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silver \ xiV F> RS AR Y 1914-1939 TWENTY-SIXTH year Kuhn Takes Wife to Court T ny that Fritz Kuhn, German-American Bund leader, spent con* . ■■ .-urns on women and sent “love and kisses” telegrams t« Mrs. 1 did not apparently affect his wife’s loyalty. The mother <; iw. children, she is shown as they arrived at New York federal court, where he is on trial for embezzlement. Growers Os Burley Are For Control 84 Percent in Tues day Referendum Fa vor Quotas For 1940 Crop; Cotton Next in Roosevelt’s V i ctory Swing. Washington, Nov. 22. — (AP) —The j : . mstration’s crop control pro ::a:r. —a potential issue in next year’s | presidential campaign—marked up j :day its second farmer referendum! v;ct ry of the fall. Rt .- sing a stand they took a year ; a Avers voted overwhelmingly : ,-trict marketing quotas on their out ley tobacco crop. V *lily complete returns gave o'.:--; votes for quotas, and 16,269 ; _ —a tavorable majority of 84 i < cent. Quotas must be approved by r -thirds of the farmers voting. In October, growers of flue-cured approved marketing controls .inch the Federal government . an:! each producer how much he can sell. )b. :"usly pleased with these re- F am federal officials predict ed ac'ory in a third and more irn- I ' ‘ referendum December 9. The 2.500,090 cotton growers then !be asked to approve for the third consecutive year marketing Q 'fas on the South’s big cash crop. Advocates said that .with victory ’ae cotton election, there should b* n difficulty in winning endorse (Continued on Page Five) Government Loans ()n 1939 Corn Crop Will Be Available W shington, Nov. 22. (AP) —Secretary Wallace announced todav the government would make loans to farmers on sur plus 1939-grown corn at the base rate of 57 cents a bushel. Higible for loans at this rate will he farmers in the mid-west 'ni commercial corn belt, who did not plant in excess of this '■sir's Agricultural Adjustment \d ministration corn acreage al lotments. Llsewhere, loans will be made at 75 percent* of the base rates, or 43 cents a bushel, to farmers who did not plant in of their AAA soil de picting allotments. Desperado Is Convicted; Gets Death 2'. Nov. 22.—(AP)—A Fed -1 jury convicted Jack Rus- Oklahoma desperado, of kid . 3 ; rid killing William Scott 32. Arkansas City, Kans., and recommended the - penalty today. reached its verdict after ~Ui3 3 minutes, at 6:52 a. ' turned it before Judge Woodward shortly there -1 led from the Oklahoma at McAlester, where he 2 ton years for robbery last ! during the ensuing week y \ Hamilton near Pittsburgh, j , ' ’ ! killed him, he admitted, ' u h "‘g rood, 111., July 14. iintiirrsmt HatUt tltsuatrli ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTTIGAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LE Tmp D A U SERVICE OP IHE ASSOCIATED TRESS. First P ee Is Paid In Congress Race Raleigh, Nov. 22. (AP)—Giles Yeomans Newton, of Gibson, to day became the first person to file for office in next year’s pri maries and elections in North Carolina. Newton paid SlO9 to Raymond Maxwell, secretary of the State Board of Elections, to seek the Democratic nomination to Con gress from the eighth district. Two years ago Newton sought the same job in a field of five can didates. He got 1,417 votes and ran fifth. W. O. Burgin, of Lexington, the present representative from the eighth, is expected to run for re election. Dr. Graham Might Go To Ohio State Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 22. (AP)—Dr. Wilson M. Compton returned to Washington today while members of the board of trustees of Ohio State University considered his candidacy as a successor to Dr. George W. Rightmire as president of the school. The trustees will meet Decem ber 11. One other candidate still may be interviewed, board sources said. He is Dr. Frank Porter Graham, president of the University of North Carolina. NOT A CANDIDATE. Fayetteville, Nov. 22. (AP) Dr. Frank Graham, president of the University of North Carolina asked today to comment on re ports that he was a candidacy for president of Ohio State Uni versity, said merely, “I am not a candidate.” German Scouting Planes Driven Off On Western Front With the British Air Force in France, Nov. 22. (AP) —Brit- ish and French fighter planes were reported today to have sweft the skies clear of Nazi reconnaissance planes, shooting down seven. An eighth enemy plane was destroyed by anti aircraft fire from the ground. The British and French said that the French lost two planes in the day’s fighting, and the British none. Forest Fire Damage Is Worst State Ever Had Jn the S*r Waltnr Hofei Daily Dispatch Bur pay Raleigh, Nov. 22.—The forest fires in Western North Carolina, happily drowned out by rain over the past week-end, composed the “worst pe riod we hatfe ever experienced in the western district, where not only tim ber was at stake, but watersheds, game and fish,” according to a pre liminary and tentative report rushed to Raleigh by W. C. McCormicK, as sistant State forester in charge of the forest fire prevention division of the Department of Conservation and De velopment. Extinguishment of the fires gave him a chance to look the field over and arrive at a preliminary conclus ion as to extent of the fires and the approximate damage done by them. He reported to the department that there were at least 227 separate fires in 18 counties, which burned over a minimum of 25,000 acres and did HENDERSON, N. 0., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 22, 1939 Kuhn Uneasy On Reading Love Letter Bund Head Denies He Ever Had Love Affair With Mrs. Camp; Testimony Shows Accused Lar cenist Was Man of Many Aliases. New Rork, Nov. 22. —(AP) —Fritz Kuhn, bespectacled furhrer of the German-American Bund, blustered scarlet today when the prosecution depicted him as a shipboard Romeo, and read a billet doux he wrote to his “heaven-sent” woman friend, Mrs. Florence Camp. Spectators tittered while Kuhn’s cheeks reddened and his eyes blazed with anger as Prosecutor J. J. Mc- Carthy read the letter at the bund leader’s trial on larceny charges. “Florence,” he said, “I am terribly in love with you—l beg you to be come my beloved wile—l will always be real true to you, and will love you forever—can’t be without you any more because I realize heaven did send you—and I never will for get that. (Signed) “Fritz.” Fritz, who already has a wife, had denied just a few seconds earlier that he proposed marriage to Mrs. Camp during an ocean cruise on the steamship Westernland. CcCarthy’s continued delving into the bund fuehrer’s romantic life finally impelled Judge James G. Wallace to question Kuhn himself in bald terms. “Did you ever have a love affair with Mrs. Camp?” the court asked. (Continued on Page Three) Civil Rights Issue Upheld In High Court Washington, Nov. 22.—(AP) — Municipal ordinances prohibiting the distribution of handbills or cir culars on the streets of Los An geles, Milwaukee and Worcester, Mass., were held unconstitutional today ny the Supreme Court. In addition, the tribunal declared invalid an Irvington, N. J., ordi nance prohibiting the canvassing of homes for the sale of booklets without first obtaining a permit from the chief of police. Another ruling of the court af firmed the action of District Judge Patrick Stone is dismissing indict ments against eleven defendants in the Madison, Wis., oil anti-trust case six months after they had been convicted by the jury. Justice Roberts delivered a com bined opinion in the four civil rights cases. He said the ordinances violated freedom of speech. Justice Mcßeynolds dissented. Cotton Loses Early Gains New York, Nov. 22.—(AP)- —Cot- ton futures opened four to five points higher. Around the end of the first hour, prices ranged two points high er to two lower, with December at 9.72, October 8.66. Around midday* the market was unchanged to seven lower, except in inactive January, down four on an earlier sale; December 9.68, March 9.51. not less than $95,000 damage in all These figures apply only to the territory covered by the State, Fed eral, county cooperative fire fighting system and do not include damage done by fires on purely Federal areas or in non-cooperative counties. McCormick emphasized the fact the figures are not complete, but the best that can be compiled at the moment. In a letter to Director R. Bruce Etheridge he said: “These are tne best estimates possible at this time because many reports are not yet in. Because the boys were on most of the fires, you will find that these figures are not far wrong. I do want the general public to know, however, that these figures are not entirely accurate. The fire fightingchief presented a vivid picture of the difficulties un (Continued on Page Three) Held In Slaying JH W imi ji| MM :T. ; . ; Y,r i' Coronne Maddox, 26, daughter of a bank official, is. shown after she surrendered in connection with the two-gun slaying of Brooks C. Coff man, 40, in Dallas, Tex. The blonde girl pumped bullets from two guns into the lawyer as he crossed a street. Last May he stabbed her with an ice pick. They had been friends for almost two years. Sinkings Are Reich Reply To Churchill German News Heaps Sarcasm on Admiralty C h ie f’s Claim S u b marine Menace Had Been Defeated; D.N.B. Names Ships, Berlin, Nov. 22.—L\P) —D. N. 8., the official German news agency, as serted today that eleven commercial ships, eight of them British, had fail ed to reach British ports since Win ston Churchill, first lord of the Bri tish Admiralty, declared two weeks' ago the submarine menace had been defeated. The agency said three English fish cutters and the 5,000-ton British freighter Arlington Court had been torpedoed by German submarines, two English freighters attacked in the Atlantic, an done English freigh ter off the coast of Iceland. The agency did not name the eight British ships or the non-British ships involved. Reconnaissance flights over Eng land yesterday cost GermSny one plane, D. N. B. said, while the Ger man navy v/as reported to have sunk an unspecified number of ships in the North Sea. German artillery dispersed advanc ing enemy infantry on the western front, north of Grindorf, D. N. B. said. French artillery of all calibres was again reported active in the Perl sec tor near the Luxembourg, French and German borders. Japanese In Hawaii Loyal To America By CHARLES P. STEWART * Central Press Columnist Washington, Nov. 22.—The other day I had occasion to suggest a faint suspicious that Japan has an ultimate though rather re- mote eye on the Hawiian is 1 ands. But I wouldn’t for a minute hint at any disloyalty on on the part of our Hiwaiian - Japan ese. When State Secretary Hull ir ritated by Nippon’s anti - Occidental policy in China, recently put ape- f riod to Uncle Secretary Hall Sam’s commercial agreement with the mikado, the Tokyo press immediately took the position that he was stinging all Ja panese-Americans among others. There are more of them proportion ately in Hawaii than any where else else under the Stars and Stripes even on the Pacific coast, where they’re rather thick. Answering Tokyo, these Hawaiian- Japs promptly made it known that they’re 100 per cent American—and not a fraction of one per cent Jap. I believe ’em. All but the very oldest of them (Continued on Page Five) Shetland Islands Are Bombed By Germans Without Any Hits; 16th Ship In Five Days Sunk 2 British Agents Blamed By Germans For Bombing Former Munich Resi dent Confesses At tempt cn Hitler; Ger man Exile Says Himmler, Gesta p u Head, Ordered Bombing Himself. Berlin, Nov. 22.—(AP)—Two cap tured British secret service agents were blamed today by German au thorities as direct links in the Munich bomb explosion, which missed Adolf Hitler by eleven minutes November 8. Officials declared tlje agents were responsible for the beer hall blast jointly with Georg Elser, a former Munich resident, said by the Nazis to have confessed setting the time bomb, and Otto Strasser, German exile, who lives in France. The two agents, listed as Captain Richard Henry Stevens and Sigis mund Payne Best, were seized at the Netherlands frontier November 9. German secret police who have ques tioned them since then declare that Captain Stevens is chief of the Eu ropean division of Britain’s secret service. EXPLOSION ORGANIZED BY GERMANS, EXILE DECLARES Paris, Nov. 22.—(AP) —Otto Stras ser, erstwhile lieutenant of Adolf Hitler, accused as the instigator of the Munich bomb plot against the German fuehrer, charged in an in terview today that the Munich ex plosion was “organized” by his ac cuser—Heinrich Himmler, head of all German police. “I have just received formal proof from a devoted party member that the project emanated with Himm ler himself,” said Strasser, an exile from Germany, in an interview with Havas, French news agency. “He declared to Rudolf Hess (de puty leader of the Nazi party and second in line of succession to Hit ler), that he needed the attack in order to unleash a ‘hate offensive’ against England, and in order to have a pretext which would peij—? 'him to deal with domestic adversaries, notably the black front.” (The “black front” is the name given to an anti-Nazi organization understood to be active within Ger many.) Berlin, Nov. 22.—(AP) —The wan among secret agents leaped into un accustomed limelight today with the Gustapo’s announcement that a Munich plotter had confessed the November 8 attempt on Adolf Hit ler’s life, and that two British opera tives had been seized. , Heinrich Himmler, chief of the secret police, said George Elser, 36- year-old resident of Munich, planted a time bomb in the Nazi beer cellar shrine there, at the instigation of ")tto Strasser, long-time Hitler foe, and with funds furnished by Great Britain. He did not link the two captive Britons specifically with the blast, but accused them of organiz ing plots in Germany. Himmler said that in trying to reach Switzerland Elser was caught the very night of the explosion which killed eight persons, and which Hit ler escaned by eleven minutes. Reporting another angle of the un der-cover war-within-war of rival secret services, Himmler said a “Captain Stevens” and a “Mr. Best”, (Continued on Page Three.) Japs To Stay In China Long As Soviets Tokyo, Nov. 22.— (AP)—Premier Nobuyuki Abe announced today Ja~ nan would keep troops in China until “China is entirely free from the communist menace.” In a statement published by the Japanese press, the premier said the garrisons would operate undei an anti-comintern pact which Japan* would conclude shortly with a new government for China, along the lines of the anti-comintern pact of Japan, Italy, Germany, Hungary and Spain, but separate from it. The Japanese government, he said, is trying to establish peaceful rela tions with the Soviet Union, and after demarkation of the border be tween Japanese-protected Manehou kuo and Soviet-supported Outer Mongolia, another commission likely will be established to mark other , borders. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Prague’s Mayor BgajlKp ''v','-. < .&> i ™jSfern ; JjM| Dr. Ottokar Klapka Dr. Ottokar Klapka is mayor of Prague, focal point of unrest in Nazi Arrests by • the hundreds continued in the former Czech capital, now under rigid mili tary rule, in efforts to nab ring leaders of the resistance to Ger many’s regime. Further executions were threatened. Baptists To Free Paper Os Control Recorder Responsible To No Committee or Board, Only to Con vention; Mission Re ports Are Heard; Mrs, Alderman Named. Winston-Salem, Nov. 22. —(AP) — The North Carolina Baptist Conven tion, meeting here today, granted its publication, the Biblical Recorder, complete independence from any board or committee making it re snnnsible to the convention as a whole. The convention heard reports by Dr. Forrest C. Feezor, of Raleigh, and John W. Inzer, of Asheville, on for eign missions, and by I. C. Greer, of Thomasville, and T. P. Pruqtt, of Hickory, on orphanage work. A committee of 15, headed by J. L. Peacock, of Tarboro, entered the report upon which the Biblical Re corder charter was based. Judge Johnson J. Hayes, of Wil keshoro, was named chairman of the committee on social righteousness. The committee’s membership includ ed Mrs. J. T. Alderman, of Hender son. Ld&cdfuLh FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight; slight ly colder in extreme west por tion; Thursday partly cloudy. Heavy Aerial Bombings By Japs On The Chinese Hong Kong, Nov. 22. —(AP) — ; Japanese planes were reported to day to have repeated attacks on Nanning, Kwangsi province capital, loosing mixed cargoes of bombs and ! propaganda leaflets. The Japanese reported no further progress in their drive toward Nan ning and China’s “back door to the outside world through French Indo china and British Burma, but Chinese advices told of heavy fight ing and numerous casualties on both : ides. The, zone of hostilities was the 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Italian Ship Sea Victim Off England German Freighter In tercepted by British Warship And Crew Tries to Sink Her Be fore Being Captured; German Raider Downed. London, Nov. 22. (AP) German air raiders bombed the Shetland Islands and set fire to a Royal Air Force Seaplane to day, in two sharp thrusts at Bri tain. A communique said 'the Nazi raiders first made an attack on shipping, but were driven off, and then attacked a seaplane at a mooring, and set it a fire. The air ministry also announced the Royal Air Force had made “unsuccessful flights” on Monday and Tuesday over Stuttgart, Frankford, Hamburg and Bre men. London, Nov. 22.—(AP)—German planes today dropped bombs in a raid on the Shetland islands off the northern coast of Scotland. Air raid alarms in one ol' the is land towns was followed quickly by the “all-clear” signal. Tracer bullets were fired as the planes circled, dropping bombs. Six planes took part in the raid, but failed to score any hits, British sources announced. Warfare between Great Britain and Germany entered an intensified phase as British planned an unre stricted blockade on German export trade in reprisal for recent shipping losses. The Admiralty announced a British warship had intercepted the 4,110-ton German freighter, Bertha Sisser, off Iceland’s coasfj stating the crew started to sink the ship, took to their boats and then picked up by the warship. The 6,060-ton Italian freighter Fianona was added to the list of mine victims off England’s southeast coast. (Continued on Page Three) Britain To Expedite U. S. Exports Washington, Nov. 22.—(AP) — Great Britain’s plan to expedite American exports to neutral coun tries may aid her in checking any flow of American goods to Ger many. The arrangement, announced yes terday by the British Embassy, pro vides for issuance of certificates to exporters, showing that consign ments are “unobjectionable” to the British. The certificate, called “navicerts”, will be issued by Brit ish consulates to beginning Decem ber 1. The system amounts to a pre-examination of a cargo, and is designed to prevent delays when British contraband patrols search vessels for contraband. It will oper ate on American shipments to ten neutral countries—Belgium, Den mark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, The Netherlands, Nor way and Sweden. One authority predicted today that the British would maintain a central control over the system in London. hilly border region of southern Kwangsi, north of the point where the Japanese started a landing in force just a week ago. The bombardment damage was not specified in the war report, but the Japanese pamphlets were said to have urged the populace to cease resistance and cooperate with the Japanese. French Chinese troops—Kwangsi is one of the most militarized prov inces—were rushed to the border region, and appeared to have stem med the Japanese offensive.
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