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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year LEWIS OFFERS TO GET OUT IF GREEN WILL Witness Declares Bankers Seeking Cut In Rail Wages Brotherhood Econo » mist Declares Invest ment Bankers Want Cut in Order to Domi nate and Hold Roads Under Their Control Washington, Oct. 15.—(AP)—A Rail road Labor witness charged today the demand for a 15 per cent wage cut came from “a small inner group of so called investment bankers, symbolized aiul dominated by the private bank ing house of J. P. Morgan & Com pany.” W. J. Lauck, economist for Rail road Brotherhood, urged President Roosevelt’s emergency fact finding board to look into, the financial con dition of railroads before deciding on wage reduction against the 1,000,000 workers who have voted a protest strike. “There is an emergency but not from the public or employees stand point,” ho said, “It is an emergency for the private banking houses which have controlled the railroads, and which do not wish to be ousted from such control in the future.” J. Carter Fort, chief railroad coun sel, urgently objected to Lauck’s statement on the grounds that “he was making an argument unsupported by any facts.” Chief Justice Walter Stacy, of the North Carolina State Supreme Court, chairman of the board, allowed the labor witness to continue his state. saying it would he accepted for what it is worth. Other developments: A civil service commission said it would receive until close of business on November 1, applications for post mastership in Wilson, N. C. Davidson Wins $750 Prize At N. C.State Fair Raleigh, Oct. 11.—(AP)—Davidson county’s exhibit won the “county pro gress” competition at the State Fair today. They were awarded a $750 prize. The county progress contest is a new department of the fair, exhibits being entered to show progress in education, rural life and industrial development. Cleveland county took second prize, SSOO, with Caldwell coun ty third, S3OO, and Edgecombe, f<)urth, winning S2OO. Negro Gets Away From Road Gang Sligo, Oct. 11.—’(AP) —J. M. Toler and two guards set bloodhounds on the track of John Sandcrlin, 40-year old Negro, who escaped from a road gang near here this morning at 8 o’clock. Sanderlin, serving 20 years for mur der, slipped away while cutting .bushes two miles from here on the highway to Moyock. m ' ■ ’ Power Ruling May Be Bar To Judge Stacy Dully Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 11.—The North Car olina Supreme Court’s decision in the High Point power case is likely to prove quite a stumbling block to any hopes or chances of Chief Justice Walter p. Stacy for elevation to the United States Supreme Court. Judge Stacy is undoubtedly classi fied by all who know him —including President Franklin D. Roosevelt —as among the abler jurists of the United States. The President unquestionably regards him highly in the role of a labor trouble investigator and con ciliator. But when it comes to appointment to the nation’s highest court, the tra ditional conservatism of the North Carolina high court with reference to power matters is likely to turn the (Continued on x'age TwoO " HENDERSON & 9k **^o!*, mpnitersmt Hatl xt Hiamtfrft J™^ASSOCISS V p I §l s g F Sent Duce a Cable Pictured, is Supreme Court Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo (above) of New York, who cabled Premier Musso lini that the Italian decrees curbing Jewish rights in Italy may have serious repercussions in America. Cotillo, son of Italian immigrants, asked Mussolini grant him an au-! dience before taking action. 2 Mothers, 9 Children Die In Fire Many Homes Destroy ed as Forest Fire Sweeps Through Ca nadian Timberlands; Search for Victims Continues Fort Frances, Oct. 11 —(Canadian Press —The bodies of two mothers and nine young children, victims of a for est fire which swept through Dance township yesterday, were brought to day to Fort Frances by Ontario pro vincial police. All the victims were believed to be long to the families of Noah and Bill La Belle, brothers, who had settled in the sparsely populated area through which fires raged yesterday, destroy ing thousands of~acres of fine timber on a front of 50 miles. Constable David Hamilton told how searchers found the charred bodies. The two mothers had died with their bodies stretched across their smallest children in vain attempt to save them. “Many homes of families were burn ed, but we do not know whether they were other victims, and will not have definite information until our men re turn”, said Hamilton. Police were still searching the countryside for pos sible victims. Hamilton said the fire had been eating slowly through the timber country 50 miles northwest of here for two weeks. Yesterday, fresh winds drove them toward this town, on the Minnesota border, and at one time,' they were in a mile of Fort Frances. Coast Guard Airport Site Bonds Sold Raleigh, Oct. 11.—(AP) —The Local Government Commission sold $50,000 airport bonds today, $25,000 for Eliza beth City and $25,000 for Pasquotank county, with the proceeds to be used for buying a site for the Coast Guard Air Base. A SIO,OOO four months reve nue anticipation note of the town of Marion was sold the National Bank of Wilson, with a premium of SB3 with interest at four percent. Bond issues included: City of Washington $42,000, street improvement, $25,000 refunding, and $133,000 water and electric system, and $25,000 street improvement, the last two issues having been approved by a vote of the citizens. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Citizens At High Marks In War Test Observers Detect “In vading” Planes from Coast at Very High Altitudes Fort Bragg, Oct. 11—(AP)—The ability of untrained civilians to spot invading airplanes at their maximum altitudes is being tested today over Eastern North Carolina as a part of the anti-aircraft warning net exercises which may begin a new epoch in na tional defense. For the last 24 hours, some 2,000 vol unteer civilian observers, among them 500 women, have been on the alert as problems of increasing difficulty have been given them. During the first exercises, long be fore dawn yesterday, the invading “black” planes came in from Langley Field, Va., at accommodatingly low altitudes, except for one flight, so the voluntary observers could'spot them. Groggy with sleep, those doctors, lawyers, farmers and coast guards men turned out at 3:30 a. m. to flash the progress of the 33 attacking planes during their four-hour maneuv ers against Fort Bragg. This was intended as a test of the operation of the volunteer net. Today, however, in the first day light attack, giant “black” four engin ed B-17 flying fortresses and Martin bombers roared across the Atlantic coast line at their maximum ceilings, more than 22,000 feet, for the Boeings. At this altitude, the craft were expect ed to be invisible except with the aid of glasses and virtually inaudible. A low flying attack was planned to follow the bombers to distract the ob servers and shield the bombers from anti-aircraft batteries with a smoke screen. First reports indicated the volunteer observers were experiencing little difficulty detecting the planes at high altitude. Attempt Is Made On Life Os Official Jerusalem. Oct. 11—(AP)—Four bombs were thrown from the old city ramparts of Jerusalem at a convoy of official motor cars in what was be lieved to be an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Edward Keith-Roth, British district commission in Jerusalem. Two of the bombs exploded on the Jericho road, but none of the four cars were hit. Keith-Roth’s car was accompanied by two military escort automobiles and a police armored car. Keith-Roth, 53, has been commis sioner for the Jerusalem district since 1931. Meanwhile, unchecked violence rag ed throughout the Holy Land in the face of a British military campaign to quell Jewish-Arab disorders oyer rival claims to Palestine as a home land. Big concentrations of Arab zealots inflicted widespread damage and loss of life in the southern district. In the northern district troops seized 52 Arabs on suspicion they were con nected with trouble making hands. A Jew was shot and seriously wounded in Jerusalem. Later an Arab was found slain. The Arab death toll in a battle with troops at Beisan valley reached 15, 20 other single instances of killings, sabotage, arson, robbery, knifing and land-fighting were reported in the last 24 hours with the death toll at five. Patrol Issue * Might Cause Real Battle Daily Dlspaun Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 11 —Tucked away in the recommendation for establishment of a State Department of Justice there is listed at least one matter likely to become a lively legislative issue if it gets into the 1939 General Assembly transfer of the highway patrol to the proposed Department of Justice. The gentlemen Who studied the De partment of Justice program no doubt can cite numerous reasons why the patrol .should be under the law-en forcing department, rather than un der the revenue collecting, but when it comes down to the practical matter of getting it there, political toes are go ing to be stepped on and there is go continued on Page Two.) HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 11, 1938 First of "Good Neighbor Fleet” Sails if*?*. fron } New York to inaugurate the government-owned American Republic Line’* Good Neighbor Fleet ’ service to the east coast of South America. A fireboat salutes the liner as she steams down the Hudson. Members of an official government good-will mission sailed to carry greetings of the United States to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. (Central Prese) Strachey Is Denied Right To Land Here New York, Oct. 11.—(AP) — John Strachey, British leftist, today was ordered excluded from the United States. The order, issued by a special board of inquiry of the immigration authorities at Ellis Island, classed the lecturer and author, ?s,/‘a non-im migrant not in possession of pro per viased passoprt.” Stracftey arrived yesterday on the liner Normandie and promptly was taken into custody by immigration officials. The officials had been noti fied by the State Department that the former British Parliament mem ber’s visa had been cancelled a few hours before the Normandie sailed. Strachey spent the night aboard the Normandie. Today he was taken to Ellis Island for the board’s hearing. And then he was given a sitting room bed room and hath to occupy until he is deported or when he appeals to the Seceretary of Labor, his only recourse, now only open to him. DR. HENRY LILLY, OF FAYETTEVILLE, DIES Fayetteville, Oct. 11. —(AP) —Dr. Henry Walter Lilly, 82, for years a leading banker and manufacturer of Cumberland county, died early this morning. He leaves his widow and five children. Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock. BAND DIRECTOR AT ERWIN~ PASSES AWAY Erwin, Oct. 11. — (AP) Captain Arthur L. Whitely, 78, director of the Erwin concert h?ind for more than 20 years, died at his home this morning after a long illness. In recent years. Captain Whitely, a native of Phila delphia, had directed his band from a wheel chair. He suffered a paraly tic stroke some years ago. He once played with the band of the late John Philip Sousa. Funeral services were planned for Wednesday. Election Row Has Come To Anger Stage In the Sir Walter Hotel. Dully Ilnwateh Bureau, Raleigh, October 11. All pre tense of gentility has been dropped in the embittered Burgin-Deane election contest and from now on there will be no Marquis of Queensberry rules. Hitting in the legal clinches will be an accepted thing and it will be a miracle if somebody doesn’t get a political eye gouged out before the end. Action of Burgin counsel in attack ing the State Board of Elections as arbitrary and partisan in its conduct of its investigation in Davidson coun ty brought quick reprisal from the board’s chairman, who is filing af fidavits in the case outlining just what steps he took, with whom he conferred and what efforts have been made to keep the probe from ab solutely blowing the lid off to the de triment of the Democratic party. Mr. Lucas and a t least three other (Continued on Page Two.) Hungarian Troops Occupy BorderT own Taken From Czechs Ipolysag, on the Czech-Hungarian i Border, Oct. 11.— (AP) —Hungarian j troops occupied this Czech border town.at. Ip. m. today ih the first ac tual transfer of territory in Hungary’s drive to regain part of the land she lost to Czechoslovakia after the World War. More than 4,000 residents of this town, 50 miles north of Budapest, sang, danced and kissed the incoming Hungarian soldiers, whom they wel comed in the name of the approxi mately 1,000,000 Hungarians in ter ritory Budapest is demanding from the dismembered Czech state. Military bands played fiery Hun garian music. The day was celebrat ed as a Hungarian national holiday, and acclaimed as ending 20 years of Chamberlain To Be Judged By The Future . ; • By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct 11.—(‘This man Chamberlain!” observed one of our Washington statesmen the other day. “Will history make him a hero or a vil lain?” We shan’t know, this guesser continued, until aft er the sequel to the Czech deal has been written. Not much of an answer, I’d say. Whatever his tory's verdict may be, it certainly will not be to the effect that British Premier Neville Chamberlain was a villain. It may Chamberiain record him as a dumbbell., However, he hasn’t a drop of villainy in his composition. If he’s blundered, as suredly he did so well-meaningly. On the opposite hand, even if his policy turns out 100 percent favorable, I doubt that he will go down to pos terity as a hero. He hasn’t the spec tacularly ever to classify heroically He does have nerve. This will be disputed by critics who maintain that he showed a lack of it, by “surrender (Continued on page six) Japanese Nearing Chinese Military Center At Hankow Shanghai, Oct. 11.—(AP)—Artillery thunder echoed through the Yangtze valley today .as Chinese and Japanese engaged in a bitter duel for hills a round Yangsin, key point of south eastern Hupeh province plains pro tecting Hankow. The Japanese reported their forces were closing in on the wartime capi tal of China from other directions. Foreign military attaches estimat ed the Chinese have had 1,150,000 casualties and the Japanese 350,000 in more than 15 months of warfare. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY mourning for Hungarians in Czecho slovakia. (Dispatches from Komarom, the border town where Hungarian and Czech envoys are negotiating over the cession of territory, reported Hun garian troops -also occupied an im portant railway junction across the frontier from a Hungarian town 150 miles northeast of Budapest. (Agreement was reached Sunday at Komarom that these two points would be occupied to symbolize Czechoslo vakia’s willingness in principle, to meet Hungary’s demands. (Budapest has disclosed these in clude transfer of over 6,000 square miles; Prague has indicated this par ticular demand was considered ex cessive.) University In Scotland Is After Benes London, Oct. 11. —(AP) —The Czech slovak legation said tonight it had received word from former President Edouard Benes that he had not ac cepted and had not yet considered an invitation to be the Scottish Nation alist candidate for rector of Glascow University. This followed an announcement by Scottish antionalists to a mixed stu dent’s meeting at Glascow that Ber.es had agreed to stand for the rector ship. Apparently an honorary post, and the election is set for October 27. Posters were put up reading “vote for Benes, the man who saved the World.” Glascow announcements said Benes “acceptance had been received by a close friend of the former president in London. But the legation spokes (Continued on Page Two.) Von Cramm, Tennis Player, Released At German Prison Berlin, Oct. 11. —(AP) —The minis try of justice announced today that Baron Gottfried von Cramm, Ger many’s great tennis player, would be released on parole October 16, with suspension for two years of the re mainder of his one year prison sen tence. It was explained that good conduct was responsible for opening prison doors to von Cramm about six months ahead of time. The ministry said that during the two years of suspension of sentence he must prove worthy of this show of mercy. Von Cramm was arrested last spring on his return from a tour of the United States and Austria. He was convicted of immorality. " WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday; slightly warmer in south east portion tonight. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY CIO Leader I - .. Challenges HeadOfAFL Lewis Makes Proposal in Interest, He S.ays, of Peace in Ranks df ; American Labor ; Thinks Plan Is Worth Trying If Ends Are Achieved Washington, Oct. 11.—(AP)—John Ij. Lewis offered today to resign as chairman of the CIO if William Green would resign as president of the American Federation of Labor to pave the way for peace between the two organizations. Lewis told newsmen that the sug gestion from the federation’s Houston •onvention that Lewis withdraw from the CIO was “manifestly not a unilateral problem..” “Obviously, it’s bilateral,’’ Lewis said, “and the same suggestion would apply to Mr. Green, whose recent ferocity seems to know no bounds. “In any event, I think it worth try ing. “I advise I am willing to resign to day or tomorrow, or any day there after, as chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization if Mr. Green will simultaneously to resign as president of the American Federa tion of Labor. It then may be possible for the remaining leaders of the fed eration of labor and the CIO to con clude a peace pact, in which even the contribution by Mr. Green and my self may be of some value.” REPORTS AND DEBATES AT A. F. L. MEETING CONTINUING Houston, Texas, Oct. 11.—(AP)— American Federation of Labor con vention delegates returned today to the scene of „yestreday’s tumultuous debate over John Lewis’ CIO and laljor peace to begin grinding out the remainder of their legislative and in dustrial programs The resolutions committee indicated it was ready to report on suggested (Continued or. pige s.x) Lindberghs Silent Over Soviet Blast Berlin, Oct. 11.—(AP) —Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived at Templehof airport at 3:02 p. m., to day on their way from Paris, after stopping at Rottardam, where they spent the night. They came to attend the convention of the Lilienthal So ciety for Aerial Research opening to morrow. “I have nothing to say now,” Lind bergh replied when asked for a state ment on the letter published by eleven leading Soviet airmen, charging him with belittling the Russian air force and thereby indirectly encouraging surrender to Adolf Hitler’s demands on Czechoslovakia. Lindbergh is not scheduled to speak to the Lilienthal society, but tonight he is to dine at the Neues Palais at Potsdam, once the residence of Kaiser Wilhelm 11, as guest of the society. Spain Sees Fighting On Large Scale Second Offensive by Government Militia men Make Gains Against Insurgents Hendaye, France, Oct 11.—(AP) — The heaviest fighting in weeks in Spain’s civil war raged today on the Ebro river front, where government dispatches said a second offensive by government militiamen had resulted in capture of the strategic Pandols mountains and threatened Gandesa it self. The battle began late yesterday, when government troops, who had been holding their lines against a se ries of local attacks, launched a care fully planned offensive. Wave after wave of militiamen, pro tected by heavy artillery fire, swept (Continued on Page Two.’
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