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Henitersmt Bathj Ufspatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA _ v "Y-SEVENTH YEAR ^?ITssociratto pREf^ HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 30, 1940 FIVE CENTS COPY j Disavows Rumanian Purge er Horia Sima, leader of the pro-Nazi Iron Guard, shown s followers in Bucharest, has disavowed responsibility for the in which at least 64 leading Rumanians met violent death. * ,s were in retaliation for the slaying of Iron Guard Leader Corneliu Z. Codreanu two years ago. (Central Press) A O INCREASED INCOME TAXES FOR THIS YEAR Nation s Millions of inc me Tax Payers Told 5y President . eveIt and Leaders Will Be No In crease. . Xov. 3D.— (AP)—The 'V.s of inceme tax pay -orporations and plain assured by President . ; congressional iinartce • that they need expect use n their tax bilL> increases designd to . :.-'>e-sv.elled expndi : be almost certain i-:. 194i incomes .Chair i)e: ocrat. Mississip > : "e finance committee, i iur»her retroactive - :'s income were out ci-'d. Harrison said, at •• '•-> the President - • v .t; treasury ofti .c. dt-rs or interested con it'res. 'i.at the basic 24 per cent ncoi .c tax rate and the y ' -i individual in : u at 4.4 per cent will ■ iid that early in Jan "tii.l con !iiittees will legislation affecting It i; gem-rally be y ?ax rate-; will go up •.ast-re is enacted. lipases probably • .• hied finally until '5 income tax returns an Doughton. Demo ' .Iina. of the House committee and an F'iv:-i<ient's conferees • ■ t.matfs of the revenue •'i t en are "encourag Move To Peg China's Credit Treasury .. Nov. 30.—(APJ)— is expected to ask the .111-4 committee Mondaj approval of a plan U ■n ot the $2,000,000,00( : aid to holster the sag y of China's Chungkini ttee "(J. k." also may b< i ed legislators said, foi •i tne iund to support th< • 1 certain Latin Americar .ove becomes nec e the success of hemis ' use plans. y .vlorgenthau made ar '<• appear before the com closed session on wha guardedly by soini ■ ni porta nt business.' s.;d that there was lit ■ at the Chinese an< <:,n proposasl would bi • it that time. net ds congressional ap confirmation, but sena • I'd that more than a yea • 'f.au v;iid that he \voul< ' lield then covered bj ' the stabilization fun< revealing his plans t i 7" 7 1 hailand Forces ! Occupy District III Indo-China . Bangkok. Thailand. Nov. .*»0. ' —(AP)—Thai (Siamese) forces have occupied three districts ol' French Indo-China, it was made known today. Official Thai quarters at Sing apore confirmed that the Thai force had bombed two French Indo-China border towns in "re prisal" for an alleged French j bombing of Thailand. Domei. Japanese news agency, reported from Hongkong that police in Bangkok have ordered all French nationals to leave Thailand. (The agency sand the Thai army command had called up reserves and ordered mobiliza tion throughout the country.) Price Rise |Is Feared Federal Economists Are Worried Over Pos sible Inflationary Ten dencies. By C HARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Nov. 30.—Despite al j the national administration's efl'orti to prevent ii, an upward tendency in a great many prices is noticeable it isn t pronounced enougn yt-i iu ui cull eti inflation Nevertheless, Wen dell Willkie suggests that inl'lation i> what it's the begin ning of. What's more it worries New Deal administrationists. For instance, Leor j Henderson, our de I fense council's chiel j jconomist, it> oppos ! ing it vigorously , ^ jj t' l'UMSUmc-1 o i -Leon Henderson spokesmen anc spokeswomen in oui I various defensive and economic unit: i also are appealing strenuously to oui | wholesalers' organizations to pu . j brakes upon any violent rise in oui 1 living costs, because naturally con . sumerdom must feel the first effect of it. And wholesalers generally profess compliant intentions. Th | question is, though, can they mak< , good on them, if the bulge continue: . and gains greater and greater propor ! tions? ;, The New Dealers' contention is tha i our government's deficit spending ' its unprecedented national debt an< ■ the increase in its limit, asked i\ r b.1 1 Treasury Secretary Morgenthau. in > I volve nothing inflationary. Still. ; • government can overstrain its credit . in which event its money shrinks it . buying power—that is, prices sky • fioot. I ! Not Near Limit? r Maybe we haven't reached tha 1 point yet. or a point anywhere nea > ■■ (Continued on Page Two; Mihai Flee 3 Rumania «* a. 3C m se. at at at vttVT*PTv*#"v v *•' "•* v *• At Least 28 Miners Killed About 100 Others Flee Mine Blast Devastating Explosion in One of Ohio s Larg est Coal Pits Entombs Workers; Death Toll M.ay Reach Total of Thirty-Two. Cadiz, Ohio, Nov. 3(1.—(A!')—At least 28—perhaps 32 minors—en tombed by a devastating explosion in one of Ohio's largest eoal pits were given up for dead today. "There is nr. question but that all1 arc dead." said John Owens. Ohio! district United Mine Workers presi dent, who ehr.rgcd "'this catastrophe j could have been prev ented if we had adequate inspection and regulation ot mines." Workers in section "12 north" of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Coal ! Company's huge mine northeast ol here were entombed yesterday after- j noon by liv '>?•;.-!. About 100 other men fled safely. While Owen.; mid the miners at • tributed the explosion to gas. com-| pany ofiieials snid they could not • comment on t!.e cau.o pending a more thorough investigation. Com-, , pany spokesmen pointed out. how ever, that the region is dotted with j gas and oil deposits. Ohio industrial commission ol'fi 1 cials on the scene said the mine used approved eciu-^ment. i After one body was found—that of a man who had the best rhance to i escape—weaiy rescue crews aban i doned frantic emergency efforts to • reach the blasted chamber. Aided by mechanical loaders they oegan a methodical "cleaning up'' of ali debris in their path. M. Speicher. mine personnel direc tor. listed 28 missing, including his ! brother. Pete., and said "four more I names may be added to the total.'' I High Point Power Case I Argued Again Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh. Nov. 30.—In one of the I frequent renewals o! the High Point Duko Power Company legal classic. I attorneys for the Guilford city Fri i day afternoon argued to the Supreme j court that all its requirements met all it^ prohibitions avoided with re spect to the prop ped hydroelectric plant sought lo be built on the Yad kin river. C)n the other !:antJ the power com pany's acute attorneys argued at length that the city has met none of the requirements and avoided none of the prohibitions. While Chief Justice W. P. Stacy and Justice M. V. Barnhill frequently interrupted to ask very pointed ques tions. the court, of course, gave no indication of what it will find once the talking has ueen completed and the case has been considered with care and deliberation. In brief. Judge Hoy L. Deal, lead ing counsel for High Point, contend ed that the city has elected to pro i ceed on the project under the 1935 Revenue Act, which does not require a certificate of convenience and nec essity and has rejected a Federal power commission license which the North Carolina court previously held ; I could not be accepted by the muni • I cipality under state law. m W. S. O'B. Robinson leading the ar • j ray of Duke legai talent, stressed the . contentions (1) that if the city is J proceeding under the 1935 act it can r, not go outside the city limits; (2) ; that if it is proceeding under the j 1928 act it must have the certificate j j of convenience and necessity, (3) , | that having once alleged as facts the 1 jurisdiction and control of the Fed . : eral power commission, it cannot '' now challenge them. j On the first ol these contentions, . j (Continued on Page Two) U)&cdk&i FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy and unsettled, oc casional light rains Sunday and t in west portion tonight, warmer in south and extreme west por tion tonight and in the east and central portions Sunday. Ford Gives Plant for Naval Training A Henry Ford (second from left) looks on as his son Edsel points out on a model the site of a Great Lakei N'aval Iraining Station branch to be established at the Ford River Rouge plant at Decrborn, .Mich. Ford declared, "Two oceans with an adequate navy in each" present the greatest security for the U. S., and said :hc new training station plan is his contribution to that defense. At left is Rear Admiral John Downes, commandant of the Ninth Naval District. Second from right is Lieut. Commander A. II. Richards. (Central Press! United States Will Continue | To Recognize Chiang Kai-Shek Christmas Shopper No. 1 Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt sets an example to the women of the nation by doing her Christmas shopping early. She is pictured in a Fifth Avenue shop, in New York, selecting toys for her grandchildren. (Central Frees) Probationers Earn Over $1,500,000 — Daiiv Dispatch bureau, In tbe Sir Waiter (lotei. By IIENRY AVFRILL Raleigh, Nov. 30.—Ty support con tention that the system is of tre 'mendous economic, as well as hu 'manitarian, value to North Carolina, officials of the Probation commission are pointing to the fact that tiie slightly more than 3.000 persons under their supervision have earn ed more than a million and a half dollars in the three vears the sys tem has been in o|. ".ition. Thus, they declare, the probation ers have been real assets lo the istate in dollars and cents, instead of |liabilities because it would cost money to keep them in prison had they been given time to serve in stead of being freed under proba tionary supervision. I Not only that, but Umilic.; o£ the probationers would likewise have been completely dependent upon the State or upon charity for sup p:;.% while their bread winners were1 behind prison bars. In short, the probation officials j figure that the system is now worth, in cold hard cash figures, not less j than a million and a half a year. (Continued on Page Two) BROl GIITOX BACK. Raleigh, Nov. 30.—(AP)—Gover nor-elect J. M. Broughton, returned empty handed from a deer hunt] which he said was a part of the va-| cation he did not get last summer j while he was campaigning. He spent) ! Wednesday and Thursday at a! Bladen county game club. He said ! he saw a number of deer but did j not get a shot because all of them . were does. WRECK VICTIMS. Dunn. No\. 30.—Lonnie Byrd. 36. i was killed, another person is at the point of death and two others were injured seriously in an automobile accident early Friday morning on the Cape Fear river bridge, near Erwin. Byrd is Harnett county's 21st ac cident victim of the year and the ' Eccond in live days. • Secretary Hull Tells Reporters T r e a t y Signed at Nanking Will Not Affect This Government's Position in China. Washington, Nov. ."JO.—(AP) — Secretary Hull said today that the United State* "of course continues. to recognize" the Chungking govern ment of General Chiang Kai-Shek. ; He made this assertion when re- , porters asked him for comment on the peace treaty between Japan and the Japanese-sponsored Chinese gov- • eminent at Nanking. The secretary of State referred newsmen to what he culled a basic statement made by him to the press on lust March 30 shortly after I he Nanking government was set up. At that time, Hull asserted lhat "the setting up of a new regime at Nanking has the appearance of a futher step in the program of one ; country by armed force to impose its will upon a neighboring country." GREEK DESTROYER SINKS SUBMARINE,; Athens, Nov. 30.—(AP)—The Greek destroyer Aetos was re- j ported to have sunk an Italian submarine by depth hornhin? after the submarine fired two torpedoes at a convoy. The torpedoes at a convoy. The SALFS GAIN Washington. Nov. 30.—CAP)—The federal reserve board estimated to day that department store sales in the week ended November 23 were nine per cent higher than in the cor responding week last year. Some of the comparisons were affected by dif ferent Thanksgiving dates last year and this year. iron Guard Parades In Bucharest Disinterred Bones of Iron Guard Founder Carried Through Streets ; Nanking Treaty Signed; Nazi# Renew London Bomb rng. (I-y The Associated Press.) The disinterred bones of Cornel in Cordreanu. founder of the Rumanian lr«>n Guard who was slain two years :ii!n. were carried in a gold coffin through the streets of Bucharest lo day in a funeral procession ominous in its solemnity and in the absence of Kiny Mihai. For the young king was reported to have fled from the city as reports spiead that the Iron Guard would use this day for further bloody re venges against the men who killed Cornchu. Adolf Hitler and Premier Mus solini were importantly represented in th" funeral procession which wan led by Premier Ion Antonescu. Nanking Treaty Signed. On the other side of the world, in Nanking. .Japan and the Nanking government which it indorsed sign ed a peace treaty to end the 40 months of war in China. Japanese machine guns and war planes guarded the ceremony, but peace was still remote since the pact recognizing President Wang Ching Wei's regime as the national govern ment of China did not affect the ac tivities of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek. who was still carrying on against the invaders. Bucharest Disorders. Strict censorship veiled the report ed disorders in Rumania, where heavy casualties were said to have taken place. Rumanian and German troops were reported concentrating in Bucharest. Carried through the streets with Cordreau's bones were those of 13 of his comrades killed two years ago today when guards charged they tried to esclpe. Their bodies were exhumed Wed nesday when the Iron Guards killed 64 members of the old regime and started the reign of terror which frontier dispatches hinted had brought Rumania to the verge of civil war. Battle of Britain. In the batt'e of Britain. German fighter-bombers ioared toward Lon don today but -Hsibility was poor and only a few raiders broke through the British defenses. The formal recognition of the Wang regime by the Japanese was believed by some observers to be a move designed to give the appear ance that the "China incident" was closed and prepare the public at home !«.!• a possible drive southward toward the rich East Indies. German bombers roared over one district ol London last night at the rate of one every 30 seconds and na/.is said 400 tons of explosives and (Continued on Page Two) Schools For Sabotage Known To FBI New York, Nov. .'iU.—(Ai';—In spector Louis L>. Nichols of the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation says the bureau lues discovered an organized corps of sabotage agents in this country, knows their identity and has its eye on shools where they are trained in tne technique ol destruc tion. In an address to the national in ter-Ira teinTty conference yesterday, the administrative assistant to Di rector .J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI said the saboteurs had been scruti nized by the FBI but they "haven't tried to start anything yet." The FBI. he said, had found that the recent explosions and fires in defense industries had "not been acts of organized saboteurs." FBI agents, he went on. had been sent to the so-called sabotage "schools" t^ obtain first hand infor mation on the technique taught. Nichols charged that "subversive forces" had tried To maneuver the FBI into a position where it would have to make public its informa tion. and added: "N 'thing would plea-e the totali tarian powers more than knowing r-tly the iirformatino we possess concerning their activities."
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