North Carolina Newspapers

Uteniteramt Batltt Utspatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORlii CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. \ i \ IT-SEVENTH YEAR LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C„ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 21, 1940 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEI'T SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY French Receive Peace Terms *****%•**#. *. X. X. U. It v - Americasf Economic Defense Sought • \pproves f. asurcs r or Achiev H.conomic Unity ioiig Pan-American oils to be Submit 0 Western Hemis Powers. :k. .Tune LM. --(AIM Pivs f \ »xit as.-erted today his p f-A- -ic >t economic it im >lved "WiMioniic dc * > -supplement our detense program. >t •• n out issued at a press •!■*!>• after he arrived „■ v.. Mr. Roosevelt as c plated measures for ; »e ■; unity among the v •: nation- wore "intend .. further safeguard for the r- - hemisphere and as a • >. protecting our economies 1 v- >:u«m';es ot the American ■ ->{;ram tor economic unity . >ved by the President la>t ■ : ordered submitted to tne .:c.n nations tor their ap ■ (•'.nfe-'ence turned to the •. appointment ot two Re tt > tne cabinet, reporters e C of Kxecutive that . >:i had - d he assumed. app< ntees had received as • : v t ,t there would be no third . VIr. R«v»sevelt was asked for com-' nt on that. He chuckled and ask •tht ■ Landon really had said • He added he had seen ail kinds • \gs in the newspapers this r;u and it' he started comment ■ 11 all of them he didn't know • • would get through. • ■ »; :d he had been thinking e retired last night that there • < : difference between that there were those who tt . . of patriotic motives who think with partisan ■ nd that this is a very dif— . -• of whether hi- retr.arks v: cieci as an answer to t-s v.; • contended he was a "war cabinet" Mr. • * repl 'ft ii the affirmative. * v V \I>I.\N-> IN" ENGLAND. .lulit' il.— (AIM—Ar ti ;>i ihc fourth contingent of • i uh.sn troop- „»t Or eat Britain n announced today by the director of public in •;i mulion. W incisors in Spain 0 u k e and Duchess x inong Growing List ♦ Refugee Dignita ries Fleeing France. . June 2!. fAD— The :.(i ur and in- Ameriean . tht' Inrmer Wu 11 is vVar •n. joined a growing list • • ■ taking refuge in Spain •i ■ German armies swept 1 ;in'i ducho- e.*ime to Bar 1 nisht. FYeviously their . :id b»-en ;i mystery, I'.i • h government de * "■ < duke had been ordered 'I > hild of the famous !> and fiis Ameriean .i-rl in Spain yesterday ■ lit. They received credit • • to Lisbon. (fiing Madrid said that ■ ■:;:cr 11'ibert Piorlot <>f *:fI George Bonnet. for l'« minister, also (n* cv.- include David ni.'i i>anker: the former Zita of Austria and son. < pretender to the non •; tri n thn»ne: tin family ri diich> - of Luxembourg, i i children of King Leo Heigium. WsuaJthsih • i; NOKTII CAROLINA. ' • illy f;iir tonight and Sat • imimutii cool. War Planes Stalled by French Peace Bid Ninety-three former U. S. Army Northrup dive bombers, intended criminally for France, are shown at Mitchell Field, L. I., where they were ordered held pending word from the Allied purchasing commission. It is understood the planes will to to England. Appointments Stir Congress Knox Declares Appointment Non-Political j ______ Chicago. June 21.—(AT1)—Colonel Frank Knox, whose acceptance of the Navy secretaryship in the Roose velt cabinet prompted his expulsion from tiie Republican party, said to day that the President had asked him ; to manage the Xavy on a non-politi- j cal basis and "on that basis I have accepted." The 193t> Republican vice-presi dential candidate's statement follows in part: "National deft n-<r is not n purti an question. It should have the united sunport of the people regardless of | party. Congress in the past few | weeks ha> acted with substantia! unanimity on ev ery national de-1 tense proposal. . "The administration of the Navy; department is in no sense political, j The Navy knows no party. At a | time of tremendous naval expan- j sion it is vital that its management j shall be wholly non-political. The pre. ident has asked me to serve as I secretary of the Navy on that basis and on that basis I have accepted." I British Lose Two Planes In German Raids London. June 21.—(Al')—IJritish air raiders carried out "their usual nightly work" over the Ruhr and Rhineland last night "with .some success." but left two planes behind. Uriti.^h military sources reported. The same sources identified an Italian general previously reported captured by the Rritish on the Li bvran-Kgyptian border as General Lastrucei. chief engineer of the Ital ian army in Libya. The military informants dismiss ed as "most improbable" the rumor that German planes which flew over South Wales might have come from Ireland. Anti-aircraft fire encountered by (Continued on Page Three) German Political ! VIcto rylnRuman i a Maxwell Takes [ Turn For Worse j Raleigh. June 21.— (AIM—Re venue Commissioner A. J. .Max well. desperately ill with paraly sis since late in May, had evi dences of "slight chest conges- ! tion" today and his temperature had risen again, his physician I reported. The commissioner | showed evidences of luiur con gestion and ran a fever ten days a.uo but then had appeared slightly better until last night. East Heads AAA Group Virginian Named Chairman of Powerful Committee to Draft Recommendations. Ocean City. Md.. June 21.—(AP) —J. II. East, a Virginian, became chairman today of a committee em powered to draft recommendation affecting tobacco, truck, fruit and cotton crops in the l!)t! Agriculture Adjustment Administration Program. The committee, one of the most important named at a meeting of AAA officials from seven states, will submit its recommendations at the national AAA meeting next month. M. L. Barnes of Washington was named secretary of the committee, to which representatives from North Carolina. Maryland. Tennessee. Delaware. Kentucky and West Vir ginia were appointed. Evidence Of Coercion In Missouri Is Discovered Washington. Juno 21.—(AP)—The Senate campaign expenditures com mittee reported today that there was an "abundance <•(' evidence" that many Missouri state employees had been coerced indirectly into contri buting to the campaign of Governor Lloyd ('. Stark. The committee said in a press re lease that an investigation conduct ed by committee agents had disclosed , that lunufc Weif being solicited from state employees and "direct or in direct corecion is being systematical ly carried 011 l.y a representative de signated by the governor." Stark is a candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for the senate in opposition to Senator Truman. Demo crat. Missouri, who is seeking re nomination. Chairman Gillette. Democrat. Iowa, said he had been instructed by the committee to direct its agents to con tinue Ufa investigation. King Carol Announces formation of New To talitarian Political Party of Nazi Pattern to Supercede Present Party. Bucharest, June 2!.—(ATM—A ' sweeping German victory in the but- j tie fur political influence in Rumania | was scored tonight by the unrounct - ment that King Carol was forming ! a new totalitarian political parly o: j the naxi pattern. The party is to be known as "the | party of the Nation." It will super- ' cede the present Party of National Rebirth. The pro-naxi Iron Guard v 'i 11 play a big part in the new or-i ganixation, whose bases were an nounced as "nationalistic, Christian j and racial."' This was interpreted as meaning j that King Carol was prepared to ' put a full nazi program into force, j even including a return to anti- j semitism in an attempt to win favor ! .'Continued on Page Fivei Reports of Third Term Declaration Still Circulated! Philadelphia. Juno 21.—(AIM —Authoritative reports persisted ■ in Republican circles today that President Roosevelt had assured Col. Fiank Knox that he would not run for a third term at the i time he first offered Kihi\ the Navy secretaryship. The reports were that Knox had relayed such information to four men some time a so and that these four included Alf M. Lan don, the 1!>.'»6 Republican presi dential nominee on a ticket with Knox, and R. E. Creagcr. Texas national coinmitteeeman. While Landon could not be i reached for comment, Creator t»!(! reporters here "there is nothing I can say at the present time." Toibert Loses GOP Seats | Philadelphia, June 21.—(AP) — j The Republican national committee! voted today to deny convention scats to the ten-member South Carolina j delegate headed by Joseph W. (Tie less Joe) Toibert, and seated an op-| posing delegation led by George Nor wood of Greenville and J. Bates, Gerald of Summerton. The vote was (53 to 18. The action must still be passed on by the convention credentials com mittee next week and the convention itself. Action on Appoint-1 ments Not Expected For Week; Debate Flares In House. Washington, Juno 21.—(AP)—I The Semite military committee to- ! clay ordered hearings 0:1 President j Roosevelt' numination of Henry L. ; Siimson to be war secretary and! Stiivison himself will be called to j testify. As a momentous Senate debate1 over foreign and defense policies j shaped up around tlie Slinison ap pointment and thai of C'ol. Frank Knox to be secretary of the Navy, it .'.ppeared there woidd be no action on confirmation for more than a week. Chairman Shepard. Democrat j Te>:a,;. said that Stimson would be cal'rri f ;v testimony "in a week or so" and it was expected to be at least that Ions until the naval com-; mittee acts on the Knox nomination. fn the Hou«e. debate set off yes terday by the cabinet changes flared | up today when Representative Fish. I Republican. New York, asserted that j the Democrats under President Roosevelt should bear the label of war party. ! Majority Leader Rayburn jumped up. "The gentlemen on the Republican side have been groping many months' for an issue," he declared. "Theyj now have seized on the hope that 1 Iho Republican party is the peace party. If -hey w;nt to be the peace parlv at any price, they can have it. •"They are trying to create the j impfv .• ion that the Democratic unity niav b" the war party. The I )eiMoei :i1 ie party is not a peace I party at any price. The Democratic, liartv is Hie one party that will not be the war party, but it will be a; i '(''iMfinued on Paee Five) Hitler Is Present At Meeting Held In Forest Of Compeigne Armisiice 'I erm> Not Completely Revealed As Yet; Aiiiicunced Aims Indicate Complete Ca pitul&tion o« I''ranee is Demanded; Meeting Held in S3 .me Historic Railway Car in Which Armk'ice ci 1 Was Signed. lii-iiin, June i:j.— (AP)—Negotiations between th<; French ami IJi iiiian repnsi ntauves over an armistice still were going on ;it V::')«» i 'clock tonight < ]—:"><> p. ni. e.s.t.), UNI5, the official (a nnan i»'ws agency, announced. 'I lie ItciicI: retired io the tent set aside for them at 4:25 p. m. ('J:::") a. m. e.s.t.) to <Ii:cuss the armistice terms handed them l«y Wilheim Keitel, Geinian chief of staff, and also to contact ! heir government by telephone. At G:lo p. m. the French envoys returned to Ihe railway car. !>NI> r; if! this v.as to allow them to continue discussions with Keit'1! iiiifl other repiv eniatives of Adolf Hitler. (I»y 'i lie Associated Press) Adf.'ll Hitler crowned i is hour of triumph by personally meet ing France's peace-seeking envoys today in the forest of Com piegne, scene of the signing of the World War armistice on No vi mber 11,1018. The nu/.i fuehrer met the French envoys in the same historic railway car in which Marshal Focli dictated the terms on which Kaiser Wiihtim's imperial armies laid down their arms. Colonel General Wilheim Keitel, chief of the na/.i high com mand, first read a preamble to the armistice conditions, with Hitler remaining silent nearby. Foreign Minister Joachin von Ribbentrop and Colonel Gen eral Walther von J'rauchitsch, commander in chief of the German army, were present. The meeting took place at .°>:30 p. m. (8:.'»() a. m. e.s,t.) Nazis Report NewSuccesses In France Berlin. June 21.—(AP)— German's j military machine shoved steel .spear heads deeper into Franco "on sche dule" today as representatives of Germany, Italy and France met in the forest of Compiegne for armis tice talks. Reports of additional booty came from the Germans as they mopped up sections of the Maginot line and took new places in Normandy. Brit tany and the region between the Loire estuary and the Rhone valley. The newspaper Der Angriff said two 35.000-ton French battleships were seized at Breast where they are being built. The high command reported these successes: Capture of 700 brand new tanks; the sinking by submarine of four British merchant ships, one of then: a Royal Mail steamer of 11.000 tons; ;ind the sinking by fighting and div ine bombing air units of a 10,000 ton transport and a 4,000-ton auxi liary vessel. The French were reported "stout ly resisting" in the Maginot line in Lorraine and Alsaace while encircl ing groups in the western Vosges mountains are continuing their fight against the nazis. The Germans reported continued British air raids last ni«ht, s;iid H> persons were killed in British bomb ing of Cologne last night and Wed nesday night and on Dusscldorf on Wednesday night. ighting In France Slows is Peace Talks Continue T'.orrlrvuiw June 21.—(AP)—Dc- I spite official declarations of en-! tinir.-d French resistance. it wis be-j lioved hce this evening that light-' it:# had slowed down in general—if) not virtually stopped—during the. armistice negotiations. The morning military communique i said German troops during the night: had pushed to Riom, about 25 miles: southwest of Vichy, and that the; Fr« neh were putting up energetic re sistance in the Vosges mountains. !t was thought likely the French! negotiators, who received Germany's armistice terms, woidd return here today. Then ihe cabinet was expected to meet and decide whether the gov ernment should remain here or move to another spot. Franco's reorganized army of Jura and the Alps, reinforced by many! units which retreated from the) Maginot line, was reported not only to have held German motorized unit.-. south and east of Lyon, but to have driven back advance nnzi columns northwest of Grenoble with heavy losses. German forces at Lyon apparently were awaiting strong reinforcements before trying to break the strong line of fresh troops south of the city. Although the Italian army had been expected to launch a big offen sive on the French ;ts soon as the Germans reached the Rhone river, there has been little action along the Alphlne iront. 1 WUUJ (IVII'MI 111 III*.: MM I7»l 111 Compiegne ,has wiped out the wrongs done to German military honor," said the official German news agency. "The dignity of the action toward an enemy honorably defeated stands in contrast to the eternal hate-sow ing monuments at this place where Gallic baseness once shamed the undefeated German army." Three aims of the German armis tice .terms were announced: 1—To prevent continuance of the war in France—apparently the com plete demilitarization of the French. 2—To obtain full guarantees "ne cessary for continuance of the war against Britain." This indicates* French industries. materials and wealth will !><> tak'Mi over by Ger many to fight Kngland. 3—To produce ' pre-conditions for a new European peace." Immediately alter the reading of the preamble Hitler departed. The preamble asserled that the •dlies in the World War supported by American troops "did not suc cessfully in any way conquer" the German army. Washington Safely Home United States Liner Docks in New York With Refugees From European War Zones. New York, .June 21.—(AP)— Safe ly home after a dramatic brush with a submarine, the United States liner Washington docked today with 1 , 7!Hi passengers, most of them Amer ican citizens who fled the European war zone. It was disclosed that a group of passengers headed by Donald Harp er. New York and Paris lawyer, pe titioned Captain Harry Hanning to proceed directly to the United States after the submarine encounter in stead of making a scheduled stop at Galway. Ireland, to pick up addi tional refugees. Captain Manning communicated with the State department direct and the next day posted a bulletin which said that authorities considered it unwise to change the ship's course as outlined to belligerent nations and that any change might jeopard ize the vessel's safety. ' II was disclosed, too. that some members of the crew held a meet ing at Lisbon to consider a protest against stopping at Galway. Some .of the crew were said to have been rdarmed over the presence on board of a number of belligerent nationals Passengers said a notice posted at '•he United States consulate at Bor deaux warned that "American citi zen: taking passage on the vessel are advised that each must of course as (Continued on Page Three.)