Heniirrson Batly Uispatrfj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA , Y-SEVENTH YEAR KSaJS."' HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 2, 1940 FIVE CENTS COPY North Carolina Struck Again Bv Floods tV. the second time in less than a munth flood .vnierj from rampaging streams struck widespread areas r:t:un'>us section of North Carolina. At least two were known dead and ten persons were missing. by the floods was the town of Marshall, wh re the French Broad riv er rose six let t in the business i picture shows the town's inundated depot with tracks in the left background completely u hum their foundations. Roosevelt, Dedicating Dam, Scoffs A t Critics N. C. Speech Late Today President To Dedicate Great Smoky Moun tains National Park; Praises TVA. ir-.Sept. 2. — (AP>— id' towering Chicka i Ye.-iden t Ki»(>-evel t ritlit the Tennessee rity today and said he accomplishments as ■ .t >oi;i 1 and economic • ' "i 'iiit time." ■ : i"'(i the mile-long dam he TVA' entire system . :t work can do," of a peo "iii a war against waste '' >?.tinned on Patie Five) Preparedness Is Theme At Newfound Gap • t. 2.—(AP;—President "•'i't an audience on the ' t of the Great Smoky t'>r 1;:y that "the greatest ever been launched ' fl'iiu o[ the ind vidual is 1 Americas than ever be that attack, he said "we •■pare beforehand, for pie ay and probably would -• in which he dedicated • ueii jii i'lve) Congress May Adjourn Soon Washington. Sept. 2.— (AP) — Congressional leaders today appeared aiming at a stepped-up legislative tempo for the next few weeks with the unannounced hope of getting Congress to adjourn some time this month. Some confirmation of this came from Senator Herring. Democrat. Iowa, who said leaders were pressing for action on important national defense and tax legislation "so that all of us can go home for a while.' "The public now realizes that the best thing Congress eotiid ciu would be adjourn." Senator Herring said. 'There is no reason why we should j not be able to quit by September 30." ! Violent Death Toll 1$ 346 Over Weekend (By The Associated Press.) Violent deaths over the nation rose to 34f> today in the two days of the extended Labor Day week-end. Automobile accidents, as usual, contributed the greatest nu:nber of fatalities to the toll, with 221, but this was 70 less than the normal traf fic death expectancy as figured on the basis of past experience by the (Continued on Page Eight.) Cotton Quota At Minimum, j Wallace Says ; i Chicago, Sept. 2.—(AP)— Henry A. Wallace, who resigned as secretary I of Agriculture to become the Demo cratic vice presidential nominee, said today he thought the South had al most reached the minimum for its cotton acreage. 'I think the South's cotton acreage j (Continued on Page Eight.) Defense To Make Jobs Government Econom ists Predict 50 Per Cent Reduction in Un employment. Washington, Sept. 2.—(AP)—Ad ministration economists made a Labor Day prediction today that the na tional defense program with con scription included would cut unem ployment in hall by next July, reduc ing the number of unemployed from 9,000,000 to 4,500,000. They said they expected a grad ual, sustained pickup in industrial employment to provide jobs for more than 3,000.000 men in the next ten months. Mobilization of the national guard find inauguration of conscrip tion, providing it is authorized by Congress, would account for another 1.000,000 reduction in unemployment (Continued on Page Four) Bombs Drop On Swiss Soil Bern. Switzerland, Sept. 2.—(AP) —An unidentified bomber, one of a number of night raiding warp lanes which kept Switzerland awake with a series of air raid alarms during the night, dropped bombs on Swiss soil near the former Austrian frontier in the east and driwe heavy anti-air craft lire, it was reported today. A Swiss high command com munkiue this morning did not imme diately identify the invaders, but the government several times has pro aested to London over violations of Swiss territory by British planes raiding northern Italy and southern Germany. The bombs dropped by the one plane landed in fields and did little harm. Bern had a 30-minute alarm at 1 a. m. and Geneva had the second of two alarm* 20 minutes later. The •cccnd was believed to have been taosed by the return of the raiding piBHtuS. Nazis Threaten To Occupy Rumania By British T wo Attempts to Break Through Eng land's Defenses Are Repulsed; Unofficial Reports Say At Least 15 Planes Downed. London, Sept. 2.—(AP)—Ger man air raiders, twicc turned back in thundering thrusts across the English channel, broke thro ugh defenses in cloud-banked skies to threaten the London area for more than an hour late to day, and then wheeled away un der the impetus of violent royal air force aiiacks and anti-air craft fire. The invaders came over at great heights in waves. Successive massed formations had been repelled earlier over the Thames estuary. The air ministry said 25 German planes had been shot down compared with a loss of seven Britist planes. To London observers the first in dication of the German breakthrough was a sudden rush of smoke puffs which sprinkled a whole section of the sky, an indication of anti-air crut batteries at work. Their lire was reported to have accounted for one German plane. Spitfire lighters soar ed aloft. Nine parachutes were seen de scending from stricken planes. The rattle of machine guns was plainly heard at one point. "Our planes were on them like a pack of dogs," said one observer. "And almost immediately the level tone of the raiders' engines altered to high pitched roars, varying l'rom second to second as Hurricanes and (Continued on Page Five! Nazis Sink 2 Warships High Command Re ports Sinking of Two Destroyers in North Sea; Ports Attacked. Berlin, Sept. 2.—(AP)—The Ger I man air force smashed heavily to day at British airports in southeast ■England, military sources reported, as the high command told of the ]sinking of two* British destroyers by ' torpedoes in the North Sea and suc cessful night attacks on such west coast ports as Liverpool, Swanswa and Bristol. Thirteen British planes were downed this morning in savage air battles over southern England, which developed in the course of these raids, DNB, official German news agency, reported. At noon, new fights were report ed over the English coast when CContinued on Page Five) (jJwihsth FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and I Tuesday. On the Balkan Chopping Block Here is the latest division of Rumania, decided at the four-power Vienna conference between Rumania, Hungary, Germany and Italy^ Rumania is said to have bowed to the axis-directed plan, ceding two-thirds of Transylvania, 21,235 square miles, to Hungary in return for promise that German troops would be sent immediately to Rumania's troubled Russian border. Map shows Bessarabia already in Soviet hands, and section of Dobruja recently ceded to Bulgaria. (Central Press) Defense Is Keynote Of Labor Day Theme Martin Asks Probe Of Trip Washington. Sept. 2. — (AP) — Joseph W. Martin, Jr., chairman of the Republican national committee, | proposed today that the Senate com mittee on campaign expenditures in vestigate whether the cost of Presi dent Roosevelt's "political sally into the Tennessee valley" was being paid "out of public money." Asserting in a prepared statement that Mr. Boosevelt "at long last has abandoned his pretense of aloof salesmanship and has decided that it has become necessary for him openly to participate" in the presi dential campaign, Martin said that the "political nature" of Mr. Roose velt's utterances today raised the I question of "who is paying for this I political excursion." ! "Is the cost of his special train and his staff of aides being charged to the United States treasury or, as it should be, to the Democratic national committee?" Martin asked. Investigation Of Airliner Crash Planned I Lcesburg, Va., Sept. 2.—(AP)— The crash of a Pennsylvania Central Airliner in a field near Lovettsville, Va., carrying 25 persons to instant death brought plans today for a pub I lie heai ing by the Civil Aeronautics i board and a possible Senate probe. Literally cut in two by the terri ble impace, the mangled bodies of the 21 passengers and four cr#w mem bers were scattered over a 25-acre area when the giant airliner crashed ' at the foot of the Blue Ridge Moun . tains. Among the victim- was Senator! I Ernest Lundeen, Farmer-Labor, of i ! Minnesota. I Labor Leaders Pledge Loyal Efforts To Fur thering Defense Pro gram; Draft Bill Is At tacked, However. (By Tho Associated Press.) It was labor's day today and it was labor's vital role in the task of national defense that gave the day its; keynote. The holiday message President Roosevelt issued to the nation's workers appealed for the cooperation , of all to strengthen and defend the American way of life. Labor leaders pledged the loyjil ef forts of their unions in furthering the preparedness program and ex pressed readiness to shoulder what ever responsibilities might come. These expressions, however, were frequently coupled with attacks on the pending conscription legislation J opposed by both the American Fed eration of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organization. Wendell L. Willkie, Republican presidential nominee, added another note to the day's statements, charg ing that there was a "present trend toward placing labor unions under (Continued on Page Four) Higher Prices Expected On Eastern Belt Raleigh, Sept. 2—(AP)—JGrowers of the Eastern Bright Leaf Belt car ried thousands of pounds of tobacco to the 14 North Carolina markets to day with the expectation of receiving prices equal to or a little better than the 19 to 20 cents average on the opening of the Border Belt mar kets. \Y. C. Hedrick. tobacco marketing rpecialist in the State agriculture de partment. said t>.r better quality leaf on the Eastern B?lt m'^lit ro-ult h nrices topping those on th.- 3 rdj" Belt. , Anti-Axis Agitation Is Continued Rumanian Govern ment Struggles to Quell Angry Demon strations Against Axis Dictated Arbitration With Hungary. Bucharest, Sept. 2.—(A!')—Semi official Gorman sources, angered by continuing anti-axis demonstrations, declared today that Germans troops would occupy all Rumania if the na tionwide agitation is not checked. The Rumanian government strug gled to quell angry demonstrations against iast week's axis-dictated ar bitration which gave northern Tran sylvania to Hungary. King Carol's palace, public build ings and the German and Italian le gations rtmained under heavy guard as the cry "death to traitors" echoed throughout the kingdom. Demonstrations at Brasov, where nazi flags were torn down over pro test by German officials, particularly have aroused nazi ire. Further arrests of prominent per sons regarded as responsible for yes terday's outburst were reported and arrest of other leaders was expected, to prevent them from organizing new demonstrations. Transylvania leaders nevertheless issued a call for a mass meeting next Sunday at Brasov and said hundreds of thousands would assemble there to voice a united protest. The newspaper Universal, whose editor was jailed yesterday for lead ing a demonstration, defied govern ment censorship by publishing five columns of news on the Sunday dis continued on Page Five) Britain Gets African Aid "Back Hallway" to Egypt Claimed by De Gaulle as Gabon Prov ince Joins. London, Sept. 2.—(AP)—General Charles de Gualle, self-named leader dI "all free Frenchmen," claimed to day to have obtained for Britain a 2,000 mile aerial "back hallway" by which they can reinforce and sup ply their army in Egypt. At what appeared a strategic mo ment in the Mediterranean war, with Britain looking for momentary launching of an Italian drive into Egypt from Libya, de Gaulle an nounced all French equatorial Africa was now enrolled under his banner to continue the war against Germany und Italy. The roll call was completed, he said, with receipts of a cable from the governor general of Gabon Pro vince, promising to adhere to his cause. The French-mandated Cam eroons and the provinces of Chad, Ubangi and Middle Congo had pre viously made similar promises. The British war office meanwhile announced that its ai my in the near east was "being prepared for offen sive acfon" and this army would •io\v have a..solid line of communi cation from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan to the we. i coast of Africa.