North Carolina Newspapers

Heu&ersmt flatlg Qtspatrb ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOR i n I AKULlNA AMI) VIKGIN1A. H YEAR l?Sbe?s?oti®SprI3?p HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 18, 1940 ''"""MMr"1" HVE CENTS C°'^ Over-Age Veterans Back on Duty • .re veterans of the World War are being equipped with arms throughout England as fearn invasion by Germany of the British isles. Here. ex-servicvmen are given rifles to guard vul i.,; . -pots around London and, if they should appear, to shoot down Nazi parachute troops. (Central Press) appropriations Sped j 1 o wardSenate Action Fui Is Would Be 1 rovided Lsual Restrictions Re garding Availability ot New Appropria tions Are Removed By Amendment In Jub-Ccmmifctee. . May 18.—(AD—Dh-' I restraint on when j t may be spent an -iib-committee sped J4 .Army bill toward today after inserting > make the full sum t emergency defense •n the measure be- . - approved by the ittee carried both ids and emergency .i by President '! tv as part of his p* >fe time rearma [.; ... ^< ricy funds in > I 32.000.000 to bo dent's own di.-crc ! ■ mds would not ■ until the beginning J ily 1. but Sena ■ d that the sub hi.- amendment available as soon i ... <-velt signed the • f) met t. Ge »r-; ' • ■■ nav il r Miimittee ! d in'o shape leg • 71. Roosevelt exten p..wer- t > suspend ri'i financial regit la-' M .<id might hamp : drive to re-arm. 1 • w'• id have a com ;» <>viding for su and hour stand-' ■I t • fedora I contracts; ;;ings—already for; M.-.ii Monday and nt action by the, t '••itivr himsrlf close i'.i- developments of Vin on made hi n 'Teasing the presi »'■ pf>'.ve»"s after henr (■v \"avy department < "bottlenecks and de Governor Hoey Giants Paroles y IP,.- fAP) — Two I sentences for second and five short term • p:iroied today by Gov '•n for slay ings were • nteneed in John luji'.ist. 1932. and Paul t d in Harnett county •■d included William: clod iast October in; <>i seduction and sen year; Jack Newkirk. ' November in Duplin! iiilacturing liquor and) .uoaths. i Petain Becomes \ ice Premier In French Cabinet Paris. May {8.— (AP)—In a sudden reconstruction of the French cabinet Premier Pau! Ray naud took charge of the war min- i istry and named Marshal Henri | retain, world war hero, vice pre- j mier and Edouard Daladier for eign minister. A communique from the Pre mier's office said the changes were made in the interest of' combining political and military leadership in one man—Premier Reynaud. The premier will he assisted by Marshal Petain in his leadership. Fertilizer Companies Appeal Ruling Winston-Salem. May 1!!.—.(AP)— Attorneys for Swift and Company and Internationa! Agricultural Cor poration thi: morning gave notice of appeal of the decision ol Judge John J. Hayes. denying them a tem porary injunction in the fertilizer (Continued on Page Eight.) Julius W. Cone Died Today Greensboro. May 1<>. — (AP)— Death parly today ended the career jf Julius W. Cone, (>". prominent textile manufacturer and insurance man. He became iM six iiys ago. Cone, a native of Baltimore, Md., had been a member of the city coun cil for 17 years. He was chairman of the board of the Cone Export and Commission company, vice president of the Proximity Manufacturing Company, and a director of the Jef ferson Standard Life Insurance Com pany. Oregon For j nr*i * i nn i hird lerm >*s> j Primary Vote is 7 to 1 For Roosevelt Over Garner; McNary Gets Big Ballot. Portland, May 18.—(AP)—Orgeon Democrats recommended President' Roosevelt for a third term today. The President swvpt past Vice' President Garner 7 tn 1 in yesterday's ! presidential primaries to win the state's ten delegates to the Demo cratic national convention. Republicans presented Senator! Charles McNary. Oregon, a greater presidential nomination indorsement than the combined Democratic count for Roosevelt and Garner. He tallied 36.124 in G6(! precincts. Local Men To T. P. A. Offices High Puinl, May 1<».—CAP)—A. j T. Wish.'it uf High Pninl was elect-, ed preside nl nl the North Carolina division of the Travelers Protective j Association of America and Wilson was selected as the 1041 convention city in the closing session ot' the! .tale convention here today. Other officers elected included E.' G. Shaw, Hender.on, first vice pres- i ident; Rev. Isaac \Vr. Hughes, Hend erson. chaplain: H. D. Bunch, Ra leigh, second vice president: ,T. A. Kinibrough, Winston-Salem, third vice president. W. B. Martin, Wins ton-Salem, fourth vice president: W. H. Gay, Roeky Mount, fifth vice president; R. P. Rawly, Winston Salmi. secrctary-treasurer; Shelley B. Caviness, Greensboro, attorney. AMERICANS ADVISED TO LEAVE TURKEY Ankara. May 18.—(AD—The i (nitrd States embassy today ad vised American nationals to leave Turkey as soon as possible. State Democratic Platform Does Little But "Point With Pride" Averill Summarizes Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hole' Raleigh, May 18.—A governor's race practically devoid of issues is reflected quite truly in a state Dem ocratic platform which does little ex cept "point with pride" to achieve ments of the past. There are 17 general paragraphs and a conclusion to the platform adopted Friday: but in the' entire document there are . only three "pledges" and one "recommendation" for the future. Elsewhere it is a matter of "endors ing", or "commending" or "con gratulating." Of all the paragraphs only one be gins with a definite, fixed "pledge" to advocate anything whatsoever— and that one constitutes a paper vie-1 ry for the I'/c-t, a victory which was assured by reason of tho fact that nobody could possibly vote open ly against obeying a constitutional mandate. The one paragraph in ques-! lion is brief and to the point. "We pledge our representatives and sen ators in the General Assembly to re apportion legislative representation according to the census of 1940, re gardless of what counties stand to gain or lose by thus complying with this constitutional mandate." Even here, when the section was brought up in the platform com mittee. former State Senator Charles Wheedbee remarked. "I'm agin' it."1 though he did not go so far as to rec ord a negative vote when adoption of the section was the formal ques Continued on Page Five) Antwerp Falls Before German Drive; In South, Nazis Are Within Sixty Miles Of Paris Nazis Widtn Maginot him: iaermans Estimated to lie Using Between Z,-! 500 and «>,000 Tanks;! Allied Mechanized Units iN'ow Meeting Enemy. j Paris. M;iy 18.—(AP)—The Ger mans. hurling wave after wave of tanks into the stiffening Frcnch line-, today widened the pocket they had j carved out in the great b?ttle in j northern France but at the expense ^f what the French called "tremen dous casualties." The French met the onrush in the Vervins and Avcsnes sectors on le western «ide of the pocket with mass- j t>d artillery lire, doggedly determin ed infantry and their own heavy mechanized units. The Germans were estimated to be using between 2,500 and 3,000 tanks in the Frcnch pocket and French artillery at some places was firing pointblank at the lumbering monsters. Great numbers of these, accom panied by masses of planes and "ol lowed by lighter units and infantry, were striking through the Vervins region toward the Oisc river and through the Avesnes region toward the Sambre river. The French reported the German progress was only "slight" in the Avesnes sector. The principal effort seemed to be around Vervins, where French artillery not only was pour ing shells against the German tanks but French mechanized units were also attacking. The French command said that after the experience of the last few days the Frcnch had learned how to deal with the German tank on slaughters. GERMAN CIVILIANS DIE IN AIR RAID Rcrlin. May 18 — (API-I>NB. official German news agency, re ported today that 29 civilians were killed and 51 injured in an air raid on Hamburg last nic?-t. A number of houses and other buildings were reported damag ed. BELGIAN FORCES AT NAMUR HOLD GROUND Paris, May 1P>.—(AP)—The P.rl gian forms at Namur arc still hold ing out. H-'ivas French news a,«oncy reported today in a dispatch from "somewhore in Belgium." King Leopold was reported to have sent the city's defenders a message calling 011 them to "resist to the end for the fatherland". France Orders Extension Of j WorkingHours Paris, Mny 18.—(AP)—The French government, striving to combat Grv many's admitted superiority in the air on the western battle front, to day ordered a 12-hour work day for all aviation industries. A decree by the air ministry said that "because of the present circum- i stances" all industries working di-| rectly or indirectly on aviation or ders must not only start working 12 hours a day but Sundays and holi days as well. Some air industries up to now have been working a 10-hour, six-day! week. iO&aJth&h FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, slightly warmer northwest and extreme west portions tonight: Sunday mostly cloudy followed by showers and cooler in west and north central portions in afternoon or at night. FOR THE WEEK. Showers and cooler Sunday niffht a"ti Monday and again near end of week: fair with nor mal temperatures during middle ' period. / Moves France's Army Antwerp Is Entered After Capture Late Friday Of Brussels 1-UtcL vuiii^iander in Zeeland Province O.-icr:-> epi.ui^Ltn ; More Than 2,000 Dutch ssi a Arencri tapiutcd on Dutch Islands; Main German /\rmj V»i J in 100 Miles of Paris. Gen. Alphonse Georges Transforming France's army of position into an army of movement to meet the German blitzkrieg is re ported the work of General Al phonse Georges, commander in chief of the French army in the field. Dis patches say Georges soon may play ^ an even bigger part in French mili- i tary affairs. invasions j Denounced United States and Twenty American Re- j publics Join in Decla ration Message. Montevideo, Uruguay, May 18.— (AP)—The United States and the 20 other American republics have gone I on record with an official dcnuncia-l lion of nazi Germany's invasions of neutral countries. Uruguay drafted the declaration.! It was sent to al! the other republics, by the foreign minister and last night Chile and Nicaragua sent in unre served approvals to make it unani mous. Montevideo had a man-in-the st reels manifestation of the country's sentiments w.jcm demonstrators marched through the streets last night shouting "down with nazi-ism!" X x x "down with Hitler!" Several mounted police were hurt by stones when they sought to dis per e the demonstrators. Several shots were lir-.d into the air. A Ger man-oAJu.d c.ife was stoned. In Duenos Aires at about the same time there was an anti-allied demon stration. Gennsn .sympathizers shouted "down witii Kngland", "down with France". Fo poise bombs were ex ploded. doing negligible damage to the tracks of the British-owned street car companies. Anin Maneuvers l ake Toll Of At Least li I ,i\ es Camp Beauregard, La., May 18.—(AT)—At least eleven per sons have been killed and about 2')fl injured in the first two weeks of the United Slates army war camp maneuvers of 70,000 troops in this section. The latest death was that of Private Marion C'audell, of Head quarters second battalion, 19th field artillery, who was clectro i yesterday when the radio antenna of his s"»v«4. car touchcd a high tension wire. Berlin, May 1!!. fAP)--Germany's: mighty lorces raced into sti"-il«'^ic Aniw rp t ;d;»y. while to the south >Vir left \vthundered to within 6') miles of Paris, autlinri/.ed sources a.w., an J to t.'u: north tiieir right v/it.f,' i:jo|);>-,f! up in southern Holland where re;.islance on Hand:: of Zee land Province crumbled. Heavy attacks by n.azi warplMies against enemy troop.;, ruling back under the impact of the on-rushing waij'iors. were reported by the high conn,1.. r;.*l t < have turned the allied withdrawal into a retreat which "at a number of places resembled a rout." . Three high points of the pound ing drive in the west toward the Belgian and French channel ports facing England and toward Paris Mood out in German reports: 1—Advance guards in northern France cut through to within 60 miles of Paris, while the main army is within 100 miles of the French capi tal. 2—Antwerp was entered today fol lowing yesterday's sweep in Belgium which netted Brussels, 28 miles south GermansTake Antwerp With Little Effort (By the Associated Press.) MiliUny men have rated Antwerp as one of the strongest fortification.! in Europe. Cut the Germans say thoy have captured it now even more quickly than they did in their 191 I drive. Berlin declared it fell swiftly to day after the allied line in Belgium had to fall back from the defense of Brussels to preserve contact with the battered allied line in northern France. Its fall may prove far more costly to the allies in this war than it did in the last. First, it would Rive the nazis a new wedge on the North sea coast—the closcst they have come yet to the channel ports from which they coi launch an aerial blitzkrieg on Eng land. Second, Antwerp provided a : bong anchor for the allies northern flank on the western front. Find Body Of Durham Man Now Bern. May Ifi.—(AP)—The body of T. H. Holloway, Durham policeman, who was drowned in the Neuse river 18 miles below New Bern last Monday, was recovered this morning. Search was continued for Hollo way's two companions—W. J. Croom, Durham safety director, and Police man Gus Malone, believed drowned while on a fishing trip. Wallace Acts To Bolster Prices Of Grain Futures Washington. May 18.—(AP)—Sec retary Wallace today asked the na tion's grain futures markets to pro hibit until further notice all trading in grain futures below the closing prices of today. The request was made after wheat prices had declined more than 25 cents a bushel this week. Wallace explained that the fed eral government probably was with out authority to require cessation of trading in future contracts but he said he felt the market would co operate. Uncertainty over the European war has been blamed as the major1 cause of the price losses. Wallace's telegram to the grain exchanges said: "As a temporary protective meas ure against further price disturb ances from current war develop ments it is requested that the gov- j erning board of your exchange ef-j fective Monday, May 20. prohibit1 trading in grain futures until furth- ' er notice at price* be'o'v closing' prices on Saturday. May 18." of Antwerp, and I/iuvain. 3 The last \ «v-t iu<* "I Hutch rcsis lancc km Walcharen island, pari of Zeeland Province, was eliminated as the Dutch army commander offered his capitulation, while <»n the islands of Schouwen and South Bcvcland more than 2,000 Dutch and French were captured. Alter smashing a 02-mile wide hole in northern France in the Maubeuge-Montmedy region, the German army dashed on madly in a rush for the French capital. The German high command told of the speed and the weight ol the drive south ol M.iubeuge. which is about 120 miles airline imrlheast of Paris. "South of Maubeuge, German armored forces penetrated French frontier fortifications, dispersed two "iicmy division and pursued the re treating enemy beyond the upper Sambre (river) in a southward di rection as far as the Oise (river). "Infantry divisions arc now closely following up in tremendous marches. Many prisoners among the defeated French troops were made and large supplies captured." RAF Raids Nazi Cities Hits on Oil Storage Tanks in Hamburg and Bremen Reported During "Dark Hour". London. May If!. -(Af')--The air i-iini'try foday reported hits on oil storage tanks in Hamburg ;inri Bre locn during ;i night raid on Germany by British fliers. Some of the storage 1anks were destroyed and others were heavily lamaged. it said. Reports of the raids and of an air I-attic in which nine British lighters shot down ten German bombers over France ye. terady came amid an ad mit ledly perilous situation to the Allies on the western front. An authoritative spokesman de elared that tin* situation of the allied troops on the western front " is very serious but eeitainly not worse and i.o sibly a little hit better" than yes terday. The German advance in northern France, he said, has very much laekened, perhaps only temporarily, but exhaustion of German units is apparent." The British and Belgian lines in Belgium, he serted, had to go back in order to conform to movements southward. He emphasized, however that "there was no question of a break through or of troops retiring in con fusion." The British press admitted thai the allies are facing "the darkest hour" since 1918 when their world war armies were hovering on the brink of a crushing defeat. British Seeking Better Approach To Soviet Russia London. May 18.—fAP)—Winston Churchill's now win-the-war govern ment was said by a reliable source today to bo .seeking a "new and more friendly approach" to improvement of relations with Russia. Inclusion of the labor and liberal parties in the new. cabinet was sai* to have paved the way for abandon ment of the so-called "stiff necked" attitude toward the USSR credited to former Prime Minister Chamberlain and most of his regime. A softening of press attacks already has been noted.