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rj BIfoititersfltt Daily SltBpafrfy : . —— ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA 1 \SEVENTH \EAR ^hk^SIE'preIs0'' HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, SEPTEMBER 25, 1940 rL"UL,s,!.!,il^.SES)N'ifA?EltNOON FIVE CENTS COPY j icre British and trench Battle on African Coast •cateil on map at left. and shown in a view at riyht. is the scene v»l sharp encounters between units of 'eel and French colonial troops. The expedition against the French West African colony is under :.d of General Charles de Gaulle, leader of "free Frenchmen", whose ultimatum of surrender was re " e colonial governor. japan Near Decision On Pact With Axis New Map Of Orient Seen Japan Believed Mov ing to Make Sure She Will Have Fuii Share of Spoils. r.v C.LFXX ROBR. Sept. 25.—(AP)—Japan | announcing wneth- ; *er into an alliance; i Italy, trustworthy .i by The Associated day. mission sent by Adolf ceived a warm welcome -e advises disclo.ed. and,' .mcement of a new pact j »nge drastically the map ; is expected shortly, -jch a pact would plunge •diatcly into war with *. clear, but it is believ-l ••'rig to make sure she vh.ire in the redi< : territory and power and Mussolini have come it and wheni defeated. . .sr week, the axis powers' ; « w i p for Africa and: • ; Berlin dispatches indi-1 !i th - part ot the • i; i.usly this week in Spain a participant. • 'ected Japanese alliance :itinned on Page Seven) lore Guard U nits Called Sept. 25.— (AP) - <•veit ordered into ac t rvice another 3->. <00 .>■•1 of the National en. called out for a training, will report it".- action today fol ' order calling out 60, • n for federal military ••'i in this latest order were • • designated by the War n! Si (>t< mber 16 to report • '>itol,« r 15. The Presiden n v.;- necessary to put the en legally under orders for soldier included in the •■■rder to service come from Ohio. Michigan. Wiscon : -i;>pi. I'uerto Rico mid eaf Growers \sk Changes Sept. 25.—(AP)—Re .(> trorn tobacco growing et today to consider means legislation to change the <d for determining parity tobacco. The present base l . of August. 1919. to July, the measure, the same pe u!d be u.sed for all tobacco icy and flue-cured, which ■ *• fixed at August. 1935. to i!.'"i9. The old base, however, • i.-cd for the 1940 crop, the becoming effective in 1941. legislation is before the ; .culture committee, but it the conference said it . d to try to attach the pro • i .cudnunt to ii.me Dill Indo-China's Defenders Stand By Guns Hanoi. French Indo-China. Sept. 25.—(AP)—China's defender.. stood by their gun- along coastal and land irontiers—under orders to lire only ii tired upon—and looked to a con ference 01 Japanese leaders today tor a clue whether Japanese troops would continue their thrusts into this French colony. General Issaku Nishihara. who ne gotiated an agreement Sunday with French officials for Japanese mili tary priviiiges in Indo-China, sped to Hainan island to see the com mander of Japan's south China army which pressed into northern Indo China Sunday night. Freich officials contended the Japanese were to garrison new air bases and that entry from the north was not envisioned in the agree ment. (Reuters. British news agency, re ported that French authorities had abrogated the agreement on the ground the Japanese iiad violated it by sending troops into northern In do-China. (The Japanese foreign office at Tokyo exproed surprise at the re port that the agreement had been abr< 'gated.) LUMBER FIRMS ARE ENJOINED IN WAGE AND HOUR DISPUTE Ilaleigh. Sept. 2:>.— (AP) — The wayt-l><>ur division of the United States Department of Labor report ed t"(i >y that Federal District Judge I. M iVIcekins had enjoined 27 North Carolina lumber firms from "future violation* of the fair labor .standards (wage and hour) act." The judgments stipulated payment of baci: wages due 5c>o employees totaling $7,602.74. Firms enjoined included Hender son Lumber Co.. Inc., Tarboro; C. II. Henderson ol Tarboro: Stephenson Lumber Co., Wilson; W. C. Avery. Clinton; W. C. Jordan. Wilson; and Rivers and King, Wilson. Woman Is Murdered Attractive Young Mother, Clubbed to Death, Is Linked to Duke Family. Horsham. Pa., Sept. 2f>—(AP)—An attractive young mother, found clubbed to death on the dusty stair way of an unoccupied farm house, was linked today to a prominent Southern family in a statement her husband made to police. Her head and face beaten. Mrs. Ethel M. Atkins. 35-year-old mother of three-year-old twin sons, was dis covered in the btiildins last night clad only in stockings and one slip per and wearing a wedding ring. She was identified 14 hours later by her husband. James F. Atkins, Phil adelphia bricklayer. District Attorney Frederick B. ' Smillie said Atkins declared in -a statement that the slain woman, whose maiden name wa< Ethel Cr il't. has first ueen married to John Cicero (Contnued on Page Seven.* Collaborate Signs Point to Solidifi cation of Aims of Get*-, many, Italy, Spain and Japan. Rome. Sept. 2";—(AP)—Signs that the totalitarian bloc of Germany. Italy, Spain and Japan is being solid ified for earth-girdling collaboration in a mure active tense appeared to day. A newspaper likely to be well in formed. II Popolo <Ii Roma, indicated that Spain already had decided on active aid to the Rome-Berlin axis in the war against Britain. Other indication implicit in dip lomatic maneuvering included: 1—Disclosure that the Japanese ambassador to Rome and Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano dis cussed the international situation at length yesterday, with "particular emphasis" on the Japanese advance 1 into French Indo-China. 2—A report in Berlin that Ciano would travel to Berlin tomorrow for a follow-up to last week's Rome con versations. (Political sources at the German capital were generally of the opinion that Ciano would participate in some solemn ceremony <<T signature.) 3—The continued presence in Ber lin of Ramon Serrano Simer. Span ish minister of government end 1111111 ! ber one aide and brother-in-law of ' Generalissimo Franco. | (The Berlin radio said Adolf Ilit I ler received Serrano Snner at the chancellery at noon today and talked to him for about two hours.) Willkie Would Name Western Man In Cabinet Aboard Willkie Train E11 Route ■ to i'argo, N. JJ., Sept. 25.—(AP)— Wendell L. Wilhiie, contending Unit a iy:S7 price statement by President Roosevelt had created a "disastrous" ellect on world economies, gave the west a campaign pledge to appoint a ' westerner as secretary of the interior if he is elected. The Republican presidential nom inee, speaking in iiutto, iViont., said . last night: "In April, 1D37, when the (busi Iness) pickup was coining, the Pres ; ident made a public announcement ' that the price of commodities was | too high. 'The effect was very disastrous ' throughout the world, m my judg | ment. It was a factor in the eeonom ; ic decline of the democracies of Eu I rope and thus contributed to the rise I oi Hitler. " A cut in copper prices resulted, Willkie said, bringing a wage cut for ! "every man who worked in the cop ' per mines 01 this area. ! 'The very fact that the President had enough powers in his hand that his mere statement could have caused such a rapid decline in the price of copper, I say to you, is very deleteri ' ol.s to our domestic economy." IxJmlkoJi ! FOR NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy and much cooler | tonight. preceded by showers on the coast this afternoon or early i ihufsday gencraJb fai*-. i Dakar Is Said To Be Surrendered I Government Governor D e c \ a r e s "We Have Traveled a Long Way in Our Con cept Since Jefferson"; Reviews State's Ac complishments. Atlantic City. Sept. 23.—(AP) — CJiiv»T»iur Clyue li. lloey of iNlorth Carolina, in a speech prepared for delivery before tne American Bank Association convention here to day. said that lie did not believe "it is best for this republic to continue to ci licentiate power :n Washington and to centralize our whoic govern mental fabric." "We have traveled a long way in our concept since tne early u;.y.- sine, .lefl'er-.on regarded ii;al govt rnmen as best which governed t. c least contenting itsell merely v.:t:i main taining the conditions of liberty and leaving men alone,' the cmei execu tive asserted in his prepared speech. "There is much to be said for that theory, but we have gotten so far away lrom the view ana wo have re linquished so many rights to the government that we now expect the government, through some of its units, to perform nearly all of the services hitherto regarded as the prerogative of the generously in clined citizen or the charitable or ganization/' Reviewing North Carolina's ac complishments, Governor llocy said lie "must insist" that uie State d;>e not belong in the classification "the (Continued on*Page Severn Legionnaires Favor Aid To Great Britain Boston, Sept. 2f>.—(AI')— Without discussion or opposition, the Ameri can Legion's 22nd convention called today for "all practical aid" to Great Britain ;uid urged creation of the strongest possible defense for the United States, alter demanding ac tion against subversive activities. The convention's 1 ton delegates, representing more than 1 .'lfiM.oot) for mer service men, took it : stand by approving in its entirety a long list ol recommendations drafted by the del'en e committee. Included among these were resolu tion;; calling for an impregnable de fense of Ihe approaehe:; to the Panama Canal and a permanent mili tary training system for this coun try. The action came shortly aft'-r the Legion selected Milwaukee as its !i)ll convention city. Previously the Legionnaires adopted a program which in effect declared "war" on all subversive activitic; and called loi rigid control of all aliens. Biast Wrecks Pennsylvania ChemicalPlant Clairton, Pa., Sept. 2">.—(AP)— |A heavy explosion in the Ptrm-yl j vania Industrial Chemical Company's I plant today shook tfiis Monogahela river factory town, but 45 minutes j later police reported a lire that fol j lowed the blast was "pretty well un j dcr control." Police Lieutenant Leo F. O'Don nell said first reports indicated live men were burned, none seriously. He related: "It was a terrible explosion. It I blew out all the windows of the plant I aid shook the entire town. Every-1 thing went up through the roof and I tore the roof off the building. Flames j I shot into the air." ! He added that the injured work- I men were burned by flying tar and I I chemicals. | "We have no details on the mu e I 1 of the blast yet.' he said. "But every- l i thing looks under control now." i Elliott Joins the Army w«» wwjww . , .v v. -i jx »«& zivMuMU' '4W Elliott Roosevelt (right), son of the President, is sworn in as a captain in the army's reserve corps by Leon B. Hord, in Washington. Elliott was immediately assigned to active duty with the air corps' procurement branch at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Backers W ouldMake Morehead Busy Port Sixteen Men Are Added To Patrol Raleigh. Sept. 25.— (AP)—Sixteen new highway patrolmen, two to (ill vi.eaneies and 14 to expand the pa trol in size, drew troop assignments today from Major John T. Arm strong. Governor Hoey announced the pa trol would be increased and provided with sonic heavier guns so that it would be prepared to act as a home •;unrd while the National Guard is in training. Major Armstrong assigned part of the men as follows: George W. Oakley. L. li. Lane, Oris Lynch. Kaeford W. Young and Char les L. Guy. .Jr., assigned to troop A at Greenville. Train Wreck Fireman Killed, Two Injured, in Freight Train Wreck Near Asheville Today. Ashevilo, Sept. 2").—(AP)—Fire man .T. B. Williams ol ?»Torganton \vf ki■ IitI nrrl Kngineer A. D. Pope of Inman. S. C\. and George Bil lings. a Negro brakeman. were in jurod at Saluda Junction near here today in a train wreck. A heavily-loaded freight train on the Ashcville-Spartanburg division of the Southern railroad, coming down •' stoen gr; '!<■ in the mountains, railroad officials said, ran into a cHiv.tv track mi that the engine , and two cars ran over the abutment at " cno. The cial in the tender was thrown 1 forward, pinning Williams against the boiler and roa--tipe him alive. S Pope was surrounded by coal up to I (Continued on Page Seven) BRITISH CRUISER REPORTED DAMAGED New York. Sept. 25.—(AP) — The Berlin radio broadcast a Vichy disnafch today asserting off'"in 1^ t' -d anno'incod U'^t Britain's fa-* -v~ ful baJtio P * • 1 - COO 'o'-s. ''-'t »'"-•! f' "1" arcd off Gilimliur by Fr-neh air a Hack. Proposed Lease of Terminals to Hinkins Interests Is Part of Concerted Drive to De velop Carteret Port. Daii.v UisnaKTi ftnrpau. In Ihf Sir Walinr Hotel. Bv IIEXRY AVFRILL lioi^h Sent. 2.-i.—The proposed lease of Morehcad City terminals by the Hinkins interests of Baltimore is nothing more than incidental to a concerted drive to make Ihe Carteret nort one of the busiest on the At lantic coast. The main effort is being nmde on the governmental fronl in Wa hing ton. with establishment of huge cot ton and tobacco warchou^ at More head as one of the objectives, and lurning the port into an entry point for material essential to national de fense another. Back of the drive is Congressman Graham Harden of the Third dis trict. w ith the close cooperation and assistance of three other House mem bers—Lon Folger of the Fifth. Dough ton of the Ninth and J. Bayard Clark of the Seventh. It is felt that the influence of Folger. Democratic national commit teeman from North Caroiina, and Dough ton, right-hand man of the Administration and chairman of the Ways and Means committee, will be particularly helpful in putting over the program which its sponsors en vision as transforming Morehead in to a bustling port. Where the Hinkins lease comes in is in the fact that government agen cies will likely be far more sympa thetic toward the general program (Continued on Page Seven) One Body From Buried Plane Jacksonville. Fla., Sept. 25.—(AP) —A weary salvage crew working by improvised lighting in muddy swampland- near Woodbine. Ga.. early today recovered the body of one of three Army men who crashed to their deaths in an observation plane Friday night. Immediate identification of the badly mangled bodv was not possible. It is being brought here by am bulance. H fro lit-.no when it crashed were v- .j-, ,. r;..... - I F'^'ru is W. Honey • 'i e-T nf Fort Bragg. N. r' : Papt«in George F. Tv'hop. the lit. and 17• • io .M; 'i-Much.. Rob ert J. Scl.rn.i-. French Say No Word Is Received In War at Home, Brit ish Planes Strike Again and Again at 'Invasion Ports'; Lon don Has Worst Night Bombing of War. (By The Associated Press.) Unconfirmed reports circulated in the French capital ;it Vichy tod;iy Unit the defenders of Dakar in French West Africa, pledged to "light to the end," had surrendered to the fUnning siege guns of a Brit ish naval .-quadion and General Charles tie Gaulle's so-called "free French" forces. Officially, the Vichy government said nothing had been heard from Dakar since 1:30 p. m. yesterday, London, Sept. 25.— (AD — Headquarters of Genera! Charles de Gaulle's "free French" forces said this afternoon that "opera tions at Dakar are continuing." | when the African port underwent a ! fierce air raid by royal air force j naval planes. The city's radio station was shelled ' out of action and messages from i French warships in the harbor pro vided the only communication with j the outside world. Casualties in yesterday morning's I bombardment alone were listed at 185 killed, and 363 wounded. Under order of the Vichy govern ment of Premier Petain, the little i African colony, strategic "key to the south Atlantic" reportedly drove back six attempts to land troops from i the siege ships. De Gaulle and the British have ex plained that the attack on Dakar was necessitated by a German-Italian plot to seize Africa—a program ! which was widely heralded in Home | and Berlin last week during secret axis discussions between nazi Foreign | Minister von Kibbentrop and fascist I Foreign Minister Count Ciano. I With the British apparently get 1 ting in the first blow, Berlin report j ed that Count Ciano would come to the German capital tomorrow "for j further conferences" on the axis pro gram—presumably to discuss the | British action at Dakar with Hitler. ! In direct reprisal for the British ! raid on Dakar, a Vichy communique ! said, a "large number" of French 1 v.arplanes dumped 45 tons of bombs j yesterday on the niserial and south mole of Biiti.h' I Jock of Gibraltar. Ji> Britain's own struggle at home, royal air force bombers struck again and again at nazi "invasion ports" along the channel coast. A series of terrific explosions was heard aero, list? channel today, and a correspondent said the whole coast (Continued on Page Seven) French Raid Gibraltar M.ass Attack by French Planes Believed To Have Caused Severe Damage, La Linca. Spain. Sept. 25.—(AP) —French warplmes loosed a mass attack on Gibraltar today, the sec ond in two days, and bomb explosions were seen in the vicinity of the ar senal and in the 'own itself. Flame- leaped from the fortress' j naval installations and two huge ex I plosions seemed to come from muni I tions magazine.-. Observers believed tlvj town arid naval base were grave ly damaged. The bombing started at 2:40 p. m. j (9:40 a. m. EST) with the planes I coming over in group-; of four, but ; this gave way at 3:25 p. m. to an attack by 14 planes. They dumped their entire bomb ! loads almost simultaneously and smoke billowed up from the vicinity of t•'r• ar i:ial and from the streets '•i the town. • l < ;i•1 s Ml near warships in '"i. harbor, but apparently none was nil.
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