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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR IIL S. DEFICIT FOR THE YEAR IS $1,451,100 000 New Ship Acts as a Vessel of Mercy The new Dutch liner Nieuw Amsterdam changed her course in mid-Atlantic In response to a radio for medical assistance from the British freighter Canford Chaney, on which Seamhn Feliks Kuuseoks fell from aloft to the deck and was seriously injured. At left, a lifeboat from the Nieuw Amsterdam is shown as the injured seaman was brought aboard. At right, passengers line the rail of the liner, with the freighter shown in the background. (Central Press) France Fast Cooling Off On Japanese Paris Suspends Im portation of Japa nese Merchandise on Her Quota List Paris. July 2.—(AP) —Growing cool ness between France and Japan over the war in China has resulted in an abrupt French order suspending im portation of Japanese merchandise on the quota list. The drastic move; coupled with the relatively small volume of foreign trade involved, caused observers to link the commercial break with dip lomatic incidents growing out of the Far Eastern conflict. Foreign traders said France never before had taken so severe a commer cial action against any country. Yet the quotas involved about a fourth to Japan’s exports to France, make up only one half of one percent of total Japanese exports and slightly less than that percentage of French im ports. Imports of raw silk were, not affected. One apparent reason for the break wa s failure of Tokyo to keep an agreement of February 19 to take as much or more French goods in 1938 as in 1936. Because of exchange short age, Japan has sharply restricted im ports in order to turn all her resour ces to pursuit of the war. JAMES A.WOODARD, OF EDENTON, DIES One of City’s Outstanding Citizens; Was Wealthy and Philanth ropist as Well Elizabeth City, July 2 (AP) —James A. Woodard, 72, one of Edenton’s out standing citizens, reputedly worth »«. qua; ier of a million dollars, passed away this morning at his home hero wheie he had been confined since last November with a severe heart ail ment. He was a director of ihe Bank 6* Edenton and one of its founders. !Foi years he jvas chairman of the town board of works. Besides being a business man, hj» was also a philanthropist. A short while ago he built a large cabin for the Boy Scouts at an estimated cost of $6,000. Funeral services will be Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. No Paper On Monday In a departure from custom, the Daily Dispatch on Monday will not publish a paper. The day will be taken off to give all employees a full holiday. Publication will be resumed as usual on Tuesday. Hrtthrrsrm Hailti tltsantrli LEASED wire service op THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Little Chance Os Accord Over Plan To Cut China In Five Separate Units Education System Is To Be Studied Raleigh, July 2 (AP) —Governor Hoey today appointed a nine-mem ber commission to study thorough ly the State’s public education sys tem and report its findings to the 1939 General Assembly. The body will study the school system’s “practical workings, its organization and direction,” the governor commented. Named to the commission were Junius H. Rose, superintendent of Greenville eity schools; H. E. Stacy, of Lumberton, representing school board, and others. MOTORISTS PAYING HALF N.C. REVENUE \ 45.9 Percent, or $31,948,299 Comes from Them; Gas Tax Is Heavy Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 2. —Standing out in the report of North Carolina’s tax collections for the fiscal year 1937-8 was the fact that nearly half of the record receipts were derived from taxes on motor vehicle owners and operators. The exact percentage was 45.9 with motor vehicle division receipts reach ing $31,948,299.04 out of a total of $69,575,589.5Q collected by the State. One single item, the State six cents per gallon tax on gasoline, produced more revenue than the combined sales and income taxes of the State of North Carolina. The gas tax averag ed nearly two million dollars a month, with a grand total of $23,388,743.07, almost a million dollars below the gasoline tax collections. Added to the State tax on motor vehicle operators, there also was the Federal tax of one cent per gallon on gasoline, which, on the basis of one-sixth the State collections, a mounted to $3,886,07.37; making a total gasoline tax of $27,203,351.60 paid by North Carolinians during the twelve months ended June 30. Also outstanding from the Revenue Department’s report of tax collec tions is the fact that gasoline taxes are almost the only item which has continued to exceed figures for the corresponding month of 1937 despite ’the undisputed fact there has been a business recession in North Carolina as well as elsewhere. For example, the June gasoline tax receipts were $1,901,811.12 against sl,- 897,340.70 in June, 1937 —a small, but still a definite, increase. Also notice able was the fact that while general Revenue division receipts for the fis cal year increased only 1.45 per cent, motor vehicle division receipts climb ed by 2.75 per cent. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Chinese Peiping Govern ment Working With Japanese Advisors on Division Plan EUROPE POWERS WOULD GET OFFERS Spheres of Influence Would Be Given Them In Ex change for Their Support of Japanese Plans; 400 Casualties in Bombing of Swatow Port Peiping, China, July 2.—(AP) — A plan for ending the Chinese-Japanese war by carving China into at least five autonomous units was being drafted today, it was reported, by Chi nese members of the Peiping provis ional government and their Japanese advisors. It was admitted the plan had little chance of early acceptance, by the Chinese government of General Chiang Kai-Shek, but it was believ ed to be an indication of the terms on which Japan would be glad to ter minate the conflict, now only five days from its first anniversary. Japanese sources indicated Euro pean powers would be offered spheres of influence as a bid for European acceptance of Japan’s partial con quest of China, giving the whole (Continued on Page Four.) BUYING OF STOCKS CONTINUES STRONG Exceptionally Large Overnight Pur chasing Orders Jam Board Rooms at the Start New York, July 2.—(AP)— Fresh buying fuel .steamed up the stock market today in one of the broadest Saturday sprints for many months, and, despite heavy profit-selling, leading industrials climbed to four points. Exceptionally large overnight purchasing orders jammed the board rooms at the start. The pace slowed later, and prices gave way moderate ly. Transactions totaled 1,472,420 shares. American Radiator 15 3-8 American Telephone 143 1-2 American Tob B 79 1-4 Anaconda 34 7-8 Atlantic Coast Line 23 Atlantic Refining 25 1-2 Bendix Aviation 14 1-4 Bethlehem Steel 62 1-8 Chrysler 66 5-8 Columbia Gas & Elec Co 8 1-8 Commercial Solvents 8 1-4 Continental Oil Co 10 1-4 Curtiss Wright 5 DuPont 121 1-2 Electric Pow & Light ..... 12 5-8 General Electric 42 3-8 General Motors 39 Liggett & Myers B 101 Montgomery Ward & Co .... 44 5-8 Reynolds Tob B 41 3-4 Southern Railway 12 Standard Oil N J 55 3-4 U S Steel 60 7-8 HENDERSON, N. C„ SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, JULY 2,4938' Helen Wills Again Beats Miss Jacobs Wimbledon, England, July 2. (AP) —In another drama tic epi sode of their long tennis rivalry. Helen Wills Mopdy trounced Helen Jacobs 6-t, 6-0 to win the Wim bledon singles crown for the eighth time today, but Mi-ss Jacobs, ap parently handicapped by an in jured ankle, offered no resistance worthy of the name in the final set After the two bitter California rivals had fought through 4en fiercely contested games in the opening set before Mrs, Mood) could win the second set was a wa'k-away after Mrs. Moody had won the first two games. Miss Jacobs appeared to be ha"- ing trouble with her right ankle. She stopped running entirely and covered almost no court at all. So one-sided was the battle that Miss Jacobs won only three {mints in the final set. ROOSEVaiIEGINS POLITICAL TRIP TO IHE WES!JULY 1 Will Speak from Platforms, Converse With People and Look Country Over Generally TO FISH TWO WEEKS IN PACIFIC OCEAN Spends Last Day at Home Entertaining Swedish Roy alty; Roosevelt To Speak jßriefly Tomorrow at the Gettysburg Battlefield Cel ebration Hyde Park, N. Y., July 2—(AP)— President Roosevelt’s trip to the P’acific congealed today into a man sized campaign and sight-seeing tour. Starting from Washington July 7, the President will speak from plat forms, converse with people and look over the country all the way to San Diego. At that California port, he will leave behind the activity of this year”s congressional, campaigns on July 16 for a two weeks cruise on the Pacific and a trip through the Panama Canal to a southeastern har bor. The schedule was announced as the President spent his last day at home entertaining royalty. Crown Princess (Continued on Page Eight. ANALYZESPLANIO 1 THE QUADS Shipstead Would Have Gov ernment Take Old Cars On Pay for New By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 2 —Senator Hen rik Shipstead’s plan for railroad re habilitation has been referred to as a form of pump-priming—not by the senator but by commentators on his suggestion. Not that these commen tators necessarily are adverse critics; some, of them believe in pump-prim ing and speak of the Shipstead pio posal as an excellent way of doing it.. But they do call it pump-priming. ' It does not seem to me a bit like pump-priming. In pump-priming there is not th*2 least bit of nutriment. It is more like a stimulant. It has approximately the same relation to the Shipstead scheme that a “shot of licker” has to a series of doses of cod liver oil. A little “licker’ may be all right in an emer gency, but, after all, it is an artificial ly, and sometimes it has a nasty re action. Cod liver oil legitimately (Continued on Page Five.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy and occasional showers Sunday and in north portion to night; Monday mostly cloudy, probably an occasional shower. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Occas ional showers entire week over north portion of district; general ly fair over south at beginning of week, with afternoon showers, becoming somewhat more fre quent middle of week; rather warm most of week in Georgia and extreme north Florida, with temperatures becoming above nor mal by Tuesday over Carolinas. eieSSnas EXECUTION METHOD Hoey Says General Assem bly Will Be Justified In Return of Electricity At Once THINKS THAT MODE MUCH MORE HUMANE Bases His Opinion Largely on Testimony of News paper Men Whose Business It Is To Watch; Electrocu tion Is Unquestionably In stantaneous Raleigh, July 2 (AP) —Governor Hoey said today he thought the Gen eral Assembly would be “justified” i? it returned to electricity as a mode of execution in North Carolina.. Under a 1935 law, lethal gas replaced the electric chair. “From reports 1 have of the electro cutions and asphyxiations, I am defi nitely of the opinion that electrocu tion is the more human method of en forcing the death penalty, and that electrocution is unquestionably in stantaneous,” Hoey commented. “I feel that the legislature woula be justified in restoring the electric chair. This seems to be the uniform opinion ot newspaper men who wit ness these executions.” At his press conference, he had questioned newspaper men who saw one electrocution and two gassings yesterday at Central Prison. Thirty-five men have died by gas since the 1935 law took effect and 172 men have been executed by elec tricity since the death chamber wan installed here in 1910. 6th Death Occurs At Mine Shaft Birmingham, Ala., July 2. —(AP) Rescuers today brought out the last of nine men entombed in Praco coal mine by a rock fall, but he died as he reached the surface. Five others died in the cave-in, and three were in hospitals with injuries. J. D. Painter, the last man brought out, had been pinned by rock 18 hours. He talked with rescue crews for hours, begging them to “blast” me out. Painter was still alive when pulled out and mumbled a few words as he was carried up a passage from the chamber, 3,000 feet underground. Earlier, members of the rescue squad who came to the surface for rest reported they had talked easily to him. “I think my arm is broken,” Fain ter was quoted. “I am bleeding, but take your time and come on.” Rescue workers were in communi cation once with William Peffer, but believed him dead when he failed to respond to shouts late yesterday. Election Returns Returns from today’s primary for sheriff will be announced from the Dispatch office tonight as rapidly as they are received, and the public is invited to gather on Young street in front of the of fice to get the results of the run off election. Federal Revenues In State Hit New Record Past Year Greensboro, July 2.—(AP) Federal revenue collections in North Carolina for the fiscal year which ended June 30, will establish a new all-time high on the basis of total collections of $297,857,761.31 for the first eleven months of the past fiscal year, and the estimate of Internal Revenue Col lector Charles H. Robertson that col lections for June of this year would be only slightly lower than for June last year. Total revenue collections for 1936-37 were $310,996,340.52, an all-time high, PUBLIIHID IYIKY iFTIKNOBI ■XCBJPT SUNDAY. Shortage In Year Only Half Os That Likely In 1938-39 Heads Kiwanis mm H. G. Hatfield . . . elevated by Kiwanis club H. G. Hatfield, of Oklahoma City, is the new president of Kiwanis International, elected in San Francisco. He was national Ki wanis treasurer for five years. —Central Press Air Force’s Unit May Be Sent Inland Directing Head quarters May Leave Langley Field for Scott Field Washington, June 2. —(AP) —Secre- tary Woodring has recommended to President Roosevelt immediate re moval of the directing unit of the army’s general headquarters air force from Langley Field, Va., to Scott Field, 111. Woodring wrote the President the change would be in the interest of national defense because of the more central location of Scott Field. Recommending that the shift of headquarters be undertaken as soon as possible, Woodring noted a $5,- 500,000 PWA allotment announced this week for Scott Field, which he said would suffice for all construc tion needs for the G. Haouk unit and other air corps units there. MOORESVILLE MAN IS CRASH VICTIM Jimmy Caldwell Dies In Charlotte Hospital; Car Overturns On Curve Near City Charlotte, July 2.—(AP)— Jimmy Caldwell, of Mooresville, died in a Charlotte hospital of injuries received when the automobile in which he was riding overturned on the Statesville highway near the city limits early to day. Officers Jake Culp and Joe WhiiTe, of the Mecklenburg county rural police, said they were holding Oraine Natz, also of Mooresville, as the driv er. Natz was uninjured. Witnesses reported, the officers said Natz apparently lost control of the machine when it approached a sharp curve at a rapid speed. and more than $28,000,000 above the collections for the 1935-36 fiscal year, according to official records in the Department of Revnue. Collections for the first eleven months of the past fiscal year are only $13,138,564.21 under the total for the entire 1936-37 fiscal year, and with Robertson’s estimate that col lections for June were only slightly under last June collections for June, 1938, will be about $22,000,000, or about $9,000,000 above the total for the past fiscal year. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Government To Go In Hole This Fiscal Year by $3 Billions and Prob ably More FINAL FIGURES ARE MADE BY TREASURY Expenditures for Year End ing June 30 Were $7,766,- 374,277 and Income Only $6,241,661,226; Desterili zation of Gold Reduces Shortage Washington, July 2. —(AP) — The government overspent its income bv $1,459,000,000 in the fiscal year which ended Thursday night. The deficit was the smallest of eight consecutive shortages, but the new year will bring a deficit of about $3,000,000,000 because of the new spending program. The Treasury made public today final figures on operations for the fiscal year. They showed the Treasury > income was $6,241,661,226.99 and its expenditures $7,766,374,277.27. The expenditures total included $65,- 464,950 for debt retirement, making the gross deficit $1,524,713,000.50, com pared with $2,811,218,310 in the pre vious year. Public Debt. Because of the use of dc-sterilized gold, the year’s increase in the public debt was held to $740,126,583, bring ing the direct obligations of th'i Treasury $37,164,740,315.45. This waj an average of $285.70 per person. When the public debt was at its post war low of about $15,700,000,000 or December 31, 1930, the per capita share was $129.66. The monopoly investigation com mittee, divided into six sub-groups to hasten action, began preliminary study of what to include in its gen eral inquiry into concentrations of economic power, meanwhile. State Liquor Board Mem bers Hold Lively Meeting In Raleigh Friday Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 2.—State and county boards talked liquor for a couple of hours at the Carolina Hotel here yes terday and wound up by deciding that all liquor sold in the State from now on shall be “marked up” by 55 per cent from its cost price. It was also determined that no “current”, or new, liquor shall be sold in the stores of the 27 ABC counties —the State board decided that for all, with some of the counties enter ing a vigorous, but futile, dissent. Some few of the county boards wanted cheaper liquor to be given by a 50 per cent, rather than by a 55 per cent mark-up, but those who favored this were decidedly in the minority. When the talking ended, after adoption of motions and such, the net result was that the new price list is sued by the State Liquor Board, to be effective July 1 remained as issued with the exception of about half a dozen items, termed “specials,” to which the 55 per cent up had not been applied in order that the boards might sell a few cheap brands. The only other change brought a bout is in the proofage- of whisky which may be put in stock. Included in the plan adopted was the ap proval of whisky of as low as 80 proof. The State board had provided that no liquor of less than 90 proof might be sold. The whole affair went off without the fireworks which many anticipat ed in discussion of such an inflam mable subject. Summing up, J. H. Hams, chair man of the Durham county board, caid: “Nobody can cuss the State board for what’s been done this afternoon, you did it yourselves. It seems that we’re about the only ones who favor a 50 per cent mark-up; so shut up and go home and sell liquor " Prior to final action, however, there were abundant proofs that there are almost as many opinions of the cor rect method of pricing and classing liquors as there are county and State board members. Mr. Harris favored very cheap whisky and a 50 per cent mark-up. He said lowest estimates are that bootleggers are selling 1,000 gallons of whisky a week in Durham. He also favored “current” or un-aged liquor. A Nash county representative said the State board should not prescribe (Continued on Page Five.)
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