'Anderson’s 'population 13,873 Jwenty-sixth year WAR STATUS UNCHANGED BY HITLER SPEECH Landon To Propose That Congress Stay On Job In Capital G. O. P. Conferee at White House Says Nation Convinced It Can Keep Out Os War; Roosevelt Seeks Full and Free Dis cussion. y. . cton. Sept. 20.—(AP) Roosevelt was repre *t>.i today as being “disposed to, cry nee and frank dis t\:. "t : neutrality at his meet- J congressional and political j it . . .his afternoon. . as the statement made by \ K u ly. White House press , •• y. is me of the conferees, ; M Landon. the Repuolican a • : dard-bearer, expressed the ~t : Congress, meeting to . raid remain in session c ... ■ t o mergency period of the •; yarn war. • Tr.r c is a definite feeling’’, .-tod. "that Congress should se-.-ion. There is more con iir.a- :n united judgment of the >- : : \es than in any one pinion. So much depends !■ nder thread of incidents . want Congress to stay in L. ;■ n -aid he intended to stress at :n discussions with the .tit.• .t. if given an opportunity. :,V!t) Republican presidential too also declared that senti • ,n the iMiddle West, and as ; >ed in mail he has received, .. ed to be “very strong” for . extern: n of the cash and carry etixi o: >aies to belligerent na • > He declined, however, to say newer he was in favor of in uuding arms, now embargoed, in • :ch . .ties. T..-. * ind been a “very interest :rg in sentiment in the last eek>. Landon said, “from a - :c conviction that we would st: the war in the end.” T: ere has been a definite shift t two weeks that we are s :rg to get into it”, Landon A .new.-, pa per men. Arc id-partisan meeting, set for was expected to receive a At : rial plea for quick and • ted action in the special ses four Convicted Os Forging Cards For AAA Tobacco Fayetteville, Sept. 20. (AP) " *i Sampson county men were con ‘• 0 :n federal court here today of P of forging and selling tobac is president of the association, ■ ’a copy of his address to the con _ ‘ 1 tinn for release from Raleigh. His as scheduled to have been de ' r, d at 10 o’clock this morning. *' La- address was somewhat on the pce’-jcular side in that it pulled no ]v inches in describing failure of the (Continued on Page Five) Hettitersmt Batin Dispatrli ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF AND VIRGINIiT ERASED WIRE SERVICE no 1 HE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Back to Congress C " Sen. Robert R. Reynolds Senator Robert R. Reynolds, of North Carolina, a member of the military affairs committee of the U. S. Senate, arrives in New York aboard the Washington after first hand observation of the European problem. His committee will play i prominent rote in neutrality law consideration. Winston Is Talking Pool For Tobacco Twin City Men Would Buy, Process And Store Leaf; AAA Says Aid for 1939 Crop Hinges on Passing of Referen dum. Winston-Salem, Sept. 20.—(AP) A tobacco pool of large proportions to buy leaf in Winston-Salem, pro cess and store it and issue warehouse receipts against it was under dis cussion by several local Twin City men, the Twin City Sentinel learned in informed quarters today. Although specific plans for the for mation ■’and incorporation of the pool were still nebulous,, serious consid eration of the plan is now under way, and a definite statement is expected shortly. CONTROL DEMANDED FOR GOVERNMENT HELP NOW Washington, Sept. 20. — (AP) —The Agriculture Department indicated to day any move to support flue-cured (Continued on page two) Hull Answers Reynolds; Says He’s Done His Best Washington, Sept. 20. —(AP) — Secretary Hull, replying to a criti cism by Senator Reynolds, Demo crat, North Carolina, of State De partment efforts to bring Americans from Europe, said today: “We do our best to keep on our feet. If we have fallen down, we are not conscious of it.” Hull permitted direct quotations in reply to Reynolds’ assertion that the government had “fallen down nnseratfly” in providing transpor tation for Americans. WPA Passes Program. The WPA began a three-point program to bolster national defense, cushion effects of the European war on American industry and meet the fall demand for work relief. Officials instructed State WPA ad ministrators to give special emphasis to projects of particular defense value. These include municipal air HENDERSON, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 20, 1939 Mussolini’s Newspaper , 4 Urges Terms Declares War in West Is Useless and Says Tragedy to Poland Was Worthless; Italy Withdraws T r o o p s From Greek Frontier. Rome, Sept, 20.—(AP) —Premier Mussolini’s newspaper, II Popolo d’ltalia, published today an implied appeal to Britain and France to come to terms with Germany. It called the war in the west ‘useless.” ' “Italian sensibility, tempered by thousands of years, again points out the right road,” the paper said, re ferring to earlier peace suggestions made in Rome. “The whole civilized world may once more see how correct were the vision and proposals of Rome,” the paper declared. “The war was as disastrous for Poland as it was tragi cally useless. Now that that predic tion is fulfilled in the east, the same word of good sense may be repeated for the west.” Itaiy announced the withdrawal of her troops from the Albanian-Greek frontier as evidence of “complete re ciprocal trust” between Italy and Greece. The gesture came as Italy appear ed to be solidifying her position as leader of the neutral states of south ern Europe. “The Italian government and the Greek government, in the present European situation, have agreed up on the utility of examining relations between the two countries, and are happy to state that they continue to be sincerely friendly, and inspired by complete reciprocal trust,” the com munique said. “The concrete proof of this senti ment has been given by the decision of the Italian government to witn draw its military forces from tne Greek-Albanian frontier, in line with analagous provisions which the Greek government is adopting on its part.” Italy occupied Albania in a brief Easter week-end campaign, which carried troops to the Greek frontier. Hoey Won’t Save Godwin Next Friday Raleigh, Sept. 20.—(AP) —Paroles Commissioner Edwin Gill said today that Governor Hoey had ruled that James Godwin, 21, must die in the gas chamber here Friday for the murder of Donald Moss in Guilford county. There was no announcement of a decision in the case of James Cureton, Negro, sentenced to be executed Friday for the slaying of another Negro in Winston-Salem. Gill and the governor worked on the Godwin case most of the day yes terday after Gill held a clemency hearing for the High Point man Mon day. Previously the governor had studied the court records, .including a Supreme Court decision affirming Godwin’s conviction. Godwin was convicted of killing Moss shortly after escaping the Lex ington jail, where he had persuaded the jailor’s daughter to free him. ports, bridges and surfaced highways and local armories. Washington headquarters started a close study of field reports to de termine where the volume of relief employment could be adjusted to changing demands for private labor. Sought Big Soviet Fee. Joseph Dalinda, dealer in patents for munitions products, told the Dies committee that he had expected to get $150,000 in Soviet money for his part in a deal for the building in America of a large battleship for Russia. At the same time, the Russian born promotor said his interest was “not entirely financial.” The battleship project fell through when Russia rejected the plans, but Delinda g0t.520,500 for his part, he said, in bringing together a Soviet agent and alleged “contact” men who were to aid in getting State De partment approval of the ship plans. Germany and Russia Agree On Partition of Polish Region Germans t o Retire From Present Posi tion After “Destruc tion” of Last of Polish Armies; Wars a w Still Is Holding Gut. Berlin, Sept. 20.—(AP)—The supreme high command disclosed today that Germany and Soviet Russia have reacned an agreement on the partition of Poland, at least so far as their armies of occupation are concerned. That the demarka tion line has been set was an nounced in a high command com munique, which, however, did not say where the iine runs. It asserted the German forces would withdraw from their present positions after “destruction of the last remnants of the Polish army there, “to the “demarkation iine definitely fixed between the Ger man and Russian governments.” Whether this line lies east or west of Warsaw was not indicated. The communique said German forces had advanced to a iine Din ning frorti Stryj, in northeast in land, north near the industrial city of .Lwow, thence almost straight north to Brzesc, about 160 miles from the Soviet frontier, and up to Bialystok, about 150 miles from ihe Russian border. The entire Roumanian frontier b irdering southeast Poland is in Russian hands. Presumably as the Germans retire, the red army will take their oiace by ; dvancing westward from their present posi tions. Whether the army occupa tion areas later will become the new boundaries between Germany and Russia was a moot question. Informed quarters intimated this question was root yet completely solved. Germany’s “lightning war” was considered here at an end, ex cept for mopping up activities jn Poland. The Poles, however, were still fighting in the south and near a fortified town immediately north of Warsaw. Warsaw itself also has not capitulated to German arms. The handful of Polish troops who gave the Germans some trouble yesterday on the heights back of Gdynia, Polish port a,t the end of the corridor, gave up last night. Business Better In Piedmont, West; Decline In East Raleigh, Sept. 20. (AP) Mayne Albright, director of the State Employment Service, said today reports from 45 branch offices indicate improved busi ness conditions in the west and Piedmont sections and a slump in eastern and central parts of the State. He said managers attribivwd decreases in retail trade at Sanford, Williamston, New Bern, Greenville and Lumber ton to the closing of the tobacco markets. At Concord, Morgan - ton and Lenoir, placements by the employment offices set new records last week. Revival Os Privateering Now Talked By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington. Sept. 20.—Washington newspapers and business men con template taking advantage of a pro vision of the United States consti tuion which has lain dormant for many a year to launch an enterprise (contingent upon Uncle Sam’s ulti mate participation in the pending European conflict) that bids fair to make the war profiteers of 1914-18 look like pikers. Article 2, section 8 and paragraph 11 of the constitution provides that. “Congress shall have power to de clare war, to grant letters of marque and reprisal,” et cetera. That is to say, when Uncle Sam is at war private American ship owners constitutionally can be authorized to prey, with their own craft, upon enemy vessels or upon neutral con traband carriers on the nigh seas, and realize financially upon their seizure for their personal benefit. This business sounds a good deal (Continued on Page Five) LOoaih&h FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday; light to moderate rain this afternoon and tonight in east and central portions and on northeast coast Thursday. Poles Make a Last Stand jM ■■ ■ ■ JBBh MK|fflß|gßgx « * r This photo, released by the German censor, purportedly shows Polish troops in a trench “somewhere in Poland,” as they staged a last-ditch fight in defense of their country. Their attention has bee© diverted by approach of tank in background. France Will Pursue War On To Definite Victory Cabinet Pledges Ultimate Restoration of Po land; German Peace Overtures Firmly Re jected; German Concentrations Watched. Paris, Sept. 20. (AP) —The French government facing col lapse of its Polish ally under the combined attacks of Germany and Russia, adopted measures today to “pursue the war to defi Lwow, Polish City, Taken by Russians Moscow, Sept. 20. (AP) Soviet occupation of the industrial city of Lwow, in the Polish Uk raine, was announced today as Soviet and German officers start ed study of problems arising from | occupation of Poland.’ (German communiques for sev eral clays had said German troops had penetrated to Lwow out skirts on three sides of the city. Lwow is in southeast Poland.) The same communique which told of entry of Soviet troops into Lwow also said Russian troops bad captured Vilno in northeast Poland, near the Lithuanian bor der, after a two-hour battle. Japs Think U. S. Move Is Unfriendly Tokyo, Sept. 20.—(AP) —A for eign office spokesman said today “certain sections of oublic opinion which cannot be ignored”, consider strengthening of ihe United States navy as an “unfriendly act” to ward Japan. (The spokesman apparently re- Y-rred to the United States naval construction program*) Japan’s determination remains unchanged, he asserted, to establish in east Asia economic bloc, includ ing all China, Japan and Man -houkuo. United States trade with the bloc would be under restric tions such as now limit it in Man choukuo. the spokesman said. Y. Suma, former counsellor of (Continued on Page Sin) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Premier Daladier’s new war min istry at the same time renewed its union with Great Britain, and pledged that Poland, now facing dismemberment, would eventually be reconstituted. French attention shifted to the Aachen sector, opposing Belgium, where the Germans were reported massing reinforcements coming from Poland. French advices said orecautions had already been taken to meet any German repetition of the 1914 attack through Belgium, to outflank the Maginot line. The cabinet communique, which was the first formal statement of French policy since the start of the European conflict, September 3, implied firm rejection of any Ger man overtures for peace, on Nazi terms such as were read here into Adolf Hitler’s speech at Danzig yesterday. The new measures approved by the cabinet were described in the communique as “military, economic and financial.” Their exact nature will become known only upon pub lication of the official journal. On the western front, where the French general staff’s morning communique reported only German artillery fire, the armies appeared to have been held in leash pending clarification of the diplomatic sit uation. The French press published dis patches from Brussels reporting the Germans were concentrating around Aachen, which, it. pointed out, is not on any of the direct routes leading to the fronts further (Continued'on Page Six) WILKES BOY DIES OF AUTO INJURIES North Wilkesboro, Sept. 20. (AP) —Grant Parsons, 14, died early today in a hospital here of injuries suffered yesterday when struck by a truck in the Miller’s Creek section. When hit, the boy was enroute to school after a visit to his grand father, L. Parisons, who was struck accidentally by an axe Monday. Au thorities held the truck driver blame less. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY No Threats Will Change Allied Aims Chamberlain Tells Commons Britain’s Purpose at War Is to Redeem Europe from Perpetual Fear o f German Aggression. London, Sept. 20.—(AP) — Prime Minister Chamberlain declared today that no threats could deter Britain and her allies from achieving her war aims, but that “what we will not do is to rush into adven tures that offer little prospect of success.” With the obvious purpose of allaying public anxiety as to whether the western allies were striking vigorously enough against Germany, Chamberlain declared in the House of Commons: “There is no sacrifice from which we will shrink. There is no operation we will not un dertake, provided our respon sible advisors, our allies and we ourselves are convinced that it will make an appropriate con tribution to victory.” London, Sept. 20. (AP) Prime Minister Chamberlain declared in the House of Com mons today that Britain’s gen eral war purpose was “to re deem Europe from the per petual and recurring fear of German aggression and enable the peoples of Europe to pre serve their independence and liberties.” Replying to Adolf Hitler’s Dan zig speech yesterday, the prime minister added: “No threats will deter us or our French allies from this purpose.” “Herr Hitler says much in his speech about the humane methods with which he has waged war”, Chamberlain continued. “I can only say that methods are not made hu mane by calling them so, and that (Continued on Page Six) Full Program Had For Annual Synod Os Presbyterians Greenville, Sept. 20;—(AP) — The second day of the 126th annual ses sion of the Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina opened this rmorning with devotions led by Rev. L. R. Scott, of Goldsboro, and the ap pointment of standing committees. The day was rounded out with a well-filled program, including a talk by Miss Louise Clanton, of Charlotte, president of the Wom an’s Auxiliary of the Synod. Rev. J. R. McGregor, of Burlington, re ported on the activities of religious education :n the synod. Joseph B. Johnston, superinten dent of the orphan home at Barium Springs, was programmed for an afternoon talk. Soviets Cut Poles’ Flight To Roumania Budapest, Sept. 20.—(AP) —Fast moving Soviet mechanized forces, pushing further westward into Pol and. were reported today to have blockaded the entire Polish-Rou mania frontier, while Warsaw, still fighting the German invasion, buried its dead in public parks. Severe fighting was reported a round Lwow and in the Bug river districts. Massing of Russian troops along the Roumanian border cut the stream of refugees from Poland, but thous ands, finding their wav barred on that border poured into Hungary. So diers among them were disarmed and civilwere sent to special camps. A Hungarian agency estimat ed 30,000 civilians and 10,000 sol- ' diers had reached the Roumanian town of Cernauti before the Soviet lines were drawn. Radio broadcasts from Warsaw, entering the 13th day of siege, pre sented a graphic picture of a city whose defenders had vowed to resist the Germans to the death, and seem ed to be doing it. “Warsaw still re sists,” said a communiue read over the radio last night. “We have con (Continued on Page Eight)