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1940-03-11 [P OF TAKERS The APPROVAL BIG FAILURE OF PEACE VON NEW VICTORY CRY TOBACCO PROBLEM £NSUS1 WILL BE European RIBBENTROP, fHOOL FARM BILL SLATED MOVES BY FINNS, IL PUCE CONFER BY HITLER WEATHER~| OFFERED HERE W ar Situation SOUNDED SOLUTION ^conducted (Continued From Page One) SOVIETS FEARED (Continued From Page One) (Continued From Page One) (Continued from Page One) (Continued From Page One) j °ne) (By the Associated — — Press) reductions which congress had WASHINGTON, March 10. OP) voted way would a HELSINKI—Finns fear rup- open deliberately not to spare my own life in the Wea'her buifcau records of tempera- growers of the state have not miss- (C01,tinu^^ge previously in President new ture and be completed ture in peace Roosevelt’s From Page One) war front in which both conviction that this time Ger- rainfall for the 24 hours end- mlist talks with Rus- (Continued ed me in recent and th* of pudget estimates. ing 8 p. m., in the .principal cotton- years and in the city sia, when Moscow de- Germany and Russia would be future will be secured for , ‘'f lyeeks broadcast Until the senate and many’^ growing areas and elsewhere: tobacco <'T0 sections will appropriations southern Finland were visited, the and deserting of American ..jtliin purai nounces head of Finnish dele- fighting against British centuries.” Station Low Prec. committee the a High -aid. upped farm appro- train was machinegunned between markets English buyers ha# he gation ; bitter fighting continues. French. Alpena, clear _ 21 8 0.00 by priation the trend Want “Glorious Victory” iW^onger. enum- Saturday, in con- Helsinki and Borga.” In such was _ 50 0.00 >» will be 2o2 ROME—Mussolini and Nazi circumstances, it Asheville, cloudy 26 made a dent in my already flat- there gress had been to was “May us to clear ta11 district slash budget esti- Available reports said no one said, the of a Ger- providence permit Atlanta, 67 31 0.00 in Foreign Minister von Ribben- possibility Atlantic Barrington’s City, clear _ 42 30 0.00 tened Hanover. mates in an effort to avoid killed. man-R'ussian conclude the last chapter of this purse.” es New trop believer have $460,000,- military alliance >rators confer, to of nations for Birmingham, clear _ 69 33 0.00 considerable Robeson, 300 of new taxes recommended Reserve Lieutenant Matt Vosik- would not be struggle honorably clear Cooper, who spends fWcl! Columbus, discussed possibility of Allied by precluded. Boston, _ 35 29 0.00 the the German This war, forc- snow President. The are world famous Finnish gym- the Italian people. Buffalo, _ 21 11 0.02 in the fields of his Bruns- Brunswick. tt an(J Cumberland intervention in Finland. legislators kinen, Although govern- time ed must turn out to be snow _ leery of new ment be- upon us, Burlington, 22 IS 0.00 Bladen. from the enumer- BERLIN—Hitler sounds war imposing levies—or of nast, died in battle north of Ladoga, considered a settlement wick county tobacco farm, point- the most glorious victory in Ger- Chicago, cloudy _ 31 27 0.00 a school “On to at Me- raising the $45,000,000,000 limit on it was announced. tween Finland and Russia strict- ■ountieS- cry ... p-jimington, victory,” man Cincinnati, cloudy 46 31 0.00 ed out that each year British to- for the an The a matter for those two coun- history.” Fayetteville morial day observance; German public debt—in election year. earlier Finnish announcement ly Cleveland, cloudy ... 2S 20 0.00 in bacco firms in the past have sold infoldhe His was devoid of refer- _ irill and part of high command asserts 10 per “I suppose,” Barkley told report- that a four-man delegation was in tries to decide, Italian preoccu- speech Dallas, cloudy 80 59 0.00 Cumberland the al- ence to current diplomatic maneuv- Denver, aloud y _ 41 32 (Mil of and in Lumberton cent of Britain’s tanker fleet ers, “that these increases (in the Moscow to negotiate peace terms pation with possibility of great quantities American-grown ft1”1.unties, Detroit, cfcudy _ 28 IS 0.00 of Columbus in sea farm burst with lied intervention was evident. ering over the Russian-Finnish war tobacco in parts destroyed warfare. bill) could be justified on the upon the Finnish public Duluth, clear _ 20 9 0.00 but English-processed »ade"beson, or Minister Joachim von school LONDON — The intention of to re- Foreign El rain 63 53 W counties. Each Admiralty an- theory that savings will be made in great suddenness. Italy Paso, 0.01 Latin American markets. Sen main a non-belligerent while Ribbentrop’s sudden journey to Galveston, cloudy_ 66 54 0.00 d days and will be nounces Nazi crew abandoned other appropriations bills coming Terms of the Russian proposals fad three still an has Rome for conferences with Premier Havre, snow __ 33 2S 0.06 With the current war making #il‘ Mr. Barring- German steamer Hannover later.’’ were not ally of Germany by disclosed. A communique clear .. solely MusAolini. Jacksonville, 70 40 0.00 been affirmed in circles close to ■ hazardous and somewhat 'at‘d returned from when intercepted by British The senate has said that direct had Kansas City, cloudy 40 33 0.00 shipping has just not yet acted on negotiations the »cd"l0 in cruiser near Puerto Brit- government. Uncertainty and silence, mean- Key West, cloudy 6S 56 0.00 difficult for England, he said, these > fur district supervisors Rico; defense or relief outlays. been opened in Moscow “to find out Premier Mussolini's attitude over the mission of Little Bock, cloudy .. 65 47 0.00 26 to ons call German tanker report ces- while, hung markets are now open to North February Senator Russell (D-Ga.), floor whether possibilities exist for a Los Angeles, cloudy 62 54 0.00 Fact-finder toward an outright German-Kus- Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, former Carolina. exaggerated; Welles for the sation of hostilities a restoration _ 42 34 0.01 ;£°, manager committee-approved and con- Louisville, cloudy sian alliance could only be of Finland, who was re- arrives for talks with British president Memphis, cloudy _ 6S 41 0.00 of 2,500 population bill appropriating $922,864,668 and of peace,” but that "no decision has "There is no reason W'liy North towns jectured. Italians have to have had several _ 72 44 “frif“ leaders. always ported “priv- Meridian, cloudy 0.00 Carolina census must be com- in loans for been taken up to the tobacco purchasers cannot pr the providing $100,000,000 present.” made a distinction between their without Miami, cloudy _ 68 44 0.00 ate” conversations seeing sell much i,ld two weeks. The rural agricultural contended Tonight’s announcement, which Minn.-St. Paul, clear 30 14 0.00 as North Carolina-grown within purposes, aati-Bolshevism and official re- top government officials on his vis- fletc“ towns will be that there was attributed to Mobile, cloudy _ 65 36 0.00 and North Carolina-processed to- and smaller speaks was no need to worry the semi-official lations between the Rome and it to Berlin. voorhTs New _ Orleans, cloudy 74 46 0.00 bacco in the Latin American mar- 30 days. about either increased taxes or rais- Finnish news bureau, said that “thi3 dieted in Moscow governments. The impression that New York, clear _ 36 28 0.00 census is the contact prevailed kets now as England did prior to manufacturing AT LEAGUE MEET ing debt limitation. has been established through Italian press support of "an Norfolk, clear _ 54 35 0.00 Germany was marking time on the the war. This will result in in- to a close in the “The mediation of the of Finland Pittsburgh, cloudy .. 32 23 0.00 ,T coming parity payments for which government honorable peace’’ for receiv- Co- Finnish situation, not even Portland, Ore., cloudy 55 38 0.07 creased sales at better prices for Bladen, Brunswick, (Continued From Page One) we hope to make will Sweden.” was interpreted in some foreign iap°,! appropriations Svinhufvud def- snow _ 36 26 coun- ing officially, until Portland, Me., 0.00 the tobacco farmers and will also and Harnett not be made to as that iistr'V Robeson the farmers until the Government Recognized circles possibly meaning informaton Mos- Bichmond, clear _ 55 29 0.00 l"“ of Harry R. Stanley of Greensboro, C. inite comes from bring about increased employment this phase fall of Ger- St. _ 42 34 0.00 lave completed 1941, and congress will be in Observers here were quick to note Italy had assurances from efforts. Louis, cloudy W. of and cow concerning peace San both in processing plants and in and New Hanover Danenburg High Point, session that it that Russia would abstain Antonio, cloudy 79 61 0.00 f ,940 census again before that,” he said. was the first time Moscow many Finnish quarters said they ex- San will be Dr. David Jones of Greensboro, vice Francisco, clear 54 48 0.00 railroad traffic in the state,” he Cumberland counties Russell added it was had the Finnish from turning her armies into the possible that recognized govern- pected Svinhufvud would go to Savannah, clear _ 65 36 0.00 said. March 15. Mr. Bar- chairman, and John Creedy of Dur- where had declar- completed by much of the money proposed for ment formed under Premier Ryti in Balkans, Italy Rome for talks with Mussolini, but Tampa, clear __ 70 43 0.00 ham, secretary.
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