SILVER
l aN viversary
1914-1939
HX. Y-SIXTH YEAR
NINE SHIPS SUNK. 177 DEAD. IN WEEK-END
Roosevelt Will Not
Consult Members Os
Congress Further
On Nazi Blacklist?
Gen Werner von Blomberg
Persistent reports coming into Lon
don claim that Gen. Werner von
Blomberg, former German war min
ister, ha; been interned in a Nazi
fortress and possibly executed. Von
BVntberg was relieved of his posi
tion when he married a commoner.
Hoey Group
Might Back
Broughton
Raleigh Gossip Is Ad
ministration May
Switch to Him From
Horton; McDonald
Crowd Appears Split
On 1940 Pick.
Daily lftspat&k Dureau,
In ’ho Si s Wilier Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL
Ktdeigh, Nov. 20.N0w that the
D; -Carolina game is out of the
e thousands of football-mind-
Heels will be able to get the |
frenzy off their thoughts for j
at least. As a result a re- j
cence of political gossip can
( red for very shortly, although
mess of jolly old Saint Nick’s
raid on papa’s pocketbook
<nd to hold things off until
hoe first of the year. ,
' g has occurred lately to
the previously and often ex
mv that the 1940 guber
primary is one of the most
taide and unprecedented in
campaign! but there have
• ‘ant developments on sev
a other things, the campaign
■'■ady run through one phase
il tci every race of its kind. An
1 ror.t nner has been pulled
ntinued on Page Five)
Road Deaths
Less In N. C.;
Vance Higher
In ’he S<r Walter Hotel-
Daily DispatcTi
Xmv. 20. —Sixty of North
t>: t ■< equalled or bet
way safety record in
• t'hs of 1939 in the
' iities as compared with
. d of last year, accord
i-.f the Highway Safety
v< . through September
■ <■ ulled on the highways
compared with 756
hie months of 1939, net
-1 ■<•!. at of 3.3 per cent for
decrease made possibly
- igh improved showings
>1 and October.
n tim same periods total
t.us year against 6,295 last
v-outinued on Page Five)
HcitiU'rsmt Datlii Iltsuafrb
SERVICE OF
iHfc, ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Washington Learns
President Will Ignore
Them on Neutrality
Problems, Though He
Had Asked Them to
Remain in Capital.
Washington, Nov. 20.—(AP)
President Roosevelt was reported
authoritatively today to nave aban
doned nis plan to consult with con
gressional leaders on any neutrality
pioblem arising before the 1940 ses
: ii n.
One of the leaders, asking that
his name be withheld, told report
ers he understood Mr. Roosevelt had
decided tnat day-to-day decisions
on foreign policy snould be made
by the executive branch. In his
message to Congress September 21,
the President said he was asking
leaders in both houses to remain
here between the close of the spec
ial session and the beginning of the
1940 session, so that he could con
fer with them on foreign problems.
Representative Martin, of IVfess
achusetts, the House minority ie&d
er, is out of the city, but Senator
Me Nary, of Oregon, Republican
leader in the Senate, remained
here. Martin and the Democratic
leader agreed to return if Mr.
Roosevlt should wish to consult the
group.
Cotton Spinning
Industry Is Near
Capacity Output
<i-
Washington, Nov. 20.—(AP)
—The Census Bureau reported
today the cotton spinning in
dustry operated during October
at 97.9 percent capacity on a
two-hist, 80-hour basis, com
pared with 92.5 percent during
September this year, and 81.9
percent during October last
year.
North Carolina, during Octo
ber, had 2,074,743,333 active
spindle hours, and an average
per spindle in place of 355.
TABER AGAIN HEAD
OF GRANGE IN U. S.
Peoria, 111., Nov. 20.—(AP) —
Louis J. Taber, of Columbus, Ohio,
was re-elected today for his ninth
two-year term as Master of the Na
tional Grange.
Only One Body Os
Ten Drowned Upon
Boat Is Missing
Beaufort, Nov. 20. (AP)
The body of Charles Fulger, of
Stacy, one of the two white men
lost in the sinking of the fish
ing boat Southland in the in
land waterway Friday night,
w r as found today, leaving only
that of his brother, E. J., still
to be recovered.
Fuiger’s body was seen float
ing near West Beaufort, six
miles from the scene of the
Southlands collision with the
tug Especo, bound from Wil
mington to Norfolk, Va., and
was brought ashore.
The bodies of eight other vic
tims, ail Negroes, had been pre
viously recovered.
An investigation was started
today by a board of the U. S.
Inspection Service.
Traffic Deaths Are Nine
Over State In Week-End
Charlotte, Nov. 20. —(AP) —Traf-
fic accidents killed at least nine per
sons in North Carolina over the
week-end. =.
An automobile mishap near Hills
boro was fatal to L. A. Allen, 64-
year-old Zebulon farmer.
Near Greenville, Mrs. Sam Cherry,
47, of Greenville, died when her au
tomobile overturned after skidding.
Her son, Simon, was injured serious
-13 j. w. Hodges, 71, was killed at
Dunn when struck by a car.
A smash-up on the Seagrove-
Hemp highway intersection was fatal
to O. W. Farrington, Randolph coun
ty filling station operator.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTn CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. 0., MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 20, 1939
/
Soviets urge
World Youth
To §tpp War
Red Army News
paper Prints Dispatch
From New York Say
ing Anti-War Senti
ment Is Growing Fast
In U. Pact With
Japs.
Moscow, Nov. 20. —(AP) — The
newspaper Red Star, organ oi the
Soviet Russian army, urged the youth
of the world today to oppose con
tinuation of the present “capitalistic
war” under the leadership of the
communistic internationale.
In a special article, the Red Star
asserted that students of the United
States, Great Britain, France and
India are strongly against war. The
newspaper said that “while the
Soviet is in a strong position, capi
talism is falling into ruins.”
The tenor of the article was echoed
in a New York dispatch to the Com
munist party newspaper Pravda,
which said anti-war sentiment was
growing in the United States. These
thrusts accompanied by continued
press attacks on Finland, for “in
creasing preparations for war,” came
as official Russian sources reported
progress in negotiations to improve
relations with Japan.
Tass, official Soviet news agency,
announced agreement had been
reached on the “composition and
functions” of a mixed commission to
establish a boundary between Soviet
ized Outer Mongolia and Japanese
protected Manchoukuo.
The commission, which will at
tempt to settle frontier problems left
unsolved when the two countries
concluded a truce September 16,
after more than four months of bor
der fighting, will meet soon at Chita,
Liberia, Tass said.
At Morganton, Lestev Mace, a tex
tile worker, was killed when his au
tomobile skidded and overturned.
Will Small, of Valdese, also was
fatally injured in an accident result
ing from a skid.
Eleven-year-old Thomas Sidney
Waldrup was struck by a milk truck
near his home at Midway, in Ca
barrus county, and died soon after
wards.
An automobile occupied by t,wo
men plunged over an embankment
near Asheboro. W. D. Wilson, 35, of
Asheboro, was killed.
William Malcolm Hicks, died, in a
Leaksville hospital about two hours
after his motorcycle was in a traffic
accident.
$16,645,388 Excess
For Unemployment
Raleigh, Nov. 29.—Receipts of
the North Carolina Unemploy
ment Fund will have passed the
829,000.000 mark by the time this
appears, receipts through Novem
ber 16, having reached $28,981.-
047.42, of which $28,399,898.96 is
in employer contributions and
$581,148.46 is jt interest on the
State’s balance on deposit in the
U. S. Treasury.
Benefit payments to unemploy
ed and partially unemployed
workers through Nov. 16 reached
$12,335,659.16, leaving a balance
in the fund (in both the “pooled
fund” and the employers’ reserve
account funds) of $16,645,388.26,
as of that date, Chairman Charles
G. Powell, of the State Unem
ployment Compensation Commis
sion, reports.
Baptists To
Meet Tuesday
At Winston
Winston-Salem, Nova 20. —(AP) —
More than 200 ministers met in the
First Baptist church here this after- ;
noon to participate in a song and |
praise service and to make final
plans for the opening tomorrow of;
the 109th annual North Carolina
State Baptist Convention.
Dr. Ralph A. Herring, pastor of the |
First Bapi/st church, and official!
host for the convention, said that the I
total registered attendance at last,
year’s State meeting, 1,379 should be!
exceeded at the convention this year, j
The full statewide convention will;
begin tomorrow morning at 10 o clock j
Business organization, enrollment!
and committee reports will follow.!
There will be morning, afternoon and j
evening services on Tuesday and
Wednesday. The Tuesday afternoon J
service begins at 2:30 o’clock, and j
the night service at 7:30 o’clock. j
Japanese Forces
Being Increased
Rapidly In China!
Ilong Kong, Nov. 29. (AP)
Reports from Chungking today
said a Japanese force landed on
the south China coast, in west
ern Kwangtung province, al
ready numbered 10,000, and was
being reinforced hourly, chiefly
by cavalry.
The landing was started last
Wednesday for the declared pur
pose of culling the Chungking |
government’s backdoor lifeline j
through French Indo-China and
British Burma.
I
Ulstattwh
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy, probably oc
casional light rains in west and
north central portions tonight
and Tuesday, and in northeast
portion tonight; slightly cooler on
coast tonight.
Big German Planes
Continue Scouting
Trips Over France
One German Ship
Shot Down in Hol
-1 a n d; Unidentified
Plane Fired on Over
London; Weather
And Floods Check
Operations.
Paris, Nov. 20. — (AP) —Germans
continued widespread scouting
flights over France today, while
the flooded Rhine and other border
rivers forced suspension of oven
local operations along the western
front.
Military sources said the Ger
mans could be seen erecting dykes
on the other side of the Rhine and
abandoning some small outlying de
fense posts which were flooded.
Scouting flights caused alert sig
nals this morning in widely sep
arated points in France.
The general staff’s morning com
munique said merely, “nothing im
portant to report during the night.”
Earlier, however, military sources
said the French had fought off Ger
man patrols near Blythe, killing
six Nazis and capturing one.
VIOLENT STORMS HOLD UP
ACTION BY THE GERMANS
Berlin, Nov. 20.—(AP) —Violent
storms kept German troops on the
Western front busy yesterday re
moving uprooted trees, D.N.8., the
official news agency, reported to
day.
The weather prevented German
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Problems In
Far East Are
Worrying U. S.
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington. Nov. 20.—Uncle Sam’s
fight to avoid “involvement” (I al
ways hated the word, though it’s in
the dictionary) in
the pending Euro
pean muss hasn’t
altogether distract
ed his attention
from his possi
bilities of “involve
ment” in some su
per - unpleasant
situation in the
Orient, plus its ad
jacent waters and
islands.
In American
news papers the
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Jowef St&rin row in western
Europe has largely overshadowed the
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FUBEISHKD EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Ex-Kaiser Barely
Escapes In Storm
Doom, The Netherlands, Nov.
20. (AP) —Former Kaiser Wil
helm II of Germany had a nar
row escape today when a sudden
windstorm uprooted three large
trees in the garden of Hoorn cas
tle. The 80-year-old tormcr kaiser
walking with an official of his
court, was only 50 yards from
where the trees fell, having just
passed the spot. He returned to
the castle in a highly nervous
state.
Workers In
Prague Back
On The Job
Prague, Nov. 20.—(AP)— Prague
workers, ignoring agitation for a
strike to protest conditions under the
rule ol' Nazi Germany, went to their
jobs as usual today with the assur
ance their complaints would receive
early consideration.
Anxious to avoid further distur
bances following recent arrests and
executions of Czech student leaders
and others, the protectorate govern
ment appealed to the workers to re
frain from striking. The appeal was
accompanied by a promise that pro
tests occasioned by rising strikes and
other grievances would be studied.
Czech police also spread a warn
ing through workers’ districts in
Prague and four other industrial cen
ters that any strike today in sym
pathy for executed compatriots would
be suppressed sternly.
Court of Appeals
Backs Labor Board
In Another Ruling
Washington, Nov. 20. (AP)
The United States Court of Ap
peals ruled today that it was an
unfair labor practice for minor
supervisory employes to aid the
union preferred by the company.
It upheld the Labor Relations
Board, which had declined to
sanction an A. F. L. machinist’s
contract on the grounds the em
ployer, through minor super
visory employees, assisted in or
ganizing tool room workers. The
employer was the Cerriek Cor
poration of Ohio at Munice, Ind.
The labor board had ordered
the firm to drop its A. F. L.
tool room contract and deal with
the CTO United Auto Workers.
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Losses Are
Inflicted On
5 Neutrals
Germans Deny Brit
ish Charges German
Mines Are Respon
sible; 140 Listed as
Dead on Netherlands
Liner Sunk on Satur
day.
London, Nov. 20.—(AP) —Mines,
at least temporarily, supplanted sub
marines as the leading sea menace
off the British coast today, as the
floating explosives added still fur
ther to the war’s greatest week-end
toll for merchant shipping.
Eight vessels were reported sunk
in the North Sea over the week-end,
with 177 persons dead or missing.
The sinking included the 345-ton
British trawler Wigmore, with a crew
of 16, and the 1,267-ton British col
lier Torchbearer, which were dis
closed today. Four survivors of the
Torchbearer’s crew, reported to have
numbered 13, were landed at an Eng
lish port.
The total tonnage of the eight ves
sels was 27,748.
One ship was lost by each of The
Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Yugo
slavia and Lithuania.
Authorities had not computed the
full loss of life in the sinking Sat
urday of the The NetlVrlands liner
Simon Bolivar, but the number was
set tentatively at 140. Eleven were
believed drowned or killed by ex
plosions aboard the four other ships.
The Admiralty accused Germany
of laying the mines, and the British
press today raged against the Nazi,
stressing the presence of women and
children aboard the Simon Bolivar,
which was bound for the West Indies
from Amsterdam.
(In Berlin, however, German au
thorities declared a “Gorman mine
could not have been responsible for
the sinking of the Simon Bolivar.)
In addition, the sinking of the 4,-
58-ton British freighter Pensilva
“by enemy action” was disclosed to
day. It was not immediately clear
whether the vessel was a mine vic
tim. Her crew was landed safely.
A total of nine vessels were re
ported sunk in the North Sea over
the week-end, with 177 persons dead
or missing. The total tonnage lost
was 32,006. Neutrals lost five ships
to Britain’s lour.
Plans About
Defense In
U. S. Stolen
Detroit, Mich., Nov. 20.—(AP) —
Representative Martin Dies, Demo
crat, Texas, chairman o£ the con
gressional committee investigating
subversive and un-American activi
ties, said in an Interview here today
that Nazi and Communist agencies
“now across the ocean” had stolen
“important information” of military
value from Detroit industrial plants.
Dies was here for a one-day secret
conference about such matters.
The primary purpose of his com
mittee now, he asserted, was to break
up foreign spying and to prevent
sabotage in industrial plants. He cit
ed one case of a lecturer described
by him as a Nazi spy, who was en
tertained by a patriotic society, given
ready access to numerous plants,
permitted to take pictures and to ob
tain extensive information about in
dustrial processes.
“This information is now back in
Germany,” he said.
Dies said much information was
obtained from communist party mem
bers disgruntled after the German-
Russian alliance was announced.
Judge Bans
Public From
Kuhn Trial
New York, Nov. 30.—(AP) —Peter
Sabbatino, counsel for Fritz Kuhn,
German-American bund leader, de
manded a mistrial today when
Judge James G. Wallace excluded
the public from Kuhn’s trial, and
rebuked the lawyer for disputing
the order. The motion was denied.
Kuhn is charged with grand lar
ceny of bund funds.
The order barring the audience
was understood to have resulted
from the judge’s annoyance at re
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