fib PERRY MEMORY HENDERSON, N-C. ^ Henitersmt Daily Dispatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPE R PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Tu ■ 1 1 ^ ENTH \EAR the Associ^lDRpREfs?F HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 18, 1940 E UI l1s^xceptesuni&Verkwn FIVE CENTS COPY Britain Strikes Back in Three Directions ' suffering Britain is now striking: back hard at the Axis in three directions. British bombers are -.-••rH to have inflicted heavy damage in a raid on Naples, Italy. In Africa, mechanized British forces a-, viiil to have pushed the Italians out of Egypt and to be invading Italian Libya. Other British bombers - t i<-; Berlin and scored a direct hit on a subway line, disrupting transportation. Adding to the Axis woes, i.ireek army reportedly is cornering Italy's would-be invader troops in the Albanian port of Valona in a trap that threatens to be a second Dunkerque. (Central I'rcss) Roosevelt Proposes New Plan To Give Britain Aid On Credit Gentleman's Agree ment Would Provide for Settlement After Peace For Munitions; Plan To Be Presented to Congress. ,• Dec. IB.—(AP)— An • plan for backing Brit • • without considering z - on the bill went to " today with President >n »uncement that the • ■ n:e defense ol the United '• the success of Great Brit lending herself. >r -...d i short of war" program «ci character be adopted, "..itive source predicted. >'d States would buy and . ' F'-giand at least S2.300.000. "f tanks, airplanes and : • nis before the end of ' •• • .r. arrangements would : repayment of this help ■•id" under a gentleman's - "• " between the two coun • Ftoo.-evelt devoted most nute press conference yes describing the plan—a idea, he termed it—and t ' - that it was one of sev ->emg explored. " <" >>f Executive, in response • ' s;,id the plan would not " ' country closer t<» war from ' i" viewpoint. He pointed • the United States was doing <* ild at present and asserted method merely would vaking aid available, ief. the idea calN for leas - ^riding Britain all the ma ''" < "d supplies she would need ' 1 und postponing the ac "^tfleinent until peace came. • fi'i'-scveit said he intended to mov.- Congress for legislation :,r/! appropriations to put this ten fContinued on Page Seven) FBI Arrests Payroll Thief . ' : 1>'C. IB. — (AD—The *• Bureau <>[ Investigation an '■'■d fodav that agents had ar ' : Leroy Wells. 24, for the -ni.lll from payroll funds ' itt/f-ns and Southern Na f- i; .-'t Savannah, Ga., N'> L'!. Kf'.I agents said they had re ' 'i S>4..">53 after seizing Wells t night. -»'i;eau iti a formal statement "i!- had iidn»itted the theft. ' 'U-rnfnt gave this story: '■ employed as manager of an fi ear service at Savannah y.' cashed a payroll check for ;i* th»- bank. It was his dutv the payroll at the bank foi • »" of ii construction firm, cashing the check Wells told '•mployees that he had beer " Charlotte. N. C. A shortage i:Mcvered after he left. ' FBI record showed that hr _ ' arrested for larceny of an '■nilc at Salisbury, N. C., ir • - rid sentenced to the East Car 1 i'Jiining School, from which he ■ ' •!! I-'Ebnieiry 1930. President Vetoes Logan-Walter Bill Princess Juliana Visits Washington I I Washington, Dec. 18.—(AP)— An exiled royal princess from the land of tulips, wooden shoes and windmills {raveled to the capital today on her first visit to i the United States. Juliana, crown princess of the Netherlands, was invited to spend three days at the White House as the guest of the Presi dent and Mrs. Roosevelt. The princess is making the trip 1 by rail from Ottawa. Canada. Undersecretary of State Sum ner Welles and other officials ar ranged a welcome for the royal party. When the Germans invaded Holland last May, Queen Wil helmina. the crown princess and her husband. Prince Bernhard. and their two children sought refuge in England. Juliana brought her daughters to Canada i in June. I I " . Truck Driver Dies In Crash i i Rocky Mount, Dec. Ifi.--(AP)— , Nathaniel Ward. 26. of Greenville. I was kill or! near Whitakcrs early to day when the loaded applf truck h< j was driving was* reported to have j crashed into the hack of a heavy van. Highway Patrolman T. M. Riddle. • who investigated the accident, said that Ward's truck apparently came up behind the van. which was mov ing southward, and crashed before | the driver of the smaller truck real i i/.ed there was another vehicJc in the ! load. The patrolman expressed the opinion Ward "may have fallen j asleep momentarily". The cab of the j apple truck had to be pried loose be fore Ward's body could be removed. The driver of the van was iden tified as Nathaniel Bcal of Mt. Olive. Mannheim Raided Again! London, Dec. 18. — (AP) —The royal air force for the second suc cessive night attacked industrial tar gets at Mannheim, Germany, on the Rhine and bombed German-held channel ports and airdromes, the air ministry announced today. j The attacks were carried out de ' spite bad weather. Britain passed apparently her ; quietest night in weeks after a bomb less day. The air ministry and minis j try of home security communique i said tersely: I "There ij nothing lu report." Roosevelt Asserts He Is Convinced Measure Would "Produce the Utmost Chaos and Paralysis" at This Critical Time Washington. Dec. 18—(AP)—Pres ident Roosevelt vetoed the Logan Walter bill today in a message as serting he was convincd that it would "produce the utmost chaos and paralysis in the administration or the government at this critical time". "I am convinced." the President wrote t',- the House, "that it is an invitation to endless and innumera ble controversies at a moment when wc can least afford to spend either governmental or private effort in the luxury of litigation." The bill, center nf a congressional controversy fur months, was design ed by its sponsors to establish uni form procedure and facilitate court reviews of administrative rulings of certain quasi-judicial federal agen cies. House leaders made plans to call no the veto during the afternoon. With a twqjthirds vote necessary to override the' velo in both House and Senate, Democratic chieftains were hoping to muster enough strength 1o sustain the President. The Chief Executive said tha* quite apart from the general philos ophy of Ihc measure "its unintention al inclusion of defense fi!|i(!liou> )—Ac- j tual work has started, authoritative • sources revealed today, t.n the selec tion and sui-veying of a chain of air and naval bases in South and Cen tral America. The inter-American bases—which will be made available to the air and naval forces of all 21 American ; republics—were described as out- j posts in the establishments cf an im- i pregnable defense system to insure the western hemisphere against ag gression from either Europe or Asia. | The defense sites will )>c provided, j it was said, byt the South and Ccn-1 tral American republics and will re main their property without leases or any change in sovereignity. The United States, by loans to the various nations, will finance im provements where required, includ ing expansion of existing facilities ( for servicing and repairing ships and planes and the fortification of the bases, these sources aid. While most of the bases and sites already have been electd thir lo? cations and other deta.-1-4 were class ed as "military secrets". In each in stance the decision on the bases was reached by the military and naval authorities of the country in volved working in collaboration with United States officials. The United States has advanced no funds for the proposed bases as yet. informed sources said, but money will be made available, prob ably through the Export-Import Bank immdiately upon formal con clusion of negotiations now under way. Marshall Blasts Plan i (Head of No-Foreign War Committee Terms Roosevelt's Aid Plan "Fantastic". N«>w York, Dec. !M.—(AT')—Verne Marshall, chairman of Iho newly or ganized No-Foreign-Wnr committee, today called "fantastic" President Roosevelt's proposal to take over fu ture British war contracts with American manufacturers and to lend the armaments to Britain. At the same time he told a press conference that Col. Charlss A. Lindbergh had pledged his sup IKirt to the committee. "I'll do anything this committee wants me to do," Marshall said Lind bergh told him. The committee was set up, Mar shall said yesterday, to "help keep ( the nation out of war." In his comment on the President's proposal to lend arms to Britain. Marshall said in a statement: "Of all the fantastic financial pro posals made these last several years at Washington none compares in any degree to President Roosevelt's plan that would bind th American peo ple to finance England's war out right from this point on. "And even more unbelievable is the President's bland assertion that his scheme would enable the people oi Amrica to finance the j est of Eng land's war without the repeal of the neutrality act or the Johnson act. " . . What President Roosevelt is proposing is that Congress pass a law giving one man—himself— the au thority to do something which n? other man or woman in the United States would dare do so long as the neutrality law and the Johnson act | are not repealed." | iO&aih&h FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy: slightly warmer in west portion tonight: Thurs day increasing cloudiness, slight ly warmer, followed' by slight j rain at night. Warplane Production Is Speeded New York, Dec. 18,--(AP)—Aji | i-utput of 1,500. In 1,700 warp lanes a i month—a rate of 18.000 to 20.000 a J vrar—will bo achieved by American , factories in the next seven months, j reliable sources in Ihe aircraft manu-j f;,during industry eslimalcd today. Considerably shy of the pcitodic j forecast of production since last Au- j gust, these figures are based on the ( available engines, machine tools, j aluminum and the supply of trained factory personnel. This fact can be added to Ihc statement of William S. Knudsen, production chief of the national de fense commission, last week that air craft production was 30 percent be- I hind schedule—the industry itself ap- | pears to have been overly optimistic I in reporting its capacity to Washing- 1 ton. Figures submitted to the defense ! commission by aircraft makers last ! summer intended to picture the pro- | duction peak which could be reach ed in January included all types of : airplanes, private, commercial and ! military. That led Knudsen on August 8 to I announce that the rate of airplane: | manufacture was 10.800 a year and would pass the 18,000 mark in Jan uary. The actual production of military aircraft by American manufacturers in this calendar year will be slightly in excess of 5.000 machines. With the more conservative fig ures as a barometer, warplane out put during the coming year lakes on a much less dismal appearance than that reflected in the Knudsen state ment. The engine problem, probably the worst of the many facing the in dustry, has been made more critical by shipments of engines to England to power British - manufactured planes. GOLDSlBORO MAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE AT FAYETTEVILLE Fayetteville, Dec. 18.—(AP)—Desk Sergeant Nathan Bell said that a man staggered into the police sta lion here late last night and gasped that he had just taken poison. He identified himself, Bell said, as Wil son Williams, 24, of Goldsboro and was booked on a charge of stealing a taxicab. The man was rushed to a hospital for immediate treatment. His condi tion was termed critical. Nazis Deny Report I Of Sending Troops . Berlin. Dec. 18.—(AP)—Authoriz ed sources flatly denied today re ports (hat 50,000 German troops had 1 rrached an Italian port bound for Libya. (The Columbia Broadcasting Com pany's correspondent in Belgrade said in a broadcast last night that according to reliable sources in Yugoslavia more than 50,000 German troops had moved quietly into Italy, presumably to embark for Libya and | Albania to aid the Italians.) Adult Education Program Past "Experimental Stage" Daily Dispatch Bureau, Fn the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL R;jlcigh, Dcc. 18.—Heads of the ( adult education division of North Carolina's Department of Public In struction believe that their program has completed the "experimental" stage—a period of probation, so to speak—and they feel that their ac tivities should now be carried on as j a "regular working" division of the Department. That belief and that fceljng were behind the division's request to the Advisory Budget Commission for an increase in its appropriation from S30.000 to $145,000. They realize that such a tremendous percentage in crease can only be justified on a basis of accomplishment; but they are confident that an examination of the division's record will furnish all the justification necessary. In a brief for the division, sub mitted to the budget commission, Mrs. Elizabeth Morris, its director, reviewed the work of her division smO? its authorization by the 1937 General Assembly (which provided a meager appropriation of §25,000) and declared its has proved its practical value through Ihc leaching ot illiler-. jitcs, through getting public schooi i children back in .school, through j home making, parent education, nur sery schools, safety, health and civic, education. "The superintendents who have I participated are 100 per cent for ex-! pansion of the program", said the■ brief. Chief purpose of the division is to J make possible organization of a pro gram of adult education in every | county of the State and with the 1 SI45.000 requested, an opportunity! would be offered to make this a! reality. The larger fund would make pos-1 sible. Mrs. Morris explains: (1) A full time white worker and, a full time Negro worker for a maxi- ■ mum of 20 counties to be paid for j entirely from State funds. These counties would be the ones least able to pay for a program of adult edu cation. as determined by income. (2) A county director and teacher in each ol the other counties which appropriate money to match State funds. This would be possible if all the other 80 counties should apply for funds. It could not be expected, however, that all of the counties (Continued ou Page Seven.) Wins Her Wings Alice Abbott First co-ed at Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pa., to win her wings un der the CAA student pilot training; program is Alice Abbott, of Phila-j delphia. Conquering new fields is becoming a habit with her. Last spring she broke tradition by win ning her letter on the men's varsity tennis team. (Central Press) Sub Attack Unloosed Three Ships in North Atlantic Report Tor pedoings Within Four Hour Period. New York. Dec. 18.—(AP)— Sub marines unloosed another attack against British-controlled shipping in the Ninth Atlantic today, torpedoing two large tankers and another steam er at two-hour intervals several hun dred miles west of the Hebrides. At 9:40 a. m. (EST) the 10,746-ton Dutch tanker. Pendrecht reported she had been torpedoed. Two hours later the Norwegian tanker Dalfonn radioed a similar report. At 1:35 p. m. came still another message of a torpedo attack, this time from Ihc British steamer Napier Star. 12.19li tons. All the reports were heard by Mackay Radio. The first two ships said they were about .350 miles west of the Hebrides; the Napier Star gave her position as about 250 miles far ther west. The tankers were attacked about 60 miles from where the British pas senger liner Western Prince was tor pedoed last week. Sixteen persons, including six pas sengers and ten crewmen, probably perished in 1he sinking of the West ern Prince, i' was disclosed today when Canadian Munitions Minister C. 1). Howe and other survivors reached a British west coast port. Among the known dead were Gor don Scott of Montreal, financial ad visor to Howe, and Captain John Reed, who stayed with his ship. "I was in the last boat to get ;:way," How said, "and we stayed around to pick up the captain who hailed us and said lie might need us." Farces Fall BackToward Derna, Libya Ethiopian Tribesmen Reported in Revolt, Further Threatening, Mussolini's Dream of African Empire; Oth er War News. (By The Associated Press.) Indications of a general Italian re treat in the ten-day old battle of North Africa arose today as tijo Brit ish royal air torce reported fascist troops were falling back toward Derna, Libya, 150 miles west of the present lighting around Bardia. Derna is about 80 miles west <>f Tobruk, which has been expect ed to be the next Italian defense point after the imminently-threatened tall of Bardia. 15 miles inside Libya. Derna Bombed. Royal air force planes reportedly bombed and machine gunned fascist troops on the march toward Derna, which other royal air force plane.; bombed last night. Bardia itself was reported cut off. Tribesmen Revolt. Tribesmen of the exiled Emperor Haile Selassie were reported in re volt in Ethiopia today, further threatening Premier Mussolini's dream of a great fascist empire in Africa. Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Richard A. Butler told the house of commons in London that the "move ment of revolt against the Italians appears to be making progress." British armored units were report ed to have swung around Bardia and reached dominant positions west of the fascist stronghold — presumably cutting off escape as Australians and British infantry marched up for a direct assault on the town. Greeks Advanec. On the Balkan war front. Greek | artillery lire was reported engulfing the Italian stronghold of Tepeleni, north of Argirocastro, and the Greek ; high command announced that tho J Italians were being driven back to , ward Klisura, ten miles east of Tepeleni. Advices reaching London said the j part of Palermo, southwest of Tepe ; ieni, might already be in Greek hands. Dispatches from Athens said fires had broken out at Klisura, leading to the belief that the Italians were burning supplies in readiness to abandon the town. Italian Claims. Premier Mussolini's high command said Britain's desert armies in Libyia, weakened I»y losses, had eased 1h»*ir pressure and fascist planes and ar tillery were reported to have littered the battlefield with the wrecks of burning British tanks and armored cars. Rising British strength elsewhere in Africa the* continent "claimed" by Adolf Hitler for the Home-Berlin axis -was reflected in a bold 35-mil:* dash by British mechanized forces into Italian Somaliland. Reinforced by black troops, the British command said the raiding column sacked the Italian base at El Wak. killing 50, capturing 120 and seizing guns and "large quantities of stores and am munition." COMPENSATION FOR BRITISH CASUALTIES London, Dec. 18.— (AP)—Britain pledged compensation today for all her adult citizens killed or injured "as a result of enemy action". Sir Kingsley Wood, chancellor of the exchequer, announced in the house of commons that the plan would apply to injuries already in curred and that increased rates would be payable from December 24 on. lU=sSS B(/y £W£/S?MAS SCAtS