Chamberlain To Present
Czechoslovak Surrender
To German Leader Today
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However, No Definite
Indication Given That
Hitler Will Accept
Franco - British Pro
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London, Thursday, Sept 22. ?
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain,
carrying Europe's last hope of peace
in his brief case, prepared to fly to
day to Germany for his second meet
ting with Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to
offer him the complete surrender of
Czechoslovakia to Germany's terri- j
to rial demands.
Even as the lanky, * 69-year-old 1
British Premier got ready to board
a British Airways plane, German
troops were massing nearly a half
million strong along the Czech fron
tier, ready to march at the Fuehrer's
signal.
There was no indication that Hitler
would accept Chamberlain's peace of
fer, or that some explosive incident
might not set off the fireworks be
fore any deal could be made ? but
Britain and France were virtually
sure of one thing. They had averted
the danger of war to themselves for
the present
Both governments had served no- |
tice on Czechoslovakia that by pro
posing the peaeefirf^ray oat, they had
Liquidated their obligations to that
little war-created republic; and if
the Czechs elect to fight, they will
in all probability, fight alone.
Amy May Revolt
In "spite of Chamberlain's desper
ate efforts to avert the catastrophe
?and it seemed probable that he had
at least confined it to Czechoslovakia
and Germany ? there was still the
danger that the Czech army might
rise against the Prague government
and elect to go to war rather than
submit to national suicide.
Crowds stormed through the streets
of Prague after the cabinet had an
nounced its unconditional surrender
to the Anglo-French demand for ces
sion of Sudeten territory, shouting
"We want to fight!"
Whether Hitler accepts or rejects
Chamberlain's "peace at any price"
solution to the Czech crisis, it was be
lieved that the British Prime Min
ister had spared Europe a general
war, since neither France nor Britain I
now feel they are obligated to go to
the aid of the Czechs.
And in doing this, they elevated
the German dictator to a commanding
position in Europe's political horizon^
unparallelfed since the days of Na
poleon.
Hitler in five years has raised the
Third Reich from the status of an
unarmed defeated nation, surrounding
* by the imposing web of France's post
war military alliances, to the most
formidable power in Europe today,
capable of imposing its will upon the
empires of France and Britain liter
ally without firing a shot.
Fear of Hitler.
tL was this fear that sent opposi
tion leaders in Paris and London in
- to baddies today as Chamberlain ami
Edouard Deladier, the French Pre
mier, strove to .beat dojm domestic
reactions against what many de
scribed as a "betrayal" of the Czechs.
I Army's Me. 1 FKer
I Dies in Flami%
I Plant Crash
Ifetaak, Calif., Sept. 21. ? The
I Army's No. 1 flier, Major General
I Osear Westover, Chief of tine Air
I Corps, went to a flaming death to
? day in the crash of hie airplane.
The General was piloting his tmn
I plane. His crew chief, Sergeant Sam
I Hynes, who had beat flying with the
I general far three years, died with the
I air chief.
? TV crash occurred near the Lock
l Watchera at the air terminal ^
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Rebellion Threat
Loomsat Prague
Angry Crowds In Pra
gue Streets Call for
War and Rule By Dic
tatorship.
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Prague, Sept. 21. ? Angry mobs
surged in the streets tonight crying
"To war?we want a dictatorship!"
and carried a threat of internal re
bellion against the government's
complete surrender of the rich Sude
ten border regions to Germany.
This post-war republic of 15,000,
000 polygot peoples at 4:55 p. m.,
(11:55 a. m., E. S. T.), ceased to exist
in the form in which it was establish
ed under the treaty of Versailes,
when Britain and France ampp&ted
the rich Sudeten industrial region
and handed it over to Fuehrer Adolf
Hitler as his price at peace.
After stubbornly -defying Hitler
and his overwhelming armed might
for weeks, the government of scholar
ly President Eduard Benes capitu
lated "with pain" to what it called
the "irristable pressure" of a Fran
co-British ultimatum and 300,000
German troops massed across the
border for an invasion.
As the anger of the crowds rose,
with open condemnation of a Fran
co-British "betrayal" and cries of
"Down with Hitler," the govern
ment appealed desperately for order.
"God knows that more courage is
needed for living than for commit
ting suicide," a government spokes
man assured the people by radio.
"We resolved to offer ourselves as
a sacrifice for world peace, just as
centuries ago the Divinity sacrificed
himself on the Cross,"
Thousands of mobile and loot po- i
lice were rushed to trouble spots, and
heavy cordons were thrown around
the British and French legations.. -
History, the government announc
ed, will pronounce a judgment upon
Britain and France "who left us in
the lurch."
The gravest threat was the over- j
throw of the Benes government and
Hie rise of a military dictatorship
which might refuse to yield to Ger
man occupation of the Sudet?nland
and precipitate war after all.
Aggravating the situation was the
fact that the government, having ac
cepted loss of the Sudeten areas and
the bulk of their 3,500,000 German
inhabitants, faced warlike demands
from Poland on the north and Hun
gary on the south for further /dis
memberment of the state. ? '
Both Hungary and Poland, working
together with Hitler's support, de
manded the "liberation" of territor
ies formerly belonging to them along
with minorities totalling 800,000 per
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Duke Opens Classes
Of New Term Today
Durham, Sept 21. ? Duke Uni
versity's new academic year was
opened this morning in exercises in
which civic leaders joined with stu
dents and faculty members. Presi
dent W. P. Few, in his opening ad-;
dress, expressed the wish that Duk*
would not grow so large that it
would function as a machine to turn
out graduates. Bather, be said, he
wishes Hie university to function so
that the possibilities in each individ
ual may be developed. * -1 ,
Classes will be begun tomorrow
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MISS SUMAYEH ATTIYEH, Noted Lecturer.
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Reveal Lists
For Jury Duty
Drawn For Civil Session
September 26 and Oc
tober 24.
Lists of jurors^for two sessions
of Superior court have drawn to jj
serve at sessions scheduled for the 1
week of September 26 and the week 1
of October 24. ~ 1
A criminal session is scheduled '
to be held the week of October 31, '
but the jury, list for the term has 1
not been drawn yet County com- 1
missioners will draw jurors for this 1
session at their regular October
meeting. i
Jurors drawn- to serve the week
of September 26 listed by townships, '
follow:
Baker, Vernon, Fountain; Stewart,
Worth, Farmville; McWhorter, A. M.,
Bethel; Little, John, Pactblus; Har- (
ris, William, Fountain; Russell, C.
G., Farmville; Tucker, Walter S., J
Greenville; Wallace, S. A., Carolina; ,
Dixon, J. F? Falkland; Everett, W. '
Jo Belvoir; Davis, F. M. Jr., Farm
ville; Burroughs, E. O., Bethel^- Du- j
pree, F. G. Jr., Farmville; Strickland, ,
E. G., Beaver Dam; Dudley, S. I.,
Greenville^ Ellis, William, Farmville; '
Hudson, A. L., Farmville; Jones, L. ^
E., Farmville; Rasberry, W. J., j
Farmville; v .
Keel, Zeno, Bethel; Branch, B. I., 1
Winterville; Crawford, Clarence, 4
Greenville; Wilson, W. C., Swift 1
Creek; Stancill, H. B., Beaver Dam; ,
Murphey, Johnnie, Farmvilife; Spain, ]
C. B., Greenville; Johnson, Joe E.,
Greenville; Cox, Uran, Chicod; Car- \
son, S_ W., Carolina; Dail, Luther,
Ayden; Harrell, Floyde, Belvoir;
Porter, G. S., Chicod; Dixon, M. E.,
Farmville; Paramore, S. A., Chicod;
TyswivR. A., Greenville; Nichols, T. 1
H., Farmville; Moseley, W. D., Ay
den; Morgan, Ferrell, Farmville;
Tripp, R. H., Greenville.
-? Jurors to serve during the week j;
of October 24, listed by townships,
^follow:
James, W. R. Jr., Bethel; Nor
ville, Willie, Fountain; Hodges, E.
B., Farm ville; Jones, J. R., Farm
vllle; Bundy, Lubie, Farmville;
Barnhill, R. K., Carolina; Worth
GreenviRe; Evans, Arden, Chicod;
Allen, Jno. ?, Bethel; Clayton, J, B.,
Greenville; * Erwin, M. " G, Beaver
Dam; Baldree, T. 0., Farmville;
Forbes, G?envi?tte; Ttfpp,
B. A., Beaver Dam; Cox, Clintop-R.,
Ayden; McGowan, E. Wf Chicod;
Savage, H. T? Greemfflle; Griffin,
Le";'uaFal'd*"d: "emy
B Davenport, C. , L., , - Winterville;
Johnson, Hardy, Fountain; Bridgers,
Greenville; Spencer, W. C., Chicod^
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er, Herman, uueoa; gpn%v w,
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Sumayeh Attlyeh
To Lecture Here
Noted Entertainer To
Be In Farmville Sep
tember 30.
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Miss. Sumayeh Attiyeh is the
youngest girl orator and professionals
al lecturer in America. Her grebt
talents attracted the attention of the
late William Jennings Bryan and she
became his protege and was placed
an the Chautauqua Platform. Her
talks and Oriental Entertainments
are full of fun, stories and- unusual
interesting facts - and experiences.
Her memory abounds with colorful
and sparkling anecdotes of her child'
hood days in Syria, and she moves
her audiences to smiles and tears,
not only by her dramatic eloquence, I
but also by the sheer power of her
magnetic personality.
Sumayeh Attiyeh is tne only one '
>f her kind in America. .
Her talks are unique, dramatic, en
tertaining, humorous, educational
and most instructive and in teres ting.
She wears beautiful Turkish and
Arabian costumes. Her idealism,1
sincerity and lofty outlook, together
with, her extraordinary ability as an
orator have made her the most pop
ular woman lecturer in America. She
lias traveled all over, the world and
lectured and entertained in the lead
ing clubs, colleges and churches in
Araeriea, Canada, England, Australia
and many other far away lands.
Miss Attiyeh said that she is look
ing forward to entertain ? Farmville
people and invites all the citizens
from tea years old up to 100 years
to her Oriental Entertainment and a
talk about the Holy Land.
Come early to Perkins Hall, Farm
ville School Building, and get good
seats, and enjoy a delightful evening
with music, too. In her lrind, gen
erous way Miss Sumayeh Attiyeh is
giving this Oriental Entertainment
FREE. The Entertainment will be
gin promptly at eight o'clock, Fri
day night, September 30.
The program wifl include a duet by
Mrs. Haywood Smith and Mrs. Daisy
H. Smith, and a selection by a local
quartette. Mayor Dayis will intro
duce Miss Attiyeh' and John T.
Thome will make the announcements.
WHO KNOWS ?
1. Waa the so-aallsd Sudeten
of Czechoslovakia part of -Germany
>efore the World War.
: 2L-. When did the U. S. begiai^aht
8. Has the Workers 4flUance, the
WPA union, abandoned its plan to
prise a-.fcampaign fund
4. Does the government chfeck-up
on agents in the pajr of foreign gov
ernments? -
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West Hampton, N. Y., Sept. 21. ?
Commander William M. Wolfe of the
Coast Guard tonight reported a "se
vere loss of life" in the win# and
rain storm chat struck fashionable
beach Colonies along the Long Island
shore. He said that he could not
estimate" the number dead, but that
it might be tremendous.
, Bodies of at least four women and
two men were washed ashore tonight
from fashionable West Hampton
Beach, playground of the wealthy,
where approximately 200 residents
were marooned and nearly all homes
were reported "washed away or badly
battered.
Reporting to Coast. Guard head
quarters in New York- City that the
entire area from Moriches to East
Hampton was flooded, Commander
Wolfe said that loss of life was heavy
and that property damage was very
great.
A tropical storm which moved up
the Atlantic, seaboard swept the. New
Jersey, Long Island, and 'Connecti
cut coasts late yesterday and struck
in Providence, B. I., with lalhing
rains and a 78-mile- wind.
It tore off roofs of buildings in
'the. Rhode Island city, marooned
thousands of workers and shoppers,
[blotted out electric lights over a vast
j area "and caused theatres to be emp
I ted in alarm.
Shifting ghles and drenching down
pours marked its . passage-across the
New York metropolitan area before
it howled its[ way northeast into the
New; England states where a week's
rain alrady had swollen rivers to the
flood stage, bringing death and ruin.
Fifteen deaths?five of them wom
, en who drowned yesterday?were at
[ tributed to the stonn in New Eng
land. One of the women was a nuns
returning from a maternity case
when an automobile in which she was
riding was caught in the rush of wa
ter from a breaking dam. The four
other? were standing on a bridge at
Weare," N. H? when it collapsed.
With the storm's _ velocity only
slightly diminshed on its long course
up the Atlantic?earlier in the week
Florida was threatened ? it moved
across the New York metropolitan
area, piling higlrtides and a thunder
of surf on tiie coast.
! So terrific were thehlasts of wind
?that struck New York's waterfront
that the sailing of the Cunard Liner
Queen Mary was delayed because of
the difficulty of getting the 82,000
ton ship safely out of her dock.
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Record Registration
At Mars HiD CoDege
Mats Hill, Sept 21. ? At the close
of registration this week, 7.">4 stu
dents were enrolled at the 83rd ses- .
sion of Mars Hill College, the largest
number ever enrolled at the college.
As usual, the largest number of
students registered are from North
Carolina. Of the total number en
rolled, 615 are from North Carolina,
representing 86 of-theHOO counties.
The -new Edna Corpening Moore
dormitory-for women, which was
completed this.* fall, is filled for the
first \time and is providing accom
modations for 120 students and teach
ers. 7 ,
According to the registrar, oyer 200
stqdents were denied admission to
the school this^year because lack of
facilities made it impossible to ac
commodate them.
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The Rev. C B. Mashburn, pastor of
the Christian Church, in an interview
today, expressed his pleasure in in
troducing to this community Rev,
Newton J. Robiaon, pastor of Hillyer
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Hold Initial Fall Meet
|ing In Building pe-;
cen#iomDleted. ? <
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The September meeting of the Ma- j
jor Benjamin May Chapter, D. A. R.,
was characterized by a new enthu
siasra and a spirit-of justified pride, <
evidenced in an achievement which 1
members had anticipated for several
years, the construction of the hand- '
some chapter house on *he Wilson <
highway, just outside the incorporat- '
ed limits-of Farmville. Misa Tabi
tha DeVisconti and Mrs, B. S. Shef/ ?
pard,. direct descendants of Major ?
May^ were hostesses at this meet
ing. V"V. )
* The building, modeled along colon- <
ial" ?n^8, has been erected since '
March l aTa cost of around $11,000,
which was made possible by a gift ?
some years ago of the site, and by a 1
subsequent gift of $6,000 at the be- I
ginning of this year by A. C.. Monk,
who is not only a prominent tobacco- I
nist, banker and chcrch man, of I
Farmville, but ar community-minded
citizen, whose generosity has been <
extended to many worthwhile move
ments and to various religious bodies i
here for the past several years. t
Thus the first fall meeting of the *
Major May Chapter, convening in its I
new home, was an epoch in the his- 1
tory of this large and vigorous organ
ization-^ dream come true, and the 1
first act of the chapter in the busi- <
ness session, presided over by the <
regent, Mrs. Henrietta M. William
son, w&8 to express its collective ap- *
preciation to the building committee, 1
composed of Mrs. W. M. Willis, Mrs. <
A. C. Monk, Mrs. U. H. Cozart, Mrs. 1
T. C. Turnage, Mrs. C. H. Arrington,
Mrs. T. E. Joynqr, Mrs. C. E. Moore, <
Mrs. G. W. Jefferson and Mrs. W. H. '
Whitmore, and to instruct the secre
tary, Mrs, Bruce Eagles, to write 1
notes conveying the appreciation of
the members to. all friends, who had
.contributed" in any way to this en- J
deavpr. . j
Mrs. E. Bruce Beaaley, chairman of }
the year book committee, gave her <
report and as chairman of the rules
and regulations committee, read the
rules regarding the use of the chap
ter house, which are subject to
amendments by the board of gover- (
nors, of which Mrs. A. C. Monk is \
chairman. . ;
Mrs. U. H. Cozart was appointed to |
purchase a silver marker for memor
ialising --fhe A. P. Turnage family,
who donated an exquisite colonial j
mantel to the new chapter house. . j
After the immediate needs of the
chapter house in relation to furnish
ings were Jisted by the regent, gen- j
erous donations were made by in- |
dividual members. The contribution
of severaT piecea of colniai furniture
to the chapter by Mrs. J.-'S. Sche
matise, of Norfolk, Va., formerly Miss
Martha Carr, of Farmville, was re
ported at this time.
Mrs. B. S. Sheppard, historian, re
ported the chapter's offer made to
the Bchool, of a prize to the high 1
school student doing the best work in
American,, history this year. ^ [
The district D. A. R. meeting to
be held in Tarboro, October 4, was
dis?ussed and the committee chair- j
men were urged by the.regent to at
tend.
The program for the afternoon,
based on the Constitution of the
'United^States, wa$ in charge of Mrs, (
E.- Bruce Beasiey/who gave an in
teresting and enlightening discourse
on this subject. Ther hatiional anthem
was sung as an appropriate cohelps
ion to ?*wgram||^5
Fruited punch and a variety of
dainty sandwiches were served during,
the social hour. Special'guests were
Dr. Annie Joyner, Mrs. John T.
Thorne, i&s. J, W. Parker, Mrs, J, ,
W. Joyner and Miss Nannie Darden.
Members of the Contract Club
gathered about card tables on Toes- J
day in the home of Mrs: G. S. Vought (
f0r-*n afternoon of bridge.; A color- I
fuL^ setting for the meeting ' was
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and Disarm Czech Of
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Territory,
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*Eger, Czechoslovakia, Sept 22. -r- ,,
Sudeten Germans. last night took r';:
jver power in sections of Cxechoalo- ,1
rak territory close to the frontier,
rhey disarmed gendarmes and cus
toms officials and ripped up border
DOStS. ?
Asch, the home of Konrad Henlein, :
the Sudeten German^ fuehrer, was
completely in the hands of his fol
owers.
The Sudeten .vigilance corps
stormed police and gendarmes head
juarters ahortly before midnight, dia
irming the Czechs.
AB police and gendarmes on night
service were being held under guard
it their respective headquarters.
.The vigilance corps likewise off
:upied the Czech customs houses, dis- ;
uming the customs guards, who
vere taken into German territory.
Fearing that the Czechoslovak
irmy might come down on them from
he interior, the Heleinists blocked
he roads leading from Eger to Aach.
Four large trees were felled across
the main highway two miles from
he cityti edge.
Armed. Sudeten labor corps boys
iefended and guarded the barricades.
News of the Czechoslovak govern
ment's agreement yesterday to hand
he Sudeten regions to Germany
started a systematic execution of
police and rule the territory immed
ately. ' _
In Eger, former Sudeten German
mrty regional headquarters, Creeho
dovak police still nominally were in
:harge early-today.
But vigilance corps and war vet- \
?rahs' associations patrolled the
streets along with the police. Post
ers urging the people to remain calm
sere stuck up all over the city.
Police, some with tews streaming
iown their faces, looked on while
awaiting instructions from Prague. <
Huge swastika banners were flying
aday dt Fransenbad.
Asch was a mass of flags.
Throughout the Sudetenland, ^ the
jerman-speaking people went into
the streets in orderly fashion, all
rearing the swastika armbands and
:rying "Heil Hitler!"
Butter Storage '
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Stocks of storage butter in the
country on September 1 reached a
new high record of 201,543,000
pounds, exceeding the previous peak
by more than 26,000,000 pound*.
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If you haven't, any idea about the
ralue of advertising we know j. man
who will be glad to tetTybii about it
Poland Submits
Demand for Re
turn of Moarity
Warsaw Backs Ultima
: turn
Force of 1,600,000 Sol
^?:dier8^: r<.
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i Warsaw', Sepj^ 2L '
night made a formal 'demand upon
Czechoslovakia for , "surrender" of
the Teschen Silesia tie along the
Czech-Polishborder and warned that
L.600,000 troops are being held in
mfrm u, tack
The govermtaent announced that thiT^ .
Polish minister, in Prague, ftir. QiS^ ? .* *
uir Papee, had handed a note to
Foreign Minister Kamil Krbfta de
?nandir.e that the Polish*minority o#>~
?,000 in Caechoslovakia bexgiven
the same solution as the German
I
Tim demand waa served shortly
sfter the Czech cabinet, as aft*ddy:
dternative to a German invasion,
*pitulated to Fuehrer Adolf HitiePr^i ?
ultimatum for surrender of the Sude
ten German belt to the Reidfc .
pCtowds in 'tha^^tneeta of Witiaw ^ ^
potter Poliah cm^ton^de
been released yesterday was held un
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