HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR FDR ASKS 5552-MILUON DEFENSE MONEY Runaway Ship Crashes Bridge—One Killed 1 f • I f * - .T : i fgjjpL " ™ ri -wmmrfflM*H«*MKaa» lt «,.-> « This general scene shows the unusual accident at St. George’s, Del., when the freighter Waukegan crashed into and demolished St. George’s bridge. Bridge and boat were badly damaged. Bridge tender was killed, his assistant badly hurt. Sales lax Becomes Fart Os Permanent Tax Policy Adopted by Joint Finance Committee With Scarcely Ripple of Opposition; Maxwell Takes Stage To Tell Committee What To Do To Get Money Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL 1 Raleigh, Jan. 12. —The sales tax, cause of more fire and brimstone in North Carolina than a whole range of active volcanoes, yesterday became, to all intents and purposes, a part of the State’s tax policy without even a •faint murmur of dissent. A perfunctory motion 'by Durham’s Victor S. Bryant, a bored second by some undistinguishalble member of the joint finance committee, and a scattering chorus of weak “ayes” from the group, turned the trick. Bryant moved to adopt the pre-- amble to the “revenue bill of 1939,” the preamble committing the Gen eral Assembly to a permanent rather than a biennial revenue bill. There isn’t even the dim shadow of Retirement Plan Might Draw Attack Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel BY G. LYNN NISBET. Raleigh, Jan. 12.— With the prob able exception of Raleigh, where there is almost sure to be a lively con test both in the legislature and in an election on changing the plan of gov ernment, no major fight is in pros pect for the larger cities of the State. There may develop an interesting iscrap Vover the retirement pension plan for public employees, with city, town and county workers on one side and State employees on the other; and there is some likelihood that the State employee section will be sub divided between school teachers and other workers. Os these several groups only the teachers already know what they want and have plans matured to get it. Employees in other State agen cies are still hoping to hitch-hike on the school wagon. Municipal and county employees (Continued on Page Three) Recover Body Os Man From Well In Eastern Harnett Dunn, Jan. 12.—(AP>— After work ing more than 14 hours, a rescue par ty recovered today the body of Ne witt Allen, 45, from a well in which he was trapped by a cave-in late yes terday. Allen was digging the well at the time of the accident. Coroner Melvin McLean, of Har nett county, said the body was recov ered nearly 20 feet under the ground. Aaron Langdon, Allen’s helper, man aged to reach safety when he saw the walls crumbling, he said. The coroner and Sheriff E. W. Salmon were at the scene of the digging. The well ia in western Harnett county. Urttfrrranu Hathi Dtsruttrh LE l^fS D A WIRE OF mil! associated press. an intangible doubt that the sales tax will be enacted as part of the revenue bill, and so adoption of the preamble meant, in effect, official admission of a fact already conceded in every quarter—that the sales tax is here to stay. Lumpkin Absent There might have been some scant show of opposition, pro forma at least, if Senator Willie Dee Lumpkin, comrade-in-arms of Dr. Ralph Mc- Donald in the historic sales tax bat tles of 1935 and 1936’s governorship race, had been present, but the Franklin man, although a member of the committee, was not there and no one else raised a voice. After all, it probably made no dif ference. Had there been opposition (Continued on Page Three.) ABC County Solons Put On The Spot Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Jan. 12.—Legislators from the 17 ABC counties in which there are liquor stores have been caught clearly “out on a limb” by the pro posal to finance a large part of the State’s school program through hik ing the tax on liquor to a point pos sibly double its present rate. None of them is saying a thing for publication, but in “off the record” remarks these men make no bones about the fact that they are really facing a troublesome dilemma. The general sentiment among them seems to be that there’s nothing much they can do about stopping the plan, while they are sure to “catch the (Continued on Page* Two. > Robeson Farmer Is Injured By Band of Robbers At Home Lumberton, Jan. 12. —(AP) —Tom Moore, 62-year-old farmer, was being treated at a hospital here today for an eye injury which he said was in flicted by three armed and masked men who robbed him of S2O, ransack ed his house and tried to torture him into revealing additional money last night. Moore, a bachelor, and Harvey Smith, 35, who was visiting him, re ported the hold-up. Smith was unin jured. Moore said one of his assail ants gouged his eye with a thumb. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy tonight and Friday, with intermittent rain; slightly warmer in extreme east portion Friday. ONLY DAILY Frankfurter Nomination Is Favored Senate Sub-Committee Approves Harvard , Law Professor After His Testimony; Ad mits Supporting Ku Klux and Nazi Rights of Free Speech Washington, Jan. 12. —(AP) —Felix Frankfurter’s nomination to the Su preme Court was approved today by a iSenate Judiciary sub-committee. The nomination now goes to the full judiciary committee for expect ed action within a few days. The Sen ate then will pass on it. Frankfurter, liberal Harvard law professor, was named to succeed the late Benjamin Cardozo. The commit tee approval came after Frankfurter had just appeared in person before the Senate sub-committee. The nominee testified that he had supported the rights of Ku Klux Klan members and Nazi sympathizers to enjoy constitutional guarantees of free speech and assembly. Washington, Jan. 12. —(AP) —Felix Frankfurter, testifying on his own nomination to the Supreme Court said today he thought it would be “improper” for him to express his personal views on matters affecting the high bench. The liberal Harvard law professor, nominated to succeed the late Jus tice Cardozo, read a brief statement (Continued on Page Four) Government Aids Tenants Without Home New Madrid, Mo., Jan. 12. —(AP) — The prospect of food supplies and assistance from two Federal agen cies encouraged more than 1,000 south east Missouri tenant farmers today in their demonstration against share cropper poverty. Officials of seven . surplus com modity warehouses were ordered by Assistant} Social Security Adminis trator P. Carter to make supplies available to the families, camped at scattered sites along two major high ways. The Farm Security Administration and the Surplus Commodities Cor poration announced food and other assistance would be provided. Officials said the FSA would make financial grants, not to exceed S2O per month, to families needing help, and also assist them in finding new farm connections. The SCC arranged to distribute food. The families, three-fourths of them Negroes, huddled around Camp fires and oil-barrel stoves again last night Temperatures were well above freez ing, but the possibility of rain con tinued. Most of them had inadequate protection against the open air. NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, JANUARY 12, 1939 New Registration Os Voters Each 12 Years Asked In Bill Would Be Mandatory Before 1940 All Over State Except Where New Enrolling Has Occurred in Past Two Years; Jack Dempsey Nervous on Visit Raleigh, Jan. 12. —(AP)—Represen- tative Robinson, of McDowell, gave the legislature a bill today to provide for a new registration of voters every twelve years in the State, and be fore 1940 in counties not having had a new registration within two years. The measure was in line with gu bernatorial recommendations for a new statewide registration. Bills were introduced in increasing numbers, the House gutting nine and the Senate six. Already well along with the first consideration of the proposed revenue bill, the joint finance committee met again this afternoon to continue work on license tax schedules. The joint appropriations committee a}so met and prepared to start public hearings tomorrow. Dempsey Is Visitor. Jack Dempsey, the former heavy weight boxer, visited the House a few minutes. “I feel as nervous as if I were facing a 20-round fight,” Demp sey told the legislators as he thanked them for inviting him to appear. Both the House and Senate adopt ed a resolution inviting Aubrey Wil liams, administrator of the NYA, to address a joint session at noon to morrow. Each division also adopted a re solution calling for regular committee meetings on Friday and Monday aft ernoons during the session to ex pedite work. Often the legislature has (Continued on Page Eight.) school commTssTon IN ROUTINE SESSION Raleigh, Jan. 12. —(AP) —The State School Commission held a routine business session today, Secretary Lloyd Griffin said. The commission approved budgets for school opera tions in Robeson and Anson counties and Hamlett, and took up three re quests for workmen’s compensation benefits. Details were not revealed. Students Signing Petitions Against Increased Tuition Raleigh, Jan. 12. —(AP)—, John Rankin, senior at the University of North Carolina from Winston- Salem, said today he believed that about 750 students at the Chapel Hill unit would sign a petition that the proposed increase in tui tion of SSO would bar them from returning to college. Rankin said he felt certain that a check would show that two-thirds of the men whose homes are in North Caro lina, and are at Chapel Hill, work to make part or all of their tuition and added “putting on another SSO is a tremendous item to them.” A petition is now being circulat ed at Chapel Hill, Rankin said, for signature by those expecting to have to drop out of college if the governor’s and budget com mission’s recommendation for higher tuition is adopted by the legislature. Some 1250 students yesterday signed petitions opposing the in crease. Hints were published this morn ing of a movement to increase tuition for only out-of-state stu dents. North Carolina students at the institution, Rankin said in reply to a question, would almost un animously favor an even greater increase in tuition for out-of-state residents than is proposed in the budget bill. Second Flier, Headed From Miami, Killed Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 12.—(AP) — In juries received in a ‘‘flivver” crack up 15 miles south of here, proved fatal early today to Harold Knowl ton, of Westfield, N. Y., passenger on a return flight from the Miami air races. , Knowlton suffered injuries to his skull and neck when a plane piloted by James Earl McGwinn, also of Westfield, crashed in a forced land ing late yesterday afternoon. Mishaps also marked the north bound flight yesterday of four other (Continued on Two.) Envoys Report on Armaments ' v ollil . ’S. William C. Bullitt (left), ambassador to France, and Joseph P. Kennedy, ambassador to Great Britain, leave the Committee on Military Affairs, in Washington, after giving secret reports on European armaments. 1 ' (Central Press) Mussolini Demands “Justice” In Claim For New Territory End Is Near For Baseball Magnate New York, Jan. 12. —(AP) —The condition of Colonel Jacob Rup pert, owner of the world cham pion New York Yankees baseball team, remained unchanged today. The Tl-year-o'/d muFti-m'Alrpnaire brewer aud real estate operator, stricken with phlebitis and a liver ailment, slept quietly through the night. His personal physician, Dr. Otto Scherdifeger, said last night there was no hope for Ruppert’s recovery “His condition is very, very serious,” he said. “The end is very near.” Conservative Democrats Riled By FDR By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Jan. 12. — President Roosevelt’s Jackson Day speech, vir tually inviting conservative Demo crats to get out of the Demo c ratic has not re stored much peace in the party’s ranks, judging from com ment by its senators and representatives in Washington. There are even some pretty good New Dealers who confess, con fiden tially, that they wish “F. D.” had not expressed him- • v.... 1 Pres. Roosevelt self quite so uncompromisingly. Their idea has been to win conservative Democracy over gradually—not to make any important concessions to /it, hut noti unnecessarily to anta gonize it, either. There also have been plenty of Democrats, generally regard (Continued on Pag»e Four) ABC Group Holds Chapel Hill Meet To Get Training Chapel Hill, J-an. 12.—(AP)—Rep resentatives of the Federal Alcoholic tax unit acted as instructors today at a short course for ABC officers from 27 counties operating liquor stores. Wade Gardner, of the Wilson re corder’s court, State Solicitor H. L. Koonce, oif Greensboro, and Prof. Albert Coates, head of the Institute of Government, discussed yesterday the legal aspects of the work of ABC officers, including searches and seiz ures and court room procedure. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. “Just and Peaceful So lution” of Difficulties b y Negotiation I s Chamberlain’s Ans wer; Premiers and Foreign Ministers Continue Talks Rome, Jan. 12. (AP) —The pre miers of Italy and Britain conciud ed their formal conversations on the future of Europe late today, and British sources said r.