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Hitler Gives Peace Plan
Britain T o Examine Hitler’s Proposals Carefully
Flue-Cured Tobacco
Belt Votes 90 Prct.
tor 1940 Controls .
North Carolina Goes
148,085 For and 15,-
040 Against Quotas
On Acreage; Si x
States Vote 203,409
For and 26,016
Against,
ui. Oct. G. —North Carolina,
v, th ithcT cigarette tobacco pro
(i cin.L, states, coted overwhelming
ly yesterday for control of the 1940
crop. The complete unofficial vote,
announced by the AAA, was:
For -ontrol. 148.065.
\gainst control. 15,940.
This was a percentage of 90.8
iw control. Planters in 70 counties
\ "ted.
U iIOI. i FLUE-CURED BELT
GIVES LARGE MAJORITIES
\tlanta, Ga., Oct. 6. —(AP) —Cig-
•ttc tobacco farmers, voting near
■ nine to. one for production con
!. turned to the federal govern
:w ted effort to bolster their sharp
deciined income.
Growers i n six southeastern
>tides voted 203.409 to 23,016 for
acreage quotas designed to limit the
> nply to 660.000,000 pounds next
yt ar. Tlie annual consumption is
t nniated at 750,000.000 pounds, 400
. n pounds of which normally
. to foreign countries.
Yi; • .ally complete returns from
y. .-'erday’s referendum in Georgia,
Y rth Carolina, South Carolina, j
Y.rginia and Florida and Alabama;
owed 89.9 percent of the growers
.a iavor of returning to federal con- I
trol after the unrestricted 1939 crop j
reached a record 1,014,670,000
Guilty Plea
In Insurance
Murder Ring
Philadelphia. Oct. 6.—(AP)—Mrs.
Piovidenza Miccichi, called the
■ which - ’ in Philadelphia’s murder
ior-insurance ring, halted her trial
today by pleading guilty to indict
i■ -nts charging her with the poison
ader of Mrs. Virginia Cassetti, 37-
- »Id mother of six children.
TO court will hear testimony to
l • ‘1 ' ■ degree of the crime and the
P a .-(.merit later.
On trial since Tuesday, Mrs. Mic
cichi was the fourth persons to halt
trial with a guilty plea. So far, 12
P'-i. i.ri,- have been convicted or plead
ed guilty to murder. Twelve are still
to go on trial on the death charge
1 the mass murder ring blamed for
50 to 100 killings.*’
Recognition
Os CIO Seen
In Hoey List
Daily Dispateli Bureau,
Ln Che Sn Waller Hotel.
Raleigh, Oct. 6. —Governor Clyde
R. Hoey is no lover of John L.
Lewis or the C. I. 0., but he gave
representation to that faction of
labor in making appointments of of
ficial representatives to the sixth
national conference on labor legis
lation.
He named Seth Brewer, of Char
lotte, one of the four Tar Heels to
icpresent this State at the meetings
to be held in Washington on Novem
ber 13 to 15. Mr. Brewer is not on
the payroll of the C. I. O. or any of
its affiliates, according to the best
information available to this cor
respondent, but according to this
same information he was until some
thing like a month ago regional di
rector for the Textile Workers Or
ganization Committee, a Lewis and
CIO affiliate. There have been no
indications that the Brewer views
have changed or that he has recant
ed in his allegiance to the CIO.
The AFL faction is recognized
primarily in the appointment of the
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Senators Bennett Champ Clark and
Ernest Lundeen, members of the
Militai*y Affairs Committee, pro
pose that Britain and France sur
render their Western Atlantic in
sular possessions in part payment
of their war debts to the United
States. France would give us Guad
eloupe, Martinique, St. Pierre Miq
uelon. Britain would cede New
foundland, Bermuda, British Ba
hamas, Jamaica, Barbados and
Trinidad.
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Chandler To
Go To Senate
In Kentucky
Frankfort, Ky., Oct. 6.—(AP)
—Governor A. B. Chandler, a
high official source disclosed to
day, will resign Monday and be
appointed United States senator
by Lieutenant Governor Keen
Johnson, who will succeed him
as the state’s chief executive.
Chandler will take the seat
left vacant by the death early
Tuesday of Senator M. M. Logan.
Snagging On
Neuse River
Is To Begin
Washington, Oct. 6.—(AP) —Army
engineers said today the $25,000
snagging project on the Neuse river
in North Carolina would be started
October 20 and would be completed
March 1. The snagging work was au
thorized last July, preparatory to a
survey looking toward a flood con
trol project on the river from the
Johnston county line to New Bern.
Engineers explained the snagging
had been delayed by the decision to
combine it with the maintenance
work which would be done near New
Bern. Between $12,000 and $15,000
is available for this latter project.
They said also the flood control
survey report probably would be
ready by early next year in time for
authorization of an expenditure by
Congress if it receives approval of
the rivers and harbors board.
Hancock Believes
U. S. Will Not Be
Drawn Into Fight
Charlotte, Oct. 6.—(AP)—Frank
W. Hancock, a member of the Fed
eral Home Loan Board, said here
today “it is my deliberated opinion
that this nation, under its present
leadership, will not be drawn into
the European conflict.”
Hancock, former representative
from the fifth North Carolina dis
ti ict, spoke before the annual con
vention of the North Carolina Asso
ciation of Real Estate
“This is a time of all times when
we should keep our emotions down
and our intelligence up; build up
our own defenses and keep out of
Europe”, he said.
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 6, 1939
Reaction Is
Cold Rebuff
To Overture
Dominions and
France To Be Con
sulted; Intended to
Frighten Allies, I s
One Washington
View; Hitler Has
Lied, Norris Says.
London, Oct. 6. —(AP) —The Brit
ish government said tonight that
Adolf Hitler’s peace proposal would
be subjected to “careful examina
tion in consultation with the gov
ei r.ments of the dominions and the
French republic.”
“But”, the statement added, “it is
necessary to remember two things:
“First, no peace proposal is like
ly to be accepted which does not
effectively free Europe from the
menace of aggression.
“Second, that something more
than words would be required to
establish confidence” in any peace
proposals Germany might make.
The government statement, read
by a foreign office spokesman said
that Hitler’s proposals “in their
present form x x x are in many
respects vague and obscure. But it
is noted that they contain no sug
gestion for reparations for the
wrongs done by Germany to other
peoples.”
HITLER S PROPOSAL GIVEN
COLD SHOULDER GENERALLY
(By The Associated Press.)
Adolf Hitler’s proposal for an'_
all-inclusive peace conference was
coldly received in unofficial quar
ters in Paris and London. Italy was
hopeful it might lead to peace, but
not optimistic.
Keynote of early British reaction
was the single Word “no” heading
the main editorial of Lord Beaver
brook’s Evening Standard. “If he
has made his last peace offer, he
also has made his last war”, the
Standard said. “He has spoken his
own funeral oration.”
Satirical comment came from
semi-official French sources. They
agreed with British commentators
Hitler had offered nothing new.
French commentators said Hitler
had attempted to induce all other
powers to bow “to every injunction
and every desire” of Germany.
First members of Congress to
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GOVERNMENT WILL
BUY EXCESS BEANS
Washington, Oct. 6.—(AP) — The
Federal Surplus Commodities Cor
poration informed the office of Re
presentative Warren, Democrat,
North Cai’olina, today a program for
the purchase of surplus string beans
on the Eastern North Carolina mar
ket would be worked out within a
few days.
No indication was given of the
quantity the FSCC contemplates re
moving from normal trade channels,
but the program is expected to be
sufficient to increase the low prices
truck farmers are now receiving.
Three Big Worries Nag
Hitler As War Goes On
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Oct 6.—American
State, war and navy departmental
folk can’t get it out of their heads
that Herr Hitler proposes a peace
with Britain and
France less be
cause he’s so peace
able than because
at bottom he’s a
fraid of a long
war. And they a
gree that they be
lieve they discern
three serious weak
nesses in the Fue
hrer’s position, not
yet very obvious
but likely tb be
come so presently
if hostilities drag
out long.
Their theory is that Adolf must
be asking himself these questions:
1. Won’t Dictator Stalin double
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Here is how Hitler and Mussolini originally planned to share the world, according to reports issued by the
Russian Comintern last year when Germany and the Soviet were still enemies. Dates indicate when each
country was to be grabbed. Austria and Czecho-Slovakia were seized by 1938, as scheduled, but Hungary
remains independent. Hitler got less than half of Poland as a result of his alliance with Russia. The Medi
terranean was to become an Italian lake and Mussolini started by seizing Albania.
U.S. Vessels
Rushing To
Save Liner
Germany Advises
White House of Al
leged Plot to Dyna
mite (J. S. Liner
Bringing Americans
Home from Europe.
Washington, Oct. 6. —(AP) —Navy
and coast guard craft sped today to
ward a mid-Atlantic rendezvous with
the A.merican liner Iroquois after
the White House disclosed receipt
of startling information that the re
fugee-laden steamship was to be
sunk.
The tip came from the head of the
German navy, but it left unanswered
the question of how and why and by
whom the sinking wa sto be done.
Likewise, it offered no explanation
of how the Reich acquired the in
formation.
The White House disclaimed any
belief in the report. Nevertheless,
several naval ships and a coast guard
cutter were rushed to accompany the
Iroquois to New York, where she
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cross him on his eastern frontier?
2. Won’t Signor Mussolini double
cross him on his southern border?
3. Won’t he have increasing dis
content to deal with at home unless
he disposes of the Anglo-French com
bination in short order?
From Hitler’s standpoint, of course,
it will be scandalously dirty work
if Stalin does dump him, but I don’t
find anybody who doesn’t consider
the Soviet leader quite capable of it.
Can’t Antagonize Staiin
In fact, it’s pointed out that Adolf
can’t be overly pleased with the
Russo-German trend of conditions
already in Poland, along the Baltic
and in the Balkans. But what’s he
going to do about it? —he simply
can’t afford to antagonize Boss Stalin
in the face of the situation on the
west front and at sea.
True, it isn’t indicated that he’s
been hammered very hard yet on
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Californian Thinks
Arms Repeal Means
Inflation And Boom
Fain Dies After
Admitting Guilt
Raleigh, Oct. 6. (AP) —Charles
Fain, 26-year-old Negro died by
gas at State Prison today after ad
mitting his guilt in the two capi
tal crimes for which he w'as con
victed in Cherokee county.
Fain was sentenced to die tor
rape and first degree burglary.
He told F. V. Johnson, Murphy
police officer, that he was “sorry
I did it,” and had written letters
to the white women who were
victims of his assault and robbery
last January.
The man was convicted of
breaking into a Murphy hospital,
entering the room of the mother
of a newborn baby and raping the
nurse attending the woman.
French Are
Digging In
In The West
Paris, Oct. 6.—(AP)—French
troops dug in on the muddy Saar
land front today in preparation
against any large scale German of
fensive, wfYle French police roun
ded up communist Leaders behind
the lines.
French military circles reported
large German troops movements.
Dlder German soldiers were re
ported being replaced by younger
campaigners from the German ar
mies that crushed Poland.
Last night was calm, Viwever.
The war ministry communique said
cV.ly patrols were active in the sec
tor southwest of Saarbruecken.
WILSON GIRL WINS
4-H REVUE HONORS
Raleigh, Oct. 6. (AP)
Johnny Faye Barnes. 4-H club
girl from Wilson county, w’on
the State 4-H Club dress re
vue at N. C. State college to
day. She earned a trip to the
national 4-H club congress in
Chicago December 1-9 with her
best dress ensemble, which cost
$14.95.
Therew 7 ere 57 entrants.
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Senator Downey
Speaks In Opposition
After Thomas of
Utah Urges Repeal;
Foes Offer Compro
mise if .Embargo Is
Retained.
Washington, Oct. 6. (AP)—Sen
ator Downey, Democrat, California,
forecast in the Senate today that re
peal of the arms embargo would lead
ultimately to “inflation and a boom
of catastrophic consequences.”
The Californian took the floor after
Senator Thomas, Democrat, Utah,
had urged removal of the embargo.
Thomas contended that no nation
could object, because under the ad
ministration’s full neutrality bill,
American ships would be prevented
from carrying war supplies to a bel
ligerent.
“As for me,” Downey asserted, “I
am firmly set against any further in
tervention in Europe by the sale of
war materials there in peace time or
war. Let us not help attack the peo
ples of another continent. Let us at
tack our own tasks at home.”
Besides ending the embargo, the
administration’s neutrality bill would
put this country’s commerce with
belligerents on a virtual “cash and
carry” basis, and establish other con
trols over shipping and travel, in an
effort to prevent “incidents,” with
either side.
Downey proposed this slogan for
opponents of embargo repeal:
“For the Americas both North and
South, billions for defense, but not
a single son for butchery abroad.”
A dozen Senate opponents offered
to accept revised neutrality legisla
tion which would retain the arms
embargo, now in effect, and set up
a requirement for cash payments on
belligerents’ purchases.
Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho,
said the group concurred in the fol
lowing formal statement:
“We are willing, as has been our
position from the first, to accept the
administration bill, if the adminis
tration will leave in the law the em
bargo on arms, ammunitions and im
plements oi war, and provide for
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Fuehrer To
Wait Choice
From Allies
Unprecedented Hor
ror to Follow Re
fus a1; Renounces
Further Claims Ex
cept Colonies, and
Pledges No Designs
On Southeast Europe.
Berlin, Oci. G.— (AP)
Adolf Hitler today proposed a
European peace settlement “on
the comprehensive basis” but
added that if the Allies re
jected his “outstretched hand,
this statement will have been
my last.”
“Then we shall fijrht”, he
went on, and pictured the new
war as one sure to brin# un
precedented horror to the
world.
“May those peoples and
their leaders who are of the
same mind (as myself) now
make their reply”, he said in
his hour and twenty minute
speech to the Reichstag and
the world. “And let those who
consider war to be,the better
solution reject my outstretched
lands.”
He alleged the Allies “to inter
pret these opinions of mine as
cowardice, if they like.”
Collaborators said Hitler regarded
his proposals as “formal”, and that
lie would now wait for Britain and
France to act on them.
I)er Fuehrer was time and again
•onciliatory in tone—specifically to
both Britain and France.
The world’s history, he said,
bowed that in war “there have
never been two victors, but often
inly losers.” ,
“Neither force of arms nor lapse
of time will conquer Germany”, he
declared. “It is infantile to hope
for the disintegration of our peo
ple.”
These were among the other most
material bases of his speech:
1. A renunciation of further
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Russia Fast
Pressing For
Domination
Lithuania Summoned
To Moscow to Sign on
Dotted Line in En
forced Submission to
Soviet Demands for
Concessions.
Moscow, Oct. 6.—(AP) —Lithuania
has been summoned as the next to
sign on the dotted line as Soviet
Russia continued today her march
toward domination of eastern Eu
rope.
By concluding the ten-year non
aggression accord with little Latvia
yesterday—a treaty closely parallel
ing the one a week ago with Estonia
—the Soviet Union added to her set
up for control of the Baltic.
The treaty gave Russia the right
to establish several air fields and
naval bases at her western neighbor’s
seaport. Similar concessions from Es
tonia ave given Russia the right
to establish naval bases in one main
land port, and on two islands along
with air bases and garrisons for 25,-
000 sobers in tat contry.
(Informed sources in Helsinki,
Finland, said two additional Eston
ian orts might be allowed Russia for
conversion into naval bases. Reports
there also said that the Lithuanian
foreign minister would fly to Mos
cow today to complete- Russian-
Lithuanian discussions. Observers at
Helsinki had predicted the proposal
would ca« for Lithuania to surren
der two areas for Russian air bases
n a mutual assistance agreement and
for a trade pact.
(There and at Stockholm, Lithuan
ians were said to hope that if the
pact includes the return to Lithuania
of Wilno, it will be signed October 9.)