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Hwtiteraon Hatty Utspatelf..= ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPE It PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA , I'll YEAR i^«m^.tE,sKitvicEioF HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 26, 1940 FIVE CENTS COI'1 i;< s ife # A i LINER r T T f 1- f *•******«* **¥****•<-**» t mwdown Fight For Labor Vote Develops JidiiCS i OoltlOil iU on Wilikie Vic Laoor Leaders to Choose Sides . ! leviiicJ iltrug 'f"»? Fr»*ss t: !» M il 'on' "»%J"prri - Uv eMnpakin • . rio l":-rl.vr. ! ; •'<! . upporf t > * ' {ho : - >•* 'ti < t" F- .-:i'vr i JO;" 1 would he t' c : magni n nomir.ee. who was Ijouft os the ; :.r Wilkes elared his posi • y we!:-- mod the i i r.i glad • ■ : ivlr. Lewis—a va . . !:■;> u" who put •• . V\ Ilkrc said. . t>y rati •> ti this : u "i hi t night. ; ; president of • iv t >• Wilikie on lie i .-si-vted that he Mr. i\iwelt won. • .ptuliate i .e." .y <.haio»r.<xl nK-mbers . . .d promptly in >peech nt other leaders of that «. ■ to ci. 'ose sides ' » • Allan I). Hiy wood. , . ng director ol the i that lie and many .d a.-si:red Lewis >«. h. - statement and . iti icalty iii his lead :• Alexander idciit. und other high : ,r.:n ir ederation u. it CIO all mate. . K.> writ a piedge . . aity ana enthusiasm lie;! ' pin .i- :! numerous on the LowLi' pro < li-.t rear lions from loixvs wins i Roni?r"l pixv i:: * rnational Brother" AFL.i and chair . I De:::•><•;;*tic Ir.bor t • Tobin said • a* <•! tlic CIO '•V i: d aliened • iv me of labor". \ fit tared a week • • and traveling, laidort'iok a swift . York and Pennsyl igton Sunday night ;»< in Madi .'.'' iiday night tin?; i" the New in a and northern it i louse ; dd"d ;.*ak :m date to his ■, ;ii ti • • probably" ■ m. and speak • 1 ■ -OCT -V). ' Leader Will Re tt if Roosevelt Is Elected, He Tells - -iio Audience. 1 : -A-t announced Wendell L. Willkie . | •.. ci that ;' Will" {created he would re of the C. I- O.. i-.'* tho labor leader ii., addre-.- from hi< • I'nitod Mine Iding, "that President ti:.; !»• re-elected for • ;n!<'>•" he has tho ..r thr men t iu. ■ thove t m nvvin thnt C'-'iUitea oi ltt In the Front Line of the Battle of London Nazi bombs were still dropping as this photo was made of a London fireman, mounted on ar. aerial laddvr, battling a raging West Knd fire set by incendiary missiles. (Central i ressj Bolters To Willkiecrats May Expect Retaliation In Assembly, Averill Says JDu'ly Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotei. By HENRY AVI RILL. Raleigh, Oct. 26.—There is no doubt tt;at the cunein drive in- W< n dell Wilikie Lv bolters lrom the Democratic pi rty is going to bring retaliation in the i84l General As sembly, and probably from the next Democratic stale administration. Talk of it is heard from all sec tions. but particularly from the west uh« v the ..o-called Democrats tor Willkie campaign threatens either to unseat e\erii democratic legislators, or at least t>> .-c,:ru them nearly 10 death or •:<» the i>->int of spending more money than usual. Chief citadel ol revolt against Rooseveii and the third term is pic tured a: being in Forsyth, where there are >o many 1ji 14 bus'ness men winc e li.yaiiy ;■> ihe domin int Dem ocrat. e adriiim .tiatii'U is either d«>ubi!ul. or what i. worse, is such du. triiil Organization^ have rejcct cd my advice and recommendations. "i uili accept the result as being the equivalent of a vote oi' no con tinence, and vv:il retire a> president oi the C'ongre.io of Industrial Organ izations, at a. convention in Novem ber. "This action will save our great movement, composed ol' millions oi' men and women, from the embar rassment and handicap of my lead ership during the ensuing reign of President Roosevelt." Lewis enumerated a list of rea sons for hi* opposition io Mr. Roose velt's re-election. The first, he .said is that his "mo tivation and objective" is "war". Of the third term issue, he said: "Ameri ca needs no superman." Indicting the administration for failing to solve the unemployment problem, he said it was "trying to 'create prosperity by tiie making of guns and lethal weapons." He questioned where the country would sell its goods when the na tion ha- "returned to peaceful pur suits". and asked what was being done by tru present administration ' to safeguard our population from 1 such an impending economic dis aster." Turning from the reasons for his opposition to Roosevelt to the rea sons for his supporting Willkie he I asserted: "He is a gallant American. Ho has opened his heart to the Ameri can people. He is not an aristocrat. He lias the common touch. He was x»rn in the briar and not to the ni!rn!e He has worked with hi: hand-;, and has known pangs ol hunger. H- ha- had experience ir vanou- r:e!d-; of American enter prise. n?:r? is an administrator an:! executive." as to leave no doubt whatever that they ure for YVillkie. If there arc, in fact, any losing Democratic legisla tive- candidate . then Forsyth is go- j ins to feel the wrath of those who do' pull through successfully. As a matter of cold, *iard fact theie seems perhaps more genuine > deletion in. say. Guilford, than in Forsyth, but somehow or other the Winston-Salem "crowd'' arc getting most of the blame. C'wlirsUt iiiikm <»J uic vv iiiiviui uu' claim they are going to support the slate ancl local Democratic tickets, but everybody above the grade <>1 moron in intelligence knows that party desertion never stops that short, though it is often more serious with regard to one office than to others. For instance, the state ticket hvaded by F/inv Gardner pulled thro ugh de. pite the Smith washout, but local candidates by the score went down along with the idol of New . York's sidewalks. So lhere are going to be repris :l . i and thev will likely extend even further th« p. the legislature. The ' iiroughton j fiministration isn't likt— ly to counti nance toe presence on ihe Board ol Conservation anrl De velopment. for ie. lance, of suc!i \Vi 1! kieerats as Thurmond Chatham and : J m iVlcNair. . It may be, <-f course, as has been . ii."5g«V'ted by the Greensboro News editorially, that tenure of office on >uch boards ought to be entirely dis connected from political affiliation or alignment, but the mil'enium isn't i anywhere near y< t—and North Car olina politics just isn't run that way, : as the Greensboro paper well knows, j Dili Siiarpe. Winston-Salem editor of "Thursday" quotes a pro: peetivc legislator as making this threat: "Wait till 1 get to Kaleigh. and wail tili that Forsyth crowd sticks i it- neck out. Tlv* bovs Irom my neck , of the woods ate going to work on that crowd." Just how the "working on" will be accomplished hasn't yet been made (Continued on Page Six) Hosier) Union Backs Roosevelt Philadelphia. Oct. — (AP) — Coincident with John L. Lewis' en dcesement of Wendell L. Willkie, ol iicers of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers (C. I. O.) tele graphed last night a pledge of "con tinued loyalty and enthusiastic sup jpert" to President Roosevelt. The message was signed by three Philadelphia^ — Alexander Mc Krown. president: William Smith, secretary - treasurer, and Alfred Hoffmann, first vice president—and Edward h. Cfallagtian. second vie i/rt.iCifenl, f Cha'.uaiM ga, T.:m. Observance Keynote of Occasion Sounded With State ment of U. S. Plans For Mighty Fleet. Washington, Oct. 2(3.—(AD—An extended observance of the "most ■ momentous" Navy Day, as Secretary ' Knox described it. opened today \vil.h the nation well launched on a pr.gram of warship con In'ction de signed In give the United Slates the , world's most powerful navy. Although the date foficially desig nated by Knox as Navy Day is to- 1 morrow, the Navy planned a three- 1 day observance starting this after noon v i!;i ceremonies here at the monument of .John Paul .l»«nes, the Uevokilnnary War hero and "I'nth- j cr" ol the American s:\*i power. Training vessel;; vcr" ordered to receive visitors Sunday and local drills and demonstration., were ar ranger!. on) as was the ease a year ago. general visiting 1o \e; r|s «,f fleet and to Navy yard; >v;s pro hibited. The keynote of the occasion was sounded in New York last night by Rear Admiral Clark IT. Woodward.' commandant of the third naval di s trict. who said that will-in six years the United States would have dou bled its naval tonnage and with the fleet thus created should have com mand of the seas. State Supreme Court Asked To Determine Legislature's Intentions Concerning "Slots" I Daily ImpatrV. Bureau. ; In ihe Sir Wall*"- 'lot^l. BY IIENKY f. V?:RII.I„ Raleigh, Oct. 26.—North Carolina's Supreme court will bo asked this week to rule affirmatively that the intention of the 1939 General As-: sembly was to modify the Fiannagan Anti-Slot Machine act when it adopt ed a much debated section of the Revenue Act providing for a license tax on certain types of slots. It will be a good trick, it the court can do it. Not even the legislators who enacted the law knew what they meant—practically til! of them ad mitted that—and certainly no two judges or lawyers have been able to get together in any agreement on the proposition since then. It has even been openly charged, and vigorously denied, that the real intent of the lawmakers was to bring about just sUwh u stt.tf of lob.ut coniusion oa Kcisle Keports North /ixrican /inay Keady Is or Attack in &gypt; Asr Service to Greece Jbniipeamded Until No vember 4. n-inic. Oct. '!(».— (AP!—The Rome | "irl'o •:>H I' fI:iV that ;i lirw Italian offensive in Egypt wn<: imminent, 11 I" Sti.SJH'll in:» of IK'I H'l • ir ;crvifc to (j recce causal foreign >i".sc!'V! rr !'• wonder if a rhowdown with t!»>-1 little nation w:r in the of fin,*;. T!v r it!! ) said Marshal Rodolfn i Gtf/i:'Pi s army In Xor'h Africa is 'now .f-idy ;'tir! fi lly prepared to deal .*• final blow lo the British in •"•gypl" •'J if blow," it added, "will i'ail I • yy n oment." '1 « iH'A>niii)cr Pifj'tlo <ai:l water .•ipel.nrs had k'l n I::id from L:bya " the I'alirn Iron! in the western igyplian desert and described other minute details of the preparations announced by the radio. At the same time the high com mand reported British war-hip:;' had shelled but done no damage to Ital ian positions near Sidi Barrani. Numerous patrol clashes have oc- j curred in this area in recent days j and the high command told of wide spread bombing. j As the Italian military machine ap parently was set to move in one or (Continued on Page Six) British Watch French Fleet London, Oct. 2ii.—(AP) — The spectacle of another "battle of Oran" with the British Mediterranean fleet swooping down on Toulon to trap French naval units there before they could put to sea was envisioned to day by informed quarters should France agree to cooperate with the axis. Strategists also predicted that units ol the British navy would at tempt to take over French island bases in the Indian and Pacific oceans. while Martinique and other French possessions in the western hemisphere would be left to Pan Amcrican attention There was no doubt in British minds that Hitler's principal pur pose in his conferences with Marshal Petain, the aged leader of defeated France, was to get his hands on the French fleet, which, even after the battering the British gave it July 3 ,it Oran, Algeria, is better than any thing the axis powers have. Tne government, of course, kept official silence on Britain's possible course should the French >*ip.s pass to Jlitler, but experts cited a feed ing which is general in informed quarters that England's powerful navy would immediately try to bottle up the French fleet at Toulon. has come about. Be that as it may, Aaron Gold berg of Wilmington and Brantley W.omble of Raleigh, counsel for H. E. Laing and J. N. Finch, convicted slot distributors, are going to argue to the court Tuesday that "the legisla tive intent was to modify the 1937 law to the extent th?t machines of the type in question (the type which both defendants admit they handled) would be legal and licensed by the state of North Carolina." The appeals (there are technically four cases against each defendant but the question is the same in all) are out of the ordin- rv in that they are >m pleas of guilty in lower c.uirt. Now it is argued ?' 'he m::tter to which the pleps were entered doe> (Continued on Three' Set for the Draft Clarence .A. Dykstra, director of selective service, examines the his toric goldfish bowli'jrought from Philadelphia for drawing of the draft numbers in Washington. This is the same bowl used in the draft drawing of the last war. U. S. Note" Sent France Hull Reveals Roose velt Sent "Communi cation" Several Days Ago to Petain. \V;i hington, Oct. 2~>.—fAP)—Sec •etary Hull .-aid lodav that Presi dent Roosevelt hid sent a "commu nication" to the French governmen jevcral day:; ago "n regard to ne gotiations now tinier way betweer France and Germany and their ef fect on American interests. The communication the secretary of State said, was efisp itched aboul the lime that Adolf Hiti-?r and Mar shall Petain met ".somevhere in oc cu|)ied France" t'i discuss the possi bility of clo.er collaboration. Hull declined, however, to make communication or any details of the specific subjects involved. The secretary, answering news papermen's question-', said that al liit' Havan.i com!« ■<. ence the 1!1 Amer ican nations had formulated a policy involving the territories in the west ern hemisphere owned by Kuropean governments who e status might be changed by development in the wa r. not eon titulr ;>n off> n e. Finch", eoun el also advances the argumt ill th"t hi.-, ellen'' convict ioi i invalid becaii.-e hi: nai:"• doe- no ; ppeai in the boov <i! the indietin"n: against him. The men were sentenced to pi i. or terms on th'yr guilty pleas a fae v.h eij m ;i!| likeiihood account- I'oi the appeal-. They had probably ex pf etc-d lines and were prepared t' pay them and go on their way. per hap not k joicing. to go on theii way just the same. They were caught, however, in the m'ebt of llr d; i e which North Car olina sunerior court judges agreec thfy would launch against illegal slo machines, and Judge I?. Hunt Parl.ei passed out the road sentences twelve month- for Finch and eigh month- for Laing. Finch i alleged t' be an associate of .f.'• Calcutt. the Fayetteville slot tycoon who is now under heavy bond awaiting triai her< in November. Lawyers and layn en alike expres. more than a little interest in gettinj the Supreme court's ruling on tlx exact meaning of the 1939 Revenu< Act provision regarding slots. Doe: it. or does it not amend or repeal, it part .it lea.-t. the Flanagan act? There is considerable skepticism however, over the ultimate value o (Continued on Page Three.) (jJcnthcfr FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair to parlh' cloud' ton^'it i-iif' Scrd'iv: f 1 i *r! • 11 v -!!•• cl?v and in extreme north pv lion t'.r.io'hl. Empress Of Britain Said Bomb Victim | British Vessel, Now Reported in Troop Transport Service, Is Left in Sinking Condi tion North of Ireland, 'mans Claim. (By Tli" Associated Press.) The temno of n;izi aerial warfare against Britain and Brilish shipping was speeded up today with the re ported sinkisir of the 12..'M8-tnn F,m nress of Britain a-: the world await ed the outcome of tin* German-Ital ian-Freneh diplomatic negotiations to determine France's new status in axis dominated Europe. London was under alarm seven times between daybreak and early afternoon alter a nightlong hammer ing in which more homes and build ings were smashed and numerous casualties inflicted. At least six oerson; were killed by a bomb which vreckc' an apart ment hoii^e and grocery. !V?any were bun'ed under the debris and released only after air raid precaution work i crs :>nd volunteers dug into the ' wreckage. Avis planes attacked eastern Scot land. Rosyth, Liverpool. Wales and midhnd industrial cities as well as ; the capital last night. At sea. the Germans claimed to . have wunk the giar.t liner Empress of ! Britain, in which King George VI and Queen Elizabeth returned home from their visit to Canada and the United States in 1035), later reputedly i in troop transport service. ; Informed nnzi sources saii Gcr ! man combat planes bombed the liner I north of Ireland and left her in a . sinking condition after the crew got ! away in boats. The royal air force, taking ad | vantage of the clearest weather ob . served in the English channel since the start of the war, attacked a nazi ■ convoy off the French coast. Wat chers believed at least one vessel was ' hit. Boulogne, on the French coast, was still ablaze from British bombs. The British claimed bomb hits on power stations at Kiel and Hamburg. Germany, it was dcclosed today, has adopted a new four-year plan to be directed, as was that recently coin t pleted. by Reichsmarshal Goering. , i In London it was learned King George VI sent a message to Pre mier Petain of France, expressing sympathy for the French people and confidence in an eventual British victory. Vice Premier Pierre Laval of France returned to Vichy alter con ferring with Italian. German and Spanish leaders and was due to jit t -nd a cabinet meeting at whi' li FYtajn was sch'dulcd to report on his conversation:; with Adolf Hitler. Boom Times Expected ''But What of the Aft ermath?", Stewart A-sks in Summary of Fconemies Report. By rilARI.^S P. STKWAR7 f'-ntral Pff's fnliitrnisl Washington. ''Jet. 2f) If booms '•oiilr? he- pi^'rsjntcf'd to go on boom ing indefinitely into the fnt ire. th»> late~t forrr■;»; t by the apricultsire H«» [ ^arfi-ir • t\- bi'r^.iw or rronor i"-; j , n.-ivilrl be finite a rh^rful rjrodiet on Between our defen>" program's • ■ demands for more and p.ore ind'is- • . iri:'] workers and our eon.-eription i i , f mf.ri fop m'litarv training. it's: the ' V>tireru'c opinion 1h:it U»J| will rrr?"r>inn in th" number of unem 1 nV>ved An eric^n* by about Th• s «"o,,r"^s like a ve;-v moderate r. iin>ft'*. f'd ha*. '■ wessed that Thr> ; f'rrurp wouK be hu?er than the or "'p bureau mentions. However, that'- the ope it docs mT'ion. ' .\nvwya. it will be fine, at least. f()j. t.ho-" V.'h.O. *1 rnt iobi"-s. 20" b»ek :ito well r».iv : :ns o'»sjti"n.s. Indeed, the bureau l'.oks for '"age boo-ts. though it ;<d mit> that they i- av be nartially off <<-.« hv higher co *s of living As for ; 'uf draftees? V.Vll. I'd rather be j "«"-i a draftee than on no pay roil •■'nstever. * «H ..Ar\ t'rr h 'reati. >'n it- an 1 report, shop Id wo»-'d ' •'•nditif n? berrme -till more acute. 'Continued or. Page Four)
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