HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
CHAMBERUIN FOES PRESS FIGHT OR HIM
Roosevelt Pleads
For Labor Peace
Throughout Nation
Sends Letter to A. F.
of. L. Convention In
Houston; Resolution
Attacks Jesse Jones’
RFC Policy of Lend
ing to Firms Paying
Low Wages
Houston, Texas, Oct. 4.—(AF)
President Roosevelt made an
for peace between the A. F. of L. and
the CIO today in a message to the
sSth annual convention of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor.
“Because for more than a quarter
of a century I have had so many as
sociations and friendships with of
ficers of the American Federation
of Labor and of the international
unions which it represents,” Mr.
Roosevelt said in his letter to the
delegates, "I venture to express the
hope the convention will leave open
every possible door of access to peace
and progress in the affairs of or
ganized labor in the United States.
“If leaders of organized labor can
make and keep peace between various
opinions and factions within the labor
group itself, it will vastly increase
the prestige of labor with the coun
try, and prevent the reaction which
otherwise is bound to injure the
workers themselves.”
Nearly 100 Resolutions, including
one attacking the Reconstruction Fi
nance Corporation for reputed loans
to employers paying sub-standard
wages, were under consideration by
committees of the A. F. of L.’s an
nual convention.
The brotherhood of operative pot
ters submitted the resolution, cen
suring the RFC’s loan poliotw. It
proposed that the federation officers
either demand removal of the RFC
officials or seek legislation “which
will prevent chiseling exploiters of
labor”. ffom obtaining loans of Fed
eral funds. Jesse Jones, chairman of
the RFC, is one of Houston’s leading
business men.
Cotton Bagging Favored.
College Station, Raleigh, Oct. 4. —
Approximately 50 North Carolina cot
ton mills have instructed their buyers
to allow an additional 7 1-2 pounds
on each bale covered with the new
cotton bagging material, according to
,1. A. Shanklin, extension cotton spe
cialist at State College. These mills
represent 35 percent of the State’s ac
tive spindles.
Auto Union
Takes Back
Ousted Four
Settlement Arranged
by CIO and Jolin
Lewis Pours Oil On
Troubled Waters
Washington, Oct. 4 . —(AP)—The
executive board of the United Auto
mobile Workers, which had expelled
four of the union’s international of
ficers, welcomed them back today
under a settlement arranged by the
CIO.
The bitter intra-union fight, which
had led to their discharge, appeared
to be ended as the four joined their
associates on the board, and listened
to a speech by CIO Chairman John
Lewis.
Lewis went before the full board
shortly after the CIO arbiters, Sidney
Hillman and Philip Murray, handed
down their decisions that the men be
reinstated. Both factions had agreed
in advance to accept the findings.
Other developments:
Railroad labor and management
differed on the average annual wages
paid last year to workers who have
voted to strike before accepting a 15
percent wage reduction asked by the
roads. J. Elmer Monroe, statistician
fer the carriers, said rail workers
averag' d $1,781 last year, and quoted
as his authority data collected by the
Federal Railroad Retirement Board.
Earlier, spokesmen for the workers
placed average 1937 earnings at sl,-
115 and quote's? the same government
source.
Elmer Andrews, wage-hour admin
istrator, announced the establishment
of 12 regional offices, including one at
Richmond. He said Region 4, with
Richmond headquarters, would in
clude North Carolina, the District of
Columbia and four other states, South
Carolina, Maryland, Virginia and
West Virginia, _ t
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associated PRESS.
Quits Chamberlain
Sir Alfred Duff-Cooper, England’s
First Lord of the Admiralty, is
pictured above. He resigned his post
as a result of disagreement with
Chamberlain’s policies. He said: “I
profoundly distrust the foreign
policy which the present govern
ment is pursuing and seems likely
j to pursue.”
(Central Press *
Girl Admits
Freeing Os
One Fugitive
Daughter of Davidson
Jailor Being Held In
Jail Pending Develop
ments There
Lexington, Oct. 4. —(AP) —Sheriff
Raymond Bowers said today Lula
Kimel, daughter of Jailor T. C. Kimel,
told him she unwittingly aided James
Kodwin, of High Point ,and Bill Wilk
inson, of Hickory, in their escape
from the Davidson county jail yes
terday. > !
The sheriff said Miss Kimel was be
ing held in jail, but no charge had
been brought against her, pending a
conference with the solicitor. He
quoted the girl as saying Godwin had
rsked her to unlock a door to a
companionway in the cell block, and
let him out. Godwin promised Miss
Kimel, she was quoted as saying, he
would not leave the jail.
This companionway opens into the
jail offices and waiting room, Bowers
said. Miss Kimel complied with God
win's request, whereupon he imme
diately obtained keys with which to
release Wilson, the sheriff said. The
two armed themselves and the escape
followed.
Bowers said the jailor summoned
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State’s Utilities Valued
At Half Billion Dollars
Some Made Money
and Some Didn’t In
Compilation Issued by
Utilities Commission
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Oct. 4:—Utility companies
regulated by the State Utilities Com
mission have a value of more than
half a billion dollars, according to the
most recent figures dompiled by Edgar
Womble, of the commission’s staff.
The exact total of Mr. Womble’s
figures is $528,322,400, with the 1937
values used for power companies,
motor carriers and telephone com
panies, and 1936 figures for railroads
and express companies. Mr. Womble
said the two years’ would differ little
for them.
Telegraph values are not included
in the total, but Mr. Womble said that
in comparison to the other utilities
these values would be practically neg
ligible.
In the case of companies which op
erate both within and without North
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINLL
Hitler TeUs
Sudeten Folk
Who He Is
Every Reason To Be
Pro u d of Reich?
“W hose Fuehrer I
Am,” He Assures
Them
Karlsbad, Sudetenland, Oct. 4. —
(AP) —Chancellor Adolf Hitler, mak
ing a triumphant tour of his newly
annexed Sudeten territory, told an
electrified Sudeten German audience
today, “I didn’t know how I would
sometime get here, but I did know
that I would come.”
Speaking only a short distance
from where Sudeten Leader Konrad
Henlein last April 24 formulated his
famous eight demands, the fuehrer
said:
-jpor 20 years you remained faith
ful to your volkstrum (racial nation
alism), and for 20 years I remained
faithful in my belief in the German
people. So, we both find each other
in our common racial community in
our greater Reich, which nobody will
ever be able to destroy again.”
Thousands of “heils” by the enthu
siastic crowd punctuated the fueh
rer’s speech.
“We have every reason to be proud
of this great German Reich, whose
fuehrer I am,” he continued. “And
this Germany is just as proud of you
SUdeten Germans. In this hour, wc
can do nothing else than think about
our eternal German people, and our
German Reich.”
Hitler was given a tremendous ova
tion when he arrived. The streets
before the theatre where he spoke
briefly were jammed with enthusias
tic Sudeten Germans, gathered to
welcome their fuehrer.'
UTILITY VALUES IN NORTH
CAROLINA.
Power Companies.
Electric Plants, etc. ..$228,530,835
Gas Plants, etc 8,853,275
Electric Street Railways 3,548,439
Street -Buses 2,051,559
Water plants, etc 430.307
Ice plants, etc 209,314
Total $243,623,729
Motor Carriers.
Passenger equipment etc 99,299
Freight equipment, etc. 526,927
Total .. 1,521,226
Telephone Companies .. 33,129,932
Railroads 249,168,121
Railway Express 879,392
Grand total Utility Val. 528,322,400
Carolina, an apportionment of valua
tion has been made so that the fig
ures cited are strictly the North Car
olina valuations.
Railroads and power companies
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HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 4,1938
Sudeten Villagers Welcome German Army of Occupation
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France Launches New Era of
% '■% ’ .
Friendship To Italy, Germany
Paris, Oct. 4. —i(AP) —Premier Dala
dier announced today the beginning
of a new era of friendly relations
with Germany and Italy, and paid
homage to President Roosevelt’s
peace messages during Europe’s crisis
week.
The Chamber of Deputies rose as
one man to cnvler when the premier
spoke of “the great, generous and
logical voice of President Roosevelt”
in referring to the President’s ap
peals.
Reading a ministerial declaration
on the four-power agreement over
Czechoslovakia, he said that his meet
ing with Adolf Hitler at Munich last
Hungary To
Press Claims
Upon Czechs
Soldiers Called to Col
ors in Readiness For
Emergency; Terror
Reported
Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 4. —(AP) —
Numerous war veterans more than
45 years old had orders to report to
the nearest army recruiting station
today as the Hungarian government
pressed its claims to Hungarian
minority territories of Czechoslovakia.
The requisition of certain raw ma
terials and orders prohibiting the ex
ports of metals, textiles, chemicals
and leather were made known today,
apparent indications that Hungary
was preparing for all eventualities.
While the foreign office waited
Prague’s answer to a note in which
the immediate beginning of negotia
tions for the return of Hungarian ter
ritories was asked, a cabinet meet
ing was called for this afternoon to
decide wha t measures should be
taken should Czechoslovakia refuse to
comply with Hungarian demands.
Newspaper reports of “increased
Czech terror” angered Hungarians,
meanwhile. Mass meetings in various
parts of Hungary demanded imme
diate occupation of Czech territory in
habited by 800,000 Hungarians.
The government handed Czechoslo
vakia a new- note last night asking
negotiations, to assure a quick solu
tion.
WARREN COUNTY MAN
KILLED ON HIGHWAY
Warrenton, Oct. 4 (AP) —A hit
and run driver killed M. E. Short,
40-year-old Embro farmer, found
dead early today on a highway
near a coroner’s jury decid
ed.
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA
Generally fair, slightly warmer
near southeast coast tonight;
Wednesday partly cloudy, slight- ,
ly warmer in central and north- j
east portions.
week marked the start of friendly re
lations between France and Germany.
He declared France had decided to
send an ambassador to Rome to re
sume cordial relations with Italy, in
a virtual state of suspension for two
years, owing to France’s refusal to
recognize the conquest of Ethiopia.
The premier carried into the ses
sions cabinet appeals for proposed de
cree powers to “rebuild France’s eco
nomy and finances.”
While Daladier started reading the
declaration to a jammed Chamber of
Deputies, his finance minister, Paul
Marchandeau, said in the corridor
that the government insists that Par-
Greenville Bank
Official Accused
Greenville, Oct. 4.—(AP) —J. R.
Gaskins, assistant cashier of th<*.
State Bank & Trust Company, ap
peared in Pitt county court today
to answer a warrant charging him
with converting the bank’s money
to his own use. The warrant spe
cifically charged that Gaskins “did
take funds belonging to the State
Bank & Trust Company and de
positors in the sum of $1,500.”
Judge Dink James fixed bond
for Gaskin at $1,500 for his ap
pearance in superior court at a
term opening October 31, 1938.
Propaganda
Would Thrive
If War Came
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Oct. 4 —Representative
■Martin Dies made a laughing stock
of his Congressional committee on in
vestigation of un
American activities
when he allowed it
to be placed in the
position of classing
Shirley Temple a
mong instigator: of
communism’s devel
opment throughout
the United States.
The Texas legislator
is on perfectly good
ground, however, in
his prediction that
war’s outbreak in
Europe will be fol-
MHi
Dies
lowed by a regular rampage of pro
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Cotton Prices
Incline Down
New York, Oct. 4.—-(AP)—Cotton
futures opened three to six points
lower bn disappointing Liverpool
cables, liquidation and hedge selling.
Shorty after the first half hour, De
cember was 8.16, and the market was
two to four points net lower. De
cember sold up to 8.20. and by mid
day was 8.18, when prices were two
points net higher to be as much lower
PUBLISH 150 EVERY A FTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY
liament vote it full financial and eco
nomic decree powers tonight. He said
the powers, which would amount to a
virtual temporary dictatorship, would
be requested until December 13, and
that adier would stake the life of
his ' r "°nt on the issue.
Dah in the name of the entire
goye. i . n., paid homage to the
“count, of the Czechoslovak nation
and its leaders.”
The premier’s proposal, which was
to be submitted to Parliament aftei
today’s debate on the Muhich four
j power accord, was approved after two
cabinet meetings, the second meeting
| with Fresident Lebrun.
Burgin Will
Ask For Writ
Os Mandamus
Raleigh, Oct. 4.—(AP)—Counsel for
W. O. Burgin. of Lexington, served
notice today that a motion would be
filed with Judge W. C. Harris in
Wake Superior Court Wednesday ask
ing a peremptory writ of mandamus,
requiring the State Board of Elec
tions to certify Burgin as Democratic
congressional nominee for the eighth
district.
The notice set 10 o’clock Thursday
morning for a hearing. The court will
be asked to restrain permanently the
State board from certifying C. B.
Deane, of Rocikngham, as the nomi
nee.
Chairman W. A # Lucas, of tt.
board, which announced in August it'
would certify Deane as the nominee,
said at Wilst \ he had not heard .of tha
new move.*
Gains Halted
In Stock
New York, Oct. 4. —iA'\ -Afte e
successive rising sessioi the ok
market paused to catch its breat! o
day, and leading issues slipped f - ac
tions to around a point or more. The
market partly regained its equili
brium toward midday. Bonds shifted
over an uneven route.
American Radiator 16 7-8
American Telephone 145
American Tob B 88 3-8
Anaconda 35
Atlantic Coast Line 22 3-8
Atlantic Reining 22 3-4
Bendix A' in 22
Bethlehem Su-el 59 1-2
Chrysler . 75
Columbia Gas <fc Elec 7 1-8
Commercial Solvnets 10
Consolidated Oil Co 9
Curtiss Wright 5 1-4
DuPont 138 1-2
Electric Pow & Light 10 1-2
General Electric ■ 43 1-8
General Motors 49
Liggett & Myers B 100
Montgomery Ward & Co .... 48 5-8
Reynolds Tob B 43 1-4
Southern Railway 13 1-4
St£ 1 Oil N J 54 3-8
U ' 59 7-8
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FIVE CENTS COP
GuaranteeOf
Czech Front
Is Oe: Issue
Labor Delegate Also
Wants Loan to Pra
gue Thoroughly
Threshed Out Now
London, Oct. 4. —(AP>—An angry
opposition today renewed its assault
lon Prime Minister 'Chamberlain’s
; “peace with honor” Munich accord in
the second day of vital debate on for
eign policy, as triumphant Nazi le
gions occupied further Sudeten areas
of Czechoslovakia.
The attack was renewed .by Cle
ment Atlee, leader of the Labor op
position, with a private notice of an
“urgent” question to the prime, min
ister. .
Atlee demanded that debate not be
shut off before the “back benches”,
the rank and file of the house, had
an opportunity to spbak. He also'
urged that questions concerning Brt-'
tain’s guarantee of Czechoslovakia’s
new frontiers and the British loan to
Prague should be threshed out thor
oughly.
The debate was expected to con
tinue through a third day. It opened
yesterday with a bitter attack on the
four-power Munich accord for Czech- ,
oslovakia’s dismemberment, by Al
fred Cooper, who resigned as first,
lord of the admiralty because the
Munich terms “stuck in my throat,”
and Chamberlain’s .spirited defense.
The Labor opposition, at a meeting
today, decided to introduce “a reason
ed amendment” to the government's
motion.
Meanwhile, Great Britain rushed
into an urgent new re-armament race
in an effort to preserve the Munich
peace.
Litigation Os
Local Firm
Is Remanded
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Richmond, Va., Oct. 4.—<AP)—'The
fourth United States Circuit Couff
Appeals today affirmed a judgment of
a district court at Washington, N. C.,
awarding $14,775 to the Plymouth
Box and Panel Company. The ap
peal was by the Travelers Indemnity
Company. The box company was in
sured by the appellant against explo
sion at the time of an explosion in
1936. The circuit court held the opjy
issue was the extent of loss, a question
of fact. ' >•*
disagreed with the dis
trict court of Eastern North
lina in the admissibility of certain
evidence, the circuit court reversed
and remanded for a new ti ikl
case of the Coca-Cola Bottling Com
pany of Henderson, appelant, vs. fjar
land Munn. Munn had been given a
judgment of for injuries #llgg
edly suffered drinking a soft dcink.
It was charged the company negli
gently allowed >rtain injurious chdta
icals to be bo ’.'"d vit.h a beverage.
Peach Not Success. *■
College Station, t. ileigh, Octi 4.
During the past peach season, 'ex
tremely low prices prevailed in most
producing centers, a condition attri
buted by L. P. Watson, extension hor
ticulturist at State College, to the
heavy volume of small-sized frutt and
poor market conditions.
Capacity Os
Plans For
Defense Seen
Fort Bragg, Oct. 4.—(AP) — Air
Corps pilots used tricky tactics with
flying bombers and other war planes
today to test the efficiency of. the
plans for defense of American cities.
Simulating a raid on an air based
ringed with real anti-aircraft artil
lery, successive aerial “waves” 'of
planes from Langley Field, Va.,
sought thus to baffle the defenders
in the biggest peacetime maneuvers
of the kind in America.
Squadrons flit quickly into flights
of three planes and head in different
directions after dropping imaginary
bombs. The flights separated into'sin
gle planes to defend pursuit ships. 43
well as to confuse the gunners.
The “black” invaders represented
hostile planes from an aircraft car
rier off the Atlantic coast. Whether
the raids could be considered success
ful was undecided as there are no win
ners in the war game. What was
sought was technical data of future
value to the coast artillery and the
mobile general headquarters air force.