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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR ROOSEVELT DENIES DICTATORSHIP AIMS oiSeSsSng HAWAII MANEUVERS Six Naval Airmen Aboard Ship, With No Trace Found During Night- Long Searching FIVE MENKILLED DURING YESTERDAY Bodies of Two Recovered, One Identified; Several Previous Tragedies Have Occurred This Year Dur ing Fleet Maneuvers Out Over the Pacific Honolulu, March 31.—(AP)— Sixty five American warships and 240 fight ing planes were ordered into an intCn sified search at dawn today for six naval airmen who vanished during mimic warfare, which already had cost five lives. No trace of the plane was found during a night-long search. Naval officers still held hope the six aboard would be found alive. Five men were killed yesterday when their plane crashed off Oahu is land, in the third major fleet air tragedy of the year. Two others of the crew escaped. Bodies of two of the victims were recovered one of them was identified the other not. In previous tragedies during 1938 maneuvers, seven men were lost when a patrol bomber vanished at sea, and eleven were killed February 2 when two patrol bombers collided in night operations off southern California. The flying boat which vanished yes terday was identified as 7VPIB, in command of Lieutenant Charles Signer. Naval spokesmen said the plane un doubtedly was forced down at sea. Carteret Boy Is Killed When Hit With a Baseball Beaufort, March 31— (AP) John Walter Murdock, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Murdock, of Wildwood, was killed instantly today when struck by a rubber core from a baseball hit by a play mate on the playground at New port school. Principal B. L. Pruitt said the hard rubber object hit young Murdock behind his right ear. Coroner George Dill began an investigation. 24 Counties Oet Control Os Peanuts College Station, Raleigh, March 31. -Twenty-four North Carolina coun ties are among the 89-counties in seven southern states designated as commercial peanut producing areas, E. Y. Floyd, of State College announc ed today. For these counties a peanut goal will be established under the agricultural conservation program and payments will be offered individual growers who do not exceed their goals. The peanut goal for the seven states is from 1,500,000 to 1,600,000 acres. This acreage* will be prorated among the states according to their past produc tion; state committees will divide state goals among the counties; and county committees will calculate goals for individual growers. Growers in the commercial produc (Continued on Page Three.) Group Os Farmers Will Challenge Control Act In N. C. Federal Courts Goldsboro, March 31.—(AF)—D. T. Starling, a farmer of Clayton, said here today attorneys had been retain 'd by a group of Johnston county far mers to test in Federal court the xon : 1 itutionality of the recehtly enacted farm law. Starling said Wayne county farm ers would be asked to join in the move ment and to contribute to its financial support. Contributions totaling about SIOO have been received he said. BKettitersmt Bcriht Dfspafdt ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. T VA Trouble-Shooters MB*. Representatives Andrew J. May (left), of Kentucky, and Maury Maver ick, of Texas, members of the joint committee which will hold hearings on the troubles of the Tennessee Valley Authority, are shown in a huddle at the Capitol. Maverick has asked, “as a friend of TVA,” that the probe cover all phases of the authority. (Central Press) TOB SSSd Farmers’ Intentions Show Hike of 3.5 Percent Un less Limited Dally Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March 31—The new farm bill has been overwhelmingly en dorsed and is now in effect; but not withstanding that fact statisticians of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture indicate that North Carolina farmers intend to plant three per cent more acres in tobacco this year than they did last. This scsmlig- pr.^gdtox —theoretical, reduction against predicted increase based on intention —com»es from the tact that the statisticians have mere ly released figures they derived from the expressed intentions of the farm ers. This fact is made clear by W. H. Rhodes’ statement, “While this sur Continued on Page Two.) Mrs. S. P. Cooper Is Endorsed for U. D. C. President Raleigh, March 31 (Al*) — The ninth district of the North Caro lina United Daughters of the Con federacy voted unanimously today to endorse Mrs. Sydney Perry Cooper, of Henderson, for the State presidency of the organi zation. Mrs. Cooper would suc ceed Mrs. John 11. Anderson, of Raleigh. Governor Hoey spoke at the meet ing and Mrs. Hoey entertained the ladles at a luncheon. FORMER BANKER IS HELD IN SHOOTING J. E. Tharrington, Formerly of Smith field and Raleigh, Denied Bail in Johnston .Selma, March 31 (AP) —'Sheriff R. V. Barber, of Johnston county, said today J. E. Tharrington, about 35, former bank cashier at S'mithfield and Raleigh, was being held in jail without bond pending the outcome of gunshot wounds inflicted on John McMillan, filling station operator, early today. Friends of Tharrington were under stood to be planning to petition a su perior court judge at Sanford to set bond for Tharrington so he might be released. McMillan was reported in a serious condition, with bullet wounds in the chest and abdomen. Ernest M. Green and W. P. Duncan, of Raleigh, and J. D. Parker, of Smithfield, have been retained as at torneys for the opponents of the law. the Clayton farmer said. The Johns'* coun* group was said by Starling to have organized with Sam H. Massey, ,of Smithfield as sec retary and treasurer. “We are determined men, fighting for freedom and liberty,” Starling as serted. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 31, 1938 FfS FOR 7SEATS No Congressional Candi date, However, Has Ghost of Chance to Win Dully Dtapntoh Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March 31.—North Carolina Republicans will this fall offer opposi tion to Democratic congressional nominees in only seven of the State’s eleven districts. Two years ago the G. O. P. put up candidates in all eleven. The difference is that there was a national presidential campaign in 1936 and the minority party tried hard to get out its full vote in all sections by 1 putting up as many local and district candidates as possible. There hasn’t been a Republican elected to Congress since the 1928 up heavel which saw Herbert Hoover car rying the State and carrying Charlie Jonas and George Pritchard into Con gress along with him. There isn’t, according to the present outlook, more than an exceedingly remote chance for any Republican to pull through this time, as it would take nothing less than a political earthquake to shake the tremendous Democratic majorities of the 1936 elections. The G. O. F. will attempt to do a bit of shaking, however, in the fourth. Continued on Page Two.) WINSTON NEGRO - TO RECEIVE REPRIEVE Execution Set for Tomorrow To Be Stayed Pending Appeal fer Partner in Crime Raleigh, March 31. —(AP)— Paroles Commissioner Edwin Gill said today T. J. Jefferson, Winston-Salem Negro scheduled to be executed tomorrow for murder, would receive a “substantial” reprieve pending a Supreme Court de cision on a new appeal by his co-de fendant, Tom Linney. Linney and Jefferson were convict ed of the killing of Herman Fogle man, insurance collector, and the Su preme Court upheld the death sen tences. Linney’s counsel, however, went back to the Supreme Court seek ing a new trial on grounds of newly discovered evidence and appealed again from an adverse decision. Kidnap Date Is Passed Up By Mediary New Rochelle, N. Y., March 31. (AP)—-Rabbi Abraham Nowack, inter mediary in the kidnaping of Peter Levine, 12, who disapeared February 24 on his way home from school, dis closed today that he had refused to keep an appointment with the kid napers, “because I felt that our meet ing could not be exclusive and with out interference.” “I said on February 28 when I was given instructions as to how I should contact the kidnapers, and I repeat now, that I shall not betray the con fidence of the kidnapers,” Nowack declared. The rabbi referred to “interference,” (Continued on Page Three.) WIATIIH! FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, showers in north portion tonight; cooler in north central portion late tonight; Friday oc casional rain and cooler. REM FKies IN SPAJNUSELESS Franco’s Victorious Armies May Win War Before Bickering Nations Reach Accord FORMULA WON’T BE NEEDED VERY SOON Hundreds of Government Soldiers Cut off from Base In North Flee Across Py rennes to Small French Village To Escape On rushing Insurgent Forces (By The Associated Press.) The guiding- sub-committee of th< Spanish non-intervention committee representing major European power-, gathered today and received a new British formula for withdrawal of foreign soldiery from the 20-months old civil war. It was the group’s first meeting in two months arid the pro blem was much the same as a year and a" half ago, except that the war itself was much closer to settling the question than bickering representa tives of Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Soviet Russia. Much depended on how long the Barcelona government could hold back insurgent armies stabbing east ward at the heart of government ter ritory. In a few days, perhaps, no for mula for withdrawal of foreign sol diers will be needed. That seemed to be the view of Gen eral 1 Francisco Franco’s! strategists as they directed twin thrusts east ward—one against Barcelona and the other toward the coast southeast of the capital. A movement to straighten the in surgent line close to the French fron tier cut hundreds”of government sol diers off from their bases east of Jaca and 1,000 fled over the Pyrennes for sanctuary in a little French mountain hamlet. They said 1,000 others were following their lead. Informed persons said Britain pro posed a “new .formula” for deciding when belligerent rights should be granted to the warring factions and restoration of control on Spanish fron tiers. M E. Unity Considered As Certain Memphis, Tenn., March 31. —(AP) — Unification or the Southern Methodist Church with the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant church was discussed today as the col lege of bishops met to discuss recom mendations to the Southern Church’s General Conference at Birmingham April 28. Belief that the unification question would be given an early hearing at the conference was expressed yester day at a meeting of the commission on union of the church. A two-thirds majority vote would unite the three branches of the Methodist Church. “The outlook for adoption of the plan by the General Conference meet ing is most encouraging,” Rev. Dr. J. L. Decell, Jackson, Miss., secretary of the commission, said. Annual conferences of the southern churches have voted over-whelming!., {Continued on Page Thiee>. 32 Perish In Tornadoes And Nearly 250 Injured In Five Midwest States (By The Associated Press.) Five tornado-strafed midwestern states counted 32 persons killed and nearly 260 injured today, Unofficial estimates of the damage passed the $1,000,000 mark. Hundreds were home less. The twisting storms, laden with hail and torrential rain, struck hardest in central Illinois, where at least ten were known dead. Next hardest hit was southeastern Kansas, where seven including three children, were killed. The Kansas storm struck about noon yesterday. It started in north western Oklahoma; later knifed into southwestern Missouri. Five were known dead in Missouri storms. Here to Aid Jews m : H pg • • Lieut. Col. J. M. Levey, acting chair man of the British ORT, an organi zation for the rehabilitation of Jew ish refugees, is pictured above as he arrived in New York on the Nor mandie. His organization aims to remove the 200,000 Jews now in Austria. (Central Press) iMTLEnI" IS BOTH ffll G. O. P. Leader Snell Calls “Dictatorship” Statement of President “Per fect Fake” BARKLEY TERMS IT “ADMIRABLE” VIEW Snell Says It Is “Purely an Effort To Get Front Page” and “Get People’s Minds Off” Reorganization Bill; U. S. Announced Battle ship Program Washington, March 31. —(AP) Foes and friends of the administration’s reorganization bill termed “a perfect fake” and “admirable statement” to day the letter in which President Roosevelt asserted “I have no inclina tion to a dictator.” Representative Snell, Republican, New York, the House Republican New York, leader, used the “fake” expres sion when he told reporters the Presi dent’s letter to an unnamed corres pondent was “purely an effort to get the front page," and “get people’s minds off” the controversial reorgan ization bill. Senator Barkley, of Kentucky, the Democratic Senate leader, in terming the letter “a very admirable state ment,” said it was one “the sincerity of which will be conceded by every body who knows the President.” While virtually every one at the (Continued on Page Six.l DR. L. B. McBRAYER NEAR DEATH DOOR Southern Pines Man Long Protminent in Tubercular and Medical Association Work Southern Pines, March 31 (AP)— Dr. L. B. Mcßrayer, former secre tary of the North Carolina Medical society and head of the North Caro lina Tuberculosis Association, was re ported critically ill today at the home of his daughter, Mrs. P. P. McCain, at Montrose, near here. Dr. Moßrayer, ill of pernicious ane mia, suffered a relapse last night after a period of improvement. Hope for his recovery was abandoned. * About sundown what apparently was a separate storm twisted across Illinois from the southeast, dipping to earth in the Pekin area. Ru3hville and Asteria also were hard hit. Another twister lashed at Heber Springs, Ark., killing four. Then it swung up through southeastern Mis souri, accounting for three of Mis souri’s dead at Poplar Bluff. An ear lier Arkansas blow had killed a wo man at Conway. The three-mile-wide Illinois storm left an estimated 85 persons injured. Six of the dead were at South Pekin Columbus, Kans., bore the brunt of the Kansas-Oklahoma-Arkansas - Mis souri storm. ... PUBLISHED IVIKT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. President Asserts He Isn’t Qualified To Rule As Despot Hoover Comes Home Ik * • "" U •f ■ Ex-President Herbert C. Hoover holds tightly to his hat as he de barks from the Normandie and boards a special cutter in New York Bay on his return from Europe, While in Europe, Hoover was hon ored by Belgium and had a forty minute talk with Hitler. (Central Press) Revolution Party Given Old Mexico Society Without Classes in Socialist State Is Goal of New Organization Mexico City, March 31 (AP) —A new “party of the revolution’” came into being today to carry on the na tion’s “Mexico for Mexicans” pro gram looking toward a society with out classes in a socialist state. The new party of laborers, farm ers and soldiers is an intensified gov ernment party, taking over the or ganization of President Cardenas’ for mer national revolutionary party. B. Gonzalez, head of the old party, was named president of the new. Its pro f Continued oc Page Three.) mexlnHes MAY SEE PRECEDENT Grave International Row Likely If Other Latin- Americans Follow By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, March 31. —President Cardenas’ expropriation of Mexico’s foreign-owned oil properties (nearly half a billion dollars’ worth cf them, and mainly at the expense of Yan kee or English capitalists) sets an ex ample which, if followed by other Latin-American countries, may lead to some very awkward international com plications. Presumably expropriated absentees (Continued on Page Three.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Writes Friend from Warm Springs He Knows Too Much About Dictators To Be One LETTER GIVEN OUT AT MIDNIGHT HOUR Reason for Publication of Statement at One O’Clock in Morning Not Made Clear; Says He Wants No Such Rule as That in Unit ed States of America Warm Springs, Ga., March 31.- (AP) —'President Roosevelt, charging organized opposition to his reorgani zation plans had planted “bogies un der every bed,” asserted in a letter made public today he had “no inclin ation to be a dictator.” The letter, addressed to an unnamed friend under date of March 29, urged approval of the measure, “in its pres ent form,” and replied to charges that the legislation would make him a die tator by asserting: “As you well know, I am as much opposed to an American dictatorship as you are, for three simple reasons: “A. I have no inclination to be a dictator. “B. I have none of the quaPUcation.* which would make me a successful •lictator. “C. I have too much historical back ground and too much knowledge of existing dictatorships to make me de sire any form of dictatorship for a democracy like the United States of America." The letter v/as made public by Sec retary Marvin Mclntyre shortly before 1 a. m., central standard time. There was no explanation for the late re lease, except that the President made up his mind to issue it before miJ night, and it required almost two hours to prepare it for the press. The name of the President’s cor respondent regarding reorganization was withheld, because Mclntyre said in a prefactory statement “he did no* write for publicity purposes.” The letter was dated the same day the president asserted at a press con ference that Senate passage of the re organization bill proved that body “cannot be purchased by organized telegrams based on direct misrepre sentation.” Senators Refuse To Lift Taxes Washington, March 31 (AP) —The Senate Finance Committee completed work today on the House-approved tax revision hill after voting down a proposal to lower income tax exemp tions. A reduction in personal income tax exemptions to toroaden the tax base was proposed by Senator LaFollette, Progressive, Wisconsin. The neduc (Continned on Page Two) Seven Dead From Serum For Cancer Doctor Who Admin istered Treatment Says It Must Have Become, Contami nated Orlhndo, Fla., March 31. — ( AP) — A seventh woman died today while a coroner’s jury assembled medical wi* nesses in an investigation of a series of deaths which followed injections of a serum in cancer treatments. ’ Mrs. F. E. Moonert, 63, of Winter Park, Fla., succumbed early today. Six women who had ‘been given in jections of the serum died yesterday. Four other persons are in hospitals with symptoms resembling those of tetanus. Dr. T. A. Neal said the seven dead (Continued on Page Three.)
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