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Utttiteraon Daily Uispatirfyv. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA rirvKAR Henderson, n. c., Wednesday afterno on, july 24,1940 five cents copy HIES FACE CHARGES) C ascription Registration To j B gin About Sept. 1 Under j L gislation Pending In Senate h sning Of To 46)i" * T v v jf * Start Oct. 1 TYiuative Plans ^e vciuc-ci oy War De partment Of a i c i a i; Siau Agencies Have ■n Preparations !•' r ''inscription. : y J4— (AP>—Kca :>end:ng conscrip •} -ot Ifilt;*tivo 1. A was : rst (ou.ouil '• i t • .-".art training .. •.'.»> r,a> yet ti< act !<-;s!ation. a War d:>i'l'»sed that : .tf- already have ' - : selective " trainees pri son tr >m men be : 3! vears old. ry c >mmittee 'training issue - - >nal decision by ;• :>• recommend en P» : rice- Wads worth .<• i>er- thought it iy >r senate debate e< ■ • :> opposition to - expected to develop, while worked • >: the measure ■ registration <>r :• !" and fu vears— •)" !v those bc .. 24.1*00.000 — • active service. • ■ ■ • ■ ••'fW-iat who ' tenta • •; -m. join* •• >(•!(■(•: crvice ' »-ri e • *:H2 tate •••/••ess v»<»n may Trie agencies Pi .iL Seven.) Men With Dependents To Escape Draft 24.—(AP)—Sec • '! today a plan from tilU • • . while ■: '.t defense v -po^t l;ui!l !£UVC :n time of • • v. *i. dependents y *1 anting. ( ' ;» i-net', saicl member of < <■ •mmission in ... were agreed • ;-:y would be a mpbuilding Knox declared. : ti-im the in - than try tu •■sai William E. l;.e An: y chief . • military coin it the Army, un • «»n for cornpul • planned to •'11 ''nt men (>ctober ■ April 1. and an ber 1. 1941. ' ;• that xnever in .d tr <■ legislation . )• :;aent< to enter !\\ (;I:k.m.\xs T I I.KD IN REICH - -(AI*;—Some 110. ■ ■j, in areas recent ly Rumania soon : (I'-uriiny. A Ger es bating this Mo>to*.v yester i. ';i :ania. which has - ' m In -he Soviet .1 c-'t < ri •(, Ger of sistei • '..••km over by U. S. Representatives at Havana Conference 3WK35UJ; .Ml— i ii i ii — -- U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and members of his party arrive at the Cuban capitol in Havana for • st-.-'iin of the Pan-American Conference. Left to right, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba George S. Messcr swith, Secretary and Mrs. Hull and .Mr. and Mrs. Cecil W. Gray. Hull urged a united stand by the 21 American republics against European dictatorships. Notice soldiers guarding the capitol. Fifth Column Activities Are Discussed At Havana Meeting State's Budget Makers Start Work Friday i : Raleigh, July 24.—(AI1)—Tim I Stale's budget makers start work Fri- i day on the financial program lor I North Carolina tor the 1041- bien- : nium with word from Governor Hoey that economy must be practiced. The advisory budget commission will meet here in time to start its • biennial inspection of state institu- i tioris with visits Friday to the C'a - | well Training School and State In- I dnstriai Farm colony lor Women, both at Kinston. Governor Hoey warned a month I ago that world conditions emphasiz ed the necessity of economy. He said i he expected to g<> over matters with the commission when it completes its inspections, and that J. Melville Broughton. Democratic gubernatorial nominee, would be invited to sit with the commission when it drafts its recommendations. Scattered Rains Fail to End Heat Wave In Carolina (By The Associated Press) Showers cooled a few isolated sections of North Carolina yes terday and ia^t night. hut gen erally the men urv shot to record high marks and readings of around 100 decrees were fre quent. The I'. S. weather bureau fore east partly clouuy tonight and Thursday and widely scattered thundcrshowcrs in the cast and central portions of the state. Indications that today's read ins would be as high as yes terday "s were seen in a report from Fort Biagg that the mer cury reached 100 there at 9 a. m. Koeky Mount, again the hot test point in the State, had 106 degrees yesterday. il was 101 degrees at Golds boro and 100 at Concord yester day. At Salisbury. Tarboro. Lum bcrton and Statesville, the high mark was 99 degrees. Hitler Still Has Task In Holding Conquered Nations By CHARLES I*. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 24.—Hints are reaching Washington that Herr Hit • ler is experiencing con.-iclerable dit Fictiity in consolidating the Nazi's dominance in al! the countries they've been conquering so rapidly j of late. These stories are vague, of course. '■ on account of the censorship, but they come from so many different sources, are so increasingly numer ous and are in such general agree ment that, by state departmental and army and navy officials, all of whom are receiving then, they're ! beginning to be quite widely credit 1 ed. The blitzkreig is almost incredibly ' and quickly effective, to be sure, but it has to br followed by a civil -et-up to krrp tho vanquished popu lation.- in order, and working to the Now, naturally these populations;, ' although beaten, are in no pro-Ger man frame of mind. They still have to be policed and coerced and ever lastingly spied on, or it'.- a foregone conclusion that they'll turn outright rebellious at the first opportunity. A country havine been militarily defeated. Hcrr Hitler's system is to establish for it a government of its own citizens—but honest-to-good ness totalitarian^. such as can be i< vind in small numbers almost any where. It goes virtually without saymg. however, that their own countrymen hale these function aries. probably more than they hate even Germans. Moreovei. Adolf himself is suspicious of them, they require constant watching. Himmier on the Job So. as fast as a beaten country eapitulat'-.*. Hcrr Himmier. chief oJ vConhnued on Page Sevens United States and O t h e r Delegations Seek Measures to Weed Out Subversive Influences I n Occi-j dent. Havana. July 24.—CAP)- An im-j posing array of proposal* to combat' fifth fi'lumn activities build de lense welt offered to the P^n-Amer ican conference today bv the United! States ;:iid various Latin American delegations. The United States delegation pro-, posed inter-American machinery to suppress firmly the activities of any group acting upon orders from abroad designed/o produce interac tional disorder or establish regimes not acceptable to the American way of life. A convention binding western hemisphere nations into a strict pact against recognizing anv regime es tablished by exterior violence in the occidental world also was proposed. The number ol projects submitted mounted to twelve—many of them de I ense measu re>. It was learned that the United States delegation had given increas ing attention to the possibilities of subversive activities being directed within American nations under the protection of diplomatic immunity. One United States proposal would involve the investigation of the status o| diplomatic and consular agents in the United States and presumably in Latin American countries as well, seeking to weed out foreign agents whose diplomatic status gives them protection. Guatemala wa« understood to be preparing an amendment to elimini nate British Honduras from the joint tru.-t< ( ship for European possessions in thi. hemisphere, which has been proposed to the conference by the United States. Guatemala long hr.s had claims against Britain for British Honduras, and was understood to be preparing, to in-ist'that her claims be honored, in any future change in the coiony's sovereignity. COsjcdh&St FOR NORTH C AROLINA. Partly eloud.v tonight and 1 Thursday: widely scattered thun dershowers in east and central portions. AIR WARFARE INTENSIFIED BY BOTH SIDES More Than 60 German and British Planes En gage in Terrific Battle Over British Southeast Co?£t Town Today. I.fiiul'iii. July 24.— f.\P)—More than f!f» Cci'iiuin and Briti h plane '•n:',af.'.cd in a terrific Initio over a 'own 'Mi the routheast coa t today a ho H'-ii.ians raided Hriiain from coast to coast. Two German lighters were shot lowu .!i me conibai, uiiir.jing Ger man losses for the day to six planes, .'•'our bombers already had been shot lown in the raids which reached to Wales and southwest Scotland. More than 100 bombs were drop ped by six pkine- swooping down upon shipping off the southeast coast. Ihe Germans attacked a convoy in he Thames Estuary. While they were bombing the mer chant ships, squadrons of the royal air force swooped down and the raiders lied toward the coast where watchers saw the British dive on I hem. An air ministry communique an nounced "an enemy bomber was hot down early today by anti-air '•rafi guns near the northwest coast, and in a esries of engagements near ihe southeast coast shortly ;ii'tor mid day four enemy aircraft were shot down by our fighters and one by mili-Hircraft fire." British military leaders watchcd he German operations closely for a hint that Adolf Hitler is about to launch his promised blit/irrieg. Everywhere belief whs apparent th:it •he final test of strength was near. Woman Believed To Be Murdered May Be Living Norfolk. July 24.— (AP)—A charge of murder against Richard Manly Davis, 58-year-old carpenter ol the Stumpy Lake section near NoifolkJ which was preferred by the man's I ♦on. Newsojiie DavK wnen he found iiis mothe:. *viiDeltje Fairclolh Dav:s. to have been missing for sev eral days, will be cleared up today1 unci Davis released from the Prin-J cess Anne jail, according to Sheriff A. A. Wendell of Norfolk county. Sheriff Wendell said today that Milton Grimes, special agent, notified hini at 10 a. m. that a friend of his had been talking with Mrs. Davis Saturday night and that she was staying in the county near Portlock. Norfolk, July 24.—(AP)—An ef fort to determine whether or n.>5 Mrs. Deltie Fairclolh Davis, 5li, of Princess Anne county, whose hus band. Richard Manly Davis, 58, is being held in jail under a warrant charging her minder, is sli!! alive in eastern North Carolina wa.> being made today by Chief of Police W. S. White of Princess Anne Chief White said he was following ;i suggestion of Davis that the wo- | man may be visiting relatives in East Lumberton and was attempting to j communicate with them. Davis was arrested on :* warrant j sworn out by Ncwsome Davis. 25, his | ■;on. of Washington, D. C., who charg- j :»d in the warrant, according to Chief i White, that his father made away i ivith his mother some time between i June 8 and June 12. Nazi Air and Sea Raid ers Destroy 31,000 Ions of Commercial Shipping in Last 48 Hours, German High I Command Says. Berlin. July 124.—(AIM—Nazi :iii lid sea n.iders. tij'.litcninR their hi\ t- I'd! 1110 brittle of Britain, de !roved 31.000 Ion of e urmiercial hipping in tlie hist !!i hours, the German high command said today. They also sank a British subma | rine. two patrol boats and a mine sweeper, according to the high com mand. Five of tlie merchant ships, total in'.1 17.000 ton-, were punk by Ger man planes this morning in an at tack on an armed Brit Mi convoy. A sixth commcrcial ship of 4.000 tons, last in Ihc convoy, was set afire, •lie high command declared. Two o!' the merchant ships, total ing 14.000 ti ns, were picked out of 'ii armed British convoy by a sub marine yesterday, an earlier com :r. unique said. The other British loss 's ye-terdoy were inflicted by bomb ers. The high command also declared I that nazi bombers had wrought ex- | tensive damage in southern England yesterday. The communique claimed the de struction of three British planes dur ing RAF- raids over northern and western Germany last night. The raiders did little damage, the high vemmand declared. One German plane was lost in yesterday's raids. Meanwhile, as Germany got ready for the decisive assault on the Brit ish isles, her diplomats undertook a program of "constructive diplomacy" to assure peace in the southeast. BCRLINGTOX TO KEEP TAX RATE OF SI.50 Burlington. July 24.—A tentative municipal budget calling for ex penditure? of $358,797.94 for the 1940-41 fiscal year will be presented to the Hoard of Aldermen in its next meeting. The budget is approximately $2. 000 higher than that of the past fis cal year. City officials said today, however, that the same tax rate of $1.50 in all probability would be approved -inee property valuation within the city limits has increased about $270. 000 within the past year. The new valuation is li-terl tenta tively at $12,900,000 as compared with a valuation of $12,092,000 for the past year. Liquor Prices To Be Lowered) Raleigh, July 24. — fAP)—The State ABC board has sent out new price lists effective August I, lower ing tin price of some 175 liquor pack ages by 5 or 10 cents in 27 wci coun ties. It was the first time, Chairman Cutlar Moore said today, that the board had changed prices during a calendar quarter and it was done "so that the new defense tax <>n liquor would be no extra burden on the public except for the tax itself." Profits to county boards undo the new price scale will be 50 percent or less gross, instead of the prcviou gross writeup of 55 percent. British Claim Nazi Loss Of 4,000 To 5,000 Planes i London, July J4.—(AP)—Ger many has lost 4,000 to 5,000 planes since the war began, British source asserted today in support of a claim that Britain gradually is overhaul ing Germany in the race lor control of the skies. The royal air force is gaining power steadily through more than doubled home production plus in creased American deliveries, these sources said, although conceding that German mass production prob ably has raised the nazis numerical strength above the figure when the war started. Estimates last September placed ihe German air force r\ first lino warplanrs a* 5.000 u, 8.0f>f/. as com pared with Britain's 3.000 to 4.000. Reuters, British news agency, sa;a well informed London circles figur j ed German production of planes i> (being maintained "at around about 1,800 a month" and added: , "That i.s a figure which Britain may be- .said today to be rapidly ap proaching. although .-.he has yet xxx to overhaul it." The British admitted that by the! end of summer the air battles so far fought may appear insignificant, but pointed to their balance sheet of the first month of Geiman air raids and the start of the second month. Reuters said since June 17. when Germany launched mass air attack •'ga.ns? England, the plane losses implied from official British rec-1 •-■;d> gave this score: German planes; shot down VS.'. j Entuh 91. I Sherman Act Violations Are Charged Eight Major Tobacco Companies, 26 Other Corporations and 33 individuals Face Criminal Charges After Long Probe. Washington, July 21.—(AP)—The Justice clip.ulnant announced today that it had lileu criminal charges uncicr the Sherman anti-trust act at Lexington. Ky.. against eight major tobacco companies. U(i other corporation- and ■>'•> individuals. The department .-aid that the charge.-, outgrowth of a two-year in vestigation directed by Thurman Arnold, assistant attorney general, were based on allegations that the major companies had built iip mar keting .-v-icm- lor leal tobacco and tobaec<i products "which liave been deliberately designed to dominate and dictate terms to growers ol leaf toljaceo" and to wholesalers and re iaiiers ol tobacco products. Further. the department -aid in a .statement, tin1 government charges that the defendants employed price fixing device.- to eliminate competi tion and "aim . ed their position of dominance by exacting harsh and oppressive miiii- Irom those with wJiom tiiey deal." The eiglit major companies named are the American Tobacco Co., . Lig gett and Myers Tobacco Co., R. J. Reynold.- Tobacco Co.. and I'. Loril lard Co.. which are known as the "biy four" in the industry: Philip Morn & Co.. Ltd., Inc., the Imperial Tobacco Co. (ol Great Britain and Ireland j Ltd.. and British-American Tobacco Co.. Ltd.. the latter two be ing large British companies which buy leal tobacco in the United States, and Universal Leaf Tobacco Co., Inc.. described a. the largest leaf to bacco dealers in the United States. Individuals named were: George Washington Hill, president of the American Tobacco Co., Chas. F. .Wiley. Paul M. Halm. Vincent Riggio and George Washington Hill, •Jr.. all vice president- ol the Aincri •an Tobacco Co.: .lames K. Lipscomb, Jr.. president ol American Suppliers. Inc.: William W. Flower.-, chairman r»f Liggett an< Myers; James W. Andrew-, pre-iHe.it ol Liggett and Myers; Ben Carroll. William I). Car inichael. William A. lilonnt, Benja nin F. Few. Kdward II. Thurston and George W. Whitaker, all \'ice (C'ulitn ierl mi Page Seven.* VETERANS RULE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Scfirlarv 01 St;» 1»* Thad Euro Pre dicts There W ill lt«- Only 9 Republicans. Raleigh. July 2i. fAP) The 194! rjeneral A. f-i.-ioly will he composed >l l'i .vho wi i f in the 1939 Legislature. .'{0 v. ho M-rved before last year. and <>T who have no pre vious legislative experience. Thad Kure. Secretary «,! State, predicted today. He .siiid he ex peeled then- would be two Republican Senators and -even Republican Representatives. Democialie-Republican contests in lh<- November <•!<•( lions wi re listed in 1 I fil the 'i'i '-nalorial districts, ;<rid in 40 of J11 f • I IHl counties. Ol th<- 50 S'-n.itois, Kure : ;jid. 12 iCi vetl in the 1 U'.i'.l upper House-, lour were in the 1 House of Repre sentatives. 10 had legislative exp«*n [•nce pi'ioi' to 1939. and 1<» have i.< "or served in either hou e. The J 20 R'-pre enlatives, he .said, will he divined anion;', •}'» novices, 54 who were in thf- 1939 House, three who wen- in tn<- 1939 Senate, and 14 who nao i'-^i la five experience he lore i'J'.j'.). No ROTC At University Raleigh. July lit.—fAI')—Gover nor 1Joey .-aid today that the War department had ad.i.-ed him that it ivould not cooperate i:i e tahlish iricnt ol a reset. < o!Ticci> training corps at the Univei. My '<1 North Carolina nor at any other educational institution. The depaitiiient plan- to continue conduct of HOTat in-iitutiori.' al ready having it. Govei no, ifoey said, but will not e tabli-h now '■nit It v.ill depend thr? compulsory military tr;i:r..?;,;<.j$ran imtead. As a !'■ ill. G'l fino: Hoey roll ed a eoirm th< ooatd o! trus tee- oi th" My to meet with hirr. he.'- July .'J! to ";.o.v ider what ei.e it rr.i^nt do."
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