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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR SENATE MAY STRIP WPA CHIEF OF POWERS Governor Chandler Warns N. C . Legislature Os Federal Invasion Safeguards For States Pleaded For Kentucky Governor, Here for Jackson Din ner Speaks to State Legislature; Two Bills To Restore Electrocu tion for Gassing At Prison . , R Jan. 6. —’(AP)--Governor A. B. Chandler, of Kentucky, told the North Carolina legislature today that the nation should "actively applaud” the Piesidcnt's defense program, but ■warned against invasion of states’ right.' by the Federal government. After Governor Chandler spoke, Lieutenant Governor Horton announc ed Senate committee appointments. He placed Senator Rodman, of Beaufort, in the chairmanship of the appropriations committee, and Sena tor Taylor, of Anson, as head of the finance group. House committees are expected Monday night, when the biennial bud get message is due to be delivered. Both divisions got bills to restore electrocution as the means of inflict ing capital punishment. Representa tive Vogler, of Mecklenburg, and Senator Gregory, of Rowan, offered the measures. Senator Frink, of Brunswick, sent in a bill to set up a Josephus Daniels nautical academy somewhere on the coast as a part of the University of North Carolina. Volger told the House that "the quickest way” is “the most humane way” of executions, and that the'gov ernor, penal authorities and newsmen said electrocution was the quickest. “There's no question,” he commented, “but what electrocution is quicker.” The legislature adopted a resolu tion inviting Governor Chandler to speak to it tomorrow, but he talked in both houses this afternoon. He is here to speak at a Jackson Day din ner tomorrow night. Lieutenant Governor Horton an nounced the committee appointments to include: Senator Gibbs, of Warren, (Continued on Page Six.) I Ward Victory Is Balm For Graham Folks Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Jan. 6.—The chaps going around with the widest grins and the loudest cheers for Libby Ward’s elec tion as speaker of the 1939 House are quite likely to be revealed as the ear nest and ardent supporters of Sandy Graham in the 1936 gubernatorial primary. Not that the Ward-Bryant-Fenner triangular meet was any out-and-out rerun of the political simoon that kept the State hot with its fevered ora tory and embittered whisperings. It wasn’t. There were Grahamites for Bryant and for Fenner and there were Hoey henchmen for. Ward; Mc- Donald minions for all three. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, there is a very general impression that it was in the nature of a Graham ’triumph,, and certainly those folks who went all the way down the line with the Hillsboro statesman in his gallant, if unsuccessful, race are whooping it up as such. It’s about the chance they have had to do any really rampant rejoicing, as they have fared none too (Continued on P-i-e Two.) Tom Mooney To Be Freed From Prison Tomorrow San Quentin, Cal., Jan. 6. —(AP) Thomas J. Mooney, apparently assur ed of a pardon tomorrow when he ap pears before Governor Olson at Sa cramento, turned today to plans for his life outside prison walls. “I’m going to dedicate the rest of my life, if necessary," said Mooney, “to winning freedom for Warren Bill ings, too.” Mooney and Billings were convicted of murder and sentenced to life im prisonment in the 1916 San Francisco preparedness day parade bombing, ir. which ten persons were killed and forty injured. The defendants claim Hpuxiprsmt SJailit tltsrrafrit SERVICE OF HIE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Hitler Moves Again For New Land Grab In Eastern Europe Would Oust Perkins Representative J. Parnell Thomas (above), New Jersey Republican, is author of a resolution asking im peachment of Secretary of Labor Frances'Perkins, alleging ' failure to deport aliens advocating over throw of the government by force. Refusal to deport Harry Bridges, Australian-born labor leader, was cited specifically. (Central Press) HoeySpeech Commended By Solons Most Comment Favor able, With Pledges of Support for Much of Governor’s Program for Legislature; State Officials Also Like Message Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter HoteL Raleigh, Jan. 6. —Comment around the Capitol and hotel lobbies yester day afternoon on the message which Governor Hoey delivered to the joint session of the General Assembly at noon was highly commendatory. Fre quent comment was heard to the ef fect that it was a masterly paper thoughtfully prepared and ably de livered. Some members expressed sur prise that the governor was as em phatic on some controversial issues as he was, but even those who most vigorously disagreed with some of the recommendations, were pleaded at the manner in which the governor ap proached the issues. A number of leading members of both houses, interviewed soon after adjournment of the joint session, voiced disagreement with the gover nor’s recommendation for retaining the absentee ballot law, with certain safeguarding amendments. They want ed outright repeal. Some of the statements culled a round the lobby followed: John Kerr, Jr., representative from Warren: “The governor’s message was very splendid and courageous and, in my opinion, will rank among our ablest State papers. I think his (Continued on Page Six.) ed they were accused falsely because of their reputation as “direct action” labor unionists, and that they were convicted on perjured testimony. Governor Olson, newly-seated Dem ocratic executive, already has said he believes Mooney innocent, and has declared he would announce his de cision immediately after the pardon hearing. No opposition to Mooney’s application was expected. Mooney, awaiting his departure from prison at 7:30 a. m. tomorrow, was almost boyishly happy. “Why,” said he, “I have fewer hour? to wait now than the years I’ve se> ONLY DAILY Calls in Polish Foreign Minister To See How Far He Will Go In Ac cord ; Has Eyes on Soviet Russia’s Ukraine Granary Country Berlin, Jan. 6. —(AP) —Chancellor Hitler was regarded by competent ob servers today as having taken another major step toward realization of Nazi determination to dominate Europe east of the Rhine. This was believed to have been the meaning of Hitler’s three-hour meet ing with Colonel Joseph Bech, Polish foreign minister, at the chancellor’s home yesterday. Information in relia ble quarters indicated Hitler sounded out Bech on whether Poland was ready to cooperate in realizing Nazi aims. The Nazis consider France and Bri tain withdrew from continental af fairs through the Munich-Czechoslo vak agreement, and that all of north central and southern Europe is their sphere of direct influence. Poland is perhaps the most likely objector. Nazis based their claims to this vast section of the continent on the con tention that German minorities live in all its sections, and that these Ger mans must be given the right to re cognize Hitler as their leader and live as do Germans within the Reich. Be hind this stands the frequently re peated Nazi desire to have access to raw materials of the rich Soviet Rus sian Ukraine. _ U. S. Suggests Sending Jews To Ethiopia Rome, Jan. 6.—(API —Trustworthy sources said today that Premier Mus solini was studying ,a United States proposal for settlement of Jewish re fugees in Ethiopia. They indicated Jewish colonization of Italian east Africa was among proposals in a me morandum' from 'President Roosevelt, which Ambassador William Phipps delivered to Premier Mussolini last Tuesday. Mussolini, they said, showed an “encouraging attitude.” The fascist grand council already has provided away for this, having announced Octoiber 7 that anti-Semi tic restrictions" did not exclude the possibility of conceding controlled immigration of Jews into some zone of Ethiopia, even deflecting such emi gration from Palestine.” Foreign Jews in Italy, many of them refugees from Austria after the (Continued on Page Six.) Negress Is Seeking To EnterU.N.C. President Graham and Governor Hoey Silent on Application of New York Woman; U. S. Supreme Court Ruling May Be Applicable Chapel Hill, Jan. 6. —(AP) —'Presi- dent Frank Graham, of the Univer sity of North Carolina, believes the question of Negro application for ad mission to State institutions of high er learning is something for the leg islature to decide. He declined today to comment on the application of a Negro woman of New York City for entrance in the graduate school of the University. Some observers saw in the applica tion the forerunner of a number of applications by Negroes to enter south ern institutions on the strength of the recent United States Supreme Court decision in the case of the Mis souri Negro. That opinion held that the Negro had the right to enter the (Continued on Page Five). NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 6,1939 President Flays " Philosophers of Force” y President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his message to the 76th Congress in joint session. Flaying “phi losophers of force,” he urged adequate national defenses. He declared the aim of the administration is to increase the national income from 60 to 80 billion dollars a year. Behind the President, on upper dais, are Speaker William B. Bankhead (left) of Alabama and Vice President John Nance Garner (extreme right) of Texas. (Central Press) Czech-Hungarian Border Fight May Portend Strife In Europe Budapest, Hungary, Jan. 6. —(AP) — The Hungarian government reported today two Czechoslovak artillery bom bardments of the border city of Mun kacs in a pitched battle between Czechoslovak and Hungarian forces. Reports of the battle, involving cannon, tanks and armored cars, spread a wave of excitement through the nations. Munkacs is in the ter ritory Czechoslovakia ceded to Hun gary two months ago. High officials of the government met in continuous conference. The foreign office announced that a strong protest had been made to Frague Foreigners’ Propaganda Failing Here By CHARLES IV STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Jan. 6. —No investiga tion was required to let folks know that certain countries are doing their utmost to insure America’s participa tion in the next 'world war if one breaks out present ly- So when Repre sentative Martin Dies, whose Con gressional c o m mittee has been inquiring l into un- American activi ties in our midst, warns us that such is the case, his ut terance is as sound as a dollar mere- US’ r'f 1, p ' •• J Martin Dies ly superfluous. We literally are being “deluged with propaganda,” Die® says. As to propaganda, I doubt (de spite testimony before the Dies com mittee) that it amounts to anything. (Continued on Page Five) GOVERNMENT BARGE . LINE IDEA REVIVED Washington, Jan. 6.—(AP) —Repre- sentative Bayard Clark, of Fayette ville, N. C., said today he had not de cided whether to re-introduce a pro posal to establish a Federal barge line from Fayetteville to Wilmington. Clark, who failed to get action on the bill last session, said he would wait and see what legislation the ad ministration proposes for railroads. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Saturday fore noon; increasing cloudiness in afternoon, followed by rain Satur day night or •’Sunday; slightly colder in east and extreme north central portions tonight. charging violation of Hungary’s bor der. It said the German and Italian legations in Budapest had been in formed. “Hungary waives all responsibility for what may happen,” an official statement warned. Official advices said both sides had suffered casualties. In the first bom bardment, they said, a hotel, motion picture theatre and the Munkacs mu nicipal theatre were struck by Czecho Slovak shells. The Hungarian official news agency said a second barrage began at 2:20 p. m. (8:20 a. m., east ern standard time). It reported four hits on buildings of the city, which Warren Studying N. C. Air Routes Washington, Jan. 6. —(AP) —Re- presentative Lindsay Warren, Dem ocrat, North Carolina, awaited to day aclion of a special North Car olina committee studying the pos sibility of a proposed air route from Norfolk, Va., and Elizabeth City, N. C., to the west. Warren explained the committee, headed by J. L. Horne, Jr., of Rocky Mount, publisher, was at tempting to interest an air trans port company in establishing a pas senger air line over the route. The representative, expressing a deep interest in the proposal, said so far there was no phase of the matter here. Later, he explained, the Civil Aeronautics Authority and the Post Office Department would be consulted. Sales Tax As An Issue Not Dead At All - Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter HoteL Raleigh, Jan. 6. —There is likely to be a stronger fight on the sales tax issue than most people are inclined to believe, in the opinion of at least one veteran member of the State Sen ate, Edgar H. Bain, of Goldsboro. Senator Bain is, in general, an ad ministrationist willing and even an xious to go along with the program of Governor Clyde R. Hoey, tout he i® at odds with the executive on the sales tax matter. The governor, in his address yes terday, said flatly that any modifica tion of the sales tax would entail, le&s service for the schools; hilt the Wayne county law-maker toelieveSi that by reducing the sales tax rate to two per cent and removing the up per limit of ten dollars on any one transaction, the revenues of the State would not be lessened. He said, too, that merchants should toe permitted '.Continued on Page Five) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. was part of the award of 4,870 square miles of Czechoslovak territory, made to Hungary by Italian-German media tion at Vienna last November 2. Hungarians said the assault had been repulsed all along the line. Most of the shellfire, they said, was con centrated on the residential district, hut occasional projectiles fell in the business district. (Vague reports of what Czechoslo vaks regarded as a “number of brawls” in the Munkacs region were made to Prague. Lack of details was ascribed to poor communications, but the Hungarian reports were consirl iTX-d exaggerated.) Ehringhaus Prosecutes Arms Cases New York, Jan. 6.—<’AP)- J -The gov ernment’s case against six companies sr«l eight individuals charged with vitiating neutrality laws by selling planes and munitions to Bolivia will go on trial next Monday, J. C. B. Eh ringhaus, special assistant attorney general, said today on his arrival from Raleigh, .N. C. Ehringhaus, former governor North Carolina, said the opening case wouli involve the Curtis-Wright Airplane Company’s alleged sale of four bomb ing planes to Bolivia during the Chaco war with Paraguay. Sale of arms to Bolivia or Paraguay was pro hibited by President Roosevelt on (Continued on Page Five.) Invasion Os Industry By Women Creates Problems Babson Says Husband and Wife Both Should Not Work; Sees Women Taking More and More Responsibility in Important Business Posts BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1939, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Washington, Jan. 6.—Business is to day ten per cent higher than a year ago. Yet employment is ten per cent less. Why? One vital reason is the flooding of the job market with wo men. The trend toward women tak ing men’s jobs is speeding up rather than slowing down. I am all for women in industry. If they have the brains and the guts to take a man’s job away from him — more power to them. My only quarrel is with cases where both husband and wife hold salaried jobs. One should 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Earmarking Os Relief Is Undertaken Legislative Allotment of Funds to Specific States Probable; Con gress May Snub FDR Tax Increase Propos al; Lindbergh Warns of Germany Washington, Jan. 6.—(AP) — Mem bers of the Senate Unemployment Committee agreed informally today to attempt to earmark the future dis tribution of Federal funds with a for- * mula which would strip the WPA administrator of virtually all discre tion in the allocation of State quotas. Chairman Byrnes, Democrat, South Carolina, said the committee would meet next week to go over various suggestions to be made by members, with the hope of devolving a simple formula that can be inserted in re lief appropriation bills. Senator Murphy, Democrat, Mon tana, an administration supporter, said he favored placing such a for mula in the proposed $875,000,000 em ergency relief taken un der consideration this morning by a House Appropriations sub-committee. Fresident Roosevelt had requested the emergency fund yesterday, and specifically asked that any changes in the method of distributing relief be delayed until Congress has given the matter careful consideration. At the same time, he requested that em ergency funds be appropriated post haste. “I am in favor of taking away from the WPA administrator the discretion he has had in allocating funds to the states,” Murray declared. “I think we (Continued on Page Four) Government Probes Nazis, Communists Washington, Jan. 6. —(AP) —Presi- dent Roosevelt said today the Jus tice Department had undertaken an investigation of alleged violations of the criminal statutes by Nazis, com munists and certain other organiza tions in this country. The President told a press conference Attorney General Murphy had informed him to this effect by letter. The letter was not made public, but Mr. Roosevelt said the alleged viola tions were submitted to the depart ment by the Dies committee investi gating un-American activities. The chief executive would not comment on reports he opposed a request bv Chairman Dies, Democrat, Texas, of the committee, for an additional $150,- 000 to carry on its inquiry. The com mittee has exhausted its original $25,- 000 fund. The President, in response to other inquiries, reported progress in for mulating details of the emergency de fense program at a conference yes terday with a dozen officials from the State, War and Navy Departments. Asked to comment on Rear Admiral Arthur Hepburn’s report recommend ing 25 additional ships and air bases for the Navy, the President merely said this was a report requested by Congress. stay home and make a home. The trek of women into offices and factories is one of the many causes of our abnormally heavy jobless totals. It is one of a dozen new trends which have been creating a revolution in our business and social lives. It start ed in 1900 but did not become a seri ous factor until business hit the skid 3 in 1930. Since then the girls have flocked into the employment market in hordes. The following statement is hard to believe, but it is a fact: Th's depression is leaving us with more (Continued on Page Three.)
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