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Heniteramt Batlu Dtapafrb ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA i;\TY-SEVENTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 19, 1940 ruELls't^cE^EsRJKDA^ERN00N FIVE CENTS COPY BRITISH FLEET ACTIVE OFF AFRICAN COAST ********** ¥¥******** *■ * * * * *********** Carolina Beach Practically Destroyed By Fire Firemen Set Damage At iNear Million Everything Destroyed ixuveen Hamlet and harnett Streets and h i om Carolina Avenue to the Ocean in Fire Last Night. >n. Sept. 19— (AP>—Fire ictically all of Carolina night. v-covered about 1:30 member of the police a in the Carolina Club i. farmed by a northerly .;uickly swept down the destroying everything let and Harnett streets \<.n Carolina Avenue and estimated the damage at SloO.oiiO and $1,000,000 but C. Fergus said he did not vie damage would exceed r being made for some re : edlately, he said. - >>i the town stood in the i watched the blaze as it e: 'iv the wind from building . ... Hopes were high the 'd be able to save the B. hotel, "-.ost modern structure m *.:>;• beach. laze started on the o iner of the roof and :rd to direct a stream of "he water supply failed ectric power being cut • our and a quarter the :.;re was a smoldering is ■ ri>. ■ • "s of most of the busi yed said they had no due to a high insurance •'her? said that their busi " >-■ partially covered but that id exceed the amount of :rt> ranee. nc was injured in the blaze. • :i"n of which was visible - - destroyed in the fire inr ■ • hotels, five cafes, one the :.<■ ABC store, three grocery the Carolina Club pavilion, " n ! ill. several bingo, estab several souvenir stores. 11 shop, a penny arcade, a soda ■ hotograph shop, gift shop. • houses and several bowling GRAHAM MAY AID LSU IN PROBLEMS House. La., Sept. 19.—(AP) ; nor Sam Jones and Acting • !• 11 ."VI. Bebert of Louisi - " University last night dis pioposal by the former that ' Frank P. Graham of the v r>! North Carolina advise '' ••!- on problems still fac miversity. , ■ rnor said he had met Dr. * the southern governors' at Dauphin Island. Ala., ifh he returned Wedne-day ' Graham ex ore.sod willihg -i-t in an advisory capacity. limes Will Back Willkie New York Newspaper upports Republican ' andidate For First ■ ime Since 1908. Y'»rk. Sept. 19.—CAP)— The Ttimos, which supported • i) Roosevelt for President • - ■ i;d 15)36. came out against " '<rm today in an editorial • --i Wendell L. Willkie. Times, an independent Dem nt -paper, has not support ' ub'ican presidential candi "••• 1908. Observing that it >12 its choice in "one of the ' crises of this nation's his i" paper said it chose Will ■ u ily for these reasons": we believe he is better ■■ than Mr. Roosevelt to pro country with an adequate I cause we believe he is a oii Five; Rushed for National Defense The 1,650-ton destroyer Lansdale is shown at Boston Navy Yard after she was commissioned into active service immediately following christen ing exercises. The craft is under command of Lieut. Com. John Connor. Babson Appeals For Spiritual Awakening Reynolds Tours South America Miami, Sept. 19.—(A)—Senator Robert R. Reynolds, Democrat, North Carolina, left by clipper plane today for an official inspection tour of South America. He boarded the clipper for Cristo tobal on the way down the west coast of the continent. He will proceed by clipper to Buenos Aires, thence to Rio de Janeiro and will return to Miami in October. Before returning to Washington he will fnspect the British islands in the West Indies that the United I States has leased for defense bases. i Warren Named House Leader Washington, Sept. 19.—(AP)—Re presentative Lindsay C. Warren of North Carolina, who will leave the House in a fortnight to become comp troller general, today took over tem ' porarily the duties of Democratic leader. Speaker Rayburn announced War ren's selection last night but no de cision was reached on whether the House Democrats would caucus soon to select a permanent leader or de fer the action until the next Con gress meets in January. Warren has been confirmed by the Senate as comptroller general and his resignation from the House become effective October 1. Rayburn was elevated to the speakership from the majority lead er's post to succeed the late Speaker Ban I ; head. At Jasper, Ala., Chairman J. M. Moore of the district Democratic committee announced that Mrs. Flor ence Bankhead would be recom mended to the state committee to succeed her husband in the House. Willkie Speaks At Los Angeles i Aboard Willkie Train Enroute to Los Angeles, Sept. 19.—(AP)—After calling throughout southern Califor nia for re-election of Senator Hiram Johnson as a "great, fighting, fear less liberal" Wendell L. Willkie traveled to Los Angeles today to amplify his views on domestic issues. Although the Republican presiden tial nominee did not disclose in ad vance the exact subject for an even ing address, his day's program con tained a hint that he might discuss the relation of the defense program to American industry. His schedule allowed time to visit two airplane plants. At the plant of tlxe North Ameri i j (Continued on Page FiveJ Economist Says Brit ain Will Not Fall, America Must Strengthen Spiritual Forces As Well As Armed Defenses. By ROGER W. BABSON Copyright 1940. Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Columbus. Ohio. Sent. 19.—Inves tors and others should not be dis turbed if more important events are in the making than even an at tempted invasion of the British Isles. Great Britain's empire is being menaced in the Middle East, Africa, and the Far East. Count Von Der Schulenberg, working with Russia's Molotov, and Wilhelm Kippler's manipulations, through Tokyo's Nao tako Sato, may now be forming a simultaneous blow against the Bri tish colonies. Britain Will Not Fall. If Great Britain is attacked by the combined forces of Germany, Italy, and Japan, Franco's Spain and Sta lin's Russia may assist in striking her most vulnerable parts. This, how ever, need not cause worry. The spreading out of these enemy nations | may relieve the pressure on England and be a blessing in disguise. Re 1 member the story of the dog by a I brook with a bone in his mouth. Seeing his reflection in the water, and thinking it another dog with another bone, he opened his mouth to grab it and lost all. Hitler may . be such a dog. | Mussolini wants Egypt and his j African empire; Stalin wants Iran (Continued <"i ae Five) I WPA Rolls For October At 1,800,000 New York, Sept. 19.—(AP)—Act ing WPA Commissioner Howard O. Hunter told the United States con ference of mayors today that WPA's October employment would total 1, 800,000, or 525.000 less than the year's high point in February. Hunter said he made this ''com pletely factual statement" because "silly and unfounded charges are be ing bandied about to the effect that the WPA is going to pad its rolls for election purposes. "This number is in exact accord with the printed testimony as to em ployment schedules submitted tc Congress by the commissioner of the WPA," he declared. "This figure is 525,000 less than the number employ ed by the WPA on February 28 which was the high period of thij calendar year." He added that the figures was 100, 000 lei-s than for October, 1939. anc 1.-500,000 less than October, 1938. Bond Policy Is Attacked Senator Glass Says Banks "Maneuvered" Into Position Where Forced To Buy Bonds Washington, Sept. IS)—(Ai')—-Sen ator Glass, Democrat, Vag 111a, one oi the insi Congressional sponsors of the Federal Reserve Liank.ng sys tem, told his colleague^ to jay t.ia. banKs hod been "maneuvered' into a position where they were "afraid" not to purchase new issuco 01 Inderal oonds. The Virginian maue -„:.c assertion during deoate on a proposal 10 ta^ income 110111 iuture la&ucs 01 govern mental securities. Senator Aciams, Democrat, Colo rauo, nad expie&seo concern lest such a move would make banks and tuner buyers less willing to purchase 1 the $20,000,000,000 of * ecleral bonds I which ne estimated would be sold to increase the national debt to $65,000, 000,000. "i hey are not going to sell this $20,000,000,000 oi bonas at all,' Glass oroke in. 'They haven't been sell- ! ing them for years. They have been allocating them to the burnts. 'lney have maneuvered the banks into a position where they are airaid not to take them when tney are allocated to them. "It has been said by competent au thority that depreciation oi iederal oonds ten points below par would ruin 90 per cent of the banKs 01 tnis country and that's true." Adams remarked that the credit of the government was "at the peak" at the present time but, he added, "comes a new issue of bonds and the question is what we are going to get for that. When those bonds cease to find a ready market down goes our national defense program as well as the economic structure of tne coun try." Roosevelt To Philadelphia Washington, Sept. 19.— (AP) — President Roosevelt will leave the capital tonight lor Philadelphia where tomorrow he will inspect Armw and Navy defense projects and make an address in Convention Hall. White House officials said they did not know whether the speech would be political or non-political, or what the subject would be. The Chief Executive will devote the morning to looking over some of Philadelphia's share of the prepar edness program including the Navy yard, where one 35,000-ton battle ship is nearing completion and the keel of a 45,000-ton warship has just been laid. Housing For Army Provided In Measure Washington, Sept. 10.—(AP)— Working at top speed to provide housing for the forthcoming con script army, the House passed and sent to the Senate today a $333,263, 902 appropriation bill for barracks and other construction at army posts. The measure was called up sud denly after General George C. Mar shall, Army chief of staff, appeared before the House appropriations com I mittce and urged prompt action in order to get construction started be : fore Winter sets in. The sum would be in addition to approximately $200,000,000 provided for Army and National Guard hous ing in a recent $5,000,000,000 de fense appropriation. Representative Taber, Republican, New York, explained to the House that the money was intended to pro vide wooden barracks and auxiiiary facilities for approximately 500,000 men and tents with wooden floors for another 400,000. iOsuaihsui FOR NORTH CAROLINA. I Generally fair' tonight and l Friday, not much change in temperature. Deported From Canal Zone Three of the 134 aliens deported by U. S. military authorities from the Panama Canal Zone, board the U. S. Army transport American Legion at Cristabal under heavy guard. The round-up was carried out when it was found the aliens held improper immigration credentials. They were es c/rted Ellis Island, New York, pending further action. Announce Contracts For Army Airplanes Secretary Stimson Says Contracts Signed Since July 1 for 9,174 of 18,641 Warplanes For Which Funds Pro vided. Washington, Sept. 19.—(AP)— Secretary Stimson announced today that the War department had sign ed contracts since July 1 for 9,174 of 18,641 warplanes for which Con gress has provided funds at this ses sion. Reviewing progress made by the Army in reinforcing defenses in the last three months, Stimson said the figures were for airplane purchases "as of today." At the same time, Stimson in a series of announcements disclosed tentative plans to call to active duty approximately 37,000 National Guard officers and men in November. They v/ill comprise the third and fourth National Guard increments to be called out. Under present plans no further units will be ordered to service be fore January 3. An estimate that mounting Amer ican production of warplanes had reached 1,000 a month came mean while from officials of the Aeronau tical Chamber of Commerce. "Several hundred" of these, offi cials said, were believed destined for Great Britain. By February or March, officials of the Aeronautical Chamber estimated, American output will be at least 1, 500 planes a month. They estimated possibly half of these might be for Britain. The principal units in the third and fourth increments of the National Guard mobilization are the 31st di vision from Florida, Alabama, Mis sissippi and Louisiana; 35th division from Nebraska, Kansas, and Misouri, and 36th division from Texas. In addition to the plane and guard announcements, Stimson said the <Cnntinuori on Pace Five) Jones Sworn In As Secretary Of Commerce Today Washington, Sept. 1.—(AP)— Jesse Jones, who said he wasn't very much excited about the job, became secretary of Commerce today. lie was sworn in by Stanley Reed, associate justice of the Su preme court, in the presence of President Roosevelt. Libyan Troops Used In Drive Into Egypt Rome, Sept. 19.—(AP)—Italy has thrown 14 Libyan divisions (about 170,000 men) in addition to Italian troops into the drive into Egypt and pushed back the British in a disor derly retreat, Marshal Rodolfo Graz iana reported to Premier Mussolini today. Graziani was reported to have told Mussolini he used 2,000 motor trucks in the eastward drive which surpris ed the British. British military experts had esti mated only 150,000 troops and but few trucks could be used over the terrain available to the advance, Graziani said. The British fled in disorder, aban doning equipment along the desert roads, losing more than half their tanks and armored cars, and suf fering from shortage of gasoline and water under the bombing and ma chine gunning of the Italian air force, the marshal reported. The British had considered it im possible to spring a military sur prise in the desert, where cover is lacking to conceal troop movements, the Italian commander reported. John W. Davis Opposes Third Term For Any Man i Washington, Sept. 19. — (AP)—, ! John W. Davis, the Democratic presi-J dential nominee of 1924, told a Sen ate sub-committee today that he would not trust "the expanding, the fateful powers of the presidency" to: any man for more , than eight years.; Appearing before the sub-commit tee in support of i: proposed consti tutional amendment to limit presi dents to one term of six years. Davis said in a prepared statement: ; "I care not how others may feci, but as for my self the man has not yet been born of woman—and I use that phrase because it includes both the living and the dead—the man has not yet been born of woman to whom I would trust for eight years at the most the vast, the expanding, the fateful powers of the presidency of tho United States." Davis .-aid also that he refused "to believe that in thi. lnnd of goner;! . nlightenmenl ;my in n in any post io ever indispensable/' London Has Fiercest Raid Of War Italians Claim British Warships Put to Flight By Bombers Off Lib yan-Egyptian Coast; Berlin Hints of Long War. (By The Associated Press.) The British fleet blazed into ac tion in the Mediterranean today, shelling Italian troops marching alon»? the Libyan-Egyptian coast, while on the home front in London the empire capital's bomb-strafcd mil lions surveyed the havoc from the fiercest night-long assault of the war. Many victims were fea.'ed entomb ed in southeast London when a Ger man bomber crashed with a full load of bombs, demolishing several build ings. An official estimate placed the city's casualty toll at 90 killed, 350 critically wounded. British warplanes retaliated with a smashing attack on German "in vasion ports," the London ajr min istry said, leaving the nazi-occupied French coast in flames for miles. Britain's naval action in the Medi terranean was reported in a com munique by the Italian high com mand which said the English men o' war attacked fascist troops advancing from Bardia in Italian Libya toward Sidi Barrani, 60 miles inside Egypt, already occupied by the fascist ad vance guard. "Our air force bombed them (the British ships), forced them to sus pend action and put them in flight," Mussoolini's high command asserted. "A ten thousand-ton cruiser was hit by a torpedo dropped by one of our torpedo planes and was seriously damaged." With the air siege of England reaching a new peak of destructive ness, correspondents at Dover re ported the channel still was far'too rough for passage of an invasion armada, and for the first time the nazi press in Berlin dropped hints that the war might continue through the winter. If true, Britain appears to have (Continued on Page Five) Japanese Moved From Indo-China Hanoi, French Indo-China, Sept. 19.—(AP)—A Japanese spokesman announced today that all Japanese civilian nationals in Indo-China, in cluding diplomatic representatives would be removed by special train and boat starting tomorrow in ad vance of the prospective arrival of Japanese armed forces. The detaiied means of putting the Tokyo-Vichy agreement Into effect are still subject to negotiations—ap parently amicable—but the French are perturbed at the determination of Japan to remove her nationals. Ribbentrop Meets Duce Next Turn in Euro pean War May Pivot on Consultation Be tween Axis Powers. ' Rome, Sept. 19.—(AP)—Adolf Hit ler's foreign minister. Joachim von Ribbentrop. conferred with Premier Mussolini this afternoon and on this consultation may pivot the next turn in the European war. Linked with the talks was the pos sibility of a broadened war, with in dications that Spain might be drawn in at least to the extent of permit ting the axis drive across her ter ritory against Britain's Gibraltar stronghold. The axis powers are determined on a "totalitarian" victory over Britain ! according to .Virginia Gayda, and in i this fight to the finish other Euro ; pean nations are involved "not as spectators alone." This comment by Italian fascism's editorial spokesman gave consider pn'nt to the axis counsel of war. Observer; interpreted it as a refer ence to Spain'.; potential role.
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