Hfctttoraon Hath} SKspatrlj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA i ll YEAR L¥;i^Assy"iA™.I™fss°1'' HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, JULY 20, 1940 ,'clu-ls'Snii™|ii:xhATE'',io,'x FIVE CENTS COPY i lulls Off to Havana Nazis Attack By Radio DIES COMMITTEE TOLD COMMUNISTS COULD DEMORALIZE NEW YORK Hitting the Bottle S ic t'^rdell Hull and Mr?. Hull are bid goodbye by Dr. . l-'ras;a (right), Cuban ambassador to the U. S., as they ..ion :<->r Havana to attend the Pan-American Conference. vrence Looks To Secretary Hull States Secre te! . or Stats Expected to ri .ve Formula for Emphatic Action Against "Fifth Col u»nnist$. j J' — f .\Pl —The COM- ' . : :i republics. call '» . alter '•.f Low Countries ! ..ihemisphere cle- ! y. !•" ked to United ' Su:U' Ccrdell Hull v torn ula t >r empha-' _ nst "tilth column" j i \pressed a hope that' '!. arriving on the • '•:!» morning for to-I _ session. a No would r to the problem of untina into line with! ■'.< republics. Argentina1 (-\ | >r essed unwilling ."»• in any plan which ' •:«••• ti ifio relations' •avian countries. • fti.il was bringing ::<»:t! Washington nii'i the National v :!i<. t confirma • -ecret ny of state 'ie • ?;:i: !• »n reach d morning. M •: : la i ni- at for' ' • C"11; •;; ii-'-t he eame of Tehrc. ee vol Spanish-At net ican •» ii St- :» were '■'< < of other o- reaching ■:y greater extent •i the cli loca ; o i>> ft and of ■ i tilings worth •' the 21 Amc i i a common r- :eci on Page Two) Political 'lies Bill h comes Law J iily 2U.— (AP>—I ha.» tgned ley- j ; to many thous- | • ! yovernmulit resti ictiotw; on i ■ u deial workers /.c ot campaign .. h:ch will at feci •>i« working on any part by ■ :i effective at • liv the act would ■ • their positions • -'lit of an election (•art in political ilit'l ulsi) Ik; pl'o r-iii« other cm ' ;i! j; irpi».«<•<. . contributions {•rtrral office would in any calendar ! ! committee " n ; > ,-pend or re ••Od.ODO in any ifi . »-..*» national • d rvpiTKlitures ex •w». v rii •«- the Demo cmi 'ittre reported ■c than o").000.000. would . i! . tui imdor eer ' holdins; of •ani 'morison Casualties of Air Raids on England Announced Today I.ondon. July 20—(AP)—The ministry of homo security an nounced today that "for the month beginning June 18. when large scale bombing raids on the Unit ed Kingdom began, a total of Uoi> civilians have been killed and 47(i seriously injured in air raids." "The largest number killed in ais*> locality on any occasion was 3'J". the brief communique con cluded. FDR Sips Navy Bill Measure is Designed to Give United States Invincible "Two Ocean Fleet". Washington. July 20.—(AP)— Proid'-nt Roosevelt has signed into I:.v.- bill authorizing a S4.fi10.000,000 < xpansion of the Navy, designed to give the United States a "two ocean iii-et" capable of meeting any pos >ible hostile combination. The White Mouse announced the signing today. The Chief Kxecutive already has a^ked Congress to provide $83,000, 000 to start work on the new pro gram which, when completed in 1946 or 1!>47. would give the nation a to t 11 of 701 fighting craft built around the world's most powerful single ag gregation of capital ships—35 dread naughts. In addition to about 200 new sur face ships and submarines to cost St.oio.onn.ono with the additional fa cilities they will require, the new i:iw : othnrized the navy to acquire lor SOOO.1)00.000 a total of 15.000 air planes. 50 percent more than the previously authorized maximum. If the President deems them necessary even more may be ordered. Maps and Photostats ot Essential industries and Utilities Obtained Through WPA Writ ers Project, Investi gators Say. Beaumont, Tex., July 2U.—(AP)— The Dies un-American activities committee was tolrl today that the communist party has obtained in formation through which it could de moralize within a lew hours the city of New York. Maps mid photostats of every in dustry cssenuai to communication, transportation and life itself in the nation's industrial capital have been obtained by the communists through a writers WPA project, committee sources said it learned. Two investigators, George Hurley and Steve Birmingham, brought the evidence before the committee. Material purported to show that the communists have ali vital infor mation pertaining to the water sup ply. electricity. :ubways, food and milk centers, railroads, gas supplies, and bridges. Representative Martin Dies, chair-j man, said he would go to New Yorkj to hold a hearing. New York, July 2o.—(AP)—Lieu- I tenant-Colonel Li. B. Somervell, New | York WPA administrator, said today I that reports the communist party had! obtained vital information regarding! the city's communication, transporta- j tion and utilities systems through the WPA writers project was "highly! sensational, exaggerated and pre mature." "No one need be alarmed," Colonel Somervell said. Resignation Of Wallace Predicted Washington, July 20.—(AP)—Sen-, a tor George, Democrat, Georgia, pre dicted today that Secretary Wallace would resign soon as secretary of agriculture to wage an active cam-j paign. The Georgia senator said his in-1 formation was "unofficial but re liable." At the same time a Republican I member of the House, who declined; to be quoted by name, said there un doubtedly would be a Republican de- I m y.d for Wallace's resignation, ii it were not forthcoming, because of the millions of dollars he is authorized to distribute in farm benefits. Senator George said that Wallace undoubtedly will be expected to car ry on a very vigorous speaking cam- j paign. President Roosevelt has an nounced that he would stay near Washington and indicated that he would make few campaign speeches, j There was some speculation that Representative Mur\ in Jones, Dem ocrat. Texas, chairman of the House agriculture committee, might be ap pointed to succeed Wallace, but friends of the Texan questioned this, j They pointed out that Jones had re-| ceived a lifetime appointment to a; federal judgeship in the United States! i district court of appeals. Italy Declares British Invasion To Start Soon Romp. July 20.—(AP)—Italy today acknowledged loss of the cruiser Bartolomeo Collc(»ni, but claimed the sinking of a British warship in a three-hour naval battle in the mid dle of the Mediterranean yesterday. At the .same time she declared that Germany's attack on Britian was "only a question of days." This word came from the au thoritative fascist weekly Relazioni Internazionali, which described nazi air raids against England as merely a preliminary to a great naval opera tion. l,A certain time is necessary for extending military operations over English territory." the weekly said. '"The English may be more clever on defense than on attack x x x but this ic a war of constant offensives in which the initiative always is Ger many's privilege." The weekly said reconstruction of I Europe would be begun by Adolt j Hitler and Premier Mussolini only j after "absolute and complete victory." ! The Balkan countries, particulary Yugoslavia, were warned that they would have to realize that there is a new European order in which the 'Rome-Berlin axis is not to tolerate outmoded mentalitites and Ideas. The Italian high command de clared that two Italian cruisers had inflicted serious damage on British warships in naval battles yesterday near the Greek island of Crete. Sink in? of the Bartolomeo Colleoni was ad m'tted. The Italian* reported one British worship was sunk in flames by bombs from an Italian plane. ! Tobacco Growers Voting Today On Control Program (By The Associated Press.) Cigarette tobacco growers took time out today from t>>ejr la«k of preparing a multi-million dol lar crop to vote on production limitations designed by the gov ernment to bolster sagging in come. I Some 250.000 farmers, tenants and <■ bare-croppers w"c expected to indicate their preference on three bright leaf tobacco phns presented through the Agricul tural Adjustment Administration referendum. The first, urged by farm offi cials throughout the six-state belt as the best influence on depressed markets, would establish acreage Quotas for 1941, 1942 and 1943. The second plan would extend the control another year. Third choice would be to discard quotas altogether. First, referendum returns came from Camden county, N. where all three eligible voters ca ion of Congress. "I pity anybody who proposes to adjourn with the present temper of the country" said Senator Vanden berg, Republican of Michigan. From the Democratic ranks, Sena tor George. Democrat, Georgia, pre dicted that the pending "excess pro fits" tax proposal, compulsory mili tary training and an assortment of defense measures would keep legis lative machinery busy for jnany weeks. With both major political conven tions out of the way, Congress will reassemble Monday. House members centered atten tion on new tjix levies aimed at any heavy profits created by the multi billion dollar preparedness programs and intended to supplement the S1 , 000,000 national defense tax measure recently rushed through Congress. Lumbermen Now Want Regulation Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 20.—Slate wage-hour legislation along lines similar to the Federal laws is getting support from an unexpected quarter as the result of the current checkup on North Car- I olina's lumber industry by combin ed State-Federal inspectors. Heretofore the lumber interests have been among the most uncom promising and unyielding foes of any wage-hour legislation of any! (Continued on page two) UJsucrth&A FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Sunday, except scattered show ers in mountains Sunday. WFATIII R FOR I IIi; WEEK. Frequent tliundersiiowers be ginning in middle, and generally fair near end of week; normal temperatures. I Attired for sultry weather, little Brenda Talbot, of New York, laughs at the heat and humidity as she cools off with large draughts of cold milk. (Central Press) Short Crime W ave Ended Escaped iowa Con victs Captured After Dramatic Chase In Three States. St. Joseph. Mo., July 20.—(AP)— Two bursts of gunfire in the Sunday school room of a church, and a baffl ing dead end street brought about the recapture of two escaped convicts who had robbed a bank, then kidnap ped motorists, stolen cars and fought pistol battles in panic-stricken flight. Lowell Haenze, 27. of Sleepy Eye. Minn., slumped to the floor of the church at Marysville. Kans., yester day with bullet wounds in his leg-* after he was beaten to the draw by Leo Schramm, assistant city marshal of the northeast Kansas town. The other convict. Ivan Sullivan. 29, was so confused today at Atchi son. Kan., by a dead end street that he jumped from his stolen automo bile as a pursuing officer fired at him. made his slow way across the Missouri river into Missouri, where (Continued on Pace Two) Jim Reed To Back Willkie Washington, July 20. — (AP) — | James A. Reed, former Democratic| senator from Missouri, offered today to cooperate wiOi Senator Burke. Democrat, Nebraska, in organizing Democrats opposed to a third term i for President Roosevelt. Burke, who announced he would bolt the Democratic party and sup port Wendell L. Willkie. the Iti-pub 1 icfn nominee, received a telegram from the Missouri Democratic lead er. suggesting a conference in Chi cago next Thursday, July 25. of Jcf-| fersonian Democrats. Office assistants to Senator Burke | said lie had not answered the tele-, gram. Bullitt Reveals Narrow Escape In Paris Bombing New York, July 20.—(AP)—Wil liam Bullitt, United States ambassa dor to Franco, disclosed on his re turn from Europe aboard the Dixie Clipper today that his escape from death or inj*;-y by a nazi air bomb in Paris was much narrower than at first reported. Censored dispatches described the bomb that dropped within ten feet of Bullitt as a "dud". Today the am bassador revealed the projectile was a time bomb which exploded an hour later demolishing the room. "We were having lunch at the French air ministry office when we heard the air raid signal. The first bomb landed in a vacant field 1OD "ards in front of us. The second '■tfinh demolished n rmall bnildin? ?loser to us—a French hospital— killing ck'!* men fr1"! in.i 'ri'i"; eight other-). Then they started r hopping ail around us. x x x "We concluded it was time to go! to the basement and it was about Hint time that a bomb came through the roof of our building and lodged in the ceiling without exploding. It was a time bomb and it went off an hour later, blowing the room to1 pieces." He said he had returned to con- ! ter with President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull after having been, out of effective contact with Wash ington for more than live weeks. He indicated that he expected to return to France. Bullitt praised highly French Mar shal Petain for having done despite his advanced age "everything pos sible" to restore order in such dis f;eld~ of communication. P'illitt'- fellow pas-angers ;ncluv -rl fc.rrrr Frrnre's 7ita of Au^trh "nd her daughter, 'he nre'i Elizabeth, who fc:>d to l«»avr their Belgian exile because of the war. Propaganda fi 1 buns lurned On England German Bombers Blast Length of Bri tain in Pointed Empha sis; Official Britain Scorns Answer to Hit ler's Address. (By The Associated Press.) Germany turned radio propaganda guns (in the British public today, warning ol' the death and destruc tion it may lace if it persists in re fusing to take Adolf Hitler's "final" road to peace. German bombers blasted the length of Britain m pointed emphasis to the peace oiler. The nazi objective seemed to be if) sow distrust ol their leadership in British minds. An English transla tion of Hitler's speech yesterday was broadcast again and again to Eng land. Elsewhere, the impression grew that Hitler's lung thieatened attack in force against the United Kingdom had come closer. Informed sources in Berlin agreed the first reception in Britain of Hit ler's appeal to reason" was discourag ing. "rowdy," and "rude," but said this was the "plutocratic clique" speaking. German expectations turn ed instead upon the British "man in the street." Roaring across the coast in the early morning, the na/.i planes j swarmed over England throughout the day in one of the worst raids of the war. The day-l<>ng attacks were capped i in mid-afternoon with a lightning raid on ships anchored in a southern | English harbor. Seventeen planes let go their bomb cargoes, but apparent ly no ships were hit. Anti-aircrall guns and fighting planes kepi busy fighting off the at tackers and broke Lip this foray. One German plane was believed shot down in the channel and observers said two others might have been down by anti-aircraft fire. The German high command re ported new operations against Bri tain in a report that nazi bombers had bias! r! harbors, anti-aircraft de fences. sunk a 5,((00-ton merchant ship, damaged three other vessels and a destroyer. In these forays only thr<^o German planes were lost, the communique said, against 27 British planes shot down. The British claimed 10 nazi planes have been jj«»wncd in the past 24 hours. Officii!I Britain scornfully main tained silence on the nazi fuehrer's "last appeal to reason"' — meaning peace on his own terms—but there were intimations that Prime Minis ter Churchill—who already has de clared "we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parleys"— might deliver Britain's answer in the house of commons on Tuesday. In Berlin, informed German sour ces said any British hint of interest in Hitler's offer would hold off for the lime being the long threatened mass attack on England. Eleven Deaths Are Attributed To Heat Wave Chicago. July 20.—(AP)—The hottest weather of the year scorched the mid-west and large areas of the east today, bring ing the inevitable heat wave death toll. Eleven fatalities were report ed. five of them drownings and six attributed to the heat. Forecaster A. J. Knarr said there was little likelihood of re lief before Monday. The heat wave has blistered Nebraska and other midwest areas for four days and spread into Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York yes terday. Liquor Sales $522,479.39 Raleigh. July 20—(AP)—Legal li rjuor sales in the 27 wet North Caro lin;i counties last month totaled $522. >79.39. Cutlar Moore, chairman of the Stiit': Boa i d ol Alcoholic Con trol. reported today. Durham county was high with $85,753.30: Wake second with $76. 454.35 and Nov. Hanover third with $53,175.25. Other counties follow: Beaufort. $18.Wio.70: Edgecombe, «2f5.f 25.5'«: John-ton. 5: Hi.280.25: Le • <-ir. :! 4.fiS7.69: Pitt. 321.049.1«: r : S.59i 55* V.'ii-on. $18,843.75; . .. ii, $ 1 *, .-J0.6. j GitcilC;, $2,o62.55.