North Carolina Newspapers

HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR Fmd H ° me iji sn , firm ru.ntl y ~... M. E. Ministers Are Given Appointments In The Coming Year 1938 Ginnings Far Behind Last Year Washington, Nov. 21.—(AP) — The Census Bureau reported today cotton of this year's growth ginned prior to November 14 totaled 10,- 751,758 running bales, counting 142,310 round bales as half bales, and excluding tiAtrrs, compared with 14,947,111 running bales and 267,961 round bales last year, and 10,767,140 and 225,575 for 1936. American Egyptian cotton in cluded totaled 12,578 bales, compar ed with 6,807 last year. Ginnings by states, with cmopar ative figures for last year, includ ed: North Carolina* 312,383, and 628,886. Exemption Os Homesteads Not Ruinous Dally Dispatch Ilnreau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Ra’bi'gh, Nov. J2l. —Exemption of homesteads from taxation to the ex tent of S3OO would not wreck the fi nancial structure of local taxing units the Classification Amendment Com mission points out in the exhaustive report it made last week after months of studying the record. On the other hand, the commission reported that homestead exemption can be granted if the matter is look ed at solely in the light of its effect upon local finances. On these phases of the question the report said. “At a S3OO exemption level (the one (Continued on Page Six.) Diversion And Secondary Roads Are Battleground f Constitutional Amendment To Be Sought, But Will Be Opposed by Governor; City vs. Country Line-Up on Secondary Road Work Project Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Nov. 21. —There doesn’t seem to be much possibility of any legislative battle in the 1939 General Assembly over where highway rev eniie is coming from; but two mat e's in connection with spending of R'ese revenues are certain to come in 0r m °re than a modicum of debate and wrangling. The fighting will rage along two 'ants, diversion and secondary roads. Hot Fight on Diversion. The diversion issue is sure to be one ° the most hotly fought in the ses sion. No more intensive campaign as been conducted in North Carolina n ’ 10, these many years than has been waged by the North Carolina Fe- Ja w Um * ndus tries Committee, head by former State Senator S. Gilmer parger, and some dozen affiliated Hxntfr vrs on Wtei T s «| s op All Henderson and Vance County Minist ers Returned; Several Important Changes Announced As North Carolina Conference A^fq^rhs Elizabeth City, Nov. 21.—(AP) — The North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was adjourned by Bishop Clare Pur cell this morning after appointments of ministers had been announced, and the conference had adopted a resolu tion denouncing the “barbaric cruel ties” imposed .upon the Jews in Ger many, and “everywhere else.” Rev. Dwight Ware, of Rocky Mount introduced the resolution calling for the "extension of Christian sympathy” to the persecuted Jews and an endor sement of all movements with Jewish relief as their goal. A standing vote was taken. There was a single dissenter, the first time during the five-day conference any opposition has been voiced to a mo tion. William Burbank Penny, of Wil mington, was admitted to the con ference as an elder. He has been preaching in Jacksonville, Ala. His charge in the North Carolina Confer ence will be at Belhaven. New Bern District. El L. Hillman, presiding elder; Fre mont, C. W. Robbins; Goldsboro, St. Paul, W. C. : ,Ball; Goldsboro circuit, J. B. Thompson; Greenville, T. M. Grant, G*, B. Starling;- Grimesland, W. A. Crow; Kinston, Queen street, A. S. Parker; LoGrange, J. C. Hum ber; Washington, L. B. Jones; Wil liamson, S. A. Maxwell; Morehead City, B. H. Houston; New Bern, Cen tenary, C. B. Culbreth; Mt. Olive- Calypso, R. G. Dawson. Fayetteville District. W. V. Mcßae, presiding elder; (Continued on Page Three.) organizations whose primary interests lie in having good roads for the State. The P. I. C.’s primary objective at this time is adoption by the assembly of a constitutional amendment which would summit to the people for their action a change ip the organic law forever ‘barring diversion oi highway revenues to any purposes other than those (Erectly connected with con struction and maintenance of toads. To do this it will take a 60 per cent vote of each House’s membership on each of three separate readings of the proposed amendment, a task that even the well-organized P. I. C. is going o find a tremendous one. The campaign has been carried into every nook and cranny of the State. Before the primaries candidates were sounded out on their views and were (Continued on Png® Six.) ONLY daily newspaper Nazi Envoy Recalled •ivi- . •J/ 11limn / & . .SSMBSeSr nniMMfomWTffo «v Dr. Hans Dieckhoff, Nazi ambassa dor to the United States (above), has been ordered by Adolf Hitler to return to Berlin, to report on America’s “curious attitude” to ward Germany. (Central Pres*) Republicans Anxious For * Aid Os Antis Washington, Nov. 21. —(AP) —Prom- inent Republican senators disclosed today they we*e eager to retain the bi-partisan coalition which shelved the Roosevelt court bill and fought various other administration meas ures. These men, although elated by their party’s congressional gains, said Re publicans in the 1939 Senate and House should exercise cooperation of anti-administration Democrats, who heretofore have joined them in debate and on roll calls. Some politicians have predicted that the rfecent election would tend to weld divergent elements of the Democratic party together for a com mon front fight against the Repub lican minority. Senator Vanderberg, Republican, Michigan, however, expressed the view that the Republican gains “have not weakened the coalition.” “There will be no change in attitude on basic issues,” he said, although he added that no “purely political is sues” there might be less cooperation between Republicans and dissident Democrats in the future. Insurgents Claim New Ground Taken In Eastern Spain Hendaye, France, Nov. 21. —(AP)— Insurgent armies hammered today on the government lines on the Segre river west banks in notheast Spain claimed to have captured ground in the Cesros sector. Insurgent communications from the Segre front, only active battleground in spain, reported the capture of 1,200 prisoners, but the extent of gains wag not mentioned. Government dispatches considered the insurgents slightly bettered their position. The insurgent attack was aimed at reducing the salient west of the river, from which fisher men threatened insurgent communica tions. ' ■ UtATHCR FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair, with rising tem perature tonight and Tuesday, fol lowed by showers in the moun tains at night. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOBEMBER 21,1938 PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA High Court Will Review SitdownCase Lower Court Decision That Employer May Discharge Such Work men To Be Reviewed By High Ctiurt in Case Coming Up From Chicago. Washington, . Nov. 21. —(AP) —The Supreme Court agreed today to review a lower court decision that an em ployer may discharge workmen who engage in a sitdown strike. This rul ing by the Federal Circuit Court at Chicago upheld the Sansteel Metal lurgical Corporation of North Chicago in discharging employees who seized two buildings in 1937. After holding possession for nine days, the workmen were driven out by police with the use of tear and nauseating gas. f The court also re-affirmed a pre vious decision holding that the Gen eral Talking Pictures Corporation of New York City had infringed patents owned by the Wesitern Electric Com pany and others for use in making talking pictures. 2,000 Deaths From Fire In Chinese City Shanghai, Nov; 21.—(AP) —A five-day fire which razed Chang sha, capital of Hunan province, was reported today to have caus ed 2,000 deaths and brought the execution as three Chinese offi cials accused of starting the con flagration. Commencing last Sunday, the fire, started in anticipation of the city’s capture by a slowly advancing Japa nese column, reduced Changsha to ruins. Chinese officials at Chungking,- the temporary capital, declared the fires started both accidentally and through the “premature zeal” of local authorities anxious to carry out China's “scorched earth” policy of leaving little of value to the invaders. The Japanese still weVe 40 miles short of the city and Chinese army commanders reported Japanese at tacks had been repulsed along the Yochow-Changsha railway. At the same time, Chinese said they had recaptured Thungyang, twenty miles east of Sienning, which is 50 miles south of Hankow. They said 500 Japanese had been killed in the engagement. Stock Prices Are Yet Slow New York, Nov. 21.—(AP) —At- tempts to rally the’stock market be hind aircrafts met with faint re sponse today, and many recent fa vorites shifted over an extremely nar row route. Dealings were sluggish throughout and near the fourth hour trends were slightly mixed, with nu merous issues unchanged. Tension over foreign affairs appeared to have lessened, and business news seeming ly was helpful, but speculative forces on the whole maintained a somewhat skeptical attitude toward the mar ket on the theory that last week’s “correction” of the prolonged up swing might go a bit further. Bonds and commodities were rath er spotty along with the principal Eu ropean securities markets. American Radiator 16 1-4 American Telephone 147 1-2 American Tob B SS Anaconda 34 Atlantic Coast Line 25 1-2 Atlantic Refining 22 1-2 Bendix Aviation 22 3-8 Bethlehem Steel 72 Chrysler 80 ✓Columbia Gas & Elec 7 1-8 Commercial Solvents 10 1-8 Continental Oil Co 8 7-8 Curtiss Wright 6 3-4 DuPont 143 1-4 Electric Pow & Light 11 1-8 General Electric 42 1-2 General Motors ... 49 Montgomery Ward & Co ..... 49 1-8 Reynolds Tob B 45 Southern Railway 18 1-8 Standard Oil N J 52 U S Steel 65 7-8 *thrtstmos J*. LESLIE. Pthhi MM . . . hende Hath* Htsirai th Two Good Neighbors Meet IBIBIIM in ' 11 ! I ■§ hMBBp i Ik Mg $ m Mgmmm |g| g SB ■:Sh - HFTjillplir - T 7 pipi >flni \C \ i PlfV* ' Jag I ■lfcA/ .•■■■• MHtfßk' - i iHk jul § Prom the northern side of the world’s longest undefended frontier, Wil liam L. MacKenzie King (left), Prime Minister of Canada, went to Wash ington, D. C., to sign the history-making trade pact between the United States, Great Britain and Canada. He’s shown chatting with Secretary of State Cordell Hull. (Central Press) Britain Plans Lease In South America For Jews Roosevelt Views Chickamauga Dam Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 21. (AP)—'President Roosevelt arriv ed here at 9 a. m., central stand ard time today for a motor tour of Chickamauga, TVA dam and Civil War battlefields. Before starting on their four hour sight-seeing drive, the Presi dent and Mrs. Roosevelt were wel comed at Chattanooga by a group of State Democratic leaders, in cluding Governor Gordon Brown ing, Governor-elect Prentiss Coop er, Senator Kenneth McKellar, and Seri itqr-elect Tom Stewatt. Governor E. D. Rivers, of Geor gia, also was in the party. Congress Aid Is Needed In / Parking Fight Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Nov. 21. —North Carolina is in danger of losing many tourists and resulting revenues thereform un less Congress comes to its aid in straightening out the problem of right-of-way for the Blue Ridge Park way through the Qualla Indian re servation west of Asheville. There has been no official state ment or indication of the next steps contemplated by the State Highway Commission, but it is becoming in creasihgly apparent that simplest so lution of the matter would be a spe cial act of Congress authorizing trans fer to the Federal Parkway Service, either by condemnation or otherwise, of the necessary right-of-way from Soco Gap to Cherokee. Up to the present, completion of the parkway has been made impos sible by refusal of the Cherokee In dians to agree to any sort of propo sition whereby they would give the government the necessary 400 foot right of way through the reservation. Every effort has been brought to bear upon them to exchange the right of way for even more valuable lands elsewhere, but so far without success. The State, it seems, is prevented from acquiring the right-of-way thro ugh condemnation by refusal of the secretary of the interior to grant its permission to institute proceedings, a permission which is necessary under the law. The whole situation appears to be involved in a legal and political tan gle so involved as to require drastic methods to unravel it. The special act method was sug gested by the Interior Department, and it seems likely that special ef forts will be made to get such an act passed at the coming congressional session. Slight Gains For Cotton New York, Nov. 21.—(AP) —Cotton futures opened one point lower to two higher. Improved Liverpool cables were partly offset by December’ li quidation and hedge selling. March advanced from 8.42 to 8.47, shortly after the first half hour, when the list showed net gains of two to five points. The market ruled steady about midday. March sold at 8.49 and the list was four to seven points net higher. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Chamberlain Tells Commons 10,000 Square Miles in Brit ish Guiana May Be Ac quired; Some Might Be Sent To East Africa; Wave on Wane London, Nov. 21—(AP)—Prime Min ister Chamberlain told the HoUse of Commons today of plans to lease at -least 10,-000-square gaailes ip -British Guiana to provide homes for .German Jews seeking refuge abroad from the Nazi regime’s anti-Jewish campaign. The prime minister also disclosed that negotiations had made favorable progress for the settlement of Jewish refugees in Tanganyika, formerly German East Africa, and other ter ritories :n Africa. Tanganyika now is held by Brit ain under League of Nations mandate, and Chamberlain last week declared the British government was not con sidering its return to Germany to sat isfy Chancellor Hitler’s colonial de mands. Chamberlain’s disclosure made prior to the opening of a scheduled general debate on the question of minorities in Europe. In Berlin, Germany’s eleven-day anti-Semitic drive, which has depriv ed German Jews of virtually all free dom and reduced tens of thousands to destitution, showed signs of abate ment. • » Window-smashing and decrees will have eliminated by the end of the year all retail business owned by Ger man Jews. One-third of Jewish-owned stores will be taken over by non-Jews and the rest simply abandbned. Present owners will r not be permit ted to salvage ready cash by sales or auctions. They have been told to “li quidate” and, with fertv exceptions, have been forbidden to operate their businesses during the time remain ing before the decree wiping them out becomes effective January 1. Jewish relief societies cannot care for tens of thousands who apply for help and the doors of many still are closed. No foreign relief societies have been established in Berlin. There was at least a temporary end to the wholesale arrests and a recent sharp decline in German exports may prove a momentary life-saver for at least for the Jewish export trade. Htgh~Up New Dealer Says Administration Scandals ft Rife Under Brain Trust By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Nov. 21.—“1f you were running for the New Deal and had the necessary authority or • influenec. what, in the light of the last election, would you do next?” I put this question to a friend of mine, a friend who oc cupies an important government post, but he probably wouldn’t continue to occupy it much lon ger if I named him. Anyway! he under stands the New Deal thoroughly, and, be ing an excellent lib- Morgenthan eral, is in sympathy with it in all its main essentials. “Well,’’ he said, O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Britain Not To Let Army Help France Considers Fleet and Growing Air Force Sufficient Guarantee if War Comes Paris, Nov. 21.—(AP)—Indications that Great Britain would refuse to train a large army to ai.l Prench troops on the continent in the event of war appeared likely today lend an icy atmosphere to Premier Dala dier’s talks with Prime Minister Chamberlain this week. Two days before Chamberlain ,j* scheduled to arrive, with Viseouiit Halifax, foreign minister, . sources close to the government sui.t that tha British premier again had indicated conviction that his country’s large fleet and growing air force were a sufficient contribution to the British- French military cooperation. , .? * ' Circles close to the foreign office reported the question of renewed ef forts to facilitate the departure and resettlement of Jewish refugees frbha Germany would be discussed during; the visit of Chamberlain and Halifax. Discussions between the British and French ministers, it was ascertained will deal chiefly with defense against possible attacks from the fascist partners, Italy and Germany. \ . ■ This was decided upon, politicians* said, because it was felt that inter national protest against Nazi attacks upon Jews forced a temporary shelv ing of Chamberlain’s protect for fur ther appeasement of Chancellor Hit ler, possibly with colonial territory. The French attitude has been' that its army of approximately 700,000 man cannot bear the brunt of a war a gainst Germany and Italy. > 2 Tar Heels Die In Crash Os Oil Truck Emporia, Va„ Nov. 21.—(AP) —Two North Carolinians, were cremated |n the cab of their oil truck near bare yesterday when their heavy vehicle smashed into a train and burst ipto flames. State Trooper Dameron, who In vestigated, said the men had been identified as Ernest Keene, the driver, of Four Oaks, N. C., and Arthur M. Brown, of Winston-Salem. Highway 301 was blocked for hefty ly four hours as the truck and! It* trailer burned. t - . . 1 t fc J Germany Hot ’ A * . About Plans To Aid Jews Berlinv Nov. 21. — (AP) —British Prime Minister Chamberlain's dis closure that Tanganyika, Ger many’s former east African colony might be used for settling Jew*, fell like a bombshell here today. , The Nazi press for some days has been warning that “any such attempt would meet with the sharp est protest.” ( It came amid the first signs of abatement of Germany’s eleven day anti-Semitic drive which has deprived Germany’s Jews of itff tually all freedom and reduced tens of thousands to destitution. Many Germans interpret plans to settle German Jews in their former colonies as a move to pre vent the return of such war-.ost possessions to Germany. One au thoritative commentator declared “the Tanganyika step is an ob vious attempt to prejudice the colonial question.” “I immediately would start a genuine, searching investigation of relief. I'd make it clear that I didn’t care Who might be hit. There undoubtedly is a widespread impression that our relief methods (not relief itself but its ad ministration) have created a national •Tammany. I don’t say it’s true, but I myself suspect it. I'd prove that,this suspicion. is unfounded, and I’d do it conclusively. Or else I'd let the Sus pects take the consequences. "Next, our new labor laws have worked unsatisfactorily. Employers believed that they’re discriminated A gainst. I’m for compulsory collective bargaining all right, but I think may be the workers should be required to incorporate, accepting a somewhat larger share of responsibility in re turn for larger rewards. And there should be better provision for media (Continued on Page Vooxg j