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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR F ° Ur, y Charred GW of The C^d.hip Leveling off to earth like a lazy, blazing comet, this airliner settled to a safe landing in a farm field near Montgomery, Ala., Tuesday night, with the culm hands of Captain Dave Hissong holding the controls. Skidding to a halt on the rough ground, the big ship disgorged hr.r passengers and immedi ately was swallowed up in the inferno that reduced her to a heap of ashes and flame-scarred metal. The fire broke out in one of her engines, as the liner headed northeastward toward Atlanta. Hoey Moves To Get Democrat On Ticket In Eighth District Governor Promises Developments During Day in Deane-Burgin Impasse Over Con gress Contest; Lam beth May Run in as Compromise Man Raleigh, Oct. 20.-MAP)—Governor Hoey moved today as titular head of the Democratic party to assure a Democratic nominee for Congress in the eighth district by compromise, which probably would mean withdraw &1 by C. B. Deane, of Rockingham, and W. O. Burgin, of Lexington, from the iong-contested battle. There was a growing sentiment among political leaders here that Rep resentative Walter Lambeth, who had announced his retirement, might be the nominee chosen by the eighth dis trict executive committee. Lambeth, it was understood, has no desire to return to Congress, in line with his announcement to retire, but would likely take the nomination in the in terest of the party. Governor Hoey declined to reveal just what he was doing, but said there might be positive action during the day. The chief. executive acted after Chairman W. A. Lucas, of the State Board of Elections, told him this morning he did not think it would be possible to determine judicially and legally a nominee in time for his name to be placed on the ballots. Deane and Burgin have been con tending for the nomination before the State Board of Elections in Wake Su perior Court, and twice before the State Supreme Court, since the July 2, second primary. EX-PUBLLSHER OF GOLDSBORO PASSES Goldsboro, Oct. 20.—(AP)—Arthur Roscower, 75, .retired newspaper pub lisher, died in his sleep at his home here last night of a heart malady. The funeral service will be held at 11 a. m. tomorrow from the home. Roscower was ,a native of Poland. He worked as reporter in New York be fore coming here. He published the Goldsboro Headlight, a weekly, from 1887 to 1922. Survivors include bis widow and two children. Six Persons Killed In Sudeten German Disorders Reported Prague, Oct. 20. gen eral staff reported today six persons were killed during disorders provok ed yesterday by Sudeten Germans in two separated districts. It said four persons died during rifle attacks by Sudeten German free corps members on a Czech military patrol in a place in northern Bohemia. A communique sai(d the mayor of that northern Bohemia place became the fifth member when he wqs killed after the battle was over. The sixth person reported killed was a farmer. The general staff announced he was working i n his field when a German soldier fired on him. It said the trou ble in northern Bohemia started when the Czech patrol, protesting against occupation of the village, visited the Cerman commander and urged him to withdraw his troops. The Czechs declared the Germans had overstepped the new frontier line in taking the place. During the military conference resi dents oi tne village began taking BrttJirrsmt UmlSNUatJairh L T^l^ a Ss^VfCg s Oß- Pilot Dies When Big Plane Falls Ahoskie, Oct. 20. —(AP) —Joe Munich, 35, Italian barnstorming pilot, was killed instantly today when his giant tri-motored plane Crashed in woods near here. <t. C. Jacocks, a carpenter work ing near the scene, said the plane’s motors backfired and cut off at a low altitude. The pilot’s mangled body was extricated after the fusil lcge had been cut with an axe. Witnesses said Mustek had gone aloft to “warm up* his plane pre : paratory to taking a party to Windsor. , Alleged Spy Tangled By His Letters Glaser’s Communica tions t o Confessed Member of Ring Are Read to Jury New York, Oct*. 20.—(AP) —Letters tending to implicate Erich Glaser, for mer United States Army private, with a German spy ring operating in this country were read before a Federal jury today at, the trial of Glaser and two other persons on espionage charges. ‘ > ,iu:. The letters were identified by G. G. Humrich, United States Army de serter, who pleaded guilty to spy charges at the opening of the trial and became at witness for the govern ment. Glaser sat motionless as Assistant (Continued on Page Four) down swastika banners which had been hung in windows prior to the en trance of* .the German troops. Mem bers of the fre« corps, the general staff asserted, hurried to a neighbor ing village and returned with a de tachment of Sudeten customs guards and opened fire on the Czechs. One Czech soldier and three Czech police men fell with the first volley. The mayor was killed later because, it was charged;,nhe was carrying fire arms.’” J ' ' H > Election of a successor to Eduard Benes as president of Czechoslovakia, meanwhile, was postponed indefinite-; ly today pending the conclusion of negotiations on the minority problem and establishment of the new fron tiers. HITLER MUST MEDIATE CLAIMS OF HIS FRIENDS Berlin, Oct 20.—(AP)—Nazi offi cials were placed in the delicate po (Continued on Page Three.) _ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGInS 613fc/€?i? 3 Bf m Bp « ipll Hi&| '3oy\; JS^aaP w■£» ~xtv , *".s 1 Republicans Want Change In Labor Act Warren, Ohio, Oct. 20. —(AP) —John D. M. Hamilton, Republican national chairman, asserted today Republicans would seek amendments to the na tional labor act in the interest of fair play for workers, employers and the American Federation of Labor. Hamil ton said in an address prepared fro delivery here that Republicans agreed generally with amendments proposed recently by the A. F. of L convention. “They agree because they believe that government should be an umpire to enforce fair play, not a partisan of one faction of organized labor,” Hamilton declared. - He did not mention by name tlw* CIO, rival of the AF of L, but declared Republicans agreed with William Green, federation president, that ad ministration of the labor act had been “biased.” Green Found The Joker In Lewis’ Offer BY CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washingtoi Oct. 20—John L. Lewis offer to quit is head of the C. I. O. if William Gi n would quit as head of the A. F. of L. Lewie would have had vastly the better of the bargain. By retiring as the A. F. of L.’s president, Green would have been out in the cold entirely. Where as Lewis, by retiring from the C. I. O.’s chairmanship, would remain as president of the United Mine Work ers, which wage the C. I. O. au thoritatively. Nevertheless, argumentatively speak ing, Lewis assuredly did take the wind out of Green’s sails rather ef fectively. However violently Green may lower back, Lewis took that trick away from him. Green let himself In for it, too, by failing to Realize what a reprisal he was exposing himself to. All this is a good deal of mixed metaphor, but I fancy it’s understand able. Lewis and Green. Besides being as hard a hitter as Green, Lewis is the craftier fighter of the two. * I don’t presume to judge as to the merits of their controversy, but it isn’t hard to draw a distinction be tween their rival personalities, Lewis at least borders upon being a genius. One can disagree with a genius, but his quality is to be reckoned with. Either as a public man .(which is what Lewis amounts to) or in con tact with him across his office desk John L. is an inspiration. William Green is substantial but not brilliant. When Samuel Gompers died (he also was a genius) his successor had to be hit on by an A. F. of L. comprom ise, and Green was the selection. He was an excellent compromise, but compromises traditionally lack ginger. Gompers rose partly by accident, partly by virtue of his own leaderly attributes. Green, as previously remarked was (Continued on Pago Pour.) HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 20, 1938 undoubtedly was, as Green complains, a ■ somewhat onesided proposition one sidedly in Lewis’ favor. Parenthetical ly, Green’s language was much stronger than the above. He employed the term “fraud.” Maybe that was too vigorous. ; All the same, if Green had accepted Lewis’ ch a llenge, Lewis certainly Chinese Are Showing New Resistance Japanese Drive May Be Slowed Down at Canton; Hankow Is Threatened Anew Hong Kopg, Oct. 20. —<(AP)—Jap- anese troops drove forward today in their hurried efforts to reach Canton, "fe&tt'-there were UjyVnting indications that the Chinese defense at last was asserting itself. A Japanese "mosquito” fleet -of armed motorboats was reported skirt ing the south China coast to add a river assault to the overland drive. The invaders were seeking to ad vance to a point 50 miles east of Can ton and from another place a few miles from that point. From these points, however, the Japanese faced what were regarded as the main line of defense protecting the city. These fortifications, prepar ed over a period of three years, in clude machine gun nests and an in ter-laced trench system. The situation had its dangers for fast-moving Japanese columns which have pentrated 80 mises into the in terior, since the south China offen sive started October 12. HANKOW DEFENSES AGAIN THREATENED SERIOUSLY Shanghai, Oct. 20. —(RA) —Swiftly striking Japanese forces were report ed today to be threatening the next line of Hankow defenses in a drive up both banks of the Yangtze river from a point 50 air, miles from the Chinese provisional capital. Push Drive For 4-Year Sheriff Job Daily Dispatch Bureau, Iu the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 20.—State Senator John D. Larkins, fiefil' general of the campaign for adoption by the voters of a constitutional amendment ex tending sheriffs’ terms to four years, is pushing things so hard that there is likely to be a jump in postal re ceipts in North Carolina. Just now his office force is getting out mimeographed letters to indivi dual voters all over North Carolina, and if there is any one not informed of the campaign by the time Novem ber Bth rolls around it isn’t going to be the Jones county senator’s fault. "In 1932 there didn’t seem to be any organized opposition to .the proposal, yet it lost at the polls by more than 85,000”, said Senator Larkins. “It lost because it was coupled with some other amendments to which there was real opposition and also because vot ers were not really- informed about it. That’s not going to happen this time/” Larkins is apparently sincerely con fident the amendment will be passed. Latest of prominent Republicans to indorse the four-year term plan is Federal Judge John J. barker of the Circuit Court of Appeals, the senator said. In his letters to the voters, the Jones man is making four points: 1. The office of sheriff is an im portant one because it is the guardian of the public peace and public morals. 2. The sheriff holding office for two years is at a distinct disadvantage in sofar as carrying out his office be (Continued on Page Three.) , Bitter Battles Are Certain Between Discordant Groups At Coming Congress Session Budget Requests By State Agencies Set New All-Time High $55,233,154 Asked for Schools Alone in Com ing Biennium; Com mission Ends Hearing and Prepares To Write Recommendations To Legislature Raleigh, Oct. 20.—(AP)—Budget re quests for $55,233,154.86 for operation of the public schools, including provi sion for a five percent salary increase for teachers, shot requests from State departments for the 1939-41 biennium to a record high at $144,956,700 today. This biennium the schools are get ting $49,362,106, and general appro priations are $122,137,094, including highway money. The Advisory Budget Commission virtually concluded its oral hearings when it took up the school requests, which were presented in three forms so as to show needs on the present. salary basis, needs with a five per cent pay raise, and-needs with pay put at the 1939 pre-depression level. The commission will start work to morrow' on its report for the 1939 leg islature . There was a minor difference be tween estimates of the School Com mission, which handles school money and the Department of Public Instruc tion, whrch is the professional end. The department estimates ran SI,OOO up for 1939-40, and $38,000 up for 1940-41. - Before heaving the school matters, the commission was appealed to by T. W. Davis, of Wilmington, and Murray Allen and R. T. Joyner, of Raleigh, attorneys, who said they represented all railroads in North Carolina, to reduce franchise taxes on railroads. Bluemold Control By Benzol Fume Is New Remedy Now Chatham, Va., Oct. 20.—(AP) — Control of blue mold by tlie fumes of benzol is likely to be generally practiced next tobacco growing season, according to J. E. Stone, demonstration agent for Pittysl vania county, who was questioned today about the research of Dr. J. E. Pickard, of the government’s experimental station here. All county gagents in this sec tion have been interested in the development, Stone said, and the system was sufficiently far ad vanced last seeding season to per mit experiments by fanners who placed containers of the benzol un der the canvass of their seedbeds, the fumes killing the blue mold genns. Last season, however, was not considered a fair test in this sec tion, Stone said, because there was relatively little infection. Road Budget Proves Claim Os The Anti’s In the Sir Walter Hotel. Daily Dlayateh Bureau. Raleigh, Oct. 20. —Anti-diversionists, particularly State Senator S. Gilmer Sparger, their generalissimo, are chuckling openly over many of the statements and figures in the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion’s report to the Budget Bureau on its needs for the coming fiscal biennium. They see the report as almost a “brief” against diversion of highway funds —a brief without argument, it is true, hut one of fact. They point to several features as props for their strongest arguments against using highway revenues for anything except highway needs. Sticking out like a wart on a pretty girl’s nose, they say, is the crying need of the State highway system for every penny that can be spent on it. The cite, for example: “There has been spent on construction of the state highway system more than $225,- 000,000 and the amount we are re questing to maintain this system for each year of the biennium is less than 2 per cent of this investment.” How, they ask, can any highway revenues be diverted to other pur poses in the face of this. Again the Commission said: "It is (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Kills His, Spouse And Then Suicides Burlington, Oct. 38/ r 4 * (AP) Corner R. M.Vib*»silfer Reported to day that Ivey Evans, midllc-aged Burlington woman/ was fatally wounded today by her estranged hus >anJ, Dorse Ewans, Burlington Ire man, who then 'shot himself to death with a borrowed pistol. Th< shooting took place in Belmont, mill village on the edge of Burling ton. Trcxler said both victims died ’ambulances reached the scene. i .... ...lives said the Evans’ had een separated since spring. They tave one son, Bonnie, a mill worker a his mid-twenties. ) Following the sTioot’ng, friends of ".vans In a barber shop here told of his having visited the shop this morning, and making repeated re quests for loan of a gun or pistol— I’ve got to go off a little piece.” Six Of'CCC Men Dead In Forest Fire — Incompetent] Leader ship .and Incendiarism Figure in Inquiry In Pennsylvania Emporium, Pa., Oct. 20. — (AP) — The deaths of six members of a near by CCC camp in a series of intense forest fires brought a federal-eounty investigation today of reports of in competent leadership and incendiar ism. Gilbert Mooney, 33, of Ridgeway, a clerical employe at the camp, and four of the 20 boys he led into the tinder-dry, desolate wilds of second growth timber and scrub lands were trapped late yesterday by a circle of flames and burned to death. Ross Hollobaugh, 18, of Rimers burg, Pa # , died of burns in a hospital today. The hospital said the condi tion of another CCC worker taken there for treatment was serious, and that of still another was fair. District Attorney Edwin Tompkins said his investigation was designed to establish “the truth or falsity” of re ports he heard that the CCC boys had been rushed into the flaming inferno without proper supervision, and that four fires had broken out within an eight-mile area entered by the doom ed men under what he termed “most unusual coincidences.” CCC officials who launched their own investigation, refusing to discuss the situation officially, said Mooney was in the technical service of the department of forests and waters. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Cloudy and unsettled, with prob ably occasional rain in east por tion tonight and Friday; slightly cooler Friday. Democratic Front Only Hope, Wm. E. Dodd States Boston, Mass;, -Oct. 20. —(AP) —Wil- liam E. Dodd, former United States ambassador to Germany, today declar ed “there is only one peace remedy, and that is for England, France and the United States to get together.” In a prepared address at the annual meeting and conference of the Asso ciated Industries of Masschusetts, Dodd said; “That means a return to the Wil son-Washington point of view, easy trade relations, the payment of debts to one’s people, forbidding of wars and the re-distribution of urban popu lations. “That would increase industrial ac tivity among democracies and nearly all the smaller nations would join the 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Fights Sure Regardless Os Election Wagner Labor Act and Social Security Act Will Both Be Bones of Contention as Efforts Are Made To Amend Them; Lewis Influenc ed by “Reds”? Washington, Oct. 20.—(AP)—Mem- bers of Congress are Certain to have’ some free-for-all legislative battles next session regardless of the results of the November elections. At leat-t a half dozen issues already slated ‘tor consideration probably will’ develop* vigorous debates and much political maneuvering. On some questions party lines may be split deeply. • ; • A major argument among several divergent interests is expected to de velop over suggested revision of ihe Wagner labor act. Conflicting sug gestions are apt to come from the ad-’ ministration, anti-administration leg islators, business spokesmen, the American Federation of Labor; and the Committee for Industrial Organi zation. Similarly numerous proposals to change the social security act are an ticipated. Administration lieutenants probably will try to hold any revision within limits approved by the Social' Security Board. Other developments: James Mitchell, of Detroit, formerly in charge of welfare activities of-a local union of automobile workers, a CIO offiliate, told House investigators that communists apparently "have a lot of influence on” John L. Lewis. (Continued on Page Four) Calm Reigns In Holy Land Under British Jerusalem, Oct 20.—(AP)—Com parative calm reigned- over this Holy Land city today after 30 months of continuous Arab-Jewish turmoil 'and bloodshed. Without the loss of a single British life, British soldiers completed clean up operations by reconquering the old section. This drive ended 24 hours of steady military -efforts to eliminate nests of rebellious Arabs, who had held the old city for four days, and was a pre lude *to the larger task of crushing a revolt throughout Palestine. The campaign caused n?ne Arab deaths and injuries to 18 others. Two British constables and one soldier were wounded. Forty Arabs were taken prisoner. Soldiers —members of the 20,000 troops sent here to restore order— continued searching the old city tor rebels and their arms caches. Small groups of Arab prisoners were dis armed and sent to a concentration camp in an excavation on the site of the 2,000-year-old palace of King Herod. . - - - For the first time since Saladin the Great vanquished Crusaders nearly 800 years ago, Moslem priests failed to call the faithful to prayer from the pinnacles of slender minarets Within the shadow of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The usual cry, "Allah is great! Allah is our only prophet,” was replaced by the prayers of Chris tian monks. cooperative system.” “It would, he added, “ultimately prevent war, tor a boycott would be applied to Stations that violated their solemn treaty obligations or, went to war to seize other nations’ territory. “If democracies, still leading world civilization, are once able to cooperate in economic affairs, and offer solid fronts to Hitler ahd Mussolni ” he said, "poor Spain will survive, and Latin-America will not- become Nazi or fascist. If this- cannot be done be fore 1940 or 1942, we shall have a strange civilization, no man allowed to use his tongue except to eat, and no publisher allowed to print the truth. That would be a sad day tor the lovers of liberty.”
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