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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year Europe Rushing Toward War Rehabilitation Gets Started In New England Storm Areas House Washed Out to Sea ]mM| IH^BBjß^Mß^BnWii^ ? MaijBHHB At Westhampton, I*. L, where the tropical hurricane struck with greatest fury, and where fifteen were reported killed and more than twenty-five children reported missing this house was washed from its foundation mto the sea. Note chimney, left standing hundreds of feet from where the house rests in the water. (Central Press) Big Egotist From Italy Roars Twice II Duce Brags and Brags and Brags as Suppliant S ub j e c t s Feign To Cheer Padua, Italy, Sept. 24.—(AP) —Pre- mier Mussolini revealed today Ger many had served a six-day ultimatum on Czechoslovakia expiring October 1. Mussolini, in a speech here, did not detail the terms of the Germans de mands. Presumably they were for the outright surrender of Sudeten ter ritory. II Duce cautioned his Fascist fol lowers to be ready for war. It would be a ‘‘very grave error,” he said, if the “patient attitude of Germany should be interpreted falsely,” indi cating Hitler could not be expected to take fright. Mussolini declared Berlin, had mani fested “supreme moderation”. He said “Germany had sent requedfe to Prague and has given until October 1 for a reply. There are, therefore, exactly six days for the Prague government to assume again away of sanity, for it would be truly absurd and cruel if (Continuec aa Page Five.) Markets Are Lower, Though Wheat Rises New York, Sept. 24. —(AP) —'Selling increased in security markets today, depressing stocks sharply as Wall Street braced itself against possible war shocks from Europe. An opening wave of offerings knocked many shares down $1 to more than $3. On a block of 4,000 shares, U. S. Steel fell $2.25 to $52, an d Chrysler was off $3.75 on an ini tial transaction of 3,000 shares. Subjected for weeks to the strain of war fears, money centers continu ed to shift into cash for emergencies. After the first selling wave had passed, the stock market steadied and trading slackened. At Chicago, wheat prices sky-rock eted four cents a bushel at the open ing as heavy buying, inspired by the new war scare in Europe, flooded the pit. • The Liverpool market, reflecting “xtreme tension in England, closed 7 3-8 to 8 1-4 cents higher, the sharp est advance scored there in some time * ' _ MmtJtersott BatUt fßispatrh WIRE SERVICE* OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Orient Will Buy Less Flue-Cured Washington, Sept. 24. —(AP) — The Orient, normally an important buyer of American tobacco, will im port less flue-cured leaf this sea son, the Agricultural Economics Bureau said today. Its Shanghai of . flee estimated that China; Man churia and Japan would import about 46,090,000 pounds of the flue ctired tobacco during the 1938-1939 season, n pared with 56,000,000 during 1937-38. It added the United States was • expected to supply around 40,000,- • 600 pounds this season, compared with 54,000,000 last season. The bureau said the smaller ex ports were a result of “disturbed conditions in those countries, re duced purchasing power and fore ign exchange difficulties.” France Gets 2,000,000 Men In Readiness Paris, Sept. 24.—(AP)—France to day mobilized the vital troops that protect the country during general mobilization. Evacuation of towns along the German frontier began. Two full classes of reservists, num bering 300,000 men, were called to the colors in the partial mobilization, pushing the total of France’s men un der arms well over the 2,000,000 mark. In moments of anxiety peace or war tension, all eyes were on Germany in fearful uncertainty as to whether Adolf Hitler would wait for further developments in the Czech crisis, or issue marching orders. At the German frontier, authorities first ordered evacuation of the 1,200 citizens of BouzonVille, five miles from the Saarland German frontier. The town was being turned over to the army as a base for one extension of the Maginot line. During the morning United States Ambassador William Bullitt confer red with Foreign Minister Bonnet. Early in the afternoon big crowds of curious and relatives of departing soldiers massed around army head quarters in a hotel and the east rail way station, where reservists were taking train for the border. NEWPORT LAD DIES FROM HIT-RUN CAR Beaufort, Sept. 24. —(AP) —Ralph Spence, 17, of Newport, was fatally injured when struck by a hit-and run driver, here early today. Coronor George Dill said the case would be held open until the driver of the machine had been found. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGIN^. Dangers Os Epidemic In Region Pass Task of Burying Near ly 500 Dead Is Start ed; 100,000 PW A Workers* and Other Thousands of Soldiers Search for Missing; Many Homeless (By The Associated Press.) Abating floods today gave the North Atlantic states time to bury their hur ricane dead, nearly 500 in number, and to begin the sorry task of re habilitating areas stricken by the worst storm disaster to befall the na tion in a decade. Most pressing of the problems in mopping up after Wednesday’s hur ricane—a scimitar of wind and tide that cost a half billion dollars in pro perty damage—was the housing and f 12.000 distressed families in New Yor£; New Jersey and New Eng land. Prompt emergency health measures by the Red Cross and other relief agencies apparently had ended the menace of the storm’s grimmest after math, epidemic diseases. Over the flood-besieged seven-state sector an army of 100,000 WPA work ers and thousands of army and Na tional Guard troops and survivor volunteers—thoughtless of their own grief—poked through the debris for the dead.. Scores still were missing. Red Cross officials expressed be lief that many bodies buried beneath i tons of shifting sand would never be | found. . Forecasts of generally fair weather accompanied the subsiding of flood ed rivers in New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. Danger also lessened at Hartfort, Conn., as the Connecticut apparently passed its crest. A tenth of the city was still under water, however, and 1,500 men labored to bolster a two mile sandbag barricade protecting a thickly populated tenement district N. C. Trucks Pay More Tax Than Average Daily Dispatcn Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Sept. 24.—North Carolina’s trucks —some 70,000 of them —paid $25.41 more apiece, on an average, in taxes during 1936 than did the aver age truck throughout the United States, according to figures in the Highway Conference Users handbook, Motor Facts and Figures, and fig ures from the North Carolina Depart ment of Revenue. The book’s figures show that the average truck in the United States paid special automotive taxes to the tune of $95.33 during the year, while North Carolina’s figures for the same year show that the state’s 69,738 reg istered trucks paid a grand total of $8,420,284 or an average of $120.74 each. National figures for 1937 are not yet available to compare with North Carolina’s for that year. The North Carolina trucks paid in a total of $2,562,292 in registration fees and $5,857,992 in gasoline taxes to make up the grand total of more than eight million dollars. The N. C. average registration fee was, therefore $36.74, as. compared with $22.18 for the nation. Gasoline tax per truck was $94, against a na tional average of less than half as much —$46.20 according to the Fact Book figures. For-hire trucks bore the heaviest burden both in the state and in North Carolina. In the country at large each of 202,000 common carrier trucks was reported to have paid an aver age fee of 242.49. The same year 318,- 000 contract carrier trucks paid an average tax of $161.66. Private trucks, which comprise the largest percentage of trucks, paid $283,200,000 in taxes, an average of $80.83 for 3,503,606 trucks. Data of the Highway Users Con ference indicated that trucks com prised about 14 per cent of vehicles registered and paid 28 per cent of the registration fees in the 44 states and the District of Columbia which kept separate records. In North Carolina few for hire (Continued on Paga Four.) HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 24, 1938 As London Crowds Demonstrated Against Hitler w .- 9 KB Here is a view of the demonstration which took place off Leicester Square, in the heart of London, following Adolf Hitler’s ultimatum to Czechoslovakia. Hundreds marched in.the parade, carrying banners which read “Stop Hitler” and “Do It Now for Peace”. No disordere were reported. (Central Press) On Solution Os Czech Problem Turns Modern Peace Os Europe Chamberlain Issues Solemn Comment On Present Critical Mo ment for All Europe as War Clouds Hover London, Sept. 24.-—-(AP) Prime Minister Chamberlain, returning from his second historic peace mission to Adolf Hitler, declared today that on peaceful solution of the Czechoslovak problem “turns the peace of Europe in our time”. The premier returned from Godes berg as All Europe rUshed headlong into vast war preparations. The pre mier had given Czechoslovakia what was described as Hitler’s “final offer” for peaceful solution of the crisis. Chamberlain read his terse state ment into the microphone for the waiting crowd, then left with Vis count Halifax foreign secretary, for No. 10 Downing Street. There he had arranged an immediate meeting of his inner cabinet, before calling all the ministers later in the day. The German charge d’affaires, Herr Kordt, was among those to greet the premier at the airport. He said, “my sympathies are with you in your gigantic effort.” The prime minister made this state ment before a microphone: * “My first duty, npw that I have come back, is to report to the Bri tish and French governments the re sult of my mission, and until I have done that it will be difficult for me to say anything about it.” “I will only say this: I trust that all concerned will continue their ef forts to solve the Czechoslovak pro blem peacefully, because on that turns the peace of Europe in our time.” Czechs Bare Hitler Terms To Avoid War London, Sept. 24 (AP) —Adolf Hitler’s terms for settlement of the central European crisis were stated ini official Czech circles to day to call for revision of Czecho slovakia’s frontiers without any German guarantee of the new borders, unless Hungary and Po land also become guarantors. This was interpreted by observ ers as slongly implying Hitler’s support for the demands of Poland and Hungary for the return of their miniorlties in Czechoslova kia. Czechs said Hitler’s definite terms were: 1. German occupation before October 1 of all Sudeten areas where more than 75 percent of (Continued on Page Five) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Sunday; slight ly cooler in. extreme northeast portion Sunday. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Scatter ed showers in south portion; gen erally fair elsewhere, except show er period toward end of week; temperatures near normal. Washington Advises All Americans To Leave Now; Treasury Faces Problem Washington, Sept:, 14.—(AP) —A re quest that Americans leave Czecho slovakia and a quickened pace in the Treasury’s preparations to meet inter national financial problems which might ensue from a European war evidenced today the administration’s apprehensions over the latest turn in the German-Czech crisis. The State Department said Wilbur Carr, minister at Prague, had advised Americans to get out of Czecho slovakia immediately, because “con ditions were such that at any time it might become impossible for them to leave.” Department records list 5,190 Am ericans as residents in Czechoslovakia. Hundreds more may be there as tourists. At the State Department it was believed, however, that a con siderable number had left since the war clouds began gathering. Debt, War And Neutrality Face Congress By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Sept. >24. Senator Gerald F. Nye’s neutrality law, Sen ator Hiram W. Johnson’s law against loans to countries which already are in default on indebted nesses due to the United States, and Representative Louis Ludlow’s p r oposed law to pr e v ent Uncle Sam from get ting into any more wars without a Ny® popular referendum —these three issues will be hotly con tested on Capitol Hill when Congress meets, Senator Johnson’s law is strict ly workable. Every one knows just what nations have welshed on their obligations to us. The law says spe cifically that they’re to get no fur ther American credit until they settle. Some interests, however, do want to extend further credit. They’d like to have the law repealed bodily. Sena tor Nye’s law has not proved at all effective. There are loopholes in it. They need to be plugged up, or that law, too, should be repealed, as a fiz zle. Representative Ludlow’s plan isn’t a law at all. Ludlow introduced a referendum bill at the last con-j gressional session, but .it didn’t pass. But he’s going to try again. He has said so, and he promises to have con siderable backing. These issues might have hung fire for quite awhile but the recent Euro (Continued on Page Five) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Glass Favors Armament. Chairman Glass, Democrat, Vir ginia, of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said that developments in Europe had convinced him this coun try should increase its naval expen ditures. "I have been opposed to those enor mous appropriations for war pur poses,” the 80-year-old Virginia sena tor .said, in an interview, “but it be gins to lpok as if it is • inevitable and desirable to have larger naval ap propriations.” Ps*rty slates for the forthcoming general elections will he completed next week —marking the end, at least theoretically, of the summer’s unpre cedented primary battles. High-light ing the wind-up of the nominating process will be the selection of can didates for New York’s two Senate seats. Legation To Get Americans From Hungary Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 24 (AP) — The American Legation in Budapest had a special train ready to evacu ate American citizens in an emer gency. The British legation made similar preparations. The American train was ready to leave immediately for the coast. (Tri este, Italy, on the Adriatic Sea, is the nearest port.) The legation advised all American citizens in Hungary to leave immedi ately if they could manage to do so The Hungarian-Czech border was closed. Czechoslovakia and Hungary rush ed military preparations in the fron tier area. It became certain at noon that there was no communication with Czechoslovakia. The frontier, even on the Hungarian side, was her metically sealed. Farmers living near the frontier were barred from working in their fields. Hungarians were told that no let ters could be sent to Czechoslovakia for the moment. Highway and tele phone communications was discontin ued earlier today. DR. WYLLIS REED, OF CHAPEL HILL, DEAD Durham, Sept. 24. —(AP) —Dr. Wyl lis Reed, of Chapel Hill, died this morning ill a local hospital of bron chial pneumonia. Dr. Reed, who was living with relatives in Chapel Hill, suffered a broken collar bone in a fall two weeks ago. He was removed to the hospital here, but complications at his ad vanced age of 81 proved fatal. The remains will be cremated Mona iy. O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Hitler Will Wait 7 Days Upon Czechs British Fleet Gather ing In North Sea Near World War Base; On Settlement of Czech Issue “Turns Peace of Europe in Our Time,” Chamberlain Says HITLER’S TERMS Paris, Sept. 24.—(AP) —Havas (French) News Agency reported from Godesberg, Germany, today that in German circles it was un derstood a German memorandum to Prime Minister Chamberlain made two principal points: 1. Chancellor Hitler granted ton days for Czech troops to evacuate she Sudeten area of Czecho slovakia, and for German troops to take it over. 2. No German guarantee Was to be given for the future frontiers of the Czech state. London, Sept. 24. (AP) Prime "Minister Chamberlain told his ministers today of the frail foundation of Europe’s peace after his fateful visit with Reichfuehrer Hitler, while Bri tain joined a Europe-wide rush to get ready for war. Chamberlain had only a vir tual ultimatum for Czechoslova kia, expiring October 1, a week from today, to show for his des perate midnight parley on the banks of the Rhine. Even before he climbed from his plane at the airport, the British home fleet was steaming out of. Invergbr don, Scotland, for a strategic place in the North Sea in the event of war, and other arms of Britain’s military services were making similar exten sive preparations for any emergency. The British fleet left as Chamber lain returned from his peace talks, declaring that upon peaceful solution of the Czech problem “turns the (Continued on Page Fiye.). Czechs’ Army Os 1,500,000 Is Mobilizing “ Prague, Sept. 24—(AP) —Czecho- slovakia mobilized itself and an army estimated 1,500,000 today against the danger of German in vasion. Fears, excitement and war preparations gripped the 20-year old republic as she made- ready for defense, “with every means at her disposal.*' Six hours were given to bring the normal standing army of 180,r 000 to nearly ton times that figure. First line reserves and some sec ond line reserves were rushed. to the colors. Military trucks rum -1 bled seemingly endlessly, thro ugh the crooked streets of this capital. Clashes On Border Still In Progress Czechs Block Escape of Sudetens Into Ger many; All Traffic Is Stopped Asch, Czechoslov kia, Sept. 24. (AP) —Czs'ch border patrols and Sudete;; so. ces fought at the frontier near Muelbach this morning. The Sudetens Lied to cross the border in to Germany. Czechs chased, captured and took them back into Czecho slovakia. , The Czechs fired rifles, witnesses related. The Sudeten volunteer troops replied. No one apparently was in jured. Railway traffic between Germany (Continued on Page Five) , . .. .:. . _ .'; 13 JcJ *. :'
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