HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
twenty-fifth year
REORGANIZATION BILL TO PASS MONDAY
STATE’S 1939 AUTO PLATES CHANGED AGAIN
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Here is a reproduction of the new
North Carolina automobile license
plate for 1939. It bears the- slogan,
“Careful, please,” which was sub
stituted for the one agreed upon a few
weeks ago, “The Balanced State,” a
contraction of President Roosevelt’s
characterization of North Carolina.
In discussing the change, A. J. Max
well, State revenue commissioner, to
day issued a statement, which fol
lows :
“I concur in the view that the use
of motor vehicle license plates for ad
vertising purposes is of doui'ctful pro
priety, and should in no event be used
in a manner that is objectionable to
any considerable number of motorists
The proposal to use the President’s
■Revived Chinese Armies Now
Winning Steadily Over Japs
Widely Extended Invaders
Are Stopped Cold in Two
Sectors Southwest
of Shanghai
GUERRILLA RAIDS
TAKE RAIL LINES
Over 1,000 Japs Reported
Killed in Clash With Chi
nese in Taking Lengcheng;
Fears Felt for Americans
as Chinese Are Using Mis
sion Plants
i. f . t
Shanghai, March 26. —(AP) —The re
invigorated Chinese army, beaten back
for months, had turned today and was
winning victories on several fronts.
The widely extended Japanese in
vaders were stopped cold in the Wuhu
and Hangchow sectors west and south
west of Shanghai, while in the bloody
central China war zone they were sub
jected to heavy losses.
Chinese guerrilla raids cut railway
lines between Shanghai and Nanking,
between Nanking and Pengpu and
ietwee Shanghai and Hangchow.
In southeastern Shansi province, the
Chinese reported capturing Leng
cheng, killing more than 1,000 Japan
ese and taking scores of prisoners.
Severe fighting continued around
some points in southern Shantung pro
vince, where the Japanese for weeks
have been struggling without success
to advance southward and cut off the
Lunghai railway.
Fears were expressed for the safety
of Americans there as a result of
charges that Chinese troops were us
ing mission property and buildings to
repulse Japanese attacks.
Kick More About That SB,-
000,000 Than $22,000,-
000 In Gas Taxes
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, March 26 One of
queer phenomena connected wi -
payment of taxes by North Carolina s
motorists is the noise they make an
nually before digging up approxi
mately $8,000,000 with which to pay
their registration fees, and the ap
parent nonchalance with which thej,
hand over $22,000,000, in round fig
ures, State tax on the gasoline that
propels their motor buggies.
It’s all in the nature of the taxes
in the opinion of State Senator S.
Gilmer Sparger, who points out that
the iv>\istratiom fees come due all
at once and, accordingly, each motor
ist is forced to pay out a consider
able lump sum.
Gasoline taxes, on the other hand,
are paid in units of six cents each
time a gallon of the fuel is bought,
with me result that the payer isn t so
intensely aware of the fact that he is
paying a tax. It’s a sort of sugar
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HENDERSON.
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LEASED WIRE SERVICE OTP
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
compliment to North Carolina in ab
breviated form as “The Balanced
State” on license plates for '1939 has
met with enough criticism to rende.-
its use in this way inadvisable.
“It is now proposed to substitute
for this lettering a tie-in with the
safety campaign that has enlisted the
interest of people generally through
out the State, in the interest of cor
recting our unbalanced record of high
way accidents, and insert as a courte
ous admonition to safety the simple
words: “Careful, please.” While this is
in the nature of an innovation, it !s
anticipated that no citizen of the
State will object to its use. Certainly
there is need for this admonition. Its
value is in that every motorist would
have this helpful admonition almost
Noe Is To Leave
Hospital in Week
Baltimore, Md., March 26. —(AP)
—Rev. Israel Harding Noe, whose
22-day fast attracted attention in
January, weighed more than 160
pounds today at Johns Hopkins
hospital, a gain of more than 20
pounds since he arrived February
17. He may leave the hospital next
week.
MW POWER
TO BE TESTED OUT
Ridge’s Candidacy for Con
gress in Sixth Has Old
1936 Flavor
Dallv Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, March 26. —Candidacy of
Major Edney Ridge, of Greensboro,
for Congress from the sixth district
will present concrete test of th*
strength that Dr. Ralph W. McDonald
insurgent professor who scared the
daylights out of North Carolina’s or
ganization Democrats in 1936, still re
tains in the Piedmont section —or at
least a test of just how much of it
he can still swing to a devoted fol
lower.
A press release from Major Ridge’s
campaign headquarters makes this
test certain; as it is quite plain from
the tenor of its contents that the
Greensboro radio station manager and
former newspaper publisher plans to
use the McDonald blessing as one of
his principal campaign guns.
From the Ridge release is quoted:
“One of his (Major Ridge’s) most
prized messages is that from Ralph
McDonald, himsejf a fearless expon
ent of the New Deal in his 1936 cam-
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PRESIDENT STUDIES
REPORT ON RAILROADS
Warm Springs, Ga., March 26—(AP)
—President studied the report of his
committee on emergency railroad
legislation today but withheld details
of its recommendation.
A report was prepared by Chairman
Walter Splawn, Joseph Eastman and
Charles Mahaffie, of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, and sent here
by air mail.
The President said it would be made
public next week in Washington.
weather -
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, warmer in south
portion tonight; Sunday partly
cloudy, scattered showers in ex
treme north portion; cooler in
north and central portions.
WEEKLY WEATHER.
South Atlantic States: Rain pe
riod first of week and again to
ward end; cooler ajt beginning,
warmer about Tuesday; cooler
middle and warmer toward end of
week.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
constantly in view when using the
roads, as displayed by the car ahead,
and particularly before passing other
cars on hills or curves, or at exces
sive speed on straight-a-ways.
“Perhaps the best advertising the
State can get from its license plates
is in design and character, and in the
quality of materials used to produce
them. If these are good it will make a
favorable impression for the State
wherever seen. The form of the pro
posed plate, is distinctive —specially
designed in every detail by an expert
in the drafting division of the State
Highway Commission —and when pro
duced in quality materials will make a
plate that I believe no North Caro
lina motorist will Ike ashamed to wear
on his 1939 car.”
Goering To
Open Drive
In Austria
No. 2 Nazi Leader
Starts Campaign for
Ratification of Hit
ler’s Seizure
\
Vienna, March 26 (AP) —Field
Marshal Hermann Goering an
nounced tonight the circumstan
ces of former Chancellor Kurt
vorj Sohuschnigg’s cancelled”
“swindle” plebiscite—the immedi
ate of Hitler’s entry into
Austria—will be aired in court.
“This plebiscite fake will come be
fore the court” Goering told 30,000
people packed into the northwest
railway concourse/ referring to the
vote Schuschnigg had scheduled just
before Nazi treaties forced' him out
of the chancellorship.
“We shall prove to the world that
democracy was suppressed.”
“It was a plain swindle.”
“God did not let the Fuehrer come
into the world for nothing.”
“He had a high mission x x x x.
The Austrian government has sup
pressed the people with bayonets” the
number two Nazi chieftain declared.
Vienna, March 26.—(AP) — Field
Marshal Herman Goering, No. 2 Nazi,
entered Vienna triumphantly today to
campaign for 100 percent approval of
German annexation of Austria.
Happily waving his marshal’s baton,
Goering arrived in a special train
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GAS COMPANY HERE
REDUCES ITS RATES
Raleigh, March 26.—(AF)—Utilities
Commissioner Stanley Winborne, an
nounced today a reduction in gas rate.;
by the Henderson Gas Company esti
mated to save Henderson gas consum
ers SSOO annually.
Winborne said the company has re
duced its minimum from $1.30 to $1.20
per month and the old standard had
been cancelled and replaced by the
present rate.
EDSON IS ELECTED
HEAD OF DRAMATIST
Chapel Hill, March 26—(API—C. M.
Edson, of Rocky Mount, was elected
president of the Carolina Dramatic
Association at the final session of the
annual convention here today.
Other officers elected were Kath
erine Jackson, Lenior, vice-president;
Ruth Everett, North Carolina Educa
tion Association representative, and
John W. Parker, Chapel Hill, execu
tive secretary.
County high school committees in
cluded Neil Hartley, Zebulon high
school.
Junior colleges included Eleanor
Snyder, of Atlantic Christian College.
Little Theatre section included Mar
jorie Lanier, of the Wilson players.
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 26,1938
gSS
Base Acreage Used Last
Year Will Be Basis for
Allotments of This
Year’s Crop
FOUR CHANGES MADE
IN THE AAA PROGRAM
Cotton, Peanuts and Vege
table Growers Favored In
Changes for New Program;
Increase Acreage for Soil
Building to Cotton t Tobac
co Farms
Washington, March 26.—(AP)—The
AAA announced changes in details of
the 1938 tobacco, peanut and cotton
programs today, designed to speed up
their inauguration.
One change provides for the use of
base acreages used last year in es
taiklishing county tobacco acreage al
lotments for 1938. Previously acreages
from 1933 to 1937, inclusively, plus
acreage, diverted under AAA program
would have been used in the new for
mula. “Compilations of county data
for 1933 to 1937 tobacco acreage would
have involved considerable expense
and time,” officials explained. “The
1937 acreage already available are
considered a satisfactory basis for
making county allotments.”
Another change eliminating a re
gulation denying peanut acreage al
lotments to farms which did not grow
the product for market in one of the
three years. A special provision is
made for allotments of peanut acre
age to new growers.
A third change was designed to in
crease the number of acreages on
which soil benefit payments could be
made. The object of this change is “to,
.give farms with a large percentage of
cotton or tobacco a better chance to
participate in the soil building phase
of the program by increasing acreage
of crop land eligible for payments.”
A fourth change ijacreased from
$1.50 to $3 an acre the rate of pay
ment of observing soil building prac
tice on commercial vegetable farms in
southwestern and east central sec
tions
Chamberlain
Go es After
Labor Help
London, March 26. —(AP) — Prime
Minister Chamberlain retired for a
long week-end today to study the dis
quieting dual problem of staunch labor
opposition to his foreign policy and
the necessity of getting cooperation
of the same group to speed up re
armament.
The National Council of Labor yes
terday declared continuance in office
of Chamberlain’s conservative govern
ment a “grave menace to the peace
of Europe,” and demanded an im
mediate meeting of the League of Na
tions Assembly to “consider appease
ment” of European problems.
Chamberlain’s attitude, declared the
council, was a cynical disregard of the
need for defending democracy.
At the same time the body was be
lieved willing to join a three-corner
ed conference among government, em
ployers and employees to produce ar
maments on a tremendously accelerat
ed scale.
In Commons lobbies, it was rumor
ed the government’s proposed arma
ments increase might reach 50 percent
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Crop Control Emphasized
Need Fof Farmer To Have
Self-Support, Hoey Feels
Charlotte, March 26.—(AP) —Gover-
nor Hoey declared here today the time
had come when the farmer “must be
come self-supporting on his own
farm” in order to continue in his
chosen profession.
“The limitations placed upon the
growing of cotton and tobacco make
it all the more necessary that we in
crease our food crops for both man
beast,” Hoey told 600 young far
mers from 16 counties at a luncheon
meeting.
“We ought to do this any way,” he
continued. “But since we are restricted
in the planting of these so-called
money crops, it now becomes impera
tive that we make up for this reduc
tion by growing all of our supplies at
home, and that we utilize this oppor
tunity for increasing our cattle, hogs
A Convict -Trained Roach
County Jailer Dick Vaughn, of Amarillo, Tex., was puzzled when priso..era
In solitary confinement succeeded in having cigarettes smuggled into
their cells. One prisoner broke, and told Vaughn how it was done. The
cigarette was tied to the back of a cockroach. One of the beasties is
pictured above, in the act. Talk about your trained fieas!
(Central Press)
Victorious Rebels
Bring Civil Strife
Near End In Spain
Government Admits Insurg ent Offensives Have Gained
All Immediate Objectives ; Franco’s Armies Now
Nearing Goal on Mediterranean Coast
Hendaye, France, March 26.—(AP)
—Retreating government troops were
machine-gunned from the, air *today as
they were driven from the Aragon by
an insurgent army bent on conquer
ing Catalonia mid forcing a quick end
to the civil war.
Insurgent war planes repeatedly
strafed and shattered government for
ces after artillery blasted them out
of defense lines in the northern sec
tor.
A huge chunk of territory, .jnclud
ing some mountains north of the Ebro
river, fell into insurgent hands as two
of General Francisco Franco’s field
jSSimerit
At Least They Are From
Home State; Two Sons
Laborers in Park
Bv CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, March 26.—8 y a coin
cidence, just after writing an article
dealing with the peculiar political
status of Senator Burton K. Wheeler
of Montana I get this query:
“Hasn’t Senator Wheeler an extra
ordinary number of relatives and in
laws on the federal payroll?”
The senator, in a recent speech in
Boston, remarked, “I do not have a.
son who was in the insurance busi -
ness, nor has one of my sons mlirried
a duPont heiress.” He also spoke of
the evils of (governmental) “patron
age and pap”.
The critics undertakes to make this
comment come back and roos f at the
senator’s own door.
Civil Service Jobs.
All right.
It is true that Wheeler has a son,
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and poultry.
“We have played with the shib
boleth of ‘live-at-home’ in the past and
have benefited much from such pro
gress as has been made in raising
home supplies—we should crusade fo.’
a better balanced agriculture.
“Every land-owner should realize
that it is equally as important that
his tenant should become self-sup
porting. We cannot have a well bal
anced agricultural prosperity unless
it affects both landlord and tenant.
“The tremendous outlay for food
supplies and commercial fertilizers,
which is made (by. our North Carolina
farmers each year, is enough to keep
them poor. Both are unnecessary if wa
will adopt the means at hand and
avail ourselves of the resources at
our command.”
PUBLISHED IVIRT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
armies converged on Leride, key city
of Catalonia.
Franco’s troops captured an impor
tant city of Bujaroloz. Fraga, 25 miles
to the east, on the Catalonian border
became the next objective of thi3
.\orce.
It was believed the capture of Le
rida would doom Barcelona, capital
of the Spanish government.
The insurgents, while converging on
Lerida, straightened out their 59-mil 1
'ine running from Huesca to the Bu
jaroloz sector.
The Spanish government admitte 1
the insurgents’ victorious offensive
had carried all immediate objectives.
Senator Bone Suggests
Roosevelt Use It As Lever
To Check Navies
Washington, March 26. —(AP) —Sen-
ator Bone, Democrat, Washington
suggested today that President Roose
velt might use the proposed $1,100,000 -
000 naval expansion program to effect
a reduction in world armaments.
Bone, a member of the Senate Naval
Affairs Committee, said it appeared
“entirely logical to him that the Pre
sident, armed with the authorization
for a huge increase in the navy, might
be able to obtain agreements with
other powers to delay or halt naval
building.
The expansion bill, already passed
by the House, will be taken up by the
Senate committee at closed meetings
Tuesday. Chairman Walsh, Democrat
Massachusetts, indicated naval expert j
would be called for secret testimony
before the hearings were open to the
public
WIDEKMI
Self-Liquidating Loans To
Public Works Are
Requested r
Washington, March 26. —(AP) —Pre-
sident Rosevelt, Senator Glass, Dem
ocrat, Virginia, said today has re
quested that congress give the RFC
authority to make self liquidation pub
lic works loans.
He asked also that the agency be
granted additional latitude in financ
ing business and industry.
Glass made public a letter from
Jesse Jones, RPC chairman, in which
Jones said he was authorized by the
president to ask for new legislation.
Jones asked that the RFC law bp
changed to permit loans to business
maturing over a longer period than
now allowed.
The proposed amendment, which he
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SENATE OPPONENTS
ADMIT THEY LACK
VOTES FOR DEFEAT
Clark ‘Very Hopeful,’ How
ever, Recommittal Vote
Might Shelve Roose
velt Measure
NORRIS HOPES FOR
SPEEDY TVA PROBE
Sees No Reason Why It
Can’t Be Finished Before
Congress Adjourns; Ar
gentine Doubles Acreage,
of Tobacco in Year in
Competition With U. S.
Washington, March 26.—(AP)—De
feated consistently on proposed amend
ments, some Senate foes of the ad
ministration’s government reorgani
zation bill conceded today they lacked
the votes to kill the measure.
A vote on a motion to re-commit
the bill to committee, a step which
would effectively pigeon-hole it, has
been set for 3 p. m., eastern standard
time, Monday. If the motion fails,
there will be a vote on passage of the
measure at 5 p. m.
Some opponents of the measure said
privately unless there was a shift of
sentiment by Monday, the re-commit
tal motion would fail. Senators Bark
ley, of Kentucky, Democratic leade.,
and Byrnes, Democrat, South Caro
lina, author of the bill, confidently
predicted its passage.
Senator Clark, Democrat, Missouri,
an opponent, asserted, however, he
was “very hopeful” the bill would be
shelved.
Senate and House were in recess
today.
Senator Norris, Independent, Neb
raska, said, meanwhile, he thought a
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State Board of Elections
Confirms Vance Board’s
Appointments
Raleigh, March 26. —(AP) — The
State Board of Elections today named
the following 100 County Boards of
Elections with the first two names be
ing E)pmocrats and the third Repub
lican. The list includes:
Beaufort —John G. Bragaw, Wash
ington; Jesse L. Butt, Bonnerton; J
J. Wilkins, Washington.
Edgecombe —C. H. Leggett, Tarboro
C. S. Winstead, Macclesfield; J. J.
Hathaway, Battleboro.
Pitt—J. H. Harrell, Greenville; Lon-
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CLARK, EAGLES TO
SEEK RE-ELECTION
Tarboro, March 26. (AP) —State
Senator William Clark, chairman of
the Senate agriculture committee, an
nounced today he would seek the Dem
ocratic nomination for re-electiori.
He has been a member of the Sen
ate since 1928.
Representative W. W. Eagles, or
Pinetops, also announced today he
would seek renomination in the June
Democratic primary. He has repre
sented Edgecombe since 1933.
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Workers In
France In
Protests
#
Decry “Hands Off
Spain” Policy and
Senate’s Opposi
tion to People’s
Front
Paris, March 26 fAP)—3O,OOO work
ers packed Buffalo stadium today in
a demonstration of protest against
the French policy of “hands off
Spain,” Senate opposition to the peo
ple’s front government and “provo
cation and resistance of employers to
collective contracts.” The throng in
ducted “Miatellos” some of the 30,000
metal workers who had quit work at
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