HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
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HOPE OF AVERTING WAR BRIGHTENS LITTLE
Chamberlain Says He Has Done All He Can
Attitude Os
Hitler Not
‘Reasonable’
Still Hopes for Peace
ful Solution; Can’t In
volve Whole Empire
for Small State, Pre
mier Tells British Na
tion in Radio Broad
cast
London, Sept- 27.—(AP) —Prime
Minister Chamberlain declared to
night that “we cannot undertake to
involve the whole British Empire in
war, however much we may sympa
thize with a small nation.”
The prime minister had declared
he would not hesitate to take a third
trip to Germany if he though tit
would do any good, but at the mo
ment “I can see nothing further that
I can usefully do in the way of medi
ation.”
“If I were convinced that any na
tion had made up its mind to domi
nate the world by force, I should not
hesitate to resist it," the prime min
ister said m a broadcast from No. 10
Downing street.
"I find Herr Hitler’s attitude un
reasonable in his final demands,” he
continued. “But I shall not give up
my hope for a peaceful solution.”
At the beginning of his speech, he
told the world:
“Tomorrow Parliament is going to
meet, and I shall be making a first
statement on the events which have
led up to the present critical situa
tion. An ' earlier statement would
have been impossible while I was fly
ing backwards and forwards across
Europe, and the position was chang
ing from hour to hour.
But today, there is a lull for a
brief time and I want to say a few
words to you men and women of Bri
tain and perhaps to others as well.
“I have done all that one man can
do to halt this war. Tomorrow I
shall be making a full statement of
events which led up to the present
anxious situation.”
Vote Battle
On Congress
Rises Again
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter HoteL
Raleigh, Sept. 27. —Chairman W. A.
Lucas, of the State Board of Elec
tions, is just as communicative aboyt
plans for Wednesday’s gathering of
his group as is a clam on the subject
of clam chowder, but' all indications
are that the State Board will dump
into the lap of the Davidson and
Richmond county units the job of re
viewing some of the affidavits and
counter-affidavits of the Deane-Bur
gin eighth district congressional elec
tion row.
Not that the State board has the
slightest intention of abdicating the
supervisory and compelling power the
Supreme Court says it ’-as, but that
Mr. Lucas and his associates are go
ing to allow the lower boards the op
portunity, at least, too look over the
cases studied try the State board.
In the lohg run, however, it’s bet
ter than dollars to doughnuts that
the State board is going to stand by
its guns and see that the returns as
finally certified to it by the county
boards meet with its approval. In oth
er words, Davidson and Richmond
boards will be given an opportunity
to review the returns and certify
them— if their certification agrees
with the State board’s ideas.
There has been some talk about the
case still being “very much in the
courts’,, with Burgin having some
chance to win an eventual decision,
but competent legal observers declare
that the Davidson man’s one and on
ly chance is for the 'State board to
become convinced that its previously
reached conclusion was erroneous
and that chance, from a practical
standpoint, seems abou'; me in a mil
lion.
None of them is saying so, but it is
undoubtedly true that every member
of the State board feels that J t has
dealt not only justly, btit mercifully
with Davidson county. Many inform
ed sources assert that but for Chaifr
man Lucas’ personal efforts the lid
would have been “blown off” in
Davidson weeks ago, and severed hun
dred more Bvrgin votes tossed out as
fraudulent.
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Judge Stacy Head
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American Minister Wilbur J. Carr
(above), stationed at Prague,
Czechoslovakia, has warned all
American citizens to leave Czecho
slovakia immediately. Some 6,000
Americans are reported in the little
republic.
Hearing On
Control Act
Is Deferred
Judge Harris, How
ever, Orders All To
bacco Warehousemen
To Impound Penalties
Raleigh, Sept. 27 (AP)—Judge W.
C. Harris in Wake Superior Court to
day issued an order to continue un
til Octover 11 a hearing on a suit
to test the constitutionality of the
Federal farm control act but ordered
all tobacco warehousemen in the
State to start immediately impound
ing tobacco tax penalties they collect.
The judge said his order was issued
on his own motion without objection
of either side to the suits, and had the
effect of a temporary injunction,
though the hearing October 11 would
be on the issue of whether a tempor
ary injunction should be issued.
His continuance order set forth that
there were 250 to 300 defendants in 27
Icounties named in the suits, and that
it was deemed wise to give them an
additional two weeks in/ which to
take action to protect their interests.
He directed, however, that all col
lections of tax penalties for tobacco
sold in excess of quotas, whether col
lected by persons named as parties to
suit or not,* should be withheld from
remittance to the secretary of agri
culture, and kept in separate accounts
by th3 collectors. — .
High Prices Mark Start
Os Old Belt Leaf Markets
Winston-Salem, Sept. 27. (AP)
Opening day offerings of quality to
bacco on the Old Belt tobacco mar
ket todr-x brought prices averaging
between $24 and $25, consider ably
higher than last year.
Unusually heavy offerings, which
will take several days to clear, were
reported by several markets.
' A total of 139,694 pounds sold on the
Winston-Salem market in the first
hour averaged $25.64, officials an
nounced.
Prices for the better grades showed
k tendency to advance. Officials said
almost every type of leaf was offered
here. _ . -
Winston-Salem Tobacco Board ol
Trade officials estimated more than
1,000,000 pounds of the weed would
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
North Carolina Jurist
Made Chairman of
Fact-Finding Group to
Determine Merits of
Rail Strike Issue;
Walk - Out Deferred
for Weeks
Washington, Sept. 27.—(AP>—Pres
ident Roosevelt appointed a three
member fact-finding committee today
to investigate the wage dispute be
tween the railroads and their em
ployees. Members of the commission
are Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy, of
North Carolina Supreme Court, chair
man; Prof. Harry Millis, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, and Dean James
Landis, of the Harvard Law School.
Under the railroad labor, law, they
will report within 30 days.
Railroad workers have voted to
strike if the carriers insist on a 15
percent wage reduction proposed for
October 1. Because of arbitration
machinery contained in the labor law,
however, employees could not actual
ly walk out before December 1.
NEARLY MILLION WORKERS
VOTE IN FAVOR STRIKE
Chicago, Sept. 27. —(AP) —Nearly a
million railroad workers, from sec
tion hands to streamliner engineers,
were committed today to a nationwide
strike this week-end, but presidential
, intercession, postponjng J-he walk-out
"was considered imminent.
The zero hour for 790,000 employees
in 18 unions constituting the railway
labor executives association was 6
p. m. Friday, September 30. The 160,-
000 members of the brotherhood of
railway trainmen were ordered to quit
work at 12:01 a. m. Saturday.
All of the nation’s major railroads
were involved in the dispute.
Hitler Reply
Is Studied
By President
Washington, Sept. 27. —(AP) —Pres-
ident Roosevelt studied today, preli
minary to this afternoon’s cabinet ses
sion, Adolf Hitler’s reply to his recent
note urging peace On European na
tions. Hitler’s reply was received at
the White'House late last night, trans
lated immediately and read by the
President.
Stephen Early, White House secre
tary, sa,id there was no comment on
it.
This afternoon Mr. Roosevelt and
his cabinet were expected to listen to
a broadcast from London by Prime
Minister Chamberlain.
Other developments:
The State Department “strongly ad
vised” Americans to forego travel to
Europe. The .department warning
was based upon reports reaching here
from nearly all sections of Europe
that travel there is becoming increas
ingly difficult.
Delays are being experienced by
American citizens, the department
,said, in obtaining immediate passage
home. The department made an ex
ception to its strong advice only in
“cases of absolute necessity.”
be sold here today.
With upward of a million pounds on
the floors at Reidsville at the open
ing, officials of the market there pre
dicted about 450,000 pounds would be
sold during the day. An unofficial av
erage of prices during the first hour’s
sale ranged from $25 to $26.
Burlington had the biggest open
ing of any opening day in local to
bacco market history, all observers
generally agreed. crowding
warehouse floors this morning totall
ed 250,000 pounds, with prices averag
ing $22 per hundred, although high
medium grades went over $25.
Early sales at the Roxboro mar
ket indicated the leaf would bring
about s2l or $22 per hundredweight.
Between 400,000 • and 500,000 pounds
were offered.
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 27, 1938
The Stage Is Set in Europe’s Theatre of War
This self-explanatory map charts the comparative man-power and air strength of the European nations
which will be most likely to be drawn into war if the Czech-Nazi negotiations break down. The figures are
based on the latest data, held most reliable by the United States War Department. The) show that the
Rome-Berlin axis will face a 4-to-l man-power handicap. (Central Press)
Comment Os
Czechs Is In
Angler Tones
Government Broad
cast Says Hitler De
sires Brutally to Crush
the Republic
Prague, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 27. —
(AP) —The Czechoslovakian radio
broadcast indignantly today that
Adolf Hitler’s demands showed a
“brutal desire to crush Czechoslovakia
as a free state.”
(The broadcast was made at about
the same time as the Czech legation
in London disclosed officially that
Prague refused to submit to Ger
many’s demand for cession of Sudeten
land as stated in Hitler’s memoran
dum of September 23.)
“The form given by Hitler to his
memorandum,” the government sta
tion announced, “is sufficient to show
that it is not enough to make an
agreement and maintain peace. One
feels in Hitler’s memorandum a brutal
desire to crush Czechoslovakia as a
free state.
“The memorandum demands an
nexation to Germany of territory
counting 3,736,000 inhabitants, of
whom 2,823,000 speak German and
816,000 Czech. On the*other hand, in
the territory where Hitler demands a
plebiscite, there are 1,116,? ~rr Czechs
and only 144,000 inhabitants who
speak the German language.
“It results from this that Germany
would incorporate 816,000 Czechs into
Germany, and there would remain on
ly 102,000 Germans in Czechoslovakia.
“The Hitler memorandum is direct
ed against the economic existence of
Czechoslovakia. As a result, Czecho
slovakia would be deprieved of a great
part of her forests, highways and rail
ways broke in two.
“On the other hand, Czechoslovakia
would lose depots on the Elbe river
and water highways to Bratislava
(border town at the junction of the
German-Hungarian-Czech frontiers on
the Danube.)
‘‘Czechoslovakia would be so weak
ened in a military way that the great
est part of her territory, notably Bo
hemia and Moravia, would be at the
mercy of Germany.”
Popular resentment to Hitler’s
threat to act by next Saturday unless
he received the Sudetenland mounted
while Czechoslovakia marked time
waiting the outcome of renewed Bri
tish-French efforts to solve the dis
pute peacefully.
WtATHCR
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Generally fair tonight and Wed
nesday; somewhat cooler in north
east and extreme north portions
Wednesday.
Hitler Lays Case
Before Roosevelt
In Reply To Plea
Emergency .Exists,
King George Says
London, Sept. 27.—(AP)—The of
ficial Gazette today published a
royal order from King George de
claring “a case of emergency’
exists’ and authorizing the calling
up of auxiliary air forces for de
fense.
Earlier, Viscount Gort, chief of
the imperial general staff, and
Marshal Sir Cyril NYjwall, air chief,
conferred with Chamberlain,
strengthening the belief that Hit
ler was obdurate in “his final” de
mands on Czechoslovakia.
Americans In
Europe Look
Toward Home
London, Sept. 27 (AP)—A peace
ful army of Americans —business men
tourists, naturalized .immigrants, just
ordinary Americans —looked home
ward longingly today from all over
Europe. Most of them set out to do
something about it. They wanted no
truck with the war clouds hanging
over the German-Czech border.
From the British Isles, France,
Italy, Germany, European Russia and
intermediate points came applica
tions for return passages to the Unit
ed States. Steamship agencies were
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Three Durham Men
Plead Guilty Upon
Liquor Hearings
Durham, Sept. 27. (AP) —Three
Durham men, Leroy Medlin, Aubrey
Goss and Felton Poe, pleaded guilty
in Federal court here today to char
ges of conspiracy to defraud the Unit
ed States government of liquor taxes.
Nine Beaufort county defendants in
the alleged “million dollar ring” case
entered pleas of “not guilty.”
Trial of the case opened following
denial by Judge Johnson Hayes of a
defense motion that the indictments
be quashed on the ground that the
indictments were returned in Greens
boro, in the middle district, while the
alleged blockading occurred in Beau
fort county, in the eastern district,
and, further, that two indictments
were brought for the same offense.
PUBLISHED E VERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY
Seeks To Show How
German Peoples Were
Mistreated in Versail
les Treaty Ending
World War; Appeals
to President’s Under
standing.
Berlin, Sept. 27. —(AP) —Reichfueh-
rer Adolf Hitler carefully marshaled
Germany’s whole case today in an
unusually long communication reply
ing to President Roosevelt’s appeal
for peace. He ended with these
words:
“It is now solely in the hands of the
Czechoslovak government, and not in
the hands of the German government,
to decide whether it desires peace or
war.”
Hitler appealed to the President’s
understanding.
“I have the conviction” he wrote,
“that if you visualize the entire deve
lopment of the Sudeten German prob
lem from its beginnings until the
present day, you will realize that the
German government certainly was not
wanting in patience ’or a sincere will
to peaceful understanding.”
(In London Prime Minister Cham
berlain announced he would make a
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Borah Warns U. S. Against
Involvement In Europe;
Duce May Not Aid Hitler
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Sept. 27. —Os course
official Washington drew a long
breath of relief the other day upon
receipt of the news
that another Euro
pean war in the im
mediate future had
been staved off by
Czechoslovakia sur
render to Germany.
It was not very en
thusiastic relief,
however. For one
thing, our official
dom’s sy m pathies
have been o ver
whelmingly Czecho
slovak. k Not that
Borah
there has been any septiment in favor
of American intervention in the eit-
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Negotiation
To Continue
With Hitler
Chamberlain Sends
Suggestion Wor 1 d
Should Not Be Plung
ed Into War After Su
deten Agreement Is
Reached in Principle;
Some See Way Out
Berlin, Sept. 27. —(AP) —Another
visit by Sir Horace Wilson to Adolf
Hitler today raised new hope of a
warless solution of Germany's de
mands on Czechoslovakia. The meet
ing, the second between Hitler and
British Prime Minister Chamberlain’s
emissary in two days, fulfilled the'
hope expressed by President Roose- *
velt that negotiations not be broken
off.
It was believed Sir Horace had some
thing concrete and constructive to
talk about in the half hour he spent
with Hitler. That was Chamber
lain’s conciliatory statement on Hit
ler’s speech of yesterday and parti
cularly his offer that Britain would
guarantee that Czechoslovakia carry
out her part of the Sudetenlahd agree
ment, provided Germany refrained
from force. j
Sir Horace took off oy airplane for
London from the airdrome at 1:45 p.
ns. (7:45 a. m. eastern standard time)
after seeing Hitler. He was expected
to arrive at Heston airdrome about
5:15 p. m.
The British emissary was accom
panied to the chancellory by Sir
Neville Henderson, British ambassa
dor to Germany, and an embassy sec
retary. He was reported to have
pleaded eloquently that where such a
far-reaching agreement in principle
has already been reached over the
Sudetenland, the worlci should not be
plunged into war merely because of
differences over putting it into ef
fect.
Emphasizing that they could not
speak for Hitler, sonle commentators
intimated that they thought Chamber
lain’s offer pointed away out of the
impasse. They felt, if both Hitler and
President Benes of .Czechoslovakia ac-?
cepted this British guarantee there!
would be no necessity for Germany to:
seize the Sudetenland next Saturday
by force pf arms.
Responsible German sources, how
ever, made no secret of their diispleas-:
ure at the British, French, Russian
stand supporting Czechoslovakia.
U. S. Warships
Speeding To
European Area
Washington, Sept. 27. —(AP) —Two
American warships sped toward Eu
rope today for possible service In re
turning refugees or other duty in the
event of war.
The Navy said the cruiser Savannah
which sailed Saturday from Philadel
phia, and the destroyer Somers, which
left Norfolk the same day, would
proceed to British ports.
They were said officially merely to
be on “routine duty.”
Already at Portsmouth, England, is
the cruiser Honolulu, and in the Medi
terranean is the cruiser Omaha and
the cruisers Claxton and Manly. The
new cruiser Nashville is ehroute home
from a training cruise to European
ports.
uation—emphatically to the contrary.
As we know, our government ha*
shied violently awujr from Lohdon’s
and Paris’ hints that ihey woujd ap
preciate some sort of a pro-peace ex
pression by President Roosevelt or
Secretary of State Hull—not to men
tion the slightest suggestion of mili
tary participation in a movement to
stop Hitler. Senator William E. Borah
generally is recognised as having said
a mouthful when he remarked that
the Old World’s game is to engage
us in a peace talk and then to in
volve us in a war as a result of it.
Borah Know*.
Senator Borah, by the way, is in a
better position than any other Ameri
can statesman to say, “I told you so,”
in connection with the Czechoslovak
crisis.
Czechoslovakia was a creation of
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