Henderson’s
population
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH year
HITLER DEMANDS AHHEXIMG OF SUDETENS
Speed Mark
Set Again
By Eyston
Englishman Whose
Record Was Bested
Thursday Now, i n
Turn, Beats Cobb At
357 Miles an Hour
Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, Sept.
16— fAP) —The world’s automobile
speed record tumbled here again to
day as Captain George Eyston re
gained the title John R. Cobb usurp
ed yesterday. The new mark is 357.50
miles per hour.
Eyston, retired British army officer,
drove his powerful “Thunderbolt”
through the mile at 356.44 miles an
hour on the north run and returned
at 358.57 miles per hour, to displace
Cobb's record of 350.20 z
Eyston, who hoisted his own aver
age from 311.52 to 345.49 late in Au
gust, only to see the achievement ex
celled by bis compatriot, obviously
held back until the chips were down.
How long their costly six miles-a
minute duel will continue is a mat
ter of conjecture, as Cobb has already
announced his intentions of running
again. Eyston, black from brake dust
and exhaust smoke, smiled boyishly
when informed he had once more as
cended the world’s speed throne.
A crowd of about 5,000 persons, lar
gest ever to assemble on the dry lake
bed on the Utah-Nevada border, cheer
ed wildly.
Employment
In Industry
In N. C. Gains
Raleigh, Sept. 16.—(AP)—The State
Labor Department reported today
that a survey of 940 business estab
lishments in North Carolina showed
increases in August of 5.4 percent in
industrial employment, and 126.3 per
cent in wholesale trade employ men c,-
as compared with July.
It was pointed out a large part of
the increase in wholesale trade was
due to tobacco sales, a seasonal oc
cupation. In that group the weekly
payrolls in August ran $58,352, and
the increase over July was only 31.9
percent, as compared to the 126.3 per
cent increase in workers. The week
ly earnings average in the group drop
ped 41.7 percent in August.
In 548 manufacturing enterprises,
121,189 persons were employed during
August, and they received about sl.-
800,000, a gain of 12.3 percent in total
payrolls, and 6.6 percent in average
weekly earnings.
13 Public School
Teachers In Work
For Over 50 Years
Raleigh, Sept. 16.—(AP)—Thirteen
public school teachers in North Car
olina this year have taught for 50
years or more.
Lloyd Griffin, secretary of the State
School Commission, released the list
today, saying there were 24,050 teach
ers in all, largest number in the
State’s history.
The record for length of teaching
service goes to Charles M. Eppes,
Negro, in the Greenville school sys
tem, who has taught 63 years-
The record for the white teachers
is held by Miss Augusta Carstarphen,
in the Washington county system.
Other white veterans, with terms of
service, include: Miss Margaret
Hearne, of the Wilson city schools,
57 years. Other Negroes with more
than 50 years service include C. C.
White, Bertie county, 53 years; Guy
H. Leach, 58 years, of Robeson coun
ty. and J. C. Clemons r of Washington
county, 53 years.
MaximumHoui
Law Os State
Is In Court
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 16.—North Carolina’s
maximum hour law for men is head
ed for its Supreme Court test to /de
termine whether the limitation of
work to 10 hours in any one day or
55 in any one week, when, coupled
with the multitudinous exceptions and
provisos of the law, jibes with the
Constitution of the State.
Apparently the only thing which
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Sudeten German Party Banned
Entirely By Czech Government
Where Europe’s Fate Is Pondered
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This is Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s beautiful mountain chalet at Berchtes
gaden, Germany, where Hitler and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain,
of Great Britain, met in their historic meeting to discuss the Czechslo
vakian situation and the fate of Europe.
Roosevelt Talks About
Crisis In Europe With
Hull, Morgenthau, Davis
Washington, Sept. 16.—(AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt called in Secretary
Hull, Secretary Morganthau and Nor
man Davis today to canvass possible
effects of European developments on
America’s neutrality policy, trade
agreements and international finance.
Stephen Early, a presidential sec
retary, said these phases “are being
more or less seriously discussed and
cansidered.” He added that he was
relaying that information to newsmen
so they would know the trend of the
discussions and at the same time to
get away from what he called “scare
heads” of the sensational type.
Early said opinion might take the
form of a war scare if the President
were believed to be considering such
physical matters as the army and the
navy.
“There isn’t any war scare,” Early
said with emphasis.
The President, because of the in-
Southern Not
To Guarantee
Big Business .
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Daily Dispatcn Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 16—Should the South
ern Railway take over operation of
the Atlantic and North Carolina raiV
road, Morehead City would not over
night, and as if by magic, become a
great port, according to well-informed
opinion of all shades.
In fact, it has been learned on re
liable authority .that in all negotia
tions leading up to prospects for an
operating agreement, officials of the
Southern have repeatedly warned
State officials that the road wi l ! not
be able to make any tremendous cam
paign to route traffic through the
North Carolina port linked to Golds
boro by the Old Mullet Road.
• The Southern, they point out, has
well established ports now at Norfolk,
Charleston and Savannah and cannot
be expected to go out of its way to
divert traffic from them and through
Morehead.
Rail officials are unofficially quot
ed as saying to the State’s representa
tives in effect. *
“If you’ll insure us against losing
any money, we’ll take over ope T *ation
of the Mullet, but w e will not guaran
tee that there will be any immediate'
ly or appreciable increase in business
over its line into Morehead. We can
not make any special effort to , *oute
traffic that way. The best we car.
do is to offer no objection to and
throw no obstacles in the way of
shipments through Morehead. We’ll
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ternational situation, definitely can
celled a speech he was to have made
tomorrow at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in
commemoration of the 150th anniver
sary of the ratification of the New
York State Constitution.
The President’s talks with the two
cabinet officers and Davis, now head
of the American Red Cross, but long
ambassador-at-large in Europe, were
preliminary to a cabfhet session this
afternoon.
Other developments:
Senator Herring, Democrat, lowa,
disclosed that Treasury experts and
aides of a special Senate committee
were trying to devise tax alterations
which would encourage development
of industrial profit-sharing.
“If we can find a profit-sharing
plan that would work in 60 or 70 per
cent of the nation’s plants,” he said,
“we hope to recommend a compen
satory tax of the Federal government
to encourage it.”
Parties Not
Identified
From Names
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Sept. 16.—A political
friend of mine, lately active as cam
paign manager for a Western state
senatorial candidate who, as a New
Dealer, recently was licked by an
anti-New Deal aspirant for nomina
tion on the Democratic ticket, drift
ed into Washington the other day,
looking rather dejected.
Ferhaps I’m incorrect in saying
that this particular primary winner
is an anti-New Dealer. He contends
that he is a New Dealer, but admits
that he is not a “rubber stamp.” That
is, he fought the Administration’s Su
preme Court and governmental" reor
ganization policies. Otherwise he
maintains that he has been pretty
consistently pro-New Deal. However,
he hasn’t been a 100 percenter, and
the 100 percenters referred to him as
a “traitor,” a “Republican,” a “reac
tionary,” a “Bourbon,” et cetera. The
usual stuff.
Nevertheless the chap won—as to
the Democratic primary. It remains
to be seen how he’ll fare in Novem
ber.
A Geographical Item.
I asked my acquaintance (the
loser's campaign manager) how it
happened.
“Well,” he said, “this is a 1938 cam
paign. It's being contested on a 1940
basis. It ought to be contested locally
and it’s being contested nationally.
“If this were a presidential year
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HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER , 16, 1938
Sudetens Split Over
Following Henlein in
Manifesto Demanding
Annexation by Ger
many; Negotiations
With Czech Might Be
Resumed 1 f
• fct. -
Prague, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 16. —
(AP) —The premier’s office announc
ed tonight the Sudeten German rartv
had been dissolved by the Czechoslo
vak government.
Previously, informed sources said
the government had decided on sup
pression of the storm troops of the
Sudeten leader, Konrad Henlein, who*
has fled into Germany from a war- 1
rant for his arrest on charges of trea-1
son. 1 V **
These decisions were taken as con
tinued disorders of the Sudeten areas
coincided with reports so a split be
tween radical and conservative Sudeten
factions over Henlein’s proclams tiory
of yesterday, demanding annexation
of the Sudeten country to th e German;
Reich. It was this proclamation that
led to the charge of treason against
him.
This created the possibility that, one
section might accept renewed nego
tiations with the Prague government.;
Otto Ritter, a Sudeten German dis
trict leader at Asch, told authorities
none of Konrad Henlein’s followers
had any knowledge Henlein intended
issuing the defiant manifesto for
#inion of Sudetenland with Germany.
A “large” part of the Sudeten Ger
man ranks, Ritter declared, were “dis
agreeably surprised.”
Semi-official sources in Prague as
serted that three Sudeten deputies
who are now in the capital might “be
induced” to resume talks “in certain
circumstances.” There was little else,
however, to show any widespread
movement away from Henlein,
HOEY AND COAN ON
SANFORD PROGRAM
New Armory Dedicated and Tobacco
Festival Its Held in Lee
County’s Capital
Sanford, Sept. ‘I6. —'(AP)—Sanford
and Lee county dedicated a WFA
erected armory today and celebrated
the first Sanford tobacco festival
with Governor Hoey as the honored
guest. The governor praised the work
of the National Guard and the inter
est of the Lee county authorities
which led to the erection of the $45,-
000 structure, with WPA aid.
George Goan, Jr., State WPA ad
ministrator, presented the armory,
saying it was one of 23 erected in the
State through his organization in a
program involving expenditure of
more than $45,000,000 for all kinds of
work projects in the State since Au
gust, 1935.
Coan outlined the “war against the
existence of universal suffering and
distress of our people, declared by
President Roosevelt several years
ago,” and asserted that the WPA “has
won for the unemployed labor of
America the right to work and the
right to exist.’’
Man Hanged
For Deaths
Three Girls
San Quentin, Cal., Sept. 16. —(AP) —
Albert Dyer, 33, was hanged or. the
gallows of San Quentin prison today
for the assault slaying of three school
girls in Inglewood Park, June 26,
1937.
Dyer, former WPA school crossing
guard, was convicted and sentenced
to hang for the revolting deaths of
Madeline and Melba Everett, sisters,
respectively nine and seven years old;
And Jeannette Stephens, 8, in a lone
ly spot near Inglewood.
Last night Deputy Public Defenders
William Neely and Ellery Cuff, who
defended Dyer, announced in Los
Angeles that a juror said he wa3 in
fluenced to vote for conviction
through belief the trial judge thaught
Dyer guilty. The juror was quoted
as saying he held out against convic
tion two days and nights until he was
advised Superior Judge Thomas
White had expressed belief of Dyer’s
guilt. ,
The juror said he conferred with
Judge White yesterday and was told
the jurist had expressed no opinion
until after the verdict.
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, scattered show
ers in southeast and extreme east
portions tonight and on the south
east coast Saturday; cooler to
night.
Fighting the "Purge”
Jk %
jh
‘ a.
In the biggest rally of his current
campaign for nomination for re
election, Representative John J.
O’Connor addresses Democrats in
New York City. O’Connor, as chair
man of the powerful Rules Commit
tee, is prominent on the President’s
“purtfe” Us!*
Czechs Plan
Dissolution
Rebel Army
Henlein Flees Threat
of Arrest as Traitor;
Prison Decreed for
Rebel Heads
Prague, Sept. 16.
(AP) —Sources close to the Czecho
slovak government said today it had
approved preliminary steps for dis
solution of the storm troops of
Sudeten Leader Konrad Henlein, who
has fled before a government decisior
to arrest him for treason.
At the same time, the regional gov
ernment of the province of Bohemia
ordered a 24-hour time limit in which
all residents of 63 provincial political
districts must surrender all arms and
munitions they may have stored in
secret places.
These steps came as strikes, sabot
age and bloodshed stalked the
Sudeten region.
Premier Hodza, in conference with
the cabinet, was said to have approv
ed the preliminary steps for dissolu
tion of Henlein’s uniformed corps.
Informed sources said, however, the
government had Aot completed its dis
solution decree.
The Bohemian government provid
ed punishment or prison terms rang
ing from one month to five years for
failure to obey the order to surrender
arms.
Henlein’s manifesto yesterday de
manding German annexation of Su
detenland, President Benes’ order
adjourning Parliament and the de
parture of the British unofficial
mediator, Viscount Runciman, for
London apparently ended negotiations
for peace in the long-standing Su
deten-Czechoslovak dispute.
Czechoslovak circles derived some
satisfaction from the fact Viscountess
Runciman and members of the Bri
tish mission remained in Prague.
Report from the Sudeten region told
of one new incident., details of which
were not confirmed immediately in
official quarters. Sudeten Germans
were said to have demonstrated at a
point near Falkenau, resulting in a
clash with police and Czech troops.
Two or three soldiers were said to
have been killed.
Roosevelt’s Tears For
South Part Os. His Purge;
Clearcut Line-Up Seen
BY ROGER W. BABSONj,
Copyright 1938, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
Babson Park, Mass., Sept. 16. —If I
were a southerner, I would not like
lire sudden dubbing of my section as
the country’s “No. 1 Economic Pro
blem”. If this were 50 years ago or
even 20 years ago, such publicity and
concern at Washington would have
been a big boon to the South. The
plain unvarnished truth, however, is
that the South is now no longer the
nation’s “No. 1 Economic Problem”.
In the last decade, Dixie has thrown
off her economic shackles. She is to
day the fastest-growing section, both
in business and in population, of the
United States. Her twin handcuffs —
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Fuehrer Also Asks
Control Os Foreign
Policies Os Czechs
With Chamberlain
m
Sir Horace Wilson (above), Civil
Service chief known as Sir Neville
Chamberlain’s personal “brain
trust” accompanied the latter on his
unprecedented flying visit to Adolf
Hitler, and is at Chamberlain’s side
during all talks.
Chamberlain
Now Joined
By Baldwin
Present and Former
Premiers Flying Back
to London; Runciman
Hurrying There
London,v Sept. 16. —(AP) —Officials
of Heston airport said today Earl
Baldwin, who as prime minister
brought Britain through the abdica
tion crisis of 1936, has joined Prime
Minister Chamberlain at Cologne on
his flight to London from his meet
ing with Adolf Hitler.
Chamberlain, flying home to lay the
results of his meeting with the reich
fuehrer before the British govern
ment, halted briefly at Cologne. Air
port officials said this was forth(
purpose of picking up Lord Baldwin,
who has been vacationing on the con
tinent. Chamberlain succeeded Bald
win as prime minister in May, 1937.
The prime minister’s plane, which
he boarded at Munich after a motor
trip from Berchtesgaden, left Cologne
at 3:12 p. m. (9:12 a. m., eastern stand
ard time) after a 22-minute stop. Pas
sengers had tea and the plane was re
fuelled.
Still another British peace emis
sary, Viscount Runciman- was flying
to London, having left for the time
being his mediation mission in the
Czechoslovak crisis. Lord Runciman’s
efforts had failed to bring peace be
tween the Czechoslovak government
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the lack of industry and over-em
phasis on cotton —have been unlock
ed. As a result, the South is grow
ing by leaps and bounds. There are
limitless opportunities today in every
state from Virginia to California.
Groundwork For New Coup.
President Roosevelt and his ad
visors know this as well as I do. By
their sudden emphasis on the “South
ern problem”, they are dragging the
proverbial “red-herring across the
trail”. Actually, the snapping of the
spotlight on the South is part of Pre
sident Roosevelt’s celebrated “purge”.
It is the groundwork for the shift
ing of the “ill-fed, ill-housed, and ill
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Demands Last Word
on Output of Great
Skoda Munitions
Works and Where It
Can Be Sold; Cham
berlain Was Prepared
To Make Some Con
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cessions
t
London, Sept. 16.—(AP) —The
British cabinet tonight was sutn
moncd to meet at 11 a. m. (6 a.
M., eastern standard time) tomor
row to hear the report Prime
Minister Chamberlain brought
back by air from his momentous
peace talk with Beichfuehrer Hit
ler.
BY LOUIS LOCHNER.
(Copyright 1938, By The Associated
Press.)
Berlin, Sept. 16.—(AP)—Adolf Hit
ler was said today to have demanded
both cession to Germany of Czecho
slovakia’s Sudeten area and binding
assurances that Czechoslovakia’s for
eign policy should be in harmony
with Germany’s.
This information was volunteered
by a man who talked to high chan
cellory officials at . Berchtesgaden,
where Hitler received Prime Minister
Chamberlain of Great Britain yester
day. •
(Czechoslovakia has defensive al
liances with France and Soviet Rus
sia, which is a target of the German-
Italian-Japanese anti - communism
pact.) f : : :
Another German demand, this
source said, was that after German
absorption of the Czechoslovak
Sudeten afea,” ivhat is left of that
republic ghobld Tit itsSlf into Ga*-'
many’s economic system, at least to
the extent that Czechoslovakia did not
hinder realization of German econo
mic aims. • •
Germany, for instance, must have
the decisive word to say on the out-,
put of the great Skoda munitions
works at Pilsen and the destination
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Hungary In
Protest To
The Czechs
Budapest, Hungary’, Sept. 16.—(AP)
—A reliable source said today that
Hungary had protested to Czechoslo
vakia against what was termed Czech
slovak mobilization along the Hun-?
garian frontier. It was said the Hun
garian government probably would
take measures to meet the situation,
although a foreign office official said:
“Hungary will exercise a good deal
of patience to remain neutral should
an armed conflict start between Ger
many and Czechoslovakia.’*
It was pointed out that only three
weeks ago Hungary was permitted
formally to scrap the military clauses
of the World War peace treaties and -
re-arm. Consequently, it was believ
ed the country is not ready to enter
a war, although it is generally be
lieved that remarkable progress to
ward rearmament has been made in
recent months.
Citizens of Budapest showed anxiety
partly because the Czechoslovak
frontier is only 40 miles distant.
World Series
Set To Start
On October 5
New York, Sept. 16.—(AP)—Unless
the National League race ends in a
tie, the 1938 World Series will open
Wednesday, October 5, with the first
two games scheduled in the home of
the National League champions. The
third, fourth and fifth games w’ll be
played in the Yankee Stadium, with
the sixth and seventh, if necessary, re
turning to the National League city.
This was decided today at a con
ference between Baseball High Com
missioner K. M. Landis and repre
sentatives of the five clubs involved.
The New York Yankees, represent
ing the American League, and the
Pittsburgh Pirates, New York G ; ants,
Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs
from the National, participated in the
conference.
All games will begin at 1:30 p. m.,
satndard time, unless there jis a Sun
day game in Nery York, in which
event hostilities will start at 2 p. m.