HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
U. S. Moves Citizens
From Barcelona As
Rebels Draw Close
Mexico Said "Scat”
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Frank Kluckhohn
Seized by Mexican police and given
24 hours to get out of the country,
Frank Kluckhohn, correspondent for
the New York Times, is shown on
arrival at Brownsville, Tex. Kluck
hohn said “/* am being made butt
of a general program of cracking
down on foreign correspondents in
Mexico.”
Election Law
Reform Has
Open Road
To Headline Week’s
Legislative Ca r d ;
fr.tate Board Plan Im
portant Factor
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Jan. 23. —Revamping of
North Carolina's election law, into
which so many arrows have been shot
that it looks like a porcupine, will
’ wnopoiize most of the headlines
about legislative doings this week,
twiless all signs fail, and it doesn’t
seem dry enough for that.
First off, there will be introduced
in the Assembly, (certainly in the
House, possibly in the Senate too) a
bill embodying the State Board of
Elections’ proposed dosage of salva
tion for the manifold sins of iniqui
ties for which the election statute
stands indicted.
On the Way.
It will be introduced tonight, in aH
probability, by Wayne county’s up
end-coming freshman Representative
J. Frank Taylor, with whom there
will he associated a group of law-mak
ers judiciously chosen as to geography
and political influence. Some will
come from the east, some from the
west; some will be true blue support
ers of the administration, others will
bo no more than tepid in their regard
for Clyde Hoey and his works. Still
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Legislative Progress Is
Slower Than It Appears
“Steam Roller” Tactics on Revenue and
Spending Bills Is Resented by Many Members;
High Pressure on Merit Exams Angers Some
Others
- Daily Dispatc h Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
by G. LYNN NISBET.
Raleigh, Jan. 23. —The General As
sembly starts its fourth week, tie
third of actual work, tonight with
divergent views about how much has
been accomplished. Committee head
ings on finance and appropriations
are further along than usual at this
stage, but there has been little im
portant statewide legislation com
pleted. There are members, too, wl o
voice resentment at what they term
“steam roller” tactics in pushing
through the budget revenue and ap
propriations "bills without giving in
terested parties full opportunity to
be heard.
The same tactics two years aoo
were more successful than this year 5
effort is apt to be. They shortened
the legislative session in 1937 an 1
had some influence on the defeat of
Victor Bryant for the speakership in
Hrtttirrsmt Daflit SHsrratrfr
LE rA?M D , WIRE SERVICE OF
IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Insurgent Armies Are
Only 15 Miles Distant
from Government
Capital; Franco’s War
Planes Bomb City At
Regular I n t e rv a 1 s
During the Day
Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 23.
AP).—lnsurgent air raiders to
day bombed five British ships,
sinking 01.13 and killing two offi
cers in attacks apparent’v intend
ed to choke off Barcelona'S food
supplies.
The five vessels were freighters.
The second mate on two of them
were 'killed. ,
Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 23.—(AP)
United States officials arranged to
day to remove Americans from Bar
celona as the Spanish government or
dered civil evacuation of its capital
under the threat of insurgent armies
a little more than 15 miles from Bar
celona’s gates.
American Embassy officials here
said they would summon the United
States cruiser Omaha tonight and
told Americans to be prepared for the
ship. The Omaha is about 12 hours
from northeast Spain.
In London, steps were taken also
to evacuate British nationals.
Government Spain, meanwhile, went
under a drastic “full state of war,”
which some observers believed to
mean martial law. A commission was
created to move Barcelona’s entire
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Dewey Beginning
Second Effort To
Get James Hines
New York, Jan. 23.—(AP) —
Judge Charles C. Knott, Jr., today
deferred ruling on a motion to
dismiss the conspiracy count in a
13-point indictment against James
.1. Hines as the Tammany district
leader went on trial for a second
time on charges of abetting the
late Dutch Schultz’s $20,000,000 a
year Harlem lottery racket.
Judge Knott delayed announc
ing his decision on the moot
point, basis of 12 felony counts
in the indictment, until after a
jury has been picked from a spe
cial panel of 250 veniremen. The
12 felony counts accused Hines of
controving a lottery, yhiie the
conspiracy coin;*, a midemeanor,
charged with him with “influenc
ing. intimating or bribing” public
officials in connection with the
policy gambling syndicate.
New York, Jan. 23. (AP) —In
the biggest test of his record-break
ing career, Manhattan District
Attorney Thomas E. Dewey open
ed a new court fight today to
convict Tammany district leader
James J. Hines of conspiracy in
connection with a $20,000,000 a
year Harlem lottery.
A sensational trial ended Dew
ey’s first attempt to put behind
bars the bluff, white-haired ex
b'acksmith he accused of selling
political protection for the huge
policy racket operated by the late
Dutch Schultz and his gang.
State Supreme Court Justice
Ferdinand iPecora ordered the
mistrial in (September, 1038, after
ruling that Dewey had “hopeless
ly” prejudiced the jurors against
Hines by improper cross-examina
tion of a defense witness.
1939. The Senate and House of Re
presentatives in formal session can
not consider subject matter which
has been definitely disposed of at a
former sitting, but this rule does not
apply to committees. There is a con
siderable group which believes that
the committee work is not actually
as far advanced as it might appear.
Those Merit Exams Worry.
Perhaps the most important legis
lation of last week was enactment of
the law blanketing under civil serv
ice all present employees of the Un
employment Compensation Commis
sion who have been on the job as
much as six months. This relieves
them of taking the merit examina
tions which began Saturday.
Rushed through both houses under
high pressure from the five affected
employees, the bill received weak
“ayes” but nary a single “no”. After
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINM.
Ten Survivors From
Bermuda Air Liner
Approach New York
Three Others on Craft That Crashed and Sank
in Atlantic Saturday Afternoon Given Up As
Lost; Gales at Sea Slow Down Rescuing
Tanker i
*■ New York, Jan. 23. —(AP) —Safe
after one of the most dramatic re
scues in the annals of trans-oceanic
travel, five men and five women sur
vivors of the sunken flying boat
Cavalier approached New York today
aboard the tanker Esso Baytown.
They were expected to arrive about
10 a. m., eastern standard time, hut
later advices indicated the tanker
might not reach its pier until 4 p. m..
because of rough weather. Gale-swept
seas, which slowed the rescue vessel
to eight knots, revived anew for the
ten who lived the memory of nearly
ten hours they spent clinging to rub
ber lifeboats until the tanker hove to
in the darkness, drawn by their cries.
Joy over their own rescue was tem
pered with sorrow at the fate of three
other persons, two men passengers
Legislators
Laying Up
1941 Trouble
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL
Raleigh, Jan. 23. —Policies and
trends of the current General As
sembly have developed to the point
where many carefuL observers are
fearful it is laying up a vast store
of worry and trouble for its 1931 suc
cessor.
The thought of this school of opin
ion is that the current body of law
makers is going to get by as easily
as possible, dodge the issue of balanc
ing general fund expenditures in
North Carolina and thereby pass
the buck to those who follow it two
years from now.
It is pointed out that after less
than three weeks of the session,
there are two facts which stand out
crystal clear;
First: This legis ature is not going
to look for any new sources of reve
nue unless it is backed into a corner
and can’t dodge or twist its way out.
Second: This legislature is not go
ing to appropriate any money for
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Hoey Moves
Cautiously
For Program
v Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter HoteL
BY G. LYNN NISBET.
Raleigh, Jan. 23. —One can hear
about the Capitol statements that the
administration is in complete control
of the General Assembly, and that its
program will be put through with as
much ease as it was last year.
One may also hear the next minute
the statement that the House is de
finitely anti-administration, being in
-ontrol of the forces which have for
years supported candidates for gov
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HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 23, 1939
In Reich’s Finance Shakeup
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Dr. Hjalmar Schacht Dr. Walthar Funk
nomics, to succeed Dr. Hjalmar Schacht (luftl » minister of eco
bank, ending Schacht’s efforts to solve fhl’ t PPe ? den ‘ of the Reichs-
Schacht remains a member of Hitler's cabinet being Cfe
• once,al assignments." (Central PrelV,
and the plane stewardess, who slipped
beneath icy waves apparently too
weak from injuries for the long strug
gle against winds an water.
Eight coast guard vessels gave the
three up for lost after a thorough
search of the seas, where motor trou
ble forced the Bermuda-bound In;
perial British Airways craft to pan
cake into the Atlantic Ocean 300
miles southeast of Cape May, N. J.,
during a gale Saturday afternoon. It
sank in ten minutes, forcing the 13
persons aboard to leap into the water
before they could don life-saving
equipment.
All survivors were reported in “fair
condition,” except Captain M. R. Al
derson, pilot of the plane, suf
fered more from shock and exposure
than the others. Several were believed
cut and bruised.
Socializing
Os Medicine
Is Started
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Washington, Jan. 23.—(AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt submitted to Congress
“for careful study” today a compre
hensive report recommending a long
range $850,000,000 federal-state pro
gram to improve the nation’s health.
“The objective of a national health
program,” Mr. Roosevelt said, “is to
make available in all parts of our
country and for all groups of our peo
ple the scientific knowledge and skill
at our command to prevent and care
for sickness and disability; to safe
guard mothers, infants and children,
and to offset through social insurance
the loss of earnings among workers
who are temporal ily or permanently
disabled.”
The report, prepared by an inter
departmental committee named in
I£U5, included a proposal for com
pulsory health insurance, which is
opposed by the American Medical As
sociation as a step toward socialized
medicine.
Senator Wagner, Democrat. New
York, has said he would introduce a
bill to provide the first $50,009 COO to
start the health program, which by
1949 would cost the federal govern
ment and the states $850,000,000.
WASHINGTON MAN IS
GIVEN PRISON TERM
Frank Bright Gets Seven to |Ten
Years on Conviction Under
Manslaughter Charges
Washington, N. C., Jan. 23.—(AP)
—Frank Bright, 40-year-old Blount’s
Creek farmer, convicted by a jury
verdict late Saturday afternoon of
voluntary manslaughter following a
four-day trial on a second degree mur
der count, was sentenced by Judge
Leo Carr in superior court here to
day to serve seven to ten years in
Central Prison.
Bright, charged with the pistol
s aying of Osborne Cayton, 30. neigh
bor of the defendant, on November
22, had pleaded not guilty by reason
of self-defense when the four-d!ay
trial opened here last Wednesday aft
ernoon. L _! , j , j . 1 .If
Roosevelt Leaders Claim
Sufficient Votes To Restore
Entire Item Cut From Relief
Hoey’s Legislative
Program Is Almost
Ready For Assembly
Include ! $5,000,000 I
Road Bonds, Elimina
tion of Mandatory
Death Penalty, Elec
tion Law Revision and
Coordinating Legal-
Penal Divisions
Raleigh, Jan. 23.—(AP)—Bills to
carry into effect the main recom
mendations of Governor Hoey to the
legislature will! like y find their way
into the 1939 General Assembly with
in the next ten days.
Governor Hoey said today he ex
pected t'-iat within the next few days
the following measures would be in
troduced:
To provide a $5,000,000 bon'd issue
for modernizing primary highways.
To remove the mandatory death
penalty .in capital convictions and
permit discretionary life sentences.
To coordinate various legal and
pena diversion and departments into
a department of justice on the basis
of the least possible expenditure by
which coordination can be done.
To revise election laws along gen
eral lines recommended by the State
Boord of Elections.
The governor said he expected that
within a week or ten days bill's pro
posing to provide an anti-lynch law
and to amend present labor statutes
such as on hours and wages.
Tihe governor said he stuck by his
statement that he had no mandatory
or “must” bills. He explained that,
for instance, he might not favor
everything in the election laws bill
to be introduced in line with election
board recommendations, but that “it
is a good basis on which to work.”
He said proposals relating to grant
ing 9l tenth year salary increment to
public school teachers and inclusion
of a twelfth grade in the pub’ ic
school system will await the com
pletion of work on the advisory bud
get commission recommendations by
the finance and appropriations com
mittees.
The $5,000.C00 road bond bill has
been held back for the same reason,
he raid.
Knox Appeal
For Tariff
Cut Surprises
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Jan. 23. —Politicians on
Capitol Hill scarcely could credit
own senses the other day when they
read the news of
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Frank Knox
Col on e 1 Frank
Knox’s appearance
as as advocate of
plenty of tariff re
ductions.
The vice presiden
tial candidate on the
(Republican party’s
last national ticket
turning against pro
tective import tax i
tion! —a doctrine
that the G. O. P. has
sworn by ever since
it was born! It was enough to make
any Hamiltonian (or Jeffersonian)
doubt the evidence of his own ears
and eyes. Secretary of State Corded
Hull, the boss apostle of internation
al trade reciprocity, Could not have
pointed more capably to the economic
evils of commercial barriers between
countries than Colonel Knox did in
that speech before an audience of far
mers at Pierre (S. D.). The fact is,
the colonel might almost run for of
fice as an old-time Democrat, since
he feels about the tariff as he says
he does. He also referred favorably
to tax reduction. New Dealers are
not so enthusiastic for that. Neither,
however, are old-fashioned Democrats
so hostile to it, and they were the
ones I suggested as somewhat in sym
pathy with Colonel Knox —not the
New Dealers, if they and the oldtim
ers are fellow Democrats at all.
It is significant that it was an agri
cultural gathering to which the col
onel addressed himself. All gather'
ings are predominantly agricultural in
that neck of the woods. They used to
be predominantly Republican, too.
With the New Deal’s advent they
flopped the other way. The 1938 elec
tion showed them flopping semi-back
to the G. O. P. side. It was a Repub
lican victory blowout to which Colonel
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Stresses Army’s Needs
Brigadier General George C. Mar
shall, deputy chief of staff of the
U. S. Army, adjusts his glasses as
he testifies before the House Mili
tary Affairs Committee. He stressed
the Army’s need for places and
anti-aircraft equipment.
New Defense
Would Lift
RankOfU.S.
Would Advance Three
Notches if 45,000 Men
Are Added; Streng
then Canal Zone
Washington, Jan. 23.—IAP) — The
15,000 increase in army strength pro
jected in President Roosevelt’s de
fense program, officials said today,
would move the United States up
three notches in the list of world’s
active military forces.
A proposed addition of 27,000 off
cers and men to the air co.ps, 13,030
or more to the Panama Canal gar
rison and 5,000 to other branches,
would swell the regular army to al
most 230,000 officers and men.
Ten countries now have larger
standing armies than the Unite !
States, on the basis of newly-revised
official figures. Disregarding increases
which others might make in the
meantime, the United States will rank
eighth in two years if Congress ap
proves the $552,000,000 armament rec
ommendation.
When trained reserves included,
the United States ranks qr.'ly 19th, and
officials anticipate no relative ad
vance in this respect.
In air forces, the United States,
with 25,895 officers and men in ac
tual service and in trained reserves,
ranks seventh and probably will con •
tinue to do so.
The proposed $300,000,000 expansion
of the army air corps likely will be
the first part of the defense program
ready for House action. Chairman
May, Democrat, Kentucky, of the
House Military Committee, said ha
hoped to complete hearings late this
week.
Hopkins Foes
Are Attacked
By Senator
Washington, Jan. 23.—(AP)—Sena
tor Schwellenbach, Democrat, Wash
ington, accused critics of Harry Hop
kins today of “trying to destroy the
confidence of the people in a demo
cratic government.”
IRising to praise the appointmen*
of the former relief director as secre
tary of commerce, Schwellenbach
asked why Hopkins’ assailants had
taken so much time in Senate debate
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Compromise
Is Expected
With House
Over-Riding of Senate
Committee and Vote
of Entire Hou s e
Would Be Big Victory
for Administration
Forces; Hopkins Con
firmation Up In Sen
ate
Washington, Jan. 23.—-(AP)—Ad
ministration leaders claimed suffi
cient Senate votes today to restore t >
the emergency relief bill the $150,009,-
090 lopped off by the House, but they
conceded that the fight would be
close.
Even if the Senate does override its
appropriations committee and accede
to Pres’dent Roosevelt’s request for
$875,00P,000, the full amount probably
would not be authorized in the long
run. Since the House voted only $725.-
000,000, a compromise between the
t’ vo chambers would have to be work
ed out.
The relief argument was resdy to
begin on the Senate floor as soon as
the members disposed of the nomina
tion of Harry Hopkins to be secretary
of commerce.
An interruption to the Hopkins de
bate was expected, however, for re
ceipt of a presidential message on a
long range health program. A special
committee recommended to Mr
Roosevelt last year that State and
Federal governments spend up to
$850,000,000 annually on this work.
Ihe health recommendation may
touch off a controversy almost as
heated as the discussions over WPA
costs. The Senate Appropriations
Committee voted 17 to 7 Saturday to
accept the House figure of $725,000,-
000.
Members pointed out that a rever
sal of this stand by the Senate itself
would have great political value to
the administration, even though a
compromise with the House might he
necessary.
Politicians say the relief revolt in
Congress has stemmed from two
causes, resentment over complaints
of “politics in rplief,” and the belief
of many members long fostered by
such economy advocates as Senator
Byrd, Democrat, Virginia, that Fed
eral expenses must be cut.
Bitter Cold
Kills Scores
In Week-End
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SOS Calls from Many
Ships in Atlantic;
Mountainous Waves
Lash Coast Line
(By The Associated Press)
A bitter d wave, accompanied by
disastrous ‘gale-force winds, plum
meted the mercury to sub-ifreezing
points today as ocean storms brought
a series o'J SOS calls from imperil ed
ships on the North Atlantic.
Storm fatalities reached into the
scores.
Mountainous waves lashed the east
ern seaboard from Cape Hatteras to
’ north of Maine, causing widespread
distress, and delayed the arrival of
rescue tanker enroute to New York
vhth the ten survivors of the British
i Imperial Airways flying boat Cava
lier, which sank with a loss of three
lives Saturday.
SOS signals came from ten ships
on the Atlantic and nearby craft
turned to their aid. The lives of
more than 300 passengers and sea
men were in jeopardy.
Twelve' persons were killed on
the southwest coast of Engl'r.d,
where the storm struck with pa-ti
cular fury.
Up-State New York counted fve
dead.
’WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Rain tonight ajid Tuesday, be
ginning as snow’ or sleet in west
and north central portions; rising
temperature.