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yyTY-SIXTH YEAR
GERMANY SCOURS FOR HITLER ASSAILANTS
Confer on Nazi Menace
* ii
Grav- international developments, with German troops massed men
v along; Belgian and Dutch borders, were held responsible for the
summoning of a Belgian cabinet meeting and all night confer
t The Hague by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and King
Leopold of Belgium (both pictured) and their foreign ministers.
(Central Prcat)
Mammoth Christmas Mush
Is forecast iiy Mabson
Says Shoppers Will Buy More Goods This
Year Than in Any Holiday Season in U. S.
History; Sees Business Skyrocketing.
By ROGER \V. BABSOX,
Com right 1939, Publishers Financial
Bureau, Inc.
• n Park, Mass., Nov. 9.
-• as shoppers will buy more
_ > this year than in any holiday
. the history of the country.
L- .se of lower prices, however,
Ties will not top the 1929
• ' Merchants, wholesale dealers,
tution companies, delivery
post offices, restaurants
• r service businesses should
red for the biggest holiday
• years. My optimism is based
hopes but on figures. If re
• do simply maintains its cur
>\ my business forecast for
Farm Market
Facilities To
Be Expanded
_
Diiiy UispatcTi "Bureau,
In *he Sir Wall-®’' Kot®*.
Nov. 9.—The State De-1
of Agriculture has an- j
a new move in its campaign i
marketing facilities to I
Carolina farmers.
n is to establish new mar
i.ere necessary” and to give
■id to those markets now in
I B. Etheridge, chief of the
! '■ division has caused ques
• e to be sent to civic clubs,
gents, vocational agriculture
fi.ambers of commerce, banks
- ‘ and ginners in many sections,
information on the farm
dikes available in their re
; eas—including livestock,!
moducts, grain, hay, legumes, !
; nd truck crops,
ament ol new markets will!
aely upon the extent to
• '"ikies indicate the necessity
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Methodists Hold
Brotherhood Meet
At Fayetteville
; iiiw Nov. 9.—(AP) — The
•aims Conference of the
Episcopal Church, South,
s' ion here for the
: do. ing forever business
and uniting in one
a t church, this morn
-1 a brotherhood session
parts "from district con-
V : a,!>crs.
admitted ministers
the conference on trial
j. . Herman Brady, of the
'district, and Clarence
Haywood Harrell and
fingers, of the Rocky
, Jni trict.
from the Rocky Mount
i gton districts were read
f lj K ™ght and Mrs. H. J.
TlrnlU'rsmi Batlti Uigpatch
LF fASE!D Wmß SERVICE OP
iHE ASM K. ] ate d press.
1939, which I made last New Year’s
Day, will ring the bell. Smart buy
, ers will do their Christmas shopping
now.
! All that merchants and stores need
for the Christmas season on record
iis a continuation of the present
| trend. Retail trade is currently re
ported 10 to 15 per cent above a
:year ago, and even higher than it
] was in early November of either
1 1936 or 1937. Readers will recall
these were two excellent years. Ac
cording to my Index of Distribution
j (which includes autos, groceries,
furniture, clothing and luxury goods)
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New U. S. Law
Gives Germans
A Freer Hand
By C HARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Nov. 9.—Some of our
American navy folk surmise that, in
one respect, our new neutrality law
may prove to be a convenience to
Germany.
To be sure, the Allies now, can
get war supplies from this country,
provided they pay cash for them and
carry them away in their # own ves
sels. Theoretically so can 'the Ger
mans, but everybody knows they
haven’t the cash, or the vessels to
run the Allied blockade. On the op
posite hand, the Allies have consider
able cash and the vessels to do plenty
of successful blockade running. To
that extent the lifting of our arms
embargo plays into the Allies’ hands
and is to Germany’s disadvantage.
That is to say, the Allies now can
get what they couldn’t get before,
and the Germans still can’t get it.
But our present lav/ strictly pro
hibits American ships from ventur
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Pledge Given By
France to Uphold
Neutrality of U. S.
Paris, Nov. 9. — (AP) —Finance
Minister Paul Reynaud declared
todav that if American neutral
ity is ever violated, “it will not
be by any act of France or her
allies.”
“Your country may be cal’erl
upon to play a great role in the
work of reconstruction,” he said
in a speech to the American club
of Paris, following “what we
want and are determined to get
—total peace.” .
Thanking Americans for tpeir
“sympathy and understanding,”
Reynard said, “Let’s not forget
the bitter lesson of the last war.
Let’s not forget the unprecedent
ed economic depression it
brought about.”
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOROyToAROLIN A AND VIRGINLL
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 9, 1939
Neutrals To Resist Attack>
Netherlands
And Belgium
Are Arming
More Belgian Troops
Mobilized and Neth
erlands Prepares to
Flood Lowlands
Areas if Germans
Cross Borders.
Amsterdam, Nov. 9. —(AP) —The
Netherlands cleared out villages in
new “water :ine” regions today ore
o iratory to defensive flooding, and
Belgium raised her mobilization to
a near peak figure of about 600,000
men.
n as?enger service out of Amster
dam was ordered restricted, bo
ginning at 4 p. 'in., “in view of ex
traordinary measures taken by the
railroad companies”. The order was
believed to have been due to heavy
precautionary movements of troops
eastward.
The action of the two nations was
interpreted as evidence of a wary
determination to be ready for any
turn n the European war
Official sources in both insisted,
however, that they feared no im
mediate danger for their respective
countries.
More Ships
T ransfer
Registries
Washington, Nov. 9.—(AP)—Mari
time Commission sources disclosed
that the United Fruit Company had
been authorized last month to trans
fer two of its steamships to foreign
registry.
This disclosure, together with word
that the commission had approved
the transfer of a tanker in which the
Transford Company was interested,
came as the commission gathered for
another meeting.
Secretary Hull and several mem
bers of Congress have protested such
a course as against the spirit of the
neutrality law, which forbids Amer
ican-flag ships from entering combat
zones in Europe.
It was estimated at the Maritime
Commission that between 40 and 50
transfers, some of them for small
vessels, had been authorized since
the European war began. This total
included 15 Standard Oil tankers to
Panamanian, registry.
Issuance of licenses for the export
of war materials to Britain and
France has begun at the State De
partment, but only in driblets.
Some officials who envisioned long
lines of applicants waiting for the
State Department doors to open
every morning this week have been
disappointed.
FDR Renews
Peace Plea
With Labor
Washington, Nov. 9. (AP)
President Roosevelt explored with
the leaders of organized labor’s
warring factions today the pros
pects of reopening joint AFL-CIO
peace negotiations.
The President talked separately
at the White House with CIO Lead
er John L. Lewis and AFL Presi
dent William Green, but when they
left there was no indication that
the President’s latest effort in his
two-year campaign to restore har
mony in the labor movement had
succeeded.
Lewis had a broad smile, but was
r.on-committal about his chat with
the President, although he did say
that the conference embraced labor
Ut c*CC.
“That’s all I can do for you to
day”, Lewis told newspaper men
who pressed him with inquiries as
to whether the long postponed peace
conferences were soon ,to be re
sumed.
Green v/as more talkative.
“I told him there was no hurdle
as far as we were concerned”, he
said. “We are ready to resume nego
tiations whenever the peace com
mittee of the CTO is ready to meet
1 us.”
Loading Death—ln Small Fragments
Row on row of barges, all filled with scrap metal ultimately bound for the war fronts of Europe, are
shown in this air view of the waterfront at Bayonne, N. J. In the center of the picture are two ships, each
being loaded to the gunwales with this precious grist for the mills of war. Scrap iron is high on the
contraband list.
Consumption
Os Tobacco
To Increase
Washington, Nov. 9. (AP)
The Agriculture Department fore
east today a moderate increase
in domestic consumption of Am
erican tobacco next year, but
said a substantial reduction in
the export market was to be ex
pected, because of the war in
Europe.
Foreign consumption of Amer
ican leaf, however, might be
maintained at about the 1939
level, the department added, by
withdrawals from large stocks
of American leaf abroad.
The department said the total
supply of American tobacco on
hand, 3,795,500,000 pounds, was
the largest on record. The 1,654,-
000,000 pounds produced this
year was a new high.
Flue-cured leaf comprised 1,-
958,000,000 pounds of the total
supply, and stocks of hurley
were said to be “abnormally
large.” These types make up 75
percent of American production.
f arm Incomes Up
For Nine Months
Os The Year 1939
Washington, Nov. 9.—(A.P)—Am
erican farmers received cash income
of $847,000,000 in September, bring
ing their total for the first nine
months of this year to $5,441,000,000.
These estimates by the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics today com
pared with an income of $745,000,000
in September last year, and $5,357,-
OOQ.OOO for the corresponding nine
Lmonths period. Included in the Sep
tember, 1939, income was $66,000,-
000 in government benefit payments.
Texas farmers led with a total Sep
tember income of $93,943,000.
North Carolina farmers in Septem
ber received $19,420,000, and for the
January-September period, $93,000,-
000.
FDR, Morgenthau
Won’t Ask Higher
Debt Limitations
Washington, Nov. 9. (AP)
Secretary Morgenthau said today
that neither President Roosevelt
nor he would ask Congress to lift
the Federal debt limit. The chief
executive and Treasury head had
been expected to recommend
raising the debt ceiling from
45,000,000,000 to probably $50,-
000,000,000 to clear the way for
continued Federal deficit spend
ing,
“Congress makes the approp
riations,” Morgenthau said. “I am
just the paymaster. If we get up
to the limit, I won’t draw
checks for a penny more.”
OJsjcdhjoi
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Friday; frost
in southeast portion tonight;
slowly rising temperature Fri
i day.
Gamer And Wheeler
Refuse T o Announce
Candidacies As Yet
Charleston Hotel
B1 aze Kills Guest
Charleston, S. C., Nov. 9. (AP)
—Fire swept through the third
floor rear of the St. John hotel on
Meeting street last night, result
ing in the death of Herman Brun
ing, 85, resident of the hotel. Sev
eral other persons were overcome
by smoke.
The guests discovered the fire
in a store room. Smoke was so
thick that firemen had to use gas
masks. Desk Clerk K. 11. Flake
aided several guests to escape,
then was overcome by smoke. He
was revived by artificial respira
tion. Joseph Patrick, a bellboy,
had to be revived also, and sev
eral persons fainted. A woman
suffered a heart attack and an
other had to be prevented from
dashing back to her room for her
belongings.
Flint Soon
To Set Sail
For America
Bergen, Norway, Nov. 9. — (AP) —
The United States freighter City of
Flint, which was captured as a war
nrize by Germany and then released
by Norway, started to unload her
cargo today in preparation for re
turning directly to America.
Captain Joseph Gainard said the
vessel would carry only ballast on
the return voyage.
Thus she would travel from one
neutral port to another without cargo
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N. C. Cotton Crop
22 Percent Higher
For Current Year
Raleteh. Nov. 9. 'AP)— I The
Stale Agriculture Department
reported today that the 1939
North Carolina cotton crop, es
timated at 4 79,000 hales Novem
ber 1, would be 22 percent lar
ger than last year.
The indicated yield per acre of
252 pounds is 76 pounds higher
than last year, hut 44 pounds
lower than in 1937, and the tne
year average has
pounds an acre. The crop is 32
percept less than the 10-year av
erage- and, with (lie exception of
the 1938 crop, is the smallest
since 1801.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Friends Unable to
Smoke Them Out;
Gamer Declines
“Yes” or “No” S.tand;
Wheeler Wants to
Await Statement; by
Roosevelt.
Washington, Nov. 9. —(AP)—
Friends of Vice President Gqrner and
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon
tana, were reported authoritatively
today to have urged them to make
formal declarations of candidacy for
the next Democratic presidential
nomination.
Before leaving Washington last
week-end for his Uvalde, Texas,
home. Garner was said to have de
clined a “yes” or “no” ansewr to
these questions.
Wheeler was understood to have
decided to withhold comment on the
presidential race. Authoritative
sources said he believed that any
effort to step into the 1940 situation
would he politically ill-advised until
after President Roosevelt has made
known whether he would stand for a
third term.
Capital speculation on potential
Democratic candidates was stirred
anew by Secretary Wallace’s reiterat
ing of his belief that Mr. Roosevelt
should have another term. Asked
about his statement to that effect in
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Chamberlain Not Hopeful
Os Peace With Germany’s
“Stiff-Neckd” Leaders
London, Nov. 9. — (AP) —Prime]
Minister Chamberlain declared today
that “the stiff-necked men” who run ]
Germany, “speak no language but]
that of force,” and therefore, “I am j
not very hopeful of a satisfactory re- ]
sponse from the German chancellor” j
to the peace proposals of Queen Wil-;
helmina of the Netherlands and
King Leopold of Belgium.
The prime minister’s declaration]
was delivered before the lord mayors’ j
luncheon by Chancellor of the Ex- 1
chequer Sir John Simon, as Cham-|
berlain was suffering from gout.
“Every one will appreciate the!
lofty motives of the sovereigns of The j
Netherlands and Belgium in their,
peace appeals of last Tuesday, and 1
Great Britain will reply, after con
sultation with the dominions and her,
allies,” the declaration continued.
“We do not want to continue the
war a day longer than is necessary
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London Hint
Is Germans
Fixed Blast
“T hose Who En
gineered Reich
stag Fire Know How
To Do These Things”,
Is Comment; Paris
Suspects Sudden
M.ove by Hitler Now.
CONGRATULATIONS
Washington, Nov. 9. —(AP)—
The State Department, Seere
tary Hull said today, is await
ing official reports on the Mun
ich bombing before deciding
whether to send congratulations
to Reichfuehrer Hitler on his
escape.
At Hull’s press conference, a
reporter said he thought it was
customary for a telegram of
congratulations to be sent by
this government when a head
of a foreign state escaped injury
or death by assassination, and
asked whether a similar action
was being taken in this case.
Hull replied that the State
Department was seeking to ob
tain a full statement of the
facts surrounding the attempt
against Hitler before determin
ing what action to take.
The State Department re
ceived from the American Em
bassy in Berlin only a brief
account, which he said was net
to he official, of what hap
pened.
Berlin, Nov. 9.—(AP) —Adolf Hil
ler, safe behind Iho walls of bis new
chancellory in Berlin, today viewed
nhotgraphs of the first officially dis
closed serious attempt to kill him
since he assumed power in 1933.
Meanwhile, the Reich’s tremendous
police power combed the nation for
perpetrators of last night's explosion
in the Munich Buergerbrau cellar,
which would have buried the fuehrer
under nine feet of debris had he not
left the “beer hall” putsch anniver
sary observance earlier than cus
tomary.
The blast, in the Buergerbrau hall,
a shrine of Nazidom,, came a few
minutes after Hiller had left to en
train for Berlin, and killed seven of
his veteran followers, and wounded
G 3, 29 of them seriously.
The British secret service and
Jews were openly charged with an
attempt on the fuehrer’s life, but of
ficials said so far there was no trace
of persons directly responsible for
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French Fear
German Drive
On Neutrals
Paris, Nov. 9*—(AP) —The French
war ministry today reported increas
ed activity on the whole western
front and sharp encounters with Ger
man forces, especially between the
Moselle and Saar rivers.
French military sources said the
German attacks, concentrated chiefly
in a ten-mile sector on the northern
end of the front, had been repulsed,
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if a satisfactory settlement can be
obtained in another way,” Chamber
lain wrote. But he reiterated:
“Since we have been compelled to
take up arms, we shall not lay them
down until we are assured that Eu
rope has been freed from the threats
which have so long paralyzed the
life of her peoples.”
Observing that “this strangest of
wars” must seem to many “no war
at all, but rather a sort of siege,” he
continued that at any moment it may
be changed “into a violent conflict.”
“Repeal of the neutrality act in
the U. S. A.,” he said, “reopens for
the Allies the doors of the greatest
storehouse of supplies in the world.”
“We know that we cannot fail,” he
concluded, “and I cherish the firm
conviction that we shall 1 iv.e to see
the foundation laid of a new world
in which freedom and humanity will
have superseded oppression and the
rule of force.”