a a a a a a a the the the 8 THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, RALEIGH, N. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1. 1939. MEDIATION BEGUN IN POWER STRIKE U. S.
Conciliator Opens Conference with Company and Union Representatives Asheville, Nov. to mediate a strike of Carolina er workers And Light opened here Company 1 this as representatives of employes and the utility firm met across the conference table with John L. Connor, U. S. Labor conciliator.
Approximately members of local-B-907 of the International Brotherhood of Eelecrtical Workers walked out late Tuesday night when company officials refused their demand for a closed shop. Connor arrive here this morning and conferred with both company officials and representatives of the before bringing them together in the afternoon. The conference was still under way tonight, and no announcement had been made of the progress of negotiations. Power service in the city has been normal since Wednesday noon, when crews brought here from other units of the company's system repairfich damages done by strikers caused a partial blackout Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. COLUMNIST DESCRIBES ATTACK BY BLUEBLOODS Warrenton, Va.
Nov. 30 (AP)Count Igor Cassini, chit-chat columnist for a Washington newspaper (Times-Herald), told to a Fauquier County jury today his story of being tarred and feathered last June 25 after a dance at the Warrenton Country Club. The Count, grandson of a former Russian Ambassador to the United States, denied he had ever written anything in his column which ne considered offensive to the people og Virginia's famous hunt country. A trio of socially-prominent young Virginians, Colin Montgomery, brothers, and Alexander Calvert, pleaded innocent to charges of constituting a mob and committing an assault upon Cassini. Aubrey G.
Weaver, chief of defense counsel, told the jury the three did what "any red-blooded Virginians would have done to prothemselves." He said they objected to items in Cassini's column concerning the Montgomery family and wanted to stop him by scaring him, but decided against an assault because of their greater physical strength. Commonwealth's Attorney C. W. Carter asserted Cassini not only was tarred and feathered but threatened with emasculation, and left without clothing on a lonely road. Cassini's mother, Countess Marguerite Cassini and a brother, Oleg, listened from a front row as Cassini told how he was called from the ballroom, forced into an automobile.
driven into the country, stripped of clothing and tarred and feathered. RUSSIA IS DENOUNCED IN NETHERLANDS PRESS Amsterdam, Nov. man was arrested today after a rock was thrown through a Rusian bookshop when Russia's invasion of Finland became known in The Netherlands. rock was wrapped in a printed declatation, Finland's gouting Lenin independence as having in 1918. The Soviet government never has been recognized by The Netherlands.
The Netherlands press voiced indignation over the invasion. The Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant called Rusia "the brute aggressor" and expresed "warm sympathy for the courageous Finnish people." The Amsterdam Algemeen Handelsblad declared "Rusia never would have the courage to act in the same way against a big power which had given 1,000 provocations." Neighbors Are Indignant at Soviet Ruthlessness Continued From Page One. Sweden said his country was in A preparedness and no new stetsures were needed. Many Danes felt the invasion was a personal blow because Finland was a neighbor and new dangers seemed looming for the Baltic neutrals. Adding to Norway's fears was the extension of Russian aerial warfare along Finland's short Arctic coast to the Norwegian border.
Reports from Kirkenes in far planes had attacked main Finnorthern Norway said, Russian airnish road which runs to Petsamo and at several points touches the Jakobselven River, which forms the Finnish-Norwegian boundary in that area. Fund collections started in many areas for Finland's war refugees. Unless their governments prevent it, many Danes, Norwegians and Swedes are expected to 1 go to Finland as volunteers. In Stockholm it was thought possible a Swedish statement might be forthcoming tomorrow "meets. the foreign affairs committee Coates Outlines Institute Plans Continued From Page One.
ning in January. There will also held a course in instructions for officials of citizens' associations, a new departure. June Rose of Greenville, State Commander of the American Legion, today pledged the full support of his own and other civic organizations to the work of the Institute and announced that the Legion will repeat this year the "Boys State" which it conducted last year in cooperation with the Institute and at were enrolled high school students, with particular efforts made to secure those holding office in student government organizations. E. P.
Coffey, head of the scientific crime detection laboratory of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that the FBI will participate in the police schools, sending down instructors in its own renowned National Police Academy and offering similar courses. A. W. Honeycutt, superintendent of the Chapel Hill public schools, announced that text books prepared by the Institute have been adopted as supplementary courses in government for all high schools. The principal speech of today's session I was made by Representa-11, tive John SH.
Kerr of the Second North Carolina District, who declared that the the State lamentably little about their and praised the work government, by the Institute to reme dy that condition. Representative Carl T. Durham of the sixth district also spoke briefly. DUNN-ERWIN RED CROSS RECEIVES RECORD FUND Continued From Page One Under the Dome Durham faces a hard campaign for renomination. Durham's colleagues were glad to see the Speaker stick in his oar.
NEXT-State employes, back at today after having Thanksgiving Day off, will look forward to Christmas as their next holiday. Christmas falls on a Monday this year. Though the length of the holiday has not yet been decided, it is a good bet that the employes will get all day Saturday, December 23. all day Christmas and at least half a day Tuesday, December 26. TWINS--Yesterday really was Thanksgiving Day for H.
Noah, director of railroad transportation for the State Utilities Commission, and Mrs. Noah. The reasons: Twin sons, their first children, born just before 11:30 o'clock Wednesday night in Rex Hospital. Dirctor Noah reported proudly that the boys and Mrs. Noah were "getting along fine." The twins, whose names are Van Batchelor and Hugh Bryan, weighed between five and six pounds each.
Mrs. Noah was Miss Lucile Strickland of Nashville, N. before her marriage. VISITORS--George N. Stell, who was North Carolina's official Capitol guide until the Council of State decided several months ago to replace him with an information as a volunteer, showclerk, spent his Thanksgiving, Day ing visitors around the Capitol and other points of interest here.
Mr. Stell has acted in that voluntary capacity on holidays since the Council of State replaced him. Chief point on itinerary yesterday was the State Museum, kept open for Thanksgiving Day visitors. Each visitor received a State map and a folder listing points of interest here. NUMBER-Mr.
Stell reported he aided 307 persons in seeing the Thanksgiving sights. Thirty-two them, he said, came from vother States as follows: Four each from Maryland, Kentucky, New Jersey, Virginia and Arkansas; three each from Florida, Pennsylvania and Tennessee and two from Alabama. He listed the Tar Heel visitors as: Hemp 13, Mebane 6, Eagle Springs 8, Dunn 5, Granville 16, Wilson 14, Hamlet 8, Spencer 6, Hemp 9. Henderson Oxford 8, Raeford Ransomville 8, Rose Hill 4, Shelby 6, Greensboro 8, Taylorscilanam 4, Four Roxboro, Oaks 6, 13, Littleton Newport 8, Benson 8, Erwin 11, Durham 12. Haw River Manly 3, Rocky Mount 6, Ayden 7, Enfield 8, Clinton 8, Roseboro 10, Winston-Salem 8 and Burlington 7.
Demands Made for U. S. Break With Russians Continued From Page One. several hours prior to the actual in- vasion. Summoning of the leaders would follow the precedent established by the Chief Executive shortly after outbreak of the European war when he disclosed he would seek revision of the neutrality act and his willingness to abandon partisanship on matters of foreign policy.
Minister Bitter. Before leaving his train at Union Station Mr. Roosevelt closeted briefly with Secretary State Cordell Hull who filled him in on the rapid-fire developments in the upper Baltic. Hull later visited the White House, for with an Procope, additional 45 remaining minutes beof discussion with the President. When Procope emerged from the executive mansion he bitterly denounced Russia's "ruthless attack on a small peaceful -his ownbut declined to disclose details of his talk with Mr.
Roosevelt and Hull. He said he had spoken with officials of his government by transatlantic telephone and that they had assured him the morale of the people was high. Demands Break. against Soviet came The loudest congressional, outcry from Senator William H. King, Utah, ranking majority member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who urged a break in diplomatic relations so that "my country no longer will grasp the bloody hands of Stalin." Another equally high-placed leader urged breaking off relations but would not allow use of his name.
Scathing rebukes against Russia came from several quarters, including Senator D. Worth Clark, a prominent isolationist, who said: "I think that Finland is the only friend we've got in Europe. Certainly they are the only nation that had any respect for their promise to pay back money they borrowed. It (Russia's invasion) is an unjustifiable demonstration of brute force on the part of Russia. It's outrageous." Paying As Usual.
Continued From Page One. Clark referred to Finland's prompt payment of her post-war debt to this country throughout the years when other European nations have defaulted. In this connection, Finnish officials here indicated today that the December 15 installment of $234,693 on the $8,392,849 debt would be paid on the dot as usual. "We have always paid our debt and we intend to continue," one official said. In the event Mr.
Roosevelt does call Congressional leaders into consultation, the group in all likelihood would consist of Senators Charles L. McNary, Republican leader, and Key Pittman, House Speaker William B. Bankhead, and Representative Joseph W. Martin, Republican leader of the lower chamber. Senate Democratic Leader Alben W.
Barkley, who normally would attend, is recuperating at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, from an operation. There was wide speculation on the courses Mr. Roosevelt might take in the war. Some offcial quarters were convinced that the breaking off of relations with Russia would be the first on the list. Neutrality Question.
The question of invoking the neutrality act to place sales of American war supplies to Finland and Russia on a strictly basis also was believed uppermost in Mr. Roosevelt's mind. Under the act, he can proclaim the law in effect whenever he finds a state of war to exist between two countries. Congress can do this President fails to act, but at present the legislature until January The 'determination of a state" of war is purely to the President or Congress and the presence or absence of normal declarations of war by the principals has no bearing on the matter. However, it was pointed out by law against Russia is officials here that invocation anal the largely an academic question, since the Soviet purchases only a minute quantity of munitions in this country and Finland has no access to American except by the circuitous and difficult Arctic route.
The net effect of invoking the neutrality act, it was said, would be to serve notice on the Soviet that the United States considers its invasion of Finnish full-scale territory in not the category a war and merely a punitive expedition in retaliation for Finnish "aggression." Russians Ignore Pleas for Peace Continued From Page One. now marching to force that withdrawal at the point of the bayonet. Without question the real Finnish line of defense lies farther north, behind the network of lakes, estauries, marshes and other water defenses which roughly parallels the frontier. From the vicinity of the Finnish port city of Viborg, reported burning from Russian incendiary bombs, this water defense line runs northeastward to Lake Ladoga, then north across the base of a huge salient which the present frontier thrusts into Russia's flank. In military opinion, the Finnish army could offer no protracted si resistance until it stands behind those natural barriers.
Costly Tasks. The task of driving determined enemy out of those positions, even an enemy as fantastically outmatched in numbers and fighting gear as is Finland, would be costly for Russia both in blood and material resources. Experts contend, also, that Russian transportation systems, clogged with Winter snows and dened with the necessity of feeding great masses of the Russian population at home, could not readily be converted to sustain a Russian army of invasion penetrating to any considerable distance beyond Russia's own borders. For such military reasons, there is wide expectation that the RussoFinnish war will become inactive within days or weeks, at most. Once Russian forces have cleared Finnish troops from the Karelian Isthmus area, north of Leningrad, and from the salient north of Lake Ladoga, a halt is apt be called and Soviet nor proposals for a negotiated settlement renewed.
That theory of Soviet intentions is strengthened by the conviction in many quarters that Moscow is playing a bold game of its own for far greater stakes than it has yet disclosed. Uncertainty in Soviet inner circles that the war between Germany and the Britain Allies will be of long duration still operating to spur Russia to quick and forceful action making good her claim to a dominant role in the Gulf of Finland and the upper Baltic. Out of her attack on Finland, and whatever negotiations may follow it, Russia clearly hopes to emerge with all her demands for naval bases or other military positions on the Finnish shores of the satisfied. Coupled with concessions Moscow I forced, without military action, from Latvia, Lithuania and Esthonia, those Finnish outposts would make a virtual Russian lake of the Gulf of Finland. Russia's economic position in the Baltic, backed Soviet naval and military power, would be enormously enhanced, largely at German expense, while Germany is busy with its own war.
Moscow is filling its hand for the European peace conference that some must end the bitter conflict between Germany and the Allies. And in doing so it is risking a flame of world resentment, stirred by the attack on Finland. South Wins Reductions in Rail Freight Rates Continued From Page One. less distance to such markets," said the order, "it generally cannot develop unless, and then only to the extent that, the differences in transportation charges can be offset by lower production costs or absorbed by a reduction in profits. "And even though differences in transportation charges can be thus offset or absorbed, this in itself generally tends to retard its growth and prosperity.
In these circ*mstances. it is apparent that the relation of the rates may be of greater importance than their ir intrinsic level or measure. This is largely the situation here presented." The carriers, defendants in the complaint, had contended that higher unit costs of transporting goods in the South provided justification for higher rates, but the majority said: "It is a fair conclusion from the record as a whole, and we accordingly find, that the cost of transporting the articles named in the complaint from producing points in the South into the North, compared with that of transporting like articles within the North, does not justify the maintenance thereon of higher levels or rates than applicable on like articles within the North." Listing some of rail charges in dispute, the Commission said it was "clear the rates assailed on those commodities are unduly prejudicial to the Southern producers and unduly preferential of their Northern competitors." Chairman Dissents. In dissenting, Eastman argued that the average cost of service was higher in the South than in the North. "The record before us does not, in my opinion, justify the basic conclusions and findings of the majority," he added.
Eastman charged that Southern lines, connecting with Northern carriers. "have insisted on divisions which would give them the lion's share of the joint revenue." He suggested a system of division which he said would give the complainants what they desired. Miller said in a dissenting opinion he believed the Southern complaint should be dismissed "for lack of proof." The majority decision ordered reductions on stoves and ranges, stone, enameled iron or steel plumbers' goods, iron body valves, fire hydrants, cast iron pipe fittings, brass pipe fitings, co*cks and valves, talc and and soapstonti, papetrienied on hollowware, fireplace fixtures, electrical appliances, boots and shoes, excelsior, wood, and excelsior packing mats, paper articles except papetries, metal furniture, canned goods, pottery, cordage and binder twine. The Commission fixed March 1, 1940, as the effective date of the order. Meanwhile, Northern carriers may seek a re-hearing before the Commission or appeal to the Federal courts.
HOEY IS ENCOURAGED BY BOARD'S DECISION Governor Hoey, informed last night of the decision, said it is "very encouraging for us in the whole freight rate matter." "The principle involved in this case is very important and it appears to me the justice of that principle is recognized in that decision," the Governor said. Moscow Claims Finns Attacked Continued From Page One. said, "several tens" of Finnish soldiers were taken prisoner. After these alleged attacks the Soviet forces received the order to advance and struck swiftly into Finnish territory. "Along the Carelian isthmus Soviet troops occupied several villages and advanced to the city of Terioki," was announced.
Moscow Tense. Terioki (Teryoki) is on the Gulf of Finland about 12 miles north of the Carelian frontier and approximately 30 miles northwest of Leningrad. broadcast announcement, which lasted 10 minutes, said that only troops of the Leningrad military district were engaged in the operations against Finland. The atmosphere in Moscow last night and early today was tense but by no means warlike. Telephone and telegraph communications, had between been Moscow interrupted.
and Thou- Helsands gathered near newsstands to wait for papers which were late. The Finnish legation was preparing to leave, in line with Soviet Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov's announcement that diplomatic relations with Finland had been broken. Delay in delivery of a requested "laissez passer" was expected put off their departure until tonight or tomorrow. The United States offer of its good officers in the Finnish-Soviet dispute was presented to the Kremlin by Walter Thurston, American charge d'affaires, at 12:45 p. m.
(three hours after the bombing of sinki). (The Exchange Telegraph Agency reported from Moscow that it had learned authoritatively that the States message included a statement that the side refusing the offer would be considered the aggressor.) Message Delayed. V. P. Potemkin, vice commissar for foreign affairs, talked Thurston for 10 minutes and promised to relay the message to Molotov.
However, he did not indicate when a reply would be forthcoming. There had been a slight delay in delivery of the message because today was a Soviet holiday and Thurston was unable to communicate with any Soviet foreign officer immediately. Thurston acted in the absence of United States Ambassada Laurence Steinhardt, who had bed in Stockholm private business for several weeks. He returned by airwith Charles Bohlen, second secretary of the embassy, while Thurston was at the foreign office. Still not informed of the outbreak of hostilities, Soviet workers throughout the morning were tending mass meetings at which speakers denounced Finland in blood-curdling terms.
Resolutions were passed demanding that Russia take action. Finland Seeks Armistice to Stop Deadly Invasion By Great Russian Forces Continued From Page One. who, with former Premier Juhu K. Paasikivi, handled the futile attempts in Moscow to reach a compromise settlement of Russia's demands. Some reports indicated that Tanner was trying to reach the Kremlin in communication lines down-to plead with the Soviet leaders to halt the bombardments of Finnish cities and towns from the air.
Officials refused to confirm these reports or admit that a Russian ultimatum had been served. In this connection, however, a government spokesman had said only a short while before the government's resignation that it had no intention of quitting. Russia's undeclared war against a neighbor only one-fiftieth her size began about 8 a. Thursday and early today the troops, tanks, warships and bombing planes of the biggest army in the world had: Vital Port Seized. 1.
Bombed from the air the cities and towns of Helsinki, Kotka, Kemjaervi, Kittikai, Petsamo, Uttis, Kaipiais and Viborg. 2. Seized the four undefended Finnish islands in the eastern end of the Gulf of Finland sought by Russia for defense of her Kronstadt naval base-Hogland, Tytarsaari, Lavansaari and Seiskari- after heavy aerial and naval bombardments. 3. Seized Finland's vital ice-free port of Petsamo on the Arctic Sea, only three miles from the Swedish frontier, after heavy aerial bombings and an artillery battle with Finnish troops.
4. Sent warships westward through the Gulf of Finland, perhaps for a bombardment of Helsinki from the sea. 5. Occupied several centers in Finnish territory on the 50-milelong Carelian isthmus frontier. about 25 miles north of Leningrad.
including the port of Teryaki on the Gulf of Finland. Teryaki is 12 from the border. 6. Bombed from the air and attempted to seize the Peninsula of Hango, 75 miles west of Helsinki of on the Gulf of Finland and known as "The Gibraltar of the Baltic." Finland, during the stalemated Moscow talks, stubbornly refused to yield to Russia's demand that Hango be given to Russia for a naval and air base. 7.
Bombed the Finnish warship Ilmarien, one of Finland's two coastal defense ships carrying 10-inch guns, according to a dispatch from Abo on the southwest coast opposite the Aland Islands. Stiff Resistance. The Finnish high command, headed by General Baron Karl Gustav 1, Mannerheim who has come forward again to lead his people, against the Bolsheviks as he years ago, saisodboo against Finnish troops Russia's an potential army 18,000,000 troops was resisting "stiffly" everywhere. Eight Russian tanks have been either destroyed or damaged, it was said, and there is bitter fighting on the Carelian isthmus as well as in the frozen lakelands to the north. Two and perhaps three Russian planes have been shot down, it was said, but reports of 10 planes downed by Finnish anti-craft batteries were described as "exaggerated." Teryoki on the Carelian border at the Gulf of Finland was said to have fallen to the Soviets after a heavy bombardment from warships in the gulf and artillery.
(The Scandinavian wireless reported that Finnish naval units had left Helsinki and were expected to engage in battle with Russia's vastly superior Baltic warships). During last evening's secret cabinet session the Diet had voted "unanimous support" of the governit ment's policy, particularly its resistance to Russia's demands. Claim Reds Repulsed. The first "war communique" of the Finnish high command said the Russians invaded Finland from the Carelian frontier and northward at several points along the 600-mile frontier stretching to the Arctic Sea. At some points, the communique said, the Red army units were pulsed immediately" and that mid-afternoon the Russian advance had been stalled everywhere.
(An announcement in Moscow said the Russian troops had penetrated into Finland as deep as nine miles in some places.) "The total number of dead and wounded is unknown," the Finnish communique said. Earlier the Finnish defense ministry in a radio broadcast had assured the 3,800,000 Finish people that the "Russian troops who crossed the border at several places were all repulsed during the afternoon." "There was lively artillery fire on the border and two Russian tanks were destroyed." Helsinki, it was announced, was bombed from the air three times yesat 9:25 a. 12:25 p. and 2:45 p. m.
200 Dead in Helsinki. Unofficial reports estimated the dead in the Helsinki bombing at 200 although the government said that only 80 bodies had been recovered. A fourth air raid alarm at 7 p. proved false. The main blows of the Soviet invasion were delivered on the Carelian isthmus, between Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland, while a secondary attack was hurled against Finnish territory north of Lake Ladoga, The third assault was in the wild, snow-filled arctic lands where the Red army struck and seized Petsamo.
Russia's recent demands against Finland, rejected by the Finns and leading to yesterday's invasion, called for Finland's surrender of the four islands in the eastern Gulf of Finland, cession of Petsamo and the right to establish a Soviet naval and air base at Hango. Finnish authorities, accusing Russia of merciless aerial attacks on civilian populations, said incendiary bombs against Helsinki. Viborg and cities. 'sther Helsinki was in darkness during the night except for the fires of burning buildings, including at least 20 homes and several public buildings. The capital's source of electric power was cut off when Russian planes bombed a large hydro-electric plant at Imatra, north of Viborg.
Civilians Bombed. Hundreds of women and children, stunned by fled the from lightning the blows from already par-evacuated city. The evacuation at Abo (Turku), Viborg and other cities also was underway. Civilians fled from the Petsamo area westward across the Swedish border in the north. Today's high command communique said one of the heaviest artillery battles was fought at Kaesnaesetae on the eastern frontier and two Russian tanks were destroyed north of Lake Ladoga, The only were aerial bombings, civilian it alleged, against populations.
Hango was bombed twice by Red Army planes, at 11:30 a. when four planes appeared and at 2:20 p. by eight planes. The bombs of the first raid fell into the sea and those of the second raid smashed into the Hango suburbs, Rilling two or three persons and, state wounded of many communications others. made it almost impossible to confirm was happening outside the capital, Russia struck with troops, warships and bombing planes and tonight the Red Army ocupied Finnish soil at various points along a "front" stretching 600 miles from the Arctic to the Carelian peninsula, just north of the Russian city of Leningrad.
Finland, which won its independence from Russia 22 years ago, proclaimed that a state of war exists against Russia and promised stubborn resistance against overwhelming odds. Capital in Flames. Russia's bombers roared out of cloudy skies and in three shattering bombardments rained Thermite bombs on the dazed population of NO Kiddin' COLORED FOLKS! When you want a swell hair-do, Try this dressing made for you, Gottum, gittum, buyum whoo Dress your hair with Susie HAIR PRESSINGS Susie 5:10. EVERYWHERE Arrests, Injuries Few In Holiday Period Here Disgusted Philadelphia, Nov. Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist-composer-conductor, an nounced today he intended to become an American citizen.
I Asked if recent Russian events influenced his decision, Rachmaninoff, who appears as soloist with the Philadelphia Symphoney Orchestra tomorrow night, replied "don't ask me to talk about Russia." the downtown streets tonight. Helinski. big fires burned in Three, As the roar of the bursting bombs died away the city's anti-aircraft, batteries went into action. Two and perhaps three of the Soviet planes were reported to have been down, one of two of them at Kivena along the frontier. The air raids on this city of about 270,000 population, evacuated of many of its civilians in recent weeks in fear of a Soviet attack, were terrific in their destruction.
The people seemed more dazed than terrorized by the swift fury of the attacks. The proclamation announcing the existence of a state of issued by President Kyosti Kallio, and heim 72-year-old General Baron Mannerbecame generalissimo of Fin- land's defense. Propaganda Spreads. In addition to the bombs dropped on the Helsinki airport at 9:25 a. m.
in the first of the three aerial attacks, the Russian fliers dropped Finnish-language leaflets saying: "You know we have bread-don't starve. Soviet Russia will not harm the Finnish people. Their disaster is due to their wrong leadership. Mannerheim and Cajander must go. After that peace come." The raid on Helsinki caught midafternoon crowds in the streets.
The Russian bombers aimed their projectiles at the railroad station, the harbor and the airport but many fell in the central part of the city, with terrific explosions. Rescue workers dug in smoldering wreckage in search of victims. Eleven Russian planes bombed the capital for 15 minutes, flying in triangular groups of three with two flight leaders. They approached at great height but dived low before dropping their bombs. They appeared have escaped the anti-aircraft fire.
Finnish authorities directed rescue work swiftly and efficiently but the people appeared to be stupified by the swift onslaught and many stood watching the Soviet planes dart in and out of the clouds while the bombs continued to fall around them. Few ran for air raid shelters. Most of the fires started by the bombardment were a extinguished quickly but three big blazes lighted the sky in the downtown district tonight. The fire department announced that all blazes were under control and that there was no danger of their spreading. The new Polytechnic College was almost completely destroyed.
An apartment house was wrecked by a bomb which officials said appeared to have killed many persons. Flashes of Life By The Associated Press. Scribbling Cops. Salem, policemen can be found any of these nights under street lights, scribbling furiously in their notebooks. City Marshal Charles C.
Harkins has ordered them to keep track of every street they patrol, what time they patrol it, where they eat and how long it takes them. Double Eggs. Peru, egg within an egg is being laid about every third or fourth day by Farmer Clayton Widerman's white leghorn hen. Both the outer and inner eggs are Wideman says. The inner a hard shell.
The eggs have both yolk and white. Close Shave. Hawk Springs, Harshberger's clothing became tangled in buzz saw machinery. He was drawn steadily closer to the whirling blade. His head was within inches of the saw.
The blade snipped off the visor of his cap. Then some of the clothing ripped from his body, wrapped around the saw shaft stopped it. Strike One. Oklahoma city erected signs at intersections proclaiming "37 days without a traffic Mrs. Leda Pruiett walked smack into one.
She filed claim for $75 damages for "severe and excruciating pain and a new pair of glasses. AGED GOLDSBORO MAN HURT BADLY BY AUTO Goldsboro, Nov. B. Holland. 67, Goldsboro, was injured seriously at 6 o'clock this evening when struck by an automobile driven by W.
K. Shields Hendersonville. The accident occurred near the intersection of William and Beech streets. He was taken to the boro Hospital, and later his physician said that his condition was "very critical." Mr. Shields and his wife and Mrs.
Shields' sister, Miss Keron Butts of Goldsboro, were in the car. Holland walked out directly in front of the car, it was said. In attempting to avoid striking him, Shields swerved suddenly and his car struck one driven by E. C. Markham of Goldsboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Shields went to the hospital and gave what assistance they could. The accident was investigated by Policeman Harry Morris. demand TONSILINE For QUICK RELIEF oF SORE THROAT DUE TO COLDS Taxi-Car Wreck Provides One Injury; Central Prison Bests Caledonia ferring any charges.
Few Arrests. Raleigh passed an extraordinarily I peaceful Thanksgiving Day, marred by only one report of accidental jury but virtually unspoiled by lawbreaking. The single injury reported was that of William Arthur, 18-year-old Negro considerably bruised in a wreck about 9:30 o'clock last night on Hillsboro Street between the intersections of West Park Drive and Ashe Avenue. Although Arthur did not appear seriously injured, the car in which he was a passenger, an old model driven by Duke Dunston, Negro of 2210 Joint Street, overturned three times and seemingly damaged beyond. repair.
Pierce, taxi driver of 427 West Peace Street, with whose cab the Negro's car collided, said he was turning left on Hillsboro from West Park Drive when Dunston, coming from behind, snagged his right front bumper and fender. The resulting collision damaged the cab only slightly but strewed parts of the other automobile over the pavement and attracted a streetclogging crowd. Although there was a strong whis. key smell in the Negro's car, man R. N.
Smith said the driver, Dunston, was not intoxicated when he saw him shortly after the wreck. In superintending removal of the wreck. police lost sight of the Negro and last night had not made an ar. rest in the case. Another wreck, at McDowell and Cabarrus streets about 11 p.
resulted in considerable damage to cars driven by W. R. Long of Tarboro and Colin McNair of Wendell, but no injuries of importance either party. The crash occurred at a lighted, unobstructed intersection. Police were investigating before pre- Dunn, Nov.
Dunn-Erwin chapter of the American Red Cross has ended the n.ost successful roll call in its history, Chairman W. P. Williford said today. roll call chairman, reported that a total of $473 has been raised in Dunn and Erwin. This is $56 more than any amount received before.
Mrs. E. H. Bost, vice-chairman of the chapter and roll call chairman Erwin, reported, that receipts in that town the largest in history. Captains who in the campaign were Henry raided Tyler, Empie Hall, Dr.
Glenn Hooper, Elmer E. Rothe, Earl Westbrook, Otha Williams, J. Shepard Bryan and J. Yates Bailey. The drive this year was conducted by the Dunn Rotary Club, which alternates sponsorship with the Lions Club.
Islands in a river are constantly chancing, the their water positions. at the This head is washing away earth and depositing it at the foot. The Carolina Calendar CAROLINA CALENDAR. TEMPERATURES. December is a good month for a walk in the hollow woods.
The fall of the leaves has left empty the long corridors of the forest, and the squalling of a squirrel, hanging head downward from his toe-hold on the truck of a hickory, is heard a a hundred yards away. The drill of a hidden woodpecker echoes loudly, and the scratch of a chickadee's feet on the bark of a pine can be heard at the foot of the tree. Behind a cluster of cedars that windbreak against the cold breaths from the north the alr is SO still that the looping flight of the squirrel, as he strikes the ground and hurries off, makes a tumult among the dry leaves. In the late afternoon the of the chopper's axe, gathering his firewood before dark, carries across the valleys, and the rattle of a farmer's wagon on a distant road might be in a neighbor's yard. When these sounds are 50 distinct, it is A sign that rain is not far off.
for the dense particles of damp air are good transmitters. FORECAST. North Carolina: Mostly cloudy on Friday and Saturday, occasional rain Saturday and in mountains Friday; not much change in the temperature. South Carolina: Mostly cloudy on Friday and Saturday, occasional rain Friday, night and Saturday; not much change in temperature. Georgia: Mostly cloudy Friday and Saturday, probably occasional light rain, not much change in temperature.
Florida: Partly cloudy Friday and Saturday, not much change in the temperature, District of Columbia: Increasing cloudiness followed by rain Friday afternoon and night; Saturday rain in morning and clearing in afternoon, mild temperature. Virginiti. Increasing by rain Friday cloudiness night on and in interior Friday afternoon; Saturday rain in early morning followed by clearing, mild temperature. Maryland: Increasing cloudiness followed by rain Friday afternoon and night; Saturday rain in morning and clearing in afternoon, mild Up until late last night, the sheriff's a department had not made rest or received a complaint the entire day, and the police department had only 11 names book. Despite the general holiday spirit, there was only one person in the city jail for drunkenness and only one other, William Harold Oslarberg of Yanceyville, for drunken driving.
Daniel H. Maynor, Negro Fayetteville Street, was arrested on a charge of possession of one quart of bootleg whiskey. It was the only liquor arrest of the day. Although there were about three score prisoners in the county jail serving time or awaiting trial, none was added there yesterday and only five persons seemed likely to spend the night across the street in the city lock-up. Principal difference between this and last Thanksgiving in Raleigh, outside of the confusion caused by having a national and a State holiday on different days, was in the weather.
The mean temperature yesterday was 56 degrees, 10 degrees above normal and eight above last Thanksgiving Day, when the mercury began falling at sundown and dropped to 27 degrees the following morning. Rain accompanied the cold wave, turning into snow on the following Saturday during the DukePitt game at Durham. While business life was suspended except for absolutely necessary services, Thanksgiving feasting took place in homes, institutions, restaurants and even in prisons. For inmates of Central Prison, the day was one of fun and fine food. The food centered about roast turkey and all conventional Thanksgiving Day trimmings.
Special food also was served in all prison camps the State, with approximately 10,000 prisoners having the day as a holiday. Prison Football Game. Highest temperature 66 Lowest 46 temperature 56 Excess for the day 10 Daily excess since January 1.. 2 3 PRECIPITATION (in inches) For 24 hours ending 5 p. .00 Total for the month to 1 75 Deficiency for the month 1 53 Excess since January 1st .11.50 HUMIDITY.
12 Dry Bulb 62 Wet Rel. Humidity Sunrise 7:06 a. m. Sunset 5:00 p. TIDES FOR DECEMBER 1.
Highs. Lows. Oregon Inlet. 4:07 a.m. 10:25 p.m.
4:56 p.m. Beaufort. 5:02 a.m. 11:20 p.m. 5:51 p.m.
Wilmington. 12:49 a.m. 8:07 a.m. 1:26 p.m. 8:56 p.m.
TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL FOR 24 HOURS ENDING 5:00 P.M. High. Low. Prec. Asheville 60 38 .00 Atlantic City 52 43 .00 Birmingham 60 43 .00 Boston 56 36 .00 Burlington 46 34 .00 Chicago 45 39 01 Cincinnati 40 .00 Cleveland 36 06 Denver 52 24 .00 Detroit 44 38 11 El Paso 57 40 00 Galveston 66 .44 Jacksonville 75 50 Kansas City .00 Key West .00 Little Rock Los Angeles 00 Louisville Memphis 58 Meridian 63 .00 New Orleans 70 50 .00 York 55 00 Norfolk 59 42 .00 Pittsburgh 43 35 .00 Richmond 57 37 .00 Washington 54 43 Wilmington 68 45 .00 During the morning, the men at Central Prison saw their football team turn back the Caledonia Prison Farm team, 13-7.
During the afternoon, they were treated to musical program and minstrel show, with prisoners doing all the entertaining. The Central Prison eleven was coached by Ren Hoek, former State College back, who is athletic re rector for prison. The Caledonia boys, coached by R. E. Savage, former Campbell College player, scored in the last 10 seconds of play.
Feature of the entertainment Cary Prison Farm was A boxing match of nine bouts. One Thanksgiving Day mishap occurred at the home of Mark Pope, Negro of 613 Haywood Lane. Early in the morning, Pope citedly reported to police that one had broken into his back porch and stolen from the refrigerator ready-cooked goose, a pound of sage and a half-pound of butter, the makings of his holiday dinner. New Low San Francisco, Nov. Civilization struck "new low with the Communist attack on peaceful Finland." which carried the world "back to the morals and butchery of Ghengis former President Herbert said tonight.
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