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ïtettîtersott Batlg iltspafrfj ONLY DAILY NLASPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOKi H CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA y^VENTY EIGHTH YEAR lÎhbea%w?a^rpr·»?* HENDERSON, Ν. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 24, 1941 ,x'wus,^-B^uNDAt.ltHN^ FIVE CENTS COPY Senate Poll Shows Majority Favors Freedom Of Seas w .ngton. Oct. 24. — (ΛΡ) — _.\ιι i! administration poll ι ' <1.1 y that at least aô \ mon· than a ma i4UI \ ote to amend the j, , ... i'ii .-hip bill -·ι a- to • .V.vncan merchant ves .1 anywhere on toe P> M'\cn a -, a:' 1 Illi, din lit;.· nci" : tin· !" fori 0 Π Ο conducted by ,-ena . · .1 in broadening the : nved legislation lift : ,>·ι against the arming ■ hips, indicated that of fill members .■port the suggested to knock out the \ act provision I' irbid · ,-hant ships to enter bel - .is or designated com ,:!i .itioii- pointed t · an ■ 11 -n effort to expuul 114 hill after the Sc vte • ι us committee con : · ;.-:p ;s his aftern 1 t:-o vol.' ■ ,^ι.· C American me."M:mtmi:r. rnm plt-îi" freedom of If,} seas would lie at lr;,-t 12 ,. ι 11 ;ind nilg'lt !)■· i;i to 10, d*. [.('tiding on the ballot of Senau · George, Dem ocrat, Georgia. Another pro,. -a! pending be fore the comm.:'.-', offered by a gmup ^il Republican- and back ed by Wendell i„. \\ nikie would repeal the tie 'r ili'y ac: com pletely. iu,.j'irity Leal'· I'.aiiav as serted todiy that it ν ■ <f ·■·" to ascertain whether Rip Senate would give more support to com· plele repeal t.îa,' ο amendnu lit? lifting the presetu estr ι i;ons on sh ρ arming and -hip m women',.s. S'.mitur Pepper, Democrat, Florida. eue sponsor of ti e free dom of the seas amendment, told π porter·- he would vote lor com plete r peal if his own p.'rv.sa1 failed, "and those who want complete repeal should vote i'or our amendment if they can : get theirs," he added. 50 Frenchmen Executed; 100 Hostages Reprieved Firing Squad Execu tions at Bordeaux Bring to 184 Total of Hostages Killed For Assassinations of Five Germans. \ il 11 ν. Oct. 24. — <ΛΡ) — ï'ift\ t rrnch hostages du (I be fore tin· tiring squad wall today in λ ><) lives for-one forfeit for tin· assassination of a German officer at Bordeaux—the second such masure of retaliation with in three days. At : . me time, 50 additional hos tage- : ■ deaux and ôu still alivo ' at λ : <»f 10(1 selected l'or exe ciiîi a prisai for the killing of till t;· : :i i simmandcr there won brief I'voi while the German:· gave . ; ' ι :. 11 time for the capture or ι r !··: nt tile actual assassins Mh news today Iront Bor deaux meant that a total of 100 liust.i ;es already had been put to death, evenly divided, for the as-ds*in nions of the Nantes and Bnrdi aux officers. Fifty were executed in the Nantes case on Wediu'sdaj. Τ-, ι!· . η commander at Nant·. - Lie ·.: c'..],tnel Paul II··::·. wa \v;iv .; : "ii -hot last Monday and on the : . ' nu day a high ranking of fice: !.. Μι! Ho inters, counselor ol the (l· ί military adrn nistratioi at tin· ipied port of Bordeaux hi' . .!.,(· tate. If the full measure Of threatenec repi , : ried out it will make . oil: 'till 1λ es for one. Tt'i· }; rdi-aux executions brough 1B4 >· . ι 'tal of French hostag.·. killed · ttu assassination of fivt Germans. T· . . : ■ . were granted bj Get" ithorities at the persona requi >; · (·:·.,·( of State Petain anc ^ ice i1.· : Harlan. KXEl'l TIONS Oslo, (ierman-Occupied Nor way. Ma Berlin. Oct. 24.—(AIM —Tun Norwegians were execut ed tiiti.i> by firing squads fol low inu conviction October 5 by :i iierman court martial on charges of espionage. They were identified as Karsten Wang and Ivar llueland. Naples Bombed In Light Raid Home. Oct. 24.—(AP)—The higl Cl "finι .a: ici announced today the Brit '■sh l'oyal air force raided N'aple a8ain last night for the third tun recently. Damage, however, was describe1 bs slight and there were reports ι °nly five wounded, in contrast to a Mini.·Mon that the aerial blow Jhe coastal ,. anufacturing center la Tuesday night caused huge damagi lle week ago there was a raid ι which the Italians acknowledge tvvelvt killed and 37 injured Naples. The attach on Naples followed daylight raid yesterday afternoon - ne port of Crotone, at the mouth ι ne gul: ui Taranto in southern 11a 1". "e communique said. British fliers bombed the axi T d cities of Bengasi, Hums, an r 'Pol' in north African operatioi ?nd the high command said thrt ambers were shot down by the di £rutor* ,ve„ as a fQurth over Bri Jsn hem Tobruk. Defends Moscow General G. Κ. Zhukor Succeeding Marshal Semyon Timo shenko, General G. K. Zhukov has been placed in command of Russia's central defense zone, including the Moscow area, according to the Com munist newspaper Pravda. Zhukov worked his way up through the ranks, starting as a private 20 years ago. Germans Break Through In Ukraine, But Moscow Lines Hold Steel Plant Strike Is Ended Settlement Is Accepted By Strikers Other Strikes, How ever, Hinder Produc tion in Different Parts of Nation; Trouble Breaks Gut at Bendix, N. J. (By The Associated Press) An eight-day interruption of operations at the Great Lakes Steel Corporation in a Detroit suburb ended today when strik ers aeeepted settlement terms and began returning to their jobs. Other strikes, however, grip ped coal nvnes in Alabama, held up welding operations at some shipyards in (lie northwest, and paral.vzied production at the Ohio machinery iaetory. Several automobiles were nver turnod n< ar Bendix. N. .T . after a : ' ; 1 : ρ ni m -i -striking employees 1 ded CIO pickets in order to work m the plant of Air Associates, Inc., η ana!acturer of airplane parts. The workers at the Great Lakes SI.el Corporation voted last night to go back to work as soon as the firm could call them, and men be gan reporting for the midnight shift. One of the principal provisions in the settlement plan calls for rein statement of 1 fi members of the St ei Workers Organizing committee who had born suspended by union offi cials. The walkout, which made 8.600 employees idle, had been termed a "wildcat" strike Iv both the cotn nany and CIO officials. Members of the union walked out in protes! against wage rates negotiated with the company by union leaders Members of the CIO rank and file contended their negotiators had sold them out. The non-striking employees at the Air \ —ociatcs plant at Bendix had , to outflank a CIO picket line twice ; yesterday, going to the plant and coming from work in a caravan o( 150 automobiles A strike was called September 30 by 100 workers who charged the c ::.p. nv with unfair labor practices. 'Collision ' In Far East 'inevitable ' Washington, Oft. '£1.— (AI*)~ Sccrelary Knox saw loo.i.v mat a "collision" in the Far Kast was virtually inevitable and could occur on ~4 hours notice. "Tiir situation 111 mr ι ar Kast is extremely strained, Knox loid a group of nuw.l munitions manufacturers. "We are satisfied in kui own minds that the Japan se i.ave 110 intention of giving up their plans for expansion. If they pursue that course a collision there is 'inevitable. It can occur 011 24 hours notice." This description of conditions involving the I'nited States in Japan, coming from a cabinet member alter wfteks of Washing ton-Tckyo cllorts to f.nii a for mula for settlement, w as prompt ed by a discussion of ways by w hcli munitions can be delivered from this country to Russia. Knox said he had "j 1st hurried a\va\ from a conference"—he did ,.f ^ m, ' : 'Ή '1 which British and Russian needs for war materials had necn slrfs-.ed as mat'.ers of great urgency. j Japs Dcubt Uncle Sam j Domei Says Success of Negotiations Depends on Sincerity of United States. Tokyo, Oct. 24. -(API Domei, ! Japanese news agency with close of I ficial connections, quoted "observ j ors" today as saying that the success lof negotiations between Japan and the United States "now entirely de ; pend» ·ίι the sincere attitude of the Uni fed States." and that Japai doubts that the Ui i'.-'d States is sin cere. In the same radio broadcast Domei quoted its sources as saying that the ituation had wr ened as a result of (economic pressure including the fi cozing ot .Japanese assets. The United States must ualize th > imit of concessions which Japan can make, the Domei commentary con tinued. Meanwhile the imperial dirt \va summoned today for a 5-day special meeting November iâ, almost at the same time that a Japanese spokes man pronounced the situation be tween Japan and the United States eased by an American decision to send Russia war aid via the nortl - western port of Archangel rather than the Pacific port of Vladivostok. Tire statement va< made by K >. Ishii, spokesman for the cabinet in formation bureau, in a conference with foreign correspondent - in which he said Japan had explained every point of her stand in recent talks at Washington and now awaited the re action if President Roosevelt and Svcretary of State Cordell Hull. DEFENSE STAMP SALES INCREASE Washington, Oct. 124.—Sales ot de fense sav ings stamp- for five months have reached the total of $18,998.000. the Treasury department has an nounced. September sales of $4.978,000 were the largest ol ai y month since ;h> defense sav ings pi ·>>πιιη was start* -i on May 1 last, an ncrease over Aim list of 11.8 per e-'it. In S^ptemb·. ι 2,942,000 nn re ,-v.i· as of all denom inations were s hi than in August. FOR NOKTII CAROLINA Generall* fair tonight and Saturday: sliehtlv cooler tonight, followed 1>> rising temperatures Saturday. Extended weather forecast for period beginning 7:30 p.m., Oc tober '.24 and ending 7:30 p. m., October 29. Rainfall will be light or none for the period: tem peratures above normal Florida and southern Georgia, below nomal North Carolina and near norma! elsew here. Another Answer to Hitler C. P. Phonrphoto Gliding down the ways and into the water at the Mare Island Navy Yard in California is the submarine Trigger, built in double-quick time mder the navy's speed-up policy, lier keel was laid last Feb. 1 Tank Production Program Doubled FDR Backs LaGuardta VVa.-hingtun, Oc·!. 2ί. — (ΛΓ) - i'ri sid< ill Ιίι υ.-ovelt nidor.· ed :ι ι candidacy nl ΛΪ y or Fiorello l.a ii ara.a, iU publican and Aiiiiticuii Labor nominee, t'·■ r a third term a mayor ο! New York today, dedal ίη;ί 1., 11 ι ; :, ι ; îi . a s admin.strution had been "the most honest and most e£ : ir.ent" within hi.- : >-.· <11action. The Pre-ident mined through at lis | res- conUrence a formal state- I ni ut which he had prep; ; - cl on La- j Giiard:a's rae·· i,.·· .·· 'n tin and j lanuhed with, ivp r'· ..: · η he said ; he was not tak.n:; : i; the New V I; eitv cLt·;; . ; ' m· was ι : : 111 d to speak ' ' : ■ ν ι us.· the city contain- , 1 in alt h. . ' t. popu laiion ol hi.s state. Report Attack On French Somaliiand I Vichy. < U't 24. Λ : 11 I'iie Y.o regime's Suvirir : · : · a ! :i Kn·:· Si 'liuililand rep· .· · · :. .1 di-pa\ : 11 'in .1 ibut: ti>ti;i.v · : It it.-'t a. Λ Free French tro. ;-s hod started an I (', .1- t 'I'll'll President Rooseveli Declines to Give Fig ures in Announcing Expanded Plans For Army Tank Manufac ture. \\ .1 - ! i ι ·. ; loll. (hi. ·: ι.— (Λί'ι — \\ ith!...ld:nu all I inures, ^'resident .illlUIUIH i d lod.l> lil.lt tin tiiu riva i program lor pro ducing tanks tor I'nited Stales ariiu ιί lorn-N w .mid In- approxi m.ilcl> doubled at once. liu thief incentive told a press ιonlt r. ni t that the pro jeeted expansion was part of an overall re\ ision ol III; defense picture. Hut tin- rest ol il. he said, w ill not be ri ,ui> until later in the fall or peihaps when Con gress meets lor a new session in January. Mr. Uuoscvelt <.·. . . ν the pi'i l'iit tank j. · .. . . e..,ii ,i m ir what tl'ie iiH'iv.iM' j.: vide. That he a.-siiieci, w ,» ni: .. tii'ii which the axis u)d I.kc l· have. It does call for many thousan< ni'irc tanks, along w ith ct : lain item «·! ordnance relating to them. Ί ;;·· principal rca· ·<η .. ·!" the d* c: ·· : tu n.ake a trrnu nd · - increa>t in tank output, the President dis i-i t (i. ::ro\v iroin the experience i: th» .m ol tank- in North A:r.ca las Si -.· new plants pro ha >lv w i h,r. ν he i.)uilt to turn out the en 1: '·. · ' ι ·! ami· of tank- \v! !e i'ae l·.·! ■· - η >·. making :hc m w ·\[ hav t>- . '<·;ι · '-PL·: at.»1 η. lia IYc.-miU-u said. Recent L vents Emphasize Chaos in Motor Department Γΐ,ιιιν HiMiriKit tturt'iu. In Ihr *»ι»* ν* ,,ιΐ'τ lloiel. By IIF.XRY Λ\ 1 Ίί'Ι.Ι. Raleifih, Oct 2.».· -!'> ;i W. (1. \ motor \ i li iclc ■ ·■ ι the first ol July, may eventually : succeed in Ivinginfc ·>: .»· 1 ' <·! chaos in his department t >>.i ·:»> will decide whether he can .·: <i.»t ; but it is certain that he face- n. [of the most difficult tasks In·· ■ e any .-lato official in many, man moons. Λ whole .-or»·.- of recent oven! have combined to bring latent soi -put.- to ,i head. There w.is, for instance, the re.- :, nation of Κ R. iUd.aughlin. head ι t!ie registration bureau, after his ai rest on a drunken driving charge . (Continued on Page Three.) Russia Dips Into Reserve Manpower Reorganized Russian I Command Stiffens 1 Moscow Resistance; ι β * . Timoshenko Moved to Southern Front Com mand. Kuibyshev. Russia. <> I. -I.— (Λί'ι—German lories Mere de <liird today to have broken through toward Rostav-on-the Don as the fight tor the indus trial Donets basin reached a crisis, tint on the Moscow front the Red army said its counter at tacks smashed a nazi spearhead \\!iic!i penetrated defense lines toward the capital. Soviet Kussia met the chal lenge of the intensified German onslaght with a reorganized western front command pledged to fight to the finish, and dipped deep into her reserves of man power for more fighting men. Ma ! ι : : ' Si meon Timoshenko, mov ;d from the central to the southern fnmt. laced .ι supreme test in foiling r.si.-tance at the western ap proaches to the Donets ba.-in where Pravda declared "tic -ii iation re mains alar ι ny in all sectors." I Uder the eves of Premier Josef Stalin and the Soviet de fense council remaining in men aced Moscow. General Gregory K. Zhukov. who took Timoshen ko's place in defense of the capi tal. apparently had checked the head-on drive of strongly rein forced nazi forces from west of city. German bombers renewed their attack on Μ·.-ς·ο\ν last night, causing damage and casualties, but mucïi I the S'ivi ι government already art been :t · ·. ed t·» th.- Volga bank • >.vn. determined to carry on. Marshal Budyenny and Marshal V r>·· !i.!i»v. northern front command ( ι·, were given the ta.-k of forming new fight In·.; forces from the vast reserves o: Sov . t manpower as Rtts ,.i seivi d notice she would never S. Λ. I-·./..· v.ce foreign com I nvissar and government spokesman j for the press, declared the removal J of basic commissariats from Mos j cow gave pro! of "not weakening, but strengthening of the defense." Commission Denies Report U\. : — Or: L'4.—(AP)—The : ι . ' ι <: id today th«U WYdiu· tl. > n: mcr.ient thnt • .,1! ri-1.' Κ ».;· will be ' :c ι > 1 ' ι ! B<i* ton . ( »!·· ι ι';:'· ν,:. .η...ν The con mission added that the inaccurate announcement had been •>v\ dely misinterpreted." ■ n,·!■■!·. .· ! - \\ 11 : -:i Ι11ΙΓ to be divided so far as practciable· Vandenberg 'Demands Cash J For Foodstuff • I Washington. Oct· 24.—(ΛΡ)—Scn '· . Y ill· j ι : h Kopubhcan. Mic'n ii' .> iicil ' m l!i it Groat :·. >>·.!,: i-fU t·· reimburse the United: States in cash for $1,000. t >0i i.i · 11 : ι mi :·. ..I t.. bo furnished un der tin- new $5,985,000,000 lend-lease . ppropriation which the Senate ap (r,-"\ed ye.-terdav l-> a vote ol' 59 to 13. I'.intending that the British gov ernment was obtaining immediate lu.yn en: from English distributors \ tor foodstuff sent to Britain under ι tile program, Yandenberg asserted .. that the net result of {lie proposed i.ew outlay would be to "siphon vir tually a billion dollars out of the United State- treasury into the Brit ish trea.» try." it we are furnishing materials under this bill that are sold for cash t by the British government, that cash belongs to the United States treas on y," the Michigan senator said. Babson Sees Trade-In Plan As Depression Preventive By ROGER W. BABSON Copyright 1U41. Publishers Financial Bureau. Inc. I Bah.-un Pan;. . Oct. C4. - Λ reccnt column in which I discussed ! ,Vi].!i Λ'ι>.ι d happen t■ » u'.isiiie.;·» i!1.'" World War II. has brought t> me I sever.il suggestions. Among tn-se is j one 1 nun K. 11. Pearson of A.itiuga | ville, Alabama, which 1 des r; to pass on to reader-. Strange to say, a letter alo >g the same lined came to me a while ago from a gioiip oi economists in Holland. What About .Markets* The immedi .te need after tno war I will be ι'θ[· markets for peacetime : goods. These must be marHU.iC'.iired : in great quantities in orde: to keep I employed the millions now engaged j in the manufacture of munitions j Furthermore, we are to have a great . demand lor machinery, building ma i tenais, and merchandise from abroad > ! by people who have no money with which to pay. 1 We. therefore, must work out l some way to consume the finished ι goods which we are tlicn able to t produce apart from the wearing-out ' process and a world war every '· twenty-five y< rs. A trade-in plan I such a.- the automobile people have 'l developed but made applicable to ' all industries has possibilities. Con sumers need be trained to replace „ goor'- bel on they wear out. Wo Will Need New Machinery. . I We are advis.'d to look loi new uses and new products for raw ma j-' tenais nd finished goods. This d means new market.- mu-t be secured. .3 Manufacturers are today using fully e , depreciated tools and machinery which they should tr de in for new machinery so as to give the Ameri | can people better goods for less ninn t-y. Prosperity comes only I'rom lower taxes and lower prices. Continuous employment is far more important than mere, ses in wages or unit pro ills. We need some way to make il possible for the worker and those having private funds to consume tht finished goods that \\ ill be avail able a few years hence. Those whe have funds to buy with are usually thrifty people. Being thrifty, thej wear out the goods they own un less they are offered a value for sue! goods. Cannot the trade-in systeir which has been used in creating the (Continued on Page Two) Time Bomb Kills Fifty In Odessa Bualiarest, Oct. 24.— (.AIM— Fifty axis officers and men. in cluding Rumanian General Glo gojeanu, have been killed by the explosion of a time bomb in captured Odessa. Rumanian mili tary dispatches said today. (Other dispatches identified the general as the Rumanian commandant of Odessa.) Two German naval officers were listed as victims: the others were delieved to be Rumanians. The dispatches said that the bomb had been planted near a former secret police headquar ters by the Russians before the I port citv was captured.
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