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tfENDEKSON’S POPULATION 13.873 - Trrv QTXT'TT YEAR leased wire service op j’WEN 1 A 1 n 1 the associated press Danzig Crisis Believed Imminent Ha f Os Oil Supply Cut in The West Shutdowns in Three States Desperate Move to Bolster Price Structure on Crude Oil; Many Employees Affected. ji.m'.u City, Aug. 16.—(AP) — [; n halt' ttic country’s crude *jl u ,)iy was cut off today as three .'.i. the lead in a fight against thr* -aU Mod collapse of the indus try'' price structure. 'Following an historic meeting of the Oh Compact Commission yester- c l | ;|V Xcw Mexico and Oklahoma jomea wit a Texas to close down 145,- ’2Oll well; producing more than 51 oct et nt oi the country’s output. A further clash in production was proit seel by Governor Ratner, who “aid the Kansas Corporation Com- 1 lui.-. ien would order the State’s 28,- 000 wells shut down today. Texas doed its 87.000 wells for 15 days yesterday. Crude oil prices began to topple la.-t week as the Sinclair Prairie Company posted a general 20 cents per barrel cut, and some of the smaller companies followed suit. A collapse of the whole structure when the Humble Oil & Re tiring Company reduced prices from five to 32 cents a barrel in Texas, the largest producer. Observers were not able to deter mine at once how many employees would be al'ectea, since many were being given \ acations with pay, some half-time pay. Many firms said they would have their men clean up and recondition properties during the pe riod. It was the first shutdown of the mid-continent area ever at tempted on such a wide scale. Only certain oil fields have been closed in the past. Pilgrims Not Particular On Thanksgiving Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 16.—(AP) —While opponents and proponents of Pre.-ident Roosevelt’s proposal to ad vance the date of Thanksgiving day a week continued to clash today, the archives of this ancient home of the holiday's originators disclosed that wide variance in the date of obser vance was a matter of little moment to the Pilgrim fathers. In fact, they liked it in Decem ber. and they liked it in July and in October and November as well. Os course, the Plymouth settlers f hd not have the convenience of busi ine to consider or football sche du ( . either, when they held their la t observance after the harvest back in 1621. Some turkey growers have com plained a date earlier than Novem ber 30 would be injurious to their u d a-try. Others said it would make no difference. E. N. Jacques, presi dent oi the Maine Turkey Growers A 1 lion, claimed the change "would mean the loss of several mil (Continued on Page Eight) Rumor Is McDonald Wants Cooper Oat Os Race So / rank P, Graham Can Run McDonald Would Become President of Uni versity and Liberalism Would Go to Town in Carolina; But It’s All Rumor. Daily Dispatch Bureau, In <he Sir Walter Hotel. ' Ai, Aug. IG.—Dr. Ralph W. i'i, almost-governor of 1936 1 " associate extension director 1 diversity of North Carolina, i otn Cooper out of the guber race in order to project Dr. 1 a, Uraham, the University’s pres at into the picture as “the great ‘ '■ around whom all Tar Heels should rally. 1 " 't the latest product of the hot ,‘' ' ,Ol political rumor and report "'i.y. and is not the provable* un (, ,!l 1,1 triable fact it might appear ' - the way it is put baldly in epigraph one. least it’s the way one high (r'i' : ; !1 8 State official (himself elect ee people, by the way) has *^ l ' r< ' d out the puzzle of McDon -041 Lecent and manifold activities. imutersmt Hmht Hispatrh Military attaches of foreign nations were given an opportunity to witness a display of U. S. might as they attended the American army maneuvers at Manassas, Va. Left to right, in front of a gun, Colonel Carlos Sanchez of Venezuela, Major General Yamauti of Japan and Major G. B. Machado of Brazil listen to explana tion of field piece by Corporal Joseph Sobelski (rear), gunner of the 109th Field Artillery. Vote On Tobacco Control Ordered By Secretary Wallace No Date Set as Yet on Which Leaf Growers Will Decide Control Issue for 1940; Penal ty of Ten Cents a Pound Provided. Washington, Aug. 16. —(AP) —Sec- retary Wallace took the first step to day toward imposing rigid market ing controls and penalties on the 1934 flue-cured tobacco crop as a result of this year’s record yield. The secretary ordered the AAA to arrange for a referendum among to bacco growers on marketing quotas. Two-thirds of the growers of flue cured leaf must approve marketing restrictions and penalties before they become operative. A similar attempt by Wallace to impose marketing controls this sea son failed when only 56.8 percent of the growers voted favorably, less than the required two-thirds. Under terms of the farm act, the secretary must proclaim marketing quotas whenever supplies of .a major farm crop exceed certain reserve levels. Then a farmer referendum must be conducted. Although Wallace has not yet of ficially proclaimed the tobacco quotas and has until December 1 to do so, the AAA announced that this year’s large crop apparently will bring sup (Continued on Page Two) -ffie first half of the proposition can be set down as absolutely true McDonald has been and still is try ing his very hardest to get the Wil mington mayor out of the guberna torial race. He recently cornered Tom in a hotel room and argued with him for nearly four hours in an ef fort to induce a Cooper withdrawal. That much is certain, even if neither McDonald nor Cooper will openly ad mit it for publication. It is equally sure that McDonald hasn’t as yet committed himself to support any of the currently-men tioned candidates, and it is extreme ly improbable that he would get much pleasure out of supporting any one of them. Not a single one, with the exception of Cooper can by any stretch of imagination be classed as (Continued on page two) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED Foreign Attaches at Manassas Maneuvers HENDERSON, N. C., Jefferson Gives Not Guilty Plea West Palm Beach, Fla., Aug. 16. —(AP) —Charles Jefferson, 34, who posed as a threatical pro motor to lure two Miami high school girls from home, pleaded innocent today to indictments charging him with kidnaping, rape and murder in the death of 17-year-old Frances Dunn. Judge C. E. Chillingworth, be fore whom Jefferson was arraign ed, following his indictment yes terday by the Palm Beach county grand jury, set trial for Septem ber 25 on the murder charge. The court appointed Jack W. Salisbury, former State’s attorney here, to defend Jefferson. Wages-Hours Chief Denies Dictatorship ■ I Chicago, Aug. 16.—(AP)—Elmer F. Andrews, administrator of the wage and hour division of the De partment of Labor, analyzed the fair labor standards act today and de nied that the administrator had “vast dictatorial powers over industry.” “At every point his discretion is circumscribed. What he may do is nailed down in the law,” he told (Continued on page two) Anglo-French j Propaganda Is Charged I New York, Aug. 16. —(AP) —Ralph Borsodf, economist and author, charged today at the Congress of Education for Democracy that the congress was “merely a propaganda agency to help enlist America on the side of Britain and France” in the event of a world war. Borsodi, author of “This Ugly Civilization” and other books, and director of the School of Living at Suffern, Nf Y., made his statement (Continued on Page Five) Orfecdthsui FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy; occasional showers Thursday and possibly in the interior tonight. IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 16, 1939 Coup Shows Worth Os Army Plans —24 Surprise March Leads “Invaders” Out o f Trap at Manassas; Mock War Begins at Plattsburg, With 52,- 000 Men Involved. Manassas, Va., Aug. 16. —(AP) —A surprise march of eight miles in the darkness led an “invading” army out of a trap today in the third corps war games, offering added proof of the mobility of the army’s new stream lined division. In the middle of the night, en gineers threw a pontoon bridge across deep Occoquan creek and Brigadier General Maxwell Murray sent his entire mechanized division across. Thus, the 6,000 regular army men swung out of the “squeeze” play ef fected yesterday by the defenders, 17,000 National Guardsmen, and came in on the guardsmen’s flank. Deep log shut off aerial observation, and the “defenders of Washington” did not know they were threatened (Continued on Page Five) President at Vacation Spot ipr y 1 tb g ''ill President Franklin D. Roosevelt, vacationing at Campobello, New Bruns wick, reads a newspaper account of his trip aboard the cruiser Tusca loosa to his son, Franklin, Jr., and daughter-in-law. The Presidents voyage included a visit to the salvage scene of the submarine Sgualus, Labor Will Oppose Foes In Congress t a t e Federation Meet Told by Googe There Is No Imme dia t e Prospect of Peace With CIO; At tacks John Lewis. Raleigh, Aug. 16.—(AP) —The American Federation of Labor will campaign systematically against all senators and representatives who oppose pro-labor legislation in the next Congress, George L. Googe, southern representative, announced today. “The next session of Congress will be the most important in the history of the American Federation of Labor,” Googe told the annual convention of the State Federation of Labor. “We will either stoMi”the swing of the pendulum toward re action or lose what beneficial labor iaws we have.” Dr. Ralph McDonald, candidate for governor in 1936, and now an (Continued on Page Two) Find Indian Dead On S. A. L. Trestle Near Lumberton Lumberton, Aug. 16.—(AP) —An Indian tentatively identified by a social security card as James Ellis Oxendine, of Middlesex, was found dead late last night near a Sea board Air Line trestle about four miles west of here. Sheriff Clyde Wade said the engineer of the Sea board Air Line freight train No. 38 told Dim the man was lying on the tracks. The train struck the man’s head, the sheriff said. Wade said the man, who was about 40 years old and hacf one arm, may have lived in the Wakula section of Robeson county. County Men Hear Plea On Tax Reforms Wilmington, Aug. 16.—(AP) —H. W. Harkey, president of the State County Commissioners Association, and chairman of the Mecklenburg county board, made a forceful plea for full cooperation with the attor ney general in the proposed recodi fication of the State’s tax collection laws before the annual convention of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners and County Accountants at Wrightsville Beach today. He urged support, as well, for the campaign being conducted for the (Continued on Page Two) 1 ■"■■■ PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. German-Polish Row Further Aggravated By Soldier’s Death Polish Trooper Shot Dead Over Line in Dan zig; Nazi Attitude Shows Distinct Stiffening; Bloodless Solution Forecast. Berlin, Aug. 16. (AP) —A Nazi attitude toward Poland, and otl-er signs of tension heightened the conviction among hers today events were shaping for a turn soon on the crucial issue of the Danzig free city. Germans in all walks of life carefully weighed the possibility of another of Adolf Hitler’s famous “week-end surprises” to settle the long drawn dispute over whether Danzig should be handed back to Germany. Germany demands full sovereignty over the Baltic port city, which since the World War has been 1 Strike Forecast Os Meat Packers Washington, Aivf. 16. (AP) CIO leaders told government of ficials today there would be a strike in the packing house indus try before Labor Day unless the industry and ClO’s packing house union were brought together in contract negotiations. ClO’s ultimatum was delivered by V. A. Bittner, chairman of the packing house workers organizing committee, at a conference with Secretary Perkins and an assis tant. After the conference, Bittner told newsmen: “We asked her to ask the President of the United States to call a conference be tween the union and Armour & Company.” Bittner said there was only one way to prevent a strike, involving some 20,006 wooers in the indus try’s “big four.” “And that is for Armour to negotiate with us im mediately,” he said. t Germanßund Lists 20,000, Kuhn States Leader Tells Dies Committee, However, Records Were D e stroyed When Probe Appeared Likely; Peanut ,M.en Seek Price Level. Washington, Aug. 16. —(AP) Fritz Kuhn estimated dues-paying members of the German American Bund at 20,000 persons today after testifying membership records of the organization had 'been destroyed at his order, gecause of prospective in vestigations. The bebspectacled Bund leader, appearing unexpectedly before the House committee investigating un- American activities, said he rad only partial records of dues payments. De struction of the membership records, he said, was ordered when investiga tion seemed likley by the Dies com mittee and a New York State legisla- i tive group. Kuhn said the bund came into ex (Continued on Page Tyo) Democratic Senate Would Trouble G. O. P. President By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Aug. 16.—New Deal ers have it all doped out that the Republicans can’t possibly control Congress before the end of 1942 even if they elect a G. O. P. president next year. Theoretically they can get a majority in the House of Represen tatives. It would involve an amaz ing shift in rival parties’ respective memberships, but it’s imaginable. In the Senate, however, only 33 terms will be expiring—32 normally and that of Senator Slattery, who is serv ing temporarily, by appointment as successor to the late Senator Lewis of Illinois. To give them a senatorial margin of advantage the Republicans would have to capture all those seats, and they can’t conceivably do it. As optimistic a Republican guessei 8' PAGES , TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY a Polish customs unit. Officials insist a Danzig solution will be a bloodless one, and there is some chance the present feeling of tenseness may subside. Reminiscent of the role of the Ger man press during the days imme diately preceding the annexation of Austria, the Sudetenland and Memel, and the establishment of protectorate over Bohemia and Moravia, Nazi newspapers are hurling broadsides at Poland. Headlines attacked “Polish terror rampaging against national minor ities.” Propaganda Minister Paul Goeb bels, in a newspaper, declared yes terday, “seven hundred and eighty acts of terror were committed by Poles against German nationals since the beginning of 1939”. As during the Czech crisis last summer, the newspapers publish stir continued on Page Two) FDR Is Willing To Father Divine As His Neighbor New K York, Aug. 16.—(AP) —From a Vanderbilt to Father Divine as a neighbor, with no objections from President Roosevelt. That was the picture today as the Harlem cult leader’s white secretary made public correspondence be tween Father Divine and the White House bearing on negotiations for Divine’s purchase of the palatial 700-acre estate of the late Frederick W. Vanderbilt. The secretary, John Lamb, said negotiations had been carried on secretly, but since President Roose velt has no objections to the es tablishment of a second “heaven” near his home, negotiations hence forth will be carried on publicly. Italy Warns Poland She Should Yield Rome, Aug. 16. (AP) —Direct negotiations between Germany and Poland for the German acquisition of Danzig emerged today as the appar ent Italian plan for settlement of that problem. The controlled fascist press proposed such negotiations with a unanimity of expression that seemed to indicate official inspiration. II Messagero said: “Wisdom and prudence advise Poland to negotiate with Germany.” It added that Bri tain and France “have the duty to suggest moderation to Poland, and expressively invite it to negotiate with Germany.” The same advice was given by II (Continued on Page Two) as Senator Austin, acting minority leader in the upper congressional chamber, limits himself to forecast ing “at least a half-dozen” G. O. P. gains. Admitting, then (merely for argu ment’s sake), the 1940 election of a Republican president, with a ma jority in the House of Representa tives, the White House tenant still will have a Democratic Senate on his hands, and Congress won’t be much use to him unless he can con trol both houses on Capitol Hill. That is how the New Dealers figure. There’s nothing the matter with their arithmetic. The Republicans, though, say they leave some other items out of con (Continued on Page Five)
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