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ftENl - ***■' • ^ IleniterBmi Batly Dispatrfj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA ' TttTN m \ KNTH \EAR HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 12, 1940 ■ uisn,^1. _.:v.n:?us-x...,n five CENTS COPY 2 azi Planes Lash Al Briiain c rgia Leaf Markets Sell \i 759,924 Pounds In Two Di vs At 18.43-Cent Average 1w > Days or Selling grin i ctrmers Total 0*v >51.546.78; The 5a By Cities Re ported By the State; Agency. I 12. i.\Pt — Forty m- :i Georgia's belt M>ld 12.759. : u i • > :! t days I ,54'i. i i> i 8.4 ivnts. I • • • opened. H'are .i at Xash ■ t i i : mgod I rum a a 4-cent k>\v. with I .. * IS t<- 2o cents. '"ft!" o! agrieul ■ v' " ;i > l-»r !a>t week's Pounds Average . 660.262 19.14 ! 507.298 18.69 ! 1-09:5.11)8 17.87 . . . 1.164.H34 17.97 . 51-.080 17.26 49.">.92i> 18.93 4(59.288 18.52 1.184.">96 17.52 .1.276.224 18.54' 574.306 18.30' 590.960 18.50 . .1.612.256 20.03 f 1.091.932 18.28 . .1.021.298 18.01 . .. 505.522 18.10 New ROTC | Unit Sought Movement on Foot to Establish Junior Corps in Winston - Salem Schools. \ Bv LYXX XISBKT AiU- 1'2. A sRiivi'mont on' . it i'.uiior Reserve Of— j Corp- unit in the' high school. and tne L'niverity trustees last H a senior ROTC at Ii:!! unit has served toj " tion to the work already i in X<>rth Carolina. ■ . * present two senior ut?-;~ in the Stare.j Vye and Slate College, -enii>r units, and while' ■<•• •1 sii.'ih" opposition to ■ ;»inins4 iit Davidson, a! such protest has not! • joint of causing serious it advocates. With the • what it i- now. there is j • u of any change at, r several yeare. ROTC units are at Oak Academy, a school, i"tiu and txcellent rec-j ' y T; lining, .md at New • . School in Wilmington. J inlcrt -ted persons at1 • . are working toward I • • ' of ii unit there like ' V. i nington. ' R( )'I'C units in the j 1 be not;-d. are equally; '•■it public and private! State College and New; I *"v- School are operated •>■. . rii• Davidson College! h'rdge arc owned and op-j -t" benefit of public tax-j of college ROTC are j •••(( '•> enter the army in . i'lit their college dip iiitarv certificates en *«i:• y commissions ii . And in case of war ■ i»ct to tall for active; Cotton Closes 4 To 10 Higher . Any. 12.—(AP)—Cot •( <i 2 t>i 3 higher. ' • ti'.p.cid stnnu might ' je damage tu new :i. .'>me outride buy ;«»«>tt held gains oi Kuui.'t - closed 4 to 10 i; .-.)>! » KUiO. up 2. Open—Close i „ 9.32 9.34 I 9.20 9.34' y.24j . fl.15 9 23 ■j iii! 9.o:} I>.bO o.oc Bathing Beauty Smiling1 at you here is Nancy Lewis, 6, of Philadelphia, cuddling the tro phy she won in the bathing suit di vision of the juvenile fashion show at Wildwood, N. J. She is contestant for queen of the annual baby parade at Wildwood Hunting Time For Wildfowl Is Extended. Washington. Aug. 12.—«(AP)— Secretary Iekes announced today that the hunting season for ducks, geese, coots and jaeksnipes had been extended to 60 days this year from the 45-day limit of last season. Announcing the annual regula tions for shooting migratory water fowls, the secretary said that the ex 'ension was made possible by an increase in population of the birds. The regulations also lengthened the Men 21 To 45 Proposed Annual Listing of Men Available tor i\on Combatant Activities as Well as for Military Service Is Suggested. Washington. Aug. 12- (AP))— Annual registration of all men from 21 through 44. to prov ide an index of the industrial a* well as military man-power of the nation, was pro posed today by Senator Barkley of Kentucky to supplement conscrip tion. "We ought to have information on the number of men who arc avail able for non-combatant activities, as well as those who might be called for military service." the Democratic floor leader told reporters. Incorporation oi' Barkley's sug gestion into the pending Burke-Wads worth bill would entail some changes in the contemplated con scription plan, it was pointed out by Senator Sheppard of Texas, floor manager of the measure. The bill calls for a single regis tration to compile the list of men eli gible for active training, although the program would remain in ef fect five years. Any additional reg istrations, Sheppard said, would re quire new action by Congress. Under the bill as approved by the military committee, only men from ] 21 through 31) would have to register. Senator Burke of Nebraska, however, has offered an amendment to in- J crease the bracket from 21 through j 44. hunting d;iys. Shooting may start at sunrise and continue until 4 p. m., j for waterfowl"and coots. Last year the hours were 7 a. m. to 4 p. tn. I Jaeksnipe may be hunted from sun- j rise to sunset. Shorter seasons were provided, however, for 'woodcocks and the! bag limit on peese was reduced from four to three a day. Shooting seasons on wild fowl in I the southern area will begin on Ne vcmber 2 and close on December 31. i North Carolina is bracketed in the i southern area. Uncle Sam Can Look South For Rubber And Tin Supply By CIIAKLKS P. STFWAKT Central Press Columnist Washington. Aug. 12.—With Japa persistently threatening to grab the butch East Indies, cutting off sup plies or rubber ancl tin, for which Uncle Sum is so dependent upon the Oriental archipelago, the compara tively few individuals in this coun try who really arc pretty well ac quainted with Latin American re sources keep wondering why wc do not turn in that direction for the two raw commodities referred to. In Brazil, far up the Amazon, is more than enough rubber to meet all our requirements. Bolivia has tin in unlimited quantities. Brazil's rubber forests will need a lot of tapping and Bolivia's tin will have to be mined far more energet ically than it is" n<iw. and facilities will have to be provided to get the raw stuff from the continental inte rior. but it's a mere matter of spend ing an adequate amount of capital for development work to make the United States independent of the Dutch East Indies. Up-the-Amazon rubber already was beginning to be exploited as lar back as several years before the last World War. The incipient industry finally petered out. however, main ly due to an insufficiency of boating to bring the gum down the big river to tide water for trans-shipment. In cidentally. local labor, to bring the •tuff in from the trees, is scarce, and it's a fearfully tough jungle country 'or r-n^ workers except native to live in. Anyway, hardly anyone now is •»v">re that there's more rubber to ward tho source of the big waterway th:m the Dutch East Indies has to ^ffrr. Bolivian tin ii better known, but it isn't dug up at all intensively. Per- j haps it's because Bolivia s a land- i bound country. The tin, lor export, | must get to the Pacific through Peru : or Cliile, which, if they had a lot ol" it to handle, might become unafc- I commodating. Japan's Feelings Hurt Japan for a long time undobut-! edly has had a covetous eye on the ! Dutch East Indies. It wants them more than ever, i though, since President Roosevelt, by the creation of an export licens ing system, recently virtually placed a .ban upon American shipments of petroleum and scrap iron to Nippon, i Now, the Japs can get considerable petroleum and a modicum ol" iron j from the Netherlands islands, which ! gives them an urgent reason for mak ' ing an immediate grab, if they're | ever going to. Furthermore, they're incensed by the presidential ban. j recognizing it as a jab at their 1 campaign in China. So they not only still want the archipelago on genera! . principles; they particularly want the j islands at once for their petroleum ' and iron. And finally they want i them right now as a good way of ! getting even with Uncle Sam for him embargo, by shutting off his I rubber and tih supplies. Regardless of rubber and tin. ! Uncle Sam objects to a Jap seizure I of those islands. It would make the mikado too powerful in the Pacific, ; He's regarded as a dangerous chap at best. We've Plenty of Oil But. waiving that consideration, it v.ould be r.ico for Uncle Samuel if I .'-!c could fee! himself in a position j o tell Japan to "go take a long run (Continued on Pu£e Five) Seeking New Taxss for Defense Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau (right) appeals to the House Ways and Means Committee for Bwift action on passage of an excess profits tax scheduled to olFset fast-mounting defense costs. He said spending would create a record deficit for peacetime of $5,700,000,000 at the end of the current fiscal year unless new taxes are imposed. Left, is William S. Knudsen, head of the national defense advisory com mittee. Center, is Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. (Central Press) On Greece Greeks Charged With Supplying Oil to Brit ish Planes and War ships. Rome. Aug. 12.— (AP) — Italy turned her propaganda guns omin ously on Greece today, charging the Greeks with supplying oil to British warships and planes and conniving with the British in plots along the border of Italian-conquered Albania. The reported beheading of an ob scure Albanian minority leader by Greek border raiders louched off a violent press campaign reminiscent of those by Germany against Czecho slovakia and Poland. Britain was brought into the pic ture by newspapers with a charge that British warships and warplanesj operating in the Mediterranean j against Italy were fueling at Greek j bases. Greece, neutral friend of Britain, received a pre-war British guarantee of her territory. At the time this; guarantee was given, the Greeks | "spoke openly of the future of a 1 Greek kingdom, which would have embraced Albania," the Italian news paper II Popolo di Roma said today. I ' RE A Charges Refuted By State Record By LYNN NIS1J1.T. Raleigh, Aug. 12.—Despite flam-! boyant headlines announcing' that, utility companies in North Carolina are deliberately hindering the rural electrification program, the figures show that North Carolina made more progress iast year in this re. pect than; any other state. Dudley Bagiey. chairman of the State Rural Electrification Authority, declined to comment on the charges; made from Washington that the pro gram was being handicapped by lack of utility co-operation, further than to call attention to figures released i by his office last week showing that utilities had built more than twice as many miles of rural power lines in this state as had been built by the varkrus mutual and membership cor porations on money borrowed from the federal government. It was also pointed out that dur ing the past year the state REA had made application for loans to new! membership corporations in amounts far exceeding the available alloca-j tions for such purposes. Popularity of the state membership co-operative plan is proven by the fact that negotiations are underway at present by every mutual rural power organization in the state to change their charters so as to come under the state membership corpora tion law. There are live mutual com panies and 18 member-hip corpora tions operating under state charters at the present time. Within a few months all of the matuais will have changed over. Little Damage At Myrtle Beach In Sunday Hurricane Myrtle Beach, S. G\, Aug 12.— (AIM—The most serious damage inflicted 011 Myrtle Beach by a 30 to 40 mile gale yesterday was the almost complete depopulation of the resort, officials agreed to day. A number of houses were un roofed, streets were littered with debris and the Second Avenue pier was heavily damaged, but there were no casualties. The brunt of the storm seemed <0 have passed just south of here in the neighborhood of Pawle.v's Island. FDR Inspects j New Defense 1 Installations Newport, R. I., Aug. 12.—(AP)— Pre ident Koosevelt ciiinc nere today in the iiiidst of the nation's $10,000,- ; 000,000 preparedness drive and looked over three more of New Kng- j :anct's major defense installations—! the naval war eollege and torpedo and training stations. Stopping first at the torpedo plant --(.lie of the world's largest — on i (»o;:i Island, the Chief Executive | completed his inspection in a matter of minutes, pausing to look at two ion and a half torpedoes. in an aside, a gob whispered that 1 'Continued on Pane Fivp. Stocks Show Quiet Strength New York, Aug. 12.—(AP)—Quiet resistance of steels and selected in dustrials steadied the stock market today after considerable early hesi tancy attributed to nervousness over, fresh war developments. At the close, forenoon declines ol fractions to a point or so were re-1 duced or transformed into modest* advances. Transfers weie around 250,000 shares. American Radiator American Telephone .. American Telephone B . Anaconda Atlantic Coast Line .... Atlantic Refining Bendix Aviation Bethlehem Steel Chrysler Columbia Gas & Elee Co Commercial Solvents Consolidated Oil Co. ... Curtiss Wright DuPont Electric Power Light .. General Electric General Motors T ift^oit & ?.Tvf>r- B MontCfsmerv r ; "J'ndr.H <^1 Co. I. Reynolds 1-3 Railway U S Steel G 1-8 : 162 3-4 75 1-2 20 j 11 1-4 23 30 1-4 78 5-8 74 1-2 5 5-8 10 6 1-8 7 1-2 186 3-4 5 1-8 34 1-4 48 5-8 97 to. ai \-i li y-v, 53 1-3 . Death Toll At Least 8 Property Damage Is High; Charleston Still Cut Off From Com munications. Atlanta. Aug. 12.—(AP)—Repair I crows rushed work on crippled com- I munications in storm-battered co;is- [ t;il areas of South Carolina and Georgia today while authorities j checked casualties and property i damages. ; Two persons died at Savannah, . Gn., during the gale yesterday, and a j report from Beaufort county, S. C. said there were ten Negroes dead there. i Historic Charleston, a city of 73,000 , population, suffered considerable property damage but no loss of life was reported. Earlier reports over a i .short wave radio station of six per- i sons drowning at Folly Beach near Charleston were not confirmed. The storm, which originated in the West Indies early last week, turned j inland early Sunday between Savan nah and Charlcson. The storm blew 1 itself out today over this area, ac companied by heavy rains. Army officials at Fort McPherson, Ga.. said their radio operators had received no reports of severe casual ties in Charlcson. Fort Moultrie gave refuge to some COO civilians from Sullivan's Island, near Charleston, and most of the residents at other vacation resorts along the Carolina and Georgia j coast moved to points of safety ahead of the winds. Coast guardsmen j and state highway patrols raced to ! warn all persons in exposed areas 1 before the hurricane struck. No word of casualties came from either Fort Streven, near Savannah, or Beaufort, S. C, where the storm and accompying high tide struck in full force. Military sources received ■ no information of damage at the big Paris Island marine base and an- ! nounced they assumed personnel had Escaped unharmed. Six of the deaths were reported by the amatur radio operators before they were forced off the air. They | said six drowned at nearby Folly Beach when their automobile plung- ; L*d from a flooded highway. A Negro I woman was killed by broken glass at Savannah, and a man died of a j heart attack when a tree was blown j down at his home. A considerable section of Charles- , ton was under water four to six ■ feet deep. A number of persons suf- , fercd minor injuries from flying de- ; bris. The weather bureau at Wil- | mingto'n reported high winds but no storm damage Sunday. 1 (Occtthafi ( FOR NORTH f AFO Consid'TabJ" doiid'""" night and Ti*?«dsv, with oc casional icaliored showeret. 200 German Planes In New Attack Royal Air Force Fight ers Are Quick to Meet Chalienge of Nazi Raiders; Britain Cold to Hoover Proposal. (By The Associated Press.) Nazi warplanes by the hun dred—including a 200-plane ar mada in a sin file thrust—lashed with hlitzkrcig fury against Eng land today, attacking British balloon barriers, harbors, chan nel shipping and the great naval base at Portsmouth. An unofficial German tally claimed 164 British planes de stroyed in the two-day assault which opened yesterday with an intensity hinting that the long awaited "zero hour" may now be at hand. Berlin dispatches said record sized fires were started at Ports mouth. the base of the British home fleet, and tliat the airport in Dorsetshire was left in ruins by a concentrated bombing at tack. The official Gcrii.au news agency asserted that Hitler's air force had already begun to seize air superiority—prelude to ac tual land invasion in other Nazi conquests — and that British royal air planes were no longer attacking German raiders. Swift to neeept the challenge, royal air force defense planes raced out to sea to meet the nazi aerial armada and drove back all but 55 of the at tacking force. i-'.ncion cuspaicnes saia mai oy early afternoon at least 14, possibly 16, German planes were shot down. The Berlin radio counter-claimed that 23 royal air force planes were destroyed in the opening phase of the day's battles. German planes were reported still pouring across the channel in appar ently growing numbers. The raiders sniped at barrier bal loons, strung in protective networks like mines floating in the air, along the south English coast. Four of the sky traps were reported shot down over Dover. "Large scale enemy activity is taking place over a wide area in the channel and Thomase estuary," the British air ministry reported. The official German news agency said that the raids iijlieted "new .-overt: blows'" and that the battle was still under way. The na/.i high command asserted 90 British planes were destroyed in yesterday's spectacular air fight, with three others shot down by anti-air craft fire. Twenty-one German pianes were? report*.1 missing 'IMe official British score was 60 Ger man planes shot down, and 26 Brit ish craft. More than 100 planes clashed in this morning's first sky battle, stag ed over the English channel and the hi!is of the southeast coast. Droning through the sunrise haze lit an altitude of 20.00.0 feet, the nazi bombers and Messerchmidt lighters were intercepted by British pianes. Royal air force Spitfires knifed down to break up the Messerschmitts, iv hi eh attempted to keep "flying cir cles'' formations to protect each >ther. An eye witness said one nazi plane made a "flaming torch" as it plunged into the sea. In the new raids over Britain to day, nazi war planes attacked air plane factories, ports and oil depots, the German high command reported. In London, a spokesman indicated in the absence of official comment that Britain would be adverse to a /ropo-al of former President Herbert Hoover that the United States sup ply food to Holland, Belgium, and Norway. The spokesman said tiiat Britain .voulti vigorously maintain its block ade against Germany and nazi-oc .•upied European states, and that food lor 18,000.000 non-Germans in the occupied territories depended on 'fair distribution by Germany, which ias an abundance of supplies". WPA Money To Storm Area Washington, Aug. 12.—TAP)—The Vorks Progress Administration an lounced it had made a $10,000 emer [eney appropriation for hurricane ind reiiel work in South Carolina. The money, requested by L. M. 'ine'-rnoy. state WPA administrator, vii! ho ;.-ed to rehabilitate property nd t'j I.i'-: 1 .*« '<■ efforts to jnsure safo y in the district . wept oy the hurri :ane.
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