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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year JAPAN TELLS WORLD SHE WILL RULE ORIENT Present Drought Is One Os Most Severe On Record For Fall Winter Wheat in West Is Threatened; Gen eral Need of Rain Is Urgent i n Places; Treasury Deficit sl,- 139,537,782 in Four Months Washington, Nov. 2. —(AP) —The Weather Bureau said today "one of the most severe and widespread fall droughts of record” has developed in a wide midwestern area, extending from the Appalachians to the Rocky Mountains. The bureau’s weekly bulletin said draught conditions were having a se vere effect on the winter wheat crop. Except in eastern Nebraska and in the Texas panhandle, early seeded wheat was said to be at a standstill, while late planted grain was reported to be deteriorating. There is a general need of rain, which has become urgent in many places, it added. The bulletin said that in the midwestern areas as a whole October was one of the dryest, if not the dryest, month recorded. The only mid-western sections not affect ed were eastern Nebraska, southern Minnesota, northern lowa, much of Wisconsin, eastern New Mexico and the Texas panhandle. Other developments included: The Treasury said it spent $2,980,- 684,945 and incurred a deficit of sl,- 139,537,782 in the four months of the fiscal year, which bevan July 1. President Roosevelt left the capital by special train shortly after 1 p. m. for his home at Hyde Park, N. Y. He will remain there until after next week’s elections. If the signs mean what they say, the President’s chief ihterest in next; Tuesday’s voting lies in seven states. Six others have caught his attention at one time or another since Congress went home, but his interest in that group was pretty well blotted out by the primaries. ■ By letters, conferences and words dropped at different times since the state primaries, Mr. Roose velt has put himself on the line forcer tain Democratic candidates in New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, lowa and Wisconsin. Wilmington Refuses Aid During Strike Wilmington, Nov. 2.—(AP) —The city commissioners refused today to allow a request for police protection in the strike of Southern Oil Trans port Company workers, but appointed a mediator in the dispute. John Stevens, attorney for the firm, asked the commissioners for the police protection. After a discussion, J. E. L. Wade, city commissioner of public works, was appointed mediator. Strike lead ers said they sought recognition of their union, which was formed re cently. IIOEY ORDERS PATROLMEN TO BE ALERT IN SECTION Raleigh, Nov. 2.—(AP)— I Governor Hoey said today that highway patrol men assigned to the Wilmington area had been instructed to be “unusually diligent and alert” in patrol of routes near the Southern Oil Transport Com pany garage, where a strike of truck drivers is in effect. 80 Forest Fires Raging in States Os Southeast (By The Associated Press* More than 80 separate forest fires, blazing in eight southeastern states, sent up billowing smoke clouds and left blackened desolation in their wake today as continued dry weath er harassed fire-fighting crews. Heaviest loss was described by J. F. Brooks, assistant regional United States forester, as confined to areas without organized county, state or federal protection. Brooks said lack of rain had left the entire South “bone dry,” and added even the “swamjjs are drying up in south Georgia and Florida.” Alabama, with 30 reported fires, was hardest hit. Louisiana and Mississip pi were next, with 12 each, while North Carolina reported eight, South Carolina nine, Tennessee seven, Geor 3U£ttite#goit T s E R D Rv p'g| s r Wrote a Best Seller Jjgj David Statler, 11, of Memphis, Tenn., ii pictured as he came to New York to reap the rewards of his labor. Three years ago he wrote ’’‘Roaring Guns,” recently * pub lished, and hailed as the funniest book in years. In one chapter eight hundred men get shot, stabbed and tomahawked » Gov. Davey Has Troops For Strike Ohio Executive Will Be ‘Bloodthirsty Fool' If Soldiers Used, Lewis Says Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 2.—(AP) Governor Maftih Davey today order ed Ohio National Guard troops to Middletown * tonight to preserve “law and order” in connection with a strike at the P. Dorillard Tobacco Com pany’s plant. Davey earlier announced he would "not permit the lawless in ’ asion of Middletown,” and condemn t«i what ho called “tarn y. :.v»i ’ by .Pin L. Lewis and tl’.o CIO. The Lorillard plant, which employs 1,100 persons, was reported ready to reopen at 11 a. m. tomorrow. A CIO union called a strike at the plant October 3, and a week ago there was a skirmish at the plant between workers seeking to return to their jobs and union members and their sympathizers. Davey described the incident as a serious “riot,” during which “the CIO pickets assaulted other employees, in cluding some elderly women,” and he said “a reign of terrorism has been in augurated in a peaceful community. Troops, the governor has said in a statement to the press, have been placed on notice and are awaiting de velopments. The union is asking recognition as a bargaining agency, check-offs for payment of dues and the closed shop. The governor renewed his attacks on Lewis, which began in 1937, when ho ii ordered troops to protect a “back to I (Continued on Page Three.) gia six and Florida three. Besides these, numberless small fires dotted the southeast. The -most serious blaze was report ed in North Carolina near Asheville, where the flames whipped through tree-tops and along mountainside a. score of miles from the city. ASHEVILLE’S WATERSHED BLAZE ABOUT CONQUERED Asheville, Nov. 2. —'(AP) —A forest fire that threatened Asheville’s North Fork watershed apparently was burn ing itself out today. Fifteen city em ployees followed the blaze that within the space of two days burst twice into sucji fury that it approached within 1,500 feet of the watershed. After it gained considerable head way Monday, the fire brought 150 men to the scene. ONLY DAILY Ticket Full, Democrats Press Drive Chapel Hill Druggist Named to Congress in Sixth District Com promise; One U. S. Senator, All Congress men and State Offices To Be Filled Raleigh, Nov. 2. —(AP) —North Carolina’s political campaigns moved forward with renewed energy today after many varied hindrances had bothered the Democrats.. The Republicans have .only a partial slate in the field for next Tue' d"' ’ • -iccdons, but the Democrats finally again had a complete slate and lead ers expressed hope nothing would up set plans again. At stake Tuesday will be a seat in the United States Senate, eleven con gressional seats, three state official posts, three places on the State Su preme Court, 12 superior court judge ships, 21 district solicitorships, 170 places in the legislature and hundreds of county and township places. The Democrats hailed the nomina tion of Carl Durham, of Chapel Hill, tor Congress in the sixth, replacing the late Judge Lewis Teague, of High Point, as an end to their pre-election worries over getting a full slate. For four months, from the July 2 pri mary until last week, the eighth dis trict was without a Democratic nomi nee, due to the contest of W. O. Bur gin, of Lexington, and C. B. Deane, of Rockingham. Last Wednesday Bur gin became the nominee after an ur.- (Continued on Page Three ) Negro Given Pardon After Confessions Raleigh, Nov. 2. —(AP) —Governor Hoey granted a complete pardon to day to James Morrison, Negro who gave his home address as Fayette ville, who entered prison September 10 from Robeson county to serve two years for a robbery which has now been confessed by two other men. Hoey acted immediately upon re ceipt yesterday of a letter from Soli citor T. A. McNeill and C. B. Skipyer, clerk of Robeson Superior Court, say ing that Judge G. V. Cowper had in structed them to write asking for a pardon for Morrison. “At the last term of the superior court of this county, which was last week,” the letter said, “it was discov ered by the county officers that the defendant Morrison was innocent of the crime with which he was charged and that two other men were the guilty persons. These two men were tried last week and convicted of the crime, both confessing that Morrison had nothing to do with the crime, and that they were not even acquainted with Morrison. ” ! Parole office records showed Mor rison was convicted of having beat C. B. Turner and of robbing him of $7. Spanish Ship Fired On Off English Coast Cromer, Norfolk, England, Nov. 2. —(AP) —A Spanish warship attacked a Spanish* freighter off Norfolk to day, bringing the Spanish, civil war within sight and sound of the Nor folk coast. The identity of the ship and the outcome of the bombardment was shrouded in the mists of the North Sea. Reports from fishing trawlers and other ships differed on whether the warship, apparently an armed trawler, flew the insurgent or Spanish government flag. The freighter’s name was reported as the Carthagena, but no such ship was registered with Lloyd’s. The Cromer life boats put out to pick up possible survivors from the freight er, which appaientiy defied a code warning from ibe warship ‘Hove to or I fire.” Fishing trawlers equipped with two v/ay radio telephones chattered ex citedly among themselves and with shore stations as the attack pro- One trawler, watching the flashes and listening to the rolling thunder of the guns, warned another vessel: 7t’s-coming damned near your door step ” , None of the trawlers dared go near the ships for fear of the fire. newspaper published HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 2, 1938 llatht-llisxmirfi > IN THISJSECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Radio a Broadcast Which Scared a Nation I' o P 8 Rpfc mbsiml W IjH ..v./aJ w * M ißh- %] IMMM _lb • iPUgD /. aMMa,. - - 4 ■§ ' • • • ' ...... ■....-. - Drson Welles, youthful guiding light of the “Mercury Theatre of the Air,” is pictured, arms upraised, with bus company a rehearsal of one of his plays. The Federal Communications Commission has launched inquiry into Welles’ broadcast of a dramatization of H. G. Wells’ novel, “The War of the . Sfari<fs. M The broadcast created widespread panic among radio listeners throughout the country. (Central Prest) Airs Her Politics m -«l Wbk Grace Liebma»* (above), -wife of Walter H. Liebman, thought of a new stunt to promote her husband’s campaign for Congress; A licensed pilot, she has turned to skywriting, now spreads her husband’s name all over the heavens. State Ahead In Control Os Forest Fires Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir .Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Nov. 2. —Following closely on heels of a forest fire which menac ed Blowing Rock, comes announce ment from the Department of Con servation and Development that last year North Carolina led all the south eastern and Gulf states in the mat ter of forest fire reduction. The State had the smallest acreage of forest fires of any of these states except Virginia and West Virginia, according to figures just compiled by the U. S. Forest Service, Assistant State Forester W. C. McCormick pointed' out. This record is considered even more remarkable when it is considered that North Carolina has 13,660,000 acres of forest lands under organized State protection at a cost of only three tenths cents per acre. Other states, with the exception of Alabama and Mississippi, have been spending much more than this, McCormick said. North Carolina has about twice as many acres of forest lands under fire protection as Texas and Oklahoma, which have 7,970,000 and 7,206,009 acres, respectively. Only 181,090 acres of forest lands were burned over by forest fires in North Carolina during 1937, accord ing to the Forest Service figures. On the other hand, Georgia, with only 4,251,000 acres under protection had 3,280,910 acres burned over despite an expenditure of nine-tenths cent per acre for protection. Florida had the_ largest acreage burned over, with 7.- 850,160 acres, with only 2,280,000 acres under protection and with an expen diture of 4.1 cents per acre. “The figures just compiled by the Forest Service show that while North Carolina has more acres of forest lands under protection than any of the ten southeastern and Gulf states, (Continued on Page Three.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Thursday; mild temperature. Chamberlain Determined That Commons Give Him His Treaty With Italy Refuses Ta Postpone or Prolong Debate on Accord; Lloyd George Bitingly Replies To Premier’s Criticism of His Recent Radio Speech London, Nov. 2.—‘(.AP) —Prime Min ister Chamberlain today brushed aside objections raised in the House of Commons,, to early enforcement of the Anglo-Italiian accord with the de claration, “I regard this as a step to toward the appeasement of Europe.” Refusing to postpone or prolong the today’s scheduled one-day debate on his motion to register the House’s ap proval of putting his April 16 pact with Premier Mussolini into effect, the prime minister said: “It should be disposed of at the earliest possible moment.” Chamberlain was understood to want the Italian treaty made effec tive as a step to further approaches to Adolf Hitler, looking toward a four power understanding that ultimately would lead to a limitation_of-arma ments pact. “Delay in putting this agreement with Italy into force cannot be inde finitely postponed,” Chamberlain told Commons. Meanwhile, David Lloyd George, in a caustic reply to Chamberlain’s im plied rebuke for his recent broadcast to the United States, declared: “The prime minister seems to me to be acquiring dictatorial airs from his associations.” The wartime premier’s speech, to (Continued on Page Three.) MKEIGOIIAS FIXED FDR BURLEY Western Carolina Leaf To Go On Sale Beginning December 7 College Station, Raleigh, Nov. 2. Burley, North Carolina’s “Junior” to bacco crop, is in the curing barns and AAA committeemen are busy calculat ing marketing quotas preparatory to the opening of markets in the hurley belt in early December. E. Y. Floyd AAA executive officer at State Col lege, estimates that 40 to 50 percent of this committee work has been com pleted in the four weeks it has been underway. < The Asheville market, the only bur ley sales center in the State, will open December 7. County farm agents of the Extension Service are expected to deliver to growers notification of their marketing quotas before December 5. Official marketing notices are expect ed to he in the hands of all growers (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Auto Hurts Fatal To Ft. Bragg Man Fayetteville, » >v. 2. —(AP) —Bus- ter Ownsby, a private in Battery A, First Observation Battalion, Fort Bragg, died early today in the post hospital of injuries received Sunday night when he was hit by an automobile here. woman com- # panion, named in records of a hos pital here was Dorothy Thomas, was reported improved siighilj Her left leg was severed in the ac-' cident. A man booked as McQueen was placed under) a $250 bond on a tech nical charge of assault shortly ifter the accident as driver of the car. U. S. Should Cultivate All Latin America By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Nov. 2.—Next Decem ber’s pan-American gathering at Lima, Peru, comes at a very signifi cant juncture. With Germany in particu lar and various other overseas coun tries in general waging vigor ous campaigns of pene tration in the New World’s southern re publics, it obviously stands Uncle Sam in hand to do some intensive cultivating ;of his own in the same quarter. In the past the United ’if — Row* States has neglected Latin America scandalously. The Pan-American Un .on, originally of Yankee inspiration, has done its best for years, but until quite recently its. voice has cried pretty much in the wilderness. John Barrett, the Union’s first director gen eral, personally was highly thought of from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn. Up north, however, his ideas didn’t get the attention they deserved, and the Latins knew it, which consider ably discounted his influence. Dr. Leo S. Rowe, who succeeded Barrett and still is in office, counts substan tially with the present Washington government. Yet even he wasn’t ser ously regarded earlier in his admin istration. And, anyway, the Pan-American Union never has had an official status —no authority. It simply has done missionary work. This missionary work is beginning to take effect at last. Nevertheless we have a long ead, in our rivals’ favor, to make up. (Continued on Page Five) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY China To Be Mere Puppet In Jap Plan Japan, Manchoukuo and China to be Band ed for Economic Block I n Reconstruction; Drive Deep Into Heart of China Is Continued By Armies Tokyo, Nov. 2.—(AP)—Japan blunt ly announced to the world tonight that she intends to create a political, and economic block consisting of the Japanese Empire, Manchoukuo and China in carrying out her “immediate policy” for Asiatic reconstruction after the war with China. Formal government declaration left a loophole for possible peace with the present government of China "if it were to come forward to join in the establishment of the new order.” The statement expressed gratitude to those nations “which are in sym pathy with us,” presumably Germany and Italy, Japan’s allies in an anti communist pact. Other western pow ers were not mentioned. The declaration was issued in com memoration of tomorrow’s national holiday. The statement appeared to indicate Japan expected China’s role in the future of Asia to be similar to that of Manchoukuo, formed out of Chinats Manchurian provinces con quered by the Japanese army between 1931 and 1933. (Although Japan for mally maintains that Manchoukuo is an independent empire, that country actually is a Japanese protectorate entirely dominated by Japan and for all practical purposes part of the Mikado’s empire.) Hpng Konjy reports indicated, mean while, Japanese air and naval forces bore the brunt of the extensive cam paign radiating from the captured southern China city of Canton. Japanese planes attacked Sheki, captured 50 and wounded 60. Incen diary bombs started a number of fires and houses were damaged extensive ly. The injured were taken to a point across the mouth of the Canton river from Hong Kong. Canton dispatches indicated Japan ese naval forces and infantry detach ments were pushing steadily west from a place 35 miles south and west of Canton itself. Search For Money Plan Dogs France New Finance Minister Seeks Conservative Method for Solving Finances Paris, Nov. 2. —(AP) —A - new French finance minister began a five c’ay search for an orthodox solution to the nation’s economic puzzle today after the cabinet had scrapped the plan his predecessor had been work ing on for more than a month. Moderate, experienced, middle-of-the road Paul Reynaud, who succeeded Paul Marchandeau as finance min ister after a short-lived crisis yester day, cancelled all his engagements and declared he even would refuse to answer his telephone until next Mon_ day. By then he hopes to have the de vious pattern of French finances clear ed up in his mind so he can give the cabinet at least a general outline of his new program. Forty-day decree powers given Premier Daladier'g cabinet expire November 15. The sudden shift in cabinet posts, by which Reynaud and Marchandeau swapped johs as justice and finance ministers, resulted, political observers said, from deep-seated differences over the nature of methods to be ap plied for financial and economic re covery. Merchandeau, formerly* con sidered among the most orthodpx of financial experts, had become con vinced, these observers said, that only drastic measures, including exchange control an extraordinary income tax and a special levy on stock earnings would prove successful. Reynaud, on the other hand, was said to have led a cabinet majority in a fight for more conservative meas ures which would increase govern ment revenue by stimulating produc tion.
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