North Carolina Newspapers

HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR ALLEGED GERMAN SPIES GOT U. S. SECRETS Hungary Will Wait New Move Os Czechs About Her Demands Such an Offer To Re new Komarom ‘Con ferences Expected Shortly by Budapest Officials; Hungary Still Moving Men and War Supplies to Border Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 17.—(AF) — Baron Bothmcr, of the foreign office, declared today that Czechoslovakia must make a new proposal before Hungary takes rurfher action in her demands for Hungarian-populated regions of Czechoslovakia. Such an offer to lay a basis for re newing the interrupted Komarom con versations is expected shortly, the baron said. But, he added, any new plans would be made more difficult to accept because of “increased Czechoslovak atrocities’’ in Hungarian minority regions. Hungary, despite a general feeling that chances for a peaceful settlement have brightened considerably, still moved men and equipment to the Czechoslovak frontier. The cabinet, meanwhile, met to consider sugges tions of Reichfuehrer Hitler and Pre mier Mussolini of Italy for settling the dispute. The choice of methods was believ ed to lie between these two: Either the li|tlcr-Musso,lini plan to make Prague accept a new, more accept able Hungarian plan with the ap proval of other western powers as a basis for resuming negotiations, or a four-power conference for the same purpose to be called by Hitler or Mus soiint__ The first plan was regarded here as the more likely to be adopted. Great Drive Planned To Crush Arabs Jerusalem, Oct. 17. —(AP) —British troops deployed to positions through out Palestine today as a preliminary to a huge drive to crush Arab resis tance to Britain’s rule in the Holy Land. Some quarters feared the Arab re bellion was a threat to the peace of the whole Near East. The new cam paign against the Arabs was ordered yesterday immediately after the re turn from London of Sir Harold Al fred Mac Michael, British high com missioner, and commander-in-chief in Palestine. Tension persisted as Jews, Holy Land Arabs and Arabs in Trans- Jordan and Syria awaited publication of a British commission report to know whether Britain still intended to establish separate Arab states. The plan to partition Palestine into three areas, including a zone to remain un der British mandate, is deeply resent ed by both Jews and Arabs. Rifles cracked throughout the Holy Land last night. The city of Jerusalem was virtually beleagured. All the gates except the Jaffa gate were closed after a 24-hour curfew was clamped down at 7 p. m. yesterday. Except for heavily armed guards, the streets were almost deserted. More than 12 cities with Arab popula tions now have been placed under re strictions. Says Crop Control Worth SIOO Million This Year Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 17.-n Crop control ha 3 been worth one hundred million dol lars this year to North Carolina’s farmers and, consequently, . to its business men and industries, it is es timated by E. F. Arnold, secretary of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, Mr. Arnold made the estimates in preparing literature for an intensive drive by the bureau Jto insure ap proval of a control program by farm ers when control voting time comes in December. In making his $100,000,000 estimate, he took into consideration direct pay ments to the farmers through the soil conservation program of the Depart ment of Agriculture as well as the increased price he believes farmers received for their cotton and tobacco as the result of the marketing con trol and tobacco as the result of the marketing control program for the HcnfrgrSSrtt 3atht Uiapatirlt leased wire service of Jew-Baiter Held > ' s * js|§| fH . iaii , ynnHMR m Joseph Hahn-Korff (right), 35- year-old German who describes himself as “secretary of the League for Restoration of Aryan Suprem acy in America,” is shown being taken to jail at New Orleans, La., charged with sending scurrilous matter through the mails. (Central Press) Czechs Turn To Germany For Backing Cooperation With Reich Is New Move for Reconst ruction of Split Republic Prague, Oct. 17.—(AP) —Highly- placed Czechoslovaks today based new optimism for the republic’s future on growing prospects of a peaceful settlement of its territo rial issue with Hungary, and on assurances of Rouinania’s support. Informed quarters declared that direct negotiations between Slo vaks and Hungarians would be re sumed as quickly as possible, with the outlook bright for working out their problems by peaceful means. Prague, Oct. 17. —(AP) —Czechoslo- vakia appeared today to have switch (Continued on Page Five) flue-cured weed and the acreage quota plan for cotton growers. The table with this article shows in detail just what items he included in his estimates. Os the principal item, increased value of tobacco, Mr. Arnold says in literature being distributed over the State to formers: “I think it is not too much to esti mate that if it were not for this law (control and marketing quotas), to bacco would today be selling for ten to twelve cents per pound. If this be true, tobacco is selling ten cents per pound higher because of a law spon sored by the Farm Bureau. “If the estimates made by the De partment of Agriculture that North Carolina will make th'is year 539,800,- 000 pounds of tobacco then the law has brought to North Carolina $53,980,- 000. “Can the business interests of the (Continued on Page Three.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINM. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER 17, 1938 Great Speed Os Jap Drive Is Amazing Railway to Canton Cut at Two Points as City Is Put Under Martial Law by Chinese; Jap War Planes Engage in Heavy Bombardments Hong Kong, Oct. 17. invasion of South China swept on to day with what military observers con sidered amazing rapidity. The vital Canton-Kowloon railway was cut at least at two points. One column landed on the Pearl river delta and raced overland to sever the line 15 miles north of Hong Kong. Another drove westward and cut it midway be tween Canton and Hong. Kong. Other forces crossed the east rive** after the capture of Waichow, and fought their way up the Waichow-Can ton highway to within 50 miles of Canton. Indications that the Japanese in tended to drive straight on to the South China metropolis were seen in the fact that Japanese war planes heavily bombarded Tsengsing, Chinese troop concentration points 45 miles east of Canton. Canton was placed under martial law. Nazis Oust Archbishop Os Catholics Vienna, Oct. rL-^LAP)—Dr. Sigis mund Waitz, Catholic archbishop of Salzburg, today was relieved by offi cial order of supervision over reli gious education in the Salzburg dis trict elementary schools: This’ was the latest Nazi move against the Catholic clergy and followed the breakdown of church-state peace ne gotiations announced in a Vienna speech last Thursday by Joseph Buer ckel, Nazi commissioner for Austria. Hitherto, Archbishop Waitz has en joyed the special privilege of visiting obligatory religious classes in the lower schools and making suggestions as to instructions. Henceforth, such supervision, according to the order is sued by the Salbzurg district school council, will be carried out solely by State and school officials. Archbishop Waitz, one of the Cath olic leaders who signed a declaration of fealthy to Adolf Hitler soon after the annexation of Austria, had played a leading role in the recent church state negotiations. Buerckel, in his anti-clerical speech to a iVenna mass meeting October 13, revealed to some 100,000 Nazis that the church “saw a new chance” in the “speculation” that Germany “would come into foreign political difficulties” ►over Czechoslovakia. LIQUOR SALES FOR SEPTEMBER ARE UP Raleigh, Oct. 17. (AP) Liquor sales in county-operated stores in the 27 wet units during September totalled $604,178.10, an increase of $4,493.75 over September, 1937. Chairman Cutlar Moore, of the State ABC Board, released the rej/brts today noting that Durham county led in sales with $89,285.50. Last month s sales also included: Beaufort county, $19,015.20; Edgecombe county. $33,820.- 10; Nash county, $22,100.55; Pitt coun ty, $44,492; Vance, $18,276.20; Wilson, $32,033.05; Lenoir county, $31,533; Warren, $9,103.80; Franklin, $11,021.45; Greene, $5,311.40; Johnston, $26,864.40*. J. P. JOYNER DIES AT LAGRANGE HOME LaGrange, Oct. 17.—(AP)—J. p. Joyner,, 79, former superintendent of LaGrange schools and recorder of LaGrange court, was found dead in bed at his home here today. Survivors include a brother, Dr. J. Y. Joyner. Deane Is Not To Meet With Rival Burgin In the Sir Walter Hotel Daily Dlayatch Bnrean. Raleigh. Oct. 17.—C. B. Deane, county contender for the eighth congressional nomination, is exceedingly unlikely to accept the proffer of his rival, W. O. Burgin, that the two get together and work (Continued on Page Three.) In Nazi Spy Trial Spotlight flf ? jjSs* mmMmSm ,<.M|fir s< j| s, Mr' % Pill One of the most important government witnesses in the current Nazi spy trial in New York is Kate Moog Busch (left), attractive nurse and friend of the vanished Dr. Ignatz Griebl. In the center is Johanna Hofmann, hairdresser of the German liner Europa, accused as messenger of the German spy ring operafc ing in the United States, and at right Federal Judge John C. Knox, trying the case, the greatest spy trial in the country’s history. (Central Press) Four Germans Arrested For Photographing Panama Canal Huge U. S. Deficit Is Far Greater Than Last Year Washington, Out. Treasury reported today a deficit of $980,980,284 for the first three and one-half months of the fis cal year. This was more than twice the $411,569,270 shortage for the similar period of the previous year. Expenditures in the three and a half months amounted to $2,- 564,735,321, and income totaled sl,- 655,755,037. Corresponding figures last year were: Expenditures, $2,- Archbishop Critical Os Munich Pact Canterbury, England, Oct. 17. —(AP) —The archbishop of Canterbury, Ang lican primate of all England, guard edly criticized Prime Minister Cham berlain’s Munich peace settlement in a speech to his diocesan conference today. The archbishop, the Most Rev. Cos- ’ mo Gordon Lang, said: “I think we must admit that, though we are filled I with thankfulness for peace, we can not have any enthusiasm for the terms by which peace was won.” < He referred to the agreement for the dismemberment of Czechoslova kia to satisfy the demands of Nazi Germany. The archbishop, noted for his frank political pronouncements, expressed “the deepest admiration for Czechoslovakia’s self-restraint and dignity in a time of unspeakable trial, ’ and pleaded for an end to “the insane race for armaments.” The enraged feelings against Prime Minister Chamberlain’s accord ap peared to be subsiding in favor of a new note of national security to back a heavy armament race. Newspapers kept up a campaign for the rapid in tegration of all civil and military de fense movements. Winston Churchill, bitter critic of the Munich peace, echoed an appar ently growing sentiment in a fadio address to the United States last night, appealing for American coope ration against “moral and military aggression of dictators.” LEGION CHAIRMEN FOR STATE NAMED Asheville, Oct. 17.—(AP)—Burgin Pennell, of Asheville, who will be in stalled commander of the North Car olina Department of the American Legion here tonight, announced today the appointment of committee mem bers for the ensuing year. They in cluded: Americanism, Robert Stevens, Goldsboro; school awards, June H. Rose, Greenville, Chairman; graves registration, Thad Hodges, Washing ton. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair to partly cloucty tonight and Tuesday. 281,566,562, and receipt* i*U42O,- 096,292. * WPA yvas the principal factor was in increased expenditures. This agency, whose relief rolls now are at a record total, spent $646,568,- 565 in the three and a half months, compared with $378,198,886 in the same months last year. The public debt has reached a new record of which is $1,264,452,892 more than a year ago. Turk President Now Gravely 111 Ankara, Turkey, Oct. 17.—(AP) An official communication said to day President Kemal Attaturk was gravely ill. The communication said “the condition of the president, who has long been suffering from a Jiver complaint, suddenly grew worse Sunday, and, although a slight improvement occurred over night, his illness is still maintain ing a grave character.” The health of Attaturk, who built up a new nation on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, had been the sub ject of disquieting rumor for months. Even in the early days of his revolution, he frequently was reported ill of kidney trouble, for which he revived treatment at an Austrian health resort during the World War. Allot Cotton Quota Before Dec. 10 Vote College Station, Raleigh, Oct. 17. H. A. Patten, acting AAA executive officer at State College, said today that cotton growers who vote in the December 10 referendum will know exactly how much lint acreage they will be allotted under the 1939 farm program before the balloting. Committees are now at work in the counties, setting up acreages in pre paration for the coming vote. In the last referendum growers did not know their allotments before ballot ing. Two-thirds or more of the growers voting must approve the control plan before it can go into effect. This means two-thirds of the planters in the entire cotton-producing area. Patten explained that tobacco grow ers will also get a chance to vote, if present plans mature. This referen dum, will probably be held concur rently with the cotton vote. Machinery for the referendum is now being shaped up and will be practically the same as that used in the March 12 balloting. Precinct boxes will be set up in each of the counties affected and all eligible grow (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Key Defenses of Canal Pictured; One Is Wo man; Camera and Au tomobile Seized and Trial Is Planned Panama, Canal Zone, Oct. 17. —(AP) —The United States military today held four Germans, one a woman, for photographing key defenses to the Panama Canal. A court of inquiry will determine whether they are to be charged with espionage on the waterway, vital link in the American defense, by which the fleet can be shifted from the Pacific to the Atlantic or back in emergency defenses. The four were arrested Sunday while taking pictures of Galeta Point, filst defense of the Atlantic approach to the canal. They entered Fort Ran dolph reservation in the morning by auto and denied, the sentry said, that (hey had a camera. The question is routine to all visitors. The sentry became suspicious and notified his sergeant two hours later. Search led to the arrests and confiscation jf the camera and automobile. GERMAN TENNIS~ACE FREED FROM PRISON % Baron/ Gottfreid von Cramm Convict ed Last Spring for Relations With Jewess Berlin, Oct. 17.—(AP)—Baron Gott freid von Cramm, German tennis ace, is free on parole after serving seven months of a one-year sentence on a morals charge. The remainder of his one-year sentence, which wuold have been served by March 7, was sus pended for two years during which he “must prove worthy of this act of mercy.” His brother met him at the prison gate and they left, probably for his mother’s home at Bruegeen, near Hanover. Baron von Cramm was arrested March 5 on his return from a tennis tour of the United States and Aus tria. He was convicted of improper relations with an 18-year-old Jewess. Mooney Case Had Parallel For England By CHARLES I». STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 17—Tom Mooney’s case is reminiscent of one I was familiar with in London, when I wasl an American corre spondent there years ago. The English police have a great reputation for cat ching mu r d erers, English courts for convicting them and Engl is h hangmen for stringing them up. They have been greatly praised for their efficiency. They’re proud o f their record for never being muffed 6ff by technicalities, Mooney as sometimes we are here. However, at the time I mention, there had been (Continued on Page Five) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Trio Framed, Attorney At Trial Says Some of Innermost Secrets of Nation’s Defense Obtained, Federal Prosecutor Charges at Trial in Ne w York; Fourth Prisoner Confesses Guilt New York, Oct. 17.—(AP)—Attor neys for three alleged German spies described their clients as “framed” and “innocent” today after United States Attorney Lamar Hardy told a Federal court jury they had penetrat ed into some of the innermost secrets of this country’s military defense. The prosecutor occupied an hour and 20 minutes in outlining the gov ernment’s case against Johanna Hof mann, 26, former beautician on the German liner Eurora, and Otto Her mann Voss, and Erich Glaser, 28, both naturalized citizens born in Ger many. Glaser is a former United States Army soldier. Hardy said that German spies had transmitted to the Berlin government data on the American artillery forces in the Panama Canal Zone, the strength of the American navy on the etst coast and the specifications of two American aircraft, carriers. Members of this spy ring, he as serted, were the three prisoners. Hardy told the jury that the spy ring had forged President Roose velt’s signature to a fictitious order to the navy for the aircraft carrier. A fourth prisoner, Gunther Gus tav Rumrich, pleaded guilty at the opening of the trial Friday, and will testify as a government witness Hardy described the all- ged con spiracy as directed from Germany, with contact men transferring mes sages back and forth to agents of German extraction in this country. He said two officials of the German steamship lines in the United States aided in establishing the contact be tween agents in this country and their directors abroad. Hoey Confers On Southern Taking Road Raleigh, Oct. 17. —(AP) —Governor Heoy held preliminary conferences with, officials of the Southern Railway today on plans for the operation by the Southern of the State-controlled Atlantic & North Carolina railroad. The said no specific sug gestions were made as to what the Southern might be able to do, -and that he now plans to confer with rep resentatives of two different groups who have made proposals to lease the lines. ■ ' Vice-President John Hyde, of -the Southern, along with R. H. Deßutts, Jr., general traffic manager, and F. S. Collins, chairman of a committee which made a thorough survey of the A. & N. C., from Goldsboro to More head City, talked with the governor. It was made clear, Hoey said, that operation costs must go up if the • "-’.rr (Continued on Page Three.) Farm-Labor f j Leaders Are ! Called Reds Washington, Oct. 17 (AP)-Steve Sadler, St. Paul consulting engineer, told the House Committee on un-Ame rican activities today that communists had “tried to take over the Farmer- Labor Party.” He added, however, that he wanted it clearly understood he was making no accusations against a majority of the party, rior its rank and file. He described them as good American citizens. "Governor Benson, Congressman Bernard, Congressman Teigan and Mr. Williams are spoken of and writ ten up in all communistic publications as friends of their cause,” he testified, referring to Minnesota’s Farmer-I>a bor governor, and two of its represen tatives in the House. He said How ard Williams, executive secretary of » the League of Independent Political Action, and candidate for Congress on the • fourth Minnesota Farmer-Labor ticket, was called a communist in the report of a special commission to-, in vestigate communistic and other, sub versive organizations in Massachu setts.