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j U. S. Warships Launched
S. F. slides down the ways at Kearney. N. J. Mrs. Mina
widow of the late inventor. Thomas A. Edison, christened
... The destroyer Ericsson was launched there the same day.
(Central Press)
i 'ip v« Truck Growers
Demand AAA Relief
i' CtitTai Court Fight on
i^tkutionality o f
Triple - A Program
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Act.
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1 NOKTll CAROLINA,
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Lofjan-Waiter Bill
Passed By Senate
Washington. Nov. !<j.— (AIM —
The- Senate passed the contro
versial Logan- Walter bill ti» |
day. 'J7 to 25.
The bill, designed to facilitate
appeals to the courts from ad
ministrative rulings of execu
tive agencies of the federal gov
ernment. has already passed the j
House. It noAV goes back there
for action on several amend
ments.
The Senate action came soon
er than members had expected,
after Democratic Leader Bark ley
announced mat despite his oppo
sition to the measure and his
belief that action should be de
ferred he was prepared to vote
at once.
Hatch Act
Probe Soon
Officials of All Na
tional Parties Ordered
to Appear Before
Grand Jury.
Washington. N.ov. 2fi. ~(AP)—At-j
t«*1 nr>\. General Jackson announced
• • »!,nr official.' of all national po
litical parties and committee-; with J
their iccrds of contributions and
expenditure- would be called before
a Federal grand jury in connection '
will mi investigation of alleged;
\ i«'hit'nits ill election l avs.
The attorney general said that a
-peeial eiand jury would be con-'
venefl here December by order oT!
Chief Ju-ticc Alfred A. Wheat of the
district court for the Distnc! of
C '
Maurice M. Milligan. federal di
ti n i attorney at Kan. as City who
is here on a special assignment to
investigate election complaints, will
present evidence to the jury. Numer
ous reports have been received, the
attorney general said, that the $•'».
(MM).01 It) limit fixed for campaign ex
penditures by the Hatch act had been I
violated or evaded.
"If the law has been violated,
there should be prosecutions." Jack
son said. "If there have been evas
ions, the loopholes should lie tighten-j
cd up."
New Japanese
Ambassador
Seeks Peace
Tokyo. JVow 'J(i.— (AP)—Admiral
Nomura. who expects to leave for
Washington next month as Japan's
new* ambassador, declared today
there was no :>sue between Japan
and the United States that could not
bv solved without recourse to war.
Official announcement of his ap
pointment. succeeding Ambassador
Horinouchi who was called home
(Continued on Pa^e Four)
Nazis'10, ,K„e®PCorfia
X.
Output Of Airliners May Be Frozen
Shortage Of
Engines
In Prospect
Priorities Board Asked
to Prevent Any In
crease in Number of
Planes Going to Com
mercial Air Services.
Washington. Nov. 2(5.—(AP)—The
War department acted today to
freeze plane production for commer
cial airlines ;i1 the present level and
simultnnron-.lv disclosed that "a
v I mi' <l*«irtagr>" of engines for
the nation* expanding military and
naval air 1'one was in prospect for
next spring.
Secretary Stimson announced at a
press conl'erenc" t!iat tho department
had asked the priorities board to
prevent any increase in the number
of planes going to commercial air
services. The request was made.
Stimson said, in the interest of sup
plying American and British needs
for bomber and fighter planes.
.\l irn; . iiuif ruiiici rutx", tin cuiti'
of the Wnr department chief explain
ed that "a very large shortage" of
engines similar to those used in com
mercial transports was in prospect
for next spring because of the time
lag required to get new engine fa
cilities into production.
At the moment, the aide added,
one make of big four-motor bomb
ers "are being accepted without en
gines." (General George C. Mar
shall. chief of staff, announced re
cently that in order to power such
motorlcss planes the Army had ob
tained rights to engines being manu
facture^ for the British, giving the
British priority instead to other
bombers already rolling off the pro
duction line.)
At the outset of the conference,
Stimsm declared the Douglas Air
craft Company was now delivering
planes to commercial lines at the rate
of twelve a month, although it had
been (>(• days behind schedule in de
livering the test plane on an Army
order for lo<> dive bombers.
ADMIRAL LEAHY'S
NAME PRESENTED
Washington. Nov. 2fi—(AIM —
Admiral William I). Leahy, re
tired. was nominated by Presi
dent Roosevelt today to l»e am
bassador lo France.
Leahy, former chief of naval
operations and now governor or
Puerto Kico, would succeed at
Vichy William ('. Bullitt, who
resigned early this month.
ROOSEVELT SIGNS
RAMSPECK MEASURE
Washington. Nov. 26.— (AP)—
President Roosevelt today signed
the Ramspcck bill, authorizing
him to cover into civil service
approximately 200.000 employees
in federal emergency agencies
after they have taken non-com
petitive examinations.
Conference
On Strikes
Is Called
Washington. Nov. 26.— (AP) —
I'resident ttoosevHt announced that
he had called in delense advisors to
day for a conference on strikes in
national defends, industries.
Invited >■ the afternoon meeting
were Secretary Stimson. Secretary
Knox. Atloiney General Jackson and
Sydney Ililhnan. labor member oi
the defen e commission.
Steohen Karly. White House press
secretary, said in announcing the
conference that the men were called
to "discuss labor in relation to na
tional defense including the difficul
ty of strikes, etc."
The discussion, to start at 2 p. in.,
EST., was to follow a luncheon con
{Contnued on Pa^e Seven.)
As Slovakia Joined The Expanding Axis.
I -
German Foreign .Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (right) and Premier Bela Tuka (lel't) of Slovakia,
shako hands after signing the pact making the Nazi-pro u*cted .rountry the latest t> join the axis. The signing,
in the Berlin chancellery, fallowed similar action by Rumania and pledges Germany and Slovakia to military
and economic cooperation i'or ten years.
Wallace's
Job Cut Out
Steware Reports That
Vice President-Elect
Will Handle Domestic
Problems.
By CHARLES IV KTJ U ART
Central Press Columnist
Washington. Nov. L">.—While? ih-• j
Democrats will start oil', in the new1
congress, with a net gain of seven i
seats in the house of representatives. '
they'll start with net lo-s of four j
senate seats.
: ■ i<4ns don't amount
| to much as a mere
nntt"r ol' figures.
V'nfv Democracy
-•till will have more
♦ban a 2-to-l son- [
iite majority, so her j
•mall l"s< will .hard- j
Iv signify. And |
her ivpresentatorial |
wji-r-'y already |
vas so huge that j
her gain in thai con- ,
gressioual branch i
won't i.nnrceiablv!
strengthen her. I
But there's another division to be J
reckoned with—the divi i-.i: between i
anti-New Deal Democrats and Re
publicans on one side, and pro-New ;
Deal Democrats un tin- opposite .-ide. j
The pro-New Deal Democrats will
continue to be New Dealers. The !
Republicans are pretty sure to re- 1
main "antis," except <>!i the subject |
of national defense. Tbo anti-Nev i
Deal Democrats. how<'vt r. are quite 1
a problem. Hitherto thf-v -md the j
Republicans, combined, have consti
fPontin'ieH on P:ir«r> Pivo'
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Warm W eather Adds
11 nn o pc *
o 1 exas buttering
Snow Storm Whips
Through Midwest
(By ihe Associated Press)
A snow storm blown before
strong winds whipped through
the midwest today us Texas ral
lied from damaging Hoods and
the cast shivered in its coldest
weather this season.
The stormy weather raced in a
northwesterly direction from
Texas. Snow was piling up in
parts of Kansas. Nebraska, Mis
soon. Iowa. Illinois, Indiana.
Wisconsin and was about to en
ter lower Michigan.
At many points in Illinois and
Indiana >;i'ra preceding snow
iced Ihe highways and damaged
P'uvr lines.
warnings were display
ed on ail the Great l.aU<-s.
Plight Seen
As Serious
(The following revealing dis
patch "ii the seriousness r»f Kng
i :nd'-- condition is from Drew
Mi.'lcilelon. Associated Press
Cuirespondent v.ho was villi the
British Expeditionary Force in
France and who has spent much
time with ail arm- <<I th«• lirif
ish war machine. I' is significant
because il passed through a cen
sorship which herctotoir has
(••owned upon ail such dis
patches.
(J? may moan that the Brit
ish have changed their attitude
and believe thai a dark picture
of their danger would arouse
more sympathy in the United
States than the confident op
timism displayed so tar by the
government.)
BY DREW MIDDUTO.V
London. Nov. 2H.— (AP)—Britain,
struggling with bomb wreckage and
confronted with a continued Ger
man stranglehold, is turning increas
ingly »«» the United States as- a po
tential • a\ ior hi the darkest hour
(Continued on Page Five)
I
Hazard of Failing Ice
and Mounting Floods
Increase Dangers;
Seven Persons Missing
and Believed Dead in
Floods.
I),ill.is. Nov. 2fi.— (AI'J --Flood
t water. which swept away two home-.
' in south Tex a s It-It seven person-.
! missing find believed dead tod;iy as
rising temperatures brought the
.menace of hilling ice on harassed
Amarillo.
! A fishing camp employe in Wr\sl
i Galveston, whose boat overturned,
was the only known fatality in the
t three-day storm siege which sheath
ed the Texas Panhandle in ice and
i s< nt eastern and southern Texas riv
|ers ('aging.
lint Coast Guard ships and volun
liers were searching for a family ot
j five and another family missing since
; the lira/o.s river washed their homes
Jawav at ESrookshire 'AU miles west of
: Houston.
i The Galveston section poked out j
of a ten-inch rain which fell in 24:
hours—heaviest in Galveston's his
lory. Coast Guardsmen and Red
j Cross volunteers reported at Galves- j
'Continued on Page Five)
Bids Asked Un
Road Projects
! Rfiieiah, Nov. 26—(AP)— The I
Highway and Public Works Com
mission calicd today for bids to be
submitted December ID for construc
tion of eleven road and bridge pro
jects. J
j The projects included:
Lenoir county, surfacing of five
'miles of county road between In
stitute- and Route 10: Pitt and Cra
jven counties, surfacing 10.88 miles
of route 118 from near the Craven
line to route 43: Duplin, grading,
istructures and surfacing ol 4.12 miles
| of route eleven between a p-hrdlu s ;
of route 11 between a point 5.2 miles
south of the Wayne line and route
11: (fob'-mm. siiarliut!. strufturo and
•urfaring of 10.rji rriiIn nf route '10
bet.«. ten routes 501 and 74.
Few German
Soldiers In
Balkan Area
Germany Said To Be
Attempting Only to
Keep Turkey From
Joining War on
Greece's Side; Other
European War News.
'Rv The Associated Cress.)
Germany has decided on i
"hands off" policy in Italy's
I'iniit with Greece, well inform
ed sources in Rome said late t •»
day. at the same time scout
insr widespread rumors of an im
minent German thrust against
Turkey and the Dardanelles.
The informant asserted (hut
only a few German troops were
in Rumania and none in Ii»|
yaria. although previous reports
lv.» e nixed an estimated 1,250.
000 nazi soldiers in the Balkanv
Germany, ii was said, is at
tempting only to keep Turkey
from entering the war on the
side of Greece.
Meanwhile, the Greeks were said
to be sweeping the Italians back
everywhere.
Greek reports from various sectors
of the 30-day old conflict indicated
that all Italian columns were at
tempting to turn toward the Adriatic
sea in their retreat.
Winter gripped the battle areas,
fold rain drenched the valleys and
lowlands and snow fell in the moun
tains. impeding operations on most
fronts.
(By The Associated Press.)
Britain's royal air force struck
widespread blows in its drive to
smash the ua/.i sen blockade, the
London ;iir ministry reported today,
while in the month old Balkan war
the Greeks were reported to have
captured Pogradetz, 30 miles inside
Albania.
Tiie British s;iid royal air lorce
planes, flying through flense night
log. bombed the big German naval
liases at Kiel. Wilhelmshaven and
Hamburg and a number of na/.i air
dromes.
Simultaneously, the London ad
miralty noted evidence that the coun
ter campaign against crippling at
(Continued on Page Four)
Nazis Again
Raid Bristol
Planes Return to At
tack After Twelve
Hours of Bad Weather
Hampers Flying.
London, Nov. 2fJ.—(AP)—German
raiders returned to the attack today
on the town iri the west of Knglund
which was hard hit in a heavy raid
Sunday night. (Germans have iden
tified this town as the important port
of Bristol.)
Reports were lacking immediately
in London on the extent of this
raid, launched in the afternoon.
It was the same town the Ger
mans apparently had picked for a
heavy iast night, which was
blocked by bad weather.
The raiders. I lying tnrougn murky
skies, came over in force after
twelve hours ol weather-curtailed
activity in which London enjoyed its
first night without an alarm .-inc:
October fi.
alert, apparently caused by a lone
London had one short afternoon
raider which flew up the Thames
estuary.
British fighters engaged in ;. dog
fight with one German formation off
Dover and were reported to have
shot down a German fighter.
Karly last night raider:- dropp-d
bomb:- jn tli" v.v-st of KnulanH ;,M'I
,i|> i •!"("•»■!-' I Hf »»»»}#♦• f: r* f I * -I'd
uultic. v. ere lc ' . d-.;.-ge liSht.