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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year Appeasement thrive To Assure peace Begun By Chamberlain One Hundred Years Apart 111? > .'■ j - — ■———-^—— ——^ Jean Alice. Hough, one-year-old, of Chicago, HI., and her 101-year-old grand aunt, Mrs. Emil Belding Bale, as they celebrated their birthdays together—a century apart. Babson Talks Os Outlook For Business For Decade Knoxville, Tenn., Dec. 13.—1 n an ad r. -s before the Knoxville Rotary - lb today, Roger W. Babson, nation- j Ky-known .-tatistician, discussed the{ mess outlook for ten years ahead. H said, in part: My question today is not whether business will be good or bad in 1939. I believe that most business analysts are convinced that 1939, on the aver- j age. will be a year of activity—“with j higher prices for commodities, real j ( ite and securities. At the year-end tt press of this country will carry my definite forecast of wage, job, trade and living cost trends for 1939. At home, our industrial and finan cial communities are distinctly en c im aged by the results of last months fictions. They represent an apparent turn to the right. The swing means no | new radical legislation in the next two years. Remember, however, that Prc.-ident Roosevelt still holds the vro power to block any strong con servative program. “Third-term” pos sibilities may have been killed, altho a' pi- sent there is no assurance of a lb 10 Republican victory. Abroad, the N. C. Business Holding Well For 9 Months Dnll) Dl»u«teh Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. I taleigh, Dec. 13. —North Carolina was one of only four states in the ! tiion to show absolute gains in as many as fuur of eight usually accept 'd business indices during the first nine months of 1938, according to a table showing the “Business Record, Btat« by State”, compiled by “The I'm-mess Week”, national publication, in it issue of December 10. Booth Dakota alone showed im provement in five items, while lowa •und North Dakota, as well as North Carolina, showed better business in four phases. North Carolina showed definite in creases over- 1937 in gasoline con sumption, farm income, electric out put and heavy construction. On the ’’’her hand figures' for the State were down with respect to passenger car • S; de.s, household refrigerator sales, or dinary life insurance sales and value of checks drawn. In practically every item North f m olina was better than the nation al and sectional (South Atlantic) averages. It<m by item the record of North Carolina showed: Passenger car sales: State off 48 per T, 'tit, which ranked it sixteenth in 'l'* l nation. The national percentage '; f d' rr< ase was 51 and the South At lantic was 50. Masoline Consumption: North Car "Hua, up three per cent, compared a one-tenth of one percent de ' tease for nation and an increase ' : ’wo per cent for the South Atlantic division, Household Refrigerator Sales: , ! 'gt spot on the State business rec -0 d. with sales here off 52 per cent (Continued on Page Three.) i " __ „ HENDERSON, N. C* ive As Generously As You Can To Your Community Chest Mztx&tt&ixn II atilt ©tsaaiirit ‘'KsrsjsaajK^agr Munich Fact, if honestly developed, still holds hope of international good , will. What About Growth Line. There is, however, a question as to j the long-term trend. Is it changing? There are no less than ten definite factors which raise the important question whether the U. S. line of nor j mal growth may not now have chang ed its slope. Over the months ahead, I watch the long-term tendencies. 1. Labor: The nation’s economic growth may be slowing down by ac tion of labor unions, labor legisla tion, the restricting of hours, the in flating of wage rates, following the after-effects of sitdown strikes and other disorder. 2. Farm Problem: Agricultural wealth cannot permanently be main tained by restricted output, padded prices, unearned bounties, non-secur ed loans and other interference with natural laws. 3. Confidence: Growth rate of the nation’s business demands the faith on Page Three.) Cotton Price Under Cost Os Production Raleigh, Dec. 13. —(AP) —The North Carolina farmer who grew cotton in 1937 spent more to produce it than -he could get for his lint on the open market, according* to cost figures worked out by the North Carolina Crop (Reporting Service, in which Fed eral and State Departments of Agri culture experts cooperate. The Crop Reporting Service fig ures that it cost an average of $29.75 per acre to grow cotton in North Car olina last year, if there was no land rental to be considered. If rental costs are added, the average cost of rais ing cotton in North Carolina reached an average of $36.85 per aci e. On this average acre the farmer raised 352 pounds of lint, a figure ob tained by dividing the production of lint in terms of 500 gross weight bales, by the acreage harvested. At an average price of eight cents De r pound (about what the lint .brought in 1937) that 352 pounds yield ed the farmer a return of $28.16, well -below' the cost of production even without considering rental of land. In arriving at the cost of growing an acre of cotton the Crop Reporting Service used these figures. Labor and power $22.90, made up as follows Haul and spread manure -s°, prepare ground and plant $4.75, cul tivate $4.40, crop, thm and Joe harvest $8.35, prepare and haul to market '51.75, other labor. 70. Added to this was material and (Continueu on Page Two.) FOR NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy and slightly er tonight; Wednesday increasing cloudiness. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINLV. Britain To Balk Hitler Over Memel British Policy Outlined by Prime Minister In Speech Before Foreign Newsmen; Lithuania Arrests Nine in Resist ing Nazi Drive in That Nation London, Dec. 13. — (AP) —A new 30- ' wt’ iwind appeasement drive to settle Europe's outstanding differ ences took shape today, with Prime Minister Chamberlain in a key role J and the possibility of German de signs upon Lithuanian Memel one ! major problem. H:s speech (at 4:40 p. m., eastern ' standard time) before the foreign I press association tonight held the attention of the diplomatic world, which expected a complete outline of ( British foreign policy and an indica tion of what the premier intended do ing from today until January 14, when he ends a visit to Premier Mus solini in Rome. The importance of the speech, on the association’s fiftieth anniversary, was indicated by the guest list, which included most of the British cabinet ministers, leading ambassadors and ministers and 150 of the foreign cor respondents, representing ?5 coun tries. Chamberlain was expected to en large upon the government’s attitude toward Memel, and may discuss the British position toward military as sistance for France, politico-economic agreement wi 4 h Germany and an un derstanding with Italy. In the House of Commons yester (Continued on Page Two.) U. S. Loans For Latin Nations Are Studied Washington, Dec. 13 —(AP) —The Roosevelt administration indicated today that it might back with dollar loans as part of its efforts to promote inter-American solidarity and trade. While Secretary of State Hull, at Lima Peru, was seeking a plan of united defense against foreign aggres sion in the western hemisphere. Sec retary Mongenthau of the treasury, disclosed that he was studying the use of treasury loans and other facilities to 'boost tnp.de between the United Spates and Latin America. Wayne Farmer Is Victim Os Hit And Run Driver Kinston, Dec. 13. —(AP) —P. E. Gor don, 60-year-old Wayne county far mer, died in a hospital here today of injuries suffered When struck by an automobile last week. Officers said the driver of the car did not stop. Bomb From Plane Kills Man In Boat At Langley Field Langley Field, Va., Dec. 13. —(AP) —Milton Hoffman, about 35, of Mes sick, was killed instantly today when a high powered bomb dropped from a Langley Field plane during- bombing practice on Plum Tree Island and ex ploded near his boat. The plane was in a squadron of bombers which rained deadly ex plosives on the Langley Field bombing range. 11 torfLtf HENDERSON, N. C„ TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 13, 1938 ' Airs His Views mmm ' / jHH HHHHHffIHHRft % iiltfffiiiWlH Alfred P. Sloan, chairman of the board of General Motors, is pictured as he testifiedL before the Senate finance sub-committee in Washing ton, on profit sharing. He proposed that government cut taxes and en courage industry to scrap old ma chinery, Ayres Sees 1939 Trends As Improved Cleveland Statistician Thinks Business Will Be Better During Com ing Year Cleveland, Dec. 13. — (AP) —Business will be better in 1939, Colonel Leonard Ayres, predicted today. But before prosperity can return, “pump priming recovery” must change into a “long-term recovery carried forwarDusfhess,” He' em phasized. “The coming year now picmises to be a period of better em ployment, rising national income and increased volumes of industrial pro duction, the Cleveland statistician said in his annual forecast. He listed these probable develop ments for 1939: Industrial production averaging higher than 1938, lower than 1937; na tional income above 1937; wholesale prices slowly advancing; but commo dity prices not changing greatly; freight loadings utp ten to twenty per cent; most new construction since 1930; department store sales nearer 1937 than 1938; merchandise irrm-tq greater than exports; stocks higher han 1938, lower than 1936; new high records in power, oil refining, tobacco products and average hourly factory wages. Colonel Ayres prepared his predic tions for a Cleveland Chamber of Commerce meeting. Sing Sing Inmate Dies From Stab Wounds In Neck Ossening, N. Y., Dec. 13. —(AiP) — Underworld killers who slew John F. O’Hara, a young New York financial investigator by mistake carried their vengeance inside the grey walls of state prison and fatally stabbed Mat hew J. Jane, 41 year old convict, the man they were after in the first place. Jane was slain with a sharpened table knife which broke in his neck. The wound became infected, and he died today, still stubbornly declining to identify his assailant. Daladier Is Not Aspiring To Dictator By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Columnist) Washington, Dec. 13.—The failure of the general strike called in France recently against the Daladier govern ment isn’t interpret- t .V JHI ft “* ■ Daladier ed in official Wash ington as having been a labor defeat. Rather, based on re ports from Uncle Sam’s diplomatic re presentatives in the Gallic republic', it is seen as having been a democrat triumph. In fact, I’ve heard it so spoken of by trades union leaders here in our own cap ital. The idea is that Premier Daladier is given credit for being a genuine liberal. He has been given some pretty dictatorial au thority. St* ll * France is in the midst of a nasty crisis—economic at least; maybe military. Perhaps it was neces (Continued on Page Two.) Anti-Lynching Bill May Come Up Again In Next Congress Anthony Eden, Form er British Foreign Minister, Chats With Roosevelt; Wage Hour Bill Is Headed for Court Tests Washington, Dec. 13. —(AP) —Pro- spects for another senate battle over an anti-lynching bill developed today by Senator Van Nuys, Democrat, Indiana, who said the coniroversal measure would be revived. Senator Van Nuys and Senator Wagner, Democrat New York were co-authors of the Ist year’s bill, which was kihed by a southern fili buster. Ihere were indications that the southern bloc would filibuster any motion to up the bill for ern sideration again. Other developments: Anthony Eden, former British for e gn minister and President Rooseveif sat down in the White House for an exchange cf views. When his visit was concluded, he ch tted with re porters for a few minutes, but all that he would asy wa that he enjoyed his talk with the president. martly dressed and smiling, Eden arrived promptly for his appointment in the company of acting Secretary of State Welles. The one-time British cabinet officer trooped down a line of smiling femi nine government workers enroute from the state department to the chief executive’s office. The wage hour law will probably run into court test in New York and South Carolina in a few days, admin istrator Elmer Andrews said. Andrews declared, “we would like to have the answer on the constitu tionality as soon as possible.” He added that “we have no doubts about it, ourselves.” Ther«- are 3,000 complaints on file charging employers with violating the act’s minimum wage and maxi mum hour provisions, he said, and in vestigators are searching reports of violations in several states, includ ing North Carolina. Question Os Minorities At Lima Meeting Lima, Dec. 13.—(AP) —A Brazillian proposal to deny alien minorities in Latin America any special minority sympathies, such as Sudenten Ger- Imans 'demanded c(f Chechoslovakia today was referred to the Pan-Amer ican committee on international law. Brazil, which has large German and Italian settlements, advanced the pro ject yesterday. Mexico also demonstrated q.n eye to example furnished by Europeans events, proposing a declaration a gainst aerial bombardments in war time. The proposal “to avoid suffering- by defenseless woman and children and at the same time protect scientific and historic monuments,” was return ed to the committee for organization of peace. Delegates of the 21 republics kept close watch to see how far the newly formed bloc of 15 nations would agree on economic and political questions up for consideration. A bloc of 15, by means of prior agreements, put over all its passages for conference committee reports when the conference convene. Generally favorable to some action for continental defense, the bloc is be lieved to have done considerable sounding of other delegations of this and other questions to spur confer ence action. Czechs Assume Friendly Attitude Toward Germany Prague, Czechoslovakia, Dec. 13. — (AP)—Premier Beran told the Czecho slovak Parliament today that the re public’s relations with Germany would be based on friendship, and that nationalism instead of interna tionalism must determine her future cause. The Premier appealed to Germany, however, to understand "the psycho logical effects of the loss of terri tory which we have to overcome.” He declared that the Munich con ference "necessitated a basic change in the methods of the program of Czech policy.” Economic and cultural life of the diminished republic must be taken out of politics, Beran said, leaving no doubt that if the- government’s es PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Represents Students Pictured above is Ernest Pigott, of Ft. Myers, Fla., who represents all U. S. Pan American students at the conference of American states at Lima, Peru. Farm Set- Op Is Best Yet O’Neal Says Federation Explains Low Price of Cotton and Wheat at Annual Convention New Orleans, La., Dec. 13. — (AP) — Edward O’Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, said in his annual address today that the agricultural adjustment act of 1938, “coupled with the soil conserva tion act, the marketing agreements, and allied legislation, gives us the best ali-round farm program we have ever had.” Farmers from throughout the na tion assembled for the opening of the federation’s annual meeting after at tending sectional discussions yester day “Severe criticism has been directed at the farm program, principally on the ground that cotton and wheat prices are distressingly low,” O’Neal said. “Such critici.sm is unfair, be cause everybody knows that the law (Continued on Pagb Four * y v Brooklyn Dodgers And Boston Bees Trade 2 Players New York, Dec. 13. —(AP)— The Brooklyn Dodgers today traded first baseman Buddy Hassett and outfield er M. Outlaw, of the Boston Bees, also of the National league, for out fielder G. Moore, and Pitcher Ira Hutchinson, a righter hander. To swing the deal, Brooklyn first bought Pitcher Ernie Krause, from Elmira, and sent him and cash to the St. Louis Cardinals for Outlaw, who was with Syracuse of the Internation al league last season. Then they sent Outlaw and Krause, with an unan nounced amount of cash to Boston for Moore and Hutchinson. forts should meet opposition it was determined to enforce its program. Os international relations, he said Czechoslovakia “henceforth will not chase after illusions, but foreign pol icy will be based on facts,” economi cal and social, without, however, sac ricifing indisputable rights, or re nouncing the right to defend national interests.” Beran said the Jewish problem would be solved in such away that “our standard toward Jews, who have •been living a long time in our terri tory and who maintain a positive at titude toward the state and its na tionalities will not be inimical.” Official circles reported the gov ernment was planning to assume sem dictatorial powers. 8 1 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Hot Battle Raging Over Speakership Ward and Fenner Moving in on Bryant, Generally Believed To Have Little Edge at Outset Raleigh, Dec. 13.—(AP)—Word reaching Raleigh from all sections of the State today indicated that a hot, down-the-stretch three-cornered fight is being waged for the speaker ship of the 1938 House of Representa tives . Victor Bryant, veteran Durham leg islator, started his campaign for the speakership post more than two years ago, and for months was regarded as holding a head-start over D. L. Ward, of New Bern, and W. E. Fenner, of Rocky Mount. Now, perhaps, word is that Fenner and Ward are claiming enough strength to force a real fight at the ohiiv causus here January 3, when the Democrats will select their speak er. In general, Bryant, Ward and Fen ner will have been administration sup porters in and out of the legislature. While the fight for the House lead ership holds the attention of most political observers, it is understood that Senator W. E. Smith, of Albe marle, is in the lead for the post of president protem of the Senate. Senator W. I. Halstead, of South Mills, Camden county, is also seek ing the Senate protem job, and there is some mention of Senator T. J. Gold of High Point. George Burns To Testify In Smuggling New York, Dec. 13.—(AP)—The Federal Grand Jury persisted today in the investigation of Albert B. Chaperau’s connection with some of Hollywood’s luminaries, following the immediate plea of guilty of George Burns yesterday to a charge of buy ing smuggled jewelry from a Polish boy film importer. Film and radio star “straight man” of the comedy team of Burns and Allen (Gracie Allen), his wife, was among Chapeau’s correspondents, said federal agents. With an expression more glum than any that ever greeted Grade’s re marks, Burns hastened to the federal court yesterday, solemnly pleaded guilty, replied to all newsmen with a curt “no comment” and flew back to the west coast by plane. He is expected to return to testify for the government when Chapeau and Mrs. Edgar Lauer, wife of a su preme court justice, go on trial next week on smuggling charges. Mrs. Lauer is expected to be arraigned tomorrow. Judge William Bondy postponed sentencing of Burns until after the Chapeau trial, indicating liency might be given the comedian although ht technically faces a maximum term of 18 years in prison and a fine of $45,000. WPA Worker Dies From Injuries In Fall From Building Goldsboro, Dec. 13— (AP)—George Rowe, 66-year-old carpenter, died in a hospital here today of injuries suf fered last Thursday in a fall from a WFA Negro community center build ing under construction. St. Louis Has Water,Though Strike Holds St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 13. —(AP) — Three of St. Louis’ four waterworks were operating today, assuring the city an adequate supply of water de -pite a union jurisdictional strike which forced a shutdown of pumps for six hours last night. Water at the rate of 120,000,000 gal lons a day was gushing into the city’s letwork of pipes from the chain of Rocks, Bissell’s Point and Baden sta ions. The normal consumption at this time of year is about 100,000,000 gallons. The resumption of operations was accomplished by city officials with the aid of the international brother hood of firemen and oilers. The strik ing workers are members of the in ternational union of engineer®. Both anions are members of the American* Federation of Labor.
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