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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
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Political
'lies Bill
h comes Law
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resti ictiotw; on i
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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<i their
ballots in favor of the three-year
plan.
545 Italians
Rescued
British Save Most of
Crew of Italian Cruis
er Sunk in Mediter
ranean BatHe.
i
Cairo, .Tulv 20.—(AP)—The Brit
ish rescued 545 men from the Bar
tholomeo Colleoni. Italian cruiser
sunk in a Mediterranean battle yes
terday. ,i British communique assert
ed.
No casualties were suffered by the
British in the action, the British said,
although the Italian air force bombed
their ships several times while they
weie rescuing the Italians from the
water and while the fleet was re
turning to its base.
One British officer told of the
fight:
"We sighted two Itnlian cruisers
and immediately opened fire. One
Italian cruiser turned tail in a hurry,
but the Bartholomeo Colleoni tarried
long enough to answer our fire, then
started a mad dash in any direction
that seemed to represent : afety x x x
"One of our shells hit the boiler
room of the Bartholomeo Colleoni.
We continued shelling but the Ital
ian commander ordered the crew to
abandon ship because they had start
ed stripping themselves of their
clothing and flinging themselves
overboard. As we came up they were
crying to us to save them.
"We immediately started picking
up what Italians we could while con
tinuing to shell the cruiser. Then we
launched two torpedoes which land
ed squarely amidships and started
her on the way down. Another tor
pedo reached the cruiser's magazine
so that her ammunition started ex
ploding like an American Fourth of
July celebration. That was the end."
London Paper
Reveals Hitler
Offer To U. S.
London, July 20.—(AP)—The Lon
don Sketch in its "inside informa
tion" column said today that one of
the things Adolf Hitler failed to men
tion in his speech was a "fantastic
plan to 'offer' Canada to the United
States which Ribbentrop (Germarf
foreign minister) conceived and is.
having circulated tentatively in
Washington."
The paper added that by this plan,
which it said had been communicat- j
ed to leading propagandists in the
United States. "Hitler will give a!
solemn pledge not to intervene in i
the Americas after he has 'finished'
with Britain. As proof of his sincerity j
iie would agree to the incorporation i
of Canada." |
Congress Is
Expected To
Stay On Job
lax Measures, Mili
tary Training and As
sortment of Defense
Proposals To Keep
Legislators Busy For
Weeks.
Washington, July 20.—(AP)—Tak
ing their cue from'President Roose
velt, mo.-l members ol' Congress talk
ed today of combining a national po
litical campaign with a continuous
ses> 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.