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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-03
British Fleet Will Not
Be Surrendered Or Sunk

"Thc prime minister of Great Bri-
tain is reported to have stated on
June 4, 1910, to parliament in Ell
feet that if during the course of the
present war in which Great Britain
and the British Commonwealth are
engaged the waters surrounding the
British Isles should become unten-
able, the British fleet would in no
event be surrendered or sunk but
would be sent overseas for defense
of other parts Of the empire"
The government of the United
States would respectfully inquire
whether the foregoing statement re-
presents the settled policy of the
British government"
In his reply dated yesterday, Lord
Lothian said this statement certain
ly does represent the settled policy OF
His Majesty's government"
The ambassador added "these
hypothetical contingencies seem more
likely to concern the German fleet
or what is left OF ii than the British
fleet"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-03
SolOns Differ On
Sea Base Proposal

Washington, Sept. 3.-(AP)--Scn-
;,tor Nye, Republican, North Dakota,
commenting on the agreement to eX-
change American dcstroyers for
naval and air base sites in British
possessions in the Atlantic and Car
ibbean, said today the action "indi-
Gates that our leadership is already
using dictatorial practices and ignor-
ing laws and treaties in the name of
an emergency"
Senator Barley, Democrat, Ken
lucky, on the other hand, predicted
the public would give full APPROVAL
to the arrangement.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-03
House Offers New
Industrial Draft
Maxwell Returns
To Office Duties

Raleigh, Sept. 3-(AP)-ReVenue
Commissioner A. J. Maxwell re-
stunned his regular duties today aft
or an absence since February during
the Democratic gubernatorial cam
paign and subsequent illness.
Inc commissioner suffered Il stroke
Of paralysis shortly before the first
Democratic primary in May, in which
he was candidate for governor, and
was desperately i'll for weeks.
Maxwell stayed at his office about
two hours this morning and plans
to work both mornings and after
moons hereafter.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-03
OXFORD BONDS SOLD
AT RALEIGH TODAY

Raleigh, Sept 3.-(AP)-The Lo-
cal Government Commission today
sold $4,000 water rcfunding and
$4,000 general rcfundlng bonds lor
Oxford to kirchofcr and Arnold OF
Raleigh at 3 per cent interest with a
$20.9l premium.
The commission approved issuance
by Tarboro of $4,000 sewer bonds.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-03
Freight Train In
Wreck at Iocane

Erwin, Tenn, Sept. 3-(AP)-A
double header freight. train ploWed
into slide on the c. c. &. o. main
line SO miles south of here near To-
cane, N. e., today and one man was
feared dead in the WreCkage.
One engine rolled into the Toe
river and was half submerged En-
ginccr John Suffered Of Erwin was
missing and trainmcn believed he
was pinned beneath the engine.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-03
Raj Routs
German Mass
Air Assaults
Attempt To Kill
King Carol Fails

Bucharest, Sept. 3.-(AP)-
An attempt to kill King Carol
failed tonight.
An unidentified man broke
through the heavily guarded pal
are gates and fired seven shots
at the brightly lighted palace
windows before he was over
come.
whCthcr the assassin was killed.
FiaeS FLYING over The palace
indicated that the king was in
residence there at the time.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-03
Stocks Fail In
RecoveryMove

New York. Sept. 3-(AP)-lndus-
trial stocks were in the van OF an
other modest recovery move in to-
DAYS market, but most faltered after
an carly forenoon push.
Dealings slowed apprecably
thereafter and gains running to
point or more were trimmed or cam
ccllcd in many cases at the close.
Transfers were in the neighbour
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-03
HOLIDAY Deaths
Now Total 5l4
O. the Associated Press

o. the Associated Press
...na counted 5l4 violent
ov Tor the three-day Labor
':r-l47 more than were
...' .n. The same period year
"..cle deaths numbered
.....'. 3y 81 than those of last
.-- "cck-end.
.ym other causes totaled
1.ug the % who died Sat
-c crash OF an airliner in
." -:atcs included; North
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-03
Naziis Move
To End Red
British Fighters Signal
Success With Capers
in Skies; German Mo-
torized Units to AXE
Over Rumanian Bor-
der Guard.
By The Associated PreSS.)

bN H. .h>>bNialtu itNS.'
W,rr, nf German raiderS-200
IN >mglr onSlanGht-SOught to
bomb London today. but fell
hack under the lash of royal air
force fighters and anti-aircraft
guns.
~ mid-afternOOn the British
mir ministry reported % naZi
rlIM"> shot down with Is royal
air force planes missing. BY con-
trust. Berlin said 81 British
planes were DESTROYED while II
Grrman planes failed to return.
The British capital underwent
two air raid alarms in the fore
noon and early afternoon lasting
4 total of 142 minutes.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-03

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Evening star., 1940-10-25
Slaves Son Who Became
Leader Of His Race Dies
By the Associated Press.

B! the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 25.-Robert
L. Vann, who came as a colored boy
from the backwoods of Ahoskie,
N. c., to become a prominent pub
Usher and national political leader
of his race, died last night. He
was 81.
Born of slave parents, he received
law degree from the University Of
Pittsburgh in 1909 and the following
year embarked on career as attor-
ney and newspaper publisher. A
founder of the Pittsburgh weekly
Courier, he was its editor from 1912
until his death. making it what he
claimed to be the most widely cir
culated and influential of Negro
newspapers.
His law practice brought him ap-
pointments as assistant city solicitor
OF Pittsburgh and as special assist
ant to the United States ATTORNEY
General. He was chairman of the
commission appointed by President
Coolidge to study conditions in the
Virgin Islands.
Independent politically, he switch
ed parties several times-serving as
delegate to both the Republican and
Democratic National Conventions in
different years. A supporter Of
President Roosevelt in 1892 and 1895,
he recently announced opposition
to the third term and swung his
support to Wendell Willkie.
Evening star., 1940-10-25
Suicide Certificate Issued
In Miss vass' Death

The coroner's Office issued a Ger
tificate of suicide last night in the
death of Miss Julia L. Vass, Al,
cashier of the District Bureau OF
Vehicles and Traffic, who swallowed
poison a fortnight ago after a $4,000
shortage was discovered in the ac-
counts she supervised.
Miss Vass was found in her
apartment at 18 Ninth street NE,
on October IA, suffering from the
effects of the poison, and was re-
moved to Gallinger Hospital. AL
though the dose, doctors said, was
not large enough to have caused
death, Miss Vass failed to respond
to treatment. She later developed
pneumonia.
Miss Vass had been employed at
the bureau for 20 years. District
officials have not completed their
investigation of the shortage The
cashier was suspended pending out
come of the inquiry
Evening star., 1940-10-25
By OLAF HANSEN.

LONDON. Oct. Is NANA0.-
When l slipped out OF Norwegian
waters recently in a small sailing
boat under the nose of German
patrol ship, I knew that I was leav-
ing land that was about to enter a
nightmare winter-even though it
may be spared the terror of Nazi
bombers.
London-WhiCh We in Norway
have been told by our Nazi-bossed
newspapers has been evacuated in
panic, so that only a comparatively
few people are left in it. and they
spend their nights and days cover
ing in AFRAID shelters-is a far
happier city than Oslo. because Brit
ain is still a land of free people,
and no menace of a hungry winter
darkens it.
There will be beggars on the
streets of Oslo this winter for the
first time in living memory. AL
ready it is impossible to get white
-four in Norway.
Only mixed flour is available, and
there is much talk in the newspa-
pers of the introduction of fish meal,
a substitute made from powdered
fish to mix with the flour.
Where the fish would come from
has not been stated At the mo-
ment Norway's great fishing indus
try is practically at a standstill be-
cause of the acute shortage of
petrol.
Nobody is allowed to use private
car in Norway. There are a few
taXlS left in Oslo, but the owners
who have survived are permitted to
run their vehicles on three days of
the week only.
Shortly before 7 left Norway I
talked with the head of a world
famous oil concern in that country.
He said Norway is now living on it's
oil reserves, and even at the present
low rate of consumption the supply
will be exhausted by the end of
January.
Germany has looted Norway's lar
der. In the land of the smorgas-
bord and many other famous ma
tional dishes it is impossible now to
buy an egg, and milk is very scarce
There is acute shortage of food
stuffs for poultry and cattle.
Meat Extremely Scarce.
Meat is not rationed. for the
simple reason that there is not
enough of it to ration. On one day
recently only one pig was brought
to Oslo market.
Green vegetables are plentiful, be-
cause NorWegians have converted
their gardens into vegetable plots,
as people have done in Britain. but
butter, sugar and coffee are rationed,
also clothing of every kind
You would have difficulty in buy
ing bar of chocolate in Oslo, and
there is practically no tobacco.
All prices have increased by more
than double since the German in
vasion
Unemployment benefit has been
abolished, but up to now there has
been no widespread unemployment
among the industrial classes be-
Evening star., 1940-10-25
French Salaries Cut Off,
More Flee Devils Island

BY the Associated Press.
GEORGETOWN, British Guiana,
Oct. 25.-Conditions on Devils Is
land. informed quarters here sug-
gested yesterday. may have led au-
thorities there to give tacit approval
to the escapes of any prisoners able
to make their way from the no.
torious French penal settlement on
the South American coast.
A marked increase in the number
of fugitives arriving in this British
colony to the northward has been
observed since the fall of France.
But none of the refugees who beat
their way up the coast would say
here that there had been a general
release
French sources here declared life
in the French Guiana settlement has
been disrupted since the home gov
ernment capitulated to the Nazis.
With no funds reaching the colony,
official salaries are overdue
Subscriptions have been taken up
here to help those who express will
ingness to join the Anglo-French
forces of Gen. Charles de Gaulle.
Refugees Head for Canada.
BASSETERRE, st. Kits, British
West Indies. Oct. 25 LP.-A group
of refugees from French Guiana,
Evening star., 1940-10-25
PerumbuIutor
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the stretcher bearers passed into the
meager light. and out of it and
around the corner came the man in
shirtsleeves, pushing an empty per-
ambulator.
Good evening, sirs." he said
"Have you seen anything of a woman
and a baby around here-a little girl
baby with red cape and hood?"
Nobody answered very quickly.
The A. r. P. warden with the bleed
ing head had gone somewhere, and
the man who had taken his place
didn't seem to understand the sit
uation.
The man repeated his question,
and from somewhere in the mass of
rescue workers came the inevitable
answer. He moved on again in
silence.
It's hard work moving debris in
the dark. In no time your hands
are skinned, you're dripping with
sweat, and your back is conscious of
pains that will be worse tomorrow.
But you don't hear the attack over
you, nor the wham of the raining
Crumps. There's the dramatic sus-
pense of something to be accom-
plished just ahead of you-some-
thing that must be done quickly, if
at all. In the midst of other noises
now so much a part of Londons
night you hear murmurs under the
bricks People are alive in there.
Possibly, they will still be alive when
these tons of rubble are lifted off of
them. So you have no intention of
dropping your job when you lean
against the building to rest.
Searching for Weeks.
Around the corner came the man
In shirtsleeves pushing the empty
perambulator.
Good evening, sirs," he said,
have you Seen-"
There was something almost ter
rifying about this specter that came
and went so regularly on the fringe
of a ghastly shambles that was
hourly getting ghastlier. Some
body less shocked, or possibly more
kindly than the others among the
toilers at the shelter, called the
policeman from the opposite corner.
BY the time he had picked his way
through the black, the man with
the perambulator had gone his way.
The cop listened to the report un-
moved.
Il know" he said. Every hour,
every night, he comes by here. He's
been doing it for weeks since the
massacre first began in this dis
trict. He's cracked, of course, but
why shouldn't he be? Out in that
mess somewhere he's got wife and
baby"
The volunteers went back to work
on their murmuring brick pile.
(Copyright, 1910, Chicago Daily News Inco
Evening star., 1940-10-25
Norwegions Remain Defiant
DESPITE Nozi Raids on LQrder
Fugitive Airmon Reports Meat Scarce,
Flour Running Low and Prices Doubled

cause almost all available labor has
been absorbed by the Germans ex-
tensive building of aerodromes and
barracks. And for this work the
workers have been satisfactorily paid
Shipping Firms Close Down.
But unemployment is bound to
increase rapidly as winter ap.
proaches, and already among the
professional classes and office work
ers depression is acute.
Long-established shipping firms
have had to close down, import and
export agents businesses have en-
tirely disappeared, and every Office
has "cut down" considerably, so that
hundreds of thousands of black
coated workers have been thrown
on to the streets without any benefit
from the state.
Entertainments continue, but
cinema audiences are small because
most of the films shown are German.
Norwegian newspapers have, of
course, long ceased to matter as
organs Of opinion. The Aftenposten
and TldenS Tegan are still published
under German control; but the
Arbeiderbladet has been suppressed.
The excuse Nazis found for banning
it was trivial. 1t happened to men
ton in an article that the origin of
the Nazi hate song" I'VE are Sail
ing Against England" was an old
time sentimental ballad expressing
the thoughts of a German sailor on
leaving his lady-love to sail for
England.
The article showed how the Nazis
had adapted the ballad, but the
censor saw it in proof and before it
could be published the newspaper
was suppressed.
I recall those statements with
some amusement now. having drifted
in the North Sea for nearly two
weeks without sighting a solitary
German ship.
NorWay's Nazi-spoofed press has,
of course. played up Germany's plan
for invasion, but we have never
taken that plan really seriously.
Their doubts as to the practicability
OF landing German troops in large
numbers in England have been
deepened by an episode the story of
which has gone all over Norway. I
can vouch for the truth of it, having
verified it from various sources.
The Germans acquired all the
fishing boats they could lay hands
on along the west coast of Norway,
and with their customary efficiency
converted them into troop-carrying
craft. But they could not quickly
convert soldiers into sailors.
Soldiers Return Seasick.
One day a large contingent of
German soldiers sailed from Aale-
sund. The people of Aalesund saw
them depart. The troops were
smiling and in high spirits. The
people of Bergen saw them disem-
bark, a pale and shattered COM
pany. Many of them were so sea-
sick that they had to be assisted
ashore
The Germans have since returned
the fishing boats to their owners.
So Norwegians do not think much
of Germanys chances of invading
Britain in deep-sea craft from the
Scandinavian coast.
Norwegians. in fact, have no
doubt that Britain is winning the
war. If they harbored any such
doubt the outlook for Norway would
be black and bleak indeed, for In q
British victory is Norway's only
hope of deliverance.
Evening star., 1940-10-25
Australians Lay Plans
For Wheat Sterilization
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 25.-A Reuters
British news agency dispatch from
Melbourne, Australia, today said the
Australian wheat conference had
agreed upon a stabilization plan
under which the commonwealth and
state governments would acquire or
take control of all wheat grown.
The federal government will be
asked to pay a bounty to growers
suffering adversely due to seasonal
conditions, the dispatch said.
Evening star., 1940-10-25
Womans' Body Is Found
In Surf; Officer Held
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SALISBURY BEACH, Mass, Oct.
25.-The bruised and battered body
Of Mrs. Olive Farrell, IS, part owner
Of seaside hotel, was found in the
surf today by two police officers.
Authorities, who said she had ap-
parently been strangled, held a
special police officer for questioning
Police Chief Harold Congdon said
that the special officer, who did
summer duty at the beach. had been
seen talking to the woman about q
Evening star., 1940-10-25
Chilean Earthquake
Kills Two Children
BY TIE Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 25.-Many
buildings were damaged and at least
two persons, both children, were
killed by an earthquake which shook
Chile yesterday for length Of 1900
miles, from Antofagasta on the
north to Lautaro on the south.
The dead were crushed under a
falling wall here several hours after
the quake had subsided. There were
a number of minor injuries of panic
stricken residents who fled to the
streets and fell or were trampled.
Evening star., 1940-10-25
North Chinese Leader
Confers With Konoye

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Oct. 25.-Wang 1-tang,
chairman of the North China (Jap-
anese-sponsored) Political Affairs
Committee, conferred with Premier
Prince Fumimaro Konoye at the
Premier's residence today.
Announcement of the meeting
aroused interest because of reports
that feelers have been directed to-
ward negotiations for peace in the
three-year-old japanese conflict
with China.
Evening star., 1940-10-25

growing boards to provide atmos-
phere for q municipal celebration.
Fred Lawhon, one of the towns
leading citizens, took his adornment
to a restaurant, asked for q handout
and got it.
Evening star., 1940-10-25

half hour before her body was found
In the water at 4:10 am.
The body was clothed only in q
dress and q slip. Other wearing
apparel was found on q sand dune
nearby.
Chief Congdon said that tracks,
apparently those of a body that
had been dragged over the sand"
led from the dune to the seaside.
The woman's face was battered.
the chief added, and one of her
ankles was broken.
Evening star., 1940-10-25

describing themselves - "free
Frenchmen" anxious to join the
forces Of Gen. Charles de Gaulle,
was headed north for Canada today
in a small boat supplied by British
authorities here.
Evening star., 1940-10-25

The story OF Norway defiant
under the Nazi yoke is told here
In the second OF ttUo articles BY
q young Norwegian oirmdn 1Dho
recently escaped to England and
Is no1p on his ,uay to Canada to
complete training as q ,Uarplane
pilot. The story has been pub
Iished in the London Daily Mail.
Evening star., 1940-10-25

Beord Good ComoufIoee
ARKANSAS CITY. Kans. LP.-
The men of Arkansas City were
Evening star., 1940-02-14
Mrs. Frankfurter
To Be Patroness
For Benefit

Mrs. Felix Frankfurter, wife Of
Mr.. Justice Frankfurter. has added
her name to the rapidly growing
list Of distinguished patronesses for
the Smith College Club scholarship
fund benefit performance which
Cornelius Otis Skinner will give at
the National Theater Monday eve
ming, February 26. The play will be
Edna, His Wife," and is attracting
much interest in Washington cir
cles.
Mrs. Frankfurter is an alumnus
OF the college, and three other dis
tinguished Smith alumnae who are
patronesses for the performance are
Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, wife of the
Secretary of the Interior; Nine. de
Kaufman, wife of the Danish
Minister, and Representative Jessie
Sumner.
Mrs. Rudolph Max Kaufman and
Mrs. Emory Land are co-chairmen
Of the Patroness Committee for the
benefit, besides serving On the Ben
eft Committee, Of which Mrs. Ver-
non H. Brewster is chairman. Mrs.
Kenneth Holland is president of the
Smith College Club.
Evening star., 1940-02-14
Notes From the Social Calendar Of Washington Envrons
Social Notes of Official
And Diplomatic Sets
In the Capital
Mrs. Roosevelt Is Honor Guest
At Junior Hadassah Program
In New York CITY

Mrs Roosevelt the honor yesterday
given the Junior
dents wife presented with gift
made by Miss Nell z president Hadassah
contained
domestic science English
dedicated to "The First Lady o Of Liberty"
Mrs Roosevelt will
to attend the annual Farm University
Supreme Court Mr. William O. Douglas
and Attorney
Mrs Clark E entertained at dinner last evening
guests Maoney Charles Stuart
Guthrie Special Assistant the
president of the Bank Mr. Warren Person.
Pierson.
party Clark, leaving
Thursday months visit with father mother
j. Nortrup New Haven Conn., who spending the winter in
Bradenton Fla
Representative D
afternoon yesterday receiving 2
Wyoming Mrs issued cards at
day, February and 13
Argentine Embassy
Military zann will Wood
stock "a to attend the ninth military
nuen Academy The theme the be given at the dance will
bs Pan Amercanism
Sonora de Castro Alexander Francisco Castro
mey yesterday afternoon
entertaining
members the Representatives Sonora
de Castro niece Representative and Mrs Jesse Wocot married
the Minister Salvador David Hector Castro and
Sonora de Castro.
a meeting were
daughter Representative
Riley Smith Before her marriage last summer Mrs Smith was Miss
Boykin but her marriage Mr. Smith make their
Frank Mayhe of Representative Albert Carter poured
The Secretary Embassy and Baeyen
entertained evening compliment
California The last evening the
Kaorama Circle.
Secretary Embassy
Jacques de 1er the Third Secretary the French Embassy and
Dapaz the Office of the Naval Attach the
French Embassy Mr. and Mrs Creighton Pee Miss Ruth Overton
Mr. Sherry McAdam.
administrator
agency
luncheon Saturday
Evening star., 1940-02-14

Air girls are to be recruited to
fly Royal Air Force planes from
factories to aerodromes in Britain.
Evening star., 1940-02-14
By the Way
Beth Blaine=

The spacious and lovely Brazilian
cocktail party yesterday afternoon
Martins entertained
Brazilian beauties Nine Aimee
Randall Punke The ladies sisters and caption
gaiety!"
The all yesterdays
in simple beautifully black gowns.
Nine Martins, who is quite sparkling
black Mrs Lawrence Wood
all ewey wearing shining
blond hair parted the with
has already left for Atlanta will
Friday where he is scheduled
Brazilian party distinguished
her and with Mr. Justice Frank Murphy after
After visit in Palm Beach Maurice plans
by way of Chile, where he will stop of in Santiago.
To back yesterdays party-there
zuberbuhers with Mrs Garrett
tiny hat of pale feathers
his beautiful wife, visiting Joseph Beach;
Harold Hinton Richard Klebegs stunning
with gold eWey and feather hat with little bird
the brm Mrs Claude wife the
coat hat; the Polish Ambassador jerry
Stapeton, Pendeon several Others
After popular
the Italian
three weeks time No
deeply liked than these
will leave real and lasting in the young
with whom they have been prominently identified
They plan to motor to Mexico to take suitable
their arrival Mary Roberts great friend
former Helen Wardman
Naseli, makes her home in Mexico
be warmly welcomed to their new home.