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UffiNPERSON’S EMULATION | 13,873 | YEAR pact HOPES RISE WITH HITLER'S REPLY Pies Terms PeiSey Aide Foreigners s a ys Silver Shirt qh i e f Racketeer Ecuai o Ai Capone; Asheville Man’s Fi nances Bared Before un-American C om miitee. V,-;. i. n.. 11 . Aug. 29. —(AP) Dies. Democrat, Texas, of . Hi' nnnuttee on un-Amcri ,,.n ;u called William Pud j,' v poilc;., Six er Shirt chief, today a'forcun ag-rnt and “a racketeer tj ie equal of Ai Capone.” Talking in open committee ses sion. Die said also that the Ashe ville. X. C\. publisher of anti-Sen. i tic lit;. . : re was “the dictator of an i.rgtmization with more than 5 .000 i-.ein'ocrs." Dies' cl.urges against Pelley, whom he ..ants to put on the wit - r .es< stand in the committee’s in vestigation of agencies the chair man calk- “fascist”, followed testi mony by Robert B. Baker, com mittee nvestigator. Barker told the committee than an official of Pelley’s Silver Shirt legions had sworn in a court peti tion that the organization had more than 5.0(10 members, and that its dues were Sl2 each year, yet he could find no bank account for the organization, except for a short period of time. Barker also gave the committee a revised figure on what he said were Pelley’s known receipts since 1931. He said they totaled $216,039. He advised the committee yester day that Pelley had income of at least 5174.014 during that period. War To Halt Cotton Sales To Europeans Washington, Aug. 29.—(AP) —The Agriculture Department expressed bar today a general European war would seriously interfere with its ef hwt to increase foreign sales of sur plu.' American cotton. In an analysis of the world cotton ■'itiiation, liie department said that mild a major war break out, the. •I" i t movement of cotton from the L n ted States and most other im portant exporting countries prob aiji. v be materially disrupted.” Officials explained that it was cus -1,1 iry in times of war for people R buy fewer new clothes and make 'du clothes last longer. Germany and D'lly. the department said, have re c'! placed further restrictions on ’>D. um; of cotton. As a consequence, Jpeato: quantities of fibre substitutes ai 'e being used. Passengers Removed Off German Liner York, Aug. 19.—(AP)— k'ution authorities took 19 ' ■ off the North German Bremen today and di al Ellis Island —the u iber taken off. the French ormandie yesterday. 1 Uhl, district superinten h migration at Ellis Island, d there was nothing unusual lj: “ passengers being held. 1 'i absolutely nothing to »do ar scare or any unusual "■bees’ - , he said. , ‘T the arrival of any,ships ■■■trope”, he said, “there ar.e t number of passengers , < ■ gibility to land are ques ' 1 lor such varying reasons ' -T their ability to support < and not become public and the validity of their " pwt and visas.” „ ' / M no indication at noon ‘"‘,7' l -° Bremen would be per- C! . ‘ a . ' J> sa il for Germany. Offi a(, * llc ‘ ne sa id s he had been , : ' v ‘ to return to Germany with .passengers within 24 hours as- Ur arrival. t(i ;VDnry O’Keefe, assistant collec- L ' Ust oms, said the Bremen v.;- /' /eceive clearance papers I) Ul ,; v 'u iiector of the Port Harry 's satisfied that everything * HENDERSON, N. G. Ittetthersmt tl atlit tUsmttrh IRE SERVICE OP IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. P. ne ly°. ur a .^'f r L w l ar 18 declared, if it is, armed forces probably will move like this: (1) Poland, especially Warsaw and Danzig’s defenses, will be bombed and the Corridor occupied by Nazi infantry while land forces attack from Frankfort-on-Oder, Breslau and Slovakia. (2) Poland’s defense line will become the Vistula River from Danzig through Warsaw. Attacks against East Prussia will divert part of Nazi forces. (3) Bi itam s mighty navy will blockade and shell the German coast, enter Roosevelt Eyes European Crisis Washington, Aug. 29. (AP) .President Roosevelt continued his study of the European situation today, pondering over a digest of late diplomatic moves for peace. The British Embassy sent him a summary of Britain’s most re cent note to Chancellor Hitler of Germany. Aides said Mr. Roose velt went over it before he re tired last night, but they would give no inkling of his reaction. Whether the President would have anything to say about the current crisis at his regular press conference this afternoon was not disclosed. Aides said the President would go to his home at Hyde Park, N. Y., as soon as the uncertainty was over. Fear Big Row At Y. D. Meet In Charlotte Daily Dispatch Bureau, | In the Sir Walter JloteL ( Raleigh, Aug. 29.— Officials of North Carolina’s Young Democratic Clubs, and others who have no real stomach for controversy which might make the European situation seem peaceful by comparison are getting their Maxim silencer and their paci fiers read/ for instant and ellectivej use at the Charlotte convention of I the younger set early next month, j There are clearly discernible signs. that they are going to need them, too, in order to keep New Deal and anti-New Deal factions from getting into a good, old-fashioned rowhead and bloody bones battle which would turn the Charlotte hotel, where the meeting is to be held, into a veritable shambles. On the one side, there is likelihood that ardent New Dealers will at tempt passage of a resolution whole heartedly endorsing the “Roosevelt administration —note that it will be “Roosevelt administration”, not .lust “administration” or “Democratic ad ministration”. • ... There will be plenty of opposition to that from anti-New Dealers, pro bably opposition enough to keep any laudatory endorsement from being capable of construction that the con vention favors a third term for FDR- On the other side, action or the Virginia Young Democrats in passing an “anti-third term” resolution (they did it more than two to one but only after a bitter brawl) undoubtedly is going to encourage a similar effort in the North Carolina gathering. And there’s where the silencers and the pacifiers will come in. It isn’t probable that the big wigs of Tar Heel Y. D.’s want either one or the other faction to have its way en tirely. There are certain signs that the leaders are really fearful of a big row and equally certain that they I are going to maneuver in every way I possible to prevent it. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTu CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. If War HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 29, 1939 Belgium, Holland May Mediate Eastern Carolina Streams Overflowing From Rains Some Highways Un der Water and Traf fic Has to Be De toured for Safety; Re cent Rains Have Damaged Roads sl,- 500,000. Raleigh, Aug. 29.—(AP)—Swol len by a series of heavy rains, Eastern North Carolina rivers pushed further out of their banks today, covering adjacent lowlands. United States Hhighwav 301 be tween Weldon and Pleasant Hill was under three feet of water, and traffic was routed by Roanoke Rapids. W. Vance Baise, State high way engineer, said recent rains brought to $1,500,000 the damage done this summer to unsurfaced roads, shoulders and ditches. Last week he estimated the damage at $1,000,000. A dov/npour of nearly five inches in the last 24 hours caused the Roa noke and smaller streams in the vicinity of Roanoke Rapids to leave their banks. H. E. Kichline, head of the Ra leigh Weather Bureau, said the Roa noke was at bankfull stage of 31 feet at Weldon and was expected to floo,d two feet by Thursday or Friday. The Neuse river was more than three feet in flood at Neuse sta tion, near here. More than five (Continued on Page Four) QUARTER MILLION SEE ‘TOST COLONY” Manteo, Aug. 29. —A quarter mil lion persons from all parts of the country have witnessed Paul Green’s historical drama,* “The Lost Colony”, now in its third big season at the Waterside Theatre here, since it was first presented in connection with the local historical celebration here two summers ago. This figure represents audiences Which have seen the 125 perfor mances since the opening. Several thousand more are expected to wit ness “The Lost Colony” before it closes its season Labor Day, Sept 4. A holiday performance is being given that night to take care of the unusual demand for the production. UJacdthsui FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair to partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; slightly warmer in east and central portions to night. the Scandinavian Straits Skagerrac and Kattegat, cruise to the Baltic and relieve Danzig. (4) On the Franco-German-Belgian front there ar»- but three routes through or around the mountains and the Maginot and Seigfried lines. The gaps are at Flanders, Stenay and Belfort, bn! deadlock is likely. (5) Italy, unless neutral, will attack Suez ar Gibraltar and storm the six heavily-armed mountain passes, already fully manned, leading into France. (Central Press) ; Commission Sells Local Securities Raleigh, Aug. 29.—(AP) —The liocal Government Commission today sold a $53,000 issue of Beaufort county refunding bonds to Kirchofer & Arnold, Inc., of Raleigh, and the Branch Banking & Trust Company of Wilson. The first $40,000 of the issue will bear 4 1-4 percent interest, and the remainder four percent. The Provident Savings Bank & Trust Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, bought $27,000 of Goldsboro fire station bonds at 3 1-2 percent and a premium of $18.90. The Scottish Bank of Lumber ton purchased SIO,OOO worth of Pembroke water and sewer bonds at 5 3-4 percent and $5 premium, and $4,000 of Pembroke fire fighting apparatus bonds at 5 1-2 percent and $3. premium. Stocks Slow But At Gains New York, Aug. 29.—(AP)—With the European political poker game still under way and the players seem ingly indisposed to call a war bet, Wall Street turned to the buying end of the stock market today and lift ed prices fractions to around three points. There were intermittent let-downs in the advancing trend, but final quotations were near the best. Trans fers for the five hours approximat ed 500,000 shares, one of the smallest turn-overs for a full session in two weeks. American Radiator 10 1-4 American Telephone 163 1-2 American Tobacco B 79 I*4 Anaconda . . • 25 Atlantic Coast Line 17 Atlantic Refining 18 3-4 Bendix Aviation 23 3-8 Bethlehem Steel 59 1-2 Chrysler 79 5-8 Columbia Gas & Elec Co .. 6 7-8 Consolidated Oil Co 7 Curtiss Wright 4 3-4 DuPont 160 3-4 Electric Power Light 8 1-8 General Electric . 36 1-2 General Motors 45 7-8 Liggett & Myers B 100 3-8 Montgomery Ward & Co .... 49 Reynolds Tobacco B 38 3-8 Southern Railway 15 Standard Oil Co N J 40 3-4 U S Steel . ■ 47 3-4 France Immediately „ Accepts “Good Of fices” of Little Neu trals in Seeking Way Os Peace; Others Wait Developments. Paris, Aug. 29.—(AP) —King Leo pold 111 of the Belgians and Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands were reported today in a quarter close to the French Foreign Office to have offered their “good offices” for an effort to mediate the German-Polish crisis. The monarchs of the two powers, these sources said, have made their offers to France, Britain, Germany, Italy and Poland. France was said to have received the Belgian and Netherlands communication this morning and to have replied with a prompt acceptance. The proposal of mediation in search of a peaceful settlement of the strife betv/een Germany and Poland was reported to have been funeral arrangements were not learn last night between Belgian Premier Hubert Tierlot and ambassadors of the major powers. Final decision by Britain and (Continued on Page Four) War Picture At A Glance (By The Associated Press.) Paris —Foreign office source re ports Belgian and Netherlands mon archs offer to negotiate German- Polish quarrel; France accepts offer. Berlin—Optimism rose after Hit ler’s reply was said to have been given to Britain; unofficial and un verified reports heard that Britain was willing to consider “conciliatory and far-reaching” solution of Ger man-Polish and European problems; British Foreign Office denies details of these reports. London —Chamberlain tells Com mons Britain has again made it plain to Hitler that she stands by her pledges of aid to Poland; asserts while* British fleet is ready to take war stations; Commons adjourns for a week. Moscow —Soviet delays ratifying nen-aggression pact with Germany, apparently waiting to see whether there will be peace or war. Paris—Nation coolly awaits report of British ambassador to Berlin; gen eral mobilization order reported ready if needed. Warsaw—Poland stands firm a gainst German demands amid re ports that Reich troops were com pleting “encirclement” of Polish frontiers. Rome—ltaly looks to Berlin for de velopments and believes Mussolini will step in as mediator if British- German negotiations break down. Chungking—Chiang Kai-Shek says China will fight on, regardless of Eu ropean events PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Rumors From Berlin About Conciliation Refuted at London Chamberlain Tells House 01 Firmness Commons Cheer Pre mier’s Stiff Stand as Stated to Hitler; Says British Fleet Ready For Service If War Comes. London, April 29.—(AP) — Prime Minister Chamberlain told a tense but cheering House of Commons to day that Great Britain has again made plain to Adolf Hitler its deter mination to fulfill its obligations to Poland, and added that “the issue of peace or war is still undecided.” “We shall hold fast to the line which we have laid down,” he declared, as the House echoed with tremendous cheering. “We will still hope and still work for peace.” His speech was only 16 minutes in dura tion. “We will abate no jot of our re solution to hold fast to the lines which we have laid down for our selves.” He also announced that the whole of the British fleet was now ready to take up its position in the event of war. After hearing Chamberlain’s state ment and speeches, in which opposi tion leaders approved the policy of standing unitedly with Poland a gainst attack, the House adjourned to meet again next Tuesday, or ear lier if necessary. Without disclosing the details of the exchange, Chamberlain declared that Great Britain had delivered “our final answer” to a communication from Hitler that “we have made plain that our obligations to Poland will be carried out,” and “at this moment the position is that we are awaiting Hitler’s reply.” Buying Lifts Cotton Prices New York, Aug. 29.—(AP)—Cot ton futures opened firm, 17 to 19 points higher, on active foreign and trade buying. Belter than due cables were also favorable factor. Prices around mid-morning were holding steady, 12 to 17 points higher. Prices around noon held to gains of four to six points net, with October up four at 6.41, and December six higher at 8.26. Futures closed 9 to 13 points high er; middling spot, 8.91. Open Close October 8.54 8.47 December ..." 8.39 8.33 January 8.23 8.17 March 8.16 8.13 May 8.07 8.00 July 7.91 7.851 Russia Waiting To See On Which Side To Jump Moscow, Aug. 29.—(AP) —Soviet Russia cautiously delayed formal ratification of her 0 non-aggression pact with Germany today and watch ed the grave movement of the Eu ropean situation. The supreme Soviet, Russia's Par liament, today pushed consideration of the pact farther into the back ground, deciding that the second item on its agenda, changes in the mili tary service law, could not be con sidered until August 31 at a joint sit ting of both chambers. The non aggression pact was the third item on the agenda and no date for its consideration was announced. It was understood, however, that ratification would not come before September 1 at the earliest. Approval was given today to an agricultural tax bill. Deputies de clared that the tax law would play 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY British Foreign Office Discounts Purported Specific Details o f Negotiations Over Crisis; Hitler Talks With Henderson. Berlin, Aug. 29—(AP) Optimism spread in Berlin this afternoon after Adolf Hitler’s reply to Great Britain’s crisis note was reported dispatched by air to London, and after entirely unofficial and unveri fied reports were heard that the British were willing to consider “conciliatory and far reaching” solutions of both the Polish-German issue and Euro pean problems generally. Purported specific details of these reports drew strenuous denials from the London For eign Office. Official quarters merely said, “Watch the British Parliament. Ali we can say now is that a tremen dous, last-minute effort is being made on either side to keep the peace.” The airplane which was believed to have carried Hitler’s reply to London bore a member of the Brit ish Foreign Office, who flew here last night with Ambassador Sir Neville Henderson. It left here about noon (6 a. m. eastern stand ard time), and reached London late in the afternoon. The ambassador himself remained in Berlin. HITLER HANDS HIS REPLY TO BRITAIN’S AMBASSADOR Berlin, Aug. 29.—(AP) —Adolf Hitler tonight handed to the British Ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, (Continued on Page Four) Poles Blame Germans For Incidents Warsaw, Aug. 29.—(AP) —Poles blamed Germans for a new series of subversive acts in this war-threaten ed country today, while the press un animously branded as “lies” Adolf Hitler’s declaration that his country men are the victims of terrorism in Poland. Seven persons were reported kill ed in an explosion which wrecked the railroad station at Tarnow, in southern Poland. Police arrested two Germans. Herbert Frendcl, Breslau, Germany a university student, was arrested at Katowice after allegedly confessing he left three bags containing bombs 'in a room at Biala, Silesia, which later exploded. A time bomb was found on the rail road tracks between Klaji and Kra kow before it exploded. Warsaw’s morning newspapers de voted front pages to statements and editorial comments charging Ger many’s allegations of mistreatment of Germans in Poland merely were attempts to stir up hatred of Poland among the German people and to justify German aggression. an important part in the further con solidation of collective farms. Foreign observers thought a speech by Soviet Premier and Foreign Com missar Molotoff, expected to precede ratification of the non-aggression pact, was being delayed because of the possible outbreak of a “capital istic war.” Foreign observers did not doubt that Russia would ratify the treaty with Germany. But they expected Europe’s coming events would de cide the tones of Molotoff’s speech. If there is peace, the Soviet Union is expected to claim credit for it. If there is war, she expects to remain neutral. In any event, Molotoff is be lieved waiting to seize the most ef fective propaganda angle. German circles in Moscow pro (Continued on Page Four)
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