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SELMA, N. C.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 28. 1933.
NUMBER .12
Dangerous Forces In
Operation In United States
i"epresentaitive Dickbtein Says Iu-jpol,ce; a sraug-gling of arms fo,
vestigat.on of House Committee , m litaiy drill; in short, activities
Has Shown Dangerous Forces In which were unknown in this country
Operation In United S.ates. j at any time and not indulged in ex-
■ I cept by enemies of our people, have
(From United State- News)
Foremost among' those who are at
present seeking to influence Ameri
can opinions are the agents of Adolf
Hitler, the dictator of Germany. For
the last eight weeks the House of
'■tepresentatives’ Committee of Im
migration and Naturalization, of
which I am chairman, has been in-
become the order of j#ie day.
I know of instances where a secre.
Nazi police d'd threaten Americans
who happened to have relatives on
the other side with dire reprisals
if they would not join the move
ment.
I know of in.stances where be
cause of the resistance of Americai.
Six Cents On Dollar Brand New Hats?
War Debts Payments I No; Made Over
Finland Pays In Full While Five | Federal Trade Commission Puts
Nations Defau.t and Five Otheis i Ban on Sale .\s Missepresen-
Pay In Part. tation of Goods.
vestigating the operations of certain citizens to dictation by foreign spies.
German organizations and German
individual- in the Un'ted States.
Althoug'h considerably hampered
In our investigations by the lack
of funds necessary to expose the
ietricate and deftly' covered machi
nations of the Nazi government, we
have succeeded in unearthing evi
dence to define the Nazi govern-
r: ent here as the Hs^St dangerous
■tl reat to our democracy that has
ever exi.sted. Through the good of-
■^'ces of friend' of the Committee,
v/ho have worked with us for none
ther than, patriotic reasons, we are
last gett'ng to the bottom of a
f jreign political machine, whose ac-
livities will prove of startling in
terest to all Americans when the
time comes for exposure.
We hope to present sufficient evi
dence before Congres , when that
body reconvenes in January, to
make feasible the creation of -a
,st>ecial committee, properly financed
by the government, for the uncloak
ing of all subversive elements con
nected with the Nazi movement in
the United States.
-A.t present our finding- indicate
beyond a doubt in the minds of
't: ose most closely connected with
r.e investigation that Nazi activi-
their relatives in Germany were
secretely removed to places un
known. I know of in tances whei'i
men and women thoroughly Araeri
can in sp'rit wet-e obliged to y'eb.
:o persuasion of foreign spies be
cause of their fear as to what
would happen to their relative.s i
Germany if they did not become
active members of the Hitler ban(
n .the United States.
Perhaps most important of all is
the connection of German agent
with a number of revolutionary
movement that are expanding ii
.he United States with astounding
rapidity. Through the United States
mails today thousands of news
papers, magazines, pamphlets, anci
lettei's are being circulatejl by lead
ers of various rebellious clique- of
this country. They appeal to th.
jobless and disgruntled elements fo
support that w.ll put them int
power at Washington; they appea
io the bigoted for help in persecu
tions of variou.s races and religion
iects; and they appeal to the right
eous for support in a campaign
against imaginary abuses of a thou-
sand-and-one descriptions.
Our investigation has revealei
this much: That a definite connec
;ies are not confined to the mere ; tion exists between these organiza
d -'tribution of literature which
might clarify our under tanding of
l.-e situation in Germany.
The German propaganda that has
. come into our hands is of a perni
cious sort, ostensibly designed to
gain the sympathy of Americans for
t ons and Nazi bodie.s, who appear
to be financing ami organizing them
that the leaders of the new move
ment are “cranks” of various sorts
whose mentalities when expo ed t-
investigation are undoubtedly patho
logical; that a movement is unde
Hitler’s claims against foreign na- way for weaving these various
lion-'.. German propaganda contains
such elements as bringing to a head
in this country hatred for one’s fel
low citizens.
’Hitler has enlisted the aid of cer
tain in.sftutions in the United
States whose help could be secured
by monthly payments. He ha- trans-
f.-,'rmed into i mediums of his propa
ganda German-American institutions,
many of which have earned the re-
S'pect of our citizens through years
of splendid service to our needs.
Germany’s' indu.strial represeritative.s
jr; this country' have been coordinat
ed with the diabolical plans of the
Hitler government and I can point
-to a number of them as dl'ect exe
cutors of Hitler’s base aims against
cmlizatioh.
At this moment in New York City
wherein we have the largest concen
tration of Germans in the country,
the social ranks of German-Ameri-
canus have been divided in two dis
tinct groups On the one side are
the liberal Germans and Je'ws, who
cannot conscientiously subscribe to
Herr Hitler’s policies of prostitut
ing ideals to the requirements of an
ambitious and unscrupulous state.
On the other side are thousands of
Germans who have been intimidated
into bowing to Hitler’s dictation.
Should they refuse to bend their
'knees to their fanatical chancellor,
the safety of their friends and rela
tives in Germany would be. jeopard
ized, and 'they them elves would
never dare set foot in the father-
land again. Others of this latter
category are influenced by the per
sonal rofit offered them for their
support of the Hitler government.
From the meager budgets of the
Third Reich a surprising amount of
-money is being .-pent on propaganda
in the United States, and at the
same time these funds are being
.S'welled by thou^'ands of dollars ex
torted from German citizens in New
York. We know the sources that
finance this Nazi movement. We
have evidence of the amounts be
ing expended by the Berlin go-vern-
ment; ^nd we know the measures
being employed to coerce Germans
to contribute to this fund for the
propagation of hate and unrest.
Poor Germans in this country are
literally being blackmailed into lend
ing their moral and financial sup
port to the- issues of their chancel
lor.
Secret agents and spies; a secret
movements into a united front; an.
that, in consideration of the re
sponse they have received fron
hundreds of thousands 'of uniforme("
Americans and other per.-ons witli
an unhealthy twist, they present :
formidable threat to our democracy
May I at this fine reassert tha'
our inve.stigation is not directe.
against any groups of American
who in this country seek to foste
the ideal of their ance.stors, lik
the well-tried and well-known Steu
ben Society' of American citizens o
German e.xtraction ? Organization'
like those menfoned perfon-n a use
ful funcfon in our social and politi
cal life, but I am oppo.sed to alien-
with a philosophy of their own die
tating to our -citizens the form o'’'
government -which we are to adopt
for ourselves.
(The foregoing is ah abstract o'
an addres', Dec. 1.5. Tiver associated
stations of the National Broadcast
ing Company )
Yegs Enter Micro
Bank and Post Office
Sometime during the wee hours
of the night on Tuesday of la.st
week the post office and Bank of
Micro was robbed of about $G00 in
cash.
At the post office. Postmaster R.
C. Pearce reported that less than
$100 belonging to the postal fund.s
had been taken from the safe,
which had been blown open by the
use of glycerine, but about $200 of
Mr. Pearce’s personal funds was
missing. The po-t office is located
in a store and the thieves broke the
lock to the front door of the .store
to gain entrance to the building.
Entrance was made to the Bank
of Micro and it w-as said that about
$300 was taken from the bank. An
attempt was made to blow’ open the
safe, but this being burglar proof
their efforts failed, how’ever en
trance was made to the vault. The
bank’s lo's is coveed by insurance.
COTTON GINNED
There vyere 39,920 bale.s of cotton
counting round as half bales, ginned
in Johnston County from the crop
of prior to December. 13, 1933.
as compared w’ith 38,889 bales
g'nned to December 13, 1932.
ROBERT L. POWELL,
Special Agent.
- Uncle Sam collected less than 0
cents on the dollar troin war tlebt
.astailments falling due on Decem
ber 16, 1933.
Out of $152,9o2,637 which became
payable from 11 debtor nations on
that date, only $8,898 123 was act
ually received. One nation, F'inland,
paid in full. Five sent “token” pay-
inents. The remaining five defaulted
All payments were made in dol-
ars of United States Government
jond., both of wMeh are selling ^t
liscounts, thereby reducing the co.st
>f payment to their own govern
ments in terms of their own cur-
■encies. The dollar is selling abroad
it a d'seount of 38 per cent.
Leading the list of defaulters foi
he third" consecutive time wa.-
-■'rance. Owing $22,200,927, she sen!
mly a note explaining that tlic
Chamber of Deputie refused to
nake any payment prior to a re-
iui'vey’ of the whole debt problem.
The note which Ambassador An-
Ire de Laboulaye laid before th(.>-
lepartment of State, on Decembei
.5, explained that in the Frencl,
•iew such a reopening of the wai
lebt problem wa.s assumed in the
loover moratorium agreements anc’
he Lausanne agreement.
For the third consecuti-^e tini
.he American’ Government rejecte;
-his explanation. In behalf of Pres
dent Roosevelt it w’as I'a’.d that th.
.ausanne agreement w'as not bind
ng on the United States and thal
'le American position on debts wa
inchanged
Other defaulting nations and th.
imounts they' owed on December I-'
ire: Belgium, $2,859,454; Estonia
1435,408; Hungary. $45,271; an-
Poland, $.5,408,292.
Great Britain, owing $117,670,-
765, sent a token payment of $7,-
500,000; Czechoslovakia, owing $1,.
682.813, sent $150,000; Italy, owiiv
$2 133,906, paid $1,000,000; Latvia
-)wing $180,706, ■ >ent $8,500; an.
Lithuania, owing $105,474,' pai
$10,000. The I.atv'an payment wa
it first rejected as insuffie'ent, bu'
'ater accepted when that nation re
olied it could pay no more.
Finland paid the full amount o
her installment, $229,623.
Number of Relief
Workers In State
Raleigh, Dec. 26.—.Although thi
total number of North Carolin:
families receiving aid from public
relief funds during November wa.
ncrea.sed over October fom 52,26;
;o 65,641, the number of fam lie
m relief at the end of Novem.bei
when the Civil Works Administra
tion became operative, was nearly
10,000 less than at the end of Oc
tober. Figures made public recently
by Mrs Thomas O’Berry, Adminis
tator, show that there were 51,13'
families receiving relief at the end
>f October and 4.^ 138 receiving re
I’ef at the end of November.
Johmston County had 641 at thf
end of October as compared to 73C
't the end of November, thereby
ndicating an increase rather thar
a decrease.
More Information As
To Farm Credit Loans
Practically' all Production Credit
Asa'oeiations necessary to supply-
farmers with'production loans in the
Third Land Bank Division have ap
plied for their charters and the end
of the week will see all applications
passed upon by' the Farm Credit
Administration and in many instan
ces local associations ready to do
business. President Ernest Graham
of the Production Credit Corporatior
of Columbia announced th's week.
Many famers are asking how they'
will go about obtaining loans where
the association includes severa'
counties. President Graham state.-
that w'hile the details are y'et in
complete, arrangement- will be
made -whereby a farmer desiring a
loan will not have to go beyond,
some central point in his county, re
gardless of the location of the as
sociation headquarters. “Our aim,’’
said President Graham, "is to make
production credit available to farm
ers with the minimum effort on
their part. However, we are anxiou.=
for farmers to. fake an intere.st in
their associations as it is hoped thev
•vill eventually own and- operate
them themselves.”
(United States News)
The selling' of made-over hats as
new headgear must be stopped, says
the Federal Trade Commission.
The practice of collecting worn
and discarded fur felt hatsi, clean
ing and fitting them with new rib
bons, sweat bands and linings, and
selling them as new has grown to
considerable proportions.
The commission has been investi
gating, and announced, December
16, that seven companies in New
York, Brooklyn and Jer.-'ey City
have been ordered to discontinue
such sales without stamping on or
attaching to each hat in a conspicu
ous place words clearly indicating
that it is a used hat which has been
made over.
The gathering of old hats, the
commission explained, is 'done by
regular dealers, who accumulate
their supplies from trashmen, junk
dealers, peddlers, .secondhand cloth-
ng dealers and from some retail
stores. The hats then are turned
over to the manufacturer' who spe-
'ialize in making them over for re
sale.
Severe Cold Wave Grips
North And Middle West
Gold Buyer’s Teeth
‘Show Up’ Present
■Washington, Dec. 25.—Jes e H.
lone.s, official “gold buyer” for the
j'overnment, was surprised at an
11. F. C. Christmas party when he
ipened his package and found it
■ontained a bag of gold coins Bank-
er-like, he tested the coins with his
teeth and found they had been
bought from the counters of the 5
and 10-cent .'tore.
Autos Stuek Fast
By Spilled Cement
Brockton, Mass.,—Dec. 25—A sure
remedy against automobile thefts
Whep a cement truck released its
contents after a collision, a large
number of automobiles parked at
Court and Carey Streets were stuck
to the road like flies to flypaper
Heavier cars were pressed into ser
vice to release the machines from
the grip of the shoe g'lue.
Purchase of Farms
Is Planned by U. S.
Washington, Dec. 25.—Working-
under an agreement with the Public
Works Admini.stration, the Depart
ment of Agriculture is making an
extensive survey of farm lands look
ing toward a program for outright
purchases of farms to-bring agricul
tural production under permanent
control.
The survey i' being directed by
Rexford G Tugwell, Assistant Sec
retary of Agriculture. Definite pro
posals for taking land permanently
out of production are expected to
be made soon.
Lindy’s Wife Given
‘Gross Of Honor’
Washington, Dec. 25—When Mrs.
Anne Lindbergh inspected her
Christmas gift;, at the home of her
mother, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, in
Englew'ood, N. J., today, she found
the “Cross of Honor,” awarded by
the United States Flag Association.
Her work as co-pilot and radio
operator on the Lindberghs’ recent
flight won her the award.
Colonel Lindbergh received a
similar decoration from the asso
ciation seven years ago, in lauda
tion of his historic' “Lone Eagle’’
flight to Paris.
The “Cross of Honor” is the
highe.st decoration which the United
States Flag A.ssociation is authoriz
ed to present.
Woman Greets Stork,
Keeps on Walking
Jackson, Miss., Dec 25.—Old Dr
Stork, flying fast, overtook a plod-
liing, poverty-stricken mother at the
Ocean Springs bridge near here Sat
urday. The woman, who had walked
several miles in an effort to obtain
aid before the baby^ birth, resumed
her- journey immediately after-ward
and carried the infant to a friend’s
home for shelter and assi tance. The
child weighed .six and a half pound.s
Three thousand selected hens com
prising the supply flocks of the
Sterling Hatchery at Valdese were
blood-tested last week.
Selma Kiwanis Club
Installs New Officers
The following officers of the Sel
ma Kiwanis Club were installed last
week: President, Lieutenant-Govern
or Chas. W. Scales; Vice-Pre.sident,
W. H. Adams; Secretary-Treasurer,
M. R. Wall; Directors: L. T. Sin
gleton, John Jeffreys, C. P. Harper,
W. J. Crain, J. C. Avery, T. S.
Krahenbuhl and John Wiggs.
The following committees were
appointed for the ensuing year:
Underprivileged Child and Voca-.
tional Guidance, D. F. Waddell,
Chairman; L. T. Singleton, E. N.
Booker.
Public Affairs—Agriculture—Good
will—Business Standards—Grievan
ces, W. I. Goiiwin, Chairman; C. P.
Harper, J. A. Ray.
Meetings—Attendance — House •—
Reception—^Classification — Member
ship, C. L. Richardson, Chairman;
C. A. Jacobs, J. C. Avery.
Program—Music—Kiwanis Educa
tion, 0. A. Tuttle, Chairman; John
Jeffi'eys, John Wiggs.
Interclub Relations, W. J. Crain
Chairman; C. E. Kornegay, T. S.
Krahenbuhl.
Publicity, H. H. Lowry, chairman
Boys and Girls Work, George F
Brietz, Chairman; W. H. Adams, C.
■A.. Jacobs, Clyde Jones.
Directors Community Bu'lding, C.
A. Jacobs, Chairman; M. R. Wall.
19-Inch Snow Brings Work To 10,-
000 Men In City of New York—
I'emperature Drop Far Below Zen>
In Midwest.
Japan Celebrates
Own ‘Christmas’
Tokio, Dec. 25.—Santa Claus is
a well known fi.gure in Japan, even
though Japanese do not observe the
religidus significance of the great
holiday.
This year they have expressed the
Ijoliday spirit with elaborate decora
tions, illuminated archways, colored
lighting effects. Salvation Army ap
peals, gaily decorated store windows,
and other Western manifestations of
the Christmas season.
Christmas is a holiday in Japan
becau.se the Emperor Taisho died
on December 26, and death in the
Orient is alway.' an occasion for
celebration.
Rum Store Opened
By Mayor of Town
Newsburgh, N. Y., Dec. 25—Mayor
Charle.i B. Brown and Corporation
Counsel Stanley B. Johnson have
opened a liquor store next to the
City Hall here. They are the first
city officials in New York State to
receive a liquor license. Johnson’s
father will manage the store.
8,000 Pan for Gold
In Winter Months
Denver, Col., Dec. 25—About 8,-
000 men and women earn their liv
ing by panning gold from the
■streams of Colorado each winter,
according to dealers in mining equip
ment. Denver dealers report an an
nual .sale of 5,000 gold pans and
cradles to gold seekers. Placer oper
ation- are carried on throughout the
mountain aea and on the plains to
a distance of 20 miles from the
foothills.
17 Factories Periled
By Millinery Code
Dallas, Tex., Dec. 25.—Efforts
were being made today to prevent
the closing of 17 Dallas millinery
factories, employing approximately
1,200 workers.
The manufacturers announced
Saturday that the NRA millinery
to continue code, to become effective'
today, would make it impo .sible for
them to continue in business. They
protested that the terms of the code
were dictated by New York manu
facturers and that Southern plant-
could not meet its terms, and stay
in business.
A wave of bitter cold, accom
panied by raging winds that brought
deaths on the Great Lakes and bliz
zards in New England states, swept
across the United States last night
on the course of snow stonfts that
pileil high drifts in a dozen states.
Deaths froip the cold and from
accidents caused by the snoW were
estimated at several score, including
eight fishermen in Lake Michigan.
The majority of the deatlis, however,
were from automobile accidents. In
several sections, the wor.-t of the
weather was yet to come.
Temperatures plunged far below
zero in the midwe.st. Chicago had a
l()-degree drop in five hours, with
10 below predicted. The city report
ed 6.3 inches of snow.
New York had 10 3 inches of snow
in seven hours that tied up ship
ping for hours, kept airplanes at
home, delayed trains and buses. “No
visibility” was reported from the
New York harli#r, and even ships
at sea were troubled. Over 10,060
men were put to work clearing the
streets.
A terrific windstorm sunk the
100-foot fishing smack, "Martha,”
near the harbor at Michigan City,
Ind., and carried four fi-hermen to
their deaths. Four men w-ere
drowneil when the tug “bremen”
capsized at South Haven, Mich, an
other South Haven fishing tug was
missing.
Coast guardsmen described the
storm as “the worst in years.” Huge
waves threatened to destroy any
thing afloat, and fishermen were
urged to remain at home.
Northwest winds carried the snow
.'torms eastward from their birth- .
places in the Pacific nothw'esL
Montana, and the Canadian nortm
west. A bitter blizzard how'led into
Portland, Me., at noon, and the
New England states generally had
taste.-'i of real winter.
The snow had abated and tem
peratures were rising from e.xtrenSe
lows in the Dakotas, Minnesota,
Iowa, and neighboring states, but
farmers still took prei'autions to.
protect livestock, and shipper- were
weather of continued below zero
weather probabdities.
Snow slides in the mountains had
tied up railroad branch lines in
Montana, with prospects that one of
them, between Saint Regis and
Avei-y or Saint Maries, would not
be opened for 30 days. Through
trains from the Pacific coast, bear
ing belated Chri-tmas travelers, ar
rived at Missoula. Mont,, for the fir.st
time since Friday.
New Cotton Campaign
Now Gets Under Way
North Carolina farmers who grow
hogs for the market should sign
one of the new Corn-Hog adjust
ment contacts, suggest- W. W. Shay.
He urges such action where the
growers have also signed one of
the tobacco or cotton contracts.
Farm agents from North Caroli
na’s 67 cotton growing counties were
(scheduled to gather at State Col
lege on Thursday, December 28, to
study the cotton contracts which
will be offered growers by the AAA
within a few days.
The sign-up drive w'ill be launch
ed the first week in January, which
has been designated “Cotton Sign-
Up Week.” Every effort will be
made to place the contracts in the
hands of the farmers a.' soon as
possible. Dean I. O. Schaub, head of
the State jCollege extension service,
stated.
Farmers of the nation have been
asked to limit their crop to 25,000,-
000 acres, a reduction of 40 per cent
under the average for the five-year
period from 1928 through 1932.
Growers who sign reduction con
tracts will be given both rental and
parity (layments. The rental for the
acres retired from cultivation will be
calculated at the rate of three and
one-half cent a pound on the aver
age production of those acres dur
ing the 1928-32 period with a pro
vision that not more than $18 00 an
acre shall be paid.
The parity payments will be at
least on e cent a pound on next
year’s cotton allotment to each
grqwer, regardless of how' the mar
ket .stands. In case the market fails
to bring parity prices, the AAA will
increase the parity payment' if nec
essary to make up the difference.