fmtiirrsmt Haily U Ispaf ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA ' ^ ENTH VEAR HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 13, 1940 publishSe?Wkdaaf/ERN00N FIVE CENTS COPY Cing And Queen Escape In Raid ******** ********** *********** issscue Workers Search Powder Plan t Ruins Buckingham Palace Hit By 5 Bombs Lone Nazi Dive Bomb er Drops Salvo Dam aging Palace in Day light Raid; Other Raiders Drop Bombs m Downing Street. (By The Associated Press.) Safely huddled in a palace air raid cjm;v»r> King George VI and Queen Elizabeth escaped uninjured today when a lone nazi dive bomber screamed down from the clouds and dropped a salvo of five bombs on Buckingham Palace and its precincts. Witnesses said the German raider came out of his roaring dive into a glide—with motors silenced—to check speed and get a better aim at the palace. Other nazi raiders, flying low and fast over the heart of London, drop ped incendiary bombs in Downing Street, where Prime Minister Win ston Churchill resides at the famous IsTo. 10. No damage was reported. After the raid King George and Queen Elizabeth inspected the dam age to the royal palace. "Their majesties, who were in the palace, were unharmed" the ministry of information announced, but three members of the palace staff and three plumbers were slightly injured. Two bombs fell in the palace's in ner quadrangle today, a third hit and wrecked the royal couple's private chapel in the south wing, and the others exploded on the roadway be tween the Victoria Memorial and the palace gates—where great crowds gather to cheer their sovereigns on special occasions. The raiders dropped countless salvos of fire and shriek bombs, set ting London's fashionable West End aflame in a series of bold daylight attacks. Batteries of anti-aircraft guns set up a terrific barrage and royal air force fighters slashed in and out of the clouds, engaging the raiders in dogfights. The daylight assault took London's bomb battered millions by surprise when the air raid sirens shrieked the i h 't warning at 7:33 a. m. (1:33 a. m. EST), less than two hours after the "al! clear'' sounded the end of the capital's sixth straight dusk-to-dawn attack lasting eight hours and 30 minutes. The first day alarm lasted 53 min utes. Sixteen minutes later the raid ers appeared again—among them several great four-motored bombers. The second alarm lasted four hours and nine minutes. Official casualty figures up to Wednesday night were announced as 1,175 killed and 4.270 wounded since Hitler unleased succcssive night-long attacks on London last Saturday. • British Patrols Fi^htin^In Kenya Cairo, Sept. 13.—(AP)— British patrols were reported today to be fighting hard against large Italian forces on a 20f<-:nile front in Kenya colony, hundreds of miles south of of the Libyan-Egyptian border area where Italy's main offensive is be lieved imminent. < British Planes Raid German Objectives London, Sept. 13.—(AP)—British bombers struck heavily last night at Le Havre on the German-held French coast, where the nazi army has been reported concentrating some of its most powerful units for an in vasion of Britain, the air ministry announced tonight. A German tanker and a supply ship were hit at Le Havre, the min istry said. It also reported that a British bal loon barrage had snared a German plane early today. Berlin. Sept. 13.—(AP)—English planes bombed Germany's principal industrial city <>1 Essen, seat ol the Kiupp munitions works, last night, authorized .sources said today as Ger man bombers were reported to be hitting London's docks and factories with "extr.ordinary accuracy." Bui the Bi itish bombs missed their iau tri;1! targets, these source* said, d ! t a woriu . ! residential quar . • !, : ;: o. :!v. c ty. At Least 39 Killed And 125 injured ■p.age to Hercules i ,»wJer Company i :\nt Estimated at '.'r.Mjn Dollars; FBI \^i°ates Pos«ibil i i ■" Sabotage. X. J.. Sept. 1.1.—(AP>—1 - m-ked through a -- «•:' mouldering ruin i i». i>vnv victims of v -:>>n< that leveled the vder Company's plant t ! : >t 35> men. injur • - anc. causing an esti ,'iHO damage. C. Hunt. of Wilmington, ■go of the c >;npany*s ex 11:-fiit expressed belief v .>1 four or five more • !.i be recovered. . ;.v i ike'.y we'll never be • c *»10 ,,f the Hunt stated. "The men v i ..»i;vrned are lost." •::» Is of the plant and »vted the toll of dead j'>. In point of t'atal i y - bhist was one of the plant disasters in the -• v. v manufactures smoke id other explosives. It n fulfilling numerous' • nse contiacts. Today! R: eau of Investigation, :ivestigating pos? i b i I i t ies • _e. was of such intensity that j ;do was roc!:ed lor miles', liberations were felt as' !) nbury. Conn. 125 miles Thousand- in surround-1 relieved there had been .. i Young Demos i In Session St;.:. !3.—(AP)—With j • indicating attend ■. -et a record, the annual : the North Carolina .ats got under way here 'i ■ ; Greensboro, key -ed the >tate and national ' • . forecast a rousing' - v in the nation and d the young party i v k vigorously to "in a.iorities in North Car it:- • • night J. M. Brough Democratic nominee . '. i!! >peak. Also on the ' R.iJie-ertative Harold no George Gordon Bat York attorney. License Clamp On Export Of Plane Plans j ngton. Sept. 13.—(AP)— tto... c\eit clamped license it today on the export of i!- and supplier for air vv to "further strengthen :...! defense.' ' ' idential proclamation, •hie at his press conl'er i' 'I to the "export license (nt used for producing »r luel and tetraethyl plan or specifications • design, construction or of. s;;ch equipment, and '' tiorss and descriptive information of any kind the design 01 construc ■1 ' or aircraft engines. t proclamation." a for <■! ' said. "taken with pre the effect of putting ' 'rol of the President for !>o.-es not only the air • ?ines but also the plans for building them." (lhaihe/t '••ii NORTH CAROLINA ::'Pv }"•»»»•: sl#»\v?v ri-'n? 1 i:: 1 s tonight and Sat Monarchs, Churchill Inspect Bombed Palace Prime Minister Winston Churchiil is shown (left) with King George and Queen Elizabeth a? they inspected damage don*.1 to Buckingham Palace, one of the monarch's London residences, by a delayed-action German bomb. The British rulers were not in the palace when the ex plosion occurred. Phot was flashed by cable to New York. Willkie Off On Campaign Tour; LaGuardia For FDR Drive Against Slot Machines Brings Indictments In Wake Raleigh. Sept. 13.— (AP) —The Wake county grand jury indicted Joe Calcutt of Fayetteville. two other men. and the Vending Machine Com pany «>t Fayetteville today on charges of owning illegal sl<>t machin.< winch were operated in Wake county. The indictments apparently were a part of a statewide drive against slot machines launched by Superior court judges. Earlier in the week. Judge R. Hunt Parker had expressed a desire to "get the higher ups"' when he started hearing cases against 7§. alleged op erators of illegal slot machines. Mon day at Edenton Judge W. C. Harris was quoted as telling the Chowan grand jury that "the judges have agreed that these machines should be outlawed*' as he directed them to investigate the situation. He said the judge that followed him would continue the light. Yesterday at Durham officers seiz ed 91 pin ball machines as they acted under orders of Judge Henry L. Stevens. Judge Parker directed State Bu reau of Investigation agents and sheriff deputies to start an imme diate search for. Calcutt, R. W. Boil ing. identified in testimony its an I auditor of the Vending Machine] Company, and C. C. Bishop, alleged contact man f..r the company here, i •Judge Parker directed that bond of 35,000 be required of Calcutt. $2,-. 500 of Boiling and SI,000 of Bishop.: Calculi was specifically charged; both individually and as the Vending Machine Company with the owner ship of illegal machines on location! in Wake county which were adapt-! able to free games or giving returns' on which wagers might be made, i Bishop mid Boliing were named itii individual charges oi the same na-; tuve and both were charged with,1 conspiring with Calcutt to distribute the machines. Judge Parker ordered 52 of the alleged operators ol the slot machines j to pay court costs. Babson Believes Mexico Dangerous Economist Says Mex ico is Becoming Can cer in Latin America; Sees Little Chance for Trade in South Amer ica. BY ROGER VV. RABSON. Copyright 1940. Publishers Financial Ruroaii. New York City. Sept. 13.—When I first began to travel to South, America, I would refer to the people; there as South Americans. Thereup on. the leading newspaper men—alii of whom were friends of mine— would say. "We are not South Amer icans; we are Latin Americans." Continuing to think I knew more about the situation than they did. I then began to refer to them as Span ish Americans. But again they ex-j plained thai the largest country in; South America—namely. Brazil, is Portuguese both by biood and lan guage. I mention thi because so many readers forget that Snanish is (Continued oa Pafic Five) Jones Named | For Cabinet Washington, Sept. 13. — (AP)— President Roosevelt nominated Jesse | Jones today to be secretary of com-! merce. The nomination had been withheld pending passage by Congress ol' a resolution permitting Jones, a resi-1 dent of Houston. Tex., to retain his' present post as federal loan admin istrator while serving in the cabinet. Jones succeeds Harry L. Hopkins, j who recently resigned because of poor health. HOUSE OF LORDS IS HIT BY BOMBS London. Sept. 13.—(AP)—The House of Lords has been dam aged in recent air raids, it was disclosed officially tonight. An incendiary bomb that hit the hoa«e in one wins; o»" the I-ouses of parliament was Quick ly extinguished. Republican Candidate to Tour 18 States and Make 69 Speeches; Senate Committee to Investigate GOP Po litical Advertising, (By The Associated Press.) Wendell Willkic was off today on the la-day, 7.200-mile tour of cam paigning that will take him into 18 states for 69 speeches, one a major address on the third term issue. Before leaving Rushville. Ind., last nif.'lit V'illkie discussed final plans for his swing to the Pacific coast with hi.- running mate. Senator McNary, Republican National Chairman Joe Maiiiu and Minnesota's Governor Harold E. Stasscn. At Chicago, Willkie told a crowd of welcomers in the union station upon his arrival that "I am going to give you the truth in plain Indiana language so tiiat no one can mis understand." "My speeches," he declared, "will (Continued on Page Five' Should Lose Canada Prefers Her Independence, Not Union With U. S., Stewart Declares. By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington. Sent. 13.—Of course Mayor Fiorelln H. LaGuardia of New York is the essence of the Yankee Canadian joint commission which is fixing up that mutually defensive compact between Uncle Samuel and our Lady of the .Snows. Not tnat tho other com missioners are not ;ill right, but Finrello can no more be any thing but the v—1 !,H inn r)iok°r '« pac-v enough to arrange, for botn There are some Continued on Page Five) ! Leaders Predict Passage Of Draft [ Bill By Nightfall j benaie aria House Ex-! peci Quickest Possible Action of Compromise Agreed Upon by Joint Committee of Con j gress. j W;>-Rent. 13—CAP1—Con-! , ;rrnsvionni Wdcrs confidonlly pre i r1:rtn«"i thnt peacetime con"crip I tinp 1 * * <.-1 • • i :np wou'd be on !ts way j to the Whit'* Hou-e by nightfall to beenmo 1.)-^ low o.' {.ho land. In both Senate and House the plan wns obtain the quickest possible •.HV/'- r''i tbp c^mnromise version of j I ^•.'•'•,-^-\Vadr\Vorth compulsory I r(?y- r'.r> bill worked out by a joint, conference committee to reconcile the dirfn-en.ee between the two chambers on the measure. With acceptance of the comoronuse generally t?ken for granted, the day's bis; question was how long it would! take Congress to conclude action on; the precedent breaking bill which! orders registration of 16.500.000 men between the ages of 21 and 35. Some said it would be only a few hours, others that it would take most of the day. The Senate received the compro mise version first and Majority Lead er Barkley, Democrat, Kentucky, called the chamber into session an hour earlier than usual (at lta. m.) to expedite consideration. House leaders were ready to act just as soon as the Senate approves the legislation and sends its across to their wing of the Capitol. The compromise version caused some expressions of dissatisfaction— ! chiefly from legislators who fought for the 21 to 31 age limit and the GO-day postponement in starting con ' scription. There were no signs, how I ever, of attempts to stymie action on j j the legislation. | Willkie Makes I Peace Pledge Chicago, Sept. 13—(AP)—Wendell Willkie told' a crowd in the stock yards today that "if you elect me President I shall never send an [ American boy to figh in any Euro I pean war". He also pledged himself to "build a domestic economy so strong that no dictator ever snail seek to strike." I Standing in a hay wagon in the! j heart of the huge packing house dis-! ! triet, the Republican presidential l ncminee contended that the admin istration had failed to solve the un employment problem and contended th'ct President Roosevelt in his re cent address before the Teamsters union "promised labor everything except jobs." "The failure of the last seven and a half years,' he said, "has been the failur eto produce jobs. No amount failure to produce jobs. No amount can cover up that abysmal failure to produce jobs." Willkie declared that he stood for rrontinued on Five^ Appropriations Set Record For Peacetime Year vVa-.'njjtflan, S pt. —(AF)— Coufftcs'i lias appropriate* 813, 127,427,195 so far this session and may be a^k^d to approve Si,500, 090,000 in additional funds be fore adjournment. In addition, it has authorized cnother 8.^,^53/'°/'. •) r ex penditure in future y?av:;—the actual cash to be v t <.i . . yjjse Quent sc-siens for a svuui *i>ial of $21.383,509,294. Apprapriaiions and wmmit mcms tor dofeiise account for rr-'. t!:a:i 815,000.500,300 at that total. t/ungrreFSional records show that the S13.127.427,195 in direct appropriations already exceed those of any full peacetime year in the nation's hi tory. Last year's total was $9,719,258,467. ( Only the World War outlays ) were greater—§18.881.940,243 in | the fiscal year of 1918 and 827, 065,148,993 in 1319. The defense outlays include 86939,635,906 of actual appro priations, S3,646,082.009 in con tract authorizations for the Army, Navy and Army air corps, and 4,610,000,000 in a single author ization for a "two ocean" Navy. Italy's Air Force Busy Series of Bombard ments Along Egyptian Coast May Be Prelude of Offensive. Rome, Sept. 13.—(AP)—Italy's air force in heavy dav and night bom bardments ha= dealt ounfching blows at British positions along the Egypt ian coast, an Italian high command announced todny amid unofficial re ports that an Italian drive into Egypt j already was under way. It was the fifth successive day of ( such assaults, often the prelude of an offensive. The high command communique,1 did not mention any land offensive, but one military authority said "an I operation" already had begun in! Egypt. Ho disclosed no details, how-I ever, and other high fascist sources i expressed doubt that Italian land; force" actually had crossed the Brit-' ish defended border. But indications mounted that both' the steadily increasing Italian and,' British forces along the desert Egypt- i ian-Libyan frontier were preparing' for major action. Day and night, the | Itjflian communique said. Italian j bombers have hammered at British f Continued nn PnCP F'vpI London Is Chaos—"This Is Only The Beginning" Says Ranking German Official Berlin, Sept. 13.—(AP)—London is j chaos, according to Hans Rechenberg, I Economic Minister t Walter Funk's! right hand man who has taken part! in several of the German air raids—I "and remember this is only the be-1 ginning." Summing up his personal impres- J sions in an interview today Rechen- j berg asserted that one dock seqtion T>f~"fcondon had been splotched by fires, plowed by bombs and blanket ed by smoke. "Summing up my personal impres sions." he said, "I can only say that London is already a scene of chaos, I -md remember this is only the be -Tinning. I 'Thrp>.:nbfH;t greatrr Lop<3<»i and nil nlor.jZ the iv.itsi-irt-:. indn.ctrhl o'ants alternate with warehouses, electric power plants, gas and oil tanks and munitions dumps. All these are doomed as our attacks continue. "Ordered life in the British capital is well nigh impossible," Rechenberg declared-. "My formation when I started out after dusk last Saturday was given as its objective the destruction of provisions and storehouses slightly north of the u-shaped bend of the Thames." Rechenberg said. "Our fliers were happy at last to have an exciting errand x x x. "If I could reveal to you how many planes started that first night and have been starting since in in creasing numbers, your hair would stand on end." Rechenberg said. "Our 'eggs' were of formidable sizi. too. If they were dropped on this mini?.t'*y yon rpd I r>»'« rr,w ■it'"ng there wouldn't be anyiiir.jg left."