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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR Bitter Roosevelt Criticism Os Georgia’s WP A Program Is Cause Os Stir In That State Americans Are Jailed By Spanish Witney Before House Committee Tells of Action of Communists There; Willkie Says Government Attitude Holding Back Utility Building. Warm Springs, Ga., Nov. 23.—(AP) —President Roosevelt’s arraignment of Georgia for seeking Federal aid for public works without setting up legal enabling machinery, caused somewhat of a stir in state official and political circles today. Coming from the chief executive’s own "other home” in Georgia, at a press conference late yesterday, it overshadowed interest here in an nouncement that Hugh Wilson, am bassador to Berlin, would arrive Sun day or Monday to report on German violence against Jews. COMMUNISTS ARE HOLDING AMERICANS IN SPAIN Washington, Nov. 23. —(AP) —House investigators received testimony to day that communists were holding Americans in jail in loyalist Spain. Sam Earon, of New York, testifying before the Dies committee investigat ing un-American activities, said the only way to get them out was through publicity. "If there is enough publicity, we will be in a position to remedy the situa tion,” he said. Baron said he himself had been ar rested and- had been held in a dun geon in Spain. Dies, Democrat, Texas, announced the committee would end its invjesti*- pation December 16, unless the 1939 Congress gives it a new lease on life. Utility Building Balked Other developments: Wendell Willkie, the utility execu-. tive, declared the threat of govern ment competition menaced a utility construction program involving hun dreds of millions of dollars. Unless this is removed, the head of Common wealth and Southern Corporation es timated, utilities will spend less than $100,000,000 this year on construction and $500,000,000 in each of the next two years, despite the national defense pro gram for expended power facilities. (Continued on Page Three.) Beaufort Man Is Held Upon Murder Charge Washington, N. C., Nov. 23. —'(AP)-- Fiank Bright, 44-year-old Blount’s Creek farmer, was in jail here today charged with the fatal shooting of Osborne Cayton, share-cropper of the same section of the county, following what Bright told sheriff’s officers was an argument started by Cayton at Bright’s home shortly after 11 o’clock last night. Cayton, who leaves a widow and a year-old son, died on an operating table at a hospital here about 4 a. m. today, following an operation for the removal of a 32-calibre pistol bullet from the large intestine. Cayton, shortly before his death, had told Deputy Sheriff Bryan Marflender that on his way home last night he had stopped by Bright’s home with the intention of squaring a misunder standing, said to have arisen when the two men met while deer hunting yesterday, and had knocked on the door, heard some one ‘‘stirring around' inside the house, and then, without warning, had been shot. The bullet passed through a wooden panel of a french door that opened into the r °nt of the house and lodging m his >oi]y j ust beneath the diaphram. jg *thristm(M iirnitorsmt UatUt Btspafcß J^*S®MT S E E D RV P I g| s g P Tithes Support Church Perhaps the nearest approach to the tithes of Biblical days is the manner In which the Mount Moriah, N. C., Baptist Church is supported. The 260 farmer-members, short on cash, bring in produce and canned goods for public auction. The sale shown above netted more than $l5O for the church. (Central Preem) More Fraud Charges Made On Elections % Raleigh, Nov. 23.—(AP) —More charges qf and misconduct in the' Novefnber 8" elections faced the State Elections 3&>ard today involving absentee voting in Clay, Ashe and Graham counties. Chairman W. A. Lucas, of the elec tions board, said decisions on the ap peals, heard yesterday and today, would probably be announced tonight and tomorrow. O. L. Anderson, Hayesville lawyer, appeared for Republican candidates in Clay, who lost by majorities frem 37 to- 138 each. He challenged 185 absentee votes on grounds they were cast by persons not ill, not absent from the county, or by non-residence. He said the recording of 547 absentee votes in a total vote of 2,911 “looks fraudulent.” The chairman, of the Clay Elections Board, Anderson charged, was a WPA foreman, and Anderson alleged that the chairman secured votes through “intimidation and coercion of men working under him.” The winning Democrats in Clay were represented by G. L. Houk, and George Patton, both of Franklin. The attorneys contended that the ap peal was “an after thought,” and that it was not, filed properly within the limit presoribed by the State board and. the elections law. Anderson re plied that the State Republican or ganization asked an investigation of conditions in Clay county, “even be fore the election.” Election Law Reform Looms In Assembly Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter doM. Raleigh, Nov. 23.—None of the election protests heard yesterday by the State Board of Elections was of more than passing general interest to the State-at-large, but the charges and the board session again centered attention on the fact that election re form is going to be one of the real lively issues of the 1939 General As sembly. Yet even that statement is subject to considerable questioning in view of the repeated failure of proposed revisions of the polling statutes to get as far as. first base in the great legis lative game. In 1937 there was more than a bit of pre-Assembly thunder about what should and would be done about certain features of the law; but with both House and Senate election law chairmen from the western coun ty of Swain, there wasn’t even a pre tense of anything being done about the whole situation. A twelve-hour voting day for primaries was the mouse brought forth by the labors of the election law mountain. This time there will be numerous legislators intent upon making a real fight of the matter, but in view of the habitual unyielding attitude of (Continue* on Page Five.) ONLY DAILY County Home Man Under Indictment Fayetteville, Nov. 23. — (AP) — The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners today gave an inde finite leave to James Smith pend ing disposal of charges he mis treated inmates of the insritutioii. Smith was indicted by the grand jury yesterday and posted SSOO bond. One of the true bills charges him with kidnaping Mrs. George Burns, former resident of the home, and the others charged that he beat Mrs. Sally McCullogh, 80, and Euis Bray, a cripple, both inmates. W. H. Edwards, of Gray’s Creek, was appointed acting superinten dent. I Highway Tax Sources Will Remain Same Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Nov. 23. —Opponents of di version and proponents of better sec ondary roads will scrap in the legis lature about how to spend the revenue of the highway department, but the 1939 General Assembly is going to leave unchanged the sources from which this revenue is deriyed. As heretofore, this revenue will be provided by registration fees, license tags sales, inspection fees and, in particular, by the gasoline tax. There will be some agitation for lower passenger tag charges, with the North Carolina Fair Tax Association listing that among its major objec tives. In view of the fact that there was a reduction made by the last leg islature and in view of the undoubt ed and crying need of more money to spend on the roads of the State, it is quite unlikely that there will be any substantial reduction in these charges. As usual, there will be intensive ef forts, backed, if not actually instigat ed, by the railroads, for heavy in creases in the fees charged trucks, particularly “for hire” trucks. Here again there seems almost no chance of any substantial revision of rates, either up or down. There may, however, be quite a bat tle around this issue as the powerful rail lobby clashes with the truck peo ple (well organized in the N. C. Truck Owners Association and quite prepar ed to do a bit of effective lobbying themselves). There have been indications that an (Continued on Page Five.) FATHER OF WILSON EDITOR PASSES ON H. C. Davis, 63, Dies Unexpectedly at Home in New Jersey; Sur vived by Two Sons Wilson, Nov. 23.—-(AP) —H. C. Davis, 63, died unexpectedly at mid night at his home in Woodlynne, N. J., a message received here today said. His survivors include Ed W. Davis managing editor of the Wilson Times, and Lewis J. Davis, treasurer of the Galion, Ohio, Electrical Manufactur ing Company. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER23,I93B Allotments For Tobacco Being Made Breakdown of 75 4 Million Pounds o f Flue - Cured To Be Ready by Voting Day Washington, Noy. 23.—(API - AAA officials bent efforts todav to break down the 754.000,000 pound* national flue-cured tobacco, marketing quota for 1939 into state and individual fa: m quotas. They expressed hope the work, a mathematical undertaking, could be completed before flue-cured farmers in the South voted December l.j on whether they wanted the quotas im posed next year under the 1938 farm act. Their task was less complicated by the closeness of tie* 1959 quota, an nounced yesterday by Secretary Wal lace, to the national sales allotment "M 5,579,000 pounds in effect this year. Officials pointed out that as a re sult of this, the 1939 State and in dividual quotas would be close to the sales allotments farmers received this year. The chief change in the State ouotas was exacted to result :"rom the provision on Tyrone percent of the national quota be used for new flue cured tobacco farmers, whereas ‘hree percent of the 1938 quota was allocat ed for - .his purpose. In announcing the one percent limi tation, Secetary Wallace said grow ers already producing flue-cured to bacco were equipped to grow more than one billion pounds annually. Trio Accused In Falsifying Wedding Rite Norwich, N. Y., Nov* 23. —(AP) — Two young women and a man accused of scrambling their identities in a marriage venture last May awaited a Chenango county court jury’s verdict on indictments edging. thena with false impersonation. - The case was submitted to the jury this morning after the three defend ants had rested without taking the witness stand in their own behalf. The state charges that two of the trio, Miss Marguerite D. Verreau, 19, arid Burton bus driver, went through a’ marriage ceremony with > a license .issued to Miss Eleanor Kenyon, 19, and Gerald Demond, of Willett, N. Y. Miss Kenyon, the third defendant was charged with assisting at. the ceremony as a witness. The charges against thp trio were instituted when Demond returned home from Greenville, N. C., teacher’s college last June and received con gratulations on his “marriage.” Roper Won’t Quit Job To > Oblige FDR By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Prsss Columnist Washington, Nov. 23. Indications are that President Roosevelt will have to put at least a giant firecracker un der Commerce Sec- retary Daniel C. Roper in order to get the later out of his cabinet, thus creating a vacancy for WFA Chief Har ry P. Hopkins to be boosted into. Roper is not a bit like At torney General Homer S. Cummings who is quitting voluntarily-plus be cause he can make more money practic ing law privately Roper and needs to do so. Daniel C.’s salary is entirely satisfactory to him and his job is altogether to his liking. True, there have been rumors that the ad ministration thinks of “promoting” him into the ambassadorship to Rus sia, but it’s more than suspected that I these reports are of White House ori gin and are intended as hints to the secretary in question. Roper, however, shows no signs of acting on them. Mbscow probably isn’t a post he hankers for. If anyone less adapted than himself to shine in Com munistic society could be suggested, it’s hard to think of him. Daniel has the diplomatic quality of friendliness and affability, besides the gift of making a large of remarks without saying anything. He can wear a dress suit to perfection. There are socially classy embassies and lega tions which he would fit into excel lently. But no such embassy offers' a vacancy at present, and it would be undignified for a cabinet member to be fobbed off into a mere petty lega jle Wouldn’t Like It. As for Moscow, in addition to be (Continued on Page Five) Franco-German Peace Accord Announced By French Sources As Assurance Os Ban On War Girl Psychic in New York vg^vvk-; y, .wif jrajHMgf g t v % j '• ‘ * Alice Bell Kirby, 13-year-old Jonesville. La., schoolgirl who mystified her home town, by tipping tables without touching them and playing a piano in another room, is pictured after she had arrived in New York. She will try foe. the SIO,OOO offered by the Universal Council of Psychic Research if she can do those things “without mirrors.” Roosevelt Visits Raleigh On Dec. 5 Raleigh, Nov. 23.—(AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt will become the first President to visit Raleigh In more than 33 years when lie stops here December 5, unless present White House plans are changed, the Raleigh Times said today. The President is expected to stop that day enroute from Warm, Springs, Ga., to Chapel Hill for a speech at the University of North Carolina, the paper said it learned from Washington. The Presidential special, first scheduled to leave the President at Sanford, from where he was go ing to Chapel Hill by automobile, will come here from Columbia, and go thence to Durham, where the President will take a car for Chapel Hill in time for lunch with Gover nor Hoey, President Frank P. Gra ham and invited guests. Cabarrus Man Loses Appeal Over Slaying Raleigh, Nov. 23.—(AP)—The Su preme Court today affirmed the death sentence imposed on Baxter Parnell, in Cabarrus county, for the alleged “hex” slaying of Janie Fink, Chief Justice W. P. Stacy wrote the opinion. It was among 18 handed down. Parnell was convicted in August of the killing July 3 with an ice pick. He contended he had been given “some kind of dust and some roots” by an old Negro woman, and that afterwards his “mind would come and go.” The decision set Parnell’s death date for December 9 unless Governor Haey intervenes. The court, in a decision by Associate Justice M. V. Barnhill, held that a North Carolina municipality may not bind itself to pay a reward to any one for information leading to the appre hension and conviction of persons committing felonies unless the legis lature has expressly granted such power to the municipality. The case involved was that of A. W. Madry against the town of Scotland Neck for SSOO reward offered for arrest and conviction of the persons who killed the town’s police chief. Madry won in the lower courts but lost here. The list of opinions includes: Madry vs. Town of Scotland Neck, Halifax, reversed. Bright vs. Hood, commissioner, Lee, no error. Parsons vs. Lumber Company, Car teret, reversed. Spain vs. Hines, Pamlico, reversed. State vs. Parnell, Cabarrus, af firmed. J’enkins vs. Strickland, Franklin, modified and affirmed. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Considerable fog with some rain and mist tonight; Thursday oc casional rain and colder; freezing temperature Thursday night PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY 20 Pet. Levy On Jews Set • - --V, '■ r '-* By Germans Imposed as Means of Collecting $400,000,- 000 Fine for Slaying Diplomat Berlin, Nov. 23. —(AP) —The Ger man government ordered a levy of 20 percent of Jewish fortunes exceeding $2,000 today to pay the $400,000,000 fine imposed for the assassination of Ernst Vom Rath, Paris embassy sec retary, by a Jewish boy. The decree, defining the means of collecting the fine in four install ments, was published in the official gazette as the last chapter in dis posing of the Jewish question in Ger many. Foreign Jewish citizens are exempt. < The decree stipulates a contribution of one billion marks $(400,000,000) will be collected from German Jews and those Jews without nationality in the form of a tax levy ori*4:heir fortune. The foreign Jews are 1 exempted from the levy. The levy will not be impos ed if the entire fortune, after deduc tion of all liabilities, does not exceed 5,000 marks ($2,000). Payments are to be made to the state treasury. Payments by insur ance companies to Jews for damage on their shops and synagogues dur ing the November 10 violence after Vom Rath’s death, are to be turned over to the government. Meat Plants ; Threatened With Strike . • Chicago, Nov. 23.—(AP) —A threat to paralyze operations in the huge Chicago meat packing industry plants developed today from the labor dis pute which has halted trading in the world’s largest livestock market. A union chieftain said attempts to move meat animals through the stock yards before settlement of the dispute would be countered with a strike call to some 20,000 packing house workers. The labor leader, President Ben jamin Brown, of the CIO stockhand lers’ union, asserted such a strike would cripple 90 percent of the pack ing plants’ activities. Now the union d| pute involves an estimated 575 stefekhanders in the union stock yards and transit company. Approximately 60,000 head of cattle, hogs and sheep stranded by the strike were moved through the yards yester day by white-collared commission men before expiration of a truce. The CIO handlers have banned furthei operations pending settlement of the dispute. « 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Disputes To Be Submitted To Meetings Consultation Rather Than War or Threats of War Accepted .By European Powers Paris, Nov. 23.—(AP)—A French- German agreement to submit all fu ture disputes to . consultation rather than to- threaten each other with war was announced officially here today. Announcement of the “war renuncia tion” pact came a fpw hours bpforo the, scheduled arrival of British Prime Minister Chamberlain and Foreign Minister Viscount Halifax for talks from which a virtual Frqnch-Britiah military alliance was expected. The French-German understanding a development European statesmen have been awaiting as a possible cor nerstone on which to build European peace and collaboration, complements a British-German anti-war accord signed at Munich September 30 by Chancellor Hitler and Chamberlain. The new accord goes farther, how ever, by recognizing the present Ger man-French frontier. In other words. Hitler will promise further, in writing that Hitler lays no further claim to Alsace-Lorraine, provinces returned Jo France by Germany after the World War, and over which the two. coun tries have fought through their his tory. The French office, making known the fact that the agreement had* been reached, hinted the signatures may be affixed to it when German Fqreign Minister von Ribbentrop visits Paris, probably December 1. The accord A mounts to a reaffirmation of “the spirit of Munich,” arid is labelled by its supporters as a determination to solve international differences, by' con sultation rather than by warefare or threats of war. 1 * Suppression Os Film Is * ..4 y* ; Debate Topic t {-• •/ London, Nov. 23. —(AP) —-Sir John Simmon, chancellor of the exchequer, today told the House of Commons that the British government acted in conjunction with United States Am bassador Joseph Kennedy to Suppress a news reel which .the government considered might have had a “pre judicial effect” during the Csecho slovak crisis. Under opposition questioning, Sir John said his government • believed the news reel would have hampered Prime Minister Chamberlain in bis conference with Adolf Hitler At Godesberg on the Rhine late in Sep tember.- i G. }L>. Mander, opposition liberal, asked why “representations had been made by His Majesty’s government to the American Embassy for with drawal of a Paramount news reel of items contributed by Mr. Wickham (ContinU'id on Page Five) Pope Names Delegate To Sit In London Vatican City, Nov. 23.—(AP) —-Pope Pius today appointed ah apostolic delegate to London. Valican sources said it was the first -time since the 15th Century Reformation that such an appointment had been made. Monsignor William Godfrey, rector of the Venerable English College itt Rome since 1930, was named to the post, at the samdT time becoming a titular archbishop of Asia Minor. The Italian press published reports from London that the Vatican’s ac tion was believed to be a move seek ing British support !in the church’s conflict with Germany over treat ment of German Catholics. Vatican officials declined to comment on this point NEW DELEGATE WILL HAVE NO DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGE London. Nov. 23.—(AP)—Monsignor Godfrey will be a purely church of ficial without diplomatic privileges, official informants said today. They mid the pope was free to name a dele gate just as he names bishops with out seeking approval of the British government, since he is acting in his spiritual, not temporal, capacity. P i 111 111
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