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IHimiterson Datlu fltspatrb — /^T\l I A ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNOKiii CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. I'Y-SEYENTII YEAR IjEASED WIRE SERVICE OF TI1E ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 22, 19-10 PUBLISHED IOVF'IY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY Armistice Signed Today ^ *********** ingress Approves Tax Bill Raising ideral Debt Limit To 49 Billion' isrgency reuse Bill Approved >.>.iy:e of Measures \i»s Congress Near cess For Republi Vrational Conven Openmff Monday. 2-2 — (AD—'The • i: and >ent t« > the • >d:iy a compromise t:.\ Mill carrying ;i :• the national dob? h) to $49,000. . Jane 22.—(AP>—A o ergency defence • ' -a final Conyrcs ! today. to sent the measure t • • : *t-r agreeing to ;i eport previously adopt ■"io> funds for 3.000 . 3.000 Rolls Royce M by the Ford Motor unspecified numbers of - munition and sup wore included to start : new fighting ships for :.'i • permit the Federal Investigation to expand 500 agents to combat boteurs. • approved a compromise ■ one billion dollar de nd -ent it to the Sen leg' dative action, uht Congress a long step • • 'ecoss so th->? Re ght attend their party's n enti »n m Philadelnhia. •f. meanwhile. wound up < -i a SI.157.711.357 ":a*' • bill including ' surplus crop di.-rvxsal • the White If. ^c. i Italians bornD Egypt Coast . J me -2.—(AP> —The ■i (!•":{ rent-wed it> at j the allied war fleet • : hot down one i drove the others tud coastal bat '• . •• •■>'< baidirctit of •• plane.-. One was .shot rii plane were shot <• t'!:• r b'»n raids. • • .( .c'l the t'ort but lail ' tho war-hips and then i>.> along the coast. aos Alter & rosition tronger Hand Taken warding French and ntish Possessions in ' 'rient. .f »ic L'2.—(Aft—Japan ■ I r.< r- fit :t truiicer f: • I; :t; li and F> ( ticll •i !■ f»:rthOfn ()i•:»■ nt — ' ta!:e direet action :ie the European < too busy to oppose ■ ( to the government aid Japan's foreign iwen revised in view ol • * i ol the war in Europe -point program designee < l.itions with German} ••onyer position in the ? (where principjirt al are the Br'ish rrowr waut'd on Page Three) Knox Called \ To Testify On War Views V.'a iimgton. .Time —(AI')—The Senate naval atl'a rs ttoi." voted •manim >u.-ly today ti» summon Col. Frank Knox. president Roosevelt's new Navy tecrclary-ci/'sign; \v. t » learn his views on the question of keeping tne United States out of war. Chairman Walsh. Democrat. Mass aehusetts. said Knox would be ask ed to testify before the committee in a public hearing, probably July 1. Walsh said the committee determ ined without dissent to postpone ac tion until alter Republican members had returned from their national convention. A!! commit tec members have been voce ving telegrams both protesting and commending the appointment of Knox and Henry L. Stimson. also a RepuMicm. as secretary of War. Walsh said. isolated German Motorized Units Near Lyon Re ported Cut Off From Northern Forces. Geneva. June 22.—(AP)—French sources reported today that German troops in the vicinity of Lyon had been cut oft' from northern German forces by the closing of French lines above them. Tiie southeastern French forces, according to reports reaching the Swiss border, are welding their hitherto separted armies in the up per Rhone valley. German motorized units in Lyon now stand in a pocket amid reas sembling French forces which are aided by fresh material from the south, it was said. West of Lyon. German efforts to take and hold Clermont-Lerrand with its big war industries encountered a resistance stronger than any before Verdun, it was said. While the German mass occupa tion of French territories, criss crossed by motorized columns, reach ed Brittany, the eastern mass oc cupation still was lagging in the Champagne area northeast of Paris. Chain Of U. S. Arms Factories Recommended Washington. June 22.—(AP)—Con struction of a billion dollar chain <il government munitions plants has brcn recommended officially to President Roosevelt as part of the further expansion of the defense program. ! One of the major proposals was that the government build without delay several score plants to turn (Continued on Pace Five) German Spoils or Victory Whatever the reply >ii France to German armistice term . Hitler !.;<> ordered brought tu Berlin the long-en shrined railway car (above) whete Germany signed an ..imistice m.itow in 1918 ancl onered one in victory today. Along with the historic car. Hitler will take away the memorial tablet that marked the spot and the monument the French ret up there. Hitler personally d ?creed that the monument to Marshal Foch is to be pre served undamaged, unmoved. Bulk Of French fleet fatten Over By British, Reports Say Berlin Experiences First Real Air Raid ! ''German Hollywood'' Struck By Bombs Which Injured Seven; Enemy Raids Else where in Germany Kill 17, Injure 18 in Three Days, JJcrlin. June 22—(AD—This nazi capital, exulting in the German triumph over Franco and waiting for her unconditional acceptance of armistice terms, underwent its fi-st real air raid of the war early Why. Astonished inhabitants scurried into air shelters as pianos dumped bombs on suburban Rabelsborg. the "German Hollywood" be'-ven Ho ler's metropolis and the former im perial residence at Potsdam. There is a great military airport not far away and the bit; movie studios at Bablesborg resemble air plane hangars. What the bomb actually hit. however, according to official reports, were a fiabelsbory garage and a "telephone system." Seven persons were injured. Enemy raids elsewhere in Germany killed (Continued on Page Eight) State's 1939-1940 Revenue Will Exceed $75,000,000 For First Time In History Daily Dispateii Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, June 22.—The State's re venue for the fiscal year ending June 30 will pass $75,000,000 for the first time in the history of North Caro lina. Last year and the year before re venue was just under $70,000,000 but this year there will be an increase of more than $5,000.1(00 over that. As yet there are no available au thoritative fcoliiiiatei. oi what each i balance. or surplus, will be- lull in either the general fund or the high way fund, but it appear certain thai the next fiscal year will begin with something of a financial cushion against the expected drop in revenue almost sure to follow a crisis in the ! tobnrco situation. Estimate that this fiscal year's re venue will be above S75.(!(to.ii(»0 i. based on the practical certainty thai ^Continued on Page Five; 'Maxwell Still In Critical Condition Ualeigh. June (AIM— A. j J. .Maxwell's condition was re ported toda> as unchanged from last night when his physician suit! lie had cli'vciop-.d a lung congestion which might be a form of pnuetnonia. The family was at his hcd->idc in a hospital here last night alter his condition had become criti cal. Surrenders London. June 22.—(AP)—The ad miralty announced tonight that a large Italian .submarine had surrend jered to the British trawler Moon stone. The capture was made in the Gull ! of Aden, the announcement paid, 'after the Moonstone attacked the submarine with depth charges. I The admiralty and the air minis try anno need that tiie 26.000-ton j German battleship Scharnhorst had j been damaged by combined action I of British naval and air units, i The air ministry announced a 'IritMi nnoimoissance aircraft at • tack had sunk a large enemy supply j hip in the North Sea. (jJsualh&Ji FOR NORTH C AROLINA Fair to partly cloudy tonicht and Sunday slowly rising tem perature. WKATHKR FOR T1IK WTFK Rainfall limited tc» occasional scattered thundcrshowers by middle or latter part of week; seasonal temperatures.. Problem Still Remains of Servicing Navy Whose Munitions Plants and Machine Shops Are in Enemy Hands, Engineers De clare. Washington. June 22.—(AP)— Great Britain liiis taken over the bulk or the French fleet intact, au thoritative sources in the capital heard today, and with it the problem , of .servicing a navy whose munitions j plants and machine shops are large ' ly in enemy hands. Even as informed persons re 1 ported that this government had | been advised of British acquisition ; o!' the French warships, naval en ' vmeers expressed the opinion thai | mri-l of the vessels would have only I a s hort term or reserve value to j Great liritain. Their immediate use ■ fohu.-s it \va« so,jested, would be ! limited by the amount of ammunition j and spare parts aboard, in accom panying auxiliaries, or at French co'; • i: 11 bases. To i::a!:e the French fleet a per | m. iicnt adjunct ol the British navy, j the engineers said, it would be ne . cc-v- ary lor Britain to develop an J entirely new industry. (The Brit . ish admiralty refused to comment on the icport of the transfer of the ; fleet.) War Expected Crop Quotas Ocean City. Md.. June 22.—(AP)— Indications thai the European war will influence the nation's 11>41 ag rici'lture program with a direct ef fect upon crop allotments were seen today nt ;i meeting here of 200 AAA i officials from seven cast central j states. I The officials, here to draft recom imendations for next year'.: program, ai- holding closed meeting> and the i>ii811?,.-t:'>n.s will not be disclosed un :ti! they are presented to tho national ! A A A meeting in Washington next : month. j Speakers have emphasized- how lever. that the program should be drawn with full consideration of the wars etiect. Terms Secret, As French Fly To Rome To Seek Armistice German-French Armistice Will Not Go Into Effect Until Six Hours After Italy Has Reach ed An Armisficc With France; French Dele gation Leaves For Rome Immediately After Signing Pact in Ccmpiegne Forest. Xr\v York. June 2:2.— (A!*)—A National Broadcastinj? Com pany report fn.m (Vmni'V'iic said today an armistice lias been •i.!':nt d lie! ween France and Germany. The broadcast was received here jointly by NBC and Co lombia Broadcastirjr Syste m. It said tiie armist'ee was signed at 0:50 p. m. (11:50 a. m. o.s.t.) William Shirer, CBS correspondent, in a special broadcast I'run the Cornpiegne forest, announced the signing. he armistice. the ' foadcast said, would not take effect until six hours after It:*!;.* h:;s reached an armistice with France. The French repres< ntatives who agreed to the armistice are leaving by piane for Home. The tcims of the armistice nave not been disclosed. Tin armistice v.a reported ;igned by Colonel General Wil helm Kietel. chief of the German hijurh command, for Germany, and General Charles Huni/ciger of France, head of the French ■ delegation. William Kerker, the NBC importer with the German forces, declared in the broadcast that the terms would not be revealed until the Italo-French armistice has been effected and may not ';e made public then for s< me time. Kerker said the hostilities between France and the German Italian armies would cease six hours after the Italo-French pact signing. He added that tin? French emissaries left at once for Rome in a plane flown by a German pilot. They will seek a French Italian settlement at once. Kerker said Adolf Hitler was not at Compiegne for the sign ing. Signing of the German-French armisticc following long ne gotations in the Compiegne Forest, scene of the signing of the armistice of November il, 1!)18, which ended the first World War. The French delegation, it was reported in Merlin, held four long conversations with the French government in Bordeaux last night. Deliberations of the French commission ended late in the •,'vening and the lour members wuit to Paris for the night. They returned this morning and brought technical assistants and sec retaries, indicating they intended to make a written declaration of some sort. France announced meanwhile that her delegates would fly to Italy and discuss terms with the Italians before a general peace arrangement is reached with both her enemies. A communique saiu that the cabinet deliberated most of the morning and into the afternoon on the text of the German arm istice terms handed yesterday to the French represntatives in j Compiegne forest. From the English. Channel to the Suez Canal came accounts of air raids, indicating at tremendous acceleration in air activity. Italy 's bombers showered explosives over Alexandria harbor, seeking the British-French fleet based there; the British bombed Berlin, injuring seven persons, and attacked Bremen, injuring two. Nazi warplanes blasted away at Britain during the night killing three civilians, bringing the four-day total to 21 killed, 93 | injured, in the United Kingdom. The British fought off the attack. In the Mediterranean, British planes struck at Torbruk, Italian Libya, and declared that smoke was pouring from a big warship as they streaked away, knocking out two Italian fighter planes that came at them. The Italians reported they staged a series of air and naval attacks in the Mediterranean sinking three enemy ships by sub marines and heavily bombing Bizerte. Tunisia and Marseille, France's great harbor 011 the Mediterranean. There still was bitter fighting on the soil of France. Strong nazi motorized forces took the mountain town of Belleguarde and pressed on to storm L'Kcluse "Gibralter of the Rhone". In the Vosges area, -Maginot line troops were trying to cut their way out. French sources reported later that the French defenders of L'Ecluse not only repulsed an attack on the mountain citadel but drove the Germans out of Belleguarde. Status Quo In Financier To Pacific Sought Aid Roosevelt Washington, June 22.—(AP)— Secretary Hull called attention anew today to the desire of the United States government that the statu quo be maintained in the Pacific area. He did this at a press conference | in response to questions about pres< dispatches saying '/hat Japanese troops had occupied South China areas across the border of the Bri tish crown colony, at Hongkong. Hyde Park, June 22.—(AP)— .Tamos Forrestal. president of Dillon, Road and Co., New York investment linn, today was appointed a $10,000 a year administrative assistant to pres ident Roosevelt. What his duties may be was not disclosed at the temporary White House, but he was expected to serve in some capacity as a liaison man for the President in handling the rational dc-icr^e program
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