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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year CZECH CRISIS GRAVE TURN FOR EUROPE Committee Adds $298,000,000 to New Relief Bill Potato Marketing Agreement Passed By Recent Ballots 75 Percent Favorable Vote in 13 States Announced by AAA Officials at Capital PENNSYLVANIA VOTE STILL SPECULATED Leaders of Defeated CIO- Backed Ticket in Last Tues day’s Election Non-Com mittal on Course To Pur sue; Rail Program in Con gress Menaced by Wages Washington, May 21. —(AP) —The. AAA slid today returns indicated a*> proval of a potato marketing agree ment for the 13 early and intermediate producing states by a 75 per cent fav orable vote in a grower referendum. Returns received from 273 of the 291 designated counties in those states showed that of 7,278 growe*',-- balloting last week, 5,459, represent ing 50 per cent of the potato produc tion in those areas, voted for a mark eting agreement. A majority of growers in three states California, Maryland and South Carolina —were shown f;y the incomplete tabulation to have oppos ed the agreement. Returns from a fourth stale, Georgia, had not been tabulated. The favorable and unfavorable votes respectively, by states, included 1 North Carolina, 1,162 and 619; South Carolina, 98 and 100. C. f. O. Losers Non-Committal Meantime, with one exception, t.h** leaders of the defeated CIO-backed faction in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary remained non-committal on what course they would pursue, de spite apparent White House attempts to unite the party for the November election. Walter Tone, Pittsburgh oil man aligned with labor leader John Lewis and Senator Guffey in the primary announced he would support the win ning ticket. A short time before his announcement, Marvin Mclntyre, White House secretary, called at Jones’ hotel nuite. Senate railroad experts said a com promise in the wage cut dispute of fend the only prospect for salvaging the emergency railroad aid program at this session of Congress. J. J. Kelly, president of the Associa tion of American Railroads, indicated strongly in a statement yesterday the carriers were not disposed to accept any existing aid proposals as a sub stitute for wage reductions. Supplies Os War Hurried To San Luis No Outbreak Yet, But Government Is Preparing; Mexico In Turmoil Mexico City, May 21. —JAP) —A trainload of munitions today was sent, into Son Louis Fotosi, where repeated rumors of impending revolution have fare,] the Mexican government to stringent military precautions. At the same time a group of five senators indicated they would urge President Cardenas to expropriate property of leaders implicated in any ’■prising. They suggested such proper tv he applied to indemnifying foreign nil companies for their $400,000,000 possessions taken over by the govern irn mt March 18. Turbulent Mexico was uncertain whether it was up against a major revolutionary movement or merely a series of local rabel activities. While President Cardenas concen trated his military forces in the rest -1( 's.s state of San Luis Potosi to smo ther any uprising by the agrarian Lader General S. Cedillo, reports reaching the capital told of at least two rebel bands being in the field. General Cedillo has evacuated his one-time stronghold in central Mexivo r ‘ ( l his peasant army has scattered to the hills, leaving Cardenas in firm control of the state capital, San Luis. ontinued on Page Five.) HruUrrsmTSatlu ©tsuafeh L THB E iq«J^n?FmIi,S RVICB OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. TV A Investigator? i i f" .: M ’ •:! Judge Samuel Seabury • • • to make headlines? Judge F Seabury whose revelation of corruptions in New York City brought about the downfall of former Mayor James J. Walker is expected to be named chief counsel for the joint con gressional committee delegated to investigate activities of the Ten nessee Valley Authority. RETIREMENT AT 70 i FOR PRESBYTERIAN! MINISTERS URGED: Automatic Cessation from Pastorate Proposed at General Assembly’s Session RE-ELECTION FOR x ONE YEAR ALLOWED Annuity Fund for Aged Ministers Would Have To Be Pressed to Conclusion if Enforced Retirement Were Made Effective; Racial Is sues Up Meridian, Miss.. May 21.—(AP) —A - proposal for automatic retirement of ministers at the age of 70 was laid be- , fore the 71st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States here today. ] Opposition to recommendations of the ad interim committee on changes in pastorates was expected from sever- ( al sources as adoption would mean ( retirement for a number of Preshy-1 terian ministers now holding posts. Under .the proposal, a minister reaching 70 would be automatically retired, but his congregation might I re-elect him for one year’s service. • The service could ite extended for a maximum of three years, but no long cr. To make their retirement plan practicable, the committee urgently requested revived interest in the' church’s annuities fund, the goal of which was set at $3,000,000. “There/ are reports fronj all over the church which must have some foundation, the committee said, “that men who are unable to do the full work of pas tor are being forced to remain with churches in order to live. They realize that our present aid, through minis terial relief, is not sufficient to main tain their families. It is easy to see the pastoral relationships maintained on such a basis are not for the best in terests of the churches.” Meanwhile, racial issues dating from the War Between the States have kept Northern and Southern Presbyterians apart since 1865, but there are no color lines in the South- ( ern Church Assembly. Seated well up front at the Presbyterian Assembly here are ten negro ministers and el ders who have an equal vote in all church issues and hold committee as signments with white ministers. NLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOKiil CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. PWA Funds for Construct ing Utility Plants Are To Be Denied for Competition PWA SECTION CUT TOTAL OF A TENTH WPA Wage Differentials Would Be Eliminated If Labor Standards Bill Is Passed; Glass Says He Is Opposed to Whole Bill and May Fight It Later Washington. May 21. —(AT’ The Senate Appropriations Committee ad ded $298,939,009 to the administration’s relief bill today, and gave final ap proval to the measure totaling $3,459,- 000,000. Major changes made f;y the commit tee included: A provision restricting the use of PWA funds for the construction of public utility plapts. Provision of $212,000,000 for bene fit payments to wheat, cotton and corn producers. A reduction of $100,090,000 in the billion dollar PWA appropriation. Insertion of a requirement that WPA wage differentials be eliminated are imposed through enactment, of n the event uniform labor standards wage-hour legislation. Reduction from 1100,000,000 to $25, 000,000 in the authorization for the REA. Chairman Glass, Democrat, Virgin ia, of the appropriations committee told reporters he was “opposed to the whole bill,’’ and had reserved the right to file a minority report. Members reported the committe had adopted by a narrow margin a sub committee recommendation that the WPA be prohibited from financing construction of utility plants which would compete with existing private systems when the latter are subject to any form of public regulation. 450,000 VOTES IN^ Winborne Set for Safe Ma jority of It; Figure Looks High To Some Raleigh, May 21—With the voting only two weeks off, size of the bal loting on June 4 is beginning to come in for a bit of speculation on the part of political prognosticators as well as candidates for statewide of f ice • The very first mention of figures this correspondent has heard was the statement that Stanley Winborne would get two hundred and seventy five thousand votes out of four hun dred and fifty thousand cast in the Utility Commisioner race. Needless to say, the estimate came from a red hot Winborne supporter. The N. C. record was set in 1936’s super-heated first primary, when a total of 516,864 votes were distributed among Hcey, McDonald, Graham and Mcßae. In view of the comparatively slow tempo of this spring’s battling, a 450,000 estimate looks high; though it must be borne in mind that heated Congressional and judic>al races, in addition to many torrid local sweep stakes, will pull voters to the polls who would go fishing so far as the current statewide contests (U. S. Sen ator and Utility Commissioner) are concerned. Like the Democratic State platform, this correspondent will now do a lit tle horn-blowing. We point with pride to exact fulfillment of the prediction made exclusively by this bureau. It was predicted that the only ef forts to get planks in the platform would be made by supporter sos Crop Control (notably the N. C. Farm Bu reau Federation) and by Laitor through the State Federation. It was further predicted that neither effort would get anywhere. That’s just what happened. Congressional races in the Sixth 1 and Eighth are made confused and complex by a multiplicity of candi dates. It seems certain that there will be a first general scramble in each, then a hot and heavy second primary. That has been the outlook all along, and it wasn’t changed a bit by events (Continued on Page Five.} HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, MAY 21, 1938 First Pictures of Revolt in Brazil w •••••• Jj Ih - —jjjl 1 m V ' MBnlHn W k Wm ml ilf T!l Mn . l7ii §: § j ’A.ws* ? mm At top, an ambulance is shown in the courtyard of the Guantbara Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when the wounded were removed after the abortive Fascist coup in which President Getulio Vargas defended himself and his family with a revolver from the invaders. Below, left, is Luis Gonzaga, head of the rebel Fusiliers, who killed a sergeant and two soldiers of the Guanabara Palace guards, and at right (in white), Dr. Raimundo Barbosa Lima, chosen by the rebel Integralists to substitute for President Vargas, is shown with detectives at central police headquarters, Rio. These are the first pictures of the Rio revolt )o reach the United States. (Central Press) Auto Deaths Are Only 64 Last Month Lowest Number Any April Since 1934; Year’s Total Low est Since 1933 Raleigh, May 21 (AP) —Only 64 per sons, the lowest number for April since 1934, were killed in automobile accidents in North Carolina last month, Revenue Commission<er A. J. Maxwell reported today. The April total brought to 248 the total number of fatalities so far this year, compared with 308 in the same period in 1937. This year’s total is the lowest since 1933. Twenty-seven fatal wrecks occur red on a straight road and 41 in the country. There were only 18 fatal accidents in cities. Maxwell expressed pleasure over the report, pointing out that there were 20,000 more automobiles in use now than at the same time last year. Automobiles last month killed 28 pedestrians, five children playing in the streets, nine persons walking on the roadway .and oije drunken motor ist. Fulghums, Brother And Sister, Killed In Halifax Wreck Roanoke Rapids, May 21 (AP) — Miss Mamie Fulghum, 52, of near here, and her brother, Clarence Fulghum, 42, of Washington, D. C., were killed early today when a northbound Seaboard Air Line railroad train struck their auto mobile at a grade crossing about two miles from Roanoke Rapids. Miss Fulghum died before reach inig a hospital here, and hoi* brother died a .short time after arrival. _} a, London Alarmed By Powder Keg Events In Central Europe London, May 21. —(AF) —Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax hurriedly returned to the foreign office today to take the helm of British foreign poli cy personally in the face of increas ingly dangerous German-Czech inci dents. Prime Minister Chamberlain kept in close touch with the dangerous situ ation, complicated by the frontier killing of two Germans by Czech guards, the calling up of Czech army reserves, and reports of sandbag barricades had (teen thrown up on Czech roads between Eger and Pilsen. Berlin dispatches, meanwhile, said the British ambassador Sir Neville Henderson, asked the German foreign office the second time for assurances that troop movements toward the frontiers Germany wants to expand llsToniesT CARRIED INTO OPEN Adherents of Both Win borne and Grady Pre sent Their Contentions Raleigh, May 21—The race for utili ties commissioner, featuring Stanley Winborne, defending champion, and Pagl D. Grady, of Kenly, in the role of challenger, is beginning to pick up speed and interest which promise to make for a bit of political pyro technics in the two weeks remaining before the voters will end the contro versy at the polls. Just now the contest has reached the speech-making stage for both the candidates. Last night the challenger took to the air at Charlotte and loos ed quite a blast at Commisioner Winborne and his methods of run ning the utility group. The incumbent, so far, has made no set or formal campaign speech, (Continued on Page Three.) - PUBiiiav'BTi wvi*t afternoon EXCEPT SUNDAY. were only routine training moves. The British envoy was closeted an hour with German foreign Minister von Ribbentrop. Sir Neville was assured yesterday by von Ribbentrop’g deputy that Ger many’s goose-stepping warriors usu ally are transferred from town to country camps at this season. British officials displayed concern over the Sudenten-German minority’s refusal to negotiate with the Czech government unless prior guarantees were received. An authoritative Czech source in London said it was believed Adolph Hitler, though ambitious to absorb Czechoslovakia’s 3,500,000 Germans, did not plan a military coup against his eastern neighbors this week end. New Dealer Holds Lead In Oregon Portland, Oregon, May 21.—(AP) Henry Hess, who claimed New Deal and la' - : or support picked up a grow ing and perhaps decisive lead today in his sensational Democratic pri mary contest with Governor Charles Martin. Hess took a lead of 3,329 votes over Governor Martin, late returns Showed. Returns from 1,233 precincts of the 1,681 gave: Hess 44,878; Martin, 41- 549. The 74-year-old governor described himself as loyal to President Roose velt without offering “rubber stamp” endorsement to the administration’s program. Hess, supported by Senator George Norris, Nebraska Independent, and, in effect, by Secretary of the Interior (Continued on Page Six.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY RESERVES ORDERED WEEK-END VOTING Political Strength of 3,500,- 000 German-Supported Minority Faces Test Sunday TENSION MOUNTING THROUGHOUT NATION Hitler Backing Demand of Sudenten Germans in Czechoslovakia for Self- Government; Czechs Throw Up Sandbag De fenses for Emergency Budapest, Hungary, May 21. — (Al*) —Well informed quarters to night reported Czechoslovakia had closed her Polish and German frontiers as a result of mounting tension and disorders over to morrows’ municipal elections. Praha, Czechoslovakia, May 2*.— (AP) —Germany’s little neighbor, Czechoslovakia, today called out a reserve class lo bolster her 190,000- man army on the eve of tense munici pal elections testing the political strength of the 3,500,000 Nazi-suppor’- ed German minority. Two Germans were killed by Czech r order guards as they tried to cross into Germany. Scattered disorders preceded the crucial vote. The reserve call for parts of Czecho slovakia’s 1,500,000 trained second line soldiery came as tension mounted throughout the nation, half surround ed by German military might, and in Europe’s watchful capitals. Reports to adjoining Hungafy said sandbags baricades had been erected at Czechoslovakia’s military gateway, the Pilscn-Egcr road, and machine guns set up by troops asking control of strategic points. Outcome of the Sunday, elections might determine the fate of Europe’s most pressing problem, the demands of the Sudenten minority, with Adolf Hitler’s spoken support, for self government. Czech authorities said the two Germans shot to death last night near Eger by Czech border guards wera killed when trying to cross into Ger many illegally. The government also declared the reserve call did not indi cate plans for moving new troops to the border. Official circles emphasized the measure was taken solely in order to bring troops up to full strength with the object of keeping order, in view of recent disturbances. The reserve call came as President 3enes told Czechoslovakia’s encircling authoritarian neighbors that the small nation was unafraid in facing the present critical situation. Warfare In China Adds Fresh Fuel Bitter Hand to Hand Fighting in Pro gress for Lunghai Railway Point Shanghai, May 21 (AP) —Chinese and Japanese forces were locked in bitter fighting today at the little Lunghai railway town of Langfeng, 275 miles from the coast, and key td China’s ancient capital Kaifeng. Both sides agreed that a station rear Lanfeng changed hands' in pitch ed battles during the day as Japanese planes rained bombs on towns all along the Lunghai west of captured Suchow. The Chinese were said to have possession of the station late in the day. A most critical situation at Lang feng was prevented only by arrival of heavy Chinese reinforcements. WEATHER FOR N/ORTH CAROLINA. Scattered showers this afternoon partly cloudy tonight and Sunday; local showers Sunday. WEEKLY. WEATHER South Atlantic States: Showers at beginning of week over north and central portions and shower period at end of week: cooler Mon day; warmer middle of week.
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