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_ ' »* . ^ ^ .; iimtiiersuu Hatlu Btspatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPE R PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA — ___ 1 mr '.'-SEVENTH YEAR A^rc?ATlPp™Essop HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 2, 1940 PU InxcEPTh jwaktbrwok FIVE CENTS COPY osevelt Le aves For Cruise In Caribbean Area Giant U. S. Bomber Tested for the British ; ::v?n a tost at San Diego, Cal., is one of the 26 long range four-motored Consolidated H--4 bombers, recently released to the British air force. The 20-ton craft has a cruising range of . una a top speed oi' more than 3UU miles an hour. The plane already Le-Wj the British markings. (Central I'reas) I beaten in Riot .ultT Wallace M. Dillon Wallace RI. Dillon, ache for air. in Mex a blow on the head •h occurred in front -•>u.-sy upon arrival •Va ace, vi<*e-president • • e wa» started by '■a:ed Mexican Pres . General Juan • t.i Aiaiazan. T\ ' T b ..-.-ion is * iiiacmbly i>a.!\ J? -.jjuit ii Bureau, Sir Walter Hotel. lii'VSV AVI.KILL. _ -Two schools of ■ io;>mg here over e. .on i»r highway which has been • at.>>ii in numerous . which i- certain to lonr! or another, •-i -ession of the Gen ■ . observers is uond G »■. i-rnor-elect J. M. to make good on v.,.:. but still clear • ' against tiie exist diversion" section oL ii. while at the same -! ">cl on his even more ••' ot a retirment plan er» and for other rt.v.tie> which will : i1 -I ley from the gen group are inclin ' tisiit some sort of di •i'4 clause will, after a t:i• • 19 + 1 legisla e\|>ect that more ' .a- will be placed ti.nds and possi • ratted only under • conditions. ev. held on the di that the Federal ^ ..'M, of bnildini going to make ii a two) Much Depends on Winner in Speakership Race as to Who Will Get Choice Committee Assignments; Com mittees Do Most of Work. Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Hotel. BY HENRY AVERII.L. Raleigh, Dec. 2.—Now that open ins; of the General Assembly is only a month away, there is considerable ^ speculation over identity of the legis-1 la tors who are really going to make ! North Carolina's laws and plan its i financial program for the next two | .« • In theory. t)f course, each one ui | the 170 members has just one vote and is. therefore, on a plane of com plete equality with every other; but it is a matter of common knowledge that, in practice, less than a score actually run the show and control actions of the Assembly. Most potent of all the General As- ! sembly. are the speaker of the House j and the lieutenant governor, presid ing officer in the Senate. They ap-! point the committees which do at: least ninety per cent of the legislat ing. It needs no argument or dia gram. therefore, to demonstrate the power of these two functionaries. In the Senate, the presiding of-i ficer has already been chosen. He J will be Lieutenant Governor Keg ! Harris, and it is he who will name all Senate committees. He's probably working on his slate pretty steadily right now, and should bo able to; name his committees very shortly after the Assembly convenes. Four Would Be Speaker. On the other hand, nobody knows to a certainly who is suing to bo: speaker of the House, and even the active candidates realize they may have to make important "deals"' at I the last minute in order to got elect- : ed by the Democratic caucus, which , ' convenes on the eve of the legisla-! ' ture's formal opening. And so not only the speaker, but' , the committee chairmen and mem- ' bers must. 01 necessity, be now quite! annonymous. The avowed candidates for gavel; wielding are Odus Mull 01 Cleve-i land. George Uzzell ol' Rowan. Jimj Vogler of Mecklenburg and Clarence! Stone of Rockingham, and so one of! tins quartet will be the most power-' ful-figure in the 1941 House, unless! a dark horse should slip in at the j last minute, so to speak. Paradoxically enough, while one of these chaps now in the limelight will be the House "ace" the other three will go practically to the foot of the class after the caucus, unless the race is so close, that one or more of them has to be "dealt with" by the eventually victorious candidate. Bryant Stages "Comeback." A defeated candidate for speaker usually gets little or no consideration from his successful rival, and his stature in the House shrinks accord ingly. Two years ago, as an example. Victor Bryant, of Durham, got no real recognition from Libby Ward. He was saved from complete House oblivion only by the fact, which couldn't be escaped even by his worst enemies, that he knew more about the revenue bill and the State s financial program than any other 1 member of the finance committee. (Continued on Page Two) Probe U. S. Entry Fred B. A. Finkeldey Immigration authorities, the FBI and naval authorities are investi gating illegal entry into the United States of Fred Bernhardt Adolph Finkeldey, wealthy, sabre-scarred German engineer, held in San Fran cisco. It is charged he walked across the border about live miles east of Calexico on the Mexican border. Germans Will Restore Order For Rumania On the Hungarian-Rumanian Fron tier, Dec. 2.—(AP)—Four fresh German divMoils were moving ! through Hungary enroute to Ru mania today reports trickling across die border tdd of increasing | tinaifliy iniouynoiu tnai country. Unconfirmed repoi :s from Buch arest said lite additional German troops would attempt to restore older there and in other large Ru manian cities, where iron guard ex tremi.-ls have taken bloody revenge 011 officials ot tliu oi:.-.ted regime of former King Carol II. Four division, mean approximate ly (50,000 men. German strength in Rumania had previously boen esti mated as high as 500,000. A parade ir. Bitch To s; of a Ger man motorized division was inter preted in Hungary as a warning that German leaders are prepared to re store order in strife-ridden Ruman ia unless tiie Rumanians do it them selves. King Mihai brought up the rear of the parade. He had been reported in border reports last week to have fled Bucharest as a result of iron guard disorders in the Rumanian capital. President is t n r lo He bone For 2 Weeks Only an Emergency Will Call Chiet Jbiack from Recreational and Inspectional Cruise; Sees Leahy as Envoy to France. Washington, Rcr. ?--'AP>—The White House announced t!">:•! Presi dent Roosevelt would leave Wash ington today on a trm the destina tion of which wail net rnntvmced, but which was expected t" !ai>e him to Miami. Florida, and from there on a defense inspection and recreational cruise into the C*»r5,°::;;n Sea. Stephen Early, White House nres sccretarv. said the chief evcutive, fol • lowing a conferenr"» v-ith Admiral William Leahy, ambasador-designate tn France. .*:pd the ' '.'V V"T of ° few papers. would leave the White House to board a train for an unannounced destination. Early said Mr. RooseveH expected to be gone from the cno'tal until tin week beginning December Ifi. "unless seme emergency demands his return earlir." Th secretary said it wo* "prettv well known" where Mr. Roosevelt was going, but ii:ni he could make no official announcement. Another Big Powder Plant Is Blasted Tacoma, Wash., Dec. —(AP) —An explosion 01 sutficient in tensity to shako much 01 Ta coina damaged much ot the Co lumbia Powder Compan yplant at FrederieKson early today. I nder Sheriff Clyde rinowies said four men were believed to have been in the building. Company officials denied im mediate comment. It could not be determined immediately whether the com pany was engaged on national defense contracts. It was the second powder blast in the Tacoma area in a week.. Last Thursday t biavK powucr plant blew up at !)uPont works south ot Tacoma. Ii was report ed to be an accident. No one was injured, but windows were cracked within a lourtccn-milc radius. Coast Guard Ends Search For Ihree Drowned In River Washington, N. C\. Doc. i;.— (AP) —The Coast Guard has abandoned scarch for the bodies i>l thrcj hunt ers believed to have diovpjd on Wednesday night in the Pamlico riv r nar here. The body of a iourth member ol the party, Var.ee Hor ner, Washington ma<:hi:i;.-i, was re eovcred Friday. Tho-e mis.ing are Jack Lee. Washington, and Charles E. Cutler and Mack L. V/ooIard, both farmers oi near Balm. Yugoslavia Soon To Join Axis Ring After Conference Budapest. Hungary. Dec. 2.— (AP)—Authoritative diplomatic circles here said today that a se cret week-end conference be tween Adolf Hitlr and Foreign Minister Alkasander Sincar-Tlar kovic in Berlin had prepare d the way for Yugoslavia to join the tri-partite treaty. The meeting was ^aid to 'jave ironed out details for Yugoslavia to follow Hungary, Rumania and Slovakia, who have already been added to the German-Italian Japanese ten-year military and economic accord. {jJaalkvh FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, slightly colder in ea'f portion tonight; Tuesday partly cloudy: colder in extreme west portion Tuesday afternoon or night. Britain Keeps Her Word C. P. Radiophoto Britain lives up to her promise of all possible aid to Greece in her fight against invading Italians, and here we see the first contingent of fully armed British soldiers disembarking1 at a Greek port. Swift British aid of men, equipment and planes is said to have greatly aided the Greek rout of the Italians. Anti-Aircraft Center At ilmington Is Ordered Lewis' Goal For Labor Is Third Party Resigned Head of CIO Has iSot Gone Into Ob livion by Retirement From That Office; May Build Around Non-Partisan Group _____ By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Pre<s Columnist Washington, Dee. 2.—John L. Lou- ; is' present objective is well known to be the creation of a third political party of national proportions. He ; suggested the idea some time before our last presidential election, but didn't get around to ] an attempt to real ize them. Probably j he hit on the notion too late—hadn't a > sufficient interval i to get an organiza tion going before , November 5. Now j he has lour years ahead of him, with in which to develop nis plan. When John prom- . ised to quit as C. I. O. head, if Frank- j lin D. Roosevelt i were re-elected, | John L. Lewis some of his pretty faithful follow ers figured that he'd eliinbed overly far out on the limb. Today's in- ■ dications are that he'd calculated j very thoughtfully. If Wendell Will- j kie had won. his limb would have i been all right. If it cracked under him. he'd be in a position to land j in his third party hanging basket. ' It isn't altogether certain that he j isn't glad it did crack, he's fixed to j proceed with the scheme he had in mind all along. Presumably Lewis' policy will be j to build his prospective new party j around the framework of Labor's ' Non-Partisan League Hi< surrender of his C. I O. nominal leadership didn't amount to much. It didn't (Continued on Page Two) To Cost $9,000,000 and Provide for 20,000 Men, With Complete Base Planned; To Be Ready for Use About March 15. Washington, Doc. 2.—(AP)—The War Department announced today that it had authorized construction ol' a $9,000,000 anti-aircraft firing center in the vicinity of Wilmington. N. C. Officials said that the construc tion to be erected on leased land would provide housing and facilitie for six white and two Negro regi ments of the Coast Atrillcry. These unit* will be .semi-mobile anti-air craft regiments. An announcement said that only land sufficient in area for the can tonment proper would be leased. Firing will be over water on the adjacent coast line, it was explain ed. and the procurement of land for a firing range was not, therefore, necessary. The department said the approxi mate construction cost would be S9, 000.000. but that contracts had not yet been awarded for thi- work. The announcement said it was contem plated that he firing center would be ready for occupancy about March 15. 1941. Buildings to be constructed in clude barracks, nies.- halls, day rooms a service club: utility, administrative (Continued on Page Two) Southampton Again Hit By German Air Raiders London, Dec. 2.—(AP)—South ampton. Britain's vital south coast port again was singled out by Ger man air raiders last night as the "main objective" of their aer'al on slaughts on England. A government communique af firming a German report that South ampton. once the main port of call for trans-Atlantic liners, was the principal target of raiders for the second successive night, s-'ud "a num ber of fires wen' caused .but they were :>1! under control h. (Lybicak." Earlier censors had rcliMd to :<m mit identification oi the t iwn .• ,ci di.-patches called it a "iuutn cujtt town." The Lisiti.-li said then, how ever. thiil casualties were expected to be lighter than in the violent on slaught on Southampton Saturday night. when the port. 80 miles south west of London, got its worst attack of the win'. British bombers, ineanwhiie. at tacked objectives at Lorient and Brest, in France, and also in Nor way and Denmark. the air ministry said. London had a "loo rilfit" night, the iii--l ail cl' ji coiiiirj fiiii*ly early. . n(i the >ocond mioii !'?•* . nidnight Tht/ • 1ci i _ period- wnr m;rkeu Oy if a \ y anti-oi erait narrate . Huge Gap In Line is Left By Italians General Retreat, In cluding Fresh Divi sions -Just Arrived at Front, Results; Vic tory Hailed as Very Important. Alliens, Gp'oco. D'V (AIM- - C*a pi uiv i<l :".(!()'» Italians. the largest mass iii" prisoner:-- yet taken by iho Creel, sinny. was announced today from the northern front Their urrender, dispatche; said, was the signal for a general retreat of other Italian forces in the area, leaving a huge gap in the Italian cen ter Fresh Italian troops rushed to bol ; ster sagging defense lines earlier had | been reported being smashed back with the regiments they came to re inlorce. and Hie Greeks claimed "im portant" new advances all along the Albanian battle front Mention of the exact place whese the I ron I was reported smashed was forbidden by military authorities. They permitted mention merely that [ it was in the north. One front line report said "the vic tory. without exaggerations, is of ex ceptional importance, for the enemy line in this sector has been destroy ed. and all danger eliminated for us." Dispatches from the front and statements by a Greek spokesman pictured the fighting line at the start of the sixth week of war as swing ing like a door 'toward the Adriatic from a hinge on the Albanian coa t hist north of the Greek frontier to Lake Ochnda on the Yugoslav fron tier. Stillest Italian resistance was re ported near that hinge around Ar gircoastro. In the central sector, liie Greek high command announced the cap ! ture of • points of special importance I for the development of operations" around Premet, eighteen miles north , of the Greek frontier. Tar Heel Is Dead, Another Hurt In Car •W.vpoi I. Triii!., Dec. 1'-—(AI';— M ui ic.' Irirdman, SI, ol (Jreens boro, N. president nl a laundry machine company there, was killed ;n;d ;i companion, W. 1'. Silica th, GoJd.sboro, N. I'.. laundry <peratov, was s: rioii |y injured in an automo bile acrid# i:t yesterday four mile:; west of lien- on the Knoxvillc road. (t i' I Mi puty Dallas Sch ults .-aid tin- men !:;»<i employed an automo bile driver to take them to Ashe vill''. and that en route the car ap parently got oil the pavement and o.<i tinned in passing another vc hirle. Tlie men were on their way by plane from Hot Springs, Ark., where they iiad .-pint several days, but weather conditions groundde the plane n Knoxville. Sehults said it was raining at the time of the acci dent. and the roads were slippery. He said the (hived, whose name he did not diselo.se, was being held on a t'ciinical charge o (manslaughter, al though "it sec :ns to have been en tirely aecxJental." VSineath's condition was described at a hospital here today as critical. P'reidinan's body was taken to G :eensbf.ro.
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