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Henitersnn Bathj Dispatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA rv-SEVENTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 11, 1940 FIVE CENTS COPY Mavy Expansion Bill Is Passed GOP sFound Dm i vention Commissioner :uiie of New Kt-veals ' Some" Found in Phil - a: ^ays Danger U\,vinnirig. York. ll._(AIM — > ..Mtiui dvnainitc bombs mar the convention :is?: i!c Keouhlicau na , ..nv« ntion iu 1'hiladel .. w.-eks ;ii;o. it w.ix learn ,i : is;»» police authority Police Commissioner • of immhs wort' found % .dentine disclosed u t!ic meet ins;. ciinc did not say how (•omits were found nor ln*\ were iliscovered. but • oin.is s.,id seven or eight .. ited. some in .1 hall fre v used for communist V It. (AIM Police . - .1. V.dentine >;iifl . wire found u the Republican • : w.i- in session m <i : •{ . .iv how many. y ,i' ythmy about 0 were found, but le >>tiieiai said some • ueted in a mwt i mists frequent dt the disclosure in Vet've f<>ree in which ' t• bomb explosion - Fair .fuly 4 which ct ves "is just the bc th<• vi. teran peace of ■.itii emotion as he, ' ietims of the bomb • ti f department was perpetrators of the "have them sen proper punishment— • ct rrom another high :at ;.b 'U* seven bombs :»[ ;! ,rieiphia. .f. : . - Py;;e (head of ■ • v quad) went it- tlif Republi was in session." S e bombs were 1 he opened two of irS SUNK IN ITALIAN HARBOR :iy 11. tAP)—The ad -i -..tiny th;it an Ital • (i "a hulk "t the type depot in" ytore y ti-idav by lit: — id iin ;in Italian A uu- ta. Si' ^ :!'! A1N FACING FOOD SHORTAGE 1 [._(AP>—It. S. ut a-. icultuie. t'»td that Britain was .!■ ■:( . icahly i;>land .-.aid fond r !•(< increased in the liii.n u<> hungry, ided. wmilfl continue .spite of German ;ade. up Losses Kim High it Say British Ship -Now Destroyed • ne in Excess of a in War. :: (A!') Desiruc pping ;it a rate lar ii' avrage josses in-' sti icti'd "sink :i '■ campaign was the German high < . i iiu" July <i. the tons ol ripping" were ■ 1 actio:: alont'. I' '-n in the aver '■u- i"~r monthly bj nua'f: i.v all actior n. i strictcd Work v.i::ch German} i'» i»iuaiy ,.i' |})1T. •" rati* • i[ de.-tiuctior ? . )it-' Mt wai .. .. Pa£e Eight.) Mapping Convention Details C. P. Vhuncphoti L. W. (Chip) Robert, Jr., secretary of the Democratic national commit tee; Postmaster James A. Farley (center), chairman; and ClitF Nunan (right), architect, study seating arrangements for the party's national convention in Chicago. Capitol Believes Roosevelt Will Run Willkic to Invade South In Campaign Colorado Springs, Col., July 11. — (AP)—Wendell L. Willkie said today he wouid make an active campaign for votes in the "solid" Democratic South. Willkie told reporters that while his campaign plans were indefinite he would "undoubtedly make a number of talks in the South during the coming cam paign." nr* INazi lXiotes 1 o Pan-Americas Denounced \V;i hington. July 11.—(AI') Sec retary Hull irl today that it•ported German activity in Latin America in connection with the forthcoming l!av;iii:i conference apparently was a species of intimidation of nations whose sovereignity was entitled to the fullest respect. The conference of American na tions will meet July 2U to consider method, of joint action on western hemisphere defense and economic unity. Hulls cotnmen twas prompted by Questions at his press conference: about dispatches reporting that Ger man diplomats had warned the gov ernments of those countries against any action aimed directly or indirect ly at Germany. There was no theory. Hull said, on which any country could attack such sovereignity or freedom of action. Meanwhile, the United States was j said reliably to be excluding all non American nations from advance dis cussion df information on westerr j hemisphere economic and defense proposals to come before the- Havatu i conference. Twelve Nazi Planes Downed London. July 11.—(AP)—Twelve enemy planes wore shot down ant many more damaged by British wai planes during heavy attack todaj around the coast of England, the ai ministry announced. "Attempts by strong forces o enemy bombers escorted by lighter to attack shipping and other object around our coast met with vigorou resistance." the ministry announced One British fighter plane wa acknowledged to have been lost. "Many" nazi planes were declare) damaged. The German bombers had struck a England from coast to coast and wen declared also to have turned machin guns on civilians. '•A few" deaths were reported b; rha ^ovei naicnt. Question Concerning Washington iNiow Is "How Will He An nounce His Decision?" Variety of Guesses Of • fered on Subject. Washington. July 11.—(AP)—The | big question in Washington today no j longer is "will President Roosevelt I run lor a third teim" but "how will j he announce his decision?" Nearly everyone in the capital take.- ii lor granted that the Presi dent will accept Democratic renomi nation next week. There is a variety, or guesses, however, as to the man-j ner in which he will break the news. Will it be a dramatic statement 1t>! the whole nation or will it be a quiet anti-climax to the third term argu- I merit which has been running for nearly four years? Ii would not surprise some poli ticians ii the President were to fly to Chicago to address the convention delegates in person. lie did that in 1932 immediately alter his first' nomination, but since he became j Chief Executive he has not flown. | A few hold to the theory that lie will say before the convention be-J ' gins that he does not wish renomina-i ti«>n but that he will be "drafted"! and will accede in the long run. In such a case the belief is that he will made a radio speech to the nation explaining that the defense emer gency motivates him to break tradi (Continucd on Page Three) JOINS AXIS. Berlin. July 11.—(AP)— Hun gary. as a friend of both Ger many and Italy, definitely lias joined the eotnmon front against England in southeastern Europe, authorized German sources de clared today, and the three states will resist any atte.Mpt to spread ; the war to the Balkans. No Action On | Teacher Pay Raleigh. July 11. — (AP)—The .State School Cum mis: ion consider ed closing the differential between white and Negro teacher salaries | some today and learned it would have more than $30(1.000 instead of • $250,000 to allocate for additional [ salary costs. The additional money will be made r available by the larger appropriation ■ for next school year and "bv cutting ' corners." I It appeared that a new salary ; .scale for teachers might be adopted ; during the day. giving Negroes , slightly larger increases than are . given white teachers. ; , A recent federal court held there should be no differential in pay of I white and Negro teachers. Governor Hoey said yesterday the differential t should be reduced. The commission withheld action > on a petition by Stantonsburg citi zens to increase the size of their r district so they would have a larger school. British Ships Winners (By T!u* Associated Pros:.) Nov, light "ii the controversial question nl' "battleship \ .. plane" in actual combat was east today with 1 tie disclosure by General Francisco | Pricolo, Italian air chief, that three; hundred Italian plants engaged in the battle ol IJriti li and Italian war; fleets in the Mediterranean. Dispatches from IJome acknow- ! lodged that a large part of the Hal-j ian atrial force returned with dam age and with wounded crew men — ' hit by terrific lire I'rom ships. 'l'hrec Italian pianos wore lost. My contrast, Sir Andorvv Cunning ham, commander-in-chief of the Bri- ; lish Mediterranean fleet, reported that his ships suffered not a single j casualty. The Italian high command, in a !u lated communique. insist' I. Iiow < ver, (hat Italian bnm'>iii>? planes set j fire to the 12,100-ton British battle cruiser I loud, world's hi^.°c--l war-' Hoey Declares Unfortunates Need More Aid Goldsboro, July 11.—(AI'J—Gov ernor Hoey declared today Iliat North Carolina "is riot doing enough" in! ministering tu its unfortunates, as lie j dedicated new building:; and reuova- j lions costing around $1.000,o:>() at the i State Hospital lor Negroes. Hu urged that greatly enlarged i facilities be provided fur mentally! affected children. The governor described the l ire- j proofing of the State hospitals at1 Morganion, Raleigh and Goldsboroj as "the ranking accomplishment" in J the State's $16,0(J(J,000 building pro-! gram. "All the people ol Worth Carolina can sleep more securely at night in the consciousness that the helpless people committed to these various hospitals are occupying fireproof rooms," said the governor, "and have been made secure from the danger of a calamitous fire." Enlargement of the institutions •makes room for nearly 1,000 more inmates, Hoey said. 220 M^TDicTiT Loss of 1 tali Tin Vessel June 28 Home, July 11.— (AP)- Two hun dred twenty Italian and Albanian of ficers and men lost their lives when the Italian motor ship Pagan in i burn-j ed and sank June 2<! oil' Durazzo, j Albania, it was officially announced today. j The ship was enroute from P.ari, Italy, to Durazzo with Oli'J soldiers j and 3" seamen aboard. The cause of the fire was not given. I Canadian j Morale High ! Babson Says Ameri cans With the Jitters Should Visit Neighbor on the North. BY ilOGFR VV. BABSON. Copyright 1910. Publishers Financial Burrau. Sherbrooke, Quebec, July 11.—In view of the pessimism in the United States over the war. I came to i Canada to find out how the Cana dians feel. To my great joy. I find a far belter feeling exists here than in the United States. Hence, my visit to Canada is very encouraging. Cana- i dians absolutely spurn the story that1 the queen of England and her chil dren are now in Canada, or are even I contemplating coming over. They have complete faith in the British' Empire's ability to beat off Hitler, i Any reader who is discouraged about! the war should go tn Canada this summer for a vacation and get a new slant. U. S. vs. Canadian Opinion. The people of the United States are divided into two groups. About 20 per cent really understand the (Continued on Pace Fivei (jJ&aih&A FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Fri day. followed by showers in mountains Friday. ship, scored two bomb hits on the j deck of the 22.000-ton aircraft car- . rier Ark Royal, and two on "another 1 English battleship." The British admiralty issued a for- ! trial denial. Jn the eastern Mediterranean, j where Turkey is mobilizing against ( fears of a Russian coup against the j Daidnelks. official Soviet quarters ! insisted today that Russia has no | intention of making any demands on ! Turkey. Comparative quiet prevailed in western Europe after yesterday's1 great aerial battjc over Britain, i though some German planes attacked ! various areas and the government reported "a few" deaths. Warned that the zero hour for Eng land may be near, British soldiers guarded their bristling coastal ram parts today and lighter planes were) v.'M ined i:p to meet any return at- ; lack. Knox Sworn In As Secretary Of Navy * ! Washington, Jniy 11.— (AIM— | ('eloncl Frank Knox took the oath of office as secretary of the | Navy at the White House today and left immediately for his de partment to take over. His one comment to reporters was that "this is :« working job —not a talking job." At the same time Henry L. Stimson. like Knox a Republican, went to work as secretary of War for the second time in near ly SO years. Stimson took his oath yesterday. Nazi Raids On Britain Are Continued London, July 11.—(AP)—Raiding na/.i warplanes sowed bombs over England again today, scourging towns and countrysides in the mid hinds, the southeast and the south west. The government reported "a lew" deaths. In a southeastern town a German raider killed two persons, but Brit i*h lighter planes chased the plane out to sea and were believed to have brought it down. The British ministry of home se- j curity issued a communique saying:1 "During Hie night bombs were (in pped in a number of scattered j points in the eastern and southern counties and in the miGlvids. No, casualties were reported except a small number in two east coast towns of which a few were fatal. ! "Slight damage of no military im-' porta nee was caused." Three German planes were believ- j rd to have been shot down in south west England. Congressmen Ask Roosevelt To Run I Washington, July 11.—(AP)—j Rrnomination of President Roose- ! wit to a third term was demanded today by G4 members of the House, who signed a statement setting forth thrir position. The statement bore the names of house members from 21 states. Rep resentative Smith, Democrat, Wash ington, said it "expressed their earn est desire that the President accept the nomination to be tendered him at Chicago." The list of names on the statement • "Hurled those of Warren. Coolcy and Weaver, all of North Carolina. I i No Probe Of Willkie Drive Will Be Made Washington. July 11—CAP)—The Senate campaign expenditures com-, mittee decided today there was in sufficient evidence to justify an in vestigation of reports that a "high pressure" telegram drive was em oloved in the successful campaign of Wendell L. Willkie for the Republi can nomination. Chairman Gillette. Democrat. Iowa, announced thai the committer mnm her« hari afreeH nn"nirn"<lv Hv;1 information laid before it in several "cupeestione" f°r ?'i !"f!iry jnt* t'-p Willkie pi-o.p.<-.,-v.initjon campaign lacked sufficient facts. Envoy From Arctic Eske Brun Danish governor of North Green land, Eske Brun, is shown as he arrived in Boston aboard the heav ily armored coast guard cutter Campbell. Denying he had come to discuss transfer of the Arctic coun try to the United States as a pro tectorate, Brun said his mission was to build up trade. Rumania-Nazi TaikOnBaikan Policy Hinted Bucharest. July 11.- fAI')— For eign Minister Manioliscu was report od in diplomatic quarters today to have received ;m invitation to fly to Berlin to discuss Rumania's for cign policy—particularly in the light of Hungarian demands for the Ru manian province of Transylvania. It was also reported the foreign minister would ask German consid eration for a plan whereby Russia would be asked to return the newly ceded Northern Bucovina, to be set aside as a senii-autominous Ruman ian state for 100.001) Germans now living in Bessarabia. Bessarabia was also ceded to Rus sia following an ultimatum to King Carol II's Balkan kingdom. The foreign minister, government quarters said, would argue that Rus sia had no just claim on Bucovina and that ihe entire German minority problem in this section of Kurope could be solved by its return. General . atisfaction prevailed over the outcome of ike Munich talks a far as revision of the Balkans was concerned. Newspaper headline; fol lowed the general theme of continued "peace for southeastern Kurope." At the same 1iii!'\ the government took a firmer stand toward further territorial eonces. ions to her neigh bor:; following the German-Italian llungai'ian policy at Munich. Bomb Intended For James Ifarrisburg. Ji'ly II-—(AP)— Am attache of (lovernoi Arthur II. James' office iri today lie had been , informed that ;i bomb pbmt'd near ' the* .scene of I he Republican national convention had been intended "for the governor." "One of the men wrested ;it the time this was discovered aid that nne was addressed t«» the vvernor." the associate of the Pennsylvania chief executive said. Demos Debate Alabama Plan Chicago. July 11.—-fAP)—A Demo cratic national committee sub-coin niittee loday debated with a witness whether to grant increased delegate representation in future national conventions to the heavily Demo cratic southern states or to states re garded as '"doubtful'' in elections. The committee heard only one witness who appeared in behalf of a delegate "bonus" for the South. P. will report to the whole national committee tomorrow, hut there were indications that the whole question might go over to the 1944 convention to await the result of the current population census. Mrs. Roland B. Howell, national committeewoman for Louisiana, ap peared to advocate the "Alabama" rbm which would pive ?h" Sonti1 «*renVr "nico in ch'-o^inf nrecjd^ntial :„r,. . hv cn*v>n*n Pt ipr it •" *' r* I* -]v hrjrl ^' i vbi**!? v . - f Sv abolition ^ **"o ^hi d n i nating rule in 1936. Doubling Of Navy's Size Is Provided Completion of Expan sion Program Would Give Two-Ocean Navy of 618 Ships; Big Warpiane Contracts Let Recently. Washington. July 11.—(AP)— A $4,000,000,000 Navy expansion bill was sent to ttie White House for President Roosevelt's signature today. It was a major portion of the de fense- campaign and legislators on Capitol Hill were inanifasting a de sire to approve President Roosevelt's request for $4,848,171,951 in cash and contract authorization to start this expansion and to increase greatly the Army's land and air forces. The delense commission announc ed meanwhile that it had let $100, 000,000 in contracts in recent days for tiew warplanes for the Army and Navy. Other contracts are being negotiated, it was said, with a view to adding 25.ooo planes by July. 1042. The Navy expansion bill, sent to the White House for President Roose velt's signature by unanimous House agreement to minor Senate changes, would virtually double the size of the present Navy. There have been unofficial esti mates that completion of the $4,000, 000,000 program together with other naval construction already authoriz ed would give the United States a fleet ol 018 warships capable of meeting simultaneous threats in the Atlantic and Pacific. To help speed production of de fense materials, particularly alumi num for airplanes, the House ap propriations committee proposed an immediate $25,000,000 appropriation for new power development in the Tennessee Valley Authority. The money would launch a 5, 800..000 three-year program designed to produce an additional 298,000 kilo watts of power. FRENCH GOVERNMENT TO PALACE OF KINGS I'ery. Switzerland, July II.—(AP) —.Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, premier of K ranee. in a broadcast heard here tonight announced plans to transfer Ill's French government to the famous Palace ol Kings in Ver sailles, in German-occupied terri tory. Damages Awarded Bridge Builders Kaleigh, fiilv II.—(AIM—.Judg ments wore filed in U. S. district fiiiil today awarding large sums to flu* Tidewater Con truclion Company or Norfolk. Va., iind T. A. Loving and Company of rjold:-boro. builders nl the Sl.5(i(i.0(i(i bridge over Albe marle Sound. Judge I. M. Meek ins ordered the Cull State; Creo: oting Company of llattie burg. Mi. . U, pav $40.870 63 to the Norfolk firm and $18,186 78 to the Gold born contractor for fail ure to deliver creosote pilings on time. Peace Plank Is Expected Democratic Platform Expected to Take Stand Following Pres *ec:t's Declaration. Chicago. Jts'y 11.—(AP)—iXrno (■)■: 1 ■ turned toward their conven tion city today, talking about a third term for President Roosevelt and a platform declaration against send ing Americans to light in European Wfi l>. The platform maneuvers will start Friday, with Senator Wagner of New York arriving today with a pre liminary draft. But coincidental with President Roosevelt's declaration of yesterday that America would not use it.-; men "to take part in Euro pean wais." the early arriving party officials began to speak of a plat lorn which would nail that idea in to the platform Much still neded to be done to set ih'* **£•'• f<>r the big nominating drrmvi. So far. headquarters ha. e ' < ■:i <• :jp for .,nly Vice Preside?.l (ConUnueo on Tr.reej
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