Hwtitersmt UaUjj Wispatct} ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPE R PL BUSHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA -SEVENTH YEAR "fflffiTS0' HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 12, 1940 FIVE CENTS COPY • 1 m oritisn l roops Un the Move in Egypt • tor.vments m Egypt leave their camp for a route march. These troops, because ot military have had the opportunity to accustom themselves to conditions of desert warfare. That expc ; .v comes in handy as the British launch their offensive against the Italians on the Sidi Barrani front in western Egypt. Nazis Pound Midlands Assaults On London Fail Italians Lose j Positions I In Albania Birmingham Area and Surrounding Midlands Raided; London Un der Alarm 14 Hours. Li \P — German •>eci " .ce at London ; <-netr sting the cap!-' r'ter pound'ng the in-1 i and sur ci- * wn> d ring the y unci explosi\ e • .• raid alarm : - • : . ;4 hours. : hit in the Bir-1 < > \ churches. . -.vie theatres. :»nd public shel Brit.>h reports < : military ob ov rcuCters. > i ~ *h€ scale of the mid-! I'tes were not i he.:vy. Many | xt:s !"*f'd b With the} i■ : :»htei-s they .' 'U'.i. -fled •>!• :>! ought •• •. ii' ;i-h reported, itt b .rrage in the v. u- heavier than ih.i' >! it ■»!' the air! • v (i «•!■ t!." Tho loea '>i tne light wore not f" a Moscdw news-j i u the encounter; ■■rl twj Soviet detach-1 ■i the hand at the bor re nforcenient*. and •• 'i -n the band after a •i»e of fire. Alliens. Dec. 12.—(AP>—Italian I lorces were reported today to have attempted counter attacks at two I points in the northern sector in A1-! i-ar.w. only to be driven back by the! Greeks with heavy losses and to lose j the positions from which they at- j lacked. The Greeks were said to have cap-! tured many prisoners and much war j material. Italian prisoners were quoted as > saying that British royal air force and Greek attacks on the airdromes at Durrazzo and Tirana, main port and the capital of Albania respective !y. had been so effective that the Italians had abandoned the fields. A pilot of a reconnaissance plane reported that damage at Vaiona. a secondary port of entry into Albania, had rendered use of the harbor im practicable for larger vessels. Pier. and jetties were said to have been turned into masses of splintered wood and rubble. Meanwhile. Greek fighting men driving up the south Albanian coast from Porto Edda toward the heights of Chimara. 20 miles to the north, are meeting scant resistance from retreating Italians, a Greek spokes-1 man asserted but he acknowledged j "very stubborn opposition in other, sectors." (From Yugoslavia came dispatcher, saying fascist forces had wiped out minor Greek gains northwest of Moskopole and west of Pogradetz in the northern part of the Albanian front.) Negro Servant Confesses To Rape Charge Greenwich. Conn., Dec. 12. (AP> —A Negro ehauffeur-butl#- who. As sistant Prosecutor Archibald II. Tuniek said, confessed thrice assault ing a comely Greenwich society ma tron and later hurling her into a 1 lonely reservoir, laced further grill ing today after arraignment on a rape charge. Tunick said that when the servant. ^Continued on Page Seven) New State Administration Likely To Propose Changes At Least Four Agencies Daily Impatch Bureau, I>i ih«* Sir \VnIi«r Hotel. Kv 11KXK!' A VERILL i -> Keorganization : i,r; ol ;«t least four c St,itc government is m the 1941 Gen •, y: though there is no Umt anything much will • ■. the proposal*. ■ ^anizat ions iikely to be • i I) Utility Commission: ,.iict F>ul>l it* Works C orn State A AC Board: and (■»; ii ication Authority. '-h'UK-e. too, that ■ other units such as the Unemploy ment Compensation Commission and ! the Weights and Measures Division J of the Department of Agriculture' may come in for some consideration j in the way of revamping, transfer- j ! ring or re-shuffling. ! These proposals for reorganizations i i and consolidations will be something i more than mere replacement of dc- J partment heads who did not support next-Governor J. Melville Broughton in the May primary; and will go! much further, if they go at all. than '.Continued on Page Four) w "sr* *, California Repub lican Representative Charges interference With Defense. Washington. Dec. !2.—(AP)—Re-1 presentativo L • land M. Furd, Re publican. California. chained on the! House lioor t'.dav that the CIO had i "done everything it possibly could to I di.-tiirb. di. ii i - and destroy the na-; tional defense program." in a sharp denunciation of the la- j bor organization Ford—to a cry by ; Representative Yoorhics. Democrat.! California. tl'.at in- was making "wild statements"—charged: "In their attempt to destroy air- j plane prodiu tion they called a strike j at Yultee. they stopped delivery of : planes t!;at are necessary to our army | for training our men. "Tlv y are -triking against the ship building operators. "There have been jurisdictional -trikc^ that have slowed down and | interfered with our national defense I program. "They are advocating and putting | (Conlirmed on Page Seven) CAA Plans Construction Wrisiiiru^to;i. i>. e. 12.— (AI1) —A I » ;ii111'ii't construction nnd improvement program was made public today v'!i .Ik- annouucment j it would cono-n'rah- on actual take- ' olT and lanciinv. facilities at 200 sites j throughout the '"nil mental United States. Hawaii and Alaska. The work, t<» be conducted by the Civil A«Ton;.:itic.» Authority, under I an appt'oprial :"n marie by Congress in October, was termed "necessary to the national defense" by a priority board e -nsi-.ting of 'lie secretaries of War. Navy and Commerce. ••Improvements under the program have l>een limileci •" development of actual landing IV.ei lilies as these are essential." -aid Colonel Donald H.; Connolly, administrator of civil aero nautics. "None of our funds are be ing i! ed for builc'.vr hangars or oth er I'aeilitio: !!->♦ actually a part of the landing field." Dutch Ship Seizes Nazi Merchantman Washington. Dec. 12.—(AP)— The Dutch dt -trover Van Kinsbcrgen. a ! surprise companion of British men-j o'-wyr on Atlantic blockade duty, today had accounted for the last of three German merchant ships which slipped out of the harbor at Tam pieo. Mexico. The Van Kinsbcrgen took posses sion of the Rhein. (5,031 ton German craft, off the coast of Cuba, naval authorities here announced last | (Continued on Page Seven) Italians In Mass Retreat In Egypt LORD LOTHIAN IS DEAD AFTER SHORT ILLNESS Roosevelt Is 41Shocked" By Death Washington. Bee. 12.—(AP)— President Roosevelt vaid today in a message to Kins George that lie was "shocked beyond meas ure" at news of the death of Lord j Lothian, the British ambassador. The President's message, which originated aboard the U. S. S. Tuscaloosa in the Caribbean sea. sa id: "1 am shocked beyond measure to hear of the sudden passing of my old friend and your ambas sador. the .Marquess of Lothian. "Through nearly a quarter of a century we had come to un derstand and trust each other. "1 am very certain that if he had been allowed by Providence j to leave us a last message he would have told us that the greatest of all efforts to retain ! democracy in the world must and j will succeed." The United States government offered "all facilities at our dis posal" to the British government in connection with the death of Lord Lothian, and it was believ ed in some quarters that an American warship might be used to carry the ambassador's body j home. Loans Must Be Approved Morgenthau Says Congress Must Con-| sent to Loans for Great Britain, if Made. Wasl/ngton. Dee. 12.— (A P)—Sec retary Morgenthau declared today that the Treasury would consider lending money to Great Britain only! if congressional consent was obtain-! cd. Joining Jesse H. .i"iies, the Fed-; eral loan administrator, in defining | this policy, Morgenthau said at a! prbss conference: "Irrespective of any interpreta-1 lions any lawyers might give (of the] Treasury's power to lend money without the specific consent of Cong- j ress) 1 certainly would not be a) party to any loan to Great Britain or I any other country coming under the (Continued on Page Seven.) RAF Bombs Power Plant London, Dcce 12.—(AP)—High explosives and incendiary bombs were dropped by the royal air force on a power station at Mannheim, Germany, "main objective" of last night's raids, the air ministry news service said today. Fires broke out and were still raging when the last RAF plane turned homeward, the service said. The inland port of Mannheim, in dustrial town on the Rhine. was also bombed. There were several fires which eventually caused heavy explosions. Docks at Calais. Boulogne and i Etaples were "badly knocked about" j during the night, the service added, j The RAF also attacked German | airdromes in occupied terirtory, los ing one plane in the assault, the service said. (jJsuodthsi)) FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy with occasional show ers in west portion tonight and Fridav and in east portion late tonight and Friday, warmer. ! British Ambassador to United States Suc cumbs in Washington to Uremic Infection; Was Taken 111 Sunday Night, Washington, Dec. 12.—(AD—Lord Lotlvin. 'In- British ambassador to tho United States died today. His embassy made this announce ment on the death Ol llll' lllclll W1IU h a d represented Britain's interest in t h e United States since four days before h i s country declared Wei'" "P Germany: "The British em bassy deeply re grets to have to announce that the Marquess of Loth —. , mn cuea cany uii.s Lord Lotliian m„min{,. "Lord Luthian was taken ill on Sunday night and although he c< ntinued to improve during Monday and Tuesday, he suf fered a.relapse last night. "The cause of death was an uremic infection." Lothian. 58. had been indisposed several days, lie cancelled an ap pearance last night before the Amer ican Farm Bureau Federation in Baltimore and the speech he had pre pared for delivery before the fed eration was read for him. In the Baltimore speech Lothian reiterated a stand he had taken with increasing seriousness in recent weeks—that England would triumph in the war if given American aid. The envoy had won a high place in the esteem of members of the dip lomatic set. Lord Lothian once beiieved that Adolf Hitler was "earnestly" de sirous of peace and he advocated an Anglo-German pact. Then came Munich and Hitler's seizure first of the Sudetcnland and then of all of Czechoslovakia. From that time on Lothian was convinced that the only way to deal with Hitler and Mus solini was through superior power. Bankers Fear End Of Free Enterprise Hollywood, Fla., Doc. 12.—(AH— The Investment Hankers Association of America. through its governmen tal securities eomniittee today claim ed the nation is "moving away Irom the system of free enterprise to a I'orm ol' state security capitalism." In it^- report, approved by the as sociation's board of governors and submitted to the annual convention, the committee said: "This is not a healthy condition for a country facing an armament program, war economy and a cer tain post-war economic strain." It attributed the trend in large part to the government's policy of making credit rates low (easy money) saying: "Incomes of insurance companies, savings banks, trust funds, college and charitable endowment funds are being seriously reduced by the ab normal reduction on return on in vested capital, and stresses and (Contnued on Page Seven.) lOjj&Efggfffl fOR'HEfC New Swiss Leader % Dr. Ernest Wetter President of Switzerland during 1941 will he Dr. Ernest Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Coun j cil, shown at his desk in the capital city of Berne, lie will continue Switzerland's difficult policy of strict neutrality. (Central Press) Defended i Commissioner Scott Criticizes Walter-Lo gan Bill in Address at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill. Dee. 12.—(AP>— Com missioner John \\". Scott of the Feel er;)! Power Commission defended the necessity of federal regulatory bodies and criticized the Walter-Logan bill, now aw;.iting presidential action, in an address here today. Speaking before the University of North Carolina law school, the com ; missioncr declared the Walter-Logan bill providing for court review of : the actions of governmental boards I and agencies would '"strangle effec | tive regulation and cause innumer able delays in the administrative j process." ! Il( expressed the hope that federal ! regulation of water power resources i now lacing a challenge before the | United States supreme court in the J Appalachian Power Company case I would o ■ upheld. Al JiPOSOfll V^Oim iii.nmwiii-: 'in j tin.' student.1: [acuity present, I "less ill.ill 20 percent of tlie tuition's I water tvsourccs has to date been de j veloped for power purpose:- and the I estimated annual er.ergy output from j feasible undeveloped water power I rite in '.he country amount lo 273. I (100,(1(111,000 Kilowatt hours." which lie ! said was more than double the pro j duclioii and consumption "l I,i t year. The coiuinissioner declared the ! power commission had not prevented the Carolina Aluminum Company | from proceeding with a proposed hydroelectric developnient at Tuck i ertown «.mi the Yadkin river. The body went no further, lie said, than to render an opinion that a fed I oral license would be necessary for I the project because of the influence l of the stream on the navigable waters oi the I'ee Dee river in South ! Carolina. The company, he added, never ask I ed for a license. 3 Divisions Possibly Are Trapped Latest Estimate af Prisoners Exceeds 20, 000, With T anks, Guns and Equipment of All Types, Cairo Com munique Says. | London. Doc. 12.— (A11) With 11 if* British claiming more than 20.000 prisoner-: :md reports to London of ;i general Italian retreat, Prime Min , istcr Winston Churchill told coin i nums today it would not bo surpris ing if at least the best part of three Italian divisions were trapped in the Egyptian desert. A communique from Cairo said "the latest estimate of prisoner, taken exceeds 2(1,000 with tanks, guns and equipment of all types." Thus was summed up briefly the British view of the result of the four day British offensive which carried their mechanical forces to tiie Medi terranean coast and into the Italian base at Sidi Barrani, advance Egypt ian post of Marshal Rodolfu Graz ianis I'm cos. Churchill, cheered wildly as he spoke. s;iid 7.000 Italian prisone . already had reached Mntruh, the British camp at the railhead of the line running eastward across the coast to Alexandria. "It would not be surprising." lie said, "if numerous Black Shirt for mations had been either destroyed 1 oi- captured." The prime minister said the Brit 1 ish weie still pursuing the Italians westward v itli the royal air force I supporting the attack and the navy I shelling the principal road open to , the fascist forces. ■ Hi- observed that it was "too car I ly" to measure the scale of Briti h operations, but said it was 'clear i they constitute a victory which *n this African theatre of w; r is of the ' lirst order." , (The three Italian divisions to I which he referred may number from 42.000 to 51,000 men.) A I'etiteis. British news agency, dispatch from Kgypt said the latest royal air forces reconnaissance flight data indicated a general Ital ian retreat, was developing. Italians Taken ! Entirely By Surprise I5.v l inVARI) KI..WKI)V. With the British IForce-; in Kgypt, Dec. 10. f delayed) (AT'j ■ The advance British troops who opened the groat Kgyjitian offensive against Marshal Modolfo f»ra/iani's forces took Iho It;i 1 i;ms entirely by suijirisc Jitter skillfully executed l>re|)«ir;ilory moves h;id carried thewn undetected ;jcross 75 miles of desert wasteland. The righting started early Mon day and has been going forward ever since. The IJritish have been routing the fascists at numerous points in the (('outlined on Page Seven.) Financing Of Smaller Businesses Made Easier BY ROGKR \V. BABSOX. Copyright 1940, Publishers Financial Bureau. Now York City. Dec. 12.—It be comes more and more apparent that the Securities and Exchange Com mission has done a remarkable job in protecting the interests ol the av erage investor. The commission has proved a good watch dog ol' the mar ket. Originally, the SEC Act of 1933 called for registration of ali security offerings to the public in excess of $30,000. This ceiling was raised some time ago in certain cases. The commission announced on De cember that domestic is-uers of .se curity issues up to SI00.000 are now e.\t mp' from the r< gistiMtion pro I visions of the act. They need not even fill out a prospectus. This will prove a great aid to small concerns. It is a step in the- right direction by the SEC. The commission should, however, move the lid over a little more and ultimately put the ex i emption up to S500.00Q. 1 The SEC has never used the pow ! er of the law embraced in the Se < curity Act to it.- fuilest extent. I be ! lieve the coinmi.-sion is conscious of i its power but. at the same time, is resolved to treat business gently. Small businesses, now in need of new capital, -nould immediately take ad vantage of the new and simplified ^Continued on Page Seveni I