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HENDERSON'S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR BRITAIN BUYING 650 WAR PLANES IN 0. S. American Planes for Great Britain I * \ % mgR/fl ' » | mßEmf . ' /<<l •; >-.*. The first of 250 Lockheed bombers scheduled for British air service is loaded on barge at Floyd Bennett Field seaplane base, New York, for transfer to the steamer Andania, and shipment to England Murphy Rebukes Solons For Week-End Holidays Tornado Strikes Town of Woodville Elizabeth City, Feb. 4. —(AP) — A tornado ri/ddenly swooped down on the little community of Wood ville, eight miles from here, last night, and virtually destroyed the solid two-story home of Wallace Wood. Wood, his wife and a 15- months old granddaughter miracul ously escaped with minor cuts and bruises and some burns from a stove which overturned when the winds struck. The house wir- flat on the ground Ibis morning with pieces of debris scattered in every direction. The wind, maintaining its in tense force over a quarter of a mile, and lasting two minutes or less, first struck the home of E. E. I’ateman, 200 yards from the Wood home, tearing down a henhouse rid lifting the Bateman home from its foundations, moving it a yard or more and breaking two chimneys and three windows. boss to the Wood home was esti mated at $2,500. Wood rescued his wife and child before any one ar rived. Election Law Committee Is Much Divided Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter lloteL By HENRY AVERiLL Raleigh, Feb. . 4. —There are as many shades of opinion in the sub committee of the elections law com mittee of the elections law committee just named by House Chairman George W. Phillips, of Onslow, as there were colors in the coat of Joseph, famed controller of Egyptian supplies and fugitive from the em braces of Potiphar’s wife. The sub-group has seven members, and it represents seven known or unknown degrees of thought regard ing North Carolina’s election .aws, in general, and the -absentee ballot, in particular. From its chairman, Joe Carruthers of Guilford, right on down the list a differing view is met with each suc ceeding name—'John Kerr, Jr., of Warren; William F. Marshall of Stokes; Lacy Mcßryde, of Cumber land, Frank Taylor, of Wayne; J.* B. Vogler, of Mecklenburg, and Odus Mull, of Cleveland. Taking a general and grief view of each, here’s how he lines up: Carruthers: Apparently hasn’t said anything to anybody about hi 3 opin ions. Was named by Mr. Phillips very large y for this very reason. Kerr: Wants to retain the absentee 'ballot both for primaries and gen eial elections. Can see no virtue in proposal to abolish for Democratic family fights and leave available lor use against the Republicans. Mcßryde: Strong, a most fanatical, for complete, teetotal abolition of the absentee ballot and all its wor*k. i (Continued on Page Five), ~ 4f m* <+** ~ »«* Mp ■-■ HrnJtrrsmt Satin StsnafrlT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIROTIvS ' ' SERVICE OP IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Rowan Legislator Speaks to Empty Seats in House as Members Contact Constituents Back Home Raleigh, Feb. 4.—(AP) —Members of the legislature were rebuked today by (Representative Murphy, of Rowan for their week-end exodus from Ra leigh. He said it was a “reproach on this General Assembly when I look over this House and see every God blessed seat empty.” “I don’t blame them for going home.” he declared, “but after all they were elected to represent the people of the State. Saturday sessions of the Assembly are usually attended by only a hand ful of members, as most of them go home to “commune with the boys” over the week-end. Not only that, but the Highway Users Conference, in its anti-divez siltn campaign this week, has been urging radio listeners to talk to their representatives this week-end about an anti-diversion re solution unfavorably reported by the Senate Finance Committee. The House received, passed under suspension of the rules and sent to (Continued on Page Two.) 3 Candidates For Governor Get Publicity Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel- By LYNN NISBET Raleigh, Felh. 4. —Considerable pub licity has been given to the veiled re ference made before the finance com mittee by J. M. Broughton, of Ra leigh, to his probable candidacy for governor. The acts of two other men are taken by capital observers to be a so bids for a share of the gub ernatorial limelight reflected from the highway funds diversion scrap. Mayor Tom Cooper, of Wilmington, had been all along listed as an ardent (Continued on Page Five.) Estates Bill Re-Writes Wills And Property Laws Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By LYNN NISBET Raleigh, Feb. 4. —'Senator Thos. J Gold’s Committee on Judiciary No. 1 may or may not spend much time studying the longest bill yet present ed to the legislature, but it is a safe bet that there will be a favorable re port. The bill is officially titled “An Act to Amend the Laws IRelating to the Estates of Deceased Persons, to Conveyance by Husband and Wife, to the Transmission of Property by Willi HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, FEBRUARY 4, 1939 2 Admit Robbing Lady In Robeson Lumherton, Feb. 4. (AP) — Sheriff Clyde Wade announced to day he had arrested two men who he said gave their names as Ed_ ward Stephens and Iron Thomp son, the latter am Indian, in con nection with the robbery yesterday of Mrs. Mary E. Barnes, 82-year old widow. The sheriff said the men confessed. County Officers Fleming Bris son and F. L. Crump found the elderly Mrs. Barnes last night when she had practically freed herself from a post to whieh she had been tied six hours earlier by two robbers. She was not injured. Part of the stolen property was recovered. Ward Calls Signals And Judges Win Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. By LYNN NISBET Raleigh, Feb. 4.—The varsity was being challenged by the scrubs, and Quarterback Ward called a huddle— and the special judges won. The is sue was Representative Mull’s bill to continue for two more years the four special judges which have been au thorized every legislature since 1933. No additional judges were provided, but some members thought there were. Mr. Mull was explaining his bill when questions began popping all over the House. Speaker Libby Ward motioned for one of his chief lieutenants, John Cassey, and whispered to him: “Get out there on the floor and tell the boys to pass this bill.” Then the speaker put Pat Kimzey into action, too, and Pat is definitely not “one of the boys” in the Ward set-up. Mr. Mull continued explaining and questioners kept on asking. Another wink from the speaker’s dais and Bill Hatch and Claude Abernathy began to circulate. For a few minutes the sedate legis lative hall had all the appearance of a political convention with floor man agers on the job. Mr. Mull finished his explanation, the question was put, and the vote was unanmous for the bill. The main question now is: Did the speaker really fear for the fate of the special judgeship bill, or was this just a team work-out against the time (Continued on Page Two.) to the Administration of Estates, to Guardianships, and the Repeal of Statutes in Conflict Therewith,” is popularly known as “The Estates Bill.” Not a single member of the leg islature has been found to admit that he has read it, and only or.e prom ises to read it. The bill, with title and binding takes 142 pages, 136 of them filled with words that will materially change existing laws. Representative Clegg, of Moore, says he reads every {Continued on Page Three.), 250 Ordered In Addition To First 400 50 of New Ones To Be Reconnairance M a - Other 20 0 trainers; First 400 Costing $35,000,000, Delivery in Year or Two London, Feb. 4.—(AP) The air ministry announced today that Great Britain would purchase 250 war planes in the United States in addition to ■IOO already on order. Fifty of the new pianos, the air minister said, will be Lockheed gen eral reconnaisance machines, and the other 200 will be North American Aviation Company trainers. “In view of the improved deliveries in prospect under orders for aircraft placed by the air ministry the Unit ed States last year,” the announce ment said, “it has been possible to negotiate an increase in contracts for delivery within the period originally contemplated.” The air ministry announcement came amid a stir in several capitals, particularly Washington, over sale of American-made planes to France. Delivery of the original British or der of 400 planes at an estimated cost of $35,000,000 was expected from with in one to two years. The air ministry announced this order last June. Ohio River Threatening Fresh Flood Territory from Pitts burgh to Carrollton Is Endangered by Rising Waters Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 4.—(AP) — The mighty Ohio river rose slowly toward flood stage today from Pitts burgh to Carrollton, Ky., half way between Cincinnati and Louisville, but the danger of a serious inundation apparently was lessened by freezing weather, which stemmed tributary lun-offs. The temperature, however, added to the hardship of hundreds of families forced to evacuate lowland homes as high waters poured into some Ohio cities. Red Cross and other relief agencies immediately went to work to care for the refugees. Two were dead in West Virginia and four others were reported to have been drowned by swift rising moun tain streams. The high waters result ed from heavy rains and snows of the past three days over the mountain ous Ohio valley watershed regions in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky, and over hilly southern (Continued on Page Four.) PASQUOTANK SHERIFF DIES AT HIS HOME Succumbs to Kidney Ai’ment After Fight of Several Years Against the Disease Elizabeth City, Feb. 4.—(AP) — Death '”me to Sheriff Charles Car mr’.ne eaj iy /this morning, striking him down just as he was starting his eighth term as sheriff of Pasquotank county. He died at his home at 1104 •Tones street at 2:26 o’clock this morn ing. succumbing to a kidney ailment that has sent him from hospital to hospital for the past several years. He was 58 years old. Surviving are his second wife, three sons by his first marriage, a daughter, a sister and a brother. Funeral services have been tenta tively set for 3 o’clock Sunday after noon. They will be held from the First Baptist church. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Sunday; slight ly colder in east tonight. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Rain over northern and southern portions first part of week and rain in lat ter half; warmer Monday; colder Tuesday and Wednesday; warmer Thursday and colder at end of week. Democratic Split Widens As Factions Fight For Control The Topic is Cotton Sen. Smith Sen. Bankhead Sec’y Wallace Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace holds a light for Senator Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith, of South Carolina, chairman of the Senate agri culture committee, as they discuss the cotton program for 1939. Aiding in the discussion is Senator John Hollis Bankhead, of Alabama Floods, Winds, Cold And Snow Rage Across South Slayers Os Prison Guard Lose Appeal Columbia, S. C., Feb. 4. — (AP) —The six men convicted of murdeiing Pri son Captain Olin Senders in abortive attempt to escape from the State penitentiary more than a year ago lost their Supreme Court appeal to day. A new execution date probably wil, be fixed for some time in March. “With the exception of George Wingard, all of the appellants are mature men, experienced in crime, .rid at the time of the homicide seve ral of them were serving .ong terms” the Supreme Court opinion, handed down at 1:30 p. m., said. “When this crime was committed, Wingard was 18 years of age and was serving a term fer petty thievery.” Attitude Os Britain Riles Washington By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. 4.—lnasmuch as (from all official accounts) Uncle Sam is 100 per cent determined to keep out of the next overseas war, what the heck does he care as to the vari ous other countries respective abilities to stand _ the wear and tear of the certainly threatening impending ma jor foreign conflict, in the spring or thereabouts? Well, he does care, anyway. One hears plenty of speculation on the subject in state, war and navy departmental circles. It is not mere academic curiosity, either. It is based on the supposition that Uncle Samuel will not be able to stay on the side lines in the event of a fresh big clash in the old world—not if the rumpus is very long continued. This coming war, if it eventuates, manifestly will start between the total itarians (Germany, Italy and maybe Japan) and the European dem ocracies (Britain and France). Unprepared, Vacillating? Now, it is common talk that Britain and France are militarily, navally and aerially unprepared in comparison | with Germany and Italy. It likewise is (Continued on Page Four) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Rising Rivers Inun date Thousands of Acres in Tennessee and Arkansas; Seve ral Deaths Attributed to Fury of Weather (By The Asociated Press) Floods, high winds, cold and snow left destruction and suffering in several southern sections today. Rising rivers, fed by torrential rains, inundated thousands of acres in Tennessee and Arkansas and forc ed scores of families from their homes. An unidentified white man died of exposure at Paragould, Ark., where a six-inch snow, heaviest in 15 years, coated the city. Scattered windstorms in Georgia, South Carolina and Mississippi yes terday and last night killed two per sons and injured several others. Nina persons were hurt and five homes demo.ished when a wind of near tor nado force struck Pisgah and Arling ton, Miss. In South Carolina a windstorm toss ed a garage into an outbuilding at Taylor’s, and killed 11-year_old Ju lian L. Harker. A Negro child was killed when Negro houses were blown down at Zebu on, Ga. At Columbia, S. C., a twister de molished scores of houses, leaving many homeless. Harriman, Tenn., where a 1927 flood took 20 lives,, reported heavy pro perty damage from high water. Franco Takes Last Big Catalonian Stronghold Perpignan, France, Feb. 4.—(AP) — Insurgent dispatches reported today General Franco’s Navarrese armv corps entered Gerona, last major gov ernment stronghold in northeastern Spain, at 10:30 a. m. today. Gerona, an old walled city and cap ital of a province by the same name, is only 25 air line miles and 36 miles by road from the French border. Figueras, temporary capital of the Spanish government, is 22 miles to the north. The government’s newest defense line was said to have been shattered 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Roosevelt And Garner Rift Grows President Battles for Liberalism and Garn er Leads Conserva tives; Latter Seem To Hold Balance; For eign Policy Row In tense Washington, Feb, 4.—(AP)—Con gress began the second month of its session today with indications that Democratic factionalism was develop ing rapidly into a fight for party con trol. Some politicians predicted events of the next few weeks would sharpen the lines of this struggle, with Fresi dent Roosevelt carrying on his battle for New Deal “liberalism,” Vice-Pres ,l,d®l?t Garner working quietly as chieftain of conservative” forces and both sides thinking of the presi dential. nomination in 1940, as the prize to be captured. There were some signs the Demo cratic split had placed the balance of oower in both Senate and House in -he hands of the “conservatives,” a situation made possible chiefly by Republican gains In the November elections. Republican members, keenly aware of their own possibilities in 1940, have become more active than in any other Congress of the Roosevelt adminis ration. Senators Want To Talk. President Roosevelt’s denial, mean while, that he looks upon the Rhine is America’s frontier, brought a Re publican demand that he let senators -ell their version of what he said at 1 secret conference on foreign affairs Tuesday. Senator Bridges, Republican, Sew Hampshire, one of the military committee members who attended the inference and pledged secrecy, made he demand after the President had lisputed some accounts of the meet ng and had accused some legislators md some newspaper owner agitators (Continued on Page Two.) I Bombings In England Are Continuing London, Feb. 4.—(AP) —A bomb ex plosion which wrecked the headquar ters of the Torquay Conservative Club in Devonshire sent Scotland' Yard ex perts to England’s south coast today in a widening search for suspected Irish terrorists. The explosion occurred at 3 p. m. after the houses of Parliament had been barred to visitors as a precau tion, and police had announced dis covery of important secret clues to a wave of bombings attributed to the anti-British Irish republican army. Police tore up the floor boards and ripped open the walls of the three story political headquarters, but failed to find any clue to the blast, which blew the sleeping seaside resort town into turmoil. Sir Thomas Moore, a conservative member of Parliament, announced he would propose legislation in the House of Commons to inflict cor poral punishment on persons convict ed of bombing charges. and ati advance to the frontier ap parently was only a question of days. Insurgent air squadrons heavily hombed the refugee-choked region along the border. (Insurgent military leaders in Barcelona predicted last night they would capture Gerona within the next 24 hours, and said they were hopeful of completing the conquest of Catalonia within a week.) The two columns had advanced about 50 miles since the capture of Barcelona January 26. Both at Gerona and Figueras insurgent air attacks were taking a heavy toll.
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