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Hfcttiterstm Hatly Hispotrij ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA V-SEVENTH YEAR I™ITssoc^ETlDRpVREfsOF HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 6, 1940 ^™Mb«Scmt",swk E1VE CENTS COPY N azi Raiders iict Damage C a Portsmouth M Hiy Made w He iclsss Bv iiombs | Ln;.tsn ^outh Coast N«. a! base Subjected to Concentrated Three Hoi.r Raid; Full Ex-j tcv ?l" Casualties Un known. K'l-rmd. I)ec. (>. -j (V- sweeping . lied a number of! cr*d !i'-mvv ciu11! • ' • !1 this Si >uth night in a eon >i:r assault. •: persons were ■ > • bombs which e been aimed at iation. Rescue work !eve led hi »mes search i»t pos Hr. ;>«• t Morrison. - . inspected the : -:U;\v;ud assert .. t».ie:al:«ins with . :>d. as I would ex _ it? ici; with tra 4. ' and courage." L-nt «•!' casualties was. immediately as work-. L gg into the debris • •>; pos.-ible vie— ■ d the number, how- \ x . 1 * 1 might be ex-! . ,::g ti.e severity of tj>imbers at great -• waves dropped _ i"d the subsequent • :heir target. . iri . describing the :v : ■ >uth to be the Bi ito n's home fleet • • • -Lippiv center for arines. tor n vigation. anti-air-1 ng schools are lo- j 1 .•- de a movie j ■t *: •• 200 persons in— * >■-< 1 <alc ny by. t later were re-j Protest Made I In detention Of American • AI' > —The United i ropor'eu tonight • ;i;igaiii;>i German ^. ibassy recep- j i.iDe»gan, un f'.'Uilly de-enbed a:->; tit- . ict''t British oi'fi-1 <><.'• .pied Franco, y .'.hi' ii : at Pari®—i * t v. .Mi the German ■ :t learned that j evcral days! '. t. .1 '« ; said tonight,: oeing hold tor ques- : <n military authori- j ■ t arc believed to have ted States .liicials • .'! take the ::iutt'-r up •' .r: authorities. 40. c<>:::es lrotn Ashe- , v.-a ■ aid t > have been "he Paris embassy for j i■|!'u i'»tt<-. N. C.. said • 'i;. "hler of the late i n. . an Ashe'ville law '■i anddaughter of a for S\.tf -rfiatoi'. Jeter C. North Carolina. Truck Growers In AAA Law Wilmington, g.—(AIM — i'rutK tanners ui .sew Hanover, tender una urun.sw ick counties n:ei ui Myrtle iiiu.c iasi ingot and voted to seek a conference \\ utt rttvskOeni Kooseveu »n an I'ttorl to get soino relief trom the A.v.\ program wmcn they say is itunuig tnc truck industry m mis state. .1 committee was appointed to t-oinaci representatives 111 ( ongress in an effort to secure toe comerenct* wan tnc t'resi dent. Hit truck growers will ask that growers of basic commodi ties have tne same restrictions placed 011 their growing of truck crops as the uuov growers nave nac; » aeed 011 their growing such commodities as tobacco, cotton and peanuts. In the event of truck growers get no rt-nei through the confer ence with the President, the meeting decided, one of the truck farmers will grow and market to bacco. refusing to pay ti*•;* tax levied on those who market the weed without a quota." and in that way institute a lest suit in federal court to determine if the AAA act b consuiutional. WakeParmei Is Murdered Body of Walter D. Woodward Found on Railroad Embankment in Raleigh. Ral-igh. Doc. G.—(AP>—The bul-! let-punctured body of Walter D.; Wo: dward. 35-year-o!d Wake coun ty farmer, was discovered on a rail road embankment here today and1 Coroner Roy M. Banks said immedi ately a!i indications pointed to "mur der". Oiticers believed the man had been struck by a train until an examinu- j tion of the body revealed bullets had hit him in the lower part of the stomach and in the left leg. Thry said the car Woodward was drivin gwah found wrecked last night j about three blocks Irom where the body was found. A coroner's inquest v.-is postponed pending a thorough police investigation. Woodward was brother-in-law of a member <>f the county board of com missi' ners and a Wake county dep uty sheriff. Fog Puts Alcatraz On Guard San Francisco, Dec. f>.— (AP)— Warden James A. Johnston and nis corps ol guards waited hopefully on log-bound Alcatraz Island today for a break in the weather to end their strained watchfulness over 300 ol the nation's worst criminals. For two nights and a ciay—ever since one of the year s heaviest fogs rolled in Wednesday afternot.n—all of the convicts have been kept locked in their cells. Authorities feared escape at tempts or some possible violence among the inmates keyed up by a •'Continued on Page Two) Reports on Finances Sir Frederick Phillips Treasury Secretary Henry Mor*?en thau, Jr., announced that Sir Fred erick Phillips, Undersecretary of the British Treasury, shown us he arrived in New York by clipper, will "place the latent available informa tion (on British finances) before the U. S. Treasury." Commission Hears 'Small Business' . ..— Business IVLen Declare State Lav/ Would Put Them Cut of Business: Rose's Stores Manager Testifies at Hearing. ; Raleigh. I>r. G.-(AP)— Retail j merchants. dry elenners. filling sta tion up.T;'^:- . meat, market men I and retail fi'vniur" dealeis today ar ! gu«-d to a special legislative eommis- ! sion that wage and hour laws to shorten the work week and increase pay in North Carolina would put them out of business. The commission, authorized by the 1939 legislature, is engaged in wind ing up its work preparatory to re porting to the 1941 General Assem bly on whether or not the state should have wage-hour legislation. N. G. Bartlett. secretary of the Eastern North Carolina Chamber of I Commerce, said his organization had 1.000 members in 127 towns. He told the commission "North Carolina has all the hour laws now that it needs' and it does not need any wage laws."j He presented a dozen "small busi- ; ness" men. J. M. Butcher, managerj of Rose's Stores, said his firm had j GO stores in the state, paid an aver- : age salaiy of about $11 for a 5S hour , week or 22 1-2 cents an hour, and | that any shortening of workin? ^om*' or increase in rate of pay would put the firm out of business as a i.i.w j made only one or two percent profit.! Other speakers included Jesse T. j Wooten of Kinston. who said auto | (Continued on page two) Jury Decrees Norristown. I'cc. (».—(AP)- Al jury Ii;js firmed th.it William J. Karnest should dip in the electric chair for tin* brutal bludgeoning of i Mrs. Ethel Atkins, who once was married to ;i membpr of the multi millionaire Duke tobacco family. Seven men and fi**e women re turned a first degree murder verdict specifically recommending the death penalty after deliberating almost five; hours last night. The [J5-ysar old Philadelphia cook, who in a hysterical outburst on the! witness stand had cri'-d "1 hit her. I i hit her. don't ask me again," partial ly coilapsed as the verdict was read. I lit* sobbed while the jury was poll- j : ed and h:s counsel asked for and was j I granted the usual five days to pres J ent arguments for a new trial. Mrs. Atkins was the divorced wifej | of John Cicero Anuier. of Baltimore, j , Her body was found in an unoc-! 1 cupied larm house near Horsham. ! Pa., September 24. i jir Person Who Seeks A Stale Job j is Scrapping For Pay Of $996 A \ ear D.mj Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir ••ViiK>r Motel. UKNKV VVKKILL i < li i'!:< N>'; th CTiiI*— • in' and till his • • him. pulls every ■ :•!!<•..i wire and work 'athci- ab:>ut landing i» : t i..i> <>n 'he aver m k: i which by simple division can be stated us $83 a month. That is shown by completing a few other basic arithmetic operations on the pay r<>!l figures just released by the State Retirement Comm s sion. j The commission gathered all sai-i arv figures in order to determine! ho v.* much it would eoit the State j to participate in a general retire ment plan. The table accompanying the Com mission's report .>et the total annual pay roll 01 North Carolina's 36.305 L-moiovees at S3(S.183,107 each year; Irom which it is a matter ol great -implieity to get the annual (Continued on Page Two) Badoglio Resigns; Porlo Edda Falls ******* * ** *********** Wage-Hour Law Is Opposed' Gets Facts Sir Frederick Phillips to Give United States "Balance Sheet" of Finance. Washington, Dec. 0.— (AP)— Sir Frederick Philiips. undersecretary of the British treasury, .-aid today after a conference with Secretary Morgen thau that he was giving the United States "a balance sheet on the state of our resources and the cost of sup plies in the United States." The British representative confer red with the Treasury department chief for more than an hour. Sir Frederick said, however, that he talked only facts with Morgen than and "we didn't discuss any questions of policy." He indicated there were many questions yet to be discussed and that he was preparing several studies over the week-end before returning to talk with Morgenthau again on Monday. Before entering the treasury, Sir Frederick told newsmen who asked about loans that he was "not up to that stage now." Asked about suggestions that the British might sell some of their West Indian islands to the United Slates to get more cash for war purchases, Sir Frederick said promptly "that's outside of my score. I deal only in financial matters." The Phillips visit was the climax today of a controversy stirred up a few weeks ago upon the return to the United States of Lord Lothian, British ambassador, when Lothian said that Britain was nearing the end of its financial resources for pur chases in this country and might I soon need financial as well as ma terial help. Bel ore the discussions at the Preasury began. Senator Nve. Repub lican, North Dakota, announced that he and a group of colleagues were ready to battle to the bitter end against any attempt to extend finan cial aid to the British. Nye told newsmen that this op position bloc would base its light on the contention that loans to Brit tain "mean actual entry into the war." He predicted that a proposal for loans would be accompanied by one for "American naval convoy of British supplies. Plane Crash Death Toll Reaches Nine Chicago, Dec. (>.—(AP)—The toll of dead in the crash til a United Air lines plane, was raised in nine today with the death of the ships pretty stewardess, Miss IMorence Ai. Little, 23. Miss Liitle. a Chic-'-oan. died in the early morning hours. The two other members of the crew were killed instantly in the acci dent. which occurred Wednesday eve ning. Seven passengers, two of whom were reported still in a critical con dition. were injured. IVAatmsi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, not quite so cold tonight: Saturday increasing cloudiness and warmer, possibly followed by light rain in the mountains. Seek 12,000 Fliers for Army Lieut. VV. Wittic, Jr., assistant recruiting officer for the Philadelphia district for flying1 cadcts, is shown (left) going over plans for procure ment of applicants.. With him is Lieut. Lawrence Semans, of the U. S. Army, pictured as he arrived by bombing plane to aid the drive for 12,000 fliera. (Central I'i cst) Stabilization Fund s "Secret Weapon Negro Pays With Life For Murder i ItakiKh. Dee. «• (AP)- Zedikiell Smith, l!0-ycar »»Jrl Negro, was exe cuted by gas at Slate Prison today f<•> first degree murder of William i Daniel. a Sampson county white man. j Thirteen witnesses watched the execution, and «it tool; 13 minutes of gas administration, from 10:05 until I0.-IH, before physicians pronounced the Negro dead. Four larmers from Duplin county, i wh«> lived near the scene of the slay ing in Sampson, were witnesses. They were Y. L. Smiih and K. W. | Smith, both ol Warsaw, and N. K. j Dixon and W. A. Smith, both of Tur-j key. They said Daniel was regarded' as a recluse and was reported to j have some money. The State con tended Smith killed and robbed j Daniel. Smith contended to the last at the j prison that he did not commit the J crime, that he did not. kill Daniel i and didn't know who did. He con tended that a eonfesMon introduced: in his court trial was "scared" out of him but the State presented evi-I dence to corroborate the confession, j Governor Hoey pointed out in de-j dining clemency. Treasury Officials Say Additional Loans Such as Those Made China and Argentina May Be Expected From Fund. Wellington. Dec. (i.— CAP) Of ficials pictured tin* Treasury':? 52. (Hio.OOO.fiOO stabilization fund today: ;is America's "sorrel weapon against t«>t;i)itrii*i;iii economic pentration." They described the fund in sneh language to explain why within the last week it has advanced credits of Sf>(),000,000 each to China and Argen tina. Additional transactions of like eharaetcr could be expected, they in dicated, particularly with Latin American countries. The value of the fund as a secret economic weapon was ample answer,1 they said, to criticism such as the one i made yesterday by Senator Taft, Re pnbliean, Ohio, charging these credits were violating the purpose of the j fund. The fund was created in 11M4 with $2,000,000,000 of the "profit" that the government, made by the devaluation of the dollar. Until recently its activities were reported to no one but the secretary of the Treasury and the President. Only to overcome congressional op-j position extending the life of the j kind last year, did the Treasury agree to make available quarterly balance sheets to show what was in the fund. Those reports, however, are carefully based on three months old figures so that current operations will not be given away. Babson Sees Danger In Arbitrary Labor Demands By ROGER W KABSOX. Copyright J 940. Publishers Financial ; Bureau. Inc. Bab.-on Park. Mass., Dec. 6.—Uncle , Sam has taken off his coat and j roiled up his .*lecves. W'e are really going to work. The American peo ple are united in extending all help to England short ol war. Oar nation . read} t j do iti duty. la cit-iblish ing this policy, it must be remem bercd that we have taken on grave and serious responsibilities. In plain English, we have thrown down the gauntlet to the toughest and most capable bunch ol European political .acketeer- that the world has seer, in centuries. Our challenge is to (Continued on Page Three; Greeks Take Important Italian Base Agirocastro Also Ex pected. to Fall to the Greeks; Badoglio Suc ceeded as Chief of General Staff by Gen era! Ugo CavaHero. (liv The Associated Pre..-. > Complete n.liii|isf of Italy's ITii". in southern Albania was indicated today by reports from the Balkan wur front. ;md that Italy is planning tn do something about it by Rome's announcement that Chief of Staff Marsha) Pietro Badoglio liad been re placed. A report by way • f the Yugoslav border, unconfirmed in eith"r Athens or Rome, said the Greek forces had occupied Argirocastro. Italy's lasl re maining frontier region base for il «• luckless attempts to conqueror Greece. The Greek army announced cap ture of Porto Kdda, Italy's sea gate way for the Greek campaign. 15 miles from Argirocastro, but there was no confirming admission of the capture from Italy. Greek officials said the success at Porto Kdda would be followed mo mentarily by the capture of Argiro castro, another important fascist base lii miles northeast of Porto Kdda. (Dispatches reaching the Yugo slav border said Greek troops oc cupied Argirocastro about noon to day after bloody fighting and took more than 1.000 prisoners. *(A number of heavy cannon, ma chine guns and other war material were reported captured by the Greeks as they swept into that for mer base of the Italian invasion of Greece.) Marshal Badoglio. Italy's most famed soldier and successful com mander in the Kthiopian campaign, was succeeded by GO-year old Gen eral Ugo Cava Hero, until recently commander of the Italian forces in Ka.-t Africa. The Italian announcement gave no i xplanation to Badoglio's resignation except that it was "at his own re quest," but British military circles were quick to express the opinion that lie was ".-acked" as a scapegoat for fascist military reveries or "be cause lie i. opposed to the attitude of the party organization." The Italian high command admit ted the Greek- were hammering at (Continued on Page Two; Sea Battle In Atlantic British Armed Mer chant Cruiser Slightly Damaged in Brush With Nazi Raider. I'ruguay. I>ec. ii.— CAP)—The British cruiser Cuitinr \ 'tii I astle. damaged voletrlyy in bat tle with ;t German raider, was expect ed to reach this harbor next Monday —apparently .-eektng repairs. Naval sources expressed belief that the British ship broke on the engagement when the German raid'-r outdistanced hei and that the C'ar narvon Castle in nutting into port indicated another British vessel was taking up the chase. London. I>'C. fj.-(AP)—A I'iercr? long range encounter between a Ger man disguised raider and the Brit ish armed merchant cruiser Carnar von Castle, in which the British ship suilered "slight damage" and the German was said to have fled, was reported today bv the admiralty. I' was learned authoritatively the battle occurred in the South Atlantic approximately 700 miles northeast <>f '.Continued on pa^e two)
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