HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
CONDITIONM. PEACE OFFERED BT HITLER
Roosevelt Planning
Reorganization Os
War, Navy Agencies
Russian Flier Is
Headed for Fair
Moscow, April 28. (AP)
Brigadier General Kokkinaki, ace
Soviet flier, headed westward to
day on a non-stop flight to New
York for the opening of the
World’s Fair. About four and a
half hours after his take-off, he
was reported over Finland, head
ing for the Arctic Circle.
Accompanied by a navigator
radio operator, Major Gordienko,
the ace Soviet flier lifted his twin
motored monoplane Moskva
(Moscow) from the long concrete
runway at 4:19 a. m. (8:19 p. m.,
eastern standard time Thursday)
for the 4,700-mile flight along the
eroat circle route byway of Ice
land and Greenland. He expected
to reach North America at La
brador, and turn down the coast
toward New York, completing
the flight within 25 hours, the
first non-stop flight between Mos
cow and New York.
Assignment
Os Bishops
Restricted
Kansas City, April 28.—(AP) —
Proponents of church democracy won
the first test fight on the floor of
the Methodist uniting conference
here today.
The conference adopted by a sub
stantial majority a proposal giving
ministerial and lay delegates to the
six jurisdictions to be set up under
the new single Methodist Church
control of the assignment of bishops.
The question of the power of bish
ops over lay church members
brought the first split in Methodism
in 1828. Under the new plan, a com
n ittee of 70 churchmen made up of
ten from each jurisdiction in the
United States and ten from foreign
countries, will assign the bishops.
Chester A. Smith, lay delegate
from New York, brought to the floor
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Tw o Convicts Are
Caught Following
Lengthy Freedom
Raleigh, April 28.—(AP) — The
penal division reported today that
two escaped convicts had been
caught, Vernon Elmer Mack in Akron
Ohio, and Simon Garris, at Tarboro.
Mack escaped in Jackson county in
•Tuly, 1937, while serving five to
seven years imposed in Graham
county in March, 1935, for breaking,
entering, larceny and receiving.
Oscar Pitts, penal superintendent,
said Mack was arrested in Akron on
charges of drunken driving.
Garris escaped from Pitt camp last
February while serving three years
lor larceny. He was sentenced in
Halifax courdv in March, 1937.
Wall Street’s Jitters
Reflected In Business
Financial District Superstitious on “Thin” Mar
ket; Individual Is Scared and His Fright Car
ries into Trade
I»Y ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1939, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
New York City, April 28.—Arriv
,r|i' in New York, I find Wall Street
1 Mckn by superstitions market
‘‘•‘arts, resistance points, “double
nottoms”, etc. These investment fads
! <‘inind me of what happened in
’ N ida just before I came north.
■ :| ny of the country’s newspapers
rsirrieci the story. A dear old lady
Mississippi came to Florida and
Miado jt ra i n ”_ As the place where
vii Stoate performed is in the next
1,1 n to Babson Park, Florida, na
lU,:nly T observed the situation with
much interest.
I he rain-maker impressed me as
' n honest and God-fearing woman.
■ apparently she earnestly believes in
iheory. She “sat” with her um
neila by the lakeside until it did
H&NDERSOH,
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leased wire
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Restrictions Tighten
ed on War Planes and
Munitions from Spies
and Sabotage; John
son Says Nation Is Be
ing “Edged” Into War
Washington, April 28.—(AP)—In
dications that President Roosevelt is
considering partial reorganization of
the War and Navy Departments came
to light today in the midst of other
fast-breaking defense developments.
These included disclosure that re
strictions have been tightened to
safeguard new war planes and muni
tions from spying and sabotage. An
undetermined number of aliens has
been discharged from private indus
trial plants because the War Depart
ment refused to let them work on
munitions contracts.
Before the start of the administra
tion’s vast arms program, granting of
permits for employment of aliens
vouched for by their employers was
routine. Now, authorities indicated
the permits are issued for only a few
months, and then only after a rigid
investigation.
Other developments:
Senator Johnson, Republican, Cali
fornia, contended in hearings on
neutrality legislation that this coun
try was being “edged” into war by
false propaganda. Questioning a wit
ness before the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee, Johnson asked if
it were not true that a “detejmined
effort is now being made by pro
paganda to educate the American
people that they can’t keep out of
war.”
The witness, Dr. Charles Tansill,
professor of American history at
Fordham University, said he thought
this was true.
“And that way,” Johnson added,
“we are being edged into war.”
Secretary Hull called in his prin
cipal advisors preparatory to tele
phoning President Roosevelt for a
discussion of what Reichfuehrer Hit
ler said in his Reichstag speech.
Congressional leaders predicted
that President Roosevelt’s $1,763,-
000,000 relief propos.-ij would be ac
cepted readily by both House and
Senate, but a fight is brewing over
how the money should be spent.
Treasurer Johnson
Advises Graduates
Put Service First
Grifton, April 28.—(AP) —State)
Treasurer Charles M. Johnson,
speaking at commencement exer
cises here today, urged young North
Carolinians to make the purpose of
their lives the rendering of service
“to your State and community in re
turn for the preparation they have
given you.”
Johnson counselled the graduates
to “be strong,” and to remember
that those with “character and pur
pose” can make room for themselves
at the top if they are willing to work
harder than the average.”
North Carolina, Johnson said,
gives its citizens services that no
other state renders in similar man
ner, including support of a standard
eight months school term without
local taxation and maintenance and
construction of all county roads.
rain! As a result, a great number of
people are sincerely convinced that
she brought the rain. Now, in my
humble opinion the Wall Street
chartists with their “rain-making”
theories about the stock-market are
operating as did Miss Lillie Stoate.
Such stunts may seem to work at
times, but when they do, they are
coincidences. Here is the joker about
chart-reading: By the time the sig
nals have definitely shown that the
move is a bull or bear market, the
swing is often practically completed.
What Is “Thin Market?”
Yet, New York City has been in a
furor recently about these chart
theories. Surely, this is old stuff, but
here is the explanation for all the
excitement. Through the S. E. C. re
gulations and other developments,
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ONLY DAILY
Germany Is
Selling Off
War Planes
Machines Acquired in
Seizure of Czechoslo
vakia To Be Sold Any
Takers; Speech I s
Anti - Climax, Paris
Thinks
Paris, April 28.—(AP) —War
planes seized by Germany in Czecho
slovakia have been offered for sale
to France, a source close to the gov
ernment disclosed tonight. Reports
of this offer and Chancellor Hitler’s
Reichstage speech, which was inter
preted in French official quarters as
“moderate,” were taken here as
comforting indications for peace.
Government sources said that war
materials taken by the Germans
when they absorbed Czechoslovakia,
last month, and which Hitler listed
in his speech, were being put on
sale in several countries.
The planes offered to France were
not designated by Germany as com
ing from Czechoslovakia, but their
origin was learned from other evi
dence. Hitler placed the number of
planes taken at 1,582
First French reaction to Hitler’s
speech in circles close to the foreign
olfice, was, in the words of one,
“that it closely resembles an anti
climax.”
Diplomatic sources, however, said
they considered that Hitler might
have been preparing the way for a
sudden stroke against Poland. His
denunciation of the ten-year Ger
man-Polish non-aggression pact
caused considerable uneasiness when
taken in connection with his an
nouncement that Poland had refus
ed his “just” offer for a settlement
of Danzig and Polish corridor prob
lems .
Vets’ Widows
Being Placed
On Aid Lists
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, April 28.—Machinery for
transferring widows of Confederate
veterans from the State’s pension to
its old age assistance rolls is being
set up as rapidly as possible under
supervision of Nathan Yelton, direc
tor of the old age assistance division
of the State Department of Public
Welfare.
Mr. Yelton is anxious to get the
machinery moving and to determine
just how many widows will be trans
ferred, because until this has been
determined his division will be un
able to work out its budget for the
next fiscal year, because Mr. Yelton
will not know how much money he
will have available for aged persons
other than widows of veterans.
Like the Tar Baby of Uncle Remus
fame, the director isn’t saying a great
„ deal about it, but on the face of
things it seems certain that widows
will be given very, very liberal treat
ment in determining whether or not
they should be taken from pension
and put on old age rolls. This be
cause of the fact that for every
widow, st> transferred, the director
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HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 28, 1939
Giant Clipper Dwarfs Crowd at Christening
*
The second giant flying boat destined for transatlantic passenger and mail service this summer towers above
the crowd at christening of the 74-passenger plane in Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Millard Tydings, wife of the
Maryland senator, dubbed it Atlantic Clipper. Its sister is the Yankee Clipper, which recently completed
a trial flight to Europe and return. (Central Press)
Simon Warns Germans To
Fonder British Course
FDR Asserts
Peace Story
Is Not True
Hyde Park, N. Y., April 28.—(AP)
—President Roosevelt today declared
as “not true” a New York Times
story that he had proposed last year
that Mussolini and Hitler meet him
at sea to discuss their minimum
terms for peace. The President au
thorized the following statement:
“I have read the Krock story in
the New York Times. It is not true,
but otherwise it is interesting and
well written.”
The Times story, sent from Wash
ington under the signature of Cor
respondent Arthur Krock, declared
the President’s purpose in suggesting
such an unprecedented conference
was “to learn from the dictators at
first hand their minimum terms for
pledging peace, and, if he found these
practical, to offer his services as in
termediary.”
A White House secretary said the
President slept through the entire
speech today by Chancellor Hitler.
Broadcasting officials said the Reicn
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EXTRADITION FROM
VIRGINIA HONORED
Raldigh, April 28.—(AP)—Gover
nor Hoey honored extradition papers
from Governor James Price, of Vir
ginia, which said that Samuel Brov/n
Mayo was under arrest in Tarboro,
and asked that he be surrendered to
Virginia officers to face charges of
desertion and non-support in Rich
mond.
65 ARE KILLED BY
POLICE IN INDIA
Bombay, India, April 28.
(AP) —An estimated 65 persons
were killed today in Gangpur, a
small native state in eastern In
dia, when police fired on a mob
of rioting natives.
SCHOOL BUS STRUCK
BY TRAIN; 16 HURT
Concord, April 28.—(AP) —Fifteen
children were slightly injured yes
terday when a school bus and a
freight train were in a collision
which appeared likely to cost the bus
driver his life.
Officials at the Emerson hospital
said they expected to release all of
the children last night, most of whom
were bruised or slightly cut. The
driver, James H. Finnigan, 67, suf
fered a serious head injury.
The strange collision took place al
most in the business district of Con
cord. The bus was part way across
the tracks when the driver saw the
Boston-bound freight bearing down
on him He jammed on his brakes and
tried to back up, an act that may
hae saved the lives of several chil
dren. Only the front part of the bus
was struck by the train.
h)suodhsJi
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy tonight and Sat
urday, with light rain this after
noon and in east tonight: slight
ly cooler in central and north
east portions tonight.
British Treasury Head
Tells Them To Ask
Themselves Explana
tion of New London
Foreign Policy; Hitler
Speech Not Surprising
London, April 28— r (AP) —Sir John
Simon, chancellor of the exchequer,
today warned the German people “to
ask themselves what is the explana
tion” of Britain’s new foreign policy.
Speaking shortly after Chancellor
Hitler’s Reichstag speech, Sir John
said:
“The German people would do well
to ask themselves what is the ex
planation of so surprising a change
Mr. Chamberlain (Britain’s prime
minister) is still the man of peace.”
The chancellor was addressing the
Primrose League, a conservative or
ganization founded by Disraeli.
British naval quarters asserted
they were “unsurprised and undis
turbed by Hitler’s repudiation of the
Anglo-British German naval treaty.
Hitler ordered a special military
airplane to fly “English language”
copies of his speech to the British
foreign office this morning. Dr. T. P.
Kordt, the German charge d’affaires,
walked into the foreign affairs office
with them just as Hitler rose in the
opera house to speak.
On June 18, Joachim von Ribben
trop, then German ambassador at
large, concerning the Anglo-German
naval pact, described it in a letter
to Sir Samuel Hoare, then British
foreign secretary, as “a permanent
and definite agreement.” The pact
did not include any denunciation
clause.
A. & N. C. LEASE IS
TO GET APPROVAL
Raleigh, April 28.—(AP)—Attor
ney General Harry McMullan said
today that directors of the State-con
trolled Atlantic & North Carolina
railroad probably would meet next
week to approve leasing of the road
to H. P. Edwards, of Sanford.
The stockholders and directors vot
ed last week on a suggestion of Gov
ernor Hoey to lease the railroad,
which operates between Goldsboro
and Morehead City, to Edwards. The
Interstate Commerce Commission
must also approve the lease.
Johnston Is
Named Judge
Raleigh, April 28.—(AP)—Gover
nor Hoey today appointed A. Hall
Johnston, of Asheville, as a special
superior court judge to succeed the
late Judge Frank S. Hill.
Judge Johnston will qualify at
once. It was the second jjjune that
Governor Hoey appointed Johnston
to the superior court bench. He was
named 'in 1937 to serve the unex
pired term of Judge P. A. McElroy,
who retired. In 1938, he was de
feated in the Democratic primary by
Solicitor Zeb Nettles, who is now the
judge of the 19th district
A special judge receives the same
pay, $8,050 yearly, as a regular
judge, but holds office for only a
two-year term under gubernatorial
appointment. Judge Johnston is a
native of Buncombe county
Judee Hill died Tuesday after a
long illness. _
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Specific Assurance
Os Peaceful Intent
Extended Americas
Denounces German - British Naval Pact and
Ten-Year Non-Aggression Pact With Poland;
Again Demands War-Lost Colonies Be Re
turned
Berlin. April 28.—(AP)—Adolf Hitler today offered con
ditional reciprocal pledges of non-aggression to the 31 nations
named in President Roosevelt’s April 14 peace appeal, but also
denounced Germany’s naval pact with Britain and her ten-year
non-aggression treaty with Poland.
Specific assurances of peaceful intent toward the United
States and the Americas generally were offered by the German
chancellor in a two-hour, 17-minute oration to the Reichstag in
the opera house, his reply to the Roosevelt message.
Washington
Comment Is
Much Divided
Washington, April 28. —(AP) —
Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho,
dean of the Senate’s Foreign Rela
tions Committee, said today “it
seems to me that Hitler regarded his
speech in the Reichstag as ending the
matter of further world peace dis
cussions”.
First, congressional reaction to Hit
ler’s speech indicated a belief the
German fuehrer had not closed the
door to a peaceful settlement of Eu
ropean controversies. At the State
Department, Secretary Hull studied
press dispatches on the speech, but
since the department had announced
previously it would not regard it as
a formal reply to President Roose
velt’s written peace proposals, there
was no comment.
Some legislators express frank
disappointment at the tone of Hit
ler’s answer to the plea for ten years
of peace in Europe. Others called the
speech “blustering”, and “bluffing”.
“It appears to me,” said Senator
Connally, Democrat, Texas, a mem
ber of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, “that the President’s in
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Poland Will
Answer Force
With Force
Warsaw, Poland, April 28.
(AD —Poland replied to Adolf
Hitler’s Reichstag speech today
with a warning that attempts to
put pressure on her will be ans
wered “promptly and in the
same manner.”
The German chancellor’s de
nunciation of the 1934 German-
Polish non-aggression pact, and
his formal admission that he had
made demands on Poland con
cerning Danzig and the Polish
corridor, were greeted by a for
eign office official w’ith the de
claration that “Germany knows
well she cannot apply to Poland
the methods that she has al
ready in eastern Europe, accom
plished facts and pressure.”
Other authoritative Polish cir
cles called the treaty denuncia
tion “bluff.”
Experts Fail To Agree On
Reaction To Fascist Rule
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, April 28.—Ex-Gover
nir Philip LaFollette of Wisconsin
appeared the other day as a witness
before a joint con
gressional commit
tee ’engaged in
considerat ion of
the plan to admit
into the United
States 20,000 Ger
man refugee chil
dren in excess of
our quota limita
tion. “If a secret,
free and untram
meled vote could
be held in Ger
many,” he said,
“75 percent of the
people would vote
La Follette
against the present regime.” I don’t
offer Phil LaFollette’s testimony as
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He reiterated Germany’s demands
for return of her war-lost colonies
thus: , ,
■‘The only claim I have ever made
and shall continue to make on Eng
land is that for the return of our
colonies. But I always have made it
very clear that this would not be
come the cause of military conflict.”
On this point, he addressed Roose
velt:
“I would appreciate it very much
if you, Mr. Roosevelt, as one of the
successors to the late President Wil
son were to devote yourself to see
ing that the promises be at least re
deemed on the basis of which Ger
many once laid down her arms, and
gave herself up to the so-called
victors.
“I’m thinking less of the innumer
able millions (of money) extorted
from Germany as so-called repara
tions than of the territory stolen
from Germany.
“President Wilson solemly pledged
his word that German colonial claims
like all others, would receive the
same just examination. It would be
a noble act if President Franklin
Roosevelt were to redeem the prom
ises made by President Wilson.
(The text of Hitlei’’s Reichstag
speech was handed to the United
States Embassy as the chancellor’s
official reply to President Rooseelt’s
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HITLER WILL SPEAK
AGAIN NEXT TUESDAY
New York. April 28.—(AP) —The
NBC, CBS and MBC chains have an
nounced for approximately 6 a. m.
Monday the broadcast of a second
speech by Chancellor Adolf Hitler. It
is to come from a demonstration to
follow a meeting of the Reich culture
chamber.
Hitler Bluff,
Poland Holds
Warsaw, Poland, April 28.—(AP)
—Adolf Hitler’s denunciation of the
ten-year 1934 non-aggression pact
with Poland was characterized as
“bluff” in authoritative Polish cir
cles today. “He is just trying to scare
Poland,” said one well informed
Polish observer. “He won’t get away
with it.”
It was stressed that Poland is will
ing to negotiate with Germany on
the issue of the Free State of Dan
zig, which Germany wants to ab
sorb, but that Hitler’s original de
mands on this subject were “impos
sible”.
Some foreign diplomats saw the
possibility that Poland might move
closer to Soviet Russia because of
the German action.
fresh news. It was published at the
time he gave it. To be sure, he ought*
to be a fairly good judge. He’s from
a state with a decidedly German
background. And he’s recently back
from a tour of the Fatherland, is a
pretty competent observer and prob
ably had good sources of confiden
tial information.
But that isn't the point.
The same day that Phil talked to
the joint congressional committee
Frank Gervasi, veteran Internation
al News Service correspondent in
Rome (a chap very familiar with
German sentiment too), was telling
the American Society of Newspaper
Editors in Washington that the
masses of Germans and Italians don’t
want to be liberated from supposed
oppression. “I think,” he said, “that
both Hitler and Mussolini are expres
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