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• Inner War Cabi
i Enlarged and
> n s? e s Ordered.
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Hrita n en'er
(ior:r:r;y. drop
enimwt - i «y and
<■' archill .t'siu;ffled
:a more
•• '■"<■" came to
.poiicv (if ap
: 'i it; rulers.
- u -.\i :1111 from his
-;dent "• tin- council,
eld >ince his cabinet
iter the ill-rated cam
■ G*\ . in \t.r
.vu war cabinet.
resieneo his'
• ■-n-ervatlve party
1 • •:: I it* gave way •
May. * |
< i'; <•»> As><>c:;it:on
■ . • •• conclusion" that
tcceed him as party
: ^ »• (lie ii HI't'M to '
i:Ie. the 71-ye: r old
ressed his "unbrok
that under Chur
1 Britain "with her
vs v.-i 11 succeed in
: :ce> of barbarism
i'-icec a great part of
v' *tc;:" :• little better
c: : - .id •you did
:■ victory."
P ■ e Minister Chur
nn> need simul
•ed the size <>f the
to eight
observers who had
- realignment
: " 'he I 'liited
' ■ ••».> and tho
•ppolntees.
■ '.tit changes in
L.'.borit*; Herbert
supply ministry
• ;!• 'b of secretary for
"i? en* and master of
..rf fing "i Labor
' Be\ af;d Chancel
'•..h-.- Sir Kingeisey
.■ riant inner cab
son. who was min
• :*ur.'.y. took Cham
tf''. wr cabinet and
• i.| the council.
■ nn> iiiiicciiH'nt. poli
'i cxpf cfed tfiat War
• ny Eden would be
» ' ot foreign sec~e
; eld before splitting
over appeasement
a'so had forecast
Minister of Infor-j
I >uM-("i»<»per and Min
■ il Production Lord
three were left in their
; i ices.
Viilkie Says
olicies Lead
o Bankruptcy
i.rl Willkie Train Kn Route to
Oct. 3.—(AP)—Wendell
..ill:' .1 .-.sorted today on u cam
• to.ii through Ohio and Penn
ania steel centers that it the
• <!' ao:.:ini.stiation is re-elect
no social security wiii ever be
; becau.se this nation will go
krupt."
' « ruber this statement "ten
i om now it you make the mi>
■ '.! :•-electing the present ad
' ■ lion." he told an audier.ee in
town, where he toured by au
»'»(!*• Through street throngs
i'h threw balloons and confetti
>und his ear.
■ iU-.ittolicr.n presidential 110m
o charged in Cleveland last
' :.t Pre.-ident Roosevelt's iid
i wns "playing politics
m p'. ;:ai»-uness." said in the
• '"Wi: public sqi-are tnat a
• v ' V- i! \ A.1:.' I'iiM.'l C't
• v :»i'.c:e t the Unit
rktirks
amber lain Quits Pubiic Life!
Undismayed by the Blitzkrieg
NA VY ORDERS
NEW A TLANTIC
FLEET FORMED
XevMIe Chamberlain. prime miiv.stei
of England at the time of the decla
ration : v. . against Germany. to
day resigned the posts which he held
in the British government. The 71
year old states- Kin has been in fail
ing health and hi.- retirement was at
tributed to his physical condition.
Army Planes
Are Ordered
$141,320,610 Contract
Awarded Douglas for
18,500 Planes of All
Types,
Washington, Oct. 3.—CAP)—The
War Department awarded today a
$141,320,610 contract for more than
18.500 plane? of all types.
Tiie contract went to the Douglas
Aircraft Company. Inc., of Santa
Monica. Cul. Types, delivery dates,
and other details were withheld.
Secretary Stimson announced the
ron tract at a press conference with
the statement that with this order
'•we have almost reached the end
(•' our entire program."
A week ago Stimson reported the
Army had ordered, since .July 1,,
13.389 planes out of a total of 18.(541 .
for which Congress provided funds :
at this session.
Wells Thinks
Nazis Near
End Of Tether
i
New York. Oct. 3.—(AP)—H. G. [
Wells, British author, arrived today
on the liner Scythia and said '"I
think Jerry (Nazi Germany) is get
ting near the end of his tether." I
Some of the planes recently shot !
down in England were newly com- I
pleted. he said, some of the pilots
were young and inexperienced and
"one machine gunner we got had
never been up in a plane before."
Wells said he did not believe
America should enter the war. "If I
you come into the war with your
party polities it would interfere with
final settlement." he said.
Credit Given To "School
Patrols" For State's Fine
School Bus Safety Record
Di.Jly Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Waller Hotel.
By IIEXRY AVERILL
| Raleigh, Oct. .'i.—A major share of
credit for North Carolina's almost
perfect safety record in its school bus
I transportation is beiny handed these
days to the youthful "school bus pa
trol."
Officials of the St;.te Highway
San-t.v Ir.- "ii are loud in their
praises of the patroi.-: state school
a uithoui ihein no ~Ui.li
Rumania Rejects
British Protests
Bucharest. Oct. — (AI' > The Ru
manian government del \cic;l today
a lormal reply in Britain de.->cnbing
as "unjustified" her prote.-.l against
tin' treatment of live British subjects
arrested on charges of sabotage in
tlic oi! lipids.
The British minister to Bucharest,
lieginald Hoare,' tvet-Ved tne reply
when lit* went to the foreign office
in i arly evening to make an addi
tional complaint. He immediately
called his mtire stali' to a "highly
important and very secret confer
ence."
The first secretary ol the legation.
Iiooin Hawkey. said that a "'di.-.tort
cd" version 01 the reply ! 1:• cl been
circulated by the official German
news agency before Monre saw it,
and the eerctary denied (ierman re
ports that t!ie coinninnication accuses
lloare .him.-elf of connection with
the alleged sabotage plot.
October 12
"Non-Political ' Ad
dress on National De
fense To Be Broadcast
to Latin America.
Washington. Oct. 3.—(AP)— Tho
White House announced today that
President Roosevelt would deliver a
national defense speech from a spe
cial train at Davton, Ohio, October
12.
Stephen Early. White House press
secretary, said the President's speech
would be "non-political" and would
be carried free by three national
radio networks. It will start at 9 p.
m. (EST).
The address. Early said, will be a
review—a "great narrative story of
the defense program of the United
States."
Unlike Presidential fireside chats,
he continued, it will be addressed not
only to the people of this country but
to all the 21 American republics.
It will be one-half hour long and
will be carried by short wave to the
other 2d American nations in the
we.-tern hemisphere.
Experts Tour
Defense Posts
Nassau, Bahamas, Oct. 3.—(AP)—
Army and Navy experts, working
swiftly to complete preliminary de
tails toward establishment of United
States defense outposts, headed for
an inspection tour of other Carib
bean sites today after an air inspec
tion of this island.
The eight-man mission, headed by
Rear Admiral John Greenslead and
Brigadier General Jacob Devers,
planned to meet another commis
sion aboard the cruiser St. Louis at
Cuba for inspection of base sites in
Jamaica. Trinidad. Biitish Guiana,
St. Lucia and Antigua.
line record could be made; locai law
enforcement men all over the state
are proud to cooperate with the
youngsters: and local school prin
cipals and teachers and the young
patrolmen themselves are frankly
proud, though not boastful, over their
part in the safety program.
The record of which they are just
ly prouct is tnis: During the school
yu.r I9.':9-40 North Carolina's schools
,cd on Page Seven.;
Emphasis on T w o -
Ocean Policy v? rtSi Or
ganization of N e w
Force and Ansiounce
m e n t oi Admiral's
Coming Visit.
Washington. Oct. 3.—(AP)— The
Navy gave emphasis t«> its two-ocean
policy U-day with preparation for
putting its Atlantic forces on a more
formidable1 footing and the announce
ment lhat t!t" commander in chief
of the main fleet was coining here
I corn Hawaii for conferences "on the
general situation in the Pacific."
S"ci'"t:iry of Navy Knox contribut
ed to the interest of the coming visit
of Admiral James Richardson when
lie told a press conference that he
though* a suggestion for a naval good
will cruise to Australia and New
Zealand was a "good idea." although
then1 had been no decision on the
subject.
Plans for establishment of "a newly
organized force" in the Atlantic were
disclosed by the Navy department.
The squadron, to be known as "the
patrol force. United States fleet," will
consist of more than 125 vessels and
the necessary aircraft.
There was no indication in Navy
circles whether creation of the new
force had any connection with the
recently negotiated mutual assistance
pact between Germany, Italy and
Japan.
An Atlantic squadron has been in
existence for two years but the new
organization is designed to strengthen
it and unify its command.
NOE INDICTED ON
EVASION CHARGES
New Orleans, Oct. 3.—(AP) —
James A. Noe. Democratic national
committeeman, former interim gov
ernor, and political ally of the iate
Hucy P. Long and the present gov
ernor Sam H. Jones, was indicted
today by a federal grand jury on
charges oi" incomc tax evasion.
Pessimism
Unfounded
Babson Says Drag On
Business Is By Pessi
mists Engaged in De
clining Industries.
BY ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1940. Publishers
Financial Bureau.
Deny, N. H., Oct. 3.—During the
past lew weeks I have talked with
many directors of manufacturing cor
porations and national banks as well
as with large investors. Most of them
arc very pessimistic. This probably
is the real reason why . ecuritics and
commodities are selling so low to
day with business as good as it now
is in most lines. Yet. there are cer
tain other groups who are both op
timistic and are making money. Why
this difference?
Old Age vs. Youth.
Most of these pessimistic directors)
ot corporations are middle-aged men
who made their money during the!
"good old days of the 20's". They i
worked without government restric
tions and had a free hand to do about'
as they wished, except commit mur
der. They simply do not know how
to work under present conditions, j
They are not interested in making
••small profits". They sulk at the idea
of paying "heavy taxes." It is still
hard to teach old dogs new tricks." ■
When, however, I have found a
laige factory, store, or bank controll
ed by intelligent young men, these
young men are both optimistic and
making money. Having never known
the easy days, they assume present
day restrictions, taxes, etc. to bo nor
(Continued on Page Four)
UJsjoiiwi
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Friday, not
r.y.-jh change in temperature.
Queen Elizabeth shares a joke with Air Raid Precautions workers as the
beloved ruler makes a tour of West London to inspect air raid damage.
Hitler's aerial blitzkrieg doesn't seem to have had nnich effect on the
morale of this group.
CHARGES PI AGED
AGAINST FORMER
FRENCH LEADERS
Vichy, Oct. 3.—(AP)—Formal
charges were placed today
! against former Generalissimo
Maurice Gastav tJamehn, former
Premier Edouard Daladicr and
former Air Minister Guy la
C'hambre in France's "war guilt"
prosecutions. They will be
brought before the supreme court
at Riom for trial.
Wilson Man
Faces Charges
Wilson, Oct. 3.— (AP)— Recorder
Ch.'irlcs B. McLean today ordered
Jack Langley. li.i-yenr-old grocer,
held under $5,000 bond on a charge
of manslaughter and three charges
of abortion. At the same time, John
Rose of Elm City was placet i under
$2,000 bond on an abortion charge.
Langley was charged with per
forming an illegal operation upon
Mrs. Nettie Woodward 1! ,m-ll.
body was found in a thicket near
Saratoga last week, and with aiding
and abetting Rose in the alleged per
formance of a similar opera 1: Lou up
on another woman. lie was also
charged with a similar operali n on
a third woman.
KIDNAPPKJ)
Bucharest. Oct. —(AP)—The
British legation announced to
liiRlit that Perry Clark, president
of the Ploesti oil field engineer
ing firm, had been kidnapped
from a leading Bucharest hotel
by three men, possibly Iron
Guardists.
It was the second such inci
dent within two days.
Raiders Pay Fourth
Visit of Day to London
Late in Afternoon,
Showering Bombs on
Two Sections of the
City.
j London. Oct. 3.—(AP)—Anti-air
. craft barrages. so heavy a.s to tie up
I traffic, marked -a late afternoon at
; tack on London by unseen German
j raiders today and some British quar
1 lei's suggested that the na/.i air of
fensive may have turned to "blind'*
high aititude bombai anient.
Anti-aircraft shell fragments fell
j like hail on the city.
I Nazi raider* thrust at the capital
through a thick haze in their forth
I visit ol the day. .showering bombs
i on northwest and southwest sections.
Anti-aircraft guns sent up constant
J streams of explosives.
Some British sources said that this
might mark a new phase ol the new
offensive flight above the cloud- be
yond anli-aircraft range, location of
London ov in trumenl* of navigation,
and then a tripping of bomb racks.
It would be impossible with such
teebn tiue to pick out objectives with
in th« <*ity.
Alter the air raid warning had
been on more than an hour the
in'outing inten.sily of the barrage,
had turned the London haze to a
glowing red.
U-vpite thick cloud, and poor
\ oility, British warplane weie o!
reported to have struck
a hing overnight blow: at ( m i man
( I plants, munition, factorie:. rail
y laeilities and other military ob
t| ivrs.
[J»»n!to|) spolK i Miiiftht cover. I he
typical English murk made it im
•jii ible to see the planes or guage
11if direction of the anti-a;rcralt gun
I ire.
One raider dropped his entire load
iContinued on Page Seven*
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beconci uame
i o Lmcinnati 1
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Crosley Field. Cincinnati. Oct. 3.—
Bucky Wallers pitched the Cincin
nati Reds back into the World St ries
picture here this afternoon. as the
Reds defeated Detroit. 5 t" 3 in the
second game <>i the 1940 series, tnu
giving each of the clubs one win as
the teams get set to renew their hos
tilities Friday afternoon at Xavin
Field. Detroit. Mich.
Walters walked the fir.-t two men
to face him, and Charlie Gehringer
crossed things up with a sharp sin
gle to right, scoring Bartcll. fir.-t up.
v'lifenhurg hit into a d< *;L!«• play,
with McCo.-kev .-cor'n;..
fhr .American icsgue pennant win
i ers got another tally in the (iih. but
that ended the;r scoi .ng lor the day.
The Reds jumped on achwlooy
Rowe in the second inning !o; two
runs, and went ahead in the ball
g;.me in the third when R'ppie Jiit
I'D the circuit with one on. The Red
continued their assault '>:i Rowe in
the fourth. chasing hint from the
mound. Corsica took over the pitch
ing duties, and did well, not allowing
a iiit until the eighth when Wilson
bounced one off Higglns glove for
;; single.
Attendance upon today's game was
3D.040. something more than a thous
and loss than saw the first contest.
wj;.ch I) troit took 7 to 2.
c by inning.-: R li K
); :<-fM ■ '»•! f,r ' :• i»
r-c'imaii "li:' l'tfj 011 fl 0
r.-v.ve and i. i.:,< -
;e.\, and W.l,;or..
Numbers To
Be Drawn At
Washington
With Registration Oc
tober 16, Question
naires Will Be M.ailed
Registrants Late in
October or Early in
November.
| Washing!.-n. Oct. (AP)— The
dni't lot'ery to :!«•»tti:ilb'1 order
In;- eallnii, con crijil: into iui!it:iry
service \\:ll 11«- held here sometime
bctwei 11 < Jctnber 121 ;ni(l 2(>. ollicials
| Nil id In. lay.
The exact day vil! depend <>n the
I lime required !nr local boards
; 1" report through their st.ito iiead
c]ii::!"li r to Washington nil tin' re
! ii!t> • #!' registration October l(i.
Major lit*!i Unwell, director nl the
i man power division of tin- Army
I \*avv : elect vc service committee. ex
: plained lli.it after I!1.;1 drawing at
i« ;.st another live d.:\ would bo re
ouircd i ■ hint and r' iibut< the
"master li t" of serial numbers.
: The pi art ;it which ;i registered
man' ei I:iI number appears on this
i list will determine Ihe order in which
i Ihe local hoards will s nd him a ques
tionnaire tor information on his eli
' uihili'y Cor service and al o die oi -
j dor in which, it he i- eligible. he
wiil he called up lor a year's military
service.
Thus with Ihe rogetration oil Oe
■ tobcr l(j, it will he the end of this
month or early in November before
the questionnaires are mailed.
Dutch Towns
|
Are Raided
Amsterdam, (By way of Berlin),
, (Jet. 3.—(AP)—Seventeen persons
wore killed and 2(1 wounded at Haar
lem. near Amsterdam, early today
in an aerial bombardment which
Dutch Miurees described as the worst
siiu.r the German invasion began
May Id.
Hl'teen bombs attributed to Brit
ish piano brought two air raid
alarms.
Two dwelling: were wrecked and
houses in ten streets were hit. Two
gaiages and a storehouse wore burn
ed.
At Bcvorwyk. near llaailem, one
house was d'vtroyed and two persons
killed. In Hy wyl.. near The Hague,
three bombs damaged or de
troyed 2U private iiomes. Three.' wo
rn' n were killed
It was repoi ted that in Ihe coun
l y hotnb. lired approximately 120
acies ol woods and moadowland.
Bomb;- a!. o were dropped on a Dutch
village near the German border.
Matruh Reported
Held By Italians
Ilomo, Ort. —(Al'j—Kuniors
ln;»t !ni(i occupied M;itruh,
I'.riti.-h h;i «• !JD miles east
il S;di n;ni;i!ii on tin: ni;id to Alcx
K^yjjt. \,."ie ennent in It;ili.m
circles today. There \v;i no conlii
ntation arid the i\;i:ior. gave no de
tails.
lisidio li-t'-iif-j•. ,if| they li:id heard
.i Mritish ljroade;i.-'t which .said I5ri
i.' li troop-. had v/ithdravvn 1'ioin the
city.
Defense Funds
Provided In
Approved Bill
Washington, Oct. — (AP>— A
SI,482."JOO.OOO milit.>»y appropi lation.s
bill, last major d'lcnse mea-nre
pending before C<was pa.-..s
c-d today by the S< nate.
Senate leaders h;.d . (•en quick ap
proval for the Hou:< -approved mea.
uro which is to finance the peace
time conscription program and Jne
concurrent expan.-.ion of the .stand
ing army.
The outlook was quite different,
however, lor a S200.000.00" War a -
partment civil function biil which
passed by ih<' Hou.-e contained an
S«.'.000.0U0 Ine «Uir* -1 woik
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