HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
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TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
ITM.Y MAY FIGHY IF PEACE IS REJECTED
Armies Will Follow U.S. Arms To Europe, Borah Says
Tommies Land in France in Face of Red Three,,
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Russia and Germany concluded their partition of Poland and threatened to throw the Soviet’s 160,000,000
citizens into the war in alliance with the Reich’s 80,000,000, should France and Britain refuse to recog
nize the conquest and make peace. This photo, flashed by radio from London to New York, shows British
soldiers disembarking from an English troop-ship at an unnamed French port, symbolizing the Allies’
determination to continue the war until Hitlerism is stamped out.
U. S. Declines Recognition Os
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The Disappearance Os Poland
9 Long-Term
Negroes At
Camp Escape
Group Breaking State
Camp in Surry Coun
ty Includes Vance
Negro Sent Up Two
Years Ago.
Raleigh, Oct. 2.—(AP)— Nine
long term Negro convicts escaped
from the Surry county prison camp
early today, Oscar Pitts, State penal
superintendent, announced here.
Pitts said he was given no de
tails except that it appeared the
men had escaped through a door
to their cell block without damag
ing the door. He said he did not
know whether a guard had left it
(»pen or the convicts had obtained
a key.
The prisoners got out at about 2
o’clock, Pitts said, and the alarm
was given some 30 minutes later.
None had been caught seven hours
later, so far as Pitts knew.
Two men serving murder terms,
Willie Lee Greer, 25, sentenced in
Guilford county in April, 1938, to
ten to 25 years, and Harvey Green,
33, sent up from Wilson in May,
1937, for 20 years, were among the
nine. Johnny Bragg, 21, sentenced
in Vance in June, 1937, for assault
with a deadly weapon, was one of
the number.
Polish Army
Head Ignored
Bucharest, Roumania, Oct. 2.
(AP) —Once proud Field Marshal
Edward Smigiy-Rydz, commander of
Poland’s vanquished legions, was de
scribed by refugees today as a broken
exile, shunned by fellow officers,
who coldly regard him as a general
who deserted his doomed but light
ing army.
The field marshal, along with a
number of other Polish officers, is
interned at Craiova hotel.
Germany was reported at the same
time to have protested to Roumania
because Refugee President Moscicki
of Poland was allowed to resign and
name a successor while on Rouman
ian soil. _
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69 Miners Killed
In Mexican Blast
Mexico City, Oct. 2. (AP)
The National Mining Union to
day reported 69 miners were
killed and two injured in a coal
mine explosion near Palau, Coa
huila slate, Saturday. An ac
cumulation of gas was blamed
for the blast. The mine was op
jrated as a cooperative by the
workers.
Nurses and physicians from
nearby towns were rushed to the
scene by special trains. Palau is
a mining village 90 miles south
west of Eagle Pass, Texas.
Details of the accident were
unavailable.
Gasoline Tax
Reaches New
High In N. C.
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.
Raleigh, Oct. 2.—The September
gasoline tax receipts in North Car
olina set an all-time new high rec
ord for the State, Commissioner of
Revenue A. J. Maxwell said after re
leasing the figures.
The month’s gas tax figures were
$2,357,523.56, as compared with $2,-
190,896.72 for September, 1938, or
more than $150,000 above the figures
which a year ago were regarded as
surprisingly large.
“They (the gas tax figures) just
keep going up,” said Mr. Maxwell.
“There doesn’t seem to be any way
to stop it.” At the same time, the
commissioner didn’t look as though
he is completely and entirely unhap
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Cotton Lower
At Midday
New York, Oct. 2.—(AP)—Cotton
futures (oid) opened two to four
points lower on hedge and south
ern selling and foreign liquidation
in distant positions. Prices around
the end of the first hour ranged
two higher tg three lower. October
moved up two at 9.30, and Decem
ber was off three at 8.96.
Prices neld unchanged to three
points lower at midday, with Oc
tober at 9.28, and July off three
at 3.25.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
HENDERSON, N. €., MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 2, 1939
Extinction of Repub
lic by Germany and
Russia Termed b y
Hull as Force Used as
National Policy; Po
lish Envoy Credited.
Washington, Oct. 2. (AP) — The
United States refused today to rec
ognize the disappearance of Poland,
which Secretary Hull termed “the
victim of force used as an instru
ment of national policy.”
Hull said that “mere seizure of ter
ritory does not extinguish the legal
existence of a government.”
The United States, therefore, he
added, “continue to regard Poland as
in existence in accordance with the
provisions of the Constitution of
Poland.” He said this government
would continue to recognize Count
Jerzy Potocki as Polish ambassador
to Washington, and that the Amer
ican ambassador to Poland, Anthony
J. Drexel-Biddle, would remain near
the Polish government, which has
now gone to Parish.
A reporter recalled that the Soviet
government had informed the United
States of its occupation of Polish ter
ritory, and asked whether that made
any difference in this government’s
attitude. The secretary replied that'
the Soviet announcement was a uni
lateral declaration, meaning that it
was not concurred in by the Ameri
can government.
The secretary’s statement was in
terpreted by officials to mean, also,
that the United States recognized the
legality of the transfer of powers
from the former Polish President
Moscicki, who resigned in Roumania
after fleeing from Poland, to the
new president, who is now in Paris.
AFL Backs
Repeal But
Not For War
Cincinatti, Ohio, Oct. 2.—(AP) —
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor said
today labor was willing to support
President Roosevelt’s repeal of the
arms embargo if such action would
not involve the United States in
war.
In his keynote address to the
federation’s 59th convention, the
veteran AFL leader reminded the
delegates of President Roosevflt’s
message to the special session of
Congress, recommending repeal of
the arms embargo to safeguard the
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Isolationist
Voices View
Os Bill Foes
Senator Pittman, in
troducing Measure
For Passage, Says It
I s Most Important
Legislation Ever Pro
posed t o Congress;
Terms Stated.
Washington, Oct. 2. (AP)
—Senator Borah Republican,
Idaho, asserted today that if
Congress lifted the arms em
bargo on Europe’s warring na
tions, he did not “see how”
the United States could ’•efuse
to send armies to help the Al
lies “in their hour of greater
need.”
Borah took the Senate floor to
voice the views of the opposition to
the administration’s neutrality bill to
repeal the arms embargo after Sen
ator Pittman, Democrat, Nevada, had
asserted that retention of the present
law’s embargo was “a discrimination
in favor of Germany.”
. Is Boost to Allies.
Pittman, chairman of the foreign
relations committee, was the first
speaker in the momentous neutrality
discussion. Reading a lengthy pre
pared address, Borah charged that
the administration bill to revise the
neutrality law hau been accepted in
Europe as an attempt to aid Great
Britain and France in their struggle
with Naziism.
Can’t Deny Further Help.
Repeal of the embargo, he con
tinued, would be likely to put this
country in the position where it could
not deny further help to the demo
cracies.
Speaking as chairman of the for
eign relations committee, Pittman
offered the administration neutral
ity bill as “the most important legis
lation that has ever been proposed
to Congress,” and said it was design
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Profit Sales
Halt Stocks
New York, Oct. 2.—(AP)—Profit
cashing appeared in the stock mar
ket today and leaders fell oehind
fractions to around three points.
While selling was moderately ac
tive at the start, thee pace slowed
down. Near the fourth hour prices
were at a little better Ilian their
lows for the day. Brokers asserted
the desire to realize was natural
alter the sharp run-up of Saturday,
but added that offerings were at
no time aggressive.
Rumors that peace might sud
denly arrive, which depressed
values last week, were of little
moment in today’s business, it was
declared. Trades were said to be
taking at its face value the state
ment of Winston first
lord of the British Admiralty, that
“it (the war) began when he (Hit
ler) wanted it, and it will end
only when we are convinced that
he has had enough.”
Foreign markets were iirm. Com
modities tended lower, as did
bonds.
American Radiator 10 1-4
American Telephone 161 3-4
American Tobacco B 75 3-8
Anaconda 33 7-8
Atlantic Coast Line 25 3-4
Atlantic Refining 24 3-8
Bendix Aviation 29 1-8
Bethlehem Steel 91
Chrysler . 90 3-4
Columbia Gas & Elec Co . . 7 3-4
Commercial Solvents 13 5-8
Consolidated Oil Co 8 3-4
Curtiss Wright 7 1-4
DuPont 183
Electric Pov/er Light 9 1-8
General Electric 41
General Motors 54 3-8
Liggett & Myers B 95 3-4
Montgomery Ward & Co .... 53 1-2
Reynolds Tobacco B 36 1-8
Southern Railway 20 1-8
Standard Oil Co N J 48 1-2
U. S. Steel 76
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy in the interior
and unsettled, with possibly light
rain on the coast tonight and
Tuesday; slightly warmer in
west portion Tuesday
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Joseph Stalin (right), Russian dictator, and Vyacheslav McioUn* Soviet
premier and minister for foreign affairs, look on as German Foreign
Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop signs the Red-Nazi pact dividing
Poland. Terms of the new pact indicate that Russia may come into the
war on Germany's side against the Allies. Photo radioed from Berlin
to New York.
Night Flight To Berlin
Made By British Planes
Catholic Cardinal
Mundelein Passes
Chicago, Oct. 2. (AP) —George
Cardinal Mundelein, 67, arch
bishop of Chicago, died suddenly
today.
He was found dead in his bed
at his residence in Mundelein, 111.,
by Monsignor Patrick Hayes.
Father Hayes had gone to the
cardinal’s room to call him when
the prelate did not appear for his
customary morning devotions.
Glass’ Aid
To FDR Is
Significant
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Oct. 2. —Senator Car
ter Glass’ support of President
Roosevelt’s neutrality policy is high
ly important on its
own merits. It’s
rn or e important
than that on ac
count of the future
possibilities it hints
at.
Senator Glass
has been about the
outstandingest con
servative southern
Democratic a n ti-
New Dealer. One
certainly would
have gambled, un
til very recently,
that he’d be equal-
n
, .•» .
Senator Glass
ly a Rooseveltian anti-third termer —
that he’d light F. D.’s renomination
and, assuming the latter’s renomina
tion in spite of him, that he’d take
an active part in a Democratic se
cession movement, with a bolting
candidate and all the other trim
mings
But now that he’s swallowed the
President’s neutrality program (and
likes it) isn’t it possible that he’ll
go the limit and become a regular
New Dealer? To be sure, it doesn’t
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London Defies Ger
ma n Raiders That
May Visit London;
Another Freighter
Sunk; French De
stroy Mines Left By
Germans,
London, Oct. 2.—(AP) —A night
reconnaisance flight by British planes
over Berlin and the sinking of a
British freighter by an armed raider
were marked up today on the credit
and debit sides of Britain’s wartime
ledger.
Announcing the first British flight
over the German capital, the air
ministry said that “successful” air
reconnaisances by day and night had
been carried out over. Germany and
that the night reconnsisances includ
ed Berlin and Potsdam. There were
no other detaails.
The attacks on the 5,051-ton Brit
ish freighter Clement in the South
Atlantic by an armed raider was an
nounced by the ministry of informa
tion. The communique said the raider
had not been identified, “but the cor
rect steps are being taken.” The ex
act position of the sinking boat and
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U. S. May Let
Britain Have
Polar Region
Washington, Oct. 2.—(AP) — The
United States may abandon Little
America in the Antarctic to British
claims and take title instead to ter
ritory lying farther east.
Officials of the forthcoming gov
ernment expedition »to the South
Pole disclosed this possibility today
when they removed their headquar
ters from Washington to Boston.
There they will complete prepara
tions for the trip.
The party will depart from the
Boston navy yard early in Novem
ber and reach South Polar waters
early in January.
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Rome Fears
Conflict Is
Now Near
Ciano’s Visit to Hitler
M,ay Mean Italy Will
Offer Peace Then
Fight I f Rebuffed;
Larger Part of Po
land May Be Spared.
Berlin, Oet 2.—(At*) —Adolf
Hitler today sent to his ally,
Premier Mussolini, what Nazis
said were the three main points
of his conversations with II
Duce’s son-in-law, Italian For
eign Minister Count Galcazzo
Ciano.
These points were given au
thoritatively as:
1. The possibilities of the fu
ture of Europe, including Italy's
share in what will or may hap
pen.
2. Germany’s conception of
various spheres of interest in
eastern Europe.
3. The possibilities of giving
effect to the Germany thesis that
the European war should be end
ed now.
These sourecs intimated, fur
ther, that Hitler, in his speech
before the Reichstag sometime
this week, would give the world
Germany’s conception of the
peace possibilities.
Rome, Oct. 2. (AP)
Italian and foreign diplomats
expressed a growing concern
today that Italy might be
forced into the European war
if Britain and France turned
down a peace offer by Adolf
Hitler.
Officials were silent on For
eign Minister Count Ciano’s
visit to Berlin, but many Ital
ians said they thought Hitler
was asking Mussolini to pre
sent a peace proposal by the
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SWEDISH STEAMER
SUNK, CREW SAVED
Stockholm. Sweden, Oet. 2.
(AP) The Swedish steamer
Gun, 1,198 tons, was torpedoed
today off Hanstholm, Jutland,
and her crew of 18 rescued. The
vessel, built in 1891, was bound
for Antwerp. Her home port was
Gothenburg.
FREW OF SHIP REACHES
BRAZILIAN PORT SAFELY
Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 2.—(AP) —
The crew of the British freighter
Clement, which was sunk off the
Brazilian coast, was reported today
to have reached the city of Maceio.
These reports said the attacks on the
freighter took place off Ihe Brazilian
town of Pedras, in the state of Ala
goas, a short distance northeast of
Maceio.
Latvia Goes
To Moscow
For Orders
Moscow, Oct. 2.—(AP)—The La
tvian foreign minister, William
Munters, and two secretaries of the
Latvian foreign trade Commission,
landed at the Moscow airport at
5:15 p. m. today. They were met
by foreign office officials and the
staff of the Latvian legation.
The Latvian legation said merely
that Munters was coming to “clear
aplhe situation created in the Bal
tic by the Soviet-German and Sov
iet-Estonian pacts.”
Latvia, which has excellent har
bors .some of which are fortified,
on the Gulf of Riga, and on the
Baltic, provides a natural trade
outlet for Russian shipments to the
•.vest.
An agreement with Latvia simi
lar to the one Russia already has
made with Estonia would strength
en further the Soviet position in
lhe Baltic.
Announcement of the Latvian
minister’s visit was coupled with in
dications that Russia, is seeking to
bolster her position in the southeast
by formulating a plan to keep the
Balkans neutral under the leader
ship of .he Kremlin.