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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR SPANISH REBEL TROOPS ENTER BARCELONA .. • - - - * * * * *********** Wage-Hour Bill Is Given Legislature Labor Plan About Same As Federal Joint Finance and Ap propriations Commit tees Hold Last of Pub lic Hearings; Election Law Reforms Explain ed to Committee at Forenoon Session Ra t'lg'h, Jan. 25.-—(AP) —The leg islature received fiom Senator Greg ory, of Rowan, today a bill to provide minimum wages and maximum work houis in North Carolina. The minimum wage would be 25 cents an hour the fiist year, 30 cents the second, and a 40-cent level after seven years, while hours would be limited to 44 a week the first year, 42 the second and forty the third and thereafter. A bureau to administer the act would be created. This afternoon the joint committees on appropriations and finance held the last of their scheduled pub.ic hearings. More money for the schools was sought from tee appro priations group, while merchants and bottlers appeared before the fi nance group to attack the sales tax and levies on bottlers. The joint election laws committee heard members of the State Board of Elections discuss the need of elec tion law revisions and .outline the proposals for a new absentee voting statute, new registration, splitting of large precincts and changes in rules for markers. A sub-committee was named by a House judiciary group to study the bill to regulate tourist camps after State officials had asked that en forcement of sanitary regulations be left to the State Board of Health. New Senate bills introduced in cluded proposals to: Tighten laws on search and seizure; provide annual dues of $5 for membership of the State bar and "ive judges power to enforce payment; give the port au thority at Southport power to enter into contracts, etc. Committees Not Packed With Anti’s Governor Himself Ap proved House Assign ments Before They Were Announced Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY HENRY AVERILL. Raleigh, Jan. 25.—Persistent unend ing rumors that House committees were packed against Governor Clyde R. Hoey and his administration con tinue to be heard several times daily, although there is an abundance of well-established facts with which to controvert these apparently unquench able reports. Nobody will take the responsibility for the statement —but almost every body is willing to say he has heard that a coalition of Graham and Mc- Donald supporters has taken com plete charge of the House, primarily through the medium of committee ap pointments to key posts. These reports simply will not down despite that every known and es tablished fact Contradicts them. For instance, it is certain that the governor and at least most of his principal House supporters were shown copies of the committee assign ments before they were announced; and it is equally well established that His Excellency made no objection to the set-up when he was asked poin + - blank if he had any suggestions to make. Quite naturally, Speaker Libby Ward has consistently declined to be drawn into the matter, either by pub lic statement or even in “off the rer ord” conversation; but it is indisput able that the governor did see the committee lists before they were of ficially ratified and that the only sug gestion he made regarding revis ion was accepted. Your correspondent has learned on authority so reliable as to be prac , (Continued on Pag« Four.) Upttiterantt tUuln DtsmtifHg WIRE SERVICE r>E the associated press With fall of Barcelona imminent, the U. S. cruiser Omaha was ordered to I Caldetas, 20 miles north of the beleagured city, to evacuate American I Senate Republicans Join Fight To Hold Relief Grant Lower Willing To Support Additional Fund Later If $725,000,000 Is Insufficient; Tobacco Grow ers Abandon Hope for New Referendum for 1939 Crop Washington, Jan. 25. —(AP) —Senate Republicans united today in an ef fort to hold the relief appropriation to $725,000,000. That sum, voted by the House and approved by the Sen ate Appropriations Committee, is $150,- 000,000 less than the amount asked by President (Roosevelt to continue WPA operations until June 30. At a conference today, Republican senators generally agreed to support the $725,000,000 figure. Senator Mc- Nary, Oregon, the Republican leader, said his party’s senators would he willing to vote for additional relief funds to meet any emergency later if the $725,000,000 is appropriated and exhausted before June 30. Many conservative Democrats are Agriculture Fight Again Threatening Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY G. LYNN NISBET. Raleigh, Jan. 25.—“1 have lived in Wake county all my life,” said Sena tor Ballentine of Wake, “and I never hear anything about this controversy between State College and the Depart ment of Agriculture until the legisla ture meets.” A few minutes later Com missioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott took the floor and explained why that is. “It is part of the fun in the political game,” he said. “The head of the department has to be elected every four years, and the cit izens of the State get fun out of ‘shooting at him’. The college admin istration does not offer such a shin ing target.” The occasion was meeting of a joint sub-committee of the committees on agriculture to consider charges of duplication of effort and expenditures by the two agencies. These charges had been made in newspaper articles and letters to legislators emanating from Farm Bureau officials. Before the committee came Dean I. O. Schaub, head of the department of agriculture at State College, director of farm extension work in the State, and acting director of ecntral experi ment station here. Also came Com missioner Scott, elected in 1936 for a four-year term as head of the De partment of Agriculture. Both profess ed no personal feeling in the matter, (Continued on Page Four) WEATHEH ~ FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, colder in extreme east portion tonight; Thursday fair, with rising temperature. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. to Bare HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 25, 1939 expected to join the Republicans in supporting the $725,000,000 appropria tion, and there were general predic tions that the final vote would be ex tremely close. Other developments included: The House Judiciary Committee de ferred action, at least until tomorrow; on a resolution by Representative Thomas, Republican, New Jersey call ing for impeachment of Secretary of Labor Perkins. Chairman McNinch, of the Federal Communications Commission, and Chairman Wheeler, Democrat, Mon tana, of the Senate Interstate Com merce Committee, announced they (Continued on Page Five.) Aerial Bombs Win No Wars, Johnson Says By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Jan. 25. —'Nelson T. Johnson does not call himself an ex pert aviator at all. He is an expert, however, as an avia- tors’ target. As United States am bassador in China he probably has had more bombs spilled in his vicinity from on high than any other living Ameri can. In fact, the chan ces are that he has been more copiously bombed than the Chinese themselves. Here’s the idea: When Ambassador 1 _ * Nelson T. Johnson; Johnson went to the Orient the capital he was assigned to was Nanking. War presently having broken out, Japan ese airmen bombed the Nankingers out of house and home. Johnson took his medicine with the rest, hut finally things got so had that the Chinese government transferred :'ts headquar ters to Hankow. Our ambassador went along. Thereupon the Japs let up on Nanking, giving folk there a rest. Johnson did not get any, though, for the Mikado’s flyers immediately began bombing Hankow. Ultimately Hankow likewise became too hot for Genera, Fpsipio Chiang Kai«43hek to hold, so his- administration moved on to Chungking, still farther inland. This meant a spell of peace for the Hankow populace, but none for Nel son Johnson, because he had moved his embassy along, to keep up with the government, and as soon as he (Continued on Page Five) # * refugees. Os the American group only about thirty are native born. The others are Filipinos, Puerto Ricans or of Spanish origin. Rumor 2,000 Are Dead In Chile Quake President and # Doctors and Nurses Leave Santiago for Scene, 250 Miles South Santiago, Chile, Jan. 25. —(AP) —An army airplane surveying the scene of a disastrous Chilean earthquake today flew low over Chilean, 220 miles south of San tiago!, and reported finding the city of 40,000 inhabitants “com pletely destroyed.” Santiago, Chile, Jan. 25. —(AF) — Three Chilean military planes sped south today to check unconfirmed re ports that 2,000 persons had been kill ed in the Concepcion area by midnight earthquakes which shook a 40D-mile strip of Chile’s coast and shattered normal communications. Concepcion is a city of 77,000 in habitants 250 air miles south of San tiago, the capital. President Cuerda and several cabinet members departed for the quake area on a special train, with 40 physicians, 70 nurses and med ical supplies. t First reports said the majority of houses were destroyed in a small town 50 miles south of Concepcion (Continued on Pag*e Four.) J. BOWIE GRAY, SR., OF WILSON, PASSES Wilson, Jan, 25. —(AP) —J. Bowie Gray, Sr., 60, hardware dealer, and chairman of the Wilson County Alco holic Beverage Control Board, died in a Richmond, Va., hospital today of a blood infection. Funeral ar rangements are incomplete. Lower Taxes Or Ownership By Government For Rails Is Spectre For Committee Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. by henry averill. (Raleigh, Jan. 25. Representatives of railroads operating in North Caro lina paraded the stark specter of gov ernment ownership across the stage of finance committee hearing room yesterday afternoon as they told mem bers of the assembly’s money-hunt ing group that lower taxes for the rails is the only alternative to that situation “with all its attendant ills ” Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line,' Southern —the big three of Tar Heel rail carriers—sent representa tives to the oratorical iring line in an effort to convince committee mem bers that taxes, particularly franchise taxes, have, grown beyond all reason and gone beyond all hope. It even got to the point where W. T. Joyner, .division onginemarr of the Southern, admitted that bus and truck competition is here to stay—has as he Fight Air Battle Over French Town Perpignan. France. Jan. 25. (AP) —An unidentified Spanish war plane dropped six bombs ear ly today near the French village cf Formiguieres, 15 miles from a frontier town •of Bourg-Madame. The bombs landed in woods and fields close to the viHage. Mobile guards said there were no casual ties. Frightened populace poured in to the streets of the hamlet short ly after 1 a. m. Immediately after the bombing, witnesses said they heard machine gun fire, above, in dicating that at least two planes engaged in aerial battle over French territory. Robeson Man Dies After Recent Attack Lumberton, Jan. 25. (AP) —Lumber ton and Robeson county officers speed ed up today their Investigation of the reported robbery and rough treat ment of Tom Moore, 62, two weeks rgo at his farm in Back Swaimp township. -Moore died last night in a hospital. Coroner D. W. Biggs said physicians told him Moore’s death was caused by pneumonia resulting from exposl - The coroner empanelled a jury tc view the body and ordered an in quest at a later date. Moore and Harvy Smith, who lived with him, reported to Sheriff E. Clyde Wade a fortnight ago that they were he d up by three armed ar\d masked Indians while the house was ransacked and S2O taken- from Moore’s clothing. They reported Moore was roughly handled and threatened with torture bySgire in an effort to force him to disclose where additional money might he found. The sheriff said today no arrest had been made. expressed it, “a definite place in the economic field”. This from a rail road man would not so long ago have been akin to treason. Incidentally, Mr. Joyner alone of the speakers went exhaustively into reasons for the desperate condition of the railroads and, with keen, concise phrases laid their cause squarely be fore the committee. Thomas W. Davis for the Coast Line, and W. L Stanley, for the Seaboard, opened the statis tical spigot and turned loose a flood of information and important, but none-the-less decidedly boring, figures calculated to show that the rails are carrying far more than their share of taxation. They proved to a mathematical cer tainty, if not to the committee’s satis faction, that taxes have risen by tre mendous leaps and bound to a point where the rails now pay more for the (Continued on Page Five) PUBLISHED every afternoon EXCEPT SUNDAY. U. S. Warships Take American Refugees Safely From City Bomb Falls 100 Feet from Americans Before Naval Vessels lake Them Away; Government Troops Are Still Holding Out in Barcelona Proper Aboard the U. S. Cruiser Omaha, Near Barcelona, Jan. 25. 3 Fit teen Americans ileeing the beleaguered Barcelona aiea had to lun the gauntlet ol bombs today before the’J reached safety aboard the Omaha and the United States destroyer Badirer Italy Calls Reservists Into Service 60,000 Army Men Summoned with Re newed Warning To France To Keep Hands off Spain Rome, Jan. 25.—(AP) —Italy called 30,000 army reservists born in 1901 o the colors today for training and nstruction, and at the same time Yarned France anew against helping he hard-pressed Spanish government. An announcement that a “first luota” of 60,000 men had been sum moned for duty February 1 indicated more reservists might be called up ater. The announcement did not con nect the summons with current talk of friction between France and Italy, and the talked occupation by France as nearby islands. But foreign mili tary observers remarked it was un usual to call reservists for their pe riodic training in winter. Authoritative Italians previously had denied men were being called as a precaution against possible French intervention in Spain to save Bar celona. But Italy repeated her warn ing that French intervention in Spain would result in Italy’s claiming her “liberty of action”. French fears ihat Italian troops on the French-Spanish border would be dangerous to France were declared “excessive” by the official bulletin of the Italian Foreign Office “Responsible Rome circles have followed attentively discussion of f oreign affairs in the French cham fer," said the foreign office publica tion. “Among many speeches one aroused particular interest, that de livered by Deputy Vallat, a war vet nan recently defeated for the vice presidency of the chamber* a plaee ihat was given to a genuine Negro” WILSON BASEBALL GROUP CHARTERED Raleigh, Jan. 25. —(AP) — Secretary of State Thad Eure issued three char ters today. They included: Yfilson Baseball Club, Inc., of Wilson, which will own and operate a baseball club. It has 100 shared of no par value au thorized capital stock. Three shares of stock are subscribed by Lester Watson, Edward Warren and A. W. Fleming, Wilson. GEHRIG SIGNS FOR 1939 WITH YANKEES New York, Jan. 25. (AP) —Lou Gehrig, durable first baseman of the New York Yankees, signed his 1939 contract today for . his 15th season with baseball’s world’s champions. Al though the terms of the contract were not announced, it was believed Gehrig took a slight cut from his last year’s salary of $39,000. Cotton Higher Around Midday New York, Jan. 25. —(AP) —Cotton futures opened two points higher to one lower. Trade and spot house buy ;ng was offset by Bombay and Liver pool trading. Opening losses were can celled and at the end of the first hour the market was unchanged to two light. October advanced from 7.?5 to 7.38 for a net gain of two points. Around noon the market moved up for net gains of one to five points. March was a point better at 8.44, and May two higher alt 7.17. O PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY One bomb fell 100 feet from the refugees as they stood on a break water waiting for a small boat to take them out to the warships, anch ored about two miles off Caldetas, about 20 miles north of Barcelona. Earlier reports said insurgent planes began bombing the village of Caldetas, where more than 30 Ame ricans, refugees from Barcelona, were gathered to board this cruiser. The bombardment began at 8:30 a. m. (3:30 a. m., eastern standard time) after the Omaha sent out a boat to take off the refugees. The cruiser stripped anti-airciraft guns ready for action, if necessary. The refugees had gone to Caldetas yesterday and last night. Seven bomb ers flew over the American, British and French warships anchored off Caldetas and dropped bombs, most of which struck the water near the coast. Lerida, Spain, reported the insur gent command announced that the western and northwestern sections of Barce.ona had been completely en circled by insurgent columns driving into the government capital. Hendaye, France, reported an in surgent military dispatch said Gen eral Franco’s troops entered Barce lona this morning. The advance guard of the insur gent armies marched into the Span ish government capital after tighten ing a ring around the city on three sides, reports from field headquart ers said. Barcelona was still in gov ernment hands, however.\ A direct communication from the capital at 10:30 a. m. (5:30 a. m., eastern standard time), said govern ment troops still held out in the city proper. An insurgent dispatch predicted comp ete occupation by tonight. The Moorish army corps, which has driven northeastward along the coast from Tarragona, was reported the first insurgent unit to enter the government capital. JAMES A. CALLAHAN, OF NORFOLK, DEAD Norfolk, Va., Jan. 25.—(AP) —James A Callahan, 48, prominent in Nor folk automotive circles for the last 20 years, and (Lincoln) sales repre sentative for Virginia and North Carolina, died of a heart attack in Kinston, N. C., shortly after 7:30 a. m. today. He was taken ill about 6 o’clock, and despite medical assist ance, failed to rally. He was on a business trip when stricken. Funeral arrangements had not been complet ed. Homer Martin Is Ousted By ClO’s Union Detroit, Mich., Jan. 25.—(AP) — l/tival unionism in the automobile in dustry or a voluntary oblivion for Homer Martin as a labor leader loom ed today as possible destinies for the CIO-United Automobile Workers And their erstwhile chief. Outlawed, in effect, by a CIO ver dict holding him guilty of “flagrant” misdeeds, and refusing him recogni tion* as UAW president, Martin step ped to his guns for an open battle with John L. Lewis and co-leaders of the Congress of Industrial Organiza tion. A fight likely to make labor his tory, for which Martin accepted what he interpreted as a “declaration of war by the CIO against me,” develop ed with the ruling yesterday by vice presidents Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray in favor of the anti-Martin faction in the auto union. Scorning the decision of the two Lewis lieutenants, Martin said he cared no further for the ClO’s “good graces”, with the result that previous speculation was renewed whether the , former minister would try to lead his UAW adherents into a separate union, independent or under the American Federation of Labor. Martin kept his plans to himself, but made it plain he intended to fight the CIO heads, waiting to learn the “attitude” of the whole CIO. If it is against him, he said, he will “resign i immediately.’’
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