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HENDERSON’S. POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year TAX DILI HUE LAW WITHOUT EDITS DAME French Town Asks Protection Against italo-German Raid Flogged Her Son Mrs. Mary Bradley ... carried oat orders Ordered by court decree to flog her 16-year-old son because of a prank, # Mrs. Mary Bradley, frail and elderly widow of New York City, displays the strap which she says she used in whipping the boy. Following the whipping, she said, her son, Tommy, went off to school crying and she cried, toa —Central Presa Death For Boy Slayer Is Sought Now York, May 27.—(AP) —Defense counsel demanded “the chair or noth ing" for 16-year-old Donald Carroll, who killed his sweetheart because she preferred death to unmarried, mother hood. Sidney Rosenthal, summing jjp the evidence before a Queen’s county jury of middle-aged married men, nine of them fathers, declared the boy wa3 temporarily insane when he made a death pact with 18-year-old Charlotte Matthiesen, whom he had loved ar dently for two years. "His reasoning was defective — he didn't know he was doing a wrong ful act,” Rosenthal declared. “He was the victim of environmental insanity.’’ Assistant District Attorney Joseph boscalzo said he would demand the supreme penalty for what he called a "deliberate, premeditated, cold-blood ed murder.” With the statement he dispelled earlier indications that he might be (Continued on Page Five.) MORGAN IGNORES ROOSEVELT MOVE Ousted TVA Chairman Won’t Recognize Act; Byrd Fights PWA Funds Washington, May 27 (AP) —Dr. A. K Morgan apparently declined today to recognize the validity of Presi dent Roosevelt’s order removing him bom th« chairmanship) of the TWA. Reopening his bitter public feud ' w >th his antagonists on the TVA board, the Ohio engineer addressed a letter to H. A. Morgan as “Vice- Chairman, the Tennessee Valley Au thority,” despite the fact President Roosevelt has designated H. A. Mor &an as chairman. I he letter was inspired by H. A. Morgan’s criticisms of A. E. Morgan (lUlin k fl congressional investigating V( , ,in| btee's hearings Wednesday and y ' erday of the charges and counter cnarges, which Directors H. A. Mor 6‘n and David Lilienthal, on the one (Continued on Page Six.) | mtnbvtKtm fikttht wire: service of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Anti-Aircraft Guns Wheel ed into Position After Night Air Attack on Border GOVERNMENT OPENS AN INVESTIGATION Mayor Demands Premier Daladier Send Aid to Span ish Frontier Town; Span ish Town Opposite Cerbere Not Struck By Insurgent Missiles Cerbere, France, May 27.—CAP) — Anti-aircraft guns were wheeled into position today to protect this frontier town from repetition of last night’s air attack. . The mayor of Cerbere had telegraph ed Premier Daladier that “the oopula tion protests against insufficient mea sures taken to protect it against Italo- German aviation.” Reassured by arrival of anti-air craft batteries, the inhabitants of Cn bere came out of hiding. Many of the 2,000 residents had huddled in under ground refuges while eight war planes bombarded Ccrbcre’s railway ter minal. The planes were identified unoffi cially as Spanish insurgents. From Paris, Navy Minister Cam pinchi ordered destroyers of the Medi terranean fleet to cruise off Cerbere to help repel any new attack. (The foreign office spokesman said a “thorough” investigation of the bombing had been ordered, and France would protest vigorously when the nationality of the bombers was determined.) , Village authorities rushed the' cit izens to safety last night in the rail road tunnel several hundred yards long that Connects Cerbere with the neighboring Spanish town, Fort Bou. Not a single bomb, however, struck Port Bou, although for the 41st time it was the insurgent aviators’ ob jective. little”change in BUTLER’S ILLNESS Washington, May 27.—(AP) —Little change was reported 4 today in the condition of former Senator Marion Butler, 75, of North Carolina, criti cally ill in a Takoma Park, Md., sani tarium. Hospital attaches said he spent a restful night. DECLINE IN COTTON IS NOT SO MARKED Losses at Close Are Four to Seven Points, But Several Months Under Eight Cents New York, May 27.—(AP)—Cotton futures opened 11 to 15 points lower in response to easy markets abroad and under active, liquidation and fore ign selling. October, which had eased from 7.98 to 7.94, was 7.95 shortly after the first half hour, when the list was 14 to 16 points net lower. Outside buying carried October from 7.83 to 8.01 by midday, when the market was seven to eleven points net lower. Futures closed four to seven points lower. Spot quiet, middling 8.01. Open Close July 7.97 8.02 October v... 7.98 8.04 December 7.9i8 8.08 January 8.00 8.08 March 8.05 8.12 May 8.06 8.15 U. S. Naval Program Not So Large As It Appears More or Less of Bluff to Ho Id Others in Check, and Bluff May Work or May Not; No Money Is Yet Ap propriated; World Powers Fooled U. S. in 1921 By CHARL.ES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, May 27.—Uncle Sam’s recently adopted $1,156,000,000 naval expansion program is not Quite as bad as it looks on paper. In th6 first place, Congress only au thorized the plan. It did not approp riate the actual cash. This distinction has been mentioned in news dis patches, Ibut not much emphasized. I doubt that most of us have grasped the difference. Nevertheless, between an authorization and an appropriation there is a great gulf fixed. The navy is, indeed, “authorized” to spend up to the $1,156,000,000 mark but no money is provided to enable it to do the spending. President Roosevelt asks for a mere _?NLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Another Os Stock Firms In Trouble Ban Against Opera tions Sought b y Court for Paine - Webber & Co. x New York, May 27.—(AP)— State Attorney General John Bennett, Jr., today asked in State Supreme Court that all partners of the New York Stock Exchange firm of Paine, Web ber & Company, a leading commission house with offices in 19 cities he for ever enjoined from engaging in the securities business in New York State, on the ground of alleged frauds a gainst the public. Bennett, in allegations sworn to by his assistant, John O’Hanlon, accused the defendant partners of Paine, Web ber <fe Company of employing fradul ent practices upon the State and up on the public in connection with sub stitution of “unmarketable” securities of “little or no value” for diversified portfolios of a number of investment trusts in which the public invested about $16,000,000. Nineteen persons and four corpora- Continued on Page Five.) SPRAY MANGIVEN LONG PRISON TERM Reuben Bennett, 39, Sent Up 29-30 Years for Slaying of Police man Last March Wentworth, May 27. —(AP) —Judge Hoyle Sink sentenced Reuben Ben nett, 39-year-old Spray textile worker, today to serve 29 to 30 years in the State penitentiary after a superior court jury convicted him of second degree murder in the slaying of Police man Leonard Clark March 10. The jury returned the verdict early today. The case went to the jury late yes terday and Judge Sink ordered the jury locked up in a hotel for the night Clark was shot to death when he went to the Bennett home to arrest Bennett on a charge preferred by his wife. $23,875,000 bagatelle in real currency. What U. S. Can Do. The truth is that that authorization was little more than a bluff, perhaps. Bluffing is dangerous business if the bluffer is unprepared, upon a show down, to make good. Well, if he has to do so, Uncle Sam can make good. He has the resources to build up, if he must, from $23,875,000 to $1,156,- 000,000. No other country on earth can “call” us and “stack up” to the size of our potential financial “pile.” A Hint. Maybe Uncle Sam’s gesture was not exactly a bluff either. Maybe it was more in the nature (Continued on Page Five) HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 27,1938 The Loser Talks Things Over f Jp| jSm Thomas A. Kennedy (left) who had the backing of John L. Lewis (right) in Kennedy s unsuccessful bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomina tion in Pennsylvania, is pictured at Washington talking over the political situation. Kennedy polled more than a half million votes in the primary, f Central Press) Feimster Also Impressed With Calibre of Men on County Lists Dnllv 'Mnpntrh B arena. In the Sir Walter Holrl Raleigh, May 27. —There are definite signs that appointment of W. C. Feimster to the State Board of Al coholic Control will go far toward smoothing over the friction which has marked relationship of the, State group with county ABC units! At least, that’s the impression gain ed after Mr. Feimster met with the county ABC association Wednesday night after he had been sworn in as a board member earlier in the day and had conferred with the otjier two members, Chairman Cutlar Moore and Associate Member Webb Williams. Reliable reports of the meeting in dicate that Mr. Feimster—a lifelong though not a fanatic dry—was plea santly surprised by the caliber of men making up the county ABC boards, as exemplified by those he saw Wed nesday night. The new State board member also manifested great interest in getting thoroughly acquainted with the back ground and previous work of the State hoard and of the county units. With Chairman Moore and Mr. Wil liams, he visited the State liquor warehouse in Wilson yesterday. When Mr. Feimster was named to replace Thornas J. Murphy, of Greens boro, there was considerable doubt of his acceptability to the county con trollers, many of whom felt that the county option system can best he given a fair chance to succeed when operated under the supervision of board members who are in sympathy with the present law. Mr. Williams comes from Pasquo tank and has been a county controller from the start. Chairman Moore pre vious to Wednesday night had rebuff- Continued on Pago Five.) U,N.C.-Duke To Cooperate Upon Health Raleigh, *May 27. —(AP) —The execu tive committee of the hoard of trus tees of the University of North Car olina approved a plan today for co operation in public health instruction between the institution and Duke University. The schools already cooperate in use of literary and other facilities. No announcement was made of ac tion on the proposal to name the new gymnasium in Chapel Hill in honor of Comptroller Charles Woollen. The committee recommended to the full hoard that plans be made for three celebrations at the units of the University. N. C. State would observe its fifthetih anniversary October 3, 1939; the Woman’s College its fif | tieth anniversary October 5, 1942, and | the Chapel Hill unit the sesquicen tennial celebration of the laying of the cornerstone of Old East building October 12, 1943. Comptroller Woollen reported that ground was broken Wednesday for the new $400,000 public health and medical building at Chapel Hill. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Tartly cloudy l tonight and Sat urday; occasional showers 'prob able on the coast. Peace Is Restored At Rubber Factory After 80 Are Hurt 190 Policemen, With Rifles and Tear Gas Guns, Main tain Order After Rioting DAY PARTIAL OPERATION Youth Seriously Shot Dur ing Riots, Reaching Heigh* at Midinight; Roosevelt Called; on by Union To Take Hand Against City and; Company Akron, Ohio, May 27. —(AP) — More than 100 policemen, rifles and tear gas guns at hand, forged a ring of peace around the sprawling plants of Goodyear Tire & Rubber .Company today in the wake of night-long riot ing and sniping, in which at least 80 persons were injured. The disorders, which reached their height at midnight, when police wielded night sticks and loosed tear and nauseating gases into a crowd of 3,000 strike pickets and sympathiz ers, tapered off hour by hour until at dawn only a few score curious per sons remained at the scene. Police reported several hundred workers of the 6 a. m. shift, which or dinarily includes about 2.000 men. en tered the plant without difficulty, in the face of a CIO strike call. One policeman was struck by a shotgun blast, but returned to duty after receiving treatment. A 19-year old youth was shot and seriously wounded by rifle fire. Lieutenant Stephen McGowan said police shot him, but added he had not learned the circumstances. Two other persons were reported shot and slightly wounded, while the other casualties, 55 of whom required hospital treatment, suffered head and slight injuries. A telegram asking President Roose velt to “call the company and the city administration to account for their actions” was sent to the White House today by Thomas Burns, vice-presi dent of the rubber workers local. — DR. FREEMAN AND DAUGHTER BETTER Fayetteville, May 27. —(AP) — The condition of Dr. Douglas Freeman and his daughter, Miss Mary Plylor Freeman, Richmond, Va., injured yes terday in an automobile accident which took the life of their Negro chauffeur, Howard Carter, continued favorable today, hospital attaches said. F $271 HERE State First in Tobacco Pro duction Last Year; Oth er Lists Given Dolly Diupntoh Bnrcnn. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, May 27.—North Carolina ranked thirteenth last year in total cash income of its farmers, which reached $271,132,090, the State Depart ment of Agriculture’s statistics di vision reports. The State ranked as follows, in va rious phases, according to W. H. Rhodes, chief statistician: First: Tobacco, with 674,000 acres harvested and 595,530,000 pounds, put ting the State at the top in both acre age and production. Third: Cash income from cr0p55232,350,000.s — $232,350,000. Third: Total number of farms—3oo,- 967 (1935 farm census). Eighth: Acreage of all truck crops for market—s2,72o acres. Ninth: Cotton —Growers harvested 1,101,000 acres producing 775,000 bales. Acres planted reached 1,109,000. Eleventh: AAA or conservation pay ments, with $12,282,000 paid to grow erS. Seventeenth: Corn, both production and acreage with 45,357,000 bushels from 2,326,000 acres. Seventeenth: Acreage of all truck cr0p5—59,390 acres. Twentieth: Acreage in cultivation — 6,592,000 acres. Twentieth: Cash income from all truck crops—s4,29o,ooo. Twenty-sixth: Acreage of all truck crops for canning and manufacture — 6,670 acres. Twenty-ninth: Hay 995,000 acres. Thirty-seeond: Hay—Bss,ooo tons produced. Thirty-eighth: Cash income from livestock and livestock products, with (Continued on Page Four.) POBLIiFW' »vi»t EXCEPT SUNDAY. Kidnap Plot Foiled fti,- :£&: -:J -l £ m 1 : '«3r % J *£! I 1 p Viscount Nuffield • • • saved from abductors Daring plot to kidnap Viccount Nuffield, 60, millionaire automo bile manufacturer of Great Brit ain, was foiled by quick action on the part of a friend and “London police. Nuffield, according to re ports, was ordered by two men to enter their automobile as he left his auto plant after it had closed for the night. A friend in a near by office heard the conversation and called police, who arrested the men. Kidnaping is virtually without precedent in Great Brit ain. EPISCOPALOfFER 10 PRESBYTERIANS Union of Two Branches of Christian Church Sought In Invitation Philadelphia, May 27.—(AP) — The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the U. S. A., accepted today the invitation of the Frotestant Epis copal Church to “achieve organic union between our respective chur ches.” The Assembly adopted a resolution declaring “its earnest and prayerful purpose to cooperate with the Pro testant Episcopal Church in the U. S. A., in the study and formation of such plans &s may make possible the union contemplated.” The invitation was extended to the Presbyterians by the Rev. James De- Wolfe Perry, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, on ac tion taken at the latter church’s Gen eral Convention in Cincinnati in Oc tober, 1937. The Assembly also approved a pro posal for a world council of churches launched at a world conference at Edinburgh, Scotland, last summer. Rev. Dr. L. S. Mudge, stated clerk of the assembly, had asked the Pres byterians to become the first de nomination formally to sanction the project. • “Let us keep Presbyterianism in the van and make it the leading church in the world in unification of Protestantism,” he said. New Deal Tide Is Ebbing And Coalition Is Needed [That or Chaos Certain, Bab son Declares; Says Pennsyl vania Election Results Highly Significant; Sees Bailey as Presidential Possibility BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1938, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Mass., May 27. —The political tides are beginning to run against the New Deal. This is no par tisan statement. It is merely a recog nition of the inexorable Law of Action and Reaction as applied to politics. A few months from now the mid term national elections will be held. Every member of the House, one-third of the Senate, thirty-three governors, and a large number of State legisla tors will then be up for re-election. Straws in the wind, showing which way 1940 will go are bound to em erge from these November elections. In fact, from the Spring primaries, we are able to gain some idea 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY PRESIDENT STATES HE WILL NOT SO ALTERED MEASURE Fears if He Signs Many Will Think He Has Abandon ed Profits and Gains Levies WILL LOSE BENEFIT IF HE VETOES BILL For First Time Since Be coming President, Roose velt Is Taking This Third Course Open to Him; Still Favors New Principle of National Taxation Arthurdale. Homestead, W. Va., May 27 (AP) —President Roosevelt announced at the Arthurdale Homes-' teads school commencement exercis es today that he would permit the $5,000,000,000 tax bill to become law without his signature. “If I sign the bill,” Mr. Roosevelt said in his address to the Arthurdale Homesteaders, and to the nation over the radio, “and I have until midnight to sign it, many people will think I approve the abandonment of an im portant principle of American taxa tion.” “If I veto the Dill, it will prevent many of the desirable features Os it from going into effect. “Therefore, for the first time since I have been President I am going to take the third course which is open to me. I am going to let the act go into effect at midnight tonight without my approval.” The President said he was permit ting the tax measure to become law in that way to call attention to “un wise parts” of the bill. The tax measure which thus be comes law contains a remnant of the undistributed profits tax, recommend ed by Mr. Roosevelt and condemned by business. It completely overhauls former capital gains taxes—also at tacked by business —by substituting CC'»r»t*r-»i.-d on Pnge Six.) Czech Plan For Accord Is Delayed Praha, Czechoslovakia, May 27. (AP) —A special session of the Czech oslovak parliament which had been set for next Tuesday, when the gov ernment had been expected to sub mit its new minorities statute, was called off tonight. In official quarters, it was explain ed that discussions between Czecho slovakia’s discontented Sudeten Gor mans had not made enough headway to warrant parliamentary action at this time. The decision followed a meeting of the cabinet’s political committee this afternoon.. The chief of the central European department of the British foreign of fice, exploring the possibility of post ing observers in the troubled German- Czechoslovak border region, conferred with the British minister to Czecho slovakia. Reports of this British ex pert, William Strang, after visits here and at Berlin, were expected to give Britain a clearer picture of German- Continued on Page Two.) of the trend. Outstanding ambng these primaries was last week’s vote in Pennsylvania —the second largest state in the Union, politically speaking. Here the defeat of John L. Lewis’ candidate was the outstanding' feature. A close second in importance was the unex pected landslide victory of Judge Ar thur H. James for the Republican governorship nomination. The defeat of Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Ken nedy for the Democratic nomination for governor means that the Demo cartic voters of Pennsylvania are rto longer enthusiastic over the CIO. Above all, they do not want the CIO Continued on Page Two.)
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