Hettitersnn Uailtj Dispafrlj ONLY DAILY NEWSI'APE R PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA „ TkVENTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 2, 1940 FIVE CENTS COn I dian Wenplanes Raid Greece ******* Final Bids For Votes Near ;J. A, F. Continues Systematic Raids on Berlin • R ya! Air Force is keeping: up its relentless bombing of Berlin, in retaliation for Nazi b«»:nb i. is oftVmi by this picture. According to information passed by the German censor, this >. . ruling is in North Beriin in an area where workers' homes are concentrated. (Central Tress) Nazi Offense Weakens itaiv 5et j For Drive British Claim German Siege Weaken ^ Result of Heavy IjSj- :s. I • m , oi Oennan ,• *1 * Britain > v • .-.e Hiitish air » .-CM while r ; v ohanized • i'.il- Greek wai ■ rv sources in <• i were moving < •:! — : a n !: s. --through ' V* ;rrn coastal i t|'."y expected a • i • . tho "battle y . ;nce Mon rplrmes px ! ■; tul London t by the crash • >y now- serv '.,(•( 'r nazi plane r( . nt< n• c fry LJrit ;iT!n*iiiMcr'l new i i ti on rail i •.!! Six) f a. mers Urged i o Leave Land L'. 'AP) —Ches • .• '• nal - if »n, pro • 'i mated :">.()()«. nr'ie. r:ish crop id and go into in charge of • ■n •! sorted in • t;:i :?>of:tina of St '• s Cooperative ' :< bo dxiJWn " n with little or • ;>> agricultural . p, r|. i prospective i. "there are ' t , iv. ke a *t> :■>. ; ::d to • ;i .'t: ;f ictory ■■■[ living otrt oi Statistics On Accidents \ Reveal Weak Reporting By Law Enforcement Officers i Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter 'Jotel. By HfcNlll AVEKILL Fialeigh. Xnv, 2.—Figure- available in the Highway Safety Division on motor Highway accidents lor the first nine months of 1940 show why Di rector Ronald Hocutt is making an inter.-:\ e effort to improve the re porting of accidents in North Car olina. Reported to the division, or col lected by it from other sources, were 525 fatal accidents, 2.240 involving injury to person but no death, and j 3.o72 involving property damage only. One glance at those totals is suf ficient to convince Mr. Hocutt and any other intelligent observer that the division is not getting anything like proper reporting. Everybody who knows anything at all about highway conditions knows full well that the proportion of property - damage crashes i-; entirelv too low. It is ob vious that ii i.'icrc were 2,765 acci dents in which someone was either killed ■>r injured there were far more than o.')72 in which property dam age was done. Breaking the figures down by counties reveals an even worse pic ture as to reporting. Start right at the top. Alamance reported (or the division found out by various and sundry methods) that there were ten fatal accidents, 25 non-fatal crashes and 15 involving only property damage. That, on its lace, is an absurdity nobody will swallow. Alamance officers, although required by law to do so. just haven't reported. The next county's report is even worse. In Alexander, ii the figures are to be believed, there were three fatal accidents, two in which per sons were injured, and not a single j automobile accident involving pro perty damage alone. The only lit; place for such statistics is the waste! oasket. Almost all the rest or the way', down the list it's exactly the same. Some few counties, almost exclusive ly those containing big cilic.->. uo a iair to middling job or accident re porting, Mr. Hocutt points out. Mecklenburg i.- cited as perhaps the outstanding example of county furnishing reasonably accurate and} reliable ligures on all types of ac cident:-. For the iiist nine months of this year, for example, there have been reported from that county 2'J J fatal accidmts, H!)i involving injuries) alone and property - damage wrecks. That makes sense to those familiar with the u. ual ratio of fatal j to non-fatui to property damage ac cidents. Mr. Hocutt frankly throws up his! hands as to any absolute remedy for j (Continued on Page Sixl Stewart Says Albania May Slow Axis Balkan Drive By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington. Nov. 2.—Tht Greek legation in Washington is considei ably depressed by Italy's war move against i:., smail kingdom. As a Hellenic diplomatic attache put it to me, '"one Greek soldier is a match for three or lour Italians, i i:t if they pile in five or six to one against us, they may make us a deal of trouble." Our own American military men take it for granted that the Axis will make short work of the little coun try, possibly wih the exception of its coastal fringe, along which they think that Britain's eastern Mediter ranean fleet may help it formidably. To be sure, the Greeks are rated as fir>t rate fighters and the Ital ians as pretty weak-kneed warriors. However, the Greeks are away out clased in numbers, and those they have Inek equipment, whereas the Italians are quite well supplied in the latter respect- Fathenmre, it's as pied that, even if Pctator Mus^o ! ::: d.-cs .icc.l any assistance, Die tator Hitler will provide him with it' |—unci nobody questions the Gcr- i I mans' prowess on the battlefield. | Albania a Factor. I Albania may prove t<> be an anti- • axis factor in the equation, j it seems funny tnai that wee lit- ! tie country should signify in the situation. Yet it's across Albania that the axis forces have been striv ing tov get into Greece overland, | dodging the British ileet's superiority | on the water. Now Italy recently grabbed the Albanian realm, kiekcd King Zog out into exile. According to Iatl- j ian accounts the Albanians were blad of it, but other stories are to the effect that they were as mad as hor- i nets, and that, today, they're in a state of anti-Italian insurrection— determined to resist the passage of axis troops across their territory into Greece. The Italian version is that the Greeks and Albanians hate one an (Coatir.ued on Page Three) President Wiii :_,peak Tonight m Cleveland at S; o'clock; WiUkie in New York, 10.15; Hull Pcfonds Foreign Pol icy. (s»y !5ie Assnriatc-'l i'r-s) Pic nl Roosevelt l- 'vi ied unos-; ' ^cw.V'irU >!•••!" - ■ ' .viird Ohio and the fifth of his major .•Kinpiii.cn addresses, and Wendell L. i 'lil:;e pit nrM-nd lire of hi? final bids V r vote • n New York City. Closing 1he last full we!? of e; m riii'n-'i.ft befo>o th° nre ca~t I Text T'^ r'av. IT n^m"""" T«rij_ 1 ire wll sor'*k ••• ^l^x'^^nd | '♦ 0 p. m. (FST1 and h'* Republican ; ■•np.'. pent will make r>n address in ' v*-"- v, r!;V Madison Square Garden : il 1: 15 n. m. Willkie. pt tbe end of n 18.000-milc campaign tour, rested . kda.v r.l'ter replying In; t night to j VTv. Roosevelt's speech in Boston on 1 Wednesday evening. Ho charged i Ihe nresidep.t with "dcccptive ooti- ! nism" in declaring that the nation j ."'•'i ,nak!n« "very rapid nr"".rrs.>" to- . ivard an aircraft goal of r>n.000 air planes a year. Mr. Roosevelt, began his swing1 through sections of the pivotal states | ■>r New York. Pennsylvania and Ohio ; A ith a speceh in Brooklyn Inst nigh'i 1 in which he derived "thee has been forming" within the Republican party j ■in "unholy alliance" between "the extreme reactionary and th° extreme 1 radical elements of this country". The ! President said that "there r. no com- j mon ground unon which they can | unite unless it be their common will J to power and their impatience with j Ihe normal democratic processes to i produce overnight the inconsistent j directorial ends they seek " Willkie accused the ndmini=t'-a-1 tion of "ncglcet" in e-'inn =ion of airplane produ^ti^n and hQ added that "for seven yerr-' it "has , not understood the fact' of produc- : tion'. ^••evident Roosevelt's <'orei«n pol- I ipirc- were defended 1n~4 ~:tht bv | rordell Hull, -^cretarv of St-.te. who i =Hd in a radio address that Mr. ! Roosevelt's re-election would "in the | fulles* possible mensi:'-" assure the ' see'M'itv and safeguard the peace of , this country." Roosevelt Makes Peace Declaration Aboard Roosevelt T rain on Route to Cleveland, Nov. 2.— (AP)—"Your president says that this country is not sroint* to war." These words were addressed I by Franklin I). Roosevelt today ; to a rain-drenched crowd that pat bored around his train ai i"ie Rochester. N. Y.. station. Mr. Roosevelt reviewed what lie termed a "fortunate record' I established while he was chicf executive of New York Mate and nation. He was the only governor to s«-rvo four years without calling I out the National Guard to "*ut down riots." he said, and in his I seven and one-half years as President, the Army and Navy had- never b»en called out xecept in a cause of humanity." "And it seems to me." ho said, "that a fellow with tha tkind of a rccerd over a good mm.v years mn«t have his heart on the ground ard I don't h®liov» he j has his finger on the trigger." D. C. Williams Of Wilson !s Dead Wilson, Nov. 2—(AP)—D. C. Wil liams, 80, lumber plant operator, died in a hospital here today after a short illness. I His funeral will be hold Monday afternoon at Selbyville, Del. Williams operated lumber plants here, at Elm City and at Rock Mount. He is survived by three daughters and three .sons. On the Greco-Itaiiaii Front Fascists reported taking Brezmca (1) on their oust' i n "irive on .vwoniKa and said that further south they had driven the (iixvi.> fnun Xikulu-a (-)• In southern Albania Italian artillery at Konispulis Ci) bombarded Sagi ada. The fascist objective ii: this region is believed to If the naval base of Preveza, some thirty miles below Parga (bottom of inapt. A (i; ice ba'.Uc was reported east of Fiorina. (Central l'ic mocratic gubernatorial nominee, Sr . ' rs -'o iah \V. Haiiev and Rob ert I.' Reynolds and Congre man Zebnlon Weaver spoke. Governor Hoev will make a politicd talk over a statewide radio hookup tomorrow night. Averill Predicts Big Vote To Be Cast Next Tuesday Daily Dispatch Bureau, In Mi* Sir IValicr f BY HENIII" AVER ILL. Raleigh, Nov. 2.—While profession al politicians continue to contend that lack of local contests will cut sharp ly into next Tuesday's vote in North Carolina, there are indications that the total Tar Heel suffrage is going to be tremendous. Certainly, local election officials are in position to tell something about the likelihood of big turnouts in their counties, and it is very sig nificant thgt almost every county election board is besieging the state board of elections for more presiden tial ballots; thus showing clearly that the people's interest is at its keenest in the contest between "The Chamn." President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the Challenge!-, Wendell Willkie. To hofjjn with ih«* board had a million and a half ballots printed. All but 5.0U(J have been sent to coun ty hoards: yet yesterday aides of Secretary Raymond Max v. .'M were busy placing rush orwe;.- f'T the printing of ;n addition I , !•>' oi presidential tickets. The State board's nft'iee r^pn'ts that its information iadic £a rcc !>vd registration mi almost every county of tir- state. That doesn't look iike ;i .-mall turnout, particularly in view of Hie fact that new registra tions wore ordered in almost two third. ol the counties this year. With all these tacts in mind, your reporter feels inclined to crawl out the < ::d <>'. ;i limb and predict that the 1U40 presidential vote in North Carolina will exceed that of 1936 when 61G.!-»1 elector.- deposited votes for Kousevelt while 223,200 were vot ing lor All Landon. That's a grand total of 830.J24. So here's a forecast of an 850,000 total. Without making an alibi in ad vance. it i- obvious that this is based on the presumption that next Tues day wlil be reasonably clear. A bliz zard. or even a day-long drizzle could keep thousands from the polls, par ticularly in the east where Demo crats often feel it isn't ne.-essai y for ':in t. i f» iri'ich trouble, anyway. '! ! • on o' t!i;• t.it;.1. it cast, fcel'.vern the Pre idenl •)*: Willkie is something; els® :•'{ ?sn. (C-:.t:n.;vd o.i 6::.. Salonika Reported Hardest Hit About Fitty Bombs Dropped on Patras; Corfu Bombed; Tiny Greek Air Force Pitches in To Aid Hard Fighting Ground Forces. Athens, Greccc. Nov. 2.— (AP)— The Italian air force resumed its at tacks against Greece today, bomb ing Canei on Cm I n island and the port ol Patras, where about ten cas ualties resulted. Aboul 50 bombs were dropped in the latest attack on Patras. Athens also had an air raid alarm ol' 2') minute* but its watchers slight ed no planes. These attacks followed widespread raids in which the government said 30(» were killed and wounded yester day. The strategic city of Salonika was reported hardest hit in the sudden burst of aerial warfare, with 59 kill ed and 84 injured in four raids yes terday. The government said "gen erally no military target was hit" and charged that "all the raids were directed against civilians." Over the Epirus district in the northwest the Italians dropped pam ohlets declaring the invaders had | "good dispositions" toward the | Greeks and would respect their ! women, traditions and customs. The trnv Greek air force pitched in to aid the nation's hard fighting ground forces, bombing and straf ing fascist troops wherever they could be found in the wild, moun tainous area along the Greek border. Exchange Telegraph, British news agency, said Greek planes blasted at two Italian airdromes in Albania. The report added that Greek tsoops lighting at close quarters with cold steel had occupied a strategic height [dominating Koritza, Albania. In all sectors of the front where they have not actually succeeded in pushing the Italians back, the Gr«-"ks said, the defenders were hold ing firm. Dale Appeal To High Court Kalcigh, Nov. 2.— (AP) —The Stnto supreme court will hear an ; ppc.iI by Fred Dale, convicted in Mecklenburg county superior court on a charge -if extorting $2,000 from a Sampson county farmer on the pretense that the farmer was the lather of a child horn to Mrs. Dale. Dr. W. E. Wi- nart, Charlotte phy ieian. was acquitted on a charge of aiding in the alleged conspiracy to ''efraud the farmer, Tlufus Bryant. Mrs. Dale rlirI not appeal and is serv ing a tn*m of two to four years. Dale was sentenced to five to seven years. Germans Fail In Attempt To Seize Station New York. Nov. 2.—(AP)—A Ger 11n language broadcast by the Brit i-h broadcasting company said tod;