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Five Names Offered
For Congress Post
Sixth District Execu
tive Committee Meets
in Greensboro T o
Make Selection
Greensboro, Oct. 31. —(AP)—Mem-
bers of the sixth district Democratic
executive committee met here today
to name a successor to the late Lewis
E. Teague, of High Point, the dis
trict’s Javiden death Thursday left
the district without a- nominee in the
November 8 election.
Five names were presented to the
committee. They were Capus M. Wlay
nick, of High Point, newspaper editor
and former chairman of the State
Highway & Fublic Works
sion; Oscar Barker, of Durham;
whom Teague defeated in the July 2
Democratic run-off primary; Edney
Ridge, and George Penney, both of
Greensboro, both of whom were eli
minated in the first primary, and
Brice Holt, of Greensboro.
WARREN MAN GIVEN
GOOD JOB IN NYA
Raleigh, Oct. 31.—(AP) —R.
Hugh Evans former assistant;
farm agent in Warren county, to
day was named NYA supervisor
over 40 eastern counties, effec
tive November 1. The
ment was announced by John A./
Lang, State NYA director. Evans,
a native of Greenville, will have
headquarters in Kinston.
Soldiers Os
Britain Sent
Into Jaffa
Desperate Attempt Is
Made To Restore
Peace by Occupation
of Big Arab City
Jerusalem, Oct. 31. —(AP) —A bat
talion of British troops today was
sent into Jaffa, largest purely Arab
town in Palestine, in Britain’s con
tinuing intensive drive to quell Arab
insurrection against her rule in the
Holy Land.
With the ancient port under a pall
of smoke from a lumber yard blaze
believed to have been caused by in
cendiaries, officials had imposed a 24-
hour curfew before the troops’ ar
rival. Soldiers immediately cordon
ed off the city and began systematic
restrictions as the curfew came into
effect.
Jaffa, with a population of about
50,000, has been in turmoil for more
than two months, and at least 500
Arab insurgents are believed to have
made it their headquarters. Banks,
port officials, the railroad stations
and the freight depot have been rob
bed. Shops on the border between
Jaffa and the Jewish city of Tel Aviv
have been set afire.
British officials expected this drive
would restore order as in the case of
the old city of Jerusalem, Gaza, Beth
lehem and other towns which have
been occupied by troops. , ■
Hmftrrsrm HathtJßisiJatrii
.
State Democrats |
Have Big Balance
Raleigh, Oct. 31.—(AP) —The
Democratic State Committee re
ported receipts of $11,794.20 be
tween August 1 and October 24,
and expenditures of $3,936.66 in
its preliminary report failed to
day with Jfhad Eure, secretary of
state.. .The Democrats had a bal
ance of '51,735.44 to start the cam
paign, leaving a balance on Oc
tober 24 of $9,569.52.
In addition, Monroe Adams, of
Statesville, Republican candidate
for Congress in the ninth district,
filed a report that he had received
sls and spent $1,053.25, and John
R. Jones, <he Republican nominee
in the eighth district, listed re
ceipts of $23 and expenditures of
$24.
There were r.bout 2,500 contri
butors listed on the Democratic,
report.
Statement Os
Woman Is Not
Convincing
t , Vs -! i "jf ■> *;,* itrf
’<■ ' s l)ally I*ls|i:iToh nurenu,
In the Sir Wnlter Hotel.
Raleigh, Oct. 13.— I The lact that bis
prosecutrbc sfjsj Smith is in
nocent. 1 have made a mis
take” doesn’t at all settle the case
of the Columbus county Negro. Once
sentenced to death for criminal as
sault and now serving a life sentence
as the result of executive elemney.
From a number of sources comes
information sufficient to warn all and
sundry not to jump to the conclusion
that a horrible miscarriage of jus
tice has occurred in North Carolina.
Qn the contrary, there seems just as
much reason to believe now that a
rather weak-willed, and perhaps
weak-minded, woman has been < ever
persuadfed into changing her story.
From Parole Commissioner Gill
comes the promise of “a thorough in
vestigation” to be made “in coopera
tion” with District Solicitor John J.
Burney. Nothing in the commission
er’s conversation indicates that he
has reached any conclusion as to
which of the woman’s stories is a
correct version of thte facts.
Solicitor Burney, likewise, had lit
tlte to say for publication, but it is
amply clear from what he did say
and from what the refrained from
saying, that thte believes Smith is
guilty as charged and as convicted.
Harking back to the trial of Smith
it is recalled that thte evidence - was
clear, cogent apd convincing. A very
short while after the attatek, Mrs.
Sarah Lyles. Britt, the prosecutrix,
described her assaliant. She told
how she Jia<J hit the Negro on tlfe
head with i hatchet, cutting him. A
very shorf fvhile after this, Smith was
gpught, fie answered the description
in every respect and he was bleeding
from a cut on the head which gave
every indication of having been in
flicted with a hatchet.
The Negro was positively identified
both by the prosecutrix and by her
young son, who was present when the
attack was committed and Who was
inured in the resultant affray.
Os the son’s testimony,. Solicitor
Burney told your correspondent: “I
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBT.TSWFn IN
inquiry Into
Radio Scare
Is Launched
Communications Body
Says Program Causing
So Much Panic Should
Be Avoided
New York, Oct.. 31.—•(APiWThottS
arids of terror-stricken radio listeners
throughout the country fled from
their homes last night when they
tuned in on a series of synthetic
news broadcasts which depicted the
beginning of an inter-planetary war.
The simulated news bulletins which
accompanied a CBS dramatization of
H. G. Wells’ fantsy “The War of the
Worlds” became so realistic that they
sent a wave of mass hysteria across
the continent. The broadcast was in
tended only as fiction.
Explanatory announcements during
the program between 8 and 9 p. m.
were overlooked by thousands who
were led to believe that a poison gas
expedition had arrived from Mars and
was spreading death and destruction
over the New York metropolitan area.
Demands for an investigation multi
plied in the wake of the broadcast.
Some apartment houses in New York
was emptied hurriedly by frantic lis
teners to the program and by second
and third hand accounts that multi
plied the impending peril. A woman
in Pittsburgh tried suicide, sayipg,
“I would rather die this way than
like that.”
In Washington, the Federal Com
munications Commission began an in
vestigation of the broadcast. Chair
man Frank McNinch asked the Colum
bia Broadcasting System to furnish
the commission with an electrical
transcription. McNinch said “any
broadcast that creates such general
panic and fear as this one is report
ed to have done is, to say the least,
regrettable.”
Chinese Flee
As Japs Push
Their Advance
Canton, China, Oct. 31. —(AP) —The
inland fort of Wuchow, gateway to
; Kwangsi province, was being evacuat
ed today under pressure of Japanese
aerial bombardments, which were be
lieved to be a prelude to a Japanese
drive in that direction.
Wuchow, 90 miles west of Canton,
j and terminus for ocean-going vessels
on the west river, is a large trading
center and distributing point for nor
thern Kwangsi, southern Hunan and
Kweichow proyinces.
The Japanese also were driving
northward from Canton. Chinese ac
knowledged the invaders had cap
tured Kwangmoon, about 80 miles
north of the fallen metroolis, but said
300 Japanese had been killed north
east of Tsungsa, about 50 miles from
Canton. ( r
Japanese war planes were inten
sively bombing Tsingyun, 45 miles
north of Canton, and Yuyuan, 70
miles farther to the north. Chinese
said 34 grade school pupils were kill
ed at Yuyuan; Large forces of Chi
nese peasant militia were reported to
have been massed along the west and
north rivers definitely checking Ja
panese forces near Tsingyun. Foreign
military observers, however, expressed
the belief that the resistance still was
, irregular and disorganized.
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 31, 1938
THIS SECTION OF NORTH VIRGINIA.
See Better
Business In
Comiitg Year
—i
■T
Farmers and Indus
trialists Should Feel
Upswing, Federal Bu
reau Says
Wiashington, Oct. 31.—(AP)— The
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
predicted today that business would
be better for farmers and industrial
ists next year, but it said farm prices
may not rise much. ,
The bureau, in ah annual report on
demand and prices for agricultural
products, asserted general economic
conditions in the Ignited States “are
most favorable to recovery.’’ Even so,
it added, prospects for next year were
not quite so good as in 1937.
The bureau forecast domestic de
mand for products tit the farm prob
ably would be greater and farmers
would use a greater volume of short
term credits in 1!)39 than this year.
Cash farm indbme, the report ad
ded, should range next year between
the $7,500,090,'000 estimate for this
year and the 1937 estimate of $8,600,-
000,000.
The bureau Sajid an expected in
crease in consumer income should
step up the demafed for farm produce
and thus put m6re dollars into the
farmer’s pockets. Ample credit will
bo available sos farmers of good
oredit standing, the bureau said,
noting that the Farm Credit Adminis
tration has an increased appropria
tion from which to make loans to
farmers who. cannot obtain credit
from customary sources.
The demand for farm mortgage
credits is expected to continue small,
the bureau said, explaining that the
peak of the emergency refinancing
demand resulting from the depression
was over.
Commercial banks and life insur
ance companies were said to be lend
ing more freely jon farms than two
years ago. The bureau said funds
available from both federal and pri
vate agencies wefe abundant.
Shake-Up In
BtitHß 'Marks
Defense Drive
London, Oct. 31.—MAP) —Sir John
Anderson, the administrator who
crushed terror ’'in Bengal between
1932 and 1937, today was appointed
lord privy seal in a cabinet shake-up
believed to be preparatory to a wide
spread organization of the nation for
defense.
Viscount Runciman, who tried in
vain to mediate in- the crisis which
led to Germany’s absorption of
Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, was
named lord president of the council.
Malcolm MacDonald, already secre
tary for Colonies, was given the addi
tional post of diminions secretary.
The post of lord privy seal became
vacant last week when Earl de la
,Warr was shifted to the ministry of
education. -* succeeds Vis
count Hailsham, who resigned. The
dominions post has been vacant since'
the death Os Lord Stanley October 16.
Trends Mixed
Among Stocks
New York, Oct. 31. —AP) —An early
but brief burst of selling derailed car
ried stocks in today’s market. En
couraging to recovery forces, how
ever, was the fact that initial de
clines running to two points were
soon substantially reduced, and many
pivotal industrials were able to regis
ter modest advances. Dealings slow
ed appreciably after the opening hour
and after the fourth hour trends were
moderately mixed. Offerings in the
carriers followed Saturday’s report of
the President’s fact finding commis
sion against the railroads’ demands
for a 15 per cent wage cut.
American Radiator 17 3_4
American Telephone 147 1-4
American Tob B 89
Anaconda 38 3-4
Atlantic Coast Line ; 26 3-i
Atlantic Refining 28 5-8
Bendix Aviation .J. 23
Bethlehem Steel 67
Chrysler ... 82 1-2
Columbia Gas & Elec ........ 9
Commercial Solvents 11
Continental Oil Co 9
Curtiss Wright ... 6 5-8
DuPont --- --. 147
Electric Pow& Light .-.auij... 23
General Electric i . 46 1-2
General Motors 48 1-8
Liggett & Myers B 101 34
Montgomery Ward & Co .... 50 3-4
Reynolds Tob B ..; T.. *.M.... 45 1-4
Southern Railway ... ...... 20
Standard Oil N J 52 1-4
U S Steel 64 3-4
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally tonight and
Tuesday; slightly warmer In
northwest and north central por
tions Tuesday.
Constructive Rail Program
Promised By Roosevelt To
Executives Os The Carriers
Sharp Decline Shown in
State’s October Income
Raleigh, Oct. 31.—(AP)—North
Carolina’s general fund revenue
collections during October drop
ped 23.73 percent under the same
month last year, but highway
funds receipts went up 3.80 per
cent, Revenue Commissioner A. J.
Maxwell reported today. Maxwell
explained that a difference of
$600,000 in franchise tax receipts,
representing a major part of the
$689,061.89 decrease in general
f.J, J revenues “is due to the delay
Death Os PrisonervFfom
Firing Squad Recorded
Hitler Might
Strike Next
At Uncle Sam
By CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Oct. 31. —Diplomatic
relations between Washington and
Berlin are beginning to verge on the
rather unpleasant.
There is no definite
friction or any pros
pect of it in the im
diate future. Never
theless Germany iq
perfectly aware that
Uncle Sam’s Admin
istration is not over
ly friendly to Nazi
ism, <*nd our own
government is equal
ly aware that the
Nazis reciprocate its
tacit dislike of their
system. Italian Fas
cism also doubtless
'' IB
Rsk. ■■ -fjflH
Baruch
is looked on somewhat askance by
the State Department. However. Sig
nor Mussolini never has quite so crass
as Herr Hitler. Japan, the third of
the world’s totalitarian powers, has
been tolerably civil in iis relation
ships with the United States. True,
we sympathize with China and the
Mi,kado 'unquestionably knows it.
And there have been some little “in
■clidents” between us in connection
with Nippon’s activities on the Asi
atic mainland and its rivers. All the
same, Washington and Tokyo mutual
ly have preserved the amenities.
Russia Friendliest.
‘ Among the dictatorships I think
p-ussia is the country toward which
our officialdom entertains the kindli
est feelings. Even that isn’t so very
kindly either, but it’s notorious that
Germany and Russia are hostile to
one another and, of the two, at pres
ent we most dislike Germany.
There is evident a sentiment in our
foreign office to the effect that Brit
ain and France have “dumped” dem
ocracy; but that’s a feeling of sor
row, not of anger.
Os course this country is scandal
ized by Nazi treatment of the Ger
man Jews and Catholics, and by Hit
lerism’s domestic methods generally.
But all that’s not our business.
It’s when Nazi-ism tries to set up
its organization in our own midst
that it becomes irritating. The move
ment may not have been inspired
from overseas, but there’s a suspicion
of it.
There has been, too, this German
spy trial in New York. It’s been ridi
culous with its revelations of
amateurishness and of SSO monthly
salaries to espionage agents— but it i
has succeeded in “sideswiping” Ger- J
man Ambassador Dieckoff, in Wash- 1
ington. It’s reported that he shortly l
is to go home- in consequence. That’s |
quite a major development.
Then, there was the case of our late 1
ambassador to Berlin, William E. j
Dodd. After a short stay in the Ger
man capital he was so disgusted with
Nazi-ism that he resigned, returned
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Cotton Shows
Small Decline
New York, Oct. 31.—(AP)—Cotton
futures opened one point higher to
two lower, with disappointing Liver
pool cables offset by trade and for
eign buying. March reacted from 8.43
to 8.41, leaving quotations net un
changed to three points lower short
ly after the first half hour. March
sold at 8.41 at midday, when the list
was unchanged to three points lower.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY
in completion of railroad assess
ments this year, and this differ
ence will bo picked up in next
month’s coiiectioss.
The general fund took in s2,_
124,381.80, compared with $2,903,"
443.fi), ar.J the highway fund $2,-
340,431.78, compared with $2,254,-
707.44.
For four months of the fiscal
year, general fund receipts were
down $1,002,672.49, or 15.68 percent
and highway receipts were up
$357,645.05, or 3.94 percent.
Action of Human
Heart Pierced With
Bullets Is Determined;
John Deering De
manded He Be Exe
cuted; Willed His
Eyes to Blind Person
Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 31. —
(AP) —A firing squad executed John
W. Deering at dawn today in State
Prison while an electro-cardiograph
recorded, probably for the first time,
the action of the human heart pierced
by builets.
Deering, who had sought in every
way to speed his death, and who par
ticipated willingly in the scientific
experiment to determine how long hi?
heart would beat after being struck
was calm to the end. He died for the
hold-up murder of a Salt Lake City
business man.
Electric wires were attached to
Deering’s wrist and carried an elec
tric disc his last ’heartbeats. Scien
tists began an immediate study of the
records, but said it would be a num
ber of hours before they could an
nounce their findings.
Convinced that there was no place
in society for him after half his life
time had been spent in prison, Deer
ing had demanded that the State take
his life. Then he sought to make re
stitution by giving his body to the
University of Utah. He willed his eyes
to the State that any blind person
might obtain the corneas for trans
planting to restore sight. No one has
asked for them.
Grange Stand
On Liquor Not
Surprising
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Dallj Dlapatch Bureau,
Raleigh, Oct. 31. —A strange and
unusual quiet on the liquor front was
shattered by the somewhat unexpect
ed resolution of the )tate Grange
calling for legislative suppression of
the present ABC county option sys
tem; but there is scant indication that
the demand will create more than a
ripple on the political waters.
Except for the fact that it was un
forecast, there was nothing whatever
startling about the Grange action.
The organization has consistently
stood on the dry side and battled a
gainst John Barleycorn and all hi':
cohorts.
Reasons for this are not hard to
find. In the first place the rural folks
of North Carolina have time and
again shown their dislike for any form
of legalized liquor sales; and in the
second place, the Grange strength is
concentrated in the west and pied
mont sections, which are politically
dry for fear cf the Republicans.
All signs are that the Dry Leaders
who actually work out strategy and
tactics for the legislative campaign
haven’t the slightest idea of repeal
ing the current ABC law. As a mat
ter of policy and consistency, they
may introduce a bill calling for a
statewide referendum, but it hun
dred to one shot it getq nowhere.
The Drys will try for, and try for
with great vigor, local acts banning
even the sale of beer and wine in cer
tain counties from which the legisla
tors are themselves dry and in which
popular sentiment runs that way.
Meanwhile, the controller policy
will be to do and say as little about
liquor as possible. The present set-up
suits them, despite the fact they’d
like a little more local power instead
of ironclad supervision by the State
ABC board. They don’t want it bad
enough, however, %o start anything.
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President In
Command Os
Rail Crisis
Will Do All in His
Power To Get Legisla
tion Through Next
Congress To Aid
Lines; Attitude of Big
Roads on Rejection of
Wage Cut Sought
Washington, Oct. 31.—(AP)—John
J. Pelley, president of the Associa
tion of American Railroads, said to
day Present Roosevelt had prom
ised him he would do everything pos
sible to get a constructive program
for rehabilitation of the carriers en
acted into law. Mr. Roosevelt express
ed the hope, Pelley said, that such a
program would be drafted by the in
formal committee representing rail
roads and labor.
Pelley said the President had asked
him to ascertain the attitude of the
railroads toward the fact-finding
board’s report recommending cancel
lation of the 15 percent wage cut.
Pelley said he agreed to do so, add
ing that his “best guess” was that
the management would hold a meet
ing in Chicago next week to outline
their position’ on the report.
Pelley said the President “feels'
quite hopeful that through this com
mittee he will get recommendations
that will result in a constructive pro
gram for the railroads.”
The informal committee he refer
red to now in Washington consider
ing the entire rail problem was nam
ed by the President several months
ago.
Washington, Oct. 31.—(AF)—Presi
dent Roosevelt took personal charge
today of efforts to effect a peaceful
settlement of the critical railroad
wage dispute. The chief executive
called representatives of rail manage
ments and labor to the White House
to consider some long range program
to aid the carriers.
Os immediate importance, however,
was the 15 percent wage reduction
ordered by the roads for December
1, and the threat of almost 1,000,000
rail workers to strike if the ctit is
carried out.
The President’s emergency investi
gating board recommended Saturday
that the railroads withdraw their
notices of the reduction, which would
cut $250,000,000 annually from their
(Continued on Page Four)
Says France
And Britain
Were Scared
* f
German Liner Says
That’s* Why Chamber
lain and Daladier
Signed Accord
Essen, Germany, Oct. 31.—(AP)—
Josef Terboven, Nazi district leader
and governor of the Rhineland pro
vince, declared yesterday that Neville
Chamberlain, British prime minister,
brought about the Munich agreement
not because he desired justice for the
Sudeten Germans, but because he
feared the German air force.
He also said Premier Daladier of
France was not actuated by peaceful
motives, but took no part in the
Munich accord because he knew Ger
many’s western front was invincible.
“We know perfectly well,” he said,
“that if Chamberlain was ready to
sign the Munich agreement, he did it
not because he had the irresistible
desire to help the Sudetens to attain
their right to national existence. If
he was ready to sign, it was due to
two simple reasons:
“First, because he realized the
fuehrer had with him the entire peo
ple of 80,000,000, who were determin
ed, if necessary, to attain the rights
of our Sudeten German brethren with
weapons.
“Second, Because this will to action
was not a will that would have found
expression solely in negotiations and
words, but because that behind this
will there stood an air force which
under the determined leadership of
Field Marshal Goering would have
been ready in a few weeks to prove to
the English people its so-called isla
tion was ended once and for aIL”