? MMI M< It I III I >?l 11111 ?? t?in&wMM? who will accompany Speaker Rankhead to Chapel Hill, will morning I ndstfclga iwd? v--s pt. ?>;??]( The Institute of Government has arrang^or^sitir^^^is to^se noon?lodging for Wednwday night, j football ?gapie on Thm^^^^^for land representing counties, cities and 1 towns throughout the state, met on . ?EUROPEAN London ? German "wild" mine sinks British destroyer Gipsy? with probable loss of 40 lived; another badly damages Jtaliansteamer; Nazi planes again raid Shetlands and En glish east coast, but damage is slight; British planes reconnoiter German cities. The Hague ? Dutch ships are or dered to remain in port because of British blockade plans and the dancer of "wild" mines; Holland and Bel gium are expected to protest British 'blockade of German exports carried in their ships. Berlin ? Nazis indicate two Brit ish intelligence agents held here will be tried publicly in order to prove the British gov< srmnent ordered an J assassination- attempt on Hitler. Paris Government announces sinking of two U-boats by French torpedo boat within three days. Western Front ? British and French claim eight Nazi planes are shot down as rains cease and air and artillery activity intensifies* along en tire 100-mile front from Moeelle to Rhine. ? ?: ? :?? - I ese Will Decide I ? Policy of America ^?Welles^Indicates Trade I I I Washington, Nov. -22.?Acting Sec- I ?retary of State Sumner Welles indi- I Heated strongly today that future trade I ?relations between Japan and the I ?United States will be predicated upon I ?cessation of Nipponese interference ? ?with and harassment of American I ?commerce and nationals in China. I I The present trade pact between I ?th two powers expires on January ? ?26, 1940. This government gave no- I ?tice last July of a desire to cancel | ?its provisions. Its action was a I ?sharp reprimand to Japan for a num- I ?ber of incidents ihvolviiig American M ?citizens and interests which have oc- I ?curred in China since the Sixio^ap- I ?anese war began. ? I Expiration of the treaty will leave I ?this country, free to impose embar- I ?goes, discriminatory tariffs and bth- I ?er economic reprisals against Japan. I ?There has been considerable agitation ? ?in Congress for. invoking economic I ?sanctions against the Nipponese, Jbut I ?no responsible .administration official I ?thus far has indicated that Buch a fl I ? Hundreds of millions of dollars are! I I involved in the dispute. Japanos 3his 1 ? ? country's third best customer. In !? ? l938, she bought $239,575,000 worth ! ?of American g??&JMf%>to' ? - NEW PROGRAM A new cotton crop loan program for 1939, which established for the first time a policy of location dif ferentials/has been announced by the (J. & Department of Agriculture. '? ' '? - :! ?.? ' Pitt Cotton Quota 15,592.7 Ant Allotted Acreage with out Penalties ? ' /? *_ r . . | i . v.- ,i . >.v I Farmers of Pitt County have been allotted 15,592.7 acres on which to grow cotton in 1940 under the Agri-? cultural Conservation Program, and if they approve quotas for next pfcar they will be allowed to sell all the cotton they are able to produce tup their allotted acreage without The cotton marketing quota refer endum will be held on Saturday, De cember 9, and all farmers who pro duced cotton in 1939 will be eligible L In announcing the county quota, E4 Y. FTpyd, AXA executive officer of State College, said that every grower will know his individual cot ton acreage allotment for 1940 be fofe he votes. Farmers are being notified of their quota at the pta ent time, and all should be reached within the next two^wpeks. ; . , T' I This is divided among 79 counties, widre cotton is produced. Robeson County received the largest: allot* meat, 54,614.9" Peres, followed- by 39 mines had been sighted adrif^off DGutral Bjuppin^ this wc6k? & j European Waters. Thirty-one were th?lL?dSst^-.North 38a'aad' American Linked j With Bomb Plot Hitletf8 Paper Says Exe cuted Helmuth Hirsch Was An Agent of Otto Strasser > - Berlin, Nov. 22.?Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's own newspaper today linked a 21-year-old American citizen, exe cuted in Berlin on June 4, 1937, to a aeries of bomb'plots against tbe Fuehrer'* life, culminating in the Munich beertcellar bombing of two weeks ago. The American citizen, Hemuth Hirsch, was said to have worked -with Otta Strasser, refugee leader of the anti-Nazi 'Black Front' whois accused of organizing the Mumch bombing under instructions of the British secret service. The disclosure by Hitler's news paper, the Voelkischer Beobachter, coincided with indications in authori tative Nazi quarters that two captur ed Britons, described as high British intelligence agents, will be placed on public trial to "prove that the Brit ish government ordered the attempt ed assassination of Hitler at Munich. Within a few days, a spokesman said, the Gestapo probably will pro duce "irrefutable" evidence that the Britons, Sigismdnd Payne Best, 54, and Capt. Richard Henry Stevens, 46, were part of the brains behind the Novmber 8 bombing of the Beurger braeu beer cellar in Munich. Hitler escaped the bomb blast by . barely 10 minutes. Eight persons werfe killed arid 62 wounded. Hirsch Mentioned yT I ; The name or Hirsch was brought into the case?clearing up much of the mystery surrounding his execu tion?in connection with the Voel kischer Beobachter'B assertion that Strasser had inside three attempts to kill Hitler, of whom he waS once a confidante. . Hirsch, a Jewish student who had American citizenship, although he never had been in the United States, was said by Hitter's newspaper to have participated in a plot to assas sinate Hitler during the Olympic Games in Berlin in the summer of 193d. Working with-Strasser and a Frit? Beer, alias Heinrich Grunow, Hirsch was said to have been delegated to place in position a 20-pound bomb continued-by a ctedrwork mechan ism. He waa arrested by the Gestapo while crossing the frontier and was condemned to death on March 8, 1987, on charges of high treason be- , fore the people's court. He was be headed at Berlin's Ploetzensee prison., Test At the appreSA CWrtmu, ; Mrs. C. B. Mashburn, wife of Farei- ? tian Minipfefi were quite a number of Negro chil dren in the community, who for no cause of their owri, would Mt even have - ther coarsest food for ChnstmS* S^fcsa* nothing of a toy, with which to make: merr?. W/ . ;: Here war* real challenge to he* practidal-tteistianrtyV. ? 3 attempt to "pass the buck" or dodgf j the issue. She met the challenge squarely. She was determiried thjt she would not sit at her full table for Ghristmaq> dinner, knowing -- there were little children in her com rnunlty who were-huagr, sad ?)uv iryimMlintalv nrKmiied S ItWUP I plete success; considering thfc time element Approximately fifty dollars I ? -: .O. .. , . . ; /*+ A fV V>* A r yf tAtt' , mas dinner, she was happy, knowing H ? - .- - r-?v*? ^ c*5'' * J others. I Dfestroyibr Gipsy, V$etfai : f of "Wild" Nazi Mine AsSeventh British Na SSnce^V^kega Admiralty Reports 40 Mai France Jn 48 Honrs ? ? ? ? London, Nov. 22.?TWO Admiralty announced tonight that * "wild" mine had sunk the British destroyer Gipsy, seventh British naval vessel lost since the start of the war,within sight of the English east coast, with possible loss of about 40 lives. The 1,335-ton Gipsy went down about 9:35 p. m., Tuesday in the North Sea region that has become a graveyard for British and' neutral shipping because of Germany's alleg r m >. >k * tip 4^' ? i i'-/ A?? - S '? * ed sowing of mines in violation of in ternational law. The Admiralty's announcement said the Gipsy struck a mine "and sub sequently was beached," but eye-wit ness accounts 'said that immediately after the explosion the- warship set tled on the shallow sea-bottom within plain view of shore. ' The 40 men estimated to have beten lost with th Gipsy, beached off shore with bridge and mast above wdter after the explosion, brought to more than 1,500 the number of lives lost by the British navy in the sink ings of the seven warcnaft. The Gipsy was the sieoond British destroyer to be sunk by a mine, the loss of another with one. life lost having been announced On November 14th. No Reply / Before announcement of the sink ing of the Gipsy tonight, an Italian steamer and-a German freighter had been added during the day to .the. ra pidly mounting toll of the war ait sea. ? Since last Saturday 18 ships, many of them neutral vessels, have been , sunk off the English coasts and Brit ish naval authorities have blamed most of the disasters on Germany's mines alleeged to have been sowed in "brutal and utter disregard" of in ternational law. Another Italian Ship The Italian steamer Fianona, 6,680 tons, struck, a mine three or four, miles off the southeast coast today, but did not sink immediately. The - Fianona was the second Italian ship to hit * mine off England, the freighter Graria having gets doW*^ over the week-end. ' 4 When the news of the explosion and wrecking of the Gipsy reached v.' the public tonight, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon was msk* ? ing a radio broadcast^ condemning' Germany's alleged''resort totheuae ? of magnetic mines, which he cailid- . "the latest abomination of German" savagery." "Germany's mining is a breach of i the" rules of war which Garinamy only ' two months "expressly promised to obey," Simon said. j;: "AH that science and Aill cain da- i- ? vise is being demoted to meetinr th& new danger." fw were reports tbat the Brit- : iidrimvy-waA about to introduce aikrr. ;-r "noh-magrtetic" mine uweepeu made its* almost entirely of wood tio remove , the German masnoilcmfoee, lyti*i ' V . - w? - r.: hulls of approaching- ships. Of the approximatey 146 officers . and men aboardthe Gipsy, 21 were ;:;f injured, th* Admiralty announced. >>} ^ A large number of the survivors were landed at an East English port Tuesdat nhfht after awards un Shore - sxiips .una Ovv ptMBPcj-',- ?--* ?.- ? ? ' 1 .. . jgyRNSE J* 1 J # - "i -|*|i ?