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Hiutitersmt Baily Hispafrlj ^ only DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA ' ' EAR Ti l K ASSOCIATE5!^ rilE^. op HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 28, 1940 ' FIVE CENTS COPY Erasing a Flying Pencil . \ t- ior bomber, its starboard motor ailame from a direct hit, ' . . r ; wan! ihirimr a raid over southeast England. This plar>e is known as the "dying pencil" because of its long tail. 'Ins' Have Big Day In Four Primaries Johnson Sweeps Re publican and Appar ently the Democratic and Progressive Tick ets; Dry Forces Win in South Carolina. By The Associated Press) T . ad a big day in returns J Di tour states today I >■ Hiram W*. Johnson. : u .v'eran at odds with ! R evelt. led the parade , • e Republican and ap t.-.c Democratic and Pro i . as v.x'ii, to bring him - . * igton. :.son. who has opposed President's foreign policy, tri v :i what has been call it.- t c\.: paign since 1 L> 1G. incumbents in Con ! ; tar es in South ' M - ssippi and Arkansas. in S • tlx Carolina - .'.iy in an advisory ref " t-. tin- . late should r' .bition. ' all. of California's • h<«itse appeared as .na' .>n for a second w ; Senator Theodore Dl .rr cratic nomination • :orl on Pailf* F»ve) Nazi Bombers Raid England 2<V (AP)—German h<-.ivi!y at the Kent i es estuary lead i y. and British de ■ dared to have shot !."> <.f thf raiders. ' ii announcement "heavy attacks." Germans eiaimed :• undesignated Bri ;.t Tin.- mouth of the dec lured that eight German planes that single en ' «ne ol 18 and the s«>titjht to break ring of defenses. ■ r i re broken up, '■ avage 30-min " middle Kent The residential sec bombed. • ■■•i- ?:i;ent house was •ms were injured. AP Writer j—v * j rj~i p—.o V rails lo rind. Raid Damage By PRESTON GROVER. Berlin. <;ig. 28.—(AP)—A per sonal tour of virtually every major spot in central Berlin, including Adolf Hitler's chancellory and other 1 official quarters, has failed to dis-i close a single bomb hole caused by ! British laids. Important war industries in the! outskirts of the city are in a re-1 stricted area, which I was unable to j visit of cour. e, but I have been un- ; able to find an informed resident of these sections who reported either j fire or explosions in th«;.-c vicinities, j Apparej'.ly more damage has been ! done by anti-aircraft projectlies than by British raiders and such damage j is tril I ;!ij;. After the British air raid of Mon- 1 clay windows wei \ reported broken by falling splinters. A bucketful of1 tile broken off by a chunk of shell fell near this correspondent, but the! monetary damage was slight. Knox Lists Navy Planes Secretary of Navy Re plies to What he Terms "Unintelligent Criti >> cism. | Washington. Auy. 28.—(AP)—Re i plying to what he called "unintel-j iigent criticism" of Army and Navy' plane purchasing policies, Secretary Knox said today that the Navy had 1.031 combat planes. 1,489 training i planes and 21 miscellaneous craft un der contract but not yet delivered. I j lie gave the breakdown to his press conference in elaboration of the over-all picture of Army and Navy I plane purchases given by President ; Roosevelt yesterday when Mr. Roose velt said 10.015 planes were under construction. ! Saying that the reason for the prp : ponderance of training planes was (Continued nr> P-'^ Fivp> M ti v Presidents Have Been Elected * ^ ''lion! Majority Of Popular \ otes -> Disputed Burrau. i tut- Sir Walter Hotel. . >'i.- Your Raleigh • '■■yvti a great deal o£ _< uvf !" various polls .. A'iilkie as likely to electoral votes li«»»sovf It gets a : ular v >tes: but as tional for the United States. As a matter of fact, nine ot the last 21 presidential elections were wort by eandidates who failed to se cure a majority of the votes east; and in two instances the successful ■ mtidate did not have even a piural ity. furthermore, over the stretch from th-re were seven who diet nave more vuics uiuu i all their opponents combined. There has not been, however, a I minority piesick-nt elected since i Woodrow Wilson went in with aj scant plurality over Charles E. i Hughes, but with less than 50 per: cent ol all oallut-* ca^t ih:«t year. A review til" the elections irom! (Continued on Pu£e Twee J f ^r^®crl By Fi ire nicnis // Conscription Foes Lose Again Passage By I Senate Now Is Conceded Senator Wheeler, the Leader of Opposition, Says "We Did the Best We Could Do. Now It's Up to the House." Washington, Aug. 2o.—(AP)— Supporters ol' compulsory military training defeated in the SenaIj to day a new ell 011 tu ciekv the con scription program until Congress should declare existence oi an emer gency. By a 55 to 27 vote the Senate re jected an amendment offered to the Burke-Wadsworth bill by Senator Wiley. Republican, Wisconsin, which would have permitted immediate set ting up of conscription machinery with registration ol men from 21 through 30, but which would have prohibited calling men into service until Congress declared the step necessary. Hopes dashed by the chamber's 54 to 29 rejection of another proposal to limit conscription to a time of war or threatened invasion, opposition leaders told reporters their fight was over. 'We've put up the best fight we know how.' Seator Wheeler, Demo crat. Montana, said gloomily. "We did the best we could do. Now it's up to the House." Only one major proposal stood in the way of a final vote today as the Senate began its 13th d;iy of debater —a substitute bill by Senator Ma leney. Democrat. Connecticut, to de lay the draft until January 1 while attempts were made to supply the j expanded Army's manpower needs 1 by voluntary one-year enlistments, j There was a division of opinion as to whether the Maloney substi-1 tute would get more votes than previous proposals for conscripion delay. Senator Barklev said he thought possibly five more senators would vote for it than the 29 who supported the proposed to restrict the draft to war time. Wheeler said it probably would not get as many votes. Both i agreed it was headed for defeat. Several Injured In Train Wreck < 11 Milbank, S. D„ Aug. 28—(AP)—li Several persons were injured, at j least one critically, when a local j : Milwaukee Railroad train was de-, 1 railed 20 miles west of here this j 1 morning. Five injured were brought to a i hospital here up to noon, and hospital 11 attendants said others were expected, j Only one car of the passenger train ! remained standing. CONSTRUCTION OF SMALL WAR SHIPS j IS FAR ADVANCED i . | Washington, Aug. 28—(AP)—Sec- i retary Knox said today that con-, struction of smaller war vessels wa« from one to eight and one-hall' months ahead of schedule. Employment in navy yards has in- ' creased 30 per ccnt as a result of the lengthening of the work week t'j! 48 hours and the establishment of! three shifts. j U. S. Joint Defense Board !n Canada | I m—■ —- - - Mayor Florcllo H. LaGuardia of New Yolk, chairman of the United States section or the Canada-United States joint defense board (left) is greeted at Ottawa by Rear Admiral Nclles of the Royal Canadian navy. The white haired man in background is O. M. Biggar, K. C., of the Canadian group. Center, is Commander Forrest P. Sherman, U. S. N., of the American committee. Probe Clash On Frontier Mixed Russian - Ru manian Commission Begins Investigation of Border Trouble. Bucharest, Aug. 2fi.— (AP) —A j nixed Rumanian-Russian commis- j ;ion began investigations t<>d;iy of a I rentier clash which is reported to j lave caused the death of hundreds >f soldiers near Adancata in Buco •ina. Meanwhile, government officials confirmed previously denied report; hat a Russian plane mailing rccon lai.sanee flight over Rumania yes crday was shot down. They said also that about the lame time a Rumanian plan;; was ired on by a Russian ouriuit plane >ut escaped in the clouds. Tn another aerial chish. tw> Soviet | ilanes were reported s-'iot down ves- j crday. These development- '-st a n°w roubled lisht on relation--- between! Rumania and her great neighbor in he ea't. whnvc demand": • '-<•» jmojjht j o appease in June by ending Bess- j lrabia ahd northern Bucovina. French Colony In Rebellion Vichv. France, Aug. 2<5.—(AP)—1 The French government disclosed toe ay what it called a Britisli-ins;;ir xl rebellion in France's African em pire. The government declared that "ail necessary disposition.1-: have been lakon to localize the situation." (General Charles de Gaulle, rec ognized by Britain as the leader of, •free Frenchmen," announced yester day that the governor o* Chad, French territory in the heart of Africa, had notified him of a de-; cision to fight on at the side of the British rather than yield to the Vichy government.) The communique said that this was| not the first time that Britain had attempted to influence French col onies in Africa, referring to a Bri tish offer of protection for all parts of the French cm n ire which sided wiili her after Franco's armistice with Germany and Italy. Konoye Attacks Totalitarianism Roosevelt Signs Bill Authorizing Calling of Guard Washington, Aug. 28.—(AP)— President Roosevelt has signed legislation authorizing him to call out 396.000 members of the Na tional Guard and Army Reserves for twelve months of active duty. The White House announced Mr. Roosevelt's action, saying the measure was signed last night. Congressional action on the guard legislation finally was com pleted last week. It was repre sented to Congress by military ex perts as an essential preliminary to draft legislation since the Guardsmen and Reserve officers would he used in training and or ganizing the conscript army. Now that the legislation is (Continued on Page Fue Gaffney Mill Restrained In Labor Dispute Raleigh, Aug. 28.—(AP)—The Federal wage and hour division's regional office here announced today that Federal Judge Alva M. Lump kin of Columbia, S. C.. had signed injunctions restraining five Gaffney, S. C\, textile mills from alleged vio lations of the fair labor standards act. The office said the mills belonged to the Hamrick chain, employed 1, 777 persons and did more than $3, 000.000 worth of business annually. The mills will make restitution of back wages to employes the amount of which has not yet been determin ed. the office said. Signing of the restraining order TnntimiMfi nn Pa (i)orrfhofr Fon \ORTT! CAROLINA. Partly Vloadv v;i > a few srat trrrd showers Thursday and possible in west tonight. I Japan's New Premier; Says European Theory of Government Is In appropriate for Japan in Formation of New Policies. Tokyo, Ana. 28.—CAP)—Japan's | new premier. Prince Konnye, at- < lacked the theory of totalitarianism j in a surprising speech today <ind as- 1 'erled that it was inappropriate for Japan. . j "No matter what brilliant results j I such a sy-tem may have reared in j i nlher lands. it is not ••eccntable to i Japan." said Prince Konnye, who was expected when he took office | la -1 t.||v 22 to head a totality j regime. """Wlgf i The prince was addressing a group s of 2(> political leaders forming a ) committee assigned to the task of J forming a new national political i -ifiiftiirn in the u'ake of the rwnnt I 1 dissolution of all the old political ; I pa'ties. ; Prince Konoye denied the new sys- 1 Irin would he based on a single pn- 1 tional party as had been generally I expected. lie defined its purpose as "to unite* s ^Continued fin Page ""ivel Planes Drop Incendiary Materials Incendiary Bombs and Drums of Time-Fused Gasoline Dumped on Britain; Fire Brigades Busy; British Raid Italians. (By The Associated Press.) High flying German bombers, thundering .moss the English chan nel in v-shapcd waves, subjected Ihe British Isles to a new type of "or deal by lire" throughout the night and early today—dumping great quantities of incendiary bombs and drums of time-fused gasoline. London dispatches said the wide spread use of aerial flame weapons indicated a new nazi tactic of terror md destruction. Two big wav ,s of swastika-marked bombers s\va< cjti over the coast i,f Kent in the Dover region and head ed towaid London. Swift to meet the threat of an other daylight bombing attack on the empire's capilal, royal air force lighting planes roared up to halt Ihe invaders and engaged them in a terrific 30-minute running battle. London reported the nazi formations were split up and driven back. Six of tiie German planes were re ported shot down. Fire brigades rushed about all night fighting flames set by incendiary bombs in a southeast area—appar ently in the region of the port of Dover. At a single point in the great in dustrial midlands, 100 fire bombs dropped in open country. Elsewhere gasoline drums with mechanisms at <Continued on P* . .- Five) Hitler Gives Peace Order Dictates Desire for Balkan Peace to Ciano, Who Leaves for Vi enna Parley. (By the Associated I'rcss) The Nazi fuehrer received Italy's aiii chalet. Adolf Hitler enacted the ole of behind the scene peacemaker n the Balkan crisis today. Ehc Nazi fuehrer received Italy's oreign minister. Count Ciano. and jresumably dictated his desires for nnintenanra of the st: 1 s quo in outheast Europe, newly ihreatened vith war between Rumania and lungary. Count Ciano then left by plane for Vienna, accompanied by Germany's oreign minister, von Ribbentrop, for four-power parley tomorrow with ialkan representatives aimed at set ling Hungary's claim on the rich tumanian province of Transylvania. Hitler had previously expressed a Irong wish to keep the flames of the (Continued on Pace Five) American Legion i/ocks After Perilous Voyage New York, August 28.— (AP)— Alter a perilous voyage during part S ol which death seemed to lurk in n every wave, the Army transport a American Legion arrived in New E York harbor today with more than 800 American refugees. n The voyage, which began at Pet- < samo, Finland, August 16, carried I the vessel through mine areas north c of Scotland at a time when Germany was proclaiming unrestricted war- i i<tv? in British waters. ! The Norwegian crown princess f: Martha and nor children, fleeing :r >in Scandinavia, w taur-'i off the '• American down Uie b^y by a coat 1 ^uurd cutler. <■ Mrs. norence parnnKin, unutu tatcs minister to Norway, and a umber of other diplomats remained board until the vessel docked in rooklyn. The Norwegian royal party plan ed to drive to Hyde Park tomorrow ind be the guests of Mrs. Franklin >. Roosevelt until the crown prin ess can find suitable quarters. The American Legion was picked p 500 miles at .sea by two United 5U.tes dcst 'i\ rs forming an hon rary escort. V'rt'i.-tlly all the 397 passengers .ere Americans fleeing countries nder German and Russian domina ion.
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