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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR «U« ORDERS 5,000 STRIKERS RESTORED Japs Speed Their Drive Upon Canton Invaders Slash Way Through Chinese De fenses; Air Bombard ment Terrific as Cam paign Is Pressed; Clos ing in from Two Dif ferent Points Hong Kong, Oct. 19.-^'AP)—Jap anese columns gathered new momen tum today, and appeared to have slashed their way through Chinese defenses to threaten Canton from both the northeast and the east. Terrific air bombardment aided troops of the invaders at the outset of the second week of the Japanese south China offensive, which started Oc tober 12. It was stated authoritatively that one column had reached a point on one of four islands in the east river, crossed by the Canton-Kow loon railway, about 35 miles east of Canton. Chinese military authorities at Can ton issued a vigorous denial that the island point had been captured. To the north, and there were highly con flicting reports on this “back door” phase of the campaign, another me chanized detachment was said to be nearing a place 40 miles northeast of the Canton objective. Still another column was said to be (Continued on Page Four) Bible Now Taught In Forty States, Speaker Declares Raleigh, Oct, 19—(AP)—Rev. J. O. Mann, of Maxton, director of religious education for the Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina, told the delegates at the annual meeting of the Women’3 Auxiliary today that 40 states now teach the Bible in public schools. Churches pay the teachers, Dr. Mann said, and there is increasing in terest in overcoming illiteracy of the Bible, which he said was appalling. He said a test showed that 16,000 pu pils out of 18,000 questioned ip Vir ginia could not name the four gospel. New officers were to be elected this afternoon. Pilot Saves 14 People In Burning Plane Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 19.— (AP) A new hero of the airways was acclaimed today as a mass of ruins marked the plat* where Pil ot Dave Ilissong, with flames lap ping about him, brought eleven passengers and three crew men safely to earth in his burning Pastern Air Lines plane. With one voice of acclaim, the passengers said: “He saved us.” The plane burst into flames near midnight few miles from Mont gomery, and, though his hands were seared, the lusilage burned and one motor dropped out, His songs stuck to the controls and put the craft down in a dark and (Continued on Page - Four.) Says Germans Plotted To Forge Signature Os FDR New York, Oct. 19 —(AP) —A scheme to forge President Roosevelt’s signa ture to White House stationery in order to procure information about the United States navy was described in Federal court today by G. G. Rum rich, 32-year-old army deserter, and confessed Nazi spy. Speaking in a low-disspirited voice, as though he were tired of his role in the whole fantastic espionage plot. Ilumford told Judge John Knox and the jury he had expected to get a lot of money if the plan were carried through. It was his third day on the witness stand testifying against Erich Glaser, former Mitchell Field soldier; Johanna Hofmann, hair dresser on the German liner Europa, and Otto Voss, airplane mechanic. Rumrich was indicted with them and 14 others but pleaded guilty and became one of the government’s principal witnesses. The ex-dish washer who became' a S4O-a-week “mail order" spy, chewed gum as he told of a night when Karl iicttnersmt Datht £1 i s mtfrh L THE E a«SqK e sr RVtoe of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Chicago Germans 800 Nazi Bundists WsL flag l lilr " MW' 'li M Jggggp jfranin hit ;§§§bfc. to% n h!’To^n^r Ameri f anS in front of the Lincoln Turner Hall on Chicago's north side on hand tn <;nrf th 5 j * the German-American Bund. More than 100 police reserves were blvan tn^rr^ £ rf - er pre X ailed -J Cri( * of “Down with Hitler” came from the crowd as the Bundists can to arrive for their meeting. There Was no serious disorder; Our picture shows the crowd in front the hall. (Central Press) Road Board Very Modest With Demand Thinks It Can Get Along With Only $40,000,000 for Mod ernization Purposes Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 19. —Forty million dol lars are ' needed to modernize North Carolina’s primary highway system, according to estimates of the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion. The estimate is made by the entire commission and was submitted to the budget bureau in a short, almost cas ual, paragraph of the commission’s estimates of needs for the next bien nium. “Your attention is called to the fact that there are 1,700 miles of pave ments on_our primary system which need to be widened or reconstructed at an estimated cost of *28,450,000. There are also 475 bridges needing to be widened in the interest of safety at an estimated cost of $4,720,000. There are 382 bridges built by the counties prior to 1931 which have in adequate capacity and should be re built at an estimated cost of $6,998,000. Total cost of bridges $11,718,000. To tal estimated cost to modernize State highway system $40,168,000/' Another casual paragraph adds: “This does not take into considera tion the 2,390 miles of roads on the State highway system which are sur faced with all-weather type and does not include any funds for construction on the vast county highway system.” The commission, however, did not (Continued on Page Four) Schlueter, an alleged messenger for the spy ring, came to his home in the Bronx with Fraulein Hofmann. Schlueter asked him what he knew of the aircraft carriers Enterprise and Yorktown. “He said the German navy was now going to build some aircraft carriers, and it would be very useful for his superiors to obtain plans for these carriers’ construction,” Rumrich tes tified. “He suggested that I write to Hamburg and that I be furnished with some stationery that would show shat it was official White House sta tionery. “He said something about forward ing a letter to the construction chief of the United States Navy Department the letter bearing the forged signa ture of the president of the United States, but he did not elaborate on this plan. He said there would be a ; lot of money in it if I could get the plans of the aircraft carriers, but he did not say how much.” ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINLL British Course Os Peace In Europe Is Charted By Cabinet Tar Heel Youths Nabbed In Jersey Newark, N. J., Oct. 19.—(AP) — Four youths booked as fugitives from the North Carolina Training ’ School at Rocky Mount were in police custody here today, await ing a decision by authorities as to their disposition. Acting Police Captain Frank Don nelly said the four left the reform institution Sunday, stole an auto mobile and went to Baltimore, and after running out of gasoline, stole another there and came on here. Since their arrival, Donnelly said, they had been living on restaurant leavings and soda pop. The fugi tives gave their names as Keith Garner, 17, of Kinston; Claude Rose, 17, of Nashville; Leon Rob inson, 17, of Kernersville, and Ern est Willard, 18, of Gibsonville. They were turned back from the Hudson riber to New York because Hudson river to New York because and were driving around Newark apparently aimlessly when packed up. High Court Might ‘Duck’ Election Row Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 20.—There is more than an outside chance that North Carolina’s Supreme Court will duck the merits of the Deane-Burgin eighth district congressional row, and thus throw the whole affair back into a muddle which can be cleared up only by a compromise tossing both can didates out of the r&ce. In fact, there are some in well-in formed circles who will offer odds that’s exactly what the high court is going to do. The prediction in these circles is that the justices will solemnly declare that neither the mandamus of the State board, which seeks to force Su perior Court Judge Harris to give it (Continued on Page Two.) rHARRINGTONWORKS IN PRISON HOSPITAL Raleigh, Oct. 19. —(AP)—Warden Hugh Wilson, of Central Prison, said today James Tharrington, former Smithfield and Raleigh banker, now serving 25 to 30 years for the killing of John McMillan, a Selma oil dealer, would go to work at once in the pri son hospital. Tharrington has been going through prison routine this week. ■ HENDERSON, N. C., j WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 19, 1938 Home Defense To Be Strengthened and Peace in Palestine Is Aimed At; Trade Treaty With United States Also Studied by Ministers London, Oct. 19. (AP) Prime Minister Chamberlain met his cabi net today to chart the British course of peace on the changed European map, try to organize home defenses and decide on a pacific course in strife torn Palestine. A report on the pre sent stage of negotiations for an over due Anglo-American trade treaty also was before the ministers, and gather ed for the first of two sessions ex pected this week. The most pressing matters were re ports of the September European cri sis, showing gaps in British defenses, the Colonial Secretary Malcolm Mac- Donald’s considered conclusions as to what should be done to end weeks of bloody Arab-Jewish strife in the Holy Land, a British mandate. There was a widespread belief that both the colonial secretary and the members of the newest royal commis sion to Palestine were convinced a plan to split Palestine into Arab, Jew ish and British sections would never work. In the immediate offing was the premier’s determination to consoli date the September 29 peace of Mun ich by separate agreements with Adolf Hitler. Chamberlain returned to Lon don this morning from a fishing holi day in Scotland. Expect President Os Turkey To Die Almost Any Hour Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 19. (AP) Hope was virtually aban doned today for Kama? Attaturk, president and strong man of Tur key, gravely ill with an old liver ailment. Reliable sources said the end might come at any moment, or that the president, principal creator of modern Turkey, might live for several hours. The Turkish cabinet Wss in constant session in event of his death, and Istanbul police were reinforced against pos sible demonstrations which might occur. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Increasing clou4cne-f, warmer in extreme north portion tonight, possibly showers in east and central portions Thursday; somewhat cooler Thursday night and in interior Thursday after noon. Steel Firm Threatened By Penalty Republic Told by La bor Board To Restore Men Who Struck in May, 1937; Wage Chief Issues Defini tions; Promises Hear ings to Discontented Washington, Oct. 19— (AP)— Th- Tation.il Labor Relations Board or cred the Republic Steel Corporation oday to offer reinstatement to about •'“•i /'•rm'oyoas who went, on strike in May, 1937. The board ordered the com I'.any to stop interfering with the for nation of any labor organization, iscouraging membership in thi Amalgamated Association of Iron Iteel and Tin Woi’kers, or the Steel Voikers Organizing Committee, and n any way interfering with the rights -f self-organization of employees. The board, in a 100,000-word de cision, held that unfair labor practices by the corporation caused its em ployees to join the “little steel” walk jut 18 months ago. If the corporation docs not reinstate ill the striking employees, it was or -1 cred, it must pay remedial wages. Other developments: Elmer Andrews, wage-houy admin strator, issued definitions of profes sionals, executives, outside salesmen (Continued on Page Four) Insane Hospitals Seek Large Hikes In Appropriations Raleigh, Oct. 19.—(AP)-rNorth Carolina’s State hospitals for the insane asked the Advisory Budget Commission today to rQcommend large increases in their appropria tions for the 1939-41 biennium. The hospital here asked for $660,000 for 1939-40 and $535,000 for 1940-41, as compared with $391,043 receiv ed last fiscal year, and $367,033 this year. The Goldsboro hospital for Ne groes asked $385,818 and $391,307 for the next two years, compared with $373,943 and $356,035 receiv ed this biennium. Caswell Training School asked a boost from $169,158 this year to 357,313 next year, and $334,713 for 1940-41. Jury Is Selected For Jimmy Godwin In Guilford Court Greensboro, Oct. 19. — (AP)— More quickly than most had expected, selec tion of the 13-man jury for the trial of young Jimmy Godwin, charged with the High Point slaying of Donald Moss, High Point hosiery worker, the night of October 3, was completed in Guilford Superior Court today and the taking of testimony in one of Guil ford’s most sensational criminal cases started when the court recon vened at 2 o’clock. The trial jury is composed of eleven farmers, a mill worker a singing in structor. The thirteenth, or alternative juror, will hear evidence along with his fellow jurors, but will not retire for a verdict unless one of the num ber becomes ill. Reorganizing Is Greatest Congress Job By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 19—Governmental reorganization is certain to be strong ly urged again soon after congress next assemblies. It isn’t exactly corfect to call it re-organi zation, either. The government isn’t or ganized now and never has been. It would be more ac curate to say that the fight will be to organize (not re<-or ganize) it. Inasmuch as the last congress ional session’s plan to organize the bu reaus was beaten, it might be assumed that there is vigor- Byrd ous opposition to the organization (or reorganization) program. This isn t (Continued on Page Two.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY F ranee And Ger many Start Negotiations For Full Agreement - Hitler Asks World With Fence Around It. Including Return ot Some Colonies and Renunciation of Franco - Russian Ac cord; Makes Pledge Paris, Oct. 19. —(AP) —Preliminary negotiations looking toward a “full settlement” of differences between France and Germany were reported in informed quarters today to have been started by both governments. Premier Da.lad.icr conferred with Count von Welczeck, German ambas ador to France, yesterday on the lat er’s return from Berlin, and the en oy arranged to talk to Foreign Min ster Bonnet today. Both meetings were said by foreign ■ •Ifice sources to have been arranged it the ambassador’s request. At the 'lime time A. Francois-Poncet, French imbassador to Berlin, who has been named ambassador to Italy, flew in a special airplane at Adolf Hitler’s in vitation to the German chancellor’s Bavarian home. The first draft of Hitler’s terms, which inlormed sour ces said was submitted to France, was said to include an air pact in which France would recognize Germany’s numerical preponderance in war planes. France also would promise to as sure Germany a free hand in central and eastern Europe with the renuncia tion of her mutual assistance treaty with Soviet Russia. France would promise to return Togo and the Cam eroons, pre-war German colonies, to the Reich. In return, Hitler would at jack. c& Although it was believed extremely unlikely such terms would be accept able to France in their entirety, it was reported by deputies that Dala dier was prepared to make strenuous efforts toward reaching an agreement with Hitler soon. Landon Says Farm Program Huge Failure Vienna, 111., Oct. 19.-^(AP)—AIf M. Landon, of Kansas, iold a southern Illinois audience here today the Roose velt farm program “proved a failure” and led to the same end as all other administration efforts to help busi ness-centralization of more authority in Washington. Then the 1937 Republican presiden tial nominee declared: “A President who thinks there is no constitutional limit to his power is thinking in terms of the absolute ruler.” The former Kansas governor said the "ever-changing” farm policy may have started out with “noble inten tions,” but “each time it is changecT it concentrates more power in Wash ington . ” “Secretary of Agriculture Wallace already is taking his usual new idea for farm relief,” Landon continued “He brings out a new model almost every year.” With that the speaker coupled the suggestion that the policies of tha (Continued on Page Four.) Troop Concentration On Border Kept By Czechs In Hungary Conferences Komarom, Hungary, at the Czech Border, Oct. 19.—(AP)—Heavy con centrations of Czech troops were kept along the Danube river today await ing the next move in the dispute over cession of Czech territory inhabited by Hungarians. (A Budapest foreign office spokes man said the territorial negotiations would be resumed through regular diplomatic channels. A dispatch from Prague quoted reliable German sources that Germany had indicated willingness to return parts of occu pied Sudetenland to Chechoslovakia). A virtual army cantonment was es tablished a mile outside Komafno, Czechoslovakia, across the Danube from Komarom. Soldiers, field artil 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Na 72 Death Target? gin CoL Henry W. T. Eglin, command |dant of Fort Totten, N. Y., is pic tured above. United States District Attorney Hardy, 'prosecuting the spy trial in New York currently; charged that Nazi spies had the col onel marked for murder. Three of eighteen defendants are on trial for espionage in New York Federal court. (Central Press) Nine Arabs Are Killed By British British Soldier and Po liceman Wounded As English Seek to Drive Arabs Out Jerusalem, Oct. 19. —(AP)— Nine Arabs were reported killed and a British soldier and policeman wound ed today as the Coldstream guards sought to oust rebellious Arabs frdm the Moslem section of Jerusalem’s old city. § A steady fusillade of shots in the old city could be heard by newspaper correspondents on the roof of a hotel outside the walls. While the crack guardsmen attempted to clean up re sistance in Jerusalem, other troops cordoned off half the coastal town of Acre, and began a rigorous search in an effort to find members of the band which raided the city’s post office yesterday. Several hundred persons were questioned at Acre and a num ber were detained to repair roads damaged by saboteurs. Troops paAroled the main roads in the section. The Coldstream guards marched in to the old city shortly after a form of martial law was proclaimed thro (Continued on Page Two.) lery, machine guns and large- supplies of rifles were visible from the main road from Bratislava, Czechoslovakia and Komarno. Truck loads of troops moved into border areas. A marked difference was presented by towns along the Danube to that of a week ago when thousands of Hungarian flags were displayed as Hungarians momentarily expected the entry of their troops. The breakdown of negotiations be tween Hungary and Czechoslovak * last week, however, brought a new feeling among Czechoslovak nation alists. Hundreds of flags were torn down in other towns and pictures of Admiral Nicholas Horty, Hungarian regent, disappeared from windows of ! homes and business establishments.
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