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rjfJnEKSON’S POPULATION 13,873 year Peace Meeting Called By Belgium Witness Says Germans Trying To Influence U. S. Colleges Dies Group Hears Story Os Educator Says German Consul Frankly Stated Books Offered Were to Be Gift of German Gov ernment; Offer Re fused by Tampa U. Watiungton, Aug. 21. —(AP) — John Harvey Sherman, president of Tampa. Florida, University, told the Dies committee today that a high consular oilicial had of fered to donate books to his uni versity's library, but that the offer was rejected. The official, whom Sherman named in testifying at the com mittee's inquiry into un-American practices, was Baron Edgar Von Und Zu Teckelsheim, consul general at New Orleans. The baron said'’, Sherman testi fied, “this was a practice they fol lowed to encourage the study of German in American colleges”. Ad ding that the baron had said such donations had been made to other educational institutions, the univer sity president declared: “He did not say where; I did not ask." Sherman said that an interview with the baron at the university lolioweci a telephone call from a stranger.” “He said he had a friend who he believed could be induced to give us some books and asked if we would iike such a donation”, the (Continued on Page Five) Hungary Minister Refers to Loyalty To Older Friends Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 21. (AP)—Count Csaky, Hungarian foreign minister, issued a state ment early this evening in which he declared “an independent and strong Hungary is an indispen sable factor in the political bal ance of central Europe.” The statement, made through the official Hungarian news agency a few hours after the count returned from Germany and Italy, declared “those who try to loosen old and intimate friendships are workings against the maintenance of peace and against life interests of Hun gary.” Foreign office officials said they did not know exactly what the count meant by “old and intimate friendships,” but it was remarked that Hungary’s oldest and most intimate rela tionship is with Poland. Additional Indictments In Louisiana .V .v Orleans, La., Aug. 21.—(AP) pAbranam L. Shusan, powerful bouisiana politician and former I l '-v associate of Huey P. Long, indicted by the federal grand 1 ! y here today with four other l" 1 "0 on charges of using the b> defraud. Lhe indictment concerned an Or eaii levee board beftid refunding " ' in which Shushan allegedly A’u -ed $132,740. ( , ;’ :u with the former president 11 levee board, whose name was ‘ ipped from Shushan’s airport ' two weeks ago, were Robert V, mar, and Marving T. Harris, “ n member of the prominent in ; cut firm of Newman, Harris & ! my, Herbert W. Waguespack, • 1 .iPei of the levee board at the ‘ 1 s ot the transaction, and Henry \vh* iI ( ' r > an accountant, all of . s hared in a $469,000 fee paid ]n .Te refunding. hsp'rwi ° ther indictments were Sr.ir r- down today, one naming tin Abator Clarence A. Lorio, anri n m Paton Rouge politician, and \h, nm lu aide r to Hue y P - Long, ‘Sum °ther Dr. James Monroe state IT l V rme r head of Louisiana with h ,vers ity. Lorio was charged Sir.itp 1 m tile m ails to defraud, ■an income tax exasion. IF PERRY MEMOHW* HEND£RSON,I*.Oj imtitersmt Bat lit Btspafrlt ~W IRE SERVICE OP IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Maze of Danger —Raising Squalus Risking his life, a sailor pulls himself through chill waters off Ports mouth, N. H., to sever cords binding air hoses, as task of raising the sub marine Squalus continues. Second lifting operation raised the ill-fated craft to 90 feet of water. Fair, Good Quality Leaf Offered For Openings In East Raleigh, Aug. 21.—(AP) —Offer- ings which warehousemen termed fair to good grades flooded the 14 auction markets of the new Bright Belt today on the eve of the open ing of the 1939 sales season. Farmers, hoping for an average of 18 cents a pound or better, were gen erally optimistic. The Border Belt average of 18 cents lent weight to this view. Offerings have been piling up on warehouse floors for more than a week, and opening breaks of more than 1,000,000 pounds were expect ed on several markets. The weather was generally fair throughout the belt. At Wilson, largest market in the world, preparations were made for handling the largest opening day of ferings in history. Walter C. Jones, president of the State Labor Plays Cards Near Chest Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 21.—The most sig nificant political gathering in Ra leigh last week was the State Fed eration of Labor convention and the most significant feature of that con vention was unmistakable evidence that Tar Heel labor leaders are play ing their political cards very, very close to their chest. If there was any tip-off to the hand the laborites are holding, or the manner in which it is to be play ed. it entirely escaped the eye and ear of this observer. If there are any aces up the labor sleeve they were well concealed. Catalogued very briefly, here are a few of the negative or affirmative angles which were observable: (1) The labor group is still over whelmingly pro-Roosevelt and pro- New Deal. (2) The cooler heads among the labor leaders are holding themselves cannily aloof from committal to any candidate for governor. (3) The State federation certainly does not plan to run a candidate in opposition to the present commis sioner of labor, Forest Shuford; even if it doesn’t plan to give the incum bent its completely-committed sup port. (4) The labor men are in a fight ing mood so far as their foes are con cerned and do not plan to be kicked arodnd by anybody, without retaliat ing to the full of their ability. (6) There is a definite tendency to try for election of influential leg (Continued on Page Five) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTm CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA HENDERSON, N: C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 21, 1939 Kinston Tobacco Board of Trade, es timated that between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 pounds would be on the floors there tomorrow. Offerings were over a wide range, with a con siderable sprinkling of tips, he said. At Greenville, an opening break in excess of 1,000,000 pounds was ex pected. Offerings consisted chiefly of first primings, and the quality was termed fair by warehousemen. The Greenville market has a federal grader for the first time, following a vote of farmers. From 500,000 to 700,000 pounds al ready were on the floors at Smith field, and the market was expected to be blocked the first day. M. A. Morgan, farm agent, predicted 38,- 000,000 pounds would be raised in Johnston county this year. The pre- I (Continued on Page Five) Suicide Blow In Louisiana Prosecution New Orleans, La., Aug. 21.—(AP) —The violent death of Dr. J. A. Shaw, key government witness, and keeper of Louisiana’s “oil industry secret” for a decade, today gravely complicated the federal investiga tion of tangled State affairs, but government prosecutors promised no let-up. Further indictments were expecte u (Continued on Page Four) Eastern Carolina Rivers Are Rising But Are Near Peak Raleigh, Aug. 21.—(AP) —Eastern North Carolina rivers continued to rise today. The Cape Fear this mor ning reached a stand of 40 feet, five over the bank, at Fayetteville. It was 28.7 feet at Elizabethtown, and was expected to rise to 30 feet, ten over the bank, by this afternoon, Weather Man H. E. Kich line said. The Neuse was at 19 feet, five over the bank at Smithfield, and will reach a crest of 20 feet tonight or tomorrow, Kichline said. At Goldsboro, the stream was one foot and a half within its banks, will rise nine feet by Friday. The Roanoke pushed to 34 1-2 feet, 3 1-2 feet in flood; at Weldon. Kichline pre dicted it would reach a crest of 38 to 39 feet tomorrow afternoon or night. I me overflows are the heaviest 1 since early March, Kichline said. Britain And France Call Cabinets In Grave Nature of Crisis Indicated by Joint Action; State ment of Warning Ex pected from Both Groups. London, Aug. 21.—(AP) —A de cision to hold a full cabinet session tomorrow coincident with a French cabinet session indicated important joint action was intended in the grave European situation, as Bel gium today suddenly called seven small powers to a conference Wed nesday. Full cabinet status was given to tomorrow’s meeting of British min isters after Prime Minister Cham berlain, returning from a holiday in Scotland, had conferred wiln Lord Halifax, foreign secretary. The Belgian move in calling the foreign ministers of the six other neutral states associated called in Brussels Wednesday offered tne pos sibility of a British-French action to ward settlement of the German-Pol ish dispute over Danzig. A joint statement by Britain and France, re-affirming in strong terms their pledge to aid Poland in event of an attack upon her, but at the same time advocating negotiations by Germany and Poland, was consider ed another possibility. In some political qurters, there were suggestions the British Parlia ment should be recalled immediate ly and used as a medium for a new British warning to Germany. Pacific Forests Closed in Battle On Flaming Fires Seattle, Washington., Aug. 21. British Columbia and Washing ton forests were closed today as Pacific Northwest fire-fighters continued a desperate battle against multiple blazes that tax ed available man-power. The British Columbia order closed forests to every one, log gers, trappers and vacationists; but jn Washington the order af fected only logging in the west ern part of the state. These measures were taken as California controlled its danger ous blazes, and Oregon, the heaviest loser of the four com monwealths so far found new hope in rising humidity. A plan to close Oregon forests was held in abeyance due to improved weather. Idaho fires no longer threatened inhabited communi ties, although at least one still burned out of control. <r HappyY’ Successor -i ■■ ■■■■ ■■ ■■ - wmmMBF *3 io*4JS§ & '■ ' ***?.<■ : A. B. “Happy” Chandler (left), Governor of Kentucky, and Lieu tenant Governor Keen Johnson, who recently received Democratic nomi nation to succeed Chandler, talk things over in New York at thei World’s Fair Kentucky Day. John son received the nomination, tanta mount to election, by open opposi tion to John L. Lewis. LOocdthsui 4 FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight, some what unsettled tonight and Tuesday. Bund Girl Bares Death Threat iMWiMI jF HSKNIj Hi £;s: Helen Vooros, 19-year-old Brooklyn, N. ¥., girl is shown with an iodine bottle label, on the back of which is penciled a death threat. The label was allegedly handed her after she returned from Washington where she testified before the Dies committee that immorality was rife at German- American Bund camp. Mussolini Not to Balk German Danzig Demands Britain Will Use F ofce, if Needed London, Aug. 21.—(AP) — Great Britain reaffirmed her 1 , policy of resistance of “aggres sion” today as King Leopold of Belgium initiated a peace pica in behalf of the small neutral European powers. Meanwhile a British govern ment spokesman, referring to a statement of policy by Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax on July 29, declared: “The position remains as stated and is unchanged in any respect.” In that statement, Halifax said that the doctrine of force bars the way to settlement of Germany’s claims”, and that “in the event of further aggression we are resolved to use at once the whole of our strength in fulfillment of our pledges.” Spokesmen said Germany and Italy had had ample opportunity to be familiar with this policy. Martin May Win G. O. P. Nomination By CHARLES P.’ STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Aug. 21. —Represent- ative Joseph W. Martin, of North Attleboro, Mass., hasn’t been much advertised yet as a 19 4 0 Republican presidential possi bility. but his friends are inflat ing a boom for him and it may prove to be a very sizable one. Outs id e New England undoubt edly heTl require considerable intro ducing to the rank and-fiie of voters. Professional politi cians, however, al- Representative Joseph Martin ready know all about him. He’s strong in G. O. P. ranks on Capitol Hill. Members of'the Republican con gressional campaign committee swear by him. He’ll have their help in rec ommending him to. the bulk of the electorate. And they have hard onto a year to publicize him. That’s time enough in which to provide a suit able man with a formidable buildup. Martin isn’t with a substantial foundation, either. He’s in his eighth term in the House of Representatives, and he’s performed very creditably there, at least from his own party’s stand point. And in the current (76th) Con gress he’s been the Republican minor ity’s House leader. This is a job of importance. John Garner establish ed his political reputation as Demo cratic minority House leader. To be sure, Martin hasn’t been a minority leader as long as Garner was. Nev • - (Continued on Page Four) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Will Rather Follow • Joint Policy of Rome- Berlin Axis; Does Not Want to Become In volved in War Over Danzig, However. i Rome, Aug. 21.—(AP) —Premier Mussolini refrained today from giving any indication that he would intervene with a plan to avert pos sible war over German demands for Danzig. To suggestions that Italy “save the peace” by intervention in the German-Polish dispute, well in formed Italians answered that he would follow the joint policy of the Rome-Berlin axis. They reiterated that Italy had ad- I vised Poland to negotiate directly I with Germany for a settlement of ! the Danzig problem. The Italian press has urged Warsaw specifically to accept the proposal of Adolf Hit ler last April lor return of the free city to Germany, with a German road across the Polish corridor to connect Germany with East Prussia. The fascist press and unofficial Italian comment have indicated that Italy did not want to become in volved in a war over Danzig. Foreign observers believe Musso lini would act willingly as inter mediary for a settlement of the Danzig dispute, as he did last Sep tember in arranging the Munich settlement, which led to the dis memberment of Czechoslovakia. But London and Paris have shown little inclination to lend themselves to another settlement of the Munich type. Tientsin’s Flood Loss Increasing Tientsin, China, Aug. 21.—(AP) — The toll of death and property de struction increased today as one of the worst floods in Tientsin’s his tory submerged much of the city under constantly deepening waters. With the flood crest believed still to be at least a day away, the over flow of the swollen Hai river and other streams put the city’s electri cal facilities out of commission, and isolated it part of the time from the outside world. An all-night rise in the flood level inundated the two remaining dry spots in the British concession; the water was three feet deep in the shallowest places. The Japanese blockade of the French and British concessions was washed , out. Telephones were dead. Small boats were the only transportation through streets. Many persons braved waters of ten waist deep to carry out vital errands. The water system still functioned, but authorities warned that its failure was possible momen tarily. The food situation was acute. 8 1 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY King Makes Hurry Move To Balk War Six Small Nations in Europe Invited t o Speed to Brussels to Make Joint Appeal to Great Powers. Brussels, Belgium, Aug. 21. (AP) —The government of 37-year-old King Leopold of Belgium, often hailed as a po tential mediator of Europe’s possible troubles, today sud denly invited the ministers of six small powers to rush here by airplane to join Belgium in France Is In No Mood for Another Munich Surrender Faris, Aug. 2L—(AP)—Pre mier Daladier, after a long talk today with British War Minis ter Leslie llore-Belisha, ealled an emergency meeting of the French cabinet for 5 p. m. Tuesday. The meeting undoubt edly will consider King Leo pold’s call for a conference Wednesday of the foreign min isters of the seven small na tions to discuss a peace plea to the larger powers, but in formed French sources empha sized that “France is in no mood to make Brussels another Munich.’” The cabinet was called also for a second meeting Thursday. a peace appeal to the larger na tions of the Old World. The conference will be not later than Wednesday. If all of those who have- been invited have arrived earlier, there may be preliminary discussions Tuesday. The seven nations associated in i the Oslo trade convention were asked to send their foreign minis ters. The nations involved at Bel gium, The Netherlands, Luxem (Continued on Page Five) Newlyweds Spend F irst Married Day Hungry, Penniless Wilmington, Aug. 21.—(AP) —Sam Ragan, honeymooning reporter of the Star-News, and his bride of a night, spent their first day of married life penniless and hungry, and it requir ed the combined efforts of three police departments to provide them with provender. The Ragans were robbed on their nuptial night. Sam’s frantic SOS to Wilmington was delayed, and when finally re ceived it was too late to wire money. A telephone call to a Fayetteville hotel revealed that he had checked out and headed north with nothing to give but love. State police located him approaching Varina. Mayor Tom Cooper of Wilming ton, called the police chief at Varina and arranged for the hungry honey mooners to be supplied with cash. Ragan was married at Laurel Hill Saturday to Miss Margorie Usher, editor of the Onslow County Record. German Army Is Ready For Quick Stroke Zilina, Slovakia, Aug. 21. (AP) —German army division, geared for lightning action, pushed on to northern Slovakia today. Motorized troops, fully equip ped with aircraft guns and light artillery, massed at the fron tier. Slovakia’s most traveled roads to Poland were com manded by German arms. As large scale operations con tinued, involving a force esti mated at 250,000 men, observers asserted the strategy was plain. If the Danzig . dispute should start another war, German for ces now are in position for a sweeping action against Po land’s southern flank. Silenced by the government, the controlled press left Slova kia’s public in almost complete ignorance of the developments on the vital northern frontier.
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