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Hettiteramt Hatltj HtBpcrfrlj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA . ^WKVTY-SEVENTH YEAR l™1Tssoc?atedrpbe1sop HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 26, 1940 publ'shjd^v^. ajtern0^ five CENTg COpY BRITAIN GIRDS AGAINST INVASION THRUST Drastic Restrictions Upon political Giving Planned Leahy Sails For France •' ■ big ■. ns of the cruiser Tuscaloosa forming an imposing back-] i.\.I William D. Leahy (left) and his wife are shown just be-! . X >ri'olk. Va., for Lisbon. They are en route to Vichy, ' t he wiil .-erve as United States ambassador. With them is C ;:i L. P. Johnson, in command of the warship. | Houghton May Change Present Com mission Sei-Up and Oust Frank L?imlap; Hot ten Among Those Speculated on for the ^lace. Dec. li»>.—(AP)—The rn y .mis overtime in these with Govt 1 n >r elt et ••r- M.I ji tak ing ol'i ice tv/o weeks : v, and a major target oi .'i peculation is the Iligh •'i I'tijl.e Works Commission. .11 predict tfi.it Chait ' nk I.. Dunlap wili not be •I'd. but tlie law mu.st l>e "■if he does not sreve two • " years, appointment. Chairman two inore years to serve, the I!oey appointees have ■m years. 'the iegi latino • M.viver, wipe «»i:t the prcs 1 •- ip or amend tin- law and .<;• those terms at any speci '«•. j'i • as the first II-ey leg > aid With the commissioners '•■•vernor Eringhans. ■ "rnor-Heet Broughton is un '■•"d to be still considering the of whether t«> change the •y < t up. 'l'he divisional sys •d now was vigorously at ' ' in the primary campaign last 't by L. L. Gravely* «jF Kocky -i -tin?. • gossip lists rniiiiProiis possibil i"r the chairmanship if the i'Mt is revamped, including • ■ Prince, oi Hcndcrsonville: Ward, i t' Wilson: Lieuten < M|i«r W. P. Uorton and Ca | M. VWiynick. "f High Point. ••I is number of the present Christmas | Deaths 397 | (By the Associated Press) A hoi.day toll of at least 38.' viokni deaths was recorded to iia.y in reports oi the nation's ob- i s-ivanee oi' Christmas. Traffic acckicni:; accounted for 272 fatal ities t nris'inas live and Christ inas day. while 10!) other report- ! cd vioien* deaths swelled the to tal lr»i«i coast to coast to more than hall the three-day week-end toll of (>73 last Christmas. Lives were claimed by suicidcs, Sires. poiuunisisT-s. explosions, ! drownings. stabbuigs and asphyx iation. *ii" t:ie !X .tatrs and liistrict of Columbia. New York I'd with 41 deaths, followed by Ohio, with 29, and Illinois with 38. The toll of traffic and other violent deaths. | by slutos, included ten in North j Carolina. Patrolman's Slayer Taken AthinUi. Ga„ Dec. 26.—(AP)—A v manhunt in two states for t::e iayc- of a Georgia highway pa trolman ended here today at Fulton <ounty jail, w he re a youthful escaped i11': term convict, who had played a desperate hide and seek with blood hounds- and a posse was charged with murder. Georgia Public Safety Commission er Lon Sullivan said the man booked as Charles Coafes, 2tt, admitted he shot Patrol Corporal W. F. Black at Ilinggold. Ga., Friday night after i I Hark stopped him for reckless driv | ifig. Sullivan asserted Coates, weakened by loss of blond from deep facial cashes and by hunger and exposure | fell to the ground near .Decatur, ; Tenn.. early last night and surrender ! cd without resistance to members of a posse that had followed a blood I stained trail through the hills of ncrtii Georgia and Tennessee. Senate Investigators Estimate $20-000,000 Spent on Recent Pres idential Campaign; Individual Gifts May Be Limited. Washington, Dec. 26. — (AP) — Drastic restrictions on individual po litical contributions may be recom mended by the Senate campaign ex oenditnres committee in an effort to curb the expense of national elec tions. Chairman G i 1 lette. Democrat, [owa. has asked committee members to study a variety of proposals fo: limiting both individual gifts and the total expenditures by party organiza tions. Although the Hatch act fixes $3, )00,000 as the maximum expenditure .'or party committees in one year and specifies that individual donations nust not exceed $5,000, Gillette has estimated that more than $20,000,000 was spent in the November presi dential election. This came about, he said, becausc if multiple organizations for candi iates. The organization, he explained, :ontended that the only limitation on its expenditures was the $3,000,000 et by the law. Furthermore contri butions to local and state campaigns ivere exempted from the $5,000 in dividual expenditure. \GNES AYRES, ONCE PICTURE oTAR, DIES Hollywood, Caii Dec. 26.—(AP) —Blende Agno> Ayres. who rocketed :o movie stardom in the uld silent ;creen days, retired to cinematic side lines when the talkie era started, and later made an unsuccessful comeback attempt, died Christmas day of a cerebral hemorrhage. Miss Ayres, a film contemporary >f Gloria Swanson and Wallace Reid. and whose outstanding rcles were in 'The Affairs of Anatole" and opposite Rudolph Valentino, in 'The Sheik," had been in failing nealth for some time. She suddenly was stricken on Christmas evening and died later in a hospital without regaining con sciousness. She was 42 years old. Small Town Draftees Not Discriminated By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Dcc. 26. — Selective service administrators are extremeiy sensitive to any suggestion that there'll be the slightest discrimination under the law to the disadvantage ol' draftees from the average American smallish town or rural community in comparison with boys from the big cities. Major Gordon Snow of Salt Lake City is particularly well qualified to discuss the subject. He's a reserve of ficer who was called to a year's ac tive duty at national headquarters in Washington shortly after the se lective act's passage. He administer ed the draft law in his native state of Utah and was intimately associated with the country-wide organization during the last World War. ' "The fact is," says the major, "that the spirit underlying the selective service law is finding its truest ex pression in our relatively small pop ulation centers and the farming dis tricts surrounding them. "That's because the basic idea is that a man shall be inducted or de ferred by a board of his neighbors and out in the sticks his neighbors know him more intimately than they're likely to know him in any one of our metropolitan areas. That is to say. a country board's members are pretty sure to be personally fam iliar with a registrant's circum stances. Consequently they're toler ably certain to classify him with a minimum chance of injustice either to himself or the nation generally." biaopraic rretauuons, Major Snow referred to the ela borate precautions provided in the relective training and service act and its accompanying regulations to pro tect the social and economic interests of communities as well as of indi vidual registrants. "A man's position," he pointed out, "is apt to be clear cut in his little home town or the town his farm's ad jacent to. His local board will know off hand whether John Smith should be retained to cultivate his acres or whether young Doctor Brown can be spared to the army without crippling] medical facilities in his vicinity. "The validity of Jim Jones' claim | (Continued on Page Two) As German Troops Occupied Rumania Last link to date in Germany's "drang nach Osten" (drive to the East) has been Rumania, where German troops k icked up by native Iron Guards have taken over control of the monarchy. Here we see some of the German troops rolling into the capital city of Bucharest. King Michael was made nominal ruler after his father, King Carol, was forced out. (Central Press) Rain And Snow Slow Up War On Albanian Front Engineer Reports Airplane's Crash Johnstown, Pa., Dec. 26.—(AP) A railroad engineer reported to Johnstow.i po.:ce voday that an airplane apparently had crashed against a mountainside about six miles west of Johnstown. Police and ambulances were started for the s;ene. At Pittsburgh, offices of air lines operating planes over the area reported none of their planes were missing. The engineer saw what he thought to be the wreckage of a plane near Seward. 10 Missing In Coast Guard Rescue Ship San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 2fi.—(AP) —The coast guard organized a search today for ten coast guardsmen unre ported since 10:39 a. m. Christmas day, when huge waves frustrated their attempt to force their small motor lifeboat into Point Arena. They had left their station at Point Arena ten hours earlier in re sponse to distress ealis from the water-logged coastal lumber schoon er Stan wood. Mrs. Cecil Thomas, wife of the of ficer in charge of the coast guard craft, said: "I'm not farmed, but we know they're in trouble." Coast Guard headquarters here or dered the cutter Shawnee to remain at sea to search for the guardsmen. A coast guard plane at South San Francisco airport was instructed to take off at dawn and join the hunt. Meanwhile, the coast guard cutter Shoshone steamed toward San Fran cisco, with the Stanwood in tow. Registration Of Aliens Is Ended In U. S. Washington, Dec. 26.— (AP) —A four-months program to register and fingerprint every alien in the United States and its possessions ended at midnight tonight. Every foreign citizen with the ex ception of foreign government offi cials and their immediate families, who fail to register, will be subject ed to a SI.000 fine and cix months' imprisonment. Earl Harrison, registration direc tor, urged aliens to "hurry off to the nearest point of registration and comply with the law." He said that those who deliberately do not regis ter will have "forfeitde any claim to Uncle Sam's mercy." More than 4,000,000 registrations have been received at headquarters here—compared with an early esti mate of 3,600.000 aliens in the Unit ed States—and several hundred thousands more are cxpectcd before the rolls are closed. Greeks Report Ad vance Continuing, However, Along Ad riatic Coast Without Any Sight of Italians; Latter Suffer from Cold. Athens, Greece. Dec. 26.—(AP)— Rain and snow slowed fighting on the Albanian battlefront today, but the Greeks reported they continued their advance along the Adriatic coast without contacting the main Italian line. Over most of the front engage ments were of a local nature. The battle for Tepeleni and Klisura. in the central sector, continued in in tense cold and waist deep snow. A captureG lieutenant colonel of the Italian army said fascist troops were suffering severely from the weather and the difficulty of getting supplies. This officer said many had died from cold, while many were hospitalized from severe frostbite. State Parole System Is Money Saver Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, Dcc. 26.—The parole system of North Carolina is general ly regarded as something very valu able in the way o£ rehabilitating citi zens who have strayed from the straight and narrow path; but it will likely I e something of a surprise to most to know that Parole Commis sioner Edwin Gill looks on his set up ns an agency which is worth money—meaning cold hard dollars and cents—to the State. He hasn't himself worked out any definite figure to show that the pa role setup is worth exactly so many hundred thousand dollars a year, but in his brief to the Advisory Budget Commission, supporting his requests for working funds, he gives a good f>asis on which such calculations could be made. "Between October 1, 1935. and July 1, 1940, this office placed on pa rolls 3,142 persons and the com 'bined unserved portions of their sen tences amounted to 7,141 years", the brief recited. "After deducting 20 per cent for probable gained time for good behavior, and after deducting 20 per cent for possible failures on parole, we still have a net unserved balance on the combined sentences of 3,928 prison years. If we break this down into days, it appears that through the parole process the State Penal Division is relieved of the custodial exnense of one prisoner for 1,433,720 prison days. If it costs approximately S1.00 a day to ke?p a man'in custody and approximately 11 cents to keep him on parole, it would seem that the parole process f Continued on Page Three) (i)stalheJi FOR NORTH CAROLINA J Cloudy, with occasional driz zle or ligfat rain tonight: Friday rain, colder in mountains D. Williams, Of University, Dead Chapel Hill, Dec. 26.—(AP) — Dr. Henry Horace Williams, 82, processor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina for almost titty years, and one of the most influential members of the faculty, died here today. lie had been in failing health for several months, and had not taught for more than a year. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at the Meth odist church here, and burial will be in Chapel Hfii. 10 Christmas N. C. Deaths By Violence (By The Associated Press.) Automobile accidents, gunfire and other forms of violence claimed the lives of at least ten persons in North Carolina over the Christmas holiday period. In addition, one North Carolinian, Mrs. Eizlabeth Callahan, of Sanford, and six Floridians whose parents and grandparents live at Salemburg, N. C., died in a collision near Savannah, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Holland, j of UJee, Fla., and child, and Mr. and ' Mrs. D. L. Westbrook, of Fernandino, Fla., and child, were on their way to Salemburg to visit Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Westbroqk and Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Holland. Christmas Eve at Swannanoa, John W. Edwards, chief United States mar shal for Western North Carolina, fatally wounded himself, Sherifl Laurence E. Brown said, after shoot ing to death Mrs. Marjorie Young, I 29-year-old cafe operator. Parker Davis Hewitt, 3G, of neai Catawba, was fatally injured by an automobile on the Claremoiint-C;. tawba highway at one o'clock Christ mas morning. Sheriff Ray Pitts said O. N. Candler, of High Point, was driving the car. Everett Jerry White, three months j old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. White, of Wilmington, died in a Goldsboro [ hospital of injuries received in an automobile accident near Rose Hil! Wednesday night. JMizaDem nuusun, it., woo auv. dentully shot and kilied, Sheriff Ray Cohoon by her cousin at her home at Kilkanny, in Tyrrell county. A woman identified as Mrs. Ethci Lula Caudill, 43, oi Baltimore, Md., was fatally injured near Apex yes terday afternoon in an automobile accident. William H. Ballou, 18, and "'forman .Tones, 20, both of Morehead City., died when their truck crashed thro- j ugh the Atlantic Beach bridge yester day and dropped into the 20-foot waters of Bogue Sound. L. E. Allen, 50, of Wenonah, and Ed Hopkins, Negro, of Plymouth, were killed when their automobile crashed into a truck on the Wash ington,Plymouth highway. Ed Has sell, 21, of Washington, and Leroy Ange, 28, of Greenville, were injured. DANIEL FROHMAN, 89, AGED PRODUCER, DIES New York, Dec. 26.—(AP)—Dan iel Frohman, 89, dean of American stage producers, died early today of complications following a fall. Frohman, one of the most distin guished figures in the history of the American theatre, had been in the •Leroy sanitarium since November 4, when he broke his right hip in a fall in his hotel suite. Showdown Is Nearing For Axis, Russia Hitler's Sending of 300,000 Fresh German Troops Into Rumania Shrouded in Mystery; Troops Comb All Brit ish Beaches. (By The Associated Press.) Britain suddenly doubled her guards on the mist-shrouded channel coast today, vigilant against a possi ble German invasion thrust across the now calm Strait of Dover. At the same time Adolf Hitler posed the war's biggest mystery as Ihc vanguard of 300,000 fresh Ger man troops sped by train through Hungary into Rumania. Speculation was rife in Balkan capitals that a showdown may be ap proaching between the Rome-Berlin axis and Russia over the strategical ly vital Danube river. Observers also saw the possibility of nazi action against Greece—or even Turkey and the Near East—in a German drive to the Near East. Some quarters viewed xne mass German troop movement into Ru mania as a feint to throw Britain off guard on her home front, setting the stage of a lightning invasion of the island kingdom. If so, Britain was not deceived. Picked troops, armed with light machine guns, combed the beaches and kept watch from the white cliffs of Dover. Traffic along the coast was stop ped at barricades. Drivers and pas sengers were searched. Even uni formed soldiers and sailors had to show identification cards. Britons recalled that less than 48 hours ago Field Marshal Walther von Baruchitsch, commander-in-chief of the German army, told nazi troops across the channel he knew they were "just burning" to invade Eng land. In the puzzling Balkan situation, Budapest .dispatches quoted travel ers from Germany as saying rail traffic in the eastern Reich was being disrupted by the passage of nazi troop trains toward the Soviet fron tier and into Slovakia. L/I.1UWOUIV. wi. wiv t.MU. , ments followed closely the news that German-Russian, Italian and Ruman ian experts who had been negotiat ing in Bucharest two months had de parted for home after tailing to agree on which nation or group of nations should control the Danube delta. Britain and Germany were free Jrom bomb attacks over Christmas but the Greek island of Corfu was said by the Greek high command to have been bombed by Italian fliers Christmas day. On the north African front the siege of Bardia entered its tenth day, with the Italian garrison facing steadily increasing pressure from British forces encircling it by land and sea. FDR Urged To Be Frank About Aid 150 Prominent Ameri cans Ask Him To Speak Plainly About Conditions in Radio Address Set for Next Sunday Night. Washington, Dec. 26.—(AP)—Tho White House said today that more than 150 prominent American citi zens had urged President Roosevelt to "make it the settled policy of this country to do everything that may be necessary to insure the defeat of the axis powers." This group, comprising editors, lawyers, authors, educators and re ligious and labor leaders set forth their appeal in a letter. They urged that all possible bo done to promote "resistance to the plausible but fatal arguments of ap peasement." Evidently for the purpose of in forming the President what they think a large section of the Amer ican people would like to hear in the chief executive's Sunday night radio speech, the group said: "We ask you to tell us what we believe to be the truth, that the ma (Continued on Page Four)
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