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TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR 'τηβκα%^ίατκΕκρΑβμ?ρ HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON', OCTOBER 11, lit 11 ^uwlismk^evert^aktkknoon FIVE CENTS COPY
German Threat To Moscow Becomes Greater;
Soviet Reserves Enter Battle
Tank Plant Faces Shutdown
The Pilot's Parachute Didn't Open!
_ _ ·
Lieut. Kenneth Κ. Elliott, pilot, was killed when he leaped by parachute from this twin-entrined licht army
bomber before it crashed and burned at Chandler Field, Atlanta, tia. The parachute failed to open. The
plane was one of three en route from Lony Beach, Cal., to New Y oak. (Central Près»)
Japs Charged With Subversion
Soldiers
Get Holiday
Thousands of Troops
Engaged in Man
euvers Plan Week
Ends at Nearby Cities.
C ndtn, S. C\. Oct. 11.—(AP)— 1
Τ . iiisands of Lieutenant General
II ..u!i A. Drum's First Army soldiers !
irmed out of their bases, camps
■ nit bivouacs t day for a w<.ek-end |
ι·f recreation after a stren.ious week ,
"t held training initiating the two'
Mths maneuver program l'or the I
c '"Unas area.
Reports received at public rela
'."iis hiadquarters told of prepara
tions made in cities within and ad
ining the lO.UOD-square mile area
to entertain the officers and men of
th'' First Army.
Xumer us dances and parties were
arranged, sleeping and eating facili
ties were offered and other meas
ure? taken to insure the comfort of
the visitors. The Army assigned
hundreds of trucks to the task of
t an porting the soldiers.
Λ second series of field exerciser
will be inaugurated Monday with !
each corps operating within its own
area. The next week will see an ex
pansion < f the scale of mimic war
fare, one corps being pitted against
another for the first time in this
maneuver.
The n·: xt week will also witness
the mo/.ilization of the entire First
Army for the first time. Advance
units of the first division, pride of
the Army, arrived in the Candor, N.
O, region today to prepare for the
Cuming ■ f the remainder of the
division.
Peace Move
Proposed
Washington, Oct. 11.(AP)- Amid
administration and congressional el
forts to give more and more aid '.o
Great Britain and Russia, two sena
tors—-Adams, Democrat, Colorado,
and Nye, Republican. North Dakota
—suggested today that President
Roosevelt tender his good offices to
bring xbout peace in Europe.
"I am one of the minority group
which believes that the President
might offer to help in bringing about
peace," Adams told reporters.
Nye asserted that Mr. Roosevel'
undoubtedly could "make a substan
tial contribution toward peace" and
added that "if our present foreign
policy is followed to its ultimate end,
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POWER CONFERENCE
MOVED TO ATLANTA
Washington, Oct. 11.—(AP)— A
meeting υί public servies commis
sion and utility representatives of
the .-outhea.-t scheduled for Octob;v
14 to consider a power emergency
induced by drought was transferred
by the federal power commission
today from Charlotte, N. C., to At
lanta.
The m ve was made, the commis
sion said, to provide a more centrai
location.
A formal statement was issued by
the power agency warning that civi
lian curtailment in the use of powt r
may become nece. ary again in the
southern states, due to depletion of
hydio-reservoirs during the drought.
Tax Research !
Under Present
Revenue Setup
Daily Dispaicli ftureau.
ill the Sir Walter Hotel.
1S,\ IIKN'KY AVKKILL
lialei^.h, Oct. 11.—There isn't going j
to be ny luad appointed for any tax |
research division of the departnv. nt
ul revenue·—not any time soon ail
least: η r is there going to be anj j
special and separate tax research |
divi.-am sit up at all.
That's what Governor J. M. 1
Broughton told news men, adding
that there will be increasing empha is
placed on tax research by the pres
ent personnel of the revenue depart
ment.
This method ot study ng taxes
will be only about a fifth a- expen
sive as it would be to name a rt ,-earch
head and set up a new unit, he added.
Under a 1941 act the governor was
authorized to name a tax research
head, but the statute was « ptional
and not mandatory. Govern r Brough
ton said it would cost something like
$lâ.0()0 to go through with that plan.
Nothing was said about that angle,
but it is generally accepted by the
news men, at least, that the reap
pointment of Commissioner of Rev
i nue Λ. J. Maxwell is really what
put an end t. any immediate pros
pects .Ι a η w tax research divi
>.. n. The almost universal idea is
that the po.-t was created especially
I·τ Λ1 Maxwell on at least one or
two οmnts. possibly both or a com
bination of both: ( 1 ) it would pro
vide a cushion for the commissioner to
fall on if he were booted out of the
commissioner post and (2) it would
keep for the state his admitted value
as probably the greatest tax expert
in North Carolina.
But it now seems that 'he g oyer
nor's most recent statement com
pletely knocks any tax research bu
reau κ nt of the picture, though tax
research work will be given special
attention under existing setup.
Gillette
Asks Probe
Iowa Senator Urges
State Department to
Approve Proposed In
vestigation.
Washington. Oct. 11.— (AP) —
Senator Gillette, Democrat,
Iowa, urged the Slate depart
ment today to approve a pro
posed senatorial investigation
of the activities of Japanese
diplomatic and other represen
tatives in the I'nited States.
The Iowa .-mat'ir arranged to sec
Seep- rii v <·:' Sîat·. H .11 t day for dis
(.··; of a re.-.iltit:i'H which he and
Sella'··! .I.-iiti-son, Democrat, Color
i ·. 111. ottered la -1 week calling for an
•!H|iiiry into rcpoi ts that agents of
axis powers were organizing η n
quota aliens and "dual citizens" into
;;r .·:··.· ho 111· t · this country.
At that time, Gillette, assured the
Senate he had received approval of
tin· propo.-al from the federal bureau
11 investigation and th intelligence
services of the At m y and Navy.
"1 think the time has come," Gil
lette told reporters, "t drop the
policy of appeasement we have fol
lov.-d with lap π 1 have no doubt
in the world that if the German
armies are successtul in their effort
to crush Russia that .la pan will
broaden hostilities in the Far East.
"We may find th( η that some of
the oil and other war supplies which
we have sent to them and which are
being stored f r an emergency are
being used against us."
Franklin ABC
Vote Today
Louisburg, Oct. 11.—(API—Voters
of Franklin county balloted today on !
the question J retaining or abolish- j
ing county-operated Aleoh lie Bev
erage Control stores.
In spite of spirited campaigning j
by those favoring absolute prohibi-|
tion and by supporters ol the liquor j
contr 1 plan, a light vote was fore
cast. Political observers predicted
that about 4,000 votes would be cast
as compared with a normal vote of
about 6.000.
WEATHER
FOR XORTII CAROLINA
Continued fair, continued cool,
possibly scattered light frost in
the mountains tonight; £unday
iair. slowly rising temperature
in the interior.
Mediators
Seek To End
The Dispute
No Settlement in Sight
for Jurisdictional Dis
At AFL, Conven
tion, Labor Leader
Threatens Split in
Ranks.
(By The Associated Press)
Aimy tank assembly lines
faeed a passible shutdown today
as a result of a jurisdictional
lal or dispute between the AFL
•and ( !<), while from the former
«roup's national convention at
Scuttle there came a warning
that there might be a further
schism in the house of labor.
The threat to ei.ntinui: tank produc
tion arose at the plant of the Spicer
Manufacturing Company 1 Toledo.
Ohio, makers of approximately 7(1
per cent of the transmissions for
army tanks, "jeeps," and half-tractor
military vehicles.
The company has a contract with
the CIO United AutomobM. Work
ers and employs 2.200. The firm get-·
T.'nv 'Darts, howovpr, from a subsid
iary, ι,·, .li'lsdale (Mieh.1 Steel Pro
ducts company. The AFL recently
won a c llective bar ;ainin? election
among Hillsdale's 800 workers and
Spicer CIO men have served notice
that they will not handle the AFL
made parts. When existing stocks are
xhausted. Spicer oflicials said that
'ιnoduction. already slowed 'to a
trickle, will stop.
Federal and state labor mediators
sought to end the dispute and a con
ference has been called for today.
The rumblings cf further pos
sible trouble in labor circles
came from James M. Duff\.
president of the National Broth
erhood of Operatives Potters. He
'told the AFI, convention at Seat
tle that domination by large
unions would brim? about "not
two great labor organizations,
but three—and <i-id forbid that
should happen."
Duffy said eight ot t >n bic union
controlled the ΑΙ'Ί, and that "th"re
are sufficient memoirs now affiliai
ed with the AFI, who. iml tin
ti t ηrl 'if power st ρ will be ready
to participate in a third gruup."
Proposal
Is Rejected
Air Associates Refus
ed Recommendations
of Mediation Board
to End Strike.
Washington. Oft. 11.— (AIM— Tin'
defense mediation hoard announced
today that Air A·· -oeiates, Inc.. o'
Bendi\. N. J., had rejected board
recommendations ι r settlement of
a 30-day strike at the company'·
plant.
Dr. Frank P. Graham, chairman
of the board panel which handled t11■
case, said Thursday that if the recoin
inondations wore rejected the g<>\ «·· ··
ment might be asked to take over the
plant.
The company makes aircraft ma
terial and parts.
The striking C'lO-Pnited Automo
bile Workers local had voted 1 a - τ
night to accept the recommendation
and return t work today.
In a telegram to the board, how
ever, F Leroy Till, president of the
firm, declared today that tiier. wa
no effective strike or interruption of
production at the plant, and the
company would return all strikers
to their former jobs without dis
crimination "as rapidly as jicbs be
come available." and ''the company
will continue to cooperate to the
fullest extent possible in maintain
ing maximum production of essen
tial national defense materials."
On Thursday, in issuing its sug
gestion for settlement of the disput·?.
the board accused the company ο Γ
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Jap Ships To Sail
For United States
'As κ e s u ι t of ar.
Agreement With the
Uïiitea otaies,' 1 hree
Ships Will be Sent
hum Japan to the
Α ω C i iC C-03St.
Tokyo, Oct. li.— (.VI')—The
Japanese loreii;n office an
tmuncrd leday iisat "as a result
of ai: agreement uith the I nit-d
Slates government as regards dis
patch of Japanese vessels
in America, the imperial
'· vei'imcnt lias decided to send
rep >-hiiis ·ιι Ιυιη Ιο the I'ac
ifTc coast of America."
The.v will he the first such
s'iiliiicrs cilice the British
Ain'-'ican freeziiiq; of Japanese
credits.
Tin iii.-t ship to leave will be tin
Tat -111 :i Mar·-, m <ν·»..ι,·;· j-, ·.
Honolulu and San Francisco. The
V' : la .Viaru i< scheduled tu >ai! ; ι on·
Yi Ι · ania October 'J'' ii 'ήί \
Vanemver and Seattle. The T:. ,»
Ma . will -a I 1 r mi Kobe the a
dav and call a; Vol: "itama t\v<. day
later.
Γ. S. Air.basi-ad r Joseph %C
Grew would not comment, b it otlu
lib: -y snui'i' . .xpressed ;belie!
there would be no general .Japane^i
■xi'dus from the United States.
Observer-, however, pr. 'dieted :■
rush among native Americans and
\merie: ns ol Japanese descent, par
'icula.lv those of military age, for
passage to the United States.
Economists
In Dispute
Just How Less Buying
Now Can Prevent
Post-War Slump is Un
certain, Stewart Says.
Iiy C IIARI.KS Γ. STEWART
Central Pros- Columnist
W.i Ji ingt m, Oct 11. -Ju>! iiow
;hr discouragement of civilian buy
ins*, while the war lasts, is going t >
nivvent a post- :·· • pgeney slur ;
isn't apparent lo a go id many eco
nomists.
The theory, a.·
explained by ind
viduals like Treas
ury Secretary Hen
ry MnrHenth.iU and
Chairman Marrinei
S. Ecoles of the
'•'9 te-, il fU'tervC
System's board of
>\ ei'iii 1rs, is that,
if c '"s.micrs wi\l
•Diitent themselves.
1 >r the present,
with only the bar
est lit re - - . : es of
life, late: .in there'll
bo Mich an accumulated demand for
everything as t·· .ρ··: industry to
produce like ''urv ι ■ > 1 ν —and
t} ι ; ι * ΊI prevent a < i ; > -.-:· in.
Tho American Bankers Associa
tion's ei'unnni ,· :> · .,·>· eommissi in,
which ought ' 1 undcrst nd such
problems pn tty well, rather mildly
indor-es tli . >· "I":.·· cummis
siiiû's lu.ad, W lî.iii.t :;· . Burgess ol
New Λ··... (1 ··· ' .; tar as to
deny, like Km·· M 'igcnth. u and
Keek's, that u ι .. . .·· a depression,
b .! I1.·· doe- sa\ 1:..·', : won't neees
-arily be ine\ ,t.ii>!c not if the pub
,.·■ \ :i postpone ,t> · lying, as Henry
,ιη·) M.i! ι n; r ree· 'inmentj.
Κ ' will tlu· publie do it'.' Henry
'ami M.n in·· evidently think not.
' an- ·' ,· .ι · a- d How coerce it?
Wh\ ny μ ,ing : rices so high that
it - mply w.11 1. · to economize,
j Well, price.- . ' · ' ndency to rise
I of their own volition, without any
government.i' Ah, but that
kind of an auto ,· ·.-·■.- just what
ail hands are t:\n 4 ·« -perately to
prevent, and it'- a\.o atic that in
flation alw y s ,s !·'!' 'wed by a
slump.
National Price Fixer Leon Hen
derson's particular job ι to put a
lid over the threaten tig "upward
spiral", as he calls it. in an uncon
I trolled inflationary direction Sec |
I retary Morgenthau and Res-rve 1
j Chairman Kccles don't w nt ;nfla- j
; tion to become rampant, either. They
1 (Continued or. Page Two) 1
Secretary
Morgcntliau
Ousted in Panama
Arnulfo Arias
In a bloodless coup d'etat, the Pana
manian government of President
Arnulfo Arias, often accused of
fascist tendencies, was overthrown,
the revolutionaries seizing control
by capturing the Panama police
headquarters and jailing three of
Arias' appointees. Arias had just
flown to Havana, Cuba.
(Central Γι cue)
Arias Sails
For Panama
Havana, Oct. 11.—(AP) — Dr.
Arnulfo Arias, the ousted president
if Panama, sailed from Cuba today
for Panama aboard the steamsh :>
Cefalu, due to ai'rive there Tuesday
m rning.
Arias, whose flight from Pan;)·' :
last Tuesday before dawn opened t:s··
way for establishment of a regime
pointing toward greater coHaborati
with the United Stales, had said t.'s;.·
he intended to return to Panama ι y ί
plane.
Lease-Lend
Bill Is Sent
To Senate
Washington, Oct 11.—(AP)—
ilea: ... . , i> . ι i "vi r who Iniin,u j
house api'·>\ : . . i .η any ban mi
aid to Russia, tin new $5,985,000,000 !
lend-lease mi > . *·»1 Sen..te
1 da·.,' with i" · t ·· '!>■ act mi.
Λ- ill t!ii II· 1 lu· m>ly !
major fight revolved around fruit
less eft»·: t · ! '.·>· ol the
fund bl III}· ■ ■ " II ' Si .·, ;,··
government, the Senah laced a simi- j
lar contri'Vei .·>·. ' 1r;.tio-i
leaders expressed eotil dence the
Mouse act ion w ! 1 ι d.
The measuri ρ,.- ise lat ·
yesterday, IV2i! t.. r. ' τ mil
two days of be.ite hundred
and thirty Dem.τ . : !»ι> lie
publicans, one Farmer-Laborite and
one American-14ibor:te \ · ■ 1 :
bill on final pa.--..'.a I
crats. .36 Republicans and t}.. ■ I : ·
gress:\'es V ted no.
War Games
Take To Air
Charlotte, Or!. il —'. \t 1 —
l.ai'Ker t arolina eitii s «ill w it
ni'ss f;irI\ October ill simulat
ed bombing tor the first tune
when several hundred two
motored bombers ol l ie \rni\
anil Na\\ will sw um over lue
t\.»> states bringiim lr •-cla,\ e\
ereises to be held niuier tno di
rection of Brigadier - lieneral
Walter II. Frank b> the third
interceptor command.
Details ol the broad plan for
this first mock air warfare in
the southeast were received to
day from General Franks head
quarters at Drew Field. Tampa.
Fia.
Charlotte will he the location
of General Frank's command
post during the maneuver period.
October I y - VÎ 4. and the I harea'tr
army air base is destined '» tie
"destroyed by aerial bombtiii; '
unless the interren'ors turn back
the waves of bombers.
Reds Appeal
To Britain
For Invasion
Thousands of Rus
sian Reserves Moving
to Front are Bolstered
by New Tanks and
Fast Planes; Nazi
Forces Press Onward.
(By The Associated I'ress)
G ' ' ^ π a.~-e- ,.j i! us- iiin ) (serves
wain .y die -ed lui" winter action
and !> .1-1 red by new t, ill:-. and fast
planes, were reported moving up to
tin-· I rent today as General Fedor
•'"'ι 1! German anniej? pressed
"ii o\ i i blood soaked battlefields in
ι steadily mi "Wing threat to M scow.
As the war entered its 16th
week, the Russians appealed
more urgently to Great Britain
to create a diversion by invading
'western liuropc. Thus R>'d Star,
the Soviet army newspaper, de
clared:
"Now the main forces of the
German army are chained in the
eal.t. creating most favorable
eoniStions loi civilization of other
fronts of the anti-German coali
tion."
Afield, Russia's sorely pressed
ar.nie.- fell back to a shorter de
fense lront during the night and
were reported !o have slowed down
the ten-dav old German drive η
JloMuw. but Soviet dispatches ad
mitted a grave new danger had arisen
:n the Vyazma .-ector, 123 miles west
of the Û. S. S. R. capital.
"The danger is great," said Red
Star, conceding for <he moment at
least that the Germans had numeri
cal superiority in the all important
conflict on the cmtral front.
German reports asserted that
hundreds of thousands of Rus
sian corpses littered the battle
fields around Bryansk. 220 miles
southwest of Moscow.
Red troops attempting to
escape encirclement by creeping
through German lines at night
were said to have been mowed
down in great numbers.
A bulletin from Adolf Hitler's field
headquarters reported that hugs
-.. '·.· .-laughtoi 1.1 Russian forces
trapped in the Bryansk and Vyazma
sect rs was proceeding rapidly,
vii :<· <··; the .··· it hern (Ukraine)
front the high command said anni
a : I a t ■ ι ί .·· S-.vict ' ro· i>s north of the
S. ,i ni A. · wii! apj · -aching com
pletion.
It true, :· would pave the way
for a direct tier: ,,n ass:, .It on the
Π η r;ve: port . : i; .. ·„ ·. gateway
t > Ίie v.'.il t'auc.i an oil fields.
In tli'.· north, around Lenin
grad. tlie German high com
mand said eleven Russian at
tempts to break out of the old
e/arist capital failed yesterday
and that !8 super-heav y Soviet
links were destroyed in three
dus of fighting.
lids o| lied army reserves
v.i ι· m -, il r>j ρ · , the front
in a steady stream, but the Russians
ii ι· le η ι lté ia : . conceal the dark -
Meanwhile. Prime Minister Win
-1 a l : ι ' : rei·, ved a den and by
■ g · : a Γ· : -ι t id en t s for "im
·>*' : .·* ' ■ ' πΊ ie\ e près ·
a ■ 1.' ■ an ailies."
I ο hint of a
Γ . e\;« (i · \ f <νν·' going to
ι G ' : on r,,gp Fourî
RAF Renews
Night Raids
l.'ind'ii. ι ii'i ll.-~ ( Λ11 )— More
that) "_!·'·> i ; : : 11 - h bun bel- roared
,· t ·> :iii' channel dm ng the night
.ι tin' i ; Λ Κ -1 r lu-k at Germany's in
di'-'i I; .· and Khineland, au
!!)· % ! ι : ι· ■ meed today.
Simultaneous assaults were launch
id ο!ι ducks at KoUerdt.ni, Ostend,
nunkii(iui' and. Bordeaux un the
Gern.an-occupied channel coast,
the e soirees declared.
Thi· raid.- .m Gtrmany were th<?
first in tune nights, weather having
prevented any extensive offensive
operations in more than a week.
The an- ministry disclosed that
United States - built Havocs parti
cipated in the thrust against the con
tinent.
Only a few German night raiders
• isited Britain, dropping bombs at
two places in eastern England and
causing some damage and a small
number of casualties, the govern
ment said.