("HENDERSON'S
I POPULATION
I 13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
BRITAIN AND FRANCE UNITE TO FACE HITLER
Middle Belt
Low Grades
Sell Higher
Some Improvement in
That Type Also Re
ported o n Eastern
Markets by State-Fed
eral Crop Service;
Notes Opening in Mid
dle Belt Area
Raleigh, Sept. 17.—(AP) —Tobacco
sold in Eastern North Carolina mar
kets this week averaged “generally
higher” than last week, the State and
Federal Marketing Service reported $o
day, while in the Middle Belt first
week prices were “substantially high
er” on lower grades than in the first
week last year.
In the eastern houses, where Type
12 tobacco is sold, the service said,
•‘the principal percentages Os in
crease occurred in the leaf and smok
ing leaf groups, and in most of the
lower quality grades of all groups.”
"Markets selling the bulk of the to
bacco in the Type 12 area reported
a general average for the week of
$20.66 per hundred pounds. For the
season to date sales averaged $20,67.”
Offerings in the east were chiefly
common to good leaf and fair to good
lubs, with leaf grades predominant.
The best increases,- as ■ compared
with opening week last year in the
Middle Belt, which handles Type 11
(B) tobacco, were on “common and
low quality leaf, and low quality lugs
and primings.” The service sail the
buik of the tobacco sold at prices
ranging from sl9 to $29 per hundred
pounds, with sales heavy and prim
ings predominating, though common,
to fair quality leaf as offered in fairly
heavy volume.
Farmers Sign
For Payments
Upon Cotton
College Station, Raleigh, Sept. 17. —
North Carolina farmers are signing ap
plication for cotton price adjustment
payments at the rate of several thou
sand a day, E. Y. Floyd, AAA execu
tive offifcer at State College, announc
ed today.
The AAA is now in position to make
these payments on cotton grown in
1937, h e said, and every effort is be
ing made to rush the applications to
Washington. Farmers who have not
yet signed the applications, “CAP 103”
are urged to do so at once.
With $130,000,000 available for cot
ton adjustment payments in the South
th e payments will be based on 60 per
cent of the 1937 base cotton produc
tion of each farm for which applica
tions are submitted.
The maximiwi rate is three cents
a pound, and* applies to all cotton
produced last year and not sold be
fore September 10, 1937. This includes
'cotton held by producers or put un
der the 1937 government loan.
For cotton sold before September
10, last year, the rate of payment
will be the difference betweer the
average price of 7-8 inch middling
cotton on the 10 spot markets and 12
■cents a pound, provided it cannot
•exceed three cents.
No payments will be issued to grow
ers who have knowingly overplanted
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Chas. C. Hook
Dies In Fall
From Window
Charlotte, Sept. 17. —(AP) —Charles
C. Hook, 68, widely known architect,
fell from a twelfth floor window of
an uptown office building today and
was killed. Detective Chief Frank
Littlejohn and Dr. Fred Austin,,
coroner, expressed the belief the fall
was accidental.
Hook, who, with his associates, had
designed some of the largest build
ings in the Southeast, went to a wash
room near his office early in the
morning. Soon a worker
in the building discovered the body
on the roof of an adjoining five-story
building.
There was a large hole in the head
and the jaw was broken, Dr. Austin
said. An iron grating over a skylight
in the lower building was badly bent,
and glass in the skylight was shatter
ed.
The coroner quoted friends and re
latives as saying Hook had suffered
for years from occasional spells of
dizziness.
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Roosevelt Cancels
Two Speeches So He
Can Watch Europe
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Daniel J. Doherty, National Com
mander of the American Legion, is
pictured as he arrived in Los An
geles for the National Legion con
vention. Doherty came from Mt,
Hood, Ore., where he attended the
Oregon State Legion conventioQ.
Gotham Food
Threatened
By Strikes
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“Outlaw” Action
Halts. Trucks from
Jersey at Entrance of
Holland Tunnel
■New York, Sept. 17. —(AP) Acting
Mayor Newbold Morris said today
emergency action would be taken to
insure the “uninterrupted shipment”
of foodstuffs into the city as a three
day-old “outlaw” strike of insurgent
truckmen halted hundreds of New
Jersey trucks bringing food supplies
through the Holland tunnel.
“The police department is losing no
time in making a survey of the entire
situation to determine to what extent
the public is or may be affected by
the strike,” Morris said.
Strike leaders insisted that all per
ishable foods were permitted to pass
the picket lines. Earlier, Abe Klein,
chairman of a rank and file commit
tee, had said that only food destined
for hospitals, orphan asylums an I per
sons on relief would be allowed to en
ter the city.
At least 100 large trucks loaded with
supplies from the New Jersey farm 3,
which provide a large part of New
York’s fresh foods, were parked
the tunnel at 9 a. m. Hundreds of
others returned to New Jersey. Few
drivers of incoming trucks refused
to join the strike.
Streets in a wide area, in the vicin
ity of the tunnel were soon lined with
abandoned trucks. Traffic on Vo rick
and Canal streets, usually flowing
arteries of commerce in the morning
hours, was light.
Kline said 9,000 men were already
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South Carolina’s
Governor-Nominate
In Biting Claims
Charleston, Sf C„ Sept. 17.—(AP)—
Mayor Burnette Maybank, apparent
governor-nominate of South Carolina,
replied today to Wyndham Mannings’
protest of the Charleston vote with
an assertion that the defeated can
didate’s official watchers at the Char
leston polls challenged only nine
votes*
Maybank said in a sizzling state
ment “this lack of industry on their
part seems not to be to the liking o
the candidate who. employed them.
He thinks they should have question
ed 21,684 vbtes, which happens to he
the number I received.” • .
Late Tuesday night Governor Olm
Johnston ordered a unit of the Na
tional Guard to impound and guard
the ballot boxes in this county, pend
ing a meeting of the State Democratic
Executive Committee. This action,
the governor said, was at the request
of Manning, who said he had infor
mation there were “irregularities” in
the balloting here.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Sta t 0 Department
Chiefs Come and Go
at Will at White
House Keeping Presi
dent Informed; FDR
Criticizes “Profession
al Fear Mongers”
Washington, Sept, 17. —(AF)—Presi-
dent Roosevelt cancelled today a
speaking engagement at Chattanooga,
Tenn., next Tuesday in order to re
main here in close touch with the
delicate international situation.
Disclosing this, Stephen Early,
White House secretary, told report
ers the chief executive also had given
Secretary Hull and other State De
partment officials the right of way
into his office at any time.
State Department chiefs now are
coming and going at the White House
as they please, Early said, keeping
the President advised regarding latest
international developments.
As further indication of the close
watch Washington is keeping on Eu
rope, Secretary of War Woodring can
celled his plans to attend the Amer
ican Legion National Convention in
Los Angeles. The reason Woodring
gave was “pressure of government
business.”
The chief executive had been sche
duled to speak at a celebration com
memorating the battle of Chicka
mauga, near Chattanooga. Previously
he cancelled a scheduled appearance
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., today also on
account of the foreign situation.
The President criticized the “pro
fessional fear mongers of 1938.” Speak
ing by radio from the oval diplomats’
room at the White House, in connec
tion with the Constitution observance
at Poughkeepsie, the chief executive
observed that “the patrons of ghosts
and hobgobblings” of the nation’s
early history would have little to
learn from present-day “fear mon
gers”. ’
Mr. Roosevelt declared that to be
come “a workable instrument of gov
ernment.” the Constitution needed
men in every succeeding generation to
administer it who were “as great as
the men who wrote it.”
Early, the presidential secretary,
also reported that the chief executive
ifc hopeful James H. Fahy will win
his race against Representative John
O’Cohnor, in New York. O’Connor, a
frequent administration opponent, is
seeking renomination.
Trucks Will
Take Places
Mail Trains
Daily Dispatcn Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 17. —In the not-too
distant future mail trucks, regular
post offices on wheels, will be run
ning regularly over the highways of
North Carolina, Stanley Win!, erne,
utility commissioner, predicts.
Th e advent of these motorized
postal vehicles will soon be forced by
abandonment of so many branch rail
road lines, he believes. The Federal
Post Office Department will be prac
tically compelled to start this sort of
thing in order to prevent mail deliv
ery from going back to the days of
about 1860 and the pony express.
Commissioner Winborne says that
in practically every instance where
there is community opposition to
abandonment of rail passenger ser
vice, the chief argument of the oppo
sition is that taking off the train will
cripple mail service.
The Washington authorities have
assured the Utility Commission, Win
borne says, that the Post Office De
partment will see to it that postal ser
vice does not take a step backward.
A printed pamphlet recently flut
tered down on Fayetteville street at
your correspondent’s feet. An idle
glance showed it was headed in bold,
staring type “The Robe of Justice
Fits Itimous T. Valentine” —a relic
of the heated judicial primary in June
like Mr. Valentine’s hopes for a su
perior court place, gone with the wind.
For the first time in the history of
the State, North Carolina is this year
cutting more than one million acres
of hay, the State Department of Ag
riculture reports. Hay production in
North Carolina has gone up some 75
per cent in the last decade.
Not that it was needed, but there
was another proof of the complete
democracy of Governor Clyde R. Hoey
the other night.
A local movie palace was showing
an unusual drawing card, a long line
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HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, SEPTEMBER 17, 1938
Armored Cars Used in Sudeten "Mop Up”
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Although small m manpower, the Czech Army is one of the most highly mechanized fighting forces in the
world. This squadron of camouflaged armored cars is part of the hundreds of combat machines sent into
the Sudeten areas to enforce the martial. law and quell the rioting that followed demands of German
annexation.
Czech Army Os 800,000 Men
Mobilized; Plea By Henlein
Prague, Sept. 17. —(AP) —An es
timated 800,000 men were reported
unofficially tonight to be under
arms and prepared to resist any
invasion, or to reinforce patrols
exercising military rule in Sudeten
German regions of Chechoslovakia.
The proclamation, of Konrad Hen
lein, the Sudeten fuehrer, calling for
organization of an organization of
“free corps” men on the republic’s
borders caused the government to
stimulate its preparations.
Apparently there was little doubt
that Czechoslovakia would fight rath
er than accept a peace-at-any-price
program.
SUDETENS TAKING TO ARMS
HENLEIN SAYS IN GERMANY
Berlin, Sept. 17. —(AP)— Konrad
Henlein today proclaimed that his
Sudeten German followers were “tak
New Industry
Still Flocking
To This State
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 17.—A total of 92
new industries located in North Car
olina during the first eight months
of 1938, while 53 plants already in op
eration built additions to their estab
lishments, it was revealed today in a
report of survey announced by J. T.
Anderson, industrial engineer jn
charge of the division of commerce
and industry, Department of Conser
vation and Development.
Mr. Anderson optimistically said
the figures indicate clearly that new
industry is continuing to come into
the state while plants already here
are expanding in many instances.
Total capital invested in the new
plants and in additions was estimated
by the industrial engineer at close
to. $10,000,00.
An added favorable aspect of the
situation is the fact that a larger
number of new industries located in
North Carolina from May through Au
gust than came in during the first
quarter of the year, Mr. Anderson
said.
In the second quarter there were 51
new industries and 27 additions a
gainst 42 new plants and 26 additions
during the first four months of the
year, he added.
Among the new industries, hosiery
mills claimed the biggest proportion
ate share, reversing a previous trend
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, showers in east and ex
treme north portions this after
noon and tonight; Sunday partly
cloudy and somewhat warmer.
WEEKLY WEATHER.
For South Atlantic States: Scat
tered showers with moderate tem
peratures in Florida. Elsewhere
period of scattered showers middle
and end of week; cooler at begin
ning of week; warmer about Tues
day and Wednesday, and cooler
again toward end of week.
ing to arms and organizing a ‘Sudeten
froe corps’ ” along the Czechoslovak-
German border.
. The proclamation spoke to “tens of
thousands of fellow countrymen” who
were “forced to flee” Czechoslovakia
into Germany, “in order to escape
losing their lives or being taken away
as defenseless hostages.”
His order for formation of the “ffee
corps” was issued under an Asch,
Czechoslovakia, dateline.
(Whereabouts of Henlein, sought bv
Czechoslovak authorities on a charge
of treason, since his proclamation of
Thursday calling for union with Ger
many was not known. His party has
been outlawed by the Czechoslovak
government.)
The proclamation accused President
Benes of Czechoslovakia of turning
loose upon Sudeten Germans “hate
filled Czech soldiery*’ and said that in
forming the “free corps’’ the Sudetens
“assume for ourselves emergency
rights which nations have taken at
China Calls Upop
League For Help
Geneva, Sept. 17.—(AP) —China
demanded today that the League of
Nations take steps against what
she charged was Japan’s exten
sion of mobilization orders to in
clude a Pacific island held under
League mandate.
Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese
delegate to the League, declared
a private meeting of the Council
that Japan had no right to de
cree mobilization in the Marianna
Caroline and Marshall islands.
These former German possessions
in the Pacific lie between the
United States ahid China,
Dr. Koo now demanded that the
charge be brought before the
Council for action.
Farmers Hurt
By Failing To
Raise Foods
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Sept. 17.—Secretary
Wallace’s Agriculture department re
ports indicate that unfavorable weath
er toward the sum-
mer’s end had cut
down this year’s
American farm pro
duction a trifle be
low earlier advance
estimates. The odd
feature of the sit
uation is that prac
tically all expert
commentat o r s on
these reports ex
press themselves in
a tone of consider
a b 1 e satisfaction.
Wallaee
They are not unqualifiedly satisfied,
because the weather wag not as bad
as it might have been. Consequently
our crop failures have been inade
quate. Nevertheless they have been
somewhat beneficial. When I speak of
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
«, EXCEPT SUNDAY
all times.”
(Earlier today Deputy
Leader Ernst Kundt, in Prague, in
an appeal of opposite tone, asked
Sudeten Germans to have patience
during the Czech-German crisis and
await the outcome of negotiations be
tween Prime Minister Chamberlain
and Adolf Hitler.)
The Henlein proclamation read:
“Sudeten Germans:
“September 10, 1933, Sudeten Ger
mandom was summoned by Konrad
Henlein to form the Sudeten German
home front with the honest intention
to safeguard essential rights of Ger
mandom in the Czech state through
equitable compromise with the Czech
people.”
“For five years, Sudeten German
dom gave proof of this intention.
“Today it is necessary to state that
all efforts to find this compromise
in peaceful labor have failed on ac
count of the Czech tyrants’ uncon
ciliatory will to destruction.”
Many Jewish
Doctors Sent
To The Army
Berlin, Sept. 17.—(AP> —Many Jew
ish physicians whose. licenses had
been ordered revoked have been noti
fied exactly to which military unit
they must report in case of war, it
was learned reliably today.
The report was taken to indicate
the urgency with which Nazis regard
the present crisis arising from Ger
man and Czechoslovak differences
over minority rights.
(About 6,000* to 7,000 Jewish doctors
in Germany were forbidden in
cree August 2 to practice after ®p
tember 30. There were few excep
tions to the ban, which closed a chap
ter in a systematic drive against
Jewish doctors which began Decem
ber 29, 1937, when 3,000 were dropped
from staffs of private hospitals.)
While Hitler’s newspaper mouth
piece stressed suggestions for a
Czechoslovak plebiscite to settle the
quarrel, and repeated the chancellor’s
sharp words that “behind this warn
ing stands a nation united in spirit
and determined in will,” Germany
continued quietly to put the nation
more and more on a war basis.
Hotels were combed for possible
workers on the new system of forti
fications on the western frontier
across from France.
The foreign commercial attaches,
bankers and economists said they
could not explain how Germany has
financed her large scale preparedness
measures.
HARRELL APPEALIs
IN SUPREME COURT
Raleigh, Sept. 17 (AP)—The State
Supreme Court next week will heat
oral arguments in 19 cases on appeal
third and eighteenth judicial
districts, and Wednesday will render
opinions.
One appeal is that by Miss Eliza
beth Harrell, of Henderson, who lost
in Superior court her suit for $5,000
against Carr Goerch, publisher of The
State Magazine. Miss Harrell alleged
that an article published in the maga
zine had damaged her reputation. The
court article was entitled, “She Had
49 Dogs as Her Peta.”
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High French
StatesmenGo
To London
Premier Daladier and
Foreign Minister Bon
net Called to. Confer
ence*; Morning Session
of British Cabinet Is
Shrouded in Mystery
at Close
London* Sept. 17. (AP) —
Britain’s cabinet faced the stark „
facts of peace or war today in
more than five hours of consul*
tatiorr with Prime Minister
Chamberlain, and placed her- re -
liance in a swiftly-called Sun
day meeting of the British and
French premiers.
Premier Daladier and For
sign Minister Bonnet were call
ed urgently to London from
Paris to join in the final deci
sions which Chamberlain, will
take back to determined Adolf
Hitler in Germany. :
These are the hard alterna
tives Chamberlain and Daladier
faced:
1. Hitler, in one form
or another, annex the Sudeten
lands of Czechoslovakia, and
perhaps guide the economic arid
political destinies of that un
happy democracy in an-exten
sion of Germany’s power ih cen
tral Eurbpe? l ' \
2. Can a formula be found to
give the German fuehrei these
things and still guarantee an
honorable existence of the state
of the Czechs and Slovaks ac
ceptable to the bold and desper
ate Prague government? . '
London, Sept. 17.—(AP) —French
Premier Daladier and Foreign Min
ister Bonnet have been invited to Lon
don to consult with the British cab
inet over the Czechoslovak-Ge rmftn
crisis, it was learned authoritatively
today.
The French ministers will arrive in
London tomorrow by airplane.
At Paris, sources close to the g'ov
er said a cabinet meeting prob
ably would be held Monday, following
the return of the premier and fo-eign
minister. Whether they would return
to Paris Sunday evening or remain in
London overnight was not disclosed.
Consultations between the French
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Border Folk
Feel War Is
Now Averted
Hitler Failed Them,
Henlein Fled and Su
detens Are Becoming
Dismayed
BY MELVIN WHITELEATHER.
Asch, Czechoslovkaia, Sept. 17.
(AP) —Most people on both sides of
this strategic German-Czechoslovak
frontier have reached the conclusion
that there will not be war now over
the Sudeten German dispute. They
may be badly informed, but that ii
what they say they believe.
Less than a week ago these people,
who would be caught in the center of
a conflict between Germany and
Czechoslovakia, thought otherwise.
Generally, tension has decreased. The
now leaderlesg Sudetens were so cer
tain that Adolf Hitler was going to
enter Czechoslovakia as he did Aus
tria that they caused suspicious dis
orders to bring down upon themsel
ves the army with armored tanks.
But Hitler hesitated. Their leader.
Konrad Henlein, fled. So dismay is
spreading through the ranks of most
ardent advocates of union with Ger
many.
A large majority of the Sudetens in
this area wanted annexation by Ger
many. There are some Who wanted
merely autonomy within the Czecho
slovak state.
Along with this week’s exodus to
ward Germany, there had been an
other exodus also of Sudetens' toward
Prague. They were of about equal
size. _ - _