North Carolina Newspapers

Utenitersmt Uailu Dispatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNOk. n CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. I V-SKVENTH YEAR rKS'S!' HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 10, 1940 FIVE CENTS COPY I taly Joins War On Side Of German Nazi Legions + ******* ***** *******♦*♦«■ i esh British Troops Rush To France is Press 1 ree Main Oiiensives V>/'s Declare All Al i { Counter Attacks On W estern F r o n t r'avc Foundered and T }\ a t Fighting As 5U' <\s Nature of Pur s u»•. A •< dated Press. > •:rd fresh troops to darkening eleventh : tank-led Ger med forward t«» new **it* L'nO-nuIe western td two points witlun mand said Ger •• «ving toward the pparently in a sharp • :>ent in the Rouen ' the western road to ■ ard the historic Maine • -Reims area northwest arc proceeding on hifih command assert n declared the seven tor the French capital entering the decisive Ji toning emergency. Churchill informed i that n un>pecified "i.-h troops have al i-d n France and that ■ - w reinforcements •e available." reported sacrific y "when covered with • .ri." Generalissimo _ rfi -i.-;nded a hearten - declaration: y has suffered heavy will come to the end at least part of the * • • departments from •«-d -tronglv in ad X* v. York, although iic:al announcement capital. . the government •; for a few months wiien the Germans p iris Rotirse (stock pt-nded this morn the .-e ion opened. Hull Savs 90 Italian Act I- "HP J ** Is 1 ragedy •fumc 10.—(AP) -Sec 'I ?ii'I iv th.it Italy's en war would "prove a ; to jX'ople and a groat human • of state held his i-ticc a tew minutes after • •iirti had declared his 'f Mermauy in the war fi and France. had i- ai rn-ti of Italy's •tr »»meone who had . »I:ni*s speech on the ! 'n>i had time to study ' >{i, hut authorized this nt at the moment to firiiherate opinion that Italy into the war will ' 'I -appointment to peo : c ard a great human • question of extend I fy act was consider y ..!• two after a coun into war. He indicated ■ >>r two would elapse • mal confirmation ex • itrality act to apply to •y law puts purchases (>n a cash and .carry it .shipping also would •in seas adjacent to the The Middies Go to Sea Middies board a long string: of whale-boats at Annapolis, Md., shortly before shovin.tr off to go aboard the battleships Texas, Arkansas and Wyoming. Their summer cruise this year will center on the waters off i Rhode Island. British Abandon Norse Campaign Mobilization Order Passed By Committee Washington. June 1".—(AP)—The House military committee approved legislation today increasing the au thorized strength <<f the regular army from 280,000 to 400.000. 'J'he measure also would permit the ! President to call out the national guard during the recess ol Congress tor "use or training" within the Unit ed States or its possessions, j Belore voting 1") to {» to approve ! the national guard permit the com mittee defeated 14 In 10 an amend i ment which would have permitted j u:o of the guard anywhere within i the western hemisphere. Vote on in i creasing the strength of the regular I army was said to have been unani i mous. I As now drafted, the guard meas . ore would provide that the troops 1 "shall not be ordered beyond the continental United States, its island possessions and the Panama Canal/' The presidential authority is limit ed to the period between the ad journment of the present Congress and the convening of the next Con gress in January. Cotton Market Is Mixed one (Old contracts: July 6.59 9.54 New contracts July October December January March May y.Tt'i 8.78 8.U2 o.l9 o.iy King Haakon and His Government Arrive in London After Capitu lation; French Situa tion of "Increasing E'ifficulty." London, Juno 10.—(AP)— Fresh British forces have been landed in France, it was disclosed today, as the allies abandoned Narvik and north ern Norway to pour all their strength into the crucial battle of France. "Further extensive reinforcements" ■ >l the BEF will be available shortly, Prime Minister Winston Church in formed Premier Reynaud, assuring him of Britain's "maximum possible support." Churchill's message, and official announcement of the allied with drawal from Norway, came as British military circles acknowledged that the situation in France is of "increas ing difficulty". A spokesman warned against un due optimism and said German tanks had reached the Seine. British troops, lighting shoulder to shoulder with th<< French on the left end of the line, he said, are in the thick of some of the fiercest lighting. Of three main German thrusts— toward Kouen to the south of Sois .sons, and a new drive on both sides of Bethel—-he said the most ad vanced and apparently the most menacing was the one to Rouen. King Haakon of Norway and his government, which capitulated last midnight alter just two months of resistance against overwhelming nazi power, already have arrived in Lon don. With the violence of the gunfire across the channel rattling windows on the English south coast. Britain pressed forward her efforts to insure her own security. While British bombers roared out on new forays behind the German lines, the government made arrange ments for the removal of 120.000 children from London to safer areas in the west. The mass transfer, which will be gin Thursday, was made imperative by the recent activity of German bombers over England, the air min istry &aid. German Operations On 225-Mile Front In Drive For Paris American Boy Is Killed In Germany. During Air Raid j Washington. June 1ft.— (AT* — The State department announced today that Alfred I'aul Hitter, ciirht. an American hoy, was kill ed in an air bombing attack at Klingcnstein. Germany, shortly after midnight June 4. The child, whose mother Marie lives in Cnllingdale, I'a.. had been living with his grandparents in Germany since 1!K>7. His father, | German-born, is dead. Details of the air raid were not i given. The State department said that so far as it knew this was the first American civilian killed in the J war. Capt. Robert M. Loscy. mili tary attache at Stockholm, was killed in Norway early in the i Scandinavian fighting. Nazis Draw Near Paris Planes Drop Leaflets! Urging French to "Give Up This Futile Resistance". Berlin, June 10.—(AP)—German forces arc within 30 to 35 miles of Paris in the scnii-cimilar front be ing drawn around the French capital, informed quarters stated today. German aviators, it was said, were! swooping over Paris, dropping leaf-I lets in which the French were urged to "give up this l'utilc resistance."' (jjmihsji FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Considerable cloudiness, with local thundcrshowers Tuesday. German High Com-1 inand Declares Battle ior rrench Capital how Entering The De cisive Stage With Operations on Sche dule. Fieri in, June 10.—(AP)—The high command announced today that German operations were started to day along a 225-inile front in France and that the Germans were moving toward the lower Seine and the Maine as well as to Champagne. Operations were proceeding on sche dule, the communique said. It declared that all allied counter attacks on the western front had foundered and that the fighting in some places had assumed the na ture of a pursuit. Deeper German inroads in the drive toward Paris with the allies in re treat in several places, was reported. Hailing a new victory in Norway and steady progress in the great west ern front offensive, its communique declared that "great successes al ready have been won but bigger ones arc in the making." Informed Germans expressed be lief that the drive across northern France was reaching a decisive phase and that the nazi armies were closing in the blades of a pincers around Paris. (The closest German approach to Paris reported by the French was an armored car wedge about 35 miles from the capital). The high command said the nazis were charging along the entire front from the coast at Abbeville, east ward beyond Sedan, apparently clear to the "hinge" of the lighting i front with the Maginot line. Germans said their heaviest pres sure was southward on the coastal flank toward Cherbourg and Le Havre. French ports still access able for British reinforcements and American supplies, and in the Champagne district beyond Reims. Aiming at important harbors, the coastal drive also holds the possibil ity of throwing a loop southward of Paris that might bottle up French forces with their back to the Magi- j not line. : Norway's capitulation and the withdrawal of all allied forces from I Narvik and northern Norway was i called n complete victory over "over- ! whelming enemy superiority." Intolerance In Evidence As War Continues, Stewart Says By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, June 10.—From con gross on down through all our stale legislatures, including our city coun cils and even some of our federal commissions, public officials are busy adopting regulations to guard against un-American activities, sabotage, spying, propaganda and the like. It is a perfectly safe bet that there is not one-half of one per cent of American sentiment in favor of en forcing such regulations against aliens of allied origin in the United States. The rules are drawn with a view to catching Nazis, Communists and Fascists. Some of our agencies, anti-to talitarian as they undoubtedly are, are of the opinion that in certain respects we have overdone our re strictive rules. Illustratively the Columbia Broad casting company, in response to num erous protests against Earl Browd er's use of the air for a political address, recently cut the Communist leader of the radio. Browder promptly appealed to the courts for a review of the national communicatiohs act, on the ground that he is legally entitled to radio facilities. Many legal authorities be 'licvc that he is. The act in question provides that when a broadcasting ' system accords the use ol' its waves ' to any particular political party il I must extend a similar privilege to .ny other recognized party applying for it. Now whether one likes it or not, the communist party is officially so recognized. The government in cludes it in its formal list, its ticket is admitted at polling places through out the country, and Browder is its i accredited presidential candidate. Mere Foreign Agency? To be sure, the law authorizes j the presidential suspension ol' broad- i casting regulations in a national I emergency, but in the present situa- | tion, difficult as it is, it scarcely i can be argued that this sort of an ; emergency exists while the United States remains at peace. A better case might be made out in favor of the argument that ; American communism is a mere paid agency of Moscow as Nazism is an ; agent of Berlin and Facism of Rome —all hostile to Uncle Sam's form of [government As previously remarked, there is mighty little opposition to these re- ; strictive measures. Some critics say (Continued on Page Three) i Berlin Announces Italian Troops Are Already In France Mussolini Makes Announcement of Declara tions of War to Biackshirt Legions Gathered Throughout liaiy; Says "Italy Does Not Intend To Bring Other People Into the Conflict." Rome, June 10.— (AP)—Italy joined the war tonight at tlie side of ihe Geiman nazi legions which are pressing down perilously on France and Paris itself. (In riorliii it was announced that Italian troops already had entered !• ranee through the iiiviera). Notice of the plunge into hostilities after months of teetering on the brink was made in a widely-cheered, bombastic speech by Premier -Mussolini from Ihe balcony of the Palazzo Venezia. His announced wai' alms called chiefly for recovered control of the Mediterranean. "Our will," lie '-aid. "is that Italy does not intend to bring other people into the conflict. "Jugoslavia, Greece, Turkey ami Egypt will take notice of Roosevelt To Speak At 6:15 This Evening Franklin Delano Koost.-;It Washington, June 1 •*.—(AP)— Jtiily's entry into the war was ex pected t(i bring from President Roosevelt in an address at Char lottesville, Va.. tonight a new ap praisal of the place of "democracy" in a growing world conflict. The president's address will be at G: 15 p. m. est. This hint was given Ivy Stephen Early, presidental secretary, who told reporters Mr. Iloosevelt had received word of Premier Mussnlirf's declara tion of war against Hritnin and France in a telephone call from Ambassador William C. Buliitt in Paris at 11:53 a. in. est. More Erosion Studies Start Daily Dispatch »?uroau, In tl>«> Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh. June 10. — Additional studies to determine how fast the ficean is biting into beaches along ihe North Carolina coast will be started about June 15. according to T. S. Johnson, chief of the Water Resources division of the Department >1 Conservation and Development. First studies will be at Wrights cille and Carolina beaches and at Fort Fisher, he said, with other studies to follow later at Atlantic Beach and Fort Macon, across from Morehead City and Beaufort. A crew of lour or five men will io most of the work. Johnson said, hough at times additional help will ikely be given them. The study at Fort Fisher will like y be the most interesting of thorn all n view of the very evident fact that ?rosion ha-> probably be^n snown (Continued on Page Three.) LI II?* I CIV* I* lie also mentioned Switzerland in this connection. Speaking 1'rom the balcony to fascist blackshirts crowded l)y tlie thousands jin the square below and in other | squares throughout the kingdom | where other loud speakers were rig ged up at his urgent behest to "listen!" ; the premier declared: "We arc descending to battle fields • f.gainst plutocratic reactionary de mocracies." ' Where Italy would strike its first blow did not say but it long has been said in fascist circles that the first act of war would be a surprise sprung probably before the actual declaration i war. Italy's declaration of war, Mussolini said, had been handed to the ambas sadors of France and England. ! In Berlin it was said Italian forces 'marched into French territory through the riviera. This information was given report ers by authorized sources at a coii j feronee at the Berlin foreign office, jcalled by Foreign Minister Joachim Icon Ribbentrop. liibbentrop read this statement [which was broadcast throughout Gcr ; many: "The reich government and the en tire German nation is deeply moved (Continued on Page Three) War Depresses Stock Prices New York. June 10.—(A!')—Lead ing stocks fell one to more than four points—a few inactives were off as much as 10—in today's market as Italy took the long-debated step and plunged into the war on the side of the Germans. Steels then came back and cancelled losses and other groups stiffened near the final hour. The list backed away at the start but without any speed. Boardrooms were depressed by the progress of the nazi drive on Paris, the capitu lation of Norway, and the announce ment Mussolini would speak during the day. Prices receded further when the Italian chieftain announc ed declarations of war had been handed to the British and French ambassadors. The pace quickened a trifle on the secondary relapse, although the ticker tape was never fast. Trans fer- were at the rate of approximate ly 1.000.000 shares. American Radiator 5 1-8 American Telephone 149 American Tob B 72 3-4 5r\naconda . . . ' 19 7-8 Atlantic Coast Line 10 Atlantic Refining 19 '{-4 Bendix Aviation 25 5-8 Bethlehem Steel 56 5-8 Chrysler 54 1-2 Columbia Gas & Elec 4 3-8 Commercial Solvents 8 Consolidated Oil fi C'urtKs Wright 7 1-2 DuPont 147 7-8 Electric Pow & Light 3 3-8 General Electric •.. 28 1-2 General Motors 38 5-8 Liggett & Myers B 88 f-2 Montgomery Ward & Co ... 33 1-2 Reynolds fob B 32 Southern Railway 8 5-8 standard Oil N J 33 U S Steel 45 1-8