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(H R SILVER RSARY 1914-1939 tTvkxtv-sixth year IIS ARE CURBING REBELLIOUS ACTIVITIES 10 Perish In Boat Wreck In Waterway Fishing Vessel And Barge-Towing Tug Cchide in Waterway, Fear Beaufort; Nine Still Missing As Guardsmen Search For Bodies. 'WiUrinrton. Nov. 18.— (AD Th ■ Commerce Department an noumeri todav appointment of .. to investigate the col li>;( of two shirs in an inland waterway six miles north of Bc'j’i’ rt. X. < '.. last night. J. Frank Staley, of the ad mi iltv section of the Justice Department, will be chairman of the board. Eugene Carlston. su perintendent of the third district, o: the Bureau of Marine Instruc tion ami navigation, and Captain T G. ( rapster. of the Coast Guard will serve with Staley. Tin department said that the time and place of the hearing had not been set hut that it probably would be held next week. ; fort. Nov. 18. —(AP) —Two c guard crews strove today to | ree ver the bodies of 9 of 10 fish- i 0... .• who perished in a collision L-‘ light between their menhaden -g vessel and a barge-towing t - ' x miles north of here in the iriand waterway. After hours of effort only one b dy had been brought to shore, ti.at )f X. R. Hewitt, of Southport, j a Negro member of the crew of the j S . Aland, 100-foot fishing boat . heading south from Ocracoke to .V rehead City with a cargo of 300,- ■ in menhaden. Tie tug Especo, northward bound Wilmington to Norfolk, Va. i (Continued on page two) Scarface AI Ready To Call it Quits, His Brother Says Baltimore, Nov. 18.— (AP) arface” A’l Capone, the humbled g. iot”, is ready to cry quits, i: t. at least was the word passed '■[ today by his brother, John, a ’ i mova, Pa. businessman, whose e nas never been connected the 525,000,000 crime syndi t Al once ruled in Chicago. -S.,- uking for the bedridden gang- N at the first press interview the eone family has granted since Al <■ ' ted the hospital here Thursday, • i Capone asserted his brother no resentment toward society even years’ imprisonment, tie added that the “bigshot” who tiering from paresis, a soften <>f the brain, was “a little on eog‘" “nervous like anyone Tig out of there”. By “there” he t Alcatraz, the federal prison olifornia, where Capone served i if his term for income tax * ' 'on. i f Masked Bandits Rob Rail Depot Os .Mail Pouches lonroe City. Mo., Nov. 18.— (AP) <> i , ■ ked bandits held up sta agent J. G. Squires in the Chi- Bu i ngton, and Quincy rail depot here early today and es r! wit: ven mail pouches. ; 1 Inspector Tom Rhea, of ■'d, Mo., said the pouches con x no money, although they were ■ ’ class mail. Jackson Day Chairman May Be Larkins Duly ir.spiicTi Bureau, In S'? Hotel. • No/. 18.—State Senator Larkin, Jr., of Jones county, cun man of the North Car el on Day dinner, despite armce to accept again the Idled last year. mid National Democratic ‘ ok rs have been wprking on n<j : county man for several ■o.d have at last induced him engc his mind and take charge ■ oinual affair at which the ■ "ts gather to celebrate vic (ContinueU on Page Five) Hritiirrsmt Hatlit Hisnatrli LF 'mK D A^ IIIE SERVICE OF i rIK ASsoi lATED PRESS. In Race for Life-Death Won i -i— --< 2 ■ v . CjEH Bundled in a stretcher, Catherine Felt, 8, victim of lymphatic leukemia, rare blood disease, is rushed to a Philadelphia hospital for a blood trans ition. A Westport, Conn., woman who recovered from the malady offered her blood. Catherine died after the transfusion. Legislative Fiddling Is Followed Ey forest Fires Assembly Denied Large Appropriation For Forests Protec tion i n Cooperation With Federal Govern ment; Big Blazes Raging in West. Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Nov. 18.—There is a grow ing opinion that the North Carolina legislature’s “fiddling” of early 1939* session is now being followed by burning of a large part of North Car olina’s forest wealth—thus differing slightly from the musical perfor mance of Nero who sawed away with his bow contemporaneously with the conflagration of Rome. In short, the General Assembly is getting the credit—or should it be debit?—for at least a large part of the hundreds of thousands of dollars damage being done in western North Carolina by presently raging forest fires. In support of the contention, it is pointed out that the legislators were asked, on the basis of expert esti mates of needs, to appropriate SBI,OOO annually as the State’s share of co operation with Federal government and counties in a fire prevention and fighting program. The lawmakers re sponded to the request by making available less than half that amount —535,045 annually, to be exact. As a result the State was unable to extend its system of cooperative tire fighting in a number of coun ties which want to participate in the program; and in several of these practically defenseless counties the flames are now raging fiercely with resulting destruction which will run into figures as yet unestimated but (Continued on Page Two) Japs Driving T owardChina ’s 4 ‘Back Door” Hongkong, Nov. 18.—(AP) —Jap- anese campaign headquarters or. Dragon’s Head Bland in the Gulf of Tonking reported today that a drive ahned at southwestern Chinese sup p'y routes to French Indo-China and Burma had penetrated Kwangsi province and captured a walled .own 30 miies from Nanning, the provincial capital. The Japanese indicated little re sistance was encountered in the 50- mile advance from the south coast. Earner today they had announced occupation of Yamhsien, a city m western Kwangtung province. They said Chinese forces had left the city and its 20,000 civilians un defended. Chinese government sources ac knowledged that the Japanese had advanced 30 miles since Wednesday. They declared, however, that the Chinese retreat was prearranged to lower the invasion from the coastal plain to the more easily defended bills of the interior. _ONLY daily newspaper published in this section of northcarolina and virginlT HENDERSON, N. 0., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 18, 1939 Sec. Hull Only Mentioned For Presidency By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Nov. 18.—State Secre tary Cordell Hull is mentioned as a possible Democratic presidential nominee in 1940, but there hasn’t yet developed any very formidable drive in his behalf —nothing compar able to the Paul V. McNutt campaign or to the boom which now is being inflated for Vice President John N. Garner’s benefit. It’s rather odd. Hull generally is recognized as one of the ablest states 8 • R,. . •tTSgSJSv.; r> Secretary Hull men in this country. He also ought to' be a first-class compromise candi date. He never has been a sufficient ly radical New Dealer for Democrat ic Old Dealers to object to. In fact, if he hadn’t served so long in a New Deal cabinet he’d class as a moderate Old Dealer himself. Yet the very cir cumstance that he has been President Roosevelt’s prime minister through out the entire length of the latter’s term surely ought to make it hard for New Dealers to object to him. He’s a trifle old, but not as old as j “Cactus Jack.” He’s a southerner, butjj Tennessee isn’t as far south as Texas, i He isn’t as violently handsome as McNutt, but it’s more of a liability than an asset for a presidential as pirant to have his good looks over advertised. It tends to give the im pression that they’re his sole stock in trade. Paul’s managers eviaentiy rec ognize this, for they’re distributing a i (Continued on Page Three.; Kuhn’s Wife To Testify New York, Nov. 18.—(AP) Quiet hausirau according to head lines, Mrs. Fritz Kuhn will take the stand in her husband’s defense when the larceny trial of the Ger rnan-American Bund is resumed Monday. Chief counsel Peter Sab batine announced at week-end ad journment that Mrs. Kuhn, mother of two children, would oe called as witness. Staid and undemonstrative, she has remained out of public spot light thrown on Kuhn as a result of Iris bund work and appearance be .ore the Dies committee investiga ting un-American activities. So far she has not been seen at any session of the trial during which the prosecution has pictured Kuhn as an amorous demagogue who stole bund money to pay the furniture bills of Mrs. Florence Camp and a doctor’s bill of Mrs. Virginia Cogswell, the much mar ried ‘-Georgia peach”. 48 American Ships Face Inspections Great Britain Stops 33, France 10, And Germany 4; Opera tors Hold Some of Ships Held Longer Than Necessary at Inspection Ports. Washington, Nov. 18.— (AP) —The State Department today reported 48 cases in which belligerents had de tained American ships for examina tions of papers or cargo. Os the total detentions Great Bri tain v/as responsible for 33, France for 19. Germanv N”r. and an unidentified vessel for one. The report included information received by the State Department between September 1 and November 17. Forty-four ships were detained, but four of tlhese were stopped twice. In most cases the State Depart ment reported American ships were not stopped by warships on the high seas, but were detained when they docked at belligerent ports. A de partmental statement said: “As a general practice for reasons of their own, the vessels which clear ed from ports of the United States on or before November 4, the date effective of the neutrality act of 1939, ordinarily pul into belligerent ports enroute to their destinations and the principal difficulty thus far has arisen in connection with delay involved in examination of the ves sels and their cargoes before being permitted to proceed on their voyage. “American ship operators are con tending that ships have been held for unreasonably long periods,” the State Department report showed that the average period ci detention was eight days. Nazi Labor Now Facing 10-Hour Day Berlin, Nov. 18. —(AP) —Robert Ley, leader of the Nazi Labor front, announced today that a 10-hour day would be established in the essen tial industries. The pay schedule for the nine and 10 hours will be the same as for the first eight, but will be tax free. An extra pay rate will be established for night and holiday work, but women will not be asked to work nights. Ley declared Germany’s position was improving all the time and ad ded, “Our irrevocable aim is vic tory and therewith the final destruc tion of England and the domination of its money bags over the rest of the people of the globe.” Britain Buy More Planes In America New York, Nov. 18—(AP) —A con tract for 400 to 600 North American aviation training planes and extra parts for an undetermined number of planes—an order aggregating ap proximately s2oo,oo9,ooo—was sign ed today by representatives ot the Inglewood, Cal., Co. and the British Purchasing Commission in the Unit ed States. The contract was the first aircraft order made public since repeal of the aims embargo. The British pre viously had contracted for 400 planes of the same type and 325 of them were delivered before arms embargo v/ent into effect. The majority of the newly ordered ships p'-obubly will be sent to Can ada to be used in the “empire air scheme” which embodies training of 25,000 men a year for service in the British royal air force. (jdsjaihpJi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, probably oc casional light rains in extreme southwest portion tonight and Sunday and in west portion Sun day; slightly warmer in interior tonight. WEEKLY WEATHER. Showers Monday and near end of week; fair middle period; tem perature near normal. To High Court? Frank Murnhy b* Attorney General Murphy, widely acclaimed 'n Washington as President Rot st velt’s probafc* choice for the Supreme Court va cancy created by death of Associate Justice Pierce Butler, is a Nev Dealer and liberal Catholic. Butty-? had been the court’s only CathoiL. Germans Say Planes Are Driven Off British Report, How ever, That Important German Naval Base Photographed; Nazis Express Jubilation Over Air Successes. Berlin, Nov. 17. (AP) —Germany today claimed a triple success in the air war against the allies in Nazi flights over France and Britain and announcement three British planes had been driven off enroute to the Wilhelmshaven naval base. The high command said a com munication on yesterda’s develop ments that “an attempt by three Bri tish planes to attack Wilhelmshaven through timely action of anti-air craft”. (The British ministry, however, re ported that royal air force planes successfully photographed “an im portant German naval base”, though (Continued on Page Three) Power Co. Opposes To Rural Lines Lafayette, Ala., Nov. 18. —(AP) — Director David Lillienthal of the Tennessee Valley Authority today accused a subsidiary of the Common (Continued on Page Two) Fayetteville’s Celebration Will Be Launched Sunday Scottish Clans Gather to Celebrate 290 Years Gs Life in Cape Fear River Valley; Paul Green’s Play, “Highland Cali”, to Be Given. By REID MONFORT Fayetteville, Nov. 18.—(AP) —At- tuned to the pulse-quickening tempo 'of Paul Green’s new play for the 'occasion, a seven day celebration - which dips a double-century into a stirring colonial past will be launch ed here tomorrow with the bright trappings of Scottish clans and Bon nie Flora MacDonald, heroine of the Heather. The observance will commemorate with glamorous tread the' 200th an niversary of the settlement of the Scottish Highlanders in the upper Cape Fear country and the Sesqui centennials of these events, which had their births in Fayetteville: North Carolina’s ratification of the Federal Constitution; chartering of the University of North Carolina; cession to the United States of ter ritory for the State of Tennessee, and the meeting of the Grand Lodge of [Masons. i Pumping potently with both feet PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Extend Treason Law T cßohemia,Moravia As 9 Are Executed Figures Do Lie Kgjj&gpl /*■ t 1 *- Benjamin Blattner Expert accountant on the staff ot District Attorney Thomas Dewey, Benjamin Blattner arrives at court in New York to testify in trial of Fritz Kuhn, Bund leader charged with embezzlement. Blattner said he had made a mistake in adding, that his records show Kuhn had grabbed $674.83, not $3,749.39. Longshoremen Resume Jobs Next Monday New York, Nov. 18.—(AP) — Five thousand striking longshoremen have voted to return to work Monday at their old wages, thus ending a walk out that tied up coastal shipping in and south of New York harbor two weeks. The strike, directed against nine coastal shipping lines, had tem porarily made idle thousands of oth er maritime employees in Gulf and Atlantic ports, including sailors anu office workers. Seventy-three coastwise vessels were affected. The strike was called off last night at a meeting of 2.000 longshoremen on the recommendation of Joseph P. Ryan, president of the International Longshoremen's Association (AFL). The strikers claimed a “normal victory”, although they did not ob tain a demanded $1.05 an hour wage rate and a 40-hour week. They will go back to work und. c, r the old con tract scale providing 95c an hour tor a 41-hour week. and pecking out tunes with one lin ger, Green, Pulitizer prize-winner, •arranged a musical play, “Highland | Call,” which dramatizes the Scot tish invasion of North Carolina, with overtones of bitter division in the j American Revolution. As with Green’s now famous “Lost Colony,” which tells the story of Sir Walter Raleigh and his ill-starred settlement on Roanoke Island, “High land Call” wilil have a bright back ground of music and dance. In a log cabin behind his Chapel . Hill home, Green installed a wheezy | organ of uncertain vintage, but of a j kind long popular in farm-house par lors. With its two pedals, knee braces { and ivory stops, it has served the i dramatist well. He would not defend its esthetic excellence, but he con fessed a longtime familiarity with the instrument. It also had the un- : deniable advantage, he said, of hold , (Continued on Page Two) 1 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Two Policemen And Seven Prague Univer sity Students Put to Death by Nazis For Assaulting German Citizens; Report Says Prague Quiet. Prague, Nov. 18.— (AP) Three more Czechs including two policemen were shot today for “acts of violence against a German”, it was announced of ficially. The identity of the third was not disclosed. With the nine Czechs shot yesterday, the total executed for anti-German action reached 1 *> 1/v. Meanwhile, in Washington, flags were at half staff today at the Czech-Slovak legation in mourning for the nine Czechs executed at Prague for anti- German activities. Col Vladimir Hurban, the minister, said. “The arbitrary execution of fine students by the German authorities in Prague is further proof to the civilized world that lebensraum (living space) for Nazi Germany means todes raum (space of death) for the rest of the world.” Beilin, Nov. 18.— (AP) —The power of Nazi authorities to deal with alleged “rebellious activities” in Bohemia, Moravia, were reported broadening today by extension of German law against treason to the protectorate. Nine Czechs were executed yes terday and Czechoslovak academies were ordered closed for three years as a result of student disturbances against the Nazi masters of the pro tectorate. Only meagre details were dis closed officially about the execu tions, but it was stated the nine in cluded two policemen and seven league University students. They were charged with assaulting Ger man citizens during an anti-German demonstration. Whether any Ger mans had been killed could not be determined. Authorized sources in (Continued on Page Two) - ■— ■ ■ / Bold Gunman Is Slain In Battle With Two Officers Shawncetown, 111., Nov. 18.— (AP) —Willard Shockley, 23- year-oJd ex-convict for v/hom a “kdl on sight” order had been issued, wai shot and killed here early today in a 15-minute gun battle with Sheriff Id Ilincs and Deputy Reuben Davis. Shockley had been hunted since Wednesday night in connection with shooting of State highway patrolman 'Cecil, of Brokmycr, who is near death in Harris burg, 111. hospital. Superintendent Walter Will iams of the Stale police, identi fied Shockley as Cecil’s assail ant, and issued an order to “kill him on sight”. The State trooper was shot when he stopped the youth to question him concerning a holdup. Shockley also had been iden tified by Chief of Police Nuse, of Wood River, HI., as the com panion of Mary Jane Watson, 17, who . was arrested in Alton, 111., November 8 and admitted she held up three restaurants with a young man for “the thrill of it”. She refused to name her companion. French Dig In Along The Moselle River Berlin, Nov. 18.—(AID —French troops were reported today by DNB, official German news agency, to be digging in east of the Moselle river during a lull in the fighting on the western front. Emplacements for long range ar tillery have oeen constructed by the French in this sector, DNB said. The entire north end of the front from the Moselle to the Rhine was reported quiet yesterday except for occasional artillery fire at isolated points. The upper Rhine also was (Continued on Page Three)
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