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Henderson’s population 13,873 twenty-fifth year m CLOUDS AGAIM DARKEN MAP OF EUROPE RED SHIRTS ACCLAIM SENATOR SMITH IN TRIUMPH Hgs:■ -&|| # : * § J|||||B| terl B :^^: >: lilt :>-H PiMfef | v . J:.|.» W | 1% .. V;, I WwM tlpk- ||l|||l| isre§reSS»§i?BßßßgßßK^^ B«»Ka^;&&sressg&3fi&&^%^«S»sSßßß3BiMMpM jl.- //fj| 1 In the spirit of 1876, when Wade Hampton and hfs Rad Shirt followers ended the rule of Carpetbaggers and Negroes in South Carolina, Senator E. D. (Cotton Ed) Smith and a group of modern Red Shirts are shown in Colum bia celebrating his re-nomination over Gov. Olin D. Johnston, favorite of President Roosevelt. Dressed in a reel shirt like his followers, Smith stands in the center waiving a paper. * Farmers Gather To Protest Leaf Prices Other Groups Seek In junctions To Prevent Collection of Penalty Taxes by Warehouses; Court Action Is Plan ned in Eastern Caro lina Raleigh, Sept. I.—(AP) —Eastern North Carolina tobacco farmers will meet In eight counties Saturday to discuss ways and means of raising price averages on the border and new bright auction markets. The meetings, called by the State Farm Bureau Fed- , eration, will be held in W!ilson, Nash ville, Tarboro, Snow. Hill, Warrenton. Kenansville, Kinston and Greenville. Meetings will be held later at other towns in the tobacco belt. E. F. Arnold, secretary of the farm bureau, said prices had slumped from two to five cents a pound in the last month, and that the trend continued downward. In general, tobacco far mers have been receiving good prices for poor weed, and poor prices for good grades. Arnold said he believed, despite some discontent concerning prices, farmers still were solidly behind the crop control law. INJUNCTION TO BE ASKED HALTING TAX COLLECTIONS Goldsboro, Sept. 1. —(AP) —H. I. Og burn. of Sanford, said today the North Carolina Anti-Compulsory Crop Control Association would seek an in junction to restrain all warehouses in the State from collecting tobacco penalty taxes. Ogburn, chairman of the associa tion’s executive committee, said the action would be filed “soon” after a meeting in Raleigh tomorrow. ‘‘We cannot began court action,” he said, “until we have the names of every warehouse selling tobacco in the State, to be named as a party to the order.” Ogburn said Lenior county farm ers pledged $465 to push the court ac tion at a meeting in Kinston last night. A Wayne county meeting is scheduled tonight. The court order would restrain warehouses from col lecting a 50 percent penalty on all to bacco sold in excess of quotas, as pre scribed in the new Federal farm law. Beasley As Compromise Now Talked Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Sept. 1. —New rumors, ap parently with substance, that what ever the outcome of the Burgin-Deane congressional contest, both will retire for Roland F. Beasley, break out as Judge W. C. Harris makes ready to give a ruling on the case. Judge Harris took the issues to chambers Saturday and has kept them ever since. Primarily he is having to decide whether the * State board of L (Continued on “Page Five) Mznmt&mx Batlit itfamttrfi L m«I, E ?oF IRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Fletcher Is Advised Not To Take Job Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Sept. 1. —Homecoming of former Solicitor General James Craw ford Biggs, of Raleigh, moves friends of Major A. L. Fletcher, commission er of labor, to hope that he will de cline the offer SB,OOO position in the wages and hours department admin istration. It is a national honor to be sure but friends of the judge remind him that he gained no stature as a law yer and that he now comes back to practice in his late sixties, disadvan taged by the severed contacts and less prepared to battle a strong bar than ever. The solicitor generalship was at tended by .many unhappy episodes, the newspaper men and the racketeers in the profession ribbed him hor ribly, and the judge gets back without much glory. And it wasn’t that he paddled in a big pond. Few men in North Carolina jurisprudence ever had the judge’s record. He was reversed by the su preme court very seldom, probably more infrequently than any man who ever has been on the bench. He prac ticed as he pleased and made immense fees. In Washington the solicitor gen (Continued on Page Two.) Mussolini To Banish Jews From Italy Rome, Sept. L—(AP)—All Jews who have settled in Italy since January, 1919, today were ordered to leave the country within six months by a cab inet decree. The decree applied even to Jews who have become Italian cit izens, because citizenship conferred since’ that date was revoked. The edict was made applicable to Italy proper, Lybia and the Aegean Isles. No mention was made of Italian East Africa. The settlement of Jews in Italy from now on was prohibited. The decree defined as Jewish all persons born “of both parents of the Hebrew race, regardless of religion. At the same time, the Fascist re gime moved to win greater loyalty from the Germanic population of the south Tyrol, ceded to Italy by Aus tria after the Great W|ar. War “Veterans who served in the Austrian army were accorded the same pensions aS Italian World War veterans. This measure was approved by the cabinet, with Premier Mus solini presiding. The cabinet also approved measure to stimulate child-bearing by limit ing the numbers of women workers and making promotion of men in the civil service dependent on their mari tal status. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Earth Slide. Kills Many Near Quebec Quebec, Canada, Sept. 1. —(AP) — (Canadian Press) —A cliffside avalan che, loosed by violent rains, plunged down on a crowded four-story apart ment house in a Quebec suburb today, killing at least five persons and leav ing an estimated 15 trapped in the ruins. At least eight other deaths were at tributed to the same rains. Six persons were drowned when swollen waters washed a house into the Fortneuff river, 40 miles west of hefe. Two died in the derailment of a Montreal-Que bec passenger train, caused by a washout. The apartment house tragedy oc curred at a textile factory town six miles east of Quebec, where the land slide at 4:15 a. m. tore the year-old partly-brick building from its founda tions. Eighteen persons were injured, gome seriously, when a great mass of earth (Continued on Page Two.) Guard Admits Confinement Os Convicts Philadelphia, Sept. 1. —(AP) —De- puty Frank Craven today told a “blue ribbon” coroner’s jury he had been within 20 feet of the Philadelphia county prison’s “klondike” punish ment cells the night before four con victs were found “baked to death.” Craven, taking the witness stand at the resumption of an inquest into the death, did not say whether he heard any commotion. Previously con victs told stories of the confined men screaming in pain and begging for mercy during a night of horror, as the cells grew hot from steam heat from a battery of radiators. Craven testified that he did not visit the “klondike” during the three nights and two days of the prisoners’ confinement and had come near it (Continued on Page Two.) Fear Heavy Death Toll As Typhoon Rakes Japan Tokyo, Sept. I.—(AP)—A 75-mile-an hour typhoon struck the Tokyo-Yoko homa area, damaged thousands of homes and drove four ships aground today, the fifteenth anniversary of the 1923 Tokyo earthquake, in which 150,000 died. Communications were crippled, but early reports were that at least 14 persons were dead and several hun dred injured. Authorities expected the toll to increase. The storm came before dawn, strik ing first at Yokohopaa, on the coast 18 miles from Tokyo. There still was a strong gale here at 11 a. m., but the weather bureau said it was pass HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON SEPTEMBER 1, 1938 Peace Hopes Dim Pending Hitler Move Henlein, Leader Os Czech Sudeten Ger mans, Hurries to Fuehrer’s Mountain Retreat for Further Orders; U. S. Attitude Lauded by London Press London, Sept. 1. —(AP) —Britain and France reeeived with anxietv today the news that Konrad Henlein, the Sudeten German leader, had left Czechoslovakia to see Chancellor Hit ler of Germany, his self-styled pro tector. A section of the British press prais ed the United States’ interest in the issue between Czechoslovakia and the autonomy-demanding Sudeten Ger man minority. One newspaper predict ed President Roosevelt might send Hitler a warning. The fact that Henlein had gone to Hitler’s mountain retreat in Bavaria was interpreted as meaning that Hit ler, not the Sudeten German leaders themselves, would give the final an swer on the Czechoslovak autonomy proposals originally demanded by the Praha government no later than tomorrow morning Optimism over appearances of mod eration shown by a considerable sec tion of the Sudeten Germans waned pending developments at the meeting of the fuehrers. It was expected to show whether Hitler had been impressed by French and British warnings not to plunge into anything that might drag Eu rope into war. All quarters seemed agreed that the crisis was approach ing a climax, with the fate of Czecho slovakia and, possibly, all Europe, in the hands of one man—Hitler. Commenting on American Ambas sador Joseph Kennedy’s visit to the foreign office and No. 10 Downing street Tuesday and Wednesday, the influential Yorkshire Post said: “The conclusion is drawnu that Presi dent Roosevelt is ready, if need be, to make a new declaration warning Ger many of the danger of seeking a violent solution of the Sudeten Ger man problem.” WASHINGTON BLAZE HAS $15,00.0 DAMAGE Washington, N. C.. Sept. I.—Fire of undetermined origin in the forenoon today destroyed the plant of the Caro lina Bagging Company here .entail ing a loss of $15,000 or more. It was the second disastrous fire the com pany has had in a year. Dixie Davis Is Unshaken By Questions New York, Sept. 1. —(AP) — Coo'. and unshaken, J. Richard (Dixie) Davis, star State witness in the racket conspiracy trial of Political Boss James J. Hines, matched wits with Defense Counsel Lloyd Stryker today. The erstwhile “kid mouthpiece” of the old Dutch Schultz mob, planted his feet upon the top of the witness box, knees level with waist, and grin ningly rebuked Stryker’s red-faced at tempts to elicit flat “yes or no” ans wers. Only once did the witness drop his voice from a cock-sure briskness, parrying Stryker’s questions with ans (Continued on Page Four.) ing in a northwesterly direction and the worst was over. The largest of the steamers to go aground in Yoko homa harbor was the 15,346-ton Chit ral, of the Peninsular & Oriental Line. Its moorings snapped and the ship swerved to cut the lines of two other craft. “All three were driven to shore. Another Japanese freighter nosed into the rocks near Yokohoma light house. A small freighter was report ed breaking up under the hammering of enormous waves. One estimate was that 50,000 houses in Tokyo alone were floded, and that many of the flimsy structures were destroyed. _ ... Three More Major Tests For New Deal Coming This Month In "Bake-Oven” Death Spotlight lEBHHte pHBKSJI BIIMIII ' -m sH *mm L "Jk j® f ifljH w Wsismmf • aHL-- < Hgk wflr# / JR wmamt* J|l l Jh ■ j| 8» , ; nL« (left) and Alfred Brough, Holmesburg prison guard*, are pictured in court, Philadelphia, Pa., for a hearing. The men were! arrested in connection with the deaths of four prisoners in the county} iaii after investigation showed the men had died, of extreme, heat. 'Central Pren) 1 Army Os France Is Boosted To 825,000 Woman Identifies Negro as Attacker Fayetteville, Sept. 1. —(AP) — Robert Williams, 18-year-old Robe son county Negro, went on trial for his life in superior court here to day, charged with criminally as saulting Mrs. W. W. Bullard, prom inent white woman of Hope Mills. Sixteen witnesses had been placed on the stand by the State when court recessed for lunch, a»d sev eral of them testified to seeing the Negro running from the sqgne of the alleged attack. The victim took the stand and identified the defendant as the per son who attacked 1 her. lie came up behind her, she said, and threw her to the grouiud, badly scratching her face. Feelings Are Much Mingled On Primaries Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh. Sept. 1. —Anti-New Dealers got mixed emotions from the Califor nia and the South Carolina primaries, the little state staying conservative by no bit shakes and the big common wealth running riotously beyond the reaches of the Roosevelt liberalism. In the hotels one listens in a sort of eavesdropping way to find out that the big, leading Democrats, are a gainst the President and his purge, so much against it that they coveted Chandler in Kentucky, O’Connor in New York and Tydings in Maryland. They did not get Chandler but have a fair chance to get O’Connor and Tydings. It is just a .ministerial duty electing George in Georgia, they think But the primaries serve to show that there hasn’t been much recession from Roosevelt amongst the many Even the purged candidates insist from Tydings down to Smith that they have followed President Roosevelt pretty well. In California it appears that the Townsendites may be able to give trouble and that both liberals and conservatives may find it neces sary to make terms with them. Cer tain it is that while no considerable number of North Carolinians would , (Continued on Pag« Fous.) PUBLISHED EVERY .AFTERNOON * EXCEPT SUNDAY Government, Mean while, Struggles to Ap- s pease Labor, Threat ening Strikes Over In crease of Work Week Above 40 H ours; Mock Warfare Goes On Paris, Sept. I—(AP) —France swell ed her standing army to 825,000 today while her government struggled to appease labor opposition in its efforts to mobilize industry behind the na tional defense. Tens of thousands of young con scripts started for the French fron tier as part of the autumn half of a new military class. Their numbers raised the standing army strength from the normal 700,000. Crack troops of France’s regular armed forces, meanwhile,, reached the climax of mock warfare near the Bungundian gate at the junction of France’s border with Germany and Switzerland. The threat of a general strike by 200,000 textile workers of northern France added to the government’s problem in mobilizing industry and labor. The textile workers threatened to walk out soon unless their demands for continuation of the 40-hour week and higher wages were granted. This menace followed a warning to Premier Daladier by the General Confedera tion of Labor, representing 5,000,000 workers, that it. would fight any move to establish what would amount to wartime control of all French in dustries. The General Textile Workers Union representing employees in huge fac tories in the Lillie and Roubaix re gions, set September 8 as the tenta tive deadline. Some small groups, however, indicated they might walk out tomorrow. The protecting unions in the Gen eral Confederation, meanwhile, went ahead with plans for a huge demon stration tomorrow night against the (Continued on Page Four) ImfßiT FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, local thunder showers in east portion this after noon or tonight, and on the ex treme coast Friday; somewhat cooler in extreme north portion and on the northeast coast tonight, and in east a»»d north central por tions Friday. 8K FIVE CENTS COPY Three Major Defeats Are Already Had Administration Waits Georgia, Maryland and New York Votes; Roosevelt’s Prestige Involved Even More Than In Contests Al ready Held Washington, Sept. 1. —(AP) —The heaviest primary election month of 1938 began today with three major de feats chalked up against the Roosevelt administration and three straight-out New Deal contests still to be decided. Administration lieutenants hoped that primaries in Maryland, Georgia and New York will offset reverses suffered by the President Tuesday in the victory of Senator E. D. Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, and the defeat of Senator William G. McAdoo, California. The only other major upset to the administration this year was in Idaho where New Deal Senator James Pope lost to Representative Worth Clark self described conservative Democrat. Most politicians agreed that some of the remaining primary contests will involve the President's prestige even more than any already held. Mr. Roosevelt has denounced by name Senators George of Georgia, and Tydings, of Maryland, and Repre sentative O’Conrior, of New York. He will continue his campaign against Tydings Monday by speaking in Mary land for the New Deal senatorial can didate, Representative Lewis. Other developments: Secretary Ickes joined the Presi (Continued on Page Four) Johnston To Support Smith At Election Columbia, S. C., Sept. 1. —(AP) — Promises of party harmony succeeded campaign squabbling today as the last trickling returns cemented the victory of Senator E. D. Smith > in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. Governor Olin Johnston, who had the endorsement of President Roose velt, sent a good will message to Smith, veteran of 30 years in the Senate. In a statement, Johnston added: “We fought a good fight; we ran a good campaign, and as true, loyal Democrats, we will abide by the wish es of the majority.” Smith added that presidential Inter vention would not change his attitude toward the New Deal, and that he would continue to consider each legis lative proposal on its merits. Returns from 1,465 out of 1,507 pre cincts gave Smith 178,777 and Johns ton 145,038. Republicans Would Make Concessions By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Sept. I.—Republican National Chairman John Hamilton, while welcoming anti-New Deal Dem crats to the G. O. P. fold, has made it clear that his policy is to receive them only as converts to Republican ism. They mustn’t come in, he explains with any idea of diluting the Republi can party. However, this attitude is more or less personal .to Hamilton. I meet a considerable number of Republicans who hold that their party must make concessions. Their reasoning is that, until the New Deal’s advent, orthodox Repub licans and orthodox Democrats had no important issue between them. Now there is an issue (in fact, many issues) between New Dealers on one side and anti-New Dealers on the oth er side. By anti-New Dealers they mean RepuDlicans and anti-New Deal (Continued on Page Two. 1
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