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Bfenîterson Batlu Htspafrfj QNLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR τ ί ι ε e^s w-^at kdrpr f.s3OF HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, MARCH 8, 1941 PUBLI3"''xceT-t\"Jnd\7:ernoon FIVE CENTS COPY Maisuoka Τ ο Visil Axis Partners #***·»·****♦ *«***«»* - Reported U. S. Diplomatic Move Creates Stir Visit Hints 1,000 Jobs at $780 a Year—4,000 Applicants Tu il"' iiist 1,000 persons who could pass the physical examination, New York 1'ity ol'lered jobs at STHO a year d ing laundry work. Twenty hours bcf'Ti opening of applications, .job hunters were waiting. Here's the scene as the applicants slep on tables ;:iid Hours. Gala Event Made Of First Blackout Seattle Stages First Major Blackout Test Without Reported Ac cident; Streets Are Thronged With Shout ing Crowds. Seattle, March 8.— (AP)— All th"e lights ..ι Seattle—well, nearly all ol them—Ilicked off for 15 minute:; !... ! nigiil in the ill-it delensive αι. c' « i t U-.-t for a major American city, but that didn't blackout the fc.-tive spirit of most of the city's 4tiu,(iiHt iosidents. The· experiment went off on sche dule v. ith almost complete coopera tion ui .ill the citizens and without it","·; trii accidents. Πιο only emergency call reported by ι ml ii-c* was one asking them to ". t< ρ .ι man beating his wile". iii'i.··,mds paraded tlie downtown sheet:·, hunting and whistling for tin- it ;. - .ι : i 11 κ ui the blackout. Hund ri" 1 gathered before a hotel and yelled a warning to one guest who had neglected to douse his room lights. I'atiuii... deserted the movies for the quarter-hour to join the joyous crowd.-, then returned to their seats. There were no traffic mishaps. All automobile·; within the city were stopped and those entering were halted at the city limits. During the period from 10:40 to hi .>.) p. m. only navigation lights in the harbor, running lights on a moving train, a 'few isolated lights and blobs of illumination from an aircraft company and a shipyard forking on defense orders broke the ''island of blackness" for which blackout organizers had called un der a special city ordinance. Police Accused Of Beating , Two Students San Francisco, March 8.—(AP)— Two veteran police officers pointed 0111 m a lineup of 08 policemen were suspended temporarily from the torce today, accused of beating two Stanford University freshmen picked UP as vagrants last Saturday night. Deputy Police Chief Michael J. Riordan announced formal com plaints charging unprovoked assault would be filed today against the of ficers, Patrolmen Joseph Green and John J. Desmond. They weré picked from the lineup °f uniformed policemen yesterday by (Continued on Page Fi\e). Heavy Snow In New York New York. Mure h 8.—(AD — Now Vnrk's heaviest snow storm iii six > ears deposited ten and one-half inches of damp flakes on the city today—three days before the anniversary of the famous blizzard of 1888. The forecast was that snow would continue falling; until late today. The storm moved on New York at 7:30 o'clock last night after covering Washington, I). with ten inches for the capi tal's record fall of the season. Travel by land, sea and air was disrupted. Λ mail was killed in a skidding automobile in Maryland, a freighter ran agrouixi off Ocean (it.ν and three boys were missing in two snijll boats in the Severn river in Maryland. Winds of gale force were pre dicted later today as storm warn ings went up from .Maine to Delaware. The rest of the nation was spared from the storm and, in general, experienced aviage temperatures under cloudy or rainy skies. Greece Seeks Assurances From Turkey Belgrade, March 8. -(AP) Au thoritative diplomatic· sources said tonight they had been informed Greece had asked Turkey whether she was prepared to fulfill Greek Turkish mutual assistance treaties should German troops attack Greece. A clear statement of Turkey's po sition with regard to the expected nazi invasion of TUrace an" eastern Macedonia has been sought from the Turkish foreign office by the Greek minister at Ankara, these sources said. Turkey and Greece signed a mu tual assistance treaty in September, 1933, which guarantees their fron tier in Thrace and pledges use of military force to defend it. They also are bound m mutual defense pledges by the 1934 Balkan entente treaty. "weather" FOU NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy with light rain or drinle this afternoon and ear ly tonifht; slightly colder to night: Sunday partly cloudy and continued rather cold. Offer Of Aid To Belgrade Unconfirmed Berlin and Rome, However, React With Annoyance to Hun garian Newspaper Re port of Effort to Sway Yugoslavia. (By The Associated 1'ress) Although substantiated on the sur face by nothing except .1 Hungarian newspaper dispatch, Germans and Italians reacted with annoyance to iay to a report that President Roose velt had suggested some maimer ui aid to Yugoslavia to keep that nation out of the axis. State department officials at Washington said they "never heard of it." Germany and Italian newspapers : hammered on the theme. Pressed for additional substantiation ol the Budapest report, an authorized nazi ' spokesman commented: "We have the impression it is au thentic." One Italian newspaper, regarded is expressing government views, said editorially "we are in the pres ence of the first scandalous intrusion : of the United States of America ι into Europe's politics and war. "Roosevelt's proposal of war aid to the Belgrade government so Yugo slovia would not adhere to the tri-; partite pact and thus would main- ! tain a hostile attitude toward the. I axis powers obviously exceeds the | 1 American policy of simple aid 10 Britain." Virginio Gayda, a fascist editorial spokesman, indicated that Yugoslavia would be asked to "clarify her posi tion and intentions" toward the axis powers. Yugoslav official circles declined to issue a denial of the Hungarian press reports that the United States : had offered aid to Yugoslavia. They said no denial was necessary "be cause the whole business is so ridi culous." Crash Tax Bill Killed House Rejects Bill In troduced by Late Sen ator Long; Other News of Legislature. Raleigh, March ii.—(APj—The ! House lucuiy killed the "crash tax" bill which benator 1'. W. M. Long of Halifax county .sponsored in tue Senate before Ins ueath earlier 111 ine legislative session. The measure would have provided the addition ol ;'3u cents to the cost ot each auto license lor u luud to pay hospital expenses of accident victims. I , Representative Abernathy of Nash had moved for reconsideration of the vote by which the House re jected the measure yesterday on sec ond reading, but the bill died when the representative!) adopted a mo tion by Pickens ol Guillord to table Abernathy's motion. Pushing toward adjournment now virtually assured by the end of next ι week, both houses considered gen eral business t' day and not just local legislation as is usual on Saturday ; sessions. The House received from Hurgin of Henderson a bill to provide $50, 000 a year lor emergency marketing : work by the State Department oi Agriculture. Senator Ingram ol Stanly sent for ward a measure to authorize the State Utilities Commission to super vise aeronautical affairs and pro vide standards corresponding to fed eral regulations. The Senate also received from Cherry of Gaston two measures in troduced at the request of the state elections board—one to allow men in military service to cast absentee ballots in primaries and the other to allow commanding officers to cer tify absentee ballots in place of notaries public. The House appropriations commit (Continued on Page Three.) 9 British Leaders in Ankara to Woo Turkey ^ Radiopholo General Sir John G. Dill (loft), chief of the British Imperial General .Staff, and Rritish Foreign Min ister Anthony Kden (tinter) confer with Turkish Foreign Minister Sukru Saracoglu during their visit to Ankara, Turkey. Their conferences appear to be bearing fruit i.1 stiffening Turkish resistance to German demands, with indications that Turkey may enter the war on Britain's side. Aid Bill Near Harrison To Have Last Word On Lease-Lend Legislation By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press; Columnist Washington. March ϋ.—Although Senator Pat Harrison ι 1' Mississippi has been an outstanding lighter lor the upper congressional chamber's adoption of aid-Britain and American defensive legislation, he hasn't been the official leader of the campaign for the administra Τ h e discussion has been a mixture of a foreign affairs, military affairs and naval affairs de bate. and Senators Walter F. George 1 f Georgia, M ο r r i s Sheppaid of Texas and David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, as chairmen of the ι senate's I ο r e i g η. military and naval Senator Harrisoi a Γ Γιι il·-; committees, in the (ircior nameil, have been the a|>pn>|)iï;ito solmis tu ligule as expert.s aliinR the line.- ni their πspeetive sn· dalties. P;tt, by the way. coulcl have been ' foreign affairs chairman if he'd . chosen to be. When the committee's last chairman, Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, died not long ago, Pat was in line to succeed him. He al ready was chairman, however, of the I senate's finance committee. It isn't I customary for the same statesman to head two different and import ! ant committees, and Pat preferred to stay on his finance job. Conse quently, Sénat, r George, next on the seniority list, assumed the post. But if Pat's been a trifle obscured, by his chairmanship's nature, in con sideration of aid-Britain and domest ically defensive plans, oh, how he'll loom up when the controversy arises as to methods of footing the bill for those twin undertakings! It'll have to be Γ iited by taxation, and doping out taxes is Hie finance committee's particular function. It behooves the taxpayus, then, to develop a heap of interest in Senator Harrison. Chairman Robert L. Doughton 'Continued on Page Two* Lucas In Raleigh To Watch Changes In Election Laws Daily Dispatch fïurruu. Ill tin· Sir V» alter Hotel, lîy IIKNRV AV3 KH.I, I {; 11 ο ifi 11, March Ι;. ΤΓ von a . hi;. ,v h y he's here Will l,uc.i will tel! ,'iiu in his most ui bane itrnncr ! 1. ·ι îe's just looking un and dont; 11 >· h iif» in particular: but ii'> really >pen secret tiutt the chair,nan ul the itate Board ul Klcetions i keeping in eye un any ι Hurt t ι we,,ken the aws which he wa. so powcriulh el ective in {(ettiiig written into tlu viorth Carolina code two year- ago. It was nu ea.-y jub abolishing ab sentee \oting and marker·, in pri naries, and equally as tough going vhen it » une tu throwing mure irastic saleguard·' around thu.-.e prac Ik" in :;ι ι h · r; 11 elect ion ; Ν· ι Μ ,· !.!·", I . n't any idea ol staying ι. ν h in Wil-'in, even though that'. Ilot .-(Ι ι II ι ; il, V, llllc there t'N i.-t:- 111; ι . I.ility ol ii last minuté loray . . ii .i'i the election laws as re-wnt ic:j in 1 VIr. Luc.ι. ι· primarily interested in the proposal ι Hull ISill 710) in 11·-duoed by lia :l Whitener ol Gas ton and mujiy others tor the pur pose of permitting voters now ,r military, naval or marine service to ole in primaries by absentee ballot. He doesn't see how anybody can ι bject to the principle everybody must agree that the "boys in serv (Continued on Page Three.) Important Legislation Found Among "Last Minute" Bills Daily Dispatch Bureau. In t*·» Sir Walter tluteL By 1IENKV AVERILL Raleigh. March 8.—Now that the urrcnt session of the General As embly is mi its last legs, the time las arrived when the law makers icgin tn dump their last-minute bills nto the machinery. Most of these are local (some of hem meritorious but many of them lurely "spite" bills), but many are :oneerned with matters of state vide interest and importance. Vmong these, too, there are many >ad bills which have been purpose y held out to the eleventh hou. in order to increase their chances In r-1 iρ through with nothing more than cursory examination. Not all arc in this class, of course, for there are many bills which for one reason or another have been inevitably delayed even to this late date. Without' attempting to classify them into good and bad bills—that being a matter of opinion and not within the province of this corres pondent who tries to confine him self to "reporting"—here are a few bills introduced late this week and (Continued on l ags Three) Passage Senate Near Final Vote Majority Leader Bark ley Predicts Bill Will· Be Ready For Sign ing Monday. Washington, March 8.—(ΛΡ)— Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon tana, a leading l'oe of the British aid : ! bill, conceded today that the Senate I would approve that legislation, add- 1 j "IS that "the fight against it ha.·, I just begun." j Wheeler declared that he would j 'light harder than ever" after the 'measure's passage to keep the Unit ed States out of war. "This bill," he said, "gives the 1Υο:ιI.'at power to wage an unde clared war anywhere in the world. 1 will light against that everywhere 1 i.is long as I am able." U Heeler made his declaration ι :.!· the Senate considered an j.; ι. « . id ; : i i'i 11 by Senator Walsh, Dem- I , ·■· · ,:· Λ1 assaehusetts, to forbid trans-I iter ni navy vessels or aircraft which ι . .Id liit in· replaced by better ' ' q· I'nient u .tiiin three months. V.':·· '■ argued that if the British . v\ .τι appi o\ i ci m its pre • i.i 1'·ι : : ■. Cuiigic.· , would be tel 1 - ι m·; Ui'· President he could "loan οι ' give away" the American ( Λ .ι, ν "a.- .vou see fit." Ιίι -.ponding, Chairman George, ί n : : ίί'.ι!, Georgia, ot the Senate ιοί ι ;:;n relations committee. declared 1 ;I:.it "this amendfeiU entirely scut- I j t li·.- l In· bill. He added : "Ms-entially, Britain needs naval ■ ielp. ll she does not ;;ei t when she ! needs it the bill is no good at all." Democratic Licadei Barkley ask ed the Senate whether "we are will ing to make tin.- bill an army re bel bill only." Barkley declared earliei that Sen j ate proponent· ni 11 it· aid legislation ι were "coitpcralmg to obtain a final vote today." He predicted that the momentous ! ■ legislation would be on President . j l{oose\ I'lt's desk by Monday night. ; The powerful administration for- I Ices knocked down twelve amend- ι | ment.- yesterday and last night and j ι when tilt· Senate concluded an eleven-hour session shortly before' .10 p. m. EST, leaders declared they ι were on "the 'straight road to pas- ( sage." Only two amendments were ap- ι j proved in the course of the long I meeting. One, presented by Senator : ι Ellender, Democrat Louisiana, as ; an administration compromise on ] I the issue of sending troops abroad, ι provided that nothing in the bill ι1 should change existing law regard- ' ing movement of land and naval for- I ces. The vote was fi5 to 24. Critics ; called the provision "meaningless." j The other put forward by Sena- ' ; tor Clark, Democrat. Missouri, an opponent of the legislat: was (Continued on Page Two) 3f Closer Cooperation Conferences of Japan· ese Foreign Minister at Rome and Berlin May Mean Formation of Common Program of Action. (By The A- .ι ici J ■> j Λ hint oi tigh'emng coupe. itioi between Japan and !.· Kuropea.i ιχis partners came today m ara oi îeial German announcement that Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka vould reach Berlin shortly for "per onal deliberation^ on all questions 'rising ironi eollaboi ation as ·-et lorth in ι he three-power.- pact." One suggestion lor Matsuoka's vi ' lo Berlin and also Rome was that the axis inigh; be contemplating lor 111u 1 a ti< ι ol a common program M Lictjon against Britain and the Unit'-d State.-, botli in Europe and the Far Kast. The possibility al.-o v. a uggc.-te:! .hat Japan is loath to participate ac :nely in the war against Britain and wishes to explain her position Vu \dolf Hitler. Air War Kcsumed. Three nazi bombers were reported ihot down today in dog lights oil th · English coast as the nazi air toi ce resumed its attacks on Britain after t night ol comparative quiet. The Gei man high command said a nazi submarine and nazi speedboa:. had sunk two British destroyer.- and sieven armed merchantmen totaling Β1,400 tons in attacks on convoy... Offer To Greece. Balkan observers intimated that Germany s price for staying .< threatened attack on Greece would cos I the Greeks every hard won mil· ol' their gains against Italy and re turn their troops within their old frontiers. German diplomats were said by some sources to have promised Greece that she could retain all the territory she held before October 2H, when the Italians first attacked, if she would sign a peace giving Pre mier Mussolini a "paper victory" i:i Albania. But despite 150,00(1 nazi soldier, poised for action on the Greek-Bul garian bolder, the Greeks battled grimly on in central Albania without ι word ol additional comment from Athens, where German diplomatic pressure so far apparently iias fallen liai. Turkey Defiant. Turkey continued urgent defense measure.-, and Turkish statesmen made ready to state the country's po-ition in the ten>e situation. The govern ment-inspired press expressed defiance of Germany and urged \ Ligosiax ia tu resist axis overtures. F η ·: . Albania came Greek claims ot new successes on the central wai Iront m which 1,050 Italians were Captured. These reports coincided with une· ■ : 11 i ι ι aed advices of another seakeup ι the Italian high command in Alb,.η ι the loiirth since the Ci.nipaign neg ai. Larol bives Interview Ex-King of Rumania Expresses Apprecia tion for Asylum Given By Portugal. Lisbon, Portugal, March <>—(APj —in the first interview he ha^ ;i anted the press -:nce he abdicated he throne oi Rumania last Septem ier, l'ormer King Carol asserted to lay lie was very grateful to 1'ortu ;al for giving him asylum. "I want to rest," the ex-ruler said. Signs ni the worry and anxiety ot ecent months were clearly marked in Carol's lace, although lie gave he impression that he was tar trom lownhearted. The former king who fled from Spain last Monday with his red îaired companion of many year^, ilagda Lupescu, said he wished to ■\press his gratitude to Portugal as veil as to the American public for he interest and sympathy shown in lis plight. "1 appreciate their sympathy," ^arol said, "and 1 want to thank hem." The interview took place at the ■esidence of the wealthy Portuguese jusinessman. Augusto Lopes Joly— he e:;-l:ing's long time friend.
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