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IJNDON COUNTS TOLL OF TWO-DAY RAIDS
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RooseveltSigns $5,251,486,392 Defense Fund Bill
jfoney Bills
Nuw Total
15 Billions
Appropriation Meas
Provides Funds
For Equipping Army
of Two Million Men
and to Start Two
Ocean Navy.
. Sept. 9— (AP) —
t\elt signed today a
ppropriation hill, car
lo help provide vital
two million fighting
H-dite construction of a
i;jvy.
• defense appropriation
• war. the measure show
• itments at the cur
>n:d -ession passed the
■,tHid mark.
: to money for critical
.n expanding Army,
fil iurtd< to start work
"::e 2<>n warships for a |
c and for 10.422 Army
: . y planes.
re. largest single money
• >n's peacetime history. |
.:•! broad objectives: |
e the total equipment
•he Army and 1.200.000 I
pending eon cription
i>\ raise.
\ <erve stocks of tanks, I
ammunition and simi- !
: terns. which require a 1
mufacture, for an ad
'.non men.
14.391 more warplanes
md K02R for the Navy.
• sc on hand and appr-o
uict give the two torces ;
" y 35.000 planes of all
• work to start on the ma- j
2"0 warships projected '
:>cr cent naval expan
destined to create the
-■•cean fleet.'
.(•proximately $472.- i
plant facilities, gov
•id private, for the pro
:• :cn-e material.
Italians Raid
Alexandria
a. Sept. 9.—(AP)—A !
itahan oombers raided
during an attack of two
y today and repeatedly
• . es in an effort to hit
. '. >i\ of Brtish war
'i|
• t.-airaaft and search
drove off the attack
.-i was killed and several
attacks, the casualties
■ • and children of the
':nt.
Jugoslavia
Has Riots
Communist Uprisings
Htsult in Two Deaths
Injuries to Five
Officers.
Scj,t. <j ~(Al')— Dis-J
['••ilgiii ia disclosed to- !
■ communist demon
■ 'lied and a policeman j
■ iwounded in a
• r the outskirts of the
; la^t night.
occurred when police:
■ !> a mass meeting of;
others and students.!
' were reported,
'•■iday ten persons werej
■>ii |y wounded in a
••n. iration at Zagreb.
'•'> .vere arrested. Other
took place at Split,
.»(<■ sacked.
v. part of a series
«-ek • as communists |
tMlitaiv alliance be-j
. •:< and Soviet Russia
'i M'tvernin^nt for as
. tov. ard the Koine
Record Breaker
Gladys Swarthout ~
Gladys Swarthout, Metropolitan
apera star, holds the coveted Holly*
wood Bowl cup awarded her for
breaking tho season's attendance
record when she sar.g the title role
In "Carmen." The largest audience
ever to attend outdoor opera turned
out for the performance, with
24,019 paid admissions.
Canal Zone
Strike Ends
Hundreds of Laborers
Return to Work on De
fense Project at Pana
ma Canal.
Balboa, Canal Zone. Sept. 9—(AP)
—A strike at the Gatun Locks de
fense projects appeared ended today
as hundreds of laborers returned to
work.
A few demonstrators among na
tive Panamans and West Indians re
mained out but officials said they
expected they would be back at their
jobs tomorrow.
The strike began last Thursday
when about half of the 1.200 workers
demanded better food and living
conditions and pay increases from IB
to 20 cents an hour to 30 cents for
laborers and from 24 to 25 cents for
artisons.
British Troops
To East Front
Cairo, Sept. 9.—(AP)—Thousands
of fresh British troops under full
pack moved into fighting fronts
"somewhere in the middle east" to
day.
The reinforcements, which include
many Australian airmen, hundreds
of nurses from Scotland and England,
and severnl hundred navy and Royal
Air Force flyers, landed at an Egyp
tiou port yesterday from the largest
convoy ever to reach Egypt.
Officials declined to disclose the
exact number of troops disembarked
saying only that thcrewere 'several
thousands.'
Most of the men fought in France
before Dunkerque.
The troops left in two fifteen-car
trains soon after landing, for duty in
Egypt and Palestine.
Arson Charge
Lumberton, Sopt. 9.—(AP)—Ben
G. Floyd, former assistant superin
tendent of public instruction and l'or
- />r lhn elections board
200 FIGHTING
SHIPS ORDERED
FOR U. S. NAVY
British Patrol
Enters Ethiopia
Cairo, Sept. 9.—(AP)—A British
patrol has entered Italion-occupied
Ethiopia l'rom Kenya colony and ad
vanced as far as Gorai, a British
communique said today.
Gorai is about 15 miles over the
Kenya border and 100 miles east of
Lake Rodolf at the northeastern cor
ner of Kenya.
Liquor In
Fifth Column
Babson Cites Effect in
France, Asks Hearing
For Dry Forces in
America.
Bv ROGER YV. BABSON ....
Babson Park, Mass., Sept. 9.—
When touring the Orient about a
year ago, repeatedly I ran into sini
ster rumors. These may or may not
be substantiated. It was whispered
that certain Japanese military lead
ers wanted to further the destruc
tion of China by promoting the use
of narcotics among the Chinese. I
was reminded of a proverb, current
among ancient peoples, to the effect
that "anyone whom the gods want
to destroy, they first drive mad".
That pagan proverb may be dubious
theology; but is an excellent de
scription of the modern technique
of ruthless aggression.
When I was last in*France, I was
fearful of the spread of the liquor
habit among the population of the
nation. Evidence now is piling up to
show that the downfall of that "in
vincible" people was an inside job.
Germany burrowed from within. In
ternal and spiritual pipping of her
foe were among the Reich's "secret
weapons". Plotting to overthrow
France at minimum costs, the Nazis
schemed that the vulnerable spot of
this Achilles was not the heel, but
the gullet!
Bottles may be cheaper than bul
lets. Inner degeneration of the enemy
appears to have been the favorite
German "preparation", far in ad
vance of any preparatory barrage
laid down by the artillery. Pctain
confessed as much at the hour of
collapse. You remember his tragic
broadcast acknowledging that the
French had been overcome primarily
because they had preferred indul
gence to patriotism. A further angle
of this same truth now has been dis
closed implicitly in tne recent action
of the new French government It
has put a ban on hard liquors.
The mobilization that followed the
first outbreak of war drifted into a
prolonged period of inactivity. During
these months of relative idleness, it is
believed, some of the troops of
France over-indulged in alcohol.
The same evil may have assailed
elements of the industrial popula
(Continued on Page Five)
Planes Sent
To Puerto Rico
Washington, Sept. 9.—(AP)—The
War Department moved tcday to
strengthen the aerial defense of the
Panama Canal by ordering two
groups of the air corps to be station
ed permanently at the new base in
Puerto Rico.
Medium and long range bomber
and reconnoissance planes station
ed on the Caribbean island will be
in a position to watch over hund
reds of miles of Atlantic approches
to the canal.
War Department officials said that
the 24th air base group Hess de
tachments already in" Puerto Rico)
would go to the outpost from its
present station at Kelly Field, Tex.,
and that the 25th bombardment
group would be transferred to Puer
to Rico from its present station at
Lanjley Field. Va.
Greatest Fleet of War
ships Lver rut Under
Contract at One Time
Ordered T oday to
Provide Two - Ocean
Navy.
Washington, Sept. — fAI') —
The greatest fleet of fighting
ships ever put under contract at
one time, including seven mighty
45-000 ton battleships ;>nd eight
aircraft carriers, was ordered to
day by the Navy immediately
after President Roosevelt sign
ed the $5,251,000,000 defense ap
propriation bill.
Contracts were let for 2t)0
fighting: ships and on;» repair
vessel to cost a total of $3,861,
053.312. In addition to the bat
tleships, costing approximately
.SI00.000.000, and the plane car
riers at S47,000.000 each, other
vessels ordered and the approx
imate unit cost were 27 cruis
ers, S30.000,000; 115 destroyers,
S8,100.00S0: 43 submarines, Sfi,
000.000; and the repair ship of
unannounmcd cost.
At the capital Chairman Vinson
of the naval committee announced
in the House that the seven new S1 ,
[ 000,000 battleships would bo of the
45,-000 class. Five ol' that type,,
10,000 tons greater.-^han the largest
capital ships of the present fleet,
already were building.
The construction program is de
signed to give the nited Slates a
"two-ocean" navy of approximately
650' ships in 1945, 1940 or 1917, de
pending upnn the time found nec
essary to complete the building.
Compromise
Excess Profits
Bill Reached
Washington, Sept. 9.— (AP)—The
Senate finance committee approved
today, 15 to 4, a compromise sub
stitute for sections of the House-ap
proved excess profits tax bill, which
have been in dispute between the
Treasury and defense commission of
ficials.
The compromise, approved by both
the Treasury and commission, would
give the commission and the Secre
tries of War and Navy a measure of
control over the disposition of plants
which had been erected in whole or
part by government funds and
amortized for tax purposes under a
speedup provision of the pending bill.
As experts explained it, the com*
promise section would authorize the
secretary to permit this special amor
tization for plants receiving govern
ment assistance only when lite gov
ernment had been assured of fair
treatment in their disposition.
Destroyers
Taken Over
By British
An Eastern Canadian Port, Sept.
9.—(AP)—The Union Jack replaced
the Stars and Stripes today with a
minimum of ceremony in the trans
fer of the first group of 50 American
over-aged destroyers to British com
mand.
American sailors, who brought the
destroyers to this port, hauled down
their colors and marched ashore af
ter a bugler sounded "to the colors."
A moment later British tars went
aboard and hoisted their "flag.
Captain's pennants were run up
simultaneously on the main masts,
indicating the destroyers, traded for >
western hemisphere defense bases, i
were actually in commission of the i
royal navy and ready for war action. ■
t'OmMwi
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Partly cloudy tonight and on
Tuesday, followed by showers in
the mountains Tuesday or Tues
day night.
Croix de Guerre for Americans
American Red Cross volunteer ambulance drivers are decorated with the
Croix dc Guerre by General Liegois.at Vichy, France. Left to right:
G. Apfelbaum, F. Fontanais, B. Robinson, G. Cox, A. Ilochsteter and
A. Engelhard. (Central PrtM*)
State Will Bridge
Lake Mattamuskeet
Democrat Rally
At Lillington To
Be September 21
Lillinctnn. Sept. fl.—(AP)—Demo
crats will formally launch their
compaign in eastern Ninth Caro
lina at a rally here September 21.
Harriett county Chairman M. O. Lee
announced today.
Governor Hoey and Governor
Nominate J. M. Broughton have ac
capted invitations to speak.
Agreement
Expected On j
Draft Measure!
Washington, Sept. 9.—(AP)—The
Senate and House will reach a speedy
agreement on their conflicting ver
sions of conscription legislation, it
was said today, and the House pro
vision for a 60-day delay in conscrip
tion will probably "oc discarded in j
the process.
Senator ly^.'ke, Democrat, Nebras
ka, was confident in saying that con
gressional action on the history-mak
ing peacetime selectiv e service meas-,
ure would be completed "this week,
possibly by Wednesday."
Burke, co-author of the bill, was
joined by Chairman May, Democrat,
Kentucky, of the House military
committee, in forecasting a swift set
tlement of Senate-House differences.
The Nebraska senator said that thei
Senate-House conference would I
make several adjustments to recon
cile the divergent versions of the bill,
approved in one form in tne "Senate
ten days ago and in a different form
by the House "Saturday night.
Governor Hoey An
nounces Plans for the
Speedy Construction
of Lake Road and Soco
Gap Link; Contracts
May Be Let In Octo
ber.
Raleigh, Sept. 9.—CAP)—Governor
Hoey nnnounced plans today for
speedy construction of a twelve-mile
road from S^co Gnn to the Cherokee
reservation in western North Caro
lina and provision for "the only rond
of its kind in the country" across
Lake Mattamuskett in the east.
The two projects will cost between
Sfi50,n00 and $700,000. it was esti
mated, and will be paid for by spe
cial allotments "and will not be
charged ag'iin.st the districts in which
they are located."
The Hyde county road, straight
across Mattamuskett to bisect it, will
not be let to contract, Governor Hoey
said "unless it will meet the full ap
proval of the board of commissioners
and citizenship of Hyde county."
The lake road will be a part of
the highway designed to connect
Swan Quarter and Columbia, the
county seats of Hyde and Tyrrell
counties. The governor said the en
tire road would probably not be hard
surfaced at this time, but the new
route would provide a hard surfaced
road from the vicinity of Fairfield
straight across the lake to Swan
Quarter. Permission to cross the lake
was given by the Federal interior
department.
The governor said it was expected
the road would bo "of rare beauty,"
would provide a tourist attraction,
and would be of practical benefit to
the whole section.
"The Soco Gap road will be in
cluded in the October letting and
the Mattamuskeet Lake road also is
ready to be included in that letting
in the event it meets the approval of
the people of Hyde county," Gov
ernor Hoey said.
12,772,000-Bale Cotton
Crop Predicted For 1940
Washington, S<.>pt. 9.—(AP)—The
Agriculture Deparment forecast this
year's cotton crop -today at 12,772,
000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight,
based on conditions prevailing Sep
tember 1.
The crop was forecast at 11,492,
000 bales a month ago, based on
August 1 conditions. Production hist
year was 11,817.000 bales and aver
aged 13,547,000 bales in the ten years
1929-38.
The area of cotton for harvest this
year was placed at 24,40G,000 acres,
compared with 23,928,000 last year
and the ten-year average of 31,235,
000 acres.
Abandonment of acrengn after
July 1 was reported t»> ha v.: been
2.2 percent compared with an aver
age of 1-9 percent during the ten
years 1930-39.
I The condition of the crop on Sep- J
j tember 1 was 74 percent of normal j
compared with 72 a month ago, 70
la year ago and 62 the 1929-38 aver-,
i I
age.
A yield of 250.7 pounds of lint cot
ton to the acre is indicated from the
September 1 condition, the depart
jment reported, compared with 222.3
pounds indicated a month ago, 237.9
pounds last year and 198.1 pounds
the ten-year average.
Norlh Carolina nr«d 814.000 acres
for harvest al ter abandonment since j
July 1; 88 percent of norm"! crop:,
370 pounds per acre yiclcT arjfrr* in
di< it*."! J»»1;:T <-r f>30,000 bales for pro
duction this year.
The prospective yield per ;>rre in
North Carolina was the hi^ht-t en
record.
Nazi Bombs
Kill 600 And
Injure 2,600
Defiant Royal Air
Force Raids German
Port of Hamburg and
Nazi Barge Concen
trations Along French
Coast.
London, Sept. 0.—(AP)—Nazi
bombers returned to London late
today, apnarenllv for the third
niplit of Adolf Hitler's grimmest
bnmhinjrs, but an air alarm in
the British eapital lasted only
on« hour and 15 minutes.
It was believed, however, that
as 011 previous nights the first
wave of attaekers was merely a
vanguard blazing a trail for
swarms to eome.
They have already left ap
proximately 600 persons dead
and 2.(500 seriously wounded in
two severe night long raids.
Weary firemen, policemen, ant:
aircraft Runners, who h;id been cat
ching cat naps in preparation for an
other night of the longest air attacks
ever launched against one city,
sprang to their posts.
During the lull which followed the
"all clear" shortly after 5 a. m., the
air ministry disclosed that 13 British
bombers were lost yesterday and last
night in the royal air force's own
rtyass raids against German shipping
and continental objectives, including
Hamburg, North sea port, where huge
l'ires were started. British raiders al
so sought to demolish nazi barges and
boats concentrated on the French
coast for movement of invading
troops.
Besides the large number of
casualties, widespread and severe
damage was done in last night's raids
on London.
Again the nazi bombers seemed to
try chiefly to hit London's communi
cation centers in their late afternoon
foray.
At the same time, the defiant royal
air force made mass raids of its own
against Germany's great North sea
port of Hamburg, where tons of
bombs were reported to have started
great fires Sunday night, arid Hit
ler's barge concentrations along the
French coast.
Given a day of calm after night
long bombings, Londoners assessed
the damage from the greatest raids
yet carried out against the city.
Fires in every direction, direct hits
on air raid shelters, hospitals de
molished, reverberating explosions
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Nazi-Soviet
Clash Near
Stewart Says Ruman
ian Situation Is Strain
ing Relations Between
Germany and Russia.
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Sept. 9.—I can't find
an army man in Washington who
doesn't say Germany could make
short work of Russia—if the two
countries should clash, with nothing
else f?oing on.
It's agreed that the Nazis probably
could not overrun the whole Soviet
realm, clear to the Pacific, but the
expert ronsensus is lhat they'd have
Comrade Stalin's military force and
his Moscow government on the run
and that they'd be in occupation of
the Communists' European territory
as far to the eastward as they cared
to penetrate, all in jig time—provid
ed, as previously remarked, that they
had no sizeable war on their hands
elsewhere.
Our observers do venture the
guess, however, that Iierr Hitler will
find himself seriously handicapped
in hh anti-British blitzkreig if he
gets into any considerable campaign
against th«"- Stalinists.
A Simmering Situation
The situation in farther western
Europe has been attracting so much
aitention lately that developments
in the Balkan;;, and to the Balkans'
northward and southward, seem to
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