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The times-news., 1938-11-23
YEAR-END INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL
/ ADVANCE NOTABLE DEVELOPMENT IN south
Industry and Commerce in
Upswing Expected to
Push Past Christmas and
Into 1899
BY MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1888, United Press)

Copyright, 1888, United Pre.s)
ATLANTA, Ca, Nov. %. (UP)
Business men and farmers in the
south today had a dollars-and-
cents basis for a bountiful
Thanksgiving.
The holiday eve found south
ern industrialists and agricultur-
lists alike, enjoying a years end
upswing ia business conditions.
Prospects for Christmas buying
and new financial advances in
1889 were even brighter.
The fact that business is better
and still improving was confirmed
by federal reserve statistics, crop
figures and statements from in
dustrial and commercial leaders.
Reappearance of federal re-
strictions on cotton and tobacco
in 1888 causde some decrease in
volume and cash yield for these
two specific products. Agricultur-
al statistics, however, said result
ant crop diversification and in
creased soil conservation benefit
payments virtually made up the
difference in income.
Autumn brought a marked up
ward turn in textile mill activity.
Cotton mills made q slow start in
1888, but showed rapid gains dur.
ing the fall. Daily lint consump.
tion of Alabama, Georgia and
Tennessee mills during September
was 6.7 per cent over August and
only 9.5 per cent under the pre-.
vious year. In February, however
the mills were using 1872 per cent
less cotton than in the correspond
ing month of 1897 showing thai
autumn consumption increased
thousands of bales daily.
The pulp and paper industr!
in the state of Alabama, Arkan'
sas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana
Mississippi, North Carolina and
South Carolina, Tennessee ano
Texas made new advances thin
year. In 1885, there were 81
mills in the south producing 4,04C
tons of pulp paper daily from
slash pine and hardwood. -
Today, the number of pulp
plants had increased to "a with
daily capacity of 1872 tons.
The increase represented a new
investment estimated at 500,
100000.
Cotton crop statisticians believ.
ed the farmers enjoyed better
times this season. Growers this
fall received a three cents per
pound subsidy from the federal
government for cotton in 1887,
This was in addition to cash in.
come from the 1888 crop and cur
rent soil conservation benefits.
In Georgia, a typical cotton
state, the 1888 cash yield from
lint and seed was estimated at
$60,OO0,OOO, compared with the
1887 aggregate of $78,715,000.
Georgia farmers, however, receiv-
ed about $13,00,000 in soil con-
servatio nbenefits as compared
with approximately $10,000,000 a
year ago. Tremendous increases
also were made in corn, peanut
and sweet potato production.
Prospects for the south's 1889
cotton crop were brighter because
of revised acreage allotments un-
der the Agricultural Adjustment
administrators farm program.
Georgia and Virginia tobacco
growers were notably better off
CONTINUED on page four)
The times-news., 1938-11-23
S,oooo BANK HoLDUP

ANGOLA, Ind, Nov. 23. (UP)
Two bandits held up the Angola
state bank late yesterday and es-
capped with $4,000. The gunmen
fled in an automobile bearing New
York license V-7259. The plates
had been stolen in Indianapolis
last week, according to the Angola
police chief.
The times-news., 1938-11-23
65 Barcelonans
Killed By Raids

BARCELONA, Nov. %. (UP)
This city was subjected to two
devastating air raids today in
which at least 65 persons were
killed and more than 100 injured.
The first raid struck the lower
business section, the second bomb
ed congested workmen's section
near the port.
The times-news., 1938-11-23
SUMNER CALLS OFF
LECTURE FOR WEEK

DR.. F. w. Sumner Of Mills Riv-
er announces that his weekly class
at the city hall, where he lectures
on Christian psychology, will not
be held this week due to Thanks
giving. The class will be held on
Thursday night Of next week.
The times-news., 1938-11-23
NJ pLIYETOCK
|ESSIONvODAY
'acagO Chang Closes
liver Holiday y;Srip-
pied by Stril

CHICAGO. Nov. 23.1IrP>-
3so%esmtn for the ChiSo i've
: ,DeS exchanges announG there
,. ,.l.d oe no market todaSTbeir
,.,aG,ane4ment brought cGIete
r%alyS!S : u the market. ea5v
%gpIed by a strike called Ion.
y BY the Livestock Hal Sers
~,9n, Sn, affiliate of the CIO.
~! ,J!aarIe Rice. president oA he
s~SAange said the board Va
Srs, SSaatnOC s!y to suspend traS
vi 'ae thanksgiving holidayS
The times-news., 1938-11-23
RESERVE OFFICERS
SCHOOL WILL MEET

The Reserve Officers Group
school for Henderson and Tran
sylvani acounties will meet to-
night at 1880.
1t. r. D. Bruce of Etowah will
conduct the class at this time.
The times-news., 1938-11-23
DC Shopping Doys
~ Till Christmas

ooKING BACK TO CHRIST
1 MAS 26 YEARS AGO.
AS a New Year git, Uncle Sa,h
was giving the people the par
eel post. The Community
Christmas celebration idea wGs
launched. "There Is 70
money trust" J. P. Morgan wa-s
telling the Pujo committee.
Turkey was being sliced by The
Al1ies after the Balkan War.
People shocked by child
labor scandal In N. Y. canneries.
You could get the latest
Mitchell car for $2500.
The times-news., 1938-11-23
WEATHER

IL, cloudy tonight and to-
"s: so,"' probably light rain to-
son0" decided change in tenn
,,ri,are.
The times-news., 1938-11-23
GOOD AFTERNOON

What most Of the nations vet.
srs want to see next on the stump
is a ring.neeked pheasant.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
GERMANY SEES ECONOMIC
BONDS WITH CZECH STATE

Berlin, Oct. q ,-z4=s(AP)- Maxi circles
predicted confidently today. that rem
nants of Czechoslovakia soon would
have close economic bonds with Ger
many. The ties would be so firm they
said that even the transfer of Czech
population on large scale wrong
side" of the new border to the fright
side" might prove unnecessary.
They pointed out Czechoslovakia
had lost most of it's industrial areas
to Germany and Poland and would be-
come q preponderantly agrarian coun-
try. Germany is the only nation which
could buy farm products. of the new
little state, they. said. es
Some Nazis expected either Rudolf
Beran of former Premier Milan Hold
"a, both members of the Czech ARA
rian republic party, Slovaks, and &C
ceptable to Germany to become Czech
.osloyakia's next president in success
sion to Edouard Benes, who resigned
Wednesday.
With pro-German president, the
Nazis said, the way would be clear for
a close relationship between the two
countries.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07

Adam Richetti Exc
cuted for Kansas City
Union Station Massa-
Gre in 1888

Jefferson City, Mo-, Oct. sss.-s( APP
Adam Richetti, last survivor of q
desperate trio which terrorized the
Midwest few years ago, was execut-
ed in Missouri's lethal gas chamber
early today for his part in the 1893
Kansas City union station massacre
of four officers and their prisoners
Death of the sardonic, sallow-faced
pal of Pretty Boy Floyd blasted the
last hope of officials of firsthand
account of the sensational mass MUIR
ders.
Richetti murmured only seven
words as authorities strapped him in
to the choir: "What have I done to-
deserve this? ?"
Blind-folded, he walked calmly into
the tank, its sixth victim. He gulped
several times as officials released the.
gas, uttered one sharp gasp as deadly
fumes filled the chamber, and strug-
gled momentarily. He was pronounc-
ed dead four minutes after the gas
was released.
Richetti, Floyd and Verne Miller, a
former South Dakota sheriff who
turned gangster, were named by fed
eral officials as the actual Union Sta
ton murderers.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
Two Large Factories
Are Closed and 10000
Men Refuse To Go To
Their Jobs

Detroit, Mich, Oct. 7.-(AP)-A
United Automobile Workers demon
stration for a 32-hour week closed two
large factories here today and left
about 1900 men idle.
The main plant of the Plymouth
Motor Corporation remained closed
this morning when about 5000 en-
ployees stood outside the gates and
refused to enter, declaring they would
not work more than 80 hours weekly.
A short time later the Mack Avenue
plant of the Briggs Manufacturing
Company, which employs 5000 men
making bodies for the Plymouth plant
also closed, awaiting resumption of
Plymouth operations.
c. G. Edelen, chief shop steward of
the JAW Plymouth local, said the
demonstration was not strike, and
that the men would return to WORK
Monday morning at the regular hour.
He said they did not intend to work
mere than 80 hours week, however
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
Italy Strikes
AtHebrews AS
Fascist Foes

Rome, Oct 7.-(AP)-Italy struck
at world Hebrewism'' as the "in-
.spirer'' of anti-fascism today by for
bidding inter-marriage of Jews and
Italians and restricting Jewish econo-
mic activities.
. The fascist grand council laid
down the anti-Semetic regulations in
a series of orders for defense Of the
Italian race, which evidently were inn
bued with the spirit of empire.
Many of the new restrictions were
directed against Jews, but the policy
was drafted on broad lines to affect
"Africian, Semetic and other races
than Italians.
The grand council declared the nee
essitv for race consciousness to be
urgent, "thence the conquest of en-
pire''. and called for "quantitative
and qualitative betterment OF the
Italian race
It made two concessions to Jews In
line with premier Mussolini's prom
Use of moderation in his speech at
Trieste September 18, exempting Jews
who had served the country meritor-
iously in war, and holding out the
possibility of sanctuary for Jews in
Ethiopia.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
Goodwin Silent
Hearing
Into Staying

High Point, Oct. Z (AP)-James
Goodwin, charged with the fatal shoot
ing of Donald loss, 30-year-old tex
tile worker, here Monday night fol-
lowing an escape from the Lexington
jail, waived prelillil sry hearing be-
fore Judge Lewis Teague in municipal
court this morning.
He was transferred to the GuiIford
county jail early this afternoon.
The entire proceedings consumed
less than five minutes, and Goodwin
hand cuffed to police officer, was
hurried from the court room. He was
not represented by counsel.
Four days after they escaped from
prison with the aid of the jailor's
daughter, Goodwin and Bill Wilson
were behind bars again.
Police Sergeant Jack Mcmahon said
warrants charging murder had been
issued against both Goodwin and VIII
son. Mcmahon said that, after long
questioning last night, Goodwin adj
mitted he was the trigger man" in
the fatal shooting Of Moss.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
Chiefs
Ordered To
Ban Flowers
Must Not Allow Them
at Parades Where He
Struts Himself Before
Bewildered F | k !;
Happens in S;udeten-
lana; Seeks Economic
Dominance of Czechs

Berlin, Oct. 7.-(AP)- Adolf Hitler
was slightly injured in the face today
when an over enthusiastic Sudeten-
lander tossed a bouquet of flowers at
the fuehrer, making a triumphal tour
of the fourth zone of occupation.
Dispatches from the Sudetenland
reporting the incident did not say
just where it occurred. AS a result
of he mishap, the rfuehrer issued q
general oruer that Nazi party leaders
henceforth will be held personally re-
sponslble for seeing to it that flowers
are taken away from all persons along
his line of march. Even small bod
quets in the hands of spectators must
be seized
The population also was admonish-
ed strongly by groadcasts to refrain
from saying it with flowers. After
noon newspapers, published warnings
againss flower-throwing
Hitler today visited the first part
of the fourth zone of occupation on
the northern fringe of Czechoslova-
kia. The German army marched into
this district yesterday and was to
complies this occupation today.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
Nation To Tighten
Defenses On Spies,
Roosevelt Asserts
President Fearful of
Efforts Of Foreign
Agents Here To OBJ
tain American Mill
tary and Naval Sec
rets; To Probe Penn
sylvania Campaign

!. Hyde Park, NJ. Y, Oct. T.--(AP)--
President Roosevelt today disclosed
the administration was planning to
tighten. its defensss agains- activities
of foreign spies.
The President in response to press
conference, questions said he was
seeking to determine what now mac
hinery might be set mp to frustra,e
efforts by foreign agents t. obtain
the military and naval secrets of this
country. He mentioned in this con-
nection it might be poss;nir to effect
q closer coordination of the activities
OF the military and naval intelligence
services, the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation and similar agencies.
Asked whether foreign agents had
increased their activities IN this ro.iy,-
try, Mr.. Roosevelt said he believed
here was no marked increase at pre-
sent, although there had been in the
last ten years.
(Four persons are scheduled to 20
IN trial in. New York October ID on
charges of being implicated in a far
teaching espionage plot.)
The chief. executive discussed the
o.'y ~ OUiCAA cdIller LulS week Win
lamar Hardy, United States attorney
in New York
Also the President told his press
conference that Frof. Felix Frank
furter, of the Harvard Law School,
would visit the summe5 White House
this weekend. Frankfurter has been
widely mentioned as a possible APP
pointee to. the Supreme Court The
recent death of Associate JUSTICE
Cardozo left vancancy on the high
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
Japanese Are
Much Nearer
.Hankow Goal

Shanghai, Oct. 7-(AP)-Japanese
forces reached a railway route to the
military heart of China today and re
ported series of gains at far distant
points of the sprawling Chinese bat
tleground.
Chinese admitted that JAPANESE
cavalrymen had fought their wav 10
the Peiping-H ankow railway that
leads to the nations military capital.
Hankow, eliminating 20O-mile cross
country detour drive that started four
months ago.
Japanese advancing up the Yanptze
river occupied a point 8O-miles down
stream from Hankow, and far to the
north four Japanese columns were cor
verging on the mountain stronghold
of the eighth army elusive legion Of
Clutch, Chinese red Napoleon. The
main Japanese cross-country force
Chinese said, still was admitted -
have raided Liuling, 90 miles north
of Hankow and Japanese asserted the
railway had been severed.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
Washington Is Skeptical
About Peace OF Munich
What Americans Wanted w For Democracies To Call
Hitlers Bluff SO AS To u undermine Him At Home;
Big War Would Hav Ended Dictators

Hitler would have his hand so OBJ
viousIy called as to make it impos-
sible for Germany itself. not to re-
cognize him as a buffer. Had this oc-
CURED the best guess is that he would
have been sufficiently Debated at
home to terminate his fuehrership IN
short order. Instead he has been
strengthened if anything. And, while
Adolf remains in power, not many
observers believe that international
tranquility can last long. To his prom
Uses not the slightest weight is given.
Neutral spokesman would Ike TO
see Musso1ini eliminated, too. How
ever. Benito is given credit at least
for being sane. The fuehrer's sanity
is seriously questioned. Besides, Italy
alone is not strong enough to pre-
cipitate a, very formidable war. Ger
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
End OF War Scare Paves
Way For Business Upturn
But Babson, Now In Europ Goes Behind Scenes And
Shows Poker Game They Have Been Playing Over
There; Sees England AS United States Buffer

most people believed to be the brink
of war. 1 have been here only a few
days, but have talked with numer-
Gus people in all walks of life, from
cab drivers to high government Of
ficials. They have all told me that
every one momentarily expected war
to come. However, while badly frigh-
tened, the people went about their
daily chores as usual. There is a
large amount of new building of apart
ments, stores and private homes, al
though business is not as prosperous
as it was at the time of my visit a
year ago.
Germany Not Hated.
+. In the recent poker game, Germany
got what she wanted despite the ear
lier violent objections of the British
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
Until Very Recently,
United States Had
Marked Superiority in
Planes, Engines and
Accessories; Germany
Is N o w Assuming
That Position

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.-lAP)-Maior
General Harry Arnold, the army air
corps chief, said today American SUI
premacy in developing military air
craft is threatened.
''Until quite recently we had mark
ed superiority in airplanes, engines
and accessories" he said in letter
to air corps officers and men, "That
superiority is now definitely chal-
ienged by recent developments
abroad. This means that our expert :
mental development programs must
be speeded up
He gave no particulars, but inform
ed persons said the air corps was con-
cerned particularly over Germany's
recent strides, especially the perfec-
ton of fast, flexible single-seater
fighting plane.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
BY ROGER w. BABSON,
Copyright 1888, Publishers
Financial Bureau. Inc.

London, Oct 1.-THE settlement Of
the European crisis was the most OPP
timistic news in over year. The war
scare was the only barrier in the path
of a sharp business recovery this Fall.
If the Czechoslovakian situation had
not reached such a high pitch of ex-
element all over the world, the re-
covery from our recession would have
been a lot further along. The settle
ment of the European trouble has
fully justified the no-war-in-1938 fore
cast which l made in any annual out
look on January first and which I
have repeated many times since.
London, of course, is over joyed
that Prime Minister Chamberlain
dragged England back from what
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
Henderson
SewageFund
|! Granted

Washington, Oct. 7.-(AP)-Ad-
ministrator Ickes announced to-
day presidential approval of liz
pollution abatement projects in
80 states and Puerto Rico to cost
an estimated $1S,788, 167.
PWA agreed to contribute $8,-
457,6O4 ard in grants, and loans
t0talling $9O6,0OO.
The ALLEGATIONS, grants only,
and for sewerage works unless
otherwise specified, included:
Henderson, N. c., $4,000 loan;
$43,363 grant.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
Detroit Auto Employees
Demanding 32-Hour Week
NIBR Is Assaled
AtLabor Meeting

Houston, Texas, Oct. 7.-(APl-
Joseph Padway, general counsel for
the American Federation of Labor
assailed the National Labor Rela-
tiOns Board today in an address
before the federation's annual con-
ventiOn.
Denouncing the principles and
policies of board decisions cOnsid-
cred adverse to A. f. of l.. craft
unions, Padway charged that board
member Edwin S. Smith was par
tial to the industrial unionism adj
vOcated by the rival CLIO.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
BIRMINGHAM BLAZE
is FATAL FOR. TWO

Birmingham, Ala, Oct. lap.
Two persons died and nine 9TH
ers were injured today in fire
which destroyed Vanderbilt Gar
dens, suburban dance hall and
apartment building. Nearly a score
of persons, including two small
children, either jumped or were
thrown from second story win
dOws to escape the flames. The
cause of the blaze was undeter-
mined.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
MARTHA RAY WILL
WE'D HER MUSICIAN

Hollywood. Cal Oct. 7.-(ARl-ItH
be Mexican marriage, probably to-
morrow. for Martha Ray and Dave
Rose, who makes Marthas music
swingable. The actress and her ar
ranger announced today they would
motor to EnsenadR. Lower California
resort.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
LENIENCY is GIVEN
STATES EMPLOYERS

Raleigh, Oct. 7.-(AP)--North
Carolina employers observing the
States child labor law will not
be required to show federal Ger
tificates for minors on their pay
roll for the next half year, Labor
Commissioner F. HI. Shuford said
today. This State was among sew
eral selected as having 0utstand-
ing child labor legislation, he said
The children's bureau, which will
adnainistrter the minors section of
the Federal wage-hOur act, agreed
with Shuford to study this States
child labor laws for six months.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07

Returns Go
Back Again

Raleigh, Oct. 7.-CAP)-The State
Elections board got new final" pri-
mary returns from Davidson county's
new elections board today, which
would increase the majority of c.. B.
Deane, of Rockingham, for the eighth
district nomination to Congress if
they are accepted, but they went back
to the county group temporarily
The State board pointed out to
Chairman M. L. Craver and S.. A. De-
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
CUMBERLAND PAIR
GET PRISON TERMS

Fayetteville, Oct. 7.-(AP)-Judge
N. A. Sinclair sentenced James Max
well and Hector Lee today to prison
terms for the burning of a $4,000
school house in Eastover township
last January.
Maxwell, who pleaded guilty, was
given six to eight years. Lee, con-
victed by a jury, drew seven to ten
years. Jesse Lee, a brother of Hector,
was acquitted by the jury.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07

=
der Hitler Mus
solini conference in
Munich. Neverthe-
less, a certain under
tone of comment is
audible in diploma
tic and domestically
official circles in
Washington to the
effect that a major
conflict w a s not
averted (maybe on
ly temporarily ex-
actly as genuine
peace lovers might
have wished. What
loped was that Herr
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
Maxwell Is
Optinnist On
N. c. Business
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
Tn the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Oct. Commissioners of
Revenue Allen J. Maxwell is quite op-
timistic over North Cardinals BUSH
ness and revenue prospects, though
he does admit there are few flies
in the ointment of content. l
Pointing to the fact that for the
first quarter of the current fiscal year
tax collections from the usual and
normal sources have kept well abreast
of those during the previous fiscal
twelve-month, he warned that, over
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
REIDSVILLE~MAN is.
AUTO CRASH VICTIM

Reid,sville, Oct 7.-(AP)--William
B. Austin, 26-year-old farmer, died in
a hospital here today of head in
juries he received in an automobile
wreck last night He leaves widow
and four daughters.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
Czech Chief
Asks Nation
Accept Fate
Premier Syrovy Urges
Against Amy Act That
Might Bring Greater
Cruelties

Geneva, Oct. 7.-(AP)-Officia
of the CzechOslovaA delegation to
the League of Nations said today
that the Prague government had
sent note to Budapest rejecting
a Hungarian demand that Hun
garian troops should occupy GER
tain areas of CzechOslOvalxia be-
fore negotiations begin October g.
The officials said the Prague note
was in reply to a Hungarian note
delivered tOcly, repeating de-
mands made on October 8.
Prague, Oct 7-(AP)- Premier
Jan Syrovy appealed to hi.
army today not to commit any act
that might bring on Intervention
more cruel than the prese t sitration.'
for what is left Of Czech lc
s'There is nothing to ao
the troops, "but to reco1 sos
YES to our fate. The government
decided to be loyal to the r
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
CALLS ISSUED FOR
REPORTS OF BANKS

Washington, Oct. e. (AP)- The
controller of the currency issued a
call today for the condition Of all
national banks at the close Of bust
ness Septen Der 28.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, Oct. .7.-Everyone is
glad, of course, that another world
war was STAYED off by the recent
Chamberlain DALAI
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
STATE BANK Call.

Raleigh, Oct. lap Quincy
Hood, State bank commissioner, is
sued "a call today for reports f,om all
State BANKS on Iheir condition at he
close oe distress. Seotcnbs %.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07
WEATHER

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair and colder tonight, with
frost in the interior; Saturday
fair, continued cool.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-07

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