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Answering Poland’s threat of war over Danzig, Germany is rushing
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hca J. Jablunka Pass, Slovakia s main highway to Poland, has been closed
to ail but German military traffic. With Nazi might lined up in north
east Germany and East Prussia, ready to cut off Poland’s corridor to the
sea, Germany now is actively seeking support of Yugoslavia (APand
Hungary (B), which would give the Nazis a clear road into Poland from
west and south (see arrows). Reports indicate Hitler even may seiz™
Hungary, om.v state m the area not guaranteed by Britain and France
thus opening a path into Rumania (C), as well as diminishing British
prestjyge in the Balkans. (Central Press)
Tobacco Research Group
Fears For Crop’s Future
Daily Dispatch Bureau, •
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 14.—A group of spe
cialists in tobacco culture,.
from the session of the Tobacco Re
search Committee at Greeneville,
Term., last week, view with mild
alarm the evidence of increasing in
test in tobacco throughout the
world. They wonder if North Caro
lina and a few adjoining southern
states are fated to lose supremacy in
the world tobacco markets as the
South has lost it in cotton production.
Prompted by this concern, the com
mittee declined to take action on the
insistent invitation of Canadian
members that next year’s meeting be
held in Canada. The visitors offered
glowing inducements of extremely
low cost transportation and enter
tainment. But there were some mem
bers who felt that the committee’s
activities should be confined to the
State Y. D.’s
May Oppose
Third Term
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 14.—North Carolina
Young Democrats are iiot very high
ly pleased with events at the nation
al Youth Democratic Convention at
Pittsburgh, according to some of the
leaders living or visiting in Raleigh.
The State organization has for years
claimed to be ‘‘liberal” and “progres
sive, but it has not been even mild
ly "radical.’’ In fact, there have been
times when the youngsters seemed
lat more conservative than their
'ciders in the regular party conven
tions.
i'.vo years ago at Winston-Salem
aud last year at Durham the State
convention of Young Democrats re
fm-ed to pass resolutions highly laud
ing the New Deal, but instead adopt
ed rather pale generalities endorsing
Pie State and national administra
hons. In 'act, it required some skill
< n the part of level-headed leaders
year la prevent adoption of a
resolution definitely condemning the
Roosevelt “purge.”
1 here has been evident in the con
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moien Painting
Is 1 aken Back To
Louvre by Artist
Parris, Aug. 14.—(AP)— Police an
-Hineed today that the stolen Wat
l' au A Indifferent had been returned
j y a 2b-year-old painter, who said
Jj toek it because he was “disgust-
v.dh the way it had been restor
j ' Pointing disappeared from the
R,'!' 10 June 11. The painter, Serge
J J gou.- slavsky, said he was so indig
;‘l hie way the picture had been
in'i <hed ’ *hat he had “just purely
on ply taken it home with me.”
cr.-n'T! jT rest ored it to its original
condition/- he said.
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tobacco belt of the United States. Its
purpose is to improve types and pro
duction methods, and sentiment was
general amorjg those attending the
1939 meeting that it would be folly
to render this service to a potential
strong competitor in the world mar
kets.
Divided into three divisions—agro
nomy, plant pathology and enty
mology the committee met as a
whole and in groups. As yet there is
no division dealing with processing
and marketing, but if interest in the
activities of the present group con
tinues these divisions may be added.
Discussions centered around uni
formity of types, proper fertilization
and cultivation and disease control.
Attending the Greeneville meeting
were representatives from Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina, Vir
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Prepare For
Second Lift
Os Submarine
Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 14.
(AP) —Heartened by a “well done”
from their commander - in-chief,
navy salvagers set about preparing
hoisting gear today for a second
lifting of the $4,000,000 sunken
submarine Squalus, which struck a
hitherto uncharted mudbank while
being towed beneath the surface.
The salvage fleet weathered a
rough, stormy night, the navy re
ported today, but daylight' brought
moderating seas and light winds,
facilitating preparations for the
second lift. Navy officials said the
secc/nd hoist probably would be
made Wednesday and that the sub
marine wouid then be lowed four
or five miles to be grounded again
in 80 or 90 feet of water.
A roiling sea prevented divers
from going below yesterday, but it
failed to keep president Roosevelt,
on a vacation cruise in New Eng
land and Canadian waters, from ob
taining a first hand account of the
task the Navy performed in lifting
(Continued on Page Eight)
State Experts To
Aid Murder Probe
Over In Granville
Raleigh, Aug. 14.— (AP)—Director
Fred C. Handy, of the State Bureau
of Investigation, said today that
four of his investigators had been
placed at the disposal of Granville
county officers investigating the
fatal shooting August 6 of Emily
Hedrick Case.
A coroner’s jury inquest is set for
Oxford Wednesday afternoon, Han
dy said. He said a man listed as
Jack Chappell was arrested last
Friday on a warrant sworn out by
the mother of the dead woman,
charging mm with murder.
The woman was shot at a filling
station near Creedmoor.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORThCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 14, 1939
NEW DAHZK SOLUTION HEAR
U. S. Seeks
/
Settlement
Os Oil Rows
Acting Secretary
Welles Statement
Says Continued Dis
putes May Adversely
Affect U. S.-Mexican
Relations.
Washington, Aug. 14. (AP) —
Sumner Welles, acting secretary of
state, formally demanded today a sat
tlement of the Mexican oil contro
versy, lest it result in a “material
barrier’’ between Mexico and the
United States.
Welles, after conferring with Mex
ican Ambassador Castilla Jajera and
Donald Richberg, attorney for the
American Oil Company, disclosed
that the State Department was the
author of recent compromise pro
posals for a board of directors to op
erate expropriated American oil com
panies in Mexico. He said the de
partment was disappointed that these
had been turned down by both sides
without adequate discussions.
Jajera had said earlier be believed
away to settlement was “still open.”
Manufacture
Body Accused
By Senators
Washington, Aug. 14. —(AP) —The
Senate Civil Liberties Committee said
today the National Association of
Manufacturers “deliberately organi
zed” a nationwide campaign “to
nullify the administration of the na
tional labor relations act.”
A committee report filed, with the
secretary of the Senate said the as
sociation was financed largely by a
small group of corporations which
“have organized the strategy for a
national program of employer op
position to labor unions and to gov
ernmental action to improve condi
tions of labor.”
Declaring that the organization
(Continued on Page Eight)
Missing Girl Is
Returned to Home
Below Goldsboro
Goldsboro, Aug. 14.—(AP) —Fif-
teen-year-old Catherine Sessoms,
whose disappearance July 29 result
ed in the arrest of two men on kid
naping charges, was back at her home
in Magnolia today.
Deputy Sheriff Joe Wallace, of
Kenansville, said that the girl was
located at a road house at Peters
burg, Va., through a tip from an
unidentified source.
Her father, Rev. J. B. Sessoms,
went to Petersburg yesterday, found
his daughter and took her back home,
Wallace related.
Bennie Teachey, 20, Tin City far
mer, and Charles Turlington, 26,
Warsaw insurance man, were ar
rested several days ago on charges
preferred by the minister.
Anti-British
China Leaders
Map Campaign
Tientsin, China, Aug. 14.—(AP)—
Anti-British leaders in north China
opened a three-day conference today
to consider resolutions calling for
such things an an anti-British move
ment in British colonies and Canada.
The meeting began with parades.
It was not likely the demonstrators
would attempt to enter the British
concession, blockaded since June 14,
but British defense forces were
mobilized to meet them at the boun
dary, if necessary.
One resolution before the conferees
would make the anti-British cam
paign a permanent part of the gen
eral reconstruction scheme in north
China, with the object of forcing
out all Britons and their interests.
Another would establish an anti-Bri
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA. *
Mostly cloudy, with occasional
showers Tuesday and possibly in
the interior tonight.
Flaming Wreckage of Army Bomber—9 Cremated
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Rescue efforts are futile as the wrecked Army B-18 low wing bomber turns into blazing funeral pyre for
nine men aboard the plane which crashed at Langley Field, \ iiginia, while taking off on a routine training
flight. The dead are two officers and seven enlisted men.
Says Labor Can Pick President
Minnesota Farmer-
Labor Senator Sees
Two Old Parties Bar
ren; Political D e
velopments Break
Fast.
Washington, Aug. 14.—(AP) —
Senator Lundeen, Farmer-Laborite,
Minnesota, said today that if rivai
labor factions would unite they
could pick the next president.
“If the AFL and the CIO would
get together, they would hold the
1940 election in the palm of their
hand”, he said. “The farm vote
would swing in, and they .could
march right into the White House”.
He said “there is nothing to hope
for” from either the Democratic or
the Republican party, and argued
that a new countrywide Farmer-
Labor coalition could command suf
ficient support to win the national
campaign.
Lundeen’s comment came after a
week-end of fast-breaking political
developments. While little was
heard from Republicans, the Young
Democratic convention at Pitts
burgh adopted resolutions urging the
(Continued on Page Eight)
Two Indictments
At New York For
Aiding Fugitives
New York, Aug. 14.—(AP) —Two
indictments charging five indi
viduals and two corporations with
conspiracy in the alleged harboring
of fugitive criminals were returned
today by the special federal grand
jury empanelled a week ago in the
government general drive against
the underworld.
Principal quarry in the drive is
Louis (Lepke) Buchaltqr, fugitive
racketeer, against whom the federal
and city authorities have joined
forces.
The indictments were described
by federal prosecutors as the first
ever voted on the legal theory that
the passing of money to a fugitive
constitutes an' act of harboring if the
passer is aware that a warrant has
been issued for the arrest of the
receiver.
Seek Cause
Os Air Crash
Fatal To 14
Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 14.—(AP) —
The crushed wreckage of a Pan-
American baby clipper was believed
today to hold the answer to an un
explained crash in which 14 persons
were killed yesterday and almost
within a stone’s throw of their des
tination at the end of a 3,700-mile
flight.
Six Americans died in the wreck,
among them Prof. James Harvey
Rogers, of Yale University, an emi
nent economist and a familiar figure
in Washington in the early days of
the New Deal. He was a native of
(CcrAinued on Page Five)
Tipton Coach For
William and Mary
Williamsburg, Va., Aug. 14.
(AP) —Eric Tipton, ace member
of Duke University’s football team
last fall, an« now a member of
the Philadelphia Athletics, will
join the freshman coaching staff
of William and Mary this fall.
Athletic Director Carl Voyles
said he believed Tipton would be
“a valuable man to us, particular
ly in the development of fresh
man players.”
Tipton, a resident of Petersburg
was appointed assistant to Fresh
man Coach Dwight Stuessy and
will handle the backfield.
Spain Is Now
International
Disturbance
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Aug. 14.—As if Fas
cists and Nazis weren’t enough of a
headache, the State Department now
has a Falangist
pest to worry
about. A fascist
boss is a duce. A
Nazi boss is a
fuehrer. A Falan
gist boss is a cau
dillo. II Duce Mus
solini! Der Fuehrer
Hitler! El Caudillo
Franco! It’s a both
er even to learn
the nomenclature.
Still worse is the
State Department’s
job of maintaining
any sort of normal
Caudillo Franco
diplomatic relations with these freak
outfits.
Flangistic Spain promises to be
harder to deal with, too. than Fas
cists Italy or Nazi-istic Germany.
Mussolini has held his duce-ship
and Hitler his fuehrer-ship for a suf
ficient length of time to have en
abled the department to become more
or less acquainted with their respec
tive peculiarities. To be sure, with
(Continued on Page Five)
Roosevelt’s Ship
Finally Arrives At
His Summer Home
Aboard the U. S. Destroyer Lang,
Aug. 14.—. AP) —President Roose
velt reached Campobello, N. 8.,
aboard the United States cruiser
Tuscaloosa at 12:16 p. m.,* eastern
standard time, today after being
brought to a standstill by a heavy
fog near the end of his vacation
voyage from New Yoi’k.
The Tuscaloosa and this destroyer,
accompanying the cruiser, were
forced to anchor for a short period
this morning outside the 30-mile
iong channel leading to Campobello,
site of the President’s summer home.
When the fog lifted sufficiently,
the ship made the trip through the
channel at low speed .in three hours.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Hoey Lauds
Labor Peace
Over State
Good Relations Have
Persisted i n North
Carolina While Strife
Har Marred Scene
Elsewhere, Governor
Tells Convention.
Raleigh, Aug. 14.—(AP)—Gover
nor Hoey today cited progress made
by labor in North Carolina during
the past ten years and congratulated
the State Federation of Labor for a
“blessed peace” in this State, while
other parts of the nation had “so
many serious labor disputes.”
The governor spoke at the first
business session of the federation’s
annual three-day convention. Other
speakers included Frank Fenton, di
rector at Washington of organization
for the, American Federation of
Labor, and T. A. Wilson, a former
State Federation president, who is
now chairman of the State Indus
trial Commission.
Slated for discussion was a pro
gram for the coming year of the
North Carolina Building Trades
Council, which one official said in
cluded plans to “meet the invasion
(Continued on Page Five)
Seek Fiend Who Wrecked
Train; 20 Dead, 14 Hurt
Reno, Nevada, Aug. 14.
(AP) —Harry Fletcher, Reno
captain of detectives, said today
a crippled man with part of his
right ear missing, had been ar
rested for questioning in the
wreck of the Southern Pacific
streamliner train. The suspect
was arrested in the railroad
yards at Sparks, Nev. He gave
his name as Bob LaDucher, 28,
of Lewistown, Mont.
His pockets were filled with
junk, including old papers, rags,
a pair of sox and oily glove and
a broken seal taken from a
freight car. Officers said he had
denied any knowledge of the
train wreck, but Fletcher said
he was to be questioned
thoroughly.
Reno, Nevada, Aug. 14. —(AP) —
The fiendishly-plotted wrecking of a
$2,000,000 streamliner train left at
least 20 persons dead and 114 injur
ed today while police sought a man
“with both ears off” for questioning
about the tragedy.
Southern Pacific officials said evi
dence clearly indicated the wreck of
their “City of San Francisco” in cen
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Seek Peace
For Europe
In Proposal
League Official
Would Restore City to
Germany and Give
Reich Direct and
« Guaranteed Connec
j tion With East Prus
j sia.
Berlin, Aug. 14.—(AP) —A Nazi
source with unusually good connec
tions with high officialdom, said to
day that Prof. Carl Burkhardt, Lea-
( gue of Nations Commissioner for
• Danzig, has a plan for peaceful set
\ tlement of the dispute between Ger
{ many and Poland over the free city.
. The plan, according to this source,
I calls for the reunion of Danzig with
Germany and for a direct and guar
anteed connection between East
Prussia, including Danzig, and Ger
many proper.
Reichfuehrer Hitler, Polish Foreign
Minister Joseph Beck and Danzig
Leader Albert Forster were said to be
acquainted with the plan, and to
have accepted it as a possible basis
for discussions.
This Nazi source said that Com
missioner Burckhardt was making a
secret trip to London to present the
plan to Lord Halifax, the British for
eign minister. It was only today, for
the first time, that authoritative
quarters acknowledged that Profes
sor Burckhardt was at Berchtesgaden
last week to see Hitler.
This disclosure came as officials
were weighing the week-end confer
ences between Hitler and the Ger
man and Italian foreign ministers in
which Germany and Italy were said
to have set a joint course of action.
A declaration today on the Danzig
issue said that unless it was settled
“speedily,’ the “European powder
barrel may explode.”
The mouthpiece of the foreign of
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July Deaths
On Highways
8-Year Low
Raleigh, Aug. 14.—(AP)
The highway safety division re
ported today that July highway
fatalities dropped to 60, lowest
for any July since 1932, and a
decrease of 14.3 percent under
July, 1938.
Last month there were 588 in
jured in 571 accidents, which
killed 60, and in July, 1938,
there were 70 killed and 654
hurt in 587 mishaps.
Highway accidents took <..,6
lives during the seven
months of this year, compared
with 453 a year ago. Ten per
sons killed last month were
children under 15 years of age,
and 31 fatalities were caused by
speeding, reckless driving or
driving on the wrong side of the
road. Seventeen pedestrians
were killed.
tral Nevada Saturday night was de
liberately planned. A coroner £ jury
summoned to the scene found that
the disaster was caused by “a mis
placed rail, misplaced by a person or
persons unknown.”
Forty-lour spikes had been re
moved from the outside rail of a
curve near the approach to a 60-foot
bridge over the shallow Humboldt
river, where all but four of the 17
cars in the flier hurtled off the track
and angle plates connecting rail
lengths had been removed. An entire
30-foot rail had been removed four
inches inward and the rail’s tie plates
re-spiked to the ties in the new po
sition, said T. J. Foley, assistant
Southern Pacific division superinten
dent.
As this evidence of what Foley
termed “clearly a case of sabotage
with murderous intent” was uncov
ered, Nevada State police asked of
ficers throughout the state to be on
the lookout for a man whose ears
had been cut off.
Chief of Police A. M. Welliver, of
Reno, said he was informed “this
man had been acting suspiciously” at
Fernley, and had inquired yesterday
morning at a Fernley garage “has
anything happened?”