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Hintiiersmt Daily ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Y-SKYENTH YEAR LEASED wire S lift vice of the ASSOCIATED press. HENDERSON, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 30, 1940 PUBLISHED EVEIIY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS rnn Lead Greece in War - : "vo men are leading hard-pressed Grecce in her war with Italy 1 :«.» r;ght are Kin? George II, Premier John Metaxas and Brisr. Gen Polibis, chief of the Greek army stafF. (Central Pressj Presidential becreiary Stephen Early An nounces Expected Statement, But Re fuses Hints As to Na ture of Aid. with President Ron evclt >■. t. 30.—(.VP)—President ■ • (led through Connecti Miu-sachusett s today on an S ar>d defense in<pec : - a preface to disclosing i step? to aid Britain in a .••-OC". tonight. - K .* v. iil speak at 10:13 rsrn. e he began a swing by through Hartford. Conn..' . aviation plants are locat .! Secretary Stephen i the word that an an Id be expected in the • * :t Bi»st"fi Garden. - d reporters to be on i »o -tthi ".if that • . it:!d give no hints as to • : the aid. retary did warn them, how- ; • t > "•<"> overboard" on re • :c;ip. "flying fortresses" •ten -peculat on that ■ S' tc might turn over ' ye to Britain or per her a priority on air • . n pi ession that prior ., <Ived. asserting . r• would not take -t>ng c'p'ipmcnt from i armed forces. With President I\oo.-e :•> ti n. Oct. 30.—(AP)— ev.lt campaigned in today. reaching for 2ii •i Connecticut and and started off by ii crowd at Xew Hav ••'! on Pat*** Three) Supreme Court holds Death Sentence ' ) •!. (AP)' —The ! < (•■> :t upheld today a < e itij>o>ed in Sampson ftiki-'l Smith. convicted degree murder of Wil ' .:: >:• Hoey intervenes, :.'e executed Friday. :,<*t i 5, Associate Justice j ; -i-i-ii wrote for the court • >n of Harvey Woot county on charges of ' ■ bstone had to be re • the indictment under - tried charged a com- j iiense when he should "d.cted, if at all, tor a ■: ;ense. ci'-e ded 19 cases includ ■ :ng: State vs. Beasley, reversed: St:>te vs. i no error: State vs. . ... on. reversed: in " F A.la.n>. Dunlin, re Hea\ v Artillery Fire Is Heard Belgrade. Oct. 30.—(AP)—Heavy artillery lire thundered all night along the Greek-Albanian border battlel'r >nt and continued to be heard today. Yugoslav diplomats reported that the Italian minister to Athens and the Greek minister to Rome remain ed at their gosts. Some observers saw in this a hope that the differences between the two countries still might be s» it led and the lighting ended. Sensational Hearing Starts Friday Involving Tapping of Supreme Court Tele phone Wires. New York. Oct. 30.—(AP)—Coun sel for a Senate sub-committee in • r wire tanning said today that ' ■ .'irings would be started in \V;ishin':ti Friday to determine whether the wires of United States Sup»«ir e curt justice* were tapped when an important decision was pending. William Power Maloney. the coun sel. mentioned October, 1938. as the time of the rcnorted tapping, hut di«» rot pecify the case in which a decision was expected. Former United States Attorney Geor.se 7. daiie. who is not in any way involved in acts complained of, investigators said. will be heard by the sub-committee. Maloney appeared today before (Continued on Page Three.) Greeks Deny Reverses ****** •>*#¥!II Six Draft Numbers Missing Of Numbers Is Drawn Conscription Loliery, ; Holding Marching Or ders for Some 5,000, 000 Young Men, Com pleted at 5:47 a. m. Today. Washington. Oct. 30.— (AIM — A legal t"st of tl'Jr» draft lottery :>s result of misplacement ut six number® out of 9,000 pre pared for the drawing: was re ported officially today to be un der consideration in Detroit. Clarence A. Dykstra. selective service director, said ho had been apprized that suit niisrht be un dertaken by a potential Detroit draftee who was unidentified to Dykstra excc.pt that he held serial number 153, which the lottery turned into order num ber 1. It the man finally decides to raise a lesal issue, Dykstra said, he will have to so through the drafting process and allow the courts to determine the issue. It was assumrd, although not def initely known that he lacked any obvious grounds for deferment. Washington. Oct. 30.—(AP)—The grand conscription lottery, which held marching orders for some 5. 000.000 yiung Americans, finishing in tin unlocked for flurry this morning with six numbers missing but final ly wound up officially with two numbers more than it should have had. In the rainy dawn after 17 hours and 31 minutes of drawing from the big draft bowl a last blue capsule was picked up by Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey. assistant selective service director. It was 5:47 a. m. (e. s. t.). That capsule should have been the 9,000th—the number of capsules originally believed place in the bowi before the drawing opened at 12:18 yesterday. Instead it proved to be the 8,994th. Despite the most elaborate precau tions six number-bearing blue cap sules were missing. Selective service officials immed iately instituted a check to track down the omitted numbers. Manual records kept throughout the drawing confirmed the number of missing numbers as six. The master list dis' agreed, however, stfowing eight un accounted for. To make sure that every number missing from the master list would be drawn, General Hershey had a special ''junior drawing" of those eisjht numbers—a brief sweepstakes j witnessed by a handful and over in five minutes. The official last number drawn, I accordingly was the 9,002nd—num ber 7,839. Dr. Clnrenee A. Dykstra, selective service diretcor who saw the lottery through from the drawing of the first number—158—to the unschedul ed end, issued a statement in which iContinued nn Page Three.> Reynolds Cites Republican Opposition To Farm Bills Introduced In Congress Dany Di.snait Ii Hureau, In the Sir ^ViiuT Hotel. By IIK\R* AVFHILL Raleigh, Oct. 30.—Dick Reynolds Isn't collecting dollars alone for the re-election of President Roosevelt. He has collected, with the aid of Alubiima's Senator J. Ji. Bankhead, a mass of figures on the voting rec ord of Republican-? on aiding the farmers. These figures. Mr. Reynolds told your reporter, will "keep history straight as to what attitude has been taken by the Republicans in Wash ington regarding the effort to im prove the farm conditions of the en tire country." This straight history, he continued, reveals that the G. O. P. has been bitterly hostrle to most of the legis iat'«*n which time and again rc ecivtd the endorsement. 111 referenda • i«\ of ff-e f;• i nie;-;;. "it i. i.; ; t.cularlv illuminating on the subject of parity payments," said Mr. Reynolds. •'There are two classes of benefit payments '•> the farmers —one known as soil conservation, the other as parity payments." Here are some of the statistics cited by Mr. Reynolds: "Under the Soil Conservation act, practically all farmers are eligible for benefit payments, nnd about 6. 000.000 or 90 per cent of al1 farmers are participating. On the passage of the bill in the House, the vote on February 21. 193R. was: Democrat#: for. 294: against 34, percent against. 10. Republicans: for 25: against 75: | percent against, 75. "This vote shows the true attitude of the Republicans on the soil con ervation program. "Parity payments were authorized (Continued on Page Three J Numbers Play Washington, Oct. off.— (AD — The numbers played ;• > favorite.*. The low ones i~;«.v mean a khaki uniform before next July and they w;*nt on!. unpredictably to an Indian brave, r,j*:v:e ,<;iars and athletes, to a State dr::art ment official, sons of :rnt«*d men and to u Chinese who wasn't sure whether he was p citj/.en. By a quirk of chat:?**, o:;e of the holders "f ISf-—Is'si number drawn in . the j-.r festive service sweepstakes—was ' :\-i ongi»j;iI American, one Jllic^ycJ Gnrno?, | 21. ;.;i! Indian who had been the I ) lis', to resistor with Lis local i hoard two weeks ago in 0>hland, I Wis. Number 158 also was the nam j her of three men whose fathers found themselves at the top of the World war draft list when number 258 was drawn in the first 1817 ioiter.v. James Stewart. Hollywood's eligible bachelor and topflight movie star, found himself ticket ed 3C9 on his local list of men I subject to call. Half the nation apart, local boards will post the same num ber—18—for the s:>ns of the iate Newton D. Baker, World Avar secretary who drew the first number in the 1017 drawing, and American Ambassador to Great j Britain Joseph P. Kennedy. Newton D. Baker III lives in Cleveland and Young John Ken nedy is at Graduate School in Stanford University, Palo Alto, At Envoys Favorites Cal. GOP Nominee Says Ambassadors Are Making "Cheap Polit ical Speeches" Here. Aboard Willkie Train. Ocl. 30 — (AP)—Wendell L. Willkie declared tod:iy that "the American ambas-| sudors to Great Britain and France j are back here making cheap political j speeches." Renewing his assertion that onlyi one major American envoy is now in Europe—at Moscow—the Repub lican presidential nominee told an audience at Clarksburg, W. Va., that President Roosevelt "is supposed to know so much about foreign affairs."! "The Chief Executive." he assert-1 ed. "says that he has to stay close to Washington and telephone to the secrrt iry many times a day because of the European crisi . He certainly cannot call up his ambassadors be cause they are not on the job." Willkie touched c.n foreign affairs only briefly, devoting most of his talk to a discussion of the third term idea. lie cited Thomas Jefferson. An drew Jackson, G rover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan, and Wood row Wilson as objecting to a third term for any man. And. in 1932, he added. Franklin D. Roosevelt noted with approval the word ; of Woodrow Wilson that there is no indispensable man. Petain Takes Responsibility For Axis Deal Vichy. Oct. 30.—(AP)—France de cided on collaboration with the Rome-Berlin axis "to maintain French unity." Marshal Petain. chief: of state, told the nation tonight in a broadcast explaining his meeting i of lost Friday with Adolf Hitler. "Thus in the near future the weight of suffering laid on our country can r (Continued on Page Three.) il)sjodksh FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy: local showers this aft- j ernoon and in souih and east portions tonight: slightly cooler in north and west portions to night: Thursday partly cloud.v, i possible lisrht showers in extreme _yuth portion. Looks Like Old Times James A. Farley (left), former postmaster general and Democratic chair man, shakes hands with President Roosevelt as the Chief Executive leaves Madison Square Garden, New York, after the second of his major political speeches. Farley, who has refused to endorse a third term, attended the rally at the President's invitation. Blaze Damages War Department Offices Hocutt Renews Efforts To Obtain Reports Daily Dispatcli Bureau, In the Sir U'ali»r Hotel. BY HENRY t* VGRILTj. Raleigh, Oct. 30.—The Highway Safety Division has renewed and re doubled its drive to get accurate re ports on all highway accidents in North Carolina. Recently the Division reluctantly rcachcd the conclusion that the re ports it receives on accidents involv ing injuries or damage to property are so fragmentary and incomplete that the resultant data arc so far from correct as to be little more than guesses. Ronald Hocutt and his aides will, however, continue to compile and release figures on these accidents, giving them out for what they are worth—which isn't much. Meanwhile Mr. Hocutt has .ynt a personal letter to every law enforce ment officer in North Carolina call ing attention to the statute making i' - torts by investigating officers man datory. He believes that oil iccrs have been nothing worse than neg ligent in compliance, and absolves them of any intent willfully to flout the law. The statute, incidentally, makes it the duty of every driver involved in an accident which causes death, in jury or property damage o'f more; than Sid to report to law enforcement officials who will provide proper, (Continued on Page Three) Wing ci liuilaing rrom Wnicii toaea Messages Are bent Is 5wept xSy lire; No Es timate of Damage Is Available. Washington, Oct. 30.—(AP)—The wing ol the Wiir department building whien police said housed a message center lrom which the signal corps sends coded messages was swept by i nc early tuday. Massed * i t equipment of the Dis .rict of Columbia brought the flames under control after a light of more i than an hour. The cause of the fire .nd exact proportions of the damage were not esiblished immediately. A eord<«n of 13 soldiesr, regular \ army sentries, was posted about the building as soon as possible and General George C. Marshall, army chicl of staff, himself appeared on the .scene, arriving in the darkness from his home in nearby Fort Myer. A!! War department officials avail able refused to comment on the fire, i„«!i it appeared to have started on the top of the three-story wing. Con.-'.n ftion was underway there on a fourth floor to provide more room fur the expanding War department. iJo!i'-e .-aid that although coded nic -iig<.- were sent from that sec tion ol the building no secret codes were kept there. H >wever, one building guard de ci.ired "it is the most important part of the building. General George C. Marshall. Army j chief of staff, told reporters he be (Continued on Page Three.) Associated Press Writer Gives First Hand Report From Salonika, Greek Port i By J. WES GALLAGIIf.lt Salonika, Greece, Oct. 3(J.—CAP) —I have been watching at first hand the Greek army moving up swiftly to meet Italy's attack. All regular passenger traffic was blocked when I crossed the Yugo slav border, but I managed to get on by railway handcar and freight, arriving in this ancient sttategic port in time to see one phase of Greece's1 determined preparations to hold their country from the invaders. Since I arrived here there has been continual activity as troops arc moved to the northwest. All motor transports has been re quisitioned. Even taxicabs are- be ing used to carry soldier? to the front, where the Greek .-ay thr> Italians are makiiift rn hejidwa* i'i ♦heir attempts to Lrtak the .Met:i\\! line. An unofficial report here :-aid 500 Italians were captured in lighting Ir.jig the frontier mountain pusses. i There have been no air or sea at tacks on Salonika. The public is calm ami orderly despite the close ness of the war. Everywhere, in the streets, in the .•hops and cafes, there seems to be unlimited resolution to keep the Italians checked. Enthusiasm for Britain is high. The peopie of Salonika looked .-ea of protecting British warships and at of protecting Biiit-h warships and at :'k- skies lor a glimpse of Italian -< ir.bers. Tl • ii'-t (.'recks wounded at the •' v.- • -> i - "I'll" r! t'i h ra'hed b:t: e '.o-pit.-ils. bisl Ci: • i* "O ! r-r ase considered to be ::l; Rome Report Claims Town is Captured Authoritative Fascist Quarters Acknowl edge Stubborn Resist ance; Great Britain Speeds Aid With Mines Along Coast. (By Tlio Associated Press.) A Homo radio broadcast asserted today that Italian troops had smash ed 40 miles into Greece, capluring the town ol St. Nicholas, but Athens reported that reinforced Greek fight ers were holding an unbroken front under heavy artillery fire. The Italian attack, supported by planes and mountain guns, were said to be steadily intensifying. Mussolini's nigh command, with unusual brevily, merely reported. "Our troops have continued the advance into Greek territory, over coming resistance of the enemy's rear guard." Authoritative fascist quarters in Rome acknowledged the Greeks were resisting tuhhornly, but they denied that troops of the little kingdom had driven a counter thrust into Albania, the starting point of the Italian in vasion Monday. These quarters said Mussolini's legion.- were advancing deeper into Greece. Great Britain stepped up aid to her new ally, the London admiralty an nounced, by mining approaches to kev ports on the Greek coa^t. British military circles denied re ports that British troops have already landed on the Grecian islands of Corfu and Crete. Neutral military sources in Athens said the Greek advance guards were slowly retiring to the main defense sectors of the Metaxas line in keep ing with a pie-conceived plan. Hull Denies Campaign Reports Washington, Oct. .'JO. (AP) Sec retary Hull said today that reports that he might remain as secretary of State if Wendell I<. Willkie were elected president smacked of politics and met with hi. strong disapproval. The secretary of slate told his press conference iu iv.-ponse to a question that he had no knowledge of the origin of the reports. He said, how ever, that they would seem to smack 1,1 politic- and he did not countenance i.hem for a moment. On the contrary, he said, he most strongly disapproved of their cir culation over the country. Nazi Planes Driven Back Germans Resume Large Scale Bomb ings; Royal Air Force Planes Raid Germany. London. Oct. 30.—(AP)—German raiders crossed England's southeast coast today apparently headed for [.ondon. bi 1 were engaged high above the cloud1- by British planes and re ported turned back. The British lighters gave the in vaders battle just after they crossed 'he *ea. From the cloudbanks hid ing th^m from watchers below came 'he rattle of machine gun fire. In a short time the Nazis llew off. Planes were also reported attack ing the industrial midlands. German long range gun- mounted ■•n the French coast fired across the rhannel into the Dover area this aft ernoon but no damage or casualties veve eported. I ondon anH other main target; had enjoyed lengthy breathing spells during ;he night. While southeastern England, in cluding the London area, wa- bear in? the brunt of the na/.i aerial at tack. royal air force bombers attacked ■n number of targei- in Germ-jrv :*ic'' ding fome of the BerPn a'*ea" t ire rover e weather conditions, on Pa^f Three)
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