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The race for the Democratic nomination for governor in Oregon attracted
nationwide attention? with Henry L. Hess, New Dealer, winning over Gov.
Charles Martin. The race was neck and neck to the end.
German Officers Aiding
Chinese Annies Ordered
By Berlin To Come Home
Pressure from Japan Causes
Germany’s Action Under
German-Japanese
Treaties
SERIOUS BLOW TO
CHINA’S CAMPAIGN
Many Chinese Soldiers Are
Surrendering to Japanese
After Fall of Suchow;
Fugitives Pursued Across
Fields by Japs With Ma
chine Guns
Hankow, China, May 23 (AP) —Ber-
lin dealt China’s war resistance hopes
a heavy blow, it was said authorita
tively today, by ordering the recall of
General Alexander von Falkenhausen
and his entire staff of 40-odd German
military advisors to the army of Gen
eral Chiang Kai-Shek.
The withdrawal was said to have
been ordered after strong urging by
Tokyo on the basis of the German-
Japanese pact to combat communism.
German authorities in Hankow in
formally notified the Chinese govern
ment of the step, but pending its con
sideration by General Chiang there
was no comment. Chiang is reported
directing the fight along the vital
Lunghai railway.
Although the German officers’ con
tracts with the Chinese government
are of a personal nature, it was un
derstood reliably that they had little
choice but to comply with recall in
structions. Hope for some modifica
tion, however, was not completely
abandoned.
MANY CHINESE SOLDIERS
REPORTED SURRENDERING
With the Japanese army in Central
China, May 23 (AP)—The Japanese
field army said today that 10,000 de
moralized Chinese soldiers have sur
rendered since the fall of Suchow.
The number of prisoners mounted
rapidly as Japanese forces relentless
ly pursued fragments of the routed
Chinese army fleeing from the con
quered central China railroad zone.
Desperate shattered Chinese were
fighting for their lives in the Suchow
Dap. The Japanese said they had
narrowed the trap down to an area
roughly 12 miles in diameter, center
ing on the Lushan hills, midway be
tween Suchow and Suhsien.
The Japanese were in full posses
sion of Suchow.
In the adjacent fighting zone, where
'he Japanese say more than 200,000
Chinese were caught, tanks, motorized
units and infantry could be seen pur
suing g roups of fugitives across
fields, harassing them with machine
gun and rifle fire.
The terrain was littered with ruin
villages, wracked bridges ,devas
<ited farm houses and endless lines of
trenches.
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Ptomaine Poison I
Cases Number 29
Washington, N. C., May 23 (AP)
—At least 29 local persons were
known to have suffered the writh
ing pain of ptomaine poisoning, 16
of them having received treatment
at a local hospital Saturday and
Sunday as the result of' having eat
en chicken salad sandwiches at
various lunch counters in and
around the city.
Physicians at the hospital analy
zed the ailments of the first chalk
faced patients admitted around 4
o’clock Saturday afternoon as pto
maine. Other victims followed in
quick succession until at midnight
Saturday eight sufferers lay in hos
pital beds and several physicians
were answering emergency calls.
Patients reported in turn that they
had eaten chicken salad sandwich
es and had become ill at periods
averaging between three and four
hours.
The victims, none of whom re
mained uncer jmedical attention
more than 12 hours, reported four
places from which the sandwiches
had been bought.
Captives In
Rebel Hands
Have Revolt
Government Troops
In Futile Uprising
To Flee Insurgent
Army’s Camp
Hendaye, France, May 23 —(AP)
Iwo thousand captured government
militiaman killed several of # their
guards in the insurgent prison at
Pamplona last night, seized arms and
battled troops in a futile effort to es
itpe.
The insurgent command at Irun said
the uprising was quelled only after
an undetermined number of prison
er*' were killed and wounded. Ba»o
details reaching the frontier indicat
ed the attempted break was sternly
suppressed.
prisoners were said to have ove:-
v owe red their guards a carefully
laid plot, shooting several. Then thyy
broke into the guard room, where
firearms were stored. Barricading
themselves there, they engaged in a
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ONLY DAILY
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Group Wants To Make
Measure More Flexible
Before House Finally
Votes On It
NO DIFFERENTIALS
WRITTEN IN BILL
Same Regulations Apply To
North and South and To
Rural and Urban Com
munities Alike; Radical
Regulations To Become Ef
fective
Washington, May 23. —(AP) — The
House broke its rules committe’s pro
longed blockade of the revised wage
hour bill today by voting overwhelm
ingly to debate the measure imme
diately.
This action ratified a petition sign
ed May 6 by 218 members to force
the legislation to floor in spite of the
rules committee’s steadfast refusal to
give it preferential status.
Debate was limited to four hours,
but leaders said efforts of a southern
bloc to make the measure more flex
ible might delay a final vote until
’ate tomorrow.
It was the second time wage-hour
legislation had come before the House
in the last six months. It rejected a
somewhat different version la.4t De
cember during the special session.
Speaker Bankhead announced the.
roll call vote in favor of bringing the
bill to the floor was 322 to 73.
The revised measure makes no pro
vision for wage variations between
the north and south, or between urban
and rural communities. It would es
tablish a universal minimum wage for
interstate industry, starting at 25
cents an hour, and increasing to 40
cents at the end of three years. Hours
would start at 44 per week and drop
to 40 in two years.
Southerners attacked the inflexi
bility of the revised wage-hour bill
when the House 'began debate on
whether to consider it immediately.
Sheriff’s Claims
Given Pitt Court
Greenville, May 23 (AP) —J.
Frank Harrison, Pitt County Su
perior Court clerk, continued, his
testimony today as to various court
costs as ouster proceedings against
Sheriff S. A. Whitehurst entered
their third week of hearing.
Pitt commisisorjers, seeking
Whitehurst’s removal on various
charges, alleged he failed to col
lect fines and costs. The defense
contended that in most of the
cases the defendants had been re
leased or been given a period of
time to pay the costs, and that in
such cases the sheriff was in no
way responsible for uncollected
costs.
The petitioners announced they
would recall to the stand two audi
tors who had previously testified,
and the defense said it had 100
or more witnesses ready to put
on the stand.
picketsdefeaTed
AT ROMO PLANT
Battle Police After Refusing
To Open Gateway To
Case Factory
Rockford, 111., May 23 (AP)--A fight
between police and pickets surround
ing the J. I. Case plant here today e
sulted in a partial defeat for the
pickets and several carloads of work
ers were rushed into the plant.
Several hundred pickets, members
of the United Automobile Workers
of America, were massed on the nar
row bridge in the street leading to the
plant’s main entrance, with an auto
mobile parked crosswise of the struc
ture.
The mayor and sheriff asked the
pickets to disperse. The speakers
were booed. Police ordered the car
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, scattered showers
in north and west portions tonight
Tuesday; loeal showers, slightly
cooler in west and central portions
NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 23, 1938
New Crisis I n Czechoslovakia O ver Nazi Issue
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Konrad Henlein, President Eduard Benes, Adolf Hitler; below, map pf trouble zone
President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia has ordered reinforcements to all border fortifications following deve
lopment of a new crisis over the Nazi issue. Affairs came to a head when two German farmers living in the west
ern section of Czechoslovakia were killed by Czech troops. It is in this sector that 3,500,000 Sudeten Germans live.
Their spokesman, Konrad Henlein, has demanded complete autonomy and is believed to have the backing of Reichs
fuehrer Adolf Hitler in seeking to join the German state. Outbreaks flaied up at Eger where the two Germans
were killed while attempting to cross a police blockade; and at other villages shown on above map where futile
Sudeten uprisings occurred. Meanwhile, Hitler and Henlein conferred at Munich on the situation, a conference
which it was reported might result in Nazi coup similar to that which made Austria a Reich state.
MTIiCLK
Income Tax on Federal Em
ployees in New York Up
held by One Deci
sion Rendered
TAX ON ATHLETICS
CONTESTS RATIFIED
Power Commission Also Ap
proved in Investigation of
Utilities in Pennsylvania;
Labor Board Wins Decision
Also on Orders for Re
stored Pay
Washington, May 23.—(AP) — The
Supreme Court gave the government
two victories today that may have a
far-reaching effect on the field of
Federal taxation.
In one case the tribunal approved
a Federal income tax on salaries re
ceived by employees of the New York
Port Authority. In the other( it sus
tained a Federal admission tax on
tickets to athletic contests State
universities.
In other action, the court:
1. Upheld the Federal Power Com
mission in its effort to proceed with
an investigation of the Metropolitan
Edison Company and other utilities
operating in Pennsylvania.
2. Refused to review, and thereby
leaving in effect, orders of the Na
tional Labor Relations Board direct
ing Remington Rand, Inc., the Black
Diamond Steamship Company, of New
York, and the Carlisle Lumber Com
pany to reinstate striking employees.
3. Ruled constitutional a 1935 Min
! nesota law prohibiting the importa
tion of certain intoxicating liquor un
| less registered in the United States
i Patent Office.
Ihe court deferred until Tuesday,
Mav 31, actitn, on a petition by the
government for reconsideration of
tl e tribunal’s recent decision con
demning procedure followed by the
r.e<’retary of agriculture in ordering a
reduction in charges at the Kansas
Ciiy stock yards.
Recent Successes Easy Spots
Tak*»n To Lift Waning
Morale at Home
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, May 23.—Washington’s
Army, Navy and State Departmental
authorities do not regard Japan’s re
cent successes in China as very sig
nificant.
These experts are of the opinion
that Japanese bad luck in its Asiatic
mainland campaign had piled up to
such an extent that it no longer could
be hidden from the mikado’s home
folk and some victories were absolute
ly necessary to re-establish a modicum
of morale among the islanders. Con
sequently, as it is seen fcy America’s
professional observers, Nippon’s corr.
manders concentrated on a few Chi
nese weak spots and wiped them up
in short order, giving the Japanese
a handful of apparent triumphs to
brag about for domestic consumption
Otherwise, it is suspected the Tokyo
g\. \ ernment soon would have found
its subjects in an outright revolu
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Warren, Maxwell, Broughton
Loom For Governor's Race
Warren May Be Too Libera 1 for Administration s Bless
ing; Maxwell Has Real M erit, But Broughton Is Not
Quite So Well Known as Yet
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, May 23. —Anything can
happen in two years and so any pre
diction or forecast about 1940 guber
natorial candidates is something like
betting in the winter books on the
Kentucky Derby. Your hbrse may
turn out to be a wind sucker, or may
get spavined, or foundered or other
wise afflicted with whatever diseases
horses are subject to.
But, changing and mixing the mata
for with aibrupt suddeness it looks as
though the residuary legatee of the
State administration, tohen it comes
PUBLUFwn avutv AFTIINOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Rebel Chief
Is Killed By
Mexico Army
Nephew of Cedillo
and Eleven Follow
ers Clash With
Government Men
Mexico City, May 23.—JAP) — The
defense ministry announced today
that Hippolito Cedillo, nephew of the
rebel leader, former General Saturn
ino Cedillo, was killed with eleven
followers in a clash with government
troops yesterday near Lazutnia in San
Luis Potosi ntate.
In San Lus Potosi army fliers said
they had bombarded Cedillio’s rebel
air base, destroying two planes. The
raid was in retaliation for an at
tack made yesterday by a fast plane
on the field headquarters of Presi
dent Cardenas.
Four bombs were dropped by the
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time to write a last political will and
testament, will be found among a
triumvirate of Congressman Lindsay
Warren, Commissioner of Revenue Al
len J. Maxwell and Raleigh barrister
J. M. Broughton.
At least thats how things shape up
immediately after the Democrats
gathered here for their greatest love
feast within the memory of man.
Except for the fact that he is prob
ably too sincere a New Dealer, War
ren would unquestionably be a stand
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BOLD STAND TAKEN
BY SMALL COUNTRY
PREVEMVANCE
Czechs Determined To De
fend Native Soil at All
Costs and Against
All Odds
SUDETEN GERMANS
STILL A PROBLEM
But Their Leader, Konrad
Helien and Czech Premier
Will Seek Solution Diplo
matically; France Warned
Hitler She Would Fight If
He Moved
Praha, Czechoslovakia, May 23
—(A P) Konrad Henlein, leader of
Czechoslovakia’s autonomy-seeking
Geriminic minority, anil Premier
Milan Ilodza met tonight in a pre
liminary effort to settle their dis
pute, which had brought Europe
dangerously near to war.
Henlein returned to the capital,
ami it was understood he had
come from Vienna, where presum
ably he had seen German Nazi
leaders, lie arrived soon after re
ports were received that Germain
troops were withdrawing from the
Czechoslovak borders. Hopes for
averting a serious central Euro
pean conflict were considered ap
preciably brighter.
Praha, Czechoslovakia, May 23 —
(AP)—iA feeling that a victory had
been won prevailed in Praha today,
augmented by the conviction that,
but for the obvious determination of
the Czechs to defend their territory
at all costs and against all odds, Ger
many’s Adolf Hitler would have made
another lightning move.
Official circles and the general pub
lic expressed relief over relaxation of
international tension and pride that
Czechoslovakia’s determined stand
had helped thwart Hitler.
The peaceful passing of yesterday’s
municipal elections momentarily eas
ed Czechoslovakia’s fear of war with
Germany, but the question of how her
3/500,000 Germanic minority shall b 9
governed remained unsolved and full
of trouble.
Some 500,000 soldiers remained along
the 1,300-mile frontier, most of them
facing German territory, and Praha
authorities believed that force would
be sufficient to deter any incursion by
Hitler, self-proclaimed protector of
Germans everywhere.
CONFERENCE PLANNED FOR
DEALING WITH MINORITY
London, May 23 (AP) —'Prime Min
ister Chamberlain told the House of
Commons today that O echoslovakia’s
premier and the leader of her Nazi
fied Germanic minority would meet
tonight or tomorrow in an effort to
settle the dispute which has brought
Europe dangerously near the brink of
war.
The prime minister acknowledged
cheers which greeted his announce
ment that a conference had been
arranged between Premier Milan
Hodza and Konrad Henlein, leader of
the Sudeten Germans, over whom
Germany’s Adolf Hitler has declared
himself protector.
“At the moment, the situation seems
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Boy Slayer
Os Girl, 18,
Faces Trial
New York, May 23 (AP) —State and
defense counsel moved warily today
to select a jury to try 16-year-old Don
ald Carroll, Jr., for the murder of his
sweetheart —a killing for which even
the girl’s parents have forgiven him.
Shortly after noon, only two men
had entered the jury box, and both
had passed significant tests.
To the defense both men, H. H.
Whitt, a sales manager, and R. J.
Davies, a purchasing agent, had
pledged they had no prejudice against
the surviving partner of an unfulfilled
suicide pact, it being the defense con
tention that Donald Carroll was such
a partner. To the State they had
pleaded that the youth of the occu
pant of the prisoner’s dock would not
bias them in his behalf.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Matthiesen. pa
rents of the blonde 18-year-old Char
lotte Matthieson, appeared in the
court room to offer moral support to
the boy who killed their daughter.