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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-sixth year KING AND QUEEN GREET 400 CONGRESSMEN Great Britain Not To Revert To Early Appeasement Plan Off for Death Hop < jgHra&fc. it hii i f&g33Bya3^^^BBMB^^^BBBBB^BBsBfIWL *Sf \ ' :-' »lj: Francisco Sarabia Francisco Sarabia, foremost Mexi can speed flier, is shown just before taking off from New York for Washington. Leaving the capital for a nonstop flight home, his plane plunged into the Potomac River and the Mexican Lindbergh was killed. He had recently set a nonstop flight record from Mexico City to New York City. (Central Preet) Girl Nabbed As Kidnaper Frisco Youth Pretty Young Gover ness Demanded $1,600 Ransom for Child, Re covered Unharmed in Her Custody San Francisco, Cal., June 9. (AIM—A comely 19-year-old governess charged with kidnap ing a live-year-old boy told po lite today her name was Miss Margaret Polly Weil, and that she wanted the §1,600 ransom “to pay the mortgage on my mother’s farm at Nassau, N. Y.” Police inspector John Engler, who quoted the girl, said the weird scheme failed because Miss Weil wore an expensive fur cape stolen in a robbery at Los Ange les May 2. A driver observed the cape when the girl and the child, Krehe Osborn entered a railroad station Wednes (Continued on Page Three) i'abson Picks 12 Fields For Work For Graduates Heads List With Air-Conditioning Industry, Followed by Chemicals; Machinery Business Booming and Autos Still Good Bet By ROGER W. BABSON < <>l».vrisht 1839, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Washington, June 9. —This month supply ol' workers in the United • 'to and Canada will be swelled by “ huge wave of over 2,000,000 school •>u id college gradutes. Getting these y <J "ng people employed is a serious k. However, I believe that if par "'ils analyze their children and attack 1|ll: problem intelligently, it can be ''Wed. Certainly conditions are much h' lte;' today than a year ago. Six Fields Opportunities for today’s graduates n *'> be divided into six groups: (1) -<r:i dtural, (2) professional, (3) building, (4) manufacturing, (5) Hettitersmt ilatlit Ilusßatrh WIRE SERVICE nu i he associated prels? Lord Halifax’s Ad dress Not So Intend ed; Germany Di s trusts Remarks of Hal ifax and Chamberlain As Mere Sop to Russia London, June 9.—(AP) —Concern was expressed in official quarters to day that the oiler of Foreign Secre tary Viscount Halifax to discuss colonial questions with Germany had been interpreted in some circles as a step toward a return to Britain’s pre- Munich policy of appeasement. The Foreign Office declined to comment on Lord Halifax’s speech to the House- of Lords yesterday, but one government official said “Bri tain has no intention of changing her present policy of building up what he called a “strong peace front.” “The day has gone by when the independence ‘of nations can be de stroyed by unilateral action, and it is clear that any attempt to do so will meet with wide and resolute resist ance,” the foreign secretary told the peers. GERMANY DISTRUSTS NEW MOVES MADE IN LONDON Berlin, June 9.—(AP) — Germany “distrusts” the conciliatory speeches made yesterday by Prime Minister Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax as a “diplomatic maneuver connected with the hard sledding apparent in British nego tiations with Russia,” it was said to day in official quarters. There were no indications at the foreign office that Germany would treat the parliamentary statement by Lord Halifax as an invitation to talk business on colonial and economic matters. An official said the-Nazi govern ment “considers the great atten tion paid to the two speeches in Lon don as an effort to bring pressure on Moscow. We do not regard Halifax’s speech as an offer.” DuPont Stock Questioned In SEC Brief Washington, June 9. —(AP) —The Securities Commission announced to day it had started to investigate the “facts and circumstances” involved in alleged “discrepancies” reported in transactions of DuPont common stocks by Pierre S. DuPont, chairman of the company’s board. The commission said these “dis crepancies” had come to light in cor rections of DuPont common stock transactions submitted to the SEC by DuPont. The commission’s announcement said: “The official summary of trans actions and holdings of officers, di rectors and principal company stock holders, published today, includes corrections submitted by Pierre S. DuPont, chairman of the board of E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Com pany, of 20 previous reports “of his direct holdings in the common stock of the company since November, 1934.” The commission said that, where (Continued on Page Three) selling, (6) finance. I have never seen a young person who was not fitted for one of these groups. It is much more important to ascertain whether a boy is best adapted to selling or to teaching, than it is to ascertain whether the chemical in dustry or transportation offers the best opportunities. For which of these six divisions is a child, by inheri tance, training, and environment, best fitted? That is the problem which parents and teachers must answer. Many readers have written me ask ing my advice as to the best fields for their newly-graduted children (Continued on Page Three) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 9, 1939 Greet Royalty at Border l||; : ; ; ■if* -T lllllgli Or HI Bp itr..; ilia ¥*H§ m as ( iwi ■KpL, ; fltl 4 -T. f % gllf • j VM jMaiHk «3MigsßpGfo : Secretary of State Hull chats with Sir Ronald Lindsay (right), British ambassador to the U. S., just before they entrained at Washington for Niagara Falls, N. Y., to formally welcome King George and Queen Eliza beth to the United States. (Central Press) Ruth Rubens, Long Missing In Russia, Sentenced, Freed Moscow, June 9.—(AP) —Soviet j Russia suddenly brought American Ruth Marie Rubens into Moscow's city court today after holding her mysteriously for a year and a half, convicted her of entering the Soviet Union with a false United States! passport and ordered her freed with- « in 24 hours. Calmly puffing a cigarette, Mrs. j Rubens pleaded “no defense” during the ten-minute court session in which nothing was said about reports long current that she had been suspected of espionage. She showed concern only about her husband, known both as Adolf Arnold Rubens and Donald Robinson, who has not been heard of since he vanished with his wife from a Moscow hotel in December, 1937. The court sentenced her to eight- 1 Very Little Interest In Beal Hearing Raleigh, June 9. (AP) —A scholarly 107-page brief was submitted to Governor Hocy to day asking that he grant a full pardon to Fred Erwin Beal, ex communist labor leader, serving a 27-30-year prison term for conspiracy to murder Gastonia Police Chief O. F. Aderholt. Summarizing arguments made in a hearing yesterday before Paroles Commissioner Edwin Gill, the brief asserted that Beal was innocent, and pointed out that the governor was now the only person who could pass on the evidence that the jury which convicted Beal was prejudiced by the admission of testimony as to his beliefs on communism, patriotism and religion. Governor Hoey himself, as a practicing attorney, was a mem (Continued on Page Four) Germany Prepares To Deport 10,000 Jews Into Poland Berlin, June 9.-r-(AP) —Be- tween 10,000 and 15,000 Jews were reported today to have been rounded up and headed to ward the Polish border for de portation or given definite notice to get out of Germany across other borders. Reports of threatened retalia tion by the Polish government “in the way of wholesale depor tation of Germans living in Po land,” coincided with the open ing of a new drive to hasten the exodus of all Jews from Ger many. It was the first campaign of its kind since last fall. Reliable advices reaching Ber ( lin said that all Jews in East Prussia, not merely Polish Jews were ordered to leave before June 20. The most recent au thoritative figures showed there were 11,000 Jews in East Prus sia. SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA een months in prison and then ruled she had served all but a day of the term. Her request for information con cerning her husband was refused. United States Embassy officials, who have tried for a year and a half to get to the bottom of the case, were present. It was not known whether she wouid be turned over to them for possible prosecution on a false passport charge. The trial came unexpectedly. Only a few hours before Mrs. Rubens ap peared in -court, it was known that developments were expected in the long drawn affair. The presiding judge asked her if she had anything to say before sen tence. “A false passport was found on me,” Mrs. Rubens replied in English. “I have no defense.” Chances For Garner None Too Rosy Now By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, June 9.—The out and-out boom launched in the last few days for John N. Garner as the Democrats next presidential can- didate has devel oped an exceed ingly tense situa tion among the party’s politicians in Was hin gton. “Texas Jack” isn’t advertised in so many words a s having inspired his friends to declare themselves out spokingly in his favor for the 1940 nomination, but nobody questions that the ebullition John N. Garner had his sanction. So the campaign really is started, as good as officially. The Garneritees profess to believe that President Roosevelt would be well disposed toward the Texan as the Jeffersonians’ choice to succeed him. New Dealers, however, gener ally say that they know a lot bet ter, and I suspect that the Garnerites themselves are aware that their (Continued on Page Four) New Board Takes Over Axton-Fisher Tobacco Company New York, June 9.—(AP) —A new board of directors took over the management of the Axton-Fisher To bacco Company today and elected C. P. Parker as president. He formerly was the company’s treasurer. The board was elected yesterday by interests which acquired control of the company last month through the purchase of 80,610 shares of Class B. stock a public auction. Edwin D. Axton, former president, was made chairman qI the board. Rotunda Os Capitol Is The Setting Borah, Dean of Sen ate, First To Shake Their Hands After Garner and Bankhead Speak to Them; 400- Odd Others Follow Washington, June 9.—(AP) —Bri- tain’s youthful sovereigns exchanged cordial greetings with American leg islators today in a brilliant Capitol reception demonstrating a new close bond ol' friendship between two great English-speaking peoples. Standing in the huge high-domed Capitol rotunda, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth had a smile and royal handshake for the 400-odd sen ators and representatives crowded into the chamber. The monarchs stood less than 100 yards from the spot where victorious British troops held a mock legislative session in the House chamber 125 years ago, and then sacked and burn ed the Capitol. Seventy-four-year -old Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, dean of the Senate, was the first, other than the reception committee, to meet the king and queen after they were es corted inside by a reception commit tee headed by Senator Pittman, Dem ocrat, Nevada, chairman of the for eign relations committee. The king and queen first were greeted at the door of the l’otunda by Vice-President Garner and Speak er Bankhead. King George chatted with Pittman until the reception got under way. Out on the Capitol Plaza, blazing under a hot sun, thousands cheered the arrival of the royal visitors. Al though the top was up on the car in which they rode, the queen car ried the parasol which had shielded her from the sun during yesterday’s tumultuous reception. It was another typically crowded program for the shy, smiling monarch and his vivacious queen—a recep tion for 1,000 British subjects, pres entation of members of Congress, and the placing of wreaths on the tombs of George Washington and Amer ica’s Unknown Soldier. ‘Cotton Ed’ Smith Tells King About 1747 Land Grant Washington, June 9.—(AP) King George VI arid Senator E. D. Smith of South Carolina took time out at the end of the garden party yesterday to dis cuss a real estate transaction of 1747. Smith said that after the king inquired if he were “Cotton r.d” Smith he told His MSjesty that the land grant of the Smith plantation in South Carolina was signed 192 years ago by King George 11. The chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee added;: “and I told him I still have the grant and am still living on the land.” George Pays Homage To Washington Washington, June 9.—(AP) In solemn reverance, King George VI paid homage today to America’s foremost shrine, the tomb of George Washington, who led thirteen struggling col onies to independence from British rule. - Perhaps more than any other event of the historic two-day visit, the unprecedented but sim ple ceremony on the grassy (Continued on Page Four) Kerr Refuses To Greet King, Queen Washington, June 9.—(AP) Representative Kerr, Democrat, North Carolina, passed up the Capitol reception today for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. “I don’t think the greatest leg islative body in the world ought to be presented to anybody,” he said. “It should have been the other way around. The king and queen should have been present ed to Congress.” PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Roosevelt To Talk World Affairs With King During Visit Salute ■ Ml - • Leah Burket * Charming Leah Burket, Washing ton girl scout, shows her salute for, the British monarchs on their visit; to the White House, where Leah; presents the Queen with a bouquet of flowers, Leah is one of a number of girl scouts chosen to serve as “guard of honor” to royal visitors- Czechs Are Threatened By Arrests Wholesale Jailings To Follow Unless Slayer cf German Police Ser geant at Kladno Is Produced by Nightfall Prague, June 9. (AP) —The German ultimatum to the Czechs expired at 8 p. m. (2 p. m. east ern standard time) tonight with out the slayer or slayers of the German policeman Wilhelm Kniest having been found. Prague, June 9. —(AP) —Germans reported today mass arrests would be carried out if Czechs failed to produce the slayer of a German po lice sergeant in Kladno by 8 p. m. tonight. They said the arrests would con tinue until the person or persons re sponsible for the first German fa tality since Reichfuehrer Hitler ab sorbed Bohemia and Moravia into greater Germany were found. Kladno already is under strict regulations, which may be widened into martial law tonight if the dead line passes without the ultimatum being heeded. The mayor, chief of police and many others already are in custody. The policeman, Wilhelm Kniest, was killed late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning in front of the technical school at Kladno, an industrial town 15 miles from Prague Behind the stern measures, inform ed Nazis said, was a threat to abolish the last semblance of Czech self government. They said the German action was intended to set an example to dis continued on Page Four) Rival Unions Cross Up In Flint Strike Flint, Mich., June 9.—(AP) —Unit- ed Auto Workers affiliated with the CIO crossed picket lines and went to work today in spite of a strike called by the Homer Martin UAW (AF of L) in the Flint plants of Gen eral Motors Corporation. Pickets made no particular effort to stop those who went to work, al though there was a fight at Chev rolet plant No. 2 between members of the two unions, and scattered scuf fles were reported. No one was in jured seriously, police said. No true test of strength was pos sible today, Martin’s followers said, (Continued on Page Four). o PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Discussions Won’t Be Significant, However, President Says; De clares King and Queen “Very, Very Delightful People” Washington, June 9.—(AP)—Pres ident Roosevelt told a press confer ence today he supposed he would discuss international affairs with King George of Britain in an infor mal manner. However, when asked whether he had or would talk such matters with His Majesty, the chief executive remarked that the conver sations would not be significant. Mr. Roosevelt said he would talk with the king just as he would with members of the press. In these days of strenuous world affairs, he said, one could hardly talk to another with out mentioning the subject. He ad ded, however, that it would not mean anything. The President described the king and queen as “very, very delightful people.” He permitted the direct quotation. Asked about a newspaper story as quoting the king as saying it was all right to call him, “George,” the Pres ident smiled and replied he would have to call that “another newspaper story.” Meanwhile, Senator Barkley, of Kentucky, Democratic leader, told reporters “it is a possibility, but not a probability,” that Congress will ad journ by July 15. Barkley said con gressional leaders would be unable to give President Roosevelt a definite quitting date “until about two weeks before adjournment.” It definitely is possible, he said, that neutrality legislation could be enacted before members of Congress go home. Other developments: Senator Pittman, Democrat, Nev ada, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that he had “never seen such a spontaneous and universal expression of friendship” as that demonstrated at the reception to King George and Queen Elizabeth. Driver’s License Can’t Be Revoked On Horse Vehicle Raleigh, June 9.—(AP)—A ruling from the attorney general’s office held today that a man cannot be deprived of his automobile driver’s license simply because he was con victed of driving a horsedrawh ve hicle while under the influence of liquor. Ronald Hocutt, director of highway safety, asked the ruling.in connection with a request from the Halifax county recorder to revdke the driver’s license of a man found guilty of driving a horse cart while intoxicated. Middle-Aged Negro Gassed For Murder Raleigh, June 9.—(AP) —The State executed Dave Burney, 47-year-old Negro, today for the murder in Jopes county last September of Mottie (Mordie) Kinsey, a Negress. Burney was the 48th person put to death here by gas, and the 220tK executed since 1910. The Negro, bald-headed and stockily built, entered the death chamber at 10:03 a. m. The gas ma chinery started at 10:05 a. m., and he was pronounced dead ten and a half minutes later. As Burney walked his “last mile”, down Death Row, other inmates slowly sang, “Do Not Pass Me By.” Chaplain E. C. Cooper, who is leaving his prison post, and his suc cessor, Rev. L. A. Watts, entered the death chamber with Burney. It was the first execution attended by Mr. Watts here. For the second time re cently, Warded H. H. Wilson had to secure witnesses at the last minute to get the legal requirement or six. “I don’t know what it is”, Wil son commented when asked why per sons asking to see executions had dropped off so. “It must be that the use of a mask takes the sensational ism out of executions.” CdcaiJw/i FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Sat urday, possibly showers in moutt tains Saturday.