ïtettîtersmt Battu Htstrafrh ^ mutera*"*™ M \ ONLY DAILY NL ASPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF Ν Ο Κ ι H -AttB*VIRGfM A T\VENT\ -EIGHTH YEAR τη a KAaa Vrew·?* HENDERSON, Ν. C., /SATURDAY AFTERNOO λ\ OCTOBER 25, 1941 'UBLISHEH EVERY AKTEKNOON I^TX/L1 Γ1ΙΓΜΦΟ PHDV except sunjjat r i Y L· Le>IN 1S LUI Y Nazis Open New Moscow Drive . · · · m m ». » · * * _ _ · w w W FZ)/? Intervenes In Strike Army's Big Howitzers in Carolina Maneuvers Twi·: - < : these big 240 mm. howitzers. biggest fi· Id g uns in the army, are ready for action during army mam . i'is ;n the vicinity of Hoffman. N. C. Top: Λ 10-ton Die.-el-engined tractor teams up with another trac tor .1 the big gun into position. Bottom' The field piece is set up and ready which means hurling a 345 pound !·:· urtile as high a.s five miles into the air. In accuracy, it is said to compare with a rifleman hitting iht- i . t ye at 1.000 yards, its probable error for range being 25 yards—beyond or in front of its target—at 14,000 yards. Senate Group Broadens Bill Japs Say Knox Bluffs Japanese Press Char acterizes Secretary's Assertion as Attempt at Bluffing. Τι > ( ν» 25 (ΛΡ) The i1 s* ht" 1 Krank Knox. United States .-«τ, · ,t the Ν:ιΛ', that a colli .·:··:·. · .bip,m is inevitable unle>s she , · · t 'lis her "plans fur ex pan- characterized bv the JajMi · ■ : today as a bit cf A: ' bluffing. "K: try m» to bluff Japan," fleel mi editorial in the news pap< ■ ΐ|· "We are carrying on Japa".' di'cided policies regardless | of bin'' 4 l>y American-." "Κι ; m ·( ch is his usual blund- ' « · — President Roosevelt said today that "the real end. the ines capable end" of American for e'ftn policy "is the destruction uf the Hitler menace." In achieving that end," he said in a Message read to the Foreign Policy ' (Continued on Page Si::) i Mussolini Cleans House In 19 Guilds Ron \ ( Vt. -r..—(AIM—Premier Mussolini transferee! or replaced 60 officer- of his fascist corporations or guilds today in tin most sweeping shakerp in years. Nineteen of Italy's 22 guilds which control the country's economic pro duction were affected by the changes. Only the leaders of the hotels, theatres, and glass guilds, which are of secondary importance at this time, escaped the changes. Mu-solini is president of every guild but delegates must I the v u·1: to presidents r:'d councillors, the lat ter from the fascist party and the (Continued on Pace Two) Dies Prcbe Is Annoying With Russia Holding Out Against Axis, Washington Wishes Solon Would Ease Up. By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Columnist) Washington, Oct. 25.—Represen tative Martin Dits congressional committee on investigation of un American activities in the United States is more seriously worried relativ. to communists activties than concerning the activities of nazi put together. The Texas con gressman will be recalled as having recently submit ted to Attorney General Francis Biddle a list of the names of 1,121 government em ployes associated, ht says, with or ganizations whic'i ,-λλΙ/ ♦ V-, r» r\ Λ ' Γ> Γ · ** - - · - Martin Dies throw of the wy government such employes are draw (Continued on Page Two) Measure To Debate Legislation Now Would Permit Ameri can Ships to Sail Any where on Seven Seas. Washington. Oct. 25.— (ΛΡ) — The Senate foreign relations committee voted 12 to II today to broaden the armed ship bill so as t;> permit American mer chant vessels to sail anywhere on the high seas. Opponent- of administration pol icy uric prompt to declare that the expanded bill would stir up more prolonged Senate debate than the Hou.-e-approved legislation confined to the arming of merchant ships. Senate leaders arranged to start consideration of the revised measure Monday. The broader revision proposal was sponsored by Democratic Leader Barkley. who had conferred on its yesterday with Chairman Connally, Democrat, Texa-. livre is the committee roll call: Democrats for expanding the bill —Connally, George. Wagner, Bark ley. Murray, Thomas ol Utahi Pep per. Green. Guffey, Glass Lee, Tun nell. Republicans lor White. Democrats against·—Van Nuys. Reynolds, Clark of Missouri, Gillette Republican.- against Johnson at California, Capper. Vandenberg, (Continued on Page Six) FORMER AMERICAN DESTROYER SUNK London, Oct. 25.—-( AIM—The 1, 190-ton British destroyer Broadwat er, formerly the U. S. S Mason, has been torpedoed and sunk while on I escort duty in the north Atlantic, and ! an American volunteer abroad, Lieut. , John S. Parker of Boston, Mass., has j been killed The British admiralty ! announced today. The admiralty also announced that ! a British submarine in the central | Mediterranean had torpedoed and ι probably sunk an Italian armed mer- j chant cruiser of the 5.413-ton Citta Di Genora class. A brief communique did not men- ι ti>>n any survivors from the Broad water. normal complement of which was about 140 men. This may have been less under the British flag. Lewis Asked Tc Caned Strike tail United Mine vVorkers W a.'kout Vv GUici ÀÎ fect 5j,000 Employees of 'Capiive' Mines; Air Associates Strike is Settled. ι liv The Associated Kress) I. iidei's ni lin· I nitcd Mine Workers at Pittsburg announc ed today that they had orders from John 1,. Lewi.' headquar ters at Washington t ι proceed with the strike of 53.000 miners in steel mills' captive mines at midnight todiy. treSidriU Rocsevelt had asked !. wis·, the I'MW head, to cane I the strike call. The af fected mines supply fu?l to dr fense-busy steel plants in IVnn ; ,vi.'lain;:. Wrsi > ir;!nia. Ken tucky and Alabama. At the White House and the defense mediation board alike it was said that no reply had been received to Mr. Roosevelt's re quest. Lewis had a press conference scheduled for the afternoon. (4 p. in. EST) and would say nothing to reporters before then. Mediation board officials were not completely discouraged; they noted that the fact that the miners customarily do not work on Sunday still allowed some time for the situation to work out. (By The Associated Press) President Roosevelt today awaited John L. Lewis' reply to a White House request for can cellation of a midnight strike called affecting 53,000 workers in "captive" coal mines owned by steel companies in Pennsyl vania. West Virginia, Kentucky aand Alabama. Lewis, president of the CIO I'nited Mine Worekrs, gave no immediate indication of his course of action after the Presi dent's request was made public last night. SlMuld the w; il k. 1111 occur at mid i:ght tonight. as ••chedulrd, there Acre tears that a lucl shortage might iffcet important defense production j and even eventually tie up steel plants. But as the captive mine dis pute approached a showdown, de fense officials welcomed word of s ttlcment of a 25-day strike at the Bcndix. X. .1.. plant of Air Associates. Inc. High federal officials announced that the plant management bad agreed to return striking employees to the pay roll Monday. The firm has about $5.000,000 in orders for aviation parts need'd in 'he national defense program. The onlv issue is the captive min» ■ mtrovcr.-y with the United Mine '("nntinued ru nage two) Nazis Menace Red Oil Fields Exhaustion anil the Russian winter are helping the Red forces under Gen. Gregory Z. Zhukov slow the Nazi drive on Moscow, according to Soviet spokesmen. Berlin, however, claims its army is within range of the Red eapital and to the south a new Orman drive menaces Rostov (see map), gateway to the Caucasus oil fields. (Cintrai Prcas) Vichy Regime Seeks To Stop Executions Pepper Urges Blockade Of Japan Washington, Oct. 25.— ( AP)— An immediate American block ade of Japan was proposed to day by Senator l'epper. Demo crat, Florida, as an answer lo Tokyo's expansion plans—plans that Secretary of the Navy Kno\ said might lead to a "collision'' m I iie Far Fast. Agreeing with Knox' state ment that the situation in the Pacific was "extremely strained." l'epper told reporters he be lieved the time had come to in stitute a blockade cutting off all war supplies that might be con signed to Japan from any source. "We ought to see to it." Pep per declared, "that Japan gets no materials from outside sources that will fatten her for further conquest." This could be accomplished, he predicted, l)\ halting all exports lo Japan. closing the Panama canal to ships hound for Japan cm ports and launching a naval patrol of the Pacific sealanes. Pet ai η Government Votes Heavy Handed Measures to Repress Attacks on Germans; Appeal Made to Nazi Authorities. Vioh.v. Oct. 25.— (API—1The Prtain government voted heav> handed measures today for the repression of further attacks on (iernnin soldiers and announc ed it was making urgent appeals to the Germans to slop reprisal executions ul innorent aostages. J'·', en .si.nil shrdlu shrdlu shrsh Kven .is the cabinet acted, ao Frencmr.en ai Nanti·.- awaited exe cution Aloud y m a second repri.-al Ι··!" tlie - .v.; ι Lieutenant Colonel Paul Ilot/, nazi c immandant there. Kilty ..Is . i . i . ■ 1 bel ΊΤ Ci. ' man firing squads in reprisal lor his as.-as.-m at ..η !a.-t Monday. With ·... t. ■ ,■!".·.' at h df stalf, the C'.< , mdant wa buried in Xante > '· 'day in a military cert - > 1 uiiera procession thro ...·, ·. . . !y bet wee ι silent line- of F.ei There m .is immediate an nounce of the details of the action by which the French cabinet sought to stamp out the attacks on German ofliecrs and soldiers. The cabinet also discussed me ms of continuing the payments I'm lniantenance of the German oecupa t '· It'i'ee- in France, and measures to meet the threat ot a waiter fam ine menace driven home as the f ■ ' si low fell in Vichy. Nantes still wa- eut off from the rr-i of France by a cordon of Ger man forces. PARACHUTIST FAU'.S 30,500 FEET; LIVES Chi' .' ι ' - ( Λ Ρ ) Λ dar ing parachutist leaped from a plane at 30,5110 le. ι jr let à a y tiui'i led five and a half ι les tin'. ;it»h space be fore palling I·,.- ripe, d and landed safely. The jumper. Art' a Starn· -, exceeded all known records for tree fall. United States aviation association recognize no official parachuting roe ords but press reports show Russia claimed a world record for free fali in 1934 when a man jumped at 20. 575 feet and opened his chute 650 feet above 'he ground, a plunge of 4 !) miles. '1 had or ■■ tu ο moments of fear." Starnes panted to the crowd that gathered around him in the cow p.. •are where he landed. 20 miles south west "I 'he Chicago loop. in South, Kharkov Is Captured Ge rmart Spearheads Reporte·] to Have Driven W i t h i η 20 Miles of Soviet Capi tal; Capture of Khar kov is Severe Blow to Reds. (By The \ssoeialeri Press) Masses '.ιί tank-led <»erman troops have launched a new ol feusi\ e along the « hole Mnsnnv front. Soviet dispatches said to day. while on the south, Adolf Hitler's high command announc ed the '•apture of Kharkov— Russian's "Pittsburg" in the heart of the Donets river indus trial basin. Roundabout reports reaching l.oiidtm. uiiconlirmed elsewhere, said nazi spearheads had thrust within - H miles of Moscow, and German military reports declar t (Î thai the c apital's zero hour v. as near. J,i t>·· ■ ·■< ι.nil.mû the spearheads ^'ere <>ni> striking tanks whien may have knifed through Soviet dé ni isolated sectors and i'<_p.ιrteci back by portable wireless that t : icy were within -0 miles of Moscow. 1 licit- was no indication that any major breakthrough had de veloped ι close. Official Soviet re ports .-a ici :ίΐι nearest lighting was more tnnii .iU nines away. A dispatch to the Soviet news paper Pi,i. tii, said General I'edor von Bocks centrul Iront armies opened the huge scale assault yesterday alter int' use artillery preparation. The dispatch said nazi casualties in the first three weeks of the drive on Moscow totaled 3011,000. German capture of Kharkov, a severe blow to Russia's war boundaries, gave the nazis ιοη trol of almost the entire I kraiie except for a tiiij comer bound ed by the Donets river ircir* Kharkov to Kostov-on-Don. the ra 1 town ol Belgorod, 47 iinies north ί Kharkov, also fell in iie German sweep that now has driven clear through the Ukraine into Russia proper, the nazi high com mand said. Tl. .- might indicate that the Ger man am u.s wen. turning north to holster the right flank ot tiie drive against Mo-eow. s.nce Belgorod lies "il the mam Knarkov-to-Moscow railroad, abi lit 350 miles smith of the capital. Dispatches from Kuibyshev, aux iliary cap.tai o| liussia, said vast uni1 ιici's tn Clem an troops were ι" ' r.n« into nail v: i.ages around M .:ha,sk. iV ·, .·, west ot Moscow, and Hi;·: tv . i..\ : wns had changed a.mil- . e\ eial ·.. es m the savage ebb and ·:ο\ν of (he battlle. s .>·! :····.: 1 ι di-patches sad ; hi en.·· i' : : 1 · g and was blank eted with siiow. Executions Denounced President Roosevelt Issues Statement As sailing Reprisals; Churchill Joins In. V/a hington Oct 25 (AP) - Pre.-ldi i;l I·' . i ll assailed nazi re I'M al ι xir ϋ m F.urope today, 1 dee i, 11 ; raj 111 c ■ ' to In- revolting to the world and tin· "arts of desperate κ ii \\ ! ■ .ι,· -v. πι their heart that they cannot \\ in." In ι ! " ι. i 1 ; * η ■ ; : c η 1. the Chief Ι·'.··.κ .! ■ ι ' ' ο ■ : were de \ ι I.«) · ., . ' ill ι " by "depths •I · ' w'·ι.·ί <'. in they have never . ppn . ici :i-d bel ore." Τί ι ι · · ' cleasl d by the White lb -e with· t explanation οϊ piiipoM· 1: ' ί : ι i ιό! mention any .Npeeit . r.'Untry but spoke of the Gei " . η ]>i'.'i'tici it executing scores oi innocent ho tages in reprisal for isolated attacks in Countries under nazi domination. Following the killing of two Ger nian officials in France, 50 hostages were shot at Bordeaux, and scores more wre scheduled to be executed in the next few days . Luiidn. (lit. 25. (AP)—Prime Minister Churchill, associating the British government with President (Continued on Page Six) Consumption Of Gasoline Still Breaking Records I flany Pistiau Ιι bureau, In Ih» sir 'Intel. By HENRY AVEU ILL Haleigh, Oct. 23.—With the lid on gasoline consumption now coniplete ly lifted by the Ickes repeal of black Hit and rationing, it's an interesting business to speculate on how high North Carolina consumption will go —if, indeed, it v\a.- held down even a little bit by Honest Harold's de crees and prod..·! ations. Figures for the first nin. months indicate that 1941 consumption ha been almost a fifth greater than m 1941), with the percentage of increase virtually unchanged by the imposition of the "seven to .-even" ban on sales and the alleged cutting down on amount of gasoline permitted to be sold to dealers by distributors. These figure- are not completely WIATHIR FOK NORTH CAROLINA Fair, slightly cooler north east portion, scattered frost mountains and north central por tions tonight. Sunday fair and continued cool. otlicûll. they .rt (i -in .1 compila tion il ; (it1 i i\ 1 : 1!,, m ■ ;.;h ri'| >i ί iiT 1Π mi !iit' molli: :> ■ \ en 10 rop.>; 1 - C'ommiss ,· in r Λ. · : ι .1. Muxv ;i They are ba -cd .1: tax paid gasul::i · consumption ami consequently a it. obviously, slighth below the act Γι con.simiption figure . because there is -unie tax free gasoline used in the slat·.·. tin the basis of the six-cents-a-gal i ·ιι tax Ν : : Γ„ι·. >lina had used, ti'.oUR.i s 1·:.·. ··:. 387.(535.791 «al lons as compared with 323,70(5,097 gallons d-.i !.:. t!»· : · ! three quar ters >1 1 ;)i·1 i:.." in ncroase of ι ,>t beyond 19 per cent. Showing th.it tin g. 'hue restric tions either \νι·ν> ·.··: tightly enforc ed, or that tl:ore · e · m.my "ex ceptions" as |.. nul! y ■·■ roR.dations, the percentage incrc.i e : .it August and September were I th slightly above the mean increase for the year. August showed .111 inciease ·: lil.il per cent, while the figure fe Septem ber wint to 20.1 per cen' Lowest increase in e •.•pt;o,i was in January, when ;■» >' '·ι a jump of only 13.2 per cent 11 gin-' was the very next month, when eon (Continued or. Page Six.)