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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- '
« ·<! ··· pting to threaten Japan,"
said ( "We have to be very
cart! " ; 11 ο thiitcd States atti
tilde, ·· reatoning and appeasing
art?·.·· · ■ ' <m side bv side in order
w ι a clever plot."
f1 1 ι loted an unofficial but
W°H · ed source meanwhile as
savii::; ■ ;ii the serious situation to
which Κ·· χ referred was caused by
"let m ·, il States' own action toward
Japan.
•lap·'' this source declared, has
done ,i!i jn )10r power to preserve
Peace.
FDR Gives
Policy Aims
•
'Destruction of Hitler
Menace' is 'Inescap
able End' of Ameri
Foreign Policy.
Now York. Oct. 25.—(AP> —
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
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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
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