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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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.<o new
commitments had been made on
either side.
The series of appeasement talks
for which Prime Minister Cham
berlain came to Rome yesterday,
ended with a 75-minute conference
in Premier Mussolini’s office.
Rome, Jan. 12. — (AP) —Premier
Mussolini presents to Prime Minister
Chamberlain today his demands up
on Europe, constituting, in effect, a
definition of the “justice” which he
sets as the price of peace, and likely
revolving about control of the iVledi
terranean and colonial concessions.
Mussolini laid down the policy of
“peace founded on justice in a friend
ly toast at the bajnquet he gave the
British minister last night. Cham
berlain, in an answering toast, said
his way was for a “just and peace
ful solution of international difficul
ties by the method of negotiation.”
The two talked informally for 9)
minutes yesterday. They chatted
again after the banquet. The formal
conference today included, as did the
previous discussions, Foreign Minis
ters Lord Halifax and Count Ciano,
Mussolini’s son-in-law.
The foreign ministers’ cdiversa
tions were understood to have served
as background for more important
talks later, with the two premiers
present. Reliable sources said no im
portant decisions were reached. <-
LOWER RATES FOR
NEW YORK APPLES
Albany, N. Y., Jan. 12.—(AP) —New
express rates, approximately one half
of the present charges on apples ship
ped from New York to Florida, Geor
gia, and North and South Carolina
were announced today. The State De
partment of Agriculture, predicting a
wider market for state apples as a
result, said the rates would be ef
fective immediately. They cover ship
ments of not more than 50 pounds in
each container.
A. & Y. is ALLOWED
TO CURTAIL TRAINS
Raleigh, Jan. 12.—(AP) —Utilities
Commissioner Stanley Winborne an
nounced today that the Atlantic &
Yadkin railroad had been granted
permission to stop all passenger train
service on its lines between Sanford
and Mount Airy. The railroad recent
ly presented evidence that it was los
ing money on its operations, and the
commission ordered it to provide
mixed train service, but the railroad
objected. *
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Says Forces
Now Utterly
Inadequate
Army and Navy and
Civilian Air Corps
Ge t $525,000,000,
With $27,000,000 For
Canal Zone; No
Thought of War In
Europe or Aggression
in Mind, President
Says
Washington, Jan. 12. (AP)
—Preside t Roosevelt present
ed a $552,000,000 national de
fense program to Congress to
day with the warning that “our
existing forces are so utterly in
adequate they must be imme
diately strengthened.”
He recommended the vast
sum of $525,000,000 for the
army and navy and for training
civilian air pilots. In addition,
he asked $27,000,000 to estab
lish an “adequate peace garri
son” for the Panama Canal
Zone.
The toal, not all of which would be
spent in one year, would lift the re
cently submitted military budget to
$1,661,558,000, largest by far of any
peace-time outlay.
Urging speedy action by Congress,
Mr. Roosevelt asked a total of $450,-
000,000 for the army, $65,000,000 for
the Navy and $10,000,000 for training
of civilian air pilots.
Most of the money, $300,000,000 of
that allotted to the army, and $21,-
000,000 of the Navy’s allocation would
go to the upbuilding of America’s air
fleet.' Specifically, Mr. Roosevelt ad
vocated an immediate increase of at
least 3,000 planes for the army.
Asserting his recommendations did
not “remotely intimate” participation
in another war on European soil, nor
(Continued on Page Eight.)
Cut In WPA
Fund Backed
In. Committee
Washington; Jan. 12. —(AP)—
The House Appropriations Com
mittee, contending that WPA
roils carry “thousands neither
rightfully nor justifiably ILliere
on,” formally recommended today
a $725,000,000 appropriation to
keep the relief agency going until
June 30.
The full committee thus went
along with a sub-committee in a
revolt against the administra
tion's spending program. Presi
dent Roosevelt had asked $875,000,
000 for WPA, but that figure, the
committee said, “pressages a con
tinued degree of unemployment
out of harmony with general re
covery indications.”
Four Republican committeemen,
asserting that “a national scandal re
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Hungary Now
Facing Crisis
Over Premier
Budapest, Hungary, Jan. 12. —(AP)
—Parliament began a new session to
day with the opposition in an in
creasingly rebellious mood against
Premier Imredi on the allegation the
premier was moving toward a fascist
dictatorship.
The session was expected to fur
nish a new test of Imredi’s strength
in the midst of the delicate
tion created by border incidents with
Czechoslovakia over territory award
ed to Hungary following the Munich
agreement. The opposition forced Im
redi’s resignation last November 23,
but later grudgingly gave him suf
ficient support to enable him to re
sume the premiership.
Charges against Imredi were that
he is planning abolition of parties in
favor of a one-party fascist system.
The premier denied accusations that
his organization of a super-political
group for “Hungarian race • protec
tion” gave the dissidents, formerlv
of the government party of national
unity, material on which to base their
charges. •