Utenitersnn Slattg ilispalcb ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOR in CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. —— y A.u , , . „ .. , . PUBLISHED every afternoon FIVE CENTS COl Y SEVENTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MA\ -2, 1J40 except 9unda . Britain Conscripts All Wealth, I tbor And Resources Of Empire •TLER RECEIVES REPORTS AT THE FRONT ■ '.« (. r. Adolf Hitler (left), is shown at " Hitler's Headquarters on the \Ve • »>« «rt - reached ;• < ,i»-h had re el ;i -front* ad n. out <>t' Ah ' «.>: the English ?':irkinj>. Fr< nth •. 1 .kI recaptured the channel, i "pocketed" Fli'it «»f 550.01)1) b;>ck< to the sea. command. how lii.'iiuu-p'ish na/.i •^•Tcycli- raids ap ••'1 l>y infantry— c ii: id'»r through t to the chan :;h command an • • day break-through ■I ofi Pa;ie Seven> Mrs. Burleson Facing Trial ror Murder May 22.—(AD— •ne>.es were ready :i the case of Mrs. • Ifs iu. 51. Galveston, n-d with murder iri • the fatal shooting of • succeeded her in !;ic-hitrd C. Burleson, . ;rmy. n-y> said they would ■m Boston. Ba'ti • ->-ci un Pa^e Seven) Committee Adds To Navv Appropriation Germany 'Not Interested' In East Indies Tokyo, May 22.—(AD—Germany today informed Japan .she was "not interested" in thy 22.--- (AP) — Acting with the telephoned apir'ovn! <>l' President Roosevelt. the Senate naval appropriations sub-committee added S 178.000,000 to the Navy's supply bill today to make provision for a 2.r).(;00 increase in Navy enlist ed strength. President Roosevelt asked $318. I 000.000 for the Navy in his emer gency defense recommendations. I The sub-committee wrote this into • the pending appropriation bill and I added to it at the same time $i>0, : 77f>.000 in e;r-h and $100,000,000 in j eontraet authority after setting the ..Chier Kxecutive's apr>roval. i The total of funds being made (Continued on Page Four) Maxwell Should Have Advantage In [Districts Five-Eight, Averill Says Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. By IIEXRY AVERILL (This is the second of throe stories on the gubernatorial sit uation It surveys Congressional < District Five through Eight. The last stjry will appear tomor row. ) Raleigh, May 22.—Commissioner ol ' Revenue Allen J. Maxwell looks like ; a good bet to lead the gubernatorial pack when the returns are compiled 1 from the 30 counties in Congressional : Districts Five through Eight. Hii : chief competitor will likely be Ra leigh lawyer J. Melville Broughton. The balance of the votes will be largely divided among Lieutenani Governor Wilkins P. Horton. Lee I Gravely and Tom Cooper. I As in the case of all other forecasts ' and survey-, of the situation, this par ticular bit of prognostication is made under the kaudin'p oi the hardes: Sweeping Powers Granted By Parliament To Speed Defense Chairman Lucas Says I He Has Not Ascer-i tained H o w Demo cratic Candidate Got Ballots From Election | Board Office. Wilson. M.-iy 22.—(AP)—W. A. i I Lucas, chairman of the state board ! I of elections, said today that his in- j vestigation ol" the alleged illegal re moval of some ballots for Saturday's j primary from the offices of the Cra- : ven county elections board had not > been concluded and lie had not as certained how Charles L. Abernethy Jr., a Democratic candidate for Con gress, got the ballots. "I am trying to find out how the I ballots got into circulation," Lucas j said. "In the normal course of events when I have concluded my investi- | gation I shall lay my findings be fore the solicitor of the district fori what action may be proper." "My investigation shows that no election official was involved in any i way and that no ballots were print i ed unlawfully." Lucas said. "A check showed that the Craven | rounty board was short 1,500 of its 14,000 ballots for Saturday's pri-1 (Continued on Page Four) Rumania Is j Mobilized Move Believed Linked With Fears of Russian Invasion of Bessara bia. | P.uchar'rt. May 22—(AP>—'Ru- j j mania ordered a virtual general mob ilization today in a move which j I diplomat': believe was linked with | i Bucharest fears that Soviet Russia's I : big army may soon march into Bes- I I snrabia. | The general staff callH 310.0001 j reservists to the colors within the I next 24 hours, bringing the nemvj | to what the staff called '"the highest! I stete of preparedness'". Reports to military hend<"|"arlcr;; here said that Soviet troop eoneen j trations on Rumania's frontier had been heavily reinforced. [ nice to penetrate ever staged in North Carolina. Folks just aren't talking,, J the European situation has stolen alii i the front page publicity and there are! almost as many divergent views as ; there are commentators. Wherefore, the readers are not ! dared to keep these predictions and j check up on them when the return* i are actually in. II they do so. your Raleigh reporter's face may turn en 1 tirely too red for comfort if his sur | vey should turn out to be as full of . error as a Literary Digest poll. But here goes, anyhow, district by | district and county by county. ! The 30 counties of these four dis lOsjcdhsh FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday: showers in mountains Thursday: not much change in temperature. NeMss Brace For Srtiitii Counter Attack Isi West Ui-ilin, ?.«i!.v :i:>.—l the l.ngiish channel and lo'.UIi ti> within sonic 50 mdes of Paris today. But while Nazi bombers showered down dcaih from channrl sea- | ports to inl« : ior battlegrounds, the main German army in northern ; France lir:\ri d it elf for a hard counter attaek by the Allie d armies | )>;;« under the supreme command of General Maxime We.vgand. "It may be that our present movement will eonv a Ivmporary j lirIt". General Von Kcichcnau, German commander in the iield, | acknowledged. "Wc.vgand has ordered every man to stand his ground. I Thai may mran hard fights ahead." Roosevelt Meets London At Lunch I Duke of Gloucester j Narrowly Escapes j Death In Air Raid By DREW MIDDLETON. London, May 22.—(AP)— The Duke ut messages to general headquar ters. working at an improvised table !' the late King! LIrorge V has undergone. Once he' ivas wounded in the right hand by a I bomb splinter. The morning alter the bombing he told me he was "getting used to itH and added: "The Boche put on quite a show for us, didn't he?" AUSTRALIA RAISING HER THIRD DIVISION Canberra. Australia. Ma.v 2!i. I f AI*)—Premier K. G. Menzies of Australia announced in parlia- j ni cut today thai Australia would raise a third army division for service abroad. His announcement came two days after another member of the British Empire Canada, an nounced plans for raising a third i division. trie's cast a grand total of 176,358 votes i* the first primary of 1936—! just about 4,000 more than were poll-J ed in the four districts surveyed by this correspondence yesterday. The vote of each county will be given in order that its relative weight may i be roughly estimated. The Fifth District (seven counties I that cast 43.894 votes in 1936) will likely give a lead to Maxwell, with Lieutenant Governor Horton in sec ond place. Horton will likely lead in a ma jority of the counties—Caswell (2, 535). Person (2,817), Stokes (2,911) and Surry (6,010), while Maxwell! isn't figured first in more than two, ar.d even in these he will very likely be pushed closely, if not actually led by Broughton. Maxwell is assigned Forsyth (18,719) despite earlier in dications it would be for Broughton.' and Granville (4.310) though here (Contnued on Page Seven.) Visit of Republican; Leader Raises Talk of Coalition Govern- j ment, But Officials Refuse T o Discuss Possibility. Washington. May 21.—(AP)—In an atmosphere of harmony over na tional defense efforts. President Roosevelt and All' M. Landon dis cussed across a luncheon table to day the grave problems raised by the European war. Landon's visit to the White House raised much talk of the oossibility of a coalition government but ncith- } er in Democratic nor Republican eir- j c!es had it found any strong support . when Landon walked into the Chief I Executive's office. Stephen Early, presidential secre- | tary, discussing possibilities for an j expanded government to meet the | defense emergency, said it wouid j most likely b'ke a simplified form of j the 1917-18 type of government with j "dollar a year" men assisting and; advising the regular government of- ; Jicials. Early indicated appointment of various such aides and selection of more presidential assistants was im- j mincnt. Landon himself declined to discuss! coalition questions when reporters met inm upon his arrival in the capi tal this morning. However, Senator Capper. Republican. Kansas, break-j fasted with him and later said that "I don'1 know of any Republican for" coalition. At the same time, he said Repub licans would give President Roose velt's defense program full support, j 8 AMERICANS ARE REPORTED MISSING I'aris. May 21.—(AP)—Kichl drivers of an American volun teer ambulance units operating in the war zone now are reported missing with their ears. Four members of this corps were officially listed as missin? yesterday. Four more were list ed today and another driver was reported wounded. Belgian Fort Falls Before German Guns BY LOUIS P. LOCKNER. With the German Armies on the Western Front, May 22.—(AP)—A gigantic fort, capitulated under our eyes today as we stood on heights between Eupen and Malmedy with a superb commanding view of the. whole legion, now German. It later proved to be Batice. last of the great major fortification works around Liege. Belgium. Artillery followed hv bomb div (Continued on Page Seven; Production iP! o £ Councils lo Be Set Up Attlee, Demanding Powers For Govern ment, Says Object Is To Make Effective The Whole Resources Of Great Britain. Loudon.—Britain's parliament tonight invested the government with dictatorial powers to con script labor and wealth to strengthen tin* nation's shield against German invasion. Within three hours the house of commons and the house of lords passed and King George approved a bill giving Winston Churchill's government unpre cedented sweeping war emer gency powers demanded "in view of the grave peril in which the nation stands today." All-powerful production councils would bo sot up to speed supplies of munitions, ships, aircraft, farm pro duce and minerals. Major Clement A. Attlee, who spoke for Prime Minister Churchill, demanded that munitions boards "get on the job" tonight. All labor and property would be at the government's disposal. There would be a 100 percent ex cess profits tax. Attlee said there might be cases where firms would be closed and >thors whore property would be de stroyed. All munitions lactones will imme diately bo placed under government control. Parliament proudly rushed the bill toward enaetm<*nt amid appeals to how Adoli Hitler it was an efficient instrument ol war. Attlee, lord privy seal and mem ber ol the 111n< i war cabinet, said the (Continued on Page Seven) Italian Papers Point Out Aid Given Germany Kome. .May Ti.— (AT)—Italian newspapers pointed tail today —on tin* fiiM anniversary of the Rntne-Berlin military pact — that tin* alliance had served to hold British warships in the Mediterranean and Freneh army divisions along the Italian fron tier while the Nazis were strik ing at the western Allies. The papers hinted that Italy had important gains «n store as her reward for this aid. Amid persistent talk of an Italian war move soon, sreret activity of Germany and Italy as part of the allianec was indi cated in Fascist circles. Proposal For Selling Planes Is Shelved Washington. May 22.—CAP) 13y a vote of 12 to 1, the Senale foreign relation- committee shelved today a proposal that the United States sell army and navy planes to the allies. Only Senator Pepper, Democrat, Florida, the author, voted for the proposal. Chairman Pittman said it was the consensus of the committee members that the legislation would violate in ternational law and would constitute "intervention <>y the United States." Pepper. Pittman said, agreed with this view out argued that "Hitler has ••iolated all the rules of international law and that the access of the allies ./as of vital in.por-.ance tc us.'"