p>^ irniiterann 3athj Dispatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ■SEVENTH YEAR L^1f a^.aIIKTrks^ HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 16, 1940 PUBL,SHiExcFEPIlRIu^I?RNOON FIVE CENTS COPY ■ DR Asks Billion For Defense * u. at at a* otorized Units Fighting Fiercely A long 110-Mile Fron t In West Sector is Attack heavily On \hde Front vu;uL./i Air Forces • icavy Action in ■■gci.cn With the Units; Sinking A Hied Ships is Claimed. !<; < A P) Gorman . ly t<>day along • • from Antwerp to day <>i the sus n; - netted them Netherlands ex i- "t Zecland. halt' of :< .-mall section of and reported the accepted the fight" : rtit'ications north and along the Dyle there south thro P.elglum to Xamur. Xa:v.ir. 50 miit^ from coi!im;md said "our .v.ded their successes" • Mouse and "again de i .u'li armored units.*' .::ter attacks south of • sa:d. were repelled while s pressed the attack to M u.not line itself, farther i.>t. to take into their the strip between the : Vd lines. hand with the furious • ground. German air heavy action. The high ted it broke up enemy • at ions and destroyed !■ losing only 18 planes •i definitely established ponents yesterday" of two destroyers and ntmen were sunk by ;•• •« rday off the Xether id two destroyers and • n were "hit severe submarine torpedoed a armed merchant man. over western Ger - the high command : iterial damage" but '.u injured a number of Another Note Sent Mussolini May Hi.—(AD—The ;n id today that Presi ■ • > ;.'l -cnt another com •i. Premier Mussolini in • prevent tlie spread <>1 m war. v. White House nresy ■I reporters that "thi> ' <.r> that went out wa> and was not -within .• separate appeal." Keynaud Says 1 ranee Will tie Victorious .1 .y Hi.—(AP)— Premiet • forge a new spirit." i the chamber that "w< '! to take measures whicf «■> would have seemec I Dutch Soldiers Enroute to a Concentration Camp According to the Gorman censor-approved caption, photo shows Dutch soldiers captured by the invading Nazis. They weie captured shortly before i:II Holland. with exception oi' Zeeland Prov ince, surrendered to Adolf Hit ler's blitzkrieg. Photo radioed from Berlin to New York. Administration To Seek Huge Sum To Bolster Farm Prices I | British Hold Belgian City l Fierce Hand-To-Hand ; Fighting Sweeps Through Streets of Louvain Today. With the British Expeditionary Force in Belgium. May 1(5.- (AP) Hand-to-hand lighting of the fiercest kind swept through the sun-splashed streets of Louvain this morning as picked troops counter attacked three! times to throw out Germans who had J gained a foothold on the eastern j j fringe of the town. In the late afternoon the British j wore busily digging in after a day of j j furious combat in which an early I German advantage had been ovor ) come by three furious attacks by the j j British infantry. The Germans had withdrawn out- i side the town and artillery of both i armies was busy—the Germans shell- j ing the British po i'ion in the en- j virons ;ins 1 the British guns hurling metal over the town into the Gor- j man lines in the country behind it. I Vandenherg Is Candidate Michigan Senator An nounces His Avail ability to Michigan GOP Convention. Grand "Rapids, Mich., Mny l(j.— United States Senator Arthur II. Vandenberg ol' Michigan, standing before delegates of tho state Repub- i lican convention expected to indorse I him for the party's presidential J nomination, declared today his avail ability for the office and pleaded that the nation remain aloof from any war that did not come to its shores. Asserting that appropriations must he made for a national defense "as impregnable as possible" Vanden berg added: l-I think Congress should set up a i special joint committee on the con duct of the national defense to sit I rontimionsly—riot to subordinate! War and Navy department experts I (Continued on Page Three.» Convention Fights, If Any, Will Be Over Personalities Rather Than Over Principles Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. | Raleigh, May Hi. North Carolina's Democratic hosts will gather here to-! morrow with the only prospect of a j fight a matter of personalities rather than of principles. With more than 75 of the delegation under instruction from their counties to support the renomination of Presi dent Roosevelt, there seems no pos sibility that the principle of a third term endorsement can be subject of a floor or committee battle. With Governor Clyde R. Hoey still I the most popular figure in the State, there is not even an outside chance that endorsement of his administra-j tion will be anything but unanimous. With all the gubernatorial can-: I didates on record in favor of teacher) 1 pensions, nobody will be able to raise j a fuss there. j With reapportionment a mandate j 1 ol the Constitution, it will be impes-i sible to muster any opposition to a; resolution endorsing it in principle.! though there may be all kinds oi l battling before ever it becomes an{ accomplished fact. And so it goes when considering! any of the issues which confront the' people and the party. But when it comes to the selection 1 of the delegates who will cast North Carolina's 26 votes in the Democratic; national convention, there is a dis-i tinct possibility that there will be wrangling and jangling, rowing and. jowing. before final returns are in. I There's no guarantee of a fight) even over this, as all hands appear anxious to avoid one if it can pos sibly be done. The Roosevelt people, for instance, i will go to great lengths to meet the wishes of factions which are not any too enthusiastic over FDR and his! I (Continued on Page Three.) . i Closing of Foreign Markets by War Ex pected to Cause Price Depressing Surpluses; $400,000,000 May Be Asked. Washington, M;iy 16.— TAT1)—With I ho war closing nTany foreign mar kets 1*» American farm products, au thoritative sources said today that the administration plans to ask Con gress soon for upwards of $400,000. [)00 (for price bolstering loans on 1940 crop surpluses. Such funds would supplement the 5750,000.001) farm subsidies and ben efits tentatively approved by both the House and Senale in the agriculture department supply bill. Farm officials are viewing Ihc for eign market outlook with anxiety. Secretary Wallace predicted yester day that exports during the coming fiscal year would be 30 percent -mailer than this year. Sharp rcduc lions in foreign sales of cotton, wheat, tobacco, fruits and pork products arc int icipated. Under existing legislation the agri culture department is authorized to make loans t" prorlucers on sur plus s at rates tending to bolster and hold prices above levels that the •upplv and demand situation other wise would dictate. However, funds available for such loans were said to total less than 51(10,(100,000. Through loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation mcl Congressional appropriations $1, 100,000,000 has been made available to the Commodity Credit Corporation lor such loans. About $900,000,000 of this amount is now tied up in loans or in com nodities taken over under fore closures. Leopold Calls On Soldiers To Resist London. May lfi.—CAP)— King Leopold III of Belgium was heard to iay calling by radio on the men "of :he forts of Liege" to "resist to the utmost for the fatherland." "I am calling on you. forts of Liege," said the monarch's address. "I address you—Col. Modard, com nander. officers, noncommissioned jfficers and men—to resist to the ut nost for the fatherland. "I am proud of you." (jJwih&A FOR NORTH CAROLIN A. Fair in the west, mostly cloudy and slightly cooler east portion tonight, preceded by showers in central portion this afternoon: Friday generally fair. Movement Is I So Fast As. |To Confuse Armored Units From Either Side Cut Loose From Their Infantry I and Plunge Boldly Forward t o Attack From the Rear. P;-ris. M;iy 10.AP)- -Thousands I of war planes and tanks clashed in I an unprecedented battle of move ment along the Meuse front today, | involving a situation so serious and j confused that tiie high command ; withheld all b"t the barest details, i A general melee ensued from Namur south to Sedan in northern France—scene of the fiercest Ger- j man attack:;—with armored units; from either side cutting loose from their infantry and plunging boldly forward to strike the enemy from the rear. A war ministry spokesman said the Germans were meeting powerful resistance as they pushed deeper in to Belgium at three different points on the west bank of the Meuse where they crossed yesterday. Fighting was general after a week's operations on two great lines. One 1 uns from Antwerp to Sedan in France. The second line runs from Sedan along the Franco-German border to the Vosges mountains. In this area the fighting was characterized prin cipally by artillery duels between op posing fortifications. In the Sedan region itself, the French claimed the Germans were blocked in an attempt to deepen a pocket they drove into northern France yesterday. A French war office spokesman acknowledged that the German army, following up advances gained after crossing the Meuse between Sedan and Namur, continued to push for ward in the face of strong allied op position. He said the enemy, flinging armor (Continued on Page Three.) |U. S. Ambulance I)ri\ er Missing On West Front Paris, May 16.—(AP)—An Amer i ican ambulance driver, Lawrence A.; Jump, of Nantucket, M;iss., who was j ! nUached to flu- French army, was | j reported missing today after Ger-! man artillery bombarded the am-j | bulance lie was driving. Official French reports to the | American volunteers ambulance or-j Inanimation in Paris said the ambul i ance was heavily shelled during ?i ; local action on the western front. Another American ambulance was j wrecked and three others hit by j ' shells, Col. James Sparks, head of the j volunteer units, announced. At the same time Miss Anne Mor- J gan's "Friends of France" commit-! ; tee, which has been removing civil i ians from the French Ardennes de partment. reported to its Paris head I quarters that the unit had been I bombed repeatedly in northern] ! France. Cannon Urges Relief Fund . Washington, May 16.—(AP)—j Representative Cannon, Democrat, i Missouri, asserted to the House to- j day that world and domestic condi- j ; tions were so unsettled that Congress j , must abandon original plans to slash , | relief appropriations and provide! enough money to help the saine ] 'number of unemployed that have j been aided this year. Opening debate on a S975,000,000 \ WPA bill. Cannon said: ! "Here is the situation. Under our j present schedule of SI,500,000,000. | I we are employing 2,000,000 men. If; ) we curtail the program we can em | ploy only 1.300.000 men. In other | words, we would have to drop 700, ' 000 workers. | "So radical a transition would be mof I disastrous." i AIR ARMADA OF 50,000 PLANES IS AD VOCA TED Ideal Is Still Peace, Roosevelt Tells Congress, Adding "Nevertheless, We Stand Ready Not Only to Spend Millions for Defense, But to Give Our Services and Even Our Lives For The Main tenance of American Liberties". Wa lung' on, .May 16.— (A1*)—An air armaria of 50,000 war planes was advocated by President Roosevelt today in ;i person ally delivered message to Congress asking a .$1,182,000,000 c nifi'K" 'icy national doIVuse program. "Our i< 1 • •:11. (uir objective is still peace—peace airborne and peace abroad", Mr. Roosevelt told a tense and solemn joint ses sion of the Senate and House. "Nevertheless, we stand ready not only to s|h !'d millions for defense, but to give our services and e\cn our lives I'cr the maintenance of our American liberties." The huge warplane program was put forward by the Chief Executive as a long range goal. His more immediate recom mendations. Mr. Roosevelt said, were designed to give the nation a modern, well equipped army and industrial-military resources callable of leading the defense of the western hemisphere in a U. S. Citizens Again Warned To Come Home Geneva, May 16.—(AP)—The American consulate here sent a warning today to all American citizens who are "not prepared to remain in Switzerland in event this country is involved-in war" to leave the country at the ear liest possible moment. Rome, May 16.—(AP)—American] diplomatic authorities today advised United States citizens to leave Italy as soon as possible. The United States consulate sent the following circular to American residents in the Italian capital: "The consulate has been directed by the embassy to call the attention of American citizens residing in the Rome consulate district and advice of returning to the United States at the earliest possible moment." It was understood that other American consulates had sent similar messages. Ambassador William Phillips de livered a message from President, Roosevelt to Italian authorities yes-■ tcrday for transmission to Premier Mussolini, it was learned. Troops continued today to protect i British and French embassies in Rome against possible demonstra tions. None materialized. . COAST GUARD HUNTS | THREE DURHAM MEN BELIEVED DROWNED New Bern, May 16. (AP)— The | coast guard cutter Pamlico underi command of Lieutenant JI. T. Dichli left her dock here this morning for the vicinity of Wilkerson Point, ni| miles down Neiise river, to search i for the bodies of three Durham men ; believed drowned early Monday i morning. Before leaving, Diehl said that a lleet of smaller craft would be used in the search for the bodies of W. .J. J Groom, Durham public safety di rector. and Policemen T. II. Holloway and Bud Malone. RAF Begins Offensive "M any Tons of Bombs" Released by British Fliers East of the Rhine in Germany. London, May 16.—(AP) — Great Britain's royal air force has unleash ed its greatest bombing attack on military objectives in Germany east of the Rhone, and has thrown its power into the Belgain fighting with 2Xtensive attacks. "Many tons of bombs" .were re leased "in attacks that lasted thro-' jghout the night," the air ministry; declared. The royal air force operation east •)f the Rhine was called a "big of fensive against the enemy's road and : rail communications." Fires broke out and heavy ex- J (Continued on Page Three) woi'id oi iijrntninjr war. In addition to his goal of 50,0(10 airplane? in readiness for action, Mr. ,'loosevelt :il.so held (ml to Congress the objective of gearing the tuition "to the ability to turn out at least 50,000 planes a year." The President and commander-in chief spoke gloomily of "ominous days" ahead, "days whose swift and shocking developments force every neutral nation to look to its defenses in the light of new factors." The President broke down his re quest into 8896,000,000 in immediate appropriations of wheh the army would get $54(5,000,000, the navy and marine corps $250,000,000 and $100, 000,000 would be at his disposal to "provide for emergencies effecting the national security and defense." In addition, he asked the legislat ors to authorize the government to enter into contracts amounting to $280,000,000 to be paid for by ap propriations later on. Of the later, the Army. Navy and Marine Corps would receive $U5f>, 000,000 and the President $100,000, 000. Explaining the purposes of the huge new defense fund Mr. Roose velt said it would be used for four things: "First—to procure the essential equipment of all kinds for a larger and thoroughly rounded out army. "Second—-to replace or modernize all old Army and Navy equipment with the latest type of equipment. "Third—to increase production facilities for everything needed for the Army and Navy for national de fense. We require the ability to turn out quickly infinitely greater sup plies." "Fourth—to speed up to a 24-hour basis .-ill existing army and navy contracts to be awarded." GERMAN PRESS SAYS LONGWY CITADEL IN FRANCE IS CAPTURED Merlin. May 10. fAP) The C.e, mati preys reported tonight the Ger man flag waved from the citadel at Mongwy, France, and the city had been occupied but there was no continuation from German headquar tc rs. Mongwy i in the northeastern cor ner of France. The citadel is at the northern end of the main Maginot line, which in this region gives way to the "little Maginot line" facing Belgium. Test Of New Bomb Delayed Aberdeen, Md., May 1G.—(AP) — A test of ihe death dealing powers of Inventor Lester p. Barlow's liquid oxygen-carbon bomb was postponed today until next week and the lives of a herd of goats were at least tem porarily saved. The inventor declined to go thro ugh with the test today because he said he was ordered to bring out a 1,000 pound* sack of his "glmite" 20 minutes before the scheduled timo and much of the oxygen evaporated. Barlow, obviously upset, left the scene before some of the congres sional committeemen and military authorities, for whom the demonstra tion was scheduled, had arrived, as serting he was "being made a sucker of". He returned later and said there had been "some mistake". Senator Reynolds. Democrat. North Carolina, took a philosophical view of the entire matter. "Someone always profits by such things and in this instance it's the goats." he said.