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Ulettitetsott Dathj Sispatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOKi n CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. i -SEVENTH YEAR nSt^SSS^iSS^ HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 7, 1940 FIVE CENTS COPY Cannon -Fitted Allied Planes Plav Havoc With Nazi Tanks ******* ********** + ******** f'jR To Ask Congress For Authority To Trade In Old Guns For Re-Sale To Allies Navy Planes ] ui iied Back I Yesterday Kot»?cvelt Hints of Favoring Universal Compulsory Military I rai ling ; No Estimate or Number of Guns Available. June T.—f.M1)—Pr°s- I i -closed today that _ nmess for legisla permit the govern- j r: old types of guns I . c-!'i>!ete the govern-1 • turn back to manu- 1 . t- of surplus equip - sending a request • - to incorporate the : ending legislation. Floosevelt did not say • the procedure would uge stores of Ameri : e> available for sale to ! is. Executive told reporters •y already exists to turn • - and ammunition to • yesterday turned back • ed on Page Three) Americans Warned I <> Leave Europe •I i * ne 7.— (AP) — The i- y today urged all •\ ■ it urgent reasons •. return home aboard Wellington. to sail from I • • r:ri. ;:l>ot!t the middle »•. it .-aid. this might • opportunity until after i y warned that those ■ ' .e advantage of this •v " leave "must be pre i- :.in at their own ri>k • i..iiiii>t l>f* granted for gerent ships." > iid enter the war. it • virtually the only reaching America by clipper from Lisbon. Cruiser Sent To Brazil l- M. June 7.—(AP)—The .. need today that the • ;r.i has bet*11 directed t<> !{i'» do Janeiro. Brazil, t i t r Quiney was ord ched last week. Secretary Edison de *! mi merely as a "triendly : idential reports to the ■ .11 within the last wpek . <.-na/i elements in South i i: niri'-s had increased .• c- since the German Will Not Sail •i'liic 7. fAP)—A re ; ifiU source said tonighl ' < i Hex would not sail tot ^'ates. although the Ital r. cfi to accept reserva f-r eheduled departure '■ :<'tt was lacking, how patches asserting tha •hatitrnen had been or • refuge in neutral ports ien said they understooc m freighters abroad a "••M ordered back to Italiat '•!cs. meanwhile, heart ! plomatic relations be .■i Kits ia w^re on theii ■ d ....^iu. eaient. ;h Flander To Christen War Ship Miss Isabel Hoev (above) daught- j er ot Gov. Clyde II. Hoey of North i Carolina, will christen the New Unit- 1 ed States battleship North Carolina . at the launching in Brooklyn navy : yard June 13. Paris Arms For Defense Garbage Trucks Con verted Into Mobile Fortresses, Gates Bar ricaded. Paris. June 7.—(AP)—Paris hasl turned its garbage ti neks into mobile fortresses, barricaded certain stra tegic gates to the city and studded the famed Champs Elysee with steel I posts in an extraordinary series of defense preparations. Should German parachutists try; to land in the streets of Paris they would find the hea\ v steel garbage1 trucks parked two or three to a ; block in certain areas. Big as an average size moving van, they are capable of housing a ma- } I chine film nest. They can be left; where they are stationed or rushed to ' reinforce the barriers at the city gate. With the front only 70 miles away, (Continued on Page Three) College Student Commits Suicide Snow Hill. June 7.—(AP*—Shr»rifl H. K. Cobb reported today that Mary Stallings. 23-year old summer school student at Atlantic Christian college at nearby Wilson, shot herself to death at her home near Walston burg yesterday. Coroner A. F. Moseley said no in quest was necessary. The Rirl was said to have been in ill health for some time. New Tax Bill Approved By Committee Lower Exemptions For Married and Single Persons, Flat Ten Per cent Increase in Cor poration Taxes Pro vided. Washington. June 7.—(AP) — A House tax sub-committee tentatively approved today a tax bill designed to raise $1,006,000,800 to help finance the national defense program. To raise this sum annually, the bill would lower the exemptions on per sonal income subject to taxation from $2,500 to S2.000 for married prisons and from $1,000 lo $"00 for single persons. Chairman Cooper, Democrat, Ten nessee, of the sub-committee, esti mated the reduced exemption would bring 2,050,000 taxpayers into the income tax list. The bill also increases all income taxes by a flat ten percent, would impose an increase of one percent on all corporation income taxes and lift surtaxes on incomes ranging from $6,000 to $100,000. Cooper said the sub-committee unanimously approved the bill and hoped to report it to the full commit tee tomorrow morning. In addition to the new rates, the sub-committee tentatively approved a provision to require all married persons with gross incomes of $2, 000 to file income tax returns and all single persons with gross income cif $800 to do so. Existing law re quires returns from persons with gross incomes of $5,000. Action was taken by the sub-com (Continued on Page Three) Importation Of Securities Restricted Washington, June 7.—(AP)—The government clamped restriction.; on the importations of securities today in an order designed to block the sale of such wealth seized from own ers in Kurope's invaded countries. Treasury officials said they were acting to prevent dumping in this country's markets of securities that may have been seize •d ^ mm "rightful owners" in Belgium, Holland, Den mark, Norway and Luxembourg. While the order did not mention Germany by name, Germany was the invader of these countries. Effective today the importation of securities from any foreign country was prohibited unless the securities were submitted to a federal reserve bank for examination. Germany's War Aims Said To Be The Annihilation Of England And France By LOUIS P. LOC1INER IJerlin, June 7.—(AP)—Germany's war aims were announced by au 1 thorixed sources today as two fold— the annihilation of France and the annihilation of England; all else is beside the point. Germany, according to an author ized spokesman "always wanted I peace and offered it again and again." "England ;ind France, however, de i clared war on us. Our aim there lore is annihilation until capitula 1 tion. until a knockout." "Everything beyond that—as von Reichenau (geneial \\raIter von Rtichenau, commanding a ^roup ol German armies on the western front) is fond of saying—can only be re vealed at the autopsy." "It is useless to discuss the future while you are fighting in the present." As one evidence of Germany's will to force England to her knees, an other authorized source added that the blockade now is completely re ' versed: it is England which is being I blockaded, not Germany, he declared. England is practically crowded off the continent. England cannot ;>ot supplies from Norway. Denmark and ! Holland—and it is only a matter of time until she cannot get them from France. Nazi Raider Blasted To Bits Over England British censor-approved caption says this picturc atte.-ts to mc accuracy 01 diuish uhii-uiiu<iu mv. German Hemkel bomber is being blasted to bits in mid air while on a bombing mission over England. The fuselage is enveloped in llames and smoke pours from the earth-bound wreckage. The crew died without a chance of escape whet) the ship crashcd to the ground. Photo c:>blcd from London to New York.—Cablephoto. _ Italian Merchantmen Ordered Off Seas; May Mean War Near Military Training At UNC Discussed Trustees Name Gover nor Hoey Chairman of Committee to Consid er Move; "So-Called Liberalism" Debated i Vigorously. i j Raleigh. June 7.— (AP) —The • i trustors of the University of N<»rtli ! C;tro]in;i voted unanimously today to namt1 a committee to consider im ! mediate establishment of military training at the university. The board members debated vin i orously n-called liberalism at the | university." ] mirmonu v n.. Salem heatedly a Hacked "political activity" of Dr. Ralph McDonald of the University extension service, and other members raised the question of how the now university radio sta tion was being used and would be used. After assertions by board member*, that there was extra-liberalism at the university. Dr. Frank Graham, president, asserted: "If I'm the person perverting by | keeping it open and free I don't want to be connected with it. That's the kind of university I'm going to ke p.'' "I want to say something abouti this so-called liberalism at the uni-j versity—'the extra-liberal atmos phere," said Chatham. "Many rc ( gard our university as a great radi cal university. And it seems that the scat of government has been moving to Chapel Hill. If a defeat ed gubernatorial candidate wants to build his power he moves to the uni versity. I thoroughly disagree with ' I that policy, especially when that (Continued on Page Three) (jJoaJthsOi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair toniirht: Satur day partly cloudy, with a few scattered thundershowers in the interior. Maxwell Remains Very Seriously ill, Doctor Says n;ilti;:h. June 7.—CAP)—Revenue; Commissioner A. J. Maxwell remain- ! cd a "very seriou.;ly ill man" today, I his physician, Dr. W. B. Dewer, re-i |K»rted. The physician said that Maxwell's temperature normai again thirf morning, al'lor a rise lafo yesterday, 1n'I that his condition was unchang-j ed in C'lvral limn yesterday. Mr Maxwell possibly will remain in a very seriously ill condition for a week or ten days," Dr. Dewer said. "The paralysis has not spread during the past week. The right arm and' the light leg arc involved." ' Necessity ot Speed in dicated in Orders For Vessels in. American Waters To Go Into Southeastern Ameri can Ports. Now York. .June 7.— f A11) I1;ily ' Jldered her far-flung merchant l'l«-»*1 j iff the high seas today amid «>miii<>■.is j reporls t h; 11 I h is \v;is I lie first movej toward actual participation in the Kuropean e<ml lift. "Does tliis mean war?" the A:: o r/iated Press asked 11;»I>» Verrando, New Yolk manager of Ihe Ilalfcn line, who first disclosed the Rome >rder. '•I don't know, but it looks like it." !ic said. Shortly alter Italy's many ship., were ordered into neutral ports the! Italian consul general in N'-w York | nade ready to go to Washington for j in iininedial'" conference wilii em bassy officials. Verrando said that all Italian ship:. ivere -.aIf. Inclieations thai lh»• line was fore- | named were foiinrl in Vcrrando'sj statement that: "We do not expect to get much j (Continued on Page Three.) Wallace Proposes Farm Mortgage System Change Washington. Juno 7.—(AP)—See-| rotary Wallace, reiterating his be-j lief that agriculture needs permanent) relief from "excessive" farm mort- j page debts. proposed today that the j multi-billion dollar Farm Credit Ad- ; ministration share its profits and j losses with farmer borrowers. The proposal was advanced before, the Senate banking committee at ai hearing on legislation designed to re- j rluee interest rates on government j loans and to authorize the credit agency to scale down excessive debts. Critics of the legislation have as serted it would eliminate coopera-1 live features of the present system.! The measure would do away wi'h a 1 requirement that a farmer borrower buy stock in a local credit a^socia :fon. Asserting th;it this requirementj had defeated the cooperative pririci- | pic, Wallace said Congrcs should j provide definite incentives lor farm- ; ers to pay promptly and for local credit associations to make sound loans. "I propose that provision be made in the bill for the banks to share profits and losses with their borrow- | ers by paying patronage dividends proportionate to the size of the bor rowers' loans and that in addition premium payments based on the ef fectiveness with which an associa tion has done it*-- job be made to local associations which earn such payments, to h" rii trihiilrH by them in turn to their members," Wallace i'aid. Conflicting Claims From West Front Germans Claim Wey gand Line "Broken Through on Entire Front"; French Say 200-Mile Front Being Held Firmly. (By The Associated Press.) The German juggernaut ap peared at least temporarily stall ed tonight as cannon-equipped allied planes blasted the all-im portant advances of German tanks. and I'aris reported the Weygand line was holding firmly in the three-day old battle for the French capital. liven Berlin reported that Ger mans a I home—accustomed to frequent detailed communiques telling of sweeping successes in the naxi conquest of Holland and Belgium—waited in vain for news of a decisive nature. A terse German high command communique said only that the fighting was proceeding "on schedule" and that inroads had been made in the YVeygand line. I'aris reported that the entire area just north of the capital be tween the Somme-Aisne battle front and the Seine river had been sown with deadly anti-tank nests such as have wrought havoc with the German onslaught so far. \\ .lI |iiaui-> .mdiim ii vvri France in a new series of raids during the day, the German high command said, attacking Cher bourg harbor and several air dromes in eastern France. "Big conflagrations and ex plosions were observed on the quays and piers" of Cherbourg, it was slated. The French said that the 200 mile front was being held firmly against the fury of the German onslaught and that French and British planes destroyed 400 tanks. !m a dramatic order of the day to his troops, Generalissimo Maximo Weygand dec hired: '"The f uture «»f France depends on your tenacity. Hold tight to the soil of France." His poilus were reported doing just that fiercely with ril'Ies, bayonets and knives from rock (Continued on Paftc Three.) I. T IL(II \ J v_ I 111 o 1. w 1 Kntcriny; War Are Given By Germany lii'ilin. June 7.— (A!')—In formed Cicrmun sources said to night that Italy's cntrancc into the war depends on two things: I.—Destruction of tin- French air force. '.I.—Distraction of French at tention hy a gigantic operation such as a siege of Paris. Italy, these sources said, can not undertake to join arms with Germany in warfare so long as France is in position to make quick retaliation against Italy and her overseas possessions. British Bomb Abbeville Direct Hits on Strate gic Points Reported; British Plane Produc tion Is High. London, Juno 7.—CAP) — Great Britain's airmen pounding German forces in western France were re ported officially today to have sub jected German positions at Abbeville to "forty-live minutes of almost in cessant bombardment" which scored direct hits on strategic roads and bridges in the region of the embattled French city. The air ministry said three direct (Continued on Five)
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