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Uwtitersnn BaUg Htspatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA \ ::\th YEAR i;KASKI) W" 11iK SKllVICK OF I III. ASS< K'! ATKI • I'JIKSS. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 5, 1940 ' i: 111 -! SI i I: I» KVKKY AI'TKl'Nl" IN KXCKI'T SINI'AY. FIVE CENTS COPY insh Left Calling Card * C. P. Radiophoto dead ar.d many injured was casualty toll when British airmen building in Hanover, Germany, in the mass raids on more : 1 cities. The town was raked froir end to end as British bombers ircucd for hidden nerve centers and rail terminals. Photo radioed from Berlin to New York. Conscription Bill Is bent To Senate Senator Sheppard, Military Committee Chairman, Says It Is I His "Firm Belief" \ That Hitler intends io A'fack the United , I . j fAP) -Sonn-j i •••' •;. Tcvus. ?••!(!! ; ' ;• was 11is -firm : »>.-i -i OVIltUal- ; : ruled Splits. ! t.-iry com- ; • . Si-M.'it" cctt!!)ti !snry •<; ■•••ins; the . •;!; • IV ■ if 1'! to -'in 'l ik." S< \ M-.nt.-n;:. d« v 1! attack tut' •• • ••' the United ( reuhed. i • : .id if it » I • ••• trying '•I ; I!i!'i iVe this • <i !'• • ? •> (i f <if th** • •! >m• • i•:11 ctii -- .o.<S" \vh«>. »>'• ' ■ Si r ilc :i!>li the • y "into ni\ ing siipninu1". ■< < [ can sco is - coming up." I i .-(eared t.ho ' : d«-rati'»n this c c ;;>t:i.;i measure l iiiflniM'uiorit S' > r. .1(1(1 was i iM as President :ii •! .ii to the l.» i 11 • " !• Senate. de ' «.»11v three votes *■ i:t»st it in com Cook Dies * lioness X. V Ami?. 5.—Dr. <i!ic-t to Arctic ox '"fiav He had been if <mths. • ;.i hemor . <<r;inted V IV'- in-M» Roo-e .'.i -a conviction. Train Wreck In India kills 30 Calcutta. All#'.. 5.—(A.")—Thirty j Indians were killed and 70 injured today .m m the llacca Calcutta mail tram u:i wrecked about 75 miles, from Calcutta. Authorities said they suspected . abotag The wreck occurred at almost the t^n'e a- tin; Uacca-Calcutta mai! vv: wrecked Uet year when y.3 v.;.:i!cc! and 30 injured. A I' /:. :- t.i' rail had been removed front the track. | Fcrrestal To New Navy Post j Washington. Auk. 5-—(AP)—I'res-j ident Hon. i velt nominated James Forre.-tal of Xev. York today to be under, veretary m the Navy, a post created by the Pre-ident under r<— eertfiy adopted legislation to reor-! gaoi/.<- the Xavy. Forrestal. lor; er president of Dil lon. kead and Co.. has been serving as an • •xecutive assistant to Mr. floo t velt. I Tin- national dcfen>e advisory I commission announced the creation of a division oi state and local co operation to be headed by Frank1 Bane, former executive director ol the Social Security Hoard. The commission said Unite, new executive director of the council of state government, "would assist tem porarily in "s'ai !: lung and organiz ing" 'his div ision. Young Democrat Convention Expected To Be Big Factor In State Political Future Daily Dispute!! Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. By LYNN XISBt'T. Raleigh, Auy. Every indication is that the state convention of Young Democrats, scheduled for Raleigh September 12. 13 and 14. will br ■ 11 >>>u! ;:s important in determining the eourse of state politics for the next two or four years, as was the con veil ti".'; ■ >' the :« ,'u:ars lielci here ■ i-'".. i \yiai0 icrs Ciua c adopt FDR CALLS FOR I UNIFIED FRONT FOR DEFENSE — President Says "Com mon Defense Should Be through the Nor ! mal Channels of Lo cal, State and Na tional Law Enforce j ment." Washington. Ante. 5.—(AP)—Pres ident Roosevelt today caJted for unity between federal and statu govern ments in strengthening national de fense and uncovering subversive ac tivities. "And the common defense should bo through the normal channels of local. state and national hm- r>i^i'orr— mcnt." he said in a message to the federal-state eenLrence '>n law en forcement problems arising from the preparedness program. "The untrain ed policeman is as ineffective as the untrained soldier. The amateur de tective becomes a fnssy and malic ious busybody. "We nr.i<t lv» visitant', always on guard and swift to act. "W" most nl-"f> b" wise and eoo| headed and must not express our xieti\itie< in the cruel stupidities of! •the vigilante." A renort mad" public m advance by J. Edgar Hoover sairV that the 'FBI iir e tiiM>"d 1fi.R8.~t defense case during the year which ended June 30. against 1.651 in the previous year | .mrl 250 in 193ft. Hoover reported "a negligible i amount of sabotage (in 1'>° Unit"'! j States) in the second world war in contrast to the -imilar period in the first world war." Anti-British Meetings Held; Tokyo. Aug. r>.—(AP)—Elimina-1 tion oi "offensive British iniluence in' Japan" was demanded at a mass, meeting arranged by all Japanese po litical quarters in Osaka. Japan's sec ond city. Domei, Japanese news; agency, said in a broad car. I tonignt. Dninci reported that anti-British ; mass meetings in Tokyo and other' edit s adopted similai resolution.-. At Kobe, the news agency said, the; chamber of commerce and industry csked the government to "reverse its atlituue* toward Britain. Rock\ Mount Man j Commits Suicidej I Rocky Mount, Aug. 5.—(AP)—j Funeral services for Henry A. j Thompson. -9- of Rocky Mount, who; was found dead of a bullet wound Saturday night at Ins home here, were held today. Coroner M. C. Dudley investigated and said Thompson shot himself. Hej is survived by his widow, a child and, his father. Balkan Pact j To Be Signed j Sofia, Aug. 3.— (AP)---Qua iters! close to the Bulgarian government! said today they expected an agree-: nient to be signed Saturday between1 Bulgaria and Rumania returning Do bruja to this country alter 27 years of Rumanian rule. Preliminary negotiations, in line with Adolf Hitler's order to both countries to settle their quarrel, wen completed today, these quarters said. binding platforms, and they don't nominate delegates to national con ventions which select presidents and vice presidents But they do have key note speeches, pep meetings, and all the other incidentals of regular poli tical conventions: and they do stir up n-u'e enthusiasm for the party ticket' than the oldsters are able to muster, j The youngiers meet every yeai.j (Continued on Page Light.) American Ship is Released uy japs Shanghai. Aug. 5.---''\P)—The small American eoa: tal s!i-|> "EstHit was rclca.ed today by .);t|Miiese au thorities wliii had .hold It *r lor live days alter ;.iie look refuse from a typhoon in a zone forhiddi n to ship ping. United Slates Con iil Ki> !,ai:! U:. 1 rick made representations to the Japanese to get the stc mier re leased. T!ie vessel has been rVtained by the Japanese navy off the i.loekaded C'hcnkiiig province eoa i The Japa nese recently warned a" npin'j l> stay away from these polls. Mo Americans were ai-oard the ship. Republican Presiden tial N ominee Meets Governors and Farm Leaders of Corn Beit. Des Moines, la.. Aug. 5.—(AP)— —Wendell L. Willkie sat down with governors and farm leaders from the politically important corn belt to discuss political questions today. The conference, attended by more than 70 farm spokesmen, was held in the large square office of Governor George A. Wilson in Iowa's capitol. Willkie was seated at the head of Wilson's desk. Galhercd around liini were Wilsn and governors of several other mid-western states. Others present included Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota. Governor Ralph Can* of Colorado and Governor Holland J. Bushfield of South Dakota. Among other things several of 'lie con Terences said they wanted to ascertain Willkie's views both as to ward the farm plank in the Repub lican platform and the administra tion': existing agriculture program. Wilikie has said he would stand on hi pahtv's platform, but h:»> not yet d' tail' d his views on the farm ques tion. hi hi; is bomkhi) London. Aug. 5.— (AP) — The air ministry tonight said that Brili«h bombers attacked the oil d'*p«t at Stergrade in the Ruhr and left it in flames. 76 DIE IN SINKING OF CHILEAN VESSEL Santiago. Chile-. Aug. f».— (AP) — The ministry of interior announced today that 7f> persons iwtWI"'! when tin 785-tnn steamer M<>ra|eda. own ed by the Chilean st-»t-• raihvavs. sank north of Faraway Island in the Straits of Magellan. Six Dead In N.C. Accidents Charlotte. Aug. 5.—(AP)—Traf fic aeeident.-. took the hves ol at least lour North Carolinians over the week-end. Myron E. Davis, -Ifj. Eayctteville electrical contractor, was killed and his wife was seriously hurt when their car crashed into a tree near Hie Cumberland-Roberson county line. A collision of their motorcycle and a truck trailer cost the lives of A. Eugene Little ol near Statesville and Trov B. Moore, of Landis. both about 25. Tom R. Saunders 27, of Marion was killed when he lost control ;•! his car •ind it struck an embankment. Miss Madis Greene. 19 of Shel by. and Coleman Rollings, 27. of Buffalo Mills community, were in Mired i'atallv in an automobile acci dent yesterday in Shelby. (jjmtkah FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Considerable cloudiness, driz zle and light showers in Interior this afternoon and tonirht. and possibly in west portion Tuesday. They're Against Conscription Members of the Youth Committee Against War demonstrate in Wash ington against conscription of youth for military training. These young men would be among the first called if the liurke-Wadsworth bill is passed by Congress. The placards express their sentiments. (Central Picas> Japs Make Third ; | Protest To Britain ! [Food Dealers Are Told To Organize Raleigh. Aug. 5.— (AP)—Indcpen I dent food dealers must organize* to combat .chain store competition and possible government regimentation in war time, North Carolina I'ood dealers were told today. George King of Charleston. W. Va., director of the National Association of Retail Grocers, and Paul Fishback, executive secretary of the national association, sounded the warning at the first session of the North Caro I lina Food Dealers Association. Tonight. J. M. Broughton. Demo I eratic gubernatorial nominee, and Governor Hoey are to speak at a banquet. Italians Raid British Bases In Africa Koine, Auk. 5.— CAP)—Sonic of Britain's most important strategic cei i ters in 1 lit* Anglo-IOgvptain. Kenya and Aden zones, including newly built airfields, were wrecked over the week-vid by fiulian air bomb bardment. Stel'ani. official Italian news agency, reported today. New British air bases, 'he agency said, were discovered by Italian scouting pianos and attacked by strong bombing squadrons. Not only was a large hangar set afire at llaiva. important anglo Egyptian Sudan railway center Stel'ani said, but planes on the ground were put out of action. Cairo. Aug. 5.—(AC)—There Ital ian planes were shot down in a big air battle in eastern Libya yesterday in ex1"iisivc? operations in which only one British plane is missing, the navel air force communique an nounced today. The British declind that their re connoissance aircraft, accompanied by four fighters, met fifty I'alian fighters in eastern Libya and sh <1 down two of them in flames while a third Italian plane was the victim of anti-aircraft lire of its own ground forces. An earlier communiqtM ol the HAP' said British planes scored direct hits on an Italian naval vessel and show ered bombs 'in a squadron of sub marine.- in an attack on the harbor of Masaua, Eriterea. Red Plot Is I Uncovered Los Angeles, Aug. 5.—(.'VP)—Dis trict Attorney Enron Fitts said today he had a "startling amount of evi dence" pointing toward a plot to as sassinate prominent Americans and overthrow the government violently. The evidence. accumulation of a 22-monlb:; inve »i"M ' i su i etec; communist act;v:t:c -• in •;ou?hi -r California. will i*° i>ipanted to t:u county g:-and jury tomorrow. Communication Fol lows Arrest of Jap anese in Rangoon and Singapore, Bringing Total Number of Ar ! rests to Nine. i London. Au". 5.— t ww — A Japanese embassy spokcman declared \ulay that the embassy ] considered unsatisfjwiorv Krn ain's explanation of the arrest of two prominent Japanese bu*i nessimn in London. Ambassador Mamoru Shite mit-ii mciintv'ule was busy pre paring' a third protest for sub mission to the British foreign of fice. An embassy spokesman sain the ambassador probably would call un Foreign .Set retary Lord Halifax this afternoon. The announcement of the third protest was made by the embassy as soon as confirmation was receiv ed of the arrest of three Japanese businessmen in Rangoon and of a Japanese journalist at Singapore. Four Japanese, tun of whom have been ordered deported, are being held in London. A Hongkong mer chant taken into custody Saturday made the number of arreted thro ughout the empire total nine. Greek Plotters Banished; Athens. Aug. a CAP) -An alleg ed plot to overthrow Ihe regime <>l Premier General .Viet a Ma . which celebrated it.- fourth anniversary Sunday. \va.- reported today by tae I informed new.-paper Kalhimer ini. "■ , Details were not divulged, but it ciiaigeo that an ariti-Metax:1 'o'ouo ti iefj threi'"ii "foreign lega tions" to intervene in Greece'.; in ternal affairs to break the Premier', authoritarian rule.. The con -uirafeiv. ihe new. paper said, have been banished, presum ably to the A legem i prison island. New Russian Trade Pact Expected Washington. Aug. 5.—CAP)—Sum ner Welles. acting secrc tary of Slate, said today a now trade agreement \v:th S<.\ jet J,'u.-s:;i. replacing th<, one expiring tomorrow. probably would be completed soon. Weiles said he understood thai ;• new agreement was in the offing bi:t hud not yet been actually reached. Whether the new agreement would merely extend the existing one. un der which Soviet Russia agreed to pi'rehf. '■ S40.0'j0.fi00 worth oi' goods nr.r.'if'llv. 'was not di-elosed. Wfil'-s ?nid The (:'■'■ i \vn:ld h-ve f iciiini signing -nd \v'>u'ri nonnc^d -imuItn:;cou..:y hci* .n Moscow. Britain On For Tides ami Weather Combine To Make Conditions Favorable for Hitler To At tempt Invasion; Air Warware Intensified. London. Any. f>. (.\P)—Inereas inu n;i/i activity .1! French channel port:; reported liy I'.riti.-h bombers re turning from r;»ira.- in Germany kept Kngland on tin- ..i<• 11 today ;is tides and weatin 1 combined to offer 11 it ler mort favorable conditions lor his long-promi ed blitzkrieg. Aiitiiorital i\sources indicated that 1!u* royal :iir tore*-. attempting to smash any inva ion before il could in launched, war- hurling more and more plane* inio raids on Ger many and (iermrm-heid territory. The aii minbtrv reported, mean while. tlia' 111 r* • .\les n.clditt light ers were .-hot down this morning -'is Spitfire pilot* continued to carry the war into the na/.i camp. Two ol the German planes were shot down on the far side of the Eng lish channel within range of German anti-aircraft gun- by a quadron of nine Spitfires, tin air ministry said. "Germany is out for a bigger head ache than lie li i yet tillered," one spokesman predicted grimly. The government meanwhile, mov ed to -in ngtlien Britain', defenses by placing the lioiin guard, now 1,500. 1100 strong, mule' new leadership, re placing w ith yoiu.gc! officers a h'and fuI ol elderly g< uerals whose ideas of war were described as "highly ant iquati d." At the same time the civilian pop ulation sum ndcrcd its traditional August bank holiday to speed the work of producing munitions and vital war supplies. German bombers kept up their scattered attacks on Kngland with a series ol raid* during tin night which the government said resulted in the death of one person, a few other casualties and small damage. Thousands of green and yellow leal I's cont iining extracts of Adolf Hitler's peace offer speech to the reich. tag w« r< dropped in a north east Kngland town and in sections of South' a I Kngland last night. Nazis Bomb British Points Berlin. Aug. —(AP)—The Cer ium air i'oree earned out a number )l raids oti Mriti.-h anti-aircraft po itiofi.-'. oil i,nil;- :»rifl shipyards yes terday. the hi«h e>muiand nnnounr •fl today. claiming British bombs hopped in ue.ii-in Germany last lighl eau-"d little damage. In rcconii' i in'.; operations, over •Ingland. Seotland and "the .sea re p'ons off the '■ e-„r t '* the high com nanfi'.- dailv eoiiiinunifpie saifl. a lierchant hio va- sunIc fia miles outhu'e t of Pen broke. ¥ ® 1 HP Imperial lo Buy I cbacco Richmond Newspap er Says Buyers Will Enter Market for Commodity Credit Corporation. Richmond. A ■,«. a.—'AP)—The \*e\\ -Lead'-/ " today there were eport h' " that the Imperial To jacco f'on tt; i_v' \j • would .it end l!;' (>'• tobacc market's opening Th • day a- th<- buying ■:;eoi '■.< ('< ■ : :oH ty Credit "ori.'osat :<<!> T!v f. panv' Uiv" *■ ' old moke !iic '.-ni pM'tha >• . the oaper said. *i off-el the Jo in purchases by he whi'fhawai >■: ti e P-of-rial and ;*he: I: " h >. i/ ' :' - {rem th'* : arket • • e:.n ;• • i the Ku.-ooean war. The t, >p' " aHded that indications '. ere the In.or rial would buy from 150 o. L'r)0.'ifj0:00'i pound- ot •he br!«.!' t *'•!;•' i-i 'io for the rv--..>-orj"«v r-yi ri ; Carporatien on ■ ' i- th" !nm°" al bou"ht • • • "n. v • rh th<- exeeotion that r>'• ' on the 1310 crop v. j. the cj e last year.
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