HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year POLISH ULTIMATUM MAT SIMS ON WAR Senate Gives President Full Reorganization Powers As To Revamping Federal Agencies KRESS NOT TO ; RATIFY ANY MOVES BY THE PRESIDENT i Foes and Supporters Reor ganization Bill Saw Major Test in Wheeler Amendment HOUSE CONSIDERING BIG NAVY AIR FORCE Secretary Wallace to Be Authorized so Conduct Referendum of Burley To bacco Growers; Many Amendments Approved for New Farm Bill Washington, March 18.—(AP) —The Senate voted 43 to 39 today to permit the President to transfer and coi solidate federal agencies without ob taining congressional ratification of his action. The chamber rejected an amend ment to the government reorganiza tion bill, which would have required the congressional approval before an-' reorganization order could become ef fective. Amendment, submitted by Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, would have compelled Congress to give con sideration to executive orders as soon as they were received from the Presi dent. Both opponents and supporters of the reorganization measure regarded the decision on the Wheeler amend ment as a major test on the reor ganization bill. The House continued consideration of the billion dollar bill tentatively authorizing a minimum of 3,000 planes for the navy. The House passed and sent to the White House, meantime, a Senate bill authorizing Secretary Wal lace to conduct a referendum of bur ley tobacco growers to determine whether they want marketing quotas for this year crop. At the same time the House Agri culture Committee approved a long series of amendments to the new farm (Continued on Page Four.j insurgenTslve ; NETS TWO CITIES Franco’s Army Gains Con trol of Montalvan-Alca niz Highway Hendaye France, March 18 (AP) The huge curving in Montalvan-Al caniz-Paste salient and surged on ward toward the Mediterranean today as the insurgents, pressed eastward their ten day on offensive. Loss of Paste, medieval town in the fork of the rivers was admitted by the government. There was more than two days a desperate garrison had delayed the Insurgent advance by a threat to its left flank. Fall of Alcorisa, southward, also was admitted by government com miniques. The surrender of the towns left insurgents in control of the Mon talvan-Alcaniz highway. Road Dead Lowest Now Since 1934 Dally IMupatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March 18t— .North Caro linians were, luckier, but not reaLy • C; ifer, on the highway in February, an analysis of the accident report of the Motor Vehic 1 ? division shows. On the face of the returns, Feb ruary was a banner month with auto mobile accident deaths falling to a low low since February, 1934, with only 55 victims; but behind the face of the returns there is a Uiffe ren t pic ture. There were more accidents las>. (Continued on Page Four.) _ - H. LESLIE PERRY _ fmtitersmt Umlii ’Bisumth LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF* THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Bombers Os Insurgents Continue To Ram Death Upon Barcelona Citizens Asks French Aid Juan Negrin • • • pleads for French planes Desperate in the face of advanc ing insurgents, the Spanish Loy alist government’s premier, Juan Negrin, pictured, made a hurried plane trip to Paris to plead for French aid. Negrin is said to have asked for 200 planes and munitions immediately to resist the insurgent drive led by Gen. Francisco Franco. The Spanish government capital, Barcelona, is threatened by the insurgents, aid ed by strong reinforcements of Italians and possibly Germans. —Central Press NORRIS FALLS INTO HIS OWN ffl TRAP Finds Hands Now Tied With Restrictions He Wrote Into Measure By CHARLES P. STEWART Central press Columnist Washington, March 18. —When Sen ator George W. Norris was drafting the law creating- the Tennessee Val ley Authority his idea was to make the members of the Authority’s three man administrative board as nearly independent of outside influence as possible. He provided for the members’ presi dential appointment but sought to (Continued on Pace Four.) Babson Blames Congress For Business Stalemate Too Much Persecution, He Says, and Washington Is Doing Nothing About It; Danger Point Near and May Turn to Another. Major Depression BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1938, Publishers . Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Fla., March 18.—Bus iness this month is the worst in threj years. Activity is now back to the level of the Spring of 1935. It is 28 per cent below a year ago, although still about 33 per cent above the de pression bottom of March, 1933. My New Year forecast called for a bad first-quarter —at least 15 per cent be low a year ago. We are having it all right. The drop is averaging even more than I predicted. It is about 23 per cent. As 1938 opened there were signs of a turn-up. Business did move ahead two or three pes cent between mid- ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Morning Air Raid Staged As Thousands Creep from Shelter of Sub way Stations 50 DEAD, 100 HURT IN LATEST ATTACK Insurgents Warn City At tacks Will Continue Until City Bows to Advancing Army; 560 Killed and 1,- 000 Wounded Since Raids Started Wednesday Barcelona, March 18—(AP) —Swift insurgent bombers struck again and again at blood-soaked Barcelona to day, carrying out a threat to attack continuously until the city surrenders. The 13th air raid since 11 p. m. Wed nesday, left a total of 560 dead and 1,000 wounded. Bright - winged bombers wheeled over the city at 7 p. m., just as thous ands of men, women and children in this city of more than 1,000,000 were streaming home from subway station ? after a night o? fearful refuge. The roar of bombs‘and anti-aircraft guns sent them rushing back to shel ter at 8:40 a. m. the bombers returned. Officials put the dead at 50, and the wounded at 100 in these two raids. 510 were killed in previous bombing. The raiders yesterday drbpped leaf lets over the city warning that the bombing would continue every two or three hours until the city was forced to kneel. The insurgent planes droned over this city at 1:10 a. m. dropping the bomb cargo near a hospital in a sur burb. Ten times yesterday and last evening, Barcelona underwent bom bardments. FIVE QUESTIONED^ Sheriff Taylor Probes Into Death of Detroit Mechanic In Stokes County Winfiton-Salem, March 18 (AP) —■ Stokes county Sheriff John Taylor questioned five men at Dambury to day about the slaying of George W. Taylor, of Detroit, automobile me chanic, but reported he had not been g(ble to get to the bottom of their incorrent story about a drinking party and dice game. The sheriff said he was considering a robbery motive, but indicated he could make no progress along that (Continued on Page Four.)' January and mid-February. During the last four weeks, however, things have slipped off again. Business now is two per cent lower than a month ago. There has been a sharp drop in retail sales of all kinds. Despite big bargains in most lines, those with good incomes are afraid to buy. More over, others have no money to spend. Four million people have lost jobs since a year ago. Payrolls have been slashed nearly $100,000,000 weekly. Farm income has held up well; but it too, has fallen from earlier levels. Retail Trade Has Dropped. In addition to these inroads, there is the cutting and passing of dividends. (Continued on Page Three.] HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, M ARCH 18, 1938 Czechoslovakian Army Large and Well-Bquipped , . jjjjj IHlj —* ..-41 Top, infantrymen going through their paces at Pardubice; below, motorized units in maneuvers Czechoslovakia is prepared to defend itself against invasion from Germany should the German Fuehrer try to take over the central European republic as he did Austria. These pictures are of maneuvers of Czechoslovakia’s army, which numbers 1,875,000 with reserves. It is well trained. In addition. COUNTIES PAY PEES $720 Sent in to State From Three Courts Existing in This County Raleigih, March 18—Frederick C. Handy, Raleigh insurance man, ought to call himself to order and adopt a ringing resolution of thanks and ap preciation to John R. Morris; be cause Mr. Handy most certainly owes his recent appointment as head of the State identification Division to Mr. Morris’ activities since January 1. The former New Hanover county sheriff has since the first of the year boosted “Collections under Chap ter 349, :P. L. 1937” (as the report of State Auditor George Ross Pou puts it) approximately $25,000, which it took seven months to collect, to $40,- 603.95 —an increase of about $15,000 in the less than three months of Morris activity. All of which enabled Mr. Handy to have his present job, which was de pendent upon collection of the spe cial $1 cost fee levied 'by the 1937 General Assembly upon every crimi nal conviction in the State. Incidentally the Morris accomplish (Gontinued on Page Si? ' WH uneyexpeDled FROM STOCK BODY Two Associates, Morgan and Mygatt, Suspended for Three Years New York, March 18.—(AP)—Rich ard Whitney, bankrupt broker await ing sentence on grand larceny charges to which he pleaded guilty, was ex pelled from the New York Stock Ex change today. The expulsion order, voted by the governing committee last night, was read from the rostrum at the opening of today’s trading by Charles Gay. who succeeded Whitney as president of the exchange. Two of Whitney’s partners, Edwin Morgan, Jr., and Henry Mydgatt, were suspended for three years. The gov erning committee absolved them of any knowledge of any “wrong doing” of Whitney, but suspended them un der a rule that holds all members re sponsible for acts of their firms. Whitney, who guided the exchange through the tempestous days of 1929 was president of the exchange five times, was expelled permanently. WIATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA Fair tonight and Saturday; slightly colder in extreme south eastern portion; scattered light frost tonight; Saturday fair and and warmer. Chamberlain Endeavors To Balk War And Halt Bombings Os Civilians Using Efforts to Settle Pol ish Dispute and Halt Slaughter of Spanish Civilians FEARS GERMANY MAY TAKE OVER MEMEL In Touch With Both Govern ments in Dispute and Urges Peaceful Settle ment; Vatican’s Aid Asked in Halting Slaying of Bar celona Civilians London, March 18.—(AP) —Prime Minister Chamberlain shifted Britain’s buffeted world’s diplomacy today in a new effort to prevent a Balkan wa; and to end bombing horrors in Spain. Struggling with cabinet and party differences at home, he told the House of Commons: 1. Britain was intervening outside the league of Nations in the Polish- Lithuian dispute to balk an arm strug gle, which might send German trooDs into the Germanic city of Memo 1 , Baltic city in Lithuania, once a part of East Prussia. 2. Britain and France were seek ing the powerful help of the Vatican on an appeal to both sides in th.'. Spanish civil war to cease merciless bombing of civilian population at Bar (Continued on Page Slx.i HITCH-IEILER IS ELECTROCUTED Goes to Death Denying He Deserves Chair for Arkan sas Slaying Tucker Farm, Ark., March 18. —(AP) —Lester Brockelhurst, 24-year-old, confessed hitch-hiking killer, was elec trocuted today, protesting his crime did not warrant the death penalty. Brockelhurst was convicted of the hitch-hike slaying last May of Victor Gates, Little Rock land owner. He was arrested in New York on a minor traffic law violation a few days after the Gates killing, together with his sweetheart, Bernice Felton, of Rock ford, 111. He confessed killing Gates. Allen Theander at Rockford, and Jack (Continued on Page Six.) word from Prague, has it that Soviet Russia anegan, Field Marshal Hermann, Goering, president of the Reichstag, announced its dissolution and ordered a new election for April 10. The date is the same as that when Austria will vote in a plebiscite on its union with Germany}. “The present session,” Goering said “is, I suppose, of the most note worthy we have held in the new Reich.” “For the first time as guests of the Reichstag, there are sitting on the government benches the first Reich statthalter, (governor) of Austria and tlhe Austrian government.” Immense applause greeted this. Ar thur Seysz-Inquart, former chancellor row governor of Austria and other members of his cabinet hud flown from Vienna to attend this session. Hitler began: “I have called you together to give (Continued on Page Four.) PUBLISHHD WVIBT AFTHKNOOM HXCHPT SUNDAY. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY HITLER MAY SEIZE MEMEL WHEN POLES ENTER LITHUANIA Poland’s Ultimatum To Lithuanians Expires 9 P. M.; Demands “Nor malized” Relations HITLER’sItoOVE MAY BE A TRUMP CARD Former German Baltic City of Memel, Now Lithuan ian, Will Be Seized, Nazi Spokesman Declares; Ber lin Awaits Another Hitler “Declaration” Berlin, March 18.—(AP) —A source close to the chancellor today said the German’s opposition to the threat of Polish military action in Lithuania had been withdrawn in return for Polish acquiescence in a possible Ger man annexation of the Free City of Danzig. German troops were to march into Memel, formerly German, now Lithu inlan if Poland sends her army into Lithuania, a Nazi party spokesman told the Associated Press early in the •lay. Polish invasion of their tiny neigh bor was deemed likely unless Lithu ania bows to a Warsaw ultimatum ex piring at 9 p.- m. (3 p. m. ESR to morrow) demanding “normalization” of Folish-f.<«*ihuaniU relations. Gor man observers began speculating whether a German march into .Memel which Germany considered an “unro gained part” of their war-lost terri tory would be to help Poland or to ob tain a trump card for bargaining with Poland over the Polish corridor. “There is no doubt about it,” said the Nazi spokesman, “the moment the Poles cross the Lithuanian fron tier, our troops will march into Memel. Then he .became silent and declined to elaborate any more. Berlin, mean while,, set the stage for Another dramatic “declaration” by Adolf Hit ler to be delivered tonight the Reich stag. Austria, which Hitler has just added to his expanding realm, was expected to be his chief subject. Meanwhile, German diplomacy was adding its voice of caution to advices other powers were giving Warsaw, counselling peace. MEET ATRALEIGH B. L. Smith Assured of Presidency; Miss McDon ald Head's Teachers Raleigh, March 18.—CAP) —Dr. Wil liam H. Kilpatrick, of Columbia Uni versity, urged North Carolina puitlij /;chool| adrrrfnitftraitifm to insist on democratic instead of autocratic lead ership in the teacher profession. Dr. Howard- Dawson, director of rural service for the National Educa tion Association, told teachers of the State that Federal aid for education was “inevitable.” Dr. Dawson asserted that a poll of representative and senators indicate! that the Harrison-Fletcher bill to pro vide $1,000,000, for public schools will pass when it comes to a vote. Dr. Donald Dushame, of Columbia. Ind., advocated a system of teacher job tenure to “protect the school chil dren of the county.” He also called for “adequate salary for teachers.” More than two score divisional meetings of delegates attending the North Carolina Education Association were held this morning, and the teach ers voted by separate ballot on the new vice-president. B. L. Smith, of Greensboro, vice president, was assured of the election (Continued on Page Four.) France And London Seek Settlement Paris, March 18.—(AP)—-France and London agreed today to bring simul taneous pressure to bear on Poland and Lithuania for peaceful settlement of their friction, menacing the peace of Europe. Official quarters disclosed that France would try to induce Poland which has issued an ultimatum to Lithuania to moderate its stand. Rus sia was to use her influence to per suade Lithuania to concede enough to ease the tension.