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4 i htRKt MEMORIAL Itenitersntt Uatlg Btapalclf ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORiri CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. \TY-SEYENTH YEAR EEASED W1KE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED TRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON', JUNE 20, 1940 PUBLISHED KVKRY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY i is u EXPECTED FRIDAY oosevelt N ominates Knox, : timson For Cabinet Places o aiitlon biiiet Is Prospect Nominated Sec y ot Navy, Suo i;ii> Edison; Stim Nominated Secre • r War As Wood Resigns. .fur,.. L'ti. _ (AIM— »e\ t-l! t>»>•; step: td • ■ i {ml.iy foy • S- ;:.:t< The nontina !\' \ t" foe -ecre \ :u:d iii:fv L. Stim • vf. ... W;,V. • •! the Chicago JUpufil iran vuv it.ii.v :i Still1.— : S'.ite lit tin* stration and secretary Ptotden! Tail. • >:: ut the nominations • ci by ;i Whit-- House without amplication y \\\ Mcir::!i; had re • | tioli< > ot teetive -n i»f the noiiu >ucci >s< »r. ■ . ;.r;:.is did say that • "V' "t resignation was • t the usual custom . 'i!"v.vd and it would public. -aeeeed Charles Kdison. 4.. beco::;es el't'ectivt • :i <;u ' the cabinet J"b governor i • t New Jersey ctatic slate. initiations. coining only e lite opening ol the . tioiia! conventiun in ... caught Washington un >el congressional and a: with tall; over n presidential politics. . ana St .:»ot. on oc r.-tct ti.e adimmstra cy. K: 'X ii;.been, hcan. a relatively fre rtt ;>l IvIr. Koosevelt. • -centiy organized • t<> pn>: !'»te the ".raining 50.000 titers. % entice is . s^iiSincI .^.yjn Says (J. S. i Choose Between « J and Fake Secur v 'leasures, • •• i i; W KABSON, • iii I !> l'». Publishers i ttKiiiciul Bureau. . M;- .. June TIn i A •ri iea today is: . - fake security. Every /i that country , • iri billions nt dol • < . Vet. for ten yeaiv S" '• r;.i tailed to bal i ■ r. di:e ii> relief, farm -i >-i " oeial security* add the defenst t::t reli< i billions. U'( "t■ < r; it:;tand I" at or "social • expenditure !)( ;■[" expenditure. > I i . ' X t V.'I > y •< I i\ iifi<prophe that lit had the pow ■■ t ■ l.'.i s around wiiih » .. 't.n*4 to .-trip for <i !.• _::i:«' 1 !in: !Jy stripped • i' recent dictatorship i i■'•■{• -rl ''i "com" (>■ ' France trod the ; anil (I diet: torship with re 1 •' u when the situation ■ She clung to the .»;» to labor and re • rent interc t for in i • ^ the middle class a of a vise. England 'he need of ;»»'ttins • . fl to give up "gad ! > *u\ Was Suicidal weak. stupid, and stub • -ot ting to self-sacri ■ i i'-ct of disarming th< Two precious. price - e lost. w-t~N'd in dill • fli l ion- tint sennit} •i f.o wn w'hoot ivv r. We live today m j After Nazi Air Raid on English Coast C. P. Cable photo Hu.ce demolition bombs were used by German air raiders who swept the east coast of England, leaving death and destruction in their wake. The raid was in retaliation for British bombing of the liuhr and Rhine. These nouses in Cambridgeshire, England, were leveled by a direct hit. Almost a score were killed in the raids. Photo cabled from London to New York, U,S* To Aid Mexico In Expanding Army Senate Agrees to Low er income Tax Ex emptions ana Most of Excise Tax Boosts Ap proved by House, Then Adds New Taxes Wa-hingion. June 2n.—(AP)— A cl> liant Senate ignored administra j t!• >ii pleas fin* a non-controversm! ! revenue bill last night and approved I deten e tax legislation only after ; voting siring'-rt levies on those who | would profit 1 row war. The chamber agreed to the lower ; income tax exemptions and most of f the excise lux boosts which the Utilise passed in ;.ii elicit to raise an extra .Sl.on7.nou.oiU) a year. Then the Sen | ate added: 1 ,\n iri;it»«.ch:ite exces. profits tax on ali corporation; to produce be tween >' ino.ono ooo and S5uo,uoo.oou annually. j 2 War profits taxes which Sen i ato; Connallv. I)em<>er.;l. Texas. the I sponsor. <stimated would raise about ! eight billion dollars a year from in dividuals and po.- ibly a like amounl I !roui corporations, i he levy would •go into effect only upon a congres sional declaration of war. "Thi* amendment." Connallv said, "milks me oid eow down to the point ol exhaustion hut it doesn't quite put her out ol i.ii mess." I he legislati m now ijoc- to a joint lion.vt -Senate committee which many lawmaker- predicted would throw nil: the .Senate proposal. Senator Lafollette. progressive, Wisconsin. argued that the country Would regard as "pure .-ham" any revenue bill which increased income i taxes on individual/ and made no provision, for uiaining off excess profits from >m -trie: which profit li'oiji the Kuropi-au war. Lafoliette v.- -»i to i>l. clespite iasgunient by administration lieute i:ants ll.at excess profits legislation i should await <i thorough study bv I congre: ■ ioiiaI committees. ' world where no nation has the privi lege of choosing between free-and ; <-a y indulgence and resolute devo i tion to duties. The only alternative is between dictation Ov force.. from without and self-discipline develop ed from within. The cold realism ol what the Ger ' mans in lf).'!8 told me 'about the allies I has a ruthless application to America ! today. Just as England and France i were at last driven to strip for the necessities of warfare, so the United States will be driven to strip for the necessities of defense. Any other 'policy on our part will give us only "phoney" defenses. lit only for (Continued on pa^e two) Bankhead Named Demo Keynoter j Chicago. June —(AIM—The committee on arrangements to day '"lectcd Speaker William 51. Ilankhead for keynoter and re commended Senator .Albeit W. Barklcy of Kentucky }"«>:• I'm* post j <»! permanent chairman of the Democratic national convention. Opposition Develops In Resolutions Com mittee To Such A Plat form Flank. Philadelphia. .June lit;.— (APj ' 'pposition was report* (I developing 1«.-(I.iv in the Republican n «*'«>»s;11 con vention's re.-olu lions commitu e lit any plank advocating l.Tni!ed Stat. ; distance t«> tin- Furopcan democra cies. All .AT. Landon, chairman of the sub-committee on national defense, announced he had postponed a ;ehe duled meeting of his group until to morrow '•heeaii.se of development ." The ISJ.'W Republican presidential ! nominee did not amp! fy hi-. state ! incnl hut it was understood that at least live members of t >e eleven member sub-committee h."d hai'd"d together to oppose the party commit ting itself to any type of aid to Eng land or France. Meanwiiile. (lie re,;nlulions com ' mittee wa> confronted with a de mand that it declare itself against any measures that might lead Ame rica into war. It came from a delegation of 'Jfi Re publican House member led by Rf-p rcM-ntetive Hamilton Fish <.r New York, who denounced President Roosevelt's foreign policies, and de j elated: '•Republicans should stand for keeping America out of war." HINCKLEY NAMED FOR NEW POSITION Washington. June 2'S. — (AP)— President Roosevelt sent to the .Sen ate today the nomination of Robert 11. Hinckley .now chairman of the C'i\ il Aeroautics Authority, to be as sistant secretary of Commerce. tie would succeed J. Monroe .John son. who was appointed to ti v. in terstate Commerce Commission. United States To Bolster Unity Through Money Credits and As sistance of Army and Navy Technical Ex perts. rivvic-o City. Juno U'»— (AP)— A hit;1i source declared today President C; rdenas had approved a program vh '•»! v.'iin'd more than quadruple Mexico's i.>rco. with the aid "I iho United States. This source asserted that within a few woo|<s a credit of more than bl(i.aii'i.oiin i'i-«>m the United States would be made available i» the xic i government to carry cr.it til is i\\ j> ui-ion under 0.') technical experts In.,)) the United States Armv and Navy. Additional millions would be al located later bv the Mexican finance ministry. The Uni'ocl State- government was sai.l ; i lie determined that Mexico :i: iuid not be u. cd as an avenue of invasion by any a-;;-lessor nation and it was understood the American credit, u'oiiitl bo made available on generous terms. The American d<'tcr oiMiatioii ua. said to ha\'e been com muiiicat'-d to I're-id'lit Cardenas be fore yesterday's cabinet session at which u'ii\ers.!l military training and ■ tin r d- ii n e me; -ures wore indorsed 'i»r - ubmi>sion iu xt mouth to an ex traordinary session of congress. This defeiiM pr 'grain was report id on high authority to include: increase of the standing army to ni' re than tfuO.OOO. Increase of lite officer corps by approximately 10,01)0. of whom 1, ono wciiild I>e sent to American Army centers for special training. Acquisition ol . ix destroycis from the United States to strengthen the Mexican navy. Establishment oi air bases at stra tegic points. Fan-American Report Ready Washington. June 2n. - (AP)— President Roo.-evclt will receive to day a report from a special cabinet eon itiit'ee which has been studying how be-t to lighten Pan-A»"nerica'ss economic unity. The White House said the Presi dent probably would approve the re port immediately and that the State department then would submit it to the other western hemisphere gov ernments. This step has been generally inter preted as designed to establish in the America's a united economic front against such systems as the baiter system empieyea by Germany. Official Italian News Agency Says French Plenipotentiaries Have Started Back To Bordeaux Italy's Air Force In Op eraiions Oyer Vast Zone in Mediterran ean, Claiming Great Damage to British; i f'o-''t:cn?. Home. Jump 2<» - ( AP)—Italy's ail j power v.'i'i filing today into «»|i«»m . | over ;i vast v.<«nin the Meditcrrau ; can and |',ir H<iy n the eastern roast : 'if Alrira a Slrlaii. »ilI'ici:»I Italian ! ii'\v ■ ai'mry. declared t1 :it i»v Sat ! urdav at the Ide I there will be in» | more fighling In Jween the a a is jnv.' I ers find France. French representatives already have met Hi'' Germans. said Stafani and ;:re enronte bark 1 •» Bordeaux. Tiii' Maium high commend declar ed il< widespread <iir raids h:ul eaus ed great damage and liad deslroyed | Pritish tanks in a fight on the in.n tier between Egypt and Libya. Acknowledging that her home ter ritory had been bombed on the Ligur ian en .si and in Sardinia, the Ital ians report- il they + j(| bum bed lit it-' tisli bases at Aden. Zeila in llriti-i I Somaliland. Port Sudan on thei j African coast of the Med sea and j oilier points in Sudan and Kenya. In tiie . ea war. a 2,lidO-ton French; j de; troyer was slink by an Italian! ubmanne, the Italians said. An Italian newspaper said the pincer.' formed by Gorman forces; and th'' Italian army along the Alpine ■ frontiers was about In close in on i the only French army reported here to be still intact. Italian troops plan to occupy the Savoy regions of France while await ing tiie outcome of armistice parleys between France and Hitler, Italian i sources indicated. Savoy i.-. one of the regions Italy ; had demanded from France, along willi Nice, the island of Corsica, and j i Tunisia in Africa. 15,000-Plane Navy Air Force1 Is Proposed Washington, .Tunc 2i». -- (AT')—I Alter hearing testimony 1h:it 10.000 planes win Id not be adequate lor a ] proposed two-ocean fleet, the i louse naval commit tee recommended today j a N ivy air forte of 15,(100 planes. j The testimony was given by Rear Admiial John 11. Towers, thief of' the Naval air corps. who retailed that a lately-enacled law puts a 10,000-1 plane ceiling on the Navy. Hut that,' he reminded the committee. was lie lore a new S 1.000.000.000 expansion of the fleet, designed to give it the [ vj/.e of a two-ocean navy, was pro-| i 'f-tled. At the Capital, the Senate naval I ?»ITairs eommitt"e had before it a j -itgye.'lion by Chairman Walsh. l)em-' ocrat. .M.i'sachusctls. that it might be ad-. : able to give the President : authority to hull work on all private j and foreign airplane contracts in or . der to Im inn production for defense : up to requirements. Kstablishment of Latin-American' : bases for the Navy, a usually well ' informed . ouree >aid, may be one of ! the subjects raised at the projected j Pan-American conference on hemis phere problems of military and eco j niimif defense. Loth aircraft and fleet bases would j be involved, this official said. Petain Sadly Tells Of Reasons For Defeat Bordeaux. June 30.—(AP)—Old Marshal Henri Philippe Petain. Fiance's premier r»f defeat, sadly i inld his people today they h;id lost tlie fighl to Germany because they I had "fewer friends" than in 1914 18—"fewer young men, less arms, too few allies." i But. he promised in ii radio broad cast: "We will learn our lesson from the lost battle." lie blamed defeat on the lush years since The World War victory when "our sense of en joyment predominated over our sense of sacrifice." Petain disclosed that at the begin ning of the "battle of Franro" th^ nation had but 2.730.000 ^ild1" or ; 500,0U0 less than alter three years o:. bloody fighliiiK in the Woi Id War. In contrast with o.l J!• i 1 isli divi sions in May ol he ;n' \' d, thcr ■ were but ten in May of J!140. Then he coinpared the "><! Italian World War divisions on the side of Fiance and 42 from the United States •with the present: Italy an enemy, America a neutral. French planes in the battle of j Fiance were outnumbered by the enemy one to six*, he said. The hero of Verdun concluded: "1 wa • with you in your day of glory] and I am and v ill remain with you in your days of sadness." He explained why he had asked (Con tinugc2 on liji'co) i French 1 roups Tr\ To Escapc I1 rom Nazi i rap IjorilcaiiA. .June :!■!.— (AIM — !'silts the famous hollow s(|i:are formation. irrnvh M.r ir,ot line troops of the arnn of Alsace anil l.orraiitc arc attempting to fifihl llivir way tiiro'.nh («ennan troops which have hottlcd up their last avenues of escape by A march to the Sm jss iroitlicr. a French war offie;* svckcsmati said tonb'ht. Tin* spokesman report <1 that flerman motorized pnits cut northeast from I-yon today to the S\\ frontier. oit!y ! ."» miles from fJeneva. In the we*-t. he aclcU'fl. there is !"-ome fifteen mil'\s south of .\'a»jles at the mouth of the Loire rive!*. Along (he lire of th«* I.oire tb*! French central army withdrew a few miles .south of Tours to the f'.rr river. At Least Six Persons Killed and Many In jured in Air Raids Over Island Kingdom. London. June 2u.—f Ai')—A nazi' air fleet, authoritatively put at con-j siderablv more than 1 Of) planes,; dumped hundreds <>f bombs on Kr.,si land. Scotland and Wales last night and early today in the most ex ten- : sive air raid of llie war on this is land kingdom. At least six civilians were killed nd •'some (in" injured, the govern ment announced. It was the second raid in as many days on Britain and. considering the number of bomb.-: dropped, the reported damage was slight. The na/.i apparently changed their line of attack and timed more at the industrial areas than on Tuesday! night. win 11 twe lve were killed. Ilritish air men exact.d their toil of the raiders downing three bomb ers while other British aircraft were, i the government reported, wrecking hangars and del roving aircraft on the ground 't (Ji i man-occupied air porls in France. I iritis! i planes also attacked the Rhur. Khineland, and western fit rmany. Anti-aircraft lire accounted fori another na/.i raider, while several others were badly damaged. Meanwhile, more help has arrived I'm Britain from Australia and New i Zealand. Thousands of fighting! Anzacs landed from Jim r:; at a Bril tish port. The air attacks began shortly be fore midnight (ti p. m. c. s. t.) and! lasted until just before dawn. At Miine point the alarm lasted live i )i<.111 . They ranged from the soiil'i j co:i. i up the east coast to Scotland, I aero to northwest England and then to Wales. UJmiPwi I OK NOHTII CAROLINA. Generally fair and sliyhll.v cooler tonight and Friday. Place of Meeting of French Envoys and Germans is Not Given; Nazis Report Continu ed Gains in French Conquest. (Fly Tin- Associated 1'ress.) Hostilities between France ;md the :i>:is armies ;ire expected to cease Friday or Saturday at tin* latest — the olficial Mali-ill news agency re port' 'd today. a-serting that French plenipotentiaries have started hack to I>o!cieaa\ with tin- terms dictated by Hitler and Mussolini. The place oi meeting between the French envoys. who arrived in a snow white airplane "somewhere" in GiTiiian-ocetipied northern France, was not i»iveil. IJeriin. blaming "the difficulties of news' transmission via Spain, said a French government communiea tion naming France's four peace plenipotentiaries did not reach the German government until 1 a. in. today ((! p. m. e. s. t. Wednesday). "It could be transmitted to the fuehrer only at I a. m." the broad cast said. "The high command thereupon gave the necessary instructions im mediately and made preparations for receiving the French armistice dele gation." Hitler's high command meanwhile announced the fail of Lynn. France's third largest city. 2nd mile, north ol' Mar.-aille and the capture of more than 200.(Kill pri-oners including Gen era! Altmeyer. commander of the 10th French army. Fifty thousand French soldiers from the Maginot line surrendered their arms this morning to Swiss sol diers and poured across the Swiss frontier. The German radio declared that "m< mbeis of the French government are not not at all agreed on the ques tion of iaying down arms"—lending credit to unconfirmed reports that France has learned the gist of the axis terms, found them too harsh for the nation'.* honor, and resolved to fight oil. Tin -e reports said President Lc bruii and member- ol his government were ready t.. lite to Algiers, North Afr'ca. e n i .v <.'i the war from there < ■ r il German troops capture all France. Tne Fiench admitted nazi troops hive occupi'-d L.von. but dispatches from Genev; simultaneously gave the first hint that the German mechaniz ed machine ha: begun to wear out and falter. Ii'efuu'-c- reaching Geneva from the battle zone lold ol seeing quantities of abandoned Geiman tanks, armor ed car- and motorcycle.; along the main highway.-. Kevcrtheiess under dwindling French n si lance, Hitler's armies swept further down into France. Big Defense Bill Passed Senate Approves Emergency Defense Appropriation, Add ing to House Measure. Washington. June 2').— (AP) — A Si,777.-'89,788 emergency defense appropriation inea ure—!;i.-t major mom y hill in Pre ident Hoosevelt's defence program to diite—v.;is po-s • <1 by the Senate today on a voice vole;. The bill now goes back to the Motive lor action on Senate amend me-nt;. which added to the bill a net .>7U3:VJ08 ol which $43,500,0(10 would go lor airplane engines ord ered from the Ford Motor Co. As approveel by the Senate th" measure prov ideel SI,488,353,027 in cash .and 5289.136,761 in contract authority. Fund- w^re included to add 95.000 n en to the regular Army, bringing v total en I!- ted trength to 375.000. Money and contract authorities were wrif.en in for 3.000 new army air - Mid an unspecified number of tanks and other weapons. Fund- were voted lor the Navy to tart work on 68 combat ships. Expansion ol the Federal Bureau oi Investigation by 500 agents to combat spies and saboteurs would be linancee] with a P3.358.0O0 appro priation and the Civil Aeronautics \'i!ho;-ity wa granted C32.000.00:) tc, train 87,000 civilian air pilots.
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