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PERRY MEMORiM-Uwaetiii Utettfterann BatUj IHspatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOK'i ti CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. -SEVENTH YEAR 'the^s^atsd'prLs®' HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 23,1M0 ' pu1,,',s"SS,t,L^™"nu"n FIVE CENTS COPY riiain Is "In Fearful Danger" Senate Approves Navy1 pr opriationMeasure i _ Little Time Required To iVf.iiure Provides 2,-i S-0 Airplanes, 2,500 I'hem Training Ships, With Funds For < riirvj Other Arms Vfense. M iv 2.'!.—(AP)—The i the $1,473,756,728 • - i»> 11 today, has -t,-:itii>n"s extra-or c: :program far ,:i s. ional action. • v. ?h a speed like "he Army's >hare of -wept through the • day. •_'.S>7" airplanes. 2.500 i he f-aining ships to •;n expanding train would be provided. : (lativcly small num t-nts. most of these _ • nt the Navy's present :imi existing planes and built. call vote was unaimous. • aviation expenditures of .-w would include $45,000, . development of airplane . tiles. • • • ;id get $65,000,000 in . >y tur.ds for the expedition i.lding. $35,000,000 for ar • -.unition. and S6.000.000 'ion of the battleships Texas and Arkansas. • would be in addition '"<• n regular appropria i the work on two bat-| aircraft carrier, two' ght destroyers, four sub-' : five auxiliary ships, y funds also would make I • \pansi«.n of the Xavv's J ■ lei from 145.000 to ' »• Marine Corps' per 25.000 to 34.000. President Roosevelt ; - • ■ $34,000,000 in cash I >'.:nt in contract au -;>»'nt at his personal i ! siging up any cracks • : p in the defense ar ^ra.»r. goes along. British Leader Is Arrested •I-iv —(AP)—Sir Os-j leader of the fascist! •t." wont to Scotland) ■ rl custody of police. Ii» fi>h union" head i ' • 'ti raided by detec ' "or "fifth columnists''! i woman arrested, (.'apt. Archibald H.; -•■native member of; ■ direction of the home announced by the •• l ouse of commons. veil known military • d been regarded as " ularly on the score of; Everything In Readiness For Pr unary Vote May 2'.'. — (AP) —The | >■!<•(•'!on.-> reported to • vthing wa in ship at a record .>1 1.913 : >r Saturday's history t > the probable vote nning from as low \<i :^5.U00 to as high ."xio.ooo. L'sual'y the "fi was about 125,000. • orial candidates, a even Democrats and • - put the finishing campaigns. One ot candidates. A. J. .<:k and cou'd not fill :• ments. His head Ud that he wa# suf • '.Uicri ol I; - yn^itL. Entering U. S. Underseas Fleet Newest of Uncle Sam's submarines, the V. S. S. Trout slides down the ways at Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Yard. Displacement of the Trout is 1,475 tuns. She has a vvaterline length of 300 feet 3 inches and a maxi mum beam of 27 feet 3 inches. Fierce Fighting In Battle Of Flanders ! Battle Line Extending Between Cambrai and V alenciennes, With French Reaching Out skirts of German-Held Cambrai. } Paris, May 23.—(AP)—Tho French ! armies, effecting what foreign mili tary experts called a "miracle of re organization." fought today with now | fury to re-unite thoir northern and central armies arid shut off the long, sharp spearhead which the Germans have driven through northern France! to the sea. Pocketed with their British and Belgian allies, the central French army, using tanks, planes, motorized units and artillery, engaged the Ger mans in a bitter see-saw battle be-1 tween Cambrai and Valenciennes. 25 miles away. The battle jockeyed back and forth } along tho Scheldt river with tern- [ porary advantages for both sides. At one point, the French, a military spokesman said, fought their way; down to the outskirts of Cambrai,! territory from which they had been pushed earlier iti tho week. Military circles here said the light ing was progressing "satisfactorily on' the whole."' Stabilizing lines along the Aisnc and the Somme rivers were report ed unchanged. The decision to maintain the gov-} ernments administrative base in Paris was reached at a meeting of the | inner war cabinet. It also ordered industry to con tinue its function in tiie Paris area' and put a curb on the movement of, civilians from the city without army! orders. But while the military arm report (Continued on Page Three.) Fireside Chat Sunday Washington. May 'J.'t.— 'AP) — President Roosevelt will discuss defense conditions and needs in a 'fireside chat" to be broad cast to the country Sunday night. In announcing Mr. Roosevelt's decision to make the radio ad dress, at 9:30 p. m. EST. Stephen Early, presidential sec retary. news men it would he a "s t r a i g h t forward and factual report from the govern ment to the people." He «aid it would be a "gen eral discussion of the defense situation and defense livedo." Americans Ready To Leave Britain London. May 23.—(AC)— j About 700 of approximately 3. 000 Americans in the British j Isles have indicated they will be ready to leave for home when a ship is available, a I'nited States embassy official said today fol lowing the American govern ment's decision to send the liner President Roosevelt to Ireland. Expansion Of Plane Industry Is Charted j Wellington? Miiy i!'J.— (AP)— Secretary Morgenthau sail today he was obtaining agreements From the airplane industry to spread the manufacture of favorer types of warplancs and engines among many plants. The aim is to standardize pro duction. Attorneys f«;r two major airplane engine plants were already at the Treasury, drafting contracts authorizing the government to give I orders for their types of engines to other companies. "We need a vast expansion of pro duction and the only way we can get it is to concentrate our avail able productive capacity on the best types," Mr. Morgenthau said. Bulwinkle Would Stop Deflation North Carolina Con gressman Proposes Steps to Provide Cushion Against De flation Caused By German Victories. Washington. May ?.'■}.—CATV -Fe o re: putative I *u I winkle, Di-mcrra 1 Ni.ith Carolina, nroposed tod-iy th' United States take steps to cushion itself against "deflat'on" being bv mght about bv Germany's vic torious march in Europe. He proposed a special House com mittee "to take such immediate ac tion as may be ncccssary" to advise the administration that Congre.s "is for both national defense against a foreign enemy and also against this enemy of deflation which is in our midst." Bulwinkle sa;d since Holland had been invaded deflation had caused a "loss to the American public amounting to billions of dollars in trie decline of commodities, investments, securities and silt-edged securities." "This precipitated an unwarranted movement, and an unwarranted de flation has continued and taken on the proportion of a panic and it must stop," be said. Bulwinkle declared that "it the mad leaders of Germany continue on their victorious march x x x 1 for me cannot visualize what may hap pen here in the United Stales in the increasing decline of farm products, all commodities, stocks and bonds." IRISH WARNING. Dublin, May 23.—(AP)—A warning that Ireland (Eire) will "not let anybody come in here" was sounded today in an address by Scan O'Kclly, deputy prime minister. "We will not let anybody comc here and try to take advantage of the disunity of our people to exploit this country for the ad vantage of some other country," he said. Close Races In Two Districts Are Likely Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, May 2.'i.—There are con tests in some otheis, but the two closest looking Congressional races in North Carolina appear to be ir. progress in the Sixth and Eleventh Districts. The two are of completely differ ent aspects. In the Sixth there are four counties and four candidates; while in the Eleventh there are thir teen counties and only two candid-! iiles. In the Eleventh a veteran is J lighting to hold his seat. In the Sixth. I i first termer, about whose selection in lU.'ifi there was great argument, I is seeking to yet another term. I The Sixth (Durham, Orange, Ala mance and Guilford) finds incumbent Carl Durham of Orange, battling Os car Barker of Durham, John Cal'feyl dI Guilford and Ed Han ford of A i. i - ma nee. Count out Han ford, who will get! a good vote at home but almost none elsewhere, and there still remainsi cjuite a scrap in sight. Durham's record as «i fledging Con- j gressman is under attack by Barker.! in particular, as having been some-! what anti-New Deal in tenor. Barker! also appeals to the voters on the grounds he was bilked in 1936 when (Continued on Page Three) Nazi Forces Reach Channel, Bringing Danger Of Invasion AP Correspondent iays Crews of U-Boats And Speed Boats Champing To Be Sent C n Errands of De-i shuction. BY LOI'lS P. LOC-'KNKR. With the German armies on the] We.st"rn May 23.—(AP)— I have reached the English channel to j find German forces here with the nazi wa: tika flying. It sen", almost unbelievable that I should find Germany at this chan- | nel. lint the nazi swastika waving from 1 the local commander's headquarters leaves no doubt about it. Crews of U-boats and speed boats are champing to be sent on their er rands of destruction. (Lockner, chief of the Associated Press bureau in Berlin, is on the fifth day oi a tour with the German forces on personal invitation of Hitler. He did not specify the point at which he reached the English channel, but ap parently it was some place in Bel gium. (Technically, the eastern limit of the channel runs between England and 1" ranee but Belgian ports popu larly are considered to be on the channel.) ' Here, as elsewhere, the roads of approach are jammed with infantry, more infantry, and still more infan try, and with artillery even more formidable, backed by an air force equipped to the last fine detail. All are awaiting Adolf Hitler's final command to go to England. Everywhere one hears soldiers singing the "Engelland" song. Young men realized such a venture (Continued 011 Page Three) Situation In North Africa Is Tense Home, May 23.—(AP)—Premier Mussolini was reported by an usual ly reliable source to have sum moned .1 meeting of his supreme de fense council today, while his offi cial news agency reported from French north Africa that "the situa t.> n is tense". Italians accused French authori ties in Morocco of "renewing hate- j lul persecutions against Italians liv'ng in the protectorate." The official news agency reported from Rabat. French Morocco, that "without justified reasons or ex planation Italians of all social classes have been arrested, imprisoned or expelled from the territory within a few hours with disastrous con sequences for 'heir property and in terests gained by decades of sacri fices and honest work". Averill Sees Three-Way Dogfight In Race In Districts Nine, Ten And Eleven CThis is {ho third story in a i .<•( lies on gubernatorial prospects in the various Congressional | Districts. The 9th, JOth and 11th are considered trd^y. Tomorrow there will be a roundup ol" the situation in the state as a whole). Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh. May 23.—A triangular dogfight is clearly indicated in the struggle for votes in the guberna torial primary ir. Concessional Dis trict Nine. Ten and Eleven. Commissioner of Revenue Allen J. Maxwell looki i.iie the leader in the Ninth. J. M. Broughton in the Tenth and Lieutenant Governor Yv'ilkins P. Horton in the Eleventh. All tire more than reasonably close, with Broughton's Tenth District edge perhaps wider than either of the others. Grouping the 32 counties in these three districts, which cast a total vote CO&cdliM j FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, scattered thun der showers Friday and in in terior tonight: not much change in temperature. , of 167.1 Ion in thr> lirst l!)3fi race, your Raleigh reporter won id almost flip1 a coin, or pull a name out ol' a hat.1 If there is any advantage at all. it apparently is owned by Broughton by reason of the fact that his prospects m the Tenth are so outstanding, a fact made doubly important because this district was the heaviest voting in the state four years ago. In these 32 counties, too. the other part of the field (Gravely, Cooper, Grady and Simmons) will not cut so heavily into the Broughton. Horton 'i and Maxwell vote as it will in the '• in >re easterly counties. Gravely is 1 (Continued on Page Three) Blamed For Disaster Gcneial Andre C'orap <m!..ovo) wa> commander o! the "Cup iirmy." i biitmod Ijy French Premier Paul Rcynaud lor collapse ol Vrench de fenses along tno Meu-e. Thai army. Rcynaud said, was nearest defense divisions reached them. Further positions, yet less than half it* j more, bridges over the river wore j not destroyed, allowing the Nazis! to speed deep into Fiance. These! "unbelievable mistakes," the pre- I micr declared, "will be punished." Rumania Is ! Mobilized i Railroads and High ways Jammed With Reservists Answering Call to Colors. P.uehare 1. May L'.'J fAP) Ru manian railroad awl highways werej jammed today with • i'*;ir!.v .'iflfl.OOO i reservists heading toward the I:on- { tiers as Rumania |• t ii•!*> (liV-ct lb'1' grealest military concentration in her' hislory. The general stalf vestf rday had called up the rese'-vi. Is in a virtual general mobilization for "the highest state ol preparedness." a diplomats J here believed the government was' apprehensive lest the Ru sian army move into Rumania' Re sarabia. Military cwHes said today that. the. men would be given intensive train-| ing in the new methods ol war. .Meanwhile new measines werei taken against possible.- "fifth eohiiuii"j activities. House Speeds Immigration | ServiceChange Washington. May 2'.'.—(A P/—A special House commit Ice unanimous v adopted today a resolution for j-.ick Congressional apuroval ol President Roosevelt's alien control jrdcr transferring tl e immigration ; eivicc from the Labor department j o the Justice department. The action came less thai, 21 hours' liter the President sent Coiign the jrdcr and a message saving the! ran.-tcr would enable the goi'-sn nent to "deal quickly' with undo-j ■ irable aliens. He urged sction to, nake the shift operative e„ icklv. Leaders said they honed to pu.-.h he resolution ol appro-sal thro.igh, he House before the week-end. It vould make the ;iansfer effective en days after both S'-nate and -louse adopted • it and President ioosevelt signed it. Representative V.'arr n. 'Jemocr.it. Corth Carolina, member ol. the -louse committee, .-aid he had ber*n nformed that Senate leaders •-.vould ittcmpt to pas< the re*olutvn by manirnous con mt--a p.o-edure hat would require o:Wy b lew slc <r.ds. Abbeville Is Recaptured By Germans Heavy Fighting Rages Around Boulogne, France, On English Channel; British Fear Invasion Through Ire land. (By The Associated Press.) The fall of Abbeville, 12 miles from the English channel, to German shuck troops blasting their way through to the coast was announced today by Prime Ministei Winston Churchill. "This country is in tearful dan ger." declared Alfred Duff-Cooper, Brilish minister of information. Heavy fighting is raging around Boulogne, France, on the channel, Churchill said. ' "It is too early yet to say what the result of this coastal fighting may be, but it evidently carries with it implications of a serious character," Churchill said. French reports yesterday said the Germans had been "chased out of Abbeville," but once again the na/.i onslaught has broken through to the J-iCcl • Simultaneously, Clement R. Att lee. deputy leader in the house of commons, disclosed that the govern ments ol both Britain and Ireland were apprehensively "alive to the possibilities'* of an invasion through Ireland. As emphasized by Churchill, the threat of a na/.i invasion was appar ently becoming hourly more grave. Possibly as a preparation for this heralded next blow in Hitler's "total war" scheme, power diving bombers and German . peed boats smashed at channel communications. A German break through in the fierce fighting for control of Eng lish channel ports imperiled com munication between 550,000 allied troops "pocketed" in northern France and 1.000,000 French soldiers to the south. '•'lliere i a gaj; between the two armies," a British spokesman admit ted. "The allied situation on the west ern front !. extremely grave." Be-id»-s the vital line of communi cations being endangered by the new na/.i onslaught, a British expedition ary force communique acknowledged Uial the Germans had reached "the n< ighborliood of the coast" on the Engli ii channel. The German high command re ported I he harbor lacilities at Dover, England, and Dunkerque, France, had (Continued on Page Three) Capture Of Boulogne Is 'Probable9 Berlin, May 2?,.—(AP)—Authoriz ed German .sources, although declin ing 1o affirm or deny reports that the German armies have taken Boulogne, French seaport on the Eng ii.sli channel, added: "It is quite probable." Boulogne is on the lower end of the strait.-; ol Dover. '-Hi miles by sea I'rorn Foil:, lone. England. It is some 43 mile.- north we: 1 of Abbeville, which a German army spearhead has engulfed. 8:net: r< aching Abbeville Tuesday, the German out!.em spearhead has been groping lor Boulogne, while the drive oi the main German columns to divide and destroy allied armies in northern Fiance and Belgium has prod'iced other evidence ol an im iviineNt as.-auir on England herself. Vlie real battle is constantly be ing bro gh" closer to Britain." said D.N'B. ofiici; I news agency, "but be iore it can begin the pocket in the no- th of France and the Belgian c-oa.-t; ! area must be completely oc cupied r.y German troops. "In vi< w of 1h<- strong forces en < rcled here it will not be done with out heavy fighting."
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