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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR ROOSEVEtT TO ASK FOR MORE BILLIONS Blum Resigns When French Finance Plan Fails INSURGENTS GAIN NEW COASTAL iDITY IN EASTERN SPAIN Capture of Mountain Heights Puts Them in Clear View of Medi terranean Shores CHINESE PUT STOP TO JAPS’ ADVANCE German-Trained Divisions Hurled Against Invaders To Wash Out Their Drive In Shantung Province; Blum’s Last Stand for French Finances Made (By The Associated Press.) Spain’s insurgents today shoved n new salient within sight of the Medi terranean: France’s conservatives jab bed at Leon Blum’s tottering leftist government, and China’s vast reser voir of manpower appeared to have washed away for tne moment the tech nical superiority of invading Japan ese in southern Shantung province. Spain: Calician insurgents wrested lofty Mount Turmoil from government forces hemmed into a coastal corridor southwest of Barcelona. From thj heights they could look down 18 mile-'; to Vinaroz, on the eastern coast. A drive downhill to tne sea would flank the stubborn defenders of Tortosa, 28 miles north of Vinaroz, and 95 miles southwest of Barcelona. Deadly combat flared all along the Catalonian coast. In Madrid, 38 re cruiting offices were opened to regis ter volunteers In the government’3 call for 100.000 fresh recruits. Fiance: The Chamber of Deputies, which had approved Premier Blum’s demand for dictatorial power over fi nance by a narrow majority, and the Senate, which had balked outright, (Continued on Page Thiee). LAUNDRY - MANAGER SURRENDERS SELF Wanted in Death of Negro Whose Clothes Ignited From Matches Tossed By Him Tarboro, April 8 (AP) —J. K. Young, former manager of the Tarboro laundry, surrendered to Solicitor Don Gilliam today to face a charge of homicide in connection with the death of John Collins, Negro employee of the laundry. He was released in $250 bond. A coroner’s jury Mamed Young after hearing witnesses testify that he had flipped lighted matches at the Negro, igniting his clothing. While being treated for burns, the Negro died of pneumonia. appeal to public IN FROME MURDER LI I’aso Authorities Ask Aid iiu Hunt for Desert Slayers of Mother And Daughter El Paso, Texas, April 8. —(AP) —Au- thorities appealed to the public today to search for clues in the Frome mur der case—as deep a mystery today an it was Sunday when the crime wai discovered. Lead after lead has proved worth l',; - since the bodies of Mrs. Weston Frome. 10, and her 23-year-old daugh ter. Nancy, were found on the west Texas desert. Mot her and daughter were driving ftorn Barkley, Cal., to South Carolina. Detroit’s Strike Is At An End Detroit, Mich., April 8. —(AP) — A “mutually satisfactory” agreement 'tiding the street car strike Which forced 700,000 Detroit commuters to f rid other means of transportation for more than 24 hours was reached early today. Mayor Richard Reading, who an nounced the settlement at the end of a meeting In his office, said trolley r-'Tvice would be restored by H a. m. Euses continued to run during the strike. Terms of the settlement were with h'ld pending a meeting being arrang ed at which members of Division 26 (, f the Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor (Continued on Page Three.) ti, ISSUE- PERRY MEMORIAL Himtorann Sail* ©tstrafrfi s Choice sot the ,TVA Ptobe m |jgj’ 'i MUI. # Bf n JB V '> pptp ->> n " H > * • 3 ' c f] j X ! " \ wmm in HK ■ .£ ; -v> • -W f •• TSHHjmF XX" XX.: :• :vr p- s , .w ‘ ■ - • J|||X Tennessee vSw* 1 a f ® oU J® Will ! a J n B -Bankhead to serve on a ten-man committee to investigate the Tennessee Valley the quintet above will act with five Senators in the TV A probe. In the pic- R l Pr w e . nta V Ve3 William J. Driver, Democrat, Arkansas; Thomas A. Jenkins, Republican, Ohio, Charles A. Wolverton, Republican, New Jersey; James A. Mead, Democrat, New York, and Ewing R. Thompson, Democrat, Texas. (Central Press) Roosevelt Signs Amendments To Tobacco And Cotton Acts Tornadoes And Floods Kill 26 Persons Over Wide Areas Os South Birmingham, Ala., April 8 (AIP) —, Tornadoes and floods, twin menaces of the spring, claimed 26 lives over night in the South and caused wide spread property damage. Twisters killed 13 at Aliceville, Ala., yesterday, and scores were in jured in Alabama, Mississippi and | Georgia. Swollen by a cloudburst, a moun tain creek swept away thirteen per sons with a combination general store and home at the northwest Georgia village of Whitestone last night. Four bodies were recovered today. Rescuers said there was “not a chance in a thousand” that any of the oth ers escaped the flood, which caught them in their sleep. Whitestone vic tims were the ten members of the' family of F. B. Conner, Carl Lindsey, 22, who lived with them, and two vis-• DEAN GULLEY HAS 1 HIS BIGGEST TASK To Argue in Supreme Court Own Appeal from Wake Forest Taxes Dally Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Waite* • «“». Raleigh, April B—Dr.8 —Dr. N. Y. Gulley, whose services at Wake Forest are approaching the half-century mark, has probably taught law to more judges and practicing attorneys in North Carolina than any other living man. Usually when he speaks his words are taken to be as true and infallible as Holy Writ; but next week the old professor will tackle an audience which may prove a bit skeptical and which will accept the Gulley dicta only if they are backed by precedent and authority. Certainly they will not be swallowed just because they are uttered by the learned and be loved educator of legal lights. Dr Gulley is scheduled to appear before North Carolina’s Supreme Court judges to argue his appeal from a lower court decision he must pay nearly S9OO assessed against him as a North Main street property in the town of Wake Forest. The professor claims that under a proper method of accounting he owes the town no more than about half that amount. . .. He contends that in arriving at his share of the paving expenses the town made numerous illegal and Improper (Continued on Pagre Stt * ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOKHI CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. SERVICE OF THH ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, A PRIL 8, 1938 iting children who lived across the creek, Thelma and Bonnie Ponder. One of the series of tornadoes in jured several persons at Sargent, Ga. Washouts hampered highway travel and ditched 18 cars of a Louisville & Nashville freight train near Fair mount, Ga. Alabama National Guardsmen and State patrolmen were sent by Gover nor Graves, while the Red Cfoss rendered aid to many persons made homeless in Alabama. A survey of the rural west Alabama are#s was underway to determine whether oth ers may have been killed or injured in obscure sections. : The onslaught of the elements was completed by freezing temperatures in a great circle reaching southward to ward the coast and by gale winds along the gulf fringe. Snow accom panied the cold wave in some Regions. BUT FOR HIS AGE, GARNERMIGHTWIN Not a New Dealer But Is Highly Respected at White House Anyhow By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, April 8. —-It is a com monplace that a vice president of the United States stands no chance of graduating into the presidency except through the White House tenant’s death. Once in first place, a promoted vie; president may be nom inated next time, such as was the case with Theodore Roosevelt or Cal vin Coolidge. Othewise the vice presi dency traditionally rates as a dead end politically. I would not be so sure, however, that Vice-President John N. Garner might not be a pretty fair 1940 Dem ocratic possibility, if he were a dozen or fifteen years younger. His age cer tainly forecloses him. He will be 74 two twelvemonths hence. A Bull’s-Eye For John. The other day, when Garner, on being offered $1,500 to lend Vs name to publication, answered. ‘Jonn Gar ner isn’t worth that much and the vice presidency isn’t for sale,” he scored a bull’s-eye. He may not have intended it so, but it was interpreted as a terrific dig at other folk in high places. If experience counts for anything (Continued on Page Six^ Acreages Increased jfer Two. Crops To Iron Out Mal adjustments In Al lotments HOUSE TURNS DOWN FRESH AMENDMENT Rejects Republican Propos al for Change in Reorgani zation Bill; Senate Turns Down Higher Tax on Li quor; Near Final Vote On Tax Measure Washington, April 8. —(AP) —Pres dent Roosevelt signed today congres sional amendments to the new cron control law, which will increase the cotton acreage allotment this year to about 28,300,000 acres. Thus growers will be permitted to sell free of penalty cotton produce 1 on about 2,000,000 more acres than under the control program previously outlined by Secretary Wallace. A two cents per pound penalty will be as sessed against cotton 'produced on acreage in excess of a grower’s allot ment. • The chief executive also signed fom' other amendments to the farm legis lation designed to correct inequalities in distributing acreage allotments a mong growers of cottbn and flue-curej tobacco. One amendment increased the cot ton acreage of each state by four per cent. Another amendment increased the flue-cured tobacco acreage allot ment by two percent to correct si milar inequalities. Another amendment increased the rate of benefit payments on early po tatoes from three cents to 5.4 cents per bushel. The fourth amendment makes eli gible for 1937 cotton price adjust ment payments, those farmers whose crop was destroyed by fire or flood. The House shouted down an amend (Continued on Page Eight.) Chinese Mission Asking U. S. Aid Chefoo, China, April 8. —(AP) — The American Presbyterian Mis sion Hospital here appealed to the United States government for as sistance today in resisting de mands that all Chinese wounded be turned over to Japanese. * - Japanese marines and Chinese irregulars continued a desperate engagement,, in the hills west of Chefoo, where an uprising of Chi nese broke out Tuesday. WatheiT FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Occasional rain tonight, profit ably ending Saturday morning; slightly warmer fn central portion tonight and in extreme north por tion Saturday. SENATE SMOTHERS EFFORTTO OBTAIN Premier Announces Resig nation to Leftist Partners And Then Sees President LebrUn FINAL WARNING IS GIVEN PARLIAMENT Same Authority He Sought Will Have To Be Given To Some Other - Government To Bridge Chasm, He De clares; Finance Commit tee’s Dictum Read Paris, April 8, (AP) —Premier Leon Blum formally announced the resig nation of his government tonight after the Senate had voted down his demand for dictatorial powers over French finance. He handed the re signation of his cabinet to President Lebrun tonight. Immediately after the Senate, by a vote of 223 to 49, had shown its dis dain for his “last call,” the Premier dashed out of the Senate building through the ranks of steel-helmeted mobile guards to the Chamber of Deputies. There he announced resig nation to the deputies of his own so cialist party, who had assembled to hear his decision. He told them he was going to the Elysee palace to tell President Albert Lebrun he was through. The senators refused even to con sider separate articles of the pre- Continued on Page Two.) 450 School Buses Are to Be Bought For N. C. Schools Raleigh, April 8 (AP)—The transportation committee of the State School Commission discuss ed proposed purchase of around 450,000 worth of new school bus es with Governor Hoey today. The legislature set aside $600,- 000 for school buses this year, but the commission secured an ad vance last year of $150,000, from the emergency and contingency fund which must be repaid. T. B. Atmore, of Washington, heads the committee which plans to report its findings and recom mendations to the full commis sion next Thursday. It is esti mated the buses will cost about SI,OOO or more each, Japs Think U. S. Striking At Them Kobe, Japan, April 8. —(AP)—Ad- miral Yonai, minister of the navy, declared today that “the announc ed decision of the United States and Britain to abandon the 35,009-ton battleship limit of the 1936 London treaty must be evidence of their in tention to oppose Japan.” He declared Japan was not build ing “bigger ships at present,” but said the. American and British pro grams might compel her to revamp her naval program. Greater Production Now Needed In United States Should Stop Fighting Over What Now Exists and Try To Make More, Babson S ays; Thinks Development of Air-Conditioning Os fers Millions of Jobs BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1938, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Savannah, Ga., April B.—Hatred be tween groups in this country is great er now than at any time since the Civil War. Scarcely a day passes tha + some group is not at another’s throat With 10,000,000 unemployed, it’s time for Washington, business, labor utili ties and investors to pull together. Consequently, I hope this article will be read by President Roosevelt, John L. Lewis, David Lilienthal of the T. V. A., and Wendell L. Willkie of Com monwealth 4s Southern. At any rate, I am sending all these men marked PUBLISHED IVIXT iFTIKNOOI EXCEPT SUNDAY. President Reveals Precise Amount Is Not Yet Agreed On ''Defender” // jßßSmgfc-' TOpTOH vs j| v • r ■■l .J B i #• L. M. Bailey, director of the Na tional Defenders, Inc., is shown iiju New York as he set out for Wash ington aboard the “Paul Revere" train to protest President Roose velt’c reorganization measure. (Central Press) Hoey W on’t Oppose Sale Os Railroad But Governor Says Legislature Alone Can Dispose of A. & N. C. Properties Raleigh, April S.—(AP> —(Governor Hoey said today he did not. like for the State to be in the railroad busi ness, but sale of the Atlantic Nortli Carolina Railroad would have to be* voted by the legislature. L. T. Moore, manager of the Wil mington Chamber of Commerce, re leased a letter from Governor Hoey on the matter. “I certainly would not oppose sale of the railroad if it could be done ni a profit to the State,” Hoey said this morning. “I do not like for the State to be in the railroad business, but the governor, Council of State and direc tors of the railroad cannot sell the line. That is only within the power of on Page Eight.) copies. What Not To I)o. (1) Fighting over what now exist.s instead of trying to produce more is our first big mistake. Only as more is produced is there more to divide. If we distributed the entire national production equally among all *he peo pie, omitting small children, it would, amount to only about what SSOO cau buy. Here is a simple problem foi every reader. Total the annual wages of the bread-winners in your home. Then take the number of people ir your family, less babies, and multiply (Continued on Page Two). 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Tells Press Conference His Estimate for Work Re lief Next Year Must Be Raised LONG TERM LOANS FOR CITIES, TOWNS Would Be Made Without Interest; Message To Con gress Shortly Will Be Sent by President Making Re quest for New Billions To Be Expended Washington, April B.—(AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt told a press conference today his billion dollar estimate for work relief in the next fiscal year would have to be increased. He men tioned no figure. The President also said a new public works program was under discussion, but that no decision had been reach ed. He mentioned no amount in this connection, either, but $1,500,000,000 was the figure he was reliably report ed as considering. The President said one of the fea tures of the works program being dis cussed was long-term loans to muni cipalities without interest. He said he had not decided whether to combine public works and work relief proposals in one message to Congress, or to make them separate. One billion dollars for relief was proposed in the President’s January budget message. Mr. Roosevelt discussed relief short ly after Harry Hopkins, WPA ad ministrator, urged Congress to pro vide a “permanent security program” based on work instead of direct re lief. Hopkins estimated, in his testimony before the Senate unemployment com mittee, about 18,000,000 men, women and children in 6,000,000 households were receiving public assistance at the present time, compared to a peak of 27/000,000 persons in’ the winter of 1933-34. Hopkins declared that some unem ployment will always :te present. "For that research,” he said, “we must plan a permanent security program.” WHITNEY TESTIFIES AS TO OPERATIONS Bought Stock Exchange Seat in 1939 With $500,009 Loan Made by His Brother New York, April 8. —(AP) —Richard Whitney testified before the Securities fe Exchange Commission today that he bought a stock exchange seat for one of his partners in 1929 out of the proceeds of a $500,000 loan from his brother, George Whitney. The witness, making another ap pearance in a long series of investiga tions growing out of the collapse of hi s Wall Street brokerage house, said he lent the money to Henry Migatt, a partner in his firm, for the purchase of a seat. Whitney, who had been $ member himself since 1912. said he retained a quarter interest in Migatt’s ?eat, all that was permissible. Expensive To Compose Stage \Hit' New York, April 8 (AP)—Mrs. Victor B. Small returned to her home in Clinton, N. C., today not complete ly persuaded that it is entirely good fortune to have a husband who is co-author of a Broadway hit. Dr. Small is author of the book, “I Knew 3,000 Lunatics,” from which Harditf Albright dramatized Cheryl Crawford’s production of “All the Living,” a play which was almost unanimously praised by the critics. Its early box office figures indi cate that it will linger as a success ful hit. “This news that it is a hit appa rently is persuading too many that Dr. Small is becoming fabulously wealthy overnight,” she said. "And you know how traditionally doctors always have a difficult time collect ing their bills. “To point out the fact clearly, Dr. (Continued oc Page Three.)
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