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fssssl ,13.373 | frWFINTY-SIXTH YEAR One Killed In Tornado In Wake Britain Rejects Japanese Demands For Economic Grants Tokyo Told Os Decision From London British Government Says Economic Ques tions Must Be Re ferred to Nine Powers That Signed Wash ington Treaty in 1922. London. Aug. 18. —(AP) —Great B<;\. :i iejected today Japanese de ,md' that economic questions be nrliictai in the discussions now ,n in Tokyo in the Tientsin d-pT;, between * the two powers. (i.: 1 , ;,; circles .-aid the British am bassadi r. Sir Robert L. Craigie, had cl the Japanese government o diL decision. japan was raid io have been told that" any discussion of economic questions must be referred to all sgnatories of the nine-power tit. tv and other relevant treaties. (The aine-power treaty was signed February 6. 1922, in Wash ington. by the United States, Bel gium. the British Empire, China, France, Italy, Japan, the Nether land.- and Portugal. The signatories undertook, among other things, to re-1 ect the sovereignty, indepen dence and territorial and adminis trative integrity of China, to main tain the principle of the open door, and to refrain from taking ad vantage of conditions in China in order to seek special rights or privileges which would abridge the rights of nationals of friendly states.) There was no statement as to whether the British government might have in mind a general con ference of these signatory powers. A government spokesman said it was possible to get the views of (Continued on Page Eight) TVA To Sell Power to Old Competitor Washington, Aug. 18.—(AP) —A spoia. man said today that the Tennessee Valley Authority had -igned a contract with Common wealth & Southern Corporation to sell Power to Commonwealth & Southern subsidiaries in Mississippi, Ai 'Oama, Georgia and South Caro lina at 'a total cost of approximate ly 'IOO,OOO a month. This source years of service which could be iaid the contract called for ten terminated, however, on 18 months notice by either party. The deal, it was said, would not ••land in the way of negotiations now afoot for TVA assistance in the purcha.se of public bodies of ap pro sir: .ate iy $5,000,000 of Com monwealth & Southern utilities dn northern sections of Alabama and -Vi: iwsippi. iVA concluded with Common '•V'ath & Southern only this week a contract for the purchase of its ienne. -ee utility properties. State’s Traffic Deaths Fewer So Far This Year for First Seven Months Vance Has Had Four deaths and 26 Injuries; In All of 1938, County Had Six Killed and 81 Injured. Daily Dispatch Bureau, i In the Sir Walter Hotel. T '-'l' igh, Aug. 13.—During the first ‘ " months of 1939 deaths in high v ■ »aHie* accidents were less than! h ;i ' many as in all of 1938 in 61 mih Carolina counties. ( the- other end of the scales, traf ( " /1‘ aths through July already ex "'Hrl the 1938 toll in 17 counties. * * 'he State as a whole, there were h-O ,7 aths through July, well below nd ‘ l "nimenting on these figures, pre dirr ,‘ n his division, Ronald Hocutt, ; " '! highway safety, said he w-nrt' ldedly . h °P ef ul that 1939 will ilCi u i j with fewer fatalities than Tietthersmt Qatht tUsnatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA^ £ D a eW* E SERVICE OP I HE ASSOCIATED PRESS. #78,600,000 Change Hands in Sale to TVA 1 >. || } BKtk tL ■■■■ '■ lmgil& *|| I wi j 'W % rMgii.ji mgsmm : ifi .. t. ' '1 Consummation of one of biggest power deals in history is shown here as Wendell L. Willkie (left) accepts check for $44,728,300 from David E. Lilienthal, TVA director, as .Tennessee Electric Power Company is turned over to TVA and 33 municipalities for $78,000,000. Witnessing transaction, in New York, are E. E. Nelson (center, rear), secretary of Commonwealth and Southern Covp., which made the sale, and L. J. Wilhoit (right), chairman of Chattanooga Power Board. Willkie heads Commonwealth and Southern. (Central Press) Roper Resigns His Post As Minister To Canada Bounty for Wheat Cut Down by AAA Washington, Aug. 18.—(AP) The AAA announced today that wheat farmers would receive 18 to 20 cents a bushel for comply ing with the 1940 crop control program. This is six to ten cents a bushel less than payments of 28 cents on the 1939 crop. Officials explained that the national wheat acreage allotment of 62,000,000 acres for next year was larger than this year’s allotment of 55,- 000,000 acres, thus causing the re duced payments. Oil Prices Confusing In Newest Turn Tulsa, Okla„ Aug. 18.—(AP)— Oildom was head over heels in con fusion today after Sinclair, the major buyer, which started an ava lanche of crude oil price cuts, quit posting its prices in four states with out explanation. The puzzling turn followed the about-face of two independent oil companies which rescinded previous reductions of 20 cents a barrel. Sin (Continued on Page Five) I occurred last year. The counties in which more have ! already been killed this year than j during all last are Avery. Brunswick, | Carteret, Cleveland, Cumberland, Currituck, Duplin, Henderson, Mar tin, McDowell, Mitchell, Orange, Rutherford, Union, Wilkes, Johnston and Lee. Ranked according to deaths, the first 16 counties through July were: 1. Guilford 24; 2, Mecklenburg 22; 3, Cumberland and Wake, 19 each: , 5, Nash and New Hanover 14 each: 7, Buncombe 13; 8, Durham 12; 9 I Forsyth, 10; 10, Johnston, Robeson, 1 C (Continued on Pago Three} HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, A UGUST 18, 1939 President Makes An nouncement Aboard Cruiser in Far Cana dian Waters; Roose velt Wrote Roper Thankipg Him for Services. Aboard U. S. S. Lang, Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, Aug. 18.— (AP) —Former Secretary of Com merce Daniel C. Roper has re signed as United States minister to Canada. In a press conference aboard the Tuscaloosa, President Roosevelt dis closed he had accepted the resigna tion before leaving Hyde Park. He said he had sent Roper a letter of regret and thanked him for his willingness to take the post tem porarily during the recent visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain. Meanwhile, in high good .humor, President Roosevelt fished in the Newfoundland waters he last saw as a young man while on a fishing and hunting trip, with his brother in-law, Hall Roosevelt, in 1908. The cruiser, which has traveled 1,200 miles since leaving New York Saturday, anchored over night at the farthest point north visited by the President since he entered the White House. The cruiser steamed up the Humber river. 16 Are Hurt As Big Bus I Turns Over Peroria, 111., Aug. 18.—(AP)—Six teen passengers were injured today, five seriously, when a trans-con tinental bus skidded on a hill curve near Kingston mines and plunged into a fied where it toppled on its side. A man who- lives nearby heard the crash and telephoned Peoria for ambulances and doctors, then aided the drive in pulling 'put the passengers. The other passengers were only slightly hurt. Everett Starman, of quincy, 111., the bus driver, suf fered a wrenched back, but re fused hospitalization to help care for the passengers. The bus, property of the Santa Fee Trailways, was enroute from (Continued on Page Five) UJojaihsih FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, showers this afternoon and in north portion and near the coast tonight; Saturday part ly cloudy, warmer in central portion, . _ Would Fight Kuhn BBMBj • ■'•. - Rep. Joseph Starnes Capitol police stepped in when Rep resentative Joseph Starnes (D., Ala.) started, fists swinging, for Fritz Kuhn, German American Bund leader, at Dies Committee t hearing in Washington. Uproar resulted when Kuhn denounced as ! a lie Starnes’ question whether bund doesn’t propose Nazi govern ment for U. S. 2,000 Textile Workers Out At Columbia Columbia, S. C., Aug. 18. —(AP) —Pacific Mills’ four textile plants here were idle today as about 2,000 workers went out on strike de manding union security and re storation of the 1938 12 1-2 per cent wage cut. Workers decided to strike at 1 a. m. today, an hour after the old contract with the mill management expired. Heavy picket lines were thrown around the four plants, Granby, Olympia, Richland and Capital City. Except for minor altercations, the strikers were orderly. W. P. Hamrick, general superin tendent of the mills, said the plants were not operating. He would make (Continued on Page Five) Dedication Date Os Smokies Park Waits Roosevelt Washington, Aug. 18.—(AP) The National Park Service is all set to dedicate the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee this fall except for one detail. The detail is the date President Roosevelt • can be present. Park Service officials said to day they were delaying setting a definite date for the dedication pending word from the Presi dent. Immorality Rife In Bund Camp, Girl, 19, Asserts At Hearing Youth Leader Be came so Disgusted at Long Island Camp She Left, Dies Group Is Told; Says Ameri can Ideals Degraded. Washington, Aug.' 18.—(AP) Nineteen-year-od Helen Vooros told the Dies committee today that there was “immorality” in the German American Bund camp on Long Is land, N. Y., and that she quit the bund because “the leaders wouldn’t let me alone." “They planned to attack me.” the .plump, dark-haired former bund youth leader added in an almost in audible undertone. “The immorality of the entire movement appalls you so—?” Repre sentative Starnes, Democrat, Ala bama, put in, starting a question. “It disgusted me,” she said, cutting Starnes off. Miss Vooros made these assertions in telling about Camp Siegfried on Long Island. She said the boys and girls in sections of the camp were only 30 feet apart. “And that caused quite a bit of trouble,” she added. “Parents com plained they were too close and that the boys and girls were seen to gether.” Earlier she said bund leaders at tempted to inculcate the campers with the idea that Nazi principes were far superior to “American in stitutions aid ideals.” East Asks Roads And Pair Bridges At $3,000,000 Cost Raleigh, Aug. 18.— (AP) —The proposed construction of two bridges and two highways as en dorsed yesterday by the southern Albemarle Association, would cost about $3,000,000, Chief Highway Engineer Vance Baise said today. The association went on record as favoring construction of bridges over the Alligator river and Croatan Sound, the hard surfacing of a road from Engle hard to Mann’s Harbor and the extension of U. S. Route 64 into Manteo. Tarboro Swimming Team Withdrawn In Charlotte Match Charlotte, Aug. 18.—(AP) —Coach •T. M. Boykin withdrew his entire Tarboro team from the mid-Atlantic swimming meet here today when one of its members was barred by offi cials for failure to post his birth cer tificate before the deadline last Wed nesday. Boykin charged meet officials with being “finicky” in rejecting the entry of Bill Hatton for the junior division. Hatton had his certificate with him when he reported to the pool this morning. 1 Garner's Chance To Get Nomination Grows Daily By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Aug. 18.—John N. Garner looks every day a better bet for the Democratic presidential nomination next year. That he can be elected in November of 1940 isn’t so much of a probability, but the political consensus unmistak ably is that pros pects of his selec tion to head his party’s ticket are improving right along. John L. Lewis, intending just the contrary, gave the Texan’s chances a tremendous boost when he referred to the latter as an “evil old man.” That utterance evidently was John N. Garner widely unpopular, turning out to be PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Kuhn Testifies C. P. Phonephoto Fritz Kuhn, fuehrer of the German- American bund, is sworn in as first witness to appear before the Dies committee, in Washington, investi gating un-American activities. Kuhn testified he never had been a mem ber of Hitler’s Nazi party before he left Germany. He admitted ordering the bund’s membership lists destroy ed to foil investigation. Speculating German Pact For Hungary Berlin Claims Hun gary’s Minister Did Not See Hitler; Salz burg Says He Did; Press Says Accord Reached. Munich, Aug. 18.—(AP) —The Hungarian foreign minister, Count Steffan Csaky, whose three-day visit prompted German editors to proclaim the welding of closer ties with his nation, suddenly boarded a government airplane for Rome here shortly after noon. It was announced officially that (Continued on Page Five) faborable advertising instead of just the opposite. Subsequent primary voting, in Ketucky at least, seemed to prove it oy giving a majority against C. I. 0.-backed candidacies, plainly implying an anti-New Deal tendency on the electorate’s part, since Lewis and his C. I. O. general ly are rated as strongly pro-New Deal. This need not necessarily have been taken as a Garner indorse ment if Jonn L. hadn/t turned the limelight upon the Texan —but he did. Therefore the ballot was some thing of an expression of confidence in the Lone Star statesman. There was nothing doubtful Rep x-esentative Sam Rayburn’s declara tion for John N., anyway. •Not only was Rayburn unequivo cal in his support of “Cactus Jack”; it’s difficult to interpret his ac companying remarks otherwise than as having been deliberately in (Continued on Page Five) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY McCullers Hard Hit By Wind Storm Negress Dies and Daughter and Son-in- Law are Hurt; Dwell ings and Crops Dam aged; Roofs Torn Off, Trees Uprooted. Raleigh, Aug. 18.—(AP) —A Negro woman was killed and at least two persons were injured when a small tornado ripped through McCullers at noon today. McCullers is. a small Wake county community about 12 miles south of Raleigh. Dwellings and crops in the locality were damaged, but no estimate of the loss was available immediately. Sarah Hinnant, 60, was fatally in jured when the high winds demolish ed her tenant house. Neighbors pulled her from the wreckage as quickly as possible, but she died while being taken to a physician. Her daughter, Annie Florence Smith, was brought to a hospital here with a serious back injury. Her condition was described as somewhat serious. Purcell Smith, son-in-law of the aged woman, was treated at Fuquay Springs for a hip injury. Several roofs were blown away and trees were uprooted. Norman Brown, owner of the tenant house in which the woman was killed, described the tornado as a “terrible roaring” wind. “I heard a terrible roaring sound,” he said. “I looked out the window and saw the air full of tree limbs and debris, rushing my way. It was com ing from the direction of Panther Branch, due south. I ran into the house. The wind tore the top off my pack house, but did not damage my home.” Meanwhile, driving rains fell over most of North Carolina today, caus ing Weather Bureau officials here to predict a slight flood of the Neuse and possibly other rivers. H. E. Kichline, Raleigh Weather (Continued on Page Five) Piedmont’s Rivers Reach Flood Stage Winston-Salem, Aug. 18.—(AP) Fed by the heaviest rainfall ever re corded in Winston-Salem, and ris ing now at the rate of a foot an hour/ the Yadkin river is expected to reach the 17-foot flood stage sometime Sat urday morning. Such a level would >end flood waters rolling seven feet deep over most of the bottom land n this area, completely indundating crops and overflowing the coffer lams that hold the river out of the •Jigh Point river power dam excava tion at Styers Ferry. A 17-foot flood peak was predict (Continued on Page Eight) Louisiana’s Graft Worst, Rogge Thinks Dallas, Texas, Aug. 18.—(AP) — Assistant U. S. Attorney General O. J. Rogge charged today in Fed eral court that former Governor Leche, of Louisiana, and Seymour vVeiss, Louisiana political figure, ead “accepted graft in one of the most venal single transactions I ever cable across.” ' The federal prosecutor appeared at a hearing for the removal to Louisiana of Freeman Burford, Dal las independent oil operator, charged jointly with Leche and Weiss with violation of the Con lally “hot oil” act. Rogge described the alleged pay ment of $148,000 by Burford in connection with the piping of oil (rom the rich Rodessa field in ' Louisiana into Texas. ‘'The central fact in this case is ■hat the East Texas • Refining Com pany did pay $148,000 to Weiss,” laid Rogge. “Os that, Leche and Weiss each took $67,000. Weiss was high in Louisiana political circles.” “The two held high official posi tions. Leche was governor-elect. They got together and divided $134,000 and the governor-elect took 69 SI,OOO billsf rom Weiss. Call t anything you like, commission or anything else, but it was a pay ment of graft. The two most repre hensible persons were Leche and , Weiss.”