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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR EUROPE AVOIDS WAR AS LITHUANIA BOWS U. S. OIL CONCERNS WAIT FACTS ABOUT MEXICAN SEIZURES Over $400,000,000 Worth of Properties Are Expro priated by Order of President BOLD STROKE FOR BENEFIT OF LABOR * Effort by Cardenas to End Two-Year Conflict Be tween Workers and For eign Capital; Government to Operate Properties and Workers Return N?w York, March 19. —(AP) —Amer- ican oil companies, taken by*surprise by the action of the Mexican govern ment in appropriating foreign oil pro perties, awaited word today from their agents before announcing a plan of action. Spokesmen for several companies said they expected the government would place interventors —virtual re ceivers—in the companies to super vise receipts and expenditures, but had not foreseen the drastic move by which President Cardenas declared the holdings were the property of the republic. The 14 American-owned companies and three British, with Mexican pro perties valued at $400,000,000, account ed for three-fourths of the country’s petroleum production. PROPERTY SEIZED IS OF VALUE OF S4OO MILLIONS Mexico City, March 19. —(AF) —Pre- sident Larazo Cardenas expropriated American and British oil properties valued at more than $400,000,000 today in a bold stroke designed to end a two-year conflict between labor and foreign capital. Simultaneously, the Central Bank of Mexico suspended dealings in foreign currency and the president indicated devaluation of the peso was under of ficial consideration. Operations were suspended in the oil industry at one minute after mid night last night as union oil workers, going ahead with a threatened “fold ed arm” strike, forced a shutdown. It was believed, however, union headquarters would order the syn dicate’s 18,000 members back to work promptly in an effort to help Cardenas while he tussles with the admittedly difficult situation. ■ A bulletin from the press .bureau early today said the Mexicon cabinet had decided upon “means to prevent damage to the financial activities of the country.” SIX MEN FILE FOR PRIMARY CAMPAIGN Oscar Barker Pays Fae for Odngress In Fifth; Would be Judges, Solicitors File Raleigh, March 19. —(AP) —Six men today added their names to the grow ing list of candidates filing with the b'tate Board of Elections to seek so licitorships, judgeships and congres sional seats. Oscar Barker, of Durham, filed tc seek Democratic nomination to Con gress from the sixth district H. F. Seawell, of Carthage, a Republican, became the first to file for a seat on the State Supreme Court. Rivers D. Johnson, of Warsaw, for mally entered the race for solicitor ship in the sixth district, and Solicitor John Carpenter, of Gastonia, filed to succeed himself in the fourteenth. Two candidates filed for judgeships, James L. Deßaney from the four- Highway Fund Diversions Unlikely As Income Lifts State Revenue* Believed Sufficient Without It; Second Year of Biennium Is Feared, However; Amend ment Forbidding Diversion Benig Sought Dally Ulßpatrh narean, In the Sir Walter Hotel. i Raleigh, March 19 —Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell’s state ment that the State’s receipts for the current fiscal year will equal or exceed estimates made during tne General Assembly session of 1937 in dicates tha't there will be no neces sity for diversion of highway funds to other purposes during the first year of the fiscal biennium, at least, tor which the last legislative session made provision. .. Tq that extent opponents of tne practice of spending 'highway money for general purposes are well pleasett out they view the continuing busi nebs “recession” (as it is courteously calltu, with more than a little alaim Hfctiiteramt Hatlu iltspafch LF.ASED WIRE SERVICE OB' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Japan Army Leader piSißaßßi General Shunroku Hata . . . Japanese commander General Shunroku Hata is the new commander of the Japanese forces in central China. —Central Pres* Seadlund Is SentencedTo Die April 19 Minnesota Mechanic Gets Stay for Ap peal in Kidnaping of Charles Ross Qhicatgo, March 19 (AP) —John Henry Seadlund, 27, Minnesota mecha nic, today was sentenced to die in the electric chair April 19 for the kid naping of Charles R. Ross, 72-year old retired greeting card manufac turer. Federal Judge John Barnes passed sentence after denying motions of Defense Attorney F. Burnham and F. Thompson for a new trial and ar rest of judgment. Seadlund, manacled to two depu ty marshals, was led before the ’bench at the direction of the court. “Have you anything to say before sentence is pronounced?” the judge asked. “No,” Seadlund said, shaking his head. Judge Barnes then read the form al sentence directing that Seadlund 'be held in the custody of the United States marshal, and on April 19 the defendant shall be put to death by electrocution. Execution of the sentence was stay ed automatically, however, to May 19, at the earliest, after the judge granted defense attorney 60 days in which to effect an appeal. Apparently unmoved by his fate, Seadlund, still wearing the blue suit 'he wore throughout the trial, chat ted with his counsel several minutes after the court’s pronouncement. teenth district, and Clifton L. Moore, of Burgaw, in the eighth. over prospects for the next fiscal year, when they fear the outcome will not be so fortunate. , Meanwhile, they are pressing their campaign for a constitutional amend 1 - ment forbidding division; and they have high hopes that there will he the necessary two-thirds majority in both houses of the 1939 General As sembly to submit such an amendment. .They fear, however, that if revenues should show a marked shrinkage the Assembly would look more to the ne cessity of raising revenues for schools and other functions than to the prin ciple of the diversion problem. . When Commissioner Maxwell first said that the revenue from intang (Contirued on Page Five) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. His Home Searched Baron Eugene de Rothschild . . . his Vienna palace searched The relentless Nazi campaign against Austrian Jews included the search of the Vienna palace of the Baron Eugene de Roths child, of the most famous Jew ish financial family in Europe. —Central Press He PLEADS FOR Unless Practical Courses Offered, Students Will Continue to Be Unprepared governoiTspeaks , TO EDUCATION BODY . * rr- Learning How to Make Liv ing Still One of Most Es sential Parts of Education, Executive Declares; B. L. Smith, of Greensboro, New President Raleigh, March 19 (AP)—North Carolina teachers today expressed .strong disapproval of “any. at tempt to' subsidize the militariza tion of boys tab young to be drafted for military servfcet” ' In ia Resolution unanimously adopted alt the closing sesston of the 54th tannval convention of the ~ North Carolina Education Asso ciation, the teachers said they be lieved “ajny effort of offering frtee uniforms to boys in high school will introduce unwholesome social elements Into the life of the sec ofnddlry schqbl.” Rale|gh, March 19. —(AP) —Unless schools “serve more practical pur poses,” students will continue to leave high school and college “with little preparation for doing any kind of work by which they can earn a liveli hood,” Governor Hoey said today. Speaking at the closing session o? the 54th annual convention of thi North Carolina Education Association, Hoey appealed for practical educa tion, and asserted “a vast amount of unemployment” was due to “lack of preparation for work" “Learning- how to make a living is still a most essential part of educa tion,” he said. “The cultural training should not be minimized, but thei prac tical should be emphasized, and giver, the same high rank in credits as is accorded the purely scholastic work.’ A twelfth grade, he said, “would go far toward bridging the present ga. r J between high school and college.” Delegates to the convention consid ered amendments to their constitution to effect changes in methods of elect ing district and state officers. The new association president, B. L. Smith, of Greensboro, and Dr. J. Henry Highsmith, State director of instructional service, were presented. Governor Hoey told the teachers ho hoped several commissions authoriz ed by the 1937 General Assembh would make studies from which would come “feasible” suggestions for mak ing the schools serve more practical purposes in training youth for the line of work they contemplate pursuing.” Departmental Officers. Raleigh, March I^.—(AP/ Depart mental officers m the North Caro lina Education Ass .*‘.atio:i elected here in convention this week included: District Principn.s, M. T. Lamibeth of Clayton, secretary. Ungraded class teanet*. Mi\v Ada Valentine, of Springe Hope, vice-presi dent. VIEWS SITES FOR VETERAN HOSPITAL Raleigh, March 19 (A'P)—C. H. Stratton, veter is administration en gineer, arri- . here today to inspect posilble siues for the proposed East ern North Carolina veterans hospital. He said he would go from here to Wilson or Rocky Mount. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, MARCH 19,1938 Reorganization Foes To Ask That 16 Agencies Be Exempt Separate Amendment For Each Offered by Senator Clarjf To Garner Wide Support SITDOWN STRIKE OF CAPITAL IS NEARER New York Investment Bank er Says Unless Tax Laws Are Changed; Commodity Corporation To Purchase Surplus To Be Used For Experiment Purposes Washington, March 19. —(AP) —Op- ponents of the government re-organi zation bill, defeated in their effort to eliminate sweeping authority for the President to shift bureaus around, pro posed today the exemption of 16 agen cies from any change. Senator Clark, Democrat, Missouri, offered 16 separate amendments, on the theory that each agency he liste-l had enough senatorial friends to as sure its retention in present form. House and Senate were in recess. Maurice Wertheim, New York in vestment banker, told the Senate Fin ance Committee, meantime, a “sit down strike” of capital “certainly will be here very shortly unless our tax laws are changed.” The witness testified at hearings on the House-approved tax revision bill. The Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation announced elsewhere ir. the capital it would purchase surplus power-cured and dark air-cured to bacco for diversion into by-products uses. Under the new program, supple menting last November plans, tobac cos purchased by the corporation wiil be donated to Federal, State and other governmental agencies, colleges, uni versities and non-profit organizations for research purposes. The uses to which these tobaccos will he put will include development of methods of recovery of constituents of tckacco, and determination of their insecticidal value; and development of weed killers with less after-effect on desirable plant life. ISTKSM Sudden Evaporation of Na tion Leaves Washington Puzzled, However By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, March 19. —Washing- ton is not altogether unaccustomed to seeing a member of its foreign dip lomatic corps officially eliminated by a revolution in his home country. In past cases of this sort, however, the obliterated plenipotentiary's em bassy or legation has not evaporated, too. The incoming overseas govern ment always has teen prompt to send a new emissary to take over the duties of his kicked-out predecessor with out much of a break in relations, if any. The German absorption of Austria presents a problem of a new kind. Evaporates! One afternoon recently Austria had in our capital a regularly recognized legation, presided over by Minister Edgar L. G. Prochnik. Next morning it transpired that Austria no longer existed as an in dependent country, entitled to repre sentation in the United States—to a minister, consuls or anything else, any more than the state of Arizona, for example, is entitled to diplomatic representation abroad. Prochnik was still here, but no lon gey in a position even to bid an offi ficial farewell to the State Depart ment. His legation had ceased to be a legation. Its consulates had ceased to be consulates, with no certainty that there was any authority back of them to be depended on for so much as to pay their office rent. In the Air. Minister (or ex-Minister) Prochnik and his satellites, of course, are left out on a limb. .. But the United States State Depart ment was puzzled. Some quite important commercial negotiations were pending between Washington and Vienna when Vienna, as a government, vanished into thiu atmosphere. President Roosevelt decided that, legally speaking, the United States did not know yet of any change in Austro German relations. The State Depart ment thereupon treated Austria as an independent nation, granting her cer tain trade benefits and withholding them from Germany. Babies for II Duce’s Money Since Mussolini’s clarion call for more babies, hospital facilities in Italy have been taxed to the utmost to care for the new arrivals. The Duce offered the equivalent of $l5O to all families with four babies before 1940. This picture, from News of the Dry Newsreel, is a scene in the nursery of a hospital in Rome. (Central Press) Woman Burned To Death In Wreck Fayetteville, March 19 (AP)— Authorities said today a woman burned to death in an automobile accident Hoar here last night had been identified by a brother as Mrs. Adelle M. Woody, of Rock ingham. They also said a mam critically injured in the wreck had been identified as A. J. Rowe, of Ben ne|fcsville, S. C. He was being treated at a hospital for Serious head and chest injuries. The automobile crashed into a service station), knocking down two galosile pumps, and burst in to flames. H. M. Waters, (station proprietor, and his som, pulled -fie victims from the wreckage. The driver's license found at the time bore the name of Mrs. E. J. Woody of Rockingham. SLAYER OF AGENT NOW IN CUSTODY Man Who Killed Alchol Raider in Tennessee Is Under Arrest Washington, March 19. —(AF) —The Treasury announced today its agents and local posses had captured George W. Tatum, 31, of Marion county, Ten nessee, who, the department Raid, shot and killed William F. Berry, an al cohol tax investigate.- was kill ed in a raid on a still yesterday. Tatum wag arrested near his farm home near Chattanooga, a Treasury field report said. £LAIN OFFICER HAD HAD BRIEF, BRIL'- \MT CAREER Chatanooga, Ten" Maich 13. -tAP) —-The brief career of Willi; m F Berry a- a Federal alcoho.;r r;tk t.nit inves tigator, ended in death. The young native of Arkansas, who less than two yeir.« ago gave up the practice of law io enter government service, was slain n.i isolat* J moun tain cabin near her'' late yesterday. Berry was killed by a shotgun charge at close ran -e. as he walked in to the cabin, T . I*. Junes, another Treasury Depav' cent agent who was with him on a raid said. Jones, who was wounded slightly, said the as sailant fired from the doorway of an adjoining room. Berry’s companion said that when the man advanced toward aim he took cover behind a tree, shooting as he went. WIATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Increasing cloudiness and war mer tonight, followed by occasion al rain tonight and Sunday. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Showers in north portion of district late Monday or Tuesday and more gen erally toward end of week; other wise generally fair; warmer at be ginning, cooler middle of week in north part of district; cooler rath er generally at end of week. PUBUUMrnT> IVIKT AFTVKNOOM BXCBPT SUNDAY. Youth Taken InKidnaping Levine Child G-Men Say He Mere ly Tried To Chisel In on Ransom and Is Minor Arrest Newark, N. J., March 19 (AP) —A youth described as Stanley Thomas Jasosky, 19, of Newark, was held in $25,000 bail today by United States Commissioner Holland on a charge of attempted extortion in connection with the kidnaping of 12-year-old Peter Levine, of New Rochelle, N. Y. After the arraignment, Jasosky, who was arrested by Newark detec tives and agents of the Federal Bu reau of Investigation, was removed to the Hudson county jail in Jersey City. The complaint charges Jasosky with demanding $30,00(r rom Peter Levine’s father, Murray Levine, for the return of his son. Young Levine vanished from New Rochelle Febru ary 24. All but one of the letters, dated March 2,3, 7,9, 13 and 17, were ad dressed to the elder Levine’s home in New Rochelle. The March 3 miss ive was addressed to the attorney in care of “The Hotel Belmont, New Jersey.” Justice Department officials at Washington said the arrest of Ja sosky in Newark was a minor one and not a solution of the Levine case. The officials said that Jasosky had Plans Being Completed For State’s Better Homes Week Teachers, Ministers, Mayors, County ComlmHtjdonersj and Others Called on to Assist in Statewide Event Miss Pauline Smith Is State Chairman Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March 19—Better Homes Wee'k| to (be 'nationally April 24-30, will seek to concentrate public attention on improving homes and raising standards of living. Miss Pauline Smith, State chairman of the campaign in North Carolina, pointed out that extensive plans have been developed to push the drive in this State. Teachers, ministers, mayors, coun ty commissioners, and other closely connected with the citizenry have been contacted and asked to add their bit to the educational cam paign. “The primary purpose of Better Homes and America, a national non profit organization' devoted to the de velopment of better appreciation of home and family life, is education,” 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY OF GREAT POWERS Diplomatic Relations End ed Years Ago to Be Re sumed by Two Small Baltic Nations POLAND’S SOLDIERS READY FOR ACTION 100,000 Troops Poised on Border to March If Ulti matum Were Rejected ; Po land to .'do Nothing to Hu milate Lithuania in Face of Submission Kaunas, Lithuania, March 19.—(AP) —The Lithuanian government and parliament bowed grimly today to an ultimatum backed by the might of Poland’s army and navy and saved herself from invasion and Europe from another war. The Lithuanian minister at Tallinn, Esthonia, delivered to Poland’s min ister there a note fully accepting Po land’s demand for re-establishment of diplomatic relations, broken since Poland seized the ancient Lithuanian capital, Wilno, in 1920. The Polish minister, in reply, con. firmed the resumption of such rela tions. Lithuania’s parliament accepted the government’s decision to yield it was announced, in the face of the threat of Polish invasion and the general in ternational situation. J. Stanisauckis, minister of com munications, thanked envoys of the great powers for their help and advico in the crisis. At the time Lithuania capitulated, it was estimated 100,000 Polish troops were massed along her border, five times as many as the whole Lithuan ian army. POLAND PLANS NOTHING TO HUMILIATE NEIGHBOR Warsaw, March 19.—(AP) —War ap parently wa.s averted Ibetween Poland and Lithuania today through the un conditional acceptance by Lithuanian of all Poland’s demands. News that there would be no war between the two Baltic neighbors caused great satisfaction in Warsaw. The Polish government determined to do nothing that would humiliate Lithuania. Elizabeth City Man Is Fatally Hurt In Smash Elizabeth City, March 19 (AP) —Three hours after hiß oar smashed up on the Windsor-Eden ton highway last night, injuries proved facial to W. B. Newborn,, 46, of this city. He suffered a broken pelvis bohe, ruptured hlad der and numerous contusions. Hiß Negro chauffeur, Junius Betts, and Elton Holly, Edenton Negro driver of a truck, werte in jured seriously but were expected iki live. Corporal C. I. Dail, of the Stale Highway Patrol, said the sedan In which Newborn was riding, was - backing up on the pavement 160 fleet north of the Coleraiki route junction, when the Edenton truck rammed through the rear. Both car ami truck were < north. ' written extortion notes to the youth’s parents in an effort to “chisel in” the case. Miss Smith, district home demon stration agent at State College, point ed out. The week will afford an opportun ity to demonstrate completely equip ped and furnished houses, improved rooms and grounds, the work. of home economics and vocational class es, special programs by civic and women’s clulbs, exhibits of books and magazines, tours, home demonstra tion and 4-H Olufb work, and school 'exhibits. < Some of the purposes of Better Homes Week are as follows: To provide citizens with informa tion on the best standards of home Ibuilding, home furnishing, and equip ment. To encourage families to study their housing needs and to plan, (Continued on Page Eight.)
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