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Hrniiersmt Uatlij Bispatrf? ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOKi n CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. — TV,^ PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON FIVE CEN 1 b tUl I V-SEVENTH YEAR L55H«8K™?,?S£2u HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 1, 1940 except »und*t. Hermans Wheel Toward Paris t : ngress Rallies To ipport Defense But t alks At N. G. Call E mates Of Sending Are Raised •st Arms Recom mlaiioris Give ) ctive Military ot $4,672,011, : ^ . Vandenberg S.v Guard Proposal .»C I 1 • »» ^i'OCKing . .i ;Me l.—(AP)—Con 4 v beh-nd President >i another billion j ■ •. the ramparts of na . but there was sharp the ranks over his re-1 v. ol- t>> call out the na-j . ' t needed. ties came stauncV • • b'-nadened prepared-] : • te ntative Martin of [ the Republican lead- i V- .-iiington. June 1.—(AF> — i i -lint Roosevelt's expanded | : >.i i! tkfense pre>;;ram. it was »^t mated officially today, \\ill - !i h'deral expenditures in the .1 \.-ar beginning July 1 to >. i >!.DOO.OOO. and the year's | ti ' to S4.173.700.000. W ii^n the President sent his •nut budget message to Con » iust live months a?o he luted spending S8.524.000. ■ :id having a deficit of S^, ?>:•. ;:>o.ooo. I *v w : iId join in every :o\e defenses. • a:> recommendations 1 >:: • 1 prospective mili- ( \ three-fourths of the -pent for Army and' .V ::<.•>'> first fu!l fis • • World war. Mr. Roosevelt spoke in ■ : "more than a billion rutive quarters said • - contemplated in, .1! message would; .(kni.OOO. Added to re-1 • • lordinary measures ■ - would make a total cvinced readiness! ,.ed on Psse Five) iiikie Dare is Resented - hi rd I erm Boosters ,ty Wdlkie's Debate Proposal Is Out of Order. « !l MILKS P. STEWART ! Press Columnist June 1.—YVeride.'l L. | Commonwealth and » magnate and Repub 'i'ufiai possibility, suc ietting third-term New Dealers throughly »rc mo oinci u.i« by expressing a yearning to debate with Franklin D. Roosevelt the ques tion: Has Roosevelt done as good a job Cor the United States as Willkie has done tor pub lic utilities? ' Of course, u iii kie's plain impii - cation was that turnout easily. That ■ •• < Itians h'^, for one ifU thrm still hotter credit for a 100 per y organization. vvhere ■ y. feeding upon poli i' ;md privilege, has a I in itsell the ineviia U. S. S. Washington Is Launched Today Hoey Suggests Legion Aid In Defense Plans Raleigh, June 1.—(AP)—Governor Hoey today suggested the appoint ment ui a committee i:i each Amai cun Legion post in North Carol'a "to cooperate with government agencies in unearthing un-American activities and discovering the pos sible plans tor subversive teachings and spreading of dangerous propa ganda among the people." In a letter to Junius H. Rose of Greenville. State Legion command er. the Chief Executive said "we know what the system of espionage and sabotage has accomplished in other countries and we must not sleep while these forces work in any part of our land. "I call upon you as commander-in chief for the Legion in North Caro lina". he wrote, "to enlist the active assistance of the various legion posts throughout the state and of every individual Le&k/iinahe tu old in oui .national program and in sustaining the efforts being made to make our own country safe in the principles of real Americanism." RAF Claims Victories Fliers Say They Are! bhooting Down Mazi Fianes Faster Than They Can Be Built. By DREW MIDDLETON With the Royal Air Force Com mand Somewhere in England— June 1.—(AP)—Royal air force fliers I believe they are shooting down Ger man planes twice as ia^t as nazi fac tories can turn them out. Between 1 lights of the death pa trol over the English channel, a sen ior officer who holds several medals and citations said: "I think we arc knocking down five for every one we lose, putting two out of action for every one their factories can produce." Declaring that "Jerry never goes for us unless he's got bloody good odds in this favor," this officer em phasized, as aJl England has done, that "we need ships and more ships." "Our ships are better armored," he said, "and our ships are more maneuverable. Whether it's nature or training, when we see Jerry we attack. When he sees us he counts us before he fights. But we need more ships." A dozen fliers related how an RAF patrol shot down twelve German planes in a battle yesterday over Dunkerque, though outnumbered 80 to 21 and lost only one plane in the action. ble forces or discord and dishar mony." The New Dealers have to admit that there's a bit of disharmony be tween "pro" and "anti" New Deal Democrats, but they don't like to have it harped upon by Wendell Willkie, who was a Democrat him self until comparatively recently. Poor Comparison? And anywry, they say, such an outfit as the United States govern ment can't imaginably be as free from differences of opinion among officials as an autocratically run concern like Willkie's power kingdom; if one of Winddell's subordinates (even a very big one) shows signs of disagree ing with his boss in the slightest particular, Wendell fires him in insanter. Those who remain are loyal, all right—they wouldn't remain other (Continued on Page Five,/ Virginia Marshall, 15 Year Old Descendant of John Marshall, Christens First Capi tal Ship Launched Since 1921. Philadelphia, June 1.—(AP)—The 35.000-ton battleship Washington, first capital ship addition to the United States licet since 1921, was launched into the Delaware river at the Philadelphia navy yard today before a cheering crowd of 30.000. Wartime restrictions blanketed the navy yard as the $65,000,000 "battle wagon" slid down the ways. Fifteen-year old Virginia Marshal!, great-great-great-granddaughter of Chief Justice John Marshall, christ ened the battleship in honor of her home state. Washington. Senator Walsh, Democrat, Mas sachusetts, declared in an address to the gay throngs of spectators that the launching signalled the "begin ning of a renaissance of naval pre paredness" that will protect the United States from any attack. The American people," said Walsh chairman of the Senate naval com mittee, "are determined at all cost • to prepare for any eventuality that may follow the European war." The Washington, mounting nine 16-inch guns, exceeds by 1.600 tons the largest ship the Navy now has1 afloat- However, the Washington j and a sister ship, the North Carolina, which will be launched at the New York navy yard later this month, will not join the fleet for more than a year. HITLER RELEASES DUTCH PRISONERS Berlin. Juno 1.—(AD—Adolf i Hitler has ordered the German commander in The Netherlands to release Dutch war prisoners because they fought as "honest soldiers", it was officially an nounced tonight. ITALO-GREEK PACT BELIEVED SIGNED Athens, Grecce, June 1.—(AD —Belief that a secret understand ing exists between Greece and Italy, designed to keep Greece from becoming a battle-ground in the event Italy enters the war, was expressed today in British. French, Turkish* and Yugoslav quarters. (jJscdthsth FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday: possibly light showers on north coast and in extreme northwest portion. WEATHER FOR THE WEEK. Occasional local thundershow ers in south portion and by mid dle or latter part of week over north portion; seasonable tem peratures. Where French Broke Through *fca/eofA(//es (wahce artbelcc/m) KEY TO MAP 000 FRENCH I INE S5= BRITISH LINE «"**» ALBERT CANAL) •Arrival in London of battered, wounded and exhausted troopsirom tne jBattle of Flanders indicated that Nazi boast of "complete annihilation' of Allied troops trapped in the Nazi pocket was not carried out. German drives arc reported to have cut the pocket in two, dividing the Allies. French report a thrust opened a path wide enough for troops to retreat to Dunkerque. Line of arrows show Nazi Channel drive. (Central Press) Britain Exults At Rescue Of Troops Rumanian Foreign Minister Resigns Bucharest, June 1.—(AD — Foreign Minister Grigore Gafcn eu resigned today because of "ill health" and was immediately replaced by Ion Gigurtu, minis ter of communications and a close friend of the German gov ernment. The resignation of Gafencu. who has been energetically pro British and pro-French during his two years as »ori;gn minis ter, came as a surprise. ?i is undrrsioou tsiat Gigurtu has hern entrusted by King Carol with re-orientating Ru manian policy to obtain better relations with both Berlin and Moscow. FBI Forms Defense Unit Hugh H. Clegg, Vete-j ran G-Man, Heads Fifth Column Investi gation Group. Washington. Juno 1.— (AP)— Cren-j lion of. a "national defense invesli-' Cation" unit was announced today by j the Federal Bureau of Irfve:tigation. | Hugh H. Clegg. veteran G-man and ; at present an assistant director of the FBI in charge of training and inspection, was appointed to head the new group, which will have among its duties investigation of "fifth column" and similar activities (Continued on page two> All of BEF Save One Division Returned to England; No Authori tative Estimate of Number of Casual ties. A Southeast Coast Port in England, Juno 1.—fAP) — Britain exulted to day at one of the greatest military rescues of all time as it was estimat ed unofficially that all save one di vision of the British expeditionary force—a division originally number ing 1 f),0!!0—had been brought back from the German death trap in Flan ders. The strength of the BEF sent into Belgium at the outset of the great war in the west was placed at 175, 00(1 men. How many were killed in the sijoctnoular 20-day campaign is not ascertained. At all odds, however, some unofficial sources put the num ber of returned men at well above 100,000. Though it was announced definite figures could not be released as yet. informed sources reported a tremen dous increase in the numbers of homecoming troops. When King Leopold III ordered (he surrender of (he Belgian army last Tuesday and thus laid open the allied loft flank, (ho BEF appeared to bo faced with the alternative of putting up the white flag or being annihilated by an onrushing German army of some 1,000,000 men. There has been neither surrender nor annihilation. Covering the with drawal of the British army Hitler sought to destroy. British and French force-: still are waging a furious rear guard ad ion against the nazis closing in on the narrowing Dunkerque cor ridor. Allied naval guns and the allied air forces are supporting the with draw;. I and embarkation proceeding under the additional cover of low lying fog that has hampered the op erations of the numerically superior German air force. Less Than A Dozen Honse Runoffs Are Possible, Survey Of Results Shows Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel BY HENRY AVERILL. Raleigh, June 1.—Less than a dozen runoff primaries for seats in the 1941 North Carolina House are possible from the results of layt Saturday's primary balloting, a survey of the | vote shows. • In the other 90 counties candidates were nominated either without pri j mary opposition, by securing a ma ! jority in first, primary rn- they will be named by convention, as in Watauga county. There were few Republican pri I maries for the House, but oddly enough one of these brought the closest race of them all. In Avery county State Senator J. V. Bowers I led Representative W. C. Pittman by two votes. (530 to G28. but was forced into a second primary because of several hundred votes cast for other candidates. There are ten Democ:#itic House races in which second heats are per missible, but there is no certainty there will be that many in view of the fact that several of the second placers may decide not to make the race. This seems to be the case in Guilford, at least, where Ruppert T. Pickens of High Point was [he only candidate to get a majority on the first ballot, and where three seats were at slake. The two men entitled to runovers. however, have already announced they will not call iur • them. The other counties in which run nifs will be held, if the runners-up demand them are: Alleghany, W. Pert Edwards against W. Fender (here an incumbent, Sam Brown, was eliminated): Harnett. J. H. Sen ter against Neill McK Ross, incum bent: Montgomery. E. R. Burt, in cumbent. against O. C. Bruton (State senator): Pamlico, Dawson Delmar against W. W. Booker; Perquimans, J. S. McNider against J. T. Benton, inc.: Pitt. S. O. Worthington against .J. E. St;>ton: Richmond, H. F. Brown agiiiv-t L. D. Frutchey; and Yancey. Davis Fonts against R. C. Deyton. ^Continued on page two) French Claim to Be Holding German Onslaught on Somme i'ront; Italy Still Hovers on Brink of War; Italy and ipain Begin Clamor for Britain to Relinquish Gibralter. (J>y '1 he Associated Press) German forces wnceied today in an attack on the Sonvme river—ilie allies line guarding Paris—as battle-stained allied troops, snatched fr< ni the nazi death trap in Flanders, reached .he safely of England. The French said they held against the nazi onslaught on the south bank of the lower Sum me "in a battle launched by the Ger mans yesterday, resumed at dawn today, and still going on. A bridgehead which the French established on the north side of the river bore tin* brunt of the German assault, but the nazis struck also at positions on the south bank. With tlie Germans striking along the Somme front while still hemming in remnants of -he trapped allied armies in Flanders, i new pluise of the war began. The allies expected and Germany hinted a nazi attempt to roll down on France before loosing any attempt to invade Eng Battleship Nelson Is ReportedSunk Berlin, June 1.—(AP)—An auth orized German spokesman said today that the battleship Nelson, 33,950 ton flagship of the British home Meet, had been sunk with the loss of 700 of her crew of 1,320. The statement was made in re sponse to a question at a press con- ! ference and was not volunteered. I A correspondent told the spokes man that there had been rumors that the battleship had been sunk, whereupon the spokesman replied that the rumors were true and that 700 crewmen had gone down with the ship. The spokesman declined to give any further details for "military reasons." The Nelson is Britain's biggc.it battleship. She carries a normal i crew of 1.361 men. Last February the British admit ted she had been damaged by a mine. She reached port under her own power, was repaired and rejoined the fleet sometime in March. The Nelson and her sister ship, the Rodney, arc the only British war ships mounting 16-inch guns. Each carried nine of those huge guns. Laid down in 1922 and com pie tod in June, 1927. the Nelson co t 7, 504,055 pounds (then about $37, 500,000). Former American Embassy Clerk Is Held By British London. Juno 1.—CAP)—Tylor Kent, ;i clerk dismissed by the Unit ed States embassy, has been detained by order of the home secretary. The detention was declared to have been ordered "in consequence of ac tion" taken by United States Ambas sador Joseph P. Kennedy, "in coop eration with British authorities." j Washington, June 1.—CAP)—Tyleri G. Kent, former clerk in the United States embassy in London, who has been detained by British authorities, was born 29 years ago in Manchuria of American parents. His mother is residing in the Unit-I ed States, the State department said,! but declined to give the address. The department said his lather is dead. Manhattan To Sail Tomorrow) Genoa, June 1.—(AP)—The sail ing ol the liner Manhattan -was post poned today until noon tomorrow be cause of the rush of Americans try ing to quit Italy before the Medi terranean is bottled up by possible spread of the war. Officials who had hoped to start the ship back for the United States today were handicapped by a jam of nearly 2.000 passengers—mostly Americans. i Some who had to be turned away offered as high as S1.000 for the $200 o S4f.O tickets—without U.l;crs. land. Italy still hovered on the sidelines, apparently drawing steadily closer to the decision which might send her armies northward while the German.? pushed southward in a gigantic pin cers on France. Italy called up ten thousand non commissioned officers today to sup plement a force of 50,000, while both in Italy and in Spain clamor grew for Great Britain to relinquish Gib ralter—her stronghold at the west ern gate of the Mediterranean. The reckoning varied, meanwhile, on what the British called the great est rescue in military history. Unofficial British estimates that three-fourths of the British expedi lionary force had reached Britain meant that from 130,000 to 140,000 Tommies of the 175.000 sent over to face the nazi blitzkrieg had been rescued. The German price for the Fland ersttriumph. British newspapers said, was half a million men. But the Germans estimated they had one million allied prisoners not counting the Belgians and the Dutch or will have when the mop up of Flanders is completed. However, the nazi estimates prob ably exceed the total manpower of the British and French forces in the campaign in the low countries and northern France. The Germans said they had taken 26,000 prisoners in a pocket south of Lille alone, and had recouped their material losses by booty abandoned by the allies in flight—brand new motorized war machinery and can non as well as hundreds of thousand > of rounds of machine gun ammuni tion and large supplies of hhells. Despite adverse weather the Ger man high command said nazi fliers had sunk five transports, damaged three warships and ten merchantmen in raids on Dunkerque. Speedboats, they said, also sank an allied de stroyer and a submarine. In the air, the Germans s'<id, the score was 49 allied planes destroyed to nine na/.i planes lost. The Brit^h, however, declared they had -Jiot down or seriously dam aged 6G planes at a loss of only 19. A. Ii Woltz Dies At Raleigh Today Raleigh, June 1,—(AP)—Albert idgar Woltz, G3 senior auditor for he slate revenue department, sev eral times member of fhe general assembly, a.'d former state senator, died at a hospital here today. Pie served in the state house of representatives in 1921, 1923 and 1927, and in the stale senate from 1923 to 192fi. He offered the .state school equalization law and was a member of the state board of equali zation from 1927 to 1933. Americans In Ireland Seek Passage Home Galway, Ireland. June 1.—(AP) — Nearly 1.100 Americans sought pas sage home on the liner President Roosevelt amid confusion today. Passengers had their tickets, but at r.oon nobody knew whether they were actually going on board. There were reports here the liner Washington would call for passen gers left behind, because plans to c irry some passengers between decks were cancelled without explanation.
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