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19*4-1939
TV-SIXTH YEAR
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Roosevelt Probably Will Approve Ship Transfers
I president Is
Net Decided
Upon Course
Seamen Thrown Out
Os Work by Neutral
ity Law to Be Trained
And Paid by Govern
mem; May Go Into
Easi India Trade.
Washington, Nov. 10.— (AP)
—Maritime labor leaders said
after a White House conference
tooa - that they believed Presi
de a t Roosevelt ultimately
v,m!d approve a proposed
transfer to Panama registry of
eight United Stales Lines ships
barred from the European war
zone by the neutrality act.
The labor leaders, who con
ferred at length with the Presi
de nt on seamen’s unemploy
ment arising from discontin
uance of North Atlantic Ship
ping were Joseph Curran,
president of the National Mari
time Union (CIO): Joseph R.
Tran, president of the Inter
nal!-.r.a! Longshoremen’s Asso
ciation (AFL), and Matthew'
Pushane, chairman of the Sea
farers International Ur ion
i AFL).
W -hinglon, Nov. 10—(AP) — Pres- !
. : ‘ lb - 'Sevelt said today that trans
-1 : eight United States vessels to
I : ■■■>■- m registry would be legal, but |
: .c' the question of whether to per-|
till was being studied from |
n, as well as a property, angle, j
D ssing at his press conference I
' -ituation created for the nation’s I
.V Atlantic sea lines as a result
oping restrictions of the neu- 1
' ‘v act, Mr. Roosevelt also re- 1
d that he would recommend to
'ess that seamen thrown out of
v. . be placed under the social se
-• program to receive old age
and unemployment insur
c.;C( : enetits.
i u.ing that a transfer of the
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Officers In
teacher Area
Are Elected
___
heigh, Nov. 10. —(AP) —Dr. El
• Fretwell, of Columbia Univer
told more than 1,500 school
s here today that “the busi
>l the school is to help people
n how to live in a democracy,
;i turn, make a democracy a
; ' place in which to live.”
... .ert H. Best, Jr., of the Hope
■ y school at Durham, president
f North Central District Teach
‘ A solution, presided at the first
• i session. By acclamation, B.
art. of Rich Square, was elect
-Iri ac-president of the association
; r < B. K. Miller, of Wayne county,
•'' • c-tary.
teachers ballotted during the
name their next president,
Mrs. O. K. Joyner, of Raleigh,
■ . Roy Dixon, of Dunn, being
McDonald Group Is Seen
As Backer Os Broughton
Daily DispatCfi Bureau.
In the S'r Waiter Hotel.
• -igh, Nov. 10.—Almost on the
! Armi-1 ice Day, a group of
0 ) of Dr. Ralph W. McDon
h;'- 1936 gubernatorial cam
-3 together here with their
; ! ‘d held a council of war in
for the coming guber
primary.
'■>' had even so much as a
o. out about the decisions
-d strategy planned by the
:jU t by ways and means which
exist it has been quite de
‘ 'tablished that the McDon
' 'n will not enter one of its
bers in the primary of 1940.
be written down as authentic
1 will be no public announce
hie McDonald intentions in
' biture; but it is also safe to
po itively and without the
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— NLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNOimiCAROLINA AND VIRGINLV *
WIRE SERVICE OP
IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Where Hitler Escaped Death in Explosion
\ By ilf & j
Adolf Hitler and his aides in the Buergerbrau Beer Cellar, Munich, at the 1937 annual celebration of the
“Leer Cellar Putsch of 1923.” The Fuehrer escapedfjy fifteen minutes a time-bomb explosion intended to
snutT out his life when forced to leave this year’s celebration, harried for time by affairs of state. Left to
right, seated: liudolph Hess, Nazi No. 3; Hitler, and Goering, Nazi No. 2. Hess was one of the six reporte
killed in the blast. $200,000 reward for the assassins was posted.
Methodists’
Conference
Is Dissolved
Southern Unit Closed
Forever And New
United M,ethodist
Church in State
Comes Into Being at
Fayetteville; Officers
Named.
Fayetteville, Nova 10. —(AP) —On
notes of mingled joy and sadness,
Methodists this morning closed for
ever the business of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, and recon
vened in the first session of the new
Methodist Church, a union of the
Southern Church, Methodist Epis
copal Church and the Methodist Pro
testant Church.
Before the North Carolina Metho
dist Conference here this morning,
W. L. Knight, of Weldon, read a “re
solution of dissolution”, which the
conference adopted, automatically
welding it to the new unified Meth
odist Church.
The ceremony took place in the
Hay Street Methodist church, host to
the 700-odd delegates who have pack
ed every one of the thi'ee sessions
of the conference.
Prior to the dissolution, the dele
gates heard Colonel J. F. Bruton, of
Wilson, speak on “The Heritage of
the Methodists.”
After the dissolution, the new con
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slightest reservation that as of to
day the McDonald strength can be
definitely and positively added to the
J. M. Broughton column. It is pos
sible, though quite improabable, that
the future course of 'events might
change this; just as it is always pos
sible, though quite improbable, that
change the best laid plans of mice
and men.
The information available to your
correspondent, despite the complete
absence of any commitments on the
part of Dr .McDonald or any of his
chief lieutenants, is as reliable as
possible under such circumstances,
and it all indicates that the Liberals
of 1936 have decided temporarily, as
least, to abandon any thought of
moving to their final objectives in
one big offensive behind a general
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HENDERSON, N. C„ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 10, 1939
New U. S. Destroyers
Are Proved Unfit;
Must Be Done Over
Switzerland Will
Call Up Reserves
Berne, Switzerland, Nov. 10.—
(AP) —The Swiss government
today called to duty an unan
nounced number of troops, in
cluding two infantry battalions,
30 squadrons of cavalry and
complete staffs of certain re
serve brigades and regiments.
No reason was given, but the
Swiss high command and the
government have matched mili
tary precautions with European
diplomatic and military develop
ments.
Guggenheim
Death Listed
As Accident
New York, Nov. 10.— (AP)
Police listed today as suicide the
death of George Denver Guggen
heim, 42-year-old heir to mining
millions, found lying in a hotel room
last night shot through the head
with a big game rifle.
Guggenheim, director of the
American Smelting & Refining
Company, was the only remaining
son of Simon Guggenheim, philan
thropist, and former United States
senator from Colorado.
Young Guggenheim registered at
a mid-town hotel Wednesday under
a fictitious name.
Clarence Osborne, Guggenheim’s
secretary, said his employer had
been under treatment recently for
a nervous disorder. Despite Os
borne’s statement, and another by
police, saying they had learned
Guggenheim tried to kill himself
recently in California by slashing
his wrist, Louis S. Levy. Guggen
heim’s attorney, expressed belief
the death was accidental. He asked
police to continue their investiga
tion.
SCHOOL BUILDINGS
TO GET WPA FUNDS
Raleigh, Nov. 10.—(AP) —WPA
allocations approved today by C.
C. McGinnis, State administrator,
included: * A community school
building at Fork township in Wayne
county, $9,996; a teacherage at the
B. F school in Duplin coun
ty, $11,229.
Acting Navy Secre
tary Edison Admits
Condition in Letter to
Senator Vandenburg,
Who Cites Grand
Rapids Editorial.
Washington, Nov. 10.—(AP)
The Navy disclosed today that
overweight designing had lessen
ed the stability of some of its
new destroyers, but said that
“fully adequate” measures to
correct the defects already had
taken place.
As a result of these corrective
measures, Charles Edison, acting sec
retary of the Navy, wrote Senator
Vandenburg, Republican, Michigan,
‘‘it can be stated without reserva
tion that those will be su
perior to the earlier types, and that
Ihey will give years of valuable peace
time service, and greater reliability
and effectiveness in time of war.”
Edison wrote the Michigan senator
after Vandenburg had sent him an
editorial from the Grand Rapids,
Mich., Herald, referring to reports
that the destroyers were so top
heavy that fuel oil could not be used
out of their holds, lest the ships fali
over.
The editorial covered also reports
that the. new 10,000-ton cruisers built
under the recent authorizations by
Congress ‘‘shimmed so violently that
they cracked their stern posts and
had to be rebuilt.”
Edison told Vandenburg faulty
castings had caused cracks to de
velop in stern posts of the Chester-
Suiville class of heavy cruisers, com
pleted about 1930, and that they were
replaced. The last replacement was
made in 1934, in the Houston, often
used bv President Roosevelt Edison
reported.
The secretary said he had taken
steps to ‘‘effect certain changes in
the department organization,” which
he hoped would tend to minimize re
currence of such defects.
FINNISH AUTHOR IS
GIVEN NOBEL PRIZE
Stockholm, Nov. 10.—(AP) — The
Swedish Academy today awarded
the 1939 Nobel prize for literature to
Franz Emil Sillanpaa, Finnish au
thor. His novels have been laid in
the west of Finland and deal with
peasant life.
lOaaJthsUi
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy and somewhat warmer
tonight; Saturday cloudy, oc
casional light rain in mountains
and north central portion; slight
ly cooler in mountains.
New Insult
To Hitler
Missile Breaks Win
dow in Which Photo
grapher Displays
Huge Picture of
Fuehrer; Clues in
Munich Blast Still
Hunted.
Berlin, Nov. 10.—(AP) —A large
plate glass window in the store of
Heinrich Hoffman, personal photo
grapher to Adolf Hitler, was
smashed today by a missile appar
ently aimed at a huge picture of
the fuehrer. Hoffman returned yes
terday from Munich, where he at
tended the celebration of the 1923 '
putsch anniversary and narrowly I
escaped being caught in the blast 1
which wrecked the historic Buer- i
gerbrau cellar.
Police dug piece by piece through i
debris tine -eet deep searching :or
telltale fingerprints and metal
scraps in the wrecked Nazi shrine 1
and held an undisclosed number of
person, at least on suspicion. '
Authorities were convinced that
experts set the time bomb intended
for Hitler.
Officials canvassed the whole
nation for information that might
lead to the assassins who set off
the explosion in which six men and
a women were killed, and 63 other
persons injured.
Suspect Britain And Jews.
Nazi suspicions turned toward the
British secret service and Jews,
but searchers hunted at home and
abroad for clues that might fix the
blame for the blast, which missed
the fuehrer by only eleven minutes
Wednesday night.
Appeal To Radio Listeners.
Germans who heard a broadcast
of the fuehrer’s address at the
beer hall celebration were asked to
report any radio listeners who
might have commented, “Nothing
happened’’, or who asked, “Why did
the fuehrer speak so briefly?”
Hitler’s only comment when he
heard of the explosion was “A fel
low has to have luck”.
To many Nazis it was a “miracle”
that urgent state business broke up
the celebration ahead of schedule
and that Hitler and some of the
highest ranking Nazis had left un
harmed.
Nine Indictments
In Building Trade
In Cleveland Area
Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 10.—
(AP) —The Federal grand jury
todav indicted nine individuals,
including several labor leaders, j
three corporations and an asso
ciation as a part of the Depart- j
ment of Justice's campaign a- j
gainst alleged restraints of trade
in the building industry. They
were charged with conspiring to
restrain interstate trade through
monopoly of the glazing industry |
in Cleveland.
One of those indicted, Don A.
Campbell, business agent of a lo
cal painters, decorators, paper
hangers and glaziers union, is
now serving time in Ohio peni
tentiary for extortion.
Hoey Urges
Land Owners
Aid Tenants
Sunbury, Nov. 10. —(AP) —Gover-
nor Hoey urged land owners today
to interest themselves in plans for
improving the “economic stability
and security” of tenant farmers.
The governor was speaking at the
fall festival in Sunbury. He also
spoke at Ahoskie and at Eure dur
ing the day.
“Every land owner should interest
himself in helping to plan a better
basis for aiding the tenant to become
self-supporting and thus reduce the
heavy year-end supply bills, and at:
the same time help the tenant on the
way to economic stability and se
curity,” Governor Hoey said. “The
obligation rests upon us all to help
our whole community, and much can
be accomplished by cooperative ef
fort and interest.”
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
» EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Americans Urged
To Leave Holland
Nov. 10.—(AP)
The United States Consulate said
tonight it would advise Ameri
cans tomorrow’ that it was “a
good time to get wives and dis
pensable American members of
their staffs out of th" country.”
In doing so, the consulate
said it . would be passing on the
advice given by United States
MinM.<»r George A. Gordon at
The Hague, in reply to inquiries
by American business men there.
It. was estimated there were
about 1,000 persons in the coun
try vvFh some claim to United
States citizenshii. It was under
stood the Legation received in
formation that the Belgian bor
der would be closed in event of
any German action against the
Netherlands.
Preach Army
Braces For
German Push
French General Says
“Big Blow” Possible
On Western Front.
With Return of Good
Weather; 100 Ger
man Divisions Ready.
Paris, Nov. 10.—(AP) —French
military sources charged today
that German scouting planes are
violating Belgian neutrality by
flying over the little country be
tween Aaaehen, Germany, and
the Franco-Belgian frontier.
With the French Army on the
Western Front, Nov. 10.—(AP) —A
French general .said today a “big
blow” is possible on the western
front, and that French armies are
braced for any eventuality.
For three weeks autumn storms
have drenched the countryside,
swelling streams and flooding val
leys, but now there is Indian sum
mer.
If the weather holds and the ter
rain hardens, the general said, a Ger
man attack may come. Information
reaching the French command re
ports the Nazis can throw 40 divis
ions overnight into an attack alonft
the vital sector from the Moselle
river to the Rhine.
Meanwhile, French military quar
ters at Paris estimated that Ger
many has concentrated 100 divisions
behind the Siegfried line between
the Rhine and Moselle. (The German
infantry division numbers 15,000 men
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PAROLES GRANTED
TO FIVE CONVICTS
Raleigh, Nov. 10.— (AP) —Lewis
Atkins, convicted in Sampson county
in August, 1937, of assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to kill,
and sentenced to a six to eight-year
prison term, was one of five prison
ers paroled today by Governor Hoey.
Washington Hears Tide
Is Now Against Hitler
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Nov. 10. — Between
now and next January, when Con
gress will meet again, there’s bound
to be a bitter con-
troversy b e tween
American groups
as to whether
President R o ose
velt should or
shouldn’t exert
himself in the in
terest of peace in
Europe. This dis
pute was muffled
during the legisla
tors’ extra session
by the debate rela
tive to our neutral
ity, but it has
broken out viol
ently since adjourn
gagglll
ii*
IffiSkj. ;v :: g|
Senator
Edwin Johnson
ment until the first of 1940.
In the olden days (and not so very
olden either) our solons largely hush
ed up during Capitol Hill’s periods
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O today
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Mysterious
Defensive
Acts Taken
Lowlands Flooded
As Protection For Big
Cities in Holland;
Belgian Soldiers Dig
New Trenches on
Eastern Border.
Amsterdam, Nov. 10.—(AP) —
The lowland countries took swift,
mysterious defense measures today,
Netherlanders standing guard on
their newly-flooded “water line” of
protection and Belgian soldiers dig
ging new trenches in the east.
A strange shooting incident on the
Netherlands side of the German
frontier near Venloo was followed
by withdrawal of all Netherlands
regular army leaves, placing of
guards around public buildings, in
undation of water defense areas and
stringent regulation of transporta
tion.
Reports of the border incident
varied, one saying two persons were
killed, another than only one was
wounded. Both agreed several per
sons had been carried into Germany
after the shooting.
Witnesses at the Venloo customs
station said a German automobile
stopped at the border, and its oc
cupants walked into the Nether
lands and engaged in a gun battle
with occupants of a Netherlands
car. Several persons from the lat
ter machine then were taken into
Germany, they syi4.,
The government began flooding
low section throughout the country.
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Private Life
Kuhn To Be
Delved Into
New York, Nov. 10.—(AP) — The
State indicated today it would delve
into the private life of Fritz Kuhn,
German-American Bund leader, in
cluding his “keenly sentimental in
terests” in a Mrs. Florence Camp,
in an attempt to show criminal in
tent in Kuhn's alleged embezzlement
of $13,641 in bund funds.
Prosecutor Herman J. McCarthy,
in his 30-minute- opening address at
Kuhn’s trial on larceny and forgery
charges, described the hefty bund
“fuehrer” as a powerful leader, with
complete control of the bund’s af
fairs.
McCarthy said the bund itself was
a “strong organization, with a num
ber of affiliations, including the Ger
man-American Settlement League,
which early in 1938 established Camp
Siegfried at Yaphank, Long Island.
“There they ran afoul of the law,”
McCarthy said.
The prosecutor said the bund was
formed in March, 1936, at a conven
tion in Buffalo, N. Y., as the suc
cessor to an organization known as
‘the Friends of New Germany’.”
of recess. That was because they
lacked a sounding board, except, in
Washington, to reflect their utter
ances throughout the entire coun
try. Now, however, they have the
radio to do it for them, session or
no session.
That is to say, once on a time a
congressman was heard only by a
small audience in his own constitu
ency between speeches in the capi
tal. Now he “goes on the air” and is
audible everywhere.
They’ve started it already via nu
merous “forums.”
It’s a good thing doubtless. It keeps
the public up to date. But it’s dif
ferent from what things used to be
like.
Authorities Differ.
For instance, over the radio the
other evening, Senator Edwin C.
Johnson of Colorado gave it as his
opinion that John Bull ought to be
urged to “state his war aims defi
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