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Iteniterann Daily Dispatrij ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOKi H CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA 111 vt:AU HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 3, 1940 FIVE CENTS COPY I iiish-Jap Friciion Mounting ama lo Ij 3 nd i •. Hungary ;cr of 1,500,000 MJO-OOO Perscns io Countries of Their try To Dispose n ai'ian-Rum an : Problems. A.... —(A!')—Trans j.iKH'."no pi>!\<i>ns • .« >:• ancestry is i !•»:* di-poking of .an territorial - d! how much •fly cedes. Ger -aid today, ai! H ingarian-: i \>v returned t > in any ceded • • disputed province of " d ho returned to : n-piianisivi in the ti insplantod into Ru . . 0v-:.ratc-- there :i -Marians in all Rn G' ■ ;.n- in TransyJ mia sained from ■ <• World war settle : 'mo Rumanians in d the recent • •:(•••- h; ;i limited taking in \ i '> 'o-onta. —r„- -,]| Trans— ■ ;; t<> h=ive a ' de RAF Planes Kce*3 Ud Raids JL JL —Roval air • ■ d t?;» :r mces ■ : I:'1«-v • »bjee ' i. j- NVthcr »■ mhuu* yt-. ■ y rt'ported to 1 {!• un> and ■■ ■• i <i . nil hit.- scor runv.ay.- while u'o'.ind were ■ cc ^untied from • , rt.-«c; «*r' :it five v. 'Ik nir ministry •.itv tarfi'd •;>! (Icrm.tn sca t' • liritisii vester :r'ninl ruin. Extortion And Bombing Plot Revealed Milwaukee. Aug. AP)—A bizarre extortion and bott'.bmu pint — whose* fantastic fea tures included a scheme lor a gct aw;i\ it: a tiny homemade s'lbma riu'.' v.• l>rt ken up i>y police with ti:<* an. ; of time young Milwaukee men. One man. Detective Lieutenant Kugene O'Gorman .said today, ad-, mitted alter his arrest yesterday' that he n>ade and planted a bomb which exploded harmles lv in a north side st .ie last July 24 and also the .-ending of a series of lot to: s to Store Manager Pewland H. Davie demanding 5100.000 undnr i threat tl.it "a bomb 200 times larger wil' so olt' at your south side store. , Besides your own life will be in ! danqer." The extortion plot was solved j after police f und a scrap of orna ment: I imp wire siieilar to that used in the trigger of tho bomb after sitting through a ciuartor of a ton of scrap iron and filings in a shop formerly operated by one of the men. The submarine. ;i flimsy sovon I'oot long contrivance made of shoot metal, was discovered in the man's ' basement. Fie • ;,id lie intended to pick up the | extortion money as it was dropped J from an airplane out over Lake Michigan and then submerge and I escape. MATSUOKA MAY GO TO ROME, BERLIN Tokyo. Aug. 3.—(AP)—Domei. Japanese news agency. said to day th:- Japanese government is | com idering the dispatch of Foreign Minister Matsnoka to Berlin and Rome to conduct ne gotiations for closer relations I with the axis powers. Beaverbrook in War Cabinet London. Aug. 3.—(AP)— Prime I Mini.-kr Churchill has invited Lord | l>f-averbrook. minister of aircraft production, to join the inner war cabinet. An announcement last night said ; that the publisher, known in Fleet street as "Beaver", would continue lor the time being at the head of the aiicraft production—a task at which i hi.- Ilair for originality led him to j a.-k housewives to give up their aluminum sauce nans for making Spitfire planes. The response was so great that he had to cry a halt. Hi elevation means the formation! of a nowerful sextet—Churchill.} former Premier Minister Chamber-, lain. Vi. count Halifax, Arthur Green-1 wood, Clement Attlee and Beaver-, brook—to direct the war. hi Aviation General Uo At Mass Onslaught - i (Al'>—Aviation . I iC:. t -I. . Uppol t n.nU :»ti'»ii tiuit ' ijt »f:: oardllH'tltS Ol • ' i'iii pricks *, de naxi air loree is in ■ l a paralyzing would strike i>: on.us objee "k.i■"! hIt!trd at the • luu^ht '■'< :i at tin. end oi a v ::ich tin Germans ' d> raid.- on s« aports. i i .istruil centers in i-'o-ition of take r:-i.•• .w. fr«-m :■ 5 ;>nr| the . .. o. England from many sides with simultaneous] arrival of our aircraft at every ob jective with the heaviest possible bomb loads.'* In future conduct of aerial war fare. he maintained, the advantage deliniteh lies with Germany. One reason, he said, was Britain's "great vulnerability from lack of a trained defense force and sufficient fighter plane protection. England's endangered area, relatively speak ing. is compressed more closely com pared to German industrial plants which are spread over a broad terri tory." Then referring to earlier nazi claims that Britain's seaports have hern well co-jted. I'.p declared: "The Engii-h ports through which -•applies must enter no longer .-:?>ht- to cur hatfle units ;tr. j i"s ciidan^^rsd points of attack." I As Flynn Was Chosen Democratic Campaign Boss Members ol the Democratic si.b-commiltee who helped President Kooscvelt sell el a successor to National Chairman Janu\ A. <" are •lu»un in the White House al'er Flynn. national committeeman 5'n m New York was t lio.cn to man::;;;- the President's 11)40 campaign for a third term. Li'-It to 1 1. taUii: I'm tr cr General Farley: President Ilou.-evc-lt: Sec retary Aiirictdtare. ilciay Wallaee. the Pre ident's n;nnin# mate: and Edward J. Flynn. Standing. !elt to lifiht: William W. Howes, nu mber of the uL-cemmiUee: Mrs. M. Jasper: Miss 13. C'o'jIj and I). E. Fitzgerald. Japan Ob jectsTo Gas Embargo Transylvanians Told Hitler Feared Spread o f Communism t o Southeast Europe. Bucharest, Aug. 3.—(AP;—Fear of communism's spreading in southeast Europe prompted Adolf Hitler's ad vice to Rumania to settle her terri torial differences with Hungary. Trany Iranian leaders said they were told today by the Rumani.in foreign minister. Those attending the meeting at which the foreign minister spoke qiu ted !*.?m saying he h.;d been ad vi.cd a strung communist movement in Hungary was approaching the danger point and that th<: hands of the Budapest government would be strengthened to cope with it by ter ritorial gains. The foreign minister and Premier Gigurtu returned thi< week from conferences' with Adali Hitler at Salzburg and Premier Mussoiini in Rome, at which they reportedly were tuld to settle promptly their dif ferences with Hungary and Bulgaria. Today's informants said there had been no agreements or formula ad vanced sf> far for discussing Hun gary's claims. The Transylvania leaders were represented as firm in their stand not to yield ;-.n inch of territory. Some wt'it so far as to demand armed resistance. Johnson Declares Roosevelt Isin^ Same Old Stiletto Washington. Aug. 3.—CAP)—Sen ator Iliram Johnson of California, a Republican, asserted today that Pres ident Roosevelt had user! "the same old stiletto" iti declaring yesterday that Johnson could not be consid ered a liberal or progressive Demo crat. A reporter at the President's press conference yesterday said that Johnson, who supported Mr. Roose velt in 1932. was a candidate for re nomination < n the Reptiblic: n. Demo cratic and Progressive tickets. He asked the President lor comment. Mr. Roosev.lt replied that he did not think anyone could consider John son a liberal or progressive Demo crat in the year 1940. Savings Banks Show increase in Depositors Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By LYNX .NISBET. Raleigh. Aug. 3.—A sizeable gain in number of depositors, although the average amount of deposits Reclined, l'oi the first six months of lyi-j j, . aid by official* ot mutual savings \-mks to indicate a public will to ;?ve. A total of 823 depositors shows that about one out of every vContinu^d on Pa^e Seven> I Washington. An;;. —(AI')—Opponents of compulsorv military (raining talked today :»f larming a bi-partisan bloc for a .Senate floor Lattle against peacetime ct.uM-j ipticn advocated by President Roosevelt. Cheered by a statement of Harry II. Woodring, resigned secretary of War. senators fighting tiie iitsikt— Wads worth hill considered trying to attach a voluntary training system to the measure empowering the President to call out the National Ouard and Reserve Officers. Senator Wheeler, Democrat. Montana, told reporters that some or ganization of "both RcpuL'Hf ans and Democrats will be formed to fight j conscription with all the vigor we possess." Although stopping at the possibility that a filibuster was being or I ganized he said: "This thing will he thoroughly debated and of course that debate will take considerable t.'me." Senator Vandenhrrg. Republican. Michigan, urged that sonic system of voluntary enlistment for a year's aimy training be tried along the lines advocated by Wocdring. The former cabir.i l member wrote Vandenhcrg advocating "eric year voluntary service :t S'M) per month." At present the minimum en listment in the armed frrcts is; for three years with basic pav of 821 a month. Alaska Defenses To Be In proved i Washington. Aug. —•' M'^—The Navy took steps today (o improve the Alaskan dele use. opp.vite Rus sian territory by awardi: S-t.305. ()()() in contracts lor work at naval air stations at Kodiak and Unalaski. The action came less than two weeks after a coast guard cutter confirmed report-; that :• Russian air base was being developed on Bis Diomed^ island in the IV ; ng Strait, a mile from American-owned Little Diomcde island. Willkie Gets His Campaign Ready To Go Colorado Springs. Aug. .'J.— CAP)— Wendell L. Willkie conferred with Republican organization leaders to day and said he was getting his campaign "geared up and ready to go with a bang." Joseph W. Martin, chairman of (Contnucd on Pr.ge Seven.? (jjfwdh&t FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Sun day. possibly some light showers in coastal areas. WEATHER FOR THF WEEK. Scattered showers in south portion most of week anrl in north portion around middle of week: temperatures will average near normal. British Prime Minister 5ays German Rumors That No invasion Is Intended Should Be Taken With Double Dose of Suspicion. London. Au.«. 3.—(A P)—Prime V iiii-tcr Churchill warned his peo ple tonight not 1o permit "the slight est relaxation ol vigiienee or moral alertness" in preparations against i German invasion. He -aid that re- j cent German rumor- that no inva sion is intended should bo regarded "with a double dose of the supicion : I which attaches Jo all their utter-j ' ances." , Churchill said: j "The prime minister wishc* it to i ile known that the possibility of Ger i man attempt- at inva-ion has by no I means passed away. j "The fact that the Germans are1 i now putting about rumors that they do not intend an inva-ion should be J : regarded with a double dose of the suspicion which attaches to all their I utterances. I "Our sense of growing strength 1 I ;>nd preparedness must not lend to i the slightest relaxation of vigilen.ee ! or moral alertness." REPORT SAYS JAP SHIPS ORDERED TO MAKE FOR LISBON London. Ausr. ?>.— LAP)—An unronfirmcd ronort that all Japa nese «hlps sailing for Britain 'vv horn ordered to make for Portugal, was relayed It re t-v f vc^nif-r Telegraph (PpIkIi jT-vs r"Trv. 1 T'.0 3"kivv c-iii] il>.; information j was received from the Berlin radio. ^resented Presidential Order Placing Embargo on Aviation Gasoline Brings Protest. Washington. Aug. 3.—(AP)— The Japanese government formally ob jected today t>i the embargo recently announced by President Roosevelt against exportation of aviation gas oline to countries outside the west ern hemisphere. The Japanese ambassador present ed a formal communication on the subject tn Sumner Welles, tind- . secretaty of state. j Afterward. the ambassador decli! — led to tell reporters the subject of the communication except to >;iy that it dealt with a commercial matter, but elsewhere il was iearned the aviation gasoiine embargo was the, matter at issue. ( Spokesmen for the Japanese gov-' ernment in Tokyo hud declared pre viously that ihe ban on export >.l aviation fuel outside the New World was considered "an unfriendly act"; and an effort to exert pressure upon 1 Japan. Japan, active in aerial warfare over China, bought approximately 1 (<5,000 barrel* ol aviation gasoline, from 111" United States in the first six months of this year. It wa•; indicated that President Hoo . veil's ol der placing number one melting ste< I and iron scrap under an expert licensing system had not been discus.-,ed in the Japanese com munication. Seventy-five to 80 percent of Ja panese scrap metal purchased in this country, being of other grade?:, are outside the licensing system. Uoih the aviation gasoline embargo and the scrap n-etal licensing system have been described by federal of ficials as purely defensive measures designed to control the export of vital military materials. There was no indication that Wel les replied immediately to the Japa nese objections. GIBRALTAR BOMWH) Rome. Aug. '•>.—(AP;—A Home newspaper in a di-patch fiom Alge- . ciras. Spain, today said Gibraltai v\. bombed again last night and that Spanish observers saw several hits scored on principal military object ives at the big British base. i Prominent i Japs held In London j Wiih Rumors of Big Spy Ring, British In sist Arrests Are Not Retaliation for Arrests of Britons in Japan; Other News. (1 »y The Associated Press.) I'Yict jt:i bc>w« i'Ii .f;i|>;ni ;ind CI real Britain rcu-hew a new hi«h point to day in tin' arrest o! tin; two most prominent :ipan*'si' businessmen in London, report.- that others were held throughout the empire. :ind rumors of the 1 xislence ol ;t big spy ring eentered in Loudon. Significantly, the arrests, which "llabhi'rgasted" high .Japanese in London. came just two days after Bnii-h si. . ees <pressed fear that rapidly-woi M'liing Japanese - British relations might eventually provoke Japan to military action. Japan made a "strong protest" again: I ".i ai r-. -'-. The British in sisted 11.■ •;r motive were not retalia tion in! .Japanese arrests <• I Britons. Tiic Japamx press in extra editions insisti r! reiaiI ion w as tlie motive. Tlie I >»it i-11 press had urged retalia tion. Tlie .l..pan( -e einba -y said Satoru Makihara a.io Shunl'uki Taiiabe, London manage;.- i«l great banking linns were am.-led. An embas-y spokesman said they were "very pro-British men," said !» could not imagine how they had provoked .-n-.pich.n. and expressed hope everything would lie settled -atislact ii iiv. Major military events were these: The nazi air loree extended its ali night raids on Britain into the day light. Slight damage and few casual lies resulted, said the British. The Kxchange Telegraph (British news agency) reported "hundreds" of Italians killed and much war ma terial captured in lighting in Libya. The CJennans -aid one U-boat sank seven armed F/iti-h merchant ships on a long cruise and claimed other nazi aerial activity had resulted in ihe -inking '»! 2HO.OOO tons' of mer chant shipping and 2.>.<>00 tons of war '.es el- dining July. The Italian eon.mand acknowledg ed one killer! throe injured in a Lrili. fi raid on a S: rdinia naval base. Brii :in. busily Ik Islering her do fen.-» - against Adoli Hitler's threa tened blitzkrieg, received another contingent of All iiaiian Iroops. A dispatch from Tangier. Morocco, said the Brili-h fieet at (jibraltai had sailed to join in the defense of the United Kingdom. Burke Seeks Support For Amendment \V;i. An,". fAI')—Sen ior Uurl'.e. IJ' ln'i'Tiit. .\ebr.i-l;;i, s;iid idd.iy he h-.d written to "150 |K! on- opposed to ;i third term for it president" - k i11?{ tliein to testily n !.i. proposed constitutional iiineiidmeni lor n single ,vix-ye;ir pre-identisij lerni. The i,r;. !:•. ••ri.itoi-. who recent ly Jjiinounced :.i uppoil nl \Vend<-ll L WiIi;i• •. li'< Republican pre ioen :i;ii noi'iin'-'. • i'! th;it pnbli" he.ir injj- would t;.ii - on before ;i Se»i;.*tc ilidie';iry -ub-eoii n.ittee. 'My pro;» i would #not .'ipply lo Proid' nt !!'•' '•veil ;it this time," [ii:ri-: to!'! r« jior'ei . "It would mere ly lli.rt fourth term for 1'residont !!i,o-evcl: to si:-: ye.irs because it. aould ;ipply only t'i presidents elect r! ;ilter tiii.- el'-cbon." Religious Cult Leaders On Hunger Strike In JaiS Add. Ga.. Aug. (AP)—'Two, members of a .snake-handling re ligious sect entered the second day of ;i hunger strike in ,j;iil today while ol'licers investigated a cull member'. death IV'm u sn>:' bite a year ago. The Rev. W. T. Lipharn. leader of '.he -oct. -nd Albert Rowan, father of r> - iy-yrar on g'rl bit'en by iv-k* r T' r>,n'' ngo. said they wr>u'd "fas' r< v*h:1^." They are heid <v: r~ >.• with mtent to murdsr, ptr.a.r.0 re covt-ry ol the girl. Lritha Rowan. Offices of neighboring Hcrri^n county probed trio <>i Mr.-. ■Jessie Si■: i'i; o! Ray City. Ga. Sheriff M. M. Hughe.- : < ted i.' died aft<r being nake bi'icn a 1 riu onductfd by Lipham hist y< r. Lipham and Rowan. praying for divine- df liveja: . refused breakfast and watei ve t« <i y and told the t i :; no more food. 'J ;..••! !.'t, " cv wanted some they'd let . .<-• £iicritf Ku&~es . ct„Ci.
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