North Carolina Newspapers

Hettitersmt Hatly iitapatrii ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA \ IT-SEVENTH YEAR IjKASKI) WIRE SERVICE OF rilK ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 24, 1940 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY ranee Lashes Back Al Britain Celebrate Her 86th Birthday ■ oration? are represented in this family portrait, made as the . . ;< iratheivd at Hyde Park. N. Yto celebrate the 8(5th birthday i\ -ldvtit's mother. Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt. She is iJfc the : I ranklin D. Roosevelt, 3rd. while her son and F. D., Jr., look on. (Central Press) Independents Back FDR In Campaign Senator Norris and La Guardia Head Com mitter Calling on Pres ident to Pledge Sup port of Progressive ' anization. __ •n. Sept. 24. — (AP)— sevelt accepted today; : national committee ■ • voters backing a third e: ted he was happy to - . he -aid. "the principles iv at .-take" in this •his committee. head • >1 George Norris, Itide-; ska. id May«>r F. H. : Now York, called on • a*, the White House .. r:/.at:-'« :.:veting in •'itice. •velt. in a rare proce-1 ■I d : >!"tC!'S to witness the I T \vh -h he totci the group j • .. c> tha* it would '"help j v to -ii-.'.o it* democracy' : igrt sive and liberal." He •hey wei e "working for | " : t ideals but tor j it:« n of der >cracy." presenting a group of ap ji> n et- her- of the exe- ; <•: the new commit- i •: Chief Executive: the -ntire progressive of the nation here and <>! dlv behind Hoose ient and Wallace for j y. very happy—I need «■ Chief Executive rc . e know n most of you i we have been work 'h m«»t of you in the ;ing I tluuk we have for the country. c all have our feet on ir i sufficiently to know we I • ■: i|>lish« (l all for the .. !lt to (i". i great deal left to be • don't want to stand still ii..(!*t want to go back." s Bombed amous Medieval Uni versity Seat Bombed n Reprisal by Nazi ^aiders. Sept 24 —(AP)—The fam • fi.. town of Cambridge, ■ (.! the university which VI ;ittendcd, has been v M i/i airn^nin retaliation, h command s iid today, for a •• 1(.k >m O11 Heidelberg. German force struck back n with "rolling attacks in ' for the bombing of Berlin •h.night, the high command communique listing the •.uUnued on Page Three.) Garner Leaves I \ aide, Texas, For Washington I Uvalde. Tex.. Sept. 24.—(AP) —Vice President John X. Garner left his Uvalde homo for Wash ington today. Since the Vice President left the nation's capital after his un- ' successful bid for the presiden tial nomination there had been political speculation as to wheth er he was retiring to his Texas homeland. $ A maid in the Garner resi dence said the Vice President and Mrs. Garner left town quiet- i ly this morning. Willkie Gives Pledge Of More Jobs Aboard Willkie Train En Route to Spokane, Wash.. Sept. 2 J.—(AP)— Wendell L. Willkie turned eastward today alter a pledge in his northrn most campaign address last night at Seattle to produce "more ji)bs'' it f elected president in November. In his first major concentration on ; the labor issue the Republican nomi- • nee charged at Seattle, a center of i strong labor unionism, that the J Roosevelt administration "has let la bor down". Before an applauding audience of 30,000, Willkie declared In- stood "for every one of the social gains that la bin- has made" including the labor I relations act. Wcige-hour standards, <ind social security program. Then he added: "An administration that, wants to; do something for labor must go much further than minimum guarantees. | Such an administration while pro- ; teeting labor's rights must make I jobs and jobs and jobs." British Refuse Comment On Story Of Nazi Sea Disaster London, Sept. 24.—(AP)—Inform- , ed British military sources refused : to comment today on dispatches j from the French-Spanish border | published here that Germany lost "between 50,000 and (j0,000 picked troops" in a disaster of September 16 when a channel gale scattered Adolf Hitlers "invasion fleet." The assertions were made in the Daily Mail by Harold Cardozo, a! special correspondent on the French Spanish border. Neutral military sources also were ; inclined to discount the report. Cordozo's story in part said: "Hitler lost between 50,000 and 60.000 picked troops in a disaster vhich scattered his invasion fleet a ! week a^o today, it is learned here. "They wore victims of channel .torms and merciless royal air force bombardment. "Because the German troops had already suffered heavy losses from British bombing, the nazi high com nand decided to make new disposi tions. "The invasion fleet, consisting of thousands oi' barges and small ves sels, was taken out of the ports and moored along the lonely Flanders ;oast xxx. "Then on Monday southwest gales swept the channel. The Flanders .•oast is notoriously dangerous at :his season. It became a death trap. "The German tugs tried desperat !y to get the barges to safety but -cores ot' them were overturned, drowning thousands ot soldier*,." British Counter Nazi Invasion Moves Greatest I Raid Of War On Berlin British Bombers Ap parently S i nk four German Ships Ap proaching Boulogne; Fires Started in Berlin By Bombs. London. Sept. 24.—(AP)—Count ering German invasion preparations with all its power, the linlish air force rapped home blow alter blow today, attacking German ships caught in the English channel, carrying out the greatest raid of the war on Ber lin. and leaving the Gei man-held French coast in flames. Eye witnesses saw five British bombers dive in line upon four medium sized German ships ap proach itig Boulogne, or the French coast, and apparently sink them all. British sources said the attack on Berlin last night was carried out by relays of pian^- which started and returned like scheduled trains from a railway station. The German capi tal's main power station and gas works' were said to have become flaming beacons which guided the way to subsequent attacks on freight yards and utilities. The Reich's air force again sent huge formations swarming over the southeast coast in thrusts at London. (Continued on Page Three} Fighting Stops In Northern Indo-China Hanoi, French-indo-China, Sept. 24.—(AP)—Fighting between French and Japanese lorces along the north ern boundary of French Indo-China was reported stopped overnight and official French sources said today their troops have been ordered to withhold fire unless attacked. Thus, it was said, the French colonial authorities gave the Tokyo Representative General Issaku Nish ihara, every opportunity to halt the Japanese South China command's threatened land, sea and air on slaught against northern Indo-China without further bloodshead. (A Domei dispatch from Tokyo also reported all quiet along the Indo-China bolder today. The dis patch estimated the Japanese had suffered about 100 casualties in pre vious lighting.") The French authorities described the situation as one of "extreme gravity" despite the efforts to avert further fighting. FIRE IN BEAUFORT BUSINESS SECTION Beaufort, Sept. 24.— (AP) —Four business establishments—the Beau fort Hardware. Pender's, Owens Bros. Grocery and the Beaufort Barber Shop—were badly damaged by fire last night. The Morehead City and New Bern fire department and the Coast Guard helped Beaufort firemen extinguish the blaze. .. t & I Held as Kidnaper According to the FBI, German born Wilhelm J. Muhlenbroich (above) has signed a contVs; ion ;>d mitting that lie kidnaped three-year old Mare de Tristan, Jr., son of the Count and Countess de Tristan, of, Hillsborough, Calif. The boy \va< I rescued unharmed. This i. a j)hone- j photo. Growers "Very Satis fied" With Prices at Opening of Markets; Today. Winston-Salem, Sept. 24.—(AP)— Trices better than expected were re ported on opening sales of some Old Bright Belt tobacco markets today. At Mt. Airy the first 14 piles sold brought an average of 29 cents, rang ing from 23 to 33 cents a pound. Growei*s were described as "very satisfied." The quality of offerings was medium grade leaf. I Roidsville's opening wiles on somej grades brought more than 31 cents. The first several rows disposed of' were of "excellent color and quality.''| An average of better than 20 cents | was unofficially predicted for the i day's sales. Here in Winston-Salem the first' hour's sales averaged 23.33 cents a' pound. Farmers were repoited "well pleas ed" with prices. The volume offered was not as large as on opening day last year. At Mebane. one warehouseman said the average price might run as high as 26 cents. Big Orders For Defense Equipment Washington, Sept. 2\. — (AP)—' President Kooscvelt announced today' that the War department within eight I days had placed $1,00(1.}} 10.889 in or-j dors lor vital defense equipment, i The contracts were awarded underI a $5,000,000,000 defense appropriation j act signed by Mr. Roosevelt on Sep tember 9. He released a memorandum from Secretary Stimson detailing or ders placed under the act as of Sen tember 17. The bulk of the appropriation, was earmarked for the Navy, which con tracted for some 200 warships the day the act was signed. The biggest item for the Army was $206,903,878 for ammunition, follow ed closely by $206,015,000 for or dnance department "facilities" which were not further identified. Six contracts for 3 022 airplanes, aggregated $155,579,470. and four j contracts for 6.785 engines came to j another $7-1.398.142. In addition, the; ordnance department ordered $14,-j 242.300 worth of engines. Other large items included $122.-1 334.934 for small arms and miscel-, laneous items, $75,758,245 for tanks and $53,913,440 for clothing and equipment. j (x)swdtk&h FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, showers Wed- I nesday and in west and extrernc north portions tonight. Slightly cooler except on southeast coast j Wednesday. Governor Hoey Acts Tc Start Machinery For Draft Listings Registrars Will Be Or T ^ ctcieci on Duty Octo ber 16 to Register! Ye unf* Men; Hoey Will. Gei: Recommend ations For Boards. Raleigh, Sept. 24.—(AT')—Gover 1101 Hoey •;i'd today ho would <»c( recommendations for members of lo-I cal draft boards quickly now, and Unit ho h:td directed the State elec tions board to order registrars on duty October 16 to register young men "ibject to compulsory military sen-ice. The elections board will direct each of the 1,916 registrars to b° on duty !it their regular polling id laces for the day. The governor said he hoped that competent and patriotic citizens would volunteer to keep the registrars. Compilations are now being made to dolormine how many draft boards will be needed in each county and as soon as the figures are complete letters will go to the county super ior court clerks, county school super intendents. and county elections board chairmen asking them to act as a committee to recommend draft board members. Governor Hoey said he would is sue a proclamation as requested by President Roosevelt concerning the registration and also would issue a formal statement asking citizens to cooperate. The governor had before him a letter from the President saying "It is all important that the local boards be composed of men in whom the community has the greatest confi dence. Membership on a board should be considered a position and trust and honor. I feel certain that many thousands of our most able and pat riotic citizens will oiler their services for this duty." The President noted that elections officials and draft board members are expected to serve without pay as "their contribution national de defense" just as young men will be required to devote a'year to military training. North Carolina Is Among States To Gain Congressman Washington, Sept. 21.—(AP)— The 1940 census figures indicat ed today that the south and far west would gain eight seats in the House of Representatives at the expense of the midwest and industrial east. Unofficial computations made on the basis of preliminary figures showed that under the existing formula the reapportion ment due next spring may give two extra seats to California and one each to Arizona, Florida, New Mexico. North Carolina, Oregon and Tennessee. The same figures indicated ! losses of one seat each for Illi nois, Indiana. Kansas. Massachu setts, Nebraska. Ohio, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. These states either lost population or failed to gain as much as the others. If preliminary computations stand up they will form the basis upon which the House of Repre sentatives will be elected in 1942 and they also will alter the electoral college voting in the presidential election of 1944. Nazis To Fight Britain To The Bitter End Berlin, Sept. 24.—(AP)—The axis powers will fight Britain to the bit ter end without the slightest com promise regardless of who may yet rally to her support, authorized German sources said today after the return of Foreign Minister von Rib bentrop from his Pome conferences w®Pi-pit'0'' Mussolini. There will be no compromise, these quarters added. Not only will there (Continued on Page Three) Honored by Legion Mrs. Katherine McCoy First woman to be made sorgeant at-arms at a national convention of the American Legion, Mrs. Kath erine McCoy, of Fairmount, W. Va.t is helping maintain order at the Boston conclave. (Central Press) Hint Action In Far East Informed Administra tion Sources Hint of U. S, Action Beyond Di plomacy. Washington, Sept. 24.— (AF)— Secretary Hull said today that more factual information on de velopments in FrciK'h Indo ('hina was awaited before any particular steps or policies were formulated on Japan's southward empire movement. lie declined to discuss the question whether there was u possibility of American aid to French forces in Indo-China if they resisted the Japanese or to say whether an American protest liud been or would be made at Tokyo. The secretary of state said, however, that he had heard no official intimation that a part of the Cnitcd States fleet now at Hawaii might be transferred to j the Atlantic. Washington. Sept. 24. — CAP)— Hints came frnm informed adminis-j [ration sources today that the United States may go beyond a diplomatic protest in showing disapproval of i Japan's drive into French Indo china, which Secretary Hull said up-, set the status quo in the Pacific, i There was no indication what de- < visions were taken at policy-making, conferences of department of ficials following the entry Sunday of j Japanese troops into the far eastern | :olony. One usually well informed source' (uorumuea cm rimcc; WAYNE APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT IS UNDER ADIVSEMENT Raleigh, Sept. 24.—(AP)—The Su preme court took under advisement today the appeal from a death .'-en ter,ee in Wayne county of Le.-Iie Howell. There were no oral arguments in the Howell case. The man was con victed of the murder of H. C. Wieg and, an officer called to ihe Unveil home due to a quarrel between Howell and his wife. The court was requested to grant a writ of certeriorari in the case of Sylvester Woodard, sentenced to desth in Wayne in August for the killing oi' Lillio Townspnd. The peti tion. if granted, would result in bringing the complete record of the trial and case before the hi^h court • h appLai. Gibraltar Is Bombed in Reprisal French Report That British Landing At tempts at Dakar Have Been Repulsed and W arships Damaged; British Deny Report. (By The Associated Press.) Frcnch Naval Minister Admiral Jean Harlan announced lale today that Fiance had lashed out with re prisals for the British attack on Dakar, Senegal, after repulsing Brit ish landing attempts and damaging "the aggressor warships." "The land, sea and air forces of Africa already have repulsed the landing attempts, in< lic-ti-fl losses on the aggressor warships, and launch ed reprisals." said Harlan in an order of the day from Vichy, France. Although this proclamation did not st;itc the nature of the reprisals, it was reported that French warplancs had bombed Gibraltar heavily. (Ob servers ;it La Lir.ea. Spain, s;iid at least 30 French planes had raided the rock for an hour and a half and that dense columns of smoke indicat ed that gasoline depots on Gibraltar had been hit.) The hind attacks ;it Dakar, start ing at 1 a. m. in a thick mist, fol lowed a violent naval barrage dur ing which shells from British war ships rained for eight hours into the strategic African port. A French submarine was reported hit by a British shell and a British cruiser by a French shore battery. French dead were listed at "more than 100". About 0.000 French col onial troops were defending the port. One British landing party of 200 men was reported driven back by machine gun fire. These reports emanating from Vichy were countered by the Brit ish ministry of information in Lon don which declared: "There is no truth in reports that any British landing at or near Dakar has been attempted." The headquarters of General dc Gaulle, lender ol the London-recog nized "free" French government, as serted that the only action took place when de Gaulle sent a group of emissaries ashore under a white flag of truce. Several members of the party were killed, it was said, when the defenders of Dakar opened fire. The rest then withdrew. Simultaneously, an ominous note developed in Japanese-United States relations when the Japanese news paper Kokumin, often a Japanese army mouthpiece, asserted thut Ja pan will resist with all her means any United State, attempt to make Singapore a base for naval forces in the Pacific. Unofficial quarters in Washington had previously uggested that the United Slates might : end part of the U. S. fleet now based at Hawaii to the far east, possibly basing it at the crown colony of Singapore. French Bomb Gibraltar British Fleet Sails Out of Harbor, Apparent ly Heading for Atlan tic Afterwards. La Linea, Spain. (At the Gibraltar Frontier)—Sept. 24.—(AP;—French warplanes bombarded Gibraltar vig orously lor nearly three hours today, sending up clouds of black smoke and shaking the British fortress with a series of explosions. The attack ceased abruptly short ly after 3:30 p. m. (9:30 a. m. e. s. t.) Thirty minutes later the British fleet sailed out of the harbor ap parently heading for the Atlantic. Watchers here saw at least 30 planes taking part in the attack, ap parently a reprisal for British-sup ported operations of "free French men" against Dakar. Anti-aircraft guns replied heavily. Unconfirmed reports received in Lisbon said several of the attack ing planes were shot down, i.;.i'j .this afternoon reports from il_uMt:iui».d <i.t i'ag'* Three.)