HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
twenty-fifth year
SAYS NAZIS URGING DEATH OF ROOSEVELT
Czech Airmen Mobilized for Nazi Invasion
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Some members of the Czechoslovakian air force are pictured in this radiophoto, taken at the Czech-
German frontier, as they were mobilized when Praha feared invasion of her territory in her crisis with
SrZ y i r C H r . the dom f nt ! s of l . h * S " d . eten Since then, Hitler hae given assurances that the
Nazi Reich has no intention of sending troops into Czechoslovakia. This radiopicture was flown to
London, then transmitted by wireless to New York. (Central Press)
INSURGENTS SEEK
TO HALT ADVANCE
OF LOM TROOPS
Swift Reinforcements on
Catalan Front Threaten
Ambitious Govern
ment Offensive
GOVERNMENT LOSS
PUT AT 15,000 MEN
Rebels Claim Barcelona
Troops Have Abandoned
Attack Except at Center of
60-Mile Line; 250 Killed in
Air Raid on City of Ali
cante
Hendaye, France, May 26. —(AP) —
Swift insurgent reinforcement of the
Catalan front threatened today to halt
the government’s most ambitious of
fensive in five months.
Insurgent commanders, reporting
government losses as high as 15,0d0
men in four days, said Barcelona
troops had abandoned their attack at
Tremp, in the center of the 60-mile
line. There, however, government com
muniqueg listed two advance positions
captured in yesterday’s heavy fight
ing .These were a hermitage and a
mountain overlooking the artificial
lake and power plant which once sup
plied electricity to much of Catalonia
war industry.
Alicante, Spain, reports said, mean
time, rescuers dug steadily in the
ruins of Alicante’s market place, ex
tiicating victims of yesterday’s most
disastrous single air bombardment of
the Spanish civil war. At least 250
persons were killed and 1,000 injured
when six huge insurgent bombing
planes circled suddenly in the square
and dropped their bombs squarely in
the market place, where hundreds of
women waited to buy food. The thun
dering detonations toppled towering
masonry into dugouts into which men,
women and children had crowded for
refuge.
Many bodies were tangled and torn
to bits.
The casualties in the city of 70,-
000 far exceeded in proportion the
disastrous series of air raids in March
upon Barcelona, a city of more than
1,000,000, when there were 3,000 fa
talities.
More of Campaign
Statements Show
Candidates’ Costs
i .
Raleigh, May 26. —(AP) —Twcntv-
fdx more campaign financial reports
leached Thad Eure, secretary of state
today and late last night.
AH candidates for congressional
fn *d state offices in the June primary
were due to have their preliminary
reports filed by midnight last night.
Paul Grady, running for the Demo
ocratic nomination as utilities com
missioner, said he had no contribu
tions, but had spent $570.25 in hi 3
t' ht against Commissioner Stanley
Winborne.
( Mher reports filed, covering expen
ditures and showing no receipts from
lf,t s noted included:
Solicitorial candidates: Solicitor C.
Canaday, fourth district, contribu
of $450 from R. C. Canaday, of
*P Ur Oaks, and expenditure of $374.10.
Hrttitersmt fUatlti Dtstrafrh
service of
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Amy Gains Upper Hand
When Cabinet Ministers
Resigns Office In Japan
Legation to Lingerie
Madame Prochnik
. . . envoy’s wife gets job
Before Fuehrer Hitler’s seizure oi
Austria, Madame Edgar L. G.
Prochnik was hostess at the Aus
trian legation in Washington, and
her husband was Austrian ambas
sador. That’s all over now, though,
and Madame Prochnik is in the
business world, representing a
New York lingerie shop in the
capital.
—Central Press
LimENTER
Indications Are He May Not
Seek Governorship;
Vote To Be Light
Dailv IDispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, May 26. —Here’s a signifi
cant item indicating that State Treas
urer Charlie Johnson hasn’t any pre
sent intention to run for governor in
1940.
Recently Governor Clyde R. Ho-iy
was asked to speak at the Wallare
strawberry fete this week. He couldn’t
accept and called Mr. Jqhnson, asking
him to substitute or if he couldn’t
get someone who would.
The Treasurer couldn’t make the
address himself, so he called up Com
missioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell,
another reputed aspirant for guber
natorial honors two years hence.
Which wouldn’t make sense if the
State treasurer himself were really
listening to the buzz of the governor
ship bee. He’d hardly pass on so good
a chance to talk to the voters—cer
tainly not to a prospective rival.
On the subject of the governorship
and likely seekers of the nomination
in 1940, this correspondent has heard
reliable, but unquotable, reports that
Congressman Lindsay Warren has
(Continued on Page Four.)
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Foreign, War and Finance
Secretaries Retire in Be
hind - the-Scenes *
Break-Up
CHINESE CAMPAIGN
TO BE SPEEDED UP
More Vigorous Prosecution
of War To Be One of Re
sults of Shuffle; Japanese
Field Forces Announce
Fresh Movement Against
Lunghai Line
Tokyo, May 26.—(AF) —Japan’s
foreign, war and finance, ministers
left the cabinet today in a drastic re
organization by which the army ap
peared to have won a stronger grip
on the government, with the likeli
hood that there now will be made a
new and stronger effort to end the
China conflict with quick victory.
The departing ministers were Koki
Hirota, foreign minister; General Su
giyama, war; and O. Kaya, finance.
Lieutenant General Itagaki, who
has been on the China front, becomes
war minister. H. Ikeda becomes min
ister of finance and the new foreign
minister is General Kugaki.
Authorities said the shake-up streng
thened the government and expressed
i':elief it would mean more vigorous
prosecution of the war in China. It
was believed to be the result of set
tlement of a long-drawn behind-the
scenes argument as to whether to pur
sue General Chiang Kai-Shek and his
Chinese government further into the
interior in favor of continued pursuit.
Shanghai reported, meanwhile, Ja
panese announced they had establish
ed bases for frontal attacks against
the important Lunghai railway cities
of Kweipeh and Kaifeng. This was
accomplished by complete occupatior.
and the mopping up of areas about
a point 33 miles east of Kweipeh, and
another point 26 miles east of Kaifeng
officials said.
Enthusiastic Backers of
Idea, Beaten in |1937,
Not Very Hopeful
Hally Dispatch Burenn.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, May 26. —Efforts to have
the State take over the business of
insuring North Carolina school build
ings and school property are likely to
be revived in the 1939 General As
sembly, but even its most enthusias
tic backers are not hopeful of success.
State Senator Henry Ingram, of Ran
dolph, told this bureau’s correspon
dent recently.
Senator Ingram sponsored such a
measure in the 1937 Senate, but it was
coldly received and never emerged
from a committee. The Randolph law
maker will not be back in 1939, under
(Continued on Page Four.)
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 26, 1938
Drought Is Ended
By Rains In South
Atlanta, Ga., May 26.—(AP)—
Ovcrn'ght rains throughout Geor
gia, portions of the Carolinas,
northern Florida and extreme east
ern Alabama, broke a drought
which had menaced many crops in
the southeast, the Weather Bureau
said today.
Meteorologist Memlling said the
rainfall had ended the excessively
dry condition and was “generally
sufficient.” The moisture had been
needed particularly by peaches,
watermelons and truck crops, as
well as tobacco, corn and* cotton.
The rain extended as far south as
"■'mpsi. Fla, and northeast to in
clude the lowlands of the Carolinas.
DM PROPOSES
t
Germany Represented As
Being Not Opposed to
Neutral Officials
Along Line „
WOULD KEEP TRACK
OF ACTIVITY THERE
Firsthand Information Is
Sought by Britain as Peace-
Maker in Czechoslovak
Menace; Meanwhile,
Czechs Feverishly Press
Measures for Own Defense
London, May 26.—(AP) —Great Bri
tain today sounded out both Germany
and Czechoslovakia on a plan to send
British observers to their troubled
border as a means of lessening ten
sion.
Germany was understood to be not
unfavorable to the plan. Authoritative
sources disclosed William Strang,
head of the central European depart
ment of the foreign office, would re
port on the proposal after visiting
British diplomats in Berlin and Praha
The observer idea was said still to
be indefinite. It was assumed, how
over, it would entail unofficial “um
pires” who would give Britain un
biased reports d( Lprder incidents
and help her in the role of peace
maker.
Meanwhile, Praha reported hard
headed military preparations for
Czechoslovakia’s defense continued
without respite. Troops mobilized for
defense of the German frontier re
mained in the border region. It seem
ed unlikley that the customary mili
tary parade would be held this year
on the president’s birthday—President
Edouard Benes will be 54 on Saturday
—because the men under arms had
more pressing assignments.
The high command of the civil air
defense issued a reminder to house
(Continued on Page Eight.)
Wake Forest Negro
Dies In Well With
Rescue Very Near
Wake Forest, May 26.—(AP)—
George Nelson, 55-year-old Negro
died in the cave-in of a well last
midnight just five minutes before
firemen and volunteers reached
his body. He had been buried 12
hours.
Night Police Chief J. G. Fish
said that groans emanated from
the well throughout the day, sub
siding just as would be rescuers
removed the last bit of rock and
dirt that held Nelson a prisoner
more than ten feet below the sur
face.
Nelson, w»s cleaning out the
well when the sides caved in.
Dr. Douglas Freeman And
Daughter Hurt, Chauffeur
Killed Near Fayetteville
Fayetteville, May 26.—(AP) — Dr.
Douglas Freeman, 52, editor of the
Richmond, Va M News {Leader, and
Pulitzer prize winning historian, suf
fered cuts and bruises, his daughter,
Mary Plyler Freeman, 21, was serious
ly injured, and their chauffeur killed
in a truck-automdbiile collision near
here today. '
Dr. Freeman and Miss Freeman
were brought to a Fayetteville hos
pital after their northbound car and
a southbound truck collided on a slip
pery highway.
Hospital authorities said Miss Free
man’s left leg was broken near the
hip and that she was in a semi-stuper,
U. S. FLEET TO
MOVE TO EAST
NEXT SPRING
Maneuvers in Atlantic and
Visit to New York World's
Fair Reasons for
Transfer
TO BE GONE FROM
PACIFIC 6 MONTHS
No Explanation Accompan
ies Announcement of Navy
Department, But Italo-
German - Japanese Anti-
Communist Alliance May
Be Factor In Move
Washington, May 26. —(AP) — The
Navy Department announced today
the entire fleet would be moved from
the Pacific to the Atlantic next yeai
for maneuvers and to visit the New
York World's Fair.
Leaving its Pacific bases early in
January, the fleet will be gone prob
ably six months. The visit to New
York is scheduled for May.
Confidential fleet problem No. 29
will be worked out during February
in the West Indies and the Atlantic
at least as far south as the equator,
the Navy said.
The announcement was made with
out explanation, but naval circles re
called testimony of Admiral William
Leahy, chief of operations, before con
gressional committees this year that
the anti-communist alliance between
Germany, Italy and Japan “must be
taken into consideration by America’s
sea defense.”
President Roosevelt, the White
House said, meanwhile, will announce
his action on the tax revision bill at
2 p. m. tomorrow during the course
of his address at the Arthurdale, W.
Va., resettlement project. The chief
executive has until midnight tomor
row night to make known his de
cision as to whether he has signed
or vetoed the bill.
I®
New York Youth Balked on
Suicide Pact Trying To
Save Sweetheart
New York, May 28. — (AF) Age
tried again today to fathom the rea
soning of youth in Queen’s county
court, where 16-year-old Donald Car
roll testified he did not carry out a
suicide pact after shooting his sweet
heart, because “I was thinking, about
saving her.”
He and Charlotte Matthiesen, 18
had wanted to die “because that was
the only way we could be together,”
he said, but when he killed her he
neglected his part of the agreement
in his panic to see her alive again.
The (;,oy and girl who “figured
neither of their parents would under
stand” when they found she was to
have a baby, became the subject of a
psychiatrist’s battle.
Two were for the defense, which
contends Donald’s reasoning was so
defective because of immaturity that
he was unable to tell right from
wrong, and two for the State, which
contends it was willful murder.
The first psychiatrist called by the
defense was Dr. Samuel Fagen, who
expressed the opinion Donald’s mind
was temporarily deranged when he
shot the girl, and that the sound of
the shot brought him back to his
senses. Under cross-examination late
yesterday, Donald was asked by the
prosecutor why he did not carry out
his part of the suicide pact.
The boy, dry-lipped, replied: “I was
thinking about saving her.”
apparently the result of shock and
head abrasions.
Dr. Freeman was able to walk at
the scene of the wreck. His injuries
consisted of a scalp laceration, slight
cuts on the face and body bruises.
Hospital authorities said shortly after
he was put to bed that he was rest
ing comfortably.
Howard Carter, Negro chauffeur,
died instantly.
Samuel Grimes, a Negro occupant
of the truck, was slightly hurt.
•State Highway Patrolman W. H.
Simpson said he was holding E. P.
Bundy, of Washington, D. C., Negro
truck driver, for investigation.
PUBLJBHmr* IVIRT 4FTIRNO6I
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
The New Mrs. lekes
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Mrs. Harold L. Tckes, new wife of
the Secretary of the Interior, is
pictured above. They were married
by the Rev. Dr. R. K. Hanna, of the
Presbyterian Church, in . Dublin,
Ireland, where the new Mrs. Ickes
was visiting with her uncle, John
Cudahy, United States Minister to
Ireland. She was Jane Dahlman, a
Smith College graduate and long
time friend of the Ickes family.
Ickes’ first wife was killed in an
automobile accident at Santa Fe,
N. M., in 1935.
(Central Press)
Rebel Plane
Baseßombed
By Mexicans
Government Charge
Americans Flying
Rebel Raiders Ob
served Wednesday
Mexico City, May 26. —(AP)— The
Mexican government today said its
planes raided and destroyed a Cedil
lista rebel airport a few hours after
War Minister Camacho had declared
rebel planes, some of them flown by
United States pilots, had bombed
several small towny occupied by loyal
federals.
Bombing ships raided the Federal
airport in San Luis Potosi state yes
terday, the government press bureau
announced, blasting and firing gas
oline tanks and scattering the party
(Continued on Pair® Four.)
BUTLER CONDITION
STAYS ABOUT SAME
Washington, May 26 (AP) —The
condition of former Senator Marion
Butler, 75, of North Carolina, was re
ported unchanged today at Washing
ton Sanitarium in Takoma Park, Md.
Butler, a Populist senator from
1896 to 1901, has been critically ill
several months.
German War Plane
Is Sighted Flying
Over Czech Plant
Praha, Czechoslovakia, May 26
(AP) —A government spokesman
said tonight a German war plane
had been sighted on a flight over
Czechoslovakia’s great munitions
plant, the Skoda factory, at Pla
zen (Pilsen). •*
The report cast a shadow over
the prospects of a German-Czecho
slovakia settlement.
The flgiht over Plazen, about 50
miles from the German border,
in; western Bohemia, was said by
the spokesman to have been one
Cfjt three border violations yester
day.
“WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy tonight and Friday; oc
casional showers probable; slight
ly warmer in north central por
tion tonight, and in the interior
and on the extreme northeast
coast Friday.
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HOUSE IS ADVISED
OF SPEECH AT ONE
OF CAMPS IN 0. S.
Dies, of Texas, Claims
“Shocking” Information
on Extent of Nazi
Movement Here*
INQUIRY IS SOUGHT
AS TO CONDITIONS
Lilienthal Tells TV A Com
mittee Ousted Chairman
Morgan “Tried; To Defeat
and Obstruct” Operations;
Other Director Backs Up
Testimony Given
Washington, May 26.—(AP)—"Repre
sentative Dies, Democrat, Texas, ad
vised the House today he had infor
mation that a member of the Gprraan-
American Bundt, in a speech at one
of the main “Nazi'’ camps in this
country, had advocated assassination
of President Roosevelt..
Reporters in the press gallery un
derstood Dies to say a member of
Congress had made the speech, and
at first Dies confirmed that.' under
standing in reply to a note sent him
on the House floor.
Later, however, he told newsmen he
had stated a Bundt member had urg
ed assassination. He explained he had
misread the note of inquiry.
The Texan did not name the camp
or amplify the charge.
He made it at the start of debate,
on his resolution to authorize an in
vestigation by a seven-man House
committee of the evenll;, character
and objectives of un-American pro
paganda in the United States.
Dies said he was not an alarmist,
but that he had had “shocking” ip
formation supplied to him af'out the
extent of a Nazi movement in this
country. ~,
Meantime, David Lilienthal, TVA
(Continued on Page FouM
U. S. Inquiry
On Crash Os
Plane Begun
Cleveland, Ohio, May 26. —(AP) — A
federal board of inquiry moved today
to determine why a United Air Lines
transport plane crashed in a wooded
ravine in sight of the Cleveland air
port, its flaming wreckage a funeral
pyre for the ten persons aboard.
Investigators were especially inter
ested in statements from witnesses
that the sleeper type all-metal Doug
las air liner was afire before it plung
ed earthward out of a clear sky Tues
day night.
Secretary of Commerce Roper ap
pointed B. M. Jacobs, assistant di
(Con'iiiued on Page Eight.)
SCOTT CALLS FOR
BUYING OF BEANS
Agriculture Commissioner Asks Gov
ernment Purchases To Re
lieve Market Glut
Raleigh, May 26 (AP) —Agriculture
Commissioner Kerr Scott appealed
today to the Federal Surplus Commo
dities Corporation “to begin buying
Eastern North Carolina’s snap beans
to relieve a badly demoralized mar
ket.”
“Despite a decrease in the snap bean
acreage this year, many growers are
being forced to take losses on their
beans, and it is now necessary that
immediate action be taken to stabi
lize the market, especially at Faison,”
he said.
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FOR REFERENDUM
Prospects Are They Will
Concentrate on Beer-
Wine Regulations
Onllr Bnrem».
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, May 26. —There are increas
ing evidences that the United Dry
Forces, leading the prohibition putsch
in North Carolina, do not expect + o
gain their final objective—a statewide
referendum on the liquor question—
in the 1939 General Assembly.
On the other hand, there are as
many signs pointing to a real belief
on the part of the drys that they can
and will gain intermediate objectives
in tightened restrictions on the sale
of wine and <beer, absolute prohibi
«v>ontinued on Page Four.)