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Hettitersnn Uatly Uispatrb ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA V-SEVENTH YEAR WaSffi®!* HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 3, 1940 ah?kkx..« FIVE CENTS COPY I rilish Shipping Is Hard Hil ******* ¥**$**# 4i * # *****#*****• i sfense Spending Doubles In Five Months K i is Far B ad That jfc; • <j'P 5C ted ■jr PvnlitaryEx for VVar and apartments To 1.5,233,578; Con nal Probe of , 7 Indicated. \P >—The | •<u:>y that do-! more than dou e . >nth> of the : » nan .Tuly l. v expenses of the ■ : t'' enN totaled >n!:nued the defense NptndiriL. " ' i! f v the pre . y SlT7.391.Tt;I. • ' St p;»Mr.hei' £21T. »iiii CIO LOUSv* y £:.243.M4.933. : ' • • .vl.olW.OOO, t.seal year. t-Kin double to'.- similar months of . : i.-i-al year. ori ?(>;• the largest . t- ti>tiu ot S3.98T. •-e » i-'-'-t 11 y live months. Reve -d were S2.184.337. . oi' SI.803.058, .... ; c :oct last year, were higher, the .'{ 'i n C>"': * • inaKe up for the; i o..>.'.-ted the public; bsri" 3:' t1» S44.2T2. t-;d that Congress check up on the pro program before im • . y knife on non v ■. - next year. a» j ■ has suggested. . ierat. Virginia, j • had urged j aeti' n in the newj • lit) set up a na- j :v committee' er.-.'cers selected nal, military and boro Gets Vnnnt League Base ball Outfit -. ;>e. :j._(AP)— Of-1 fist that Greens-1 \'o;ky .Mount in! .^ .<• will be made: • *.!:» ;n Atlanta this j I • nnock. director of | Sox farm system . '>.(• Iranchise here lf'i>honed the news to yomg into . .f'fftrd by Pen t . py of available -•;;m j and Virginia. pula'ion in this iM-i of ;i class B "* the decision to < year* of operation Nv pv, \ , V, age-Hour Law Protest i> of Southern File Brief With me Court, Con t ng Legality. r3.-1AP)- An •I- • ior:r n» it Fed Arli.in:str;ition «>r ■ urn <>t" 32.5 » fur textile workers ' undoing'* of a "good v.t- >• ;ilI mills of the iii.-tde tod;iv in a Supreme court ' itht'in textile com v .iiid practical effect ••rder .rr to have the <•'i t- the far reach t: .s experiment are . I' Seven.) As Camacho Took Office C. P. Phone photo General Manuel Avila Camacho is shown (top) making his intasrural address as President of Mexico. He placed his republic beside the U. S. and all other American nations in the common cause of hemisphere defense. Pictured (lower) listening to the speech are (left to right) U. S. Vice President-elect Henry A. Wallace, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels and Don Francisco Castillo Najero, Mexico's ambassador to Washington. Britain Orders 60 II Ships Built In U. S. Train Collision In Spain Fatal To Lar^e Number Znrago/a, Spain. Doc. — (AT i—Fifty-three bodies were reported taken today from the wreckage of two express trains that collided at a way station between Madrid and Barcelona, and it was feared the toll might so even higher. The accident occurrcd during the coldest weather of the sea son Some victims, weakened with loss of blood, v ere reported to have perished from cold. The accident was declared due to failore to throw :» switch. Running at ton speed, the ex press from Barcelona to the cap ital wa< reported to have plow ed into U'<* waiting express from Madrid at the Veelilla do Kbru station, overturning one locomo tive and splintering wooden cars. lOsjaik&ti FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair and ci-ldcr: hard freeze in interior tonight: Wednesday fair and continued cold. ! "Every thing Possible' Being Done To Get: Ships'' to Meet Menace ! of Axis Raids on Ship ping, Cross Tells Com-1 ncns. , '^5* i London. Dec. ?•.— (AD —Sliip | ping Minister Ronald H. Cross in- i ! formed the boose of commons loday « I lhat I'rifain had placed orders for , I construction ol' fill cargo vessels in < i the United States and in addition : would evontinue to purchase serv ; ice.tble American ships. Cross assured the bouse that "ev i erything possible is tiring done to I get ships" 1<> imo'"! th«» menace of ! "\ts raids on .-hipping—Britain's I iri'st uracil) problem at th*- moment.1 ()!d but s< rv iccahl" ('nited States! ; vessels. including vs'-ds belonging j ?i> the maritime commission. have j been and will «•»:•>»in«'«•• to be pur- ! chased IV r the Uritish flag as oppor i polity offers, Cro^s said. Deputy l/.-sidcr Clement A\f tlee, answering a question, said he was ] not aware of anv proposal for eith- j er definite or implied union with ( ^Continued on Page Twnl North Carolina's Uas lax Collections In November Reach Record For All Time Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. By IIEXRY A1 FRILL Raleign. Dec. 3. In November the State of North Carolina for the firs! time collected us much as two and a half million dollars in gasoline taxes, The exact figure was S2.56'0.6(>5.01 It was an all-time high for a month's collections: and the thirc month in a row in which the exist ing high has been sent even higher The September collections of $2. 358.')82.6ti were the best ever up t< that time. The October receipts wenl , to $2,463,81)5.01 and now Novembei has topped them all. ! Best previous was the $2,357,523. I ."»> It«.tc-d in September, 1WJ. j Iii view of the :;t neral increase in | tax collections til ail kinds in Xurth ! Carolina. ;T wn< n > urprise that Oc j tober and Xi>v<'i' '.-or exceeded the ; corresponding months of the previous I ye:it*. b»:i there v.;-s surprise that ' both months reversed a long estab I lished trend. In former years gasoline tax col 1 lections have been hitting a peak in September, only to tail off. even if only slightly, lor the test of the year; but 1940 has gone the other way. j For instance, in 1938. the Septcm bei collections were S2.190.00t) (us j ing only round figures from here on), j October's were $2,124,000, and No (Continued un Page Seven) Roosevelt To Embark At Miami Official Secrecy! Shrouds Detaiis of Trip for Rest, Fish, and Information on Defenses of Panama Canal and Coasts. Miami, Dee. — (AIM—Pres ident Roosevelt hoarded the cruiser Tu.sealoos today and em barked into the Caiihhran with little idea, he said, where the voyage might take him. lie indicated, however, that i the trip had a serious purpose by telling a press conference that there would be very little fishing. He did not confirm or deny that he might 1 sites for naval and air bases acquired from England or that he might show up at at exercises of units of the Atlantic patrol squadron j and marines near Puerto Rico. Aboard Roosevelt Train En Route] o Miami. Dee. 3.—(AP) —President I ?oosevelt rode down the Atlantic j eaboard toward Miami today to sail 1 nto the Caribbean in search of rest, j ish and information on defenses vi al to the protection of s!i» Panama ! -anal and segments >>t the North j nd South American coasts. Tlie cruiser ^Tuscaloosa wailed at | klianii with two escort destroyers to al-ce him on a trip whose details | till were an official secret. There was little expectation that lie President would make a syste- ! natic checkup on all the South At- | antic and Caribbean sites for naval j ind air bases acquired from Great i Britain. But it was understood he ■ night inspect some of them. And here was a possibility that he might urn up for maneuvers of units of the ; \tlantic patrol force near Puerto! ?ico next week. Speculation on the fin! si';* which lie Chief Executive PM?ht look ' iver center on Jamaica, where a fleet j inchorage is to be e tabli-h^d. While there has been nothing more ban rumors that war vessels of Eu- , opean belligerents have been nper-1 11ina in the Caribbean and South ! Ulantic special precaution were or-' lered. j Gun crew; 'jr the Tuscaloosa and, he destroyers will maintain a con-j ;tnnt watch with the guns loaded , vtih live munitions. Depth charges wMI he i^ndv 1o 1 •oil orr the "fantaiN" «>f the dc troyers. And at ni«M -not lieht* j «.il| nlay on the I'uitcd States ling-; j >11 all three ships. U. S. Pilots | Fly Planes To Britain Baltimore, Dec. 3.—TAP)— Forty \merican pilots are making regularj nass deliveries of American bombers o England without molestation from Herman nazis. one of them disclosed | :oday. and are taking the ships across, the icy North Atlantic at high at- j :itude in approximately ten hours. George R. Hutchinson asserted that j egular deliveries had been made since early November and that none >f the pilots had encountered Ger man opposition. Seven high speed Lockheed-Hud son bombers were delivered in the | I'irst flight last month, he said. His j \ Continued on Pajje Seven i Saved as U. S. Ship Hit Mine a—i^l • C. P. I'ltonephat* Overjoyed to be safe ashore again, these sailors of the American freighter CUji »f Iidiivillc arc pictured in San Francisco. Their ship, lir^t I . S. vessel to be sunk in the war. struck a mine o!T Australia. One man of the crew of 38 was lost. Airlines Release Engines To Army Governor Studies Murderers' Cases' ___' Raleigh. Dee. 3.—(AP)—Gover- j nor Hoev studied the cases today of ! Zedekiel Smith and Noah Cureton. i Negroes who were sentenced to be executed Friday for murders. Smith was convicted in Sampson county and Cureton in Mecklenburg county. Cureton was convicted of! kil'ing John William llenniken last July and Smith was sentenced in the slaying of William Daniel. I Cold Wave Sets Record At Least Three Deaths Attributed to Freezing Air Mass Moving East-! ward. M'.y The Associated Press.) A '""id wits'' sped through (ho mid-' rllo wt'.«l today, leaving in its wake *11 l«>a-t three dead. creating hazards; r.n hi»«livviiys antl city streets. audi driving ihe mercury down to ;i!I time; low readings fc»r tlic date in several | communities. The freezing air mass penetrated! swiftly ea.-Uvnrd and distressing consequences already have been re ported in Pennsylvania. New York state and New England. The north central states bore the brunt of the severe weather-assault.; (Continued on Page Seven.) Consignment of En gines Already Deliv ered to Airlines Makes Possible Com pletion of Unspecified umber of Planes. Washington. Doc. 3.— (AIM—'Hie army's warplane program got an im mediate boost today in the form of .some badly needed aircraP engines. The nation's air transport line.-, agreed to turn over to the air corps a consignment of new engines or- > dered some time ago for commerial 'use and already delivered TVie consignment will make possible the immediate completion of ;m nil specified number of military planes. The commercial flying firms also agreed to release to the military service during 1941 appi n\imatelv , $7,.Kill,000 worth of equipment which the airlines had ordered with ' a view of expanding their services The development was in I in" with President IJoo^evelt's recently (feniiM'-fJ on Page Seven.) FOUR Wr A WUKKfcKS DIE IN ACCIDENT Benton. III. Dee. 3.—(AIM f'n:r IVJ'A workers were killed and 12 ilhers were injured, six serioii .ly, tvhen ;i truck t;ikin;; them to \v.s:: | ivas struck by a one-car motor train icrc early today. The victims were riding to a road project just south of this city when ' Lite truck was struck .it a crossing by the Egyptian Zephyr of the C. i& E. I. Railroad. Although the train was derailed ind damaged extensively, none of the passengers nor members of the train crew were injured. North Carolina Among States Gaining In House Washington. Dec. 3.— (AP) —Re-,! porting a continued "westward move- 1 merit" ol population matched by heavy gains in the South, the census, ; bureau advised President Roosevelt 1 today that, on the basis of the 1940 census. California was entitled to : thiee additional seats in the Mouse of j Representatives and seven other 1 states to one more each. Ten states, most of them in the ' Mississippi valley area, each would i lose one of their House memberships. All the calculations were based on ' existing apportionment laws and liiuii tabulation of returns from last April's census which showed a total i population of 131.669.275. This fig- ■ lire was slightly higher than a '"ten tative" vount released some week* igo by tin.' census bureau. The 1930 rensus counted 122.77.').04(5. States listed for gains of one House eat each were: Arizona. Florida. Michigan. New Alex ice. North Caro ina. Oregon and Tennesse. States witn si'mila" losses: Arkar as. Illinois, Indiana. I own. Kansas. Massachusetts, Nebraska, Ohio. Okla loma and Pennsylvania. The reapportionment would apply o the 78th Congress convening Jan jary 3, 1943. The apportionment worked out hy he census bureau will apply auto naticallv unless Congress act.- witii n 60 days alter receipt of the Presi dential message to change the pn> ?nt highly complicated legal formula ?o\<-rning the distribution of House Nazis Claim 18 Merchant Ships Sunk Suggestion of Christ mas T ruce Turned Down By Churchill Last Week; Other War New- Includes Report of Greek Drive, (By The Associated Press* Afi.l German claims ■ >! inflicttii*x hi- greatest wholesale destruction of l!riti.-li slsippiij»i in lin» war 18 ves iC'|s torpedoed I»v n.'izi U-boa'«s ve> "ifl.i.v London officials .said today t a lns c. in November t<>t:<icd only •bi'iil liiu *iliii(l hi Hit' figure iit the height ui Germany's "sink uii sigh!" campaign in tlie World War. Tlii' London ministry ol informa lion said U27.1f)7 tons of shipping ivas sunk during the lour weeks end ing November 24 and compared tlii. ;vitli tile 881.(10(1 tons sunk during April. Ii) 17. when Kaiser Wilhelm's unre. trieted U-boat attacks reached their pea!; It was in that month thai Britain was reported to have i.nly :i weeks food supply left Pope Pius XII urged the warring nations today in observe a Chri-tmas truce to keep "the clash of arms from drowning out tlie angel choru; >f peace." 1/ en as his appeal went out. the Germans announced that nazi U boats yesterday sank 18 shins total ing 148.247 tons and probably two •lliers totaling Hi.OOO tons in slash ing inroads on Britain's vital sca lorne commerce. The pope asked the belligerents to call a Christmas truce ".spon taneously or by mutual accord" :o hat "new bloodshed may not dis turb or miserably extinguish the heavenly joy of that hour." Only las! wee!; Winston Churchill rejected a suggestion in the British muse of commons that an attempt >e made to arrange a Christinas ruce. British Admit Sinkings. The London admiralty acknow edged that 22 merchant ships to taling 87.117.) tons were sunk "by •nemv action" in the week ending November 24—or 24,000 tons above the weekly average since the start tf the war. "It is a seriou menace." 'a British laval spokesman admitted, "but as i nation we can take knocks." 14 A F I! a ids. British bombers in far-reaching li^iil raid- struck at Naples, on the Italian west coast. Augusta, Italian laval base in Sicily, and pounded he German U-boat base ol Loricnl (Continued on Page Seven) Greeks Pass Porto Edda Advance on Left Wing Paces New Gains All Along Albanian Bat tlefront. Athene !><•'•. CAP) The Greek left wing. reported to have smashed past Poll'I Kdda. wa> said today to be paring wide new gains nil along I lie- battlel'ront and threatening to ingulf tli" l;i.-i I!;ili;m lighting force in .southern Albania. The high command reported Greek -hock tioops won new mountain heights north of Premet in a thrust into central Albania and north of Pogradetz in drive down the road toward Klba.anl. near the Albanian fapilal on 111'' right wing, but a government spokesman termed the left wing advance the "most impor tant." There, the spokesman said, "the enemy retreated to the heights around IJelvino and has pa.->t. in depth. Santi Quaranta.'' That is the port the Italian- re named Porto Kdda lor Premier Mu. solini'- daughter. Tin Greeks apparently I ad not broken Italian resistance in the sec tion immediately around the port but indicated fascist troops there might be cut off. The high command de clared the road linking the port with Argiioca.-tro. i.~> miles northeast, iiad been placed under Greek lire. In the cenval and north sectors the hish command reported more urison<v had been taken and started along the roads back into Gieece. al ready said to have b« en traveled by .:.on than 13.000 di.armcd Italian-. )
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