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fmWDERSON’S I POPULATION 13,873 ; \VK STY-SIXTH YEAR Final Agreement Is Had On Amendment To Neutrality Bill Ail Goods Other Th a n Armaments May Be Carried to Some Ports of Belli nis Considered May Vote Next Week. !\ Oct. 19.—(AP) —Final • t< i permit American ves y all goods other than .■> to some ports of beliig - :eached today by a group ats on the Senate Foreign . Committee J. the amendments ap > the group would permit • 'hose ports in the Pacific . Oceans, the Bay of Ben o he Arabian Sea. Surface o could operate to all ports .tlr Atlantic which are sit - a. -.od atlt of 30 degrees north lati ded they did not carry •- to belligerents. The line . ot north latitude runs thro \. v Orleans. ran airer.dt could operate to in the Western Hemis ! ;.rv could visit Bermuda and ..:.d! c.d. stopping points which . : a barred to surface vessels.’ .ng to any section could be ■ ; . the President proclaimed a •. area” around certain ports. S: te leaders agreed informally t d up the debate on the neu •; bill this week, and begin con >n of amendments Monday. Barkley, of Kentucky, the Uution leader, and Senator ■ Id publican, North Dakota, one the leaders opposing the admin • • n legislation, both reported •uld be the procedure. ' .awhile, seven opposition lead . .eeting in the office of Senator - n. Republican. California, dis ... -ad the possibility of offering ad resistance to a proposed re , • it of shipping control pro . m the "cash and carry” sec t. the bill. Auto Deaths Soar Rapidly Past Month Dally Dittp'itcTi tiureau, In Che Sir YVsji»-»r |jot<»S. R :gh. Oct. 19.—A September ‘ which added nine to its tragic •nt Catawba soaring in the ‘ ’ a ng- ol North Carolina’s auto ■ j • death league, and made the *y a strong contender for the .• a.-'in.e distinction of leading all . sixteenth place, Catawba ‘ up to fifth, only a couple of kill ■ack of Cumberland, a deficit ’ early October returns indicate be easy to overcome. A* .Aiming and Guilford, togeth *.h Wake and Robeson, ran a dead heat during September, A five killings each; and as a re- Mecklenburg stayed at the top r 31, .just one lonely fatal accident •' .d of Guilford. Wake is in third i- ve and within easy striking dis ';u.ee of the top, with 26 killed so I a this yea. Whereas there were only fifteen Aie- with ten or more highway - - ‘ dent deaths at the end of August, i 'if were 22 in that class at the (Continued on Page Four) Amazing Business Upturn Among Fastest On Record Volume Best of Any October in Decade; Freight Gains Are Spectacular; Opinion Divided on Duration of New Trends. BY ROGER w. babson, fo\prighl 1939, Publishers Financial Bureau. on Park. Mass., Oct. 20. —Bus-! ■hi, month is the best for any' ->< . in ten years. The United; experienced one of the! ational boom lets in its his- | ti:«- last two months. Fig gathered from all over the :• which I found on my desk ■'.•turn lrom the Far East, tell ; f ilar story. Business is now b’ f • nt above a year ago and per cent of the 1937 peak. ' f ' hardly believe that business ■ 'i 'O rapidly. Yet, the fig !Ch 1 have at hand do not lie. ■ bow that textile mills, auto 'J victories, machine tool shops, ■il', railroads, power plants, ' « camps, and shipyards are ug with activity. When I sail ’ j the Golden Gate on August TdntiU'rsmt Dettln Htsuafrli leased wire service op iHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Wage-Hour Head |K .. Col. Philip Fleming Colonel Philip Fleming, new wages and hours administrator, is shown at his desk in Washington. Due to army regulations, it was necessary to officially assign him as assistant to the acting wages and hours ad ministrator, but there is now no such person. Fritz Kuhn Nervous At House Probe Leader of Bund Says He Is Still Fighting Communism, but Ap proves German-Sov iet Treaty; Furnishes Dies With List of Units. Washington, Oct. 19. —(AP) —Fri- tz Kuhn told the Dies committee to day that his German-American Bund still is fighting communists in this country, although it wholly approves the Russia-German pact. The perspiring leader of the or ganization made that declaration amid excited exchanges among the witness, his council and committee members, after asserting, in response to questions, that there was no sig nificance to the fact that a majority of the Bund’s 71 units were located in the area occupied by 90 percent of the United States munitions in dustry. Soon after the session got under way with tempers strained and hot words flying, Kuhn submitted a list which he said gave the names of all German-American Bund units in the United States, and their leaders. 25, the temperature of business was I 97’ degrees according to my Babson chart. Today it is 112 degrees com ! pared with the 1937 high of 114 de grees and the 1929 all-time peak of 122 degrees. Freight Gains Spectacular. Here are the facts concerning the nation’s leading industries: (1) Textiles: Cotton mills have boosted schedules 15 per cent in the past eight weeks. Woolen factories are operating day and night. The rayon industry has shot ahead. The textile industry as a whole, while not ; the most active of the nation’s mon | ster businesses, is flirting with its j 1937 highs. (2) Railroads: A spectacular in crease has taken place in railioad traffic. Weekly freight car loadings !| have jumped to 835,000 from 680,000 (Continued on Page Four; ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Scandinavia Grateful To Americans Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland End Conference at Stockholm Without Announcement o f Conclusions; Russia Is Feared. Stockholm, Oet. 19. —(AP)—Ap- preciation of the support of Presi dent Roosevelt and of Latin Amer ica was expressed by the president of Finland and the kings of Sweden, Norway and Denmark in broadcasts marking conclusion today of their two-day conference here. Finland’s dangerous situation, due to demands from Soviet Russia, in line with the latter’s Baltic expan sion, formed the theme of Finnish President Kyosti Kallio’s broadcast. ‘‘A powerful neighbor”, (Russia) has put forward for solution ques tions of a very serious character, and Finland feels grateful for the diplomatic support received from others in this connection, “Presi dent Kallio said. “I trust that God will hold his protecting hand over the peace-loving people of Finland and hope that our neighbor in the east will respect our integrity and freedom and refrain from making demands which are inacceptable.” High political quarters held an “optimistic” attitude, on the out come of the conference, called by PUyear-old King Gustav, although there was no indication of any specific action by the four coun tries. Four Army Fliers Killed When Plane Crashes on Coast San Diego. Cal., Oct. 19.—(AP) —Four fliers were killed today in the crash of a military bomb ing plane on Black Mountain, 15— miles northeast of here, the she riff’s office reported. Deputies found four charred bodies near the burned wreckage. Remains of practice bombs, and cameras were nearby. The two-motored plane ap peared to have been an army shin from March Field, River hide. Hoey Willing For Announcements By 1940 Candidates Wilmington, Oct. 19. (AP) The Wilmington Morning Star, in a dispatch from Rowland to day, quoted Governor Hoey as saying he was “willing for gu bernatorial aspirants to announce their candidacies at any time.. Early this year, Iloe.v said he thought it would be to the best interests of the State and of the potential candidates of an nouncements were deferred. The newspaper said that the governor, when asked yesterday whether he still thought the an nouncement should be deferred, replied: “When they (the candidates) are ready, I am willing.” Grew Tears Into Japan’s China Policy Tokyo, Oct. 19.—(AP) —United States Ambassador Joseph C. Grew today declared American opinion, based on facts, not propaganda”, believes that “the many things'in jurious to the United States which have been done and being done by the Japanese agencies are wholly needless.” In one of the strongest and most remarkable diplomatic speeches on Japan-United States relations, Grew, recently returned from a homeland visit and meeting with President Roosevelt, said his talk came “straight from the horse’s mouth.” In addressing 250 members of the American-Japan Society, often a sounding board for authoritative discussion of American-Japanese relations, the ambassador asserted: “They (the American people) re gard with growing seriousness the violation and interference with American rights by Japanese armed forces in China, and disregard of (Continued on Page Four) (jJocdhsJi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy probably oc casional showers in east portion tonight and Friday; slightly war mer tonight. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 19, 1939 Britain, France, Turkey Sign Treaty For Mutual Defense* Two Acts in Drama of SecotidWorld War BRITISH TROOP} £ \ FERRY CHANNEL $ BY OPENING f liwllvP |» # J t* 0 FROM DOVER J DIKES.- IWM v Jt TO BOULOGNE., f n . ■ 1 Jl DUNKIRK . yir * M y My JT f 30 GERMAN LONDON •MUWC« I IDCNTrPIEO^ \ ° r H£urK/,L <x / * TLa - /35 GERMAN JT* / CAMBRA. "ML- COBLIN* | OlvfilONj M % If jdY \ \ NORTH FRONT I 158,000 BRITISH JFsl if/! V%MAi«. IOF MAG!NOT *“ autNT,N \ LINE... CAMBRaI ?r oues- I «maknnum GERMAN TIN, end L AON . 1 T J DTvffSZs iN 1 VCWOUN • J RESERVE... A / 2,000,000 FRENCH If \ FRONT. LAUTCRBOURG TO t H W RNDGERMAh BASEL- S f * INTER TOP. « vi * V \ m JET Jr 2 no. class \ COLMAR* if TROOPS... Q \ § •n»«ioußa U a _ MULMOOIe* ft • ? 30 40 68 80 r eetfow Sc/ue of mic£i # Adolf Hitler has written his war drama, “Blitzkrieg,” in two acts, according to information received. Act I is to be in the Maginot Line sector from the Luxembourg border to the Rhine River at Lauterbourg, with Hitler in a desperate effort to win back German ground now held by the French. Act II is to begin as soon as Act I is completed. It is to be launched against Holland bolder between Emmerich and Aachen. The attack must be lightning swift, as the entire shaded area on the map in Holland can be put from 3 to 7 feet under water within 7 hours. First Phase Ended On Western Front, Germans Announce Bom Inside Out Bom with her stomach and other internal organs outside her body, Carna Jean Raymond, pictured with her mother, Mrs. Clayton Raymond, is given a good chance to live, fol lowing an operation in Rockford, 111., to put the organs where they belong. (Central Press) Silver Shirt Head Cited At Asheville Asheville, Oct. 19.—(AP)—William Dudley Pelley, head of the Silver Shirts of. America, was cited today to appear in superior court here on charges of violating the conditions of two suspended sentences, including allegations that he had “consdrted with known enemies of American in stitutions” distributing publicity aim ed at the “overthrow of our govern ment,” and “leveled '•Tsgusting epi thets at the office of the President of the United States.” Superior Court Judge Zeb Nettles issued a capias ordering that Pelley be taken into custody and required to give SIO,OOO bond for his appear ance at the November term of court. Nettles explained that he did not di rect that the Silver Shirt chieftain be brought before him immediately, because he was 'solicitor when Pelley (Continued on Page Four) High Command Says French Have With drawn from German Soil; Paris Says Ger man Infantry Units Have Been Thrown Back. Berlin, Oct. 19.—(AP)—The Ger man high command announced today that the first phase of the war in the west had ended, following with drawal of French troops from Ger man soil, following brief but bitter fighting. This action, a communique said, had pushed the French rear guard across the Saar river. Contact with the enemy in several places was broken in enaggements because German troops did not cross the border in following up the French withdrawal. The high command declared that the initial phase of the war, which it said was “provoked by French initiative,” had not produced any “serious fighting” at any point in the west. Summing up developments in the campaign to date, the communique added: “The purely local fighting took place in a flat stretch near the French border in front of our West wall. With one single exception on either side, only small detachments, mostly weaker than one company, participated in these encounters.” “At no other point did the French even come close to the Westwall,” the communique added, “with the exception of regions where the West wall, as was the case of Saarbruecken runs the immediate neighborhood of the border.” GERMAN INFANTRY UNITS THROWN BACK AT NIGHT Paris, Oct. 19.—(AP) —The French general staff reported today that German infantry units, supported by artillery fire, had been thrown back at several points on the western front, This localized action, said the regular morning communique from the war ministry, was the only ac (Continued on Page Four) WINDSOR AND HIS BROTHER AT FRONT With the British Expeditionary Forces in France. Oct. 19.—(AP) —The Duke of Windsor and the Duke of Gloucester, his younger brother, toured the front lines today, accompanied by Lord Gort, the British commander-in chief. The royal brothers looked into pill boxes, watched breastw/orks being erected, and jumped into trenches on their tour. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON * EXCEPT SUNDAY. Warren Soldier Killed In Plane San Antonio. Texas, Oet. 19. (AP) —A board of inquiry flew to the King ranch today to inves tigate the crash of a Kelly Field training plane, in which Cadet John Gilmer Williams, 21, of Warrenton, N. C., was killed. The body of the student flier was taken from the burning craft about half an hour after he had cleared the Brownsville airport for a return night navigation flight to Kelly Field. The accident occurred two miles from Norias. Workers at the raneh w r cnt to the scene after hearing an explosion, the army field was advised. The body was taken to Kings ville. War’s Toll Os Shipping 79 Vessels (By The Associated Press.) As Germany pressed with plane and submarine its reopened offen sive against Allied merchantmen and rjaval power, a recapitulation today showed 79 ships, with a total tonnage of 268,260, had been sunk in sea combats since September 3. Sinking of the 3,509-ton freighter City of Mandalay and the 10,183- lon passenger liner Yorkshire 500 miles off the FrencTi coast raised the British total to 40 vessels. Doctors were waiting at Cork. Ireland, to treat the injured among (Continued on Page Two) Diplomats Think Hitler Is Desperate For Peace By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 19.—British and French diplomacy in Washington un questionably is convinced that Herr Hitler realizes that he has “bitten off more than he can chew”—which is why he evidently is so desperately anxious to have peace arranged for him. To be sure, he wants peace on his own terms —meaning, in effect, a victorious peace for Germany. Nev ertheless, the opinion’s expressed that he’s prepared to make some few concessions ratfter than fight to a finish. True, this judgment, as previously remarked, is Allied diplomacy’s judgment, and maybe it’s colored by a certain amount of wishful thinking. You by no means get the same re action from talks with German re presentatives in our capital: you wouldn’t expect to. At all events, you wouldn’t expect them to be making any such admission. Still, you do hear the most fervent peace talk at [ 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY New Accord Relates To Balkan Area Action Follows Closely on Break down of Turk Nego tiations With Soviet Russia; Along Lines Os That Early in the Year. Ankara, Turkey, Oct. 11). (AP) —Turkey, key power of the eastern Mediterranean, signed a mutual assistance pact with Britain and France here today. The treaty was the outcome of British-Turkish and French- Turkish undertakings earlier this year to assist each other in the event an of an act lead ing to war in the Mediterran ean. It contained a clause permitting Turkey to remain neutral in the event of a war between France, Britain and Soviet Russia. (All indications were that Turkey would not be involved in the British-French war against Ger many, unless its present scope were extended. Informed sources in Paris and London said the treaty provided that Turkey would come to the aid of Britain and France if they had to fulfill their pledges of help to Greece and Turkey against aggression menacing their freedom. (These informants also said the Allies agreed to aid Turkey if she were attacked by any European na tion. Diplomats said these terms se cured the strategic Dardanelles for Fiance and Britain in case Germany attempted to push into the Balkans. (Prime Minister Chamberlain announced in London the treaty was for a 15-year term. (Franz von Papen, German am (Continued on Page Four) Pro-German Bulgarian Cabinet Out Sofia, Bulgaria, Oct. 19.—(AP) — Premier George Kiosseivanoff and his cabinet, who had pursued a mildly pro-German policy, resigned today as Bulgaria swung toward closer coojeration with Soviet Rus sia. It was considered probable Ste fan Mihaloff, a deputy regarded as friendly to Moscow, would be des ignated by King Boris 111 to form a new cabinet. Kiosseivanoff, a close friend of the king, had been premier and foreign minister since his cabinet was reconstructed November 14, 1938. Under his guidance, Bulgaria won the right to rearm, denied by World War trejbies, and has signed fiiendship treaties with Yugoslavia and Turkey. Partition of Poland and Russia’s emergence to new dominance in southeast Europe has changed the Ealkan picture, however. Adolf’s embassy. To listen to it, you'd conclude that the Nazis are regular Quakers. Various neutral embassies and le gations (Scandinavia’s, the Balkans’, Belgium’s, Holland’s, Switzerland’s and Italy’s) also hint that they be lieve the Fuehrer to be plenty ner vous. Our State Department, strictly sub rosa, has the same notion. Os course, all these foreign out fits get their dope from their respec tive home governments, which, in turn, get it by pipeline out of Ger many and possibly supplement it with a bit of hopeful guessing. There fore, it’s hai’d to tell just how re liable it is. However, there’s a good deal of unanimity about it. More over, it’s borne out by Americans recently from the Fatherland— though they certainly do have a •‘passion for anonymity” if they’re (Continued on Page Four)
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