North Carolina Newspapers

HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR Chamberlain Urging Quick Enforcement Os Pact With Italy Sought by Radio WEm pL Wm An army of amateur radio opera to ra were enlisted in the search for Henry L. Walther (above), 24-year old explorer, camped in Alaska, to inform him that his aged mother lay dying in Chicago. Chinese Are Still United Against Japs Peoples Political ;■ Covmeil, of All Major Elements, Votes Sup port to Chiang Chungking, China, Nov. 1. —'(AP;— Full support of General Chiang Kai- Shek’s declared purpose to continue the war against Japan was voted to day by the Peoples Political Council, representing all major elements of the nation. This action was taken aft er publication of a statement by the general declaring “there can be no end of the war until the final objec tive is won.” “Better a broken jade (semi-pre cious stone highly valued in China) lather than a whole tile,” Chiang con cluded. “China’s main base for mili tary resistance does not lie in the coastal or river region. But in the vast hinterland, especially the west ern provinces. This has been our fundamental strategy in planning pro longed resistance.” Shanghai reports said Chinese ad_ mitted they had lost Teinan, 125 miles southeas? Qf Hankow. after more than three months of bitter fighting, dur ing which both sides lost heavily. Ja panese last week announced capture of the town, but today was the first definite admission by the Chinese forces. Probation Unit Counts Year’s Work Dally Ulipntt'h Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Nov. 1. —North Carolina’s Probation Commission, child of the 1937 General Assembly, celebrates its first birthday today with more than 1,200 probationers under its super vision in all parts of the State. Figures for the full 12 months will not be available before the middle of this month, but for the first eleven months, a grand total of 1,140 persons were placed upon probation and at the end of the same period it had been found necessary to revoke the piobationary sentences of but five, according to records in the office of Probation Commissioner J. Harry Sample, under whose direction the system was setup. • Mr. Sample expressed general and genuine satisfaction with workings of the system during its first year and said he has no thought of making any radical or drastic changes in the pres ent method of administration which has proved efficient, in his opinion. On the cold dollar and cents side of the picture, he pointed but that the State’s probationary prisoners earned a total of $126,981.99 during the first eleven months of the com mission’s existence. With this sum they took care of themselves and a minimum of 1,218 total and 309' par ' tial dependents. Investigation shows, he said, that of the amount earned during the eleven months no less than $89,682.30 has been spent for living (Continued on Pag*e Four.) Hrnitersmt fDatln Dispatch L THK E A S ?o , C n ,I T S E K D RV p I gg 3^ Premier Tells Com mons He Will Press for Debate Immediately; Government Attacked From Many Sources For Its Failure in Diplomacy. London, Nov. I.— (AP)—Prime Min ister Chamberlain announced in the House of Corhmons today that he in tended to bring the Anglo-Italian ac cord of April 16 in to force “as soon as possible.” .He said he would offer a motion for debate tomorrow, to the effect that ‘'this House welcomes the intention ofy His ManestV’s govern ment to bringrthe agree ment into f v The primotteffitfsteiT sfroke to the House as it wsemhlcd for a four-day ?ossi>n f vpocffeTto be devoted largely to Rebate ,on««fee government’s re armament, civilian defense and for eign policies: The Anglo-Italian pact, signed at Rome the day before Easter, has been hold ip abeyance because of failure to achieve a “settlement” in connec tion with the Spanish civil War. Tho arihaments debate centers a bout moans to speed defense meas ures. which the government has ac knowledged are not yet being carried forward with sufficient momentum. Opposition parties in the House of Commons center their criticism on foreign policy about the Munich pact fbr dismemberment of Czechoslovakia reached exactly one month ago today by Britain, France, Italy and Ger many. Opposition speakers have challeng ed Chamberlain with these accusa tions during the elapsed month: That the League of Nations was re duced to impotence through British foreign policy. * That collective security was shat tered. That British diplomacy was defeat ed successively by Manchurian, Eth iopian, Spanish, Chinese, Austrian and Czechoslovak events. Jewish Colony Not Practical « By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Nov. 1. —Well-meaning workers in behalf of Central Eu rop’s ♦ refugee Jews are developing a lively interest in the . - ■ Murray that they don’t know South America. The southeril continent is ail right, with plenty of room and enormous natural resources. In many years td come it certainly will support tremen dous populations. However, it is no realm to be settled in a hurry. Because of its latitudes the Argen tine Republic is the region best adapt ed to the assimilation of immigrants from climatically temperate count tries. It is about one-third the size of the. United States, and, acre for acre, more productive—that is, ino deserts or dust bowls. The extreme south is rather sterile for crops, but o. k. for livestock. Its' inhabitants number a scant 10,000,030 —accommo- dations for three times that many. Sounds Attractive. It sounds attractive. The drawback is that, of its 10,000,000 inhabitants, approximately 2,003,000 are concen trated in the single city of Buenos Aires, with roughly 1,000,000 more ur banites in Rosario, Santiago del Es tero, Salta, Mendoza and Bahia ‘Blanca. Obviously this is a mighty bad bal ance —lots of land for farmers but a plethora of city folks. Now the Jews once were quite a pastoral people, but in recent gener ations they have become largely ur banized. Argentina can’t absorb them as city dwellers. Yet to transform a city family into a rural family is a near-impossibility on short notice. It might not be so difficult if land were available in the immediate vic inity of theithig centers. It isn’t. The semi-suburban belts around South American cities are as thickly settled as here —and land is as expensive. The pioneer must get into the out ermost area, There he’ll find land at nominal figures. But he’ll also find conditions just as nature created them. He’ll have to provide the raw material (mud) for his house. He’ll have to dig his own well. He’ll have no transportation except what he himself furnishes. Communications ?-- —V" (Continued on Page Four) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. colonization of these unfortunate folk in South Ame rica. Washington is the center of this move ment’s activities in the United States and some of the publicity it is cir culating makes very enticing reading, its authors’ intentions unquestionably * are excellent but it is only too evident HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 1, 1938 Utilities Are Heartened By Viewpoint Os Ifhe President Washington, Nov. <I.—CAP)— Clar ence Groesbeck, chairman of the Elec tric Bond & Share Corporation, said after a White House conference to day the rapproachment between the government and the utilities is most heartening, and its implications are of far-reaching national significance. Groesbeck, talking with reporters after his half hour conference with President Roosevelt, addled: “We need only recall the negotia tions between the National Defense Power Committee and the utilities, culminated at the meeting here last Friday, to realize that mutual under standing and cooperation has advanc -2 Billion to be Spent ,Ms V s s „ i ' ■ -- | --4 I, |J|f : "HI 3HPi :\.z.a ■. mm ■■ I|jj^ gggSjw jm mWHM 1 n Louis Johnson, Assistant Secretary of War, and chairman of the Na» pictured as he where he conferred with the Presi dent. Johnson-Announced.start of an Eastern $2,000,000,000 power ex pansion program by utilities with the aid of the government. School Snarl In Dayton, 0., Is Unsettled Dayton, Ohio, Nov. 1. —(AP) —Five board of education members, risking citations for contempt of court, stood pat today on their determination to keep the city’s school closed at least until December 3 as the only way out of a financial jam. While a 12-man committee request ed by Common Pleas Judge N. M. Hodapp “to work in conjunction with the board” prepared to report to him the details of a five-hour conference ending early today, the board mem bers faced the expiration of a day of grace on contempt warrants. While city, county and state authorities spe culated on what would happen next, the indefinite holiday went into its second day with only 33 care-takers at the buildings, which last week held 34,000 boys and girls and 1,300 teach ers and other employees. Gasoline Pays Half State’s Total Income In the Sir Walter Hotel. Dali] Dlapatch Bureau. Raleigh, Nov. I.—While other tax items dropped sharply or slightly in the report of collections by the De partment of Revenue for October and for the first four months of the fis cal year, gasoline levies kept moving up and continued to proviVe almost half the State’s total tax collections. For the month of October the gas oline levy yielded $2,124,058.72 out of a grand total of $4,554,813.58 collected (or more than 46 per cent), while from July 1 through October 31 total gasoline tax collections reached SB,- 452,281.54 against $19,765,629.76 from all sources combined (or nearly 43 per cent). Both month and year to date show ed gasoline tax increases over last year, when the figures were $2,040,- 159.44 and $8,083,690.17, respectively. Thus October, 1938, was up more than SBO,OOO over October, 1937, while to date this year there has bee*i a jump of approximately $350,000 over the same period of 1937. If the quarter-cent a gallon inspec tion tax, (which has amounted to $97,- 879.44 for October and $392,412.61 for the first four months) were taken (Continued on Page Four) ed beyond the theoretical stage. “The successful' outcome of those negotiations should point the way to working out a satisfactory under standing with government on the other problems of-the industry.” Groesbeck referred to the agree ment last week whereby the private power concerns agreed to a program to fit it with the national program. Elmer Andrews* wage-hour admin istrator, told newspaper executives he was giving careful study to their con tention that the new maximum hour requirements would curtail newspaper service to the public. Daily papers de finitely come under the act’s pro visions, he said in a letter to Elisha Daladier’s Cabinet Is Threatened Ministers Split Three Ways OveV Method of Averting Bankruptcy of France Paris, Nov. I.—(AP)—Premier Dala dier summoned his cabinet again to day to try to end a three-cornered dispute over strong measures wh'ch Finance Minister Marehandeau was said to believe necessary to save France from the danger of bank ruptcy. The premier asked t>e ministers who met with him yesterday *o as semble, although it was All Saints day, a national holiday. Political observers said the cabinet split into three groups, one support ing the entire Marehandeau program, one holding it entirely unworkable, and the third, including Daladier, op posing some of it. The cabinet kept silent but tho French press said the measures re percent >evy on stock coupons. The nation faces a treasury deficit of 60,- 000,000,000 francs (about $1,593,000,- 000) for 1938, and an unfavorable trade balance of 1,600,000,000 francs ($335,160,000) for the first nine months of 1938. Some political observers said sharp words were spoken at yesterday’s cabinet session and , indicated the breach on basic financial philosophy was deep enough to threaten a cab inet break-up. Daladier was seeking every means to restore a measure of harmony for decree powers he now holds are effec tive for only two more weeks. $283,000 Os Money Given 11 Projects Raleigh, Nov. 1. —(AP) —Anson county was allocated $71,197 today as the WPA announced another $253,000_ odd set aside for eleven projects in the State. The Anson project was to repair and improve roads not In the Federal aid highway system. Administrator George Coan 'an nounced other projects included: Wilson, $57,438 to lay water mains from Downing-Gold&boro street inter section along highway to hydro plant; Scotland county, $20,473 to reconstruct and improve school houses; Moore county, $11,334 for planting flowers and shrubs in county-owned cemete ries; Beaufort City, $10,930 for cleri cal work in offfee of clerk of superior court; Tarboro, $7,790 for free nursing care to needy Tarboro patients. Unemployed Fund Total $10,000,000 Raleigh, Nov. 1. —The North Caro lina Unemployment Compensation reserve fund is again above $lO,- 000,000 and slightly above the fig ure reached when benefit payments started late in January, Chairman Charles G. Powell, of the commis sion, announces. When the first check as unem ployment benefits was written Jan uary 28, the fund had $10,060,018.63 in reserve. On October 28, nine months later, the'fund had a bal ance of $10,123,7*240, or $63,703.42 more than the peak in January. This to in spite of the fact that $7,- 415,780.03 had been paid out in benefits in the nine months. The balance went down toward $9,000,_ 000 while payments were heaviest. The fund includes $17,254,532.39 in contributions paid by employers on payrolls for 1936, 1937 and so far in 1938, and $284,969.74 in in terest, practically all of which was earned on the State’s balance on deposit int the United States Treas ury. Hanson, attorney for the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Then he added: “The problem of overtime compen sation you have mentioned, including the employment of reporters on ‘con tinuous assignments,’ is being care fully studied.” The Supreme Court may decide whether the Roosevelt administration will ask Congress to submit to the states a new child labor amendment. The court has before it an appeal from a Kentucky court decision that the constitutional amendment pend ing since 1924 is dead, because more than of the states have rejected :*t. Franco Brother t Dies noofii Jrat Jpß |j& Lieut. Col. Ramon Franco, above, Spanish transatlantic flier and brother of Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco, was killed in a seaplane accident in the Mediter ranean. Forest Fire Threatening Asheville Watershed Menaced by Flames on Two Fronts as Fighters Are Driven Back Asheville, Nov. I.—(AP) —Roaring forest fires, tree-top falls that crack led with ear splitting din drove back fire-fighters on two quarter-mile fronts near here today as fast-speed ing flames burned through heavily wooded sectors and threatened tour ist homes. After an all-night retreat before the advancing inferno, on the wooded slopes of Walkertown ridge, bordering the city’s North Fork watershed, men battled today with augmented force. The first front extended along the Little Piney Branch above Montreat, about 18 miles from here, and was burning south toward Black Moun tain. This fiery front threatened the summer homes of tourists on the slopes above Montreat and enlisted the aid of practically every available man in the fight. The second front extended along the slopes of Brushy Knob. A force of 40 of the city’s employees fought there to protect the Asheville water shed. Czech-Polish Frontier Row At Last Ends Prague, Nov. 1. —(AP) — Czecho slovakia’s frontier dispute with Poland was ended today by an ex change of notes between Czechoslo vak Prime Minister F. Chvalovsky and C. Pappee, Polish minister to Prague. The note said the two gov ernments were in agreement on their common border, and that only slight rectification was necessary before a formal treaty could be signed. Official Polish sources had declared the accord excluded the possibility of a plebiscite in the Frydeck district, disputed area near two regions which Polish troops already have occupied. A joint Czechoslovak-Folish com mission is to meet at Prague soon to draw up documents necessary for con clusion of the border agreement The Polish-Czech border in Silesia is to be decided by November 15. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, s»me scattered light frost in north central portion tonight; Wednesday fair- silent but the ie measures re ... exchange, ex- PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY New Deal Is Facing Serious Threat In Pennsylvania Vote Republicans Have Edge in Registration; Farley and Landon Differ on Effect Os New Deal Upon Busi ness Future in Nation Philadelphia, Nov. 1. —(AF)—Penn- ylvania’s “li‘tlo now deal,” which ;wept into power four years ago after \ half century of Republican control, came to its first statewide test a week from today. In-a campaign clouded for months y a cross-fire of bitter charges, one clearciit issue has been whether to continue ‘.he administration pkv’fec o adapt to Pennsylvania the Frank a Roosevelt social and economic pro ,f rn m. Republicans hold a. slight edge in registration. Campaign«' managers from both camps hpvo «predifctc l wide v-rg'ks? V’ct.or as .'slates. To be elected are all top state of ficers, one United States senator, 3-t lembcrs of Congress—the second lar gest block from any state —half the nembers of. the State Senate and an ntire State House of Representatives Both houses of the Pennsylvania egislature now for the first time in pany years are Domocratic-controlled Twenty-six of the Keystone State’s congressman and all top State officers are Democrats? The veteran western Pennsylvania senator, James j. DaYfs, is the only Republican up for rc-clection to a major office. Opposing him is George Earle, son of a wealthy Phi’adelphia family, who became Pennsylvania’s first Democratic governor in forty years. FARLEY AND LANDON NOT IN ACCORD ON NEW DEAL (By the Associated >-Tcss.) Democratic Chairman James A. Farley and Alf Landon, 1936 Repub lican presidential nominee, were in disagreement today over the relation of the New Deal policies to -business : mprovement. Landon told a pol tical rally last night dt-BarfelsVtne, , that elec tion of Republican congressmen and governors next Tuesday would be *an important step in leading the way back to economic improvement.” Continued experimentation with the nation’s finances, he said is “the one thing that is .holding back pros perity.” Farley, on the other hand, said in an endorsement of the California Democratic ticket that business is better everywhere, constituting “a comjlete answer to the woeful pro phecies of those who arc attempting to. disparage the New Deal.” Desperate Outlaw Now Being Hunted Near Philadelphia; Philadelphia, Nov. *1. —(AP) —Stat«. highway patrolmen and other officers searched wooded areas here today for Charlie Chapman, escaped bank ro her described by FBI men as one of the southwest’s mo|t* desperate law breakers. Major T. R Birdsoryf, of the Suite Highway Patrol, identified as Chap man a man who fled from an auto mobile last night when officers open ed fire. Birdsong said he believed the 40-year-old fugitive, who, before turn ing outlaw, was a successful contrac tor at Eldorada, Ark., and who has escaped from Louisiana Arakansas and Texas prisons, was wounded in the thigh. Acting on a tip that Chapman was visiting here, officers last night closed in. He was believed surrounded in the woods today. CIO Brings New Charges On Republic Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 1. —(AP) —A CIO official said some Republic Steel Corporation employees ejected from a Republic plant 46 strikers who were called hack to work under terms of a recent National Labor Relations Board order. B. J. Damich, field director of the Steel Workers Organizing Commit tee, asserted the men were driven from a nut division plant before they had an opportunity to change their working clothes. Damich said the up rising was among employees who did not participate in the 1937 steel strike, and declared it was inspired 4>y “hired gangsters”. He said the 46 were re turning to work under NLRB’s Oc tober 19 ruling which ordered Re public to reinstate 5,000 participants in the strike against “little steel.” The company previously said it was re-hiring strikers as business war ranted. Republic officials made no imme diate comment on today's incident. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Scares Country ’WJKWWMT"- Dramatic radio broadcast of H. G.: Wells’ “War of the Worlds” by Or son Welles (above) created paniO; throughout the country as thou-i sands were misled by bulletins of the “invasion from Mars.” The Federal! Communications Commission said an investigation would be made. 1 Deadlock On Congress Is Still Tight Young Democrats Os Durham, Alamance and Orfcnge Counties Endorse Barker Greensboro, Nov. I.—CAP)—The committee considering the appoint ment of a Democratic nominee to fill t \J. vacancy created by the death of Lewis E. Teague was hopelessly dead_ locked when it recessed for lunch to” day, its chairman, O. M. Bundy; of Jamestown, told reporters. The committee started the task of selecting the new party nominee for the sixth district yesterday, and con tinued its work this morning with eight names presented for considera tion. There was no indication from Bundy as to how the committee stood <:n the various names mentioned. YOUNG DEMOCRATS BACK CANDIDACY OF BARKER Durham, Nov. I.—(AP) —Young Democratic clubs of Durham, Ala mance and Orange counties today rushed messages to Greensboro, where the sixth congressional district com mittee is deadlocked, endorsing Oscar Barker, of Durham for the place he almost won in the Democratic pri mary. HEARING FRIDAY ON STEMMING INDUSTRY Greenville, Nov. I.—(AF)—J. Con Lanier announced here today that El mer Andrews, wage-hour administra tor, had arranged a hearing for next Friday in Washington on the ques tion of application of the fair labor standards act to the tobacco process ing industry. Several stemming com panies have appealed for hearings and a ruling on the question. Keen Bidding On Bonds Os Local Issue Raleigh, Nov. I.—(AP)—The Local Government Commission made “ex cellent sales after spirited bidding” today when Charlotte and New Han over county bond issues were offered, announced W. E. Easterling, secre tary. • Lewis & Hall, Inc., of Greensboro, brought SIO,OOO school bonds of Grimesland school district, «gnd $15,- 000 similar bonds of the Arthur dis trict, both in Pitt county. A premium of S3O, with interest of 3 3-4 perceht, was paid for the Grimesland issue. The Arthur issue went with the first $6,000 of maturity bearing 3 3-4 per cent interest, and the remainder .four percent, with a premium of sl. Two refinancing plans involving is suance of bonds were handled; in cluding $145,544.70 refunding and fund ing bonds for Aulender. Approved and already voted were $25,000 water and sewer bonds for Southern Pities’.