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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR WILSON TO REMAIN IN THE U. S. As Forest Fire Raged Through Southern California ~ * Ui iyy . -V- ?'it k ,4 ~- >,y /: j^^Bfcitl!M:V y l -v:’B»L Ji iik * rr i% P® I #--t- M-Hfrw ■ '®w\ \ !| Jfl MP i l »-#l|'§T y \ Lt-, < ■|g . IP ml 1 _ L^^riMMPlß I | • sjs. *■|S|?!BWp>'■•« jp(jß ' 1...... .<.. :x-..... irmsi^Siji^ygi^ty™» I | yn 1 W 1 J 1 f ihP* \ ’ 4 *mffl | ■illj|EWKl f f **■ * \ Here is a view of once-lovely Las Flores Canyon as roaring flames destroyed hundreds of homes, includ ing many belonging to movie stars, in southern California. An army of fire-fighters was enlisted in tha battle against the forest fire which raged over a 200-mile mountain area. Leaf Exports This Year Top Decade Unmanufactured To bacco Export Reaches Highest Point Since 1929 Washington, Nov. 26.-j(AP)—Un manufactured tobacco stood out today as nne of the brightest spots of the nation’s export trade picture. Commerce Department figures dis closed that value of leaf exports for the ten months of this year, through October, was the highest in a 10 year period dating from 1929. During these months 379,680,000 pounds of tobacco brought in $122,000,- COO or about $12,000,000 more than the January to October period in any previous year from 1929. The second best year in the ten was 1930. when 469,500,000 pounds brought in $110,000,000. The reason for the low er volume in 1938 and the higher value was a price increase. About three-fourths of the nations tobacco exports, most of which is the bright leaf type grown in the Caro linas and Georgia, goes to the Unit ed Kingdom. Deny Quints Be Exhibited At World’s Fair Toronto, Nov. 25. — (AP) —(Canadian Press)—Olive Dionne, commenting on the report his quintuplet daughters may appear at the New York World’s Pair next year, said that “under no circumstance would the five girls be moved from northern Ontairo.” Previously, World Fair officials in New York said the way had been cleared for exhibition of the children, ar 'd the parents had given informal permission. Dr. Allen Brown, consulting phy sician of the quintuplets, also op posed the New York offer. T am confident the guardians would not - make the grave mistake of send mg the children to the World’s Fair. After all they are no exhibits,” he said. He admitted, however,', that this Was a question for the guardian to settle. mvsMit *thristmos iu'ttfrrrsim I THI E^g'; c R I E T^ERV l OE a g F Winds Aiding Fight Against Forest Fires a Los Angeles, Nov. 26.—(AP)—Shift ing capricious winds, which for three days had almost halted the spread of Southern California’s two disas trous forest and brush blazes, appear ed to be aiding fatigued fire fighters in the Santa Monica and. San Ber nardino mountains. Neither conflagration was under control, but officials, who late yester day feared additional millions of dol lars damage was inevitable, took en couragement from reports of progress in several areas. Most dangerous point, however, was in upper Mandeville canyon in the Santa Monica mountains, west of Los- Angeles. Ralph Scott, city fire chief, order ed concentration of 800 men along a six-mile front to keep the flames from breaking across Mulboland fire way and into the fertile San Fernado val ley. Lower in the same canyon are nu merous expensive homes but Scott said none of them were in immediate danger. Three firemen, burned when a blaze trapped them in a nearby canyon, returned to the fine after emergency treatment. Democrats Have Sum Left In Chest After Election Raleigh, Nov. 26.—(AP)—The Dem ocratic State Executive committee re ceived contributions of $31,454.91 and spent $23,638,203 during the fall elec tion campaign, Chairman R. Gregg Cherry reported today to Thad Eure, secretary of state. A balance of $9.- 552.13 was on hand November 25, Cherry said. He termed as “splendid showing” the fact 8,409 persons contributed to the party’s campaign chest. There were 7,043 gifts ranging from 25 cents to $5.00. # Twenty-seven persons gave SIOO each, and five S2OO each, and there was one contributions-of $250 and one of SSOO. Hyde Has Best Record Safety ;MecklenburgW orst Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter HoteL Raleigh, Nov. 26—Hyde county had the best highway safety record in North Carolina for the first ten months of this year, while Mecklen burg had the worst, according to fig ures obtained from Ronald Hocutt, director of the Highway Safety Di- There were no traffic deaths in pither Hyde or Mitchell counties, but the eastern bailiwick took first honor by reason of having only two mjunes against half a dozen in the mountain JI At the other extreme, there were 42 deaths in Mecklenburg, eight more •han in the closest competing unit, 8 Mecklenburg hogged all the worsts, with Charlotte’s 19 traffic deaths be ing nearly twice as many as in any other North Carolina city. The coun ty’s 21 deaths outside of incorporated ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED Sweringen Sale Attacked In The Courts Fraud Charge In Sale Os Rail And Realty Interests To George A* Ball; $5,000,000 Dam age Suits Filed Indianapolis, Nov. 26.—-(AP) —Sale of the vast Van Sweringen railroad empire to a syndicate composed of New York financiers v/as attacked to day on the grounds of fraud in a $5,- 000,000 damage suit filed in Federal court here against George A. Ball, Munice, Ind., multimillionaire. The complaint gave as a co-defen dant, George and Francis Ball Foun dation, charitable and benevolent as sociations formed by the Munice man shortly after the acquisition of the Van Sweringen brothers rail and realty interests in 1935. The plaintiffs Robert R. Young, Newport, R. 1., A. P. Kirby, Convent, N. J., and the Seaboard Co. Limited, of Nassau, Bahama Islands. Sales of the various stocks and se curities in the Alleehy Corporation, parent company for the Van Swerin gen interests, originally was to young Kirky and Frank F. Kolbie, of New York, for a purported $6,375,000, of which $4,000,000 was in cash and the remainder in a promissory note ma turing May 5, 1939. Kolbie sold out to the Youngs and the Seaboard Co., shortly after the properties were acquired. „ GOVERNOR BROWNING SUFFERS AN ATTACK Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 26—(AP)— Governor Gordon Browning was stricken with a heart ailment shortly after breakfast this morning. At noon, however, his physician Dr. S. Teachout, said he was asleep and resting comfortably. towns was second only to Buncombe which had 23. Greensboro was second high in city deaths, with 10. At the other extreme among the ten largest cities was Wilmington with only one traffic death this year through October. High Point, Greens boro’s Guilford county neighbor, had Among the other cities fatalities from highway accidents were. Win ston-Salem and Asheville 9; Durham, Rocky Mount and Gastonia 7; Ra leigh Fayetteville, Wilson, and Golds boro’3* Hickory, Kinston, Greenville and Thomasville 2; Statesville, Eliza beth City and New Bern 1. Cities of over 10,000 in which no fa talities were reported were Salisbury, Concord, Shelby and Henderson. Grand total of deaths for the state for the first ten months wah 756, while 6,295 were injured during the Continued on Page Five) HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 26, 1938 Hatiu Histmtrh IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Stock Yard Strike May End Monday Union Officials And Stock Y ard Heads Confer During Day On Means Os Settling Dispute That has Crip* ped Yards Washington, Nov. 26.—(AP) — Secretary Wallace told the Chica go Livestock Exchange today that the agriculture department was without authority to act in the strike which has tied up the Chicago stock yards. The exchange’s board of direc tors had asked the cabinet of ficer to lend his assistance in settling the labor dispute. Wallace called attention to the plans of the U. S. concilliation service of We labor deoartment to confer with representatives of stock yard and laborers today. Chicago, Nov. 26.—(AP)—Repre sentatives of the CIO conferred foi 'wo hours today with the officers of 'he Union Stock Yard and Transit Company in an attempt to end the strike which has suspended opera tions at the stock yards for five days. At the conclusion of the conference. Don Harris, regional chairman of Packing House Workers organizing committee, said negotions had been adjourned to 1:30 p. m. Monday. He declined to say whether an agreement had been reached with the company to forestall operations of the union yard of the A. F. L. local of livestock handlers which had offered to send in a crew at 6 a. m. Monday Company officials still were in con ference with Robert ifytheth and W. H. Rogers, with the Fed eral Department of Jpibor. Represent ing packing house workers organizing committee, which claimed to have pulled out 585 men in the strike were eight national and local officers. The union stock yard concerns were represented by their district general manager, W. J. O’Connor; Fred Mitchell, general superintendent, and their attorneys, Frank Towney and John Black. New Drug Fails To Save Woman From Sleeping Tablets Los Angeles. Nov. 26. —(AP) —Picro- toxin failed to save the life today of Mrs. Mildred Gross, who swallowed 150 sleeping tablets. She died shortly after 6 a. m. When brought to re ceiving hospital, she had no pulse respiration or reflex. Police Surgeon A. D. Carter gave her three injections of the recent medical discovery, placed her under an oxygen tent. She rallied, but could not hold the slight gain. Two Alcatraz Prisoners Get Terms Os Life San * Francisco, Nov. 26. —(AP) — First degree murder verdicts “with out capital punishment” were return ed by a federal jury here today a gainst James C. Lucas, 26, Texas rob ber, and Ruppert Franklin, 34, Ala bama murder, for slaying an Alcatraz guard in a futile attempt to escape last May 23. The jury’s recommendations meant that the two convicts, already serv ing life terms in the government pri son, will escape gas in the lethal chamber. The convicts were nervous when the verdict was read and Franklin’s hand shook. Judge Harold Louderback imme diately passed fife sentences on the two. Defense attorney Harold Faulkner asked for a motion for a new trial which was quickly denied. Alcatraz prison guards immediate ly surrounded the men, mancled them and hustled them from the court room ~WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, with sleet or snow on the coast, snow in the interior tonight and Sunday; not quite so cold tonight. weekly weather. For South Atlantic States: Some precipitation likely about middle and again at end of week, other wise generally fair; cold at be ginning of week, rising tempera tures Tuesday and Wednesday, somewhat colder Thursday some what warmer at end of week. French Smiles That Vanished £ &|| HB| sh vMmmmw* {M'iiijliiMHli VmL/" JPjpwi J V This picture shows part of thousands of French workers who obtained copies of the newly-published governmental decrees of Premier Daladier. However, their cheers changed to jeers at the lengthened working hours, tax additions, and no-strike ruling. A general strike was planned 84 Deaths Attributed To November Storm (By The Associated Press) Tumbling temperatures today and predictions of more snow spurred the task of digging out after the nation’s worst November storm in years. A unity of winds And snow that took at least 84 lives. Frigid weather prevailed gen erally from the east coast to the Rocky Mountains with New Eng land temperatures dropping below zero, to break a 60 year record for November, and it was 15 below in some sections of the New York Adirondacks. The clearing sky of the morn ing was temporary, with a fore cast of increasing cloudiness to be followed by snow along the east ern seaboard. Clearing skies and slowly rising temperatures speeded the task of mopping up in the worst November storm in years—a tempest of wind and snow that claimed at Dieckhoff To Tell Hitler U. S. Attitude By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Nov # 26. —Hans Hein rich Dieckhoff, German ambassador in Washington, who, as a sequel to the return of bur own | Berlin ambassador, has been called to Europe to enlighten Herr Hitler as to America’s “strange attitude” toward Nazi-ism —well, Am bassador Dieckhoff formerly was an en-’ thusiastic plugger for the Esperanto cult, the folk who I boost for the deve -1 lopment of an inter national language. I mm * Dieckhoff Their theory is that such a language not only will be convenient but also that it will make for an all-around understanding among peoples, mean ing harmony. That the scheme is a practicability may be doubtful but that’s immaterial. The point is that, not long ago, tue ambassador looked in at a Washing ton gathering of Esperantists. He didn’t see anyone he knew (not at first), for it had been several yec.rs since he had attended an 7sperantists’ meeting. But presently he was spotted by a veteran of the cult, Edwin Reed, a Washington lawyer, who had been well acquainted with him aforetime, in the days when Herr Dieckhoff him (Continued on Page Five) VETERAN PRINTER TO BE iBURIED SUNDAY Wilmington, Nov. 26. —(AP) —Fun- eral services for Lott M. LeGwin, 81, veteran printer and retired operator of two printing concerns, who died last night, will be conducted here Sunday afternoon. He was for many years connected with the old Wilmington Messenger and later with the Morning Star. FUBLISHKD EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY least 84 lives. Frigid weather prevailed generally however, from the east coast to the Rocky Mountains. Snow crested roads remained a menace to week end travellers, particular in rural areas. Airplanes and trains moved again on schedule. Bus schedules were still slowed somewhat by snow drifts in the east, but main highways in all states were open. Communication net works suffered minor damages Traffic accidents on icey streets and deaths due to over exertion added to the toll of lives. The storm causid 25 deaths in New York, New England counted 22 deaths, New Jersey 12, Peensylvania seven and the south five, Ohio 5, Maryland three, Michigan and Indiana two each and Missouri and Kansas one each. Hundreds of automobiles remained stalled in- the blizzard area, stretching roughly from New England to Ala bama and west to the Great Lakes. Burley Leaf Sales Start December 5 Washington, Nov. 26. —(AP) —The arrival of colder and damper weath er,to permit growers to complete stip ping—speeded burley tobacco to warehouse floors this week in pre paration for the opening of the sales the first week in December. Sales in the Kentucky burley belt will get underway at Lexington Dec. 5 Other markets will get underway the following day. Early shipments to warehouse floors were unusually small, the bur ley being of such poor taste, that few farmers attempted to improve their crop. The 1938 crop of flue cured tobacco in the Hamilton district of Ontario, which produces almost all of Ontario’s tobacco, is estimated to total 72,000,- 000 pounds, a 29 per cent increase over the 1937 production and more than 100 per cent over the 1936 yield. GoldsboroMan Is Killed In Fall From Hotel Window Abingdon, Va., Nov. 26. —(AP) —W. D. Moore, of Goldsboro, N. C., sup ervisor of the Abingdon burley tobac co market, was killed in a fall from his third floor hotel room today. Dr # Huntington Wolfe, Washington county coroner, reported, after an autopsy, death was caused by a brain hemorrhage caused by a basal fracture of the skull, the coroner re turned no official verdict. Moore came here yesterday to as sume his duties as sales supervisor. The bady will be ent to Goldsboro today. GRID SCORES Duke 7, Pitt 0. Army 14, Navy 7, 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY State Post Given Berlin Ambassador Diplomat To Be Con partment On German Affairs, After Hi* Week-end Conference With Roosevelt Washington, Nov. 26.—(AP)—Act ing Secretary Welles, of the State Department said today that Hugh Wilson, who arrived here today from his post as ambassador to Berlin, would be assigned to the State De partment for an indefinite period. Welles said Wilson would take up duties as a consultant as soon as he returns from a conference over the week-end with President Roosevelt at. Warm Springs, Ga. Welles said Wil son’s duties would be to advise State Department officials on German af fairs. Although no further indications were given, it was indicated that this action would be preliminary to Wil son’s permanent transfer from hjs Berlin post. It is probable that the German Am bassador Dieckhoff, who sailed this week for Berlin, would not return up til Wilson’s 'status is clarified. Other developments: Wendell Willkie, president Com monwealth and Southern Corporation,' predicted that utilities would soon bo in “as bad shape as the raildoads/’ if present administrations power po licies are continued. The policies of TVA and PWA have destroyed the market for utility fin ancing, preventing needed expansion. Pope Pius Is Some Better Reports Show Vatican City, Nov. 26.—(AP) —-All official comminuque said today that Pope Pious XI had “returned to a more or less normal condition” after a heart attack which had caused grave concern. The comminuque said “The Holy Father passed a calm night, resting without any disturbance. The im provement, which was noted yesterday evening, continued, happily, ao that this morning his holiness has re turned to a more or less normal con dition/’ Vatican sources said the 81-year old pontiff, although still weak, was able to get up from his bed and re ceive his Pugenia Cardinal Paschelli, papal secretary of stated He first received Cardinal Paschelli, seated in an arm chair, which made breathing easier. He then had him ' self carried in the chair from the bedroom to the library on the lower floor of the palace, where he con tinued his conversation with the secretary of state. TWO NAVY FLYERS KILLED IN CRASH El Faso, Nov. 26. —(AP) —A naval airplane crashed shortly after its take-off at Biggs Field, army airport at Fort Bliss today, killing two men and slightly injuring a third. The plane was demolished. - • France Moves To Dissolve All Strikes Striking Miner* Call ed To Colors; Labor Heads Order Other* To Return To Their Job* Monday Paris, France, Nov. 26, 1938—(AP) — Government authorities, declaring strikes in northern France “virtually terminated”, today disclosed 12,000 striking miners had been mobilised and that all occupied factories and mines had been evacuated without disorder. Officials said military and police action had reduced to less than 10,000 the strikers and all had been forced to quit their plants. Apparently r permitted by the government. Rep resentatives issued orders for the great Alzia coal region to begin work Monday as usual and that metal workers to go back to their jobs Monday, provided no penalty Is exact ed by employees.
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