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ïtettîteramt Bath* Bîspafrh γΜΤντΫ-ΕΗΐΗΤΗ YKAR »... - A'LY N™SPAIER I'b BUSHED IN THIS SKiTIDN OF ΝΟΗΤΗ CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA „i,M.K,,SON. N. C, TUESDAY Âmwuo* KEHU^T^ =^7^ F,\'K i'EXTS ι m; y Mercy Ship s Skipper Sails Cap'.un Alfred Moore, skipper of the mercy ship Cold Harlwr, receives 8 j.,.·„%ν.4| kiss Γrom Miss Helen C'oppenhaver, Red Cross worker, as the vessel .--ails from Baltimore, M ci. The Colli Hnrbor is taking a $1.00(1,001) -elief cargo to France anil Spain. (Central Trees) Batista Suppresses Ο'i ban Sedition Plot Cuban President Tells Army, Navy and Po lice t orces He Has Ar restee! Their Chiefs; Constitutional Guar antees Suspended. ■ ν »*-.-· H I > I (Λ P) —President F ■Uvi I! 'it. -!;i told the Cuban nr.; y. ι! r. v and police forces today that in· : .at arrested their chiefs to .- ;pj· ι ι ditious plot. Λ ' ' ·■ declared that the grouo i' :.. p. · > ·'. ι·: throw Batista and d feared for his own sa fe ll· · : :iir prions charges and f ·:'■"; ι ! i':';-i- involved in the ι—··: :···: ' Ha I i.-ta suspended con .nanteps for 15 days, ι : man" president ear '· .·! .lilv nnnminced a "deep endangered the stability '■'· .ίι'i<- has been overcome ωά l.-r and Iraiuinility prevail ii'i Π " Β;ι· r ; ι ■ ; ! 1 ppiNonal control of ■e :■ I..:· several hours after eusting li chief, then turned that fiii ι : ·. n : γ i ivcr tn Colonel Manuel Lupi-z ΛΙ ^iiva. Hi· already had ap Puiiit■ ■ j iic'A' chiefs of the navy and li.itiiii.i! <:,-»· in steps he declared "Pre- :, ι y t., "repress" the alleged s"fl ' .1 "!·< -establish public ord er" 1'r ·'· ·" . ■· measures included the achme guns and bar '"••acl- : : entrant··.·.-· to the presi de"· ;r.,j ιΛ·,.|·ο Colonel Jose ■ ν rh'ef and national Police e pf inee Saturday, and Ij 11 :'"'.· ·· ' Colonel Angela Gonzalez, ousted tta\y chief. Lavai May Gain Power Darlan Returns Τ ο Vichy After Confer ence in Paris With Former Vice Premier. Vichy, Kpl>. 4—(ΛΓ)—Admiral "ailan left Paris shortly before 11 "" today tn bring back to Vichy a ''"'ssage- presumably from former leniipj· Pierre Laval, with whom he οίίterred yesterday on Laval's con ditions I'm- returning to a position in ' '■'rcnch government. Admiral Darlan, French naval "uttistei and envoy from Chief of otate Marshal Petain, talked with 'Ί several hours yesterday in a ninve by the Vichy government to niU't increasing German pressure 'Ult Laval be returned to a position 1)1 authority. .fiends ' of Laval declared last juttnt the deposed vice premier, once le"' apparent to Petain's post, would ^ant even broader power than he ν until his dismissal from the 'a>inet last December 13. freneh political circles expected e 'Hi'Ian-Laval conference to bring tentant changes, broadening rench - German collaboration and »!s concentrating power in a 'Tivirate of ministers under Pe tain. LOCOMOTIVE BLAST INJURES 22 PERSONS Denver, t'ol., Feb. 4.— (ΑΓ) — At least 1Ί persons were injured, some seriously, b.v the explosion of a large Denver and Kio Grande Western Railroad passenger loco motive today as it was being pushed into the railroad yards here. Several of the persons injured were motorists who had stopped at an intersection for the train to cross. Fleming Gratified Wage-Hour Adminis trator Pleased With Supreme Court Rule on Labor Legislation. Washington. Feb. I (AIM Col onel Philip IS. Fleming, wage-hour administrator, evnrossed gratification today over the Supreme court's ac tion in upholding constitutionality of the national wage-hour act and declared the law had put an extra x lOO.OOO.OiiO into workers' pay en velopes since it became effective Oc tober J4, 1938. The court's decision yesterday, Fleming -aid. protects these wage ;ncreases for 'he future. "We estimate." Fleming aid, "that the 30 cent minimum v. irc, constitu tionality of which was upheld in the Darby lumber case, has increased pay envelopes about Sfliï.OdO.OOi». "The Opp cotton mill.- ca.-e upheld the procedure we lpve been follow ing in issuing wage order- We es I timatc that our wage order.·· setting minimums of ,'iJ.â to 40 cents an ! hour account for an additional S3â, 000.000 i:i increases." The decisions not only upheld all . phases of the law. but al.-o specifi cally overruled a 19IH Supreme court decision which invalidated a statue intended to outlaw child labor. Although yesterday's ruling appar ently gave the Federal government the right to regulate child labor, the children's bureau of the Labor de partment said it would continue to urge ratification of the child labor amendment inasmuch as it contends ll,at three-fourths of chiid labor Is ι rgagt-d in intrastate commerce. Tweu'^'-eight of the necessary 3(5 slates have ratified the amendment. JAPANESE TROOPS LANDED IN CHINA Hongkong. Feb. 4. (AP)— Jap anese troops ellected a surprise laud ing at dawn today on the Kwang , lung nrovince coast somewhere north lot Hongkong following their arrival on a fleet of warships and transports j shouded in the morning haze. It was officially'stated that they planned to cut off the route over which they said large quantities of 1 Chinese war supplies have been flowing into the interior from the colony. The scale of operations was not indicated but it was believed to be ι the biggest since the abortive Jap ' anese drive northward from Canton many months ago. Senate Kills -- Gay Bill British Admit SkippingLosses War At Sea Apparently Quickening Both koine and Berlin Announce H e w In roads on British Ship ping; RAF' Attacks Nazi U-Boat Center; Other News of War. ( By Ti" Λ '.<■>·'t( d Pre ) TIlC Bl' : ' ,l(ill I ■ I I i . . I ' MI i I ! I f ·· ' f ! today th ·! ί ne ï'.ri' i- a and :i i I a (1 • ' I 'h Ί it 1 ι : 11,t ■ 11 111L' fi· I · t"l . \vri''< Inst 11 y cm my action" in the V. οι I: Cl,(l »|Ç Jmiuui V 2<\. By fiiinr.dc -, i.. >ii. Home and Berlin annouru d 11· inroad.-, against Br;··'! .-hipping m the ap parently quickening war at sea. Hitler' 11 ; .411 e 1 : eand re| » >rted 53.00(1 ton. -en' to the I>«.*T >m lîi>. (Kill tons by a Cîrrman war-hip ••op erating oversea·.." 11.000 I >n l>y a r.azi I'-boat and i'.OOO 1 m. by Cier II I'll1 (live bl ι: Ί >;■ -, * Premier Mu-r.olini's high command reported a -peetaiular raid by Ita' lan torpedo b.iat la-t night against ".ai emey c· a·. Miongly escorted by cruiser.- and C'.e troyor- m Un· lied Sea. The royal a ι l'urce reported tu ο attack·- last night on ;he na/.i L'-boa.t (.enter ai Brc i. 1' ranee. The roj al ah : iii'e a altll follow - ed . r, g!.' I ·! int.'! mitten! j a if 1: 011 Bnla:n by lone tieria in plain.- which .dropped incendiary bomb- on Lon don and explosive- at two places in hast Aug lia. On the neit'i .Mr can front, the Briti.-.h reported : i.-t night their I oilibia -, had carried out \ i-ilent at tacks "ii the coa.-tal road from cap tured Iïcrna to Bengasi and on the area around the important west Libyan port of Tripoli. Observers 1 interpreted these r. ids as preludes to I an all "tit assault aimed at capture of Bcnga.-i and .· ill completion of the c inquest of ea-tern Libya. [{eports from ea-i Atlica indicated the Briti.-h ol'fen-ive «ν- being speeded there 111 an atl( : ipt to crush It'ilian π - ι .'.alice beture March, when sweiti nig heal aid torrential rain.- might hold up operations. Furthei Italian re.···:··, r. were re ported in tiie Albanian Iront, where the G:iek aid Ihey had gained con trol of the .1 rat( gicaliv important Ti'obeshina me'intam range north ot ΚI sura. Italian counter attacks on ; Gr-'ck position, there were aid to ha· e failed. Lease-Lend Bill Debated Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee An nounces Support of Southern Governors. Washington, Feb 1 - (AIM — Charles Λ Heard, li <■ li;..l"rian. told Congress tuda.v 11m■ British aid bill would "involve us officiary" in war and ho urged its defeat. bill George Fielding Eliot. the wi iicr. argued it should be enacted "with certain pro per limitations" because of the world military situation. The two men testified before the Senate foreign relations committee which a 1 - < ι receiver! announcement of -upport ol the bill by eight south ern governors, while the House started the second dav nf debate on the administration b'll. The governors. including ■!. M. Broughton ol North Carolina, advis ed the committee they believed that "passage < f this bill at this time is essential to the safety of the nation." Eliot, writer on military subjects, said the destruction of the balance of power in Europe lor the first time since the Napoleonic wars had brought about a condition filled with danger for the United States. Beard pr posed that instead of enacting the administration's bill Congress should authorize T".-e use of government credit to step up produc tion of war supplies for Great Bri tain. Starting · if the House debate. Rep resentative Richards, Democrat. South Carolina, urged that the leg islation be considered from the view 'Continued ox. Page Seven) Directors of Nazi Death From the Skies βι, Their faces a<t in the same trrim mold, Reich«marshal Hermann OncrinR (center) and his staff observe ceremonies at an undisclosed Channel port marking hi rereiit hirihday. Left to ι i<rhL (rear) are the men who arrange the Nazis' aerial missions of death and d«->t ruction to Knidand : .Major (ien. I.oerzer, Stale Secretary I'aul Koerncr, Goering and Marshal Hu^o Sperrle. Lower officer un identified. Waikie Sees De V aleta Comment Refused on Subject of Long Inter view With Irish Prime Minister. London, Fob 1. — (ΛΡ)—Wendell L. Willkie. returned to London from | a Hying trip to Dublin to >,re Irish Prime Minister Kamon de Valer.;, ! was received today bv King Gi-ory Λ'! and Quern Kli/abeth. Dublin, I·"·-L> 1.—(AP>—Wendell L. Willkie, 'in a whirlwind visit lo neutral Kin· talked with Prime Min ister Eanion de Valera at length to day but silent on the subject o; the interview. Before meeting fie Valera, the l94n Republican presidential candidate had aid lie uitended to question de Valera 011 the subject of Irish port and bases- repeatedly sough; by 1 Greal Britain lor defense again, t tie· German counter blockade. "I had a long discussion with <i ■ Vain:, before and during lunch about Hie po.-iimn of Ireland, the international -ituation and so 1"..rth W111k i e : aid. "Λ lo wl" a ! Ην (|i ni.·., ; ν , about I obv iously cannot -ay. but did have a very long and interc t mg I Continued on Paue Seven) RETIREMENT BILL TO HOUSE FLOOR LATER THIS WEEK fialeigh, r'eo. -I. r Λ Ρ House education eonmiittee hul.iy heard legislator.· and school ι· !, urge appn val ol the Umstcad -Prit chett bill to extend tin si od d school term t" nine months and w,i told tin State employees retirement program bill would reach the llo r this week. Chairman Λ Γ Allen ol the ο mittee said it was planned to make the retirement lull a special ordei οι busines in the House, probably Thursday. He urged the c mmittee to unite m supporting the bill. Repn sentative Umstead ol Orange said after the hearing on the nine months bill that he was assured o! enough committee votes to carry the minority report to the House II if the committee rejects the meas ure. He .-aid lie did not know when the ο.mmittee would vote. ίύζαζηΰΛ FOR ΝΟΗΤΗ CAROLINA. Fair and continued cold to night; Wednesday partly cloudy, slow lx rising temperature. Extended weather forecast from 7:30 p. m. Feb. 4 to 7:30 p. m. Feb. X—Little or no rain in dicated. temperatures much be low normal Wednesday morning, rising slowly thereafter to nor mal cr slisl tl,v above. Opinion Divided In Wage-Hour Group Majority and Minority Recommendations as Well as "Report" Will Be Made by Commis sion, Averill Declares. Daily Dispatch Bureau, in flip Sir Wilier Hotel. By m:\RV WMIII.L. !,' ·*' ;§Ji, Feb. ! Tlic Wage and I ! · 11 ■ ι ■< 11 r > ; ι i -'"Μ ι- divided three to ■ . ! ι the recommendations it will ■ , ke ;n the General Assembly thro i gh ι ;i:\ ι runr .1. M. Broughton. Λ a r"sult then· will be majority .."I Minority recotitrnendalions in ; ι i-J ri 111 < · : ι to a "report" or finding of ι ,i't·; which will be Mailed by all live '■ it'nioer. niajorjly recommendations arc ii· ai;; pt'i pared l).v turn >ί· State Sen • · I' I' Ta\ l'ir "I' Wadesboro. He will I··· joined by the tun -altmg II :Ι'| ιίϊ( ί - el the ("IHt'llt Ce lierai As - ei 1111 ' . wile , ι I'e ι l'villg "Il I Ile WllgC ! ·< ί ι r !:r-'iip--Senal"i· Hugh Ilorton •a ,.l : i:n aid Hep enfatiye Henry ( ' 1)·· nil "I S·.! ι r.> l'Ile ; .in' Tit ν ι ι ■ :. il rndat ions il I · · ι:;ι ι· 'i ι \ Cm : Ί11 issii mer of , .al . ι K··i re■ l 11 Shu1 · : d and ( '·ιρυ U i\h i's. Hig' Point editor It .. 1 : I. ■ t ig lac' ' ! 11 the II ι rep ' ·· ··:,·' .ί wai I take a much : .. 1, hd 111 111 I he I Λ l l.'i.V • ι ι to · on the c.iijmιi. - Ί·ν11. : . ι II '· ■ <|: licit c· i t! 111i S ·,. m ·■ -I l > I"; · .· that S' ι : 'Γ .y'·. .· ! ί ι ι · : Ml: the I'e \Y a v I ! e Ί 1 I V ι or ce Hunts Plane Wreck ■ a. Wa a. I·'··.· !. AP) Sur aded by military e. <cy. a force • · .»!«|ΐ'·ι·> wit it - laie and county of : .c : a ί undertook a : ei; t iday ait.ι ι thickly wooded r>'g: >n .a quest ot ι wrecked Army bomber which two a:ici:«·. -woodsmen rcpurted sighting eι·.- tei day A bomber with seven otticei'.· ,.uia di. appea ι etl January 10 on ι t i :... ' 'a. Mct'hord Field, Wash, li u.. leaped, should 111iprove to κ· lac wreckage that all seven men vveie killed. The woodsmen said there '.·,.. no sign of l u- at th" scene. Colonel Walter Pock, operations .•h et at McChord Field, denied flat ly to newsmen that the big plane which vanished from there was Hι ppi d w th an Army bombsight. Pre\ ioiisly lie had expressed belief that the craft had carried some type it bombsight. Colonel Peck said that he would not be convinced the bombei wreck age had been discovered 'until I àvtually see it. ' Big Liner Set Free We.: Palm Beach, Flu., Feb. 4.— (ΛΡ) — Five straining tugs aided by a wave crest set free th<· S111.ODO.OOi) liner Manhattan shortly neinre la -1 midnight, pulling and washing in .· ι a ■ indbar un which she- vent aground three weeks ago. Th. <· · >f the tugs pulled mightily "H tt ■ 2 l.ouo-ton United States Line vessel while two others shuttled back and birth on the shore side t.. churn up .-.and. dragging the big ship a I'niai 7â feel into deep water. The 199 passengers were removed January the day after the Man hattan ν : t aground. Britain Aids Seiassie I. . (·· .· 1 1 Λf' ) -Britain. • ····[·> rati ... .'· Ha île Selassie in ivri it> ' ! ;!·· "I Ethiopia, will participate in "temporary measures - t ! 11:1 j t.. : > guidance and control". 1 ri cm Sfvietury Anthony Kdei ti.id the bouse ot commons today. Selassie, v.'tio l'lcd tu Britain when tin· Italians conquered ins cnunlry in I!·.!»> and made it part .·: the fascist .■•in pire, has ret1 ; : nod t . his east Alfican kingdom and reasserted his ι lie with Brit ι «-ci ignitu >n British and Ftbiupian forces have ι uiitb it led ι nea 11 ·λ I :. le m · drive t ' iiist tile Italian- Λ ! '■ 11 h military spokesman reported today that British forces have established "di (Contnucd on Page Seven.) Wheeler Says Has No Modt U'a-hutgton. Feb 1 -(AP>— Sen ator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, said tod.λ he had absoluelj reliable inforn ation that tin Army "does not have a single plane suitable for com bat -erviee in modern warfare." Wheeler declined to disclose his source ot information, but declared he was convinced ol its reliability. During 11)40. he declared, total warplane deliveries were 2 884. of which, he said, 2.308 went to Great Britain and other foreign countries and T)76 went to the United States Army and Navy. On January 1. Wheeler said, the Army had 831) planes divided among various categories as follow.-: 91 h·. avy bombers, 3υ medium bomb Statewide Measures ktrcduced Legislature to Meet in Night Sessions Tomor row So Members May Attend Funeral For Dr. Long; Committees Jn Session. ·: .!. ■ ' .. · it>, 1- I1. .1 «ι . ( : ,■ j : t .. ft ' ι I' ■' Γ ! » · ' · ■> Μ ΙΠ IK · ' 1 '■ I ' f' ■ j ν ni" tod ·,- '. II.· 1. ■ . 1 ■ , ■ . ■ π ι 11 I «UI·.· 'I'· " · ■ ,1 Γ ' -fill »!· .| ! ; her · 11 i*i κ 1 "·'· ''··!·'- ·.ι ·ιΐ Γίi''11'γ*1 ftΓ Son ft tor Τ W Μ Ι,ι m" 1 H III · ··· r ■ ■ ■. ■■ t". Hied l.i-t night.. <"*'* '"e·. atSiJ I'f'lfl n «- ;pr>t lisit'l -vith heal ings fin 1 !ir* bill to nro· irie ninth month fur the m■'·!'<· ..(-l'uni and '■ ι' orable reportλ on measure : t>. !iui)(irl:'in H(|' / embersh'Vi ■"· ending to thf* 19(11 r ·ρ-ο mu! ■· · '■(■(•'■iifl iiffon^is for subversive ac t.·. tic- Monies. Π.·ιh d'vis;>.n- a··4 t|„. ....... ·.* I· ol-. d liv ('.ι.1· όπιο Pioiigh'o·ι create a State η < rket ; " « r 11 j * I · 'v to set in) non-profit public ν π ο' οvp:· th" stale vith the State V.· culture hoard serving a. the >·■■■. - ity in charge of the marketing η ■ gram. Senator Gregory of How ,n ·»!' — dueed a bill to provide a m ■>: · wage ol 411 cents and ι -t | ..t t naximi. il work week of 41 !».··· through ι gradual prooe- t . i\ 1 with a minimuni wage of :Ti pent. ,n hour and a work week of 14 horn":. Senator Funderbn;v. o| Γπίιπ <"iT up a proposal to require the .: Ίι 'ο take over all countv road debt o"rd i- aerl pi ior to 1931 when the t ile took over the oads and t(· or .hibit diversion of highway funds for gen eral state purposes Several representatives sen' up a measure to provide for five day of annual sick leave with pay for all public school teachers. Λ bill by Senator R ·οο>; - of 'ι τ ham would prohibit the Highway -".d Public Work- Pomu S-.on fi η 1 viding alternate highway route Hardly had the Hoii-i· reapp.··! ··> ment bill been favorably reported 1 ι the floor before Hepre-eiila'' ·· Grand of New Hanover and Stone of Rockingham sent in a mea-ure pro posing that a constitutional amend ment be submitted to the voters which would prohibit any county from having more than three rcpre fpolitinuert on Page Seven) Britain To Get Patrol Planes From America I ·>nπ '■ It: i (AC) Shipping Μ , ! ; : ~ 1 <M- I ! . ι,., ici I! ( ' ■ ι rl ι ·,ι·|ι i.nit) '. .day th..I 111 -Viiti ·. ' yet pi' η >1 planes t Γι ι trr I'mti'd State lor ι onvoy nig hi· ·■ i·· i h.illt Πι·ι·Ι Cru >. .nidi <■- nu I' ' Kmpire Su ι .its. spoke n! thi' ' ι '·' \. ι ! 11 ; 11 » i « · ■ ■ 1111111 ! 11Μ ·ι! ! 111 V ! ' · : 11'il State, (li stΐ'ιivers and iddi'il th.it long dis tallce .nrrr.lt w i 11 I'll we in· t.i re < ci. ι· ft 11111 th.i' I 'nited State λ ill ..I.-ii play .in i ι·,ρ· ιrt;ιnl part in pro tecting oui· ships." ( ' . - t. Id tin' -· h rt> tli i1 the Γη ted St .ι 11 '.II ·. ι i ι ■. ι ■ -h· ·· run tr.hution" tu Britain's merchant nia π:ιι· tin nigh it.·· pingiani ί I'ontnued on Pace Seven.* That Army trn Warplanes its. light bombers, one pursuit light'1!'. 1212 pursuit interceptors, 231 obsctA atmn 14 reconnaissance and -Mi transport. He gave tin· figures in an inter view. Of the U39 planes, Wheeler said, not one was suitable for combat m 'modern war because all lacked self 'sealing gas tanks or sufficient lire power and armor plate. Wheeler, a leader of the light against the administration's aid to Britain bill, said he had read reports quoting Secretary Stimson as saying the Army had 650 first line combat planes. The Montana senator added that the War secretary must have given an approximate figure for all types oi Army planes.
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