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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR GERMANS SOUGHT DATA OH U. S. INDUSTRY Heavy Boost In Highway Fund Sought $2,000,000 Additional Asked Yearly T o Standardize Obsolete Roads in State; Nearly All Items of Its Bud get Are Hiked in Re quests Raleigh, Oct. 18.— (AP)-The high way and public works commission asked the Advisory Budget Commis sion today to recommend that the 1939 legislature appropriate $2,000,000 yearly in a new fund for the 1939-41 to standardize obsolete highways. The highway request for 1939-40 was §30,254,814, and for 1940-41 it was $30.- 645,728, both representing substantial increases over apprpximations for the current biennium. Directly for State highway mainten ance, $4,000,000 was requested for the first year and $4,200,000 for the sec ond, compared* with $3,500,000 yearly now appropriated. Instead of $500,000 yearly for retreatment, $1,300,000 a year was asked. For county road maintenance and construction, $7,- 500,000 yearly was asked for better ment of State and county roads. The request for State road con struction funds, $3,200,000 yearly was down $600,000, and the funde for city streets was put a s the same level, $500,000 yearly. Interest, bond reduction, sinking fund payments and other obligations will take more than $8,000,000 yearly. Motors Will Call 35,000 And Hike Pay New York, Oct. 18.—(AP) —The General Motors Corporation an nounced today it would re-employ 35,000 additional workers within the next two weeks. At the same time, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., chairman, said salary cuts made last winter would be restored. The increase ini employment, it was said, was in connection with expansion and production of 1939 models. “Sloan said the reception given new cars convinced General Mot ors officials that “the trend of customer buying, when retail de liveries of new cars can be made to customers in volume, will be found to be substantially improved over that existing during the past few months. Therefore, the cor poration feeis satisfied in increas ing its current production ' sche dules by revising upward the plans made last summer, as well as in readjusting its general ope rating program to a higher level in volume.” Employment And Payrolls Go Higher In September; Retail Houses Take Lead Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter HoteL SEPTEMBER EMPLOYMENT IN N. C. Week Average Industries No. Reporting No. Employed Pay Roll Wkly Payroll All Manufacturing v 533 115,101 $1,725,345 $14.99 Cotton Mills 218 62,168 - 790,115 12.71 Hosiery, Knitting 62 19,287 357,562 18.54 Silk, Rayon 8 2,335 34,939 14.96 Furniture 28 4,817 76,506 15.88 Tobacco 9 9,911 # 192,354 19.41 Others 208 16,583 * 273,869 16.52 Non-Manufacturing 59 2,438 34,908 14.24 Retail Establishments 199 3,863 54,907 14.21 Wholesale Houses 127 3,035 49,215 16.22 Raleigh, Oct. 18. —All lines of em ployment except wholesale house 3 showed improvement in number of em ployes, amount of weekly pay rolls and average weekly earnings by workers, according to figures from the North Carolina Department of Labor, representing reports from 918 business establishments 1 in all lines. Retail trade establishments showed the greatest increase in number of employes over August, jumping 10.3 per cent to 3,863 in the 199 reporting concerns. Non-manufacturing indus tries pressed closely with an increase of 10 per cent to 16,583. Average week tlrnitersmi Datht tHsuntdr leased wire service of As Churchill Urged U. S. Aid B . >B Bk ij H jjH Eg Ik 11 I. ■ bHI fib- Winston Churchill, former First Lord of the Admiralty, is pictured in * this picture, radioed from London to New York, as he broadcast a direct reply to allegations made by Chancellor Hitler that Churchill had as his aim the start of another war. Churchill called upon America to stand bv Great Britain “before it is too late” to halt the aggression of the dictators Governor Is Anxious To Unload Road Hoey Turning to Pri vate Interests, for A. & Nlf C. * Southern May Withdraw In the Sir Walter Hotel. . Hally Bureau. Raleigh, Oct. jlß.—Governor Clyde R. Hbey. has turned to private groups in his efforts to unload operation of the State-owned Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad and : • its ledgers splotched with red ink. He hasn’t divulged identity of the groups; beyond saying they are com posed of. “eastern interests,” nor has he -given any inkling of their pro positions. It’s a foregone conclusion in the iminds of most observers that the! governor would be tickled pink to accept any lease proposal backed by a group of sufficient financial strength to be held responsible for carrying out terms of the agreement. Negotiations with these private in terests also revives possibility that the legislature will be asked at its 1939 session to give the governor and State power to sell the Old Mullet. Some months ago some private group —quite possibly one of those now in the picture—seemed sincerely inter ested in buying the road but backed ,off when it was learned from an at torney general’s ruling that the State (Continued on Page Three.) ly earnings fell, however, in both cases, the average retail employe mak ing $14.21 per week in September, 6.5 per cent less than the previous month. In the non-mdnufacturing industries average weekly earnings were off 5.1 per cent to $16.52. More than half the total establish ments reporting were cotton mills. With 218 cotton mills reporting, to tal employes moved up over August three-tenths of one percent, with aver (Continued on Page Three.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Tar Heel Farmers Paid Huge Chunks Washington, Oct. 18.—(AP) —The Agricultural Adjustment Adminis tration listed today the names of 141 farmers and farming concerns whom it gave benefit payments of 810,000 or more betweeij December, 1937, and June 30. All the payments were for cooperating with crop control payments, and the largest, $112,140.04, went to the King ranch, Kleberg county, Texas. * The checks came out of the $500,- 000,100 soil conservation fund ap propriated by Congress. Payments listed included: * 1 North Carolina:’ W. J. bong, of Graysburg, $10,129; T. E. Ransom, Jackson* $11,285; W. S. Clark St Sons, Incorporated, of Tarboro, $13,801; and John F. McNair, Inc., of Laurinburg, $10,728. Japs Drive On Canton’s Huge Forts Capture of These De fenses Would Deal Sharp Blow to City; Fresh Thousands of Chinese Marshalled to Resist Invaders; U. S. Interests Threatened Hong Kong, Oct. 18. — (AP) A strong Japanese column drove south east today across flat terrain toward the Bocca Tigris forts, the capture of which would deal a sharp blow to the defense of Canton, whose water ap proaches they guard. If the invaders can eliminate those fortifications, they will enable war ships to fight away into the south China metropolis. A vicious land attack on the strong hold imminent as the columns pushed on after capturing Cheungmuktau, midway between Hong Kong and Canton, on the vital Canton-Kowloon railway. With an estimated 3,000 miles of Kwantung province conquered in less than a week, the Japanese intensified es- CCdhtinued on Page Three.) Reserves Are Dismissed By German Army Berlin, Oct. 18. —The foreign office spokesman said today Germany’s army reserves, marshalled by the hun dreds of thousands six weeks before the Czechoslovak crisis brought Eu rope to the verge of war, now were being dismissed daily Germany moved gradually to reduce the more than 1,000,000 men she was estimated to have had under arms in the tense days before the four-power (Continued on Page Three.) HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 18, 1938 Farmers To Default On Com Loans Thousands Ponder Giving Grain to Gov ernment Rather Than Renew Loans Chicago, Oct. 18. —(AP)—Thousands if farmers pondered today a decision o default on' their federal corn loans, a decision which may make Uncle 4nm the greatest corn owner in the world.- Throughout the country, farmers whose loans on almost 48,000,000 mshcls are due November 1, debated the advantage of defaulting and giv ing their corn to the government, or renewing the loans. With prices lowest in almost five r ears, some farmers have turned their over to the government. Corn under seal in cribs averaged 48.5 cents per bushel. The Chicago mar ket price is around 44 cents, while on the farm corn is selling from 33 to 38 cents. Statisticians estimated the volume of on which government loans kavd been made has current market value of about $7,500,000 less than the total of the loan. Agriculture Ad justment Administration officials have voiced the belief that most far mers would renew loans at 57 cents a bushel, but they have set up head quarters here to direct the flow of corn delivered to the Commodity Credit Corporation Spy Activity Here Brings New Problem. By CHARLES P:; STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 18. —Now that President Roosevelt has put the seal of his approval upon the proposed . t , H campaign against foreign spying in the United*;;, States the chances are that a formidable fight will be made in the next Congress for creation of a far flung anti-espionage organization. Indeed Representative Mar tin Dies already has promised tp intro duce the necessary legislation. I don’t think Dies generally is taken very seri- floorer ously, but presiden tial backing probably will introduce some ginger into his plan. However, there are certain objections to the es tablishment of such a body of coun ter-spyers as the President and the Texas representative hint at. One is that the tales we hear of any sort of effective foreign espion age in this country are the bunk. If there were enough of it to endanger us our army and navy departments assuredly would at least suspect it. Contrariwise; their respective official doms give stories of it the laugh. They agree that there are agents in our midst who sell information to overseas governments, but all their best opinion is to the effect that these agents get their dope from published reports, available to anyone at 25 to 50 cents per pamphlet. It is conced ed that, perhaps, their old world em ployers should prosecute them for ob taining pay by false pretenses—sell (Continued on Page Three.) Expect Rail Board To Ask Compromise On Wages Dispute Washington* Oct*, IS.—(AP)—Per sons close to President Roosevelt’s fact-finding board predicted today it would recommend a compromise of the proposed 15 percent rail wage cut. The board, appointed by the Presi dent in an effort to avert a threaten ed strike in' the railroad industry, be gan work on a report which must be completed by October 27. Board Chairman Walter p. Stacy, chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, closed three weeks of hearings yesterday with a statement in which he compared the wage dis pute to the price which producers re ceive for eggs. - It is well, he said, for the producer Legionnaires and Nazis Clash MHMI Ms r™ h| 1 ® I : IP P Is Ml 1 HI 9i' I? : f Sag |>x. Hijnß MBmnk BwiißMiißL. iippmi gay ||& w ;j . sy jMM Fin I ijllilllPw Hi « American Legion members of Post No. 41, Syracuse, N. Y., are pictured in fighting moods as they attempted to break up a meeting of the German- American Bund in Syracuse. Edward C. Schall, newly-elected commander of the post led the Legionnaires, who had warned that the meeting would be disrupted if the Nazis gathered. (Central Press) HAGERSTOWN BODY IS NOT R. S. M’COIN’S Hagerstown, Md., Oct. 18.— (AP) —Police said to day the skeleton found near Martinsburg, W. Va., was . “positively not” that of R. S. McCoin, former North Carolgia state sepatojr, who disappeared in 1932. r'%e examined the skull and compareddt-with a den tal X-Ray of McCoin’s, which was taken three months before he disappeared,” said Captain Carl McCleary. “We found the X-ray did not agree with the teeth ar rangement of the skull. It is positively not the man we want.” Dr. M. H. Cohen, Hagerstown dentist, accompanied the police to the cemetery where the skeleton was dis interred. M’COIN DISAPPEARANCE CONTINUES AS MYSTERY Information received here this kft ernoon that the skeleton found near Martinsburg, W. Va., last week “pos itively” was not that of the long miss ing R. S. McCoin, Henderson lawye and business man and former State senator, apparently put an end defi nitely to this newest turn in the case. The mystery that has persisted since McCoin dropped from sight on a bus iness trip to Ric-mond three days be fore Christmas 1932, remains the riddle it has-been for six years. The skeleton found near Martins burg, and reported to local police by Hagerstown Md., authorities, was buried hu* was exhumed to he view ed and examined by local business men wh'» left here yesterday for the western Maryland city. They were- Al. B Wester, for twenty years bus iness associate of McCoin’s, and Thomas G. Horner, intimate friend, and Sam K. Leonard, superintendent of the Eastern Carolina Training School at Rocky Mount, where Mrs. McCoin has worked since soon after her husband v s disappearance. They were back home late this afternoon after comparing dental records and X-ray pictures of McCoin’s with the skeleton. The skeleton was located near a (Continued on Page Three.) to obtain the highest possible prices for his eggs, but if his chickens be come sick he is forced to devote some of his efforts to helping the chick ens regain their health. Some hearers inferred that Judge Stacy was comparing the price of eggs to the price of rail labor and the sick chickens to railroads in financial straits. Representatives of the rail brother hoods declared another statement bj r the chairman indicated the board would consider the workers’ conten tion that rail wages should not be based entirely on “ability to pay,” but on humanitarian and economic factors as well. PUBLISH ED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Election And Budget Given Time By FDR Hyde Park, N. Y., Oct. 18.—(API- Democratic party prospects in the pivotal states of New York and Illi nois and the federal budget engaged the attention of President Roosevelt today. Governor Henry Horner, of Illinois, was due here for a conference, while Governor Herbert Lehman, of New York, seeking re-election for a fourth term, was listed for a luncheon par ley at the summer White House. Late in the day Mr. Roosevelt ar ranged to see Secretary Morgenthau to go over preliminary budget esti mates, due for another jump next year, in view of the administration’s extensive plans for further rearma ment. The President had announced he. was unable to forecast the new budget plans until a re-study of de fense plans is completed. Auto Driving Schools Will Be Expanded Daily Dlspascfi Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 18.—The adult driv ing education program, operated in cooperation by the WPA and the Highway Safety Division of the State Department of Revenue, will be ex panded to approximately a dozen schools just as rapidly as possible, Lieutenant T. A. Early, in charge of the schools, said today after a con ference with Safety Director Ronald Hocutt. At least two schools will be opened within the next two weeks, Lieute nant Early said, with Wilmington and (Continued on Page Three) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fail*’ tonight and Wednesday, except i)n the mountains Wednesday. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Communist’s Chief Tried To Ruin AFL Testimony Is Stalin Ordered Destruction of Labor Body and Fostered Sitdown Strikes; Germany Switched from Mili tary to Industry Sec rets New York, Oct. 18. —(AP) —The gov ernment’s star spy case witness, Guen ther Gustav Rumrich, army deserter who turned secret agent, told Judge John Knox and a Federal court jury today that Nazi Germany’s interests shifted from American military se crets late in 1937 to industrial infor mation. * He was so informed by two of the agents with whom he had contacts, Rumrich testified. One of those, he said, he knew only as “Wiegand,” and the other was “Schmidt”. “Wiegand”, he said, first apprised him of Germany’s shifting interests from military to industrial informa tion', particularly that |kind which had to do with American re-armament “Schmidt” later asked him if he knew of the new orders, he said. “He said this change of orders was due to an agreement between some one in Washington and some one in Berlin,” explained Rumrich, who pleaded guilty at the start of his trial, leaving ithree co-defendants, EVich Glaser, Otto Voss and Johanna Hof man to face trial alone. “He did not say who these parties were, but said it was a shame the order had been put into effect,” Rum rich said. “Schmidt asked me if I knew any one employed in either the Bethlehem Steel plant or the DuPont plant. I said, ‘No,’ but I would do my best to get .in contact with some one. He said some of the letters In his possession were for some one in (Continued on Page Three.) Gov. Hoey To Review March At Ft. Bragg Fort Bragg, Oct. 18.—(AP) —A line of 5,300 soldiers, 600 vehicles and 400 hoirses will parade by Governor Hoey’s reviewing stand tomorrow in a climatic conclusion of a week of war games that tested the nation’s best air, defense. The big procession is scheduled to begin at 6:45 p. m. ft also will cap a brief entertainment program given by the army in token of its appre ciation of the cooperation of North Carolinians during the maneuvers. It is regarded in some circles as the lar gest display of military might in the South since 1865. In the reviewing stand with the governor will be Brigadier General William Bryden, commander of Fort Bragg, and other notables, military and civilian. Tomorrow’s exercises will begin during the morning, with a demon stration by a unit of the 29th In fantry, Fort Benning, Ga., of the ef fectiveness of infantry against attack ing airplanes. Guards Are Doubled In Jerusalem Attack On Modern Cit/ by Arab Rebels Feared in Uprising of Natives Jerusalem, Oct. 18. —(AP)~“ British troops doubled guard strength today lest Arab rebels attack the modern district of Jerusalem after a night of terrorist bombings in the old section of the city. ' Columns of British armojed cars and truckloads of police patroled streets outside the old city’s walls. The new city, grown up since 1858, lies chiefly to the northwest of the ancient citadel. The situation in the old city be came so critical shortly before mid (Continued on Page Three.)
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