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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-20
Fighting In
Border Area
Now Serious
Russia Reported To
Have Pledged Aid To
Czechs in Resisting
C er m a n Invasion;
Prague Delays Action
on Franco-British Sur
render to Hitler j !

London, Sept. 2O.-(APl---
An outbreak Of German Czech
slovak frontier incidents, and a
reported Soviet Russian pro-,
mise to help Prague to resist at
tack threatened today to wreck
the British French plan for set
thing the conflict peaceably.
AS border hostilities spread.
Great Britain was said to lack
official information of the
Czech governments stand on
the joint British-French propo-
sal to let Germany have the Su-.
deten areas.
The answer was said to be delayed.
both by the weight of the decision
thrust upon the Czech cabinet and
by Prague's diplomatic negotiations.
which appeared to be mainly with
Soviet Russia
In Geneva, there were reports Mos
COW was supporting Prague.
During the day, Prime Minister
chamberlain met with the "inner
cabinet which consists of Chamber
lain, Foreign Secretary viscount Hall
fax, Home Secretary Sir Samuel
Hoare, and Sir John Simond chan
cellor of the exchequer.
British officials maintained silence
as to details of the British-Fre
peace plan. Chamberlain is expected
| to take this '.expedient surrender"
back to Chancellor Hitler tomorrow
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(Coatinlet or Page Five.l .
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-20
Ted Terrell
Case Before
SuprerneCourt
Daily DispaJcn Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Sept. 90. Among the
eighteen civil and three criminal APP
peals to be heard by. the State SUI
preme Court at this weeks sessions,
which began this morning, is the
somewhat unusual appeal of Ted Ter
rell from Is to 80 year sentence for
second degree murder, imposed by
Judge Clawson L. Williams in War
rem County Superior Court.
It is the second time the Terrell
case has come before the court on APP
peal, and the defendant is no doubt
hoping that if he wins the third trial
he will have better luck than follow
ed his first successful appeal. On his
first trial, he was sentenced to twenty
to twenty-five years, on his second it
was raised five years on both mini
mum and maximum ends.
Terrell shot and killed one Andrew
Knight at bad Eyes Place, fill
ing station near Norlina, in Warren
county. The State contends that Ter
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-20
Still More
.Suppliai1ts
See Hitler

Berchtesgaden, Germany, Sept.
2O.-(AP)-Envoys of Hungary
and Poland were received today
by Reichfuehref Adolf Hitler in
his retreat to discuss the CzechO-
sl0vak crisis.
The Hungarian chief of staff,
Field Marshal Kresvtes- Fischer,
sat with Premier 1mredi and For
eign Minister Won Kanya during
their talk with Hitler and German
Foreign Minister voU Ribbentrop,
regarding the uf1tenable cOndi-
ton in CzechOsl0valxia."
POland's views were presented
by Joseph Lipslki, Polish ambassa-l
dor to Berlin, at another confer
ence.
1t was officially announced that
the hungarian statesmen had told
Hitler they would stand firm for.
the right of self-determination for
the 100000 Hungarians in Czecho-
slOvaIxia. 1t was understood the
Polish ambassador discussed plans
for dealing with the Polish minor
ity of about 100000. 1858
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-20
TWO OF TRAIN CREW ARE
KILLED In MASSACE1USET

East Deerfield, Mass, Sept. ~
(AP)-Two members of the train crew
were killed and two others injured
early today when the engine and four
cars of a 76-car Boston & Maine
freight train were derailed.
Fatally injured were the fireman
and brakeman, both of Springfield
The engineer, of West Springfield
suffered extensive burns. His name
was placed on the danger list at
hospital, where doctors said another
brakeman of Springfield suffered less
serious hurts.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-20
Continued on Page Two.)
Vance Rated
High In N. c.
Social Scale


Raleigh, Sept. 90 Mecklenburg
stands first and Brunswick last in
a ranking of the North Carolina coun-
ties in economic and social concerns
according to a standing worked out
by Lena Mae Williams, University of
North Carolina, in which seventeen
distinct factors were considered in
the rankings.
The following tables were used, with
each county being given relative
score: 1. Value of land and building
per farm; q Value of farm land and
buildings per acre; 3. Bank resources
per inhabitant; 4. Inhabitants per
motor car; 5. Federal income tax pay
ers; g. Farm wealth; T. Farm imple-
ments and machinery; 8. Retail trade;
g. Buying power; 10. Banking capital
per inhabitant; II. Milk cows: IL.
County, municipal and district debt;
13. Taxable wealth per inhabitant;
IA. Value of factory products per
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-20
Hocutt Is Named
To Succeed Fulk
Who Has Resigned

Raleigh, Sept. 2O.-(AP)-Rona1d
Hocutt will become head of the divi-
sion of highway safety October 1,
Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell
announced today, in succession to
Major Arthur Fulk, who resigned to
enter private business in Surry county
John T. Armstrong, head of the di-
vision of delinquent tax collections for
the revenue department, will become
the commanding major of the patrol
Hocutt has been "chief assistant" to
Major Fulk. The division of delin-
uuent tax collections will be abolished.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-20
Il Duce Roars
Defiance And
Rattles Sabre

Udine, Italy, Sept. 2O.-(AP)--
Premier MussOlini tonight en-
phasized Italy's readiness for war,
without reference, however, to the
perilous crisis in CzechOsl0valla.
In a martial speech at Udine,
which he described as the Italian
war capital, ii Duce said that
the Fascist march "is not yet fin
nished, and nobody will stop u.s."
Mussolini, his voice hoarse, seem
ingly with indignation, shouted his
scorn for foreign criticism of Italy.
evidently, many foreigners pre-
ferred the Italy of another epoch, he
roared. MANY foreigners, whom we
have every right to scorn, believe the
Italian people should exist simply to
entertain people from other countries
All this is finished irrevocably. We
prefer to be feared, and hatred makes
no differences to us, because we
scorn it,
Mussolini declared it was time that
(Nnnfiv11oI IN Darn TxunA
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-20

VI dtAC SOii6A C0SAO'A
nominations. True,
most of the New
Dealers he indorsed
have been renomi-
mated, but not quite
all Of them. He lost
Senator Pope in
Idaho, Senator Nc
Adoo in California
and a scattering of
1oxuor ho11co nnn1a-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-20

bers, such as Representative Maverick
in Texas. In short, he wasn't altogeth-
err successful in the denomination OF
New Deal incumbents, who usually
are easier to keep in office than it is
to enable new aspirants to break in
initially. On the other hand, the DEM
ocratic Old Dealers, toward whom the
administration has been more or less
openly hostile, have been practically
uniformly victorious. Besides, several
Old Dealers, whom the administration
didn't oppose (because it realized the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-20
Soviet Help
Is Reported
For Czechs
Russia Will Support.
Little Republic IF Hit
Ter Is Resisted, Geneva
Hears

Geneva, Sept. 2O.(AP) - zecho-
sIovalxia was reported today to
have received Soviet Russian
promise of support if Germany
tried to seize Sudetenland, but to
have found in ROumania a pos
sibIe barrier to such aid.
Sources close to the Russian dele
CATION to the League of Nations said
Moscow had informed Prague that il
Czechoslovakia would resist any Ger
man attack, she would receive Soviet
support.
Russia. however, was described as
declaring she could not guarantee a
means of getting Soviet men and
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-20
CARTERET MAN HELD
FOR Staying SON

Beaufort, Sept. 2O-(AP)-A
man dOclxeted as j. w. Watson,
Carteret county farmer, was held
in jail today charged with fatally
wounding his 22-year-Old son, j.
w. Watson, Jr., last night. COro-
ner George Dill said the man
claimed he shot i'm self-defense.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-20
Serious Border Clashes Now
Threaten Real War Outbreak
CZECHS REPLY
is DELIVERED

Prague, Sept. 20.-(APl--The
Czechoslovak government annOunc-
ed tonight that it had delivered it's
reply to Britain and France on
their proposal to end the European
crisis, and that it considered the
/ way was left open to further "dip-
lOmatic negotiations"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-20
WEATHER

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy and cooler, Oc-
casional rain in extreme west pOr-
ton tonight; Wednesday fair and
cool, except occasional rain in
morning on northeast coast.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-20
1t Will Take
The Elections
ToGive Trend
BY CHARLES r. STEWART
Central Press COlumnist

Washington, Sept. 2O.-GeneraIIy
speaking. President Roosevelt has lost
his fight to dictate this years Demo-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-20
Deane-Burgin
Ruling Likely
On Tomorrow
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,

Raleigh, Sept. 20.--Gregg Cherry
and Libby Ward, chairman and secre-
tary, respectively, of the Democratic
State Committee, will probably
breathe a bit easier after tomorrow.
Meaning that they probably will
know for whom they are campaigning
in the eighth congressional district.
The Supreme Court is expected to
determine Wednesday whether G. B.
Deane, of Richmond, or w. O. Burgin.
of Davidson, is the party's nominee.
In the interim, the State Demo
cratic big shots have been trying to
line up something of an organization
and start some preliminary work in
the eighth.
While it hardly seems possible, a
really stiff fight from Republican
John r. Jones is being freely predict
ed in many quarters. Some who are
not professional viewers-wth alarm
and who have been in the eighth de-
clare there is even more feeling than
has been shown on the surface. They
don't laugh when they predict pos
sible G. o. p. triumph.
Incidentally, there is now talk that
walter Lambeth, sitting congressman
from the eighth, may be induced to
change his mind about retiring. This
If course, contemplates first Undue
mo the Supreme Court winner of the
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Evening star., 1938-12-05
U. 5. Cotton investment
Cited in Referendum
By the Associated Press.

0y tn0 A4B0ClALe0 Free4.
Administration farm officials said
yesterday that II cotton farmers
rejected the A. A. AS marketing
control program In the referendum
to be conducted Saturday, the Gov
ernment's $475 900 ,0C0 investment in
cotton would be further impaired.
That sum has been advanced to
growers in loans secured by 10,l00,.
600 bales Of cotton.
Prices of cotton-and the value
OF the Government stocks of loan
cotton-could be expected to de-
cline. oh1cials said, II farmers de-
cided they did not want to restrict
the production Of next years crop
by limiting the amount that could
be sold without penalty.
The Nations $500 900 producers
Of cotton will vote on the specific
question Of whether they want the
Federal Government to invoke strict
marketing quota provisions OF the
farm law to keep sales of 1899 cotton
in line with expected market require
ments. An Affirmative vote by at
least two-thirds Of those voting is
required to put the quotas into
effect.
Of1icials said that, If the quotas
were rejected, production could be
expected to be considerably larger
than market needs.
Authorities have estimated that
the price OF cotton-now about 8.5
cents a pound-would be depressed
as much as or cents a pound IL
all restrictions on production were
removed.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Mrs. J.T. Gui|foy|e Dies
After Lopg Illness

Mrs Madeleine Felicita Guilfoyle,
"a, whose husband, John r. Gull
foyle, Is a former superintendent of
the Engraving Division Of the Bu-
reau Of Engraving and Printing, died
Saturday at her home, 5408 Colorado
avenue NV. after a long illness.
Funeral services vii be held at . 80
an. tomorrow in the Nativity Cath
olic Church. Burial will be In Mount
Olivet Cemetery.
A native of New York, Mrs. Gull
foyle was q descendant of English
nobility. She came to Washington
when Mr.. Guilfoyle went to work
at the bureau at the outbreak of
the World War. She had travelled
extensively in Asia and Europe.
Mrs. Guilfoyle was an active men,
Der of the Nativity Catholic Church
and earlier had belonged to Holy
Trinity Catholic Church.
Besides her husband, who is now
chief engraver and consultant of
the Security Banknote Co. OF Phila-
delphia, Mrs. Guilfoyle leaves a son,
Gerald Guilfoyle, a patent lawyer
OF this city; q daughter, Mrs. Made
leine Maldonado Of Bogota, Colom-
bia. South America; sister, Miss
Lillian Cullen, New York City, and
three grandchildren.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Funeral Rites tomorrow
For Mrs. Marion Field

Funeral services for Mrs. Marion
Kershaw Field. 68. who died in Wal
ter Reed Hospital Friday following
a stroke about two weeks ago. will
be held in the chapel at Fort Myer,
Va, at 2 pm. tomorrow. Burial will
be In Arlington National Cemetery.
Mrs. Field was the wife of Mai.
Robert B. Field, U. S. A., retired.
The couple recently had resumed
residence in Falls Church. Va, fol-
lowing Maj. Fields retirement from
active service last August from a
post at Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. Field was born in Charleston,
S. c., the daughter of Col. Robert
Alexander Young. Confederate off,
Ger, and Julia Adelaide Whittemore
Young. She was a member Of the
Army and Navy Chapter, Daughters
of the American Revolution, here:
a member of the Women Of 76
Chapter, D. A. r., in Brooklyn: the
Huguenot Society Of South Carolina
and the Daughters of the Confed-
eracy.
She is survived by her husband
and two sons. Robert M. and Francis
NJ, both residents of Brooklyn.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Three Quokers Sail to Make
Plea for German Minoriti;es

Harvey said the trio sailed from
New York last Friday on the Queen
Mary to observe and bring back
some idea how we could help Al
leviate conditions" in Germany. He
said the delegation consisted of
Or. Rufus NJ. Jones, Haverford
College philosophy professor; DR..
Robert Yarnall, Philadelphia manu-
tacturer, and George A. Walton,
principal OF a Friends school at
Newton Square, Pa.
DR.. Jones informed the Record
In a ship-to-shore telephone con-
versation from mid-Atlantic that
the mission hoped Ito see Chancellor
Hitler himself" and take up "the
whole problem of caring for the
Jews in Germany and the problem
Of emigration"
Evening star., 1938-12-05

starting point for the probing Of
actual monopolies was motivated,
Mx. Arnold said, by the fact that
"a patent is legal monopoly grant,
ed on the theory that it will pro-
mote the progress Of science and
useful arts. The law at present
affords to the patent owner such a
wide choice in exploiting a new in
dustrial art that 1t offers wide op-
portunities for the restraint OF trade
These opportunities are facilitated
by the technical complexity Of patent
law, the costs Of litigation. and the
ever-present problem Of drawing q
sound line between the legitimate
use of patents and the uneconomic
extensions Of that privilege.
I'm submitting evidence on patent
practices we have selected automo-
biles and glass. not with an intent
to single out those industries. but
because they illustrate typical situa-
tions which are common throughout
the industrial field. Moreover, they
involve products which are Of in
terest to every consumer
The Justice Department said l3 in
the automobile industry and Al in
glass manufacturing had been sub
poenaed. or advised by letter that
they could expect a subpoena, to
testify before the committee this
week.
Among others who may appear for
the automobile industry are Charles
F. Kettering. General Motors vice
president; Robert C. Graham, ex-
ecutive vice president Of Graham
Paige Motors Corp, and Alvan
Macauley. president of the Packard
Motor Car Co.
Among the representatives of the
glass industry who have been askd
to testify are Frank c. Ball, presi-
dent, and George A. Ball. vice presi-
dent, of Ball Brothers, Muncie, Ind. j;
Alexander D. Falck, chairman. and
Amory Houghton, president, of the
Corning Glass Works, Elmira, N. Y,
and William E. Lewis, president of
Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Toledo,
Ohio.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
LocuI Poet Honored

A poem written by Oreon Marie
Mckee of 1927 @ street NV. will
be included In the Crown Anthology
Of Verse to be published early next
year, it was announced by the New
York publishers today.
Mrs. Mckee submitted her poem,
entitled "The Spirit of Her." in .
contest recently sponsored by the
publishing house. Mrs. Mckee, 4
feature writer for a Aim company
in Alexandria, Va, Is the author
Of q book of poems called "A Poets
Diary"
Evening star., 1938-12-05

gested that some experienced car
tographer prepare a new world map
with the Western Hemisphere In the
center as a means whereby "the ma
tions Of the Western Hemisphere
could obtain q better perspective OF
their political, economic, and cul-
tural relationships to Europe, Al.
RIGA and Asia il q new map dividing
the world at the longitude east go
from Greenwich were developed and
used"
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Manufacturer Dies

NEW BRITAIN. Conn, Dec. 3
N.-Charles r. Smith, II, chairman
OF the board Of Landers, Frary IL
Clark, manufacturers of cutlery and
electrical appliances, and long prom
inent In Connecticut industry, died
yesterday In his home after 4 brief
illness.
Born in Newinston, he went to
work for Landers, Frary u Clark at
the age Of II. He was named chair.
man of the board In 1918.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
New York Boards 10
Sixth Avenue Ell
After Last Trip
Souvenir Hunting Mob
Almost Wrecks Final
Four Trains
~ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-Workmen
boarded up stations of the 60-year-
old Sixth Avenue Elevated Railroad
today after a sentimental farewell
typical of the way noisy Manhattan
says good-by to the things 1t out
grows.
Because the eel" is to be torn
down shortly and replaced by a CITY,
owned subway, the city forgave it its
perennial clangor and schreeching
wheels last night and made much
of the dingy, overhead line as 1t
became . ghost promptly at 1901
am.
Four "last' trains were required
to haul the throng of romanticists
anxious to pay nickel for q jolting
journey into metropolitan legend.
Mob Of Souvenir Hunters.
The Anal trip just before midnight
attracted mob of souvenir hunters.
boisterous children, policemen. SEN
timental oldsters and glum ofncials.
Fannie Hurst, who has immor-
talized in story the people who live
In the twilight shadow of the "el,"
was there, nostalgia in crimson
gown.
Other passengers were William J.
McColl, 78, who piloted the first
wood burning Sixth Avenue "el''
train In 1873, and James F. Collins,
II, who rode as a boy Of II on the
"el's" maiden trip.
Mr.. Collins recalled, smiling, that
"the passengers were eager for the
ride, but fearful of the consequences,
for they sat on the edge of their
seats"
Rip on Seat Cushions.
The crowd that jammed into the
seven-car train at the Fifty-third
street terminal last night for the
closing southwark trip spent more
time standing on the seats than sit
ting on them.
Three hundred nifty. police were
aboard to check vandalism, but pas
sengers Immediately began unscrew-
ing light bulbs, ripping of wicker
seat cushions and tearing down ad-
vertising cards and glass Framed
copies of the ordinance on expecto-
ration.
The careening half -hour ride down
to the Battery was in the New Yeaar
eve spirit, marked by. hysterical
laughter, shouting and horseplay
and much footing of whistles.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
24th Bus-Truin Crash
Victim Succumbs
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. S.
Fifteen-year-old Rela Beckstead
died last night a few hours after
funeral services were held for IA
victims Of the Thursday collision
of a Jordan school bus and a freight
train. Her death was the oath from
the Nations worst motor vehicle
accident.
She was one Of 80 persons in the
bus.
In mass funeral services yesterday,
prayers were offered that the most
critically injured OF the survivors
would recover.
Parents of children who died in
the New London (Tex) school dis
aster in March, 1887, sent a message
OF sympathy.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Stoir Fall Is FutoI
To Olympic Swimmer
BY the Associated Press,

By inc A180C1tted PfeSS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-Ray Ruddy,
~. three times an Olympic swim
ming and water polo representative
Of the United States, is dead.
A fractured skull caused his death
IN = hospital last night after he had
fallen down . flight Of stairs at the
home Of an aunt Saturday.
Ruddy set q worlds record 1T 600
yards when IS years old and COM
peted In the 1928 Olympics at the
age Of Is. Many OF the marks he
established in A. A. U. and inter-
collegiate meets during the subse-
quent 10 years still stand,
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Third Time Charm

SALEM, Greg. R.-Salem police
arrested a man fitting the descrip-
ton Of one wanted in Kelso. Wash.
on an assault charge. Then they
picked up a second, who gave the
name Of the accused. A third was
picked up because he was with the
other two.
A Kelso policeman Identified the
third as the wanted man.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
J. W. Overstreet Dies:
Ex-Member of House
By the Associated Press.

By the A3s0ciated Press.
SYLVANIA. Ga, Dec 5.-J. w.
Overstreet. u, local attorney and
former national Representative, died
at his home here yesterday after 4
months illness.
He first served In Congress in
1907, filling the unexpired term of
Rufus E. Lester. He was elected to
the National House in 1915 and
served three consecutive terms.
Upon retiring to Sylvania in 1923
he practiced law until his health
began to fail.
His widow, one son and three
brothers survive.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
DisIiking Comparisons,
Star Asks Divorce
By the Associated rress.

0S e&ao A0SOCl0teO ETe01.
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 5.-Jane
Wyman, screen starlet, seeks \
divorce today from Myron Futter-
man, wealthy dress manufacturer,
who married her in New Orleans ls
months ago.
She cited four points on which she
and her husband couldn't agree:
She liked to dance with other men.
He called this flirting.
She wanted to rear 4 family-He
didn't.
She liked to spend her screen in
come. He thought she was extrav-
agant.
He wanted to compare her with
his former wife-she didn't.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
By the Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5.-A trio
of Pennsylvania Quakers, members
Of a sect characterized by traits Of
peace lowing and neighborly aflec-
ton. were bound for Germany today
to plead with high NaLiS. perhaps
even Adolf Hitler. on behalf OF Jews
and other prosecuted minorities
The group was headed by q rs
year-old college professor who helped
feed destitute Germans after the
World War.
A report OF the unusual mission
was published in copyright story
In the Philadelphia Record and con-
flrmed by John s. c. Harvey Of
Philadelphia, a member OF the Amer
ican Friends Service Committee of
the Society of Friends.
Evening star., 1938-12-05

PHILADELPHIA PA-UNUSUAL "ZOO"-Lorna Whelan Oeft)
and Charlotte Horvath T. looking the fashioned
California prvet hedges in the yard Of
which attracts visitors from throughout the country
bending twgs prvet years the
Is animals among them two reindeer
Sleigh several deer bear peacock and six-oot elk
Wide World Photo.
Evening star., 1938-12-05

ireland has proclaimed the Holed
Stone at Ballyroon and the stone
circle and cairn at Kealkiu national
monuments.