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WEATHER p.,ir tonight and probably [fid iv with continued mild tem frature». (Eljl* ©tttt£S -jNiettUS Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population GOOD AFTERNOON \ ' The shelled pecan industry it finding the wage-hour eel herd to crack. HENDERSONV1LLE, N. C„ MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1938 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS * * * f f * * * * * * )ies Charges Radio <$> I a — f f f T T T Men 'Intimidated' * E FORCED TO EMIT SPEECH £ DECLARES' res> H riter to Follow Him Alter He Carries Quiz Facts to People OLLOWS CHARGE OF SABOTAGE EFFORTS WASHINGTON. Oct. 31. (UP) i. - - • . publicity direc r : I'*, r.ocratic national r ' '.ay said he had c ■. > . for making ar i: - v a newspaperman p'y to the radio t Chairman Dies *tee investigat f -A'. - car. activities. - - • sr the administra " vpts tii sabotage > v x ; his committee, ar r. ; • t o broadcast over a ' • station "to reveal the .t- ?t .concerning antag ism toward the committee. ASHIXGTON, Oct. 31. (Ui. _.r:ran Martin Dies, D.. Texas, [the rouse committee investigat „ un-American activities charg es: night that administration _f;cia'« "intimidated' 'a na ir-'.v ' . ::■> broadcasting chair, ; r.rc.v. •. with purported New attempts to sabotage his oup's inquiry. iDies said he had received au information that William Dolph. manager of'local Sta WOL. an affiliate of the Mu* r.^f.vhad been "forced" | five radio time to Paul Y. An Js n. S*. I.ouis newspaperman, reply to Dies' own speech over i >un:e network tonight. |.r •" ear! - yesterday had said his address would contain ffinite proof that top-flight Dealers, including cabinet of ials. sought to obstruct the coni ttee's work for political rea vine latest development in tno between President Roosevelt ^Bii the last night ^Rrtly after U'OL announced that Hif< would Mowed on the air H Anderson, who also would dis ■ ittee's work . ■ Die- ch r?ed that Charles Hehels publicity director of He Democratic rational commit He. had approached Dolph with He suggestion that Anderson be H to speak ->nd that no Hution of the White House's in Hest in :'r.e matter be made. I'There you have the Roosevelt .r.v.r.;-s:r ,;sinsr the federal '*••• t i: vr.sir.g radio station - intirr.: iate a broadcasting com nutting a speaker to How me • ■ the air in an effort "v charges," Dies said. Anderson, who has been rover t th- : ;_tee's hearing.-* for s newspaper (The St. I.ouis -aid that he had been k " < after the Dies a>l by WOL officials, but that r ' .. tentions of denying ? cha: : •< made by the Texas upessman. ; '.y to give a report s eyo-v. tness account of how 6 "• conducted its hear ' ".at witness accused rve;T- F' -ink Murphy fcf Michi ir responsible for the fc^dovn of law and order dur-' * ' :: obile strikes last &V Anderson said. , lestioned regarding charges, Dolph said !*■^ n merely had invit " 1 spt-uk in keeping r evolt's press confer-! "c^ ' n Friday that cor " '' i on page three) I Y. 'CHANGE I HAS REFORMS ■ on New Rules, Prac I tices as Sequel to I V»hitney Affair ' Oct. 31. (UP) I F.xchange commis I .•cd a program n-forms in the rules I Um New York ■ 'leveloped joint BL' \:mge following K HMr Exchange By • mi Whitney. B^<'/r- - . that the program Ki. utrh revision of BJj^v exchange practices, B' >i separation of B.' unking functions, K-". r brokerage ac Judge Who Gave Hague a Setback Federal Judge William Clark, above, of Newark. N\ J., who in 1930 jumped into the news with a revolutionary legal opin ion that the 18th Amendment was invalid, again has made headlines with a 15,000-word opinion forbidding Mayor Frank Hague of Newark from inter fering with C. I. 0. distribution of leaflets, union organization and public meetings. BLAZES, AUTO CRASHES KILL 14 ON SUNDAY 6 People Die on Mississippi Highway; 4 Negro Prisoners Incinerated (By United Pres») Automobile accidents and fires killed at least 14 persons and in jured a score or more over the nation Sunday. Six persons died when a small open automobile crashed into a heavily-loaded bus nine miles south of Jackson, Miss. All five occupants of the auto and the driver of the bus, Paul Gaines, 42, of New Orleans, were killed. Three of the bus* passengers were injured. At Glenville, Ga., four negro priso 3rs in the city jail were burned to death when fire de stroyed the small one-story struc ture. Authorities believed the building caught from a coal-burn ing stove used to heat the pail. The negroes had been arrested for drunkenness. The jail burned to the ground before the fire was discovered. A woman and a small boy weue killed near Stockton, Calif., when two automobiles collided and plunged into a water-filled drain age ditch. It was feared that si* others, who were believed passen gers in one of the automobiles, were drowned. Efforts still were being made to raise the car. Two firemen were killed and 10 others were hurt at Philadelphia when a fire truck and a squad car crashed while en route to a $2 blaze. A motorist had summoned firemen when a short circuit in his automobile wiring caused smoke to pour from beneath the engine hood. In Boston, six wedding guests en route from the church to a re ception at the bride's home and two policemen were injured when (Continued on page four.) RADIO DRAMA CAUSING PANIC INVESTIGATED Many Not Hearing Expla nation of 'War of Worlds' in Consternation HEART ATTACKS AND ONE STROKE RESULT I NEW YORK. Oct. 31. (UP)— { The Federal Communieatlons com ! mission today investigated the ra I dio program which caused thou sands in every part of the United States to believe that the eastern part of the nation had been in vaded by creatures from the plan et Mars in the first engagement of "The War of the Worlds." Hysteria following the Mercury theatre radio dramatic program last night swamped police and newspapers of New York City and New Jersey towns, where Martian invaders were said to have landed, killing thousands af ter leaving a "space rocket." Hysteria spread to the Pacific coast where thousands of tele phone calls asked about the "in vasion." The play was a dramatization of H. G. Wells' novel, "The War of the Worlds." Residents of New Jersey fled their homes, squad cars and am bulances roared through Newark, and newspaper and press associa tion offices throughout the coun try were besieged with telephone calls demauding tc know about p "meteor which fell in New Jer sey." In the radio rendition the re port of a meteor falling near Trenton, N. J., was made so real istically that persons who tuned in after the introductory remarks had been made believed the state ment to be fact. There was an immediate flood of telephone calls to newspaper offices, police stations and hospi tals. A report spread through New ark that the city was to be the target of a "gas bomb attack." Wild excitement prevailed there. Police headquarters was notified that there had been a serious "gas accident" in the Clinton Hills sec tion of Newark, a residential area, and to send squad cars and am bulances. There they found householders, with possessions hastily bundled, leaving their homes. They return ed only after fulsome explanations that there was to be no gas bomb ing. The Newark police switchboard operator estimated he had receiv ed 2,000 queries within an hour about the "meteor" and "gas at tack." Several persons who called, he said, explained that they were physicians or nurses and wanted to know if they could be of ser vice. There was similar excitement in other cities from coast to coast. Tulsa, Okla., reported two heart attacks and a stroke resulting from the dramatization. Los An geles, Dallas, Kansas City, and Omaha reported hundreds of tele phone calls to authorities and newspaper offices, some from per sons who had relatives in New Jersey and feared for their safe ty. An excited parishioner dashed into the first Baptist church at Caldwell, N. J., during evening services and shouted that a tre mendous meteor had fallen, caus ing widespread death and destruc tion, and that north Jersey was threatened by a shower of mete ors. The congregation joined in prayers for deliverance. (Continued on nnjre three) Baptist Students Told Trend Away From Christianity Is Road To War MEMPHIS. Tenn., Oct. 31.— (UP)—The 20th annual Southern Baptist Student conference closed last night with another attack by Dr. T. G. Dunnins:. London, on nations where "freedom of the soul becomes a crucial issue." Without mentioning the name of any country, Dr. Dunning, chairman of the Baptist World Al liance Youth Committee, said situ ations were arising where patriot ism at times was in direct opposi tion to loyalty to God. "Best citizens are not slaves," he told more than 3,500 students, "but those who hold that they are free men under God. The best tribute we can bring to the state is gifts of mind and heart which can be cultivated only in freedom from that state." Earlier Sunday, Dr. Charles E. Maddry, executive secretary of the foreign mission board, told the conference that South American Baptists had asked tha^ students be allowed to go there and organ ize Young People's Unions. Dr. Dunning's address was last of a series he made before the assembly in which he attacked dic tatorship and nations which disre gard international agreements as well as of persecutions of Baptists in Rumania. Before unit presidents for 17 states were elected, other speak ers declared that the current trend away fron* rligion was the road to war and presented reports on the progress of establishing churches in foreign countries. Germany Maps 10-Year Plan For European Conquest • "1 • €iti 3*o3f. c«»3 3$ii#, ?fji $ii$rer! $eutfd)lanb, $eutfd)lanb fiber alles! ; Germany's "10-year plan," projecting a program of Nazi-Fascist expansion and conquest that by 1948 would place most of Europe and parts of the Near East under the swastika, with Italy sharing in the spoils, is revealed in the above map, circulated in Austria a few hours after the Munich peace pact. Top row illustrates the 1938-39 expansion program, with the first two steps, absorption of Austria and Czechoslovakia accomplished, and the third, ab sorption of Hungary, scheduled for 1939. Second row shows Po land included in the Nazi orbit late in 1939 and the swallowing of Yugoslavia, Rumania, and Bulgaria in 1940. Third row, the drive east and west in 1941, year of the Big War, when German armies smash through Poland and Rumania, seizing all European Russia south of Moscow to the Caspian Sea, and at the same time sweep over Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and northern France. Large map at the bottom envisages Europe in 1948 completely dominated by the Rome-Berlin axis. Germany (dark shading), has taken over the British Isles and Ireland, southern Norway and Sweden and wiped out the Turkish nation, occupying Istanbul and Pesia (light shading). Italy, represented by the white, holds all of Spain except the northwest coast which goes to Germany. Italy also gets a great chunk of southeastern France, Palestine, Albania, Greece, and the entire North African coast. This map, distributed by Nazi propaganda agents concurrently with the occupation of Czechoslovakia, came into French possession and eventually to New York. The legend across the top reads: "One people, one state, one | leader." Across the bottom: "Germany, Germany over all." CHICAGO SESSION TO SAY IF RAIL PAY CUT ENFORCED! ADULTS ASKED i NOT TO MASK ' Police Chief Wants Enjoy able Hallowe'en for Peo ple, no Violence Chief of Police Otis Powers to day warned Hallowe'en celebra | tors that violations of the law would be severely dealt with. "We want the little folks to have a lot of fun in the celebra i tion," Chief Powers said, "but of ficers will not tolerate any degree of roughness or damage to life or property. "Children may wear costumes and masks," the chief said, "but adults are requested not to ap ; pear on the streets masked." He pointed out that the practice of ! adults masking was dangerous in i that it might lead to crimes. Chief Powers thanked the pub lic for cooperation in previous ob ! servances, and requested the same cooperation this year in the cele bration. ' PRISON GRIDDER DIES JOILET, 111., Oct. 31. (UP) — Angelo Terpane, 24, Chicago, sen tenced to Statesville prison last , May 26 for robbery, died Sunday of a broken neck received in a practice football scrimmage. He ' was a halfback on the prison I team. Carriers to Confer There to Consider Withdrawing Demands WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. (UP) Chairman H. A. Enochs of the carriers' joint conference today announced that representatives of the nation's railroads will meet in Chicago within two weeks to de cide whether to withdraw demands for a 15 per cent wage cut, affect ing nearly 1,000,000 workers. The Chicago conference appar ently was the major development at today's meeting of the carriers' joint conference committee, j The announcement came as , President Roosevelt intervened in the pay controversy in an attempt to avert a threatened walkout of railroaders who voted to strike should the operators attempt to enforce the proposed pay cut. SATURDAY Maximum temperature—08 de grees. Minimum—43 degrees. Mean—55.5 degrees. Day's range —25 degrees. SUNDAY Maximum temperature—75 de grees. Minimum—42 degrees. Mean—58.5 degrees. Day's range —33 degrees. Normal mean temperature for October—56.4 dogTees. Rainfall to date—.28 inches. Normal rain fall—4.36 inches. SOUTH WILL RENEW FIGHT FOR LAW TO HALT FREIGHT TARIFF DISCRIMINATIONS Three North Carolina Con gressmen Pledge Backing When Congress Meets MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 31.— ^P)—Southern and southwest ern senators and representatives °{ [he United States congress last night promised to band together to fight for enactment of legisla tion which would end freight rate discriminations against the South. From Texas to Virginia and from Arkansas to Florida, legis lators responded in the same man ner to an editorial carried by the Commercial Appeal on October 12 calling for renomination and sup port of the Ramspeck bill which died in committee last January. Copies of the editorial and re quests for opinions were mailed to all southern statesmen. In part, the editorial said: "The practical effect of the bill was to eliminate the discrimina tion in charges that has so long nenalized the South. The bill was referred to the committee on in terstate and foreign commerce. It died there. But a new congress moets in January. A new shuffle is coming up. More sinews of war have been provided. More facts have been developed. . . "If there was ever anv valid reason why a Pennsylvania ship per was entitled to a lower rate to an Indiana market than a Tennes see shipper living at a comparable distance, that reson no longer ex ists. Neither is there any reason why a Pennsylvania shipment con signed to the South should enjoy a preferential rate over a south ern shipment to some southern point. Such a step is unfair, dis criminatory in the extreme, and is wholly without merit. It nas cost the South millions, and has shackled industry for years on end." A direct way of attacking this injustice, the editorial continued, is to place the matter before con gress as Rep. Robert Ramspeck, D., Ga., author of the bill has done. Statesmen south of the Mason Dixon line agreed unanimously with the editorial and vowed to put up a determined fight imme diately after congress convenes on January 3. One of the first to answer the Commercial Appeal's inquiry, Ramspeck said, "I feel this is the most feasable method of meeting (Continued on page three) JONAS SPEAKS TUESDAY EVE GOP U. S. Senatorial Can didate, and Gudger Both To Be Here Honorable Charles A. Jonas of Lincolnton, Republican nominee for the United States senate, will address a Republican rally on Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock at the county courthouse. Mr. Jonas, a former member of the general assembly and state senate, and former U. S. con gressman, is widely known as a speaker. James J. Pace, chairman of the county Republican executive com mittee, will preside and introduce the speaker. All county Republican candi dates will attend and Vonno Gudger of Asheville, congression al candidate opposing congress man Zebulon Weaver, will also attend. j ! Ill) III) POLISH MS D WED OVER BORDER Strange People in Own Homeland, Without Jobs or Homes By EDWARD W. BEATTIE BERLIN, Oct. 31.—(UP)—The German Gestapo (secret police) announced last night that about 10,000 Polish Jews, dumped across the frontier into Poland before the two countries agreed to a truce in their passport con troversy, must find their own means of returning to their hornet and families. Many of these Poles, rushed to the frontier by trainloads in the Reich's mass deportation, were penniless in a "motherland" whose language a large part of them cannot speak and which is just as anxious to get rid of them as was Germany. Seized from their families with out warning in swift police raids throughout the Reich, the major ity of them last night were hous ed temporarily in old barracks in a virtual "no-man'a-land" along the Polish-German frontier. Poland, whose threat to re scind their citizenship resulted in Germany's mass expulsion order, refuses to let them proceed into the interior and the Nazi Gestapo told them that they must depend on their own resources or Jewish welfare organizations to reach the Reich. Thousands of other Poles, mostly Jews, who were rounded up for deportation as Germany i sought to beat the deadline of Poland's citizenship invalidation law, were being released and al lowed to return to their homes last night, the secret police said. "All Jews rounded up in the past few days for deportation now are being released throughout the Reich," the Gestapo announced. "Those who already have been transported to' the border but have not yet left Germany will be transported back to their homes. "The others must depend upon Jewish organizations or on their own resources for their return." The seized Poles—supposedly thousands of them since about 55,000 were said to have been liable to expulsion—were sent home from barracks and other concentration points throughout the day. , In Austria, however, only a few of the hundreds arrested were released but it was under stood that the delay was due merely to technical reasons. It had been estimated that 4,000 Jews were under arrest in Vienna alone. , . . The truce in the wholesale ex pulsions, which came at a time when Poland was preparing to take reprisals against Germans living on Polish soil, was only temporary and the ultimate fate of the 55,000 Polish citizens of Germany remained in doubt. German agreed, after diplomat ic exchanges, to suspend further expulsions pending negotiations which were resumed today. Poland likewise agreed to can cel orders understood to have been given to several hundred Germans, instrucing them to leave Polish territory within 24 hours. Duce Insisting On Integral' Solution For Ruthenian Sovereignty Problem ROME, Oct. 31. (UP)—Pre mier Benito Mussolini was report ed by diplomats last night to be insisting upon an "intergral" so lution in Czechoslovakia's eastern Ruthenia province before he joins Germany in arbitrating the Czech Hungarian territorial dispute. II Duce was understood to have outlined his firm stand at an hour long conference in Venice palace Saturday with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, who returned to Berlin last night. Mussolini's insistence regarding Ruthenia, easternmost province of Czechoslovakia, was interpret ed as meaning that he still is holding out for a common Polish Hungarian frontier at the expense of the Czechs. A foreign diplo matic source said that thus far Mussolini and Hitler are only in partial accord on the problem. Hitler has been represented as strongly opposed to such a com mon frontier by means of the am putation of Ruthenia because it might jeopardize his "drang nach osten" (drive to the east). The Hungarians and Poles, with Mussolini's support, have argued that it would throw up a barrier against any Soviet Russian pene tration to the west. Germany and Italy, replying to dh*ect appeals from both Czechs and Hungarians, informed the Budapest and Prague govern ments today that they are willing to act as arbitrators in the minor ity and border dispute but Musso lini's reported support of the Pol (Continued on page three) HITLER WANTS ALL OF LAND LOST IN WAR British Quarters Say Cham berlain Unwilling (or Full Restitution POWERS REAUZING SETTLEMENT NEEDED B? RICHARD D. McMILLAN United Pre«« Staff Correspondent LONDON, Oct 31. (UP) — Great Eritain today anticipated an early memorandum from Chancel lor Adolf Hitler on his colonial demands as result of a speech Saturday by the German colonial affairs deputy outlining: the broad sweeo of the Reich's "restitution" program. A demand by colonial chief Gen. Franz Kitter von Epp, speak ing at Ladeburg, Germany, for return without exception of all uf the Reich's war-lost overseas pos . sessions, was believed to mark a new phase in Hitler's colonial pro gram, for which Great Britain is preparing. Von Epp's speech, asserting that Germany was stripped of her col onies by the Versailles Treaty "under false pretenses," caused speculation that Hitler might bo ready to submit not only his for mal demands but some suggested method of settlement. The visit to Rome of German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, who conferred with Premier Benito Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, was believed to have brought about an agreement re garding the line of action which will be followed by the Rome Berlin axis on the question. Italy has no colonial claims her soif but Muroolinf - Uar^jraWicly - supported Germany's demand for "a place in the African sun." British observers said that von Epp's demands against "all of I those responsible for making res titution" meaning that Hitler wants all of the pre-war German colonies totalling an area six times ' larger than the Reich—would not influence the present attitude of the mandatory powers. These powers, it was explained, | recognize the need for a colonial settlement but refuse to make | complete restitution. Even the determination of Brit i ish Prime Minister Neville Cham berlain to wipe away all obstacles standing in the path of Anglo , German friendship and achieve a general European arms pact could not induce him to agree to return of all the German colonies, it was explained in Whitehall quarters. In this connection, it had been proposed unofficially that Belgium l mifcht surrender some of her Af rican territory and that Portugal j might give to Germany a portion of Angola. Britain and France, in J return, miprht reimburse Belgium i and Portugal with other African territory. Germany has unofficial ly rejected this scheme, however, ' saying that she wants only what i "legally belongs to us." I Judge J. J. Gentry And Wife Injured In Car Collision Elderly Spartanburg Law yer's Car Crashes on New Spartanburg Rd. SPARTANBURG, S. C., Oct. 31. —Judge J. J. Gentry, prominent Spartanburg county attorney, and his wife were injured in an auto mobile collision on the new Ashe ville highway, a few feet from the city limits, about 6:30 o'clock last night. Both Judge Gentry and his wifo were admitted to the Spartanburg General hospital, whore their con I dition was reported "only fair" | late last night. Judge Gentry, whose age was listed as 73, was reported suffer : insr from shock, numerous bruises and minor lacerations. Mrs. Gen j try suffered a broken nose, dislo j cated hip, and other injuries in the collision. I None of the occupants of the , other car involved in the accident was reported injured. Judge Gentrv is one of the county's best known attorneys. He has served as magistrate and ! as judge of probate courf, and also has been interested for many years in evangelistic work. He makes his home on his peach farm at Bird Mountain, near Landrum. State highway patrolmen inves* tigated the accident, which oc curred in the Cleveland Park vi | cinity, only a few steps from the corporate limits of the city.
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