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HEMDER50M. & « itiwtiiersnn Satlu Htspafrh -ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA ■n j. MY-SEVENTH YEAR i"e ass™ tI^r^s0'' HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 14, 1940 publis^xdceptes™dai7BBN00N FIVE CENTS COI'Y Measure Passes * V v w w «• WVV V « « V. M M 1 m ■ « — i ritish Fear Invasion Attempt Soon feht Raids Oil London Continued j i i i'iitish Capiial Under goes Week of His-! ijry's Greatest Aerial; i^ege; Forces Stand B To "Repel Board-! ers*' On Coast. So;.- 14.—fAP> — The "is a period <»f intense sion tn Britain." neu v sources said today. int came as German ! "he defenses of England's •• ast following the eighth > • sht of destructive raids I conditions off Dover. • r • ■) German-held France - • » civ.:nnel. were described. - slightly less favorable »•• than for some time. . warnings sound brief intervals in Lon r, v ere sporadic forays ; pianos on northeast coast y one bombing was re cLylight today after a • ry's greatest aerial siege, •.n bomber appeared over • c ast town, dropped two :i.c: • anished into a cloud. Cie' v planes were sighted .r. -he v.:re area. • v army, navy and royal iod prepared to "repel n Britain's coast and air postmaster general an ; due to heavy pressure and telephone services! had been asked to usej sent messages only. This) ent made no mention of i :■« these facilities by the I G v.'oi ngs. itrols of police and tr.e' I t.ined out at one south-1 -t town last night and I !. er>;de wharfs and rad ii a- following reports that ■hute were seen descend •y :,i >-d to find any evidence •t the reports. taincd hi&'u explosives . . ,.ry bombs on the south e.-'ern areas of the capital \ despite intensive anti-air tire. emment communique ac ••d:;ed that fires were started •us points in the city, but • 11 of them either had been I: . d or brought under con Gt-tiuin plane was reported . n after being caught in a ; : chlight> over cast London. •aing papers declared es t rvicts were stJ.I carrying . • t ! ttie in some places." Chronicle said—and assert i en consecutive nights in h--iters had failed to break morale. • day night's raids killed 110 tid injured 260. it was an onnging the totals from last v through Wednesday to 1, .d and 4.810 injured. Nazi Declares Bombings Will Be Continued Sept. 14.—CAP)—London • ij'iiribed relentlessly unless '• . a well informed source ■ J.-.n newspapermen today. <"k« Mimn declared that one Krigland's war potentials are •'.itiiin the British capital as -W percent of the nation's im that the city therefore is y objective of the first of the future will be built melon's line," he said. ';<ck on London was under i measure of retaliation for planless bombing of Ger iijrus and non-military ob British," this source in • tish apparently now thfl^" they haven't bombed Ger the past two nights we are q iits. They apparendy look ■ ' a football match, where n one side is evened up "r on the other. ■ j'.'t figure human values v One German life may be Hercules Plant Smashed By Series Of Explosions Buildings blasted to bits and smoke rising from the burning timbers and trees mark the area blasted by a series of explosions 3n the grounds of the Hercules Powder Company of Kenvil, N. J. The shattering explosions brought death to many, injured hun dreds. Federal authorities began an investigation. The com pany had recently contracted to make a large quantity of powder for the government. Nazis Bomb | London Area! "Extraordinary Weak" Defense En countered by Raiders, Germans Declare. Berlin. Sept. 14.—(AP)—The Ger man high command, reporting con tinuing night and day attacks on England despite unfavorable weather, -aid today numerous factories and Jocks were hit in the London area ind airports, war industries and rail roads were "bombed effectively" in southeastern England. The daily communique acknowl edged British night attacks on the Netherlands, Belgium and northern France last night, but said they fail ed to cause noteworthy damage. Germany herself spent a "bomb less" night it was reported. A few casualties were reported near Rot terdam in bombings by British raid ers returning home after they were said to have been driven off from Germany. Today's high command reports said eight British planes were downed in yesterday's air fighting. Two Ger man craft were reported missing. German raiders returning from night raids on the British capital said they encountered "extraordinary weak" defense. Nazi air bombardments of Lon don, German military circles assert ed today, have forced the British to concentrate their anti-aircraft de fenses in the metropolitan region, thereby depriving other parts of the island of protection. The industrial midlands and other sections rapidly are becoming easy targets for German raiders, these sources said, and added that aerial preparations for the long-threatened invasion of England were well in hand. Calcutt, Boiling Each Post Bond Raleigh. Sept. 14.—(AP)—Joseph A. Calcutt of Fayetteville and an as sociate. B. W. Boiling, surrendered to the Wake county sheriff following a grand jury indictment charging them with owning illegal slot ma chines and with conspiring to place them in this county. Calcutt posted 55,000 bond in a single bill and Boiling posted $2,500. Sheriff N. F. Turner said he un 'erstood Calcutt, indicted under the •■^de name of the Vending Machine Company, maintained offices in Chi Tgo anrf Los Angeles as well as in "^ayetteville. Sen. Bailey Praises Defense Program Senator Tells Young Democrats, However, That Threat of Huge| Federal Debt Is Sec-! ond in Gravity Only to Chance of War. Raleigh, Sept. 14.—(AP)—Sena tor Josiah W. Bailey told North Car olina's Young Democrats today that the President had acted wisely in building up the nation's defenses, but that the threat of a federal debt of S75,nnn,ono.ono "is second only in gravity to the possibility of an inva sion fro mabroad." Bailey, often a critic of the Roose velt administration, defended the President's actions for defense and j praised his leadership. The prepared | text did not mention Mr. Roosevelt i by name, however. "It is our purpose," Bailey said, "to be so strong in arms, in men and in attachment to our republic as a republic that no nation or combina tion of nations will challenge us. and thereby to win security and preserve our peace by preparation for war. "It is not our purpose to dictate to anv other nation nor shall any na tion dictate to us." The senator pointed out that in 'Continued on Page Pi''"* FDR Speeches Under Study i Washington, Sept. 14.— (AP) —| Members oi' the Senate campaign in-; vestigating committee decided today] to study President Roosevelt's Labor ( Day speeches before passing on a; Republican request to determine! whether they involved expenses sub ject to the Hatch act. A complaint was filed with the j committee- by Representative Joseph | W. Martin, Jr., chairman oi' the Re publican national committee. After a closed session, Chairman Gillette, Democrat, Iowa, said that the "committee was unanimously of the opinion that they could not with proper judgment determine action at this time until indivic!:;nl mem bers of the committee hrd opportun ity to review the President's speeches, on this trip and make : tudy of the j facts and circumstances in connection i with the provisions of the federal statues." ' Martin asked the committee to find out who paid the (Vpensos foi | the Presidential train and to deter-1 mine whether these costs should: come within the $3,000,000 limit oni presidential campaign expenditures imposed by the Hatch act. Contracts For Plane Engines Are Awarded Washington, Sept. 14.—(AP)—The War Department announced today the awarding of contracts totaling more than S239,000,000, including one for the manufacture of Rolls Royce airplane engines by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit. The number of engines covered by the contract was not disclosed imme diately. A tentative agreement with Packard to go ahead with arrange mcns for production of the Rolls IRoyec engines under a license of the (British holders of the patents had been previously made. Shortly before announcing com pletion of the • contracts with Packard, the War department made known that it had awarded a con tract to the General Motors Corpor ation for mass production oi: machine guns. It also had announced contracts for (Continued on Page Five) Durham Man Is Elected By Elks Raleigh, Sept. 14.—(AP)—Cyydc I R C.l^nn of Durham today was elect- j ed president of the North Carolina i Elks Association. He succeeds P. C. Smith of High Point. Other officers elected included I T «^slie P. Gardner of Goldsboro, trus- I tee. Highlights And Sidelights On State Convention Of Young Democrats Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Sept. 14.—Young Demo crats, with red, white and blue "Roosevelt" galluses and belts, or without sny such colorful equipment for holding up their breeches, have been sowing a crop of corns and bunions in the Sir Walter lobb£ ever since early Friday morning—in fact there were some early comers on i Thursday bent on capturing the j "standing" marathon. In age these so-called young par tisans range from callow youths to patriarchs who have long since pass ed their allotted three score years and ten; but to a man they seem able to take it indefinitely as far as standing around and talking are con cerned. On the whole, the convention has ! been well behaved, with no outward i and visible sounds of extraordinary thirst; though one hotel attache re-1 marked that when the bottles were collected from the many rooms and started down the chute to which they are consigned it sounded like the hail of anti-aircraft shrapnel over Lon don so vividly described by news paper writers. Logically enough, politics is the sole topic of the many conversations, but unless things are going on under cover which have not been caught by your reporter's eager ears, noth ing remotely resembling a specta cular coup or scoop has occurred or is in the offing. Without the slightest disrespect to a departed Tar Heel of rather heroic i proportions, one wag remarked that I the Young Democrats were mourn ' ing the loss of "one of their members. ; Captain Ashe, who died at the ripe agb of 97, and to whom a monument was dedicated Friday." Among the "youngsters" much in I evidence has been .Walter "Pete"i Murphy, well past 70, who declared loudly that he is still as "young in i spirit and thought, if not in action," I as anyone. The Ro\X*an veteran has just re-! turned from a trip to New York. 'He j is fully convinced that Wendell Will- | kic hasn't even a -emote chance to beat President Roosevelt. "Why, some of my good friends up there who are staunch and regular Republicans say they simply will not vote for Willkie," he said emphati cally. "Roosevelt will sweep New York by a very heavy majority will win in New Jersey, and ha.-- a better than even chance to jget Pen:-, yl (ConUnued un Page Five) 75,000 Men Begin Year Of Training Early In November Sabotage Is Charged In Explosion Kcnvil, H. J., Sept. 11.--(AP)— AcuvitiOj ox 'lureigri agents" were „i:-inea tcuay by benator Barbour, P'publican, Nov/ Jersey, iur the ex plosions at the Hercules Powder' company plant tliat killed at least i& uiiu wiUijn live frightful minutes blasted more then a .-.core of build ings of the- 2,QG0-acrc plant. While state police c.kc'k d mem ber hip rolls of the Gcrmm-Ameri ean bund against the roster of plant employees, Senator Barbour in a statement in Washington said he be lieved "when the fact: aie known it will be discovered that it .Thurs day's explosion) was due as in the j case of the Black Tom (Jersey City, : N. J.) disaster of the pre-World War period to the activities of for eign agents." In addition to the New Jersey state police and state bureau of ex plosives, other agencies probing the mysterious explosions were the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation Her cules experts, Army and Navy intel ligence officers, and United States Navy explosive specialists. None of the many investigators would say whether they had unearth ed any evidence of sabotag.e Three new names increased the death toll to 48 as steam shovels and cranes this morning began clearing away the twister steel, powder smudged brick, and other debris that piled up in the terrific blast of Thursday afternoon. Peace Named To YD Office Raleigh, Sept. 14.—(AP)—District officers were named today by North Carolina Young Democratic clubs as follows (the district chairmen and vice chairmen constitute the state executive committee): District 1—Paul Liverman of Columbia, chairman; Miss Patsy Davenport of Greenville, vice chair- 1 man; A P. Godwin, Jr., of Gatesville, i secretary; John Graham of Edenton, treasurer. District 2—Harry Finch of Wil son, chairman; Mrs. A. Leonardas Hux of Halifax county, vice chaii< man: L. H. Fountain of Tarboro, sec retary-treasurer. District 3—Alvin Kornegay of j Southern Pines, chairman; Miss Phoebe Harlan of Richlands, vice j chairman; Miss Sally Gibbs Pridgon of Warsaw, secretary; W. J. Lansche, j Jr., of New Bern, treasurer. District 4—Ed Miller of Randolph ! county, chairman; Mrs. Elizabeth1 Strickland of Nash county, vice chairman; Jimmie Peace, Jr. of Hen- 1 derson, secretary. Willkie Places Roosevelt With Dictators Enroute to Kansas City, Sept. 14.1 —(AP)—Wendell L. Willkie, cam-, paigning through the corn belt, said! today at Joliet, 111., that four men, in the world—Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and President Roosevelt—re gard themselves as indispensable. "I don't happen to think so," ad ded the Republican presidential nominee. "We have a man in the United States who says: 'I am indispensable because of my knowledge of foreign affairs.' Was it extraordinary skill when he tried to promote the Munich pact? "Franklin D. Roosevelt has handled foreign affairs in the last seven years in a bungling and incompetent way. One day he is an interventionist. The next day , he is an isolationist. Whatever crowd he happens to be talking to is what he advocates." IO&aiJwt FOR NORTH CAROLINA. ' Fair to partly cloudy tonif.*"t and Sunday, slightly warmer Sunday and in mountains to night. President Roosevelt Expected To Sign Measure Early Next Week, Setting Draft Machinery in Motion. Wv.fiingtnn. Sept. H.—(AP) — Peacetime draft legislation rc niiirin«* ••e.-'istration of approxi mately 16.500.000 men 21 thro ugh 35 for military training was finally approved by Congress to day and dispatched to the White House. The President's signature, en actine it into law, is expected to be affixed early next week, set tin" in motion machinery which will send the first 75.000 draftees to camps in November. The House took the final legis tive step this afternoon when it approved. 232 to 124, a eompro ' miso between Senate and House versions of the conscription measure a short time after the Senate gave its assent by a 47 to 25 vote. The final version included pro vision for the President to take over industrial plants on a ren tal ba<=is when necessary to get defense orders filled expedi tiously. The Senate's action came after it had sent the bill back to a joint Sen ate and House conference committee by a 37 to 33 vote last night, with instructions to its conferees to insist on the adoption of a House-approved clause giving the government power to commandeer industrial plants where the owners proved recalcitrant about accepting or speeding up de fense orders. This provision, much mor,e dras tic than a compromise version pre viously written into the measure by the conferees, was adopted quickly by the joint committee and the meas ure returned to the Senate for ac tion. ' Italian Forces Advance Cairo, Sept. 14.— (AP) —British general headquarters announced to night that Italian forces had pushed into the. Egyptian-Libyan no-man's land near Solium, harassed by Brit ish mech'anized forces. Soluum lies on the Mediiterranean at the northern extreme of the com mon frontier between Egypt and Ital ian Libya. "Following his plan, of pushing forward into no-man's land, the en emy yesterday advanced into the area which includes the escarpement southwest of Solium, the ruined and empty village itself, and the ruins of Musaid," said a general headquarters communique. "His movements arc being watch ed and harassed by our armored fighting vehicles who have the situ ation well in hand." More Money For Defense Roosevelt Asks Con gress for $1,733,886, 976 Appropriation For Defense. Washington, Sept. 14.—(AP) — Shortly after Congress pave fi nal approval to peacetime con scription today, it received from President Roosevelt a request for an additional SI,733,886,976 de fense appropriation including: $34,825,108 to start the draft. In a letter to the Speaker of the House, the President asked: SI,662,881.976 cash and S150, 000.000 contract authorizations for the War department. S57.334.000 cash and S7,000,000 contract authorizations for t\c Navy. S40.000.000 cash for the Fed eral Security Agency. SI 1.091.000 cash and S50.000. 000 contract authorizations for the Commerce department. S580.000.000 cash for the Treasury department. | the larger items re qu^it?'.! for the Armv was S294, noc CCD fcr
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