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Evening star., 1939-09-20
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lean vessels from sailing since last
Friday.
A spokesman for the United States
lines said the Washington. sched-
uled to leave today with 800 pas
sengers, would sail Friday instead.
I'VE postponed the sailing to await
strike developments" he said.
Crew Refuses to Sign.
From other sources. however, 1t
was learned crew members of the
Washington, which doSked Monday
with l,746 passengers transported
from the war zone. had refused to
sign on until the issue of extra COM
pensation was settled.
Other ships held up by the strike
are the American Trader, the Amer
lean Traveller, the Scanstates. the
Iroquois, Excambion and the Black
Gull.
With thousands of American citi-
zens abroad clamoring for passage
home, the tieup daily has become
more serious. particularly in view of
the shortage of passenger vessels
available for returning stranded citi-
zens of neutral powers.
Trial of 81 striking crew members
of the American Trader for refus-
ing to obey their shippers command
to take the vessel to sea continued
before the United States Bureau of
Marine Inspection and Navigation.
Witnesses testified huge crates of
machinery lashed to the ships decks
might have been mistaken for guns
by submarines at a distance.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Budapest
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Gen. Czuma, came on the air and
broadcast report his men had in
flicted heavy losses on German in
fantrymen in the Praga suburban
district to the east and also on the
west.
Mayor Stefan Starzinski asked:
when will Britain and France give
such aid to Poland as will save
us from the fury of German bar
barism. from new deaths. from de-
struction of the remaining buildings
of our city?"
The announcer explained the
death of hundreds of thousands of
women and children and other de-
fenseless civilians of Warsaw" had
forced the Mayor to put that
question to Poland's allies.
Another broadcast said: Warsaw
will continue to resist so long as
her men are able to carry arms"
Leaders Have Fled Poland.
The declarations of continued re-
sistance came despite the fact Po-
lish government leaders, including
President Ignace Moscicki, had left
the country.
Every one of the speakers who al
ternated at the Warsaw microphone
declared I'VE will not surrender"
The station remained on the air
throughout the night. Most of the
broadcasts apparently were designed
to keep up the courage of Warsaw
citizens for whom sleep must have
been nearly impossible in the city of
death.
Between the speeches, rousing
Polish marches were played. AS the
night wore on it became apparent
the announcer had been instructed
at half-hour intervals to read, in
Polish, French and English, the
mayors message asking when allied
help would reach Poland.
The tragedy that was Warsaw's
was emphasized by the matter-of-
fact reading of list of hundreds of
missing men, women and children
who were asked to communicate
with their families-if they still were
alive.
No attempt was made to hide the
havoc wrought in the city by bombs
and shells.
Music Replaces Announcements.
Apparently the radio staff wearied
as dawn approached. Announce
ments were reduced in number and
the station reverted to it's novel de-
vice of letting the world know that
Warsaw was still in Polish hands by
playing the opening bars of Chopin's
"Polonaise" every 80 seconds.
A message last night from Mayor
Starzinski to President Moscicki
wherever you may be" said Warsaw
citizens were doing their duty in a
heroic manner.
Warsaw exists and will exist. We
know nothing about the situation
created by the Russian intervention,
only reports of foreign stations
reaching us.
They cannot break our spirit. We
know that our allies help cannot
come suddenly but we know it will
surely come. We will hold out
for the honor of the nation"
Aristocrats Sleep on Tables.
From Cernauti, Rumania, came
stories Of wealthy Polish aristocrats
forced to sleep on billiard tables in
the towns main coffee house.
Streams of Poles poured into
Hungary through the Tatar, Verecke
and Uzok Passes. Polish automobiles
were backed up in long lines at from
tier stations. Most refugees, how
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Bridges Asks New Deal
To Gust Communists
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Sept.
Ex-senator Styles Bridges, Repub-
lican, of New Hampshire last night
called upon the national admins
tration Ito sweep the Communists
and their fellow travellers out of its
councils and the bureaucracy OF
Washington"
In speech prepared for delivery
at a Republican meeting here, the
Senator said he feared the sympa-
thetic understanding which the New
Dealers have of Stain and his
American cohorts"
Turning to domestic issues, he
declared the burden of debt and
taxes which it (the New DeaD has
placed upon the American people
has made recovery impossible"
The steel industry's tax bill last
year totaled 500 500 900. he said. and
put the industry in the red nearly
SIS 5,O0O, ,O0o.".
These taxes would have been suf-
ficient for a years wages for $4,000
workers." he added.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Shot by Reich Sub
misunderstanding,
Waco5ta Captain Says
Master of American
Freiehter Says He Did
Not Comprehend Signal
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associa ted Press.
NEW YORK, Sept 20-A German
submarine fired shot across the
bow of the American freighter
Wacosta September near the Irish
coast because of misunderstanding
the master of the American vessel
said when it arrived today.
Capt. George r. Self said he did
not understand the submarine S
blinker signal to heave to and be-
fore he could consult his code book
the shot was fired.
The "a passengers aboard the Wa
costa were treated cordially by the
submarine officer and three of his
sailors who boarded the freighter,
Self said.
Prof. Charles Wharton Stork of
Harcum Junior College, Bryn Mawr,
Pa. and a survivor of the sinking
of the Athena. acted as interpreter.
Germans Stern at First.
The Germans were stern when
they first came aboard, but fellow
travellers credited Prof. Stork with
making it rather pleasant visit
The officer was definitely gen.
tleman and sosciety man" said Prof
Stork. "At first he seemed peeved
because his signal was disregarded.
He said it was given in the inter-
national code and in English. When
he left he said. I'll see you at a
tea dance in New York"
After satisfying himself as to the
ships papers and cargo the officer
lined up passengers and made a
speech which Prof. Stork translated
as follows:
Il regret to have detained you,
but this is war. We did not want
to go to war with England, but we
were forced. What would you think
if some one took a piece of your
Southern coast? You would not
like it,
Then he shook hands with Prof.
Stork and said: I'VE are not so very
barbarous, are we? Except that
need a shave" Prof. Stork said
this was pun on the German words
for barber and barbarous.
Smile Not Returned.
Lucille Marsden of Redlands,
Calf, one of six women aboard,
said the submarine officer, who was
very good looking" smiled at her,
but she did not smile back. She
was not frightened, but terribly
mad" she said.
Several passengers in the bow of
the ship when the shot was fired
scurried for shelter.
William Brown of Scarsdale. N. Y.
said he thought some shell splinters
fell on deck, but there was no
panic"
Robert Reed. 9, an English boy,
was another passenger. His parents
were sending him to live with an
aunt, Mrs. Kant, of San Antonio,
Tex, "only for the war"
Another passenger was Mcleod
Stephens of ST. Louis, member of
the Yale tennis team which COM
peted in England during the summer.
Evening star., 1939-09-20

The policeman on the corner Is in
a better position to see the whole
traffic picture than you are on the
sidelines. Observe his signals.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Soviet Army Reservists Are Reported Called to Duty
'StredmIined'
Drill Orders
Used byR. T.C.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
Passage Of the Army's familiar
Squads right" and squads left"
commands was demonstrated yes
terday before 1900 cadets of the
University of Maryland's r. o. T. c.
regiment.
At the regiments first formation
Of the year, instructors ordered an
exhibition of some of the new
"streamlined" drill regulations re-
Gently announced by the War De-
partment.
Under the old regulations, squads
formed in close order involving two
lines of four men each. Instead, a
squad now comprises from to u
men in single extended line, under
command Of sergeant. Corporals
are second in command.
The new drill, officers said, lends
itself more readily to extended order
maneuvers and is easier to teach.
Evening star., 1939-09-20

ever, came afoot over the Car
parthian Mountain routes, climbing
to heights of 5000 feet at some
places.
There were touching scenes as
Hungarians welcomed their tradi-
tional friends. There was warm
food for all from temporary kitchens
and sweets for the Children
Poles who had passed through the
Ukraine said Ukrainian uprisings
had started as soon as Russian in
tervention was announced. The
area, IL miles within the Polish
frontier, was said to be in lawless
confusion.
Children Flee in Nightshirts.
So hasty was the fight of the
Poles that children lacked proper
clothing Some of them wore only
nightshirts. Few families had more
than a handful of Polish currency
and even that was of little value
now.
At least five Polish battalions,
fully equipped and followed by a
supply train and field kitchens,
crossed the border into Hungary and
laid down their rifles.
Polish railroadmen said they were
bringing 400 locomotives to Hun
gary when they were cut off by Ger
man armored cars. With the line
blocked, the railroadmen fled, leav-
ing the locomotives to their enemy.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Penalty for Speed

IOWA CITY, Iowa, Sept. 20 (R.-
Coach Eddie Anderson's demand for
more speed from his University of
Iowa football squad evidently made q
deep impression, at least on Nile
Kinnick, star left halfback.
Kinnick's automobile drivers IL
cense was suspended for Is days by
the police department after he was
clocked at 40 miles an hour in a 25-
mile zone.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Governor of Lwow Found
Dead in Hotel Room

MUNKACS, Hungary, Sept. 20 (P)
Alfred Bitja. so, governor of
Lwow, capital of the Polish Ukraine
was found dead in a hotel room
here.
A letter, found beside his body,
contained instructions for distribu-
tion of s1,500 cash which Bitja
carried with him and directed that
his automobile be given to his
chauffeur.
Bitja arrived here early yesterday
from Poland. Hotel employees said
they heard the sound of a pistol
shot shortly after he entered his
room
Bitja's wife was reported missing
after troops occupied the health
resort where she had been under
treatment. Several of their sons
are officers in the Polish army.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Death by Broken Neck
Ruled Accidental

A certificate of accident had been
issued today by the coroner in the
death of Shelton White, 40, of
route 3. Alexandria, Va.
Mr.. White died last night in Prov
idence Hospital, where he had been
brought on September 8, suffering
from broken neck. Coroner A.
Magruder Macdonald said the man
had been injured in a fall from q
scaffold in Fairfax County, Va.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
900 More Polish Troops
Disormed in Lotvio

RIGA, Latvia, Sept. 20 GA
Polish regiment of 900 men crossed
the frontier today, joining approx
imately 1000 other Polish refugees
in Latvia. The troops were disarmed
and confined.
Latvian coastal defenses were
strengthened following foreign re-
ports that Polish and other sub
marines were cruising the Baltic Sea.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Marriage Long Delayed

SAN DIEGO. Calf, Sept. 20 GP.-
Twelve years ago Gregory A. Tello,
SO, and Maria L. Tabores, AZ, OBJ
tanned a marriage license.
They presented the license to
Municipal Judge Joe Shell yesterday
and we're married. They did not
explain the delay.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Russian Blockade
OF Estonio Is Denied

TALLINN. Estonia, Sept. 20 (P.-
Foreign reports that Soviet Russian
ships had blockaded EstAnias coast
were described here today as un-
founded.
The Russian fleet was acknowl-
edged to be at sea near Estonian wa
terS, but it was said it had not yet
interfered with Estonian trade.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Dovis-Elkins College
President Resigns
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
ELKINS, w. Va, Sept. 20-Dr
Charles E. Albert. president of Davis
and Elkins College, said yesterday
he had submitted his resignation to
trustees. who will meet Thursday
to consider appointment of a sue
cessor.
He explained that he had ac-
cepted the presidency in 1886 with
the understanding that he would
serve until the board found a sue
cessor. His resignation followed
that of Harry Whetsell as business
manager.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
New Device Warns
Of Rudium Dancers
By the Associated Press.

BY tht ASSoclated PfeSS.
A new warning device to protect
both patients and technicians from
radium burns was announced yester-
day by DR.. L. F.. Curtiss of the Bu-
reau of Standards
The device measures the amount
Of radium ray radiation, and. when
the radiation exceeds a safe limit.
lights Q red light and sounds q
bllZZer
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-22

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mental, will be tax-free. In the next
decade, where will you get that $685.
100000 in taxes?"
The conclusion seems to be that
while power will be cheaper, other
! taxation will have to be a darned
sight higher.
Possibly there'l be an economic
margin in favor of cheaper power
versus higher local taxes. Neverthe-
less, the calculation calls for some
figuring. Anyway, they say the Ten
, , nessee tax office is worried
Another Tangled Reckoning.
Furthermore, it isn't hard to see
why erstwhile American owners of
! oil claims in Mexico aren't overly
satisfied with President Cardenas'
I plan to compensate them for the
southern republics seizure of their
properties on his side of the Rio
Grande
I've always had suspicion that
our oil and other capitalists in Mexi-
co have taken undue advantage
that they've unduly (perahps finan-
cially) influenced earlier Mexican
governments. Still, their holdings
; were nominally legal as per Mexi-
can regulations.
All the same, the CardenaS regime
appropriated (governmentally con-
fiscated) these American-held (and
other foreign-held) oil lands. Time
was when we'd have gone to war
about it, but not under our present
good neighbor policy Instead, we've
negotiated automatically.
President CardenaS inclines to be
accommodating. His scheme is to
have Mexico extract the oil fron
the appropriated foreign lands and
/ pay off the foreign ex-owners from
the price of the oil that Mexico ex-
tracts until they're paid off in full.
In other words, if somebody ex-
propriates a suit of your clothes, he
lets you have back the vest; that
cancels the obligation.
Changing Thanksgiving Day
To the United States Chamber of
Commerce and the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, President
Roosevelt's change of the date of
Thanksgiving Day implies more than
a mere whin. They're sore about it
no fooling.
The U. S. c. of C. and the N. A.
M. are generally anti-Roosevelt, un-
disguisedly.
The National Association of Re-
/ tailers likes the New Deal, in the
main.
I don't think that the u. S. C. of
c. or the N. A. NJ originally would
have thought of Thanksgiving Day
change as hostile to them, but. as
advertised, it's so that they interpret
it.
It's. ridicularized, of course.
The little retailers versus COM
paratively big business!
For instance:
What day is Ground Hog Day'?'
Surely, it was mistake to make
! that issue? Thanksgiving? Christ
mas? January l? April Fool! But
| Thanksgiving? Oh, my!
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-22
Softball Stars
Named By
fas.
Managers

An exhibition softball series be-
tween the championship Gro-Swift
team and a picked team of stars
from other clubs in the circuit will
begin Wednesday afternoon at $50
o'clock at the high school lot.
Managers OF the various teams,
with the exception of Roses who
declined to name representatives,
picked their squad, which will be
directed by Jacoby Williams during
the series.
Infielders picked are Watkins,
Purol; Jackson, Christians; Hight
Christians; Stainback, Bankers;
Rideout, Kiwanis; Duke, Purol. Out
fielders: Rowland Turner, Bankers.
Durwood Turner, Bankers; Steed
Bankers; Lufsey, Purol; Langley
Purol; Coghill, Christians; Robinson
Kiwanis. Catchers: Hamm, Christ
ians, Galloway, Kiwanis: Daniels,
Kiwanis: Pitchers: Mackey, XII
wants; Watkins, Bankers; Faulkner,
Purol; Neese, Christians.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-22
NOTICE.
NOTICE.
In The Superior Court.
Torth Carolina:
Tapco COl1ntv.

NOTICE..
In The Superior Court.
North Carolina:
Vance County:
ThurstOn Thomas Brown, Plaintiff
VS..
Arlene Yanccy Brown, Defendant.
The defendant Arlene Yancey
Brown will take notice that an ac-
ton entitled as above has been COM
menced in the Superior Court OF
said county, that the purpose of said
action is to obtain a divorce from
said defendant upon the grounds OF
two years separation, and that the
said defendant will further take
notice that. she is required to appear
at the office of the clerk of the
Superior Court of Vance County in
the courthouse in Henderson, N. c.
on the 23rd day of September, 1898
and answer or demur to the said
complaint in said action, or plain
tiff will apply for the relief demand
ed in said action to the court.
This the 22nd day of August, 1889
E. O. FALKNER,
Clerk of the Superior Court of
Vance County.
A. A. Bum,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
22-29-5-12
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-22
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS

Daniel Frohman, famed old time
theatrical manager, born at San
dusky, O., 80 years ago.
U. S. Senator George L. Radcliffe
of Maryland, born at Lloyds, Md.
81 years ago.
Chester Morrill,, secretary, Fed
eral Reserve Board of Governors
Washington, born in Shelby county
Missouri, 81 years ago.
Dorothy R. Parker, author, borr
at West End, N. j., 46 years ago.
Dr. Donald c. Balfour of the
Mayo Clinic, born in Toronto, S.
years ago.
Julia Sanderson, actress-singer
born at Springfield, Mass, So year.
ago.
Freeman Tilden of Warren, N. H.
novelist, born at Maiden, Mass, ST
years ago.
Edward A. Cudahy, Jr., Chicago
packing house head, born there. s.
years ago.
James Norman Hall of Tahiti
novelist, born at Colfax, Iowa, S:
years ago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-22
TO-DAY IN HISTORY

1779-Principal Indian chiefs OF
the Six Nations punished by 6
Revolutionary army for their ter
rible massacres in the Valley Of the
Wyoming in Pennsylvania and al
Cherry Valley in New York the
previous year.
1787-John Fitch demonstrates
his steamboat on the Delaware river
at Philadelphia in the presence OF
the Constitutional Congress then
there.
1826-Captain Jedediah Smith oil
the Rocky Mountain Fur Company
with Is companions, left Utah on
first overland expedition to Pacific
1051-"America', Of the N. Y
Yacht Club, wins squadron cup al
international regatta, at Cowes
England
1864-(75 years ago)-The Gene
Va Convention adopted by all the
civilized powers except the United
tateS.
1918-Government appeals tc
people to forgo non-essentials tc
overcome labor shortage there was
an actual labor shortage then.
1938-United States again re-
quests Mexico to arrange to pay
for seized American-owned land.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-22
Today
ToDAY'S ANNIVERSARIES

1779-James K. Paulding, New
York naval officer, secretary OF the
navy, author, now forgotten but II
his day one of the great literary-po-
litical figures, born IN Putnam coun-
ty, N. Y. Died April 6, 1860.
William C. Schauftler
American linguist-missionary to the
Jews of Turkey, Dorn in Germany
Died January 26, 1883.
18O9-Albert Brisbane, noted So
cial reformer, one of the more in
teresting of group Of intellectual
Socialists of his day, father OF the
late columnist, born at Batavia, N
Y. Died May l, 1890.
1817-John B. Cough, dramatic
and effective temperance orator, q
national figure of his day, born in
England Died near Philadelphia
February 18, 1886.
1834-Samuel p Langley, Smith
sonian Institution secretary, inter
Acknowledgements scientist, pioneer
in aviation, born in Boston. Dice
February q, 1906.
1848-Melvile E. Stone, notec
Chicago newspaper publisher, born
at Hudson, Ill Died February Is
1929.
1861-Mary E. Wood, a pioneer
librarian in China, born at Batavia
N Y. Died May l, 1881.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-22
EXECUTORS NOTICE TO
CREDITORS.

Having qualified as executors o1
the Estate Of Thomas F. Virgins, de-
ceased, late Of Vance County, NORTH
Carolina, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the estate o1
said deceased to exhibit them to the
undersigned at Henderson, N. c., or
or before the 9th day of August, 1910
or this notice will be pleaded in bal
of their recovery. All persons indebt-
ed to said estate will please make
immediate payment.
This 5th day of August, 1889.
Arthur c, Virgins, Sr.,
Mrs. Alienne Virgins Turner,
Mrs. Irene Virgins Turner,
Executors of Estate of Thomas F.
Virgins, Deceased.
Perry & Kittrell, Attorneys,
Henderson, N. G.
8-15-22-29-7-14
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-22
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
BY FRED H. MAY

|. How many counties have recelV-
ed more than $3,000,000 in highway
construction since 1921?
2. Who was the first professor
chosen by the University trustees?
8. What glowing description of
North Carolina did our first visitor
write?
4. How many women are listed as
"heads of families" in North Caro-
lima?
5. What price for board did David
son College charge one hundred
years ago when the institution open
ed?
6. Who was the North Carolina
physician who gave up medicine to
study law and then entered politics?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-22
Stocks Gain
On New Turn

New York, Aug 22.-(AP)-
Stocks jumped one to more than
three points in today's market as the
latest German-Russian diplomatic
bombshell aroused hopes among
traders that a general war at least
would be postponed In the first hour
blocks of / 900 to $500 shares chang
ed hands rapidly. There was a sub
sequent showdown, however, as pro-
fit-taking interviewed, and closing
prices were under the top in most
cases. Transfers approximated $780,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-22
NOTICE !

Having qualified as Executors of
the Estate Of Willie Graham Nit
chell, deceased, late of Vance coun-
ty, North Carolinas this, to to notify
all persons having claims against
the Estate OF said deceased to ex-
hibit them to- the undersigned. or
to their attorneys at Henderson. N
G., on or before ], the 18th day of
July, 1910, or. this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to this estate
Will please make; Immediate settle
ment.
This the 25th day of July, 1889.
M. R. MITCHELL
and
JOE SATTERWHITE
Executors of the Estate of Willie
~ Graham Mitchell.
Gholson & Gholson, Attorneys.
- ---l--- 25-1-8-15-22-29
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-22
NOTICE OF SALE.

Pursuant to storage lien, and un-
der and by virtue of the authority
contained in the Consolidated Sta
tutes for North Carolina, the under
signed, in order to satisfy the said
lien, will offer for sale and sell to
the highest bidder at public auction,
at IL o'clock, Noon, on Friday, Sep
tember 8, 1889, at Carolina Service
Station, in Vance County, North Car
olina, the following personal prop
erty:
One 1881 Model Ford Tudor, Motor
No. A 4653189.
This the 9th day of August, 1899.
BRANTLEY OVERBY.
15-22