Record Spending Program Requested By Roosevelt
HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
twenty-sixth year
HOET GIVES LEQSUTUREI9 PROPOSALS
Franks urter Is Named To U. S. Supreme Court
Pope Given
TVA Post In
FDR’s List
Hanes i n Treasury
Job and Hancock on
Home Bank Board,
Both Tar Heels, In
cluded in Batch of
Nominations. With
Hopkins and Murphy
Washington, dan. 5. (AP)
—President Roosevelt nomi
nated to the Supreme Court to
day Felix Frankfurter, the
Vienna-born son of Jewish par
ents, who is nationally known
as a “liberal.”
The 56-year-old Harvard law pro
fessor, who has exerted an indirect
influence on the New Deal through
students sent into government serv
ice from his class rooms, was named
to the vacancy created by the death
of Justice Benjamin Cordozo.
Frankfurter’® nomination topped
the list of more than 100 Mr. Roosevelt
osked the Senate to confirm for high
positions in. the government.
In the hatch were those 6f Harry
L. Hopkins to be secretary of com
merce and Frank Murphy to be at
torney general. , '
The Hopkins and Murphy appoint
ments had been announced days ear
lier, but Frankfurter’s, though rumor
ed, *was submitted very unexpectedly.
The Senate quickly referred the
Frankfurter nomination to its judi
ciary committee, which will also con
sider Murphy’s. Hopkins’ will be sent
to the commerce committee.
Eefore Frankfurter’s appointment,
some senators had urged that a west
erner be named, as that section now
is unrepresented beyond Minnesota.
F.ut first senatorial comment was
from the west and favorable. Sena
(Continued on Page Four.)
Authoritarian
Government
For Japanese
Tokyo, Jan. s.— (AP)—The fascistic
73-year-old bachelor Baron K. Hira
huma formed a highly authoritarian
government today, with completion
of a cabinet that included the resign
ing premier, Prince Fumimaro
Konoye.
Prince Konoye became minister
without portfolio, a new post, and
most of his cabinet officers remained
in the new government, which is ex
pected to impose increasingly strict
control of economic life, seek to con
solidate Japanese conquests in China
and bring all political parties into a
single nationalist group.
The new cabinet was installed by
Emperor Hirochito at the palace ear
ly tonight. Konoye also was installed
as president of the privy council.
The cabinet includes four new min
isters.
Prince Konoye quit as premier yes
terday, having headed the government
since a month before the China war
was started July 7, 1937.
Legislature Votes For
A Session In Charlotte
Raleigh, Jan. S.—(AP) —Governor
Hoey laid down a broad legislative
program in 19 specific recommenda
tions to the 1939 General Assembly to
day shortly after the legislators had
voted to hold a one-day session later
in Charlotte.
In brief meetings before Governor
Hoey spoke to the entire General As
sembly, the House and Senate adopt
ed a resolution introduced by Repre
sentative Vogler, of Mecklenburg, to
meet in his county in commemora
tion of the signing of the Mecklen
burg Declaration of Independence.
The House received from Repre
sentative Robinson, of McDowell, a
bill to require dimming of automobile
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New Deficit Means
U nprecedented Debt
Above $44 Billions
Vast Sums for National Defense Asked by Pres
ident, Who Advises Against “Violent Contrac
tion” of Spending or “Drastic New Taxes”
Washington, Jan. 5. (AP) —President Roosevelt asked
vast sums for national defense today in a multi-billion dollar bud
get that projected another deficit and an unprecedented public
debt of $44,458,000,000 in 1940.
New Jap Premier?
- - —-
: -v i JrJbm j||
Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, ardent
militarist and President of the
Privy Council, is said to have led
the successful fight that ended in
resignation of Japan’s cabinet.
Hiranuma’s party is considered one
©f the most radical nationalist
groups.
Insurgents
Push Nearer
To Barcelona
Southern Key City to
Government Defenses
in Eastern Spain Cap
tured in Franco Ad
vance; Many Prison
ers Reported Taken
Hendaye, France, Jan. 5.—(AP)—
iThe Spanish Insurgents announced
officially today that General Franco’s
legionnaires had fought their way in
to the outskirts of Borjas Blancas,
southern key to the government de
fense line in eastern Spain. Unoffi
cial reports reaching the French fron
tier said Franco’s forces had already
captured the little city in some table
land of southern Lerida province,
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lights when vehicles meet on the high
ways.
Page, of Bladen, proposed a reduc
tion in the license fee of merchants
selling less than SIOO of seed annually
from $5 to sl.
The governor was heard in silence
but the 160 legislators present arose
and applauded thunderously as he fin
ished his message, which took 44 min
utes to deliver.
The Charlotte resolution provided
that the presiding officers Os the As
sembly should set the date for the
Charlotte meeting, and invited the
governor to accompany the legisla
tors. Two years ago the legislators
met at Edenton for one day.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
His annual report to Congress on
the nation’s finances advised em
phatically against a “violent contrac
ion” in spending or “drastic new
taxes.” He opened the way, however
to “moderate tax increases,” to meet
increased expenditures of $422,090,007
for armament and farm re ief costs
He called for $8,995,663,200 of Fed
eral spending in the fiscal year be
ginning next July 1, and estimated the
deficit for that year at $3 326,343,200.
He asked $1,609,000,000 for national
defense, including an extra $500,000,-
000 to speed up the armament pro
gram. Os the latter sum, however,
°nly $210,000,000 would be disbursed
next year.
Reiterating the preparedness theme
voiced in his annual message to Con
gress yesterday, the President said
“all arc aware of the grave and un
settling developments*-in the field of
international relations during the past
few yfcars.”
“Because of the conditions of mod
ern warfare,” he continued, “we must
now perform in advance tasks that for
merly could be postponed until war
had become imminent.”
Mr. Roosevelt did not specify the
form of the suggested new taxes. He
recommended continuance of a group
of emergency “nuisance” levies, sche
duled to expire June 30.
Crediting the administration’s cur
(Continued on Page Eight.
New Panel Drawn
In “Baking Death”
Case In The North
Philadelphia, Jan. 5. —(AP) —A new
panel of veniremen was drawn today
to complete a jury which will try
Frank A. Craven, 39-year-old former
deputy warden of the Philadelphia
county prison, on murder charges in
the “baking deaths” of four convicts
last summer.
The prosecution and defense spent
the entire day yesterday and exhaust
ed a panel of 47 in picking the first
ten jurors, six men and four women.
They include four Negroes, two men
and two women; a bride of six
months, a junk dealer, waiter, printer,
paint merchant and housewife.
Craven, first to go on trial of ten
former officials and guards indicted
in the deaths, returned to the court
room with the court’s assurance that
a first degree conviction would not
be sought. There was no formal rul
ing, but Judge Robert Lamberton com
mented yesterday during questioning
of a prospective juror that “there is
no question of capital punishment in
volved in this case.”
Non-Maturing
U. S. Bonds Is
Eccles’ Plan
%
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Jan. 5. Chairman
Marriner S. Eccles of the Federal Re
serve System’s governing board, an
swering S e nato r
Marriner Ecclea
I suspect that many folk do so inter
pret it. The trouble with financiers
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HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, JANUARY 5, 1939
Harry F. Byrd’s ex
pressions of alarm
over continued fed
eral spending of bor
rowed money, says
in effect that our
national debt need
not necessarily ever
be paid off.
If one took this to
mean advocacy of
default or repudia
tion it would sound
1 rather ominous, and
Has 19 Proposals
l&g;
GOVERNOR HOEY
FDR Speech
Scorned By
Dictators
Message to Congress
Preached Hat red,
Germans Say; Demo
cracies Generous In
Praise; Europe Thinks
It Momentous Utter
ance Here
London, Jan. 5. —(AP) —The German
press scorned President Roosevelt’s
defense address today, charging it
preached “hatred,” while the demo
cracies gave praise, and one of the im
portant British newspapers lamented
that the “challenging denunciation of
dictatorships” was not made by its
own head of government.
European officials studied the
speech as one of the most important
declarations coming from Washing
ton since the World War. The demo
cracies hoped it was a prelude to
major changes in American foreign
policy, giving particular attention to
the possibility of revision of neutrality
legislation.
Both the German Nazi and the Ital
ian fascist press accused the Presi
dent of playing domestic politics and
of diverting the isolation policy of
George Washington.
Some Soviet Russian newspapers,
(Continued on Page Five.)
Calls Issued For
State And National
Reports On Banks
Washington, Jan. 5. —(AP) —The
controller of the currency issued a
call today for the condition of all na
tional hanks at the close of business
December 31.
STATE BANK CALL.
Raleigh, Jan. 5. —(AP) —Bank Com
missioner Gurney P. Hood issued a
call today for the condition of all
State banks as of the close of busi
ness December 31.
Vogler Thinks
His Absentee
Bill To Pass
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter HoteL
Raleigh, Jan. 5. —Representative J.
B. Vogler, of Mecklenburg, who got
the drop on the field Tuesday with in
troduction of the first election reform
bill, says his measure has the same
aim as the one “suggested” by the
State Board of Elections, namely,
making the absentee law fraud-proof.
expressed the opinion today
(Continued on Page Five)
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Fri
day, with some ra;n in east por
tion this afternoon and tonight.
Hcey Reco-mmendatio^s
Raleigh, Jan. s.—(AP)—Governor
Hoey told the legislature today that
he had “no mandatory measures” and
did not expect to point out any parti
cular bill as “forbidden.”
He recommended specifically the
following;
(1) A balanced budget. No tax re
ductions, including the sales tax, un
less governmental service is trimmed
accordingly.
(2) Uniform election laws.
i(3) Revision of the absentee ballot
iaw.
(4) Refusal to submit a Cons’itu
tional amendment to prohibit high
way fund diversion.
(5) Issuance of $5,000,000 in road
bonds.
(6) A 12th grade in the public
schools, by adding an eighth grade to
grammar school courses.
(7) A “permanent” state tax mea
sure.
Money Committee
Heads Are Picked
Raleigh, Jan. s.—(AP) —There
were indications th's afternoon that
Speaker Ward of the House of Re
nresen’atlver,, had decide-1 that Re
resen Natives Fenner, cf Nash, and
Caffpy, of Guilford, would be chair
men of (he important House money
cr-'-n'Heec.
Ward said he would not reveal
any of his assignments before Mon
day.
Lieutenant Governor Horton was
understood to have just about de
cided on Senators Rodman, "Os
Beaufort, and Taylor, of Anson, to
head the Senate money groups.
Kannapolis
Ex-Teacher
Admits Theft
Kannapolis, Jan. 5.-^(AP) — Police
Chief Ira Chapman said today Her
man B. Wisby, 37-year-old former city
school superintendent, admitted he re
ported a robbery at the McKinley-
Wa’don tire store here recently to
cover up an inventory shortage.
Wisby, member of a prominent fa
mily of Abbeville, S. C., was manager
of the store. He was arrested on a war
rant charging embezzlement and bond
was set at SI,OOO. The warrant was
signed by E. W. McKinley and W. W.
Waldon, owners of the store, Chap
man said.
The police chief quoted Wisby as
saying he reported the store had been
robbed in an effort to hide a shortage
at the store he feared would appear
in an inventory planned this week.
Wisby first came here about ten
years ago as a teacher in a school of
which he later became principal. He
was made superintendent of Kan
napolis city schools, a post in which
he served until 1931, when he resigned
because of ill health.
State ABC Board
Will Ask Changes
In The State Law
Raleigh, Jan. s.—(AP) —The State
Alcoholic Control Board voted today
to recommend to the legislature
amendments in the liquor laws to re
duce the bonds required for county
boards and to give its investigators
power to make arrests anywhere in
the State.
Chairman Cutlar Moore said the
board would suggest that county
boards would be allowed to give one
$5,000 bond, instead of $5,000 each to
the county and state. .
“Naturally, we will not make any
recommendations as to whether the
State keep or repeal its present liquor
statutes,” Moore said.
River Committee
Meets In Raleigh
To Talk Drainage
Raleigh, Jan. 5.—(AP)—-The drain
age basin committee for the Roanoke,
Chowan, Tar, Neuse, Cape Fear and
Yadk'in-Pee Dee river basins met here
today to consider future needs in re
lation to stream pollution, water pow
er, water supply and recreational uses
<3tf streams. The committee is under
sponsorship of the National Re
sources Committee, and similar grqups
are studying drainage basin condi
tions throughout the county.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
' ’ S: •vy neromen’s for ten
vea'3 for ~c ooi leaohe: 3, instead of
eight yn. rs . ~ now.
(D) ray for teachers divided into
12 equal instar.men's, instead of
monthly as they work.
GO) Increased tui ion in the col
leges and universities operated by the
State.
(11) Prov sion of gradua c and pro
fession 1 courses,, for Negroes at
Lo.-h Carol.na College for Negroes
an- 1 the A. and T. College.
02) A new statewide registration
for r> imarics and elections
(33) Splitting of large voting pre
cincts.
(14) Return to electrocution for
capital punishment abandoning gi S .
G 5) Giving juries and judges dis
cretion :n imposing the death penalty
01 Dfc imprisonment for rape, arson,
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Governor Is
Seen Riding
For A Fall
Adamant Stand
Against Ban on High
way r uijd Diversion
May Lead Him To De
fe a t in Assembly;
Road Bonds and Vote
Reform Also “Thin
Ice”
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL
Raleigh, Jan. 5. —Those who have
ascribed to Governor Clyde R. Hoey
a disinclination to take any stand in
viting controversy were somewhat
rudely jolted by His Excellency’s ad
dress delivered today at noon to a
joint session of the General Assembly.
This shock comes from the fact that
several phases of the address landed
the governor flatfootedly in the mid
dle of enough controversy to keep de
bate going from npw until Kingdom
Come.
Without time for a very full and
complete section by section analysis
of the address, it is entirely obvious
even to him who reads as he runs
that the governor’s ?stand is a matter
of diversion of highway funds and a
constitutional amendment banning
that practice will start a legislative
brawl of almost endless proportions.
His advocacy of a $5,000,000 ibond
issue for improving primary roads of
the State will also involve more
than ordinary ; not so
much because of opposition to such
an issue, in principle, but because
thera will he those who want an is
sue of the same, or greater, size for
secondary road improvement.
The gubernatorial stand against
eny modification of the sales tax, or
any further exemptions under it, will
likewise set some of the legislators
raging.
Nor is the absentee ballot recom
(Continued on Page Four)
Geography Large Factor
In Making Ward Speaker
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.
Raleigh, Jan. .s—-The official record
shows that D. L. (Libby) Ward was
selected as speaker of the 1939 House
by two votes over Victor S. Bryant
of Durham. But back of the record
stands geography. Perhaps Bryant
liked geography as a school boy, and
maybe Ward didn’t like it as a text
book. If the opinion of many mem
bers, as expressed in post mortem con
ferences, is correct, Libby Ward ought
to love - longitude and Victor Bryant
ought to hate anything geographic.
Unquestionably the east-west rule was
the chief of several minor factors
which decided the very close contest.
Unlike other contests for the speak
ership in recent years, the “adminis
tration” was not an open issue. It was
not one time mentioned in nominat
ing and seconding speeches, even by
inuendo, nor was it heard much dur
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; Opposes Ban
On Diverting
Read Funds
Urges Balanced Bud
get and Permanent
Revenue Act, Election
Reforms, 12th Grade
in Schools, $5,000,000
Road Bonds; S.tate Re
tirement Act
Raleigh, Jan. 5. (AP) -r-
Governor Hoey recommended a
specific 19-point program to
the legislature today.
It ran from a balanced bud
get and “permanent” revenue
act, through absentee ballot and
election lav/ revision, addition
of a 12th grade in the schools
and opposition to a constitu
tional amendment prohibiting
highway fund diversion, to a
$5,000,000 bond issue for roads
and the bringing of hours laws
for industry nearer to “present
standards.”
In a 20th point he urged ‘‘earnest
consideration” of retirement plans for
all public employes in the State,
strengthening of the anti-lynching
law, enlarged public health, vocational
education, library and adult education
programs, changes in judicial proce
dure relating to selection of magis7
trates and rule-malting for courts, .es
tablishment of a permanent Stale ex
position and enactment of laws for
’"oadside improvement and ’beautifica
tion.
The governor told the legislators he
might discuss the itepas later that he
lumped together in his message, ex
pected to chart the course of the 1929
Assembly, which convened at noon
yesterday. Monday night, under pre
sent plans, the budget message, con
continued on Page Five) ‘
Ward Might
Offer Bryant
Finance Post
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter HoteL
Raleigh, Jan. 5. —There may be rest
for the weary on the other side of
Jordan, as the old hymn goes, but
there has been no rest for weary
David Livingstone Ward, elected
speaker of the House after one of the
State’s closest Democratic caucus
fights on record.
Worn to a frazzle by the ding-dong
campaign which resulted in his 54-
52 victory over Victor Bryant, the
Craven legislator had hardly more
than time for a brief snooze and a
shave before taking up the matter
of committee assignments.
And therein will lie the real success
or failure of Mr. Ward as presiding
officer of the 1939 House. If his se
lections function with speed and
ability, he will be hailed as a really
outstanding North Carolinian. If they
don’t, it will be, in the vernacular,
(Continued on Page Three.)
ing the pre-caucus campaign. The
governor had been emphatic in pro
testations of neutrality, if not of in
difference. It was significant, how
ever, that among Bryant’s most ac
tive supporters before and during the
caucus were numbered adm’jnistjTa
tion stalwarts; while most active in
Ward’s behalf were leaders of tho
Graham forces in the 1936 first pri
mary.
The situation as analyzed by legis
lative leaders yesterday and last
night is that Ward’s election cannot
in any sense be termed an adminis
tration defeat, while Bryant’s election
might have been properly classed an
administration victory. Consensus a
mong members is that there will be
little if any difference in the type of
committees which would have been
appointed by Bryant and those to be
(Continued on Page Two.)