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■ • *»• • - iimtJicrsnn Hafltj iltspafrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA \KX1H \ EAR WKJreT®*' HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 10, 1940 l'ulJUS'IS:-,:i^i>N,^vl;llKXuuN FIVE CENTS COPY \ '-onal Guardsmen Practice Blitzkrieg Methods j Iv.tzkrieg methods, army engineers at the war games the St. Lawrence Valley, an stressing ; :;: I c k crossing of water obstacles. Left, National Guardsmen from Providence and Paw tucket, . a tloaum; loot bridge across the Kacquette River, at Norwood, N. Y., for an attack on the "foe.** Kight, they are about to enter assault buata. Draft Compromise Rejected By Administration Leaders Senator Barkley Ex presses Opinion Con scription and Volun tary Enlistment Can not Be Linked as Pro posed. U>.—CAP)—Ad k-aders turned a cole • day k> talk of a com the Senate i;£ht over con ' B.-rklev of Kentucky, the : : c floor leader, expressec • • reporters that con ! voluntary enlistment • linked successfully in m as that offered b\ .Maloney. Democrat. Con a> a substitute for tht B • liswoj'th bill. • ■ • uiri require the regis .11 men from 21 through : d the Burke-Wadsworth ■.'.■i -..'cl delay the draft un • ' i.:ie voluntary enlist • - 4t:t. If the-.*e enlist i : t iiil the army's quota i ii \v>-uld be ordered. • r;!s to';.led 23.442 it • : • it July, a peacetime 'i The Army's strength was ■ v 31 and will be - " 322.922 as quickly as pos c 'Use; pt: »n foes. Sen N*\ Rep ; >ii. North Dakota - • .;lit;- '<> have men from -u -tered in order t< • c1 ■ " . iciiinery ready fl :i ■' could see no reason •J "• traditional Amer " t • p"licy of voluntai> C IK F! VI KM.!.!'!> ti'V. Kv„ Aug. 11.— -mm- were killed and . cu : d* y :n ;i head vii ;u : .mobiles tu'u here. Leaf Grading Schools Will Help Prices Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Waiter Hotel. A I". Whatever price: :• tin' If)ft Hue-cured to ,. .1,11 iv.f-is who attend tlu •41 iding schools now be "ugiioul the State art t'\ themselves vvitt nton ation that will en* obtain ;i premium l"i • •'I !c;it. VV. Hedrick • tii specialist of tlx i >* p;ii tment of Agri 'i today. being conductec .'nt in eooperatior ''.(1 Stat< Agricultura S«-i '■( the county agents a: filUiru! teachers <!'.^utst:s are now bein} Scotland. Hoke i- r< Columbus. Bruns ' bf!-l; >id counties. 1 Fl'd >ck reports tha • 'I federal graders hav< :.ed North Carolina t< trie grading and sorting • ' : ;»bie benefits havi U • "(i from the market ■ ::g tin pa.-t seasons, bu •■'i personnel and 62 coun much more remains t( Hednek said. 1 r;avt been compiet i »«>is in al! flue-curec burh v tooacci on I'ase Five; ! Roosex elt Makes Inspection Tour' (Jt Ship Building j Portsmouth. .\r. H.. Aug. ll).—(AP) |—President Roosevelt began a week ; end inspection til' New England ship yards by observing conditions at the Portsmouth navy yard, where live |submarines costing $27,500,000 were j being built and plans for several j others were being drafted, i Accompanied by Secretary of the 'Navy Knox, the Chief Executive ar rived by train from Hyde Park and j went immediately to the yard. Within an hour the President Ibarded the White House yacht Po tomac and headed for Boston navy jvard. j jCudahy On Way Home United States Ambas sador, Censured For Interview, Boards Piane for Lisbon. London. Aug. If.— (AP) — John Cudahy. United States ambassador to I'elgium who created a sensation in London by advocating that the Unit ed State-; Feed Nazi-occupied coun tries. k it by plane for Lisbon today en route to the United States, to which he had been called home to ! rerx-rt t" President Roosevelt. London newspapers, which have been attacking Cudahy bitterly for the remarks he made in a recent in terview. headlined the news of hi-; call and reprimand yesterday by the State Department. The Daily Mail said Cudahy as ahy a< saying "I do not retract one word from what f said." Th" Daill Mail said Cudahy as i sorted "undue publicity" had been rrontnned on Pape Seven.1 Guardsmen Make Camp South's National Guard Hit By Nature's Own Blitzkreig Before Maneuvers Begin. Camp Beauregard. La., Aug. 10.— i (AP) — Overcoming nature's own i blitzkreig—the most serious tropical disturbance in Louisiana in years— the South's 50,000 National Guards men settled down today to their most extensive peace time maneuvers. Trucks and guns were dug from the bogs in the wake of the storm nid camp was made at last. Men from the Carolinas to Arizona began whipping their companies into shape for regimental, then division, then army corps maneuvers starting late j next week. Some of (no troops came 1.000 to 1.500 miles across country in forced I marches and then were dumped I down in wild, unsettled, cut-over timber land at night. Torrential rains stalled their equipment and caused innumerable problems. Convict Killed I In Escape Try Hendersonville. Aug. 1°—(AP)— Dad Jackson. 25-year-old Negro convicted murderer, was shot and killed today in the heart of the Hyi dersonville business district. Prison Camp Superintendent Dan Lyda said the life-term convict was shot by Guard H. J. Brown when he jumped from a truck and attempted to escape. , A charge from a shotgun struck Jackson in the head as he darted ; behind a filling station. He died in stantly. 1 Jackson was given a life sentence' July 3. 19'?4, for murder in Ruther-1 ford county. ] 1 Organized Labor Expected i; ■ To Influence Speakership L jt Race: Convention Watched > 7 it I [| Daily Dispatch Bureau, (i In the Sir Walter Hotel By LYNN \ IS BIT. Raleigh, Aug. 10.—Illustrating the! paucity of political subject matter ,r during this vacation period is the recurrence of gossip on eapitol hill about the speakership of the next t house of representatives. '! Interest in the proposition was en- i • enhanced this week by the approach-' ! ing convention of the State Federa i tion of Labor which meets at Dur > ham next Mot^'ty, Tuesday and ■ Wednesday. Two of the avowed can t didates for speaker arc recognized ■ as very friendly to labor, while an-, > other i< distinctly persona non grata. George Uzzell of Rowan, coming from a Labor center, has been the i <'h.-mp:on of all labor reform biils in > the past three sessions of the general a.; cmbly. He fronted t!ie light in iast , lor a wage-hour bill con-. J forming to the federal hiw. There L lias been some intimation thai the! SFL convention might take official T cognizance of his desire to preside over the house by rcsoluting in Ins * favor. J. B. Vogler of Mecklenburg is also ' Labor's friend. He was chairman of 'j the house committee on labor in the;' record rises to damn him with) record rises to damm him with Federation leadership. There might be some embarrassment if the Fed eration officially endorsed either of these friends: or even if unofficial but actual approval was made too obvious. On the other hand, Odus Mull of Cleveland is definitely not accept- j able to Labor. He is regarded as one j of the inner council of the group must; antagonistic to Labor's aims in this j state. Wlule no formal resolution is' (Cun'onucd uii I'age Five) PunishingWarOf Air Power Waged Nazi Bombers Raid British Shipping And Coastal Areas Whistling bombs Are Dropped on Coastal! Britain in "Terror" j Raids; "Some Fatali ties" Acknowledged j Officially. London, Aug. 10.—(AFH—German J bombers, power diving at 400 miles :in hour, unloaded explosives in mass attacks today on British ships pro tected by balfoon barrages and ruined whistling bombs on coastal Britain in heavy "terror" raids. The Germans, attacking the bal-1 loon-protected .'hips oil' the south-! east coast, were reported to have jeen driven oil without hitting their, targets. Aiming one of the biggest assaults! >f the war that the northwest coast j rias experienced, the nazis dropped a> dozen whistling bomb.-- whose ear splitting screeching frightens as well us does damage. Heavy explosive bombs showered an another sector in that area killed lour persons, injured two and dam aged residential property, but miss ed military objectives. Two men were killed and a num ber injured in a raid on a northeast coastal town. In a second raid on shipping off the southeast coast, German bomb ers ran into heavy anti-aircraft lire, hurriedly deposited three bombs which missed their mark, and scur ried back toward France. Raids last night and early today caused an unannounced number of casualties as the nazi planes unload ed their bombs on scattered objec tives. A single German plane bombed and machine gunned a southeast! town, causing several casualties. I Fifteen to 20 houses were dam aged by bombs in another town in the same area. A terse communique said the at tacks were "spread over many dis-: tricts" and acknowledged there had] been "some fatalities." Japs Demand Defense Sector ! In Shanghai Shanghai, Aug. 10.—(AP)—A di iKiiid tfiai the British defense sec or in Shanghai be transferred tu lapanese control to meet "the actual ituation" created by British troop withdrawals was voiced today by the itnvspaper Tairuku Shimpu, regard- : d as the mouthpiece ol' the Japa- : lese army in China. Declaring that Britain had been ! breed to make "sweeping changes [ n her far eastern policy" the paper j aid: "No matter on what grounds the British withdrawal is based there is in clnuii.-it mat trie Bni t:ivf **»: edted to Japan's demand for with irawai of armed forciv: ;ii i...riijjcan lelligerents from Japanese-occupied reas in China." Japanese naval authorities mean while proclaimed extension of their lockade of the China coast. Strained Japanese and British re gions appeared eased by the Bri- j ish withdrawal but Chinese quar ers found fresh cause for anxiety in eports of threatening Japane e troop j oncentrations. At Chungking the Central Daily lews, official organ of tiie Chinese [ovcrnment, warned that China would take "adequate slops to back rrench Indn-China with force" if hat colony's territorial or political j ntegrity should be menaced. (jJocdkch FOR NORTH CAROLINA Cloudy with occasional driz zle and showers tonight and Sunday. WEATHER FOR TJIE WEEK Rain at beffinnirssr of week over northern and ofnlral sec tions: otherwise gren^rall.v fair except for occasional scattered afternoon tliundershowers; tem peratures near normal. r;;r;ty accepts Export Position With Coca-Cola Wilmir.gcoi:. Del., Aug. 10.— (AD— Jiimi-s A Farley, retiring li::slni:i»ivr general and chair mir. of the Democratic" catinnpl c«^irr.i'(rr. today was appointed chairman of l!"o Cora-Cola Ex pr-r! t'.n ivtftion. Robert \V. Woodruff, chairman of t'le Cora-Cola company's Jior.rd of directors. announced Farlev had accepted a position "in charge of all export business and particularly of the expan sion of our business in foreign ntn'-v." Farley's ~«>signati»n as Drrno < t'f national chairman be comes effective August 17 and he Jc"v« 111" cabinet 1 SI. Reports have been current that tT;e retiring Democratic leader, who i'owed cut of politics after his party's recent national con vention. would head a syndicate to purchase the New York Yan kees American League baseball club. A Coca-Cola company official said he did not believe Farley's position as head foreign sales man for the soft drink would in terfere with any plans he might have about the baseball team. Boats Rushed To Flood Area In Louisiana CROWLFY, La., Ailff. 10.— (Al'i—The Coast (iuaril and Red C ross moved today to evac uate al' «0.000 residents of this rfce belt city i" the greatest rain flood of Louisiana history. Bread and milk were the only foods available this morning. Coast Guard officials said, and sanitary conditions were becom ing acute. AH residents were taken from their homes to the courthouse, school, and other large buildings. Crowley. La., Aug. 1().(AP)— Boats vvcre rushed by water, train and trac tor today to this southwest Louisiana section where some 10,001) persons were made homeless by the greatest vContinued on Page Seveni U. S. Consular Posts Will Be Reopened Washington, Aug. 10.— CAP)—-The State Department declared today that t it was establishing diplomatic listen- ; ing posts at Dakar, French West Af rica. nearest point in Africa to South America, and at Si. Pierre-Miquelon, French insular possession off the of Canada. An announcement of changes or- ( (Continued on Page Seven) No. 1 British Hero Capt. Ervino-Andicws Only recipient of Britain's Victoria Cross in the present, war not re ported dead or missing Captain Harald Marcus J'rvinc - Andrews won the award by accounting for 17 of the enemy with his rifle and many more with a I3ren machine gun dur ing evacuation of the British from Dunkirk. n 'cvlfol Pre,na) Clark Blasts Tax Measure Missouri Senator Says Excess Profits Levy Is "Sugar Coating" for Amortization. Washington. Aug. !0.—(AP)—Sen ator Clark. Democrat. Missouri, charged at a tax hearing today thai the pending excels profits levy was "sugar coating"' I'm* a plan to permit "munitions plants" to deduct defense expansion costs from their taxable earning. The expansion amortization jii;ui and a tax of 25 to 40 percent on ex cess profits have been comb'.'ied into a piece of legislation on which Senate and House committees started hold ing hearings yesterday. Clark made his comment after John I,. Sullivan, assistant Treasury sccrelarv, had told the joint com mittee that the tax proposed would yield a net increase of $190.(100,000 in taxes the government coliects on 1940 corporation income. The Treasury, Sullivan explained, figured the direct yield would be $225,000,000 of which $35,000,000 would be offset by a loss in indivi dual income taxes due to smaliet dividends to stockholders. For tin years after 1940. Sullivan said, the Treasury estimated the net yield would be $400,000,000 to $480,000, 000. 'When the President proposes spending four or five billion dollars every time he gets back from a week end," Clark said to Sullivan. "$190, 000,000 is a diop in the bucket, isn't it?" Sullivan said it was "a small item" in the total budget picture. Clark then declared that the tax (Continued on Page Five) ROBERT L. HUFFMAN DIES AT HICKORY Hickory, Aug. 10.—CAP)—Robert L. Huffman, 56-year-old Hickory at torney and for more than ten years solicitor of the Ifiih judicial district,! died at his home here last night. Fun eral services Will bo held at the/.ome, tomorrow. Tobacco Growers Look To Next Week To Set Trends Valdosla. Ga., Aug. 10.—(AP))—I Bright leaf tobacco growers looked I to next week's auctions today await ing indications whether opening week j prices would maintain the higher! thnn expected levels of 18 to 19 renK a pound. r'noffici.t! repnr4 ' o'i v*-i ri:y' . sale showed tiv ing around th<-- 1R-19 rang". The strong market had not vet lr-lt the effect of the new 1940 crop forecast , for a still smaller crop of l'lue-eured type tobacco, issued at Washington late vestorday. The Department of Agriculture forecast production of 641.940,000 oounds of bright lr-aT. compared with -l" T- ly 1 foreca t of <i76.640.000 '•> rri:. OH ifi;-.] 11 'H'1 pr »«»•*> t- n;i ' ;'l°- \'-"r" ov t;io Geor gia department oi agri. .il'.urc* . y Monday aitei noon. All Nations Claiming To New Success United Kingdom, Eu ropean Continent and Africa Subjected to Increasing Volume of Attacks from Aerial Forces. (By The Associated Press) Belligerent powers settled down 1o day to a ounishing war of air power and the United Kingdom, the Euro pean continent and Africa felt and heard the crash of bombs, the thun der of anti-aircraft lire and the chat tering of machine gtin fire in growing volume. Italy claimed further gains in her land drive into British Somaliland and all the belligerents issued com munities telling ofq aerial exploits. The Germans said: Their bombers blasted British air plane and munitions plants, caus ing great fires and explosions, and blasted shipyards: German anti aircraft batteries brought down two British planes, bringing their total bag for the war to 1,500 "enemy" planes. I lie Italians said: Their columns pushing into British Sornaliland have passed Adueins, cast I of Hargeisa: their planes bombed Berbera, main seaport of British Sornaliland: their warships hit Bri tish objectives along the Egyptian coast: the British battleship Resolu tion and a destroyer were damaged seriously by bombs August 1. The British said: Their aircraft bombed an Italian vessel in Tobruk harbor. Libya, set ting it aflame: royal air force bomb ers struck at positions the Italian:; had set up near Hargeisa: British bombers marie a successful damaging raid on Massaua. Eritrea: the Bri tish South African air force blew up two Italian bombers and damaged two others in Ethiopia. All day long tin; fJerman raids on Britain continued, causing a number of casualties and provoking dog fights with defending fighters. Germany, serving notice she is pre pared as well for a long war as for blitzkrieg, announced through press and radio that her own food supplies and those of the Balkan states were able to last the winter and that the fate of the people in countries she has occupied is no great concern of hers. Rumania, preparing to make axis demanded territorial concessions to Hungary and Bulgaria sought to smooth the way with a new series of anti-Jewish measures. They were intended to quiet the country's strongly anti-Semetic nationalists who have demanded that the gov ernment refuse to give up any ter ritory. With the war of aerial bombard ment. argument and political maneu vering on at least 3 continents. Egypt prepared to change from passive al liance with Britain to active military cooperation with outnumbered Bri tish forces in Afica. Italian Units Still Advance Cairo, Aug. 10.—(AP) — Italian motorized infantry and guns continu ed their advance toward Britain's "main positions" in the hills south of Berbers in Somaliland today, the Biitish admitted, despite heavy air attacks on Italian supply force.-. At the same time, Egypt hastened steps to prepare for a possible coor dinated Italian drive toward the Sue/, canal. The British communique said "the Italian advance i- continuing towards our main positions. A previous announcement said the Italians had been bombed as they thieaded their way through Karnn Pass in the hot barren slopes just east of Hargeisa, which the Italian:; occupied early this week, toward Berbera, principal British port on the Gulf of Aden. Aden, 150 mil's acro.-s the gulf. wi bor bed fiercely this morning by Italian ra:ders and one soldier and three rptivrs r: rr» ' died {.nd 17 per son- were wounded.
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