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Heniterann Battu ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA \\ 1 XTY-SEVENTH YEAR LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED TRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 21, 1940 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COl'Y Weather Fails To Hall Raids How U. S. Will Register 16,000,000 Americans SEBUL NDMBEB 1. Nam* (I'rlnt) ORDER NUMUER (MMdU) 2 ADDUK34 (Print) (N'unh't »n1 w n y. I). ourah»t; city, town or counlr. «oi Ht«t«) 3 TELKraoNX 4. A(-S IN YKAK4 Date or BlKTR A. i'LACE or DlflTU (To»u Mud fouoty) 6. Col'NTHV or CiritKKsiiir (Mo) (t>«>) <Vr) (3UU OT country) : Name or I'eiis'jn Who Will Always Know Youa Auoa*a 8. Relationship o» That l'KHSUS (Mr . Mn . Mb.) (MUdlo) d Auo»t?3 or Tuat PER80M (N'umSrr »i»<l 10. Emtloyik'h Name li. t LAC* or Extloyment o* BrsiNiss IN'ainHfr »n4 •treat or K. V. L>. aumW) (Towi) I \rrtK* That 1 Uav* V*turttD Above Answeks And That Tuet AR* T*u*. rtcistration card >v. is. Form 1 tft- COOOO lure is the registration card to be filled out by 16,000,000 Americans between the ages of 21 and 35 in clusive. The master forms have been svnt to adjutant generals of the forty-eight states so that printing in preparation for registration can start. Safety Of Kidnapped Child Given First Consideration FBI Agents and Police Withdraw to fermit Parents of Marc de Triston, Jr., to Con tact Kidnapper and Pay Ransom. -ih. Cal., Sept. 21.—(AP) j y ui kidnapped Mure de | J. . was placed ahead of I . .-.derations today as the .u boy's wealthy iamily ' ..>mgly declared its read ...cct tae abductor's $100, dcmand. and local police with- j . the pretentious de Tris in this exclusive little "y 20 miles south of San and gave the Iamily a free ■ •- :auiishing contact with the :-ie.\ioned kidnaper. - ■ .. ti'JO word typewritten note | . : if re tae ooy was seized j ;e noon yesterday, tae de were directed to get in j !h the kidnaper tnroughj • tisement inserted in a San ■■c-j paper. This was done and opeared in the paper's late : editions. < .Marc, the son of Count and - .Marc de Tristian and step ol Louis Snattuck Gates, j ' ot the vast Phelps Dodge ! ' •a, was out for an airing '-cart accompanied by his ■.en the kidnapper drove up : and roughly carried him i t man threatened the nurse • a pistol. ..ddle-aged nurse, Mary Fol :.nocked to the ground when «d to save the boy. In her '.niggle she knocked off the ..rey hat. It was expected to valuable clue in trailing him ■ chubby, curly haired lad was Ud away in a dark sedan pur •iclfectively for some distance i^ert VViliiams, a Negro chauf- j •'• ho drove up just as the kid- ! ■ar drove away. Legionnaires 1 hrong Boston :,>n. Sept. 21—(AP)—This city 800,000 population en ' d a 'spare room" problem as it welcomed throngs of '■•n Legionnaries arriving for L-cond national convention inec 1930. ■••I officials said they expect atte. dance of 300,000 World vc terans and their families three day session starting lay. hotels and lodging houses ~ capacity business, reserva ; the overflow were booked ' as distant as Worcester, 40 • '"-t- :md Plymouth, equally '•ay. H event of the convention ■ t from the general public ' t—wil be the Legion's 22nd Parade next Tuesday. '•<\Hionnaires have announced ididacy for the post of na ander. now hMd by Ray - Ktliy of Detroit. Service On New Air Route Will Start November 1 j Raleigh. Sept 21.—(AP) — The Pennsylvania Central Air Mnes will inaugurate service No vember 1 on the recently ap proved air route between Nor folk, Va.. and Knoxville. Tenn.. via Rocky Mount. Raleigh, Greensboro and Asheville. Six Killed In Auto Crash New Kensington, Pa., Sept. 21.— (AP)—Six young men were killed early today in the head-on collision of two automobiles near this western Pennsylvania town 20 miles north of Pittsburgh. Four of the victims died instantly and the other two an hour later in a New Kensington hospital. ♦ The autos were wedged so tightly together that a wrecking crew had difficulyC in prying them apart. Both cuaght fire but the blaze was quick ly extinguished. Civilian Group To Be Named For Draft I Washington, Sept. 21.—(AP)—A civilian advisory committee designed to represent the views of non-mil itary interests in organizing and ad ministering the draft is expected to be named by President Roosevelt. Probably consisting of six mem bers, it will include, informed offi cials said today, four experts of va rious phases of conscription who al ready are working with the Army and Navy selective service committee on the gigantic task of drawing thousands of men from civilian life into the Army and two others prob ably are to be named to the advisory committee when Mr. Roosevelt ap points a director of selective service Meanwhile in preparations for call ing the first contingent of 65,000 conscripts in November, subsequent to registration of all men 21 through 35 October 16, the Senate yesterday rushed a $338,263,902 Army housing bill through final passage and sent ffontiniipd on Paeo Fivel Local Draft Boards May Be Made Up Of Men From A ny Business Or Profession Daily Dispatch Bureau, i In the Sir Walter Hotel. I Raleigh, Sept. 21.—There seems to' be a decided misapprehension in many circles, including a number of usually well-informed newspaper editors, about the makeup of local draft boards. There has been much comment on the mistaken assumption that on each three-member draft board there will be one doctor and one lawyer. This simply isn't true. Governor Clyde R. Hoey made it very plain to newsmen, when he told of the method of appointing the local boards, that they will not necessarily have either doctor or lawyer in their membership. He did say that each board would require the services of an examining physician and he expressed the be lief that in some cases a board might need legal advice; but he said that the services of these professional men could be secured without the professional men being board mem bers. Of course every board will have to have an examining doctor. These' doctors can be hired. The same ap- I plies to the services of any legal ad-' viser needed. But the three members of each board can be the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker, if those thiee happened to be the choice of the appointing power—which for each county will be the clerk of su perior court, the superintendent of education, and the chairman of the election board. It now appears that appointment yi the boards will be delayed at least beyond October 1. Governor Hocy had expected to get the Federal re gulations on the subject this week, or early next; but he says he has unofficial, but apparently authentic, advices that the regulations will be promulgated about October 1. Among the vital points to be de cided in the draft board regulations ^ are (1) Will board members be paid or not? (2) What will the appeals setup be?—statewide, or by districts —or divisions?, (3) Shall all regis trants be physically examined or on ly those called for service after regis tration? Governor Hoey says he has made all his plans as far as these ques tions permit and that it will take practically no time at all to get the. Tar Heel machinery in action once j the final Federal rules and regula-! tions are obtained. All aliens between 21 and 36 will be required to register October 16 for» the draft; but only aliens who have declared their intention to be come citizens will be liable for serv ice under the draft call. For many Tar Heel aliens it will make the third registration in less than six months. When the European crisis became acute, American Legion posts all over the state began to call attention to the state's Bolich law requiring alien registration with clerks of court. Enforcement of the overlook ed 1927 staute was begun in many places. Then the Federal alien registra tion law was passed and all aliens (Continued on Page Four) McNarySays Farm Plans Have Failed Republican Vice Pres ident^ a 1 Candidate Opens Campaign at Aurora, 111., With At tack on New Deal Farm Program. Aurora, 111., Sept. 21.—(AP)—Sen ator Charles L. McNary, in his first major campaign address, charged to day that the New Deal four /i "agri culture ill of a functional disorder" and "made the disorder chronic." The Oregon senator and Kepubli can nominee for vice president spoke to a party rally in Exposition Park on the outskirts of Aurora. McNary declared that the farmer had been frozen into a dependence on the government, and added: "The New Deal, it is true, has kept the farm population off the bread lines. That is not my idea of suc cess. In the seven New Deal years average farm income per farm has been only $1,124—including benefit payments. In the seven preceding years it was $1,432. "In its futile attempt to increase prices by withholding crops from the market the New Deal has on hand in government ownership and control 10.000,000 bales of cotton, 500,000, 000 bushels of corn and 100,000,000 bushels of wheat. I do not regard that as successful, especially as farm commodity prices on August 1, 1940, were approximately the same range as in August, 1933. "Actually the basic farm problem is no nearer solution today than it was on March 4, 1933. The New Deal has reached none of its fundamental objectives. Its farm program is a thing of shreds and patches, settling nothing, merely putting off the day of reckoning." McNary said the New Deal was satisfied with its farm program and saw the aggregate improvement it had accomplished for the farmer a maximum aim. He said he saw it as a "minimum" and continued: "I accept that program only as a stopgap substitute for something bet ter until something better can be provided. And I assert in full con fidence that the next administration will be able to provide something better." South Carolina Farmer Murdered Chester, S. C., Sept. 21 ~(AP)— Walter W. Lathan, 63, prominent far mer ol near Chester, was shot to death last night. Sheriff William H. Pcden said the slayer was Will Hood, a 28-year old Negro for whom a posse of law officers sought aJl night and today without success. Peden said that feeling was run ning high. Lathan, he said, was kill-; ed by a shotgun blast as he was re- i turning home from a field where he j had been paying cotton pickers. Willkie In San Francisco For Address San Francisco, Sept. 21.—(AP)—| Wendell L. Willkie, who "rode the | rods" into this city 30 years ago as a i youthful harvest hand returned today to climax his campaign for the state's electoral votes with a speech on for eign affairs. Before his address tonight in the civic auditorium, however, he had a heavy day of speech making. More than a dozen impromptu talks were on his schedule. The Republican presidential nom inee arrived last night after receiving cheers and some heckling /in talks through the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. Willkie's final speech Friday be fore a trainside audience at Sacra mento brought a declaration that friends had been saying "Wendell, you should .pull your punches." "I "don't know how to fight that way," Willkie added. "If this ad ministration thinks it can get away with the record of the road to bank ruptcy, with the road of unemploy ment, with the centralization of pow er in Washington that it has attempt ed to accomplish and not have me tell the American people about, it is mistaken." (itsmihsLft FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Sunday, not much change in temperature. For Roosevelt For Willkie A feature ol' the 1940 presidential campaign is the wide variety of cam naign buttons, stickers, ties and emblems of all kinds. Miss Rosemary Roberts, snapped at New York City Democratic headquarters*, wears enough emblem:; to show beyond a shndow of a doubt where her political sympathies lie, while Miss Ruth Yates (right) volunteer worker at the national head quarters of the Associated Willkic Clubs, New York, displays an assortment of Willkic labels.—(Central Press Photos.) Indo-China Parley Hits Another Snag Wickard Declares Prices For Farm Products Pegged Washington, Sept. 21.—(AP)— Secretary of Agriculture Wick ard declared today that farmers would be getting only 30 cents a bushel for corn, 45 cents for wheat, 6 ccnts a pound for cot ton, and 4 cents a pound for hogs if Federal farm programs were not in cxistancc. Instead, he said, they arc re ceiving about 54 cents for corn, 70 cents for wheat, 9 cents for cotton and 6 cents for hogs. Commander Of Fort Bragg Is Lost In Plane Fayetteville, Sept. 21.—(AP)—An uirplane in which Brigadier General Francis W. Honeycutt, commander of Fort Bragg, near here, was pas •>enger has been missing sinco 7:34 p. m. (EST), last night when it was reported over Savannah, Ga., en mule to Jacksonville, Fla. | Lieutenant Colonel Earl C. Ewart, I public relations officer at Fct' Bragg, said great concern was lelt I >\"t General Honcycutt's disappear- I ance. . if. | A squadron of five planes left here ,oday at 6:15 a. m. to search the ter ritory between Savannah and Jack :onvillc but reported finding no trace if the missing observation plane, tvhich carried, besides General Hon eycutt, Captain George F. Kehoe, the _ 3i lot. an Corporal Robert J. Sennitz. Adverse weather prevented the searching planes from taking off earl er. They were joined by Coast juard planes from Jacksonville and Savannah, Colonel Ewart said. General Honeycutt left Fort Bragg it 6:10 last night and was due in Jacksonville at 8:30 p. m. General Honeycutt came to Fort Bragg from Washington last Friday. "New Shift Has Com promised" Negotia tions With Japan Overj Demands For Passage of Troops Through Indo-China. Hanoi, French Indo-China, Sept. 21—(AP)—The French Indo-China government reported a turn for the worse today in negotiations with Japan after there had been indica tions the crisis had passed. A government communique said "a new shift has compromised" the negotiations and that the situation was back where it was September Vichy* France, Sept. 21—(AP) —Negotiations at Hanoi on Jap anese demands for military rights in French Indo-China have entered a difficult period "from which anything can be expected," the French govern ment said today. 16, when General Issaku Nishihara packed up and prepared to walk out on the conferences. The negotiations were resumed yesterday, the announcement said, "when the viewpoints of both parties appeared drawing closer together". But new Japanese demands, it de clared, have put a monkey wrench in the proceeding. The nature of the latest Japanese demands was not disclosed. Japanese and other reliable sources said the negotiations were hailed when General Nishihara demanded: The occupation ol' Hanoi by 20,000 .'Continued on Page Five, FRENCH ISLANDS" JOIN DE GAULLE Vichy, Francc, Sept. 21.—(AP) —The colonial administration of the New Hebrides, French is lands in the Pacific, has gone over to General Charles de Gaulle, and the governor general also has taken control of New Caledonia, a French spokesman said today. Heme Guard Plan Meets Opposition In Senate Washington, Sept. 21.—(AP)—i Senator Johnson, Democrat, Colo., | asserted tcday inat a plan approved by the War Department to set up state "home guard" units might per mit governors to use such organiza tions as "political footballs". The proposed units would be or ganized in states from which the National Guard has been called to active Federal duty. Johnson voiced his objections to j reporters after he was said to have . protested to the Senate military com- j mittee that a bill authorizing the j home guard units gave almost unl'm- 1 ited authority to governors to estab lish armed groups winch r*'^ht be used for almost any n'-rnnso. 1 mil''tpr\ enmmittet subse quently reconsidered its previous ac ucn approving the measure. Chairman Shcppard, Democrat, Texas, said that John L. Lewis, CIO leader, had protested to the com mittee against what Lewis called "independent State armies." Lewis, Sheppard said, urged that j additional units be set up within the framework of the 'National Guard i and that their use be subjected to j present Guard regulations. As approved by the War Depart- j ment and the House military com- ! mittee, the legislation before the! committee would permit the secre- I tary of war to furnish arms and • equipment for the home guards but control of the troops would rest sole ly with the states. Sheppard .-aid the War Drparl ment had been asked to draft, tenta tive alternative measures. British And Nazi Fliers Trade Blows Italians Report De structive Mass Air Raid on M a t r u h , Egypt; Bulgarian For mally Takes Over Ceded Territory. (By The Associated Press.) Nazi air raiders, opening their third week of mass attack on the British capital, swarmed across the English channel in mist and rain to day but reports from Britain indicat ed they met with little success. London had one brief alarm as a formation of German planes swept over the city. Anti-aircraft guns opened up and the planes retired. Along the Kentish coast reporters said British ground guns turned the raiders back. The Italians reported a destructive mass air raid on Matruh, Egypt, where British were bringing up sup plies for a stand against Italy's le gions preparing at Sidi Barrani for a further eastward advance toward Alexandria. Britons credited stormy weather and a stout defense with taking the edge off the 14th consecutive dusk to-dawn German bomb attack on London, but looked for a quick re newal of fiercer air war as daybreak disclosed fast clearing skies. » But even the night of clouds and stojm failed to hall the raiders on either side. Nazi bombs thundered down at in tervals during the night on central and southern London. Tightening British censorship held up mention of the exjict time and length of the attacks. The British said, however, that casualties appeared fewer than on previous nights and watchers along England's southeast coast took grim satisfaction in the red glow of fires their own fliers started in German held ports on the French side of the channel. The Germans termed their attacks on and near London "successful" de spite weather which, they said, gave them more trouble than the British defense. The German news agency DNB, said the British also tried a strong air attack aimed at Berlin but the raiders were turned back. Bulgaria formally took over south (Continued on P;me Four> Bulgarians Enter Dobruja Varna, Bulgaria, Sept. 21.—(AP)— Flag-decora ted border villages today welcomed the vanguard of Bulgarian officials and troops reclaiming south ern Dobruja, lost in war and regained from weakened Rumania without a fight after 28 years ol' dispute. While today's formal entry into Dobruja extended Bulgaria's Black sea front to the north, many Bul garians clamored for similar expan sion to the south. They urged that Greece be forced to return Thrace and Macedonia, which Bulgaria lost in post-World war treaties cutting her off from the Aegean sea. Aitliough complete occupation of the territory ceded by Rumania is expected to take ten days, Bulgarian officials said the first section would be occupied in 24 hours. Congressmen Say Utilities In Campaign Washington, Sept. 21. — (AP)— Nineteen House members appealed today to President Roosevelt to use "every existing authority in law" to balk what they said was an "effort to elect men to Congress who will vote for the interest of the private utility corporations." In a letter to the Chief Executive, the Congressmen, all but two of whom are Democrats, asserted it was "a matter of common belief among persons conversant with public af fairs that privately owned public utility corporations throughout the nation, particularly those engaged in the electric power business, are con tributing through indirect and care fully concealed channels very large sums or money to influence the out come of political campaigns, to eltect the election of candidates for public office."
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