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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR Lloyd George Says Munich Peace Will . X' ■ Bring Certain War $3,000,000 Ransom nft B JS| :;x vfi ; ||||k W JKgS According to a London report, Baron Louis de Rothschild (above) was held in the Hotel Metropole, Vienna, by Gestapo officers who de manded $3,000,000 ransom or pos sible imprisonment in Dauch&u, dreaded Nazi concentration camp. Ship’s Fire Put Out In Mid-Ocean German Liner Deut schland Heading To ward New York After Sending SOS New York, Oct. 26.—(AP) - Fire aboardships in perilous gale-whipped seas of the North Atlantic remained a nightmarish memory today to 500- odd and 392 crew m ambers of the Deutschland as the German liner headed toward New York with her insides charred by flames. An electrifying “SOS” 'lashed thro ugh the air early last night when fire broke out in the ship’s No. 2 hole as er an explosion of an unexplained nature. "Assistance necessary urgently” crackled over the radio waves. Then —“fire in room hold No. 2. ’ A “quiet period” was quichly or dered on the seas and observed by ships far and near. Ships’ wirelesses closed transmitters and bent their ca’-s toward the position 209 miles southeast of Cape Race, Newfound land, where the flame-periled Deusch land was rolling in mountainous sea 3. "Danger, help necessary,” said the Frantic appeals from the German liner. Its location was broadcast time after time, and ships within range tuned about, surging off course in a mad race to help. After a winning two-hour battle with the flames, Cdp tain Karl Steincke, master of the veteran of four other mishaps at sea, radioed to the New York office of The Associated Press at 8:20 p. m.: “Fire under control.” Hours later the home office of the Deutschland in Hamburg was advised the fire was completely controlled, that ship and passengers were no longer in danger. Lawyers Will Hear Report On Newßureau Daily Dlspaun Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 26.—North Carolina’s lawyers will hear a report of Major L. P. McLendon, chairman, on the pioposed State Department of Jus tice when some 500 of them gather here Friday for the annual session of the North Carolina State Bar. Kenneth O. Burgwin, a member of the committee, will also speak on the same subject. Recently the committee submitted a report to the governor recommend ing establishment of a State Depart ment of Justice and expressing the opinion that no constitutional amend ment is vitally necessary ior creation of such a department. The question, however, will he voted on at the No vember election, and it is unanimous ly agreed that with the amendment there will be less question as to limi tations of the Department of Justice’s powers. The Bar’s grievance committee, of which Joseph B. Cheshire, Jr., of Ra leigh, is chairman, is likely to get a report from Charlotte on the result of investigations of justice of the peace activities in Mecklenburg, but (Continued on Page Six.) Hettiirrsmt 33atlit Utauatrb L &feß3Sjßg p gHJ l For Britain It Will Be a “War Without Friends,” He Says In Speech | Honor For feited Along With Re spect of World and Own Self-Respect t ° Ct 26 —<AP) - David Lloyd George broke hijs silence on the peace of Munich today to warn Prime Minister Chamberlain that it would end in a “war without friends” for Great .3ritain. The white-haired war-time pre mier delivered his grim predictions while the minister and his cabinet met tor two and a half hours to review vital matters rang ing Irom defense of home stores to the colonial cost of Britain satisfying Adolf Hitler. The cabinet announced no decision. In his first speech since the Munich pact saved Ehrope’s peace at the price of Czechoslovakia's dismemberment, Lloyd George declared the peace “was a bad peace, and a bad peace is no peace at all.” Then he pronounced this judgment: “I will tell you what we shall find, and I am thinking now as one who has taken a great part in the affairs of this country at the most critical moment in the whole of its history. We shall have forfeited honor, we shall have lost the respect of the world, and, what is still worse, we shall have lost our own self-respect. And in the end there will be no peace. There will be war and war without friends.” Lloyd George declared, that, in mak ing the Munich accord, “we handed over a little democratic state in cen tral Europe, wrapped in the Union Jack and the trio-color, to a ruthless dictator, who will deny freedom to both Czech and Germans alike.” Auto Owners In State Like Light Cars Daily UlMpntch liureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 26.—Whether four out of every five North Carolinians have a widely advertised dental ailment is a matter of conjecture, but it is a matter of fact, proved by an “official record which any one may see” (as remarked in another well-known bit of advertising propaganda) that prac tically four out of every five Tar Heels who own passenger cars own “light” ones. Recently the Division of Statistics and Planning of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, ana- i lyzed more \hap thirty thousand (31,396 to be exact) questionnaires re ceived from North Carolina passen ger car owners in use in 1936 and found that: 78.6 per cent are “light” cars (Aus tin, Erskine, Ford, Ply mouth, Teriupiane, Will.vs, etc). 18.1 per eettt are weight” | cars (Auburn, Buick, Hudson, Olds, DcSoto, Dodge, Pontiac, Studebakcr, etc). 3.3 per cent arc “heavy” cars (Cadillac, Chrysler, Lasalle, Lincoln, Packard, etc.) In rural areas, the light cars are even more numerous proportionately, according to James S. Burch, cn (Continued on Page Five) Burgin Is Certified As Eighth District Congress Candidate Raleigh, Oct. 26.—(AP) —The State Board of Elections formally certified W. O. Burgin, of Lexington, as the Democratic nominee to Congress from the eighth district today. Court action in the long-drawn, hard-fought controversy was terminat ed by a voluntary non-suit before the board certified Burgin. The formal certification papers said Burgin automatically became the nominee after C. B. Deane, of Rock ingham, withdrew. It was set forth, however, that Deane received a ma jority of the votes under amended returns, and that his certification had been withheld so that Burgin could take legal action. Burgin was the unanimous choice of three referees agreed to in an un precedented move to end the dispute and assure the name of a Democrat on the ballot November 8 in opposi tion to John R. Jones, Republican candidate. The vote for Burgin’s certification was three to one, with W. V. Hall, of Charlotte, a Republican, not vot ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF CAROLINA AND VIRGItS. In WPA Probe k.. MBF liUffliurni vjipß jpr Joe Sanoval, Democratic leader of Albuquerque, N. M., is one of the seventy-three persons * indicted by (the United States in connection I with WPA program irregularities ,in New Mexico. Numerous men and women prominent in State and Fed eral politics are in the group against which a Grand Jury returned in dictments. <Central Press) Wage-Hour Act Success, Chief Says Andrews Addresses Textile Group, Which Is Told by Its Chief, Claudius Murchison, Act Should Prove Stabilizing Influence in Textile Industry New York, Oct. 26.—(AP)—Elmer Andrews, wage-hour administrator, told the Cotton Textile Institute to day that reports from all over the country regarding inauguration of the fair labor standards act “encour age us to believe that the operation has been a success.” Speaking from the “vantage point of iwo and a half days,” the adminis trator reported that “unpleasant reper cussions” had occurred only in scat tered instances, and that a minimum of industrial dislocation resulted. These, he asserted, should disappear soon. “It is unfortunate,” he added, “that any one should lose his job because I of this law, but, as every surgeon knows, there are few operations in | which the patient does not lose some blood.” “The reports which we have from ' all over the country encourage us to believe that the operation has been a success, and that the patient wilt from now on show permanent im provement.” SHOULD BE STABILIZING FORCE, MURCHISON SAYS New York, Oct. 26.—(AP) —Dr. Claudius Murchison, president of the Cotton Textile Institute, said today the new wage-hour law should prove “a stabilizing force” upon competition in the cotton industry. Speaking at the Institute’s annual (Continued on page six) ing. The Democrats, Chairman W. A Lucas, of Wilson; George McNeill, of Fayetteville; and W. O. Bell, of Hen-! darsonville, voted for Burgin, and the other Republican, Adrian Mitchell, of! Winton, voted negatively. The board did not convene until 12:05 p. m., when the non-suit order signed by Judge W. C. Harris was laid before the chairman. Possibility that a mandamus might be sought again caused the delay, as Chairman Lucas said the board would not certify a candidate by mandamus without tak ing an appeal. Before adjourning, the board re fused the request of Davidson county Democrats that a brandnew David son elections board be appointed. J. M. Daniels, Jr., of Lexington, how ever, was named a board member for the county in succession to P. y. Canaday, who offered his resignation when the Deane-Burgin controversy was at its height. The board ordered immediate print (Continued on Page Six.) HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 26, 1938 Grange Head Asks Tax To Aid Farmers . Caldwell Advocates 12th Grade in Schools as State Convention Opens i n Oxford; Urges Repeal of Ab sentee Ballot in North Carolina Oxford, Oct. 26.—(AP)—Harry Cald well, of Greensboro, master of the State Grange, urged today that tax reforms be enacted to help farmers and that teacher tenure and a twelfth grade be included in the legislative program. Repeal of the absentee ballot law and abolition of professional markers at the polls was proposqd in the in terest of “clean, honeist elections.” Caldwell made his annual report to the Grange at an afternoon session, listing a 25 increase in paid memberships ’ fe?Jr<2 'organization of 17 new Granges. There appears to be inerit* Cald well said, in the Afroposal of Henry Wallace, secretary df agriculture, that a two-price system be developed ;or farm products to expand consumption and reduce surpluses. “Some method”. Ohldwell said, “should be devised for making surplus farm commodities available to low-income groups and to stimulate their use in industry.” Any farm legislation, he said “should be under farmer-control,” and should encourage good practices Governmental reorganization, State and Federal, should be accomplished “to the end that essential service may be provided at a minimum of cost,” Caldwell said, and “sufficient taxes should be levied to meet present gov ernment expenditures,” and eliminate deficits. . ' „ Resolutions which opposed the 1938 farm law, supported it or sought amendment to it were presented at the opening of the Grange’s annual convention. The resolutions were sent to a committee for action before L. J. Taber, of Columbus, Ohio, national master of the Grange, appeared for an address. Nazi Pap# Makes Attack On Churches Berlin, Oct. 26. —(AP) —The weekly organ of the Nazi blackshirted SS Guard today attacked the Roman Catholic and Protestant confessional' synod churches for their alleged un patriotic attitude in the German- Czech crisis and declared the Jews in Germany and Italy were “hostages.” The paper said “Jews living in Ger man and Italy are hostages given in to our hands by fate so that we may defend ourselves in the most effective manner against attacks by world Jewry.” “This assertion may seem rather severe,” the papen continued, “to those who in their soft sentimentality always are at hand with a slogan about the ‘innocent Jew.’ “Whoever envisages in all its rami fications the incitement to war which world Jewry has i unloosed upon us along a broad front, and whoever rec ognizes the true intentions of these world criminals would be a .fool in deed, if in the face of such a threat he permitted anything like compas sion to surge within him." Relates How Body Turns Unconscious Chapel Hill, Oct. 26. —(AP) —One of Brown University’s famous “iron men” football players of a decade ago reported to the National Academy of Science today on the mystifying waves in which unconsciousness sweeps through a body. He is Albert Cornsweet, Brown’s fullback, now a doctor of psychology at the University of Nort.i Carolina here. He is the youngest scientist to address the present meeting of the academy. | Medical theory, he told the academy I has held that unconsciousness begin* ! in the brain of human beings. But, he said, in white rats it develops just the opposite way, near the tail, and creeps toward the head. The head is the last pert to lose its sensitivity to touch, and the eyes close only after the rest of the body is soundly asleep and unresponsive even to pinching. Dr. "Cornsw?ep reported that the unconsciousness comes in the tail region with three kinds of anaesthetics. When the rodents wake up, their heads begin to move and show signs of returning feeling be fore the hindquarters. Wathcr FOR NORTH CAROLINA Generally fid* tonight and Thursday ; warmer tonight and in east portion Thursday. Dies Committee Is Advised . v / ' N : ! : I That California Democratic r Chairman Is Real Communist Snite Gets New-Type "Lung” '' jlll Hi SL* ■ lira • ****** & ,- * Fred B. Snite, J r., famous Chicago paralysis victim, who has lived in an “iron lung” for more than two years, is shown in a newly-invented respirator. The new machine fits the patient’s torso, leaving the arms, legs, neck and head completely free, and weighs only nine and one half pounds. All 01 Hankow Area Is Now Occupied By Japs; Infantry Is In Control Shanghai, Oct. 26< —<AP)= —Japanese and foreign dispatches’ tonight report ed that the Japanese army, and navy had completed occupation of Han kow and its sister Wuhan cities, Wu chang and Hanyang. Twenty-six Japanese warships steamed up the broad Yangtze river to a position off Hankow’s Japanese concession, the dispatches said, and army units totaling several thousand men marched into the former pro visional capital from the northeast. Shortly thereafter a Japanese in fantry force of about 2,000 moved in to the international area along the Yangtze water front and took over control from the foreign authorities who had organized an emergency regime following the Chinese aban donment of the city. Details of the occupation of Wu Sen. Wheeler Unlike Other New Deal Foes By CHARLES ;. STEWART • Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 26. —Senator Bur ton K. Wheeler of Montana is a dif ferent kind of anti-New Dealer from all the rest. Old-line Republicanism na turally is anti-New Deal. There are up to-date Republicans who say it is too j much so; that their ; party, in fact, never 1 can effect a come-. back until it mod ernizes itself. Still, | even these latter are anti - New Dealers. J However, Wheeler. can’t flock with them. He isn’t a Re publican of any im- » I Wheeler aginable type. There also are many Democrats upon whom the New Deal looks askance. Upon an average I always have considered Democrats as somewhat more liberal than Republicans. Nevertheless, quite a few Democrats are at least as con servative as the more liberal type of Republicans. Such are the Democrats whom the White House would have liked to purge. But even they profess to be mainly pro-New Deal. They’re the “yes, but” crowd. Wheeler is no “yes butter.” He’s a flat-footed “no-er.” True, he approves New Deal objectives. He says they’re “perfect,” but draws the line unqualifiedly upon all New Deal methods. Neither does he classify with such mavericks as Senators George W. Norris and Henrik Shipstead or the LaFollettes. Originally a so-balled Democrat, he never was much of an orthodox Democrat, and now he speaks of himself as an independent; yet he's an independent in a category all by himself. Wild Radical? What? Burton says accurately that he for merly was spoken of as a wild (Continued on Page Six.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY chang, separated from Hankow by the male-wide Yangtze 'JrtVer, Were not immediately available. Earlier re? ports feaid 'Japanese in fan tty columns, driving along in the south bank of the Yangtze, had met stiff Chinese resis tance in the flaming city, and were engaged in mopping up operations. Japanese dispatches did not report the occupation ofHanyang, once busy industrial center, across the Han river from Hankow, but foreign ad vices said the* invaders entered the third of the Wuhan communities late today. * Available information tonight in dicated the Japanese had gained the huge mid-China metropolitan area with almost no fighting at the end ex cept the street battles in Wuchang. The occupation was culmination of a great converging movement launch ed early in the summer. Vast Spread. In Tax Rates In This State -'‘ \ t In the Sir Walter Hotel. Hall) Oiapatch liureau. Raleigh, Oct. 26.—The tremendous spread in tax rates of North Caro lina’s hundred counties is emphatical ly shown by the fact that a resident of Cleveland county, whose 43-cent rate is lowest in the State, pays less than one-sixth the ad valorem levy , laid upon the citizen of Clay, where taxables are assessed ‘ $2.50 on every j SIOO of valuation. Residents of 32 counties enjoy rates 1 of $1 or less, those in six are forced | to pay $2 or more, while the inter mediate 62 counties vary in rate from | $1.03 to $1.90. The attractive look of many of the j low tax brackets, however, is some- I what spoiled by the fact in many of the larger counties most of the cit izens are also subject to heavy city taxes, and so residents of Forsyth, Durham and other big cities do not escape quite as easily as appears on the surface. County tax rates for 1938, reading from low to high are: Cleveland .43; Forsyth .55; Gaston .63; Cabarrus, Rowan and Durham .64; Scotland .73; Yadkin, Wake, New Hanover and Guilford .75; Mecklenburg .82; David son .83; Davie, Halifax, Pitt, Surry and Watauga .85; Vance and Moore .89; Alleghany, Burke, Catawba and Currituck .90; ’Buncombe, Hertford, Orange and Richmond .95; Caldwell, Franklin; Pasquotank and Sampson SI.OO. ;»/ h Henderson $1.03; Camden, Edge combe and Wilson $1.05; Wilkes $1.06; Nash $1.09; Hoke ALIO; Randofiph , $1.12; Wayne, Lee and Gates $1.15; i Graham $1.16; Alamance $1.18; Mc l Dowell and Rockingham $1.20; Anson, Chatham, Harnett, Stanly, Northamp ; ton and Watauga $1.25; Beaufort $1.27; Alexander, Chowan and Macon ■ $1.30; Columbus, Granville and Lenior $1.32; Haywood $1.33; Iredell $1.34; Jones and Person $1.25. Robeson $1.37; Lincoln $1.38; Ashe, l Caswell, Johnston and Montgomery (Continued on Page Six.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Three Party Candidates Are Accused Declared To Have Communist Leanings* Legion Committee Chairman Declares; Dies Heatedly Replies to Roosevelt Rebuke; Election Awaited Washington, Oct. 26.—(AP)—-Housa investigators of un-American activities received testimony today that the chairman of the Democratic campaign committee in California, John Clark, was a communist, and that three of the party’s nominees for high office had communist connections. H. Knowles, chairman of the radi cal \esearch committee of the Cali fornia American Legion, appearing before the Dies committee, listed these candidates: 1 . “Culbert Olson for governor, • who fraternizes with and accepts the pro gram of the strategy committee of the committee of the communist par ty. • : : “Sheridan Downey, for Uriited States senator, a running-mate of Communist Upton Sinclair in 1934.” Knowles’ testimony came shortly after the committee had been rebuked by President Roosevelt for allowing itself to be used in what he called an “unfair and un-American attempt to influence an election” in Michigkn. Chairman Dies, Democrat, Texas, took sharp exception to the presiden tial assertion, and then proceeded to let Knowles testify about’ communist political operations on the coast. In a formal reply to Mr. Roosevelt, the Texan charged that cabinet mem bers were a party to a campaign of “misrepresentation, ridicule arid »ar casm” against the committee. Other developments: * 1 ' - President Roosevelt’s efforts to end a shortage of aircraft mechanics gave fresh emphasis to reports • that 1 the projected revision of national defence will include a substantial Increase ."in the air corps. At his press aonfererpSc yesterday, Mr. Roosevelt said he wa» studying the needs for training a lairg* number of aircraft mechanics. The election . next month may be a dose of poison for the unspoken hopes of a few men who wouldn’t mind be (Continued on Pag«e Four.) Greensboro Negro Woman Wins slso^ooo Greensboro, Oct. 26. —(AP)—The wife of Dr. C. C. Stewart, Greens boro Negro physician, was the holder of one of the seven tickets in the United States on Con trevent, winner of the race oh which the Irish hospital sweep stakes is based, and was richer by $150,000 today as the result of her good fortune. The woman was offered $5,000 for her ticket before the race, but declined to sell. She was in New York visiting her brother today when news arrived of her good fortune. New Market, England, Oct. 26. (AP) —Contrevent, French-bred three year-old, owned by Princess dn Faucignoy-Lucinge, today won the 100th running of the classic Cesare witph at two miles and a quarter, tho race on whose running depended the distribution of about $7,000,000 of Irish hospital sweepstakes prizes. J. P. Hornung’s Dubonnet was sec ond, and E. Benson’s Fret third. Wil liam Woodward’s Olympus, only Amer ican-owned entry in the field of 2$ starters, failed to place. Contrevent started at a 100-to-seven shot, with Dubonnet also quoted at 107, and Fret at nine to one. The French horse finished a length and a half in front of Dubonnet. MANY AMERICANS WIN BIG PRIZES INj DISTRIBUTION New York, Oct. 26.—(AP)— Seven Americans won SIOO,OOO each today by holding Irish hospital sweepstakes tickets on Contrevent, winner of the Ceserwitch race at New Market, Eng land. Seven tickets on Dubonnet, sec ond place winner, were held in the United States and won $75,000 each. Four tickets held by Americans on third place winner, placed $50,000 each. Holders of tickets on Contrevent included “Lucky Dreamer,” 42T Ben nett street, Greensboro, N. C.
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