HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
HITLER WtIMS WORLD TO KEEP HANDS OFF
Supreme Court Upholds Tobacco Grading And TV A
Insurgents Plan New Drives
Upon Madrid If Spanish War
Is Not Ended In Catalonia
Probe Os French
Plane Deal
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c j nator Morris Sheppard, of Texas,
chairman of the Senate Military Af
fairs Committee, lends an ear to Sec
iclary of War Harry Woodring dur
ing investigation into who gave M.
Chemidlin, of French Air Ministry,
the right to ride in a light bombing
plane which crashed during test
fbght in Los Angeles. It was reveal
ed President Roosevelt had given his
okay to the deal in which France will
) uy 600 p anes.
Judge Manton
Quits Office
Under Fire
Washington, Jan. 30.—(AP)— Attor
ney General Frank Murphy announced
today he had been “assured” of the
resignation of Judge Martin Manton,
senior judge of the second United
Stats Circuit Court.
Representative Sumners, Democrat,
Texas, said today he had been ad
viesd officially that Judge Martin Man
ton, of the Fedral Circuit Court of
Appeals, had resigned.
Sumners said he had received this
information from “plenty of places,”
hut he dclined to say publicly what
they were.
A few minutes before talking with
reporters, Sumners had conferred
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Diversion Battle Holds
Spotlight In Assembly
Future Fiscal Policy of State To Be Determined
by Decisions This Week; Governor Leads Fight
To Use Highway Funds for Other Needs
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, .Jan. 30.—Diversion of
highway funds will this week hog the
limelight in the General Assembly to
the exclusion of all other issues.
Specifically and technically, the ar
gument will rage about the so-called
“good roads” bill offfered by anti
diversionists in both House and Sen
ate, and around the revenue bill sec
tion, which permits diversion of ap
proximately $2,500,000 annually if and
when there is a deficit or near-de
ficit in the general fund.
Future Policy at Stake.
Actually the whole future course of
the General Assembly is at stake, be
cause every question having to do
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Rebels Push
On Against
Government
Valencia and Madrid
To Feel Franco’s
Might if They Do Not
Surrender Following
Capture of Barcelona;
Little Left There To
Do
Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 30. —(AP) —
Insurgent armies struck from three
directions today in an effort to break
newly-formed government lines
north of Barcelona and complete the
conquest of Catalina, which insur
gents predicted would be done within
a fortnight.
Forces moving northeastward from
Maßrgsa pushed goverqment troops
back yto Mova village and captured
dominating positions, the insurgents
reported. Troops operating along
the highway beyond granollers said
they dominated the town of Llenare
del Valias and other forces moving
up the Mediterranean coast advanced
past Arcnys de Mar.
(A Burgos dispatch quoted the in
surgent high command that three in
ternational brigades apparent y new
ly-organized by the government, of
fered some resistance along the Gra
nollers-'San Celoni road.”
Most insurgent positions were said
to be within 37 miles of Gerona, capi
tal of Gerona province. The city is
52 air miles northeast of Barcelona,
occupied Thursday and on the main
highway to the French frontier.
Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco
was pushing his drive rapidly with
the idea of turning against Valencia
and Madrid if complete success in
Catalonia dees not end the two and
a half year old war.
Hines Picked
As Escort Os
Dutch Schultz
New York, Jan. 30. —(AP) —A for
mer night club bar tender identified
James J. Hines today at the Tam
many leader’s .second trial on lot
tery conspiracy charges as a man he
saw in the cliib with Arthur “Dutch
Schultz Flegehheimer four or five
times in 1933.
/witness, Edwsird Sevei i, Solid
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■with finances of the State is com
pletely stymied behind a figurative
eight ball until it has been determin
ed how much money will be available
for appropriations over the next bien
nium.
The final showdown will begin with
a public hearing Tuesday afternoon
before the joint House and Senate Fi
nance Committee on the good roads
measure. Its next phase will be an ad
dress by Governor Clyde IR. Hoey to
the Assembly in joint session Tues
day night. Thereafter executive ses
sions of the finance committee will
wrestle with the problem until a vote
is taken and the whole question
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Jurist Defends Acts
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Martin T. Manton
One of the highest ranking Federal
jurists in the nation, Judge Martin
T. Manton of the U. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, at New York, de
fended himself against published
charges by stating ..he “never
thought it was wrong” to engage in
outside business activities. Federal
government began investigation in
to his judicial conduct in cases rep
resented by his associates.
Crown Tax
On Bottlers
Is Proposed
Legislators Seek $3,-
000,000 New Revenue
Without High wa y
Money, and Allowing
New Sales Tax Ex
emptions
Raleigh, Jan. 30.—(AP) — The
legislature during this week pro
bably will get Labor Department’s
wage and hour act. In addition,
Governor Hoey said, the admin
istration bill to permit discretion
in imposing life term sentences
instead of death penalties in cases
of* first degree convictions will go
in.
Some time during the week also
will be introduced a model bill,
more than 136 typewritten pages,
prepared by a specia l / commis
lature to study laws on estates,
latur to study laws on estates,
wills and inheritancs.
Governor Hoey said that he also
expected the administration bills
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Storms Take
Death Tolls
In The South
(By The Associated Press.)
Three deaths,, one each in Louisiana
Mississippi and Tennessee, were listed
today as the toll of wind and thun
derstorms which lashed widely separ
ated sections of the South yesterday.
A 65-year-old farmer died of in
juries after a squall struck his home
near Kilbourne in the northeast cor
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy and colder, light
rain in the mountains changing
to snow Lurries tonight;* Tuesday
lair mid n ’der.
HENDERSON, N. C., ■ MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 30, 1939
Oxford Case
Decided For
Government
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Court Turns Down
Claim of 14 Power
Companies That
They Can Challenge
Government’s Gigan
tic TVA Power Pro
gr a m in Southern
States
Washington, Jan. 30. —(AP)— The
1935 Federal tobacco inspection act
was held constitutional today by the
Supreme Court. The measure provides
for Federal inspection of tobacco sold
at designated markets, provided this
is approved in a referendum by the
growers who sell on the market. Ap
proval of two-thirds of those voting is
required.
Tobacco ready for auction at ware
houses is examined by the federal in
spector, who then places the gov
ernment grade upon it. The legisla
tion was designed by Congress to
stabilize tobacco prices.
Operators of four tobacco ware
houses at Oxford, N. C., challenged
the legislation.*] They contended, a
mong other thiqgs, that the tobacco
auctioned had riot gone into inter
state commerce and the federal gov
ernment had no authority over it.
The fourth circuit court of appeals
sustained fcfroThfc» decision was
affirmed today by the Supreme Court
in an opinion delivered by Chief Jus
tice Hughes. Justices Mcßeynolds
and Butler dissented.
Government Wins on TVA.
The court ruled that 14 private pow
er companies had no legal right to
challenge the government’s g.gantic
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Chamberlain
Worried By
Hitler Speech
London, Jan. 30. — (AF) —Prime
Minister Chamberlain, facing opposi
tion in a foreign affairs debate in
the House of Commons with a re
shuffled cabinet, was represented as
being much more concerned about the
speech Adolf Hitler makes tonight
in Berlin.
So vital was Hitler’s address to the
rickety European peace framework
that Chamberlain delayed writing
his parliamentary speech until after
Hitler had spoken. Chamberlain was
expected to confer with close cab
inet advisors immediately upon con
clusion of Hitler’s remarks. j
In a conciliatory speech in Bir
mingham Saturday, Chamberlain in
vited Hitler to make some ; eace ges
ture. Observers here, however, were
skeptical about results.
Wages-Hour
Bill Leader
During Week
Agriculture Duplica
tions, Justices of Peace
and Diversion Fight
Also Shared Legisla
tive Limelight Last
Week
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
•In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY G.SLYNN NISBET.
Raleigh, 'Jan. 30.—Interest in legis
lative activities last week was about
equally divided between halls of the
Capitol and committee rooms. High
’ights on the floor were introduction
of the federation of labor’s wage
hour bill in the Senate and the bitter
fight in the House over inclusion of
justice of the peace courts in the
agencies collecting the one dollar for
officers’ benefit ,and identification
funds.
Highlights in committee activity
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Britain Rushes Air Defenses
British armament factories are operating at top speed. This picture was
made during an inspection tour by Minister of War Leslie Hore-Belisha
through the Royal Ordnance Factory at Nottingham, England, where 8,7
inch anti aircraft guns are tui ned out. (Central
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Revolt In Congress
Over Relief Funds
Would Swap Off
Cotton For Guns
Washington, Jan. 30.—(AP) —A
proposal that the government buy
375,000,000 worth of reserve war
materials in exchange for surplus
cotton was advanced today by
Chairman Vinson, Democrat, Geor
gia, ol the House Naval Commit
tee.
Vinson completed drafting a bill
which he said would eliminate as
far as possible “this nation’s dang
erous and costly dependence” on
foreign countries for its supplies
of tin, manganese, tunsten and
chrome. He predicted that his bill
would take 1,875,000 bales of sur
plus cotton off the government's
hands over a three-year period. At
the same time, he said, it would
enable the navy to acquire a re
serve supply of' minerals and oth
er essentia! wartime materials.
Vinson’s committee renewed to
day its inquiry into the Navy’s
plan to expend $5,000,000 improv
ing the. tiny Pacific island of
Guam.
Hopkins Won
Confirmation
Grudgingly
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Jan. 30. —Harry L.
Hopkins was not senatorially co?i
firmed as secretary of commerce by
a flattering majority
The difference be
tween 58 and 27
votes is a pretty
liberal margin on
some issues but a
cabinet ap p ointee
who has as many as
27 ballots cast a
galnst his confirma
tion by the upper
congressional cham
ber cannot but fe*>l
that e .accepts Ins
port f # io :n the face
of formidable oppo
sition. Besides, Hop-
Harry L. Hopkins
kins got quite a few of his affirma
tive votes grudgingly. As Senator Guy
M. Gillette, so Hopkins’ native state
of lowa, expressed it 'n .advance, he
was going to vote for the latter, but
Hopkins, he added, was the “last man
/
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Two Factions Divided
o n Significance o f
$150,000,000 Fund
Defeat, But New Deal
ers Minimize It; WPA
Pay Differentials Con
troverted.
TO CONFERENCE
Washington, Jan. 30.—(AP)—
The House sent the $725,006,000
relief bill to a conference commit
tee today to adjust differences
with a Senate-approved measure.
There was no difference in the
amounts appropriated by the two
houses, but th<» ffenattf* added a
number of amendments to the
measure, which the House had
approved earlier. |"’**
The $725,000,(>')0 figure repre
sented a reduction! from the $875,-
000,COO amount requested by Pres
ident Roosevelt. The money is
intended to finance WPA opera
tions from February 7 to June 30.
Washington, Jan. 30.—(AP)—Ad
ministration leaders and economy ad
vocates were divided today on the
nolitical and legislative significane of
the congressional revolt which cut
down the President’s relief recommen
dations.
Several anti-administration lead
ers declared that the $l5O 000,000 cut
approved by both Hous and Sen
ate had widened the cleavage between
Democratic factions and would assuri
at least a bitter fight on future spen
ing proposals. On the other hand, Nev
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New Severe Quakes In
Chile Alarm Populace
Santiago Crile. Jan 30.—(V>» -
New panic vas Reported today among
survivors of Chile’s disastrous earth
quake after more shocks, described as
‘‘very strong,” in the same region
where between 25,000 and 30,000 have
already died.
The new tremblors, lasting morp
than two minutes, rocked Chilian and
Concepcion shortly before last mid
night, injuring 20 persons at Con
cepcion and spreading terror ?monj
the homeless, sleeping in the public
plaza at Chilian.
Some sources said the new shocks
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To Tolerate
No Steps At
Interference
Says Had Not Naziism
Raised Barriers, “Red
Pest” Would Have
Submerged Western
World in Chaos; Fueh
rer Given Extension
of Powers
Berlin, Jan. 30.—(AP)
Adolf Hitler today warned
western powers against inter
fering “in matters concerning
us alone with the purpose of
preventing natural and sensible
solutions.”
He declard to a swollen Reichstag
that Germany, in establishing “the
right of self-deermination in Austria
and Czechoslovakia, had only defnd
ed itself against the attempts of in
terfering tb’ 1 parties,” and added:
“I need not assure you that in the
future also wi shall tolerate no at
tempts at interference in matters con
cerning us alone with the purpose of
preventing natural and sensible solu
tions.”
In his address, in celebration of the
sixth anniversary of Nazi rule, Hit
ler launched a bitter attack on bol
shevism, and hailed the success of the
insurgents in Spain as another
valiant defeat of the newest univer
sal attempt to destroy the European
cultured world.”
In the glittering (Reichstag assem
bly in the Kroll opera house, as Hit
ler spoke, were two “little fuehrers’,,
Konrad Henlein, the Sudetan German
leader, and Arthur Seysz-Inquart, the
Austrian Nazi leader, who summoned
the German army to “rescue” that
country least March. Also thro was Dr.
Hjalmar Schacht, the German finan
cial wizard, who was dismissed as
Reichsbank president on January 20.
As minister without portfolio, he sat
next to Dr. Walther Funk, his suc
cessor, among the cabinet members
on the rostrum.
Just before Hitler stepped forward
io deliver the speech, for which a re
arming world waited tensely the Reich
stag of < r Y 5 'brown-shirted deputies
went through the formality of or
ganizing.
Field Marshal General Hermann
Wilhelm Goering opened the session,
and then called on Interior Minister
Wilhelm Frick, who proposed re-elec
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Says Cotton
Will Rise If
Returns Made
Washington, Jan. 30. —(AP) —‘Sena-
tor Bankhead, Democrat, Alabama,
predicted today that cotton .prices
would increase should Congress ac
cept a proposal to return to growers
several million bales of cotton now
held in warehouses under govern
ment loans. Under the proposal, sug
gested by a group of southern sena
tors and House members, cotton grow
ars could refrain from planting a por
tion of the amount allotted to them
by the government in exchange for
the equivalent in loan cotton.
Cotton grower spokesmen and Ag
iculture Department authorities
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were aim as strong as last
Tuesday . ich destroyed Chilian and
left an estimated 15,000 dead among
the eity’3 40,000 population.
When the ground again trmbled
violently, reports said, women and
children in Chilian screamed and men
fought to reach open spaces safe from
falling trees and crumbling walls. The
government, alarmed by the increas
ingly difficult situation, called con
gress into extraordinary session to
day to consider relief measures. In
formed sources ixpected the legisla
ture to seek an emergency foreign
loan of about $62,400,000.