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King George Voices
Hopes For New Era
As Parliament Ends
Chooses Religion
Pictured in football uniform is Har
rington j Gates, backfield star of
Dartmouth University’s eleven, who
has created a sensation by quitting
school to devote all his time to a re
ligious organization known as the
Legion of God. Only a week before
he quit he played a brilliant game
against Yale.
(Central Press)
— M -.. ■ t
Factions In
6th District
Fightin’ Mad
Barker’s Friends In
Durham Are Hot,
Wayriick’s In High
Point Are Boiling
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL.
Raleigh, Nov. 4. —So far as your
correspondent is aware the Broadway
production “Hellzapoppin” isn’t being
enacted on the stage anywhere in.
North Carolina, but over in the Sixth
District that’s what happening just
the same.
It all comes about from the com
pletely astounding nomination of
Orange’s Carl Durham for the Con
gress post for which the late Judge
Lewis E. Teague, of High Point, was
slated up to his untimely demise. Per
haps it would be slightly more cor
rect to say that the Durham nomina
tion brought the “poppin’ ” out into
the open.
Whichever is the correct terminol
ogy, the undoubted fact remains that
every one of the four counties of the
sixth ha% been split into jarring, dis
cordant factions, each ready and will
ing to jump at the other’s throat on
any or no provocation.
It’s lucky the Republicans are not
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State Budget Commission
To Be Stingy With Funds
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Nov. 4. —Nothing definite
■will be known for some time of de
cisions made by the Advisory Bud
get Commission, now studying re
quests for some $95,000,000 in appro
priations for the next biennium; but
it is already as certain as anything
human can be that these decisions
will be conservative —perhaps ultra
conservative.
This conclusion is demanded by
even a casual study of the commis
sion’s make-up. There isn’t a “spend
er” on it. Each and every one of the
half dozen budgeteers has already
hiade a record which any ,one who
J uns may read, and every one of these
records fairly reeks of “economy,” if
not of stinginess.
Arch pinchpenny of them all is
Mecklenburg’s Senator James A. Bell,
only member of the Senate to vote
against Carolina’s participa
Brtthersmt Uatlit Blapatrh
L th! E A m S J 3RVICE OP
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Expresses Warm
Praise for Roosevelt’s
“Timely Action” To
Save Peace of Europe;
New Parliament Ses
sion Will Open Next
Tuesday
London. Nov. 4. (AP) King
George VI terminated the present ses
sion of Parliament today with the
prayerful hope that a “new era may
have opened up for Europe,” and
warm praise for President Roosevelt’s
action” to avert war in the
time of crisis.
In a speech, read in his absence dur
ing the rinsing moments of the first
session of his reign, the monarch re
viewed the grave events of Septem
ber and declared:
“The cause of peace was powerfully
aided by the timely action of the
President of the United States of
America.
“The desire of all peoples not to be
drawn into war with one another is
manifest and significant, and every
where men and women share with me,
I am convinced, the feeling of deep
thankfulness that imminent peri! was
thus averted.
"I pray that with passing of this
peril, a new era may have opened for
Europe.”
The time-honored phrase “my rela
tions with foreign powers continue to
be friendly” took on new’significance
in the light of the four-power Munich
accord partitioning Czechoslovakia.
The king described his “deep
anxiety” during the Czech-German
crisis. He spoke of Premier Mus
solini’s “valuable . suport” for Prime
Minister Chamberlain)? prcfposal to
Chancellor Hitler for the conference
of Italian, British, French and Ger 1
man statesmen.
The new Parliament session opens
Tuesday. ,« . U#
Sees Wallace
Wrong About
2-Price System
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist »
Washington, Nov. 4.—Secretary of
Agriculture Henry A. Wallace tack
les a formidable adversary when he
resents adverse cri-
f *
Capper
his own time particularly to the
World War era, when our farmers
overdid themselves, under the impres
sion that war prices for their crops
were going to last forever. It was a
boom which burst like all booms, and
the victims of the explosion still are
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tion in the social security program.
As chairman of appropriations in 1937
he set a record of opposing practi
cally every proposal to increase any
sort of expenditure.
Not far behind him are Representa
tives D. L. Ward and Victor S. Bryant,
who headed appropriations and fin
ance, respectively, in the last House.
Both strove with might and main to
keep down State spending, and as
both are candidates for speaker in
J. 939 they’ll doubtless run more than
ever toward the tightwad side.
Senators Jack Joyner and J. H.
Clark, of Bladen, likewise were list
ed among the “let’s go slow” boys in
1937. They certainly haven’t changed.
The sole lay member—as opposed to
legislative—is A. S. Brower, who is
reputedly tarred with the same “eco
nomy” stick as the others.
Senators Bell and Clark will not be
back in the 1939 General Assembly
and so do not even have to bother
about suiting the folks back homew
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
ticism of his farm
program by Senator
Arthur Capper of
Kansas. Secretary
Wallace undoubted
ly is a highly scien
tific farmer. He al
so is a capable eco
nomist. His figuring
hasn’t yet solved our
agricultural problem
but maybe it is on
its way toward do
ing so. His difficul
ties date back to
causes long before
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 4,1938
Four Confess Kidnapings And Murder
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These four men, all with police records, were rounded up by G-Men in New
York, and turned over to local authorities, in connection with and today con
fessed the kidnap-murder of Arthur Fried, wealthy White Plains contractor.
They allegedly admitted two other kidnapings. Top, left to right: John Virga,
Demetrius Gula. Bottom, left to right: Joseph Sacoda, a tpresent in Sing
Sing prison, and William Jacknis.
Quartet Confesses
Trio Os Kidnapings
And One Cremation
New York, Nov. 4. —(AF) —An assis
tant district attorney announced to
day that four men, after being ques
tioned all night, had confessed to two
kidnapings and the kidnap-cremation
of Arthur Fried, White Plains, N. Y.,
business :nan.
The assistant prosecutor, Joseph
Rosenblum, said the confession had
been obtained from Stephen Sacoda,
a Sing Sing convict; D. Gula, 30;
William Jachrtis, 27, and John Virga,
34.
Rosenblum said they confessed to
kidnaping Norman Miller, 19, Ben
jamin Farber, Brooklyn business man,
and Fried, who disappeared last De
cember 4. Rosenblum said the men
confessed they killed Fried four days
Fourteen Die
With Crash Os
British Plane
St. Helier, Island of Jersey, Nov.
4.—(AP) —Fourteen persons were
killed today in one of Britain’s
worst airplane disasters when a
fully loaded passenger air liner
crashed in a field just after tak
ing off for Southampton, Engi
land.
The victims were nine men, four
women and one child, and includ
ed the pilot, Captain A. G. M. Cary,
the wireless operator, eleven pas
sengers and a man working in a
field where the plane crashed.
The plane was on a regular run
between Jersey, in the English
channel;, and Southampton. The
crash occurred at 10:52 a. m. (5:52
a. m. eastern standard time) short
ly after the take-off from Jersey
airport, which is several miles
from St. Helier. The plane was
seen to circle several times in the
iContiniied' ori Page Three.)
Third Convict Is
Put Into Solitary
In Theft Inquiry
Raleigh, Nov. 4. —(AP) —Oscar Pitts
State penal division supervisor, said
today a third convict had been placed
in solitary confinement in connection
with, the investigation of alleged theft
of printing supplies from Central Pri
son for sale outside.
Pitts said Thomas Smith, 23, sent
enced in Rowan in 1935 to five to ten
years for larceny, was the latest man
under suspicion. Already placed in
solitary were Tom Moore and C. C.
Gurley, who were sent up from Guil
ford and Wayne counties.
after kidnaping him, and burned the
body in the furnace of an East Side
social hall.
MURDER CHARGES WILL BE
PRESSED AGAINST QUARTET
New York, Nov. 4. (AP) —The dis
trict attorney announced today mur
der charges would be pressed against
four alleged members of a “kidnap
syndicate” accused of slaying Arthur
Fried, a White Plains business man,
and kidnaping two Brooklyn residents
who were released after ‘ransom pay
ments.
At the same time, officials announc
ed that parts of a human jaw bone,
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Sabotage In
German Ship
Blast Seen
Six Inquiries Launch
ed Into Explosion
Sinking Craft in Oak
land Harbor
Oakland, Cal., Nov. 4.—(AP) —Evi-
dence of possible sabotage arose to
day as six investigations were push
ed into the sinking of the German
liner Vancouver yesterday after a ter
rific explosion below the water line.
Efforts were to be made today to
raise the 477-foot vessel from a mud
bank in Oakland estuary, where she
settled, sterndown, after the blast.
Four members of the crew of 54 were
injured. Eight passengers on the ship
were not harmed, and called the ex
perience “tremendously exciting.”
An exhaustive investigation last
night by District Attorney Earl War
ren, Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents, and other officials brought a
closely guarded statement from War
ren that “we are of the opinion the
explosion was not in the engine room
or in the ship itself.”
Because of international complica
tions, Warren declined to say the ex
plosion was the work of a saboteurs
until the vessel could be raised and
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy tonight and Sat
urday, probably occasional show
ers; warm tonight.
Pension Racket Will Be
Big Factor In Elections
Babson Says “Ham and Eggs” Utopia Dangled
Before Voters by Politicians Is Menace to Na
tional Security; Industry Can Stand no More
BY ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1938, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
Babson Fark, Mass., Nov. 4. —Next
Tuesday a new force in Ameiican po
litics will elect and defeat many can
didates. From Maine to California the
old age pension supporters will swing
the balance in many a tigtyt contest.
Graft, doles and unneeded relief are
a bad enough burden for the nation
to ca-ry. feat the-political exploiting
of these fantastic pension schemes is
a real menace to the nation’s security
Every one of the ideas —from the ori
ginal Townsend scheme to the current
ham-and-eg^s-for-California version—
could'give us a period of wild infla
tion and end up by bankrupting the
nation.
Quoted Without Consent.
Armed, however, with quotation;!!
from prominent economists, the man
agers of these pension schemes build |
up a terrific following. I find, for in- 1
Japan Plans
To Denounce
Old Treaty
Nine - Power Accord
Pledged Integrity of
China; Tokyo Galls It
Obsolete
Tokyo,- Nov. 4. —(AP); —Thte Japan
ese foreign office spokesman today
announced that Japan was consider
ing denunciation of the 1922 nine
power treaty by which the United
States, Japan and seven other powers
pledged respect for China’s independ
ence and territorial integrity and pro
mised efforts to maintain equal com
mercial opportunities in China.
Japan, he said, considers obsolete
the agreement to which the United
States is a signatory, and is examin
ing a tri-power pact among Japan,
Japanese-supported Manchoukuo and
a new Chinese regime dis
placement of the Chiang Kai-Shek
government. Japan believes negotia
tions with individual powers over in
terests in China are possible, how
ever.
“Japan considers the nine-power
pact obsolete,” the spokesman said.
“Whether we will denounce it or with
draw has not yet been decided. The
government is examining the advan
tages of the creation of a tri-power
pact.”
Such a treaty ostensibly would guar
antee Chinese territorial integrity up
on completion of the present Chinese-
Japanese war.
(The Washington State Department
published last night a hitherto unan
nounced memorandum saying the re
sult of a nine-power conference in
Brussels last year was “the expressed
serving of notice that the settlement
—of the Chinese-Japanese conflict —
ultimately arrived at must be consis
tent with the principles of the nine
power treaty and satisfactory to the
conference powers.)
Developments concerning foreign
commercial interests in China furnish
ed the background to the nine-power
treaty problem.
Wilson Claims He
Didn’t Purposely
Fraud Dunn Bank
Raleigh, Nyv. 4.—(AP) E. W. Wil
son, of Salemberg, former legislator,
denied in Fereral court today that he
had intentionally defrauded the First
Citizens Bank & Trust Company
branch of any money. Wilson is charg
ed along with E. B. Graham, cashier
of’ the branch with misapplying sl,-
067 in bank funds.
Wilson testified he had discovered
the bank had charged items to his
account for which he was not respon
sible and had failed to credit him with
deposits he had made at the bank.
Questioning brought out that Wilson
had not kept a close tab on his bank
affairs, apparently, and that he often
let his statements remain at the bank
months at a time. The Sampson coun
ty merchant and farmer testified, how
ever, that when he wrote the checks
on which the charges are based that
ha. thought he had ample funds in the
bank to care for them.
Graham pleaded nolo contedere
when the case was called and appear
-6d B.S the government s first witness
against the defendant.
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EXCEPT SUNDAY
stance, that I am quoted on the sub
ject of increasing the velocity of
money in the “bibls” describing “Life
Begins At Fifty For Californians”. So
right here let me say that I have been
quoted without my knowledge or con
sent and that I am 130 per cent op
posed to the “nam and eggs” and si
milar pension schemes.
All Volet's have to do is to look at
Liberia and Coloroda. Abe.TsarF was
elected three years aro in A iv »erta to
give everyone $25 a month. The plan
was a “bust” and the province has
been in trouble ever since. After a
year’s experience with her $45 per
month system, Colorado is now ready
to guit. Revenues which should be
going to schools, highways, hospitals,
jails, and to the really needy among
the aged are being paid to every one
over 63 whether needy or not. The
State is so poor now that the pensions
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Bolsters the Franc
' xotSHK;::
Paul Reynaud (above) is the new
French Finance Minister, switching
jobs with Paul Marchandeau, who
acquired the portfolio of Minister of
Justice. Reynaud predicted the de
pression long before the 1929 crash.
France now looks to him to re
establish the country financially.
(Central Preee)
Forest Fires
Creep Across
Dozen States
(By The Associated Press J
Hundreds of fires crept across
drought-seared timber and prairie
lands of more than a dozen states to
day. The fire area extended from the
Ohio river to the Gulf and from the
Atlantic seaboard states to sections
west of the Mississippi.
On the fire lines were forest rang
ers, convicts, farmers, CCC men and
WPA workers and volunteers. Some
crews in Kentucky and West Virginia
withdrew hurriedly last night to avoid
being trapped by flames. Rains check
ed the flames in some parts of the
far-flung fire area, but in others stub
born blazes spread despite efforts of
weary fire-fighters.
Fires dotted an area of 1,600 square
miles in southern West Virginia,
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Condemned Man Saved As
Lawyers Race With Time
Jefferson City, Mo., Nov. 4. —(AP)
—Three attorneys won a spectacular
race against time early today to ob
tain a writ of error and prolong the
life of Oscar Ralph Ashworth, con- j
fessed kidnaper, for at least ten ■
months.
While the attorneys drove from St.
Joseph, Mo., through a blinding rain
storm, reporting their progress by
telephone to Warden Frank Ramsey
at the State Prison, Guy Silvers, de
puty Supreme Court clerk, waited in
his office to sign the necessary papers
to save Ashworth from the State’s
lethal gas chamber.
Originally scheduled to die at mid
night, Ashworth, who pleaded guilty
to kidnaping a seven-year-old St.
Joseph girl, was given an hour’s de-
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Drop Order
For 15 Pet.
Cuts In Pay
President Notified Os
Decision at Chicago;
Action Motivated 1 by
Seriousness of Situa
tion and in Hope of
Better Solution Os
Problem
Chicago, Nov. 4.—(AP)-hJ. J. Pel
ley, president of the Association pf
American Railroads, announced today
the major roads of the nation would
withdraw their present proposal of fa
15 percent wage cut for nearly 1,-
000,000 workers.
Pelley said he was sending a tele
gram to President Roosevelt inform-’
ing him that “the railroads are taking
this action not because 'they 'agrfee
with the conclusion reached by the
fact-finding board, but because * they
recognize the gravity of thq situa
tion, and because they hope that out
of it will come, through the. coope
ration of all concerned, a sounder
and more equitable transportatibn
system in this country.”
Earlier, railroad management was
framing its final decision on whether
to press or withdraw its proposal for
the pay reductions. Bidden to qoun_
sel by the Association of American
Railroads, officers of the nation's
principal carriers were asked Jo ac
cept or reject the recommendation of
President Roosevelt’s fact-finding
board that they abandon the wage cut
plan. .
In preliminary sessions yesterday,
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Roosevelt Is
To Discuss
Entire Term
Whole Range of New
Deal Legislation To
Be Included in To
night’s Address
Hyde Park, N. Y., Nov. 4. —(AP)—
President Roosevelt disclosed todfiy
he would discuss in his campaign
speech tonight all New Deal legisla
tion passed in the last five years. He
said it would cover the Wagner labor
relations and social security acts, care
of crippled and destitute children and
other laws.
Asked if he was ready to discuss
possible revision of the Wagner act,
in the light of the expressed opposi
tion to revision by the Labor Rela
tions Board, the President said every
law needs improbement and always
Will.
In response to other questions, he
said while the Federal administra
tion could not be held responsible for
coercion of WPA workers by either
Democratic or Republican local poli
ticians, it was making every effort to
keep such coercion to a minimum.
All possible steps, he added, were be
ing taken to keep local politicians and
others from being mixed up in WPA.
At Washington, meanwhile, House
investigators received testimony that
an Ohio communist, in “absolute
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lay when his lawyers notified the
warden by telephone from Moberly
i that they had been delayed by the
rain. They arrived here and the papers
, were signed at. 12:30 a. mi
j The writ of efror serves as an au
• tomatic stay of eyecution to enable
j the lawyers to get the case before the
' Supreme Court It will be returnable
1 in the May term, and the case. prob
ably will not be heard before Septem
ber, court attaches said. The lawyers
I were not required to disclose their
J new evidence in obtaining the writ.
They were called into the case yester
i! day after Ashworth’s wife and the
I mother of the kidnaped girl made a
■ I futile appeal for executive clemency.
One of the lawyers said an inves
. I tigation convinced them there had
- j been an error in sentencing.