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r^nEßSON’s] POPULATION 13,873 I SSty-sixth year LEAGUE READY TO LEAVE DANZIG TO FATE Avoid Danzig War, Ciano Tells Hitler ■m mm Hr' y;. ' ; ■ m? j& ■si ipu wpp mm Central Press Radiophoto Photographed at their momentous conference at Hitler’s Berchtesgaden retreat are (left to right) Ger man Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop, Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Ciano. Ciano reportedly told Hitler that Mussolini does not want to go to war over Danzig and would prefer another “Munich” to settle the issue, with a round-table talk among Germany, Italy, France and Britain. Advance Os Thanksgiving Day Is Approved And Disapproved i i Traditionalists Against Change o f Week; Business Rath er Likes It; Governor Can Fix Date in North Carolina. New York, Aug. 15.—(AP) —Both approval and disapproval today greet ed President Roosevelt's decision to advance the observance of Thanks giving day one week. The pros and the antics were thus roughly group ed: The antis, the traditionalists in general, heavily represented in tradi tion-heavy New England, the loot ball people—coaches, players and fans—and certain turkey people, who thought the new date might hurt their sales; The pros, those who thought one Thursday as good as another; those who thought the earlier Thursday tin- year would be even better, par tin, ibrly for business, since it would time for economic re cuperation before Christmas. As the uproar mounted across the o .atry. with some governors saying the Pn ident’s notion was okay with them, and others announcing coldly that they would stick with the oid date of November 30, President or no President, the State Department in Washington cautiously intervened with tins soothing reminder: The presidential proclamation in re Thanksgiving is actually binding < only ,ii the District of Columbia and territories belonging to the United States; it has been the custom for * v {Continued on Page Five) Sen. Barkley Urges Chart Os U. S.ldea Backs Roosevelt Idea Di ‘ Cash and Carry” Neutrality Program; j Says Rules of Game Should Be Changed Now. ' V: - hington, Aug. 15.—(AP)—Sen :', lor Earl-ley, Democrat, Kentucky, r ! . ie "ajority leader, said today that . origress should enunciate a neu !lv policy early in the next ses that we will not be charg ’V:,U 'hanging the rules of the v'niie the game is in progress.” n ‘_ odded lhat a definite state ‘j.!this country’s neutrality pol • may have some bearing on ; ' her there will be a war” in Eu dm -' iV* y s B ongly supported Presi- Loosevelt’s view that the sale - (continued on Pace Five} Lev, . f FZRRY MEMORIAL Uti, Mvnhvtxmx flatly Htspatrfr _ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTnCAROLINA AND ' “ WRE SERVICE OP I HE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Hitler’s "Voice” £ jl|y|j||j Albert Foerster Albert Foerster, Nazi leader In Danzig, is pictured as he made his historic address in which he de clared the free city soon would join the Reich. Germany, he declared, would never stand by while Danzig suffered the threat of Polish cannon. He had just returned from visit to Hitler and is believed to have voiced the German leader’s views. , (Central Pres*) Wrecker Os Train Might Be Found Now Reno, Nev., Aug. 15.—(AP) —A hint that officials might know the identity of the person responsible ter the crash of the streamlined City of San Francisco, which killed 24 and injured more than 100 was contain ed today in a statement by A. B Mc- Donald, president of the Southern Pacific. “We have some definite evidence, h esaid, “but it is of such a nature that we do not feel free to cii. ulge it at this time.” McDonald expressed belief one man was responsible for the wreck (Continued on Page Eight) U. S. Navy Plane Lost In Crash In Costa Rica Area San Jose, Costa Rica, Aug. 15. —(AP) —A United States Navy plane, flying from the Canal Zone, was reported to have crashed today in the neighbor hood of Parrita. Further details of the accident were not im mediately available. Thirty-five United States naval patrol bombers took part in a Panama Canal anniver sary observance in the Canal Zone today, _ HENDERSON, N. C„ TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 15, 1939 Wage-Hour Law Lauded By Fletcher Former State Official Now in Washington Speaks to Labor Meet In Raleigh; Urges La bor to Fight for Main tenance of Law. Raleigh, Aug. 15.—(AP) —Major A. L. Fletcher, assistant wage-hour administrator, told the North Caro lina Federation of Labor today that the Federal wage-hour law “is of the utmost importance to every man, woman and child in America who has to work for a living,” even though it is not a “cure-all.” “Vicious counter-attacks” against the law, Fletcher said, “demand that labor fight in its defense. Mainten ance in the nation of a large group (Continued on Page Eight) FIVE DEAD IN WRECK OF BRITISH AIRPLANE Copenhagen, Aug. 15.—(AP) —Five men, including an Amer ican, were killed today in the flaming crash of a British Air j ways liner into some straits about 60 miles south of Copen hagen. The victims included S. J. Simonton, whose home ad dress in the United States was unavailable. Cooper Draws Hostility Os ! Truck Owners Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 15. —Proposal of Tom Cooper that some or all of North Carolina’s highways be de signated as “light traffic” roads has put truck owners and drivers through out the State actively to work against the colorful njayor of Wilmington. That was completely obvious to any and all who attended the conven tion of the North Carolina Truck Owners Association at Wrightsville Beach last week-end. Here was one convention the chief (Continued on Page Eight) lOsucdJrWi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; probably showers in the interior. , , Shutdown Os Oil Wells Is Probable Step May Be Taken in Southwest as Effort To Boost Sagging Oil Prices; Course Not Supported By One Group. Oklahoma City, Aug. 15.—CAP) — A shutdown of 177,800 oil well-; pro ducing two-thirds of the crude that provides the nation’s gasoline was de bated today by representatives of nine states here as a remedy for a toppling price structure. Two schools of thought predomi nated at a meeting of the Interstate Compact Commission, organized to prevent waste in the giant industry. There were those who believed the shutdown, already ordered in the vast Texas field, would be recommended throughout the entire mid-continent area. Others advanced the theory that the meeting would collapse, with each state adopting an “after you” attitude might eventual ly end by a ~*alemate. The eyes oi both sides were on Texas, where the railroad commis sion governing body, ordered a 15- day shutdown of 87,000 wells, effec tive at 7 a. m. today. Whether Oklahoma, Kansas and possibly others of the compacting states would follow the Texas order hinged on legality of the decree. Ob servers said it would be futile for other states to shut down unless the vast Texas f elds are closed. The (Continued on Page Eight) State-<Labor Will Oppose Mr. Barden Raleigh, Aug. 15. — (AP) —The North Carolina Federation of La bor adopted a resolution today di recting its 1939-40 officers to try to prevent re-election to Congress of Graham A. Barden, Democrat, from the third district, due to his uncompromising stand on the ques tions involving the wage-hour jaw. The resolutions set for that the New Bern congressman )ed the fight to “wreck the wage-hour law through amendments intended to take two millions of lowly paid workers from under the protection and provisions of the law, and “has manifested a spirit not in keeping either with humanitarian thoughts ; or the trend of the times, which call i for advancement of human in terests.” The officers were directed to wage a campaign against Barden’s re-election, or election “to any other position of trust where he would have the opportunity to work and vote against the interests of the people of this State or the United States.” ' Escaped as Train-Wrecker Kills Score WaTm ■- ii ' ~ I , W' r * ***p| m KB W* R|m n JHI V / J §F x V w Idr :■■■ ' -Bl >^^P; : || §! ' \JI? JP *** 4&mm ||t .< \gy| $. S^^»l *s%*&£ JKH emtSIIB ■ fc-ipMI 5 S mB 1 „'.. yy ,V< 3 WSKKmmmm^ /. ■M *•& > ,"J x ? > '•* -* m Wt^r , - - > mdS'-ijf-3^: i^i^m^ •: £;•>. ":?£*.:■■ :&s?&*■ Central Press Phonephoto Wrapped in blankets as protection against the chill winds of early dawn, these women survivors sit disconsolately along the right of way after the crash of the City of San Francisco near Carlin, Nev. More than a score were killed and fifty injured as the streamliner, speeding west from Chicago, was derailed. A - Five Gunmen Seize $70,000 Bank Fund In Hold-Up In N.Y. Long Beach, N. Y., Aug. 15. (AP) —Five men, one of them armed with a machine gun, robbed a bank messenger of approximately $70,000 on the main street of this summer resort today and apparently made a clean getaway. The robbery set off a widespread search by land, sea and air. Direct ed by wireless, police cars, Nassau county harbor patrol boats, U. S. Coast Guard vessels and a police plane swept feverishly over the Long Island mainland and ocean front. Land police, delayed in their pur suit of the bandit car by a parked Huge Utility Properties Are Transferred lo IVA Carry-Over Sets Record In Cotton Washington, Aug. 15. (AP) The Census Bureau reported to day that the cotton carry-over at the beginning of the cotton year 1939-40, on August 1, was 13,032,- Cll running bales, the largest quantity of cotton held at this time of the year in the history of government statistics. A cotton crop of 11,412,000 bales this year was forecast earlier thi month by the Agriculture De partment. That will be added to the carry-over to make up -Hse year’s supply. There was a carry-over of 11,- 533,439 bales a year ago, and 4,- 498,848, bales two years ago. The average carry-over for the ten years 1929-38 was 6,744,800 bales. Tests Point To Slaying In Granville Raleigh, Aug. 15. —(AP) —Fred C. Handy, director of the State Bureau of Investigation, said today that scientific investigations into the shooting of Emily Hedrick Chase at a Granville county filling station August 6, indicated that the woman had been slain rather than had killed lerself. James W. Powell, scientific re searcher in the bureau, said he made the tests with the gun, clothing worn by the woman when she was shot, and other articles, including (Continued on Page Five) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. truck, with its rear tires punctured, blocked off the three bridges con necting with the Long Island main land, but expressed fear they were too late. Radio police cars halted an auto mobile 29 miles from here on the mainland, but an investigation show ed it was not their quarry. Early reports, lacking official con firmation, spread that police had en gaged in a running gun l ight with the bandits on Sunny highway, one of Long Island’s busiest parkway thorough tares. Nassau County Police Inspector Harold King said he had heard nothing about it. Commonwealth & Southern Sells $78,- 425,095 Holdings to Government; Willkie Says He Hopes Gov ernment Will Drop Private Competition Now. New York, Aug. 15.—(AP) —The possibility of a more cooperative re lationship between the Tennessee Valley Authority and private utili ties was foreshadowed todajp-as Com conwealth & Southern Corpora tion turned over $70,425,095 of its Tennessee Electric Power Company properties to the federal government agency and municipalities in the valley. David Lilienthal, TVA director, in a statement accompanying the huge transfer of properties to govern mental bodies from private hands, said: “This would . . . seem to be a (Continued on Page Five) Employment Gain Shown In State In Month Just Ended Raleigh, Aug. 15.—(AP) —July employment in 528 North Carolina manufacturing industries increased two and a half percent over June, the Labor Department reported to day, with payrolls rising 3 1-2 per cent, with weekly earnings in creasing 9.10 of one percent. There were 118,642 persons earn ing an average of $14.25 a week in July, the department said. De creases were shown in employment and payrolls of a number of in dustries, retail and wholesale es- I tablishments. it'd 8' PAGES , TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Protection May Soon Be Withdrawn London Professes Ig norance of High Com missioner’s Proposals Following Talk With Hitler; Poland’s At titude May Decide Course. Geneva, Aug. 15. (AP) —The League of Nations is ready to aban don its protection over the Free City of Danzig, League sources said to day, if Poland approves such action as a step toward solution of its quar rel with Germany. Prof. C. J. Burckhardt, the Lea gue high commissioner to Danzig, has returned to the free city after consultations last week with Hitler. A formal report by Burckhardt on his talks has not been received by the League secretariat, but unofficial re ports indicated that negotiations were under way for a Polish-German “compromise.” Weight was lent to these indica tions by conferences Burckhardt had with Nazi and Polish officials on his 1 return to Danzig. Any settlement, it was assumed in these quarters, would involve the League’s withdrawal from Danzig and its replacement by a joint Ger i man-Polish authority. The question of League abandonment of Danzig has come up twice before the Coun cil, once last January and once last May but each time Poland opposed it. Now, League officials said, a pro posal to take the League out of Dan zig would certainly be adopted at the coming Council session September 8, if supported by Poland. The proce dure, they said, would be for Burck hardt to file a report requesting abolition of his post of high commis sioner, and severing the League’s (Continued on Page Five) Mrs. Richard Tells About Jap Insults Tientsin, Aug. 15.—(AP) —Mrs. M. F. Richard, a 59-year-old Ameri can widow, reported today she was detained and subjected to an “un provoked” slapping at the hands of a Japanese guard when she sought to enter the blockaded French con cession yesterday. The Japanese vice-consul Noshida visited the American consulate to day in an attempt to adjust the matter. It was understood, however, the consulate was dissatisfied with his explanation, and forwarded a full report to Washington. After the incident, Mrs. Richard telephoned the American consulate, which in turn called the Japanese vice consul, who went to the barri cade and apologized to her. The Japanese official offered to' take her home in his car, but she de clined. A native of San Francisco, who has spent 34 years in China, Mrs. (Continued on Page Five) Japan Tight In Grip Os Army Group By CHARLES I*. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Aug. 15.—1 f good judgment counted for anything in Japan, American diplomacy and military exp erts H||v - mSmMk. Premier Hiranum* wouldn’t consider Nippon so danger ous. It isn’t that the average Japa nese hasn’t or - dina ri 1 y good judgment, either, The trouble with him is, he isn’t per mitted to use it. It’s obvious right now. All state de partmental advices agree that the Tokyo government doesn’t want a n overly close alliance with Germany and Italy. Jap financiers also realize (Continued on Page Five)
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