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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR franco s Goal —The # Heart of Barcelona » • ' i This once beautiful Plaza Cataluna in the heart of Barcelona presents a much different picture today as General F ranco s insurgent troops smash their way through the city. Government forces barricaded them selves along the boulevards prepared for a last stand, as 20 divisions of the Insurgents formed a tight ring around the beautiful metropolis. Leaf Quotas ForNewCrop Made Public Schedule of Payments Listed by AAA for Those Who Follow Control Law; N. C. Gets 588,500 Acres of Flue Cured Washington, Jan. 26. —(AP) —The AAA announced today apportion ment of 1939 tobacco acreage allot ment among the tobacco producing states. The state allotments wi 1 be ap portioned among the individual grow ers, under a formula prescribed in the crop control law. Only growers who comply with their allotments will be eligib e fox government benefit payment. The payments are as follows: Flue cured and burley a .8 of a cent per pound; dai'k type, 1.4 c; cigar filler and binder one cent; Georgia- Florida bright 1.2 c. The department ordexed a total of 1,540,000 acres among the tobacco states divided as so lows: Flue cured 884,000 acres; burley, 405,000; dark-fired 150,000; cigar fill er and binder 88,000 and Georgia- Florida gright 3,000. In the states of several states types the department held back a reserve for making adjustments and correct (Continued on Pag« Four ) Prisoner Escapes From Prison Camp Johnston County Raleigh, Jan. 26. —(AP) —Penal Di vision officials reported that George Farmer, 24 year old prisoner serving eight months for temporary larceny, had escaped from t)he Johnson coun ty prison yesterday. Authorities still seek Farmer, sentenced in Wilson county, December 5. 1938. Wage-Hour Measure Os State Faces Stormy Voyage In Legislature Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY HENRY AVERILL. Raleigh, Jan. 26.—The State-Wtage Hour measure tossed upon the legis lative sea yesterday by Salisbury’s Senator E. C. Gregory faces a stormy voyage, despite the fact that it has the solid backing of the State’s solifi est labor organization—The State Fed eration of Labor —despite the further fact that it bears the endorsement, in principle though not yet in detail, of Labor Commissioner Forest Shuford, and dispite the undisputed fact that it does nothing more than put Tar Heel intrastate wage earners on an equal footing with those engaged in interstate commerce. Commissioner Shuford hasn’t com mitted himself on this specific meas ure. He said today that he has not yet had time to give it the 3tudy and consideration it ought to have before making a statement. It is possible, even probable, Uj.at - lixmorrsmt ilnilir iDtspatrir LE 'A?i E ? D a WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Chamber And Grange Programs In Conflict Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By G. LYNN NISBET Raleigh, Jan. 26.—The Eastern Car olina Chamber of Commerce and the North Carolina Grange agree that no gasoline tax or other highway money should be diverted to the general fund. That is the only point of agx-ee ment in their respective legislative programs. Whether it augurs ill for the diversion idea or for the programs is a matter of opinion at this time. The Eastern Carolina chamber, at its annual meeting here this week, heaid Congressman Cooley extoll the national administration’s piogram and then adopted a five-point program of its own for presentation to the State legislature. The chamber of commerce purports to speak for the merchants, bankeis, manufacturers and other business inteiests of the eastern part of the State. It is inteiesting to com pare this program with that of the Giange, which purports to speak for the farmexs, laxgely in the middle and western sections. The Giange is not important in the east, which is a stronghold of the Farmer Bureau, which has still another program of its own more drastic than the Giange. Cox On Trial For Slaying Os Patrolman Goldsboro, Jan. 26. —(AP) The State tried to show today that Leslie Cox, Negro, was responsible for the fatal shooting June 17, 1937 of State High way Patrolman Ike Moore, of the State weighing station. James F. Steele, T. A. Early, and Robert L. Battle, who were at the weighing station when Moore stopped an automobile with one light, “swung on” the running board until the car came to a stop some distance from the station. The witnesses said that when they then heard shots, they hurried to the scene and found the patrolman fatally wounded. None of them could say, however, that Cox was an occupant of the car that Moore stopped. he will favor a few minor changes in it. He has said that there are certain industries which under certain condi tions ought to be given a little great er leeway than is permitted under the Federal Wage-Hour law, and the Gre gory bill' follows the Federal statute almost in its entirety. President C. A. Fink of the North Carolina Federation of Labor gave immediate and unqualified endorse ment to the bill. It is conceded on all sides that it is, in all respects, the Federation’s measure, and so the Fink endorsement came as no surprise. It does, however, lend more than a little strength to the bill’s chances be cause of the admitted fact that the Federation is no radical group, but the truly conservative labor faction in North Carolina. The bill applies to all workers ex cept those in three classes—profes i Continued on Page Five.i _ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. The eastern chamber’s No. 1 plank is support of an amendment prohibit ing diversion of highway funds. The Grange demands a larger share of highway money spent on secondary and farm-to-market roads. Complete accord there. For No. 2 the chamber is opposed to taxes which retard business and development of public utilities. The Grange wants to make all forms of wealth carry its share of the tax load, and would classify property on the basis of ability to pay. Reading be tween the lines there is found a dis tinctly different approach to the tax question. It is on chamber planks Nos. 3 and 4 that most violent conflict occurs. No. 3 expresses opposition to any homestead exemption for fear of in creased ad valorem taxes. The Gx-ange demands either complete exemption of the fii-st S3OO value in homes, or the taxing of the first $750 at half the re gular rate. The Grange does agree that “over lapping” and dual administrations should be eliminated. The fifth and last point in the ♦ Continued on Page Four) LIE TAX HARDEST GEE COLLECTIONS Abolition Os Tax On Bulk Lime For Farms Is Asked And Method Simplifiel Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Jan. 26. —Abolition of the tax on hulk lime for agricultui-al pur poses, or a change in the method of levying and collecting it. was suggest ed by Assistant Commissioner Colt rane of the department of agriculture yesterday. The 1937 legislature for the first time taxed lime, levying five cents a ton. Experience has proven this to be the hardest thing to police that the department has to handle, said Mr. Coltrane. This is due to the fact ftiat so much lime comes into the State in trucks, either bought in an other State by the farmer who hauls it or bought and sold by the trucker. In the first instance no tax is due, and in the second it is virtually im possible to collect. Lime shipped into the State by the Federal government for soil erosion projects also compli cates the situation. The five cents a ton tax yields hardly enough to pay for its collection, and the depart ment suggests either not requiring its collection or making the task easier. ’ Exemption Efforts Shows Way Reform Winds Are Blowing Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Jan. 26.—Introduction of nearly half a of local bills ex empting specific counties from the absentee ballot laws is being taken as a strong indication of the direc tion in which the election reform winds are blowing. When representatives of such coun ties are Polk, Catawba, Madison and Swain —all in the West and all heavy absentee voting bailiwicks went “out”, political gossips and observers feel that it’s something of an omen— like rats deserting a sinking ship. With the present exemptions and those likely to be obtained this term, almost half the State will be without the absentee ballot, even though no Statewide repeal is accomplished. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 26, 1939 Barcelona Is In Hands Os Insurgents Populace Cheers Franco’s Troops As End of Bombings and Coming of Food; In surgents Face Little Resistance 9 Hendaye, France, Jan. 26.—(AP) — Insurgent General Franco’s Spanish Moorish and Italian troops marched into Barcelona at noon today with flags flying and bands playing. For mally taking over Spain’s largest city after two and a half years of civil war. Government defenses had collapsed. Insurgents said there was little or no resistance. At last reports, the government army was forming new defense lines somewhere to the north. Insurgents accounts of the entry said the people of Barcelona flocked from their houses to meet the victor ious army. Bombing planes have for months been raining death in their midsts. Dispatches to headquarters said the Barcolenians cheered wildly as the troops paraded through the streets. To them, Franco’s victoi-y meant more to them than a victory for the insurgent cause, food and the end of bombing. The great metropolis with a war time population of more than a mil lion and a half, was reported to have fallen with little or no resistance. It was the climax of knock-out of fensive launched December 29, by the Insurgent army from a line about 80 miles west of the city. Seeking Jury To Try Quartet For Slaying Recluse * Kinston, Jan. 26.—(AP)—A jury was completed In Lenoir county Superior court at midday today to try four men charged with hack ing and shooting Noah Bouse, a rec use, to death last November. Upon seating of the last juror, court was recessed for lunch, taking of testimony was schedul ed to begin this afternoon. Defehse might, ask the court to believe that Leon Cody, one of the accused, was not fully deve loped mentally. A psychiatrist was on hand to testify that Cody had the mentality of a small boy. Kinston, Jan. 26. —(AiP) —A special venire reported to Superior Court to day and lawyers tried to complete the jury to try four men charged with axe-shot .gun slaying last No vember of Noah Rouse, a recluse. Nine jurors were seated out of a 200 venire yesterday. Forty-four ve nire were ordered to report today. The state charges the defendant Lacy and Parrott Cade, brothers Duibell Langston and Leon Cody, killed Rouse while they were try ing to commit a robbery. POLITICS SEEN IN RALEIGH’S STATION Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. (Raleigh, Jan. 26. —While present and would-be stockholders in WPTF radio station are squabbling over ownership of the big station the Cap ital Bx'oadcasting Company is getting ready for the air March 1. Studio and tower sites have been bought and are being put in shape for use. This new station puts emphasis on the political aspects of the WPTF scrap. The small station, allotted on ly 100-watt power, is owned and will be operated by the group around Ra leigh which was most active and ef fective in promotion of Dr. Ralph Mc- Donald’s candidacy for governor three years ago. New Deal proclivities of both the present and prospective own ers of WPTF is open to question. There is no doubt about the Capital Broadcasting group. They are New Dealers. Court Holds With CIO In Jersey Case Philadelphia, Jan. 26.—(AP)—Over ruling objections by Mayor Frank Hague, U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed today, with certain modi fipations, the district court injuction of the CIO for equal rights with other organizations in Jersey City, N. J. Judge Warren Davis dessented in some details from the decision, filed by Judge John Biggs and concurred by the third judge Albert Maris. The court upholding the injunction by Judge William Florence, then a member of the district court, but now a member of the circuit court of ap peals, said: “In o,ur opinion, however, para graph four decrees (by Judge Clark) oa Pag« Four.) Dives 575 Miles an Hour •X ' • - 1 . . —' ; ' ' .*■ ' • ,* tUp- v § •' . .... • •• • . This is the Curtiss-Hawk pursuit plane, with pilot Lloyd Child at the controls, which traveled faster than any man has ever traveled before. Testing the plane at Buffalo, N. Y., for the French Government, Child free-power dived the heavily-armored craft at more than 575 miles an hour. France has purchased 100 of the planes. Senator Reynolds’ Stand Against Rig Armaments Is Surprise To Senators By CHARLES P. STEWART • Central Press Columnist Washington, Jan. 26.—Senator Rob ei’t R. Reynolds of North Carolina, as an adverse critic of Rooseveltian for- eign policies and of the administration’s advocacy of increas ed national defense, threw a considerable surprise into the up p e r congressional chamber the other day. Reynolds, in his argument, had the support of Senators Lynn J. Frazier and Ernest Lundeen of North Dakota and Sen. Reynolds Minnesota respectively. Their fellow solons accepted Fra zier’s and Lundeen’s attitude as quite House Seed Bill Would Cripple Work - « Every Package of Vegetable or Flower Seeds to Bear Stamp Under Certain Condi tions; Dealers to Get Lower License Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By G. LYNN NISBET. Raleigh, Jan. 26. —Reported favor ably for the second time, the House committee’s substitute pure seed li cense amendment will get approval of the House, and though not satisfac tory to the Senate will probably be accepted in the interest of speed and harmony —the two things of which the cui’rent session has most frequently boasted. The amendment does not affect any of the provisions of the pure seed law, which was written in 1937, except the rate of license tax to be paid by deal ers. That is made more favorable to out of State seed producers and to merchants within the State, but lead ing members of the agricultural com mittees doubt that it is at all helpful to the farmers. Under the amended law every case (Continued on Page Five' Horne Pleads For Airline For East-West Washington, Jan. 26.—(AP) —Josh L. Horne, (Rocky Mount, chairman of the North Carolina committee seeking the establishment of an East-West airline across the State, received a hearing today of the North Carolina Congressional delegation. Horne, con ferring with Representative Warren, said as soon as briefs in behalf of in terested cities were completed the matter would be presented to the Fost Office Department and the Civil Aeronautics Authority. He said arrangements had been made to meet with the entire Con gressional delegation to present a “united front”. Hore said “North Carolina definite ly needed an East-West line.” PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON ■*. EXCEPT SUNDAY, natural. The North Dakotan is a Re put ij(aan, whcijy without compunc tions in attacking New Deal recom mendations. Moreover, he is a vehe ment pacifist. Once he fought for a constitutional amendment forbidding American participation in any war, even defensively. 1 am not a moderate pacifist myself, but I could not exact ly see how Uncle Sam could insure himself against aggression from a broad by uncons, 1 ptionalizing war on our part. I asked him about this at the time. His answer was that no nation would attack another country which already had an anti-war con stitutional clause of its own. I always have had my doubts of that. However, I think the indorsement, by a law maker like Frazier, of Senator Rey nolds’ pro-peace reasoning, was plenty logical. As for Lundeen, he is a Far (Continued on Page Three.) Pepper Asks Relief Cut Be Restored Washington, Jan. 26. —(AP) —Sen- ator Pepper, Democrat,; Florida, told the Senate today that 750,000 per sons certified for work relief could not get it even if Congress added $150,000,000 to the proposed $750,000,- 000 relief appropriation. Pepper, an administration sup porter, urged the $875,000,000 appro priation, the sum asked by President Roosevelt. Pepper told the Senate that the WPA “has never given em ployment to more than 27 percent of the unemployed in the country who want a job and can’t get a job.” Both, the Senators advocating the $875,000,000 appropriation and those in favor of $725,000,000 agreed the vote would be ciose." In the House, majority leader Ray burn announced that next week’s program probably would include con sideration of an appropriation bill for the government’s individual of fices and perhaps admit reciprocal taxation of salaries of all federal, state, and municipal. The question of taxing government salaries and securities was caused by the House Ways and Means Com mittee. Undersecretary John Hayes, of the Treasury, testifying, said re moval of present tax exemptions as suggested by President Roosevelt was a proposal “to correct obvious injuries.” State Seeks Relief From A&N C Bonds Raleigh, Jan. 26. —CAP)-—Attorney General Harry McCullum said today, “some progress was made” yester day at conferences with reconstruc tion finance officials in Washington seeking relief of $126,000 in bonds to the Atlantic and North Carolina rail roads. The bonds are held by a trustee as co lateral for a loan of $360,000 made by the R. F. C. to the Morehead City port terminal which was underwrit terl by the State Central railroad. Their relief is being sought to en able the railroads to use the money to meet past-due obligations and strengthen out things. President H. B. ,’rowell of the railroad, also at tended the conference. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA* Fair tonight and Friday; not quite so cold in northeast to night. , 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Thousands Die In Chile Earthquake Death List Continues to Rise, Government Reports from ’Quake Last Night; Aviators Estimate 12,000 Toll May Be Reached Santiago Chile, Jan. 26.—(API- First government reports today said that more than 4,000 dead and the total may go above 12,000 in tlhe earthquake that spread north and south through central Chile last night. The government communique was the first official estimate of the deaths and damage, and it was far from being complete. The estimate of 12,000 dead came from aviators who flew over the region hardest hit, 200 miles south of Santiago, in the heart of the agricultural and mining district, and from refugees who came out by mules and from amateur radio operators. The communique confirmed the destruction of Chilian. More than 300 were killed when a theatre col lapsed and the total deaths were put at between 3000 and 4000. Th popu lation is 40,000. Talca suffered much damage but only five dead were listed there. First reports listed these details of deaths and destruction: Renaico, a small town 50 miles south of Concepcion—majority of houses destroyed; railroad lines broken. dead. San Carlos, a small town near Chilian—Widespread property dam*- age. Parral—Many victims and great damage. Cautin Many victims serious damage. Valparaiso, 60 tmiles northwest of Santiago and the northernmost point to report damage Minor surface cracks in buildings. Curico Many buildings were damaged. Several walls collapsed. .Hundreds of worried slept in streets. Traiguen—Several buildings were damaged. The center of the quake was be lieved to be the mountainous re gion alon- ie border of Biolbio and Malleco pio.mces south of Concep cion. Farmer Says He Slew Man In Self Defense Tarboro, Jan. 26. —(AP) —Eddie L. Sutton, 36-year-old farmer and filling station operator, testified in Superior Court today that he shot and fatally wounded Oscar Ellis, 20, in his de fense, but only after Ellis had re fused his plea to “stop fighting”. “I tried to reason with him to stop fight ing and get out,” Sutton told the court trying him on a murder charge, “but when he kept coming toward me with his right hand in his pocket I shot him.” Ellis was shot January 1. The court room with a capacity of 450 was jam med as the trial ended the second day. Solicitor Don Gillam has announced he would ask for a conviction on first degree murder or manslaughter. Fight Over J. P. Courts In House Raleigh, Jan. 26.—(AP)—Represen tatives appealed and defended justice of the peace courts today over the rewriting of the statutes for a law enforcement officers benefit fund that passed the bill on second reading 66- 35. The Senate bill extends the justices of the peace courts a provision that SI.OO be added to the costs in criminal action and be remitted to the State to finance the Division of Identifica tion. Now the law covers all other courts. Representative Mcßryde, of Cumberland, and Page, of Bladen, con tended that justices should not be al lowed to increase and expressed doubt that the State would get the money. “If there is a racket by law enforce ment officers in the State it is in J. P. courts,” Page told the House. Representatives Kerr, of Warren, and Moore, of Pitt, opposed the bill on the grounds that extension of the SI.OO fee was the same as taxing ‘•poverty and ignorance, as only the poorest and ignorant people usually use justice of the peace courts”. Justices in rural areas were defend ed by Representative Turlington, of Iredell. The House concurred in the Senate amendment and enacted into law a bill to get war veterans and wives of (Continued on Page Five.)