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Hettiterann Haily Blspatrfj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPE R PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA • T\\ KNTY-SEVENTH YEAR "hk MSocK«!gRpRSfsOF HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 20, 1940 P"1'L's'i'xcEf';E^NDAATrERN00N FIVE CENTS COPY British Ships Invade Adriatic ********** ******** ** *********** Carolinas Becoming Great Military Center Government Soends Vast Sums Here Army Expects to Have 138,500 Soldiers on Carolina Soil Within Few Months; $55, 000 000 To Be Spent in Two States. l>c. (AP>—Thr > becoming the scene of nest '.*o: *cent vat ions of «o\vor ir tho United I"nclt% Sam i: spending >llars t<> care for them, i " agg in North Carolina I ' .son n South Carolina ! • .i by a reolacement cen s • * •nb :rg. S C.. an anti : "mue :it Holly Ridge. • :>t Chul tte. W C . i'v: -cts to have approxi ; '•■■■< M -d ^rs on Carolina I ew months. na also is bidding for j -.4 : ag.- and the Xavv sites in that state for j n rscouting base. The •idy have -i large contin ue at Paris I-land. S. eing expanded and the . S. C.. navy yard is live estimate .hat even . :0i) will be spent on i the two states. Mil .• .cts already have been lineup of anticipated ■ i house Uncle Sam's u. y: > n. S18.nn0.000 for bar ■:- er facilities to take . : . i men. r • r _ 518.000.000 to enlarge . a personnel of 60.000 by r.ext July. " S9.0n0.f>00 for 20.000 . ; >rg. S8.000.000 for 16. .ci Charlotte. S2.000.000 - 1 'cliers. RobescnMan Supreme Court Up holds Death Sentence imposed for First De gree Burglary. ; 2-1. Dec. 20. — (AP) — The p: • ?:.«» court uphold today a • imposed in Robeson ' <>n George A. Johnson, con tir.-t degree burglary. T: " < >>urt ;:Iso upheld a five to ■ • prison term imposed on ' F. Dale, alias Jimmy Dale, in ii) :va county upon his con oi defj-auding Rufus Bryant on county. • \v-tive cases were decided, decision in the Johnson case '••ii to-three vote, with As Justice Horiot Clarkson writ ' i : ajority opinion. Vigorous .ore fiied by Chief Justice S: jey and Associate Justices Barnhill and J. Wallace Win ' •• Guilford county cases the ' d on the question of tax in and hospital property. It held that a lot owned by the Baptist church of Greensboro. '»• ised as a site for a new church. > tax exempt. hold that the real property Piedmont Memorial Hospital. fContinued on Page Three ^ Willkie Egger Fined Charles Mulrain (hat to face) is ! fined $20 for assault and battery and $5 for disorderly conduct in Chicago court for throwing: an egg at Wendell L. Willkie. Mulrain, 53, scored a direct hit on the G.O.P. < candidate when he appeared in Chi cago during the presidential cam paign. Mulrain lost his job as a result of the incident. {Central Press) Plane Paris Ordered Auto Plants Get "Edu cation Orders" in Plan to Mobolize Industry For Defense. Washington. Dec. 20. — CAP)— Arming America called for the au tomobile industry today to swing in to test production of parts for a pow erful fleet of long range bombers. An estimated $20,000,000 of initial "eduction orders" decided unon by the War department and defense commission was expected lo fam iliarize automobile plant managers with the manufacture of the intricate i parts they will be called upon to sup-! I ply As presently visualized, motor car plants "/ill be geared to help produce annually some 3.600 two and four motor bombers costing near S 1.000, 000.000. Mass orders must wait perfection of production methods which will hrve ♦-> be worked out largely with out precedent. Another prerequisite j is assurance of an adequate supply of motors. Possibly 15 months, by official es timates, will be required to put into lull operation the plan to employ the automobile industry to supple ment the aircraft factories in e.v: i padding the current output of planes i for the United States and Great Bri tain. • Current negotiations with the Buick and Studcbaker companies fo~ j manufacture of engines were said t<> j be a part of the scheme to assure a future aerial striking force for this j country and presumably Great Brit ain as well. I No Decision On Revising rfH 9 9 commission President Tells Press Conference Nothing Has Been Decided About Revising Setup of Defense Group; Studied. \V'-! binf?'i:'">. Doc. 2<l.—(AP)— Pros fim( TJrw ---- !< fnl'l :i nr.'-s n n!V>r IV;' !• !(?•"•* f'"it nnthhv* h:»r] Iwii dc ' '- i v t ' rovKina the setu-J .1" !'»•" " fimni'ssifn. As ort:"" <i\"t hp w>« not ready '•> s'"1' .-il-out jf • I 1 his timo. tbo President ;>id ho did not know whether •npuuneemf nt on tnr • ubjeot bo oxoect« d iaier i:1 the day jiMcr rn al'tern<»n!-i cnnl'or rnc? with members of the commis sion. A« for r°"'"•*< s"m*' m»i range r.i.<nt to out -i three-man gtoup i» '•••nrt«c. th •■« r»*e--ident fhai actorzed • rem as new naoer stories. It was r• i (•!•"• vo 1 rdny that consideia tion w'is i«'ni: »*ivcn to the estab '•4-ment of " • hirrh command" tfor 'iic defense nrncam, 1*> be com nosed ■ 1' Sef'ret-ivv "f W'ir Stimson. Secre fr'vv of the NV.w Knox and William S. Knudsrn. »v i-iuction chicf of the c>fen e commission. Mr. Poo^evclt said that was one of four or fi'T 5-ohtpts and combina tion.'' under consideration and noth ing had been decided on yet. nU YVrtJ* 11 S f « TIJIWI l • I ti i own iv- jyv» •■ons b~d s;i frl Ms new tentative plan S'or ;i "lease .uid lend" system of sup plying Britain with arms would re quire repeal of the Johnson act which forbids loans to nations in default on their World War debts. The Chief Executive repeated what he hnd said last Tuesday—that Congressional action would be need ed. but that he did not believe re-j oeal of the Johnson law would be necessary. • The inter-related questions of arms production :-peedup and British aid were discus xd at length yesterday in a specially called three-hour cab inet meeting, it was understood, but without any new decisions. One official said afterward, how E'ver. that an announcement might be forthcoming foop. at lea«t on some method of concentrating in fe'.vci'j rands the powers "now spread all i over town." as he put it. Imports May Be Controlled For Defense Washington. Dec. 20.— (AP)—The possibility of import control by the United States- a hitherto unlooked tor step in foreign trade regulations —aroused considerable speculation lod;iy. The first guarded hint that any such idea was under consideration came from Colonel Mussel I L. Max well. administrator of export control, during a review of the work done by his six-months old agency in prevent ing vital defense materials from bc (Continued on Page Three.) I ' Scott Stresses Marketing Program As Chief Need Of \ North Carolina Farmers Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotei. By IIEXKY AVERILL Raleigh, Dec. 20.—Commissioner of Agriculture VV". Kerr Scott will list in the biennial report of his depart ment a number of achievements which he feels have done credit to the state, to himself and to his sub ordinates: but he will also stress, in the same report his belief that a big ger and better marketing program is the chief need ol North Carolina far mers. "Substantial contributions have been made by the department in bringing the need for better market ing facilities to the attention of Con gress", lie vvili say in his report. "Thr Utpai tmcnt will continue to cam I paign for an enlarged marketing pro gram, recognizing such a program as vital to the economic well-being of the national and state farm popula I tion. "Expansion of agricultural market ! ing work still heads the list of needs i of North Carolina farmers. An en ! iarged, practical marketing program ! is essential to a well-balanced farm i program." In the report of his department's ; activities for tne last two years the ! commissioner goes into the work of ' i ll the divisions under his charge and cities specific ways in which he feels that service has been rendered. Here are some of the salient points: (Continued on Page Three.) Italian Tanks Seized by British in Egypt A captured Italian tank is towed to rest beside another tank captured by the British in their counter-offen sive against the Mussolini legions in Egypt. Two Italian divisions and thousands of Fascist blackshirt militiamen have been bottled up at Ssrdia. ten miles inside the Libyan coast, according to London reports (Central rresi) Britain Wants Ships New England Feels Quake Thousands of Persons Thrown Into Panic By Temblor Doing Slight Damage. Boston, Dec. 20—(AP)—An earth- J quake centering in New England and i felt from southern New Jersey to [ Montreal, Canada, early today shook, heavy buildings, caused slight dam age and threw thousands of persons 1 into panic. Professor L. Don Leet of the Har- ' vnrd University Observatory said it appeared to be strongest just south of Lake Ossippee, N. H„ and that it lasted 30 seconds. Awakened by the rumbling as their homes swayed, men, women and children in cities as far west as! Rochester and Syracuse, N. Y.. arose i in alarm. Some New Englanders dashed | scantily clad to the streets. Many re ported that they thought there had ; teen an explosion. Virtually whole \ communities were roused in sorre in stances. Available reports of damage in1 New England indicated it was con fined largely to cracked plaster and broken windows. i FBI Foils Extortion Attempt Santa Rosa, Cal.. Doc. 20.—(AP) —The wealthy, socially prominent parents of three-year old Marc do Tristan, Jr., — recently victims of a sensational kidnaoing for ransom— have been singled out again by an extortionist seeking money as the price of safety for their child. It was learned on reliable author ity today that FBI agents working secretly had frustrated the scheme barely missed capturing the extor tionist in a trap .set in a cabbage patch near Santa Rosa. The suspect, described as an elus ive little man in a black overcoat, was reported to have shown up at the cabbage patch rendezvous late Wednesday night, snatched up a cigar box which he thought was fill ed with money, and vanished into tn-3 darkness before agents could appre hend him. (xJmJJwi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy with rain near the coast, occasional drizzle or light showers in the interior this after noon and tonight; slightly war mer in the mountains tonight: Saturday cloudy. Federal Debt Now Ox er 45 Billions Washington. Dec. 20.—(AP) — The Treasury disclosed today its debt has passed S45,000.000,000. the former statutory limit which many persons thought would be a permanent ceiling. The defense program, how ever. caused the administration recently to get an additional S4. 000,000,000 borrowing power from Congress and Secretary Morgenthau now is urging that the ceiling be up to S60.000.000, 000 or S6o.000.000.000. It was a special S530.000.000 issue of new defense notes, in fact, that pushed the debt over the M5.000,000.000 mark this week. At its new peak, the Fed era! debt represented an average of approximately S340 per per son in the United States. Vichy Putsch Teaches Nazis, I Great Lesson j Berlin, I Joe. 2(1— (AP) —The i French eabinet shakeup ol' last Sat urday, known here as "the putsch of Vichy," has taught the Gorman government one groat lesson, men in the know here say. That lesson, they assort, is that j there is an influential group at work within the French government to J senttol i I possible attempts at French- j GeruiMii collaboration such as plan- i netl btewoen Hitler and the French former vice premier, Laval. German government circles, they rep.rled, long had suspected that not all who were giving lip service to / f Continued on Paeo Three* Enemy Ships j Coveted ! Minister of Shipping Casts Covetous Eye on Foreign Ships Tied; Up in U. S. London. Dec. 20.—(AP)—Britain's1 minister of shipping today cast what1 he called a "covetous eye" on "a cer-1 tain number of enemy ships in the ' United Stains" and declared tnai as-J signment of tho- r^nd United States j ships to the British service "are the 1 only ways I can see for replenish- • mcnt of any consequence." The minister, R .nald Cross, de clared that Britain's "real struggle" with Germany would come in 1941. I The statement came in an interview ; with the American press I1/? pictured the submarine menace as still the greatest threat 1o British . lifelines and said it could be over- j come only by increasing nlimbecs of i destroyers and by new shipping •(Continued on Page Three) Nazis To Issue Important News Berlin, Dec. 20.— CAP)—Author-j ized sources disclosed that today or tomorrow an important news release | would be issued presenting an "in U resting prospect of further devel opments of cooperation between na- j tions united in the three power pact.'' Officials were silent concerning the contents of the release but one Re nor a I conjecture was that it might contain a rejoinder to President Roosevelt's plan for aiding Britain. > t extile Industry Given New Life By (J. S. Orders Charlotte, Dec. 20—(AP)—Nation- j nl defense orders are pumping new j life into the long ailing textile in- : d us try fo the Carolinas and otner lines of business are feeling the j quickening effects of the revival. j Operations have reached a peak unattained in years except perhaps for a short spurt in 1937. More ana more mills are adding third shifts. Plants that have been idle for months are reopening. Gone for the ! present, at least, is the problem of i overproduction. A wide variety of articles is being | made for the government—tloth for I uniforms, underwear, tents, fabrics j for airplanes, shoe laces, blankets, j mattresses and linen. ft is customary for the mills to give their employees the entire week } oil lor Christmas but this year many j mills in both states are planning to suspend only two days for Christ mas as the heavy contract load they are carrying makes prompt delivery necessary. | The Duke Power Company, which | serves mere tnan half the spindles i in the Carolinas, announced a few j days ago a S3,000,000 addition to a i steam electric plant already under i construction at a cost of S9.000.000. j Other factors which enter the I North Carolina picture are federal j expenditures in developing Fort | Bragg into one of the largest mili- j tary establishments in the country,' the construction of an anti-aircraft j ba-e and other fac-ilitie- at Holly Ridge, and probably other projects. Vital Port Of Valona Is Shelled Other British Naval Units Sweep Adriatic Without Encountering "Enemy Shipping"; Heavy Artillery Fire at Bardia. (By The Associated Press. Brilisli warships boldly sailing up the Adriatic sea past the "heel" of the Italian boot were reported l»y the London admiralty today to have thundered nearly 500 tons of shells into the vital fascist port ol' Valona on the Albanian coast. Big guns boomed, too. in the twelve-day old battle of North Africa. Premier Mussolini's high command reporting heavy artillery lire ex changed in the Bardia sector :n Libya where an estimated 22.000 Italian troops are under siege. British naval units lying off Bardia bombarded the town while General Si'* Archibald P. Wavell's desert troops were reported tightening their tran oh the Italians in the frontier post. The British admiralty said that light naval units sank three Italian supply ships off Bardia and that "ex tensive fires have been burning in the town since December 15." In the unceasing air war between England and Germany, royal air force bombers flew through bad weather during the night to attack 'several targets" in the rich indus trial Rhur and in western Germany, the London air ministry announced. While British battleships pounded Valona, described by the admiralty a main supply port of the Italian army in southern Albania, a force of cruisers and destroyers "swept the Adriatic sea as far north as Bari and Durazzo" without encountering "enemy shipping", it was announced. On the Greek war front, a govern ment spokesman in Athens said that the hard pressed Italians were re treating up the Albanian coast road from Palermo Bay toward Chimara, ten miles north, and that the Greeks were tightening their grip on the (Continued on Page Three. > W. P. A. APPROVES SUM FOR AIRPORT Washington, Dec. 20.—(AP)—The Works Progress Administration noti fied Representative Barden, Demo crat, North Carolina, today that President Roosevelt had approved allotment of .$168,81! to construct an airport for Goldsboro, N. C. The money will supplement $50; 000 raised locally. The project h;>d the approval of the War Department, which held an airport at Goldsboro was necessary to national defense. Records Of Bund Seized Membership Lists Will Be Examined to Learn if Members Recently Naturalized. Washington. Dec. 20.—CAIr)-- An informed source said today records .seized at Chicago headquarters of the German-American Bund yester day will be examined by the Im migration and Naturalization Service to see whether the membership in cludes any recently naturalized Americans. It was said that Attorney General Jackson had ordered the membership checked as a possible basis for de naturalization proceedings. The bund has restricted its mem bership to American citizens. If naturalization of an alien was follow ed immediately by affiliation with the bund, the Justice department might take the position that natural ization had been a preliminary to bund membership. In such a case the Justice department could ask revoca tion of the citizenship. The material found at Chicago being studied by Federal Bureau oi Investigation agents. The FBI hor» has declined to comment on its part in the case Among the records seized, an in vestigator for the state's attorney's office said, was a loose leaf book in dicating that 1.500 to 2,000 membeis rt-p i-i <he Aamy, Navq, air f:rce cr Marines. _ _ jJ
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