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Henitersmt Uatlg Uispafrii ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA STY-SEVENTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 18, 1940 FIVE CENTS COl'Y Buying First Defense Stamos K --.fit purchases fr-m Postmaster General Frank (?. u '<• H'KiM' the lirs*. ot an is>ue of stamps featuring na iue stamps aie in oi.e, two ami three-cent dcnominatiwis. n r± r» r* TaM Men lo Be Drafted By June 15 First Contingent of 30,000 To Be Called About November 18; National Guard's Re maining Units To Be Mobilized. • n. Oct. 18.—f.\P^—The ert plans to have the selective service trainees v by June 15. •" announced by Sec ■ Stim- in means in ef >ne man in every 2ft of • >4 000 who registered Wed !v will be called to the ' the next eight months. • " reveal ins the -ehe :vi>ninsi the lirst c>n ■ »*s. St:c:s«»n also dis " " remaining units of O ■ . numbering some • > :: ! be ordered up t iv February. *i*i Trainee schedule e definite surprise— iv'i»o "i tlie n;?n called -i^tv-d directly to the <>r modern mechanized •i"d divisions. >on stated that ade ■ _ :»cii:ties would be : r-.en inducted into r> cember !5. he said. p.t«»nme ;' and other und»»r construction ;< <i. '!'!:• i .mp • were • i.i 11 ■ a total of lo- the first K'W. . Stiin.- >ri 1 of :{!).')!»(» •••I' : on or ;.boi.it \*o cii'-d'.ile for the c: 11— contingents is: De 1 ■ ; January RO.OOO; February 1", r>. 2U0,0t;i», and June Hynn Note Is Assailed •Viartin Assails Letter on Campaign Contri butions; Flynn Makes No Comment. Oct. i— (AD- Ro ■ '.■ »r»i»I Chairman Joseph Jr. di-claii'd today that tic national committee lL-d campaign contribu :ore than a million i'ed and thus had re "coid bliw>dcd. ruthless •hired specifically to a \Yw York Times today • v as asserted that Ed : i.v n Democratic national o infotmed campaign government workers ( ■'i contribute to eam .'d yet remain within "I li.c- Ifatch "clean poli • " c ci.ri ■ ijjt oi i t i-t - laws, that :\d Flynn has writ V/i- 1 i*i v.L. J Nazi Ships Flee Fight London. Oct. let.—(AP)—A llo-1 tilia ( i German destroyers "retired ' precipitately" without damaging any British vessels when a British unit attempted to engage in battle 100 miles southwest of Land's End yes terday. the admiralty announced to day. The admiralty declared that the German flotilla of ofur destroyers es caped into the nazi-held naval base of Brest on the French coast in the lading light of day. The admiralty's statement was the British version of a brush which the German high command declared had occurred at the mouth of the Bristol channel, resulted in the torpedoing of one British vescl and compelled the British fleet to flee. "No damage was in fact sustained by any of our ships,' the admralty raid. Liquor Sales $380,432.62 Kaleigh. Oct. Itf. (Ai*)—Liquor j.tore n tii** state's 27 wet counties had i<. oi o58M32.(>2 during Sep tember, Chairman Ctitlar Moore of tin State ABC board reported today. Effective Tut:- month there will be only 2fi wet counties, as Johnston county voted out liquor stores. Its sales ii'^-t month were .*?10.985-30. The stores closer October 7. The total sales were more than :>20.lf(if) below the $f>li>,U29.25 in Sep tember. 1939. Durham led in sales last month with $92,330.15. \anes Stnash ROOSEVEL T TO REPL Y \ I TO FALSIFICA TIONS \ I IN CAMPAIGN SPEECHES 6,954 Civilians Killed In Raids Of September London. Oct. 18.—(AP)— The ministry of home security an nounced today that during the month of September 6.951 civil ians were Killed and 10.613 seri ously injured in air raids on ihe 1'nited Kingdom. The ministry said the casual ties were divided thus: 1.920 men killed. 4.178 serious ly injured. 2.210 women killed. .1.629 seri ously injured. 691 children under 16 killed. 675 seriously wounded. Of the remaining; 2.ISO killed. 1.157 were males and 973 were females. Of the remaining num ber of seriously injured. 1.231 were males and 902 females. Prime Minister Winston Chur chill announced in commons Oc tober 8. that British civilian cas ualties from the start of the war to October 5 were 8,500 killed and 13,000 injured. Willkie Calls Himself An "Amateur" Aboard Willkie Train in Missouri, Oct. 18..—(AP)—Wendell L. Will kie, standing before a weather-worn statue of Thomas Jefferson, today called himself a "political amateur at taking relief money and forcing men to vote because the government fulfills a social obligation in keep ing them from starving." "Wendell Willkie wili never trade bread for votes from those who can least afford to demand independ ence," the Republican presidential nominee told a crowd in front of the Missouri capital at Jefferson City. "I do not know how to sit down in dark rooms with Frank Hague and the Kelly-Nashes of Chicago," he said. "I do not know any tiling about stealing votes x x x about making lolty speeches over the radio." Willkie said he could never "en gage in duplicity, in poses, in the creation of imaginary emergencies." "I know nothing about how to seek to control men's votes as represen tatives or senators in congress," he said, "by putting the full force of the patronage and the powfcr of the presidency against them in order to defeat them if they do not become mice instead of men." The Republican nominee made no reference to a previously prepared text. State Draft Experts Will Give Instructions To All Local Boards At Meetings Dany Dispatch Gurcau, ill the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERiLL Raleigh. Oct. 18. Representa tives oi the adjutant general's ol tice—experts on operation of the draft law—will meet throughout the state next week with local draft boards ir. a series of conferences de signed to help the locals in clearing up matters of procedure, interpreta tion of regulations, etc. Captain Chas. Jonas, in ch;:ige of public relations for the draft offi cials of North Carolina, said an effort has been made to arrange these conferences in places which will be convenient to every section of the j fate Tn a notice to ad local boards General J. Van R. Metts has urged members to ;>ttend the particular conference which has been arranged in the re-oecfive districts because lo «•;>? ronrt't:'-p-< may vr-rv 'Vein one .cctl^ii tf state to ar.oti'.cr. The conferences will be regular forums for discussion of the duties of local boards and the representa tives from the state headquarters will be men capable oi giving spe cific answers to any problems vex ing the lcoal board members. The schedule of conferences fol lows: (All conferences are scheduled to begin at 10:30 a. m.: 'Rocky Mount. TVIorday. in the re corder's courtroom of the municipal building for these counties: Edge combe. Northampton. N;>sh. Pitt, Warren, Wilson and Halifax. Edenton, Tuesday, in superior court room for these counties: Chow an. Gates. Perquimans. Martin, Curituck. D:ire. Bertie. Camden. Tyr rell. Hyde. Hertford. Pasquotank and Washington. f-'inston. WpHnesdav. in superior court room for these counties: Lenoir, Beaufort. Wayne. Pamlico, Duplin, (Continued on Page Eight.; Cotton Champion Harold Mason Outpicking 134 other contestants, Harold Mason, 15, of Senath, Mo., won the national cotton picking championship at Blytheville, Ark. He sacked 129 net pounds in two hours to win the title and $1,000. 97 Counties List 433,831 Three Counties in the State Have Not Yet Reported Registration For Draft. RnHirh, Oct. IX. 'AT') Two mom '"unities mnort'"' < n m":--tra tion for the relectivo «cr\':fr> i—.ilitwy training program ioH:iv. to nosh thr number of registrations to 433.831 in 97 of 1 !io ion count'o\ Carteret. Cumberland and Hertford haH not yet reported. Between 40 and a'1 '*•'•m 1 '!p>ft boards, or about om*-third of the state's total, have reported that they have organized, are arranging for office space and prrparng to re quisition supplies. ;inrl ; for au thorization to employ el»»riral help. Major Hugh Upton said it was be ing urged that each of the draft boards complete its orgaivz-ition pre liminaries just as quickly as pos sible. Major Upton raid it vas impossible < Continued on Paye *!*• • r»T». Jap Planes I Raid Cunming Hongkong. Oct. 18.—(AP)—The I headquarters o!' the Japanese South .China fleet announced that Japanese I naval aircraft today attacked Cunm jing, southwestern China terminus of ; the newly reopened Burma Road. It | was the first Japane o action con i nected with the road reopening, i Bombs were dropped on Chinese | munitions factories in the suburbs • and military establishments within | the city. COsbathoh FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Saturday, j slightly x-ooler tonight and scat i tcr.d iro,t. President Announces He Will Make Five Speeches, Pointin g Out To American Peo ple Falsifications of Opposition. Wn> tiinfjtnn. Oct. 18.— fAP)—Pros-' 'dent Rr)op«»T>!l c:iid tndnv thor^ hud been a svstpp-i of falsification of fact by the opposition in the presidential campaign and that ho intended to ren'v in five speeches . . He read a statement to a press con ference which said that lie did not believ® the falsification was unwit ting. but that it was deliberate. Therefore. Mr. Roosevelt said, he had decided to point out to the apeople what those fal sifications were. But. in response to, a portion, he told reporters they would have to wait for the addresses to learn what ho considered the mis representations to be. There is a possibility, the Dem ocratic nominee said, that one of the five addresses, scheduled for Wash ington on October 30, might be shift ed to Baltimore. Newsmen told him that the change would put him in Baltimore the same day that Wendell L. Willkie is sche duled to speak there. The President said that was good. Mr. Roosevelt's statement started i out with a reminder that in his ad- ] dress accepting the third term nomi- 1 nation last July 19 he had said he ■ would have neither the time nor in- j clination for purely political activity,: but would never be loath to call the attention of the American people to deliberate or unwitting falsifications of fact. Father Kills Wife And Son! I Hickory, Oct. 18.—(AP)—A moth er and her child lay shot to death j here today and two others were in ' hospitals seriously wounded as a re sun oi a shooting nere late last night. Unci ot Police £. W. Lcntz said , that Ben 'league, 32. lay at the point of death in a local hospital, accused ! of slaying his wife and one child and the serious wounding of another be- ; lr - '-.n turned a pistol on himself. The tragedy was enacted at the ' home of the 'leagues about 10:3ft on jniiisday night, L.entz said. Coleman Teague, (>. a son, was in- ! stantlq killed and Mr. Teague, 32, I died in tne hospital here early to-j day. Another son, Bruce, 3, is in ' a critical Condition at the same hos- | pital. To Police Election Maurice M. Milliuan .Maurice .M. .MilliKan, U.S. Attor ney for the Western District of Missouri, has been named to con duct a nation-wide investigation into frauds in connection with the national election. Mis appointment followed complaints regarding reg istration irregularities and other violations. State Seeks Industries I North Carolina Office To Be Opened in Washington To Look After Interests. Raleigh. Oct. 18.—(AP)—Gover nor Hoey announced today that the state would immediately open an office in Washington with a represen tative to look after the state's indus trial interests, especially in securing new industries and defense contracts. The governor made the announce ment at a meeting of state leaders of the Southern Governors Confer ence Ten Year Plan. The meeting was also told that the Aluminum Company of America had a "gigantic development" under way in the west which will "transform the lil" "l six counties." Later, the governor said he ex pected to announce thy man to head the Wa:hington office at once. ( President Frank P. Graham of the Univ mly of North Carolina, state chairman of the Ten Year Plan for balanced prosperity in the South, had ju:! commented hint "Civil War in— dustrie.. in northern states were ear ned over into the peace economy, tran I'-i i.:ed into peacetime industries and made to nave much to do with the industrial ex pan ion of northern (Continued on Page Eight) Babson Sees No Danger Of Famine In Europe by ROGER W. BABSOX Copyright J91IJ Publishers Financial Business. Inc. Whitefield, N. H., Oct. 18.—So much loose talk exists us to the ••great famine from which Europe will suffer this winter," readers will be interested in the facts: Outlook ror This Winter There is no famine or serious food shortage at present in Germany. Holland. Denmark, or unoccupied Frdnce. By serious food shortage. 1 mean to the extent that people ac tually suffer hunger. There are transportation difficulties and. most important, there is control. Control can have the same effect on the minds of consumers as shortages: bur the background is the difference be tween a controlled store of food and an actual lack. All food supplies in Europe are rigidly controlled. Means of control are food cards or what we would call coupons. Eveiy one must have them. II one is fond of meat, he will find his allotment small: but cheese and maehri'ng-mit tel—a catch-all nourish'-ten".—»onn to suffice. Of course, in °n Arr-.erjfan ense one doe* not eet a "square" meal, but one c^n always c mplain about the food anywhere. V.'ith cur meals, there is a terrific waste which the Germans are cutting out. The basic plan ol the Germans is simple: Namely, to take Inventory of all food stocks available in the Reich and to determine the allot ment per annum. They are extend ing this same method to regions un der their control. It will be hard on the Dutch as their food standard was very high. The whol»» war could be expressed in food inequalities arid the urge to linci the common denomi nator in Europe. A bit over-simpli l'ied. but you see the point. Under this system, there should be no li mine in Europe this coming winter. What is "Hilfszugbaycrn"? . Hilfszugbayern is a type of train which the Germans have devised to run from place to place to help feed the people. One of these trains can handle over 100 cattle per day. The cattle are butchered at one end. pro cessed as they pass through, and come out as good cuts, sausyges, and ' "thf r end. Distribu tion is furthered by vaccuum truck* which deliver hot food 100 mil'": ' t;>-» same principle is used in rn^rrtii^ (Continued on ^ Disclosure Of Attempt Is Delayed Nazi Sea Borne Invi sion Attempted Sep tember 16, British Re port; Word of Sea Clash May Indicate New "Feeler". (Bv The Associated IVcss.) Great Britain has smashed a Ger m.m atlempt to invade England. (ho London ,.ir ministry disclosed tod;iy, :md simultaneously Hitler's high command reported a naval clash off .England's Bristol channel which may have been a "feeler" for a new in va ion thrust. The na/.i high command said Ger man destroyers, circling Land's Knd to strike at Britain's west coast, bold ly attacked "superior British naval forces, a cruiser unit protected by tiestn .yi ts. Authoritative British quarters said that the nazis attempted to launch their sea borne invasion on Septem ber l(i and that royal air force bomb London, Oct. 18.—(Al'»—Nazi raiders lunged at London with a new fury tonight and were met by a terrific anti-aircraft bar rage. Despite a heavy mist over hanging the Strait of Dover, and chill northeast wind, the nazis followed up a single daylight as sault by opening the 42nd con secutive night of air attacks di rected at this capital. ers wrougm sum navoc anions me embarked troops that the plan was abruptly cancelled. (On September 20 a high govern ment official of a conquered nation arriving in New Yolk said German officers had told him practice maneu vers for invasion had cost the Ger mans 10.000 men. (Bodies o'' German soldiers washed ashore at French channel ports have been frequently reported.) It was the first official British ad mission that Adolf Hitler had ac tually started his troops across the channel to storm the island kingdom. Along with'the smashing of the na/.i invasion thrust, the air minis try's news service also reported that tht' royal air force 'master scheme" of bombing Germany had "paili.illy wrecked several war factories in Ber lin, almo t i,iit led the Berlin general poslolfiee. < rioiisly affected rail and water Iran-port and damaged great industrial plant over a wide area." In today's communique the na/.l high command reported thai German d'\-troyers "advanced to .sea battle at the exit of i!• >• British channel"' and attacked a Bnti h crui er unit pro tected by de Iroyei . scoring a tor pedo hit. "The loe thereupon broke nil the fight," the high command asserted. Meanwhile. Briti.h sources report ed a "slight bruvh" between Briti.h and German wai hip yesterday in (Continued on Page Kight.) Burma Road Again Busy Supplies to Chiang Kai-Shek Move Under Protection of Anti Aircraft Guns. Chungking. Oct. 1?,.—(AP>- With '• nt -air*Ta11 guns leported poking skvv"ird ;,i many a vantage point >n the road from British Bu.ma and Mi ndiilay. traffic was resumed to on that Chinese lifeline. f'nder the imminent threat of bom bardment from close at hand Japa nese air bases in French Indo-China. ■•upnlies for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's war machine start -d roll ing in the early darkness today after a three month- closure in a British appeasement ge-t ire toward Japan. Observers believed that the im m"d:ate re-up of th" reopenina would be release <>l large stocks of 'His arid ammui. 'ion now stored in (Continued on luo;
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