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and where each already dominates. (Central Press}
Says Social Security Can Be
Broadened Without Extra Cost
Anti-Diversionists Are
Vigorous In Arguments
Governor, Meanwhile, Follows in Fighting De
fense of Proposal of His Administration; Exe
cutive Faces First Major Legislative Revolt
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter HoteL
BY HENRY AVERILL.
Raleigh, Feb. 1. —Anti-diversionists
had their day in court —committee, to
be exact—yesterday afternoon and
they made the best of it, too.
For a full hour and a half they lam
basted the administration proposal to
divert .$7,000,000 of highway funds in
the next biennium, and lambasted it
with a fervor almost religious.
Beginning with a brief introduction
by Representative Clarence E. Stone,
of Rockingham, and closing with the
unscheduled and unsolicited contribu
tion of a self-styled “dirt farmer,” the
speakers opposed to the proposed
transfer marshalled a long array of
facts, figures and argument.
They presented it before a tremen-
City Limits
Fight Rages
For Raleigh
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By LYNN NISBET
Raleigh, Feb. I.—One of the most
colorful public hearings of the session
thus far was that before the House
Committee on Copnties, Cities and
Towns yesterday on the issue of sub
mitting to voters the matter of ex
tending the corporate limits of the
capital city.
Although the specific question is lo
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
dous crowd that packed to the point
of suffocation the big finance com
mittee hearing room on the fourth
floor of the Revenue Building. At
least a thousand persons tried to jam
their way in. Most succeeded, but
those who couldn’t stood outside the
door and held indignation meetings of
their own.
From the time that Capus Way
nick, former highway commission
chairman and now editor of the High
Point Enterprise, opened fire to the
very end committee members, as well
as the crowd, listened intently and
the only time that attention lagged
was when there was a counter-diver
sion in the form of a bellowing and
billowing speech by Nash’s Represent
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Diversion’s
Friends Warn
Os Troubles
Raleigh, Feb. 1. —(AP) —Administra-
tion supporters pointed a warning fin
ger today to Governor Hoey’s asser
tions that failure to divert money
from the highway fund might lead
the state into serious trouble.
The governor told the legislature
last night that school children, needy
aged persons and handicapped indi
viduals might suffer unless a pro
vision were made for the possible
transfer during the next 30 months of
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ONLY DAILY NEWS PAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Board Chairman Says
Benefit Payments
Have Helped Sustain
Purchasing Power
During Recession; No
Cotton Solution
Reached Yet
Washington, FeD. 1. —(AP) —Con-
g Tess was told today by Chairman Ar
thur Altmeyer that millions more
Americans could be brought under
the social security system without in
creasing the ultimate cost of the pro
gram.
Unemployment compensation, the
Social Security Board chairman testi
fied before the House Ways and
Means Committee, is not only a so
cial obligation, but a matter of eco
nomic self-interest to the nation and
its communities.
“Experience has already proved,”
Altmeyer said, “that benefit payments
helped to maintain workers’ purchas
ing power, and thereby to stimulate
lagging business and industrial ac
tivity.”
This is particularly true, he added,
in small one-industry communities,
where benefit payments to the unem
ployed during the last recession “has
prevented serious losses to retail busi
ness and the service industries.”
Says U. 5. Forced To Arm.
Louis Johnson, assistant secretary
of war, declared, meanwhile, the
United States was forced to arm “a
gainst those who are determined to
dominate world affairs by military
power.” The administration’s defense
program, he told a radio forum of
the General Federation of Women’s
Clubs, is the nation’s sole road to
safety in a disordered world.
“To some people,” he said, “the in
vasion of America may appear a mad
dream, but even they will have to
admit that the wild fantasies of yes
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Increasing cloudiness and war
mer tonight; Thursday unsettled,
scattered showers in north por
tion; slightly warmer iit east and
central portions.
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 1, 1939
Roosevelt Is
Ready* to Aid
Democracies
President Tells Senate
Committee of Ar
rangements To Sell
Planes on Cash Basis;
France Jubilant Over
U. S. Stand; ‘Unbe
lievable/ J Berlin Says
Berlin, Feb. 1. —(AP) —The Berliner
Nachtausgabe splashed the headline.
“America’s Frontier on the Rhone,”
across its front page tonight and de
scribed Fresident Roosevelt’s meeting
with the Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee yesterday as “without example
since the days of the World War.”
In a two-column dispatch under a
New York dateline, the paper quoted
American newspapers as saying Roose
velt had told committee members
that the United States must back up
democracies in any war against the
totalitarian states with arms de
liveries.
“Unbelievable agitation of Roose
velt after the fuehrer’s peace ad
dress,” was a sub-head on the dis
patch.
FRANCE IS JUBILANT AT
POSITION OF ROOSEVELT
Paris, Feb. I.—(AP) —First editions
of afternoon newspapers in Faris used
scare headlines today to proclaim that
President Rposevelt had declared the
“frontiers of the United States are in
Ffance.”' > ~
Although members of the govern
ment refused to comment on reports
of the President’s meeting with the
Senate Military Committee yesterday,
on the ground that his statements
were to a closed session, there was
undoubted jubilation in official cir
cles.
MOVE INTERPRETED HERE
AS WILLINGNESS TO AID
Washington, Feb. 1. —(AP)—Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s account of French
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Weinberg’s
Prints Not
On His Gun
New York, Feb. I.—(AP) —Governor
Herbert Lehman was urged today by
a Nassau county lawyer to investigate
a report that the fingerprints of
George Weinberg, a key witness in
the re-trial of Tammany District
Leader James J. Hines were not found
on the gun with which he allegedly
committed suicide last Sunday.
George E. Mulry, of Mineola, L. 1.,
sent the following telegram to the
governor:
“Informed believable source that
Weinberg’s fingerprints are net on re
volver of Dewey hireling. Check. Con
fiscate revolver for confirmation.”
The gun used by Weinberg, it was
reported at the time of the shooting,
had been taken from the coast of one
of District Attorney Thomas Dewey’s
detectives guarding Weinberg and two
other witnesses, J. Richard Davis and
Harry Schoenhaus, at a White Plains
N. Y., retreat. *
Mulry said a client in New York
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Another Wintry Blast
Races Across The East
(By The Associated Press.)
The snow-clogged middle west
braced itself today for another win
try onslaught as a storm raced across
northern United States from the
Rockies.
Early today the disturbance was
general over the western plains states
and by tomorrow, the bureau said, the
storm would be felt as far east as the
Atlantic seaboard. A strong northwest
wind whipped falling snow into hard
packed drifts throughout western Ne
braska, eastern Wyoming, and the
Dakotas. The storm, which marooned
many motorists at roadside taverns,
approached blizzard proportions in
those states.
(Rain or snow was forecast for to
morrow in New England, New York,
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From his rostrum in Berlin’s Kroll Opera House, speaking to the Reich
stag, Adolf Hitler delivers his address in celebration of the sixth anni
versary of his rise to power. Field Marshal Hermann Goering occupies
high chair behind Der Fuehrer. Hitler said Reich will back Italy if that
country is driven to war,, apd demanded return of Germany’s war
tost colonies,
Mussolini Silent About
His Future War Plans
On Fascist Anniversary
Pays Homage To His
Fighters in Spain and
Reviews Soldiers;
Failure To Speak No
Great Surprise; Wait
ing Definite Victory
in Spain
Rome, Feb. 1. —lAP) —Premier Mus
solini paid ceremonial homage to fas
cism’s blackshirt fighters in Spain
and reviewed 20,000 fascist militiamen
today without indicating on what
front they might fight again.
II Duce refrained from saying even
a few words to his followers as he
distributed medals to survivors of the
Spanish and Ethiopian war dead in
services at the great national monu
ment, and later watched the troops
march past in the broad Via
Nazionale.
The events were in observance of
the 16th anniversary of the fascist
militia’s organization. While a brief
speech had been expected by many,
the lack of one occasioned no great
surprise. Diplomatic quarters in the
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Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Ken
tucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Dela
ware, Maryland and the District of
Columbia. Colder weather was ex
pected to follow today’s rising tem
peratures.
A 24-hour northeast blizzard which
crippled transportation in New Jer
sey moderated. A raging surf batter
ed seaside homes and cottages and
endangered shipping in New England.
Thirty-nine deaths were attributed
to weather conditions in northern
states east of the Mississippi river.
Icy streets caused score of minor traf
fic accident in New York City. Mayor
LaGuardia sought to facilitate snow
removal by announcing that police
would arrest motorists wha left cars
parked fpr more than an hour.
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
State Is Near Top
In Job Placements
Raleigh, Feb. I.—(AP) North
Carolina ranked as the sixth state
in the nation during December in
persons placed in jobs by state em
ployment services, Director Mayne
Albright said today.
Placements during the Prst 15
days in January were up 1,175 over
a year ago. Albright said, and job
seekers dropped by 13,095.
There were 8,289 placements in
the State during December, and
the percentage drop under Novem
ber was only four percent, while in
the nation it was down 12 percent.
Loyalists To
Carry On In
Their Battle
Figueras, Spain, Feb. 1—(By Courier
to the French Border) —(AP) — The
Parliament of government Spain, the
Cortes, assembled today for a secret
session to display its determination
for continued resistance to the insur
gents. The parliament was convoked
“somewhere in Catalonia,’’ just behind
the battlefront in northeastern Spain,
where the government succeeded in
establishing its lines after last week’s
rout from Barcelona, the former
capital.
The agenda and the exact time and
place of the meeting were kept secret
lest insurgent air raiders break up
the proceedings and endanger the
lives of government leaders. Deputies
from central and southeastern Spain,
however, were known to have flown
north for the session, as evidence of
solidarity between the separated gov
ernmental regions.
WILSON MANAGER NAMED.
Wilson, Feb. I.—(AP) —Frank Rog
ers, manager of the Ayden club of the
Coastal Plains League baseball team
last season, will pilot the Wilson en
try in the same league this season.
He lives in McKees Rock, Pa.
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Senate Body
Unfavorably
Reports Bill
Overwhelming Vote
Against Measure That
Would Prevent Di
verting Highway
Money Sweeping Vic
tory .or Governor
Hoey’s Administra
tion
Raleigh, Feb. I—(AP) —The
Senate Finance Committee, by
an overwhelming majority, un
favorably reported today the
“good roads bill” introduced in
the legislature, to pledge the As
sembly against any highway
fund diversion.
The Senate portion of the joint fi
nance committee met earlier than
representatives, who have an identi
cal bill.
Senator Larkin, of Jones, made the
motion for an unfavorable report,
which usually means a bill is dead.
Senator Hatcher, of Burke, made a
substitute motion proposing a favor
able report. He got no second. On
the Larkins motion, Hatcher cast a
lone negative vote.
Later, after Senator Umstead, of
Orange, arrived at the committee
meeting, another vote was taken and
only Senators Hatcher and Umstead
opposed the unfavorable report. Um
stead indicated he might take the
fight to the floor on a minority re
port, which would require a two
thirds favorable vote to be consider
ed for debate.
The joint legislative finance com
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Flue-Cured
Exports Gain
For 6 Months
Washington, Feb. 1. — (AP) The
Bureau of Agricultural Economics re
ported today that exports of flue-cured
tobacco during the last six months of
1938 totalled 256,562,823 pounds, com
pared with 233,262,679 in the like pe
riod of 1937.
The bureau said this increase was
due principally to purchases by Brit
ish manufacturers to replenish stock.
Consequently the export rate may not
continue during the next few months,
it said.
Exports to China, the second most
important foreign market for United
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Belk Stores
Liable For
Chain Tax
Supreme Court Rules
in Favor of State on
Levy; Must Pay Five
Years Accumulated
Levies Under Decision
of State High Tri
bunal
Raleigh, Feb. I.—(AP)—The State
Supreme Court ruled today that the
“Belk” stores were subject to the
North Carolina chain stores tax.
In one of the 41 opinions, the tri
bunal held that the 1933 legislature’s
“enlargement and expansion” of the
revenue act “was clearly made for
the purpose of bringing the “Belk”
stores and others similarly situated
within the purview of the chain store
license tax.”
Directly involved was the $3,620 the
“Belk system” paid under protest ePs
a tax for the 1933-34 fiscal year, and
Wade Bruton, assistant attorney gen
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tion