HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
BLUM’S DEFEAT AND
RESIGNATION LIKELY
IN FRENCH TURMOIL
Premier Battles for Dicta
torial Powers Over Eco
nomic, Financial Life
of France
RIGHTISTS CHARGE
REVOLUTION PLOT
Political Experts Predict
Premier Will Win Bare
Majority in Deputies and
Overwhelming Defeat In
Senate, Followed Then by
His Resignation
Paris, April S.—(AP) —Socialist Pre
mier Leon Blum battled with Parlia
ment today for dictatorial powers
over the economic and financial life
of France, predicting bankruptcy and
civil strife unless radical measures
were taken.
Blum demanded that the lukewarm
Chamber of Deputies and the hostile
Senate vote him full decree powers.
Rightists reacted at once with the
charge that bis program was “a plan
for a Marxist < Socialist) dictator
ship and revolution.”
The general political opinion before
the struggle began m the chamber was
that the bill would be passed by tho
chamber and voted down by the Sen
ate.
Political experts accorded the pre
mier only a slight chamber majority,
however, and predicted a heavy ad
verse vote in the conservative senate
bringing his automatic resignation.
The premier's bill, by which he
hoped to attain sweeping authority,
contained only 80 words. It gave him
the right to decree all measures
"judged indispensable to meet the nec
essities of the national defense, pro
tect the holdings of the Bank of
France, and rehabilitate the nation’s
finances and economies.”
In a preamble of several thousand
words. Blum set forth what he pro
posed to do. His plans ranged from
virtual foreign exchange control to
a levy on capital and a two-year
moratorium on public debt payments.
DECLINES RECORDED
IN COTTON TRADING
New York. April 5. —(AP) —Cotton
futures opened down six to eleven
points, with weak cables and foreign
selling partly offset by trade buying.
By midday July had recovered from
8.51 to 8.54, and the list was nine to
ten points net lower.
pilot'repairs his
PLANE IN MID-AIR
Salt City, April 5 (AP)—
An ambulance, fire truck and
ground crew held a “death watch”
at Municipal airport early today
when a transport plane radioed
it had a crippled landing gear
and was in danger of crashing.
But Pilot Henry Hollenbeok re
paired the wheel in) mid-air and
landed safely.
BRITISH BOMBERAT
SINGAPORE MISSING
Singapore, April 5 AP)— Thirty-six
planes searched today for a Royal
Air Force bomber which disappear
ed with its crew of three in a squall
over the China Sea.
Find Cause
Thrombosis
In Workers
Comes from Too
Much Chemical
Substance in Nerves
Doctors Are Told
F -D CUCAUSE .. cmfwy
New York, April S.—(AP) —Dis-
covery of the cause of coronary throm
bo.«is, the heart trouble of high pre3-
• <i ui e workers, was reported to the
American College of Physicians today
L comes from too much acetyl cho
’iri,\ h chemical which the nerves pro
f h)ce to make muscles move when the
“motor center” of the brain transmits
nn impulse for movement.
Logs at the department of medical
research, University of Toronto, were
Kiven coronary thrombosis by the sim
lie expedient of injecting into their
1 leod daily small quantities of acetyl
r holine. These experiments were per
formed by George Edward Hall, M.
L., and witnessed by a group of phy
sicians who gave insulin to the world
Logs’ nerves use actyl choline the
Sfj me as humans, and the excess of
4 hf; chemical made them nervous.
They apparently were under the same
sort of strain as those executives,
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LEASED WmE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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Arleen Whelan
• • . she cost $900,000
Creating a movie star is costly ir
we are to judge from the figures
released by the company elevating
newcomer Arleen Whelan to the
brighter film lights. For this
company asserts it cost $900,000
to introduce Miss Whelan, once a
Hollywood manicurist. Various
items in this total include $50,000
for screen tests; $50,000 for seven
months training; $250,000 for ex
tra days of shooting on a picture
to build up a Whelan part; $400,-
000 for an advertising campaign,
and $150,000 for screen tests of
other players. (Unsuccessful
screen tests are charged up
•gainst the successful ones.)
—Central Press
JAPANESE DEMAND
DENIAL Os SOVIET
HELP TD CHINESE
J
Sending of Army Units and
Officers to China Is Al
leged in Protest to
Moscow
SUPPLIED LEGALLY,
LITVINOFF ASSERTS
Planes and Munitions Furn
ished Under International
Rules, Foreign Commissar
Declares; Says Efforts Be
ing Made To Strain Rela
tionships
Moscow, April 5 (AP) —The Japa
nese foreign minister asked Soviet
Russia’s official denial of rumors
that she is sending army units and
officers to China.
Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvin
off also asserted that planes and
munitions are supplied to China in
accordance with international rules
relating to such sales. Litvinoff de
clared yesEerday as a rejection of a
protest by Japanese Ambassador
Shigemitsu, who warned that Russia
must “assume responsibility for the
the consequences if aid to China con
tinued.”
“Any declaration contradicting this
fact, and incapable of verification
could have been laid only by circles
which already are well known for
their systematic fabrications of all
kinds of false reports with the ob
ject of sharpening relations between
Japan and the Soviet Union,” Lit
vinoff said.
CANDIDATESBESET
ON ALL SIDES NOW
Legislative Aspirants Es
pecially Are Put on
Many Hot Seats
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, April s—Candidates for
North Carolina’s General Assembly
will be called on to do a magnificent
bit of tight-rope walking, fence strad
dling and middle-of-the-road driving
from now until the primary elections,
despite the fact that they will not be
quite as brazenly “on the spot” as in
1936 when the question of whether a
man was for Hoey, Graham or Mc-
Donald was likely to decide whether
or not he should have a ticket to Ra
leigh for the 1937 session.
Just the same present aspiring law
makers will be called on by all sorts
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ONLY DAILY
eiSKn
JAPANESE ARMIES
Patchwork Defenses Dug
Along Grand Canal After
Fall of Strategic
Taierchwang
HARD FIGHTING AT
CITY IN PROGRESS
Japanese Claim Advance
Into Tiangsu Province
from Shantung for First
Time; Claim Destruction of
Ten Grounded Chinese
Planes by Raids
Shanghai, April 5 (AP) —Turning
stubbornly in their tracks, Chines ■
jeti*3ating from the ruined city of
Taierchwang again slowed up the
Japanese drive today toward the
Lunghai railway.
Taking advantage of night time re
lief from Japanese artillerv an'i avia
tion, Chinese dug patchwork defense
along the Grand Canal, and Japanese
admitted severe fighting still was go
ing on near Taierchwang, center of
a 17-day battle.
Chinese still did not admit Japan
ese had occupied all of the city, and
asserted that attacks on three points
provided a constant rear guard threat
to the Japanese. Japanese pressed
an eastward flanking movement to
ward two points east where the Grand
Canal bends southward and crosses
the Lunghai line. Their objective ap
peared to be to cut the Lunghai at
a point where the canal and railway
intersects.
In the vicinity of Pihsien, Japa
nese claimed their shaft-like pene
tration from Shantung province had
advanced in Tiangsu province from
the north for the first time.
Japanese aviat6rs claimed destruc
tion of ten ground Chinese planes in
attacks on airdomes 120 miles south
of Chengchow.
LOVE TRIANGLE GIRL
SHOWS IMROVEMENT
One of Her Suitors Killed Other and
Then Drowned Himself at
Clinton Saturday
Fayetteville, April s—(AP) —Grace
Carter, 17-year-old Clinton girl, gain
ed strength today in a Fayetteville
hospital, where she has been in a
critical condition since she was shot
and her admirer fatally wounded
Saturday night by another suitor
whose body was later found in a
nearby stream.
Physicians said the girl’s condition
remained serious, but added “the
chances now are all in her favor.”
Meantime, the body of Rudolph
Smolka, 22-year-old Elmira, N. Y.,
musician, who died several hours
after he and Miss Carter had been
shot in the midst of a small party
at her home, was prepared by a Clin
ton undertaker for forwarding to his
former home.
Cameron Tew, 21-year-old commer
cial student named >by a coroner”s
jury as the slayer of Smolka, was
found drowned in Six Run creek
Sunday morning. In his pocket was
a 'marriage license taken out the day
before for himself and Miss Carter.
navy~flierT killed
IN NORFOLK CRASH
Plane Falls from Height of 1,000
Feet; Victim, Unidentified,
Found in Machine
Norfolk, Va., April 5 (AP) —An un
identified navy flier was killed today
near here when the United States
fleet air detachment plane he was
flying crashed from a height of more
than 1,000 feet.
Lieutenants Robert Butliffif, (com
munications officer ,carrier division
two, U. S. S. Yorktown, said the navy
did not have immediate information
as to the fliers’ identity.
First persons to reach the plane
found the dead aviator hanging head
down, supported by a safety belt.
Legislative Program to Be
Discussed at Several
Regional Meetings
Dally Dispute# Bnreaa,
In The Sir Walter 1101-l.
Raleigh, April 5. —North Carolina
League of Municipalities, one of the
many “pressure” groups on legisla
tive matters, will plot the course it
will follow in the 1939 General Assem
bly at five regional meetings to be
held in the State from April 11 thro
ugh April 16.
The five meetings will be held at
Greenville, April 11; Fayetteville,
April 12; Greensboro, April 13; States
ville, April 14; and Hendersonville,
April 15, according to a letter sent out
by Patrick Healy, Jr., executive sec
retary, to all municipalities which are
members of the organization.
“These meetings are for the purpose
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NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGD4IA.
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL'S, 1938
The Reorganization Blues
Bk. ,v vx\v.\
JBL
Representative Samuel B. Pettengill, of Indiana, is shown in his office ii
Washington, wading through papers on the administration’s reorganiza*
tion bill, subject of heated debate in the House. Several compromise pro
posals were approved by President Roosevelt before he left Warm
Springs, Ga., for his White House office. (Central Press)
Rebels Are Pressing On
Toward Barcelona To Get
Loyal Capital Os Spain
Secondary Advance Moving Toward Valencia After
Communications Between Two Government Cities
Are Cut; Madrid May Shortly Be Cut Off
Hendaye, France, April 5.—(AP)—
Spanish insurgent armies, driving to
win the civil war this spring, cut
Catalonia from the rest of government
Spain to accomplish their first grea*
objefctive, and swept on today to
ward Barcelona, their enemy’s pro
visional capital. \
A secondary advance was moving
toward Valencia.
Communications between these two
major coastal cities remaining to the
government were severed yesterday
when insurgents reached Tortosa,
looking down on the- Mediterrean.
Machine guns and field artillery
raked the road from Tortosa, mak-
Dawson Put
Back In Old
Bank Office
Raleigh, April 5. —(AP) —Judge N.
A. Sinclair said today he had vacated
orders he issued last year discharging
James G. Dawson, of Kirfcton, as re
ceiver of the Farmers Bank & Trust
Company of LaGrange, on petition of
Commissioner of Banks Gurney Hood,
who alleged Dawson is short more
than $45,000 in his accounts.
Judge Sinclair, residing over su
perior court here, said the order was
mailed to the Lenior clerk of court
at Kinston yesterday.
The LaGrange bank closed in 1920
and Dawson became receiver in 1921.
There were 23 findings in the orde*-
made by Judge Sinclair. The judge
said that “the interests of every one
concerned requires a fuli and impar
tial examination of the contentions
raised by the exceptions herein, and
the commissioner of banks, contending
that the counsel fees and other allow
ances are excessive, and the receiver,
contending that counsel conducted
about 100 or more lawsuits for the re
ceivership and also rendered much
other valuable legal services, and in
the judgment of the court, it is a pro
per case for a reference so that suf
ficient time and pains can be directed
to the examination.”
✓ . , .
FIVE MEN DEAD IN
BRITISH AIR CRASH
London, April 5 (AP)—Five
men were killed today in a Royal
Air Corps bomber at Tibthorpe,
Yorkisihirev The bomber had
been on a night flight.
It was the 32nd Royal Air Force
crash since January 1, with a to
tal of 52 deaths.
' Intensive training under the re
armament speed-up was generally
ascribed as the reason for the
large number of accidents.
wiathiT
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy, possibly rain in
north central portion tonight and
Wednesday; slightly colder in
northeast; warmer in extreme
southwest portions tonight; cooler
In central portion Wednesday.
ing useless the last highway link be
tween Catalonia and the rest of gov
ernment Spain, wnich includes Mad
rid and Valencia. .......
General Franco’s troops were pre
pared to occupy Tortosa itself.
An insurgent communique announc
ed their troops had pushed six miles
to the north, east and south of Lerida
on the central sector of the Catalan
; ront.
With troops moving north and east
irom Tortosa and east from Lerida.
their two columns could join for what
might be decisive battles at these gov
ernment defenses, about ten miles
from Barcelona.
InstwniesT
CAUSING SURPRISE
Why Tobacco Heir Is Un
opposed by Dr. McDon
ald Is Not Explained
Dally dispatch Bureau,
In *he Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, April s.—‘Announcement of
Gordon Gray, Winston-Salem publish
er of the Twin City’s two daily papers,
for the State Senate caused more of
a ripple in political circles here than
many an announcement for a state
wide office.
I ntossing his high-priced head
piece into the arena, Mr. Gray said he
decided to run only after Senator Hu
bert Mcßae Ratliff, Forsyth’s 1937
Senator, had said he would, not fee a
candidate for rc-election.
The Gray candidacy in itself was
of interest, as hei s widely known bv
reason of his papers and because of
his tobacco-family prominence; but.
the thing which has excited Raleigh
observers and the thing they can hard
ly believe, is the statement (seeingly
made by Gray backer s with consid
erable assurance) that the young jour
nalistic tycoon will have no serious
opposition.
If this should prove true, then verily
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NORFOLK SOUTHERN
• PUSHES ITS CLAIM
Elimination of Passenger Service
From Bridgeton to Oriental
- Is Not Opposed
Raleigh, April 5. —(AP) —The Nor
folk Southern railroad asked the
Utilities Commission today for per
mission to stop passenger operations
between Bridgeton and Oriental .on
the grounds $1,227 wag lost on the
run in 1937.
No opposition was presented an!
the commission indicate! it would ap
prove the petition, though it withheld
action until a series of hearings of
petitions to stop passenger serv s ce on
all except one of the company’s lines
had been held.
J. C. Poe, of Norfolk, Va., assistant
general superintendent of the railroad
testified the company received an av
erage of only 41 ■ cents revenue pe
schedule from Bridgeton to Oriental.
! The afternoon the petition on the
Edenton to Suffolk run was heard.
PPBLIBHBD IVIKT AFTUKNOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY. 1
REPUBLICANS SHUN
PLACES UPON BOARD
INVESTIGATING TVA
To Play Rail Lead
Joseph B. Eastman
... plans to aid rails
Former railroad co-ordinator Jo
seph B. Eastman, member of the
interstate commerce commission,
shown as he appeared in Wash
ington at a hearing of the senate
interstate commerce committee, is
likely to play the most important
part in the government’s plan of
rehabilitating the railroads.
—Central Prettm
=Si
Government Preparing for
Long Legal Figbt Over
Expropriation of Oil
Industry
TWO WORKMEN DEAD
DURING GUN FIGHT
Battle Between Two Unions
Starts Over Right To Un
load Cargo of Building
Materials from German
Ship; Labor Stromg Backer
of Cardenas
Mexico City, April 5. —(AP)—Re-
newal of hostilities between the Con
federation of Mexican Workers (C
T. M.) and the Regional Confedera
tion of Mexican Workers (C. R. O.
M.) added to the government’s wor
ries today as it prepared for a long
legal fight over the expropriated oil
industry
Two workmen were killed and a
half dozen soldiers injured in a gun
battle yesterday at Acpulco. A score
or persons was arrested
The battle between the two unions
started over the right to unload a
cargo of building materials from a
German ship. Federal troops in
tervened and patroled the streets
after the town had been terrorized by
the outbreaks, one of a number o f
such clashes in the last two years.
Labor has been a chief support of
President Cardenas, who expropriat
ed the oil properties of 17 British
and American oil companies March
19. The companies appealed yesterday
to the courts, challenging the con
stitutionality of the expropriation de
cree. Both sides were expected to
pursue the case to the supreme court.
Murders In
Desert Laid
On Robbery
El Paso, Texas, April 5. —(AP) —A
hint that the torture murders of a
California society matron and her
daughter on the Texas plains wai th ±
outgrowth of a robbery plotted here,
came today from Sheriff Cris Fox a.i
officers searched for two men and two
women suspects.
The victims, Mrs. Weston Frome,
46, and her 23-year-old daughter,
Nancy, were found mutilated and club
bed to death near Van Horn, Texas,
Sunday.
El Paso officers entered the inves
tigation, Fox said, “since there is
some feeling certain events leading
up to the death of Mrs. Frome and
Nancy originated in this city.” Fox
did not elaborate.
Piecing together random bits of in
formation, authorities advanced a
theory that four persons were involved
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Borah and McNary Decline
Appointments by Vice-
President Garner
on Commission
BORAH CRITICIZES
. COMMITTEE’S SIZE
Says He Is Opposed. To
“Town Hall Method” of
Inquiry; McNary Pleads
Lack of Time; Admiral
Leahy Says Nation Needs
Additional Air Bases
Washington, April 5. —(AP) Two
Republican senators appointed to a
ten-man congressional committee to
investigate the TVA today declined
the appointment shortly after their
names were announced. They wer3
Senators Borah .Republican, Idaho,
and McNary, Oregon, the Republican
leader.
The two were named by Vice-Presi
dent Garner to .serve with Senators
Donahey, Democrat, Ohio; Brown,
Democrat, New Hampshire, and
Schwartz, Democrat, Wyoming.
The other five members, selected
by Senator Bankhead, included Mead
Democrat, New York; Driver, Demo
crat, Arkansas; Thomason, Democrat,
Texas; Jenkins, Ohio, and
Wolverton, Republican, New Jersey.
Senator Borah criticized the size of
the ten-man committee in declining to
serve, and said he did not believe in
conducting investigations by the
“town meeting method”.
Senator McNary said his time wa3
too limited to undertake the task.
Other developments:
Admiral William Leahy told the
Senate Naval Committee it would be
impossible to protect America’s large
cities from bqmbing unless ample ai**
bases were provided.
The navy’s chief of operations testi
fied that army and navy officials were
giving joint consideration to establish
ment of more such land bases on the
Pacific coast.
Representatives of southern rail
roads sharply protested before a
House interstate and foreign com
merce sub-committce a proposal to
operate a Federal barge line on Cape
Fear river in North Carolina. A bill
by Representative Clark, Democrat,
North Carolina, would authorize ex
tension of the inland waterway line if
a survey showed the line feasible be
tween Wilmington and Fayetteville,
N. C.
E. K. Burlew won Senate confirma
tion as first assistant secretary of
the Interior Department. His appoint
ment had been opposed three months
by Senator Pittman, Democrat,
Nevada.
TVA DIRECTOR IN FAVOR
OF FULL INVESTIGATION
New York, April 5. —(AP) — David
Lilienthal, one of the directors of
TVA, said today a congressional in
vestigation of the TVA was “a fine
ihing.”
A joint resolution calling for an
investigation by Congress was signed
yesterday by President Roosevelt.
“I welcome the inquiry, and I think
it will be a good thing to clear th>
atmosphere completely,” he said.
He declined to comment on the
President’s dismissal of Dr. Arthur
Morgan, former chairman of the TVA.
whose charges against his colleagues
resulted in the projected investiga
tion.
FRANCES'S!
1). S.-BRITISH HELP
Viewed A* One Reason
Paris Is Not Following
in Naval Program
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, April s.—State Depart
ment folk sense a deal of significance
in Paris’ intimations that France will
make no start on a superbattleship
building program, even if the United
States and Britain do, unless Germany
and Italy enter the race.
The conclusion is obvious that the
French have no doubt of the genuine
ness and permanency of Uncle Sam’s
and John Bull’s good will toward
themselves. Let these two expand
their respective navies to their hearti
content; France will do no worrying.
Indeed, she counts somewhet upon
Britain as a fighting ally in the event
of actual hostilities.
Os Germany and Italy, however, she
is suspicious.
This is not new information. Never
theless, it decidedly is a newly plain
way of expressing it.
How Big?
How big a battleship practically
can be built is problematic.
Not more than a couple of gerej
tions ago a vessel of 10,000 tons was
considered a monster. Today 35,000
tons is considered the first-class bat
tleship standard. Just after the wi:
the United States was engaged in V c
.
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