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HENDERSON'S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR WORLD CONFERENCE 01 COTTON PLANNED How Democracies Are Aiding China .o* {- —<— OS*- * mmm&m ri ju « % > si v f i, iNTo'smN BRITISH ~ * SHIPMENTS " J \aj4Jbt Chungking trA*A*jM* Jy;,: ;V>*. «.I*csL. -jt&fe&iftrfjK A > 5 w r JbJJ Hard-pressed China now is beginning to receive aid —indirectly—as this map shows. England and the United States in recent months have made avail able $50,000,000 in credits for supplies. British arms shipments are made possible again over a new road from Yunnafu to Chungking, connecting with through rail and motor routes from Rangoon on the Bay of Bengal. And supplies from the Soviet Union are coming to Siam on a road rebuilt for motor traffic from the part of Mongolia contrlled by the Soviet. This road has two forks into Mongolia. Legislature Makes Ready For Fight On Sales Tax Liggett & Myers Earnings Hold Up New York, Jan. 18. —(AP) —Lig- gett & Myers Tobacco Company re ported today for the year ended December 31 net profits of $20,560,- 884, equal to $6.08 a share on the common stock, compared with $21,- 375,560, or $6.34 a share in the pre vious year. Directors declared the regular quarterly dividend of a dollar a share on the common Sind “B” shares, payable March 1 to stock of record February 14. Net sales for the year were given as $237,764,150, compared with $242,448,565 in 1937. Compromise On Diverting Funds Likely Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY HENRY AVERII.L. Raleigh, Jan. 18.—There are hints and suggestions, none too reliably confirmed, that a compromise will eventually be worked out in the diver sion of highway funds wrangle which started out as one of the General As sembly's hottest fights, but which will likely simmer for a bit in view of the smashing victory of administration pro-diversion forces in first tests of strength. These hints are that the current General Assembly will give its stamp of approval to continuation of the pre sent policy of transferring some $2.- 000,000 to $2 500,000 annually from highway to general funds, when the latter become depleted—this approval to be conditioned upon submission to the people of a constitutional amend ment prohibiting diversion altogether —the vote to come in the November elections of 1940. All of which sounds like a bit of face-saving for the failure of anti diversionists to make a better show ing than they did in the preliminary rounds in the House Monday nig- t and the Senate Tuesday. In each case administrationists easily removed the so-called Umstead-Stone good roaejs bill from friendly road committees and shunted it to finance, where it can be smothered quietly to death or brought out and publicly executed just as administrationists choose. Administration leaders profess to have heard nothing whatever of'any compromise hints, and responsifc'e anti-diversion heads will not admit any specific knowledge of such a pro posal. At all events —compromise or no iCoatiuued on Page Two.} LESLIE H ENP &EU,U jattwtVKtitx Bailit Stsjjafrh LE TFf^^^n^ ERVICE OF I HE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Exemption of Unem-, ployment Office Em ployees from Merit Tests Voted by House After Senate Passes Measure; Agriculture Sub - Committee Is Named Raleigh, Jan. 18. —tAP) —The legis lature prepared today for the first real fight against the three percent sales tax as the North Carolina Fair Tas Association appeared before the joint finance committee. Routine sessions were held by both branches at noon, with 21 new bills coming. This afternoon the joint ap propriations committee will continue hearing requests from State agencies for more money than the budget com mission recommended. Exemptions from Exams The House Unemployment Compen sation Committee reported favorably a bill passed by the Senate to exempt employees with six months service from taking merit examinations Sat urday to hold their jobs, with the Unemployment Compensation Com misssion. It was put on the House calendar and will come up for vote tomorrow under normal procedure. A public hearing for February 1 was ordered on the Roper bill to abolish capital punishment. Both divisions got proposals to re write the laws providing compensa tion to law enforcement officers in jured in line of duty and for benefits to estates of those killed. A volun tary retirement fund would be set up for all officers who made regular con tributions for twenty years. .Damage to Oyster Beds Both divisions received proposals that the State, through its Utilities Commission, enter info contracts with the government to bear the costs up to $5,000 of any damage done to oyster bees in the New river, due to dredg ing by the army. Study Farm Problems Chairman Clark, of the Senate Agriculture Committee, appointed Senators Council, of Columbus; Bal lentine, of Wake; Oogburn, of Hay wood; Eagles, of Wilson; Bruton, of (Continued on Page Two.) OLDEST MASON IN THIS STATE DEAR Wilson, Jan. 18J—(AP) —Barney Pearson, 85, Nash county farmer who lived near Bailey, died here todlay of a stroke. He was said to be the old est Mason in point of service in North Carolina. He was initiated into the noiw defunct Hatcher lodge of Wilson county April 20, 1875. The funeral will be held tomorrow. Surviving are the widow, two sons, and four daughters, including Mrs. Pauline Bragg, of Durham, and Miss Millie Pearson, of Avon Park, Fla. ONLY DAILY Legislators Study Vote Reforms Soon Raleigh, Jan. 18.—(AP) —Commit- tee consideration of proposed reforms in North Carolina’s election lawis will get under way around next Wednes day, Representatives William®, of Onslow, and Morphew, of Graham, chairmen of the legislative commit tees on elections laws, said tod'ay. Advance predictions that election law changes would be made one of the major tasks of the present as sembly have been borne out and al ready eiglhlt bills to amend voting 'Continued on Page Five) New Tax Bill Provides Maxwell Chance To Hound Every Citizen In State Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Jan. 18.—The Joint Fin ance Committee has amended the proposed compensation use tax law, but admittedly the new statute still leaves the way open to mass aggrava tion of North Carolina’s citizenry should the commissioner of revenue or his hirelings feel so disposed. As originally written, every North Carolinian who bought anything, any where upon which the sales tax was not paid would have been obliged to file a report remitting therewith) wilh the Revenue Department by the sis NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINUL ' HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, JANUARY 18, 1939 Granville Negro To Die On Friday RaleiglV Uaity *lß.—(AP)—King Solomon Stovall, 24-year- old con victed Granville county Negro murderer, will be North Carolina’s first victim of legal execution in 1939, dying Friday ill the gas chamber. Governor Hoey has decided not to intervene in behalf of the man convicted of murdering R. T. Moore, elderly store-keeper, April 15, 1938, as Moore was going home from the store, Paroles Commis sioner Edwin Gill said today. Moore, described in a petition as “one of the best citizens” of Ox ford, was [hit in the base of the head with a stick and robbed. He died the next day. Stovall lost an apiieal to the Supreme Court. Gill said he understood $37 was secured in the robbery. Officers obtained a confession from the Negro, Gill said, which the court held was voluntary. j French Cabinet Pebates Aid To Spanish Loyalist Forces As Populace Demands Action Barcelona Is Cheered By Rebel Halt % Insurgents Claim New Successes, However; Bonnet ; Tells Minist ers Nation Must Stick With Britain and Bri tain Won’t Help Loy alist Group Paris, Jan. 18.—(AP) —The French cabinet, under steadily increasing de mands for aid to government Spain, debated the problem for two and a half hours today. No decision was announced. Foreign Minister Bonnet, who held the floor throughout, was understood to have maintained that France must keep in the good graces of Great Bri tain by adhering closely to the policy of non-intervention. The campaign continued in Parlia ment and the press, however, for aid to Barcelona to counteract Italian support for Insurgent General Fran co. One section of the cabinet itself was understood to be swinging around to-this view. The executive * committee of the General Confederation of Labor, re presenting French (labor, voted to join socialist and communists in try ing to get the government to send military help to the Spanish republic. Confederation officials were instruct ed “to take all measures or join any movement to obtain effective and im- assistance for republican Spain." The customary mention of unanim ous approval by the ministers for po licies presented was omitted from the communique issued after the cabinet met, in the palace of President Le brun’s residence. • A clarification was expected to (Continued on Page Two.) MRS. W. W. FULLER DIES IN NEW YORK Widow of Former American Tobacco Company Counsel Was Na- \ tive of Fayetteville i Fayetteville, Jan. 18. —(AP) —Rela- tives here were informed today of the death in Briarcliff, N. Y., of Mrs. W. W. Fuller, widow of the general coun sel of The American Tobacco Com pany, who was a native of Fayette ville. ©he was the former Miss Annie Staples, of Greensiboro. Funeral ser vices will be held in Briarcliff tomor row . Survivors include a son, T. S. Full er and four daughters, Mrs. Janet Fuller, Mis. Margaret Hereford, and Mrs. William David, all of Briar cliff, and Mrs. N. S. Ilu.'d, of Pine hurst. FUNERAL SERVICES SET FOR HOME ON THURSDAY Briariclillf, N. Y., Jan. 18. —(AP)— Mrs. Annie Fuller, widow of the late W. W. Fuller, died here yesterday. Funeral services will be held at the home at 3:30 tomorrow, and inter ment will be private. teenth of the month after his pur chase; and failure to do so would have made him guilty of a misde meanor for which a S3OO fine wouid have been the minimum punishment. As amended, the buyer is not re quired to file a report unless required to do so by the Department of Rev enue.” Os course, the provision is aimed at heavy purchases out of the State on which no sales tax is paid; but so far as your correspondent has been advised tjiere is still nothing in th3 (CAtinued on Page Four) Rumor Sweeping Changes In Nazi Administration Berlin, Jan. 18.—(AP)—Rumors of far-reaching changes in the Nazi ad ministration, involving such men as Field Marshal Hermann Goering, Propaganda Minister Faul Goebbels and others, were current in Berlin to dal. They coincided with the return to his desk in the propaganda ministry of Goebbels after nearly a month’s idleness. Official sources declined to confirm or deny them. According to these reports, circulat ed by men usually in a position to know, Georing will shortly become Hopkins Nomination Is Approved By Committee Washington, Jan. 18.—(AP)— The Senate Commerce Committee approved today the nomination of Harry L. Hopkins as secretary of commerce. Hopkins, regarded as one of President Roosevelt’s most inti mate advisors, was subjected to eritical questioning by committee members last week on his ad ministration of the WPA. The new commerce secretary conceded that as WPA adminis Texas Pension Governor Facing Hunt For Money Austin, Texas, Jan. 18. —(AP)—W. Lee O’Daniel, inaugurated governor in solemn, splendid ceremonies un matched in Texas history, faced the legislature today, and no amounts of showmanship could dismiss the ques tion : “Where will you get money for old age pensions?” To a joint session of the Senate and House came the man who vaulted in one astonishing leap from the ob scurity of a flour salesman to the prominence of a governor. To them, who will mold a governmental pro gram Texas will follow the next two FDR Scares Congress On Budget Cuts By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Jan. 18.— President Roosevelt scared Congress badly when he reminded the lawmakers, in his re cent message to them, that they will have to accept the responsibility for any cuts they make in the national spending-allowance which he recom mends. The legislators ai*e somewhere be tween the devil and the deep blue sea. A majority of them undoubtedly are of the opinion that our voters predominantly believe Uncle Sam al ready is plenty far enough into the red, and their judgment is to pare down all they can. If they do not do it they are afraid their constituents will turn them down on a future elec tion day. Yet if they do pare down and times tighten up, they know they’ll be blamed for that, too. Our solons are rather more appre hensive, in theory, of danger No. 3 than of danger No. 2. In practice, however, No. 2 is more immediately threatening than No. 1 If they indorse increased expendi tures and deficits now, they foresee inflation and disaster in the long run (Continued on Page Two.’ WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fail* tonight and Thursday; colder tonight and in extreme east portion Thursday. - PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. vice chancellor and minister of war. Both posts have been vacant for some itime —the vice chancellorship since Franz von Papen, its last holder, was made special ambassador to Austria after the assassination of Chancellor Dolphus in 1934, and the war minis ter since the resignation of Field Mar shal von Blomberg in February, 1938. Goebbels, according to the reported new set-up, would be placed above all other Nazi district leaders. At the same time, these rumors said, he will be appointed as “governor” of the greater Berlin district. trator he had made some mis takes. If he had the job to do over again, he added, he would not make political speeches. William Harriman, New York banker and chairman of ihe busi ness advisory council, testified in support of Hopkins’ nomination, which probably will be taken up by the Senate for final action to morrow. Hopkins now is serving as commerce ’ secretary under a temporary appointment made while Congress is in recess. years, he came with his proposal for payment of S3O a month to every per son over 65. He could not, as he was wont to do in his campaign, when a listener occassionally asked him, “How are you going to do it?” turn to his hillbilly hand and say Strike up a tune, boys.” Only one day in office, O’Daniel met what might be termed a criis s. In the parlance of those who elected him, he had made his sale. Now he had to deliver the goods. The legislature waited. As O’Dan iel went to the Capitol, the thrill of yesterday’s inauguration lingered. Another Grab Os SIOO,OOO Is Attempted Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Jan. 18—Senator Bunn Frink of Southport, has amended his bill establishing the Josephus Daniels Nautical Academy so as to make the institution eligible for Federal funds, if established, and is pressing hard for enactment of the amendment measure. He has addressed to each member of the education committee, before which his bill is pending, o long c r cular letter giving in full the history of nautical schools in Amreica, and is buttonholing legislators on all sides in an effort to convince them of the merits of his proposal. His amendment takes the form of a committee substitute for Senate Bill No. 4 (his original bill), which sets up the machinery of the proposed Academy in such away that it can participate in Federal programs deal ing with nautical schools. The sub (Continued on Page Two.) BAPTIST CHURCH IN SO. CAROLINA BURNS Anderson, S. C., Jan. 18.— (AP) — The Riverside Mills Baptist church building, at the edge of the city lim its, was destroyed by fire early this morning. Damage was reported by Rev. W,. A. Tinsley, pastor, as $12,000. The loss, including everything in the building except a piano, is partly cov ered by Insurance, according to the pastor. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY U.S. Anxious To Dispose Os Holdings No Decisions Reached at White House Con ference; Government Has Nearly SSOO Mil lions Tied Up In Cot ton; Warplane Capa city of Nation Re vealed Washington, Jan. 18.—(AP)—Secre tary Wallace said today the adminis tration was considering an interna tional conference on how to dispose of surplus cotton stocks. Wallace and ■Senator Bankhead, Democrat, Ala bama, had just discussed with Presi dent Roosevelt what they termed a “very serious” problem relating to the South’s principal crop. They said no decisions were reach ed, but that a conference of cotton growing nations was under considera tion to deal with this crop, as has been done at international gather ings on wheat. U. S. Holds 11,900,000 Bales. Before going to the White House, Bankhead said senators from cotton growing states had agreed that the first problem was “finding what we can do with loan cotton.” The government now has nearly $500,000,000 invested in loans on some 11,900.000 bales, enough to supply domestic and foreign demands for American cotton without growing any new crop this year. The loans were made as part of an administration effort to keep prices up by holding surplus cotton off the market. Associated Gas Defiant. Meanwhile, the Associated Gas & Electric System served notice on the Federal Power Commission that it would npt submit its records or per mit officers tb testify on the reason ableness of their charges until and unless ordered to do so by the Su preme Court. The commission has is sued subpoenaes calling for both the records and testimony by the com pany’s officers in an effort to deter mine whether the 14 service com panies in the far-flung Pennsylvania utilities domain were operating in consistently with the public welfare. No books or records were in evi dence as the long-heralded investi gation got under way and the first witness, C. A. Dougherty, defiantly re (Continued an Page Six.) Train Airmen To Beat Off U. S. Invaders St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 18. — (AP)—The largest civilian aviation association in the United Slates, with a member ship containing such names as Col onel Charles A. Lindbergh, Howard Hughes and Orville Wright, today threw its influence behind the govern ment’s program for national air de fense. By fostering air education, the ex pansion of private flying, and the es tablishment of a pilot reserve com posed of civilians who have been taught to handle the controls of war planes, the National Aeronautic As sociation planned to help put the na tion on a potential war footing. For three days, the organization, which closed its annual convention last night, said government officials and military experts, warned of the possibility of armed European aggres sion in the Western Hemisphere. Warnings Os Coast Storm Are Issued Washington, Jan. 18. —(AJP)—The Weather Bureau said today strong northeast winds, “probably reaching gale force,” were in prospect from Delaware breakwater to Nantucket. By tonight, the bureau said, the blow will extend even further north. It issued this storm warning: “Northeast stonn warnings ordered 10 a. m., north of Sandy Hook, N. J., to Eastport, Maine, and changed to northeast storm warnings Sandy Hook to Delaware -breakwater, and changed to small craft warnings south of breakwater to Cape Hatteras Disturbance of wide extent central over upper Ohio valley with a secon dary developing over eastern North (Continued: on Two.)
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