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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
Britain Will
Turn Over
Bone of Contention in
British-Japanese Dis
pute at Tientsin to Be
H land e d. Japanese;
Tokyo Informed o f
London's Decision.

London, Aug. 11.-(AP)-The Bri-
tish government announced today
that four Chinese alleged terrorists
who had been the center OF the Brl-
tish-Japanese dispute at Tientsin
would be handed over to japanese
authorities for trial.
1t was announced that new evil
dence submitted by the japanese had
established prina facie cases against
the four Chinese, and that they
would be handed over Immediately
japanese authorities in Tientsin ac-
cused the four of completely in the
killing of. a Chinese customs official
of the dominated north
China regime. British refusal to turn
them over after they were seized in
the British concession at Tientsin
brought on the japanese army block
ade of the British and French con-
cessions, which had been in force
since June IA.
Sir Robert Craigie, ambassador to
Japan, has been instructed to con-
vey London's decision to the Tokyo
government The ambassador tC
China, Sir Archibald Carr, also has
been instructed to inform the Chung
king government of the British de-
cisiOn.
Two of the Chinese will be tried
on murder charges growing out OF
the assassination of S. G.. Cheng, the
customs official, April g. The other
two will be charged with member
ship in illegal organizations.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
German And Italian
Foreign Ministers
Confer At Salzburg

retreat nearby. Plans call for him
to spend the afternoon and perhaps
the evening at the fuehrer's retreat
Ciano stepped from his train with
broad smile and shook hands heari-
ly with Won Ribbentrop, who escort
ed him between rows of Hitler
youth to waiting automobile. The
German foreign minister accom-
panied his guest to the place where
the Italians were quartered.
Ribbentrop left Immediately, and
Ciano, wearing a gay blue suit, fol-
lowered half an hour later to the
scene of their meeting, Won Ribben-
trop's 18th century summer home
about Is miles south of here.
There, after lunch in the Sc
cluded castle, they delved into their
discussions. Beyond this afternoon's
talk, which was expected to last un-
til dark, there was no announced
program. ss4s
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
Bank Reports
Show Pickup
In Business
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.

Raleigh, Aug. 11.-Release of the
June 80 abstract of the condition of
North Cardinals 155 commercial
banks, with III branches, and its
33 industrial banks, with one branch
indicate that business in North Caro-
lima is enjoying big pickup, Bank
ing Commissioner Gurney P. Hood
said in a statement accompanying
the abstract.
Everything in this report indi-
Gates a tremendous increase in the
volume of business being transacted
in North Carolina, he said in COM
menting on the fact that it is not one
or two items which lead to the en-
couraging conclusion he has reach
ed.
The commercial State banks set
a double record-a new peak in
total resources, with $500. ,964.63,
while for the first time in the history
of NORTH Carolina banking the June
80 statement showed greater ag-
griate of resources than did the pre-
ceding December consolidated re-
port.
That the increase irf bank assets
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
Race Horse
Publisher In
Indictment

Chicago, Aug. 11.-(AP)-M. L.
Annenberg, former neWsboy VINO
amassed a fortune in publishing race
horse information, was indicted
with three associates today by a
federal grand jury which charged
he "willfully cvaded the income
tax law by failing TO pay taxes,
plus interest and penalties Of $5,-
546,348.89 from 1882 to 1886, in
elusive.
District Attorney William J.
Campbell said it was the largest in
come tax case in government his
tory.
The 5O-page indictment listed the
amount Of allegedly evaded tax at
S3,258,8O997 for the five years, and
the so percent penalties and six
percent interest at $2,289,574.92.
Annenberg, whose race wires
weave over the United States and
into Canada, also publishes news
papers and magazines and has large
real estate holdings. He listed his
net income for the five years as
$1,175,117.15; the government con-
tended it was $5,028, ,628.26.
Others indicted were Annerberg's
son, Walter, and Arnold w. Kruse,
and Joseph E. Hafner, alias Samuel
Goddard, whom the government
identified as officials of the Cecilia
Company, Annenbergs top holding
corporation.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
Capital Speculates
On FDR Statement
As To Conservative
Some Think Presi-
dent Would Walk Out
Of Convention If Gar
ner Were Nominated;
Roosevelt AS An In
dependent Discount
ed.

Washington, Aug. 11.--(AP)-The
question Of how far President
Roosevelt would go in his avowed
refusal to participate in elccting Il
conservative" or lips crvic e''
Democrat as his successor intrigued
capital politicians today.
Did he mean, they Speculated,
that he would head d third party il
an anti-New Deal Democrat were
nominated? Or would he merely sit
in his White House study or on the
velvety lawns Of his Hyde Park, N.
Y, home and remain silent through
out the 1910 campaign?
The chief executive himself gave
no clue in mis- message to the Young
Democrats convention at Pittsburgh,
limiting his comment 10 statement
that he would find it impossible 10
have any active part in such an un-
fortunate suicide Of the Democratic
party"
Senator Thomas, Democrat, Okla
homa, VINO talked with the chief
executive last Sunday, told re-
porters, under no conditions do
believe he would run as IN indie
pendent.
The Oklahoma senator added the
personal opinion, however, that Mr..
Roosevelt might walk out of the
Democratic convention # Vice
President Garner were named 10
succeed him.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
Blackout Is
Success For
London Area
100000 Persons
Live in Section Co.
operating in Test of
Defenses A g a in S t
F Foreign Enc m y
Planes; 500 Bornbers
Participate.

London, Aug. 11.-(AP)-Great
Brtain's greatest ''blackout'' a dem
onsTation of civilian and military
defenses against bombing raids, ear
ly today blotted out lights in half Of
England, an area populated by 3d.
100000 persons.
As dawn streaked the eastern sky,
Just before the signal for flights on,
Sir John Anderson, lord privy seal
and air raid precautions chief, told
reporters that the experiment would
prove Of great value" but that it
was impossible yet to express a
considered Judgment"
As daylight progressed, anti-air-
craft searchlights, which had famed
lne sky for three hours and a half,
were dimmed and London, nerve
center OF the % blacked out counties
u southeastern England, came back
y Hght. Earlier air ministry reports
oll The success Of London's defenses,
pursuit planes, anti-aircraft guns
ana the balloon barrage, were
SKetchy, out Londerners who tramp
n
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11

Salzburg, Germany, Aug. 11.-(AP)
Italian Foreign Minister Count
Ciano arrived here today for three
day conference with German For
eign Minister Won Ribbentrop to at
tune the Rome-Belin axis to new
conditions in Europe.
Ciano brought suggestions from
Premier Mussolini on what the close
ly cooperating political and military
partners should do about the free
city of Danzig, the Balkans and the
Far East.
The two ministers began imme-
diately on conversations which it
was acknowledged in every CONT
mental capital, may have profound
bearing on the course of events in
unsettled eastern Europe in the next
few weeks.
The two foreign ministers are ex-
pected to travel tomorrow to see
Adolph Hitler, now at his mountain
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
Teacher Pay
Chief Worry
For Board
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Rv HENRY AVERILL

Raleigh, Aug. lift may pe that
before this piece gets into print the
State School Commission will nave
worked out something definite in
the matter of distributing some
S269,OOO the legislature turned over
to its discretion.
It is much more probable that
commission members will still be
discussing not Say wrangling
over-what to do with the money.
There was a special salary COM
mittee named to study the matter. 1t
has, and its members have come TO
a sort Of an agreement, though only
at long last and after much division
of opinion. Now the matter is up to
the whole commission.
And there seem TO be as many
minds as members.
There are three major points at
issue, Cd reduction of the differen-
tial between salary schedules for
white and Negro teachers; (2) which
class room teachers to reward with
pay increases or increments, and
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
JESSE MARTIN, OF
TARBORO, SUICIDES

Tarboro, Aug. 11.-(AP)-Jesse
B. Martin, At, for 18 years member
of the Tarboro police force, COM
mitted suicide at 8:41 a. m. today in
front of the Hart cotton mill. Martin
had been in depressed condition
for the past three months. His wife
died Feb. 26 and he had been more
or less vacationing since that time.
Coroner J. C. Raby said Martin came
to his death by a pistol in his own
hand and termed it suicide. Funeral
services will be held Sunday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
Claims COP
Has Nothing
To Stand On
Barkley T brill S
Young Democrats by
Defense of New Deal
Program; Williams
Says There Is No Re-
lief in Politics.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Aug. 11.-(AP)-
Senator Barkley, Democrat, Ken
lucky, the Senate majority floor
leader, brought the Young Democrats
National Convention to it's feet today
when he declared "our Republican
friends have nowhere to go and
nothing to stand on, and are search
ing around in the darkness for an
issue of some sort"
Speaking extemporaneously to a
convention moving two hours behind
schedule, and after Aubrey Williams,
National Youth administrator, had
denied there was "any politics in re-
lief" Barkley said instead of "my
kingdom for a horse" Republicans
are shouting IAN issue, an issue, my
kingdom for an ISSUE" in an effort
to find and make an ISSUE "Some
of them have been willing to sink
their country in order that they
might find an issue''
Recounting the history of the Dem
ocratic party, he asserted it's accom-
plishments had laid the foundation
for the accomplishments of the pres
ent administration, and the party had
always been New Deal party"
He said the Republicans "say they
Deal, but object to the methods. They
do not tell us what their objective
would have been had they been in
power"
Loud applause greeted his state
ment that relief rolls would have
been materially reduced if the ad-
ministration had had the "whole-
hearted cooperation of those employ
ing labor"
whether we have reached the
point in our history where we are
confronted with permanent unem-
/Coxf;p,,oJ ~ Dooo r,,,o\
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
Six New Projects
In East Carolina
Approved by WPA

Raleigh, Aug. 11.-(AP)-Six new
projects approved today by State
WPA Administrator c. G.. McGinnis
will cost $94,558 and provide jobs
for 2O9 persons. The projects in
clude: Edgecombe county, construc-
ton of vocational training build
ing at the West Edgecombe school
near Rocky Mount, costing $7,028;
Hertford county, installation Of
sewage system for Winton, costing
$4,315; Durham county, country
wide community sanitation project
at a ost of $25,639; and Nash and
Edgecombe counties, obstruction of
culverts for land drainage in
Rocky Mount, costing $25,558.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
Good U.S.. Crops To Help
Fall Business Upturns
Farm Dollar Holding It's Own, But Farm-La-
Dor Hook-Up Is Bunk, Babson Says; Harvest
Under Way Throughout The Country.

can assure readers that farmers earn
what they get for their produce.
Remember, there are no eight-till-
five, five-day weeks on the farm.
It's seven days week, 365 days a
year. The farmer is on the job no
matter whether it is 105 degrees IN
the shade (and mostly there is no
shade) or 20 degrees below zero
And, when the end of the year rolls
around, his chief compensation is
the satisfaction of being beholden
to no one. His cash compensation,
based on today's prices, is largely
incidental.
Prices Poor
This summer, farmers are getting
less for their products than any
other summer in 25 years, excepting
only the worst of the depression
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
r. BY ROGER w. BABSON
copyright 1899, Publishers Financial
Bureau. Inc.

ti,'jt ujloucester, Mass, Aug. 11.-Ac-
is 'ay i on the average American farm
+ F,'o aoout at the years peak this week.
Very one who can run a tractor.
ni41 NESS horse, use a hoe, or handle
pltch fork is drafted. It is a very dry
o,.ler o,uiiller here in New England but not
co' corIyWhere. Crops for the entire
vo.y vountfy will be almost as big as last
cottos WHopplng harvests. Right now
wost' 9n IS beng picked in the south
nortl, wheat is heading up as far
at Il, ~. aS Canada; truck crops are
Nau. U'glr y peak in the Atlantic and
neIou england states; Dixie water
ctiop oilS are rolling into northern
mov5. potatoes and cantaloups are
Eng ENG off California's rich farms.
-@e''lns as all this may sound, /
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
Two Fliers Begin
Atlantic Crossing

st. Peters, Nova Scotia, Aug. II.
-(Canadian Press - Two New
York aviatOrs, Alex Loeb, 80, and
Dick Decker, %, announcing their
destination was Ireland, took off
from Point Michaud Beach, near
this south Cape Breton island
community today in Ryan
mOnOplane.
The pair had been seen around
Cape Breton airport at Sydney,
Nova Scotia, so miles from here
for about a week, but had given
no indication of planning a trans
Atlantic flight. The start was
made at 9:C4 a. M, eastern stand
ard time. The plane carried $50
gallons of gasoline.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
MRS. GEORGE COAN
PASSES in DURHAM

Durham, Aug. 11.-(AP) = Mrs.
George w. Coan, of Winston-Salem,
mother of George w. Coan, Jr., for
mer State WPA administrator, died
at local hospital early this morn
ing. The remains will be removed at
once to Winston-Salem.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11

ing of the Presi-
dents plan for a
self liquidating
governmental in =
vestment S y stem
than in connection
with any other Of
the lawmakers re-
jections of White
House recOmmen-
datiOnS d u r i n G
their recently ad-
journed S e S sion.
A dninistrationistS
haven't abandoned
this idea, by any
means. B e t ween
january fhpV'H do
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
tt
ropical Storm,
Moves Inland
Florida

Jacksonville, Fla, Aug. 11.-(AP)
"A tropical Insurance of less than
hurricane force moved today toward
the Florida east coast in a direction
which the Weather Bureau said
would carry it inland near Palm
Beach about mid-afternoon. A 9 a.
m. advisory placed the storm 100
miles east-southeast of Palm Beach.
1t was moving west-northwestwar
at IA miles per hour.
"The center is very small, but at
tended by small area of gale winds
up to SO miles per hour, and lar
ger area of Squalls" the report said.
Storm warnings, which earlier had
been displayed from Daytona Beach
(Cnnfinl1nd on PaOa EiNal
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
AT of L-CIO
Agreement
Is Pleaded

Washington, Aug. 11-(AP)- A
nlea for a. working agreement" be-
tween the American Federation of
Labor and the CIO, even though they
maintain their separate entities, was
made today by Chairman Thomas.
Democrat, Utah, Of the Senate Labor
Committee.
Summing up the So days of hear
ings held by the committee on pro-
noSed changes in the Wagner act
Thomas told reporters that he saw
no reason why the new labor or
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
Still
Anxious For
Lending Bill
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, Aug. II.-RooseVeIt
administration spokesmen express
themselves far more bitterly relative
to Congress shelly
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11

their best to create public sentiment
sufficient to force the legislators to
yield when they reconvene. 1t was
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11

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Evening star., 1939-06-28
ESCAPE
BY Fred Neher

and to spell the word
called the letter in center column opposite
correctly
he husters.
Answer to Yesterdays Letter-Out
(P) SPACING-CASING doors framework.
(E) CERATE-TRACE Ito track.
(T) TAVERN-RAVEN (Poe's immortal crow.
(D MADISON-NOMADS (peregrnators).
(T) PLUMNdET-PUMNfEL (thrash thoroughly.
Evening star., 1939-06-28

From out of the gloom the savage lion charged
at the two unarmed men. Tarzan, his bare
feet gripping the stone floor, stood ready to
meet the furious assault. But suddenly as If
stopped by the hand of Titan, the lion was
jerked upright, then fell backward.
Evening star., 1939-06-28

intended for hurrying. AS for Peter,
he scampered into the bramble-tan-
gle. It wasn't that he was afraid
Of Unc' Billy Possum. No, indeed,
nothing like that. It was because
he feared his own unruly tongue.
He was afraid that without so in
tending he might give away Mrs.
Slow Poke's secret.
Mrs. Slow Poke did her best, but
her best hadn't taken her far when
Unc' Billy Possum arrived. As soon
s,.1s,.s.s =: he saw Mrs. low Poke his eyes
Evening star., 1939-06-28

suppose yo' think All don't know
what yo' been doing somewhere
round here, but yo' is mistaken.
Ah'm sorry, Mrs. Slow Poke, but yo'
is mistaken. All wasn't bon yes
terday. Yo' done been hiding some
aiggs around here somewhere or yo'
wouldn't have been so quickly tenn
pered when All happens along.
Ah1l leave yo' on your back for
lii spell while All looks around.
All cert'nly would enjoy some nice
fresh turt3e aiggs. All reckons they
would filAa LII empty place All
Evening star., 1939-06-28

why, how do yo' do, Mrs. Slow
Poke!" he cried. "Ah cert'nly am
glad to see you'll"
For answer Mrs. Slow Poke Kissed
sharply at Unc' Billy, which wasn't
at all polite. Then she Withdrew
into her house and shut both doors.
Unc' Billy grinned. He hadn't seen
Peter Rabbit and he didn't know
that any one was watching him.
"Yo cert'nly are the most impolite
person All knows of, Mrs. Slow
Poke" SAID he. reaching out and
turning hea over on her back. "Ah
Evening star., 1939-06-28

den. 1t came to him that If Unc' Billy
should find those eggs and eat them
there would be no little Slow Pokes
by and by. At that Peter began to
be q little worried. The more he
thought Of that possibility the more
anxious he became. He wished he
could do something to save those
eggs. But what could he do? Per-
haps he might lead Unc' Billy away.
He would try.
So Peter crept out from the bram-
biz e-tangle. Hello. Unc' Billy" said
h3. let u 70 take q walk"
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Bedtime Stories
By THORNTON w. BURGESS

Unc' Bill Possum is q reg'lar tramp.
Unc' Bill Possum is . shrewd old scamp.
whenever you know that he's about,
Take my advice and you watch outl
Mrs. Slow Poke looked long and
sharply at Peter Rabbit to make
sure that Peter meant what he said
when he told her that he wouldn't t
give her secret away. Satisfied that
he did mean it, she turned away
and slowly crawled of. It was at
that very instant that Peter looked
up the hill and saw Unc' Billy Pos
sum coming down the Lone Little
Path. Mrs. Slow Poke saw him also
and tried to urryAbut alas! Slow
Poke and Mrs. Slow Poke were never
Evening star., 1939-06-28
BY willard
Trademark spDlied
For q. s. Patent Once

Unc' Billy merely grinned. "Ah'm
too busy, Br'er Rabbit" said he.
"Ahm too busy. BY the way, Br'er
Rabbit, have yo' taken any particu-
lar notice Of what Mrs. Slow Poke
over there has been doing around
here? Have yo' seer her digging
anywhere about here?"
Now what could Peter say to that
and not tell an untruth?
Evening star., 1939-06-28
done got in NAH stomach this very

done got in NAH stomach this very
blessed minute"
Now all this Mrs. Slow Poke didn't
hear because she was inside her
house with the doors shut. Perhaps
it was just as well she didn't hear.
It wouldn't have made her any easier
in her mind. But If she didn't hear,
Peter Rabbit did. At first he didn't
think much about 1t. He simply
wondered If Unc' Billy would be
smart enough to find that place
where Ms. Slow Poke had buried
those precious eggs. Then, Of sud-
Evening star., 1939-06-28

- South Africa Is 70 have . new
I ,O00-mile air service.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-10-26
By Anne Hull

Newcomers to Greenbelt spared the inconven-
fences and difficulties put up with by the first
families, but they mi much Of the contagious II
thusiasn that characterized the early days.
Greelbelt's first families inhabd ted block, that
bounded by Ridge, Crescent, Gardemay and East
way. Every packed his f1ashl GIT back in the
fall Of 1887, for there street Lamps. There
were movies, either, but they were hardly missed,
there usually at least two meetings Of
week.
"The CT tizens Association meetings were the most
excl tingn, reminisced leading citizen. nit
the first chance most Of had had to take part in
Every body want ed to talk at once" Amoe everyone
officer Of some sort since there not e.
nough plain members to go around.
By the end Of January, 1898, the following organ
izations in to the Citizens AS ISOLATION had
into existence: Cooperative Organizing Comm t.
tee; journalistic Club which inaugurated the COOPER
AT); American Legion Post #13o; scoo1-children's
"G,mdrop Coop, and the Credit Union, Greebelt's
first and second cooperatives respectively; Nothers
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-10-26

Clubs Boy scouts ParentTeachers Association; Bridge
Club; Greenbelt Players; Consumer Discussion Group;
Camera Club. The Protestant and Catholic churches
had been holding services since November.
Any old settler, when asked about those early
days, will beam and tell you that they certainly
joyed themselves. Everyone knew everyone else; the
first par ty record is general Hall owe len cele-
bration viii oh ended vi tn a community sing.
Make shifts and incoeweriences treated
jokes. Nary families had to sleep on the floor
at first, as certain shipment Of Greenbelt fur
mture contained thing like 300 mattresses to
l3 bedsteads. TRANSFORMATION problem then, as
now. The mai public conveyance station wagon
driven to East Riverdale every morning at 90 miles
an hour, so they say, by George Panagoulis, who had
not yet joined the Greenbelt police. force.
Housewives could buy a few staples in small
grocery occupying the space taken by the Valet
Shop. R. II. Temp1eman, the manager, had drive
Washington every day for meats, vegetables, and
special orders. There competition for time
from a combination diner and delicatessen opposite
% Ridge Road, the site Of next year's gardens then
private land. The post office existed but no drug
store, Heal Center, cleaning estabi shment beauty
parlor, or barber shop. Yet the original settlers
are sorry for the ST Of sorry because didn't
have the fun Of seeing the town grow from it's first
beginnings.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-10-26

Ellen Quinn Krebs, d.
rector, has commented a
number Of times on the un-
usual enthusiasm of the
actors and actresses re-
hearsing their parts for
awake and Sing". In
stead Of feeling Let
down, as generally oc-
ours after a few re-
hearsals in most plays,
all those going through
their lines have cone to
enjoy the dialogue more e
professional opinion is:
''mus t-be-seenn production
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-10-26

"1II1am A. KnsIey, Players president, and wife
Marcia are cast in the coming ocia-econoc strife
play In the parts of Noe Axelrod Henie Berger.
Hennie, the irresponsible daughter bgles her life
In shiftles5 living and finally deserts her husband
and baby and goes with Noe, reckless, cynical, world
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-10-26
With The Players

Sidney Henes, Greenbe1t math teacher,
is the thespian playing the part Of
Ralph Berger in awake and Singn, the
November 21-22 production. Last weeks
column listed the name enormously as
Sidney Harris.