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Evening star., 1940-06-29
STAR WASHINGTON G., SATURDAY, JUNE 49,

remained an official secret.
The possibility that the govern
ment might later return to Paris
was not ruled out. but it was gen.
orally believed that an interim
capital would be established some
where in the Clermont region.
German soldiers were seen in in
creasing numbers in Bordeaux to-
day, but their attitude was calcu-
lated to avoid provocation and there
were no incidents.
Food Restrictions in Force.
Severe food restrictions were In
force throughout the unoccupied
areas Of France and there were in
dications the government intended
to exercise strong control. Vice
Premier Pierre Laval warned a
group Of parliamentarians yesterday
that certain constitutional changes
would be necessary to meet the sit
uation.
LIE Petit Parisien, published tenn
Evening star., 1940-06-29
Confusion Clouds
Report Of Attack
On u. ). Vessel
EdsehiII Declared
Torpedoed, but No
Such Ship Is Listed
BY the Associated Press.

BY trEe ASSOCldteu FTtSS.
NEW YORK, June ga tumble
of contradictory information today
clouded the first report of an attack
on an American merchant vessel in
10 months of European war.
A curt message intercepted by
Mackay Radio last night said the
American steamer Edgehill had been
struck by a torpedo southwest of
the British Isles late yesterday. But
Lloyd's Register of World Shipping
does not list an Edgehill: ship that
formerly bore that name now is in
dock at Baltimore: and the number
which had designated the Edgehill
in Lloyd's now is assigned to Ger
man ship.
British Station Originated Message.
Mackay's report came from the
American Export liner EXcalibur,
somewhere in the Mediterranean en-
route to the United States. The
Excalibur received its information
from the British coastal wireless
station GYW.
The message placed the attack
approximately 500 miles southwest
of the southern coast of Ireland.
At the same time came message
reporting the torpedoing of the
4,127-ton British freighter Empire
Toucan in the same vicinity.
Adding to the confusion over the
Edgehill's identity was the fact that
the 6,854-ton American freighter
Oremar, owned by the Calmar
Steamship Co. of New York, bore the
name Edgehill until last year. The
Oremar, however, is now docked at
Baltimore
Ship Was in Combat Zone.
If the torpedoed ship really was
an American, Government officials
observed in Washington, she was
operating well within the combat
zone from which American flag ships
are excluded by the neutrality law
In Washington there was no imme-
diate information.
Although more than 500 merchant
ships of belligerent and neutral ma
tions have been sunk since the out
break of war last September, the
American merchant marine had not
suffered any losses, largely due tc
the exclusion of American ships
from prescribed combat zones.
The liner Washington, returning
American citizens to this country
was stopped by a German submarine
while en- route from Lisbon to Gal
way, Ireland, June II, but was al
lowed to proceed after her identity
had been established.
Evening star., 1940-06-29
Germans May Have
6-to-3 Advantage
Over British at Sea
Seizure Of Four French
Men O. War Would ALLOW
Challenge by Nozis
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 29.-The posi-
bility that Germany has seized four
French men O. war, giving her g.
to-3 advantage over Britain in fast,
well-armored craft with the hitting
power of dreadnaughts, carries a
threat to British sea supremacy,
neutral sources declared today.
Addition of these ships-the
35 5,000-ton Richelieu and Jean Bart
and the 26,500-ton Dunkerque and
Strasbourg-to Germany's battle
ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
would raise the Nazi battle feet to
the point where it could, with suff-
cient air and undersea auxiliaries,
challenge the British battle line,
these sources said.
Greater Threat Than Subs.
This threat to Britains grand
fleet is far greater than that of
submarine or Nazi aircraft, in the
opinion of these naval men.
On June %, the German high
command announced the capture
with enormous booty" of the
French shipbuilding port of st.
Nazaire-where the Jean Bart,
launched March 6, was being COM
pleted. Previously, the Berlin news
paper De Angriff said the Richlieu
had been seized when the Nazis took
the port of Brest.
With the four French ships, the
Germans would have an edge in
speed and weight of metal over
Britain's three battle cruisers, the
Hood. Repulse and Renown-the
only British ships with enough speed
to catch and enough guns to de-
stroy the Germans two battleships
Exceed Book" Speed.
James Fighting Ships credits the
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau with
tonnage of $4,000, nine 11-inch guns
and speed of 81 knots. Neutral ma
val experts say this speed has been
exceeded in trials.
The Richelieu and Jean Bart,
mounting eight 15-inch guns each,
can better 30 knots. The Dunkerque
ad Strasbourg have eight 13-inch
guns and book" speed of 29.5 knots
In service, they are said to have
done better.
OF the three British cruisers, only
the Hood can better 80 knots. II
has done 3207, while the others
hover around 20. The Hood mounts
eight 15-inch guns, the Repulse and
Renown six each. The Hood is the
heaviest, 42,100 tons. The other
Two are $4,000 tons.
Evening star., 1940-06-29

been in Belgian territory to study
problems with the passage of his
troops.
Another document said that locked
French troop trains already we're in
Belgium before the Germans
marched in on May 10.
A memorandum dated March %
and attributed to Gen. H. G.. VIM
kelman, the Dutch commander, out
lined proposed cooperation among
Dutch, Belgian, French and British
Armies.
According to this document, the
White Book alleged, Gen. Winkel-
man asked that four French divi-
sions and one British division sup
ported by planes and anti-aircraft
guns be placed at Hollands dis
posal for defense"
Evening star., 1940-06-29
Charles E. Bockus Dies:
Headed Coal Company

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June %. (R.-
Charles E. Bockus, II, president and
board chairman of the Clinchfield
Coal Corp, died yesterday at his
Park Avenue home.
He was director and former
president of the National Coal As
sociation. A native of Dorchester
Mass, Mr.. Bockus at one time worked
in Boston as newspaper reporter.
Evening star., 1940-06-29
South Afrieo Opposition
Group Urges Peace Bid
By the Associated Fress.

By the Associated Press
CAPETOWN, South Africa, June
29.-Thousands of persons last night
attended meetings, organized by the
government opposition, urging the
Union of South Africa to seek an
honorable peace" with Germany
and Italy without delay"
One resolution also urged the
people to disobey a government or
der Communicating all rifles of
military pattern. Many women at-
| tended
Evening star., 1940-06-29

French -millimeter guns. Frances
great artillery range is there. -
Some 1000 years ago it was the
scene of victory over julius Caesar.
Vercingetorix, the great Gaui, de-
feated the Roman legions there.
Clermont-Ferrand has its place
In fiction, too. Novelist Hervey Al
len picked it as the opening scene
for his Anthony Adverse" probably
because he-the novelist, not An
thony-was there during the World
War.
Evening star., 1940-06-29
French Government
Expected 10 Leave
Bordeaux Today
Interim CopitoI Probably
Will Be Established
In CIermont Region

By the Associated Press.
BORDEAUX, June 29.-The
French government was expected to
leave Bordeaux today for Clermont-
Ferrand or some other town in the
unoccupied area OF France, but the
destination and time OF departure
Evening star., 1940-06-29

porarily at Bordeaux, linked with
the reported departure of steamer
bearing certain French parliament
tarians an announcement Thursday
that a judicial investigation would
be started concerning unauthorized
departures from the country.
Clermont-Ferrand, the prospective
new capital of defeated France, is
place Of many historical associa-
tions.
Americans who served in France
during the World War will remem-
Der 1t as the place where most A. E.
F. artillerists were trained with
Evening star., 1940-06-29
Inventor of Shelter
For Air Raids Finds
He Can't Buy One

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 29.-William
Paterson, Scottish engineer who
invented an air-raid shelter
which has proved highly sue
cessful, decided yesterday he'd
better buy one for himself
and found he couldn't DO it.
Production was stopped ,sfter
100000 shelters had been dis
tributed.
Evening star., 1940-06-29
British Envoy Is Host
To Windsors in Madrid
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, June 29.-Sir Samuel
Hoare, the British Ambassador, gave
cocktail party here yesterday
afternoon for the Duke and Duchess
of Windsor.
Attaches said there was no truth
in Rome and Berlin reports that
the couple had an automobile mishap
while en- route to Portugal from
Madrid.
Evening star., 1940-06-29

Brazil recently purchased ID
American steam railway locomotives.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-22
Continued on Page Eighty
Dale Couple
Found Guilty

Charlotte, Aug. 22.-(AP)-A SUI
pcrior court jury convicted Frank E.
Dale and his wife today of defraud-
ing and conspiracy to dcfraud Rufus
Bryant, Sampson county tobacco far
mcr, in an alleged paternity sWindlc.
Dr.. William +. Wlshart, Charlotte
physician, d co-dcicndant, was ac-
quilted.
Judge A. Hall Johnston sentenced
Dale to five to seven years in prison
and gave Mrs. Dale a two to four
year sentence.
The State contcnded that Mrs. Dale
obtained a child born to another Wo-
man and hoodwinked Bryant into be-
lieving she had given birth to it as
a result of her relations with him.
DR.. Wishart was alleged to have aid
cd the Dales in the alleged fraudulent
scheme.
The jury returned its verdict at
1925 d. m. 1t received the case yes
terday afternoon but, being unable
to agree by p. M, it was locked
up Tor the night and resumed deiiber-
alton this morning.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-22
Japanese-Ameriican
Relations Strained
Babson Says Poker
Game Is on in Earnest,
With u. S. "Opening"
Last Summer and
Raising" With Ii
cense Restrictions.
BY ROGER w. BABSON,
Copyright 1940 Publishers Financial
Bureau Inc.

San Francisco. Aug. pa poker
game is on in earnest between Japan
and the u S. We Opened last sum-
mer with the cancellation Of the trade
treaty we signed in 1911. Then we
raised" the Japs with the license
restrictions on arms and ammunition
in May. Now we are raising the bid
again by extending these restrlc-
tons to scrap iron and petroleum.
Japan is boiling mad but she is stay
ing right in the game by threaten
ing to grab the Dutch East Indies,
source of our vital rubber supplies.
Freer Hand for Nippon
We never worried much about
Japan as long as the British could
keep a weather eye peeled on the
ambitious little fellows. 1t was, of
course, hard for American mission
aries to explain to wounded Chinese
why Japan should be raping China
with American genius, arms, and ma
terials. But now with the Axis twist
ing the British Lions tail, it's diff
ferent story. The British Asiatlc fleet
still commands the vital Straits of
Malacca, but can this fleet watch
over the mighty Japanese navy while
the British home fleet is battling for
its life in the North sea? This is the
question which thinking people are
asking here on the Pacific coast.
If the British should be licked
land I don's believe they will be)
part of our fleet would have to rush
from the Pacific into the Atlantic
1t is cinch that the Japs would
move quickly in such a contingency.
If the British are not licked, even
so the pressure on them will be ter
rifle. They will find it hard to pro-
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-22
Munitions May
BeTakenOver
ByGovernnent

Washington, Aug. 22.-(AP)-Leg-
islation authorizing President Roose-
welt to "requisition and take over"
military equipment and munitions
sold-but not sent-to foreign coun-
tries was passed by the House on a
voice vote today.
Preferred by the War department,
the bill would authorize the Presi-
dent in the interest of national de-
Tense to confiscate especially large
quantities of machine tools which
have been sold but which were de-
MED export recently under a Presl-
dental proclamation.
Representative Smith, Democrat,
Connecticut, asserted that the value
of the equipment which would be
requisitioned now totaled about
100000.
The legislation would require the
present owners of these materials 10
be paid . price which the President
might determine.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-22
Blockade Is
Termed / Ict
Of Hostility

Vichy, France, Aug. 22.-(AP)-
Britain refusal to lift the block
AIDE against France was termed IAN
act Of hostility" tonight in a speech
by Foreign Minister Paul Baudoin.
This, the foreign minister declared
in answer to Prime Minister Church
ills Tuesday address, is ''perhaps
even more painful than the mers-el-
kcbir attack"
He referred to the assault Of the
British fleet on French Warships at
Frances north African base early in
July, as a result of which the Pc
tain government broke off diplomatic
relations with Britain.
"The Petain government will not
bow before this decision" the for
cign minister said.
1T must do everything in its pow
or to save this country from hun
ger"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-22
Spiiritualist
Dies Today

London, Aug. 22.-(AP)-Sir o.
iver Lodge, 80, scientist and spirit
ualist, died at his home in wiltshire
in southwest England today.
Sir Oliver long had given trlendS
to understand he was unatralo OIL
death. g,
death is but a new adventure, "
no wrote one. "In the life beyond
we 60 up or down according to how
we made use of our opportunities IN
life"
In an effort to prove his belief IN
survival after death the British
scientist had left a sealed message
with the Society for Psychlcal he
search.
He promised that "When, the right
people are sitting with the medium, l
shall try to give them message. But
it might take as long as year l
shall not get anything in hurry
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-22
Hoey Tells Road Officials
TO Speed Highway Repair

want and | know you want these
roads to be opened as quickly as pos
siblc.
eff they're not opened, crops ready
to market will rot in the fields and
children won't be able to get TO
school,"
Hoey told the commission to dis
regard highway district division lines
in making the repairs to roads and
bridges.
He said the WPA and other federal
agencies had agreed to help finance
the repair work.
He indicated that if needed he
would alIot as much as $3,000,000 TO
the commission from the highway
surplus, but ne told neW:inen that
he hoped such large appropriation
would not be required.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-22
Flood Crest
Nears Sound
Crest of Flooded Roa-
noke Reaches Will
liarnston; Danger Is
Said To Be Past.

Williamson. Aug. 22-(AP)-The
crest of the flooded Roanoke river
reached here today, nearing the end
of disastrous seven-day sweep
which caused five deaths and rem
dercd $500 homeless in northeast
ern North Carolina.
Forcwarned, Williamson and the
surrounding territory was prepared.
Coast guardsmen had evacuated hum
dreds of persons from loW-lylng
areas.
The river reached 4 record break
ing stand Of 10.5 feet in flood here
this morning.
Since the river Widens below here
there is little likelihood Of much adj
ditional damage. Plymouth IS the
ONLY other river town which must
bear the brunt of the crest but the
town is situated almost on the SOUND
and it is not in danger.
Some sickness developed among
refugees in Red Cross camps today
but officials said it was mostly OF a
minor nature. They attributed 1t TO
tho reaction" from excitement and
exposure and from injections against
typhoid. r.,
The river was only SIS feet in flood
at Weldon this morning compared
with 81 feet on Sunday.
In Raleigh the weather bureau SAID
IN Doro EIGHT
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-22
IS Highway
Fatalities
Vance Is One of So
Counties Without a
Highway Death Dur
ing Last Month.
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
Tn the Sir Walter Hotel,

Raleigh, Aug. 22.-Thc 65 fatalities
on North Carolina highways during
July occurred in AZ different coun-
ties. according to figures from the
Highway Safety Division.
In three counties-CataWba, Neck
lenburg and Robeson-thcre were
four deaths each.
Mecklenburg is perenially one OF
the leaders in highway deaths; Robe
son usually stands high in the list;
and CataWba returned to bloody
notoriety after a long period in
which its record had been much i'm
proved.
Two counties-Buncomb and For
syth-had three deaths each; ten
showed two fatalities and q had
singleton deaths last month.
The double-death counties were
Cleveland, Currituck, Edgecombc,
Franklin, Guilford, Haywood, North
ampton. Sampson, Watauga and
Wayne.
Those in which there were one
death: BERTHE, Cabarrus, CALDWELL
Chatham, Cherokee, Columbus. Gas
ton, Granville, Harnett, Henderson,
Iredell, Jackson, Johnston, Lee, Lin
coin, Mcdowell, Nash, New Hanover,
OnsIoW, Richmond, Rowan, Scotland,
Pennsylvania, Union, Wilkes, Wilson
and Yadkin.
The other SO counties had no ia
talities at all. They were Alamance,
Allegheny, Arson, Ashe, Avery,
Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Burke,
Camden, Carteret, CasWell, ChoWan,
Clay, Craven, Cumberland, Dare,
Davidson, Davie, Duplin, Durham,
Gates, Graham, Greene, Halifax,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-22

Mexico City, Aug. o. (AP) -
Leon Trotsky died last night after
whispering an accusation that his
pick-aXe assailant most likely"
was a member of the OGPU, soviet
secret police. y Ill
A savage attack by a confidant
fellcd the 60-year-old guiding genius
of the Russian revolution in his home
late Tuesday. An emergency opera
ton and administration Of oxygen
were futile. He died at 7:25 p. NJ.
Central Standard Time) before
brain surgeons from the United
States could reach him by chartered
plane.
An exile from Russia since 1929
and a refugee in Mexico since jan
uary 8, 1887, the former Soviet war
commissar lay today in a casket to
which was pinned his last words:
az am sure of the final victory Of
the Fourth International. Go for
ward"
Coupled with the Cougar old re-
volutionary's accusation against the
OGPU was the statement ~ police
Commander Galindo that the as
sassination "has the aspects OF an in
tcrnutional plot"
The police chief declined to cla-
horate IN his statement concerning
the fatal attack on TrOtsky, the Sec
ond attempt on Trotsky's life within
three months.
Trotskys brain was pierced by
pick-aXe welded by Frank Jackson,
an American citizen formerly OF New
York city, who for months posed as
a great admirer" of Trotsky.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-22

Raleigh, Aug. 22.-(AP)-Appear-
ine personally before the Highway
Commission, Governor Hoey told
road officials today to "gct our mud
damaged roads opened Immediately
and I'll sec to it that the bills are
paid" ,.ao
One road official said the damage
10 roads from floods in the northeast
and northwest would amount to MIL
lions of dollars.
The governor congratulated mem
bers of the commission for their Ell.
forts to date in opening damaged
roads and added:
"If necessary. I'll sec to it that inc
money is supplied TO pay he repair
bills. You make the obligations ana
we'll see to it that they are palo'
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-22
Profit Suit
Is Appealed
Government Asks SUI
preme Court Review
of World War Excess
Profits Suits.

Washington, Aug. 22.-(AP)-Thc
government asked the Supreme
Court today to review two decisions
involving alleged excess profits on
World war ship building as a mat
ter ol immediate national concern"
The cases, involving the Bethlehem
Ship Building Corporation, were filed
in 1925 and 1886. In one, the COM
pany sued the government for ST.
100000 profits not paid to it, while
in the other the government sued
the corporation for recovery Of al
lcgedly excessive profits already
paid. About $13365000 is involved in
the suits. The government lost both
in district courts, and is appealing
from decision of the Third circuit
court Of appeals which upheld the
lower courts.
Solicitor General Francis Biddle, in
a petition filed with the Supreme
Court contended that the govern
ment had no choice but to deal with
Bethlehem at its terms and added:
"In times of national emergency
the men charged with preparing the
nations defenses have not time for
haggIing with a contractor who re-
fuses to perform his indispensable
function unless ne is assured an eX-
horbitant profit.
'The government is now engaged
in program of military and naval
armament comparable to or greater
than that undertaken in 1917 and
1918. 1t is therefore of immediate ma
tional concern that there be an au-
thoritative determination of the eX
tent to which the country's need
would place the government at the
mercy of its contractors"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-22
WiIIkie Plans Extensive
Campaign Speaking Tour

eve are considering an itinerary
with as many stops as have ever been
made in a campaign"
Pryor said that nothing delmlle
would be determined about the dates
and route until Martin had studied
tentative itineraries which have al
ready been gone over with Willkie.
The managers arc attempting TO
work out Il schedule which would
include Virginia and North Carolina
PRYOR said, but were having some
difficulty in dcvising a plan to get
down to Oklahoma and Texas
Another objective of WILKES con-
ferenccS today was coordination OF
anti-Roosevelt campaign activities
among southern Democrats.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-22
Merchant Ships Guarded By
WarshipsEscape Undamaged
In Straits Of Do DER Today
"Big Berthas" Posted
Along French Coast
Fire From Range of
More Than Twenty
Miles; Nazi Air Siege
on Small Scale.
(By The Associated Press.)

Powerful German shore batteries
on the French coast, firing from
range Of more than 20 miles, Shelled
milc-long British convoy in the
Straits of Dover today-injecting a
new sting in the naZi air and sea
blockade Of Britain.
Small merchant ships in the con-
voy escorted by Warships were hug
ging the English cliffs when bat
terry Of four guns on the distant shore
near BOulognc suddenly opened fire.
Other batteries of big BerthaS"
posted along the French coast all the
way from Boulogne to Calais took up
the bombardment as the convoy
steamed doggedly toward its destina-
ton.
AT least 100 shells were fired, OBJ
servers estimated. The attack lasted
80 minutes.
British warships laid down
smoke screen to aid the escape and
the convoy passed through the straits
without apparent casualty.
NaZi Warplanes continued the air
siege of England in scattered small
scale attacks while in southeast Eu-
rope Mussolini's high command re-
ported sharp new blows against Bri-
fish naval forces in the Mediterran-
ean--two Warships torpedoed, two
others shit repeatedly" by bombs.
An Italian communique said fas-
cist torpedo boat sank British sub
marine and fascist submarine tor
pedoed a British destroyer in the
eastern Mediterranean.
can enemy naval formation COM
posed OF cruisers was reached in the
eastern Mediterranean by our air
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-22

Now York, Aug. 22.--(AP)-Wen-
doll 7, Willlie, Republican preSloen-
ti.I candidate, decided to conduct d
st,Imping campaign when an 4 t,';'s
caIIcd "as extensive campaign lily
~ has ever been made.
" WiIIkie summoned Republican, Ma d.,
tionaI Chairman Joseph W. Ma itn,
to tr come by plane from Wash dn9ai1n
late ~ today to discuss itinerary det ,:ins
,'.;t t,irn and Samuel Pryor vice
n W r,i' and western campaign
'''S we are taking into consideration T3,",.
a.. wishes of every state, Pryor
said. .. n meet as
many people as possible nc "
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-22
Couple Held In
Bank Robbery

Baltimore, Aug. 22.-(AP)-De-
tective Lieutenant Michael Cooney
announced today the arrest of a man
and a woman in connection with the
robbery of bank in st. Pauls, N. C.'
on May 90.
He said the couple, identified as
Vernon Foster, 38, and his wife
Louise, 25, had been taken into Gus
tody at the request of Sheriff E. L.
Wade of Lumberton, N. c.