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Hitler And Henlein Are Agreed On Course 1 In Czech Dispute
Full Accord
Reached On
Tense Crisis
Henlein Returns To
Czechoslovakia After
Two Days of Confer
ences With German
Fuehrer, His Self -
Styled “Protector” In
Mid-Europe
Berchtesgaden, Germany, Sept. 2. —
(AP)—Czechoslovakia’s fete was con
sidered today in an intimate meeting
of the fuehrer of greater Germany
and the autonomy-seeking Nazi-pro
tected Sudeten Germans.
Adolf Hitler and Konrad Henlein
were alone in the stiNJy of th e Ger
man chancellor’s mountain home as
they conferred for the second suc
cessive day on how to deal with the
attempts of the Czechoslovak govern
ment to placate Henlein and his fol
lowers.
»An official announcement at the
close of the meeting said Germany’s
supreme leaders “took cognizance with
interest’ ’of Henlein’s report on the
crisis in Czechoslovakia, and that the
tw'O were in “complete accord in their
judgment of the situation. 4 ’
Field Marshal Hermann Goering,
Propaganda Minister Paul Goebbels
and Rudolf Hess, deputy Nazi party
leader, participated with Hitler and
Henlein in a conference yesterday.
Henlein left this afternoon after hav
ing lunch with Hitler.
Foreign Minister Joachim von Rib
oentrop, arriving by train from Berlin
carried a report to Chancellor Hitler
on the British government’s attitude
in the crisis.
Italy To Bar
Jewish People
From Schools
Rome, S»opt. 2.—(AP) —The govern
ment today excluded Jews from state
recognized schools, universities and
“all academies, institutes and associ
ations of science, arts and letters.”
The decree, announced after a meet
ing of the Italian cabinet, imposed the
first restrictions on the participation
of Jews in the life of the nation since
the expulsion ordered yesterday of
foreign Jews coming to Italy since
1919.
Today’s decree applies to both teach
ers and students. Jewish graduates of
secondary schools may continue stu
dies in universities “in a transitory
manner,” the decree said,, That was
the only exception. The enrolment
of Jewish students in any grade o?
an educational institution recognized
by the state was otherwise forbidden.
The curtailment of cultural activi
ties of Jews was anticipated in furth
er restrictions, which, the decree indi
cated, would be imposed by the Fas
cist Grand Council when it meets Oc
tober 1.
The decree said the Grand Council
would fix a comprehensive basis for
governing the “participation of Jews
in the full life of the nation.”
The slogan of radical policy has
been “no Jews in the state, one He
brew per thousand Italians in the life
of the nation.”
Strike Adds
To Worries
For France
14,000 Textile Work
ers Idle and May Be
Joined by Others; Pro
test Cuts
Paris, Sept. 2. —(AP) —A strike ot
14.000 textile workers in Amiens to
day added to the problems faced by
the French cabinet, already perturb
ed over the international crisis and
workers’ opposition to lengthening the
40-hour week.
Protesting against pay cuts ranging
from 11 to 19 percent, the Amiens em
ployees refused to begin work, and
occupied several large factories. Com
pany representatives said the reduc
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piece of the Dutch Schultz numbers racket, walks into court in New
York City, to testify against Jimmy Hines, Tammany boss on trial
as fixer. (Central Press)
Rift Widening Between
Employers And Workers,
Stalling Off Prosperity
BY ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1938, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
Babson Park, Mass., Sept. 2.—A pa
rade by the Knights of Labor in New
York City fifty years ago started
Labor Day. Now, in every state it is
a legal holiday, highlighted by
speeches from politicians and labor
leaders. Monday’s speakers, however,
will say little about the Numbed One
problem of the day,—namely,' the
widening gulf between employers and
workers. Scant attention will be paid
to the.great need for a new spirit of
cooperation in business.
Recently in this column, I discussed
the railroads. I told of their financial
troubles and how they were trying to
avoid additional receiverships through
big economies in operating costs. I
forecast that railroad workers would
be forced to accept a compromise re
duction in pay as their contribution
to keeping the carriers in operation. I
emphasized that because pay rates
had been unjustly boosted last fall,
thousands more of employes are now
jobless than would be if wage scales
Capt. Ashe’s
Funeral Had
Raleigh Sept. 2.—(AP)—The fune
ral of Captain S. A. Ashe,. 97-yesr-old
Confederate veteran and historian,
will be held here at 5 o’clock th:3 aft
ernoon. Capt Ashe, believed to have
been the last surviving officer of the
regular Confederate army, died Wed
nesday night.
Several thousand persons are ex
pected to attend the rites, ’which will
be held in Christ Episcopal church.
Police Chief H. L. Pierce said hs
believed the funeral would be one of
the largest e ver held in Raleigh.
A Confederate flag flew at half mast
over the Capitol, in tribute to Captain
Ashe. Mrs. John Anderson, of Ra
leigh, State president of the United
Daughters of th e Confederacy, and
members of the Johnston-Pettigrew
chapter of the U. D. C., will attend
the funeral.
Honorary pallbearers include Gov
ernor Hoey and a score of men prom
inent in State affairs.
Reply Os Mexico
To Hull’s Note Is
Believed Refusal
Mexico City, Sept. 2. —(AP)—
The United States Embassy today
announced receipt of Mexico’s re
ply to Secretary Hull’s note on
August 25 on the expropriated
lands Issue, a reply which Presi
dent Cardenas said yesterday
would reject the major American
proposals.
Contents of the note, delivered
last night by Foreign Minister
Hay, were not disclosed. But the
embassy said it would be publish
ed Monday in Washington and
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOQN, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938
had been more in line with railroad
revenues.
A Labor Leader’s Reply.
Several days later I received the
following letter from the president of
the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men—one of the four big unions
which control railroad labor. I am
quoting it because it gives an inter
esting insight into the attitude of
those who strongly influence work
ers’ actions :
4< Need I comment about your
ready display of callousness toward
railroad employes or your miserly con
templation of the loot awaiting the
grasping Wall Street gang? Railroad
labor and the American public are on
to your game. We know that the car
riers are seeking a wage cut in order
to divert more wealth into the chan
nels of the bankers and bondholders.
We know that economists, like your
self, lend aid and comfort to such
modern highway robbery. We know,
too, that there is not one spark of de
cency or humanity in any man who
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Claim Burgin
Is Anxious To
Quit Contest
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 2 —Renewed rumors
from the eighth district that there
may be an accommodation of con
gressional differences must grow out
of W. O. Burgin’s victory in the
court case and that with the prestige
of such position he can afford to re
tire.
The fighting instinct of the David
sonian was intensified by attacks
on the county. It was Burgin’s be
lief that Davidson conducted its pri
maries as decently as Richmond
county did, and that never at any
time did anybody in Richmond enjoy
a moral supremacy over Davidson.
Burgin desired an opportunity to go
into the courts and show that for each
irregularity which worked to Burgin’s
advantage in Davidson one or more
might be shown in Richmond operat
ing for Deane. As the case left the
hands of the State Board of Elections,
Davidson was in disrepute. And that
the State Board of Elections had al
lowed to be counted for Burgin many
ballots that appeared to be tainted
But the Burgin retort was that the
same thing could be said of each coun
ty, and particularly of Richmond,
where the same instinct to take short
cuts was working in favor of the resi
dent candidate. The Burgin attorney’s
attacked the State board for alleged
pressure put upon the county boards,
alleging that this was illegal and be
yond the purview of the board The
state board on the other hand had
seen evidences of such irregularities
And illegalities as to move it to step
in. The sole question now is whether
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13 Held For
Grand Jury
In Roasting
All Taken Into Cust
ody Immediately In
Philadelphia City Hall
Court Room as Coro
ner’s Probe Ends; Sup
erintendent of Prison
Included
Philadelphia, Sept. 2. —(AP) —Sup-
erintendent William Mills, Deputy
Warden Frank Craven .nine guards
and two physicians of the Philadel
phia county prison were held without
bail today for the grand jury after a
coroner’s jury found them criminally
negligent in the “baking” deaths of
four convicts.
All were taken into custody immedi
ately in a crowded city hall court,
room at the end of a three-day in
quest.
Deputy Coroner Vincent Moranz,
charging th e jury of six business men
and club women at the conclusion ot
the inquest, specifically asked that the
following he held:
Mills, Craven, Guard Captain James
McGuire, Guard Sergeant James Hart
and Guards F. Smith, Alfred Brough,
Robert Morrow and William Bor
bridge.
Moranz also instructed the jury to
consider carefully the testimony of
three other guards and to hold them
for grand jury action if it considered
them involved in the deaths. These
were Joseph Lippo, Edward Corkery
and Samuel James.
The deputy coroner told the jurors,
however, to exonerate the guards if
they were found only to have been
acting under orders in turning on the
heat in the punishment building. Dep
uty Warden Craven denied emphati
cally at the start of the inquest a sub
ordinate’s statement that he was re
sponsible for the “heat treatment.”
Kennedy Tells
World HowTo
Settle Rows
Aberdeen, Scotland, Sept. 2. —(AP)
—United States Ambassador Joseph
Kennedy gave Europe’s leaders a tip
today to follow the example of the
United States and Great Britain in
settling their differences. He express
ed confidence that British-American
devotion to the policy of good natured
settlement would “keep us out of
war.”
The ambassador spoke at a lunch
eon preceding a Scottish-American-
Anglican church ceremony to the
cathedral of Aberdeen. His reference
was to s&ttlement of British and Am
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Lieutenant Commander Clarence
Conlon is in command of the U«
S. gunboat Monocacy which
was imperiled by Yangtse river
mines, although the Japanese re
fuse to let her move downstream
toward Shanghai. Commander
Conlan registered a protest with
the Japanese consulate after
mines had exploded dangerously
close to the vessel.
—Central Tress
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Saturday.
Vote for a "Purge” Victim
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With the expression of one who has swallowed some violently fitter medi
cine, Senator Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith, casts his vote fov himself at
Lynchburg, in the South Carolina primary election. Maybe the fact that
Senator Smith had been marked for an administration purge victim had
something to do with the expression. He won by a comfortable majority.
(Central Press )
Fletcher Decides
To Take U. S. Job
Raleigh, Sept. 2. —(AP) —Barring
an unexpected change in plans. A.
L. Fletcher will resign late today
as North Carolina labor commis
sioner and accept an appointment
as compliance director of the Fed
eral wage-hour act.
Fletcher said he would aimounce
his decision formally at 4 o’clock
this afternoon. Authoritative sour
ces indicated Governor Hoey would
appoint either Forrest Shuford or
T. A. Wilson to succeed Fletcher.
Shuford is State deputy labor com
missioner, and Wilson is a member
of the North Carolina Industrial
Commission, which handles work
men’s compensation claims.
Hines Linked
With Schultz
By Attorney
New York, Sept. 2.—(AP)—Max
Steur, noted New York lawyer, testi
fied today in Tammany district lead
er James J. Hines’ racket conspiracy
trial that the political boss had asked
him in 1932 to “adjust a Federal in
come tax case against Dutch Schultz.
Schultz, now dead, was the head of a
vast policy syndicate for which Hines
is accused of having given wide
spread “protection.”
In a low voice, the witness said
Hines telephoned him and asked him
if he would be willing to take a case
for the gangster.
“I told Mr. Hines I would be very
glad to take it,” Steur said, “if it was
in the hands of the United States at
torney.”
Steur said he saw the United States
attorney, George Madallie, who, was
then the immediate superior of Dis
trict Attorney Thomas Dewey, and
then called Hines back. He said he
told Hines:
“The matter that you talked to me
about cannot be adjusted. I anx not
interested.”
Steur said he had not been aware
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Negro Is Sent Up
From Fayetteville
To Death Chamber
Fayetteville, Sept. 2. —(AP) —Robert
Williams, 18-year-old Negro was sen
tenced today by Superior Court Judge
N. A. Sinclair to die in the State’s gas
chamber after the Negro had been
convicted on a charge of criminally
assaulting Mrs. W. W. Bullard, prom
inent Hope Mills white woman. An
appeal was made to the Sta.te Supreme
Court.
The verdict of guilty was brought
in late last night after the jurors had
heard 22 witnesses.
Defense attorneys presented four
witnesses yesterday to testify to
strange actions on the part of the de
fendant. Dr. M. D. Kemp, of Pine
Bluff, an alienist, testified that in
his opinion the prisoner has the men
tality of a six-year-old. He said, how
ever, he thought the Negro knew he
was doing something wrong.
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EXCEPT SUNDAY
2 Kidnapers
Get Wife Os
Richßancher
15,000 Ransom De
manded for California
Woman; FBI Springs
Into Action
Yuba City, Cal., Sept. 2. —(AP) —
Two masked, roughly-dressed young
men kidnaped Mrs. W. R. Meeks, 55-
year-old wife of a wealthy Sutter
county rancher, from her home early
this morning for $15,000 ransom, She
riff Bert Ullrey reported.
Meeks said the kidnapers, one of
them threatening him with a pistol,
forced their way into his home short
ly before midnight, bound both him
and his wife, and then ransacked the
home. They fled with Mrs. Meeks in
her husband’s automobile, leaving the
58-year-old rancher bound hand and
foot his living room floor.
As they were leaving the house, the
pair stood over Meeks and demanded
the ransom. He said they told him:
“We’ll contact you in a couple of
days for the $15,000.”
Notified of the kidnaping by The
Associated Press, Federal Bureau of
Investigation agents left for the scen c
early today to join sheriff’s officers
and the State highway patrol. N. J.
L. Peiper, head of the San Francisco
office of the FBI, said his agents in
Sutter county would take charge of
the case.
Orders to all members of the State
highway patrol to watch the road for
the stolen automobile were issued by
Raymond Cato, head of the patrol.
The rancher “guessed” the men
were about 24 or 25 years old. They
were five feet, nine or ten inches tall
Both were roughly dressed. White
handkerchiefs covered their faces up
to their eyes.
Commission Is Studying
Rearranging Os Schools
Daily DiNpntch Bureau, i
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 2.—Members of the j
governor’s school commission study
ing school needs for the State find
so much interest in their survey and
the program based upon it that an
other eastern meeting after the Ashe
ville session a week hence probably
will be necessary.
Divesting the public of many under
standings may be the first step. The
sittings of the. commission are con
cerned principally with an additional
year and an extended term. In its
present mood the commission has a
strong leaning toward 12 years of
eight months each, making a school
life of 96 months instead of 88 as at
present.
Financing such a term, of course,
comes first in importance and .the re
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Welfare Os
Nation Held
Above Party
President Says There
Are Several Republi
cans He Would Not
Object to; Report On
British Labor Rela
tions Greatly Impress
es Mr. Roosevelt
Washington, Sept. 2.—(AF)—Presi
dent Roosevelt told reporters today
he would have not the slightest ob
jection to the election of a liberal run
ning on the Republican ticket. He said
the American people were beginning
to think more in terms of principles
than in personalities.
Asked whether he knew of any Re
publican liberals who were running
for office, the President told his press
conference there were several. He au
thorized this direct question:
“If there is a good liberal running
on the Republican ticket, I would not
have the slightest objection to his
election. The good of the countrj
rises above party. It is an absolutely
unjustified assumption, which is be
ing made by Detroit papers, that a
failure to go to dedicate the inter
national bridge at Port Huron (Mich
igan) is in any way connected with
the Michigan campaign. It is a deli
berate distortion of the fact and the
Detroit papers might as well get that.”
A special commission told the Pre
sident, meanwhile, that British indus
try and labor maintained industrial
peace through mutual confidence and
cooperation. The commission, which
made a first hand study of labor re
lations in England, offei’ed no recom
mendations. It said, however, that
where collective bargaining agree
ments mutually satisfactory to na
tional unions and national employers
associations had existed for a long
period, strikes had been few and
strike violence rare.
Mr. Roosevelt, making' the report
public just before Labor Day, com
mented :
“To me the most salient feature of
it is the cooperative spirit, coupled
with restraint, which is shown by
those who represent both employers
and employees in Great Britain.”
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Britain Asks
New Accords
With Poland
London, Sept. 2 tAP)—Great Bri
tain is seeking a new understanding
with Poland in what was believed here
to be an effort to squeeze Germany
into a policy of moderation in cen
tral Europe.
A pro-British Poland, or even a neu
tral Poland, informed quarters felt,
would be invaluable to the Anglo-
French cause in any conflict with
Germany, This was thought to be
the main reason for recent visits of
the British charge d’affaires to the
Polish foreign minister in Warsaw
and the visit Wednesday of the Pol
ish charge d’affaires to Viscount Hali
fax, British foreign secretary.
Wedged between Russia and Ger
many, Poland would be in a diffi
cult position in any major European
conflict, it was pointed out. Poland
has a ten-year friendship agreement
with Germany, but the main Polish
hope in any major war would ’>e ir.
choosing the winning side.
search work done is having consid
erable influence upon the belief that
the twelve years will cost ltitle more
than the eleven. The present estimate
on that additional year is $750,000, but
as the hearings continue there i 3
much to persuade the members that
the cost will not be so great. The rea
son for that belief is that a recogniz
ed curriculum and school life would
promote graduation, would eliminat *
greatly the retardations and wit i
them the necessity for any teacher»
and the consequent transportation o *
pupils. If that can be done, the twelfth
grade cost will be small, the commis
sion thinks.
There is a wide misunderstandin '
about the way that grade will be ac -
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