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vM-.yn-SEXKNUI \EAR tu"TsSw'i'at1edRpke3^f HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 26, 1940 PUBU8H^c^RT(AgTBimooN ]jTV?fc£ENTS COI'Y
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• OP Row Over Foreign Policv Slows Convention
_ a/ ^
Hoover Put
forward As
orriinating Speeches,
scheduled For Today,
: osiponed Because ot
L\ lay in Presentation
of Platform.
»V_ Hall. Philadelphia.:
\i') It< pace slowed by
t olicy n»w. a Republican
i> ail«> which the n.-wxe •>, ]
i ■ • er had been projected
nominee assembled to
•'i :ne policies it will ad
it' "he nation.
iio\wd up hi- rallying
party last night to ">;.ve <
. nee men" with a press
..te:::eni that lie was not
i .c oii.ee. But. he said.
. i be no interference with
:i ot the nominee and he
say he would not take the
: on if it was offered by the
•: "l"U.
eign policy dispute in the
committee already had
: convention schedule out
• Member:- of that group ar
: the night over the form
\<tion against intervention
wars should take.
• - already were streaming
4 convention hall before
was finally settled. Even
-••lutions committee had
.arried final touches up
>rm. Its general tenor
4an "preparedness and ,
:■'.%} of candidates went on
Wendell Willkie continued
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f ord Refuses
Contracts For
Plane Motors
■ ' »n. June 26.— t \P> —
'( r expansion "1 tiair
It..neou> . cl t<. lin
-nay today in t ic col
• ' iitioii.- with Henry Ford
production of airplane
To aid he could turn out
• .ete planes daily, refuses
tcture airplane motors tor
" • national defense eonunis
; eed. and this stand forces
iit :tt of arrangements for a
S.-Critish order.
S. Knudsrn of the defense
on. u ho disclosed this last
;d that "cooperation in the
' ■?: of this important mili
.:p;i:ent will be bought else
' i* ment gave rise to belief
• . ei - of other automobile
■ ■■< .. might be enlisted.
fleet Move
Still Secret j
Japan, Meanwhile, Re
ported Formulating
'Monroe Doctrine"
i* or Pacific.
Washington. Junr 'ifi.— (AIM—
i !;>• dispatrh of a third cruiser
'in a "friendly visit to South
\incrican ports" was announced
loilav by the Navy.
X' tsnu Secretary Lewis Comp
,,,:i disclosed that the 10.000-ton
i" lit cruiser Phoenix, now in the
•'acific. was preeeedhis to its
;if-t port of call. Valparaiso.
< liilc.
Two other cruisers — the
'1 ii.*111• \ .,|U| the Wichita—are al
' olv in Atlantic coast South
\i»crican ports, whence have |
•nic repeated reports of "fifth
limin" activity resulting from
'"••"mail victories in the Euro
i" an war.
: 1:4ton. June 2fi.— (AP) —
own aoout the sudden de
r the main United States;
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Would Fly for Uncle Sam
Vice Commander Millard Bennett, of the New York American Legion,
gives words of advice to some of the 500 business and professional girls
who assembled in Manhattan to form the country's first women's civilian
air corps, The Women Flyers of America. Thc^y are pledged to offer their
services in time of war to release male pilots for duty at the front.
Tobacco Relief Bill
Awaits House Action
Liners To Return
For I. S. Citizens
Washington. Juno 2(5.—(AP)—The
liners Washington and Manhattan
are to be sent back to Europe to re-!
turn Americans to the United States
from the war zone.
Secretary Hull announced today
that the Washington woukl sail Fri-:
day lrom New York for Gahvay. Ire
land. to pick up an expected 2,000
Americans.
The Manhattan, the secretary of
state added, will leave within a few
day; tor Portugal, where some 1.200
American.- including many now in!
Spain, will embark.
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Long Distance
Calls Reduced
Raleigh. June 20.—(AP)—Utilities
Commisisoner Stanley Wiu!>ornc said
today that intrastate long distance
telephone rates on calls for distances
farther than 72 miles would be re
duced August 1 by the Southern Bell
Telephone ;>nd Telegraph Company
by an amount estimated to save cust
omers $40,000 a year.
The tony distance rate reduction j
will amount to savings of from 5 to !
15 cents each call where the distance j
is 72 miles or more.
Legislation Passed by
Senate Is One Possible
Favorable Factor in
Otherwise Gloomy
Outlook For 1940-41
Season.
Washington, 'June — CAP)—
Legislation to increase by $500,000,
000 the borrowing power of the Com-j
modity Credit Corporation was cited;
by marketing experts today as one!
possible favorabie factor in an other- j
wise generally gloomy tobacco out-'
look for the 11)40-41 season.
The bill was passed by the Senate
last week but was choked off in the
rush in the House preceeding the re
cess.
The House tobacco bloc leaders and
marketing experts agreed that the
legislation would make possible a re-j
petition of the plan adopted last year)
under which British importers, in'
notmal times largest takers of United!
States exports, were advanced credit j
to take their normal share of domes- j
tic production.
In fact, officials of the Agricul- j
lure Adjustment Administration said.j
preliminary negotiations were al
ready under way toward such a|
scheme.
By working out such a plan, it was!
explained, domestic production
could escape the full force of the Bri
tish embargo, in effect since Jan
uary 1 against American type to
bacco. British established the em
bargo to conserve British exchange.
24 Tar Heel Officers Killed
In Line Of Duty During
Last Two And One-Half Yea rs
Daily Dispatch iSurcau,
In th»* Sir Waiter Hotel. |
Raleigh. June 2b'.—Twenty-four
North Carolina peace officers have
died "with their boots on" in line
of duty in the last two and a half
years -a rate four officers killed
every five months.
The ratio was worked out on the
basis of figures from the office of
State Auditor George Ross Pou, who
is treasurer and disbursing officer for
the Peace Officers Pension Fund.
Mr. Pou reported that lie has ju*T
paid $900 to the widow of Deputy
Sheriff Bud To we. of Pine Top, Yan
cey county, the latest officer to be
killed on duty. He left two children
in addition to the widow.
Minimum benefits are $70'J to the
widow or nearest dependent relative!
—a $500 cash payment and $200 i'or
funeral expenses. Extra allowances
arc made for minor children, with ii
maximum of $1,500 in i>nv one case.
The auditor said that in most of
the two dozen cases, the payment
from tin' pension fund has been prac
tically the only asset oi the surviving!
widow and children.
In the 24 cases since January. 1938,1
total payments have amounted to!
$22,100, an average oi' something less!
than 81,000 per year.
Practically all the officers whose!
bcneficiaries have been p;iid were
shot down by criminals—though at
least one. Highway Patrolman H. T. j
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When Occupation is
Completed livery At
lantic Harbor Except
Those in Spain and
Portugal Will Be Bar
red to British,
Berlin. June -ft.—(AP)—Orrt pa
lion <>f Fnnr's entire Atlantic c:)-i '
by {!<e German army pror-" d'r'
"\viniy today under the terms of or
armistice agreement which, auth
orized sources said, had eliminated
the republic as a military factor end
paved the \v>y for a final reckoning!
with England.
When the occupation is complet
ed, these sources said, every con
tinental Atlantic harbor except those
in Snain and Portugal will be bar
red to British ships.
Tightening aeriai and naval war
fare on the British isles was re
fleeted in a communique of t^c
high command which reported suc
cessful bombing of ''several airport >
and airplane factories" in central
England and the torpedoing of three
;Tp>od merchant ships southwest of
Ireland.
The Germans announced further
British air raids on northern and
western Germany last night and said
that no military targets were hit but
that at least four persons were killed.
Authorized sources said the arm
istice terms imposed upon France
were designed solely to meet war
conditions and in no respect fore
shadow the peacetime reorganiza
tion of Europe which Hitler envis
ages.
Officers Seek
Three Men
Fayetteville. June —(AP)—
Lieutenant A. T. Moore '»!" the Stat:*
highway patrol said efforts were be
ing made today to apprehend three
young men suspected of several rob
beries, tabicab thefts and at least
one slugging this week.
The three, all apparently in their
teens. Moore said, were believed to
have been the men who robbed and
bound a taxi driver to a tree near
Benson and then escaped toward
Wilmington.
They arc suspected of stealing a
Clinton taxi and of perpetrating two
robberies and a slugging at Stem and
Creed moor.
They were reported to have been
sighted north of Roxboro today, go
ing in the direction of Danville, Va.
faylor Undergoes
Operation In Rome
Home, June 2(1.- (AP)—Myron C.
Taylor. President Roosevelt's repre
sentative at the Vatican, underwent
today an operation which lasted two
hours. His condition was reported as
satisfactory.
U. S. Embassy
Offices Set Up
In Monts
BY ROV PORTER.
Monts, France, June 25. (By air
plane courier to Berlin) —(AP)—
Temporary offices of the American
embassy in France have been set up
here in the chateau of Charles A.
Bedeaux, where the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor were married.
The staff consists of three men—
First Secretary Hugh S.-Fullcrton,
Third Secretary Ernest Mayer, and
Trade Commissioner Leigh Hunt.
I arrived here after a long swing
through the war sectors south and
west of Paris.
I found German activity to be two
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kJ&cdlwA
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair, slightly warmer
tonight; Thursday increasing
cloudiness, becoming unsettled.
French Balk Aid to Nazis
"Many such jruns were captured in France," «=aid the German censor in
the caption accompanying this photo. French gun crews made sure the
victorious Nazis would never be able to use the cannons. The broken gun
takes the place of the broken sword as the symbol of defeat.
Turkish Premier Tells
Parliament the Nation
is "Aiertiy Continuing
Defense Prepara
tions"; Seeks To Just
ify Stand.
Ankara, June 2fi.—(AP)—Refik
Say dam of Turkey lold parliament I
tonight that his government has de
finitely decided nut to enter the war. j
Turkey, which once considered her-1
. eit a non-belligerent ally of Britain,
and France, however, is "alertly
continuing defense preparations," the
premier said.
The address, which was the first
nff'frinl announcement oC Turkish
policy since Italy entered the con-1
llict. came amid grave uncern over
ilie future <>i' French-protected Syria 1
and the possibility of a Bulgarian
attack on Turkey from the north, j
"Our position, devoid of any pro
vocation. is a guarantee of our own
and our neighbor's peace"', the pre-;
mier said.
He sought to justify Tin-key's re
fusal to go to war on the side of the
allicf when Italy entered the conflict i
by ciling the section of the mutual]
assistance pact with Britain and
France which stipulated that Turkey I
was required to take no action which j
would bring her into conflict with i
Russia.
Thus Saydam indicated that Mos- i
cow had told Turkey that Russia!
would rcgiird Turkish entry into the
war as a hostile act.
More Americans
Arrive In Spain
San SHvislian, Spain. June 2fi—
(AP)—Ki'*hty-six more Americans,'
hungry and thirsty but ehccrfMl, j
crossed the intnnat'onal bridge from)
France bore today. They were taken
immediately to Bilbao, where- it was!
reported yesterday a United States;
warship might come to lake then?
away.
The remainder of a group of 147'
Americans listed for entry last night
were expected in the course of the!
day.
Russia Adopts
New Work Week
Moscow, June 26.—(AP)—Bccau.sc i
of increasing war danger and the
need of greater production, the
Soviet Russian government adopted
today a new working week—six days j
of work-and a day of rest—to replace I
its revolutionary week of five work
ing days and a day of rest on the j
sixth.
Abandonment of the six-day week,;
which was a feature of the changes!
wrought by the bolshevists revolu-j
tion, was recommended by the Soviet!
trade unions and adopted by the gov-,
eminent.
PAROLED
Raleigh. June 20.—(AP)—Gover
nor Iloey today paroled six state I
pri. oners, including Foster Revels,
Robeson county Indian serving a 3')-1
year term for second degree murder.
He was convicted in January, 1935.
Turkey And
Iraq Sign Pact
I
London. June 2fi. — (AP)—An
agreement between Turkey and Iraq
for the joint defense of Iraq and
French-mandated Syria in collabora
tion with Great Britain was con
cluded today at Ankara, Exchange j
T< legraph (British news agency) re
ported today in a dispatch from Is
tanbul.
Since France surrendered to the
axis powers, both Iraq, which main
tain close treaty relations with Bri
tain, and Turkey, which had mutual
assistance pacts with France and
Britain. have shown increasing J
anxiety lest Syria become a battle-:
ground.
The Turks have feared that Italy
might attempt to succeed France as
the occupying power in Syria and
make it a base for further expansion
in the Near East.
Hitler Visits Napoleon's
Tomb, Other Paris Points
Berlin, June 26.—(AP)—Adolf
Hitler paid an extended incognito
vi.it to Paris yesterday and visited
the tomb ol Napoieon. a highly re
liable source said today.
Hitler is known to admire the
Fre Vh emperor greatly.
Whiie foreign correspondents who
visited the Hotel dc< Invaiides in
Piu-is last week l'ound Napoleoi ^
tomb .'■till covered with sandbags, all
these had been removed by yester
tey for Hitler's visit, the informant
said.
Apparently moved, H:ilrr sto^d
or a while in the feu* rot-inch
i .vhence one gaze^ down at the tem'o,
then walked to the memorial tablet
on which Napoleon is quoted as fol
lows:
"I desire that my ashes rest at
the banks ol' the Seine among the
French people whom I loved so
dearly."
Both as he arrived and as he left,
German guards standing before the
gates presented arms where French
guards u>od to stand.
The German fuehrer also visited
the Fine! Tower. A smile of satis
faction crept over his face as he saw
the nazi swastika flying there.
Hitler ;iI-o spent con idorable time,
the informant sr.id. in France's hall
v.av truphie*.
New Phase
Of British
ActionBegun
Clashes Herald Far
Flung Guerrilla Cam
paign to Harass Ger
man Coastal Bases and
Obtain Information of
Nazi Actions.
London, June 2P>.— (AP)—British
binding parties actually stabbed into
the continental coastline front behind
which Germany is preparing for the
battle of Britain, it was reported to
day, and the sorties mark "the new
phase of aggressive action."
Casualties were inflicted on Ger
man troops yesterday by naval and
military raiders, it was announced
and some of the German dead fell
into British hands along with "much
useful information."
The clashes between the heavily
Mimed British raiders, supported by
the royal air force, and their nazi
I'oenum appeared to herald a far
flung guerriila campaign to harass
German coastal bases and obtain in
formation on preparations for the
invasion of Britain.
Reuters. British news agency, hint
ed at this in commenting on the stra
tegic position of the Germans in the
iight of the raids—the German bur
den of patrolling and placing of
thousands of men on the European
shores from Norway to the Spanish
coast "to ward off the risk of raids
made possible by dominant British
sea power."
Contributing to Germany's disad
vantage. Reuters said, was the de
pletion of German naval forces in
past engagements with the allies and
the wrecking of defensive works and
harbor establishments by the British
and French before they were yielded
to the nazis.
Neutral military observers express
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Germans Open
Trade War In
South America
Buenos Aires, June 2(5.—(AP)—
Germany has already opened a strong
•'trade offensive" in lower South
America, designed to swing such na
tions as Argentina and Uruguay
away from elose economic and mili
tary cooperation with the United
States, a well informed source said
today.
Agents of the nazi government
have established contact with Ar
gentine officials, bringing full au
thority from the Reich to negotiate
gigantic barter deals it was said.
These agents are reported to be of
fering to purchase millions of pesos
worth of Argentine foods and raw
products, making payments through
such as the electrification of Argen
tine st.ite railways and the construc
tion of various hydro-electric plants
to offset the dwindling supplies of
coal and oil in this country.
British Blow
Up Bridges At
Hongkong
Hongkong, June 2 fi.—(AP)—
Bridges spanning the Shunchun riv
er forming a part of the Chinese
frontier of this British crown colony
were dynamited today by the Brit
ish military in an action descried
as "purely precautionary and de
fensive."
The British measures were taken
shortly afjer the Japanese army in
north China announced that Japa
nese forces had reached Lungchow.
near the French Indo-China border.
At the same time, Chinese re
ports said that between 70 and 80
percent of the Chinese population
had moved out of the French-leased
territory of Kwangchowwan in fear
of a Japanese attempt to seize that
area.
An authorized British statement
declared there was no cause for
alarm and expressed the belief that
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