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:1AF Drives Off 300 Raiders
Their Chow Is On Uncle Sam Nov/
V u of the 71st Infantry. New York National Guard, clcan up following their first meal after mobilization
»;.to the regular army. Their first army banquet was served in the New York armory. Within two weeks,
however, they will start on their year of training in army camps. (Central Press)
high Court Rules
Jail Tax Illegal
supreme i^ourt Holds
counties iviay lxot
i-evy special i ax in
Addition to hitteen
Cent Levy tor General
Purposes.
Sept. lb.— (AP) —The I
ic Court ruled today'
"special tuxes lor sup- !
and expt nse of muin
and prisoners are uncon
ievied in addition to the
■ a'vv permittea under the
: :or general county pur
- .e cases wcr? decided in
rions rendered by the
• new Justice ouilding. "i
:"t held that a levy of 5
:: Cherokee county "for |
purpose of paying ex-'
d :.u court in tne coun
\i" v- oi nr.untaining the
1 nty oners" \va3 "uacon
. ui< ;4<.il and i::\ . iid ' after
■y already lixcd a 15
• y fur "general county pur-:
S .utiiern Railway System
at' r paying ST 13.93
it' l a its shaie of the 3
Justice :J. V. Barnhill
:ii .'i ruling a lower
. • v. and said:
; • •• of the . -id second
;i:c levy are newary cx
c«»iM'y. but though the
n _;n"d "tor a .social pur
■ > ;•;•> t> "are general ex
ring rtgularly in the or
i!>e of and as neces: ary
• the orderly operation of
eminent'."
• decided were civil suits.
fax Issue
Is Debated
Senator Bailey Says
Wat ion Facing Nation
al Debt of 75 Billion
dollars.
"''■•.'ton. Sept 1f>——Sen
v ; m I?'ptihlicjin. Vermont.
•■'! to'lfiv th;it » nroposal to oTi—
• < exemptions on federal.
• '.ri '(>c.i| securities transgressed
M'! ; 'il-il ri^ht of states and
' ' ' to rai^e mo«ev \v»th
• • rence by the federal gov
• v • —j io-i fhrjt the nrooosal.
v S'-n -for Erown. Democrat.
n amendment to the
••'it tax bill held imnlica
"completely centralized
fcriPi'.'i' fff|V6!'!l!T!pnt.'!
to Austin. Brown declar
• n.ucn of the federal debt was
y wealthy person^ who to that
• wore relieved of paying in
t;iX05\
■ '• v«:ipHnoint of t"v 'lis
i*\-l l)n rvovPotfnH '* )"»C
' ir t-iy f;'lls heavier en the
' .;on Page Five)
North Carolina
Gets Big Sum Of
Defense Spending
Richmond. Va.. Sept. 18.—(AP)—
Contracts and expenditures for na
tional defense work in North Car
olina between June 13 and September
1 amounted to 57,223.357.74.
E. Leigh Stevens, staff representa
tive for North Carolina in the office
of government reports here, released
the report today. He said contracts
awarded for the army in the state
totaled S3.642.479.96 with $3,240,700.
78 for the Navy.
Air Service
Across State
Coming Soon
Pittsburgh, Spt. 18.— (AP) —
Spcccly inauguration of regular air
service over a 500-mile route bc
betuecn Norfolk, Va., and Knoxville,
Ttnn., i- planned by Pennsylvania
Central Airlines.
Shortly inter the Civil Aeronautics
Board authorized the route, the com
pany announced it would "spare no
time or effort" in establishing the
service which it said "is ccrtain to
provide a vital link" in the nation's
airline network.
The route, North Carolina's firstt
eai-t-west airline—between Norfolk
aid Knoxville via Rocky Mount, Ra
leigh, Greensboro and Ashevile, was
authorized by the Civil Aeronautics
Board yesterday.
The board said it was prompted in
issuing Pennsylvania Central a cer
tificate for the route by importance
of naval and military operations in
the Norfolk area as well as difficul
ties of east-west surface travel
through a highly industrialized area
of North Carolina.
Pennsylvania Central also sought
to make Winston-Salem, Hickory and
Elizabeth City, N. C., intermediate
stops on the route but the board de
nied this request.
Leaf Prices
Hold Firm
Early Second Day
Sales Prices Around
18-20 Cent Level on
Middle Belt. *
Durham, Sept. 18.—(AP) — A
check of early second day sales on
the nine North Carolina Middle Belt
tobacco markets showed today prices
: continuing around the 18 to 20 cents
| a pound level, slightly above the
'1939 opening prices.
1 The Oxford market, reported prices
I were firm and the bulk of the ap
I proximately 300,000 pounds offered
'consisted of primings. Prices ranged
I up to 34 cents.
The price average at Sanford was
j estimated at around 19 cents. Quali
J ty of the approximately 150,000
j pounds offered was fair.
i A total of 921,420 pounds of to
j bacco was sold on the Durham mar
1 ket yesterday for an average of 18.66
I cents.
The United States Agricultural
| Marketing Service and the State De
I partment of Agriculture said in
i creases yesterday were from $2.75 to
! $7.50 a hundred over the opening
jday last year, with greatest gains
j occurring in fair to l ine quality lugs
land primings and low quality leaf.
I Though prices ranging from $23
: to $32 were fairly numerous, the
i bulk of sales ranged from $12 to
i $27, the report said.
I ' - " -
rlane Losses
Reported By
Both Sides
j London, Sept. 18.—(AP)—The Bri
! tish air force has lost 6121 planes of
' all kinds and fewer than 600 men
1 since August 8, Sir Archibald Sin
clair, air \iinistcr. said today, while
in the same period the Germans have
lost 1,867 pl<>es and 4,000 men.
British fliers in the Near East have
I shot down 56 Italian planes with a
(Continued on Page Five)
Political Figures Named
To Pick "Non-Political"
Draft Boards In Counties
Daily UisnaKIi Oureau, i
In the Sir Walier Hotel.
By HENRY AVER ILL I
Raleigh, Sept. 18.—The draft
boards in North Carolina, which will
be strictly "non-partisan and non
political" according to Governor
Clyde R. Hoey, will be selected for
each county by three men who are
above everything else political fig
ures.
How this apparent paradox will
work out, and whether or not the
setup is actually "non-political" re
mains to be seen.
That politicians by training and
i profession will choose the draft'
1 boards was made certain yesterday
I ...ui the Oo\tinur announced that,
he has decided to put the appoint
ments in the hands of three official
figures in each county, to-wit: the
clerk of the superior court, the coun
ty superintendent of education and
tne chairman oi' the county board
of elections.
It needs no proving that any such
trio is completely political—the clerk
of the court in every county being
one of its astutest politicians, the su
perintendent of schools being always
a Democrat and sometimes an edu
cational expert, and the chairman
of the board of elections being, of
course, invariably appointed because
•)f hi:-- loyalty and ability as a party
(Continued on Page Five]
Italians In
Egypt Under
Heavy Fire
Force at Sicii Barrani
Subjected to 'Success
ful" Bombing, British
Declare; British Have
Made No Strong De
fense.
Cairo, Sept. 18.—(AP)—TTenvy and
"succcfsful" bombing nf' Italian
Iroops fit Sir I i Barrnni. Egypt, was
reported tndny in a British headquar
ter- communique.
The Italian invader"." '"v "'nrmed
along the Mediterrf,n"->" r •' <»:«-. of
Egypt's western desert, the com
munique said, were engaged in con
solidating their positions before the
expected ndvancc toward Alexandria.
Where the British would make a
stand remained a military secret.
British operations thus far, it was
said, have been designed to harass
rather than halt the two motorized
Italian columns leading the eastward
drive.
Despite sandstorms and tempera
tures ranging up to 120 degrees the
Italians in four days have advanced
from Libyan border to positions be
yond Sidi Barrani, 60 miles inside
Egypt, reaching the siart of an as
phalt road leading 350 miles to the
Suez canal, vital link of Britain's em
pire life line.
The fartherest point in the Ital
ian advance line at present is be
lieved to be 80 miles within Egypt.
As the Italians press forward the
British are in the position of being
able to choose the field for what may
be the one decisive battle of the cam
paign.
The next objective presumably is
Matruh, 100 miles further along the
coastal road and site of a British air
base.
Between Sidi Barrani and Alexan
dria lie 250 miles of rough going for
an invader and the British command
—while conceding that the Italians
have moved swiftly and efficiently
l so far—docs not regard their present
i position as a serious • menace.
O'Connor
Again Loses
Political Forces Watch
Results of Primaries
For Clues to Novem
ber Vote.
CDv Tho Associnto^ ^
The rlnuhle defeat of former Rc
nrr"ontn1ivo John J. OTunnnr of
! N'w York in his congressional cniP
bnrk hid and tho strcn"fh shown by
:>n1i - administration Democrats in
Wi-mnsin 'nigh spotted Tuesday's
primary elections in ♦ho tivn staffs.
O'Connor, whose d"foit for the
nomination was suere™sfiilly advo
cated by administration forms in
1938. lost out in effort- to win both
Republican and Domoc>:>1ic nomina
tions in Manhattan's 16th congres
sional district.
In Wisconsin, meanwhile, Demo
fContinued on Paer Five*
Libyan Forces
Credited With
Victory March
Rome, Sept. 18.— (AP) —Italian
dispacthes said today Libyan soldiers
por formed the seemingly impossible
feat of marching 60 miles in a desert
sandstorm to surprise a British gar
rision at Sidi Barrani, Egypt, and
capture that strongly defended sec
ond line of defense.
The Italian high command de
clared that the resistance of the army,
massed from all parts of the British
Empire to defend the western desert,
had been "crushed everywhere" and
I that the Italian force at Sidi Barrani
now was organizing for a further
nush toward Alexandria and the Suez
Canal.
LO&athpJi
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonifrht and
Thursday, not much change in
temperature.
Churchill Sees for Himself
c
Prime Minister Winston Churchill doffs his famous hat to the photog
rapher as he is snapped on an inspection tour through one of the bombed
areas of London. (Central Press)
Conscription Waits
Preliminary Steps
jPaul Leonard To
Support Willkie
Salicbury, Sept. 18.J(AP)—Paul
Leonard oi' Statesviile, secretary of
the North Carolina Fair Tax Asso
ciation, announced today that he
would identify himself with "the
Democrats for Willkie Movement".
He' denounced what he termed
"the waste of billions oi dollars of
tax money yet uncollected" on "co
called"' planned economy which, he
said, should have gone into prepara
tions for national defense and se
curity.
Leonard urged independent voting
and said he would support Willkie
bccausc "it appears to me to be the
way of salvation from continuation
of the conditions I have been dis
cussing."
Willkie Links
Defense With
Recovery
Albuquerque, N. M., Sept. 18.—
(AP)—Wendell L. Willkie, moving
his presidential campaign into the
deep .southwest, linked national de
fense today with economic improve
ment as the two principal problems
.•on fronting the United States.
"Rehabilitation of our domestic
cconomy is iiie Iront line trench of
f Continued nn
Roosevelt Must Pro
mulgate Regulations
and Name Draft Direc
tor; Congress Must
Pass Appropriation
Measure.
Washington, Sept. 18.—CAP)—Ac
tion to clenr the way for operation
of the nationwide conscription pro
gram commanded first attention to-1
day as President Roosevelt returned;
to the capital and Congress made
readv to resume sessions.
Before the United States can
launch the great peacetime under
taking which begin* with Ihe regis
tration of ]fi.5nfl.non men on October
16, three essential preliminaries re
quired disposition:
1—President Roosevelt must pro
mulgate the regulations governing
the administration or the draft ma
rhinery. enrollment, classification
and selection of trainees, their in
duction into : ervicc and kindred mat
ters.
2—The director of the selective
service system must be appointed by
Mr. Roosevelt and confirmed by the
.Senate as provided in the conscrip
tion law.
3—Congress must take action on
the pending $2,000,000,000 special
defense appropriation request which
is to defray Ihe expenses of registra
tion and conscription.
President Roosevelt was expected
to order inlo effect, possibly tomor
row, the first two of six volumes 01
regulations already prepared on con
scription.
Likewise, he was expected to an
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%
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Observers bay London is
Most Heavily Bombed City
London, Sept. !8.—(AP)—Mili
tary attaches and correspondents
who experienced the blizzards of
bombs which fell on Warsaw, Bar
celona and Madrid expressed belief
today that London already has tak
en more punishment than any other
city, even Rotterdam, in the past
eleven^days of Nazi bombardment.
Despffe these attacks, however, the
consensus of those experienced ob
servers was that the German air
force had failed to achieve the two
main purposes of the raids and that
the prospects of invasion were corres
pondingly dimmed.
The two nrimn o'-'-rt'v* •'",
/rave as dlscr-nriya"'*"
! don's communications so that- sup
! plies and reinforcements could not
be sent to the areas where invasion
is planned, and (2) breaking of the
morale of the civilian population.
They added that the British gov
ernment would be compelled to adopt
swifter and mpre effective methods
for housing, feeding and clothing;
refugees bombed out of their homes j
if civilian morale is to be maintained
at the present level.
Comparing other bombed cities
with London, one British correspond
ent who claims to be the "world's
most bombed man"' said:
"Rotterdam caught a packet, but
''11 cf it was in one section. If you
"orld 'it IT<"!rn' bombed areas int">|
i section of <'irii''ir c.izo ruin nnd
damage would l:e far greater than
Rotterdam's."
Attack Made
After Night
Of Terror
Largest Air Raid of
War Made Last Night
on London; Casualties
Feared To Be Heavy;
Bomb Unexploded
Near U. S. Embassy.
(By The Associated Press)
Great waves of German war
planes—.TOO in a single thrust— »
subjected London to the longest
scries of daylisrht attacks of the
war today, with air raid sirens
screaming the eighth alarm at
7:54 p. m. (1:54 p. m. EST) as
anti-aircraft guns went into ac
tion.
The hold assaults, following
the longest overnight alarm in
the three months old battle of
Britain, kept the royal air force
almost constantly engaged in
spectacular sky battles ranging
from London itself to the Eng
lish channel at Dover.
Tight British censorship apparently
clamped down on damage and cas
ualties after an earlier official ad
mission that it was feared the night
raids had inflicted heavier casualties
then any others of the last few days.
Royal air force fighters met one
mass attack of 300 nazi planes in a
terrific fight high over the Thames
estuary and reportedly drove off the
invaders.
Flying at 15,000 feet in three
waves, the German bombers and
filghters thundered across the Dover
coast, plunged through a barrage of
anti-aircraft fire and headed for
London to rain fresh chaos on the
capital.
An Associated Press observer on
the channel coast said the sky seem
ed "full of planes" as the Germans
passed overhead.
A few miles from London. British
defense planes knifed into the three
formations and broke them up into
a series of whirling dogfights.
The battle came as London's mil
lions underwent their fifth daylight
air raid alarm and capped a "night
of Hell" marking the longest raid of
the war—nine hours and 54 minutes
of terror from the skies.
An official British communique
said it was feared "casualties may
be heavier than in recent nights."
A delayed action bomb fell near
the United States embassy, remain
ing still unexploded after daybreak,
rnd a member of the embassy staff
said:
"We certainly had a Hell of a
night—they were 'popping all around
us."
Nazi quarters in Berlin describing
(Continued on Page Five)
Ribbentrop
To Rome
Nazi Foreign Minister
To Confer With Mus
solini and Ciano on
War Moves.
Berlin. Sent. 18.—(AP)—Foreign
Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop left
for Rome today to confer with Pre
mier M"cso!ini and Foreign Minister
Count Cinno. and German sources in
dicated that the exchange of 50 Unit
ed States d°strovcrs for air and naval
ha=es on British possessions in the
Atlantic probably would oe among
the subjects discussed.
Von Ribbentrop was expected to
arrive in Rome tomorrow:
Soain and Egvpt—both of extrdhie
'"mnortance in the present conduct of
the war—were expected to be the
prime subjects of the conversations.
But one German source indicated
that the Rome-Berlin axis powers
were concerned over the destroyer
transaction.
Spain, it was indicated, wishes to
nlay a more active part in the af
fairs of the Rome-Berlin axis but is
militarily unable and economically in
0 noor way. Yet her geographical po
sition plus her natural resources are
cuch that she is a desirable axis part
ner.
Italy's invasion of Egypt is regard
ed here as a factor of importance in
the further conduct of the war. The
S1107 canal is one of the choicest ob
i^etive* of Italian participation in
'No '"?r and the Ribbentrop visit is
1 to cWifv to what extent, if
.... r>, . vnv ; ■ j,, in the at
tempted conqucr i cEgypt.