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r W-" ^UE PERRY MEMORIAL HENDERSON. N. C. Heniteramt Bally Hispatrij ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA ■ V-SEVENTH YEAR raSSSS'S.01' HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 3, 1940 FIVE CENTS COPY FDR Leases Air Bases AF Routs German Mass Assaults Nazis Move To End Red Expansion brii'sh Fighters Signal Success With Capers in Skies; German Mo torized Units to Take Over Rumanian Bor der Guard. I'»\ !"!»•• \ssociated Press.) >>} German raiders—"00 • ■ onsl.mrrht—sought to fwitrti i midim today, but fell iiihIit the lash of royal air lighters and anti-aircraft P.. mid-afternoon the British ilr miui>tr\ reported '23 na/i pj ■ ^ Nh >t down with 15 royal planes missing. Bv con trol. Berlin said 54 British :>! >» were destroyed while 1? • •run planes failed to return. I In- f'ritish capital underw ent • iii raid alarms in the fore ml early afternoon lasting: . '.'"Ul «>f 11! minutes. e Associated Press.) v ' force fighters sig ■<t -uccess in the sec *!-.c European war today .l "victory roll" capers routing a mass at i:vds of nazi warplancs London. v tro inced in an hour the Dover "Hell's _ ■ . the German aerial ■•ft bombs and raced • .-"V ! air force fight » ward. i:')\vevcr. the roared back to renew • -nine vicinity and ■ Scot kind. Once more en off from London, r trouble zone, a Ger biock further Russian " i'heast Europe was Bucharest dispatch, n otorized divisions r the protection of Ru r.tirn mi frontier, fac n September 15. . .,Mcd King Carol's ate of "grave conse Sovict-Rumaniun ■ ' • " are avoided. V.".i Minister Anthony i>! th h public it would ume that, because of autumn with its ■ ce '.'L a t:azi invasion -old war blazing on ■i mi iiigh command ly formed squad i- r.e bombers attack f;: !ti.h warships in the • rancan, scoring hits :> ri aircraft carrier, • ■ cl«- trover. •'M iiucjue acknowl i>o[: ■,( i s raided north er.two persons and 15 at Genoa. hi force bombers >au bases near Bou ■ '• nazi-held coast oi :'!'ing -aho.s of bomb! reverberated liki icro the channel, i' gave London it; ■i ■ a 72-minule at <■ n the forenoon as . I iield court in Buck nia\ Deaths Now Total 514 ' tin- Associated Press) •Muted 514 violenl the three-day Laboi 147 more than wen tfie ame period a yeai • '«■ deaths numbcret :• ;)~ than those of las' eek-end. other causes totalec - *he 25 who died Sat crash of airliner ir 'c included: NorU Attempt To Kill Kiny; Carol Fails Bucharest. Sept. 3.— (AP) — Alt attempt to kill King: Carol failed tonight. An unidentified man broke through the heavily guarded juil a«e gates and fired seven shots at the brightly lighted palacv \\ iiulows before he was over come. It was not know immediately whether the assassin was killed. Flacs flying over the palace indicated that the king was in residence there at the time. Aptitude Tests Given By State Job Service Daily Dispatch Bureau, in the sir Waiter iioiel. By HENRI' AVERILL Raleigh. Sept. 3.—The State Em ployment Service is now giving many jot its registrants "aptitude tests" in an effort to be of greater service ooth to the applicants for jobs and j to the employers who may put them on the payroll. i In theju "trfJs the service has co i operation of the Occupational Anaiy Jsis Section of the Bureau of Employ | ment Security, which gives what it | euphoniously calls "scientic selec tions tests."'. The idea is to find out what the job hunters can do, or, as the Ser vice expresses it in words of many .syllables to "discover the measure ment of the occupational potentiali ties of young, inexperienced appli cants." Widespread interest has been shown by employers in the tests and many results have already been ob tained. In Asheville recently a new de partment store was opened and the job of pre-selccting the entire per sonnel with the aid of the aptitude tests was given the local employ ment office. Approximately 75 test (Continued on Page Four* Connor Portrait Accepted Toda\ Raleiijh. Sept. 3.—(AP) —Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy of the Su preme court today accepted a por trait of the late Associate Justice George W. Connor to be placed with portraits of other judges including I that of Justice Connor's father. Judge Stacy said the portrait will be placed "beside the one of his i father. Thus father and son again rest side by side. For them the jour I ney ends, for us another chapter I closes. "The state is immeasurably richer I that they both lived and sat upon this I bench." Louisiana Militia Called To Aid In Convict Hunt: Cummins Prison Farm, Ark., Sept. 3.—(AP)—National Guai dsmcn were ealied tor today to reinforce the hunt for 33 desperate convicts al ready charged with two killings in | a wholesale prison break. Hampered by fear of bringing | harm to two girls and a boy held as hostages, Sheriff B. E. Erskine called j on Louisiana Governor Sam Jones tc ' send soldiers to Columbia, neai where six of the fugitives were be lieved surrounded in swamp lands Two of the ringleaders of yester day's spectacular escape were cap tured today near Garland City «nc several hours later a third convic! was found slightly wounded in t Negro cabin near that town. Sheriff Erskine appealed for sol diers after a posse of between 50f nd 1,900 men had tried for hours tc Worst U. S. Air Liner Disaster Kills 25 in V irginia Mountains BrfKSx a&MMMBSVhJWiii — The wulv vii wlcr mi the history of United Slates commcrcial ciir lines and the l'irst fatal accidtnl in Pennsylvania Central Air Lines' 13-year his tory ocurred when a t\yin-motorcd PCA plane crashcd at the loot of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Lovettsville, Va., killing all 25 persons aboard. This graphic photo shows how wreckage ana 13it.-: 01 Dcuiej were scattered j iver an area of nearly a quarter of a milewhenan explosion rent the plane 1 u'ter it hit the ground. The crash was the first accident fatal to passengers j on U. S. air lines in lTmonths. Low Quality Leaf At Opening I - New Sea Bases Would Keep Enemies Away Aboard Roosevelt Train, Enroute to Washington, Sept. 3.—(AP)— President Roosevelt said today that the chief value of air and naval bases acquired in British Crown colonics strewn from Newfoundland to Brit ish Guiana was that they would keep the enemy away from our front door. They have goi to get through there. Mr. Roosevelt said, before they can get to us He told reporters at a press con i ference on his special train that the epochal acquisition of the bases was probably in some respects the most important thing for American de fense since the Louisiana Purchase in 1«03. Furthermore, the President drop ped what appeared to be a hint th;|t further history-making steps might be taken to provide additional distant bases for the protection of America and the western hemisphere. When a reporter inquired whether I the agreement with England might (Continued on Page Four) OXFORD BONDS SOLD AT RALEIGH TODAY Raleigh, Sept. 3—(AP)—The Lo ! cal Government Commission today sold $3,0(K) water refunding and $14,000 general refunding bond ; for Oxford to Kirehofcr and Arnold of Raleigh at 3 per cent interest with a $20.91 premium. The commission approved issuance by Tarboro of $9,000 sewer bonds. hem in the six convicts who yester day killed Posseman Frank Gartinan of Columbia while using the three youths as shields. About 4 a. m. today some of the I fugitives were seen emerging from I a woods four miles north of Colum i bia in an apparent effort to reach I the road but fled back to shelter | when farm dogs barked at them. Tracks inside the woods indicated these killers still were holding the youths they kidnaped yesterday at Rayville, La. Later two airplanes patrolling the swampy, thickly wooded section re ported seeing two groups of men, presumably the convicts, indicating they had split in their vf forts to break through the cordon. Two bloodhounds were sent into the j woods and only one returned, lead :r.fc to beiifl the other had been shut. House Offers New Industrial Draft Amendment to Con scription Bill Would Permit Government To Take Over Indus trial Plants On Rental Basis. Washington. Sept. 3—(AP)—Mem bers of the House military commit tee ssiid today they had approved an amendment to the conscription bill to permit the government to take over on a rental basis industrial plants for production of defense ma terials. The amendment, reported to have been accepted by si close vote, was a substitute for a Senate provision which would authorize the govern ment to condemn and take over and operate such ind>* tries. Sponsored by Representative Smith Democrat, Connecticut, the House committee measure would authorize the government to place an order for defense supplies which the company would be required to fill. If the company refused the con tract. the government would proceed j to operate the plant, produce supplies ! and pay "fair and just" compensation j or rental. The House opened debate on the ; conscription bill with bolh friend and ■ foe of the legislation in virtual agree | ment on what the decision would be | on the final roll call. A 2 to 1 victory was the forecast of Representative May, Democrat, , Kentucky, chairman of the House I military committee which prepared | the modified version of the Burke • (Continued on Page Four) Solons Differ On Sea Base Proposal Washington, Sept. 3.—(AP)—Sen Sitor Nye, Republican, North Dakota, commenting on the agreement to ex change American destroyers for naval and air base sites in British possessions in the Atlantic find Car ibbean. said today the action ''indi cates that our leadership is already using dictatorial practices and ignor ing laws and treaties in the name of -in emergency." Senator Barkley, Democrat, Ken tucky, on the other hand, predicted the public would give "full approval" to the arrangement. UJ&cdhsA FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair Vrnight and Wednesday; slightly coolcr in east portion tonight. Maxwell Returns To Office Duties Raleigh, Sept. 3—(AP)—Revenue I Commissioner A. J. Maxwell re [ .aimed iiis regular duties today alt er an alienee since February during the Democratic gubernatorial cam paign and subsequent illness. 'i lie commissioner suffered a stroke of paralysis shortly before the first Democratic primary in May, in which he was a candidate lor governor, and i | was desperately ill lor weeks. Maxwell stayed at his office about two hours this morning and plans tu work both mornings and after noons hereafter. jFreight Train In Wreck at Tocane Krwin. Tcnn., Sept. 3.—(AP)—A double header freight, train plowed into a slide on the C. C. &. O. main line ;53 miles south of here near To cane, N. C., today and one man was feared dead in the wreckage. One engine rolled into the Toe river and was half submerged. En gineer John Siffcred of Krwin was | missing and trainmen believed he | was pinned beneath the engine. ritish Fleet Will Not le Surrendered Or Sunk Washington, Sept. 3—(AP)—Great, Britain has given the United States! definite assurance of its intentions! "never to surrender or sink the Brit- I ish fleet in the event of the waters' surrounding the British Isles becom ing untenable for His Majesty's | ships." The State department made this} [ known today by making public an, exchange of correspondence between Secretary Hull and Lord Lothian, j British ambassador. The announcement was made pub i lie after the White House announced an arrangement for the acquisition of i air and naval base sites from Great j Britain in exchange for 50 over-age destroyers. Instead of being sunk or surrender- , cd. the Stale department was told., the British fleet in the lsst resort would be "sent overseas for defense of other parts of the empire." In his letter Secretary Hull wrote: Estimate Is 14-21 Cents Growers Seem Satis fied at Prices Paid on New Bright Belt Mar kets Today. Raleigh, Sept. 3.— (AP) —Prices, paid for flue-cured tobacco at the opening of the 14 markets of The North Carolina New Bright Belt mar kets today brought estimated aver age prices ranging from 14 to 21.60 cents a pounri. The average prices, after opening: rather spotty and low because of the i poor quality early offering*, later| leveled olf ;ind growers generally ap- i peared satisfied. The average price on the belt last year was 15.94 cents, while in the' whole state the average was 15.66: cents. Prices have ranged from 17 to 18 cents on markets of the Car ol inas Border Iji'Jt. Poor quality offerings predominat ed in early s;iles at Wilson. Common leaf and common to fair lugs with, lugs predominating was sold at from 2 to 30 cents a pound. 'Die first 8!) piles sold at Wilson, where 3.000,000 pounds were on the warehouse floors, brought prices averaging 16 cents. Poor quality leaf lowered opening J prices at Goldsboro, but later higli-j er quality offerings gave a better j (Continued on Page Four) ''The prime minister of Great Bri tain is reported to have stated on June 4, 1940, to parliament in ef fect that if during the course of the present war in which Great Britain and the British Commonwealth are' engaged the waters surrounding the British Isles should become unten able, the British fleet would in no event be surrendered or sunk but would be sent overseas for defense of other parts of the empire." •'The government of the United States would respectfully inquire whether the foregoing statement re presents the settled policy of the British government." In his reply dated yesterday, Lord Lothian said "this statement certain ly does represent the settled policy of His Majesty's government." The ambarsador added "these hypothetical contingencies seem more likely to concern the German fleet I or what is left of it than the Briti.-h i fleet." 50 Over-Age Destroyers To Britain United States Gets Naval and Air Bases in British Possessions in North and South Atlantic; No Congres sional Action Needed. Washington. Sept. 3.—(AP) — President Roosevelt notified Congress today of an agreement between the I'nitcd States and Great Rritain under which this country will lease naval and air bases in British possessions in the north and south Atlantic and transfer 50 over-age destroyers to Great Britain. The United States will acquire naval and air bases in New foundland and in the islands of Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jam aica, Si. Lucia. Trinidad and An tigua and in British Guiana. "The right to bases in New foundland and Bermuda are gifts —generously given and gladly received," the President said in a special message. "The other bases mentioned have been acquired in exchange for 50 of our over-age destroy ers." The President enclosed an opinion by Attorney General Jackson dated August 27, 1940, "regarding my au thority to consummate this arrange ment." Officials said no action by Con gress would be necessary to put the agieement into effect. The Senate was not in session to day so the message went only to the House, which is meeting to debate the Senate-approved conscription bill. Mr. Roosevelt said that the ar rangement with Britain was effected in an exchange of notes between Lord Lothian, the British ambas sador, and Secretary of State Hull on September 2. It "is not inconsistent in any sense with oui status of peace," he de clared. "Still less is it a threat against a?/ nation," he continued. "It is an epochal and far-reaching act of pre paration for continental defense in the face of grave danger. "Preparation for defense is an in alienable prerogative of a sovereign state. Under present circumstances this exercise of sovereign right is essential to the maintenance ol our peace and safety. This is the most important action in the reinforcement of our national defense that has been taken since the Louisiana purchase. Then, as now, considerations of safety from overseas attack were fundamental." The value to the western hemis phere of these outposts of security "is beyond calculation," the Chief Executive stated. "Their need has long been recog nized by our country," he continued, "and especially by those primarily charged with the duty of charting and organizing our naval and mili tary defense. "They are essential to the protec (Continued on Page Four) Stocks Fail In RecoveryMove New York. Sept. 3—(AP)—Indus trial stocks wore in the van of an other modest recovery move in to day's market, but most faltered after an early forenoon push. Dealings slowed appreciably thereafter and gains running to a point or more were trimmed or can celled in many cases at the close. Transfers were in the neighbor :«ood of 525,000 shares. American Radiator ! 7 2-8 American Telephone 163 American Tobacco B 75 Anaconda 21 5-8 Atlantic Coast Line 12 1-4 Atlantic Refining 22 1-4 Bendi.x Aviation 31 Bethlehem Steel 79 3-4 Chrysler 76 1-8 Columbia Gas & Elec Co .. 5 5-8 Commercial Solvents 9 7-8 Consolidated Oil Co 6 1-8 Curtiss Wright 8 1-4 DuPont 167 3-4 Electric Power Light 5 1-4 General Electric 34 1-8 General Motors 48 1-8 Montgomery Ward & Co 41 7-8 Reynolds Tobacco B 35 7-8 Southern Railwav 12 Standard Oil N J 35 U S Steel 54 5-8
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