIK, NORWAY London. May 14.— (A!1)—The war ' office announced tonight new allied i forces had landed successfully at I Bjerkvik, .seven miles north of Nar j vik, Norway, with only "a few minor casualties." Bjerkvik is in the rear of the Ger I man positions in the Gratangen area j "where our forces made a successful : attack at the same time" said a com | muniquc. "An enemy detachment which had I landed at Hemnes was bombarded by a British warship," it added. Ohio And West Virginia Bold Primaries Today (By The Associated Press.) t Ohio Democrats find Republicans were voting today to throw their big blocks of national convention dele gates to President Rooseevelt and Senator TaJ't. The two men were unopposed in presidential primary balloting. The Democratic delegation with 52 votes was pledged nominally to National Committeeman Charles Sawyer as a "favorite son"' but the party's state organization has bound it to support, the President if he runs again. The Ohio Republican delegation is the first one, aside from district dele-. gates in North Carolina, to be chosen' tormally for Tafl. The Ohio itiiatoi' cl<*uiu> uuj__- . structed support in several stales, however, and his managers hope that at least part of the unpledged West Virginia delegation being elected to day would back him. West Virginia Democrats also were picking an uninstructed 16-votc dele gation, while in Connecticut a Re publican convention was called to select 16 delegates. North Dakota's eight national con vention votes went to Mr. Roosevelt in a Democratic primary yesterday". At the same time Wyoming Dem ocrats instructed their six-vote dele gation to cast its first ballot for Sen ator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, of that stale, but thereafter it would be free to support Mr. Roosevelt if he seeks •i third tenu. Sedan's Fall 'Probable', French Say Historic City Is Ten Miles Below Belgian Border; "Battle of the Meuse" Already Be ing Called Greatest of All Time. Paris, May 14.—(AP)—The Frcnch city of Sedan, in the fortified /.one Ion miles below the Belgian border, j "probably has been taken" by the | Germans, the high command admit i ted today, as the fiercest battle of the j war developed along the Meusc river. Thousands of allied tanks, armor I ed cars and airplanes engaged the German attackers from Liege to Sedan. The "battle of the Meuse" already was being called "the greatest bat tle of ail time in all countries." French dispatches estimated that the Germans were using from 6,000 | to 7.000 airplanes on the Belgian front.' The high command earlier had atik j nowledged that the Germans, gain | ing momentum in their sweep thro i ugh southeastern Belgium, had cross ' ed France's northern border. Heavy fighting started last night I and continued today along the Meuse line, to which French and Belgian troops fell back on strong positions in a strategic withdrawal. Northwest of Leige, all of whose forts except one, the French say, are still holding, French military sources declare the Germans have bucked a strong wall of French mobile units. Fate Of Former Kaiser Unknown Berlin, May 14.—fAP)—'All at i tempts by the Mohen/ollern family ] to learn .something concerning the I late of the venerable head of the j dynasty—the former Kaiser Wil i helm, have failed. i (The German-Dutch lighting is believed fo be in the vicinity of the 1 HI-year old former kaiser's exile at Doom, which is near Utrecht.) "We don't even know whether 1 grandpa still is at Doom" one grand son said today. ARTILLERY DUEL Basel, May 14.—(AP)—Bis: guns of the German west wall and the French Maginot line along the Rhine north of Itasel thundered late today for the first time in weeks. Military observers here believ ed the duel Was started by the French in an effort to smash nazi rail communications incor porated in the west wall from Karlsruhe to Friedhurg. U. S. Citizens To Leave Italy Washington, May 14.—(AP)—Sec retary Hull said today that Ambas sador William Phillips in Rome v/as calling to the attention of American citizens in Italy the same kind of notice and warning to leave that has been given in other European coun tries now at war. Hull made the statement at his press conference after receiving dis patches which described anti-British and anti-French demonstrations. Americans in Italy on January 1, according to State department fig ures totaled 19,561, which was more than the combined number of Amer icans in the three big belligerents— Germany, Britain and France. The notice and warning given American in other countries in Eu rope was to the effect that, conditions being serious, they had better leave while communications were still open because in case war spread it ■ might be extremely difficult lor them to get out. Hull's statement was interpreted as a change in the administration views as to the seriousness of the sit ^ duiivjll ill Italy.
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