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Ueniterann Baily Htspafrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA • .SEVENTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST' 27, 1<J4U 1-CBLI8®b¥«Va7.ekn,k'n FIVE CENTS COPY R ilkan Situation Grows Tense ******** ***** ********** *********** £ cess Profits Tax-Amortization Bill Reported Th.j Week },\ra; ure H a s Long o w rgecl as Essen v1; ror Accelerating L-c" nse Preparations; Susp is Profits Lira liauons. A.:- L'7. -AIM— A v • -> profits tax and • 4 as es . • na defence prc <; tec! to the ilouse .'lis approval ■•.•ans committee. • deadloek over . /> provisions, the < d agreement late •. ii.-rs were hopeful u!d pass the bill a t h.e week. :■ A contains these ■-I- "ii corporations tax ot to 5(1 n'ct »t preventing :i defense indus iuct imm taxable income five-year period i \pan>i"ti neccssary " n>o orders. • ti the present 7 tation imposed on • lacturer can make :ders for aircraft «t:.v ates placcd the the excess profits s:s ic i.im>. as com that ■u'-i realised under the . - hedules proposed be .> revised. Supreme Court Members Wear New Robes ....... 11.—(Ai')—Wear : ■ first time in the Sv.v Supreme Court, Hi X«»rth Caro .1 opened its fall headquarter: ; Id i. ij4 here to v.. - tilled to over - . nd state em h«:u gathered to set vets would appeal li.ick at in robes. r :!'./i was that ol v-. B. F. Griffin Vd from Beaufor' ■>;. of Washing ('••• 15. F. Griffin • be dismissed or record hac Charier L. Ab Xc. F'.crn. appearec The c>urt tool advisement. Visitors To 5 intaim ^iay Longer 2>uil\ iJisjKtU-li Bureau. jii liit* ,"\ii iiotel. Visitors to th ol Xorth Carolin • on numerous thi I .t they are stay i!' - Hospital it; . t.- a is being toF Commerce, hot*, i :•> constantly I I -t industry. ;,!ann;ug l<> stay o: and October, ac lion from Fre ry of the' Hen ■ !' ol Commerce. ■; our visitors hav Sept* mber in or iideen home i'cj ::i the fall, .• • are alread ' iy rough Sef a-; or are plannin ..::u stay sever; *..i- fall. Evcrythin ...id longer touri: . itors .•» the Gre« .3' liULC-J On Defense Board ?»• - :^^$?j-;-.;s^S£-jsaass^aiS8S38aagsssaaj»sa8aiflnnjnfjji!Wt Deputy chief of the Canadian army general staff, Brigadier K. Stuart is a member of the Canadian de fense board which . ith the Ameri ; can board is meeting in Ottawa, | Canada, to discuss coordination ®f defenses by the two nations. Is Pledged i LaGuardia Says Can ada - United States , Board Will Have No 1 Minority Reports. ! Ottawa. Aug. 27—(AP)—A pledge 1 of a united front by the Canada : United State* permanent joint de fense board against foreign aggres sion in the western hemisphere was given today by F. H. LaGuardia. ! chairman of the United States sec i tion. ' "I can assure you." the New York mayor said in an intervic/'. "there ! v.'il! r.o minority report from this ; board." 'the beard, appointed by govern I men is o'f the two countries to study | mutual defense methods, opened de ! liberations here yesterday under the I joint chairmanship of Colonel O. M. I Biggar t-i Ottawa and Mayor La j Guadia. J The United States chairman de 1 cl; red tiie problem, so far as Ms go\ - [ ernment was concerned, boiled down ! to win :her strategic points in the ; western iu-uii-pheie are to be used as b. ses f<ir offensive operations by po [ tential euemus or as bases for hemis phere defense. Dismissals In Income Tax Case r I Chicago. Aug. 27.—(AP)—The '[ government dismisrvd William R. •I Shidmore and three other defendant* today at the opening of trial of a ! ciise in which they and others were i charged with conspiring in the al ■ leged evusion of SI.887.864 in income taxes i «• William H. Johnson. Totally unexpected. the dismissal of Skidmore came after a brief di* ci'ssion of several motions between counsel and Federal Judge Barnes when the case was called. Others dismissed were William Goldstein, counsel for Skidmore: Orrie Alexander, a bookkeeper, and Miss Bern ice Downey, an employe in a currency exchange which the gov ernment alleged handled gambling funds. The assistant prosecutor moved j for the dismissals. New York, Aug. 27.—(AP)—Wen dell L. Willkie said today he did not want the support of the Reverend Charles E. Coughiin if he understood correctly that the radio priest is op posed "to certain people in this coun YI try because of their race or religion." The Republican presidential noini gl nee was asked at a press conference whether he had any comment on an S editorial in the publication "Social t Justice." founded by Father Cough iin, calling his acceptance speech a t "much needed call to American na tional!, n:." • xi i un^ciuvaacl what his beliefs, In Limiting i •r*** • Li ik m i*l Senator Burke Pre dicts Passage of Con scription Bill By Sen ate "Before We Quit 1 onight"; House Com - mittee to Approve. Washington, Aug. 27.— (AD — ! ' Quiekiy lining up wilii the benate, j l the House military committee voted today to limit to 9U0,()U0 tiie num , ber ol men v. iio could be given mili j iaiy training at any one period dur , ing peace time under the Burke ; Wadsworth conscription bill. Chairman May, Democrat, Ken- , | tucky. announced tiiat the vote v.us j "pretty one sided". He predicted that the committee would approve the j entire dealt legislation iater in tne j day. The committee also inserted in tiie draft bill the reemployment provi sions of legislation authorizing a year's training lor National Guards men. These sections w«»i.id call on j employers to reinstate trainees upon satisfactory completion of their year's I service and if court action were needed to get jobs back, would au thorize district attorneys to represent the men. Senator Johnson. Democrat, Colo- . rado, opposed peacetime military j conscription as a "waste" of one bii-J lion dollars annually, while advocates ; confidently predicted final Senate passage tonight. Senator Burke, Democrat, Nebras ka, co-author of the bill, told re porters "we'll pass this before we quit tonight." and Senator Sheppard supported the prediction. Johnson, one of the few members j ol the military committee opposed tu the Burke-Wadsworth bill, told j the senate: "We hate Mr. Hitler, but we arei about to strike our precious liberty j a death blow by adopting his Prus i sian idea logy of conscription. 1 can see the smirk on his cold, expression less face as the United States staos democracy in the back because oi j him." Italian Ports In Libya Are Bombarded Ciiiro, Aug. 27.—(AP)—British j naval blows against Jiardia and j Bamba in Italian Libya were report ed today to have inflicted a severe ! attack on Italy's north African j forces. The British navy belatedly an- ! noli need that its forces August 21 | for the second time within a wee!; j had "successfully bombarded" both! Libyan war ports, making the Bar- , dia attack "at pointblank range." | Many observers here believe Mar- j slial Gra/.iani, the Italian commadn- j er, will be forced to start a drive against Egypt soon, despite any re verses, because they say constant' British air and sea bombardments j with consequent disorganization of war preparations cannot be with-1 stood indefinitely. are." Willkie said. "I not only am not interested in his support but I don't want it. "I am not interested in the sup- i )ort of anybody who stands for any form of prejuci^j about anybody's race or religion, or who stands l'or any foreign economic or political philosophy in this country. i "I don't have to be president, but I do have to keep my beliefs clear to iive with myself." Willkie wound up nearly a week nf conferences here in order to fly in mid-alternoon to Rushville. Inci.,' ivhere he will make his headquarters. ^•_-;jieiUDcr 14. ' Berlin—Attacked by Avenging British Bombers ; WAV* v»..w»*V.V. til ilieir irst t*iii illack on the German apitai . ir.ee i i nt oi' the war, British bombers roared down over Hitler's ornate new chancellory and other government b;iikii;;g. in the heart of Berlin. They swept through a barrage that appeared to have brought into action every anti-aircraft gun in the city, including those in Unter lien Linden (1), at Brandenburg Gate (2) and along the Wilhel.^trasso (3). French embassy is at (4) and American embassy at (5). The Nazis at first claimed the raiders dropped only leal lets, but lalcr admitted bombs utd fallen. Both Germany And Italy Are Bombed By British Air Force Ten Percent Increase In Tobacco Quotas For 1941 Washington, Aug. 27.- (AP)—Secretary Wallace proclaimed today j Hue-cured tobacco marketing quota:; lor the first of three years begin- / ning .July 1, 15)41, after officially determining that {5(5.1 per cent t.f the i growers voting in a rob rcr.dum favored a long range program. Wallace set the quota for 1041-42 at (51H,000,000 pounds, or 10 per [ cent more than the quota of 5D6,000,000 which had been proclaimed be- i fore the referendum. The secretary explained the long range program made it possible tu spread the adjustment needed lo eliminate excess supplies and thus the 1911-42 quota need "ml i)e so small. ( The quota for the !9!2-43 marketing year will be announced some ( time bet wen July 1 and December 1, 1041, and the quota for 1943 a year later. Wallace said the offcial canvass of the vote showed 174.779 of the 203,059 farmers voting lav orcd the three-year proposal. The election was heid among flue-cured growers in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia, Florida and Alabama. I No Chance Of New Ticket In State Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Waiter Holei. By HENRY AVERIEL Raleigh, Aug. 27.—There has been :i lot of loose talk in some. newspapers J —usually not North Carolina papers! —that electors pledged to Wendell j IVillkie would be ol'lered in Southern' states on some sort of ticket using j Ihe word "Democratic" on the bal-; lot. This with the idea of sugar-coat ing the Republican nominee for those f who retch at the very thought of | voting Republican. The ideii may be all right in some U:ile-, but it's'a complete impossibil-j ity in North Carolina under the i state's existing election These statutes provide that a new • !>aity can only get on the ballot thro-| ugh medium ol' a petition signed byj the requisite number of voters. There I ivould be no trouble getting that be-' cause enough Republicans would' s'ign right last: but here's the real: rub: the petition must be filed 50! days prior to the election, and it is now less than 90 days until the No vember pollings. S-> that eliminates any possibility that Mr. Willkie can he offered to boosters under some sort of "Demo- 1 era tic" alias or pseudonym. It also eliminates the possibility of; the Prohibition party getting Roger Baboon's name on the ballot. This year only the Democrats andj (Continued on Page Three) Starts Today Washington, Any. 2.7— (AP) —I Undo JS:im tackled the job today of L-nrolling every alien in the United States and its possessions. The order to :cgi.-u_t went out to! iill non-citizcns—to the youngest j infant and the oidest adult, to the •ick and the lame, even to incom-1 petents. The only exceptions were) diplomatic or other representatives of foreign governments and their families. An estimated 3,000.000 non-citi zens are required to register and be Fingerprinted before December 27. They may go to anyone of the 7,300 postol'fices designated for the work. The program, for which Congress ; appropriated more than 83,000,000,1' tvas ordered as a defense measure, to give this country for the first time 1 4n accurate chock on the aliens here, their whereabauts. activities, the I length of their stay, and their rela- j lives. I' Failure to register or making false ]. tatoments while registering involve: penalties up to S1.000 fine and six j months in jail. The latter ollensoi ::lso is a deportable one. I (tJorffhoh FO^ NOUTT? f/.ROLTVA. Partly rioiuly tonight ar.tl Wednesday. British Raiders Score Hits on Great Fiat Fac tory in Italy and Drop Bombs in Berlin; DNB Issues Angry Warning To Britain. (By The Associated Prow;.) British royal air force bombers at tacked both Germany and Italy in far-ranging sorties before dawn to day. and the British Broadcasting Company asserted that government buildings along the VVilhelmstrasse in Benin—where Adoll Hitler's chan cellory is situated—have been among the targets bombed. In London, the air ministry report ed that the royal air force "delivered ;i successful attack upon a number >f important military objectives," in the axis territories. Six tons of bombs were dumped in 40 minutes i>ii Italian industrial targets, the air mini, try said. The Italian high command ac knowledged that British raiders scor ed hits on the great Fiat plane and tank factory at Turin and attacked other points in the face of "violent nir and anti-aircraft reaction." One British bomber was reported shot flown in an attempted attack on, Milan. Nazi warplane.-; flocked back over Britain this morning, renewing al most night-long assaults which kept London's millions awake during a, six-hour raid ending at 3:40 a. m. | Few casualties and little damage j (Continued on Page Three.) Primaries In Three States (By the Associated Press) Senator Hiram Johnson, in his otighest political contest in 24 years, I ;<ught nomination on the Republic-] m, Democratic and Progressive par- , y tickets in California's primary •lection. The veteran Republican senator ,vns opposed by three on the Repub ican ballot, five on the Democratic ind orison the Progressive. Mil sli sippi and South Carolina uid Democratic primaries today. No statewide office was at stake in South Carolina, but a concurrent eferendum on whether to continue ieensed liquor stores created inter est extending beyond the state'. ;o:;ndpr'e?\ Tr AJ',. s:nn:, 'Sr. r ijp'* ••••> wnon .Sr,n^tot' ^ !P for rcnomination, arid forme: i Jovcrnor Mu^h White. Hungarian Plane Said Shot Down Hungary Protests the Downing of Bomber by Fighter Marked With Rumanian Insig < nia; Rumanian-Rus sian Clash Reported. Budapest. Aug. 27.— (AP) — The Hungarian foreign office announced today that a plane marked with Ru manian insignia shot down a Hun garian bomber over Hungarian soil this morning, and diplomatic dis patches from Bucharest reported a bloody bordc clash between Ru manian and i. -iun troops. The Buchan . reports, neither con firmed nor denied officially in the Rumanian capital, said the border cla.-h started Sunday morning and caused hundreds of dead on both sides and the loss of at least two fighting planes. The reports of clashes caused a sharp increase in southeastern Eu rop's tension over negotiations be tween Hungary and Rumania at tempting to settle Hungary's claims for the province of Transylvania. Bucharest was full of reports which officials refused to confirm or deny that there had been encounters between Hungarian and Rumanian planes over the disputed province of Transylvania. The Hungarian foreign office an nounced it iiad sent a protest to Bu charest over what it claimed was an "unprovoked and murderous attack." Military preparations in Hungary, already on a virtual war footing since the practical collapse of attempts to negotiate a settlement of the Hun garian clams on Rumania for Tran sylvania, were noticeably speeded up. Artillerymen on the Rumanian border region were ordered to load their guns with live shells. Anti-air raid precautions continued (Continued on Page Three) Explanation Of Differences Is Promised Washington, Aug. 27.— (AP) — Conceding variations in government warplane figures, the White House (•ailed today lor a defense commis sion report which, it said, would pre sent a "rcc liation estimate" of planes already ordered. This estimate, Stephen Early told reporters, would explain various esti mates made by the War, Navy and Treasury departments, the defense (Continued on Page Three.) Nazis May Arbitrate Von Ribbentrop May Preside at negotia tions Between Hun gary and Rumania. Berlin. Aug. 27.—(AP)—Informed sources said tonight Germany might arbitrate in the Hungarian-Ru manian territorial dispute over Tran sylvania, possibly with Italian aid. The long drawn out Turnu-Severin negotiations are irking the axis partners, who repeatedly have ack nowledged their interest in a quick settlement for the sake of appease ment in :hc r Ikans. these sources said. Negotiations at Turnu-Severin, Rumania, over Hungary's demand that her World War lost province l»e returned, broke down la«t week, aft t which both countries stepped up Sri'- military oreparations. Rep"rfs r. Budapest today, however, said the ,. i -t jojr- •••oiild l.e resum-a.) - -j|| i)f. u- of the • r n ni"rtir j». .*md German For 'gn Minuter ■' 'pf.iiri «."<«n Rihben 1: op will preside, it was said.