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"Henderson’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR CHAMBERLAIN HALTS PARLEY WITH HITLER Floods Threaten As Storm Dead Nears 500 Hurricane Blew Their Home Down I I# - j ShbZL j xyv' - -n ; v v v '••. : v ]■' * / jr »• ' ■'Jr Jr. I jfctßlji - j£. £ Bfe z jt . -v . * , y j Bl *&* Standing amid the ruins of their gale-tattered home at Long Beach, L. 1., these girls seek possessions in the wreckage. The beach community was the center of one of the most violent winds and rain storms in many years as a hurricane swept the East coast, oausing loss of scores of lives and enormous damage to property. Forget Europe And Start Drive For Business, Is Advice Offered By Babson BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1938, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. New York City, Sept. 23. —For the past three months business has been bowling right along. Activity is up 11 per cent from the mid-June bottom. Every day there is encouraging, cheer ful news coming out on ttys industry and that. Yet I believe that people are more upset and frightened today than when business was at its lowest point in June. The reason is, of course, the Euro pean situation. Newspaper headlines have been screaming war for weeks. Your radio program is interrupted every ten minutes by a “radio press bulletin” playing up some insignifi cant war news. My position right along has been that there will be no Hoey Standi On Diversion No Surprise Dally Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Sept. 23.—Governor Clyde R. Hoey’s outspoken opposition to any constitutional amendment pro hibiting diversion of highway re venues to other purposes proved a surprise in nothing except the time and manner in which he made it public. The anti-diversion forces have known all along that they were faced with opposition from Governor Hoey, but they were frankly surprised at his High Point address of Thursday in which he vigorously recorded this opposition. State Senator S. Gilmer Sparger, secretary of the North Carolina Petroleum Industries Committee, de clined to comment on the governor’s (Continued on page six) NEW WPA PROJECTS FOR STATE OKEYED Approval of $153,000 of Jobs Given by Coan, Furnishing Jobs for 438 Persons Raleigh, Sept. 23.—(AP)— George W. Coan, Jr., State works progress ad ministrator, announced approval to day of eight new WPA projects to cost about $153,000 and put 438 per sons to work. Four projects totaling more than $54,000 were in Wayne county. They were: Countyside recreational jfacili ties, $4,751, working 144; Mount Olive storm sewers, $15,107, working 40; Goldsboro, community building, $12,- 828.50, working 30; and Goldsboro, improved water distribution system, $22,130, working 39. HuniH'rsmt Daihi Disuatrb L JTh1 E A OF >X±l£i ASSOCIATED PRESS. general war in Europe this year, at least. When you read this column I will be on my way to Germany to get some first-hand information for you. War Bullish on Business. Our present upswing will be halted by this European situation if busi ness men, radio broadcasters, and the press are not careful. Business is like a machine, it takes a lot of power to get it rolling. Once it is rolling, how ever, it builds up its own momentum. The sensational treatment of the Eu ropean crisis is putting a brake on business recovery. Consumers are na turally holding back on their shop ping and business men stalling on their buying. However, my belief is that whatever (Continued on Page Three.) Two Negroes Executed At State Prison Raleigh, Sept. 23—(AP)—Tom Lin ney, 31, and T. J. Jefferson, 18, both Negroes convicted in Forsyth county of the murder of Herman Fogleman last year, died by gas at State Pri son today. Warden H. H. WUson said neither man confessed. Linney, seated in the death chair, told the warden: “Remember what I told you, Mr. Wilson. Some day they will find out that I told the truth.” Linney previously, Wilson said, had told him that some time some one else would admit she slaying of Fogle man in an attempted robbery. Linney entered the death chamber at 10:30, and the gas chamber switch was thrown at 10:34. About 45 seconds later, Linney, for vhe third time, wav ed his hand apparently in a goodbye gesture to the witnesses. He was •Writhing under his straps inhaling the deadly gas. It took 14 minutes, 15 sec continued on Page Three.) SPECIAL TERM OF COURT IN GREENE Raleigh, Sept. 23.—(AP)— Governor Hoey today ordered a special term of civil court in/Greene county October 31 for one week with Judge G. V. Cowper to preside. WEATHER. FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair tonight and Saturday; warmer im the interior Saturday. only daily newspaper published in this section of north Carolina and Virginia. Half Billion Damage Put On Property 250 Dead and SIOO,- 000,000 Loss in Rhode Island Alone; Rescue Workers Toil With Possible Speed to Pro vide Food and Keep Down Disease (By The Associated Press.) Mounting slowly but steadily, the count or the hurricane dead in the North Atlantic states ap proached 500 today, but the cheer ing probability arose that wide spread floods would be averted. Prom Massachusetts,' New Jer sey, Now York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, there came re ports that the rivers were reced ing and even in Connecticut, pre viously the most gravely menaced, things looked brighter. At Hartford, 1,5C0 booted men throwing up sandbags along a half mile on the Connecticut river front, were holding their own a gainst the flood early in the after noon. (By The Associated Press) The danger of flood moved closer today in many sections in the Tiurri cane-hit northeast as the long list of the storm dead approached 500 and continued to increase. In Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and New Jersey rivers were rising. JAt many points rain fell. Sections of Connecticut appeared most gravely menaced. At Hartford liiOOO booted men, working with des perate urgency, piled handbags upon the Connecticut river’s dykes along a half mile stretch of river front. Al ready 1,400 were homeless in that city, and ten percent of its total area was under water. For the storm area generally,"disas trous inundiations appeared unlikely, hut fresh suffering and more damage (Continued on Page Six.) Delano Made Comptroller Os Currency Washington, 3fep*t. 23.—CAP)—The White House announced today Presi dent Roosevelt has appointed Preston Delano, of Massachusetts, tis comp troller of the currency,* succeeding J. F. T. O’Connor, who resigned to run for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in California. Stephen Early, Mr. Roosevelt’s sec retary, said the job had been held open fop O’Connor < who was unsuc cessful in the gubernatorial race. O’Connor, Early told reporters, ad vised the President he did not desire re-appointment and that he would re turn to California to practice law. (Continued on Page Six.) Mile Os Pam Falls, With 8 Entombed Fort Peck, Mont., Sept. 23.—(AP) — The bodies of seven of eight workmen entombed when • a mile of the up stream face of the $100,000,000 Fort Feck r’/m gave way were hidden un der millions of tons of soft earth and rock today. The body of Albert Stoe cer, Park Grove, Mont., was found late yesterday soon after the huge section of the dam’s east abutment roared toward the lake forming be hind the dam on the Missouri river. Hours of dangerous search of the loose slope 2,000 feet long and 200 feet high convinced searchers none of the missing men would be found alive. The dam is nearly three miles long. Major Kittrell, in charge of the con struction of the dam, largest earth fill dam in the world, announced a preliminary survey did not indicate that any reason for alarm should exist regarding security of the main dam. . . . HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY, AFTERNOON, S EPTEMBER 23,1938 Blames Paris MBs ' Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs, is pictured above. He told the League Assem bly at Geneva that Russia had wanted to confer with France and the Czechs on means to protect the Utter from Nazi invasion, but that France refused. (Central Press) Russia Will Join War If Others Will Notifies France Num ber of Troops, Planes, Tanks, Guns She Can Supply ; Litvinoff Talks at League Geneva, Sept. 23 . —(AP) —Soviet sources at the League of Nations said today Russia had already noti fied France of the exact number of planes,-troops, gums and tanks she was ready to put into the field if war came over Czechoslo vakia. i Earlier, Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet commissar of foreign affairs, told the League of Nations Russia might voluntarily go to the aid of Czecho slovakia, but “no one can insist on this help as a duty.”.. In a surprise statement to the Lear gue Assembly’s political committee, Litvinoff declared his government had “a clear conscience and clean hands in the Czechoslovak crisis.” “The Soviet government,” he said, “may come to the aid of Czechoslo-, vakia only in virtue of a voluntary de cision of its part, or in virtue of a de cision by the League, but no one can insist on this help as a duty.” Litvinoff repeated his pledge that if France fights to protect Czecho slavakia against invasion Russia will fulfill her obligation under the Soviet-C-ech mutual assistance pact. Eight Persons Dead In Border Clashes; Fighting Continues Prague, Sept. 23 —(AP) —Czechslo- vak government sources reported to day that eight persons were killed and many others wounded in frontier clashes last night between Sudeten party members and armed Czechoslo vak guards. The most serious inci dent was reported from the small border town of Freiwaldau, in the western part of Sudetenland. There Czech gendermarie and Sudetens fought a short battle, in which four Czechs were killed and 12 wounded. In another fight, at Habakladru, three Sudeten party members were, reported shot to death. This inci dent was said to have started when a crowd of civilians attacked armed Czech guards. , France Will Fight If Hitler Enters Czechs’ Territory Trocps on Belgian, Ge r man, Italian Fronts Told to Take Emergency Stand ’ Paris, Sept. 23.—(AP)—Radical Socialist deputies tonight quoted Premier Daladier as declaring ; 1 that “if Germany enters Czecho slovakia France will face her en gagements.” Deputy L. Malvy, one of the leaders of the premier’s own party, was one cf those who quoted those words to newspaper men after a delegation of radical socialist socialist ministers had called on the premier. Malvy also said that - Daladier declared he would call Parliament immediately back into session “if the situation should be come worse.” France is pledged to go to Czecho slovakia’s aid should the latter be the victim of “unprovoked aggression.” Parliamentary circles said, mean while, that Daladier had agreed to submit the blanket resignations of his government as soon as the interna tional crisis “takes a definite turn one way or another.” No More Concessions. The decision, made necessary by a split in the cabinet over the policies of the premier and Foreign Minister Bonnet, followed reports, that revolt ing cabinet members forced from Daladier a promise that France would make no more concessions to Ger many. The cabinet was said by some mem bers of the Chamber of Deputies to be split nine to nine over Daladier’s refusal to fulfill French obligations to Czechoslovakia. Tobacco Act Being Tested By Georgians Valdosta, Ga., Sept. 23.—(AP)— A hearing involving the first test of the 1938 agricultural adjustment act was planned here today before a three-jildge > Federal court. , Constitutionality of flue-cured to bacco marketing quotas and the pen alty tax imposed for excessive sales are challenged in spits before the court, filed by Georgia tobacco grefw ; ers. The actions contended the AAA of- under wihjich Jnar kiting ’was fixed for the nation’s principal crops was “unconstitutional in that Con gress assumed authprities not directly granted by the Constitution.” Growers also asserted tobacco grow ing was not an interstate industry, and, therefore, was not subject- to Federal regulation. A. J. Little, one of the attorneys bringing the suits, estimated Georgia and Florida growers would have to pay penalties totalling between $4,- 000,000 and $5,000,000 if the law was upheld. The government said, however, that all- these frontier incidents had been “liquidated” and wbre under investi gation by Chech authorities. One Czech soldier was killed by a shot in the back in antoher region, said the government report. • Seventeen Czech gendarmes were kidnaped by Sudeten volunteers and taken across the border. One escaped and brought news of the incident back across the frontier. At Hammern, ten Czech customs were besieged by a crowd of Germans, which Prague officials said included' German gendarmes and customs guards. Later, the report said, the (Continued on Page Six.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY For Hungary ,v * N ’’ WiM | •** x-.; •• • x-x-. & w| ' . i • Loudest in the demand for auton omy for the 700,000 Hungarians in the Czech-Hungarian borderlands is Kolomany de Kanya (above), Hungary’s minister of foreign af fairs. In his visit to Hitler at Berch tesgaden, Kanya demanded the re tarn to Hungary of a slice of Czech territory. (Central Press) Poland Told By Russians To Stay Out Moscow Will Cancel Non-Aggression Pact If Czech Border Is In vaded; Warning De livered to Polish Charge at 4a. m.; Troops Mobilized Moscow, Sept. 23. —(AP) —Soviet Russia warned Poland today that if Polish troops invaded Czechoslovakia, Russia would cancel the Polish-Soviet non-aggression pact. RUSSIA WILL DENOUNCE* PACT IF TROOPS ADVANCE Paris, Sept. 23. —(AP)—The Havas (French) News Agency, in a Moscow dispatch today, reported that Soviet Russia had notified Poland she would (Continued on Page Six.) Hull Most Outstanding Cabinet Man By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Sept. 23.—Secretary of State Cordell Hull has been the hard est worked official in Washington since the European situation became so t h reatening. His whole department has been toiling over-time, but of course its chief has been kept most con tinuously upon the qui vive of all. Sec retary Hull isn’t so constituted as to take things easy, anyway. He has an acute sense of re sponsibility. If ever a Cabinet pre mier’s, duties kept him awake nights it’s true of Cordell Hull. Several months ago I had a personal chat with this Tennesseean, whom I know (Continued on Page Four.) O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Breakdown Os Parleys Now Feared British Premier Re po r t e d Demanding Hitler Effect Truce on Border; Situation Over European Peace Becomes Even More Tense Than It Has Been CHAMBERLAIN IS TO RETURN HOME Godesberg, Germany, Sept. 28. (AP) —After a day of suspension * in the fateful Godesberg talks on ■ ttje peace of Europe, came an nouncement that Prime Minister '• Chamberlain would see Chamctf lor Hitler later tonight and return to London by plane early tomor row morning. The disclosure was made short ly after Maxim Litvinoff, Russian Soviet commissar of foreign af fairs, told the League of Nations that Russia might voluntarily go to the aid of Czechoslovakia, but "no one can insist on this help as a duty." The Russian source said P. Com nen, Roumanian delegate to the League, had renewed his country's pledge to allow Russian) troops and! supplies to pass through Rou mania on their way to Czechoslo vakia, provided France and Bri tain fought on the side of Moscow. Roumanians have flatly refused sue hpassage if Russia fought j alorte for Prague. Godesberg, Germany, Sept. 28. (AP) —Reichfuehrer Hitler’s reply to Prime Minister Chamberlain’s letter, which this morning suspended their conversations on the European crisis, reached the British statesman at his Petersberg hotel at 8:35 p. m. ‘(9:35 a. m., eastern standard time)'today. There was no immediate indication of the tenor of the feply, nor of when the talks would be resinned. ‘ Meanwhile, the negotiations, in which Chamberlain is tryiflg' to as sure Europe’s peace at an unpreced dented price, continued in a state of tense suspense. Half an hour before he was to meet Hitler at the fuehrer’s hotel headquarters here this morning, the British minister sent his letter across the Rhine calling off the meet ing. Then he stayed in his hotel suite awaiting the reply. There was no official information on what Chamberlain’s letter said, but informed persons believed it out lined essential conditions for continu ation of the talks. One of Chamber lain’s conditions was reported unof ficially to be that Hitler help arrange (Continued on Page Six.]! French Army Ordered Into Battle Array Parliament To Be Re* called if Condition* Grow Worse; Daladier To Quit When Situa tion Cleart; Cabinet Split 50-50 on Aiding Czechs - ’•••; Strasbourg, France, Sept. 23. (AP)—Troops along France's Bel gian, Italian and German frontiers were ordered today to assume •"positions of alert," It was re ported ini sources close to the gen eral staff. Such an order, issued by the government, means that troops take up positions ready for an emergency. These reports came as difficulties became manifest in talks in Godes berg, Germany, between Prime Min ister Chamberlain of Great Britain and Reichfuehrer AdoLf Hitler. At Thionville, near the German frontier, it was reported sections of army en gineer* have been sent right to the frontier, as well as detachments of mobile guards destined to be shock troops in event of conflict. The orders were expected to: be ap plied to troops in the interior if the situation should become alarming. France’s military preparations, which (Continued on Page Six.)
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