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Hgnitergott Bailtj Dfapatth THIRTY-THIRD YEAR_jm^A^^TKi:.urnKss:K HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 28, 1940 1,niL,sl]S',!a,s,:Nl;^KKN""x FIVE CENTS CORY Vandenberg Talk Hailed By Senators Unofficial Support Is Given Address On Foreign Policy Washington, Frit. 28.— (AIM —The Senate lin’d up today In-hind the stand of S<ui:itnr Ar Iitiii Vandenburg (R-Mh-li) that llic Fnited States taki- a firm stard in dealing with Russia in i-i'iitroversial problems. -|-ihacking was unofficial. since legislation was involve:!, but denborg evidently had won sup in the formal repurt he made ’ . in - observations and conclusion i delegate to the recent United v.a mis -essit •• in 1. >ndon. I' in Dem el'.its .ai i Ke-mhlir n' ., Kl- came unbroken indorsement I lie way Vandenberg appraised 1 -Soviet relations in hi> speech Vl ;,ndav ti an apnlauding Senate, f alls for Patience. •■The situation calls for patience mid will, but not for vacilla ■ o" the Michigan senator summed \' ndenberg's asserti n. that the 1 . i state.-', backed bv a positive : , , :n policy, must speak up when i; . ; , makes her claims, found col . - .-s anparentl.v unanimous in •their approval. •Senator Carl Hatch (D-NM1. a ■ eign relatic.ns committee member is a close friend of President r in, said V mdenberg "ex ■ ,".i-d mi- Su tinn-nts about Rus m . exactly.” Similarly. Senator Fulbrigh! (D A i. who has ritieized what h - . ,i - ns the administration's failin' me consistent leadershin in . ; i affairs, said he thought Van ccn'oerg was "absolutely correct.” I .nit futures l p SO Cents At Noon .A York. Feb. 28. -(API—Cot 11j 111r(w opined 25 to 45 cents a l le higher. Yi ■!! prices wenr 45 to 80 cents : ale higher. March 26.55, May 26.71, July 26.68. Prvs. Close Onen M a h . . .... 20.46 26.51 M 26.56 26.63 i ., . . . . 26.55 26.62 '' 26.47 26.62 1), aether' . 26.44 26.50 M ail (10171 . . ■ • 26.41 26.18 Harold L. Ickes Turns Columnist ■ hington. Feh. 28 i A!' > II,. ..'<| l, Ickes. "1 he old rurmud :• ■ today turned newspaper col umn! I. I In' recent secretary of interior ani'd with The New York Post Syndicate at a price which a syn . official said placed him among i1' highest paid writers in the coun ti v. WARNING AGAINST FLOUR HOARDING College station. Raleigh. Feh. 28. Declaring that ■•Truman" Hour, i reaches the market, will nourish the body and please the palate. Mis> Mai y 16. Thomas, Extension nutfi 111(iiist. at State College, today issued , tatement to North Carolina housc wives saying that "it is sheet lolly l* ■ over-buy or hoard supplies ot standard white flour. Bread made experimentally with the "new flour extracted through the use ot H'l per rent instead ol the normal 70 per cent of the whole wheat grain •turned out to be slightly off-white or creamy in color, equal in flavin to old breads. White flour bought in abnormal cuianiity is quite likely to become stale and musty before it can be us ed, Miss Thomas said. BYRNES TO SPEAK AT O. P. C. MEETING New York, Feb. 28.—(AP)—Sec retary of State James Byrnes will be one of the speakers tonight at the annual dinner of the Overseas Press Club of America. Others will include Secretary ol War Robert Patterson. General Omar Bradley, Rep. Clare Booth Luce of Connecticut, and Senator Bien McMahon, Democrat, of 1 on necticut. COW ON EVERY FARM. College Station, Raleigh, Feb. 26. —Negro County Agent L. R. John son of Johnston county has launch ed a drive among Negro farmers with the intention of placing a cow on every farm. The drive was Prompted by a survey among 739 Negro 4-H Club members, represent ing. 526 farm families, which dis closed that 124 of the families—-al most 30 per cent—had no cow. 1 ho average daily production of family cows was less than two gallons and 121 of the club members drink no irulk. PITTSBURGH Gl GUARDS HIROHITO * • -m . TOUKINCy MS BATTERED COUNTRY, Bmpcror IIir,hito . f Japan lo'>ks out °vcr Yokohama Bay from a rooftop of one of Yokohama's buildings. Show,n Wi ilh the emperor is Pfc. George J. Bro vn of Pitt: burgh, Pa., de huis-d by the Army as Iiirohito’s personal guard <Iuternalional) Ribbentrop Plea 10 Have Cbiirebil Testify Studied Nuernberg. Feb. 28. -(AP)- -The International Military Tribunal agreed today tc reconsider its de cision against summoning Winston Churchill as a defense witness in the war crimes trial of 22 Nazi leaders. The action v as taken at the re quest of Dr. Martin Hon . tounsel for Joachim c n Ribbenirop. l.inner German foreign minister. He reminded the tribunal it had asked him Monday to fill a written motion embodying his i ill argu ments for calling Britain’s war-time prime minister to the stand, bill had rejected the application y>'tar day before receiving the written brief. Housing Biil Faces Fight GOP Substitute Gains Backing Wo itingi'''. i ' h 2;> ( \ P) ’I’hi■ adminisl rati ill's eicMgi-n, v li"u.iog program lough' with ts b ick in the Wall (ml iv a.- the 11 • ■ |no■ oil t1 > w.o rd a toil c on I he o’gi. 'o' > i ad by Pres ident 'I'm it nan to pi ide 2.70011.(1(11) homes. Threateningly stn n g ‘PP *rt mustered behind o Republic n pro posed substitute tor the nilmmistrn ... i re, alt hough C loirman 11 ren t S: voiv ( D-Ky > a t o 1a' k - 1 g C immitteo told new ira u (hot "the President's housing |-r ua.oi aoulil not operate it the .'uo.-tiluto [>re\ aiR. Iu an effot t to s pei i i deci ion one way nr the other, the 11 "i-o v. ci.livened an hour earlier tirui a. oak T iu’ chamber had isiped t" t;i linal action yes ten Icy ha was balked by an unexpected three-hour wrangle over the un-American ic tivities conniuttee. Hep iblicans v. ere lined U! heii 1 d the substitute legislati m .-p, noirci by Rep. Wo ilcott (R-Micli) wlti o strikes at two key teatures of the administration program. It would deny reiiucsts lor unti-spi illation price ceilings on till hi list's and re fuse $600,000,000 asked for subsidies to encourage larger production of scarce building materials. Leading Stocks Make Reco\ cry New York. Feb. 28.--(API Head ing stocks continued to work toward marked recovery today, although buying demand was timid in most cases. Forward leaders included Santa Fe National Distillers, Phillip Mor ris Douglas Aircraft, General Mo nas. General Eli- trie, and U. S. Rubber. A bit hesitant were M >nt gomery Ward, Consolidated Edison, U. S. Steel, and Southern Pacific. CHARLESTON WRECK WAS FATAL TO FIVE Charleston, Feb. 28.—(AP)—Po lice reported additional e' nee to H;,y that five persons died when their automobile plunged oil the Cooper River bridge into a breach ; smashed in the bridge Sunday by a steamship. They listed the supposed dead as Elmer R. Laws. 33 year old navy yard electrician, his wife, their I’vn children, RoLeri, *, and Dianne 2 and Lawson's mother. Mr- Robtrt 1 Lawson of New Britain, Conn. Spain Shuts Her Frontier A Day Early Sentiment Against Franco Bubbling All Over Europe London. K ■. 28. - (AIM The Spanish (!o\ eminent anno i ced to day ii h; a r! ed two main gateways! between France . mi Spain more than 2! hoars bc!ore the eflcctivc ' aae of a Fri" eh Government, order ; to elo-e Hie Frennh-Spanish border, to trade at midnight tonight. The closure was made effective at I Port L',0.1 on the cast core ■; ted I run j on the west coast, with all normal traffic reported barred, including i the two nr three freight, trains which j usually operate across the border 1 up all we,- F.urope. meanwhile, in suppi rt nl th ■ French demand for a (iip! -malic break with Spain and for Tubed Xatioie a lion agai'st the Sp uusli regime of Francisco Franco. I which France has termed a menace! to peace. 'I here we e demonst rat ions in j y, • > i . ,| ftim... -it which the gov- j , i !■ men' 1! Igiuin ami Bulgaria | were I I" ae' against Franco. | I : ■ reguliu new bru idea; t of the 1 Pi ague >' 011 o', interrupted by an 1 , 1 np 'in-., merit that the ( z.c hoslo vuU (to- ’ rumen! ‘ -join the stand of tin- n 1' a " - v. ho strongly demand the end of the cruel Spanish regime." A It us inn commentator urged " 1 iucondi;am d severance i f all rela tion. with Franco Spain by till the 1 ( ) C •' 1 tiles. I'OIl NORTH CAROLINA Mu .11.v cloudy with occasional light rain cast portion and clearing over west portion to night- clear to cloudy and cooler. Friday fair and warmer. Police, Pickets Battle In Philadelphia Again 3,000 Marchers Fight For Second Day At GF Plant Philadelphia. Frb. 28.— (AP) —Three thousand marchers to day broke through police lines in a renewal of violence at the strike-bound General Electric Co. plant. The 575 police on duty sent out an emergency ratlin call for help. The march followed gathering of the crowd across the county line five blocks away. Police earlier broke up all groups near the plant in enforcement of an injun tim ■ gains, mat ; picketing. The marchers bowled over several n i'n motorcycles. Mounted police swinging clubs then galloped into the ranks of the pickets and a irec-for-all followed. The marchers had pushed within three blocks of the phi t when the v iolence started. 18 Mounted Police. Hanks of the marchers- were smashed by the 18 mounted police. Fights broke out between police and strikers and sympathizers all over the southwest Philadelphia area. Acting Sheriff William Morrow said the injunction prohibits “assem bly in number at or near the plant1’ and said police acted to enfi rce his orders banning strikers from ussem bl i g inside a six block radius. For the second straight day. Mor row read the Pennsylvania riot act, ordering the marchers to disperse. The rioting subsided by 10 a. m. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Head for City Hall The marchers then started toward city hall 55 blocks away, where they had gone yesterday to protest police | inter Icrencc. Joseph C. Infante, international representative of the Electric Work- : ers Union, called in all CIO workers in the city to halt work from noon i to 2 p. m. in a demonstration "gen- ! eral work stoppage.” ■'We'll lie up the city.” lie said. The police-picket clash was the j first violence in a strike which be-1 gan January 155 when GF. workers quit in a nation-wide electrical walkout in support of a $2 a day wage increase demand. — Jap Ruler \ isits Department Store Tokyo, Feb. 28—(AP)—Two thou sand subjects cheered Emperor Hirohito as he visited a depart ment store today but the Communist party quickly censured his recent public tours as a "pre-election cam paign for the sake of reactionary po litical parties." -We demand that the emperor and all other war criminals be banned from carrying out any such” cam paign. read a resolution passed by the party convention. The resolution is to be presented to the imperial household tomorrow.” TRl'MAN WON’T INTERVENE. Washington. Feb. 28.— (AP)—The White House today said President Truman has no plans to call repre sentatives of the CIO auto workers and General Motors Corporation to Washington in an effort to settle the 100 day old strike of GM plants. takes muscle to bounce her now . - I ONE OF THE HUSKIEST BABIES ever born in the U. S.—she weighed 18 Ibi. at birth—little five-months-old Jean Marie Strohl of Montrose, Pa., already weighs 32 pounds in the lumberjack arms of Papa Francis Strohl and is still growing. Fifteenth child of the family, the Strohls’ latest pride and joy w as delivered by.her experienced dad. lluiernational! POP WONT BE HOME FOR LONG TIME AFTER KEEPING SILENT for a year, Mrs. Eleanor Ondi, Cleveland. O, shown with her children, Barbara, 9. and Alex, 4, has told the youngsters that their father isn’t coming home as they expected. Pfc. Alex Ondi (loll) has oeen sentenced to fifty years by court-martial for refusing to obey an officers command to leave his foxhole and go on patrol duty during the war in Europe. iInter national Soundphoto) Wide Search Started For Child And Nurse Police Looking To Winston-Salem And Danville, Va. SBI AGENTS ALERTED. K a Leigh Fob. 28. (AT’)- -Thomas Creekmore, director of the State Du- , reau of Investigation, said today ail | Sill agents had been alerted to pick up any leads in the abduction of Terry Taylor, four-year-old girl kidnaped in Charlotte Tuesday by her nursemaid. i No Sill agents have been assigned to the case, he said, but available agents are standing by to help if deeded. SBI Agent Howard Pearce was sent to Henderson today to assist in till' investigation of the crash of a radio station tower from which someone had removed the support ing hops. Henderson police request ed SBI aid. Charlotte, Feb. 28. (MM Char lotte police looked to Wi ston-Salcm and to Danville, Va.. today for oino trace of -J-vcar-old Terry Tavlor and her 10-year-old nurse. R isc niary ,h linson. object of a wirte oread march since they disappeared Tuesday. Deti five Capt. Drank Littlejohn said it had been established they j went to Yhin.-'on-Salem by bus. But no one lias reoo'-led meing the brown-haired, hazel-eved daughter ot a Cliarlot ie phy lei; i •. or the nlumn. blonde nurse. after they left tlie bus there. The march was turned to Dan ville when a ticket seller at the Charlotte bus station told of selling a woman of Mis- Johns* n’s descrip tion a ticket to Richmond and a half fare ticket to Danville. The agent said the woman was accompanied by a small child. Inscription in Bible Another incident that peinetd to Danville. Littlej >hn said, was the finding in the nurse's Bible of a penciled inscription, ‘Danville and R" which the < fficers theorized might have meant Danville and1 Richmond. The inscription was written be- • tween two verses of First Corin-. thians 10th chapter. Officers stud ied the adjoining passages in the hope that the wording might suggest some clue, but I.ittleiohn said it had been decided that no r.ignifi- , cause was attached to them. Upon the suggestion of I.ittleiohn. Dr. Andrew Taylor, father of the child, and recently discharged army officer, went to Danville lo assist j in the search. He broadcast an ap pea 1 for the return of Terry and announced he would call upon civic clubs to organize searching parties to seek her. Dr. Taylor was in Baltimore taking a refresher course at Johns Hopkins when the child and nurse disappeared. Detroit. Feb. 28.—f AP)—The General Motors strike, one of flu largest and costliest in American history, reached its 100th day today, having cost management and labor something in ix’.ess' of $750,000,000. To the e irporation, its phots tightly closed throughout the nation was iost approximately $500,000,1100 in unfilled orders; to the long idle 1755.000 G. M. production workers tile cost in lost wages was estimated at from $112.00(1,000 to $128,000,000; the merchandising division of Ihe auto industry has lust over $100, 000,001) in sales commissions and other millions were lost by com panies and workers dependent <i G. M. lor parts. I awy 10 Veter:ms l r<md Washington. Fob. 28 i AP)—Gen eral Omar Bradley, chief of the Vet erans Administration today urged enactment of a law bonefitting more than 115.000 disabled veterans. It would put into effect a sche dule drawn in 1945 under which vir tually all claimants would receive quick ratings for disability pensions. All future cases would be baser! on it, no matter when filed, and those now on the rolls would be reviewed under its terms. REPARATIONS GROUP HOLDS FIRST MEET Brussels, Feb. 28.—< AD— Delega tions of 18 nations began today to divide the reparations from Ger many, a task which is expected to require two or three years. It was the first meeting of the Inter-Allied Reparations Agency in its permanent seat. Russia has been allocated half of Germany's industrial and other cap ital equipment that is to bo remov ed. The delegates sitting today will distribute the other half. Koacl Commission Has he t By I-YNN r.iSBFT. Tiailv Dis .atch Bureau Raleigh. Feb. 28. The stale high way commission, recipient of causti1 criticism last summer for its closed door policies, pulled a double-bar relled executive session at its monthly meeting hi re Wed” ■•••> v Assembling in the commission rooms at ten o’clock the group de voted about two hours to reports from division commissioners, dis ussien of land sales and similar routine matters, then Chairman Graham announced a five minute 1 ecses after which the commission would go int i executive session. What happened in that session could not bo learned up to closing time Wednesday, because none of fhe of ficials were available and the de partment’s public relations man did not know about the meet ■ g. Word got around among reporters that Governor Cherry, who had made a short social visit during the morning, would return after lun li for a real talkfest with the highway folks. Some of the commission'M's with a few ton flight departmental officials had repaired to the Execu tive Mans!on for the Governor's talk j That further blocked efforts to fine out what was being cooked up. 1! had been stated by Chairnur Gruham several days before the • Phonelfnion And A.T.&T. Deadlocked 14-Hour Confab Fails to St?ttle Wage-Hour Spat New York. I ■•!> "!*.—(\r» — Negotiations between the \mer iean Telephone and Telegraph < ompuiu and tin Federation <il Fong Fines I elrphnnc Workers, rr-presenti g 19.0110 employes, were broken oil earl\ today after a 11-hour eonl'ermee l ail -d to settle the union’s wage and hour demands. .1. J. Moran, pr- id< i:t «.r the union, whir!i i-- affiliated with the National Federal on ..: Telephone Workers (Ind.l. .-aid after the meet ing: "Wo me file-1 el. Our an.-wer will be March 7." The M reh date ha be. a la the NFTW alter the tart of a na thc NFTW lor the -’art el a a,.'.ion wide teleph- nr strike. 3-Weeks Fapse Involved in the negotiatin'. . which had re- uve a after a laps-’ of three weeks, were 10.000 long lines traffic employes and 9.000 other workers. Moran said his union offered to acsept a $4 to SB weekly w; Cr bo. st with the provision the organization would have the right t > distribute the ie creases ace. rding to its own seniority scale. Preciously the union sought a SI0 weekly boost and a reduction of the workweek from 40 to 355 hours. The company. Mnr; n - .id. offered a flat S5 a week increase for traffic employes and boosts of $5 to S7 for plant employes. Britain Will l ake HerT roops F rom Indonesia Friday Ivi'don. Fob. 28 -C\P> A Bou ! tors dispatch from Now Delhi loriay | nuotor! General Sir Claude Aucbin i lock. British commander in chief in India, as saying the withdrawal of I Indian troops from strife-torn In donesia would start tnmorr; w. The general made bis statement in an address before the council of state—upper house of the Indian central assembly, th« disnatch said. Vdian nationalist leaders have been ritical of the -o o' Indian troops against Indonesians whose aspirations *■ r freedom have won expressions of -empathy. Ford Co. Summons Its \\ i>rkcrs Back Detroit. Fob. 28. — (AP)* A back to work summons wont out today to 38,000 Ford workers idled .once January 25 because of a shortage of steel. Ford officials directed them to re turn to their joins Monday in manu facturing divisions of the Rouge and Highland park plants in the Detroit area. Also nailed bind were workers in the Ford Iren Mountain plant, where station wagon bodies are built* and at all Michigan hydro-plants. Company spokesmen said, how ever. that the Ford and Mercury body assembly m I lie Rouge plant and branch assembly plants through out the country will not cesu-mc op erations before March 11. Boyles Heard At Davenport Trial Greenville, Feb. 28.— ( API—Wil son Boyles, vt Wmston-fVdem, for mer employe of Roderick Davenport, testified today that he altered books of the ’'big apple' loans business ('n orders fo Davenport, who is on trial in Pitt county superior court on charges of conspiracy to defraud aucl fraud by false pretense. Boyles was one of the original five defendants placed on trial with Davenport who operated his loans business in several eastern Carolina communities in 1944. Boyles pleaded nolo contendre after first pleading guilty. tcret Session i meething that he would present a ! comprehensive long time program I for secondary roads. None <! that | was done in the open ahead of the i executive sessions. Reporters would not be so suspicion.- of these behind l door activities if they had not been ■ “let down” before by failure of ab I stract of the minutes to which they were given ax cess to include some very important items. Remember ifg former experiences the news hawks are determined to find out what went on. Trouble is by the time they get the facts and transmit them to the public some of the deals might already have been consum mated. _ __
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