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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-11-03

Guarantee Frontiers
Left After Little Re-
public Is All But Obi
terated; Hungary Is
Given Big Slice and
Still Is Not Satisfied

Vienna, Noy 3.-(AP)- Foreign
Ministers Won Ribbentrop of Germany
and Count Cano of Italy it was
learned on good authority today, have
assured the CzechoslOvak foreign min
lister that Germany and italy were
ready to guarantee Czechoslovakia's
new frontiers
F. Chvarkoxs the Czecn minister
left for Prague today after the one
day conference i'm which Hungary was
given an estimated 1875 square miles
of Czech territory.
Hungarians and Poles said they still
hoped more Ruthenian territory would
eventually fall to Hungary, thus CIV
ing Poland and Hungary the COM
mon borderline they desire. Ruthenia,
the eastern tip Of Czechoslovakia, was
forced by the Italo-Germap medita-
ton award to cede its capital to Hun
gary and it's principal railway lines
Between 100000 and 10000 Ruthen-
ians again will become Hungarians
under the award. leaving about $780,
10 in the Czechslovak Ruthenian
states.
The Rutherian delegation last night
protested the decision, asserting it
did not conform to ethnographical
principles proclaimed at the four
power Munich conference September
20.
Five fraternal Ukrainian (Ruthen-
ian) organizations cabled united Tx
rainian organizations in the United
States with headquarters at New
York asking for funds to assist the
homeland.
Yugoslovia expects to be next in
the revision of eastern European
boundaries under the sponsorship of
Germany and Italy Yugoslav obser-
vers of the Hungatian-Czech negotia-
tons said. s
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-11-03
Many State
Candidates
Seek Office

Raleigh, Nov. 3.-Citizens of North
Carolina will trek to the polls next
week to cast their votes for United
States Senator, eleven congressman
three Supreme Court justices, the en-
tire General Assembly, and other I'M
portant State officials, as well as hum
dreds of local officials in every town
ship and county in the State.
North Carolina is Overwhelmingly
Democratic, but leaders of the state
wide campaign here in Democratic
headquarters at Raleigh are making
an effort to get out the full strength
of the party. state Chairman Z:
Gregg Cherry and other officers OF
the State Democratic Executive Com
mittee have been conducting an &C
tive campaign that has extended their
efforts into every precinct in the
State. They have personally visited
practically every section, and have
maintained close personal contact
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Ten Are Seeking
Post Office Job
In Wilson Fight

Washington, Nov. 3.--(AP)-The
Civil Service Commission made pub
lie today the names of hundreds of APP
plicants for vacant postmasterships
throughout the country. The appli-
cants are subject to civil service exa-
limitations and those with the highest
resultant standing will be eligible for
appointment by the President, sub
iect to Senate confirmation.
The commission emphasized the or
Ger in which names were carried OIL
its lists today did not reflect standing
of the applicants. The list included:
Wilson, N. c., Gary T. Fulghum,
Lybrandt c. McMichael, Thomas M
Clarke, G. L. Parker, Carl F. Bats,
o. A. Glover and Linwood Hugh
Flowers, Mrs. BECKER H. Peele, Percy
E. Lassiter, Miss Agnes Peele.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-11-03
Seek Victim
0fKidnapers
In Basement
Gruesome Find in New
York May Solve Kid
napings in That Met
ropolitan Area

New York, Nov. SLAP
Dwight Brantley, head of the New
York Federal Bureau of Investi-
cation office, said today Federal
agents were investigating a pos
sible connection between the un-
solved kidnap-slaying of 12-year-
old Peter Levine, New Rochelle,
N. ", and the newly-captured mem
bers of an alleged kidnapping sym
dicate," who are accused of three
kidnapings, two rObberies and
one murder.
The new turn in the fast-breakine
case developed as police exhumec
of bones from a cemented
tomb" in the basement of Ukrainiar
hall on the lower East Side. Police
expressed a theory the bones might
be from the body of Arthur Fried
young White Plains business mar
who was abducted last December
and held for 100000 ransom.
This theory collapsed, however
when Chief Medical Examiner Con
tales said an examination of the frag
ments showed there was mot a hu
man bone in the lot" He said the
bones, some 240 in number, were moss
Iy chicken, beef and rabbit bones.
New York, Nov. 3.-(AP)--Polic'
dug into the cement basement of Uk
rainian Hall today seeking buried
bones of possible victims of a "kid
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of being, himself, a red sympathizer.
Maybe no one less potent have pan
ned the Dies committees methods as
effectively as the White House ten
ant did without involving himself in
trouble. However, the President, hav-
ing taken the initiative, there is
plenty of press comment tc the pur-
port that he was right about it.
It isn't that an investigation of I'M
American activities is undesirable. If
there is any appreciate amount Of
actual plotting in our midst against
our politico-economic system, OF
course it ought to be investigated. But
investigating what a few folks are
merely thinking PERSONALLY, indivi-
dually and internally, without doing
anything about it, is rather doubtful
business.
If a governmental system is mainly
good there are not likely, to be many
people wishful to overthrow it. If ii
has certain defects it ought to be
legitimate for some of them at least
to think so.
Our Anti-Red Complex.
I've lived all over the United States
from New York to San Francisco and
from the Dakotas to New Orleans
and my observation is that our popu-
lation is reasonably contented. or
yes the farmers kick, labor has its
cniscontents and we white-ccb 'arites
(my own group have our grievances
but it's all mostly superficial.
One of my earliest recollections is
of the preachings of Herr Most, Gin
cinnati anarchist. Then there was Eu
gene v. Debs, a socialist. The /. w
w. followed Now it's communists.
Herr Most never made dent, but
in his day there was a lot of worry
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-11-03
Chinese Are
Building Up
New Forces
Army Of 800, 900 Re-
cruits Being Trained;
laps Smash Defenses
Above Hankow

Kingtu, China, Nov. 3.-(AP)- a
new army of 100000 recruits is be-
ing trained in Szechwan province to
fight alongside 100000 well drilled
szechWanese in renewed hope of stop
ping the invading Japanese. 1t is es-
tlmated that rice, wheat and other
crops In this western province of
nearly 100000 population and 1856
600 square miles are big enough to
support 100000 fighters for. a year.
one of the reasons why. General
CHANG f&ai- Shek chose it for the new
military base for the operations a.
gainst Japan.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-11-03
Vance Road Work
Bid At S34.l58.0

Raleigh. Nov. 4.-(AP)-The
Highway and Public Works Conn
mission announced low bidders to-
dav on eleven ro0d projects esti-
mated TO cost $511,OOO, on which
nronosaIs were received this morn
ing. Projects and low bidders in
Guided:
Vance county, 1856 miles of grad
ing. surfacing and structures on
road starting 4.56 miles east of
Henderson. running to the Warren
county line; Kilker 8 Yount, Reids-
vile, $S4,159.6O
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-11-03
Raleigh Will
Hear alnadge
Cuss Control
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
nnS1w nTzrHm4nM


Raleigh, Nov. 3-Froving that thew
are not going to allow the crop control
referenda to go "New Deal by de-
fault, opponents of the control plan
have arranged to bring former Gov
ernor Eugene Talmadge, of Georgia.
here for an address in opposition at
the Memorial Auditorium Saturday
morning at eleven o'clock.
The red-gallused Huey Long styled
buzz saw from the Cracker State has
been delivering blistering attacks on
the Roosevelt administration and ali
it's works for several years now. and
his temper and tongue have sharpen
ed rather than dulled as time marches
on.
All of which indicates that verbal
sparks will fly when Gene cuts loose
The Talmadge speech is but one Of
the many indications that crop con
troll opposition is going to be remark
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-11-03
FAYETTEVILLE Site
For New Hospital
Definitely Named

Fayetteville, NOV. 3.-(AP)-Selec-
ton of site on the Fayetteville-Ra-
leigh highway two miles from Fay
etteville was announced today for the
81 100000 veterans hospital, already
authorized.
The local committee was informed
that President Roosevelt had signed
an order confirming the selection:
The tract, known locally as Myrtle
Hill, consists of 146 acres, extending
from the Raleigh highway to the
Cape Fear river, It was donted to
the government by Fayetteville inter
ests.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-11-03

N@A~A 4SASOAA w 1911 ~
permitted recent wit
nesses' attacks on
Governor Murphy of
Michigan to get in
to it's records. There
is so general and
violent a prejudice
against communists
in this country that
it is a bit hazardous
for any one to be at
all adversely critical
of a quiz like Rep
resentative Di e s.
lest he he accused
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-11-03
GOVERNMENT TROOPS ARE
GRADUALLY FALLING BACT

Hendaye, France, Nov. slap
A steady insurgent advance today
pushed government troops slowly
along the Ebro front in General
Francois seventh effort to recapture
the strategic river bend in northeast
ern Spain.
Government dispatches admitted
today s'the enemy succeeded in bet
,tering his position slightly at the cost
OF heavy losses z ~ 49,
At the same time, what apparently
was a serious engagement was being
fought on the outskirts of Madrid,
which itself was shelled heavily by in
surgent artillery
Advices from Madrid gave no in
dication whether the offensive there
was launched by government defend
ers or insurgent besiegers of the one
time capital. These reports merely
said since last midnight heavy rifle
and machine gun fire in the west
could be heard in the heart of the
city,
Insurgent information at the bor-
der indicated it was merely ques-
ton of a short time until the gov
ernment's front collapsed as the
rnilitiamen would be forced to flee
across the river to positions from
which they launched on July % the
offensive that began one of the
bloodiest battles of the civil war.
The insurgents contended govern
ment communication lines were cut
and their positions therefore, made
precaricrS.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-11-03
Dies Group
Overplayed
Hand Sharply
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumnist

Washington, Nov. Congressman
Dies committee on investigation of
un-American activities evidently over
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-11-03
Government
Hara'ssed In
Parliament
Insurgents Steadily
Advance Positions In
Great Battle on Ebro
River in Spain; Losses
Admitted by Govern
ment Troops

London Nov. 3IAF) -Oppositior
~eake~s in the House of Commons
pressed the government today for a
atcment on the Spanish naval battle
,ff the English east coast.
Prime Minister Chamberlain an
nounced he was Slightly indisposed'
and would be unable to attend the
debate.
The Insu~gent motor vessel Nadir
shelled and sank the government
freighter Cantabria almost at the mo-
ment Chamberlain yesterday told the
House the Spanish civil war was mo
longer menace to the peace of Eu-
rope"
BY his speech, noting that Italy had
withdrawn a large number of troops
from Spain, and was ready to with
draw more, the premier won House
approval to put into effect the April
16 British-Italian friendship pact
probably on November Is. The vote
was 345 to 1873.
When news of the sea attack reach
ed Parliament, however, one opposi-
ton party speaker snapped out:
"They will be up the Thames next"
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-14
CHAPTER 1

CANNOT pretend that there
was anything sinister in the at
mosphere that evening. Notnlng
of the sort that is supposed TO pre-
cede a crime. Nobody walked
about looking furtive, no WINS
pered quarrels were interrupted,
no mysterious strangers lurked
near the house. Although after
wards, as you may imagine, l went
over the events of the day again
and again in my mind, I could re-
member nothing which might have
served as a warning, nothing at
all extraordinary in anyone's be-
havior. That is why the thing
came as such an abominable shock
to me.
/ remember, of course-I have
good cause to remember-that we
discussed crime over our cocktails.
But we discussed it in general
terms, and how could one have
guessed that there was any rele-
vance in the discussion? And I
could not say for certain who had
brought up the subject. Perhaps
if could have done so, if anyone
could have done so, it would have
helped us later to understand. For
that discussion was relevant, APP
pallingly relevant, in a very spe-
cial sense. AS you shall see.
But at the time-well, at the
Thurstons' weekend parties, crime
might be discussed or religion,
politics, the cinema, or ghosts.
Any topic of general interest which
arose was sure to be pretty well
threshed out. That was the kind
of party which the Thurstons gave,
a party at which everyone talked
great deal, shouting opinions
which he would afterward have
denied, and trying to shout them
as cleverly as possible. I do not
mean that it was all rather self
conscious and arty, like those aw-
full parties in London at which
women with unpleasant breath adj
vOcate free love and nudiSm. But
at the Thurstons' conversation was
enjoyed, and not treated as tire
some stop-gap between dinner and
bridge.
DR.. Thurston himself was no
conversationalist, though he en-
joyed listening, and could put in
an incentive phrase now and again.
He was a big,s bespectacled man,
rather Teutonic in appearance, and
IN manner, too, for he showed a
jolly German simplicity and senti-
mentality to everyone. He liked
pressing his guests to food and
drink and cigars, with booming
emphasis. He had been the local
doctor in that Sussex village. till
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-14

the police for one second. One is
that committed by man with a
victim who cannot be missed-like
the recent Brighton murder. The
other is the act Of mailman, who
murders for the sake of murder.
without another motive. No pre-
meditated murder could puzzle the
police for very long. Where there's
a motive and the victim is identi-
fed, there's an arrest"
He paused to swallow the rest
of his cocktail. l was watching
him, thinking what an odd-looking
fellow Alec Norris was-narrow in
head and body, with a bony face
in which jaw and teeth, cheek
bones and forehead protruded,
while the flesh seemed to have
shrunk till it barely covered the
skull.
Another guest spoke then.
Yound David Strickland, think it
was. "But an arrest doesn't al
ways mean a verdict of guilty."
he said. There have been muir
derers so desperate that though
they knew beforehand they would
be suspected and probably charged,
they took the chance. They were
clever enough not to provide
enough evidence"
did not look with much interest
towards Strickland, for knew him
quite well. He was younger than
any Of us, thick-set fellow, fond
of. sport, particularly of racing.
He was apt to try to borrow a
flyer from you, but bore no malice
if it was refused. He was some
sort of protege of the Thurstons,
and DR.. Thurston sometimes spoke
to his wife of him good-humoredly
as "your lover, my DEAR" There
was nothing in that, however,
though l could imagine Mary
Thurston helping him out of diff
culties. Nothing Of the gigolo
about young Strickland, a hard
drinking, gambling type. fond of
smutty stories.
Alec Norris brushed aside his
interruption. 1.-THE police will find
the evidence, when they know
their man." he said, and returned
to his condemnation of detective
fiction. TITS all so artificial" he
said. $50 unrelated to life . You,
all Of you, know these literary
murders. Suddenly, in the middle
Of a party-like this one, perhaps
someone is found dead in the adj
joining room. BY the trickery of
the novelist all the guests and half
the staff are suspect. Then in
comes the wonderful detective,
who neatly proves that it was in
fact the only person you never sus-
pected at all. Curtain"
ITO BE COntinued)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-14

he married, and although he no
longer practiced he had kept on
the house, because he liked it, and
allowed the new practitioner to
build afresh. It was understood
that Mrs. Thurston had money, at
all events they had been very well
off since their marriage, and en-
tertained a great deal.
She, too, was amiable, most
amiable, but not very intelligent.
Although stayed with the Thur
stons many times, and must have
spent hours in the same room with
Mary Thurston, I cannot recall a
single sentence that she uttered.
She was stout, and spent a great
deal of money on her clothes, a big,
blonde, rather painted woman,
easy-going and quite unpreten-
tious. l can see her clearly
enough, even if I cannot remember
words of hers, beaming round on
us all, filling quite a wide arm
chair, giggling like girl at fiat
terry, obviously overlooking with
kindness. '"The Goddess of Plenty"
someone once called her, aptly
enough, for as a hostess, from the
practical point of view, she was
supreme. The food was really ex-
quisite, the house beautifully kept,
and Mrs. Thurston had that i'm
portant gift-a memory for
drinks. She was good woman.
Whoever may have started dis
cussing crime, it was Alec Norris
who did most of the talking,
though he pretended to be con-
tenlptuous of the topic,
Crime ?" he said. "Can't we
talk about anything else? Don't
we get enough of it in books and
films? I'm SICK to death of this
crime, crime, crime, wherever you
turn"
DR.. Thurston chuckled. He knew
Norris, and knew why he spoke so
bitterly. Norris was an unsuccess-
full writer of novels very different
from murder mysteries-rather in
tense psychological books, with a
good deal of sex in them. DR..
Thurston saw his chance of maxi
ing Norris excited.
"But is it crime in those books 2"
he asked. Crime as it really hap
pens ?"
Norris might have been a diver
on a springboard. He hesitated
for one moment, blinking at Thur
ston, then he plunged. mo. I'm
damned if it u.s." he said. Litter
airy crime is all battling mystery
and startling clues. Whereas in
real life, murder, for instance,
nearly always turns out to be some
sordid business of strangled
servant girl. There are only two
kinds Of murder which could hattie
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-14

Resignation of DR.. Edmund D.
Soper, president of Ohio Wesleyan
university at Delaware, O., since
1928, has been announced. Friends
of the 61-year-old president said
DR.. Soper planned to retire be-
cause of illness. In campus circles,
however, it had been reported that
there had been dissatisfaction
among certain alumni over some
Of DR.. Soper's appointments and
administrative steps.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-14

Mrs. Catherine George
>. had pin in lung nine years
Nine years ago Catherine George,
81, of Chicago, swallowed an open
safety pin. She forgot about it
until she developed symptoms of
bronchitis a few days ago. Sur
geons now have removed the pin,
found near her left lung.
-CentrG7 Presa
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-14
Wife Preservers

10 prevent accident In the
nome use a sturdy stool of APP
proved type whenever you must
c.iinp TO a high place. BE sure
steps are securely locked in place
pelore you mount 1t, says Good
housekeeping Institute.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-14

give of the leading industralists in the United
States are pictured after comforting with President
roosevelt are, left to right Colby Chester, presi-
the National Manufacturers association Ernest T.
Welr, president of the National Steel corporation:
Lewis Brown president of Johns Manville corpora
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-14

lion; Alfred P. Sloan chairman of General Motors
corporation; M. H. Clement, president of the Penn
sylvania railroad. The five reported "a better I'M
derstandlng' between government and business and
predicted closer cooperation in attempts to check
the recession Sloan said business was showing
signs Of improvement
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-14

Secretary Of Agriculture Wallace is
shown as he testified before the spe-
cial Senate committee investigating
farm unemployment. He declared
that demands for rural relief were
steadily increasing, and that neither
local nor Federal agencies have the
means to cope with the situation.
central Press)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-28

action on the part Of the state" de- clared Secretary George Kelly. He said it was probable that resolu- tions condemning MT. Geissler's pol icy would be introduced at the next meeting of the union, February 6.
 Called Unfair
 "It's highly unfair to the printing trade" declared William H. Butler, proprietor of the Butler Printing Company. "The state will take bus mess away from business men and taxpayers and nave the work done by criminals. It appears that the state is trying to drive printers out of business"
 MT. Butler said that large dele gation from this city would attend statewide meeting of printing shop owners, which will be held soon at Hartford. The meeting is being arranged by Newton c. Brain ard, chairman of the board of the Hartford Employing Printers Asso- citation, and president of Case, Lock wood and Brainard Company.
 MT. Brainard declared last night that tits pretty tough to be taxed for the support of institutions that are going to compete with you"
 I. T. U.
 The Hartford Chapter of the I. T. U. plans to go on record against the plan. President Carl Almquist said the state apparently intended to go into the printing business and take bread and bu:- ter away from those who are em- ployed".
 The Norwich Chapter of the I. T. U. voted to petition the Con- necticut Federation of Labor to take steps against the plan.
 Printing shop operators declare that the state will not save money by having its printing done at the State Prison, the Cheshire Reform atory, and the Meriden School for Boys. MT. Brainard declared that printing costs at the Cheshire inSti- tuition, where state printing has been done for years. are excessive, and the state would fare better if commercial printers did the work.
 MT Geissler contends that having printing done in state institutions will save the state a substantial sum.