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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR HITLER OUSTS SCHACHT FROM REICHBMK Holt Demands Baring Os Hopkins WPA Record Mussolini s Control of British Life-Line Up to Franco Iran rare —-y". \ MOROCCO / S L ,A ?|iff Morocco ! Atoe ri a £« —ezi3 italv demands. ThlS ?«? *' l J} lstr f tea Mussolini’s plan to make of the Mediterranean sea a vast lake . Great Britain, with her precious “Life Line of Empire is on the anxious seat. Victory for General Francisco Franco and his insurgents in Spain would be the determining factor. If Franco New Tax On Power Companies Is Proposed In Legislature Scale of Benefit Pay men t s Would Be Changed in Another Bill; Number of New Bills in House; Senate Session Very Brief, With One New Meas ure. ' Raleigh, Jan. 20.—(AlP)—The leg islature got from v Representative Un derwood, o«f Hertford, today a bill which would impose a new tax of one quarter of a cent per kiitomatt hour on all electrical energy produc ed or sold in the State by public uti lities. The measure would seek to make the tax applicable since 1935. The House held the spotlight in the day's doings, the Senate meeting only a few minutes and receiving one new bill. • Representatives Cherry, of Gaston, and Stone, of Rockingham, introduc ed three bills in the House to amend the law on unemployment compensa tion so as to change the scale of bene fit payments; provide for the “em ployer-merit-mting” system of segre gation of funds; and make provision for seasonal industries. From Representative Page, of Blad en, came a proposal to levy a tax of two and a half percent on the gross sales of liquor, with the money to go into a special fund to be used to teach "of the evils of alcohol” in the public schools. A proposal was also sent in to pro vide for payment of Confederate pen sions in 12 monthly installments in stead of semi-annually. The Robinson bill to relieve car owners and operators from liability for injuries suffered by hitch-hikers and voluntary passengers was taken (Continued on Page Five* Huge Sums Given For New Projects Sponsored By WPA Raleigh, Jan. 20.—(AP)—(Sixteen WPA projects to cost $350,036.05 and employ 981 persons got approval to day, Administrator George Coan, Jr., announced. Ten school construction projects ind uded: Moore county, $lB,- 111.25 for Aberdeen school auditorium gymnasium and other work; Sampson county near Clinton, $7,760 for Halls school teacherage; Halifax county, $44,872 for school buildings; and Le noir county, $8,367 for gymnasium at Deep Run school. Other projects included: Moore county, $4,393 for matron service in public schools; Durham, r $34,836 for building and improving sidewalks; Dunn, $23,308 for improving town owned streets; Johnston county, $12,- 664 for work relief programs; Smith field, $42,889 for improving streets ; He.np, $26,361.50 for sidewalks. t*» LESLIE PERRY M&Mvrwi i^ndersoNr^^^-v irimtovrsmt latm tltspnfrh ■ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VTROTNTA * LE^ U S P. WIRE SERVICE OP IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Democracy Doomed Unless Spending Is Slowed Down Voters Careless and Ignorant About Govern ment and Tax System, Babson Says; Half Bills Unpaid; Sees Nation Headed Toward Chaos BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1939, by Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. * Babson Park, Mass., Jan. 20.—"1 am convinced that public spending can never be stopped." This was the re cent comment of an honest, far-sight ed—but defeated —public official. A year ago, he was elected mayor of one of the nation’s oldest cities on a “cut expenses" platform. He put construc tive economies into force. They pinch ed the pocketbooks of this, that, and the other group. So, at the end of his term, pressure minorities defeated him for re-election. This man s con clusion, after a year’s practical ex perience with public economy, is dis heartening. Vested interests are built up in pub lic spending just as in power com panies, railroads, and chain stores. Some pressure groups will fight just Gives Advice To Editors To Be Bold Chapel Hill, Jan. 20.—(AP)—Tom Wallace, editor of the Louisville, Ky., Times, told the North Carolina News paper Institute today that any lacka daisical attitude on the part of Amer ica’s readers toward the editorial pag* should be blamed on the publishers. He spoke at the morning session of the institute, which is being held at the University of North Carolina and Duke University. "Complaints about editorial columns not being read arise largely from smug publishers, who would resent being called dishonest, but who, never theless, are just that,” Wallace declar ed, “publishers whose editorial columns are never disturbing to pred atory human beings or inspiring to honest men. Such publishers say they don’t believe in editorial crusades, that they believe such projects are tiresome to readers. “They will make any excuse for not doing their duty,” the editor asserted. "They will try any advice short of honesty to get their milk and water editorials read; they will buy any sort (Continued on Page Three.) HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 20,1939 wins, Italy will have Spain and Spanish Morocco as a base to 'imperil not only Britain’s “life line” but also France’s route to her African colonies. Artist has listed as “toll gates” places fortified by Mussolini, with aid of Hitler, to force showdown with Great Britain and Fr&ncejCentral Press) as hard to keep on spending as other pressure groups will battle to retain water rights, electric franchises, and mail contracts. In a Fascist state, public spending can be controlled and even halted. In a Democracy, it con stantly increases unless voters are people of high character. It believe that current public extravagance is today the most immediate of all threats to our personal liberty. It is surely a greater menace than possi ble armed invasion by foreign dic tators. Voters Ignorant. Behind our colossal spending is the woeful carelessness and ignorance of the average voter concerning public administration and our tax system. The “soak-the-rich” slogan of the po litician has gone over with a bang. (Continued on Page Maxwell Asks Big Sum For Road Safety Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, Jan. 20. —Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell quit his ac customed role of hardhoiled tax col lector and pedagogue of revenue rais ing long enough late yestrday after noon to become, briefly at least, an apostle of safety and an evangelist for the doctrine of better roads. He appeared before the joint ap propriations committee to explain the budget requests of the highway safety division and the highway pa trol and tarried long enough to ans wer leading and pointed . questions from committee members primarily interested in such issues as diver sion. Text of the Maxwellian discourse might well have been “'let there be life,” though he didn’t lay it down before delivery of his preachments. He described North Carolina’s rec ord for highway safety as “unenvi able” and pointed out that desipite the State’s vigorous campaign dur (Continued on Page Three.) Granville Negro Dies In Gas Cell Raleigh, Jan. 20. (AP) King Solomon Stovall, 24-year-old Granville county Negro, died by asphyxiation in the gas chamber at State’s Prison today for the robbery-murder of 'P-. T. Moore, a store-keeper, last April 35. A mask covered Stovall’s face and held his head erect, and for the first time at a gassing in North Carolina the witnesses did not see every facial contortion of the dying man. Opinion of the witnesses was that the mask made watching an execution much easier. The Negro entered the death cham ber at 11:01, was given gas eleven min utes, 40 seconds, and was dead at 11:15 a. m., Dr. Felda Hightower, pri son physician said. The execution was delayed from 10:30 until 11 as priosn officials refused to use soru» acid on hand for the gas generation and hurriedly secured some appar ently more concentrated. Deputy Sheriff W. T. Beasley, of Granville county, who said he arrest ed Stovall in the Moore case, witness ed the execution. He said Stovall did (Continued on Page Three.'; Grab In Spain By Dictators Worries U. S. By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Jan. 20. American naval authorities are more than a lit tle worried by rebel gains in Spain recently. Yankee public opinion probably is split something like 50-50 as between **o*£S ® \Y SOUTH%) OCE^IIS Not far from Europe to South * America. the Spanish so-called insurrectos un der general Franco and the so-called (Continued on Page Three.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Saturday; not quite so cold tonight. Attack On Cabinet Man Is Renewed Barkley and -Others to Def end Commerce Chief Seeking Confir mation; Glass Says Relief Bill Won’t Be Cut Further; FDR Backs Cotton Con ference Washington, Jan. 20—(AP)—Sena tor Holt, Democrat, West Virginia, demanded today that the Senate get a complete record of WPA activities before voting on confirmation of Hai ry L. Hopkins as secretary of com merce. “The only reason for the elevation of Hopkins to secretary of commerce is his handling of WPA,” Holt said as the Senate started its second day of debate on Hopkins. Before the session started, Ma jority Leader Barkley, Democrat, Kentucky, said he and Senators Mc- Kellar, Democrat, Tennessee, an! Sheppard, Democrat, Texas, would an swer criticism of Hopkins. “I am not trying to deyay a vote,” the youngest senator said. “But the people and the Senate have a right to know something about the conduct of WPA.” Holt, who talked for three hours yesterday, charged today that more than 1,000,000 persons were added to WPA payrolls during the year before the November elections. Meanwhile, Chairman Glass, Dem ocrat, Virginia, of the Senate Ap propriations Committee, said there (Continued on Page Four.) FENNER TELLS FAIR GROUP OF EXHIBITS Raleigh, Jan. 20.—(AP)—W. E. Fen ner, of Rocky Mount, chairman of the State’s commission on participa tion in the New York World’s Fair, told the State Association of Agricul tural Fair Secretaries today that the exhibit of Nor th Carol ina would be one of the best advertisements the State has ever had. Some 60 secre taries attended the opening session. This afternoon the secretaries ar ranged dates for exposition this fall. Insurgents Claim New Inroads Made Toward Barcelona, Hendaye, France, Jan. 20.—(AP) —Spanish insurgents said today they had smashed a new gap in the defenses in front of Barcelona. Occupation of Calaff, they said, brought insurgent troops well within the borders of Barcelona province. General Valino’s army corps, on the left wing of Franco’s big push In Catalonia, took Calaff, the re ports saV> while the insurgent cent and right wing columns pushed steadily forward in a con verging movement toward Bar celona. Still More Tax Revenue Involved In Diversion Over $1,100,000 Collected for Oil and Gas In spections and Only $122,187 Spent for That, Rest Going Into General Fund of the State Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY G. LYNN NISBET. Raleigh, Jan. 20.—The budget ap propriations bill calls for taking seven million dollars from the highway fund during the next two years, but it is really nine million dollars of gasoline tax money that will be diverted, point ed out Clarence Stone, one of the leg islative leaders against diversion. For some years there has been paid into the general fund, collected di rectly by the department of revenue and never going through the highway commission books at all, over a mil lion dollars a year in the quarter cent inspection tax. Only about one tenth of it has been spent in inspec tion arid testing work. , This “diver sion” has become an accepted policy PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, Negotiations End ipiyi flHk re x % JgR H \jr J| ■k \ / MB ■RHHgk MMmm George Rublee. director of the In ter-Gcvernmental Committee on Poli tical Refugees, fourd himse f without i jcb in Berlin today when Fuehrer Hitler ousted Dr. Hjalmar Schacht as German negotiator ot a plan for re leasing Germany Jews to emigrate elsewhere. It had been rumored Ruiblee would return to America “very soon” and that a new director would be named. FDR Favors Defenses Os Guam Island Does Not Necessarily Mean Fortifications, However, and Change in World Trends May Cause Abandonment of Entire Plan, Presi dent Says Washington, Jan. 20.—(AP) —Pres’- dent Roosevelt said today he favored the bill authorizing $5,000,000 for de fense improvements on the island of Guam, but contended this did not nec essarily mean fortifications. In a long discussion with reporters of the item in the $65,000,000 bill in troduced yesterday in both houses o* Congress, the F'resident also differen tiated between authorization and ac tual appropriation. He said an au thorization did not necessarily mean that a proposed project ultimately would be carried to completion. Mr. Roosevelt said a change in world conditions might permit aban donment of the whole thing. Replying to a question, the Presi dent said his position was not con fusing. When asked if he favored fortifying Guam, the President asked if the pending bill provided for that. His questioner said it did not, and later the President asserted that it provided only for deepning the har bor for additional barracks for the small number of marines now on the island, and improving landinf fa cilities for planes. The President talked to reporters a short while after it was authoritative ly disclosed that the army propose s to double its present force of about 13,000 men in the Panama Canal (Continued on Pag* Four.) and is no longer met with serious protest. Which explains the zeal of anti-di versionists to prevent adoption in a “permanent” revenue bill of any po licy of diversion. They quote the old couplet: “Vice is a monster of so mean a face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.” They point out that the sales tax, adopted as an em ergency measure, soon became an ac cepted policy; so did the quarter cent inspection tax. So they fear wiil the proposed “sales tax” assessment against the gasoline fund. The gas and oil inspection unit, .1 division in the department of revenue last year operated on the inspection fees collected from kerosene dealer:, (Continued on Page Eight. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Meaning Os Hitler Move Not Certain Negotiations for Re lease of Jews Will Not Be Continued, George Rublee, American Ne gotiator, Is Advised; Purpose of Move Not Clear. Berlin, Jan. 20.—(AP)—Chancellor Hitler today removed Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, veteran financial wizard, from the presidency of Germany’s Reichsbank in a sudden stroke follow ed swiftly by the breakdown of nego tiations for the removal of several hundred thousand Jews from Ger many. George Rublee, American head of the inter-governmental refugee com mittee, who had been conferring here with Schacht on the Jewish transfer problem since January 10, was noti fied officially that the discussfbns would not continue. Rupture of the refugee committee’s attempts to se cure Nazi cooperation for Jewish emi gration plans was the first major re suit of Hitler’s abrupt replacement of Schacht by Walther Funck, minis ter of economics. By this change, Hitler thrust the 1 great Reichsbank, which under Schacht had retained comparative independence, more completely under control of the Nazi party. German officials denied there was any connection between the shelving of the high-collared money wizard and his efforts to solve the problem of Germany’s 700,000 Jews by the Rublee committee, formed last summer in France by representatives of 32 na tions. But the plan he had been discussing with Rublee and his assistants, call ing for expansion of German export* as a condition of Berlin’s coopei’ation in Jewish emigration, was Schacht’s own, presented by him to the commit tee in London last month. Schacht was considered shelved, al though Hitler retained him in the cab inet, without portfolio but subject to assignment to “special duties.” Rublee, who had planned to leave Bei’lin tomorrow after signing a docu ment embracing Schacht’s plan, now is expected to ask the German gov ernment u, rough the United States and British Embassies whether the negotiations can be resumed on some other basis, or with some other Ger man representative. Martin Drops 15 Members Os Auto Body Detroit, Mich., Jan. 20. —(AP) Homer Martin, union president, sus pended 15 members of the CIO United Automobile Workers executive board today, and announced he would as semble an international convention to replace the one called for March 20 at Cleveland by his opponent in tha UAW. The sudden attempt by the youth ful president split wide open the fac tional row in the big automobile union, and headed the organized workers toward possible dual union ism and dual conventions. Martin’s 'announcement was made (Continued on Page Five) Smoke Fumes Fatal To Trio In Brooklyn New York, Jan. 20.—(AP) —Three persons, including a 90-year-old wo man, died of smoke poisoning today in a mysterious fire which badly damaged a four-story house in the aristocratic Hill section of Brooklyn. Police sought a prowler whose foot steps awakened a fourth member of the family, thus saving his life. The victims, all socially prominent, were: Mrs. Amelia Clement, widow of State Supreme Court Justice George Cle ment; her son, George, 54, a graduate of Yale University in 1905, and the son’s wife, Grace, 51. Arthur Clement, 60, retired mari time lawyer, brother of George, said he was awakened by sounds of the prowler shortly after 6 a. m., and went downstairs to investigate. Over come by the smoke, he did not catch sight of the intruder. “Whoever it was,” he police, “must have started the fire.”
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