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Itenfcraott Hailxj Hiaggttf? VENTH YEAR ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOKi n CAROLINA AND EEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. VIRGINr**^^ HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 31, 1940 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY iiish Fighi To Hold Dunkerque * * « I .n: ******* *. * * * * * • Over A Billion" Asked For i -qyanded EmergencyDefense FDR Asks ii JiorityTo t i Guard . eit Mentions No . Specific Details > tnJcci Program • "Speedy" En ■~y. nt of Defense. y ::t -(AIM—Pros • " i C> >ngress today .^•ment «>t Amof by " over a bil - (u anded by "the ents of the past nse message- - the Mr. Rooevelt _ a.- a possibility nran-nts n ay be . . world-wide war. t.n demands that • 'e made mi re cer to $4.">oo.nno. d in emergency ipyiatioIlS. ] -•d gravity of the sit-! "< - tin t action should be dolay." President j Id Congress. Executive made one; umendation—that Con- J authority to call the d ;:nd the reserve per-' • e defense forces in ac-! - this authority, he sug-, tintain our position ot ; to safeguard the na cnse." .i.idual. no group, can ;ed on Page Seven) STATE DEPARTMENT WARNING AGAINST MOLESTING LINER May 3i.—(AP)—The Tit. ci -closing a gen . A: ericrns from the .1 urea, cautioned bel etit> today not to y *..e liner Washington '.g ef'ort to bring ■ from Bordeaux I. <vim>ki Is Nazi Prisoner of \\ ar ' AE')—Kinu Leo i.< . i > a prisoner of yr-rl German source .rul it is unlikely < circumstances ho •f<(i to name a new •nf. ■ ■ • wii- made in re ■ • .» concerning Lco • t>i the disagree i'^re government. IMgian government ' night approved an Iving Leopold of . tilt- name of the Bcl fviiss Elliott i o WatchCost Of Living \I::V 31.— (AP) — ' '.t. only woman on ' i (iclon.se eommis - <: irif.-r leading cut ' i I! be market re lists. . !••'<!*. dean of women <'<»iiege <>1 tne Univer Carolina, has been as <>: r.eeping an eye on .'•I:, and Mrs. America • it and live as the na ■engthening its ram • e out of the com peting at the White ' y -he frankly admit ' ;:iKi\v at the moment v." ild begin her new " ink it through and ■ n". she explained. *'•:>. though, will be to i of s'ati^ticians to ..;f the /.ig-zag iti the .. cabbage and au«\. "Fifth Column" Suspects Interned in Britain Files of armed soldiers escort this great parade of aliens to internment camps in a town in northern England as Britain rounds up thousands of men and women suspected of being in the "Fifth Column." Britain is taking 110 chances with aliens since German conquest of Norway and the Low Countries was materially assisted by Nazi sympathizers. Georgians Are Indicted Six Thousand Ship Builders On Strike Rivers Charges Fed eral "Snooping" After Jury Returns Indict ments. Atlanta. M;iy 31.—(AP)—Governor E. D. Rivers of Georgia charged to day that "federal snoopers have swarmed offices at the state capitol in recent weeks" as a federal inquiry into charges of corruption in state government broadened. The governor made the charges in a statement after a federal jury at Rome. Ga.. returned indictments late yesterday against Dr. Hiram W. Evans, former Km Klux Klan wizard, and Legislative Clerk John \V. Greer, Jr.. charging mail fraud and con spiracy to restrain trade. The jury also indicted three large asphalt producing firms on charges of conspiring with Kvans and Greer to monopolize trade Mid fix prices in the sale of $4f)6.427.42 worth ol' asphalt to the state highway depart ment. Governor Rivers said he viewed the indictment of Greer as "malici ous prosecution" and asserted that "federal surveillance and federal snooping at the state capitol will henceforth stop". HALF OF ORIGINAL BEF ARE RETURNED London. May 31.— (AIM — British authorities estimated to day that the number of British. French and Belgian troops al ready landed after withdrawal from Flanders equals one-half the original strength of the Brit ish expeditionary foree. (It has been indicated that the original BEF numbered about 300.000.) Nazi Losses Set At Halt a Million On Western Front Paris. May 31.—(AD—The semi-official Telefrancc agency asserted today thai the Germans had lost half a million men since they began their invasion of the low countries May 10. This figure "finds itself writ ten in authentic German docu ments" the agency reported, with out giving additional details. Compromise In AnnenbergT ax Case Reported Chicago, May 31.— (AI *)— United Si;iles Attorney William J. Camp bell announced today ;i tentative agreement h;id been readied I'ur set tling the income tax difficulties of M. L. Aunenberg, wealthy publisher, lor a compromise payment reported to be $8.01)0.000. Tbe prosecutor declined to bo quot ed on that or any other specific fig ure. I>111 't was reported reliably at the federal building. The tentative agreement which would dispose of both civil and criminal e; sos against Anncnberg himself and provide for the dismissal of ten of his associates in criminal income tax cases, was reached in Washington, the prosecutor said. They're Still Wearing Out Pencils Analyzing Norton's Chances In Runoff Primary Daily Dispatch Bureau, III the Sir Walter Hotel. BY II J.VKV AVKKILL. Raleigh, May —Favorite pastime along the political rialto a.s of this week has been the wearing out of pencils in an effort to analyze tfie chances, if any there be, of Lieute nant Governor Wilkins P. Horton in his proposed runoff with J. M. Broughton for the gubernatorial nomination. The analyzers start out together with the vote cast last Saturday— they all do that unanimously. There alter the path is winding and diver gent. It's "every man lor himself'.' as Horton said in asserting thai he's j in the tight to the bitter end. Right off the bat every figurer has his own opinion of how many votes will be cast June 22. There is an al most general tendency to put this figure tar lower than the more than 450.0(H) cast last Saturday, but even to this there are dissenting voles. Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, lor in-; stnnce, is confident there will be morej v Continued on page two) Walkout Occurs At Federal Ship Building and Dry Dock Com pany at Kearny, N. J.; Early Settlement Pre dicted. Kearny. X. May 31.—(A P) —Six thousand workers struck at Hie Federal Ship Building and Dry Dock Company tf . h;ilf iiur work on six warships includ ed in thf> I'nited States' rush de fense program. Among $4'i.()00.0<l0 in naval con tract:; hold by tiie company arc a cruiser and two destroyers on the ways, two destroyers in the fitting basin, and a cruiser on which only preliminary work had been done. Striker* picketed the plant while their loaders, who h;id argued against the walkout, r.cg"ti ted with com pany oilicials. The men are members of the Indusl'ial Union of Maritime and Siiip Workers of America (CIO). John Dunp-oy, local president, said lie had opposed the strike, but now "lully syinpathi/.id" with the action taken. The n ival work was ahead (.1 schedule and would not suffer, he said. Washington. May 31.— (AP)—Say ing "wo cannot afford to have trouble of this sort in these times" Secre tary Kdison predicted today speedy settlomont <n a trike at the Federal Ship Ihiildmg and Dry Dock Com pany, Kearny. N. J. British Ship Reported Sunk London. May 31.—(AP)—The ad miralty announced today iht* loss of the Britisli anti-aircraft cruiser Cur lew. The 4.290-ton ship was sunk as a result "of a bombing attack «ome days ago off the north coast of Nor way" the announcement said. Four officers and five sailors lost their lives. The Curlew had a normal crew of 400. which probably was increased to 450 in war time. It was the second British cruiser admitted lost in this war. (jJmiknh FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Sat urday: ossibly light drizzles in extreme north portion. Battle Weary Troops Stream Into Allies9 "Escape"Port Under Fierce German Attack i wo iJivisions Baiter bloody ketreat Into iiscape Port Just as i.acchanized Nazi Le gions Lay Siege To the Town. Paris. May 31.— (AP)—Two divi sions r.f ihp French rear guard for the allied retrr.at from Flanders have fought their way to Dunkerquc, it was announced li>is afternoon by the j ministry >>{ information. The.;* divisions. numbering per i haps 3fi,000 men in all before they underwent the shattering attack in Flander-. were said to have reached the chanw 1 port—exit from the northern battle zone—just as Ger many's mechanized legions laid siege to the town. Armored columns smashed at the Dunkerquc gateway and slashed around the French rear guard, which covered itself in the manner of Caesar's forces—boxed in by armor ed phalanxes. The French infantry and artillery kept to the middle of the moving rectangle while tanks guarded four sides. The divisions, said to be com manded by General Rene Prioux (whom the Germans say is their prisoner) battered a path part way through the German lines during the (Continued on Page Seven) Railroad Is Directed To Restore Wages Richmond. V;i., May 30.—(AP)— FcMu:il Judge Robert N. Pollard di rcclod t!!c- Atlantic Coast Lino rail load today to make restitution of an estimated $2f>0.0()0 to approximately ;j,500 muintcnancc-of-way employees for wii^es which the wage and hour administration charged the company ii.'d deducted illegally. The const nt decrce, entered in the district court for eastern Virginia, di rected the company within two months to compute the amount due each employee and submit it for the approval of the wage and hour divi -ion of the United States Depart ment of Labor. In its complaint, the wage and hour division charged the company with arbitrarily deducting unreason able sums jor the rental of houses "many of which were non-existant and others unfit for human habita tion." A separate stipulation which was made a part of the judgment pre cribed minimum standards of hous ing for which deductions may br made and prohibited the railroad from compelling employees to live in company-owned houses. U. S. S. Washington Will Be Launched Tomorrow Washington, May 31.—(AP)—The first new American battleship in 19' years slides into the water tomorrow at the start of a drive to speed war ship construction unmatched in in tensity since World war days. The 35,000-ton U. S. S. Washing ton will be launched at the Phila delphia navy yard. It is the first of 68 warships still under the riveting! hammer which the Navy, by day and i night work, intends to complete i months ahead of their original sche- i dules. I The record appropriation for Ihe ^ea force? now before Congress in cludes more than SI00.000.000 to be expended solely to speed the trans Allied Problem After a hurried flight out of the path of the German war machine through northern Franca, this little refugee munches contentedly on a piece of bread*at a Paris welfare station. So many refugees from the battle areas are flooding into French and British centers that the Allies are reported seeking U. S. aid in the problem. (Central Press) Morgenthau Urges Taxes New Taxes ana In crease in Debt Limit Beth Essential, Treas ury Head Says. Washington, May 31.— (AP) — Secretary Morgenthau said today that "additional taxes" and "an in crease in the limit" on the public debt both "are essential" to meet ex panded demands lur national de- j tense. Urging enactment of a $656,000, 0(H) defense tax bill, the Treasury head told the House ways and means committee that as thing stood now the Treasury's borrowing -power would be "completely ex hausted by the end of next Feb- I ruary." Also, he added, the working bal ance of the Treasury—now about $1,300,000,000—would be dangerous ly depleted. The maintenance of a balance "approximating the present one," Morgenthau testified, "is distinctly, in the interest of economy and finan cial strength and is especially to be desired in the troubled world of to- : day." Noting that the measure also provides for a $3,000,000,000 increase in the federal debt limit, Secretary j Morgenthau said: "The orderly financing of federal j expenditures, expanded as they are: by emergency expenditures for na CContinued on Page Seven) formation ol" steel into battle crafts.. As fast as the fleet reinforcements | slide down the ways at more than a i dozen crowded shipyards, keels for' other craft will take their place. Two weeks hence the Washington's j twin sister, the U. S. S. North Caro lina. under construction at the New York navy yard for two and one half years, is to be launched. Despite the new pressure for speed, the two battleships will not be ready to take their places with the fleet for more than a year. Work is well under way on the four other 35.00ft-ton battleships, and materials are br>i«g awmbled for the 45.000-ton U. S. S. Iowa and U. S. S. New Jersey. , Early Offer Of Separate Peace Looms Communication "Of Greatest Importance" From Italy Reported Received by Hitler May Set Date For Italian Entrance. (By The Associtcd Press) Italy's entrance into the war —taking the long awaited plunge to join the axis partner. Ger many—was generally considered imminent by observers with the German army on the western front today. Hiilcr was reported preparing a "sensational announcement" involving Italy, as word spread that a communication "of the greatest importance" had been received from Italy by the nazi fuehrer. Italian journalists were leav ing Paris today. (By The Associated Press) British Tommies fought hand-to hand with German troops south of the Yser canal today in a fierce struggle to hold the allies' "escape" port of Dunkerquc and stem the sweep of nazi legions advancing to the sea. Dunkcrque itself was a kettle-drum of dinning anti-aircraft fire. Naval guns, cooperating with Brit ish pursuit squadrons operating from By LOT IS I\ LOCIINKR With the (icrman Army on the Western Front. May 31.— (AP) — Word spread today through the zone of operations that a communication of the greatest importance has been re ceived I'rom Italy. The general opinion was that Premier Mus solini's entrance into the war was only a question of hrief time. This information, if correct, is believed to mean that Adolf Hit ler considers the French air force no longer a formidable threat to Italy. An understanding was said to exist that the Italian premier would com'* in to the war after any formidable danger of attack from the air for his industrial region fronting on France had been removed. bases in England a few minutes away, made the air "literally forbid den"' to nazi bombers. Thousands of battle weary troops, both French and Engli h. :treamed into the port through a pass between muddy sea water several miles wide, which girded the city like the moat of an ancient fortress. Canal locks opened by the allies spilled deepen (Continued on Page Seven) AMERICAN FLIERS WITH FRENCH FORM 1940 ESCADRILLE Paris. May 31.—(AD—A "La fayette Escadrillc of 1910" soon will l)c created with American fliers and money to fiffht for France. Humbert J. Clemonto, commander of the Paris Ameri can Legion post, announced to day. It will be successor to the fam ous American air squadron of the World War. Three Drowned As Car Plunges Into Stream; One Saved Salisbury. May 31.—CAPj—Three persons wore believed to have boon rlrowned when an automobile plung ed through a bridge into swollen Town creek last night. The victims were William Frank lin Freeman. 12. his sister Peggy lean. 10, and a hitch-hiker whoso name was not known. The driver. L. F Jordan. 35. ex irioated him-elf from the wreckage and was rescued.
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