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Hfcititersnn Daily -Dispatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA i.\TV-SEVENTH YEAR 'T^EAV^TlgRSSIsop HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AETERNOO N, OCTOBER 17, 1940 PUBLISHED KVEHY AFTKKXuuN EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY 3 azi Children Leave Big Cities ^-^TTTTTV * * ¥ * * Dykstra Sworn In As Draft Director iiiminary Draft Work Under Way .jcal Draft Boards t..-.j-'ccteci to Receive istration Cards Io > ; Registration Day . is I'ew Disturbances \ • tfci Press. > A I >yks?ra declared m taiement a. draft : \ that "those who had • i soft and supine an i . ■ to1.Id m»t move with y be disappointed." - d ! "n;ver>:Ty ol U";s who had taken the < > portion in the «>('— r\ Stimson in V.'a.-h • t me earl < . added - that the registra oiv than happily— e .it»ility ot a groat v • . ,-e to an oeeasion oi • ' !d . press confeienc Dykst'.":1 took office, i It issued an execu >r;.'i:m !r >i t«> ap y members of locai . : !><■;.i boards. govern uent.-e and iocal board A*i -uch work from now nder the new chief's >'•; ".ately 5.000.000 civil-. - To be drawn from yes-, ••4-Hants will, accordingi • be spread over a :■ .d with the first call j d-Xoveifber. •■•"ig and sorting of. . ■ ' U be_ian. preliminary • •.»s The country saidj egistration exceed-] estimates." ored and oven gay for • The voimg men ofi 21 Th/ough 35 literally • 125.000 registration1 e: ch other and the •hey mav serve, they long lines, patiently wait " for the nation's new peactime conscription, were scattered and • Tinned on F'a^e Fouri ES Counties! i utal of 376,388 Reg olered For Draft in 38 rth Carolina Coun s Reporting. « 17—(AD--Eighty i i >unties report'. d at '• union that they had ■ • i«tits yesterday for the ■ ee military training ' '•'•■iniy. expected to have - ' otal. had not reported, estimated on the basis I'.'oin other counties to ting over 21,000 regis 1 .ri -*1111 and Orange coun 1 total number registering ' ' e>tiinate- of the War and official^ said that 'iooablv due to the large i »• ii.«• Ifnivrrsity and I'ni N'orth Carolina students eonnty reported first at ' night and this morning '•in otiier counties came ' e doicn. comities reported that f).c»00 ret;i -(rants had '• in .i >■ nglc draft board mediate steps were tak •• i t Mime. ig led county registra ■ '.ir imported with 21.213. •ds throughout the ^tate swing into action this \djutant General J. Van "t'urffd. He said a num ■■f.inized by electing a * . 1 ranging lor working • <i r-><-|'jf-;i| help. •i <-lection officials who tering yesterday will the program- numbering ivn-fiii" the ]i -♦ >ind having ■" ; re; tilled out and other ■ over to draft boards. ,ndIf the entire second Soviets Matching German Troop Movements Rus*:-.in Iviitrs are shown moving ?n anti-tank gun to a nv.re favoruMe position during ittfiical drill* recently held in western Russia. Today the Soviet is reported to 1 • r ro :tti::;r ti'ou.-suds of troops or the Rumanian border, matching the mo»«.:v.vnt cf X;'.: i 1 into tli::t con:,; v. (Central I'rcss) or y Air Station Dedicated Representative War ren Dedicates Coast Guard Field Amid Display of Armed Might. Fliz.ibr-th City. Oct. 17.—(AP)— The Coast Guard's now S2.000.000 air station here was dedicated today by the man who played the major role in making it possible, "to be used fot the advancement of peace, for the safety of the men who go down to the sea in ships, and for the eter nal defense of our American institu tions." Voic'ng a. solemn warning that these are the nation's "most critical" days. Representative Lindsay C. War ren spoke the dedicatory words as possibly his last public utterance be fore he cease* to represent the first district in Congress. On November 1 he becomes comptroller general ol the United States. The dedicatory rites were perform ed by Herbert K. Gaston, assistant secretary of the Treasury, amid an impressive display of armed might Army. Navy. Marine Corps and Coasl Guard planes lined up under grev clouds and out in the Pasquotank river boats of the Coast Guard rode at anchor. ! GOP Needs More Money New York, Oct. i7.—(AP)—Ern est 'i'. Weir, steel executive and the chairman of the Republican nationa finance committee, says the cam paign to clcct Wendell Willkie "i.« being handicapped by lack o] funds." "We can't get tar without money." he told a group of businessmen, "i would not say we cannot win with out money but I lear that it we dc not get the money necessary for the campaign we may lose and the re sponsibility will rest with the busi . nessmen." Weir said that long before tlu Philadelphia convention which nom inated Willkie. businessmen gave as I surance of financial support for ; Willkie sampaign. but that "thej have not made good their promises.' Typhoon Hits U. S. Ship i Aboard Steamship President Cool idge Kn Route to Yokohama. Oe! ; 17. (AP; —Five persons were injur ed seriously, numerous others brin - ed, and some damage inflicted to th< j ship's lurnishings by a seven ' typhoon which the President Cool (Continued on Page Seven) Bagley Shift To Federal Position Will Have Many Political Aftermaths I>aily I>ispatc!i Bureau, In the Sir Wall'T !Iotel. BY IIKNKY AVERILL. Raleigh, Oct. 17. Shilt in activity of Dudley Barley from the lield ol St;ite to Federal governmental serv ice means, first ol all, th;it Lindsay Warren will have an outstandingly capable second assistant when he as .iliitic the duties ol Uncle Sam'i comptroller general: out it will als< be the c .use from which notable po litical effects will flow in North Car olina. The Bay ley switch of jobs will d< these things, if nothing more: (1 lessen changes that the State Rtira Kleetrification Authority will be con solidated into the Utilities Commis sion; (2) inn-ease vastly the chance of Schenj C'ommi . ion Chairmat I.loyd Griflin to retain his job aftc the Broughton adjninistration take charge in January, and (3) causi Conservation and Development Di rector K. Bruc* Kther'dge. Governor'; su-rrefarv Hothawav Crii-s and othe . offir# holders I ram th« northeast to breathe more easily. Not one of the.-'' tiling, however seem to have been considered in th< Bagley move. The Currituck mai simply found himself laced witii toi | good a proposition to turn dov.n. Hi I salary as Warren's assistant wiii In •j far more than he is now getting a: . KEA head: his appointment is foi ; a fifteen year period, alter which h< i; will be eligible for retirement on ; substantial pension: and his field o service will be widely extender j rather than narrowed. 11 While, therefore, the appointmcn ; came at what may be termed a veri |! opportune moment, it is certain tha Bagley didn't make the change be . cause he fearer; he would not bi reappointed by (lovernor Broimhtoi 11 next year. The FiKA lv ad bucket •j Lieutenant Governor llorton in th« ;I primary and there ha been muci > speculation over his chances to holt . j his job. : j But though the decision wa; nu (Continued on Page Four) A Is Revived Rooseevlt Allocates Fund for Study of St. Lawrence River Pow er Project. Washington. Oct. IT.—(AP)—Pies orient Roosevelt informed Congress today th.it he lvid allocated SI.000,-j lor preliminary surveys looking: l.> development of additional power! 1 for defense at the International | I Rapids section of the St. Lawrence: i river. ; The money came from a $200,000, : 000 defense fund which Congress j placed at the President's discretion and il was assigned to the Federal Power Commission and the Army en gineer corps for preliminary work to j be undertaken immediately. "The preliminary investigations! which 1 have authorized involve no actual construction or commitment I to construct," the President said, "and in taking this means of advis ing Congress of the surveys I am having made I wish to make it clear that Congress will be kept advised of Mich lui ther steps may be nec essary." Development of additional power| on the SI. Lawrence river wa< a high point of controversy five or six years j (Continued on Patio Four) Final Rites For Dr. Few Tomorrow Durham. Oct. 17.—(AP)—Kuner jal , <rvicc- wiil be In I i at 3 o'clock 'tomorrow afternoon lor Dr. William ! I', few. president o! Duke Univer sity, wlio dieri yesterday of a heart ailment at the age of 72. The services will be held in the ! university chapel. from 9 a. in. until mid-afternoon the body will lie in state there. Stu dent guards oi honor will stand watch over the bier. After the public service in the chapfl. interment will !;c private in the chapel crypt. Clas: e. will be MMtendvd tomor row and !l public lectures and other university events have been post poned until after the funeral. lOsuaihsut FOIl NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy and continued cool tonight and Friday: slight ly cooler on coast tonight. Or Spending For Willkie McCorrnack Charges Jj»,>0?i>00,000 Will Be ^pcnfc m l<Haie Roose velt ' Effort to Elect Hatch Act Change Asked. Washington, Oct. 17.—C.'\P)—Rep resentative MeCormaek of Massachu setts. Democratic leader, asked the Senate campaign expenditures cnin mitlc" 1,> :,,vrstigwhat he called a S30.000.000 -hate' Roo.evelt move ment." In a letter In Chairman Gillette. McCorjrtac;1'. forwarded what he said was a photostatic cony of an adver tkrmmt nlnced in the ChicV"0 Tri bune en October 10 by the F'rst Na tional Bank of Englewood, III. The advertisement contained a statement of Ihe bank's condition and ended, MeCormaek said, with: " 'In a last stand for democracv every director and oflicer of this bank will cast his vote for Wendell Willkie'." "It is generally known." said Mc Cornvek, "that the Republican na tional committee and the various Willlde groups and certain financial groups who are trying to obtain con trol of the Federal government for their own special interests have spent tremendous sums of money to date and before the campaign is over it is conservatively estimated will -pend directly and indirectly $30, 000.000 in a 'hate Roosevelt move ment' in an effort to defeat Presi dent Roosevelt. "This tremendous expenditure will be artfully concealed in many ways, one of which is through the means of advertisements as employed by this particular bank." McCormaek urged that the Senate committee recommend to Congress "legislation that will meet this abuse" if the Hatch acts do not al ready prohibit it. Chinese Ready To Maintain Burma Road Chungking. Oct. 18.— (Friday) — (AP)—Chinese labor squads were drawn up at strategic points on tlie Iturma Road when it reopened today under orders to reconstruct the life line high way as fast as Japanese bombing planes could destroy it. The road opened officially at the stroke of midnight after three months of closure as a British appeasement gesture to Japan. A great part of the first traf fic over the road from British controlled Burma will he during the night, it was learned re liably—a measure of defense affainst Japanese bombs. Trucks hcarincr supplies to re plenish Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's armies will be spaced to avoid forming concentrated targets for Japanese airmen. Willkie Charge Is Refuted Washington, Oct. 17.—(AP)— Sec retary Morgenthau asserted today that Wendell Willkie had been led , by "pure ignorance" to make "a series of utterly false statements that the treasury had delayed the defense program." In a statement to his press confer ence. the Treasury secretary said that the Republican presidential nominee was 100 percent wrong when he said' the treasury had permitted two and : one-half years to elapse before an amortization problem raised by the j Nuvv h;td been disposed of. "What Mr. Wilikie has done is to! confu-e the facts and to withhold oart of the record. I prefer to be-j lipve that it N pore ifMv.r-'Miee that j has led him to pia!;p a setof oi ■erlv fal?e tatciv.cnf." Mr. Mcr jer.thsu said. ! Soviet Thrust Russian troops arc reported to have penetrated German-dominated Ru mania, crossed the border at Chiiia and advanced as far south as Sulina (arrow). Increasing Red-Nazi fric tion is seen in the Soviet's an nouncement it had not received satisfactory advance information of Germany's troop movements into Rumania, Russia reportedly has promised Turkey "moral support" in resisting Axis pressure. (Central Press) Job Problem In Spotlight Willkie and Wallace f Present- Opposing Views of Operation of Relief System. (By the Associated Press) The problem, of America's jobless held 1 he campaign spotlight today as Wendell L. Willkie called for a revision of the WPA program and Henry A. Wallace termed present un employment insurance too conserva tive and said that it would have to be made more generous. Willkip charged that the New Deal had made a "frank and shame- j less' promise nf more unemoloyment j and added that "our promise is more 1 jobs."' In a speech at Evansvilc. Ind.. I he called for changes in the WPA. I including greater emphasis on public ' works projects under private eon- i tractors and allocation of relief funds . to the states according t-: the amount j of unemployment. Willkie's talk j was one of a number on the day's i campaign program. Wallace advocated extension of so- j (Continued on Pace Four* London Remains British Capital Despite Bombing London. Oct. 17. (AP)- The Bril-j ish government has no intention of; leaving London despite iwnl hc.-i- yi bombings, it was made known in par-, liamentnry circles tonight. The correspondent in ihe house of commons lobby for Router.-. au thoritntive British news agency, wrote tonight th«*it "there i> no quos tion of the government leaving Lon don." "On the contrary," he wrote, "they inlend to stiiy hero." The correspondent gyve no reason for reiteration of whyt h;*s been un- I derstood to be the established gov-1 ernment policy since the start of the i w<i r. Episcopalians j Lack Host For 1943 Meeting Kansas City. Oct. 17.— (AP)—i Delegates hope to eompieto the tri- i ennial convention or the Episcopal 1 ■ church Saturday, but find themselves i stymied by lack of a host for theii 1940 meeting. Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of Richmond. Va.. said the convention had not received a single !<id for the next biennial. Thr Rev. Thomas Canady of Ok 1 l.thoma City, bivhop or OMohomsi j Uromotly made a eondUioM"! off- : j "We ha\e no fae 1«1 i• - 1 i''1 —i<i i fContinued on Page Four) Rumania To Be Refuge Of Children Britain Also Takes Steps to Move Chil dren and Mothers From Bomb-Ravaged Sections; Ominous Quie: on Other Fronts. (By The Associated Press.) A mass exodus ill German children I'nun Berlin. Hamburg :md (it!i(.!- large na/.i «-ilu* into western Rumania was authoritatively repoit ed today. while Britain also took steps tu remove eluldren and moth ers in.it. bomb-ravaged di:-lol London. I)jsp;it< lies from Bucharest said preparations were going ahead t" house the German children now be ing removed I mm the Reich. A Berlin announcement said Ger man women and children were to he removed "to av oid impel iling theii health." Adolt Hitler's warplanes renewed I mass daylight raids on England alt'. I hea\ v rains hogged down some ol the German overnight attar!*.--, gi\'''M I London one oi its quicte.s1 nights i since early September. Other fronts were omimisly quiet. In the Balkans. Russia and Gcr many continued to mas- troops lae ! ins each other across the Danube I river in Rumania. I In the Far East. Britain arranged the re-opening ol the Burma Road at | midnight lonighl (12:30 p. in. EST) ynd .Japanese bombers were report ed poised to attack the I low ol arms traffic to China. Despite bad weather conditions. British bombers pounded German naval bases at Kiel. Hamburg and C'uxhaven during the night, the Lon don air ministry reported. "Extensive fires ♦.ere caused." the ministry said, adding that oilier royal air force squadrons attacked a syn thetic oil plant at Leuna and scored dircct hits mi ammunition factories in Saxony. Hundreds of German warplanes at tacked England, but most of the Ger man fighters were forced back by anti-aircraft fire and British planes, but some managed to penetrate the London defense and dropped bombs today. About Hi London districts reported damage in the night .assaults, but the British said the havoc was compara tively light. But so fierce hfi.s been the nest rue tiou of London that political quar ters heard tne government was con sidering the removal from there of all persons not engaged in essential occupations. Nazis Sink British Sub Dive Bombers Send Vessel to Bottom of the English Channel; Heavy Raids Resumed (By tin: Associated Tress) German dive boomers were re jjted to have sunk ;i Briti-h sub marine in Hit- hnglish Channel and j las ted a hotel in a southeast const town today while other Nazi war planes by the hundred;; caused re peated raid alarms in London. The Berlin radio .said Nazi air nen returning from the massed vl;.y igiit assault- told ol dropping ligh explosive bombs in the vicinity A Waterloo Bridge. Huge j«-t ol lame, they said, shot into the sky. Soon alter du-k. the raid'-t returned to London for their 41,t consecutive nightly attack. Reports from a southeast coast [own—presumably Dovei .aid Oer nt n airmen .swooped low over the .own and .uachine gunned the streets. In London, many were feared tapped in the collapse ol ; three tory building which toppled across jm air laid shelter. British royal air force bombers t'/ere busy, too. The air ministry re ported the German-oceup ed Freneh naval 'one at Brest was heavily pounded, causing "exten.jive dam age" to the ba-e'- powr tation . Tons of high < :pio-*ve« and in r*endiary bomb- were dropped on the rJcrman naval b;j-»• at Kiel last rn;;''t i! • of tli'n :t!"«d'!linn" a warsh t." ntv/r. strvice rt . ,;led.
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