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Hwtitersnn Haily Htspatrij ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA • I'll YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 22, 1940 FIVE CENTS COPY I xlifax Rejects Hiller's Offer 'raise and Coffee for Germany's Heroes C. I', lieidioifhoto r. . :•> march itt the Nazis victory parade, wounded soldiers arc welcomed by this hatis . w! :oh is very scarce under the Hitler rationing. Meanwhile, their Fuehrer, lavishing iitui generals, called upon Great Britain to surrender or be destroyed. Photo radioed lrom Berlin to New York. Nazi Planes Harass Britain Pending Reply To cLast Offer} i; o r e i g n Secretary Lurcl Halifax rlxpect td To Reiterate Churchili s Stand 1 hat Britain V ill Fight To The Finish. .'. v -(Ap»-rionib r;:i(Ui> k-up I' lt'-Ct an ei:: • -f" t r«»: r. thoir _ ' A'i' :f Hitler's • c< ■•-.vrtuiv. exploding in !•' 'U-'l S» I - •: .. ranged it «•:. • .> -aid iv '• v. i: up with a ' • -t •>t V l':C house • ! *!>. i attack •d . i;'i . U :;ii " . I'd -OUtil v...- »t down in :: the number • . t-cl d<»wned eurity said . • (ted during ■ • • t.n three : • property < "i the i^. - -• i , i>: .i/l t.. • 'i ' > p<»rt alter n air attack. I v S;iiit >l\-> li) ■M\ With Japs ^ .,MM—A S' ' V iil»»i* ■ f. . • 'I' ingta«. •. I > fi. Japan ■ • • . th the as r •' i • :' t* >olv i c:-l» ti!. Sri - . «■ «• injured. ' ■'.! le -tarted • cap- without '! ?:••(» became :•» : with the lanH* rs. Four •;■: -it'd to ar England's Zero Hour W ill Conic i'ollowing Reply Berlin. July 1 l.-(AP)—Ens land's zero hour will romc after Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and Prime .Minister Winston Churchill have replied to Adolf Hitler's final proposal for peace, authoritative sources said today. These sources intimated that official British answers are all Hitler is waiting for before start in? his threatened great offen sive against Britain. The German high command reported that air raiders had j caused great fires jt airdromes, j ports, factories and oil storage tanks in England and had sunk a tanker and four merchant men j a^srresating 40.000 tons in an attack on a convoy. i State's Traffic Toll Is Seven Over Weekend Charlotte. July T2— (AP)—North ; C mlin: traffic accidents hilled at I'.- f peri-ons during the week t nd. Clt"ii Lawson. 20. a filling sta "M el< ik. wa> killed and two young won en were seriously injured in' • ■ri ;• 111' tobile wreck nn the Luiub erton-I-'airinont highway la* i night, j Ls.w.-on. a resident of the Long j Branch community near Lumberton, j Liimborton. July (AP) Miss ii ■ Britt. I.'i. died in a hospital here today of injuries she suffered in an automobile wreck last night, bring ing to two the number of fatal ca.-unities. Carlton Lawson. 20, died •hortly alter the accident. Miss Inez Ivev. nm. in of Miss Britt, was re ported ii» a critical condition. died hortly after his car got out of control on a curve and smashed up. Ilis companions, Miss Eula Britt (Continued on Page Seven) Bullitt Makes Report To FR Ilvile Park July 22.—(AP)—Am-j bn:sudor William C. liuiiitt. who is giving President Roosevelt a report of what litis happened to France, as serted today the' (lie relationship of the American government to the new 1 Petain government was "exactly the same" as tiie former French regime. ( He said 110 question of American recognition of the government estab lished by Mar.»hai Pctain had arisen because "we never hud broken off relations." The diplomat leturned from Fu ;-opf Saturday and began his report to the C hiei Executive in Washing ton last night. "There's an awful lot to talk ab iiit". he told icporters. "We just' began to scratch the surface last night." Two Masked Men Conceai Themselves in Bank, Force Cashier to Open Vault. Fair P.UilT. X. C\, June 22.—(AP) Two armed white men concealed themseive in the Mai of Kair IjluTf last night and when Cashier A. G. 1 Rogers appeared forced him to allow1 tliem to cnt.T the time-locked vault. I:. C. Tocker. pre>idenl. said be tween 1 .")(>(! and $2.00') was stolen. The robber were masked and wore , rubber gloves. The robbers bound and gagged the J cashhr and then calmly waited un- ! til the time clock on thf vault al- j lowed it to be opened without giv-j ing an alarm. Tucker said the robbers informed (Contnucd on Page Seven.) H 7T T #> « Vvrm vCarolina Governmental units • . rU'ii By National Defense ProgramI Uurrau. in tin- Sir W'liter Hotel. H» \ |; \ ,\VI KIl.L Tii' '• i.- ;e;i!TC 1 • .i ?ui*s govern tint been :« ;>t national dc ' "Hi. nt ir.-c. the t: •» other:- the u i' an:/«-<l previous •■!y activity. < ;il" of. actual -: " _ - »•::r> phase Iiy sential t<i in quirk tai;en it a seem in»ly Uric opportunity to press some J pet plan of the division which had < previously been lagging for one rea- ! son or another. Direction and coordination of the state's part in the defense scheme has fallen upon Governor Clyde R. Hoey and ne has been quite busy with it. ife has quietly steered depart mental activities into proper chan nels: while he publicly has directed attention to the need for a united public, unshaken by hysteria but completely resolved to do its share. t.'nder him. more than a dozen de partments or divisions have been pushing specific programs. * Obviously, the Adjutant General's ; office, nerve center of the National j Guard, has been thf unit most direct ly affected. General Mett.- and liis staff are hard ;it work: but have been able to s.nv very little publicly .^p.it tht' Mature of their activities. The job of readying the Tar Heel citizen-soldiers to take their place in the first line <>f defense is clearly not one about which all the details can be shouted from the housetops. Taking up in detail some of the departments and division.-, affected by the defense program: (1 > The Department of Revenue (Continued on Page Seven) Says Britain Will Defend Freedom In World Broadcast, British Foreign Secre tary Defies Hitier and Makes Mention of United States Support. London. July 22.—(AP) — Lord H;11iInx. British foreign secretary, an . wered Adolf Hitler's peace offer to day with a declaration that Great Britain will "not stop fighting until IV* *'d*'in for ourselves and others is secure." "Wi realize the struggle may cost us everything,*' the foreign secretary said in a worid broadcast "but just be cause the things we are defending are worth any sacrifice it is a noble pri vilege to be the defender of things so precious." Hitler made plain in his July 19 speech. Halifax oeclared, that "his picture of Europe is one of Germany lording it over these peoples whom lie has one by one deprived of their freedom." Britain's picture of Europe. Halifax said, is "one of a free association of independent states, and because of that contrast we remain unmoved by threats unaccompanied by any ap peal to our sense of right or justice." in every part of Britain, he declar ed, there is "a spirit of indomitable! resolution." "The peoples of the British com- ! monwealth. along with those who' iove truth and freedom and justice,! will nev^> accept this new woild of! Hitler's," Lora Halifax said. He asserted that "across the wide; Atlantic there are mighty nations \ Continued on Page Seven J Italy Claims Damage To British Ships Rome, July 22.-- (AP)—'vJio Italian high command claimed today to have "positive information" that three British warships in addition to the 42.100-ton battle cruiser Hood and the aircraft carrier Ark Royal were "damaged severely" and suffered "heavy losses" to their crews during the Italian-British Mediterranean naval battle of July 8 to 13. In London, authoritative British sources scoffed at the Italian claims. The Italian high command also re ported a British plane shot down in flames and •'effective" bombardment of British bases and positions in north and east Africa. Italy sought to husband her re sources by issuing a decree permitting export only of certain goods consid ered profitable for the national economy. ^NNENBERG BEGINS PRISON SENTENCE Chicago, July 22.—(AP) —M. L.1 Annenberg surrendered to the Unit ed States marshal today to begin aj trip to the U. S. penitentiary at Lcwisburg, Pa., where he mint serve | a three-year term for evasion of in-j come taxes. Heat Takes Heavy Toll Chicago, Jul}' 22.—(AP)—No im- j mediate relief was in prospect today j from the mid-summer neat wave which had engulfed most of the na tion for three days. Only two sections of the country, northern New England and scatter ed points in the upper Great Lakes, escaped the oppressive heat which ,r,aused deaths to scores of persons by prostrations and drownings. More than three score persons drowned as millions flocked to beaches and lakes seeking relief, j Deaths caused from the heat claimed j another score or more. In North Carolina, report* from' Wilson were that George T. Boykin of near there was found dead beside a road and physicians expressed the ; belief that his death was caused by heat prostration. Idcatiwi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Tuesday, pxcept widely scattered j thundershowers. Congress Asked For Half-Billion Dollars To Stimulate Trade Tobacco Growers Vote Over Four To One For Control Atlanta. July 'i'l.— (/\V)—I'luc-curcd leaf tobacco fanners looked to day to their better tl.an four-to-onc approval of federal control of their crops to help bolster pr'ees I ruin last year's sag. l'rodueers it; si\ southeastern states expressed themselves Saturday overwhelmingly in favor of government restrictions for three years. In (Jcorgia 81.7 percent of those voting favored control: in North Carolina. 8(i percent; South Carolina, 88.7; Virginia. 7(1.5: and Florida. 87.9. F.ight.v-four farmers in seven Alabama counties where the crop is still is the experimental stage were unanimous for the program. In a prc-balloting statement Secretary of Agriculture Ilenry A. Wallace told the growers that quotas would not likely he set below the current figures if they accepted the long range program. Pan-American Meet Opens Later Today SENATE ADJOURNS UNTIL THURSDAY Washington, July 22.— (AD — The Senate voted today in the abscnec of legislation labeled important and ready for action to recess until Thursday. Further, Senator McNar.v of Oregon, the Republican leader, said another recess would be agreed to Thursday with regular legislative sessions to start next week. Nazi Bombers Bomb and Sink Merchant Vessel, With "Heavy Loss of Life." London. July 21'..—(AP)—A ship idoiililied as the 1.282-ton Frosula of Panama registery was sunk by Ger man bombers last week, an authori tative source said today, adding th.it it is feared there was a "heavy loss of life." The ship was bombed by German aircraft on the night of July 15, about 25?: miles northwest off Cape Finis terre, Spain, in "very bad weather," thi; source said. Its last port of call was Barcelona. Eighteen of the crcw left in two boats ,one in charge of the ship's m«i: tor, the other in command of the chief officer. Nothing more has been heard from the master's bout it was said. The source also said that those in the chief officer's boal suffered "ter (Continued on Page Seven) I " Commissions Set Up At Closed Session; Ad dress of Secretary Hull Expected to Be Policy Guiding De claration. Havana. July 22.—(AP; — The emergency conference of the 21 American republics set up commis sions at a closed session today lo deal with vital problems of hemis | phcre defense and economy. This pre-conference set in motion, the delegates adjourned to wait for J the various governments to define i their positions in formal declarations j at the opening session later today. The United States took a place j only on the important peace commis sion which is to consider the whole i question of continental defense, in ! eluding the future status of Kuro ) pean possession in the western hem j isphere. ! The conference ru:es. however, provide that any country submitting • a proposal to a commission automati cally becomes a member of that com mission. The address of Secretary of State Hull in the late afternoon was ex pected to assume the status of a . policy guiding declaration on all phases. Air Warfare Continues London. July 2.—(AP)—The min istry of home security announced to- ( day "enemy" aircraft dropped t J bombs during last night in one His 1 trift of the midlands and in another , on the northeast coast. ! In Cairo, it was said heavy dam age to the Italian-Libyan port of To bruk and the nearby airdrome of El Gubbi was reported in week-end raids. Two Former New Dealers Join Wiilkie Supporters Colorado Springs July 22—CAP). —An offer of support by two form er New Deal office holders prompt ed Wendell L. Willkie, Republican presidential nominee, to .suggest to day a movement to organize "Demo crats and independents of like be lief." Lewis Douglas, budget director in the early days of the Roosevelt ad ministration. and John W. Hanes,: former assistant to the secretary of the Treasury, offered to work for Willkies' election. Democrats who recently have pledged their support to Willkie in clude Irv.'n S r*rob. the author: Vance McCormick. former Dnnr,. critic national chairman: Stephen Chadwick, former national com mander of the American Legion, and William H. "Alfalfa Hill" Mur ray of Oklahoma. In a telegram to the Republican nominee. Douglas and Hants said they would seek to "enlist in your behalf the .support of Democrats who believe with you that loyalty to country takes precedence over loyal ty to party." In reply V/illkie requested Douglas. Hanes and others to "commence in your own way the organization of Democrats and independents of like belief." D'>'i.rri-s once served ;i< budget dii'Ttor ■:p,Jrv pr"-id'-n* Roo.-eve]'. Hanps. a native of V.'in C. curved a- ps.cictar>' *<»crrt"rv of the Treasury until recently. Fund To Aid Commerce In Americas President Roosevelt Asks Increase in Lend ing Power of Export Import Bank, in Spe cial Message Deliver ed Today. Washington. July 122.—CAP)—Pres ident Roosevelt asked Congress to day to increase the lending power of llie rxpori-imporl hank by $500,000, Dim so that ii might he "of greater assistance our neighbors south of the l»io Grande." In a speeial message coincident with tho Pan-American conference at Havana. Mr. Roosevelt said that the war in Kurope was preventing the How of iirp!us products from the western hemisphere. "It is to be hoped." he said, "that before another year world trade can be reestablished, but pending thi< adjustnu lit we iu the United States should join with the peoples of the other republics in the western hem isphere in meeting their problems. I call the attention of Congress to the fact that by helping our neighbors we will be helping ourselves. ••It is in the interest of the pro ducers of our country as well as in the interest of the producers of other countries thai there shall not be dis organized or cut throat markets in these commodities which we all ex port. "No sensible person would advo cate the attempt to prevent the nor mal exchange of commodities be tween other continents and the Americas, but what can and should be done is to prevent excessive fluc tuation caused by distress selling resulting front temporary interrup tion in the flow of trade or the fact that there has not yet been estab lished a jy.-tem of free exchange, t'nles-. exporting companies are able to assist their nationals they will be forced to bargain as best they can." Knox Urges Navy Funds Secretary of Navy Al so Reveals Purchase of Two Steamers For Marine Corps. Washington. July 22.— CAP)—Sec retary of the Xavy Knox urged quick approval today of legislation which would give his department another Sl.000.000.000 to bring the nation's ri:i%•;.*I strength to more than 700 war ships. eiioiigh lor ;< two-ocean navy. Knox, appearing at the start of elosej }j«;. > i111- by a Hou.se approp riation.- sub-committee on President Hoo-e-.-f if- reriuot for S4.800.000 for the Army and Xavy. surveyed the Xavy > need. generally. The Navy would get roughly one billion dol lars. the remainder going In the Army. Chairman Woodruin, Democrat, Virginia, of the sub-eomrnittf < aid he hoped to oring the bii! the House for debate within ton days. Meanwhile. Speakd Hankhead and House Majority Leader Rayburn. of To;;: . . nid titer" w;i a possibility The.t a .S2a.OMi.OOO bill to increase powei output o! ;he- Tennessee Val ley Authority to permit production of more aluminum lor airplanes might be ealled up lor action Wed nesday or Thursday. The Xavy. n,< amvnile. disclosed thM four d'vlr yer- were being fit ted o it !' : by the Marine Corps, evidencing <*f'orN to -peed creation of ;■ "'rr :nctf man" expeditionary force )•• ady tor any hemisphere •l) ' /ceticy. Knox announced that the Xavy < Cor-in Ai ri;jc Se.en.;
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