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FOUR POWERS AGREE ON PEACE OF EUROPE
Premiers Return
Justice Had,
Is Mussolini
Story Os It
Triumphal Entry for
Chamberlain in Lon
don and for Daladier
in Paris; Daladier
Drives Through Miles
of Flower -Strewn
Streets of the Capital
Rome, Sept. 30. — (AP) —Premier
Mussolini received one of the greatest
welcomes his followers ever have ac
corded him when he returned to Rome
today from the four-power conference
at Munich.
He appeared shortly after on the
balcony of the Palazzo Venezia and
told the frenzied crowds he “worked
at Munich for peace according to
justice.”
In times past he had appeared on
that balcony to summon his people
to war, to defy League of Nations
punitive measures against Italy’s war
in Ethiopia, and announced Italy’s
withdrawal from the League.
Observers who had witnessed these
earlier historic occasions said the fer?
vor of today’s demonstrations exced
ed any of them.
II Duce apparently had not planned
to speak when he first appeared on
the balcony. He saluted, smiled and
then disappeared behind the balcony’s
curtained glass doors. But twice the
uproar of the crowd brought him back
Finally, he.raised his hand for silence
and said:
“You have lived through memorable
hours. We have worked at Munich
for peace according to justice. Is this
not the Italian ideal?”
In one voice, the crowd chorused:,
“Yes, yes.”
DALADIER DRIVES ALONG
FLOWER-STREWN STREETS
Paris, Sept 30. —(AP) —The French
government, after heading Premier
Daladier’s report on the four-power
Munich accord, summoned Parliament
to meet next Tuesday.
Announcement of the call came
from a cabinet session at the Elysee
Palace, with President Lebrun presid
ing, shortly after Daladier had return
ed from the conference, which ended
the German-Czech crisis and immedi
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Row In Bth
Might Bring
GOP Victory
Daflr Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 30. —The last Repub
licans who went to Congress from
North Carolina attained their seats
in the House after bitter and des
perate political warfare in their home
districts; but this year there is more
than a remote possibility that one of
the G. O. P.’s nominees will get to
Washington practically by default.
Reference is had, of course, to John
R. Jones in the eighth, against whom
nobody knows who will be the Dem
ocratic opponent, if any.
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ed up, you mag think, but if it is still
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Roosevelt Gives Praise
To American Diplomacy
Washington, Sept. 30. —(AP) Presi
dent Roosevelt praised today the work
of the State Department and the
country’s diplomats abroad during the
European crisis.
In response to press conference
questions regarding the four-power
agreement for the partition of Czecho
slovakia, Mr. Roosevelt told reporters
all he had to say was that a very
wonderful service had been perform
ed by Secretary Hull, Under Secretary
of State Sumner Welles, other State
Department officials and the Amer
ican diplomatic staffs in various
world capitals.
The work of these persons, Mr.
Roosevelt said, was a fine example
of team play, and cooperation, which
met with very great success.
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Governor
Herbert H. Lehman
Democrat
State Board
For Repeal
Os Absentee
Will Make Recomi
mendation Sho rll y
After November Elec
tion, Is Belief Now
Dally Dispatch Bureau, ,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 30. —The State Board
of Elections will recommend outright
repeal of the North Carolina absentee
ballot law, with no “ifs, ands, or buts”
attached to their findings.
The recommendation will be made
some time after the general election
in November and will likely be pass
ed by the board, four to one, with a
possibility the tally will stand three to
two. It will be made in a regular re
port to Governor Clyde R. Hoey, but
will naturally be primarily directed
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while, expressed the opinion that out
of the Munich agreement might come
a larger settlement aimed at assur
ing “permanent” preservation of Eu
"’BE told reported
he was extremely happy over Gover
nor Herbert H. s decision to
accept renomination m New York.
Mr Roosevelt said he had received
word earlier in the day that the xs
York governor had decided to stand
for a fourth term.
Other developments:
’ The Social Security Board cited 12
instances of alleged inefficiency in
the administration of Ohio’s oI jL?3S
assistance and intimated these would
have to be corrected, if Federal co
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
President and Cabinet Ponder the European Crisis
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SE PTEMBER 30, 1938
Home In Triumph
Lehman Will
Again Seek
Governorship
Yields To Pressure To
Seek Fourth .Term in
New York; To Oppose
Thos. Dewey %
Rochester, N. Y., Septl 30. —(AP) —
New York’s Governor Lehman yield
ed to the pleas of party. chieftians
today and agreed to accept renomina
tion for a fourth term. His decision,
climaxing four days of inter-party
parleys, makes virtually certain his
nomination by acclamation in the
party’s convention and placed him in
the field against Manhattan’s racket
bursting district attorney, the Repub
lican nominee.
Dewey came into prominence after
Lehman named him as special pro
secutor in New York City. National
and State Democratic Chairman
James A. Farley announced the gov
ernor’s decision, and added the State
ticket, with the exception of the lieu
tenant governorship, to be filled by
Supreme Court Justice Charles Fol
letti, former counsel to the governor
would be renominated.
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Czech Leader
Says Country
Forced Down
Prague, Sept. 30.—(AP) —Czecho-
slovakia’s soldier-premier, General
Jan Syrovy, in an appeal broadcast
to the nation tonight, declared that
“superior force compelled us to ac
cept” the four-power Munich agree
ment for the dismemberment of the
country.
“This is the most difficult moment
in my life,” declared the 50-year-old
general, who had led 70,000 Czech
troops in an epic march across
Siberia toward the end of the World
War. “But I have taken the decision
to save life and to save the nation.”
General Ludwig Krejci, commander
in-chief of the army, issued a pro
clamation appealing to the army
loyalty to protect the new state of
Czechc/jvakia. This followed the
premier’s broadcast.
“Superior force has compelled us to
accept,” declared the premier. “My
duty was to consider everything. As
a soldier, 1 had to choose the way
to peace. The nation will be stronger
and more united.
“We have chosen the only right
course. Four powers have decided to
ask from us the abdication of
man territory. We had to choose be
tween a useless fight an 3" sacrifices.
We have accepted the unheard of
sacrifices imposed upon us. We have
had to choose between the death of a
nation and abdication of some ter
ritories.
“We shall accomplish the conditions
imposed on us. The main thing is
that we are remaining ourselves, and
we must be united.”
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Partly cloudy, slightly cooler in
southeast portion tonight; Satur
day fair; somewhat warmer in
central and southeast portions.
Storm Racing North
From The Carolinas
With A High Wind
Charleston, S. C., Sept. 30.
(AP) — The Red Cross reported to
day that ?8 persons lost their lives
in yesterday’s tornado, which in
jured more than 200 others, and
did property damage estimated
at above $2,000,000.
Previously the casualties were
listed at 26. £2MM*elief organiza
tion reported al&r lhafc 45 victims
were still receiving hospital treat
ment.
(By The Associated Press.)
A Southern storm, which sent two
tornadoes ripping through Charleston,
S. C., yesterday, moved rapidly to
ward Long Island and the-hurricane
stricken-areas >of New England today,
but the Weather Bureau said there
was little likelihood its force would
be as devastating as last week’s
storm.
Dr. James Kimball, meteorologist in
charge of the New York Weather Bu
reau, said the storm would swirl up
the coast with Long Island shores and
Nantucket, Mass., feeling the outer
edge of it. New York City likely will
experience strong northeast winds, he
Hamlet Negro
Dies As Taxi
Driver Killer
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Raliegh, Sept. 30. (AP) — George
Ford, 20-year-old Hamlet Negro, was
executed by gas at State’s P’rison to
day for the murder of Eunice (Bill)
Munn, a white taxi driver and World
War veteran.
Ford was convicted in Scotland
county in August and did not appeal
to the Supreme- Court. Governor Hoey
declined to intervene. Captain T. D.
Thames, of the Scotland prison camp,
who saw the execution, said Ford had
served several terms at his camp for
larceny, breaking and entering and
theft df an automobile.
Chaplain E. C. Cooper, of the pri
son, said Ford admitted his guilt and
expressed his readiness to die. This
morning the Negro was baptized.
Ford entered the death chamber at
10:32 a. m., and closed his eyes as
Chaplain Cooper prayed with him.
The gas was started at 10:34 and ad
ministered for 13 minutes, 52 seconds.
Dr. Felda Hightower pronounced
Ford dead at 10:48, making him the
38th gas victim, and 209th person ogi.e
cuted here since 1910.
Cotton Scores
Sharp Advance
New York, Sept. 30. —(AP) —Cotton
futures opened ten to 17 points high
er on European news, foreign and
general buying. December, which
had eased from 8.16 to 8.10, was 8.13
late in the first hour, when the list
was 11 to 13 points net higher. By
midday December had reaoted ten
points from th« opening high to 8.06,
but the market still was at net gains
of four to nine points.
said.
Rain fell over the - metropolitan
area of New York this morning and
the Coast Guard at Fire Island, the
isolated barrier beach off Long Is
land, which was devastated last week,
said the wind was blowing at 40 miles
an hour, whipping up thunderous
surfs as the tide rose. The wind was
increasing hourly, the report said-
As wind and rain raced up from
the south, word came from Wilming
ton, N. C., that a large part of the
city was flooded after a 9,53-inch rain
which fell in the last hours. More
rain was predicted for today.
Storm warnings were posted along
the coast from the Virginia Capes to
Eastport, Maine.
Rain Sivas falling steadily in Mary
land, and in the Philadelphia area.
Philadelphia reported winds of 20 to
25 miles an hour.
Dr. Kimball said he doubted there
would be any tornados like the two
which struck Charleston, bringing
death to at least 26 persons, injuries
to hundreds and inflicting property
damage estimated at between $2,000,-
000 and $3,000,000.
Henlein Bows
To His Lord
And Master
Bayreuth, Germany, Sept. 30. —(AP)
—Konrad Henlein, leader of the Su
daten German party, today sens a
telegram to Reichfuehrer Hitler hail
ing him as “deliverer of 3,500,000 Su
deten Germans.”
“In the name of Sudeten Germans,
tormented and oppressed for 20 years
I thank you, my fuehrer, from a
deeply-moved heart for the freedom
which you have won for us by fight
ing,” the message said.
Henlein on September 15 issued a
proclamation calling for German an
nexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudenten
land, and on the same day the Prague
government ordered his arrest on
charges of treason. He fled into Ger
many and announced organization of
the Sudeten free corps, irregular sol
diers, to harass Czech authorities
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INSURANCE RATES~
IN STATE TO DROP
Raleigh, Sept. 30. —(AP) —Dan C.
Boney, state insurance commissioner,
announced today reductions of rates
for bodily injury and property dam
age insurance on some private pas
senger cars and extension of “class
one territory” in the state.
Boney estimated that the changes,
effective Saturday, would mean an
eight percent saving for about 40 per
cent of the car owners in North Car
olina.
“Class one territory” will be extend
ed to include the counties in which
the state’s seven largest cities are
situated. The territory now covers on
ly the cities "and five miles beyond
their limits.
The counties affected are Bun
combe, Durham, Forsyth, Guilford,
Mecklenburg. New Hanover, and
Wake.
The rate reductions followed con
ferences initiated several weeks ago
by Boney with insurance companies
writing this type of insurance.
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EXCEPT SUNDAY
Great Britain And
Germany Also Agree
Not To Fight Again
Fighting Stopped
In Sudeten Area
Aseh, Chechoslovakia, Sept. 30. —
(AP)- Fighting stopped today in
this ‘Sudeumland region as Sudeten
free corps men prepared to move
homes behind the
German army. -
League Will
Break Away
Its Covenant
To Be Separated from
Versailles Tr ea ty ;
Chief of German
Withdrawal
Geneva, Sept. 30. —(AP)-—The As
sembly of the League of Nations to
day accepted the principle of separat
ing the League covenant from the
Versailles treaty.
The League of- Nations tjorp of
the postwar peace pact, and the cove
nant, its constitution, was written
to the Versailles treaty. Approval of
separating them, coming a day ; t ier
the Munich conference on Czechoslo
vakia, paves vhe way for erasure of
one of Germ, ny’s main arguments
against membership.
The Assembly accepted the recom
mendations of a sub-committee for
the separation. The governments rep
resented in the Assembly now must
ratify the recommendations,: which
were made in the form of an amend
ment to the covenant. The British
government had urged the change, de
claring that separation ci lie \ »r
--sailles treaty and the cover..* t
“changes neither the permanent sei. re
nop the spirit of the League.”
Nazi Germany left the League anil
has consistently refused to cooperate
with ft.
Reichfuehrer Hitler’s prime objec
tion was the Versailles treaty, which
was imposed on defeated Germany
after the World War, was coupled di
rectly with the covenant of the inter
national body. Poland and Hungary
vainly opposed adoption of the report.
ROOSEVELT URGES r
PRAYER ON SUNDAY
Washington, Sept. 30.—'(AP)—A call
to prayer “for the continued peace
of the world” issued from the White
House today while the capital follow
ed developments in Munich with ab
sorbed interest.
Stephen T. Early, presidential sec
retary, announced that Mr. Roosevelt
hoped the nation would join him and
his family next Sunday in the prayer
for peace.
M;. persons, both clergymen and
laymen, hnd urged the White House
to set aside a special day of prayer.
American Nations Welded
By Europe’s Quarreling
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Sept. 30. —We western
hemispherical folk are indebted to
Europe’s troubles for at least one
thing: They have
been knitting the
Americas mote close
ly together. The peo
ples of our 21 New
World republics
manifestly Jare be
comi n,g unitedly,
pretty th o roughly
disgusted with the
overseas na t ions’
everlasting quarrell
ing. Our interna
tional relationships
over here are rea
sonably good and
Welles
Europe’s awful example is making
them better. True, Cuba was pretty
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Czech Government
Accepts Munich Ac*
cord for Dismember
ment of That Natipn;
Hitler Gets What He
Demands and Without-
Firing Single Shot
— ~r<.
Munich, Germany, Sept. 30. —
(AP) —Prime Minister Cham
berlain and Chancellor Adolf
Hitler today added a new Anglo-
German, declaration of peace
to the four-power Munich ac
cord that gave Germany part of
Czechoslovakia and averted a
European war.
After the British and German
chiefs had signed with Premier
Mussolini of Italy and Premier
Daladier of France the pact for
Czechoslovakia’s dismember
ment, they made a joint declara
tion of the will of their “two
peoples never to go to war with
one another again.” German
troops were at the border to be
gin the gradual occupation of
the Sudetenland at midnight as
Chamberlain announced ( that:
“The Czech government accepted
the Munich accord."
The international commission to
supervise the cession was meeting in
Berlin and will mter the Sudetenland
tomorrow.
Demobilization of Europe's armies
and British navy later"—
after the German occupation was..ac
complished w.ithin ten days. .
Chamberlain expressed belief Mun
ich would open the way “to appease
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Germans Will
Start March
At Midnight
Berlin, Sept. 30. —(AP) —German
military units were ready, down to
the last mess kit and polished boot
straps, today to goosestep into neigh
boring Czechoslovakia. Sources close
to the war ministry disclosed—before
Czechoslovakia had had a chance to
say ah, yes or no to a four-power
scheme to satisfy Adolf Hitler by giv
ing him part of Czechoslovakia—that
the German caissons would roll to
morrow along the southwestern Czech
frontier north of Passau and Linz.
Thus, the beginning would be from
territory that wap Austrian before
Nazi Germany annexed it March 13.
The second district to be occupied
under the carefully prepared program
reliable information said, on Sunday
and Monday, lies along the northern
frontier of Czechoslovakia, including
eight cities.
On October 3, 4 and 5, German
troops are scheduled to take over the
largest of the districts of Sudeten
German majority population.
The program calls further for the
occupation on October 6 and 7 of . the
fourth and last predominantly Su
detan district on the# northeast Czech
frontier. It includes five cities.
badly torn in two under President
Machado but that difficulty was strict
ly local and has been settled. Para
guay and Bolivia had a mean little
war, which could have been ended
sooner if neighbors had realied how
vicious it was and tendered their good
offices more promptly. Nevertheless,
that also now has been settled. There’s
a trifling boundary dispute up the
Amazon, but it’s in process of peace
ful adjustment. Brazil and Chile have
had petty internal disturbances; yet
so trifling that the police quickly
squelched them. Even Uncle ( Sam’s
late argunjent with Mexico hasn’t
been bitter.
We Get Along. ,
In short, we New Worldlings get
along reasonably well together, and
scandalized by the European and
Asiatic tpectacles, we’re getting
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