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"CNDttftSOM a Henterami Batly Htspairff ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPE R PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA '/-SEVENTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C„ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 5, 1940 publ,supSklpvx^A7ern'uon FIVE CENTS COPY P,on Voyage, Mr. Roosevelt! C. P. Phonephoto V,. ^ famous Roosevelt smile, the President waves to the crowd w v - • o:T ar Miami. Kla.. at the start of his Caribbean trip ? r >scfil<>o*n. The President said the voyace was strictly L ':> ;$! sources said the cruise will probably include an .^■'•vtion of British-American naval base sites. Crash Of Airliner Takes Eight Lives Eight Others Injured as United Airlines Plane Crashes and Bursts Into Flames .Near Chicago Munici pal Ai-port. • .» -AP)—Tin- death ■ men brought t'> • .<■ persons killed 'ed Airlines plane ;ntcipal airport, i were injured. •: survivors and an ; eekane. invosti- i e :;>';ination for the j •:rrod when the : inbound ;<! r>«*rri nose first ' . • n (vnit '.?"<» yards! • ;ib<.u: p. :n. last! ■ ' \i- biy craft •m sp.-v»d when r: • U . ci dropped • !;">() feet. a three-story _ nke ; n electric '• ;ori the gable • >f i i< oli-hed a frame ■nil to a stop. j .* t! <• smashed it struck the ■ • extinguished ron fined to the > • The pilot. <"> • . v.'frc drafi ff ini the wrcck Rockwell Savs It's A 4/ Machine War >< :» ' AI') I'aid A •' Carolina v titer and who ha served in • "i»n I .»'i»ion in three • <•;.!<• so much about •:11><•* because '"it is a i bu>in«»:s—just like • : • .■ of Marion. S. id the "stunning Kc-nch army as a • !•': '-rich foreign gen • ■ • ii rt< d this week with rott'-n polities'' uti i considered the in the world. first served the • last World War. then ■ Rift campaign in ««ist February he • » his • adopted" coun • '•'! a uniform attain. •'I ?h«- works of Former ind Pierre Cot. avia '■ . ior part of the French ■ fi that despite French ■ '. ■II would break out. • • " <-nt modern military ■ r.'i supplies to Spain to ■ "•-is" light Franco. drain '•I equipment at a vital • •.d. "the flower of the ■a< rushed to Belgium i ;.nd cut off by the en i>n.ik through at the Roosevelt At Jamaica Aboard 1". S. S. .Ma.vrant. at Kingston, Jamaica. Dec. b—(AIM —President Roosevelt today ar rived at this British West In dies possession—site of a new 1". S. defense base—on his cruise in waters south of the United States. Except for word that the is land's governor would lunch with the President aboard the cruiser Tuscaloosa, no announce ment was made of President Roosevelt's plans. The stop here, however, indi cated further than one purpose of the voyage would be to in spect sites for United States air and naval bases obtained from the British in return for 50 Cnited States destroyers. Selectees Take Oaths Oath of induction Into Army Given to 27 North Carolinians at Ceremonies. KaycMev ill?-, —(Al'j The oath i>f induct ion into the Army was given today fo 27 North Carolina :^lrct"f.\s. assist ed to Fort Biagg for a year'-; training, in a colorful eere iii"iiv in Cumberland county court house that .isscmbled many notables which included Governor tfoey. The men. Riven the oath today by Lieut. Colonel J. Edward Kwart, commander ol the recruiting recep tion center at Fort Bragg, were part ol trainees who arrived yesterday Irom 18 North Carolina counties. Other will be inducted after they have passed th«s physical examina. tion Twenty-seven of the first 2!) passed, which was termed a fine i showing by army otlicials. Governor Iloey told the trainees that they should be proud and hon ored to be the list selected t • defend , their country il that was necessary. He said that they were following in j the footsteps of their fathers and that this country, while not wanting war. would not sacrifice itself on the i altar of appeasement. ! Other speakers included Majoi i General J. L. Devers. commander ol ; Fort Braggv and Adjutant Genera I J. Van M. Mctts of North Carolina After the ceremony Governoi ' Hoev reviewed the 9th Division. LOeathcfi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, occasional light rains this afternoon and in extreme east portion tonight: colder ex treme west portion tonight: Fri- ■ day partly cloudy, slightly cold er on the r?»ast. Italians Flee Bases I ********** ***** * #****♦**»» Commons VotesDownPeaceProposal v v . u v « at Jft jc it * a i Laborites Offer Motion To End War House of Commons Votes 341 to 4 Against | Proposal to Seek Peace ''If Necessary, in a Spirit of Compromise" I •( I >e<\ f». (AP)-A silent disapproving house of commons re jected by an overwhelming vote of .'<41 In 4 a motion hv three members of the Independent L;il)or parly to day that Britain state her war aims and seek pence immediately "if nec essary, in a spirit of compromise" be cause. they said, "there is no cer tainty of a great military victory." The vote followed quickly the pre sentation of the motion by .J. Mc (.lovern. Campbell Stephen and .fames Max ton. all from Glasgow. Supporting the trio, Samuel Silver I man, Liverpool Laborite, declared ; the moment defined by Prime Minis | ter Winston Churchill as the time ; for the statement of peace aims— : "when we have convinced the world I of our capacity to survive"—now had j arrived. The authors of the motion .ire members ol the extreme leftist wing of the labor party. Declaring that peace efforts "arc not discernible," McGovern said: ••'1 the war goes on—as it is likely to do if the forces in operation today have their way without any attempt to end it—until February of next year. I exjject that there will be in tensive bombing from this country and if that is so the large reserves which Germany has been piling up will be utilized for the purpose of subjecting every industrial city in this country to a Coventry raid." Prime Minister Churchill was ab sent as the three Laborites demanded that Britain's war aims be stated and called for "restoration of freedom in each country, the establishment of a new social order which would mean the end of German, British and other imperialism Jind provide a decent home and standard of life for each family in every country of the world." RAILROADS SEEK TO END SERVICE | Raleigh. Dec. 5.—(AP)—The At j lantie Coastline railroad completed presentation of testimony today at tin: Utilities Commission hearing on its application to discontinue eight passenger trains in the eastern part of the state. Tomorrow, witnesses for the pro lestants. towns ;md counties in the affected .'ire.iv. will tell their side and indications wrrc the hearing would run until Saturday or into next week. One after another officials of the railroad company testified to details of cost and operation and revenues received l»y the eompnny. The railroad conlends it is losing moij^y operating the four trains and ttiat it. is losing money on its entire system and cannot afford to continue operation of the branch lines at a loss. Hutton Dies | At Charleston i | New York, Dec. 5.—(AP)—Kraklyn j i L. Hutton. broKer and father ot Bar- j 1 bara ilutton, Wool worth 5 and 10 j ■ cent stoic heiress, died at 12:30 p. m I today at Charleston, S. C., his at j torneys announced here. His daughter, the Countess Ilaug I wit/.-Keventlow. Hew to Charleston j I from the west coast recently because j of Mutton's illness. Their relation- i ship had been very close. He was in Paris for her elaborate | wedding to the late Prince Alexis I Mdivani and went to London to be j with her at the time her romance was | breaking up. It was repo. "ed he ! tried to effect ;i reconciliation but i his efforts failed and the couple was divorced in 1935, Barbara later mar 1 lying the Danish count Haugwitz ; Revcntlow. The heiress and County Haugwitz Reventlow subsequently parted and their divorce is nearly final. Hutton's first wife—and Bar bara's mother—was Miss Edna Wool worth. She died several years ago and Hutton married a Detroit di vorcee. the former Irene Curley Brtld". River Project Revived New District lis Favored i i i ■ Broughton Says He Will Recommend Cre ation of Twelfth Con gressional District. , Washington, Dec. r». f AI * > (iov ernor-Elecl .J. M. Broughton of North | Carolina, said lodny hp would rec ommend creation of ;i now congress ! ional district in that. slate lor the I twelfth representative to which it is eneitled by the I040 census. Broughton, hero to address the North Carolina Democratic Club of Washington at a reception in his honor tonight, said in an interview that, he believed thi.-> plan would be better than having a representative at huge, as a f«'W stairs row have. Broughton s;;id the problem of es ' tablishing a new district would have to be worked out by tli»; Legislature on the basis of population. He added he had no definite idea at this time as to how it could be worked out, but said the tenth dis trict which include the city of Char lotte and several thickly populated counties now had nearly 500.000 peo ple. or about 200.000 above the aver age for congressional districts. GRAND JURY GOES TO WORK ON PROBE OF 1940 ELECTION i Washington. Dec. f>. —(AP)—A I specially designated federal grand ■ jury went to work today in an in vestigation of possible frauds and ir regularities in the 1940 election cam paign. Oliver A. Quayle. treasurer of the Democratic national committee, was the first witness. Several listed for testimony, including Chairman Ed ward J. Flyhn of the Democratic na tional committee and Joseph W. Mar tin, Jr., of the Republican national committee, were not present be | cause summons had not been served. Five-Y ear DefenseOutlay At 35 Billions Washington, ■">. (AP)— An expenditure "I S^").(too,(kki.no(i dur ing the next live years would he re quired. it was estimated today, to carry out the national preparedness program as now formulated. The sum is double the amount #»|" appropriations and authorization i made thus far by Congre x for mili tary defense. Thr $:<.r).(Kl0.nri(l.riOO estimate, the first from official source projecting defense plans that far into the fu ture, was marie by a commit tee of Agriculture department economists in a report entitled "The Impael of the War and the Defense Program on Agriculture." The report stated that it was possible to make only "rough" esti mates of the possible magnitude of the defense program at this time. It added, however, that "additional un favorable developments" in the world situation might result in ihe projection of "an even more ambi tious program." "During the five calendar years beginning with 1941 it will require probably about $35,000,000,000 to care for the defense program as now projected, or around .$25,000,000,000 in excess of the 1939-40 rate of ex penditure (for all government pur poses) before the defense program was inaugurated." the report said. Low Prices May Cause Kentucky .Market Closing l/)i:K villo. Deo. 5.— (AD — With Kentucky tobacco markets open only two days (Lexington three days) the Bourbon County Farm Buroau at Paris moved to day to suspend sales Friday be <•?"*'> <it dissatisfaction at pre vailing prices. A three-member committee named lis! night meets today to ask I he local market to close Fridav and urged similar action by other markets. A general meeting to which farmers warehousemen and oth er interested parties have lx»en invited will i»e held at Paris Sat urday afternoon to discuss pos sible methods of lettering prices. Figures compiled by the state Department of agriculture and the I'liited States Agricultural marketing service show that 14, 374,520 pounds have sold at the markets at an average of 17.85 a hundred pounds. The statewide average dropped ofi cents yesterday, however, on the sale of 6,487,726 pounds for •SI.132,182.57. The average was S17.15, compared with S17.81 on the day before. Italian Fliers Blast At Greek Forces Rome, Doc. 5.—(AP)—The Ital ian air force was reported by the high command today to have smash ed fiercely at the Greeks' counter in vasion route into Albania, concen trating on bombing of the Premct Tarati highway. (Concentration of bombardment on this stretch of road between the bor der town of Tarati and Premet, which the Greeks claim to have cap tured, indicated an intense effort io halt or impede a Greek advancc beyond Premet. (A Greek thrust about 20 miles beyond Premet, west and slightly (Continued on Page Four) Lady Astor Tells American Fliers Britain Can't Fail London, Dec. 5.—(AP)—11. a fight-in# speech to the F,aglc squadron <>] American volunteers in the royal air force, American-born Lady As tor declared today that the "British empire backed by (he United States cannot fail.' She predicted that the ,-anic 3" American volunteers now training for active service alongside British fliers would be followed by "thou sands •>(' others." "America should know that this is really the greatest, hour of trial in the history of the English speak ing people," said Ijady Astor, a na Ivie of Virginia. "They may not know it. but it's tln-ir turn next." Turning to the young Americans organized into a volunteer air force by Colonel Charles Sweeney, Lady A^tor exclaimed: "1 knew they would come- Thou sands of young Americans are long ing to get into this war. It is right that they should. "As Sherman said, war is hell," she said. "But it is more terrible than the civilization we think is based on Christianity should fail." Morgenthau Sees British As 'Good Risk' Washington, Dec. 5.—(AP)—Sec retary Morgenthau said today that he. like Jesse H. Jones, federal loan administrator, believed that the Briti-h government was "a good risk" for loans. The Treasury chief made the comment at a press conference after arranging to meet tomorrow with Sir Frederick Phillips, undersecretary of the British treasury. *'ho arrived in (Continued on Psge Four) To Come Up In January Roosevelt Announces He Will Ask Congress to Approve St. Law rence Program. Detroit, Dec. 5.—(AM) President I Roosevelt announced today he would ask Congress convening in January tn approve a treaty with Canada pro i viding for completion of tlie St. Lawrence seaway and power project —"on which so much of our national safety and welfare depend." The President's announcement prc ! saging another battle in Congress | over the long debated project (de feated in IS),'{4) was made by A. A. • Herlo, Jr., assistant secretary of State, in an address before the Great j Lakes Seaway and Power Confer ence. , President Roosevelt, in a message ' read by Berie to the conference, em phasized that the St. Law<e"''e pro j jeet would provide millions in new i horsepower urgently needed to speed • up defense production and create a I safe haven and waterway for con ' struetion of ships to replace tonnage j sunk in the war. "The opposition which defeated Mu st. Lawrence treaty in 1934 was mis taken opposition, based on failure to I appraise the full needs of their coun j try in the world situation which was j even then developing," the message I said. "I said then that 'an opportunity is presented to complete a seaway comparable in economic value to the Panama Canal', a seaway to which the public development of St. Law i rence power is inseparably linked. "It was then an opportunity. It is j now a vital necessity." A commission named by the Unit ' ed States and Canadian governments | now is making necessary preliminary surveys for the proposed project and ! discussions leading toward a treaty ' covering the projects construction j are underway. DISTRESS CALLS FROM THREE SHIPS I New York, Dec. 5.—(AI') - Dis | trcxs calls from llireo ships were | picked up by Mack ay Radio within ! eight, hours today as a storm over j the North Atlantic added to dangers I in an area not far from where sub marines have been playing havoc j with shipping. I AH <>f the ships-two were CI reek j freighters and the third was British asked immediate aid and two cil j f(i the storm's "battering seas" awl j "heavy gale." Bonner Says Sites In State Are Favored t I Washington, Dec. --fAl')-- K''p | resentative Herbert C. Bonner, Dem ocrat. North Carolina, believes Cap lain C. E. Kosendahl, naval expert on lighter than air craft, was "great ly impressed" by sites in the coastal section of the first North Carolina district as a possible location for a Navy airship patrol base. Back from his distrfct where he accompanied Captain Kosendahl on a site inspection tour. Bonner said the terrain, proximity to shipping lanes entering Chesapeake Bay and dis tance from areas congested by air plane traffic appealed to the naval expert. "I think the northeastern North Carolina coastal area will be given serious consideration when the Navy board meets to decide whether a scouting base will be established and where," Bonner said. The representative expressed the opinion Congress would quickly ap prove establishment of a base for the Chesapeake Bay entrance area, re calling that during the World War German U-boats made attacks on shipping in that vicinity. Captain Rosendahl, who began an inspection of North Carolina sites last Monday, visited nearly a dozen sites in Bonner's district. Bonner pointed out the Navy was anxious to obtain sites within a short distance of sea lanes and which have adequate tnn-porUiti'-u l Key Italian Cities Said Near Falling Porto Edda and Argi rocastro, Important Italian Bases, Expect ed To Fall to Greeks; Britons Claim Diplo matic Victories. Belgrade. Yugoslavia, l)c<\ 5.— ■ (AD—Greek soilices suid that Greek troops inlrrcd I'orlo I'dda today and acre expected to oc cupy Arsirorastro tomorrow. (liV Tin- A.-.-ociated I 're.ss. I : Greece's slar-hing counter invasion ' armies hulled diiwn attack.. today at I Porto Kdda and Argirocastro, key ! Italian base.> in southwest Albania, land dispatches I mm t ho front said I the two cities were aboul to fall. The Greeks said that they had al ; ready captured Premet. midway a'long the I'.alkan war front, and that | Premier Mussolini's fascist legions were in llight from Porto Edda and I Argirocastro. Athens dispatches said the main mad from Porto Edda. Italy's sea gateway to southern Albania, was dominated by Greek guns. The only avenue of escape left 'open 1o the Italians, it was repoiled, i was by a tortuous coastal route. Italy s high command, in its daily war bulletin, said tersely that "at tacks and counter attacks in sector.: of the two armies took place again." but asserted that the fascist air force had heavily strafed the advancing Greeks. Fighting desperately, the fascists launched a counter attack with tanks on both flanks of the Greek columns j marching up the highway to Premet, i but a government spokesman said the Greeks drove off the tanks and | the battle "ended in an Italian rout." More than .">00 fascist troops were ; I I I War In West. ; In the war in the west, 11u■ Ger j man air force ranged widely over j Britain a^ain last evening, broke off its attaek shortly alter midnight, and then returned to the raid this moni 1 ing. ! Th(! royal air force slriiel; back Willi raid a1 Dues.seldm I. Germany, and Italy's north'-rn industrial cily : i I Turin. On Diplomatic l imit. Unions meanwhile hailed a., a dip i loinatir achievrin'iil a new finnnnsjl jagieeiiienl villi Turkey. 'I'he agree ; nienl was expected in l,ondon to bring about a considerable ineref»~r in trade between 'I'urkey auri linl ain. I>11>Io111;11i«- circles regarded if. as a "direct challenge" to axis plan ; for domination of Hie Balkans :c, represented by the ten-year trade pact which Germany igned with Ru mania yesterday. Al o o| iiiter* I. on )he diplomatic linn) wa. lie/. Irom Mo; nnv thai Sov iet Hu-.wa had adviser) Tokyo her policy toward fi'ima would be un changed by .lapan' recognition of Wang ('iiing Wei'- Nanking regime as the Chinese "national govern ment." RAF Makes Long Raid Nearly Twelve Hours of Blasting Last Night on Duesseldorf and Turin Reported. London. Dec. 5.- fAP)--Tin: lon gest royal ?jir forcc assault «in record —nearly twelve hours: ol blasting at Duesseldorf and her industrial on virons in Germany's vital Rhino hind—was reported today by the air ministry. And while one formation battled "filthy" weather to sow its bombs on the German city last night, an other lushed at Italy's principal northern center ol war industry, Turin. "Selected" targets were hit there, the ministry said. The main objectives at. Duesseldorf were railroad yards in the Derendorf district north of the city, large ar mament works, (piays ai.d dockyards 'Continued on Page Four)
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