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■pyiv Y-SEVENTH YEAR LTnlESs^ETl§rp^lsOF HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 19, 1940 pu"l,sSepte^n^7erxoon FIVE CENTS COPY
Burying the Political Hatchet
j a! . ,:n (left) G.O.P. national chairman, and Edward J. Flynn,
lalic chieftain, shake hands in real palsy walsy style as they
• Washington. D. C. The chairmen of the two major political
appeared before the special grand jury seeking to determine
the Hatch Act or the Corrupt Practices Act had been violated
durmsr the 1040 presidential campaign.
Exception Taken
To Japanese View
Ambassador Grew
Makes Quick Reply to
Startment That '^ate
of China Is Largely a
Question of Senti
ment".
19. —(API- —F«>roij?n I
uuk- pleaded with the
- today to stay out of
world face "Armagea- i
heard United Statt> i
Joseph C. Grew take
•i to his statement that j
China is largely a ques
en: t>> Americans."
^.—cidor made several
:tries after he h;:a lis—
' " velv to Matsu< ka's ad
' o Ainerican-Japane.-e;
. e!I luncheon honor
Xomura. recently nam
. ba.».~ador to the Unit-:
t v |
M it>i: !:a's assertion
: Chi. i is I rgely a j
'•nth'.ent to Americans:
. ' uiy vital issue at'fect
ery existance of our em-i
v ,-i; id:
f must relieve the min
;>pp: ehensioit that the
Americans in China is!
■ -entin ent."
■j- mT the foreign min
>:'i "we believe we have a
si'in as a civilizing ana!
>• and stand for peace!
UV hut the c»<>• >r to none. |
!i'-it desires to take a
• Mi: is welcome."
to learn that in trie
tii" door is to be|
'•<' :f!cI to none.' Grew;
! and :n?s program envis
• Hiuest, 110 oppression, no
• •• t"oil X X X
,'i iiiiir. ter knows the
,>>■ >pie st-md for certain
• ,, v.hi«-h ■>»! one hand are
■j, '.'on.-, and on the other
iiht;-.'" j
d States must consider
"fxprc <ed intentions."
!. "but facts and action.-",
"d!<-.- of the pursuasive grab
> n they may be dressed.''
Objectives
Of Vetoed Bill
May Be Voted
mutton, Dec. 19. — (AP)—
i and toe alike predicted to
■ t objectives of the Logan
bill vetoed by President
. i.;d become law at the
•n of Congress with his ap
■ ntutive Walter, co-sponsor
•'.<>!>. ti'.n. announced that he
:i! uclaee the same measure
tUsy ,>i the new Congress
il<••>y. intative McCormack.
^Massachusetts, an out
.."•ncnt of that bill, said ac
> u. oiation ' properly drawn
' .y been delayed."
Hatch. Democrat, New
and Austin. Republican,
promised to renew their el
■ -ituin approval. Hatch as
, hat e!torts of the sponsors
--• — .ucj ou Pa^e Three)
Secrecy Shrouds
Probe of Crash
Iliverside. Cal.. Dec. 15).—(At?)—
Strict secrecy surrounded an inquiry
which March Field officials launch
ed today into the deaths of six Army
tliers iii the crash and explosion of a
giant 22-ton four-engine bombing
plane on the frozen, snow-oeaked
slopes of nearby San Jacinto moun
tains.
Flying high through intermittent
patches of clouds and heavy mist,
the plane which was on a routine
training flight struck the 6.700-foot
snowline of Marion mountain and
left wreckage strewn for half a
mile along the boulder and tree
dotted slopes.
New Board
Considered
For Defense
Washington. Doc. 19.—(AP)—The
Roosevelt administration considered
today establishing a "high command"
lor the defense program.
The White House disclosed that the
President had under consideration at
least lour or five plans for injecting
>p< cd into tiie defense program. One
involves a proposal to establish a
"high command" for the program
headed by Secretaries Stitnson and
Kn<>x and William S. Knudscn. in
dustrial production chief of the de
fense commission.
Stephen Early, presidential secre
tary. said this suggestion had been
discussed at a White House conl'er
< nee yesterday.
Stitnson, Knox and Assistant War
Secretary Patterson and Under-Sec
retary Korrestal of the Navy met
with the Chief Executive, and Early
.-aid he assumed they presented the
plan to the President.
'They did not leave the plan with
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Britain Is Authorized
To Plan On U. S. Aid
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Germany
Silent On
New Moves
British Press Acclaims
President Roosevelt's
"Mortgaged Aid"
Plan; Italians With
draw in Albania; Oth-1
er War News.
i
(By The Associated Press.)
Sections of the London press hailed I
the United States as a I'lliI-fled^ecl !
allv in tiie v ar against Germany and
Italy today, acclaiming President:
i Roosevelt's "mortgaged aid" proposal
i as having solved Britain's credit wor- |
| ries and wip.-r! out the effects of her i
multi-billion dollar debt default from '
; the 1914-18 World War.
Official Gcrnrmy remained silent.!
but it was indicated that reaction j
! would not be long delayed.
! Authorized na/.is said they saw •
! "progressive development in a cer-j
tain direction" and persons usually in ;
! the know declared:
j "The American president's pro-j
i posal may be technically within the
| neutrality act but obviously it is no
| longer neutral."
The London Daily Mail declared [
.'editorially that Americans had final-;
i Iv been shocked "out of their snug |
flumber" in which they "tried to j
have their guns and candy, too" oy!
maintaining the production of "peacc j
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i
Battleship
And Freighter
In Collision
New York, Dec. I5>.— CAP)— Thoj
United States battleship Arkansas!
and the American freighter Melrose j
I collided off the New Jersey coast
early today, causing little damage to
tiie battleship bi/ springing a leak
I in the freighter.
Both vessels headed immediately j
! for New York under their own pow !
i er.
| Scene r>1 the crush was about 151
| miles oi l' Se:i Gr:t. i\". .1.
| The Coast Gutrd cutter Ponchar
train reached the two ships within
1 an hour. The cutter fell in as an
I escort as the freighter and battleship!
i headed for port.
The Coast Guard said the Arkan
sas apparently was "all right" but
i that the Melrose was damaged "pret
ty badly."
The Arkansas is a 2(i.000-ton bat
tleship completed in 1912. It carries
a normal crew of 1,330 men. Now
attached to the Atlantic squadron,
I it is destined to be replaced by the
| new North Carolina.
Stimson To Name Group
To Combat Bad influences
Surrounding Army Camps
Washington, Dec. 19.—(AP)—Sec
retary Stimson, declaring that sol
diers had been exploited financially;
and subjected to a bad moral in
fluence in un-named communities
near Fort Benning, Ga., announced
today that he would create an or
ganization to deal with such condi
tions throughout the country.
He toid his press conference there
would be a committee to work to
ward the improvement of health and
sanitary conditions in the towns near
Army posts and to cooperate with
Jaw enforcement and other official
agencies in the communities. The aim
would be to control "undesirable per
sons and places," increase proper re
creational facilities in the towns and
protect soldiers "so far as we can
from exploited."
Stimson said it was highly impoi
tant that the camps where draftees |
would .undergo a year's training be -
in a good neighborhood and ii' tho
neighborhood were not good that it
be bettered.
He said that he had found on a
recent visit to Fort Benning that
there was "great room for improve
ment in one of the neighboring
towns in all sorts of ways."
Just as soon as the post at Ben
ning was increased, he said, and a i
lot of young officers came in look- 1
ing for quarters nearby, all the rents
in the town went up three-fold.
"That inflicted a great hardship)
upon the youngsters," the secretary
declared.
"Conditions of a moral character
iji one of these towns was even a j
worse influence," he added. |
Churchill Warns
Of Invasion Danger
Lost to Goering
Lady Decies
Arriving at New York from En- |
rope, Lady Decies, the former Eliza
beth Drexel of Philadelphia, tells
of how she met Marshal Hermann
Goering in a Paris shop. She had
purchased a coat when Goering,
shopping for his wife, reached out
ami said: "I'll take this one." She
did:;'£ ar~~e.
German Aid
Sent Italy
Brenner Fass Report
ed Closed; Nazi Pilots!
-
Shuttle Italian Forces'
to Albania.
i
Basel. Switzerland, Doc. If).—
(AP)—The newspaper Lc Dem
ocrat of Delemont reported today
"from a good source in Zurich"
that freight and civilian traffic
has been suspended on the Bren
ner railway line to permit the
passage of German divisions who
are on their way to Italy.
Inquiries of reliable sources
both in Rome and Berlin failed
to confirm the report.
Struga. Yugoslavia (At the Al
banian Frontier), Dec. 19.—(AP)
—Fleets of German transport
planes were reported today to be
shuttling Italian reinforcements
across the Adriatic to the Al
banian battlcfront in an effort
to halt the Greek counlcr in
vasion.
German pilots, because of their ex
perience in this blitzkrieg method of j
moving troops, were said to be fly
ing huge planes sent alter urgent
pleas from Premier Mussolini.
Military sources where the report
of German aid originated said that
each plane carries 20 lully equipped
men on the short hop across the
Adriatic and that a crossing could be
made several times a day.
These quarters indicated that the
Italians were landed close to the
front lines and thrown into battle
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I
British Prime Minis
ter Says Slackening
of Air Attacks Might
Easily Have Been in
Preparation For Oth
er Form of Activity.
London. Dec. 19.—(AP) — Prime
Minister Churchill, warning his peo
ple that German invasion still is a
"supreme danger," took note today
of t> letup in German air attacks and
declared "they might easily have
slackened in preparation of some
other form of activity against Bri
tain."
Addressing the house of commons, i
Churchill acknowledged that the 1
weather might have been the chief
lactor in the easing of the aerial \
siege, and said:
"It would be a disaster for anyone
to suppose that the supreme danger !
of invasion has passed."
Adolf Hitler, he asserted, "has
great need to do something now or
at any rate in the next few months.
"We must suppose that he is mak
ing plans which would be particular
ly directed against us."
At the same time, Churchill drop
ped a hint oi' Britain's own long
range offensive planning, when he j
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Western Union Is
Cleared in Court
Chicago, Dec. 19.— (AP) —The
Federal court today threw out an
indictment charging the Western
Union Telegraph Co., and eleven in
dividuals with conspiracy to violate
the lottery laws by sending horse j
racing results over interstate boun- j
daries.
int; wcic wi• v..* ,
Judge William H. Hol'v sustained j
a demurrer to the indictment re
turned in April. Most of the indi- j
vidua 1 defendants were associates of |
M. O. Annenberg, former racing ;
news magnate now serving a prison
term for income tax evasion.
ONE PERSON DIES
IN TRAIN WRECK'
Tampa, Dec. 19.— (AT1)—One per-j
son was reported killed and an un- \
determined number injured today
when two passenger trains crashed
at a crossing half a milc south of
Zephyr Hi IN. 2t! miles from Tampa.
All available Tampa ambulances
were sent to the .scene of the acci
dent.
The trains involved wer cthe Sun- j
beam, crack Chicago to Tampa train j
of the Seaboard, and the Atlantic
Coast Line No. 213, running from j
Jacksonville to Tampa.
Lon^ Posse Hunt j
Results in Death
Middlesboro. Kv„ Dec. 19.—(AP)
—Clyde William Buchanan. 40. died
♦odav four hours after a posse of
Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia
officers wounded him in a gun bat
tle rear Wheeler. Va., where they i
found him after a two and one-half
day search of the tri-state Cumber
land mountain area.
Bell county Attorney Walter B.
Smith, who directed the hunt for j
Buchanan, reported the capture late '
last night of Buchanan's son. Clyde. :
Jr., 15. The younger Buchanan fled
into the mountains with his father ;
after a pistol fight in which Deputy j
George W. Fisher. 53. was killed and
two other peace officers wounded
early Tuesday. Smith said.
The elder Buchanan was wound
ed. fatally, two bullets striking him
in the head and one in the abdomen, i
when he "rfeused to surrender j
peacefully to 50 possemen who sur-;
rounded him in a cedar, grove.
li)catkfLh
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Increasing cloudiness followed
by rain Friday and possibly be
ginning tonight; not quite so cold
toni&ht.
Heads Trade Board
Col. Charles H. March
Colonel Charles H. March, of Min
nesota, is slated to head the federal
trade commission for 1941. The
chairmanship of the five-man com
mission rotates annually. Appointed
to the commission by President
Coclidge in 1929, March was M
appointed in 1935.
Ford Labor
War Flares j
.
CIO Leader Asks Fed
e r a 1 Intervention;!
Ford Personnel Chief,
Charges Frame-Up.
Detroit, Dec. 19.—(AP)—President
Roosevelt was asked today by the
CIO United Automobile Workers to
instruct federal agencies to inter
vene in the union's long-smoulderini(
dispute with the Ford Motor Com
pany. j
Michael F. Widman, Jr.. director
of the Ford Organization drive, de
clared in a telegram to the Presi
dent that "the management of the
Ford Motor Company is attempting •
to provoke a strike in its planls" by j
'"open and arrogant, violations of the i
labor laws."
Harry Bennett, Ford personnel di
rector, said today that United Auto- •
mobile Workers officials were en-,
gaged in "a deliberate attempt to j
frame us." He said he knew some
employeos the union claimed were I
discharged "are working right now." {
Widman asked Mr. Roosevelt lot
call upon the Labor department and j
the national defense advisory com- i
mission "to make full use of their I
conciliation service to dissuade the |
company from its provocative ef-1
forts."
The CIO leader charged that trie
company dismissed "upwards of 100
men" yesterday at the Lincoln plant
and ten others at the tire building of
the River Rouge plant for "wearing
union buttons."
Contracts
Await Act
Of Congress
Morgenthau Announc
es Roosevelt Has In
structed Him to In
form British to Pro
ceed With Negotia
tion of Contracts.
Washington. I>ec. 19.—(AIM—
Secretary Morgenthau announc
ed today tin- British government
has been authorized to proceed
at once with negotiation of bil
lions of dollars worth of war ma
terial contracts hut not to sign
the contracts until Congress acts
nn ''resident Roosevelt's "lease
lending" plan.
The secretary said he hud been
instructed by President Roose
velt to send this word to the
Firitish purchasing commission
this morning.
Morgenthau said that the first
contract in the new program
would be for 00 merchant ves
sels. The Rritish are going to pay
cash for these ships, he declared,
and would not wait for approval
of the "lease-lending" plan.
From other sources it was learn
ed that the British were seeking
contracts for 12,000 additional ulanes
at a possible cost of $1,125,000,000;
2,000 to 2.500 more tanks and guns
and ammunition costing about SJ,
770,000,000.
He declined to say how much ilio
new British contracts would total or
to comment on reports that the t'if»
ure was 83,000,000,000.
"I have been authorized by the
President to tell them (the British)
to go ahead up to the point of sign
ing contracts," Morgenthau said.
Except for the ship order, Mor
genthau added, "there will be no
more British contracts until Congress
has a chance to study them."
The proportions of President
Roosevelt's plan for unlimited aid to
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Bardia Force
Is Trapped
Cairo, Dee. 19.—(AP) — Italian
rear guard forces left to defend Bar
dia, Libya's principal base in the
frontier region, have been trapped
and their way of escape to Tobruk
is under aerial bombardment, Brit
ish military sources reported today.
"Advanced elenjents of our troops
which have successfully contacted
numerically superior enemy forces in
Bardia are being steadily reinforced
and the position of the remnants of
the beaten Italian army in that area
can now be regarded as precarious,"
said a British general headquarters
communique.
General headquarters said that 31.
f)4() Italian prisoners, including 1.
(>2(i officers, had been counted al
leady as the haul of the Libyan of
fensive and that several thousand
more were being removed from bat
tle areas.
Babson Says America's
Standards Are Highest
BY ROGER W. BABSOX,
Copyright 15)*0. Publishers
Financial Bureau.
Philadelphia, Dec. 19.—Our people |
demand more than those of any other 1
nation on earth. Our standards of liv-i
;ng are the highest in the world. Few!
ol our people will go hungry over the'
holiday season. Wages and pay rolls,
are up, unemployment is decreasing.;
Our dollar has been devaluated, but'
it still buys more necessities and!
luxuries of life than an- other cur-1
rency.
A Worker's Paradise.
The average American factory!
worker on his wage per hour can;
purchase approximately 7.5 pounds |
if bread: 1.6 pounds of butter: 2.1;
pounds of beef: 35.1 pounds of po- j
La toes: 2.G pounds of coffee. In Ger
many. an average worker's hourly
Vi'ge buys only J.5 pounds of oread;
0.5 of a pound of butter; 0.9 of ;i
pound ol beef; 20.5 pounds of po
tatoes: 0.3 of a pjund of coffee.
The American worker's wage buys
9.78 pounds of these five essential
foodstuffs. The German worker can
buy only 4.94 pounds. The bread,
butter, beef, and coffee which is us
ed in Germany, we would not rec
ognize. Potatoes arc potatoes the
world over; but in Germany saw
dust is being mixed with flour; oleo
margarine is a substitute for butter;
horses, dogs, cats, and foxes are
legalized substitutes for beef; and
chicory is the name for coffee.
Food Abundant Here.
Coffee is a drug on the U. S. mar
ker* Sugar, flour, rice, and vege
table- aie extremely cheap. Thet *
has been a rise in the* rost of meat
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