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lieniicrsmt Uatht ■B ispafrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA \ 1 Y-SEVENTH YEAR leased wire service of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 19, 1940 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS mrY AXIS DEMANDS ON GRE ARE REPORTED u X k U 1C M M . illkie Urged To Renew His Challenge Start Duties in Washington C. P• Phonepholn c - • T.i^ph H. Ball Heft), 34, shows his draft resist rat ion card to Dykstra, director of selective service, as they arrive in \\ •; to take up the'r duties. Bail, former St. Paul, Minn., news ;-t ;• r-.porter. was named to till the unexpired torm of Senator Erne«t Lundoen, who was killed in a piane crash. Winter In East As West Has HeatWave Seasonal Temperature Records Equalled and Broken; Snow Falls in New England; Southern California Has Record Heat. the \»s?>«iated Press) r • i toni seaboard ! '.t I •. '-.if* sea . records and bring rries. while the west • :eed a heat wave. • • " football g-unes in X"' York la-'t night was <■! and <»ver night % '< " t<> K> degrees atop ■ >r.. Maine. Vermont. New •extern ?.I - -»achusetts ,\*ew Jersey. In New !!-year record for Oc hattered when the ••bed 32 at .> a. in. V . a reading of 25 'i ■ i!<"l the record for • *: lf>:!2. ' ililornia a Meat wave '•<; fo break tomorrow. < ; some moderation * i or the week-end. Episcopal Convention lo Adjourn City. Oct. It).—(AP)—'The I Protestant Episcopal concluded its work to ' day« ahead of schedule— debates on controversial .ttering proposals right ' ' final session. >"t;»:g action by trie house 'i> include a proposal to ' • church's marriage and the three-year budget r the first time a S300, iation to aid war-weak issions: n proposal to nation of bishops on be - years old. and one to re clerics to retrain from v for two years after being • .< r? > e passed the hou«e of .'■novations—some debated long as 24 years—already 1 "d final approval of the - ■ .altering convention. : 'udod fi; 1! membership in Council of Churches, af *h the World Council nf • -^vision of the hymnal Man Killed In Auto Accident I Creswell, Oct. 19.—(AP)—John ■ Whittington, 48, was killed instantly I in an automobile collision near here I early this morning. j Corporal Tom Broun of the State Highway Patrol and Whittington was [driving out of a filling station into ' I*. S. Highway 64 when his car was struck by a machine driven by Jack I Mason of Swan Quarter. Mason was released without bond, j Brown said. 5 j jS MRS. HENRY WEIL DIES IN GOLDSBORO j Golds bo ro. Oct. 19.—(AP)—Mrs. I Henry Weil, whose late husband I founded various enterprises here, died last night of heart complications j incident to old age. Funeral services ] will be held Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Weil is survived by the fol lowing children: Leslie, Herman and ■Gertrude, all of Goldsboro, and Mrs. Herbert Bluethenthal of Wilmington. I Stocks Of Grain On Farms Of North Carolina Are Far Heavier Than In 1939 Daily I>ispatrli Rureau. In the Sir Waller Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh. Oct. 19.—Grain stocks on ] fauns of North Carolina as of Oc | tober first are far heavier than at the same time last year, according to i figures released today by the State j Department of Agriculture. j The report covers corn, wheat ana i oaf.s. and shows that in every case j the supply on hand has jumped ( sharply. Farmers reported 3.953.000 bushels ! of old corn on hand, which is 36 pe:* cent greater than the 2.916.000 j bushels on hand on the same date in j 1939. According to ihe Federal-State l crop reporting service, the stocks on ' hand this year represent eight per I cent of the 1939 crop, which is con j sidered significant in view of the shorter crop produced in 1940. ! It is estimated that 62 per cent of the 1940 wheat crop was still in farmers' hands on October 1, or a total ol' 3.733.000 bushels. This is 26 I pei cent greater than stocks on Oc j tober 1 last year and 38 per cent above the ten-year average. I Stocks of oats were also reported to be substantially greater than last ■ year or for the ten-year average pe riod. A t »taI of 3.480.000 bushels were estimated to be on farms as of Oc t.L'C-r 1, UiU, as cumpated v.itli 2, May Speak In Baltimore Debate Question Rais ed Following Disclos ure That Wiilkie and Roosevelt May Be in Baltimore on Same Night. < P.v THr> a■•v>cij)tod Pros..) Wendell I. Willkie. \\ ho-O pa 111 might ores fJi:it of Pn- iderl R-fise **-«?• !•» lvi It :imi>I'" Oefo!)'M' fas. itjtp'I today 1«» HviHep te the TYesi- i :>gain to debate the campaign j issues. The question 'if a debate w<s rais eH bv IVfju'vlji'irf n"piiH:' : after it developed yesterday that th' ir presidential ni>min"' ;,prl Pr««« dep.t Roosevelt might .--peak in Balti more on the same night. The Wilikie-"VT. -Vai y crusaders sept ■ tlvs wire to Willkie: "We v >•< new vour chal jrprt,> t'> debate the issues on the same nlatform. s*'nce this could so easily! be arranged. Roosevelt refusal na- [ turally would strengthen your Dulti- , more vote." Meanwhiie Willkie took liis cam paign into Wisconsin and Minnesota. President Roo evelt nlnns made for a five-speech pre-election drive began a week-end visit at his Hyde Park. N. Y.. home and I're^h controversy raged over the third term issue. That, broadly, was the picture of I the nation's maior political contest as their third week before election ■ drew to a close. Hiram Johnson. veteran Republi can senator from California who sup ported Mr. Roosevelt in 1932. entered | the third term argument last nightj with a declaration that it presented | "in greater degree than a flaming j war x x x a crisis purely American." 1 He announced support for his party's : ticket. Johnson was followed on the air , bv his Democratic colleague, Shcri ! dan Downey, who, speaking from ' Los Angles, urged Mr. Roosevelt's | re-election because of his "liberal- ! i ism" and saiu there was evidently j 1 "no ;»nti-th»rd term sentiment here : in California" because, he said. John j son had been elected to the Senate j for four terms and "it is apparent j his people will soon honor him for a I fifth time." The Wisconsin and Minnesota i speeches Willkie scheduled for today followed one lasi night at Spring i field. III., in which lie accused Mr j Roosevelt of forming some form of ; j state socialism. IO&aih&h FOR NORTH C AROLINA. Cloudy with occasional light showers this afternoon and to night. possibly ending Sunday morning; rising temperatures. 960,000 bushels l ist year and 2.165,-, 000 bushels for the ten-year average. I; At the same time that grain stock figures were given out, the Report- ! ing Service estimated that this year's peanut crop will be of near-recordj proportions, with a total production;, of 298.125.000 pounds in prospect I from an average yield of 1.1251J j pounds per acre. This is almost as much yield and about three per cent ; more production than last year's un | usually good crop. I The 1937 crop of 308,000.000 ! pounds is the only one on record j j which exceeds the present one in total weight. i While many growers are express- , I ing some disappointment at their : . prospective yields, a good crop is in ! prospect over the whole of the com j mercial belt of North Carolina. The crop is reputed to be slightly | later then in most previous years, but in general the plants of the en j tire section are reported to have : good size and color. Soil conditions. ' too, have been favorable throughout I both August and September. I The North Carolina crop is in line with that of other peanut growing j | sections, the Service reports. This i wA vioM !*«•>j- ti>f» nation "'i(] run to 1.539.540,000 pounds; which is al most a third larger than last year s ; production. Admiral Waesch Formally Opens Coast Guard Air Base Rear Admiral Ru 'J! R Wacsch (at mic:*ooh< ir'1 <>• Washington, Cv-minandant of the L'nitr-d State.; Coast Unard. led the cercmony dedicating the new S2.000.000 Coast Gu.iid aerial base at Elizabeth City. N. C. In the background is the main hangar. Also shown is a part o the cri.wd which witnes-od the ecrcr. ony. War Kills TP f lanrr issue Reciprocal Treaties Promised To Be Cam paign Issue, But Failed To Develop. By (IIARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 19.—The tariff nay not be a dead hsuo, but cer .ainly it's been somewhat somnolent luring thsi national campaign. It promised to be very much alive, rhe war, however, knocked it into unconsciousness and Cordell Hull maybe its com pletely killed it. Anyway, the indi cations are that it's past revival for at least a few gener itions to conie. Cordcll Hull gave the free trade idea its notable recent shot in the arm when he became state secretary. Hull was a free trader away back when lit* wcio hi int; ate and before that, ,vhcn he was in the House of Kcp •esentatives. He not only was a be iever in the all-around world ben efits of an absolutely unrestricted international interchange ol cm nerce, from an economic standpoint I also was his thesis that most fan ire provoked by trade barriers be ween countries. I once asked him: If corntry No. I walls itself off against country STo. 2, how's country No. 2 to rc aliate except by walling itself off igainst country No. 1?" To this Senator Hull (he was < senator then) answered: "If a coun :ry walls other countries off. it like vise walls itself in. Let a country idopt a bad policy, like that, and thr ob's on the country that does it: no' )n the others." Not Too Sudden But when Cordell got into the ;tate department he evidently de eded that it would be ini;id'.?io:r "or the United State? to abandon its irotective system too sud'Vnlv Probably he was right about it. It .vould have been a jolt, undoubted y. So he hit on his reciprocal plan. )y which we were to make a treaty .vith some other one country at a ime. gradually extending this scheme .intil it included everybody. It was a world concent. The lotion was beginning to take. We >ct"aUv "included a few treaties. Then the war started. Now. with the jumbled-up situa ion that we've got today, npbodv las time to bother with trade treat es. Military alliances0—ye«. But o heck with trade treaties! We mav jet away with an occasional n**r h<»- j \v°pr u« n'^r) T.ntin Europ? ind Asia though?—Phone*.-' Some Yankee statesmen never did, Former French Leaders Face Court Charges Vichy, Franco, Oct. 19.—(AP)— The Vichy government brought for mal charges today against former Premier Leon Blum, former Premier Paul Reynaud and former Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel in the supreme court "war guilt" trials ' at Riom. Blum was charged with Inn ing be- I trayed his duties, while Prime Min-| isttr Reynaud was chargcd with cm- I j btxzlemcnt of public fund-. and Man- i del with attacking the secretary of i the state and speculation in national currency. Others charged like Blum with be traying their duties were former Premier Edouard Daladier. former Air Ministers Pierre Cot and Guv la Chambre and former Generalissimo . Maurice Gustavo uamelin. Aii three of those charged today in addition to Daladier and Gainclin have been confined in "administra tive internment." The date for the opening of the upreme court trials is still unspeci fied. but the government cimmu nique which announced the charges aid investigations :ire continuing. like the reciprocal proposition. For instance, Senator Charles L. Mc Nary, the G. O. P.'s vice presidential nominee, doesn't. As a Republic-1 an. he's a high protectionist. on- 1 sequently, in hi:, campaign speeches, he's taken some mean digs at trade j reciprocity. Ditto Senator Henrik i Shipstead, formerly a Farmer-Lab orite. now a Republican. We did j lrame up a reciprocal treaty with j Canada. It promoted the sale ol ( some of one products (notabiy auto- | mobiles) to the Canadians. But it also, Henrik relates, let a lot ol ^anrdian dairy stuff into the Unit ed States, in competition with flen rik's Minnesota dairymen. These aren't the only critic?. Wendell L. Willkie, on the oppo site hand, always was a pretty good ' Democratic free trader until he was nominated by the Republicans lor the presidency. Wilfkic's Views 77 find it I quite in his heart to turn thumbs j down on the free trade principle. Nevertheless, he's argued thus. in a number of his addresses: "The totalitarian are their vr.rion dictators' slaves. As slaves, they'll have to work for slaves' wages. Are we going to let their slave-made- pro ducts .into the United States to compete with our freeman's out- ■ put?" It's the protectionists' rid argu ment. European pauper-made j goods! Oriental chepa labor! All the same, free trade hasn't: been attacked very bitterly. Charlis McNary has criticized it adversely but not violently: apoarentlv he's thought that ho had better thin1? t • talk about. AM said i«. in efi'prt. ■■■>■••• j Unpractical ju t r."v- nd ■' if if (Continued on r'a*e Three/ m •m i bkilis Are pi »£• J classified Draftees May Be Used in Military Tasks in Which They Will Be Most Productive. Washington. Or-t. !0.—(AP)—The Army has completed new elaborate urangements for identifying skilled draftees so they may be used in the military task* in which thry will be most productive. Officials said today that the new vstrm would operate "more effec tively" than the classification pro cedure of World War years. Ready now. it will first be applied to con criot -oldiers when the initial con tingent of 30/100 is called up No vember 18 Esscntially. its purpose is t-> mak" sure that when the Army needs au tomobile mechanic;'. electricians or lenographcrs. commander" will know where anions the thousands of train •vs it) find them. In all. t!>r»re are I'l.ul 300 j nreializ^ military ta k D.snjssing other plans of the eon crinli' n program, 'official-, said that draftees would be kept a- close to !iome a . possible. This, it was said, wnild reduce expenses and tend to !■<•< n ihe men more happy. •■/'pa- home" may be anywhere i> a corns area. T» r.l'itivelv quotas by corps areas ■it the first 800.000 men to be araft d were announced by headquar '« r here yesterday. Aimy plans •Tcviously made public for calling ■r.en t'i service showed that these •"ir-1 ri'iotas would !><• exhausted by 'bout .Tune 15. and il is exneeted that 'iter ouotas will then ho a^si^ned. Ouotas for the nine Tirps areas in •liiderl: Fourth (Alabaivj*. Florida, Georgia. Louisiana :"«;np'. North ciuth Carolina. Tenn •ee). 100.515. Officers Fail To Report Accidents Daliv Olsnat(f) bureau. In ♦ Si*- Hotel By HENRY AVERILL. Raleigh. Oct. 19—There not only ought to be a law. but there is one which makes it the duty of all of ficers investigating highway traffic accidents to make reports to the State Safety Division: but in practically a dozen instances of fatal accidents in September the officers have ignored (he st-itute for such cases made and provided. T<-. • <--!i v tl-r S :i(r»v Division is i't"n bad!v n '"nr - ?»cc rrate »'t• • ti-:t5f- nr OiSTfVV : r ■ • , i\ t oteu ucti . t ai Uy.ui cUa.- '.t Report From Cairo Meets Quick Denial - Greek Sources in Cairo Say Territorial arid Di plomatic Demands Made on Greece by Germany and Ttaly; Other War News. (i »y The Associated Press.) Dem;uids by Germany and Il;iIv Mini Ctii'i'i" surrender territory. oust her pro-British novernment, sever trade relations with Britain, and lin<* up in the ax's Balkan sphere wen reported today by Greek diplomatic .sources in Cairo. Denials came swiftly from Rome. Berlin and Athens. Official Greek circles in Athens said the rumors were "unworthy of comment" and diplomatic sources reported they found no evidence of increased ten j ion. The Greek sources in Cairo said [ their information came directly from Athens, and added that the axis ; nowers were demanding use of Greek ' air bases. Greece would be required to give I Bulgaria a corridor to the Aegean I sea. hand Italy a slice of territory i bordering Albania, force the abdiea i tion of King George II and remove i Premier Dictator Metaxas. Massed fascist troops on the Al banian frontier have worried Greece into bolstering her small army close to it- peak strength as anxiety in both Greece and pro-British Turkey has grown apace with Germany's push east and the movement of na/.i fighting men and war equipment into Rumania. London had a lighter pounding than usual in the 42nd consecutive overnight attack. Bad flying weath er was said to have limited the nazi air activity to "sporadic" attacks scattered over England. Scotland and Wales. German sources declared, how ever. that bombers left for England during the night in "uninterrupted succession." striking heavy blows. The German high command said j an "essential waterworks" was de ! stroyed in London and that bombs I hit British troop encampments, while ' at sea German submarines recently sank 31 ships totaling 173,650 tons. In Rome, the Italian high command -aid a 10,000-ton British cruiser was hit by a bomb in a new Italian air attack on a convoy of ships in the eastern Mediterranean, while the British were reported to have at tacked Italian air fields on the is land of Rhodes. In Bucharest, German circles charged that the British minister to Bulgaria had been (nelly trying to arraneg for passage ol British troops through Bulgaria and Rumania Japanese war planes struck at the reopened Burma Road, hitting hard est at bridges along the precauriou-. arms route. Hundreds of trucks load ed with long delayed .supplies for Generalissimi Chiang Kai-Shek ,-tarted north ovc i the road yesterday. investigating oflicers hut results have been nothing like what they have a right to expect. Not only 11-1s the Division found it necessary to rely on newspaper ••lip pings ijnd reports of the Hnreau of Vital Statistics. hut it has often found it impossible to get ;my answers to it.-, inquiries addressed to officers known to have investigated wrecks or who should nave knowledge of them, even if they did not actually do the investigating. Perhaps the most glaring example of complete ignoring of the law was given in September by ShcrM W. J. Pinnell of Warren county, according to the Division's records. A news paper account of a fatal accident in the Elberon section of Warren coun ty on th( Louisburg-Warrenton high way relates that the sheriff was an eye witness. He has made no report of 'he crash, the division's only rec ords being the news story and a no tice of death from the Bureau of Vital Statistics. Here are other characteristics ex amples of complete disregard of the law and of requests for reports: During the month, two were kill ed in a wreck near Cary (eight miles from the capitol;. News stones said that Highway Patrolman J. V. Har row investigated. The division of Highway Safety wrote him for in formation on October 7. but still has had no reply. One was killed and six injured in a crash in Morgan township, Rowan county. No report has been received from any official source. One was killed and nine were in jured in a wreck a mile east of Knka on the Asheville-Chatham highway. A letter to Sergeant W. M. Nail of the Highway Patrol, written October 7. is still unanswerd. Fatal accidents in Avery, near (Continued on Page Three.;
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