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. 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