Henderson Haily Hiapafrlj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION O'F NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA T»i*> V-SEVENTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C„ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 5, 1940 PCBU^Ml3S>N.tf7.,SB!!w!' FIVE CENTS COPY C arol Expected To Abdicate ******** ***** ****** ****'«! Cfair chill Says Trade To Aid America Warns That j U. S. is Not In The War Exchange of Destroy en> and Defense Bases Do's Not Affect "In the Slightest Degree tK> Non-Belligerency"! of U. S. Y 'At') Winstonj liis parliament j British-American ex- j vers and defense i the United States! y the throat whilst : rd> ni ir.iies away"— '• e l»riti>h to remem nca is n«.t in the war. r; >ter. speaking for _ >•. general London air, !> ed. however, that • t will pay the United | < I'ver gets the chance." j • Id the house that no • t To the Hritish-Amer-! < • ,:ii\ thing more than .ii:d l'e .stressed that i " "in the slightest de n-belligerency of the the battle of Englrndj' :<^i.d above the capi :• e minister declared , •d used a greater pro-; oir strength already :ti>h and warned of^ :.t .; Tuig to cunie. - of the London area be- ! 4 at 3:05 p. m. (9:05 a. t cbout 20 minutes after t gone into session. .»rr.y aircraft had cross-' ' east coast at a great •: e ol them were ap , London. ::: pt. 3.—(AP)—Sir Rub-j igte. iinti.^h anibas-1 has been instructed "lie Japanese govern- j •e interest of his inu-j r cut ;n the preserva-j •quo in Indo-China'' • ■ * »iv Lord Halifax tuld commons today. Uitement followed oy.a ■.! bv United X*iate:. iKill, taking notice Japanese ultimatum • F. neh administration ■ md a -citing that any; : .'M. quo there would. ' ui 'te ellcct on public! United States. TWO BRITISH SHIPS SUNK. BY GERMANS .) (AP)—The ad-l •uneed today that two • I .mhoe and Esk. had j v v»i i>euoe and mines,! •ud. the Express, had 'ged. I Ivvq Arkansas Convicts Shot To Death . Ail:, Sept. 5.— (AP) — • cancelled two more from the "wanted" -as' wholesale Labor >rcak. e; dqwai ters here an : r;.~ from the Cummins o- to death two of the a gun fight in rural Arkansas and report ot another felon. ' huge only eleven of . se from the Cum i'.nd.iy alter killing a been alv ' tj death. Warns British Winston Churchill Prime Minister Winston Churchill :odav told parliament that the Bri :ish must remember that the United States is nut in the war. regardless »t the British-American trade of destroyers and defense bases. He Uso warned the nation of heavier lighting to come in the war with jcrmany. First Ships On High Seas Eight United States Destroyers Swapped to Britain Leave Bos ton Navy Yard. Boston. Sept. 5.—(AP)—Sailing from Boston under secret orders, eight World war desti overs, presum ed t<> be the first of 50 traded to Great Britain for air and naval bases, were on the high seas today believ ed en route to a Canadian port. Departing coincidentally from Bos ton were the new destroyer leader Russell with Rear Admiral F. R. Reichmuth. commander of the At lantic destroyer fleet, aboard, and the supply ship Denebola. Depar ture of the Russell and Denebola re mained unexplained. but waterfront sources speculated they might return with the crews of American sailors engaged in delivering the old de stroyers. Only ione of the outmoded de stroyers remained in port, but others of tiie C"> were expected. Manned by crews ol 00 each, three of the de. trovers left last night and five today. Manned by American crews of about fi" men each, who will be re placed by British tars, the first three vessels backed from their navy yard berths at three-minute intervals and then sailed single file into the At Mexican Revolt Feared Tobacco Prices A re Slightly Higher Quality of Offerings on Bright Leaf Mar kets Generally Re garded as Rather Poor; Farmers Ap pear Pleased With Prices. "••Irif.'h. Sent. J» — (ATM- Tobacco' prices appeared slightly better on Bright Leaf markets in early sales to-! day. At Wilson. Sales Supervisor N. G. Blaekman said the farmers "appear right well pleased" and generally re-I gsirdcd tiie quality of this year's crop I as rather poor. Blaekman estimated that 1.250,000' pound- would be sold at WiNon to day. clearing floors, and that the average would lie slightly above 18 cents a nound. Yesterday Wilson sold 1,350.000 pounds at about 18 cents, and the official average there Tues day was 18.33 cents. At Rocky Mount. Sales Supervisor E. G. Johnston. Jr.. said 819.324 pounds were sold Wednesday for an official average of 16.73 cents. John ston said offerings in the main con sisted of ground lugs and other in ferior types. Around a million pounds was offered today. At Goldsboro, prices apparently held at ju«t about the same level as on yesterday when the official aver age was 17.52 cents. Sales Super visor W. C". Tuckcr said he expected floors would be cleared by the sale of about 150.000 pounds. He said quality was still bad but that prices for better leaf were picking up. At Washington, today's average prices were estimated at 16 to 18 cents a p># nd. Yesterday's oflicial figures were announced as 116,284 pounds sold for S19.313.25, and the average was given as 16.60 cents, compared with the opening day average of 17.79. Officials said of ferings included much inferior weed. 14 NAZI RAIDERS SHOT DOWN TODAY London, Sept. 5.—(AP)—Fourteen German raiders were reported to have been shot down over England today. Americans Show Appreciation Of Nazi Treatment Berlin. Sept. 5.—(AP)—The Deut sche Allegemeine Zeitung published today a letter of thanks which it said six Americans sent to German au thorities for "careful treatment" af ter the ship on which they were en route to South America was seized by German warships and taken to a French port as a prize. According to the letter, sent from [rum. Spain, the Germans put an automobile at the disposal of the Americans to take them to the Span ish border. Fight Marks Opening Of j House Debate On Draft Washington, Sept. 5.—(AP)—With c the spectacle of hard-hitting fisi light c on the floor to testify to the short- v ness of some tempers, the House be- «. gun its final drive today for a de-j >. cision on thj Burke-Wadsworth com- I pulsory military training hill. ( Two days of general debate over, the chamber settled down to consid- ) er the measure section by section and i to act on the scores of pending 1 amendments. The vote was expected f tomorrow night or Saturday. , | Sponsors of the bill, re-checking. j their strength, made sharp down-; 1 wrrd revisions in earlier predictions, that it would pass by 150 votes. They i say now they expect the bill's mar- < gin to be from 5') to 75 votes. j i Representative Vinrmt, Democrat, . aaci Rep. Sweeney, Deni- . civit. Ohio, threw punches nl each thcr in the well of the chamber /hile the galleries looked on. The fight followed a speech by Iweeney in which he assailed con cription and accused President Loosevelt of seeking to embroil the Jnited States in war. Sweeney returned to a seat beside rincent and abruptly the flareup oc curred. Each representative landed ard blows to the face and kept slug ing until colleagues intervened. One ;rappled with the stockey Sweeney nd rolled over a seat with him be ore he pinned him down. Sweeney subsequently apologized o the House. Vincent at first repeat d a charge of "traitor"—but later withdrew it ai the persuasion of fiends. Each gave tiic House his ver ion ji the altercation House Approves Bill To Provide Defense Funds Washington, Sept. —) — The House grave its approval to day to a comprehensive v-s'on of a hill carrying almost S5.25' .000, 000 (o provide equipment for in army of 2,000.000 men. start wort; on the "Iwn-oecan navy"' and buy l'l.oOt airplanes for the Army and Navy. The measure, which must so hack to the Senate for approval of House changes before it is ready for the signature of Pres ident Roosevelt, would boost the session's appropriations and com mitments for defense well past the 815.000,000,000 mark. Veterans Put Forward To Fill Vacancies Daily Dispatch bureau, In the Sir YValier Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, Sept. 5.—Norwood S. Westbrook, state commander of the Disabled American Veterans, sees a fine job opportunity for veterans of the World War in the call of North Carolina's National Guard into ac tive training for a year. Commander Westbrook, who comes from Wilmington, came here Wed nwsday in an effort to enlist all job placement officials in making these opportunities available to veterans, lie pointed out that government of ficials as well as private employers can help in such a program. "There arc many guardsmen in the state service and when they answer the President's call there is no reason why veterans of the World War should not be given a chance to fill their places," said Westbrook, 'and I am trying to interest state officials m giving them a chance to do so". Two high posts in the Veterans Loan Fund office will b2 made va cant by the Guard call, Westbrook said by way oi' illustration. Colonel Graham K. Hobbs, head of the di vision, is in command of the 105th Medical Regiment, while his chief aide, Charles Burnett, is a captain in the Guard. "Colonel Hobbs, successor will, of course, be appointed by the governor; tyut he should be a veteran", said the D. A. V. head. "Captain Burnett's successor will be named by the new division chief, but he, too, should come from the ranks of World War veterans." Willkie Meets With Leaders j Rushville, Ind., Sept. 5.—(AP)—j Exactly two months before the presi dential (lection. Wendell L. Willkie j called on Republican leaders from 22 | states today to "get an aggressive, or- i ganized campaign under full steam." t He invited nearly 100 national! committeemen, committecwnmen and] -tato chairmen to discuss organiza tion problems with him. The meeting was described in ad vance by the Republican presiden tial nominee as the largest of its kind planned for this year. It was designed primarily to cover states outside the ' solid South which he will not visit | in his forthcoming western tour. iOsuaikph FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Fri day. Precautions Are Taken Leader of General Almazan's Party De clares Revolt Plans Are Far Advanced,. Mexico City, Sept. 5.—(AP)— The administration ol' President C;irden:is took extraordinary precaution:: today to forestall a possible armed attempt to seize power, which a leader of General Almazan's party declared might begin "within the next ten hours or two days." The govern men V patrolled high ways, watched airports and kept nil trains under surveillance to check on movements of Almazan's followers, while responsible sources reported troop reinforcements were being moved to northern Mexico, regard ed as an Almaznn stronghold. The head of the national confed eration of three million peasants an nounced 80,000 trained members were ready to take up their rifles in support of the administration which backed General Manuel Camacho against Almazan in the disputed and bloody July presidential election.* Angel Trechulelo, executive of Al mazan's party, made the prediction of an early outbreak of revolt just before he left Mexico City for an undisclosed destination in northern Mexico shortly after midnight. Declaring plans were so advanced that publicity would make no dif ference "as the government is un able to stop us," Trechulelo assert ed 500 key directors of the revolt left the capital secretly d'^ing the night for prearranged meeting places. Senate Probe Of Air Crash Is Proposed Washington, Sept. 5—(AP)—Sen ator McCarran, Democrat, Nevada, asked 'the Soyate today to order a "lull and complete investigation" of the airline crash which took the lives of Senator Lundeen, Farmer Labor, Minncsta, and 24 other per sons near Lovcttsvillc, Va., last Sat urday. iVicCarran introduced a resolution proposing that the inquiry be made by the Senate commerce committee with $20,000 of Senate funds. It would cover also other airline acci dents and the "efficiency" of all gov ernment agencies dealing with air safety. RumanianMonarch Yields To Demand For Dictatorship May Abdicate King Carol II of Rumania is ex pected to quit his throne to join his red headed "uncrowned queen", leaving the country under virtual dictatorship headed by Premier Ion Antonescu. King Carol ha.-> issued a royal decree dissolving parliament and suspending the constitution. Survivors Are Landed Thirty - Seven British Seamen Survive Sink ings of Two Ships; Over 100 Lost. Baltimore, Sept. 5.—(AP)—Thirty seven haggard and disheveled Brit ish seamen, eight of them injured, told a grim tale today of disaster and death in the war at sea. Landed here unexpectedly last night by the Swedish freighter Kk naron, they were the sole survivors of crews of two British vessels, the 4,000-ton freighter •Blairmore and the royal navy sloop Penzance, both torpedoed and sunk August 24 about 700 miles off the Irish coast. More than 100 of their shipmates were lost. Their stories pieced together thro ugh a wall of censorship clamped down by British consular officials, indicated the eight injured men were the only survivors of the Penzance. These, burned, cu) and dazed, were aboard the Bailmore when it sped to aboard the Balirniore when it sped t<« the warship's aid—only to be tor pedoed in turn a few minutes later by the same U-boat. With 29 Bailmore survivors they were rescued again by the Kknaien after 17 hours at sea in two lifeboats. Babson Finds Business Only "So-So" In Nation BY ROGER W. HABSOX, Copyright 1940, Publishers Financial Bureau. Babson Park, Mass., Sept. 5.—Let m*j pass on to you a bird's-eye view of the United States. This is based upon the trip from which I have just returned. It was a great trip—4,000 miles by automobile from Boston to San Francisco, returning by train from Los Angeles. I covered nearly 2f) states, addressed 18 chambers of commerce and other big gatherings, Ejnvo radio broadcasts, and—most im portant of all—talked with the pub lishers of scores of important papers. How's Business? Speaking frankly, business is "so so" about everywhere. It is what far mers would say—"neither hay nor grass." Retail trade is holding up well and manufacturers are hopeful; but peace industries are playing safe while the war industries have only partly got under way. I believe, how-! ever, that December 31 will justify my favorable forecast for the second six months and— in fact—my fore cast for the entire year 1940. I was especially interested in visit ing the airplane factories. Notwith standing all the ncw-nipcr talk, I understand that the United States ;>na Canada combined are now .end ing only about ten piaiifes a day to Great Britain. Perhaps only one or two of these will be bo&nbcns. Guns and ammunition are being manufac tured in quantities, but the "heavy armaments" are still in the blueprint stage. Very few people realize the many months required in planning and tooling for assembly line produc tion of a ship or tank, or for almost anything else. Labor Conditions. I have heard of very little labor unrest. It looks as il labor troubles had seen their peak for this cycle. Apparently neither of the two major political parties wants the support of John L. Lewis. They both look upon him as a possible liability rather than as an asset. Neither labor leaders nor wage workers want to be classed as "fifth columnists.'' Employers also are being more reasonable. As young er employers take the place of old "die-hards", a better relation be tween capital and labor is very noticeable. It is evident that employers, exe cutives, and foremen are attending to business more this summer than for many years. This has reacted upon the lourijt indu-try. Everywhere ..ere complaints that pcopl1 r.re !<.!: (Continued on Page Seven; King Carol Issues Royal Decree Dissolv ing Parliament and Suspending Constitu tion; Antonescu Holds Full Powers. (By The Associated Press.) Abdication of Kin# Carol II to join his red iieaded friend; Madame Mag dn Lupeyeti. in exile was reported likely in Bucharest government quar ters today, as the Rumanian monarch bowed to the demand of his new pre mier. General Ion Antonescu, for a virtual dictatorship. After ;