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Heniterann i & U%Ui. 7t.' * ,=,. i-Oi ^ , ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF Nuiu tl CAROLINA AND VlRGirwA. Y-SEYENTH YEAR "^SJSSLSS^S HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 3, 1940 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY Five Billion Dollar Additional Defense rogram Is Proposed digress io ear Plans .ext Week ,-i;ram Designed to .ke Long Strides To ad Building up the uion's Air Forces 1 oward 50,000-Plane Goal. •n juty \ ;\ri — .v : " .1 y defense program c * upward of five bil •: i lit.- imied to take iv building up the • toward a 50.000 «.• submitted to Con • week. d:scussed today at • intended ti> start a 'i planes, tanks and t • worked out in a con -• • i'1."-ident Roosevelt : the detense pro :'eees.»"tv oi coniplet : the Navy prob i tvri'.it in holding up its, ti> Congress i>ntil next •:ed individual said ;■ ■!y would be sub • * ?.i- uday. in dollar program ■ equally between' tions and authori ; :n • >:>i ations to be made ntly. expected to be given : 11 ion dollar* in appro- j authorizations and the; ter one billion dollars. j e-t -wished authoritatively supplementary defense ! ever al! the things the' y intention of seeking nt t::- e. More than five • idv has been ap i a* this session of Con it" :'f nse. ■ du !. who keep: closely • the deten-e picture, gravi was j p. tender' • i •-.oan.-ii'M "undtr fill' the summer or fall of, the United Stales will • • v;iy 'u an air fight— :• " .!•!<! si-nass any-, •• >. t;«»n pi" in the - approve tliu meas I fwo Gunmen I iot To Death . T, . July 3. (AP) ni gunmen who ear : >n iI t«!.!»« Wl':'«' v .. . : e >ncl battle * s \i: . [). Davis. of i:>.r a- he fieri •; with her husband i anion ;.t tin* outset " i The gunmen had ■red the Davis ear. e i *a pec I after an ex i at a roar I barricade down and killed in a Ickes Attacks le publican i icket ' • I iy —(AP) —Sec •: hi press conference «.rl«•!I Willkic and his bee'!!)(■ a "holding ■ • Republican pa/ty. !ei:e said. "was lic|ui I 'ttiladelph a conven !'ii whatever may will a.>et> and , i unit hi :i political . that the presence of \ ; o! Oregon "on the ll' piihllean ticket" '■ i fact 'h:>t old line -i been done in the • • McX.i'-v and di 'i e< what von get," •' il. ' <•!:<•( .">ii percent for • t<» the allies and for : ' Willkie's side ol '• "ii YlrXary's you '<•! ft 50 percent for ' abroad and foi' ct'.c thai m November." To Join R. A. F. George H. Earle, 4th George H. Earle. 4th, 23, son of the United States Minister to Bulgaria, has resigned his position as secre tary to his father, at Sofia, to join the British Royal Air Force in Egypt. Mrs. Earle, in Haverford, Pa., saiil she "might take steps to prevent" her boy joining in the fighting. Jap Demand Is Refused Great Britain Refuses to Ciose Arms Route Through Burma To Chinese Army. Tokyo. July 3.—(AP)—Great Bri tain has refused the Japanese de mand that the arms route through British Burma to the Chinese forces oi' Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek be closed. it was reliably reported to night. (Britain is considering "questions that would arise with the United States" it she acceded "in any way" to the Japanese demand. R. A. But ler. undersecretary for foreign af fairs. announced in the house of commons.) This British-Japanese dispute is a factor in the tense Japanese poli tical situation already marked by strony representations of army lead ers to the cabinet over policy to be followed in the Far East in the light of allied defeats in Europe. The military leaders are said to have expressed dissatisfaction with lite stand taken by Foreign Minister Arita. apparently holding that his plan lor an "Asiatic sphere" dominat ed by Japan is not strong enough. Pioneer Mill Man Is Dead Charlotte, July 3.—(AP)—Stuart Warren Cramer, 72. pioneer textile manufacturer, died last night at his home here after an extended illness. Cramer, a native of Thomasville, began his brilliant career in the tex tile field about 1890. Camerton. model mill village near here, stands as a 'monument to his eforts. lie is sur vived by his widow, two sons and a daughter. Six Youths Die In Accident Chicago, July 3.— (AP) —Thre< girls and their three boy companions all teen ;ige, were killed instantly bj a train at a grade crossing near sur burban May.vood last night as the.' sped to a hospital for medical as sistance. The six young victims were at tending a roadhouse party when oik of the girls complained of an attacl of appendicitis. Her companions de eided to take her to a hospital in th< automobile. Witnesses said the driver ignore* . signal lights and bells and swervei : around a line of cars stopped for th< oncoming Shore Line passenger trair The body of one boy was throw] clear but the other victims wer crushed in the wreckage as the loco <.„u.iicu ihe car l,o00 feet. Pershing For Military 1 raining World War Leader Says Compulsory Mili tary Training Program Likely to "Keep This Country Out of War". Washington, July 3.—(AP)—Gen eral John J. Pershing today urged immediate enactment by Congress of a brond sv<tem of compulsory mili tary training. He described such ac- . to "keep this country i out of war." A ii-tter irom the World war lead er and general of the Armies was | read to the Senate military committee I by Chairman Shcppard, Democrat, Texas, when the committee began i public hearings on a training bill sponsored by Senator Burke, Demo crat. Nebraska. General Pershing said compulsory . training could have saved thousands j of lives and millions of dollars for i the United States during the last i World war. ! At present, he said, "such a meas ; ure in my opinion would promote l democracy by bringing into intimate | contact and on an equal plane young I men in all walks of life." • Moreover, he added, it might well I be the determining factor in keeping I out of war. The general also cautioned that in "modern war the advantage is de j cidedly on the side that is ready." i The Burke bill provides for regis tration of all male citizens and resi dent aliens between 18 and 65. Men between 21 and 45 would be trained for the armed services under a selec tive system. Older and younger men, would be liable for training in home j defense units. Willkie Says Mean Little 1 ! New York, July 3.—(AP)—Wen ; dell L. Willkie said today he thought party lines would play little part in ,the coming presidential campaign and that the issue was between those who believed in the New Deal's phil osophy and .those who opposed it. Asked to comment on a state ment by John L. Lewis, CIO chief tain, that Senator Wheeler of Mon i tana was the only candidate the j ! Democrats could nominate who could defeat him, Willkie said: "It doesn't matter who the Demo- j crats nominate. We are going to I win." Willkie added that he agreed with Lewis that President Roosevelt, J i.hould he run for a third term, could , not defeat him. j Willkie said it appeared "more I and more certain" that he would set up a three-man control system for j his campaign, about which he had ! been conferring with party leaders. J. Q. Gilkey Dies At Marion i — - I Marion. July 3.—(AP)— J. Q. Gilkey, 64. vice chairman of the St;ile Board of Conservation and De velopment and long prominent in McDowell county p.iblic lil'e. died I today at the Marion hospital after an illness of one week. He was stricken last week while attending a meeting in New York of j the World Fair North Carolina com i mittee. The funeral will be held here at I 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. He was a veteran member of the Conservation board, having served on it and possibly on its predecessor since 1925. : BREWERS REQUEST ■ \ REVOCATIONS OF :| DEALERS LICENSES II II Raleigh. July 3.— (AP) —The ; | Brewers and North Carolina Beer . i Distributors Committee said today i jt had requested revocation of li ; ccnses of seven retail beer dealers . WU>on ro'mtv. three of them in i the city of Wilson. Packard May Make Plane Engines Knudsen Announces Tentative Agreement) for Making 3,000 En gines for U. S, and 6,-1 000 for Britain; Other Defense Contracts. Washington, July 3.—(AP)—The national defense commission an nounced today that the Packard Motor Co. had agreed tentatively to undertake a contract for ?),fi(i!) air-1 craft engines—3,000 for 4'-r> United ; States and 6.000 for Great Britain, j William S. Kniid en. in charge of defense production, sail Ihe contract was subject to approval of the Pack- | arc! directors. Henry Ford refused the order, saying h<> v-.uld work only for the United States. Meanwhile, a supnlenr otery pro pram which may run into additional billions of dollars was 1 ilk°d over at a con Terence between '"resident Roosevelt and key men of the de fense program. White House officials v.we nn*'ble' to suggest what amount 1 It> tvq- \ gram might reach or in what man ner or when it would be submitted to Congress. The Navy, meanwhile, awarded contract* for construction of three aircraft carriers and two cruisers costing SI60.530.000 to the Newport . News. Va.. Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. The aircraft carriers ere to cost $4.3.662.000 each, and the cruisers i $19,272,500 each. They are the la=t of the 02 war- ! ships for which Confire:s thus far I has provided funds. In the last three week* work has I been ordered started on two battle- J ships, four aircraft carriers. 15 cruis-1 ers, 38 destroyers. 28 submarines and five auxiliary vessels. Altogether 499.435 tons were in volved. costing $1,140,000,000. Even before today's contracts, a | recapitulation showed the Army ;md Navy have put their pens to more j than $1,000,000.00(1 worth of defense contracts during th' last month. I New French Constitution Under Petain London. July 3.—(AP)—A dis patch by Havas, French news agcncy, from Vichy, Franco, said today that the French government would c.ill a national assembly to give France a new constitution "under the high au thority of Marsha! Petain." (Dispatches from Geneva said the new French constitution of the Pe tain government is designed to wipe out "parasites, favoritism and pluto cracy which have done so much evil to the country." (In a dispatch from Why. Fr:mce. the newspaper of Grenoble. France, indicated that the new crnviituiiMii would be authoritarian although "within the framework of the repub lican constitution." Italians Lose Many Planes Cairo, July 3.—(AP) -The British air force shut down fid Italian planes i in the Near East in June, and prob iib 1 y 25 others, an authoritative Bri tish source declared today . British losses were not disclosed but were said tu be "exceedingly small." Fliers from the south arc attack ing Ethiopian bases lYfiucntly, caus- i ing "considerable damage," this | source said. Scores of garoline and | boiii'b dumps have been l'ircd. Drive Against Iraq Expected Istanbul. July 3.—(AP)—Well in- j formed Turkish quarters asserted to day they expected a German-in spired drive against the oil rich state of Iraq, which has been virtually a British protectorate. These quarters regard spread of j the European war to the Near and Middle East as imminent. tOoaih&h FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, scattered show ers and thunderstorms tonight and Thursday. Nazis Attack Britain From Sky, Sea While Balkan T ension Eases Squeeze Play in the Balkans Map above shows how Rumania is hemmed in on three sides by enemies who hope to carve her up. Hungary is reported poised to invade Tran sylvania, while Bulgaria is expected to follow with a grab for Dobruja. The Soviets, meanwhile, are battling in Bessarabia and are reported to have sent warships to Rumanian Black Sea ports. (Central Pres$i Senate Committee Approves Knox, 9-5 Person 10 \ ote Second l ime On Iloxboro. July 3.—(AP)—The I Person county board of elections j 01 tiered today that an election he held August 21 on the question of ; opening trimly liquor stores. Person county rejected liquor >("-es at an election June 29, 1937. Last Saturday Johnston county V'»me the first in the state which had voted in liquor stores to turn around and vote them out. and i'crson will he the first county | which voted dry once, then or- | flercd another vote. Rumania Mourns Loss Squares of Black Cloth on Rumanian Flag Show Nation's Grief I Over Losses. Bucharest, July 3.— (AP) —Ru nvmia. torn by strife within and ter ritorial demands from without held mourning ceremonies today to mark the end of a five-day period in which she lost one-sixth ol' her total area and one-fifth of her population. Refugees from areas ceded under. ultimatum to Soviet Russia parti cipated in the ceremonies. While Rumanians wept over the loss of Bessarabia and northern Bu covina. anti-Jewish demonstrations spread throughout the shaken Balkan kingdom and King Carol II met with his ministers to devise means of sav ing his country from further loss ol territory and prestige. The country showed its grief with squares of black cloth thrown over the yellow portion of its red, yellow and blue flags. TORNADO WRECKS TEXAS SECTION Taylor. Tex.. July 3.—(AP) — . Tornadie winds wreokod t^re? jtfhnnlhAiisr-s. srnres of buildings and laid waste rrops in fits cpclion Inst night. No loss of life was reported. Liquor Nominations of Knox and Stimson Expected To Go Before Senate Early Next Week; Knox Denies "Inter ventionist" Stand. Washington, July 3.—(AP)—The Senate naval affairs committee ap proved. 'J tu 5. today the nomination of Colonel Frank Knox. Chicago He publican. t>> be secretary of the Navy. This action cleared the way for senate consideration, probably early next week of the Knox appointment and the nomination of Henry L. Stimson. aiso a Republican, to be secretary of war. The naval committee vote came after Knox had been questioned at length about and had denied spe cifically a report that he favored sending United States soldiers to .fight in Europe. St i in von "s nomina tion was approved yesterday by the Senate military committee. Knox also testified today that de spite President Roosevelt's selection of two Republicans for the key de fense positions in his cabinet "you haven't got a coalition government."' There has been no official party ac tion necessary for a "coalition," lie said. Chairman Walsh, Democrat, Mass-j chusetts. speaking formally as com mittee chairman, said in a statement that Knox "possesses the driving' force and general knowledge of exist ing conditions to contribute much to! the speeding up of our naval building! program." Walsh made public a statement saying the group would have opposed Knox's nomination if it had been found he was an "interventionist." But after questioning Knox yester day and today. Walsh said: "The committee is of the opinion that though Colonel Knox has ex pressed extreme views in favor of aid to the allies, he has also declared emphatically his opposition to en tering the European war." Italians Repel British Attack Rome. July 3.—(AP)—'The Ital ian garrison at Metemme, Ethiopia, was reported today by the high com mand to have repelled a violent at tack by a large force of British troop? who were sa'd to have left 50 dead Italian losses were described as light. Metemme is located n^ar the bordei oi Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Sky Raiders BombBritain In Daylight DNB, German Official News Agency, Pub lishes Alleged Allied Plans to Drag Most of Europe Into The Con flict. (By The Associated Press) German U-boats and bombing planes attacked Britain with new fury today, while the official na/.i news agency. DNB. published alleged allied ' win the war" plans for drag ging mo t of Europe into the conflict. DNB asserted documents en nt tired in France disclosed an allied pro gram for entangling Rumania, Tur key, Greece. Yugoslavia and Scan dinavia to gain widespread new bat llefronts against (Germany. The German high command said Gentian nl; ne< ataeked a convoy off the EnulMi channel const and sank 18.1)0(1 tons of British shipping. Ger man submarines, the high command reported, sank another 39.000 tons. German skv raiders, displaying new boldness in a daylight sortie in stead of th'iir usual night time at tacks. bombed the south coast of England alter an earlier assault that killed Iwelve and wounded 123. One na/i plane machine gunned soldiers near a beach in southern England. British fighters shot down a nazi bomber off Iho east coast. An official air ministry communi que issued shortly after noon said anti-aircraft guns still were in ac tion. With apparent easing of the Balk an crisis, permitting Hitler to divert attention from southeast Eurone. Britons wondered if the intensified nazi air raids signalled the opening • i! the long-awaited battle for Bri tain. Things were far from epiiet, how ev"' in southeast Eurone Bloody anti-Semitic riots spread through Rumania and King Carol IIV hostile neighbor. Hungary, was mobilizing its arntv to the greatest peace time Irength. Carol himself was reported on the verge of abdicating several days ago after harn cri'ieisni over his sur r< nder of I i--»bi:« and north Bu eov'lia 1o 'Mi ia. He vas said to have h"en di■ : nailed by hi- cabinet. Hungarian army reinforcements •dreamed towai-d the border with Rumania. !>iit ti'in nnia lvi ed hone:; "or peace •>•> Carol's bid for protec tion by the avi powers and on the li"ngtli of his own hastily massed armies. Nazis Raid All Britain Bombers in All-Day Attacks Kill Two Per sons and Injure 22, British Declare. London. July —fAf'j—German bombers in nIl-clny attacks today over iiic whole length 01 England killed two per on: and injured 22. The raiders dropped homos on the southeast const, in the northeast of England, in Scotland and on the eastern EnglMi shore. Three German bombers were shot down, one o! them in a fierce fight off the southeast coast. Today's: casualties brought to 15 dear J and approximately 144 wound ed the t' ta! for the last 24 hours. Xew stabs at the German Ruhr, Westphalia. Belgium anfl Denmark were n. -de meantime by the royal air force. German r: id'-r- were continuous ly in the air ovei Kngland today, both morning and afternoon. A baby and a grandmother were reported killfd by a bomb which de molished a hou-e. Sever; ! work' "n were injured by three bomb.- which dropped in north eastern England. Tonight the ;i,'r • inilry disclosed that coa f-i1 cor: ;>nd pi' nes of the :ny; l air ; rce v.'f :ch raided German in Iiill n.'J la-: nirht were it Hud on-Lockheed bomb f'• • of th'-'V: -hot down by
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