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The Goldsboro Herald "Wayne County's Leading Weekly Newspaper" VOLUME XVTI—Number 4 Goldsboro, N. C.. Thursday. May 23. 1940 Prtc« 5 I Appeal for Mercy Urgent needs of war-stricken civilian* throughout Europe have prompted the American lied Cross to issue its first war relief appeal sine* the World W ar. A drive is now under way throughout the country to raise a minimum of $10,000,000 to purchase all kinds of relief supplies, ‘ihc above poster has been selected to carry the appeals to the nation. Red Cross Makes 1 * Appeal For Help - War-Torn Europe Worm* County I® Aakod To RoSm $2,000 for European j War Reiief Fund. j V MANY DONATIONS IN KIND GIVEN Present War Condition* in Eu rope Make Great Demands For Helping Helpless. The Wayne County Chapter of the American Red Cross is making an extensive drive to reach their $2,000 goal lor the War Relief Fuad. ♦ Over five hundred letters have been sent out to citizen! of Wayne County asking for their contribu tions. On Tuesday of this week only <($298.81 had been received by he Red Cross office. If the goal Is not near realization by the latter part of this week, a personal canvass will be made in the city. Contribu-; lions can be made at the Red Ooss Of&fice in the Community Buildmg or in the War Relief office which has been opened in the Edgerton JBvuiding on E. Walnut street. Small I "jars have been placed in various business places in the city enabling citizens to make small contribu tions in them from time to time i The Wayne County Chapter of the American Red Cross in addition to Rs fund-raising campaign has al ready sent 59 dresses, 23 sweaters, 7 shirts, 15 pairs of mittens, 1 bean ie, one pair night clothes and 3 layettes to the New York office to be sent abroad. These articles were made in the quota accepted by the Wayne County Chapter to be made by June 15. A new quota has been received by the Chapter to be ship ped by September 1, that calls for 10 men’s sweaters, 10 woman’s sweaters and shawls, 20 children's sweaters, 10 women's dresses, 10 girl’s dresses and 20 layettes. In order to make this quota. Red Cross gottcials are asking for volunteer knitters and sewarg. Wool for the sweater, and material* for the dress es and other articles are supplied by the Rad Cross office, and the terad for helpers is urgent. This call Is out for your help. Help to raise Wayne County’s goal of 12,000 and bring relief to the homeless, stricken evacuees abroad The American Red Cross help Is badly needed in war-torn Europe as every day more and more refugees ^are pouring Into France and Eng lor.d, and the Red Cross organiza tions of these two countries are not (Continued on page five) 1 Red Cross Asks Help Washington. D. C.. May 22. 1940. R. E. Stevens, Ch'm Warns Co. Chapter, American Rod Cross. Goldsboro, N. C. With several million man locked in mortal combat on French and Balaian soil the relief needs of Belgian and French peoples are reaching a staggering proportion. Al ready five million pitiful refu gees are clogging every road into. Central and South ern France trying to escape bombing and strafing from airplanes. Our representa tives in Franco report thous ands dying by roadsides of wounds, fright, and hunger American Red Cross must rush relief of every kind if these innocent people are to be saved. We are expediting millions of dollars in money caid supplies but we need more cmd bigger contribu tions to carry on. Cannot urge upon you too strongly need for prompt action if we are to befriend these sorely tried victims of brutal war We count upon you to reach and oversubscribe your goal within shortest possible time. Every day's delay means hundreds may die because we have not brought them aid in this their saddest hour. Beginning ot once please wire daily reports of amounts raised by night letter. (Signed) NORMAN H. DAVIS. F. L. Cast ex, Sr. Is Seriously HI Mr. Frank L. Caste* Sr., oldest native born Goldsboro citizen and one of the best loved men of the city, 13 critically ill at the home of his daughter. Dr. Margaret Sturgis in Ardmore, a residential suburb of Philadelphia, Pb. Another daugh ter, Mrs. Floyd Uzzcll of Goldsboro, left Monday to b# with her father. ! Ticks are not Insects; they are 1 arachnids, a group closely related 1 to spiders and differing from insects notably in the Lack of antennae and I m having fuur pairs of legs usually instead of six. [SENATE APPROVES 132 MILLION FUND 1 TO MEET WAR NEEDS | By Vol* of 59 to 15 Sonata Re jects Plan to Restrict Plane# to Allies. (Over WBCiR Teletype) Washington. May 22.—fTP>—The Senate voted down overwhelmingly today a proposal by Republican Sen , ator Danaher, of Connecticut, which I might have restricted delivery of tale model war planes to Lhe Allies. | The vote was 69 to 15 | The amendment specified tiuit the army and navy taKc at least one out of every three war planes produced in the United Sto'e-J Ccrller, the Seriate approved, , w.thcut n dis' ee.’ o ; vote a section of the army appropriation bill pru vidmy a 132-miillcn do I ur fund to he spent by the President at his d:st ret ion to meet eriy unforeseen ceiitijigencles in the defense pr.> i,ia,r.. Tlie chamber voted down overwhelming.y a proposal by He publican Senator Vandenberg, of Mulligan. to esUb sh a joint con I ricsriorial comm itee to supervise t re defense pr< Siam Democratic Senator Conr.aily, of Texas, said Urjt what Vandenberg urged would be “a snooping committee” to em j'oimss the execu ive branch of the government in com ring out Lao de lirls of rearmament. 'the senate mi’itary affairs com mittee approved a measure to em i power the President to embargo the, export of urrr.s, munit.ons, and the I too.s for muK.ng them This meas ure was viewed ss providing »u I thority for concentrating all United Stales industrial machinery on Umt-j ed States defense. , The seriate sub-committee on na ' val appropriations, after a tele I phone conference with President | Roosevelt, added 1M million dol-. (Continued cn hack page) DR. ZENO SPENCE ! COMPLETES DRIVE , IN CONGRESS RACE i __ Goldsboro Candidate For Con* gross Has Visitsd Every Sec tion In District. Dr. Zeno Spence, candidate for , Con stress from the Third District, I said yesterday that he had complet ed his campaign In the nine eoun U«s of the District and is greatly i pleased at the reception with which j he was received. He feels confident 1 that he will get a big vote through out the District Dr. Spence in his whirlwind cam paign over the District has visited | every county and many localities in those counties, carrying with him to many meetings a brass bar.d, beau tiful majorettes and other attract ing features. • In addition to his personal ap pearances throughout the District, he has made large use of printed matter in promoting this campaign. Although Dr. Spence has empha sized a rather well-rounded pro ■ gram in hi* various contacts with the people of the District, his name has been largely associated with the Townsend Old Age Tension Plan and with the dry forces. I In this last statement which Dr. Spence issued he asks that his many friends go to the polls Saturday and cast their ballot for him for j Congress. Nazi Army Slows Down As Allies Converge Toward Main Battle Line; Britain Mobilizes All Her Forces PAUL AND TOMMIE Seen above arc Paul and Tommie, fam.har to residents of and visitors 1 k> Gu.asboro l’anl Johnson, lor I eleven years with '.tie Streets and, I Park Department of Uie City, is one| Inf ttie hardest workers to be found among the several score of city em ployees. Tommie. the pony, is nO| i less faithful P»u'. and Tommie have been pals ■ and working companions for the past five years. since Paul was taken ofT the regular Streets and Parks crew ar.d given the task of keep-ng downtown Go’-d-vborn clear, ol trash and rubbish Whenever you see tb s pair of faithful workers, you ser them op the move, and many people have commented or the fine way m whirls they do their work The cart which Tommie pulls was designed' by Hoy J. Parker, Superintendent of St'ccta and Parks, and was built in tlie Chy's shop on North William j street. Paul declares that there is I no better outfit in the State than his, and he declares that there is no bet let, man to work lor than Mr. Park er. Paul says he- wishes to thank Mr Parker lor the nice outfit which | hr has provided lor him. On the cart, as you can see. is the slogan of ' the street department "Let's have a I clean city.” i Official Congressional Ballots Found In Possession Abernethy In Goldsboro On Tuesday Nite Lupton States Reason For Delay In Building Planes (By E. P Luptoo) It is very- Interesting to one inter-] ested in military affairs to read' where Mr. Roosevelt is asking the privilege ol spending half a billion dollars in the next nir.e months lor anti-air craft guns and field pieces— yet If the war in Europe means any thing, we the American people, don't Itnow what weapon is moat effective. It might be interesting to the public to realtre that we have iess than UK) airplanes in the army that ure not obsolete—what I mean by obsolete is that we have less than 100 planes with the self sealing gaso line tanks ar.d bullet proof cowls. | altho for more than nine months the Germans have been us.ng such air planes on the Western front. Our fault lies in r.ot what we know butj what we do. We give contracts for thousands of a.rplanes and they be come obsolete before construction is i completed. The American way oe-1 i.ng to let the contractor go ahend and build these machines for fear someone might lose a few votes if additional changes are made. When you realize we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars for defense in the last seven years and have practically nothing to show for! it in the way of modernized equip-1 ment you might wonder why It la. we cannot equal the German pro duction. You say, we build auto mobile* by the thousand* daily— why can't we build airplane*. The answer is. we can build them, but not when we have from ten to twen ty five hand made instrument! to go on the instrument panel of every plane, and In most cases 90% of these instrument* are useless for fighting ships. It seems to me the Germans have demonstrated beyond a questionable doubt that they have a; effective fighting air force—yet hi the cockpit of a German pursuit ship there are only four gauges, gasoline, compass, altimeter and radio control- but our ship* look like a radio station with dozers of very delicate hard made instru ments or. the control board. There is where the difference in delay comes—we can build the ships by millions if necessary, but \je cannot build all those instruments, and un til we wake up to the fact that we could du away with three-fourths of these instruments on a fighting ship, just that long we are going to be slow in building them. I do not believe ar.v nation or. earth has got (Contlnucd on page eight) EDITORIALS CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS Now—with the primary coming Saturday— Is a good time to consider what qualifications a candidate for office ought to have. We believe that there are three essential qualifications, neither of which can be omitted in an acceptable candidate. These three are: ABILITY, HONESTY and I courage. It goes without saying that an acceptable candidate for any office ought to be able. His ability, however, might vary in accordance with the demands of the office to which he as pires. Certainly we will agree that a candidate for governoi, for the United Slates Congress, or for seme oil er Important office, ought tc have more ability than would be necessary in a can didate for soCie minor township or county office. But whatever 'he office, the ability of the candl ! date ought t be commensurate with the do mands oi the office. Honesty in a candidate Is just as essential as is ability—in fact it might be considered as be ing even more essential. It makes no difference how able an office holder is, he cannot be an acceptable public servant unless he Is honest enough to stand lor the things that he knows to be right. All too often in ihe past we have had office holders in this State who proved dishonst. Now, just ahead of the primary, is the time to ask ourselves who of the various candidates fc office are most likely to prove honest office hold ers. They are the ones to vote for. Not only are ability and honesty essential in public servants, but courage is likewise a ne cessary quality, for it is altogether possible to elect a man to office who is both able and hon est but who lacks the courage to stand for the (Ccnt.nued on page two) 1500 Official Ballots Are Found Missing From Crown County Office ELECTION BOARD HEAD MAKING INVESTIGATION Abernathy Declines to Tell How He Came Into Possession of Ballots. ! Charles L. A heme thy, Jr., gave to W. A. Lucas, Chairman ol the I State Board of Elections, a bundle I of obout 500 official ballots contain ing the name of candidates for Con i gress from the Third District near I midnight Tuesday in the northern I limits of Goldsboro. Investigation is now being made , to find how the ballots cam* into the possession of Abernethy. accord . mg to statement of Chairman Lucas. I It has beer, learned that 1.500 ballots had been removed from the office of the County Hoard of Elections of ■ Craven county, but it has not been determined how they were removed. When Abernethy was found w.th the ballots on Tuesday nigh: he tr:d s Chairman Lucas that he would tell i him Wednesday how he came into possession of the ballots, but on j Wednesday he declined to do so. Abernathy surrenaercd the ba> I lots to Lucas Tuesday night a few 'hours after Chairman Lucas had wired election officials in nine coun ; ties to destroy all ballots bearing the names of Congressional candi dates. Chairman Lucas has ordered new ballots printed of a different ' style from those which were found in the possession of Abernethy. Deputy Sheriff, H. B. Gardner, of Wayne county, was with Chairman Lucas at the time he received the ballots. The Wayne officer admit ted he had a search warrant, but ap parently it was not necessary to use it as Abernethy surrendered the bal lot* after Chairman Lucas inform ed him that he had secured proof that copies of the official ballot had been distributed in the district. Chairman Lucas says that a thor i ough investigation will be made of the disappearance of balloU in Craven county and of their being In the possewion of Abernethy. He states that in the normal course of I rv ents, when he has concluded his i investigation, lie will lay the facts I before the Solicitor of the district for whatever action he may wish to take. Chairman Lucas stated that Aber ’ nethy conferred with him Wednes ■ day morning, but declined to tell II how he got tho ballots When Chair - (Continued on page five) British Government la Qfm Dictatorial Powers Over All Resour^n. CLIMACTIC STRUGGLE SEEMS NEAR AT HARD Allies Appear To Be HoJtiag Germany's Drive Toward The English CharmsL (Over WBGR Teletype) I London, May 22.—(TP)—Allied I and German armies rolled toward a climactic straggle tonight oa the world war battlefield north of the Somme in northeastern France. | The German drive westward slow ed down as it neared the coast and ■ came closer to grip? with an Allred . army estimated at a million men, I converging toward the main battle i scene from Belgium and from the | s.ies of lesser struggles with the motorized vanguard? of the Ger | mans. There were humors that the great decisive battle would center at Ypre.-, (EE-*’) in Belgian Flan ders. "*Tfc.e Germans claimed a 20-mile extension of their foothold on the Channel coast at Abeville and de structive raids Against British and. French shipping ir. the Channel. However, they admitted strong pres sure from the southward moving | allied army in Belgium. The French had recaptured Arras behind the I German vanguard and were report* , e>d about to retake Amiens. The British government was liv en dictatorial powers tonight over ; Britain's resources cl labor, wealth | ar.d property. A rwev^.ng m*;'isui& extending the emergency defense act at 1938 pew ed both houses of Parliament la the near-record time at two snd-a-heH hours. King George attached hie | signature to the bill immediately to make it law. I Under the new law. the British government has the right to use *11 I weaith and property for the defense i of the realm and the prosecution at j the war. Any member ol the popt; I iation may be conscripted by the ' labor department to perform as signed duties. All of these sellers may be ordered by decrees in coun cil rather than by separate acta of Parliament. Tip* plan tn mobilize civilians for emergency duties and to take , over private wealth and property, if necessary, was outlined to the house of comranni by the Deputy Government Leader and Lord Privy Seal. Clement Attlee. Attlee said that the povernme-t ' was compelled to ask for spe: .i powers because cf the situ caused by military develop ments. The Labe rite member of I the war cabinet expressed cotili denee in an ultiro: le triumph by the Allies, but said that it would be necessary for toe government to have control over all persons and all properties Said the deputy govern ment leader: ‘ We cannot knr w what the nevt few weeks or even days may br.n? i forth, but whatever may rome we shall meet it ai the Br.tish peopl. m the past have met dangers and overcome them. It is necessary , that the government be given com plete control ever persons and prop erty: not just some persons or some i particular class of community, but I over all persons, rich or poor, cm l ployer or worker, man or woman or I property." The new lew states: "It becomes necessary to extend i the power* !n order to secure that the whole resources of a community may be rendered immediately avail able when required lor purpoaaa I connected with the defense of the I realm. An order-in-council may require persons to place themselves, their eervices and their property at the disposal of the King for secur ing public safety, defense of die realm, maintenance of public ordar or efficient prosecution of the war. I and also for maintaining supplies or j services essential to the life of the ] community.” Communist M P Gallagher chara ; ed that the measure represented a : deliberate attempt by the ruling i cianei to conquer the worker*. Labor party member Kirkwood ■ claimed that the bill would, as he ■ i put It. "tie the working class hand I and foot.” This opposition, how .; ever, was contrary to the uttiiudr (Continued on back page)
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