™Afcfersrf TTfi^ ^ Henitersntt Bailg Htspafrlj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA \ n -SEVENTH YEAR SS^KJa'agSnSSS.^ HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 24, 1940 FIVE CENTS COPY U. S. Eagles Show Their Stuff in Britain & _ ''I - c their training with the Royal Air Force, the Eagle Squadron, composed entirely of American a spectacular display ot' low-level tlying (top). At left, in R.A.F. uniform, is William Erwin ■ t' Fwt Leavenworth. Kan.. Kayle commander. At right are some of the o-l Americans who .t '.lie a.r against Germany. Left to right, Edwin K. Orhison, Byron F. Kennerly, Richard A. Moore and James L. McGinniSw (Ccttlrult'rvss) City Vote icl>e heavy Registrations Throughout Country Point to Popular Vote of Fifty Million. •» . *»v The As "ciatcd Press.) • h. Oct. 24. — (AP) — .r.ons throughout the y in t!:o big cities, that a history-break i ' 50.000. t':" presidential iik'ials and e> ■ 'ii- it; each state ■ ib!e total vote oi , -ut -"7 t>r every 100 : v vith an ac i.'.fii" ::: n the Ruose ' ::! ij■ 'i and 39, t. . eit-If »ovcr elec . .. . ,:y : of V'tor fi'ttf' -honing 60. le ' • vot«» it> the • • el tis, or about 45 • > population of of the eligible vote . tf.•* actual vote • i' "i !."» to per • j I : ■ 1 remained !• i>:mo south tu.- ■ • vote ran t. ' b's was taken •!).:• t tiii. year's , •' < • ited reuis rd ; >i estimat • . 1 ;i in uf 605. • ; 11 \-i four years i•::11 rtgi tration is • • • i on Page S'">'T.) State-Owned Railroad Reduces Debt : r.\P) fJover • • f! ti iday thai t! St :»r-owned At Carolina railroad • thfir meeting a' ••• ii'iii the rail ; • •• reduced $110. !ast year. . ■ "rl Harry Ed fii'ehi-n. v. ho leasee • > r-' ;-ord they made t yt-.ir of oooration ly commended Harrj >rn. secretary-treas -piendid work this ias' t v<" i-iof »h?r ■ mri 8210.3":!. 58 it ' -.<• debt tow is abou i t»-. were n< m •! forts to least • \i >t i ho;id City • n iro-rstment o ' •'! a in :h<» tormina " ' * .tit I- <>! was favor t hot p! .ps havi . p' . , ;Iy at iea^t. 40-Hour W eek Ls Labor Standard Washington. Oct. 24.— (Ai'<— The 4C-hour work week become the legal standard for the na tion's interstate industry today and from now on employees cov ered by the wage-hour law will be entitled to time-and-hall' pay lor more than 40 hours work. The 40-hour standard pre scribed by the aet became ef fective at midnight, replacing the 42-hour work week inaugurated a year ago. Warren V. Hall On Republican State Payroll Raleigh, Oct. 24— (AP) —Thad Eure. secretary of state, express:-'I the opinion this afternoon that War ren V. Hall, a Republican member of the state elections board, should resign at once as he had filed a re port showing lie was a salaried work er In the Republican campaign ranks Hall, a veteran Republican leud • ot Charlotte, reported that he ha !" reived S21') as salary as secretary treasurer of the Republican c< m niittee for the 10th congressional district Ho reported rec;,i,-in'4 £1 from t!io state committee for u < in the campaign. "Warren V. Hall should resijj? at once Irom the state board o! elec tions." Eure said. '"His own state i. ent hows he has received a :alai\ (Continued on Page Seven) Fascists 19 . 5 Authoritative Italian Editors Discuss Amer ican Position in World Affairs. Rome. Oct. 24.—(AP)—An author itative fascist commentator defined ; the Rome-Berlm attitude toward the i United States a- one of "non-bel iigerency" today and another charg ed that the United States rearmament : effort is but a mask for an imperial ) istic program ! Mario Appc-Iius. military commen tator for Premier Mu-solini's n^ws ' paper i! Popolo d'ltalia. explained 1 that the axis was "limiting" itself to "non belligerency" toward the Unit ed States beeause of "categorical im peratives.'' He thus used for the first ! tone the word which fascists em ployed to describe Italy's attitude be , fore he entered the war on the side of Germany and which now is used to describe the status of Spain. Vir;*inio Gayda. who often speaks the inner feeling <>; the regime, writ ing in il Gii-male d'ltalia. said that United State1' 'mneriallsm had wid ened from "dollar imperialism" to a "poiit'ral and iniiitary monopoly of P'isii i'a1; and ha c shown in ever va-toi eonstellations around the starry republic." At the same lane Adolf Hitler's tall;s with French Vice Piemier Pi< i;e Laval and Spanish Generalis simo Francisco Franco on the Fronch fContinucd on Page Seven) Highway Commission Wants To Know Who Will Pay For Defense Highway Program Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 24.—About 1.200 miles of the war departments 75,000 miles of the war department's 75.000 highways will be in North Carolina, and there is almost a headache per mile in that set-up for the State Highway Commission. Main cause for these headaches is the question of who will pay for necessary work to bring these roads up to standards demanded by the defense program. Then. too. require ments for 8 and 10 foot shoulders at four-mile intervals wili necessitate a lot of worry over acquisition of rights of way. And. too. unusual de mands upon the state highway com mission for speedy construction of roads adds to the cause already ex isting for headache in depleted engi neering staffs. North Carolina pays notoriously 1 >w salaries for engineering service, and within recent weeks the com mission has seen many of its engi net is move on to much better paid j >:5s if other phases of defense pro gram work. Some of th.*m have U-'iir directly to government ervlce. but the chief drain has bem fr?m '• i - „t navy tuxi ton men;.-- and highway work in other states. Some weeks ago the North Car olina State Highway Commission made a survey «>f seven nvin roads, at request of the Public Roads Ad ministration. known to be acting lor the War department, and it was found that to bring these roads and bridges up to specifications would cost approximately S4.!)00,000. The big question is who will pay the bill? For years the Federal government has aided in state highway construc tion. The State initiated the program and the Federal government either assented or declined to co-operate All the time the Washingtt n gov ernment re»e>ved the right tj with hold any appropri: lion unless the state t-.imniied with its regulations That bring the i sue squarely to this point: In the present defense pro gram the national government car .■ ay ie th* . !• ":» th:»t it *">li >ay Oil1.} its part of thih dvfense program con struction or th<- slate will get no Fee ir;il niotu'v i» ' any road work Tha' world m'\- '> that .^radically all avail able o nstrueti.in money for this ... ;-u\ c t. t.v soont oil tin t iContinued un Page Five) Hiiler Aims Blow At Sea Blockade Present Number of Combat Groups Dou bled and "Highly Mo bile Fight ing Force" Created Under New Organization. ! Washington. Oct. 24.— (AP)—Re organization of the Army air corps, to double its present number of com bat groups and create a 'highly mobile fighting force" capable of op ciatinn-: anywhere in the western | !~emCohere, was announced today by j the War department. I The organization took t'10 form nf establishment of four air districts. It will include expansion of the lour air corps wings now in continental Unit ed Stntcs to 17 wings as rapidly as trained personnel and equipment now in production becomes available. Instead of the present 2a combat , groups the expanded air force will have 54, the announcement said. '•The purpose of the creation of the air districts." the department ex plained. "is to effect decentralization of training and inspection duties of the commanding general, general headquarters air force and to provide for the development of commanders : and staffs for such special task forces | as may be required for operation in , war." The general headquarters air force | commander, at present Major Gen j eral Delos C. Emmons, will remain ! in command of all these unit-. i The 1942 personnel objective for the air force was announced as 163. 000 enlisted men compared with the previous air corps objective of 45, J 000. The department said the program contemplated an increase in the an nual output of trained pilots from j 7,000 to 12.000; an increase in air corps technical schools and instruc | tors for mechanics and specialists, and acquisition of many new stations for the new combat groups. The air disti icts will inelnde: Northeast air district with headquar ters at Hartford. Conn., comprising Maine, New Hampshire. Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode I land, New York, Pennsylvania, Ne-v Jerrcy, ; Delaware, Maryland. District of Columbia. Virginia, the northeast sec tion of North Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan. Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois. Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin I and Minnesota. The Southeast air rli irirt with headquarters at Tampa. Fia., com prising the remainder of North Car olina, and South Carol# still in the l inertia stage. Once Ihe initial pro-' blems of planning, financing, and •M-orf««rtjon are overcome, things should move fast. Don't Be Impatient. With machine tool companies working day and night to provide the necessary equipment, there is aj scarcitv ol skilled labor. Men must be trained for many important and technically-skilled jobs. Blueprint, ni'i-t hp drawn. s>;.rces of supplies arranged, transportation sched-iles by rail and highway checked. Lawyers must study contracts, prices be de in-mined. and bank loans negotiated. Our industrial areas are coming to a state of intense activity. The great agricultural sections of the country have not yet felt the in creased tempo of our im'i'-1r::)l cities. However, as inov-^":? "■ t'-e bu^'ine s cycle 1 1 \vc t. ali «»-*ct'o»: • fir 1 : v." (Continued on Page Seven; President Opens "Gloves Off'5 Cam paign at Philadelphia, Contradicting Claims of Warlike Leader ship. (P.v The Associated Press.) Presidt nl Roosovolt's "gloves oil" camna:gn speech ;• t Philadelphia. ac- ' ci" ir;- 11»»!i 1 jf.-iI loos of .*»11 intentional ,sflies of I Is' hoof)lir-iii/jl11 from Wendell Willkie Ihe announcement that ho would make ;i half-hour re ply loday to tin; charges. Mr. f{o'is'\fit, in his address ];>s1 < night, among other points singled out f.>r <•■ii.iriciiction wiial lv< called Re l>i:i.I'i•;if: < l-iiiii: t■ t;11 ho wa seeking !o I* '! tii'1 nation into war. Then lie u.cfl i. '' void "fantastic" in denying that any secret compact- or agrec n i: -n I - < .isted obligating Ihe United; State to warlike or other efforts on j boh If of any foreign nation. Wililt'ie. heading we-tward again, picked Krie, Pa.. as the place in which to r\' liver his broadea-t reply. a se|; '•*ion which might i>e taken ;i;s: in •!* i lining the ignilicanee the ior parties altach to Pennsyl • •• lia's '.JJ> votes in the elector:!I col lege. »J'-sides di-elaimir.g any thought of, embroiling the country in war. Mr. Roosevelt used the occasiii of better condition.-. Willkie. add: > . ing the Herald Tribune for-.im in W\\ Yon:, said the Philadelphia speech gave lh-- impres . ion "we were in the campaign of 1932" find failed to discu s 1910 is •UC'S. Eisewiiere in hi< t ilk he charg ed that the new deal "has sapped the independence o! the -tate.-," by federal grant-. WILLKIE CHARGES PLEDGE FORGOTTEN Hai bor Creek. Pa. Oct. 24—fAP)—! Wendell L. Willk'e a- e: ted today that if President P.->o-< v*-it di i not vcmember his premises of todav lonper than he did his pledge-- in 1932 "then shortly o>r hoys will he •n the transoorts sailing for some foreign shore." • n a broadest reolv to Mr. For-s° .. i,- r i-niiin address h i ni«?ht. • ^ T* - •- « '-y ' J - »-\4 • | rl * C."is:,.t.sv.JcU oil i'j^. ~c\ ciii Give Bases With Nazi invasion . Song iViuied, Main Theatre of War Would Be Shifted to Medi terranean and South Atlantic Routes. ( My As-ociatei Press.) \d')!f H.'tier was reported aiming 1 iriav al :i eaninaiun Id break the • hackles ol the British blockade by shilling the main theatre of the war to the Mediterranean and attacking Britain's "lire line" trade routes in the south Atlantic. With ihe nazi invasion song "We Are Sailing Against England" now apparently muted by royal air force assaults, the German fuehrer was said to be planning a two-fold winter strategy: 1. Italy and Spain would attempt to seize Britain's historic lock fort Born. Switzerland, Oct. 24.— (AP)—Marshal retain, chief of state of France, left Vichy today, according to word reaching dip lomatic sources here, to go to Paris, where it was believed he would sign a new French-Ger man agreement superceding the existing armistice accord. lie was accompanied by sev eral aides, including the minister of justice, the report said. The news was first received through diplomatic channels, be cause correspondents at Vichy were under stri'-t orders to give no details of Ihe marshal's de parture. his designation or the purpose iiic trip. Vice Premier Pierre Laval also left today for Paris, where Tues day lie conferred with Adolf Hit ler and Foreign Minister von Ribbcntrop. ress at (! bivitar and eru It British '•a power in the Mediterranean. 2. At Ihe aine lime, Germany and Spain would smash ;>t British trade \"j?ii South America and her sea link with India via the Cape of Good Hope, u Spanish ports .and air i Id:; in 'he Atlantic and the Canary 'si; nc!s as ba.es. Informed French oiirees said Hit ier and I'r nch vice Premier Pierre .'.aval m i cret e<>i> ersaliolis in the i t t'{ hour had virtually sealed an agr'ement whereby the Vichy gov inincil of France would give the I.'f jWf.p; fi trr- so iiheast cosM ' • rlv m the afternoon, most of th"»n ("••fi'vpd bv clouds and heading in "he d'rfftion of London. A few moment-• later a flight of -■no 'i'Jht^v.olnr.e- wa« glimpsed as it 'eootcri through low clour's. The annroach of ihe«e nh'oe--- ca" - , r] jjrrond air- raid aWt rif the rl-.v ■»i t '"Jr n b"t it. ] '■« the flr'-t. 'v-K • '■ r ""'i '>»• h'-»r>V) evnl'j'.'i'— ' —1 n L'r.Hon during the pr .. ;f reported also