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13,873 | YEAR Germany A ccep ts Media don; Brita in A nswe rs Hi tie r Calls More Reserves; Russo- Jap War Looms Germany Ready to Strike, Hitler Warns *■?:** ! A fimßß JQH| jpafef jjmi piMMiMBBi m .ijiity M \ “ I Central Press Radio photo Members of the German Reichstag, hands uplifted in Nazi salute, cheer Hitler (arrow) as he declares Germany ks ready to strike hard and fast should all other efforts fail to settle the Reich’s claims to Dan " j..,, lnfoimal meeting was held in the Chancellory at the German capital. Photo flashed by radio ' Berlin to New York. Rivers Drop Slowly From High Floods Roanoke Passes Crest And No Damage Ex pected from Tar, Ncuse or Cape Fear In Eastern North Carolina Lowlands. ' Raleigh. Aug. 30.—(AP) The Re.'Mieke liver, which has flooded road ami lowlands for several days, leached crest slightly over four feet out of i! banks at Weldon last night, and was falling today. Highway officials reported the U. S. 301 south of Halifax was closed because AO feet of pavement had been washed out by a creek. Traffic was bong routed by Rocky Mount, Tar boro. Rich Square and Garysburg. Rout* east of Rocky Mount, ww do od because of high water in: the Tar river, and traffic was going by Tarbnro and Scotland Neck. The Cape Fear river at Fayette ■>lk >v;i: slightly over four feet in Rood, and was expected to go very httio higher,” H. E. Kickline, direc ot the Raleigh Weather Bureau, reported. At Elizabethtown, the s -rear ..a leven feet over its banks and not < xpeeted to rise much more. A ! r»-foot Mood in the Neuse was expeeterl at Smithfilcd by tomor row farther down the stream at Goldsboro, waters were receding previous flood and the pres et ere t probably will not reach tner< for several days. 'b* Tar at Rocky Mount had reaehed a crest of five feet over the J "’ : • and at Tarboro was expected s' 4o three to four feet in flood by (:: At Greenville a four-foot 00(1 was forecast by early next week. i'2 Children In N. C. Jails Aug 30.—(AP)—Seventy ''i:-fdren less than 10 years old i ‘ ” s' og hold in 37 North Caro :t!'y T'ils last month, despite d uy the attorney general that unlawful, W. C. Ez , , /’• ' ( toi of the division of in <nd corrections, said today. • total, 20 were white and 40 ‘ ' kro boys, and six v/ere white Negro girls. Ezzell said iciiled on larceny counts, .' f,l tier reasons varied from 'xtigation,” crazy, robbery p. 1 ;jrrns and murder. Rutherford and Rock d('; ; 'minties each had a child un ,:f.; veai ' s old in jail, the director f| Cumberland and Edge jj,l r \“ r 'Onties topped the list with j oren each in jail. Wayne re '‘, ' : ree. Nash, Vance and War o 1 1 ’‘ted they jailed one each Wi: 8 the month. Hrniirrsmt Slailit tltsuittrlt Thanksgiving Next Year Will Be On November 21, Roosevelt Has Decided Britain’s Envoy -9 Lord Lothian Lord Lothian, new British ambas sador to the United States, appears to be puzzling out the European sit uation, but in reality he is merely trying to keep his hair from blow ing as he poses for cameramen upon arrival in New York. He replaces Sir Ronald Lindsay as envoy at Washington. (Central Press) Europe Hard Place During Time Os War By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Aug. 30. —Europe is a disagreeable place in wartime. Any place is, for that matter. But the Eu ropean countries are so closely bound together that you are everlastingly right in the midst of things. It gets tiresome. In pre-World War days I lived for several years in London. The town was rational then as Manhattan. It was a nice burg. I liked it. Next 1 lived there again for awhile in 1916. My, what a difference! To begin with it was a hard job getting into the country. First I had to have the home office’s permission. Landing, I pres ented my credentials to a port of ficial. “This,” said the functionary, “is all right as to the home office, but you need a war office O. K. to stay here.” Well, I got it, with con siderable trouble. Next a member of Parliament inquired about me, say ing he heard I’d been in Germany. I had, too, but it simply was on . (Continued on Page Eight) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, AUGUST 30,1939 President Accommo dates Calendar- Makers and Football Schedule Men by An nouncing Intentions Well Over Year in Washington, Aug. 30. —(AP) President Roosevelt has decided to proclaim November 21 as Thanks giving day for 1940, it being the third instead of the usual fourth Thursday of the month. This will correspond to the President’s action in moving up this year’s Thanksgiv ing from November 30 to November 23. Following the announcement of this year’s change, many governors sports authorities and calendar mak ers protested, and some governors announced they will not follow the President’s action, hut will proclaim November 30 as the day for Thanks giving. The chief executive’s original ac tion was taken on the belief there was not enough time between No vember 30 and Christmas, Decem ber 25, in which to conduct holiday trade, and he believed by moving up (Continued on Page Five) Edwards Is Ready To Assume Leases On N. C. Railroad Raleigh, Aug. 30. (AP) Final arrangements were com pleted today to lease the State controlled Atlantic & North Carolina railroad to H. P. Ed wards, of Sanford, who will operate as the Atlantic & East Carolina Railway Company. Edwards posted a 850,000 surety bond this afternoon with Attorney General Harry Me- Mullan, and said he would sign the lease papers within a few hours. Under the lease, Ed wards will pay the Stale 860,500 annually. Germans Take Over Power In Slovakia Bratislava, Slovakia, Aug. 30. (AP) The Slovakian government, in a decree issued by Premier Josef ' Tiso, today surrendered its powers to the German military, v/hich has occupied this German protectorate on the Polish southern frontier. More than 300,000 German troops Poles Fear Hitler Move In Slovakia Warsaw Also Accepts Mediation of Little Neutrals; New Re serves Called in Or d e r Approaching General Mobilization. Warsaw, Aug. 30.—(Ai > ) —Poland issued orders today calling an un disclosed new reserve force to the colors. The first mobilization pos ters appeared with the heading, “the president has ordered general mobilization”, but it was authori tatively emphasized that the order railing up about 500,000 >rrn was not .actually general mobilization, since a large number of eyevptiom v/ere understood to have been made. It is estimated that Poland could put 4,000,000 men into the field under general mobilization. The increase in the number of men under arms was ordered as government officials took an in creasingly serious view of the gen eral European situation, and es pecially of the concentration of Ger man troops in Slovakia on Poland’s southern border. No official figures of men now under arms have been issued, but the total is estimated at between 1,300,000 and 1,500,000. A communication explaining the necessity for the mobilization of additional men was issued through the Polish Telegraph Agency. It said “the Reich has started an ag gressive policy toward the Polish (Continued on Page Eight) Bilbo Man Is Elected In Mississippi Jackson, Miss., Aug. 30. — (AP) Paul Burney Johnson, backed by Senator Theodore Bilbo, in a poli tical feud with Washington rami fications, held a 22.000-vote plural ity today over Martin Sennett Con ner for the Democratic nomination for governor of Mississippi. Senator Pat Harrison, Bilbo’s col lea.gue, who opposed some New Deal measures in Congress, supported Conner, a former governor, in a pi imary election run-off yesterday. Democratic nomination is tanta mount to election in this State. Conner’s defeat puts the Bilbo- Johnson forces in power in 1940, when Mississippi will send 18 dele gates to the National Democratic Convention. Bilbo is an outspoken advocate of a third term for Presi dent Rooseveit. Wage Law Reduce T obacco Workers Raleigh, Aug. 30. (AP) R. Maybe Albright, State direc tor of the State Employment Service, said today (he wage and hour law and the use of stemming machines caused North Carolina tobacco stem meries to employ 9.363 fewer stemnjers this year. The direc tor said he based his statement on a survey of 47 stemmeries, showing that only 8,147 persons were being used, as against the usual 17,500. A majority of the firms at tributed the decrease to the wage-hour law, Albright sa f d, because band stemmers cannot make enough poundage to earn the minimum wage. now are in Slovakia, neutral ob servers estimated. Under the decree Slovaks must provide automobiles, horses, food stuffs and other materials as re quired by the German army, and Tiso warned that any who failed to comply will have to answer be fore German military courts and be punishable under Gei’man laws. Receives Hitler’s Decision , V •* - ‘ ’ jjp" ■ ••s :-I 11 b■ ,■s. 1 * ; 'wit JiSv /psE v Central Press Radiophoto Sir Nevile Henderson, British ambassador, enters the Chancellory in Berlin to inform Hitler of Britain’s refusal to give Danzig to the Reich. On the left is Wilhelm Bruekner, Hitler’s chief adjutant, and on the right, Minister of State Otto Meissner. Photo radioed to New York.l Russians, Japanese Massing T roops On Borders of Siberia Tokyo, Aug. 30.—(AP)—As a re- • suit of Soviet Russia’s non-aggression I pact with Germany, freeing the! hands of Japan’s rival in eastern: Asia, the Japanese army is rushing | large forces into Manchoukuo thro ugh Korea and north China. All vulnerable points along Man- 1 choukuo’s frontiers with Soviet, Siberia and Outer Mongolia, Soviet j protectorates, are being reinforced. Manchoukuo is filled with rumors that Russia, now freed of the Ger- Reich-Soviet Pact Worries Italy, Also Bv CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Aug. 30. —Diplomatic dope from Europe hints that Benito Mussolini is not much better suited with the rcich- soviet barg ai n than Britain and France are. Offi cial Berlin ac counts are to the effect that Herr Hitler kept 11 Duee informed all along concer n i ng the progress of hi s negotiations with Dictator Stalin. Democratic govern merits’ observers doifbt it, however. Or, they say, if Benito Mussolini Adolf really did keep Mussolini post ed it’s a cinch that the latter must have objected furiously, but Derr Fuehrer went right ahead with his program anyway. There are various reasons why this •onclusion is arrived at. In the first place, all along Benito 3 positively known to have argued (Continued on Page Five) lOwJJwi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and somewhat unsettled, scattered thunder showers in mountains and south west portion this afternoon or tonight, and near the coast Thursday. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. man menace on 'her western fron tier similarly is massing fresh armies in Siberia. (In Moscow, however, the official agency Tass issued a denial of re ports that 200,000 to 300,000 red army troops had been sent to the Far East, asserting that, on the contrary, Rus sia was reinforcing her western fron tier garrisons.) Scores of persons in all walks of life frankly voiced fears that the long-awaited second Russo-Japanese war was imminent. • Summation Os War Crisis Over Europe (By The Associated Press.) London—Britain plans new note to Hitler after German reply indi cates willingness to negotiate direct ly with Poland; cabinet holds emer gency session. Berlin —Authoritative quarters say Germany welcomes offer of Belgian (Continued on Page Eight) Clemency Denied By The Governor For “Gray Mouse” Raleigh, Aug. 30. (AP) Governor Hoey announeed to day he would not grant clemen cy to Arihur Morris, 24-year old Negro of Durham and Ra leigh, scheduled to die Friday in the gas chamber. The governor announced that, although Morris got only a small amount of money—2o cents and a check he never cashed—in the first degree burglary for which he was con victed. he could have been tried in other cases in which larger amounts were involved, and in which Morris exhibited violent tendencies and with implica tions of sexual assault. Morris, known here as the “grey mouse” and in Durha/n as the “eel”, was convicted of entering the home of a Raleigh physician at night when persons w r ere asleep in the house. PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Reich Ready To Negotiate With Poland Germany “Welcomes With Extraordinary Sympathy” Belgium- Netherlands Media tion; New British Note Calls for Hitler Reply. Berlin, Aug. 30. (AP) Fuehrer Hitler late today called in his leading military aides and several cabinet members for a conference while awaiting: fur ther word from London in his secret negotiations with the British government. Field Marshal Hermann Wil helm Goering; General Wilhelm ' Keitel, chief of t\e high com mand; General Waltber Bon Brauchitscli, commander - in chief of the army; Grand Ad miral Krich Raeder and Henir Ilcnrich Ilinimler, chief of all German police, were among those called. This was done in case Ger many might be willing to nego tiate the crisis. Berlin, Aug. 30.—(AP)—The Ger man government “welcomes with ex traordinary sympathy the offer of mediation by Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands and King Leopold of Belgium”, authoritative quarters said unreservedly today. These persons ‘ said ‘ the offer of mediation was not extended to the German government, hut to Great Britain, Franco and Poland. I Britain, in the opinion of these persons, is the only nation really in a position to press upon Poland to accept. (London and Paris have sent fa vorable replies to The Netherlands and Belgian sovereigns. Poland reiterated her reply to President Roosevelt on the desirability of mediation, but indicated further pro continued on Page Five) British Reply Sent With French Okay London, Aug. 30. (AP) Great Britain’s reply to Adolph Hitler’s latest message concern ing his demands on Poland and the European crisis was said by informed quarters to have been sent to Berlin tonight. There was no indication as to the contents of the note, but of ficial eireles said it was of such a nature that a reply from the German fuehrer was expected. The communication was sent (Continued on Page Five) Weygand To Direct Army In Near East World War French General Called from Retirement and Sent To Syria; Daladier Expects to “Know Where We Stand To day”. Paris, Aug. 30. —(APl—General Maxim Weygand, former chief of II ie French army, who nas flown dramatically to the Near East, was reported in military quarters today G have been chosen as commander of the Allied forces in the eastern Mediterranean in case of war. The 72-year-old but still active V/tygand landed today in Beirut, Syria, by plane from Paris, where r.e had held a series of conferences with military and civil leaders. General Weygand retired as chief (Continued on Page Five)
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