HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
"Dream House” Nears Completion
jJ! W w t] T “ dream cottage” designed by President Roosevelt, and nearing completion on his
Hjde Park estate. Workmen are busy putting finishing touches to the building, which will be furnished
without radio or telephone. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt will use the secluded cottage to relax from
the exacting duties of the White House. (Central Press )
Fall Os Hankow Is Imminent
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As Chinese Resistance Fails
Defenders of Wartime
Capital i n Retreat
from Japs’ Military
Goal; Mass Bombing
of City Planned To
Wipe Out Last Chinese
Opposition
Shanghai, Oct. 22. — (AP) —Japanese
commanders declared today that the
fall of Hankow was imminent, and
said Chinese were in retreat at that
wartime capital, which has been the
military goal of the Japanese invasion.
Mass bombing of the Hankow area
to shatter the last Chinese resistance
was foreshadowed in a memorandum
delivered to envoys of foreign powers
at Shanghai, warning foreign ship
ping to proceed up the Yangtze river
at least ten miles above Hankow by
midnight tonight.
The United States gunboats Guam
and Luzon are among foreign vsesels
stationed at Hankow.
Hankow sources said Chinese of
ficials and their families were order
ed to evacuate Hankow as the Japa
nese drove steadily toward the Chi
nese provisional capital. The exodus
of civilians already was taxing trans
portation facilities to capacity.
At Canton, reports were preceded
by a mop-up detachment which clear
ed Canton’s downtown streets of Chi
nese stragglers. The main force of
the Japanese invasion entered Canton.
Sporadic rifle fire was heard in the
downtown section before the main
expeditionary force made its trium
phal entry. Immediately upon arrival,,
the Japanese commander drove to a
gate of Canton’s international settle
ment and conferred with British au
thorities.
Hearing Set for
Next Thursday on
Goldsboro Radio
Washington, Oct. 22. — (AP) —The
Federal Communications Commission
said it would hear arguments October
27 on the application of the Eastern
Carolina Broadcasting Company to
operate a radio station at Goldsboro,
N. C., on 1370 kilocycles, with 100
watts power, unlimited time.
A commission examiner recommend
ed on August 8 that the application
be granted. Since that date E. W.
Pratt, attorney for Radio Station
WMJFD in Wilmington, N. C., filed an
exception to the recommendation.
The applicant then asked for and
was granted a hearing before the
commission. •
Germans Seek Trade Pact
With America And Britain
Berlin, OoL ?,2.—(AP)—iAuthorita
tive economic ministry sources pro
posed today that three experts rep
resenting the United States, Great
Britain and v Gcrmany get together
soon and try to devise a triangular
agreement to supplant or supplement
the Anglo-American trade treaty.
Such unofficial experts, conferring
with the approval of their govern
ments, would, in the opinion of these
quarters, lose nothing if they failed,
hut had everything to gain for their
respective countries and world trade,
if they succeeded.
One of their tasks, it was suggested,
would be to restore confidence among
business leaders of the three countries
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12 Hungarian Terrorists
Killed By Czech Troops
Prague, Oct. 22 (AP)—The gen
eral staff reported today the killing of
12 Hungarian terrorists and one Czech
gendarme during fighting near Bere
hovo, in southern Slovakia. It dfeclar
ed Czechoslovak troops captured a
number of other alleged: Hungarian
terrorist, seized their arms and am
munition, and surrounded eight per
sons who made up the remainder of a
band operating near Berehovo.
In a communique it also reported
that terrorists firing from ambush
had wounded two Czech gendarmes
in the district of Svalava. Gender
marie officials were ordered in pur
suit of the attackers, one of whom
wa3 wounded fatally and three of
whom were captured.
Politicians
Eye Meeting.
Os Grange
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Oct. z2. —Politicians of all
sorts, but particularly politicians de
pending principally on rural votes, are
already glueing at least one ear to
the ground in order to hear distinct
ly what members of the North Caro
lina Grange think and say about poli
tics and crop control, in particular.
The Grangers will get together over
in Oxford for a three-day session,
October 26-28, and not the least fea
ture of the conclave will be action on
a legislative program.
With a crop control referendum in
cotton set for December 10, and a
tobacco referendum to be conducted
nearly, if not quite simultaneously,
the boys who love the “dear people”
want to know how the real farm folks
feel on these subjects in order to
make their plans in accordance.
Last year the National Grange wasn’t
a bit enthusiastic about the congres
sional ideas of crop control and it
did not v favor to any marked extent
the measures finally passed—and
passed largely through the influence
of the Farm Bureau Federation, a
Continued on Page Five.)
involved. Another would be to have
Germany buy and supply those things
which now are a stumbling block to
conclusion of the Anglo-American
treaty.
Germany could buy American cot
ton, wheat and tobacco, - but as she
has no foreign exchange with which
to pay for them, she could supply
Great Britain with needed chemicals,
electric goods and machinery. Bri
tain, instead of paying Germany for
these, would pay cash to the United
States for Germany’s purchases of
American raw materials.
German authorities frankly admit
the proposed triangular arrangement
would not be possible except under
some form of regimented economy.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNQRTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINLV.
Hungarian patrols, which were re
ported to have tried to mine a bridge
near Shihy were said to have been dis' r
persed on the approach of Czech sol
diers.
CZECH TROOPS READY BUT
HUNGARY NOT TO ATTACK
Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, Oct. 22. —
(AP) —'Hundreds of thousands of
Czechoslovak troops were ready for
action on the Hungarian border to
day, but the general feeling among
them was that Hungary would not re
sort to military action to enforce hqr
military demands.
One authoritative source estimated
750,000 Czech soldiers probably were
concentrated along the frontier from
Komamo deep into Ruthenia.
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Wallace One
Os The Ablest
Cabinet Men
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Oct. 22. —Next to Sec
retary of State Hull, Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace generally is rec-
Wallace
him. The Cabinet premier is an out
standingly good statesman and every
one who has followed his record
knows it. Wallace has not beeiS as suc
cessful in solving the country’s farm
problem as Hull has been at steering
American foreign policies. Still, may
be he had a harder puzzle to wrestle
with.
Foreign affairs are difficult and
complicated, but they present situa
tions which foresight can reckon with
somewhat. No art of divination can
predict weather, insects, dust storms
and all the eccentricities of our rural
population. Wallace does understand,
as well as is humanly possible, what’s
the matter with our agriculture. He
evidently isn’t sure just what to do
about it, but he’s experimenting as
capably as can be expected of any
power short of omniscience.
Hull’s Big Advantage.
In short, Hull deals with 'nterna
tional human nature, which Is more
or less calculable in the light of ex
perience. Wallace is up against the
elements—worldwide at that, not to
mention sunspots; there are author
ities who say that they have a lot to
do with our good and bad crop sea-
Bons.
Hull then, if his judgment is sound
enough can guess almost 100 percent
correctly.
Wallace’s reasoning can be nullified
by a corking nice growing year, an
epidemic of droughts or a rampage of
boll weevils or a pest of locusts. Pure
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HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 22, 1938
ognized as the ablest
member of Presi
dent Roosevelt’s cab
inet. Senator LaFol
lette repeatedly has
been quoted as hav
ing told the Presi
dent that he had the
“lousiest” Cabinet in
American history. I
don’t know whether
or not LaFollette
really ever said this.
If he did, however,
he did Hull at least
an injustice by neg
lecting to except
3 Attorneys
Will Decide
Bth Nominee
Deane and Burgin
Agree on Referee Me
thod of Which Shall
kun for Congress; At
torneys Refuse To En
large on Formal An
nouncement Made
Raloigh, Oct. 22. —(AP) —A commit
tee of three men, Charles Rose, of
Fayetteville; James Merriman, of
Asheville, and Gardner Hudson of
Winston-Salem, will meet here Mon
day to make a final decision as to
whether C. B. Deane, of Rockingham,
or W. O. Buigin, of Lexington, will be
the eighth district Democratic con-
x nuui.nee.
r H v . agreed to serve as “refe
rees and arbitrators” on invitation of
uie candidates, said a tormal joint
statement issued by counsel for Deane,
Burgin and the State Board of Elec
tions. The referees are lawyers.
Some settlement of the four-months
-old dispute must be reached at once
of a Democrat is to be on the con
gressional ballot in the eighth dis
trict November 8.
The announcement was made in x
brief statement and the attorneys de
cline to enlarge on it. Ask whether
the determination by the referees,
which it was set forth would be “ac
cepted as a final decision by the
candidates,” would have to go to
Judge W. C. Harris, in Wake Superior
Court, for the final adjudication
brought forth replies that nothing
would be given except the statement.
The matter is in the hands of Judge
Harris under an opinion of the Su
preme Court, urgin first carried the
case into court When' a State Board
of Elections inpuiry resulted in elimi
nation of the lead he first received
credit for in the July 2 run-off pri
mary. Various legal steps followed,
the Supreme Court this week for a
second time remanding the case to
Judge Harris.
Aircrafts In
Van Os Stocks
New York, Oct. 22.—(AP) —Aircrafts
pointed the way to a brisk but selec
tive upswing in today’s stock market,
and leaders at the best scored gains
running to three or more points, ice
bulge tempted profit-takers, however,
and top marks were reduced in many
cases near the close. Numerous new
recovery peaks were touched in cm;
first hour’s advance. The ticker tape
got behind for a while, and transfers
approximated 1,300,000 shares.
American Radiator 18 3-4
American Telephone 14» I^4
American Tob B 90 1-8
Anaconda 40 1-2
Atlantic Coast Line 25 3-4
Atlantic Refining 23 3-4
Bendix Aviation 24 1-4
Bethlehem Steel 67
Chrysler 84 1-4
Columbia Gas & Elec 9
Commercial Solvents ... 11 1-8
Continental Oil Co 9 1-8
Curtiss Wright 7
DuPont 149
Electric Pow & Light 12 3-4
General Electric 46 1-2
General Motors 51 1-2
Liggett & Myers B 101 3-4
Montgomery Ward & Co 53 3-8
Reynolds Tob B 44 3-4
Southern Railway 18
Standard Oil N J 53 1-4
U S Steel 65 5-8
France Will
Hasten Her
Re-Arming
Special High Commis
sioner Put in Charge;
Work Hours To Be
Lengthened
Paris, Oct. 22 —(AP) —The cabinet
virtually decided today on the ap
pointment of a special high commis
sioner j?or armament t*| up
France’s re-armament program, and
also decreed measures to force work
ers in national defense factories to
put in extra hours.
Leon Archambaud, president of the
Chamber of Deputies, sub-committee
on national defense, was said to be
the likely choice to direct the speed
up, judged necessary after the recent
international crisis.
Ministers, on leaving the cabinet
meeting, said the position would he
equivalent to that of a cabinet minis
ter. It also was stated Premier De
ladaier proposed to issue a large new
national defense loan in- the form of
bonds of 70 francs ($1.66) nominal
value, which would he redeemable for
100 francs ($2.66) in 50 years. Other
wise they would carry no interest.
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Clyde Morrow, of Detroit, Mich*
[Ford plant worker who says he’s a
former Communist, is shown before
the Dies Committee in Washington.
He said the sit-down strikes of 1937
were inspired'by Communist lead
ers, and showed pictures to the Con
gressional group, investigating un-
American activities in this country,
in support of his charges.
/ (Central Press)
Gov. Lehman
To Endorse
FDRProgram
New Yorker Seeking
Re-Election To Sup
port “Principal Aims”
of New Deal
Oneonta, N. Y., Oct. 22.—(AP)
—Governor Lehman, in his first
campaign praise of the New Deal,
urged support today of congress
men who would uphold “the “hu
mane and progressive program”
of President Roosevelt.
Scheduled to endorse the “prin
cipal aims” of the New Deal in a
future campaign speech for re
election, the governor urged a
rally crowd of about 700 persons
here “to strengthen the hands of
President Roosevelt and, his hu
mane and progressive program by
sending Senator Robert F. Wag
ner and Representative James
Mead back to Washington.”
Elmira, N. Y., Oct. 22.—(AP)—Gov
ernor Herbert Lehman, a source close
to the executive said today, “will en
dorse the principal aims of the New
Deal” in an early re-election cam
paign speech. The address, expected
to express “broad sympathy” for the
objectives of the national administra
tion, the source said, “already was
being drafted as tne governor head
ed toward Albany on the final lap of
his first up-state tour.
Leaving Elmira with an appeal for
a fourth term in the capital on a
record of “ability and experience,,’ the
governor smiled and repeabfl his
familiar “no comment” on a state
ment by New York City Mayor
Laguardia, in which the mayor made
it clear that he would not support
Lehman unless he was firmly for the
New Deal.
TWO CANDIDATES CONFER
WITH FDR AT HYDE PARK
Hyde Fark, Oct. 22.—(AP) —In his
efforts to formulate a winning cam
paign for the Democratic ticket in his
home state of New York, President
Roosevelt called in for conferences to
day two more candidates for re
election, Senator Robert Wagner and
State Comptroller Morris Tremaine.
Motorists Os
State Travel
Billion Miles
Daily Dispazcfi Bureau,
In The Sir Waiter Hotel.
Raleigh, Oct. 22—-North Carolina
motorists, including all types from
pleasure seeker in tiny cars to pro
fessional drivers of huge petroleum
trucks, travelled close to five billion
miles during the fiscal year which
ended June 30, according to figures
on consumption of gasoline in the
Total used was 388,547,777 gallons,
as compared with 368,231,169 for the
preceding year. At an average of 12
miles per gallon for all types of motor
vehicles (National Safety Council fig
ures) this represents a total of 4,-
662,453,252 miles travelled in North
Carolina during the 12 month period.
The increased gasoline consumption
over the previous year amounted to
20,306,602 gallons, which indicates an
increase in travel mileage of 243,679,-
224 miles on the same 12-miles-per
gallon basis.
Revenue from the state’s six-cents
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EXCEPT SUNDAY
Roosevelt To Spend
Huge Sum To Train
Industries For War
New Elaboration on
Wage-Hour Provisions
About Ready; Law Ef
fective Next Monday;
Veterans Hospital To
Remain at Fayetteville
Washington, Oct. 22.—(AP)—Mili
tary men predicted today President
Roosevelt’s projected new defense
•lensiircs v/ou d include an increase in
expenditures to educate industry in
the manufacture of munitions.
The first $2,000,000 provided by Con
gress for that purpose has not been
expended, but some offi.-mls favor
speeding up the program, which is de
signed to gear industry more closely
into the preparedness machine.
A recommendation that the present
$10,000,000 five-year program be doub
led or tripled has been considered in
the re-study of national defense needs
undertaken at Mr. Roosevelt’s behest.
Other developments:
Wage-Hour Explanations
The v/age-hour uuministration rush
ed work on last-minute exnl-anations
for how industry should comply with
the most far-reaching attempts to put
a floor under wages and a ceiling over
hours since the days of the NRA. Ad
ministrator Elmer Andrews said he
hoped to announce by night fall the
kind of records employers should
keep to show conformity with the
new law, which becomes effective at
12:01 a. m. Monday.
His aides, rr.vanwhile, were prepar
ing a general interpretation of the act.
This will be released for publication
tomorrow morning. Boys between the
ages of 14 and 16 years apparently
may be employed as newspaper boys
within the provision of the wage-hour
act.
Regulations issued by Miss Kath
erine Lenroot, chief of the children’s
bureau, specified that children of
those years were barred from em
ployment in mining, manufacturing,
the operation of motor vehicles and
messenger service. Children younger
than 14 may not legally be given work
in any industry covered by the act.
Vets’ Hospital Remains
A spokesman for Brigadier General
Frank Hines, Veterans Administra
tion head, said the administration’s
decision to locate the North Carolina
veterans hospital at Fayetteville is
finaL and it stands.”
“The President approved the order
months ago—July 7—and that’s all
there is to it,” the spokesman said. He
said that Hines had received “several
wires” concerning a reported effort
by a Raleigh, N. C., American Legion
post to have the 300-bed hospital
built somewhere other than at Fay
etteville.
Benes Flies
To London
For A Rest
London, Oct. 22 (AP)—Former
President Benes of Czechoslovakia,
flying for the first time, arrived to
day in the country which gained Eu
ropean peace at the expense of the
republic of which he was co-founder.
Hs landed at the airport at noon, sick
and tired, and motored immediately
to a country retreat, where one of his
intimates said he would rest for sev
eral months.
This statement was. taken to mean
the former president would not pro
ceed to Chicago, where he will lec
ture at the University of Chicago, un
til after Christmas at least. His im
mediate plans remained indefinite,
however. Accompanying him were bus
wife and secretarial staff.
Ask Applications
On 4 Post Offices
In North Carolina
Washington, Oct. 22. —(AP) —The
Civil Service Commission announced
today it would receive applications
until November 10 for postmaster ap
pointments at the following places,
the salary for .each office being giver.:
North Carolina: Ayden, $2,100;
Bailey, $1,400; Mountain, $l,lOO, and
Robersonville, $2,100.
SNOW and SLEET!
Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 22.—(AP)
—The seasons first snow and sleet
storm struck with disconcerting
suddenness in north Wisconsin,
and upper Michigan today, cutting
power and communications lines
and impeding highway traffic.
Two to six inches of slush and
snow covered the ground.
Southern Wisconsin continued to
enjoy mild weather, still awaiting
the first damaging frost. The
Weather Bureau forecast much
colder weather, with rain ,tonight.
Continued freezing temperatures
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Suing Father
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Pictured above, is Leonard Marler,
of Toronto, son of Sir Herbert Mar
ler, Canadian Minister to the United
States. Young Marler named his
father and Dr. George Stevenson,
as defendants in a $300,000 damage
suit, alleging they had him commit
ted to an asylum to keep him from
marrying an American girL
Jas. Godwin
Convicted
Os Murder
Man Let Out of Prison
by Davidson Jailor’s
Daughter To Pay With
Life
Greensboro, Oct. 22.—(AP)—James
Godwin, High Point youth charged
with the murder of Donald Moss,
High Point textile worker, op the
night of October 3, was found guilty
of first degree murder in Guilford
Superior Court 'this morning. The
Jury took the case late yesterday, and
after being unable to reach a verdict
last night, came into court at 9:25
o’clock this morning with the verdict.
Sentence was not passed immediate
ly by Presiding Judge Hubert Olive.
The case went to the jury at 4:25 p.
m. yesterday. The jury retired last
night without having reached a ver
dict.
The State alleged Godwin, an es
caped prisoner, shot down the mill
worker at High Point as the latter sat
in a parked automobile. The shooting
occurred a few hours after Godwin
and Bill Wilson escaped from the
Davidson county jail at Lexington
with the aid of the jailor’s daughter.
Both Godwin and Wilson awaited
trial on robbery charges at the time
of their escape.
Wilson at the beginning of the
trial agreed to plead guilty to a
charge of accessory before the fact
and accept a mandatory life sentence.
STANTONSBURG MAN
IS KILLED BY CAR
Wilson, Oct. 22.—(AP)—William T.
Smith, 28, of Stantonsburg, was in
stantly killed early today wheh he
was struck by an automobile at Foun
tain. A man docketed as Ivey Gallo
way was held under SI,OOO bond as
driver of the car pending an investi
gation .
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Partly cloudy and somewhat *
warmer tonight; Sunday cloudy,
scattered showers in north cen
tral portion; warmer near the
coast.
WEEKLY WEATHER
South Atlantic States: Gener
ally fair except showers along the
Atlantic coast Monday and anoth
er she wer period the latter part of
the week; cooler first of week;
warmer in middle, cooler at close
of week.
were predicted for the north.
At Phillips, in Price county,
sleet and a wet snow broke power
lines and cut off electric service,
similar conditions were reported \
in towns in the Iron Mountain,
Mich., neighborhood. Iron Moun
tain itself escaped such damage.
More than six incites of snow had
fallen at Iron Mountain before
noon and the fall was continuing.
' The storm belt covered the
whole of the upper Michigan
peninsula, and extended west
ward to Eudair, Wis.