HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
Americas To
Impose Ban
Upon Europe
Lima Conference Con
siders Plan Against
Political Propaganda
from Across Atlantic;
Argentine T a k i n g
’ Lead; Hull Is Moving
Cautiously
Lima. Peru Dec. 8. —(AP) —A pro
posal to ban European political pro
paganda in line with the United
States program of solidarity for the
Americas may come before the Pan-
American Conference, which opens to
morrow. activity by the Argentine de
legation indicated today.
The delegation, a conference infor
mant said, agreed with a tentative
recommendation and was to put it in
more direct wording at a meeting to
tlav.
A series of informal conferences be
tween Secretary Hull, chief of the
United States delegation, and headr
p f the Latin-Amcrican group demon
strated that they were taking Presi
rtrnt Roosevelt’s proposals with deep
seriousness. Some among the Latin-
American envoys believed the confer
ence could enact concrete measures
against political and cultural invasion
from Europe, but it appeared that Sec
retary Hull himself was feeling his
way gradually and cautiously.
By the series of talks he began last
night shortly after his arrival, the
secretary was said to be sounding out
the attitude of all the other delega
tions before deciding to present any
specific project for a united hemis
phere. American delegates hinted that
Mr. Hull might refrain from offering
any project to the conference unless
he could get unanimous agreement
beforehand.
Plan Would Allow
Americans To Quit
Inner China Areas
Shanghai, Dec. B.—(AP)—American
and British naval authorities were
said today to have negotiated a ten
tative arrangement with the Chinese
and Japanese for removal of 33 of the
2W foreigners marooned at Ruling.
Fifteen Americans, 15 Britons, two
Swedes end one German were reported
planning to leave Saturday with an
escort of British and American naval
officers and profceed to Kiukiang,
where they would board a Japanese
transport for Shanghai.
The United States gunboat Luzon,
after spending the night at Nanking,
‘teamed down the Yangtze river for
Shanghai this morning, with another
group of Americans from Hankow The
Luzon was ncheduled to stop enroute
and arrive at Sh anghai tomorrow.
Army, Navy
Tightening
On Secrets
Washington, Dec. 8. —(AP) — The
Army and Navy are quietly tighten
ing the lid on military secrets in pre
paration for the speeding up of the
administration's national defense pro
gram. New rules to safeguard forts,
warships and planes, indications of a
closer tab on aliens in aircraft plants,
and a recent hint by President Roose
velt that more funds would he sought
from Congress to combat spies, gave
evidence today of increased caution.
Military circles heard that regula
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'300,000 Farmers To Vote
In Referenda Saturday
College Station, Raleigh, Dec. 8.
North Carolina farmers, some 300,000
strong, will march to the polls Satur
day to decide whether marketing
'luotaa will be in effect for cotton
flue-cured tobacco produced in
1039. Farmers of other states where
these two crops are grown will be
V( Jting at the same time on the same
‘luestions. If two-thirds of those vot
ing approve quotas, they will be in
effect again next year.
In referenda last March 12 market
ing quotas for cotton were approved
by 92.1 per cent, while flue-cured to
bacco quotas were favored by 86.2 per
cent. Although North Carolina, the
heaviest producer of tobacco and one
°t the leading cotton states, will play
an important part in the election, the
national totals will decide the issue.
Farmers will vote by secret ballot
in the communities in which they re
side. Local AAA Committees will con
duct the election and separate ballot
hexes will be provided for cotton and
tobacco votes where both crops are
* roWn in the same community.
tL LtuaUE PERRY ME
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L TH^AsgA T S E E D R ‘'gE g OF
Italian Troops Concentrated
On Border, Paris Rumor Says
tjbris Duke's ”Dream Home”
Above is a picture showing only the living room of Doris Duke Crom
well s $500,000 home being erected on the beach at Honolulu, in Hawaii.
Dons, richest girl in the world, and her husband plan to spend six months
of the year there. (Central Preee)
Fight Over
Schools Is
To Come Up
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Battle for Control As
Between School Board
and Commission Due
for Assembly
Dally Dlspazcb Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Dec. 8. —The governor’s
commission to examine and report on
the State’s educational set-up put the
perennial row over control of spend
ing school money right back in the
public eye and on the agenda of the
1939 General Assembly.
It did so by its section No. 9, which
recommended that the Assembly pro
vide that the nrcsont. administration
of the public schools be placed under
the State Board of Education, with
the present School Commission as an
“advisory commission”. This is urged,
the report said, “feeling that rt is for
the best interest of the public school
system to have immediate relief from
scattered administration ”
That tossed the fat right into the
fire of controversy, the same contro
versy that has raged in every legisla
ture since the School Commission was
set up in 1933 to control the financ
ing of the public schools.
Ever since then, the Department of
Public Instruction, backed by the so
called “schodl people,” has fought
desperately to get control of spending
the more -than $25,000,0000. annually
appropriated for the support of the
public schools. In the 1935 and 1937
Assemblies the attack was completely
repulsed as the legislators decided
they wanted to see a strict rein kept
on the school spending by a group of
business men appointed by the gover
nor, rather than by those charged
with expanding the educational sys
tem along lines which may be very
desirable but which cannot be at
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All farmers, including tenants and
Sharecroppers, who produced cotto
in 1938 with a staple length of les
than 1 1-2 inches, and all who
ed in the production of flue-curbed
tobacco in 1938 are eligible to vote.
No farmer, whether an individual,
partnership, corporation or associa
tion, can vote more than one tune.
No votes by mail or proxy will be al
-IC>The polls will open in this State at
Ram and will remain open until
5 p m! Immediately after the close
of the polls the election officers will
open the ballot boxes and canvass the
votes, the canvass to be ope" to th
public. Community totals will then
transmitted to the County AAA Com
mittpp which will in turn notify tne
State AAA office in IRaleigh as to the
S vote The National and State
votes will be announced by newspap-
I™ and radio stations aa they come
in and the final official results wil.
be announced by the Secretary of
a crripulture in Washington after th<
official tl tab illations have been made
in all states.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
300,000 Germans
Would Come Here
Washington, Dec. 8. —(AP) —Gov-
ernment officials have received in
formation that there are now near
ly 300,003 persons awaiting permis
sion to migrate to the United
S'jates from Germany. They attri
bute the pressure to the new anti-
Semitic laws in that country. Near
ly 90 percent of the German ap
plicants for admission to the Unit
ed States are reported to be Jews.
The flood of applications is the
greatest since passage of the pre
sent immigration laws in 1924. In
asmuch as regulations permit only
27,370 Germans to enter annually,
it would take eleven years to work
through the present* watting list*
provided all are accepted. The Ger
man quota will be filled this year
for the first time since 1929.
Total State
Construction
$35,015,000
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter HoteL
Raleigh, Dec. B.—Construction con
tracts of all sorts awarded in North
Carolina totalled $35,015,000 for the
first eleven months of 1939, according
to figures released in the early De
cember number of “Construction”
business publication with headquar
ers in Baltimore.
During November contracts were a
warded for $4,557,000 in the State and
at the close of the month proposed
construction for which contracts were
yet to be awarded reached $13,964,000,
a total composed principally of in
dustrial and highway projects.
In the 17 states listed as “southern”
by the magazine, total construction
contracts awarded for the first eleven
months amounted to $715,304,000, with
North Carolina ranking squarely in
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 8, 1938
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Newspaper Guild
Chicago Members
Put Under Arrest
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Chicago, Dec. 8. — (AP) —'Five Ch -
icago Newspaper Guild members were
arrested and blows fell on a dozen
heads in a melee today along tfie pick- (
et lines at the Hearst building, where
Guild members are on strike against
the Evening American and the Morn
ing Herald and Examiner.
Those arrested were Harry Wohl,
president of the Chicago Guild, affi
liated with the CIO American News
paper Guild; Don Stevens, executive
secretary of the Chicago Guild; his
wife, Sada; Virginia Gardner, a news
paper reporter; and Nate Ales'kovsky,
Herald and Examiner copy reader.
About 100 persons were on the pick
et line on Wacker Drive when truck
drivers pulled up to load papers. The
melee started when police began open
ing the line o-f pickets to let the
drivers through.
The Gvfild issued a statement say
ing the truck drivers "attempted to
crash the picket line, wielding rubber
hoses.”
“WEATHER
FOR NORTH v CAROLLNi%.
Cloudy and unsettled, possibly
scattered light rain this afternoon,
tonight and Friday; slightly war
mer in north and east portions to
night; cooler in mountains Fri
day.
Rebel Spain
Gives Haven
To Soldiers
France Also Hears
Italy and Germany
Uniting To Enforce
Italy’s Demands for
French Territory;
French Students Dem
onstrate in Paris
Il'mlaye, France, Dec. B.—(AP)
—Reports frem both insurgent
end governfoim indicated
to-V** 'v-it Fran
cisco Franco fov "
new offensive or the
war front. As they had done be
fore launching previous drives, in
surgent authorities closed the
French frontier to prevent leakage
of their plans.
Paris, Dec. B.(AP) —Concern spread
in France today on reports from the
Spanish frontier that Italian troops
were concentrating in insurgen
Spain, within easy striking distance
of France.
These reports, which lacked official
confirmation, said the asserted Italian
troop movement had begun Novem
ber 22, and was still incomplete.
Reports also spread that Germany
and Italy were uniting to enforce
Italy’s territorial demands on France.
Thousands of students, demonstrat
ing against the Italian clamor for
Tunisia and Corsica, battled police in
Paris streets today. President Albert
Lebrun unexpectedly summoned Pre
mier Daladier for consultations on de
velopments in the increasing strain on
French-Italian relations.
Reports of Italiap troop movements
in Spain originated mostly from
travelers who had reached France
over the Pyrenees, mountains along
the frontier; inHSgeht s Generalissimo
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U. S. Recalls
Ambassador
From China
Washington, Dec. 8. —(AP) —
Acting Secretary of State Welles
announced today that Nelson T.
Johnson, United States ambassa
dor to China, had been summoned
home immediatley for consultation
with President Roosevelt and oth
er officials here.
Johnson will arrive about mid-
January after a motor, airplane
and steamer trip* byway of Lon
don. He already has advised the
Chinese Foreign Office that he
will be away only a brief time.
Welles said that inasmuch as
Johnson had not beent back to
this country for four years, it
seemed desirable to call him home
in order to report personally to
the President and others here. It
was indicated the suggestion came
from the White House.
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G. O. P. Fight
Looms Over
Leadership
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Dec. 8. —Congressman.
James W. Wadsworth’s recent an
nouncement of his candidacy for the
Republican leader-
ship in the next
House of Represen
tatives puts some
“pep” into G. O. P.
intra-party politics
for the beginning of
the coming season
on Capitol Hill.
When Congressman
Bertrand H. Snell, r
Republican leader
for several sessions
past, dropped out of
;' the running for re-
>
Wadsworth
nomination it generally was taken for
granted that Congressman Joseph W.
Martin, Jr., would succeed him. Mar
tin, having been Snell’s assistant, has
a cprtain claim to promotion. More
over,’during the last electoral fight
he was chairman of the IRepublicans’
representatorial campaign committee.
As we know, the G. O. P. made big
gains for which it’s recognized that
Chairman Martin of their congres
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In Paris, the epoch-making Franco-German treaty of amity is signed
with ceremony at the Quai d’Orsay. This picture was radioed from the
French capital to New York. Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign min
ister is at left; France’s Minister Georges Bonnet is at right. The pact
renounces war between the two countries.
Japan And Russia
Have Serious Row
Moscow, Dec. 8. — (AP) —A serious'
dispute developed today between
the Japanese and Soviet Russian
go\ ernments.
The dispute revolved about Ja
panese agitation for extended fish'
mg rights in Siberian water? undei
Russian control. It was intensified
by a Russian demand for payments
it: connection with sale of the Chi
t ese eastern railway in 1935 to
IVanchoukuo.
Tass, 'official; Russian news
agency, said Foreign Minister Lit
vinoff, on November 25, told the
Japanese ambassador that Russia
capnot “began negotiations on con
cision of a new long-term fisheries
convention before the Japanese
government fulfills at least its. un
dertakings* as regards the Chinese
eastern railway payments” due
from Manchoukuo, the Japanese
protectorate.
French Arrest
Many Italians
In Tunis Area
Tunis. Tunisia, Dec. B.—(AF)—Po
lice clashed with hundreds of Italian
citizens and arrested scores in this
French protectorate today, when th6
Italians attempted to demonstrate in
support of fascist claims on Tunisia.
Among those arrested was Übaldo
Rey, head of the Italian war veterans
in Tunis, and a leader in the Italian
community in Tunisia—numbering 94,-
289 at the last census.
It was disclosed that the Italian
consul general already had protested
to the French resident general against
anti-Italian demonstrations here last
week-end, and reports spread thaj; he
had been ordered from Rome, to hiake
a fresh protest today. ' •, ,
Despite the continuous , disorders
and tension growing out of the Italian
campaign for French territory around
the Mediterranean, officials insisted
reports showed “everything quiet” on
the border between Tunisia and Ital
ian Libya.
Jew-Non-Jew
Marriages In
Germany Hit
Berlih, Dec. B.—(AP)—Foreign dip
lomatic quarters were advised today
that the next Nazi anti-Semitic legis
lation would decree that existing mar
riages between Jews and non-Jews
either must be dissolved or the Gen
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY
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By uerman
Mouthpiece
Arms Program and
P an-American Unit /
Denounced by Foreign
Office Newspaper
Berlin, Dec. 8~(AP) —The German
Foreign Office mouthpiece today
sharply- criticized American
utterances on the United States arma
ment program, some of which is at
tributed to President Roosevelt, and
said it was “exiiremelv regrettable.”
“Admitting that every state has the
right to arm as it pleases, we must
sharply protest against the reasons
for such action” in the United States,
the organ said. It continued:
"Again and again American arma
ment propaganda proceeds from the
slanderous argument that Germany is
a threat to the American continent.
Such propaganda also extends to
Latin-America, where it is calculate!
to poison the international atmos
phere. . •
“Extraordinarily amazing >is the
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Terrific Typhoon
Hits Philippines,
With Heavy Loss
Manila, P. 1., Dec. B.—(AP)—A
terrific typhoon swept over seve
ral provinces southeast Os Manila
today, leaving thousands homeless,
causing floods over a wide area
and disrupting communications.
Meagre reports listed J 9 dead.
The storm passed south of Ma
nila, hit northern Mindoro island
and swept into die China Sea. All
.sectors reported heavy damage to
private and public properties and
to crops.
A typhoon signal indicating she
center of the storm was over the
region was hoisted over Sorso
gon Albany and Camarines pro
vinces. Other provinces also were
hit hard. Communication lines in
15 provinces were prostrated.
Causes Os Unemployment
Not Removed, Babson Says
Philadelphia, Dec. 8. —The causes of
unemployment have not been remov
ed, and until they are difficulties will
continue, Roger W. Babson, noted
statistician and economist, said in an
address here this afternoon at the
Penn Athletic Club. In the course of j
his address, Mr. Babson said:
President Roosevelt ha/S done many
good things. Any honest statistician
must admit this. President Roosevelt,
however, has done nothing,, to elimi
nate the cause for unemployment.
About one-third of our 9,000000 un
employed are idle for one or more of
the following six reasons.
1. Women in industry, while men
are refusing to take their places as
workers in the home.
2. Labor unions, which- are forcing
employers to install automatic ma
chinery which temporarily throws
more out of work.
3. Loss of foreign trade through
high tariffs, excess labor costs, and
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Business Is
Divided Over
Hull Treaties
Meeting of Manufac
turers in New York
Split on Trade Pacts;
Senator Urges Indus
trialists To Go Along
With the Government
New York, Dec. B.—(AP) —A
gale at sea may make Anthony
Eden, late for his address tomor
row night before the National As
sociation of Manufacturers.
The former British foreignt sec
retary was aboard the liner Aquir ,
tania, delayed by heavy seas. Of
ficials said a cutter would be sent
down the bay to pick up Eden if
necessary, although they expected
the ship to dock in time.
New York, Dec. B.—(AP) —A “bit
ter revolt” by industrialists opposed
to the Hull reciprocal trade agree
ment program developed in committee
rooms today, and, according to lead
ers participating in the discussions,
threatened to disrupt the National
Association of Manufacture*"’ T'»
orogram of cooperation with the. gov
ernment.
While this was going on behind
closed doors in the liveliest conven
tion the association has had in years,
delegates in the open session in the
main ball room of the Waldorf As
toria hotel heard:
1. Senator Joseph C. O’Mahoney,
Democrat, Wyoming, urge the indus
trial leaders to restore confidence to
the public by submitting to the re
gulations designed for the best inter
ests of the public as a whole, rather
than a small business group.
2. Lewis Morris, white-haired lowa
dirt farmer, warn the business lead
ers “to keep your hands off our farm
program.”
3. W. W. Waymack, editor, Des
Moines Register and Tribune, assert
that democracy depends upon a large
secure middle class, the backbone of
which is the indivi lual farmer, and
that “capitalism as we know it is
bound to be radically changed.”.
Vigorous lobbying behind the closed
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Envoy Dodd
Is Cited For
Auto Injury
Hanover Courtt House, Va., Dec. 8
(AP) —A warrant was sworn out aere
today charging William E. Dodd, for
mer ambassador to Germany, with
hit-and-run driving in connection with
an accident to a Negro child near
here Monday.
State Police Trooper Carlisle John
ston obtained the warrant “on infor
mation received” and left immediate
ly for Round Hill, Va., Dodd’s home, to
execute it. Dodd, speaking by tele
phone from his home, said the Ne
gro child ran directly into the path
of his automobile, that he swerved the
car and then continued on his way
because he though the child had es
caped injury.
The child, Gloria Grimes, 4, was re
ported to be in a critical condition in
a hospital at Richmond. The war
rant named a number of persons as
witnesses. These included Mrs. Wins
ton Woolfolk, of Carolina county, who
was said to have been driving a car
directly behind that’of Ambassador
Dodd. Others listed as witnesses were
W. S. Chenault, who reported"*'£b e
matter to police; Gertrude Green nd
Anna Virginia Grimes, the latter a
sister of the injured child, Who was
said to have reported the automobile
license number.
Dodd said he had explained the mat
ter to the division of motor vehicles
in Richmond by letter, and had t' Iked
to a police officer in Loudon county.
“isolation” policies.
4. High'school instruction which is
creating the desire for an easy life
without struggle or sacrifice.
5. Foolish legislation attempting, ar
tifically, to fix prices, wages and
hours of work, based upon socialistic
propaganda which scares people from
investing in new enterprises.
6. Constantly widening breech be
tween the birth rate of the employing
and wage-earning strains. The unem
ployment problem will never be sol
ved until the employing strain in
creases its birth rate, while those de
| pendent upon others emptying them
reduce their offsprings.
Naturally, the course for these six
unfortunate factors will come slowly,
although a return to normal busihess
will absorb a large proportion of these
first 3,000,000 unemployed.
A second third of these unemploy
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