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Hfcttiterann \ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA . v>-j- VKNTH YEAR mivITss^ET®DRrRl|sop HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 16, 1940 PtBUS^iE¥^XDA"EKNOON FIVE CENTS COPY Two Greek Warships Bombed [jndeciared War Said To Be f orming Both ^hips Escape At tack by "Unknown" Warp lanes; Merchant Ship Bombed in Har bor; Italians Disclaim Responsibility. \tli<Mi» 16.— (AD—A null «ut::»• !\ *.iid here tonight the i i>rmn.::itliTN of two Greek dot!-"* rr^ i>ouil>fU by «arp!ai>t<s :.>dav hail reported by radk» to the navy ministry that the at Lukiiu plane* were Italian. File government refrained rptm u:n romment. insisting that the plane* were of "unknown" iuti«>iuli:\. A_ !b\ — (AP)— The1 • - Yasilevs Georgios (.'..i were attacked : > by unknown" - ■ ( > steamed toward j where the Greek | - • rpedoed and sunk unidentified sub ycis. according to Athens, escaped -.^'ng at full speed. • • : ire on the planes. -; rted that a" Greek identified as the ed by "unknown" ' - \.i ie lying in an un-1 t i Greek harbor. c.iine amid mount- j ■ • t :elations between ' . !y. fn|lowing bitter V- paigns against the j G . authoritative fas-1 wrote that the torpedo -t : Helle was part of j " • i : ecipitate a crisis nd Greece. The »»•>»• Italian responsibility . -i >nip oy Uii • • : marine*) <.■ - expressed be- ' •' att; f:k left Greece " ' undeclared war declared the! • ' yet taken anvj easures. because ' '■r which was se-; . Greek -hips desired ' • Turkish press hint • : any open Italian Greece may see that! '• ly involved in ful-; B \sh-Turkish mu >".ce pact. V . ... :-,i. Exchange Tele- j : ed on Pane Two) 'inctop W oman Is Killed By Gunshot Aug. 16.—(AP)—Mrs. •i Stallings. 38. died home in Pinetop at • :i a 22 calibre rifle • ds of her husband, ; discharged when j - id Mm. Dickie, bump • .< Coroner J. G. paneled the Cor el '■ .»• would have . investigation some week.. will be held on ning at Pinetop with \'i Bern tomorrow Stalling was the and Mrs. L. H. Can- j Five Killed In Powder Plant Expiosion •a. 16.—(AP)—Five fl killed this morn •i at the Atlas pow i- east of Joplin. f: in the dvnamite • Wwieh hT* been •apacity because of licated the exp'os ■.t the new TNT > same reservation <•: of the European ;<!ant to the Jasper " ■••• and to Joplin v.- of emergency Young "Recruits" William Downing. 8, and Richard Downing, 4, wearing their impro vised field equipment, arrive at the "front lines" in upstate New York, ready to do their part in the exten sive army maneuvers. The young sters were told to come bick in about fifteen years. Stiff Fight j In Africa Italian Troops Said to Have Been Slowed By Strong British Resist ance. Cairo, Aug. 16.—(AP) — British aerial bombardment and machine gun fire on Italian troop concentra tions and communication lines in Somaliland have slowed up the las cist advance on Berbera. capftal of the protectorate, the British report ed today. The Italians were said to be meet ing stiller resistance from British forces aided by native troops and from constant bombing of columns attempting to advance. One Italian column was using the coast road and was aiming first at Burhar. 40 miles west of Berbera. The other was driving from the south. Today's British communique said (Continued on Page Seven) Roanoke River Has Heaviest Flood In Recorded History Negotiations With Britain Carried On Washington, Aug. 16.— (AP) — President Roosevelt announced today that the United States is "holding conversations" with Great Britain on acquisition or naval and air bases by the United States "with special ref erence t<> the Panama Canal." The Chief Executive made this an nouncement at his press conference but cautioned reporters repeatedly not to tL* it up with any speculation about the release of American de stryoers to Great Britain. Voluntarily, Mr. Roosevelt authoi-' ized the following direct quotation! on the negotiations: "The United States government is holding conversations with the gov ernment of the British empire with regard to the acquisition of naval i and air bases by the United States for American hemisphere defense with special reference to the Panama Canal." The President then said that he' had an another item of news on j which he also would make a direct quotable statement, which was: "The United States is carrying on conversations with the Canadian government looking toward defense of the American hemisphere." British Bomb Italy Again Rome, Aug. 16.—(AP) — British! planes flying across Switzerland j bombed cities in northern Italy for! the second time in three days today, authorities reporting one plane was shot down over Turin and that part of the crew ol' five were killed and the others captured. In raids on Milan. Turin. Tortona and Allesendria, 22 persons were re ported killed and more than 50 in jured. The British in those opera tions dropped leaflets as well as Dombs. Other Rivers in East ern Carolina to Have Only Fairly Heavy Floods; Prison Farm at Caledonia Threat ened. RaMeh. Aug. 16.—(AP)—Pri son officials disclosed this after noon they were considering dynamiting the nine-mile Cale donia prison dike in order to save it from the record flood in th** nearby Roanoke river. This would innundate approxi mately 3,000 acres of crops valu ed at S70.000. but would save the main dyke. Engineers will be at the site to dynamite the long wall if need be. Despite the flood, officials said it might not be necessary to remove convicts from the prison fami. Earlier they had said they were pushing plans to move all or part of the 450 prisoners. There was fear that industrial plants in the Wrldon and Roan* Rapids areas would be flooded. Other eastern Carolina rivers had only fairly heavy floods. At Clarksville, Va., the Roanoke was 23 feet deep this morning. The weatherman here immediate ly forecast that it would exceed the | 50.3-foot level set as a record at Wel don in 191&. -Kiood stage is 31 feet at Weldon andv the water was 41.9 there this morning. The prison dikes were holding all right this morning at 9:30 o'clock and could stand six or seven feet of wa ter, but at that time the stage was only 41.9 at Weldon. Scores of convicts were being us ed to sand-bag and storm-sheet the dike which protects crops valued at $70,000. The barracks are located some thing like a mile from the river, but the terrain is flat and high waters in 1937, which fell several feet short of j the previous record, came to within j a few yards of the doors. The record flow was caused by j more than eight inches of rain at Clarksville Wednesday and another j 4.45 inches yesterday. The Neuse river was in a second rise at Ntnise Station today with a depth of 16.8 feet alter dropping to 15 feet late yesterday. A state of upwards of 18 feet was forecast for Smithfield. Goldsboro and other points be low there on the river were in for a j "right heavy" flood, the weather bu- < reau predicted. The Tar river was 27 feet deep at [ Tarboro this morning, nine feet above flood level, and was out of its banks all the way down below Greenville. The Cape Fear was staying in its banks in the upper reaches but was flooding by about tour i'eet at and below Elizabeth town. Election Of Roosevelt Is Of Vital Importance To Dr. McDonald, Averill Says Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HEXKY AVEKILL Raleigh, Aug. 16.—To most of the professional politicians in North Car olina the re-election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt is a consum mation more or less devoutly to be desired; but still not of reanscendent importance. The one exception which proves this rule is Dr. Ralph W. Mc Donald. to whom the President's suc cess is absolutely vital. In the case of the University's as sociate extension director, the dif ference between an FDR victory and a New Deal defeat is the difference between being the king bee of North Carolina politics and being complete ly washed up as u potent figure in the state's governmental affairs. Reasons are almost too obvious to need detailing. McDonald, ever since his entry into Tar Heel politics, has been the arch-exponent of New Deal philosophy. He has shouted his "lib eralism" from' every available hust ings and has let no chance slip to assert his undying loyalty to the na tional Administration. That sort of thing, naturally, gives him a stake in Roosevelt and New Deal success; but that really isn't the half of his interest in the current na tional campaign. It ail comes down to this: II Roose velt is re-elected, the key man in North Carolina, so far as Federal oatronage and contacts are concern ed, will oe none oth*"* ^an Dr. Mc C.i Lie oilier should Roosevelt go down to defeat, McDon ald will be left well out on a limb. He has brought down on himself again the enmity of the State powers that be (Hoey, Bailey, etc.), and un less he does have some "drag" in ! Washington he will be definitely handicapped in any North Carolina political fight. There is no concrete evidence that Dr. McDonald intends to make any political war in his own behalf at anytime in the future; but when 1944 comes round it is going to be very i hard lor him to keep his hat on his I head and out of the gubernatorial j ring. He had said, probably quite; truthfully, that he has no present in-; tention ever to run for any political post; but that doesn't mean he will not do so when the time comes and the itch gets him. He came within the proverbial inch ; of running against Dr. Clyde A. ' i Erwin for superintendent of public! j instruction this year but was deter i red by his physician's advice and his; ' wife's pleadings. If he was that near ! yielding to temptation to try for a j minor office, think what a mental battle he'd have to keep out of the; ' next governor's race. j The role he played in events pre I Jiminary to the Chicago convention, ' and the evident reliance the Roose j velt managers placed in him at that I gathering are proof positive that he ! will be the key man in Tar Heelia ! these next four years if Roosevelt ! wins again. i And so it can be safely jotted down that the re-election of the President is of more direct, vital concern to Dr. McDonald than to anybody in North Carolina not drawing pay checks from the national government at the current writing. State Rests In Dale Case Charlotte, Aug. 16.—(AP)— The prosecution concluded its evidence today in tl\ trial of Frank E. Dale, his wife known as Reno Duffy, and Dr. W. E. Wishart on charges of con spiracy to defraud Rufus Bryant, 42 year-old Clinton farmer. The prosecution alleged that Mrs. Dale falsely led Bryant to believe that an infant the Dales obtained from a hospital here was Mrs. Dale's and that Bryant was the father of it, and thereby obtained $2,000 from Bryant. Two affidavites sworn to by the state's first witnesse, Betty Austin, and other papers bearing on the case were introduced today over the ob jection of defense attorneys. The affidavits and other exhibits including hospital records and re ceipts allegedly from Dr. Wishart to the grandmother of the unwed moth er of the baby, a birth certificate of the infant, and telephone records of the Dale home were introduced by the state to corroborate previous prosecution testimony. fjJsjaJtksih FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy: scattered showers in north portion av1 near the coast tonight. Saturday partly cloudy. | Death Throes of a Nazi Plane Actual death of a Nazi plane is recorded in this remarkable series of I photos. Top left, the plane has been hit by gunners of a Royal Air Force defender off the coast of England and has heeled over, starting its downward plunge. Top fight, the wounded plane crashes into the Channel and ex podes. Lower, burning oil and gasoline from burst tanks create a funeral i pyre. Britain claims to have downed hundreds of raiders. 'OtherHome Town9 Welcomes Willkie '■j Morehead City Man Dies After Injury In Blast Morehead City, Aug. lfi.—(AP)— Rudolph Dowdy. 32. Morehead City business man and general chairman of this year's coastal festival, died at 11:50 last night of injuries receiv ed Wednesday night when fireworks exploded as he examined them. Funeral services will be held here Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Research On Labor Asked Commission Asks That Thorough Study Be Made as Basis for Leg islation. Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Aug. 16.—The North Car olina commission studying need for a state wage-hour law wants to get a clear, complete picture of condi tions before making any recommen dations as to the desirability of any fair labor standards statute. Meeting at the call of Chairman Forrest H. Shuford, commissioner of labor, the commission has requested money from the contingent and em ergency fund to employ a director of research to get the data needed to present such a picture. The five members (Mr. Shuford, Capus M. Waynick, High Point editor and commission vice-chairman; State Senator H. P. Taylor, of Wadesboro: Representative Henry C. Dobson, of Elkin, and Hugh G. Horton, of Wil liamston) unanimously agreed it will be impossible to function properly without a thorough study. Data desired, not only as to the extent to which wage and hour legis lation would affect the employed personnel and the employers of North Carolina but also as to the, nature of the attempt to fashion and; enact legislation during the General Assembly of 1939. Governor Clyde R. Hoey has not yet expressed any opinion about em ployment of a research director, but it is likely that the Commission had his informal approval of such a step before acting on a resolution request ing funds for the director. Efforts to put through a state wage and hour law in 1939 were stymied from the very start by opposition which grew so aggressive that or (Continued on Page Two) Republican Presiden tial Nominee to Accept Nomination and De liver Keynote Speech Tomorrow at His Birthplace. Rushvillc, Ind., Aug. 16.—(AP)— Wendell L. Willkie's "other home! town" gave him a noisy midnight; welcome when he returned to rest today before formally accepting the Republican presidential nomination. 1 The streets were thronged as Will kie and his wife, who was born here, arrived at the head of an automobile • caravan from Indianapolis. They had I flown to the Indiana capital from I Colorado Springs, where the nominee! spent the last month getting ready: for his campaign. Tomorrow noon the Willkies will go to the nominee's birthplace, EI-; wood, for a rally which party leaders hope will draw a quarter of a million persons. Willkio will deliver his key note speech, giving special attention j to his views on oh national defense! and the foreign situation. Swedish. Ship Torpedoed New York, Aug. 1G.—(AP)— The Swedish steamer Hod run was report ed torpedoed today off the Irish coast in a message picked up from Eng land by Maekay radio. A message indicating an attack by a submarine said "Hedrun tor pedoed." Maekay said the message came from the Portishea radio in the! British Isles. Injunctions Signed Raleigh, Aug. 16.—(AP)—Federal: Judge I. M. Meekins has signed seven i more injunctions in the eastern dis trict tcj restrain lumber operators from violating the wage-hour law, the wage-hour division announced today. Judge Meekins previously had signed nine injunctions. Lumber operators accepting the consents judgments .included R. F. Adams of Drewry, R. A. Critcher and T. F. Critcher of Williamston, J. S. G'odard of Jamesville, W. P. Long of Halifax county, E. H. Parker of War renton, W. R. Robertson of James and J. L. Miiis oi Ivlaysville. No News Of Air Battle In 2 Hours Germany Wirelesses to London and the World More Planes Are to Follow 2,500 Raiding London To day. London, Aug. 16.—(AP)—A great air battle for England and England's heart thundered tonight over these islands as invading nazi planes rode the skies above London. All day the kingdom had been pounded by a vast fleet of bombers and fighters. And then, as Germany wirlessed to London and the world that more were yet to come, this capital of the empire itself was drawn into the theatre of action. A censorship fell tight upon Lon don. (For more than two hours the As sociated Press in New York received from London no news dealing with the raids. (The Germans announced that in thundering engagements over Lon don their bombers had observed big explosions in the eastern part of the city. ("Eveiywhere smoke was rising. Everywhere hits and bombs craters were visible" DNB said in a running account of what appeared to be the biggest battle in history of air war fare. The news agency asserted that sky-blackening waves of bombers and fighters "have breached the air barrier and cleared the air over Lon don." (If true, the heart of the British empire apparently lay at the mercy of new waves of nazi bombers „\*4iich DNB said were still streaking across the channel. London, Aug. 16.—(AP)— Great waves oi nazi planes estimated as high as 2,500 fighters and bombers, twice as many as yesterday's all-time record assault, flashed across the English coast today and bombed the island kingdom from Scotland to Cornwall. An Associated Press correspondent in a southeast coast town, apparently Dover, said he counted 400 planes at that single point roaring across the channel in six waves at five-minute intervals. By mid-afternoon the Germans were reported fanning out all over England. In Berlin, DNB, official news agency, said "numerous waves" of bombers and fighters were flying over the Thames river, the high road to London, heading for north cen tral England. Beginning before dawn, the nazi raiders launched the sixth successive day of the greatest mass air siege of all times by raining bombs on the midlands, the northwest, southeast, southwest and Wales. Some casualties, including deaths, were admitted and the German bombs were said to have struck hos pitals and a sanatorium during the night. A German bomber shot down by British fighters u; *: o northeast Humber area, it was announced of ficially. Revising upward the number of German planes reported shot down yesterday, the air and home security ministries announced that of 169 nazi planes bagged 153 were brought down by British fighters, 13 by anti aircraft, one by Lewis gun and two by shell fire. Loss of 34 British planes was admitted. (The Germans reported 143 planes destroyed Thursday, 106 of them in air combat, and acknowledged the loss of only 32 German, planes.) Japs Reject Defense Plan For Shanghai Shanghai, Aug. 16.—(AP)— The Japanese government will not give its approval to the. Shanghai defense commander's decision to split control oi' the British defense area among United States and Japanese forces, a Japanese naval spokesman declared today. His statement made clear the en tire problem created by Britain's de cision to withdraw her troops from Shanghai is still unsolved as far as the Japanese are concerned, with the outcome possibly depending on how far the United States is prepared to go to enforce the defense commit tee's decision.
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