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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year HITLER STANDS FIRM _ * * * * * * * * *** * ****** ***** ****** BRITAIN, FRANCE, RUSSIA TO BACK CZECHS Czechs Demonstrate Against a Surrender r jln _gji fcf itJp*’ Jarißy ]L**£r J|lj|> irS y jf.it3&\ »»tfeHISL i 4fT Thousands of Czechoslovak citizens are shown jammed into the square in front of the Parliament building at Prague, in wildest demonstration against the weakness of the government which bowed to the Anglo-Nazi deal for cession of the Sudeten territories. This picture was flown from Prague to London, then radioed to New York. It was taken while sporadic fighting broke out in the troubled border area. Czech President Tells FDR He Thinks Peace Yet Possible Benes Answers Roose velt Peace Plea by Saying It Is Possible Without Resort to Force; Americans Have Hard Time Get ting Started Honte Washington, Sept. 556. —(AP) — President Benes of Czechoslova kia told President Roosevelt he believed the Czech-German dis pute could be settled “without re sort to force.” He added, how ever, “the Czechoslovak nation would defend itself were it at tacked.” Benes’ statement was In reply to a plea from President Roosevelt that the German and Czechoslovakian nations settle their differences peace fully. v Secretary of State Hull extended the scope of President Roosevelt’s appeal to include Poland and Hun gary. He said instructions had been sent to the American ambassador at Warsaw, Poland, and to the minister at Budapest, Hungary, to deliver to those governments the plea for peace. The State Department reported that the German frontier along Czecho slovakia was closed and American citizens attempting to leave Czecho slovakia by Germany had to turn back and return to Prague. Great Britain “hailed with grati tude” President Roosevelt’s appeal for world peace. In Berlin, a foreign office spokesman said that nobody in Germany but Hitler himself could comment on the president’s appeal. In London, Premier Daladier of France gratefully replied to Presi dent Roosevelt’s appeal. % Hoey Stand Spurs Foes Os Diversion Daily Dispatcn Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Sept. 26. —Action of Gover nor Clyde R. Hoey in taking a firm stand in opposition to a constitutional amendment banning diversion of gas oline tax money to# other than high way uses is the first major reverse proponents of such an amendment have met in their campaign; but all signs point to intensification, rather than abatement, of the anti-diversion drive for change in the State’s or ganic law. * Quite naturally, none* of the anti diversionists is going to make any open attack on the governor. The strategy will be to ignore the High Point speech as far as any formal re ply is concerned, but to continue the (Continued on Page Five) Mtnmtxtm Datht mspaith WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Britain Calls Up All Air Corps Men London, Sept. 26. —(AP) —War Sec retary Leslie Hore-Bellisha' today call ed out officers and men of the anti aircraft and coast defense units of i Britain’s territorial army. This is a reserve force charged with manning ail anti-airoraft guns, searchlights and air defenses. All regular royal air force men on leave and royal air force observation corps also were called. Authorities stressed that both meas ures were purely precautionary and did not constitute* mobilization. Royal air force precautions also in cluded institution of an air raid warn ing system. At the request of the food defense planes committee, pro difce exchanges throughout the, coun try agreed to hold down *the prices of bacon, ham, butter, cheese, lard, ccoking fats and margarine to their present levels for two weeks. Bryant Gains In Fight For Speakership In the Sir Walter Hotel. Hally Dispatch Bureau, Raleigh, Sept. 26.—-Victor S. Bryant, Durham’s representative who aspires to be speaker of the 1939 North Caro lina House, has already “in the bag" at least 50 votes in the Democratic caucus, if apparently authentic re ports reaching your correspondent are as reliable as they appear to be on the surface. These reports come direct from a chap who was himself a member of the 1937 House, but who will not be back in 1939, and on their face seem to be about as unbiased as any such reports can be. He’s a fellow who gets about the State—all oveb it in fact He says he has talked to most of the men who will compose the 1939 House and calls names as well as numbers in listing the Bryant supporters. All of which makes interesting con versation and, if the informant s name could be quoted, there s no doubt that this piece would make even more interesting reading. On the other hand, your correspon dent has lately heard optimistic re ports from the camps of Libby Ward and Bill Fenner, announced contend ers for the post Bryant also wants. The Ward backers are claiming a ma jority for their man, while Fenner, partisans content themselves with predictions that the Rocky Mount leg islator will hold a “balance of power” vote which will make him a logical compromise candidate when a dead lock develops. So far the Hoey administration has shown no interest in the race, one way or another, but there are insistent ru iQoatinued on Page Five.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. New England Storm Areas Begin Climb Rehabilitation Under Way With 450 Dead and S2OO Million Dol lar Property Damage Boston, Mass., Sept. 26. —(AP) —Re- habilitation of hurricane and flood scarred New England moved forward speedily today os the death * toll mounted to more than 450 and au thorities estimated damage at.nearly $200,000,000. I After a survey of areas which felt the force of last we’ek’s storm, Harry L. Hopkins, national works progress administrator, conferred with region al assistants and governors of the stricken states on a reconstruction program. Upon returning from an airplane flight over Rhode Island and Connec ticut and a motor inspection of towns of Massachusetts and Buzzards Bay, Hopkins said “it was not a question of individual requests for government funds. It is a question of need and the need is grea.t From what I have seen, I would say the situation is very bad.” The number of deaths increased slightly over the week-end, when addi tional bodies were found in the wreckage or washed up on beaches. Americans In Paris Urged To Move Fast Paris, Sept. 26. —(AP) —The Ameri can Embassy in Paris today advised all American citizens to return to the United States if they were able to do so. Earlier, the ministry of public works, “because of circumstances,” had called upon all persons who were ready to do so to evacuate Paris by , rail. Americans already have begun the exodus. Steamship lines of neutral countries running boats from France to America said they had a rush of . applications for passage. Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet re turned to Parish from their confer ence with British leaders in London (Continued on Page Five) HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY, AFTERNOON,, SSEPTEMBER 26, 1938' U.S. Cabinet Is To Meet On Tuesday ’Germany and Czechs Warned of “Unspeak able Horfor” of Big War; “Fa| and Con* structive” Fea cef u I Settlement! Urged on Both Countries Washington, Sept. 24.—(AP) —President Koosevelt decided today to hold a special cabinet meeting tomorrow to consider the crisis in Europe. White House officials said the cabinet session had been moved up from Friday because of conditions abroad. The President, they added, was Keeping in touch with reports fc from Europe as they came in. Speaking in the name of 130,009,003 Americans, the President appealed early this morning directly to Chan cellor Hitler of Germany and Presi dent Benes of Czechoslovakia that ..hey stay out of war. % Copies of his appeal to avoid the “unspeakable horror” of war went also to French and English govern ments. j • At the White House it was said matic message. Whether the French note will be made public here is up o the State De'*atment, however. Roosevelt earnestly asked the coun tries “not to break off negotiations .ooking to a peaceful, fair and con structive settlement of the question at issue.” The president said war’s con sequences wfere “incalculable,” that millions of men, women, and children would lose their lives, the economic system of every country involved was “certain to he shattered,” and their social structure “may well be com pletely wrecked.” He said that “the fabric of peace on the continent of Europe, if not throughout the rest of the world, is in immediate danger,” and added: “It is my conviction that all peo ple under the threat of war today pray that peace may be made before, rather ‘ than after, war.” Mr. Roosevelt carefully stated that “the United States has no political en tanglements,” and “is caught in no mesh of hatred.” rr“i : Democrats Hope Margin Will Be Cut By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Sept. 26. —The nomi nating primaries being out of the way the congressional campaign now nar- rows down to a fight between Dem ocrats and Repub licans for senatorial, representatorial and gubernatorial vi c - tories in November. National i n terest centers on the sena tors. The ’'guberna torial contests are local in their char acter. For that mat ter, they’re distinct from the con-gres sional conflict, Not Maverick that the Republicans don’t hope to win with an additional governor here and there, or that the Demo ocrats don’t hope to keep all they’re got. Still, a governor is relatively small potatoes according to Washing ingtonian reckonings. As for represen tatives, collectively they’re as impor tant as senators, but individually they’re too numerously involved to keep track of. There has been a focus of the limelight upon a very few re presentatorial spots, like Congress man John O’Connor’s New York dis trict, Maury Maverick’s in Texas and (Continued on Page Four.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair to partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday, followed by scatter ed showers in the mountains Tuesday afternoon or night; war mer Tuesday and in north and ex treme west portion tonight. The Parley That Failed .- ; y|Br I M If:: C-... •• ■JBgiil. : V: ..CWgHm:: mm Ifti Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (right) of England, and Adolf Hitler, of Germany (center) are shown conferring through interpreter Kurt Schmidt (left) at Godesberg, Germany. Chamberlain left the con ference promising to put new pressure on Czechoslovakia, menaced and mobilized, to allow cession of Sudeten territory to Germany. Photo flown toLondon then radioed to New York. Final Effort Made By Chamberlain To Avoid European War Mussolini Roars Again To Italians Verona, Italy, Sept. 26.'—(AP) — Premier Mussolini advised France and Britain today to save Ejjrope from war by leaving Czecho slovakia to her fate. He suggested in a speech before 47,000 Fascists that war might thus be entirely averted, since Czechoslovakia per haps would recognize the futility of fighting Germany alone. Tie implied that he saw no rea- . sQn for resistance to Hitler’s de mand. “The German memorandum does not deviate from the line which was approved at the London meet ing,” he declared, referring to Hit ler’s Godesberg memorandum and the Anglo-French proposals pro posals previously submitted to the Prague government. “There are still several days to reach a peaceful solution,” he said. “If this is not achieved, it is al most beyond human power to pre vent a conflict.” Czechs Wait Hitler Word As Finality Nation Ready for War After Full Mobiliza tion; Henlein Back in Sudetenland Prague, Chechoslovakia, Sept. 26. — (AP) —Tense Czechoslovakia waited in the midst of intensive preparations today for Adolf Hitler’s hew declara tion following the Czechoslovak deci sion that his demands were unac ceptable. It was expected that ffom Hitler the nation might learn the final word in the Sudeten crisis. An official government announce ment assured the people of this 20- year-old republic, now struggling to maintain its independence, that mili tary defense precautions virtually were completed with appointment of General Ludwig Krejci as commar.d (Continued on Page Four.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Premier’s Special En voy Carries Special Message to Hitler; Asks Door Be Left Open for Peace; Warned Democracies Will Back Czechs Berlin, Sept. 26.—(AP)—Carrying a special message for Reichfuehrer Adolf Hitler, Sir Horace Wilson, en voy of the British prime minister, ar rived here at 3:35 p. m. (9:35 a. m., eastern standard time) apparently in a final effort to forestall war. Wilson was to see Hitler later to present what German official circles expected to be a second Anglo-French plan for preventing armed conflict between Germany and Czechoslovakia over the Sudeten issue. This meeting was set for just three hours before Hitler’s scheduled ad dress “to the entire Reich”, which was to begin at 8 p. m. (2 p. m„ eastern standard time). Meanwhile, it was arranged for all women and children of the British Embassy and consulate staffs here to leave Berlin at 11 p. m. .(5 p. m., east ern standard time). In London, French Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Geor ges Bonnet started home by airplane after a night and day of counsels with Prime Minister Chamberlain and his ministers that resulted in a firm, united accord on two vital courses of action: 1. A last attempt to stop Hitler from invading Czechoslovakia and touching off a war. 2. Joint British, French military measures, how they will move men, warships and airplanes to the fight ing lines if they are drawn into war. Parliament To Meet. England’s Parliament was called to meet Wednesday. Naval, military and aerial precau tions, meanwhile, assumed almost wartime dimensions in the Mediter rean. British warships dotted North Sea lanes. The first of Britain’s 35,- 000,000 gas masks were issued. Britain, of course, kept secret what Sir Horace was taking to Hitler, but there were there reported possibilities: 1. A fervent appeal to Hitler to leave the door open for peaceful set tlement 2. Suggestions for an. alternative to the ultimatum which would let Hitler show his troops to some part of Sudetenland and yet prevent certain strangulation of the rest of Czecho slovakia. 3. A flat notice that Britain and France would not push Prague into acceptance of the ultimatum. 4. A plain statement that German war on Czechoslovakia was certain to bring the western democracies into action against Germany, ultimately if not immediately. O PAGES o TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Fuehrer To Take Over Sudetenland Asserts Claims on Czechs Last Territo rial Claims He Will Make and Will Not Give Them Up; Says Germany and France. Can Live Peacefully, Side by Side London, Sept. 26. (AP)— The British government an nounced tonight that Britain and Soviet Russia would join France in a triple front to aid Czechoslovakia in the event of a German invasion. The statement said that dur ing the last week Prime Minist er Chamberlain had attempted to find away out peacefully in his 1 conversations with Adolf Hitler on the Czechoslovak ruestion. It added that it was" still possible to do so by nego tiations. - •• ‘ .■ ■. r» O- ’ HITLER WILL TAKE OVER L SUDETENLAND immediately Berlin, Sept. 26. (AP) Adolf Hitler declared tonight that “I have decided that we shall place” the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia “under Ger man sovereignty,” and added that if President Benes “does not want peace, we will have to take matters into our own hands.” The leader of Germany told a cheering throng that the me. morandum he handed Prime Minister Chamberlain Friday is “the last and final one.” He asserted, however, that it was “nothing but what Benes promised” in the Prague gov ernment’s acceptance .Septem ber 21 of the first Anglo-French plan. Further, he asserted that “the final outlining of the border” between Germany and Czecho slovakia, I gladly give to the citizens there, using the prece* dent of the Saar region for a plebiscite.” Hitler ended his speech “to the entire Reich” at 9:34 p. m. (3:34 p. m. eastern standard time). He had spoken one hour, 13 minutes. . . Berlin, Sept. 26.—(AP)— Adolf Hitler told an anxiously waiting world tonight that his demands on Czechoslovakia were “the last territorial claims , I will make,” but added omin ously that it was a claim “which I will not give up.” v Armed Force Unexcelled Hitler told the German people and the world that Germany has “an armed force the like of which the world has never known.” Hitler began his address tonight at 8:21 p. m. (2:21 p. m. eastern stand ard time.) He began speaking in slow deliberate tones. “Now that the hour of a great de cision has arrived,” he said, “the Ger man nation and Nazi fuehrer is speaking.” Hitler began: “German fellowmen and women: “I addressed the Reichstag on Feb ruary 22 and again addressed the Reichsparty (the Nazi party) conven tion at Nurnberg when I made dear to the world that no longer is a fueh rer or a man speaking, but the Ger man people.” Hate for Czech President Long applause greeted this intro duction. Hitler continued: “May other statesmen test whether there is such unity among their peo ple as here. The question that moves us most deeply today is known to everybody. It is not so much Czecho slovakia; it is the name of (President Edouard) Benes. In this name thus mentioned is all that which tndves millions; which either causes them . (Continued on Page Five)
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