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Henitersott Daily iltspafrlj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 31, 1940 FIVE CENTS COPY Wheeler Urges U. S. Efforts To End War Senator YV heeler is Critical of iYiueii of General Pol icy Propounded by President in Sunday Night Radio Address; }' War, >n. Dec. 31.—(AP) Sen A •> el I)e itocrn*. M'-'ii:";:!. • n en <i: agreement with Presi • today on the question ! i :n Kus-t»jm* urged that the] . exeri every effort fo. s diate t'nd of t'^e war. d ect issue with the Presi e ' ;.-c broadcast statement: • : had n>< right or rea-1 t >outage talk of peace" un t \ ' ::<• circumstances. • !er raised the peace question . ' >> l.i i.uirasi last night j iranklv critical of much j • /„• u- •! policy which, the duel i propounded. j ?od States. the Montam j I.' "f declared, "is no Ion-; V.a-.:invion. Dec. 31.— (AP)— ih>i tt heeler. Democrat. Mon- i -ait! tuti.iv jte had received than l.L'OO tciegrams about hi- >i»-rch lust nisht urging a move by the I'nited States, i ! per cent of them were cable. | J >• response, ho said, was the j ... ,.i. evoked bv any speech I •'iud»* in more than 17 | the Senate. along the road to war. uning—and don't be fool tine before the Wheeler1 . me Marshall, chairman of j \ -Foreign-War committee.; •t a press conference that I tuition already had re-j • r. /.i profrcr of "honorable | :;i ice terms. Despite this,S • ce conference .-till could' _ed if %%.ic administration j Id -ipprove. . assertions were chai • ■:.o ' in i ' t"ly in a State ent annouii:- mtnt which; : that no "feasible" peace pro-: hid been advanced. • Wheeler and Marshall, two; t m the ranks of those • ti • > administration ideas on '. h ad and kindred subjects, j • d n their criticism yester •• by a number of others who ex-, ed alarm over some of Mr. I elf Sunday utterances. .• t '• opp'.^ite camp, meanwhile,! ... - continued commendation' ■ :• e policy outlined. The White, (Continued on Page Five) NIGHT WATCHMAN DIES OF INJURY •AMro.nf-t-.n. t\. Do. 21.—(AP) j f -• •ri11:• - P;«dg» it. 51) year-old WPA • v.-.-1'«•(•!• ;im, -.h-. was attacked :.ri unhnown as ailant while on 'v here Sunday morning, died at he pital h're this morning, (to v c\'M"ly beaten about the 1 'iid offerer! a fraetured skull. Poljet fori.iy eonPnued their in timation ol" the mysterious case, no •• har e been arrested I • >i no moti e f r the assault has I !.'•!• -|j riiiverpri. I BRITAIN GIVEN L ULL IN NAZI AERIAL SIEGE Healing the Sick Sister Mary Jordan Carroll demon strates to scientists ir Philadelphia the effects of respiratory stimulat ing substances extracted from cells, on bacteria. She belongs to the In stitutum Divi Thomas, Cincinnati, which has developed salves for wounds and burns which eliminate j scar tissue. (Central Press) Income Tax j Raises Seen Members of Senate Finance Committee Put Increased Levies in "Must" Class. Washington, Dec. 31.—(AP)— tlf.'-vy inconi" taxes were put in the "must" '-lass today l>y Senators Con nalty. Ovm erat, Texas, and John son. Democrat. Colorado, who said h'gher rates were needed to help finance defense. Copmlly estimated that the new Congress would have to rahe at least nr-f h-lhor: dollars in additional reve nue fr m all sources. He listed per (m I r>nd c< rporatiori incomes, elec tricity. cosmetics and luxury prod uct • generally as the probable fields Specifically, the Texas senator told reporters that substantially higher should be imposed in the tax bracket-, from St.000 ot SI 00,000 r $150,000. '•persons with income of $10,000, $15,000 and $20.0»)0 should m.ake a very substantial additional contribu tion." he declared. Senator Johnson ex pre scd the be lief that "there will have to be heav ier taves ori everybody." Roth CoonnMy and J- hnvon are members of the finance committee and will plav a part in drafting any new revenue legislation. Motorists, When They Buy License lags, Make Only Small Payment On Taxes Duiiy OispaUh TJureau, In the Sir ffiiirr Hotel. B.v SIKNKV AVER1LL Ualeigh. !X>c. 31.—Thousands up-; •n thousands of North Carolina! • vehicle owners have bought: lic».n.-e tags this month. Those who from neglect or lack of cash: •uIc'm'I c{'» -o before now. are today. • ndrg in Ions lines waiting to pay '■;< r i- fitiey and yet the pretty pieces ■ ' metal with fancy orange numbers) ! •• ■ inted on a black background. As each one gets his tag he a»h»\ a <igh of relief and more or iL.v- joyously congratulates himself: goodness, that's paid for." Y > w K;i!t'igi: reporter dislikes in u-tiv( iy t«> be a sore thumb, a wet blanl et < a killjoy; out he has just been reading some hard figures which show that the ten dollars or thereabout pnid for the license Uig is, in tact, only a very small down payment of the taxes each motor ve hicle owner will have to fork over during the year 1941. The licen-e tag fee and the ad valorem taxes paid cities and coun ties on automobiles along with other personal property are about the only open, unashamed taxes: but by the time he has finished paying the state ;;nd federal gasoline tax. the state in spection tax. city license fees, and the other more or less "hidden" levies, he will during the year have paid through the nose tu the tune of (Continued on page two) Hitler Telis Troops 1941 Will Bring Com pletion of "Greatest Victory of Our His tory"; Other N e w s From War Fronts. (P>v Tho Associated Press.) The government-controller! Cler mkiii press unleashed caustic com ment today against President Roose velt's fireside talk Sunday night, while Adolf Hitler declared in a New Year's message to his troops that 1941 would bring completion of "the greatest victory of our history." The nazi fuehrer asserted that "God up to now has placed the stamp of approval on our battle." At the same time he denied any am bition toward world conquest on the part of tho Rome-Berlin axis. Berlin dispatches said that tensing emotions were sharply evident in the German capital, but that the attitude seemed to be that Germany would not allow hcr-elt to be "provoked" b}' President Roosevelt's program for increased aid to Britain. The United States, it was said, will be given a chance to reflect before being committed to a course more hostile to Germany. The closing hours of 1940 brought a lull in the aerial siege of Britain today. On the Balkan front, the Greeks reported the capture of more inan 1,000 new prisoners and said strong Italian counter attacks had been smashed despite the fact that Pre mier Mussolini's legions were fight ing desperately to stem the Greek advance. The Italian high command, how ever, asserted fascist troops had in flicted "considerable losses" on the Greeks in local fighting. Hitler's message to his armies which overran most of Europe in 1940 declared that Germany was "threatened by the world" and that "it is the will of democratic war in cit».Ts and their Jewish-capitalistic wire pullers that the war must con tinue." Hie nazi fuehrer's number one (Continued on Page FiVe" FIVE MEN CAUGHT IN FALL OF MINE ROOF ARE UNHURT Indiana. I'a.. I)ee. .'51—(Af\> ■ — Five mf-n, ;ill imported s:iCo and iiri harmed, wore tr:»ppccl today behind a t(!*i '>1 long i'iinf fall in the Kent Number 2 tuin<- *»f the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company, about lo mile" southwest of here. Rescue crews dicing into the de bris kept in communication with the trapped miners and expressed hope of freeing them lnf«> today or to night. The e inpany said the five were rer%'ving an adequate supply of air. The fall occurred about tliree miles from, the* mouth of the mine. Twelve others in the same section escaped. Hopson Is Convicted Federal Penitentiary Sentence Looms for Utilities S y s t e m Founder. New York, Dec. 31.—(AP)—How ard C. Hopson, who rose from news boy to the upper realms of high fi nance only to see his billion dollar utilities system topple like a house of caids. was convicted today on charges that may send him to a fed eral penitentiary. After alternately moaning and dozing through a trial which began almost two months ago. the 58-year old founder of the Associated Gas and Electric System heard a jury of eleven men and one woman con vict him of mail fraud growing out of the juggling of nearly $20,000,000 ] of the system's assets. He was acquitted on a lone con- I 'Continued on Prge Seven) Italian Prisoners Off For Internment In Africa A long column oi" Italian prisoners is pictured in this plv to. ilashed by from London, marching' under British guard to an internment cainp. In the background are the ruins of Sicii Barrani. which was cap tured. with thousands of prisoners, from the Italians. B itisii advance units are now reported surrounding and beseiging Bardia, in Italian Libya. ' . C. P. Cablephoto. Greek Island City Battered By Italians By DAMKL Dc LUCE. Corfu, Dec. 28. (Delayed)—(AP)— The Greek island city of Corfu is dead above ground Vot in slimy tun nels six thousand women, children and old men live in fear of Italian bombs. 1 saw them today cooking soup over charcoal fires, nursing babies, sewing clothes, in odorous caverns ankle deep in.mud. They had existed like this since November 1—58 days in misery of which more than 50 were marked by fascist air 'raids. Bombs have killed ubout UU persons and injured that (Continued on Page Three) BRITISH ANNOUNCE SHIPPING LOSSES London, Dec. 31.—(AP)—The id mirally announced h day that 4IJ,MOO t ns ol merchant shipping were lost due to "enemy action" in the week ending December 22. Kighleen ships were ! u I, it said, of which 15' totaling 32.1M9 tons were British and time will) a tonnage of 10.451 were neutral. Naval circles commented lhat the lowered rate of sinkings oi' tho past two weeks indicated that counter measures taken against submarines will uceccd in reducing "material ly" the effects of thfir attacks. BOND ISSl'M AI'2'ROVII) llaleijjh, Dec. ol.-—fAP)—The Lo cal Government Commission today approved' issuance r.v '*\e govern mental units of worth of bonds, including Washington public school district, 5.10.00 refunding bonds, anil Henderson. $IG.0('() re funding bonds. Ford Plant Threatened With Strike Detroit, Dec. 21.—(AP)—A threat of stiike at the Fold Motor Company was held forth today by the United Automobile Workers, CIO, who charged that the c.mpany was ig noring national defense needs with an "intention" to disregard a re-hir ing agreement. The union asked Federal interven tion while asserting that the United Automobile Workers were "doing ev erything within our power to effec tuate the purposes mentioned by President Roosevelt" in his address Sunday night. "We feel it the responsibility of (Continued, on page two) {jjsuaiktih FOR NORTH CAROLINA Increasing cloudiness possibly followed by ligrht rain in west portion Wednesday and in moun tains tonight: slowly rising: tem perature Wednesday and in west portion tonight. Ijabscn Sees 1941 As Best Prosperity Not to Depend on Question of War I or Peace, Economist Says in Annual Summary of Business Outlook. ROGER W. BABSON'S WORD'S-EYE VIEW FOR 1941 BUSINESS: 111';-} Gain Over 1940, With Defense Program in High Gear. TREND: Present High Levels Should Be Exceeded Before Spring. POLITICS: No More New Deal Legislation In 1941. MARKETS: Gradual Uptrend, But Careful Washington Scrutiny. FARMERS: Income Up About 5r/r, Benefits At Present Levels. WORKERS: Employment. Pay Rolls At Peak Figures. RETAILERS: 5 to 7Gain in Sales; Prices Sligh'Jy Higher. CONSUMERS: Less Than 51 Rise In Living Expenses. REALTORS: Residential Building Up 20r/<\ Rents Steady. ; INVESTORS: Bullish Outlook F r Selected Stocks. SUMMARY: Best Volume of Business In Nation's History. By ROGER YV. BAUSON Copyright 1940, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Itabson Park, Mass., Dec. 31.—A question to discuss before making a forecast for 1941 is: "Will World | War II continue throughout the year?" My answer is that it surely iwill continue at least until the fall. :For the purposes of my forecast, this is equivalent to the entire year of 1041. Germany is storing up huge quan tities of arsenic to be used in an at tempt to destroy the crops of Great Britain next summer or next fall. If England is also storing arsenic and succeeds in destroying the crops of Germany, the war may end next fall. It is evident thai both sides will attempt destruction by arsenic, fire, or otherwise. I say this because the effect of such a crop-killing cam paign would be more serious for iGermany than for England. Eng land is dependent to the extent of Ionly 35 percent on her home crops, | while Germany's dependence is 90 I percent. Germany, moreover, is un |ahle to import except by robbing adjoining nations, and hence, must CIO Strike Shuts Down Truck Plant Fort Wyane, Intl.. Dec. 31.— (AP)—A strike of CIO United Automobile Workers of America, threatened three times previous ly, today shut down the Inter national Harvester Company's Fort Wayne truck works, manu facturing parts of Navy vehicles. The union threw a picket line across the factory's entrances at 5:30 a. m. and company spokes men said there would be no at tempt to open the plant today. About 3,200 workers had been employed. Negotiations had shifted to Washington on a contract over which the union and company had bickered since the National Labor Relations Board certified the UAW as sole collective bar gaining agent for workers in the plant after ail election last May. iconserve all her own crops. People j [arc not freightened by bombs, as I I only one person out of many thous- | lands sutlers from them; but the fear i of starvation will throw a nation ; i I " | (Continued on Page Seven) State Gains in Revenues i All Major Revenue Sources Ahead of Last Year as 1940 Comes to Close. fj.ilrigh, Dec. 31.—(AP)— North! Carolina bade farewell to 1940 and I the first .six months of the current fiscal year today with all major rev- j enue sources running well ahead of j Jast year. The Revenue department reported collection of $7,637,155.24 in De cember as compared with $6,756,131. 32 in December, 1939, and collections! for the fiscal year to date of S35,-! 973,034.63 and said this was $2,847,-! 874.28 more than the $33,125,160,35 1 taken in the like period of 1939. General fund collections in Decern- I bcr were $2,120,390.13, or 13.8 per (Continued on Page Two) Lease-Lend Plan To Be Presented i Washington, Dec. 31.—(AP)— President Roosevelt, it was indicated at the White House today, probably ! will discuss in his annual message to i Congress next month a plan for lend- , ing and leasing war equipment to I England. Stephen Early, the President's ; press secretary, said it would seem j logical to him for Mr. Roosevelt to j talk about the proposal at that time. At any rate. Early said, the entire j proposal will go before Congress | soon after the start of the session! January 3. ! No Official Comment At Present Press Will Describe President Roosevelt's Talk as "Undignified in Tone, Weak in Ar gument, and Not Con vincing". Berlin, Dee. 31.— (AT) —Adolf Hitler's reply to President Roose velt's Sunday night speech on the United States and the war will bo given for the present by the German press, informed sources said today. And the press, they added, will put Mr. Roosevelt's talk down as "un dignified in tone, weak in argument, and not convincing". In addition, it was said, the talk would be characterized as "an appeal to the lowest instincts of the Ameri can people." At the same time, from the pre sent handling of the German-Ameri can situation here as it results from the President's talk, it seemed evi dent that Germany does not choose to be provoked. From the viewpoint of strategy, informed sources intimated, the press will hold that the President's speech is uninteresting because "United States support of England cannot delay—much less prevent— Britain's defeat." It was said that the German press would comment further that the speech "neither politically nor from the viewpoint of its contents caused any surprise" and would add: "It is remarkable, however, for its accumulation of partialities, un truths and insults to Germany and rtaly." The German press further was ex pected to express surprise that the "political leader of 120,000,000 pro pie takes up such phrases of the Jewish press and makes them the subject of discourse to his people." Bardia Defenders Awaiting Events Cairo, Dec. 31.—(AP)—The Brit ish middle east command reported today that the Italian defenders of Bardia, pounded relentlessly by artil lery. "continue passively to await events." Indications still wore lacking of an early British attempt to storm the fascist defended Libyan port which has been under British siege for Iwo weeks. II was believed here the British wo'ilrl refrain from a costly assault, ureferring instead to starve out the Italians. (IIASID New York, l)c»-. 31.—(AP)—The P.ril iih f;inl <T Donax reported in a nicr;::age picked tip by Mackay Radio today thai she was beini; "chased by a submarine" about 450 miles west of Scotland. smr is si nk HHi0-;)d»\ Dec. 31—(AP)—Reports reaehinj* Belgrade said that an Ital ian transport vessel loaded with war rn.'iteriafr* for Albania was torpc rloed by a British warship in the Adriatic sea today and went down r>ff the Adriatic port of Bar. Compulsory Defense Work For Britons London, Dec. 31. —CAP)—Herbert Morrison, minister of home security, announced tonight the British gov :rnment was planning to make part lime civil defense work compulsory !or every Briton. Morrison made the announcement n a radio address calling on British lien and women to form a "civil iefense home guard" to defeat the nenace of nazi incendiary bombs Dy guarding property where they live )r are employed, leaving the vast fire department forces free to fight the worst and most dangerous fires. The government, he said, has de eded or. '"the principle of compul sion" and and details are being worked out. The speech was made after a day of virtual quiet over Britain and after demands had arisen in many quarters for compulsory fire watch (Continued on Page Two)
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