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HroJicrsmt Haily H iapatrfj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA TU-|.;\TV-SEVENTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON,SEPTEMBER 10, 1940 PUBL,sl^iEf4E^A7.lil'NOUN FIVE CENTS COPY iant Bombs Crash In London London Has Five Air Raid Alarms Today, But No New Devastating Bom bardments As Maine Goes, So Goes ... - : that "as Maine goes, so goes the nation" in presidential piete returns trom yesterday's balloting gave Representa Brewster. Republican, a large majority over Former Dcmo t. nur Louis J. Brann (left) in the race for the United States Maine Republicans Score Clean Sweep Senator, Governor and Three House Members Elected by Large Majorities; the Demo crats Attach No Im portance to Results. y The Associated Press.) • Kepublieans won an un • • - t.t victories yesterday a; »r contests of the first t • ction 01 the presidential arty leaders promptly • ;'< i turmance as an omen .-accesses in November. ■ vs cxcee'ting in most . cgistered ip 1036 and Republicans elected a s '• m nator. a governor and t t of tiie house ol" re of ill I but complete Representative Ralph O. ■;l n lead of approximate \ otes iivcr Former Dem • .-inor Louis J. Brann in ><•". Sumner Sewall. suc ; r. • tori;»l candidate, was ore than votes. • we Joe Martin, the Re 'joiial chairman, said the • n- meant "without any • •\ection of Wendell Will— McXary and a Repub *y in the House in the •• • •! • lection. 'i-me ekctiou definitely ' • end of the Roosevelt ad • with all its inefficiency, • .tiuvagance and radical . ».[ the voting did not • or ■tic leaders to alter • •<: ,n m: etcnce that the <i i o significance beyond '• oorder. They said then ■ I definitely disproved Maine goes so goes Hearings On Draft Bill * Army and Navy Offi cers Called To Appear Before Joint Commit tee Today. -'oil. Sept. 10.—(AP)—The <• conference revising lation today sought \" tvy views on controvert . including that to per ' -'iav test of voluntary cn before men could be draft . eely predicted in Con ;i:arter< as the committee -t session that the delay ..-cc. on. Page Five) Traditional Date For Thanksgiving In North Carolina Raleigh, Sept. 10—(AP)—The traditional last Thursday in November again will be North Carolina's official Thanksgiving Day Governor Hoey said today he would later issue a proclamation directing that the "last Thurs day in November be observed as Thanksgiving. Last year lie also declined to follow President Roosevelt in moving the oservanee of Thanks giivng up one week. Willkie For PromptDraft 1 Republican President ial Nominee Favors Elimination of Fish Amendment. j Rushville, Ind., Sept. 10.—CAP— I Wendell L. Wilikie expressed hope [ today that Senate-House conferees I would eliminate from the selective | military service bill the Fish amend 1 ment postponing operation of con ! scription. I The amendment, approved by the House but not by the Senate, would defer operation of the draft while voluntary enlistments vvei"e being given a 60-day trial. Then the gov ernment could pick men to bring the total of new recruits to 400,000. Wilikie issued a formal onc-sen tcncc statement urging that the se lective service program go into ef j feet immediately. The Republican presidential nom inee. in another statement, said he was "enormously gratified" by 1 the Maine election results. t " 'Governor Hoey To i Notify Guardsmen Of Service Order I Raleich. Sept. 10.—(P)—Gov ernor Hoey said today that as commander in chief of the North Carolina National Guard he was ' sending an order to each unit commander, notifying him that after midnight September 15 the state units would he under com i mand of the President for a pe [ riod of one year. The order will accomnany an other v.*Mch will mobilize the September 16 for a year s ! training. , German Planes Over British Capital Believ ed To Be Scouting Planes Checking on Damage in Three Days of Fighting. London, Sept. If).—(AP)—Wave after wave of German air invaders sent harried Londoners underground live times today, but up to early evening there had been no renewal of the devastating nazi bombard The fourth alarm wailed at 5:55 p. m. (11:55 a. m. e. s. t.) as the gathering dusk brought a new threat j of deadly night-long raids which 1 have kept this city's millions hud dled in shelters each night since | Saturday. This alarm, like its predecessors of ! today, was compatively brief, the all clear signal coming 31 minutes later. A fifth alarm sounded at 8:11 p. m. (2:11 p. m. e. s. t.) The German planes over England today were believed to be scouts sent over to determine the havoc wrought in the preceding three nights of unprecedented attacks. British fighter planes, however, were said to have turned them back. Other nazi planes were reported over Wales late today. One flight of reconnaissance planes was fought off in a quick battle high above the city during the first alarm at noon time. Bar Association Gets Anti-Third Term Resolutions Philadelphia, Sept. 19.—(AP)—A resolution condemning a third term for President Roosevelt was sub mitted today to the American Bar Association resolutions committee and immediately precipitated a con troversy within the committee. Arthur W. Brouillct of San Fran cisco announced he l'avored tabling the resolution as the committee debate on the proposal for later in the day. Another committe'j member said that if "you want to Break up the American 'Bar Association just report this resolution out." The resolution attacked the Pres ident's third term aspirations as "sub versive of the principles" upon which the nation was founded and endorsed a constitutional amendment to give future presidents one six year term. It asked support for such a bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Burke, Democrat, Nebraska. Sponsors of the resolution were Edward C. Bailley of New York and H. Graham Morrison of Bristol, Tcnn. If approved by the resolu tions committee, it would go to the association's house of delegates repre senting the organization's 160,000 members. BOND ISSUES Oh CITIES APPROVED Raleigh, Sept. 10.—(AP) — The local government commission today approved issuance of the following bond issues: Goldsboro, $12,000 paving and $8. 0D0 sewer: Smithfield, $10,000 ar mory—subject to approval of voters —and $42,000 refunding. Three Convicts Escape From CarthageCamp I Raleigh, Sept. 10.—(AP)—Three convicts overpowered a guard, stole his weapons and escaped just after : going to work from the state penal I camp at Carthage this morning. Prison Superintendent Oscar Pitts j said the three took a pistol and a I rifle from the guard, stole a state 1 hi/ftiway truuk, abandoned it and ! took an automobile and last were re ported headed toward West End. ! Pitts listed the escapees as: Rufus Gainey, 26, who entered prison Au gust 5 from Scotland county to serve ; two years for assault; Byron Stocks, i 19. sentenced December 20 in Robe ',son to two years for robbery; and , Wallace No> ton, a 25-year-old Scot land county man who was sentf^^d ; to four months, but whose record has . not arrived here as he had just en tered me cartilage camp. Bomb Fires Light Up the Sky Over London Great fires throughout London light up the sky in this dramatic picture, taken as German warnlanes tmiaed thousands of tons of incendiary and high explosive bombs on the British capital. Pillars of flams guided Nazi airmen to the target in unceasing waves. Photo was flashed to New York by cable. Plane Production Gains One Hurt In Negro Riot Coast Guardsman Is Slightly Hurt in Dis persing Band of Ne groes at Elizabeth City. Elizabeth City, Sept. 10.—(AP)— A Coast Guardsman was injured slighty early todvy as statr. highway patrolmen and Coast Guardsmen dis persed a hand of Negroes who had attacked officers with rocks and bot tles outside a Negro theatre here last night. Acting Sergeant E. E. Pritchard said two Negroes were arrested in connection with an assault of F. R. Reggio, one of 25 to 30 coast guards men on duty following tho disorders. City officials said an estimated 1, 000 to 1,500 Negroes gathered near a Negro theatre last night, protesting replacement of the theatre's Negro manager by a white man. A squad of police, firemen, and state highway oatrolmen answered Partolman John Winslow's call for as sistance. On arrival, the offirers re ported. they were pelted with rocks. Mayor Jerome Flora, summoned t'> the scene, asked the Negrres to l^ave and send a committee to confer with him today on their grievance. All but about 500, officers said, left and those remaining began throwing rocks again. About 15 or 20 state hichway pr- J trolmcn were ordered from nearby Williamston along with Coast I Guardsmen who were armed with tar gas bombs and hand grenades. Conspiracy Is Charged New York, Sept. 10. — (AP)—! Seventeen individuals and twelve corporations named in three indict ments charging conspiracy to mono polize and restrain importation, pro duction and sale of various vital war I materials pleaded innocent in federal court today. Accused of violating the federal anti-trust laws, '.he companies and individuals were engaged in produc tion of either glass bulbs, tungsten carbide, used in the hardening of tools and other metal materials, or bentonite, a moulding clay. No trial date was set. Included in those indicted were the Krupp Company of Essen, Ger many. manufacturer*, of war supplies, for which no court appearance was made, and two Dutch firms. Ameri can firms included General Elortric Company and the Corning Glass Works. UtsbcdJwi For NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy and cooler to night, preceded by showers on northeast coast: Wednesday fair, cooler east and central portions. Tobacco Exports m Drop To Record Three-Year Low Washington, Sept. 10.(AP) — The steady decline in exports of American tobacco that started with the outbreak of European hostilities continued through the first seven months of this year, dropping the total value of ex ports to a new three-year low. Department of Commerce fig ures list at $32,446,627 the total value of manufactured and un manufactured tobacco products cut abroad during the first seven months of 1940. This was a drop of 812,000,000 from 1939 and S24,000.000 from 1938. The bulk of the decline was in leaf exports, the valuation of which fell from 854,863,798 for the first seven months of 1938 and 843,555.869 for the first seven months of 1939 to 830.971.055 for 1940. Exports of bright flue-c'Jred tobacco fell in value to 824.682, 778 for 1940. from 834,614.796 in 1939 and 844,533,731 in 1938. NAZI SHORE GUNS BREAK UP CONVOY Berlin, Sept. 111.—(AP)—A British convoy of eight ships steaming out of Dover yesterday was shelled by German coastal batteries and broken up, the high command reported to night. It said four returned to Dover, two turned to other ports, one was dam aged by shell fire and was towed into port, and the eighth remained smok ing in the channel. A British battery at Dover which attempted to answer the German fire later was silenced by Nazi long range gun;;, the report said. Italian Casualty Lists Made Public Rome, Soul. 10.—(AP)—August casualty totals published today brought Italian dead rind. missing for the war to 2.87G. In addition to 288 Italian names on the August death list and 296 missing, included in the total were further losses of 266 natives killed and 676 missing, not included in the tolal. The August wounded list totaled 488 Italians and 1,516 natives. Antonescu Dismisses Generals Bucharest, Sept. 10.—(AP)—Dis missal of eleven Rumanian generals, held partly responsible for Ru mania's recent loss of territory, was announced today as General Ion An tonsecu, military dictator, continu ed his investigation of former King Carol's regime. Thn rWrr>r» dismissing th^ men, who included a former premier and (Continued on Page Five) Knudsen At End Of Tour Chairman of Defense Commission Says Pro duction of Planes and Engines Speeded. , Buffalo, Sept. 10.—CAP)—In 19 months arc Army and Navy will have approximately 11,000 combat planes —fighters and bombers—William S. Kriudsen, chairman of the national defense commission, said today. Almost through with a nationwide tour of aircraft plants in the com pany of General H. H. Arnold, chief of the Aimy air corps, Knudsen said "we know the United States is mak in the best airplanes," and added: "I believe that presently we can pnv wo are making the most air planes." The figure of 11.000 was bnscd on a total production bv April 1, 1942 of 33.000 planes. 14.000 destined for Great Britain and 19.000 for the arm ed services of the United States. General Arnold said that of those (Continnrvl cm Pnn'1 Five* Britain Fliers Bomb Nazis London, Sept. 10.—(AP)— British fliers bombed Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg shipyards, docks at the Kiel naval base, and Wilhelmshaven j last night and factories at Essen and J Barnstorf, Germany, the air ministry stiid today. The heavy bombers also attacked shipping and barge concentrations in the channel ports of Osfend, Calais and Boulogne, and the German ar tilery emplacements in France from which the nazi guns have been throwing shells at I he Dover area, the ministry declared. Navy Reaffirms Faith In Power Of The Battleship Washington, Sept. 10.—(AP)—The Navy reaffirmed its faith in the hat-! tleship as the backbone of sea pow er today by staking 5700,000,000 of its present and prospective building; money on seven of ihe floating fort- * resses. Despite contentions of some avia tion enthusiasts that air power has made the dreadnaught obsolete, Navy officials set aside this big sum tor capital ships in a history-making S3, 361,053,312 contract letting. The seven battleships will be heavily armored, long range vessels {5.0(10 ton- or more, larger than my w?r hips r.-w afloat and the "qua! of those • aid to he under con struction in other nations. Reports circulated in the capital, Spectacular Fires Set In City's Heart Hundreds of Firemen Fight Blazes Started by Bombs From Ger man Planes Shuttling Back and Forth Across Channel. (By The Associated Press.) German warplanes stormed cen tral London with ;i tempest of giant benibs in their third successive dusk to-dawn attack today, setting specta cular fires in the vicinity of his toric St. Paul's Cathedral and in "the city"—London's Wall Street—in a nine-hour and two minute assault. Roaring salvos of bombs weighing from 800 to 1,000 pounds each crash ed near the Bank of England, the Guild Hall (city hall), the general postofficc, London Bridge and Fleet Street. The 250-year old St. Paul's Cathe dral, with its great dome red lit from the glare of flames in nearby ware houses, was saved by the wind blow ing in the opposite direction. Hundreds of firemen fought the warehouse blazes for eight hours without a break. About 150 German bombers, shut tling in night-long relays across the channel, took part in the bombard ment. "The enemy now has thrown off al! pretense of confining himself to military targets," an official British communique declared. Berlin reported that "the full blast aerial siege of Britain has just be gun" and said "ever more planes for London" was the order issued to the j nazi air force. i German daylight raiders returned to the attack at noon, interrupting the lunch hour of London's weary millions with a 25-minutc alarm. A second 23-minute alarm sounded in the afternoon. In the night attack 120 persons were reported buried in the wreckage ol' 20 houses in a single district. By (Continued on Page Five) France Faces Food Shortage P-jris (via Berlin, delayed), Sept. fi.—(AP)—A shortage of certain footstuffs in occupied France, which can be met only by strict rationing this winter, was forecast today by officials of the agriculture section of the German military administration. They said the prospective short I age resulted directly from military operations. These authorities said German occupation forces werenot sending large quantities of food from France info Germany. The primary reason for the pros pective shortage, German officials said, was the removal by the French government of between 8,000,000 and 10,000,000 inhabitants from cepart ments of northern France when the war started. Included in this num ber were bolween 3,000.000 and 4, 000.000 agricultural workers. This exodus, they pointed out. had two effects. First, the crops which would have been planied in early May were forgotten after the first German offensive began May 10. Second, crops which, like the first cutting of May. would have been harvested in the same period, were left standing in the fields. moreover, that three of them would be of 53,000 tons, larger than any other power is known to be build ing, but this could not be confirmed. Chairman Vinson, Democrat, Geor gia, of the House naval committee, told his colleagues that all seven would be 45,000 tonners. The Navy previously had ordered four such super-ships and officials said that two of these already were under construction. A number of 35, 000-tonners are much farther along toward completion. By the time the latest batch of seven giants is com pleted. four or five years hence, of ficials said, the Navy's battle line will boast 32 dreadnaughts in con trast with the 15 now in actual ser vice. 4
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