HENDERSON'S
POPULATION
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TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
BRITAIN, FRANCE SEEK DEAL WITH FRANCO
Marriage Bills Are
Given Legislature
By Long, Os Halifax
Veteran Hospital
Bids Are Ordered
Washington, Feb. B.—(AP) —The'
Veterans Administration announc
ed today bids would be opened
here March 28 for construction of
a new $1,500,000 veterans hospital
in Fayetteville, N, C.
There will he eleven construction
units, inc'uding the main build
ing, nurses’ quarters, a laundry
and officers’ quarters.
Senators To
Back Fund On
Advertising
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Feb. B.—Organization of a
militant Senate group to fight pro
posed slashing of appropriations for
the State advertising program is well
under way, and there promises to de
velop one of the keenest skirmishes
of the General Assembly’s current ses
sion.
Logically interested in the matter
by virtue of his post as chairman of
the Senate Committee on Conserva
tion and Developmnt, State Senator
Emmett H. Bellamy, of New Han
over. today announced that he will
actively campaign to restore the $50,-
000 cut from the $250,000 recommend
ed by the budget commission for ad
vertising the State during the next
biennium.
The Bellamy announcement brought
immediate and favorable reaction
from a number of senators —among
them D. B. Fearing, of Dare, and S.
Bunn Frink, of Brunswick, both from
small counties which have been great
ly benefited by the advertising pro
gram begin by North Carolina under
1037 appropriation of $250,000.
“North Carolina has by far too
large a stake in travel promotion and
in attracting new industries to give
up its current advertising program
or even to curtail it to any marked
extent,” said Senator Bellamy.
“We have in North Carolina the
chance to become the most popular of
all short-vacation states. Here’s an
amazing thing. Federal officials think
our Great Smokies National Park
will he the most popular in America,
until the Seashore park is opened.
They think the Seashore, because of
its uniqueness, will outdraw any at
traction in America.
“Thus there unfolds this prospect,
a State bounded on one side by the
most popular area for vacationists,
the other by the second most popular
recreation area, with the world’s most
magnificent highway (the Blue Ridge
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Last Two of Four
Escaped Convicts
Are Re-Captured
Raleigh, Feb. B.—(AP)—The last
two of four prisoners who escaped
from a road gang near South Mills,
in Camden county, January 31, have
been recaptured, Oscar Pitts, penal
director, said today.
He said John Sanders, serving up to
20 years from Gaston county, impos
ed in June for manslaughter, and
Ervin Long, sent up from Alamance
in August, 1936, to to ten years
for manslaughter, were captured last
night near where their companions
were caught. He had no further de
tails.
Pitt Legislator Plans
To Seek Warren’s Seat
Raleigh, Feb. B.—(AP) —Legislators
got warning today from a Pitt county
representative that he expected to "go
to Congress.”
The House Education Committee
was discussing the Woodhouse bill to
provide payment by the Yadkin Coun
ty Education Board of reasonable
hoarding expenses of Negroes going
from the county to high schools out
side, until the county provides them
a school. The bill won a favorable
report.
"1 think we ought to do something
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ‘
LEASED wire service of
111 L associated press.
Physical Examinations
Would Be Made
Rigid; Limitation of
Magistrates Provided
in Measure; New State
Bank Commission Is
Proposed
Raleigh, Feb. B.—(AP)—The Gen
eral Assemblv received from Senator
Long, of Halifax, today a bill to re
aulre that all applicants for mar
riage licenses in North Carolina must
pass physical examinations. The meas
ure would require persons to be free
of venereal disease, and physicians
could refuse them certificates also
when tuberculosis, epilepsy or mental
unbalance is found.
Senator Long also sent in a bill to
require immunization of all children
against diphtheria, and one to require
blood tests of all expectant mothers
as a venereal control measure.
Each division received bills to
abolish the present State Advisory
Bank Commission, and create a new
State Bank Commission clothed witn
most of the power now resting solely
in the bank commissioner. The bann
commissioner would become executive
officer of the commission, which
would consist of the State treasurer,
•'(torney general, four bankers and
a t usiness man, with the last five Le
lnor appointed by the governor. It
understood the bill bore administra
tion hacking.
Horse members got from of
Wayne, Thornton, of Forsyth, and
others, a hill to limit the number of
justices of the peace. After this year
one justice would be elected in each
township, with an additional one al
lowed if the population is between
6,000 and 15,000. In townships with
population in excess of 15,000, one
could be elected for each 20,000 poi
sons. Vacancies would be filled bv
appointment of clerks of superior
court. The governor’s power of ap
pointment would he terminated ex
cept for continuing in office "in the
public interest” justices holding com
missions January 1, 1939.
William Cummings,
Noted Auto Racer,
Dies of Accident
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 8. —(AP) —
William C. (Wild Bill) Cummings,
whose daring prowess was well
known on automobile race tracks
from coast to coast, died today of in
juries suffered Monday night when
his automobi e skidded from a high
way at the approach of a bridge,
hurtled 50 feet across a creek and
landed in the water 15 below the high
way. He was 32 years old.
The accident occurred while Cum
mings was driving alone from India
napolis to his suburban home south
of the city.
Steamer Sinking
1,200 Miles Out
In Mid-Atlantic
Thomaston, Maine, Feb. B—(AP)8 —(AP)
—Mackay Radio reported today
it had intereepted an SOS from
the freighter Maria de Larrinaga.
declaring she was ‘‘staking” 1„-
200 miles east of New York.
Mackay said the master of the
freighter radioed the Cunard liner
Arana in the vicinity to come to
the stricken ship’s assistance.
The freighter reported her posi
tion.
Mackay said the call was inter
eepted at 1 p. m. The ship in trou
ble, British-owned, is of 3,084 net
tons. She left Houston, Texas Jan
uary 24. for Cobb, Ireland.
for these Negroes, even if it costs me
votes,” said (Representative J. S.
Moore, of Pitt. “I expect to go to Con
gress.”
Lindsav Warren, of Washington
has remesented Moore’s district in
Congress for eight terms, and recent
lv has been mentioned as a possible
candidate for governor next year.
Moore said it was his am
bition to run for Congress, but not
ajgainst the present representative
He said that should Warren not be
available, then "somebody may have
me to contend with.”
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, FEBRUARY 8, 1939
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from the Cumberlands became raging torrents. Much damage has been
Serums Are
Offered In
Flood Areas
Pneumonia, Typhoid
and Influenza Are
More Feared Than
Water in Ohio Region
Louisville, Ky., Feb. B.—(AP)
Health authorities immunized today
thousands of eastern Kentucky moun
tain people against pneumonia, in
fluenza and typhoid more feared
than the overflowing streams which
swept the hill country and flooded
lowlands.
As rehabilitation progressed and
the crest of the Ohio river slowly mov
ed toward the Mississippi, the WPA
was criticized by Representative May,
Democrat, Kentucky, for “its indefen
sible refusal to cooperate” in aiding
flood sufferers.
E. A. Marze, divisional WPA di
rector here, said, however, that the
agency’s workers were assisting in
evacuation of refugees, cleaning pol
luted wells and cisterns and aiding
in the repair of utilities, bridges and
water lines.”
Vaccine for 250,000 persons was
rushed into the 30 flood-stricken
mountain counties yesterday by Red
Cross and Kentucky health depart
ment authorities.
The Ohio dropped at Huntington,
W. Va., and Cincinnati and rose slight
ly here and at down-river points in
Kentucky and Indiana. Scores were
driven from their southern Indiana
homes.
At Huntington, the river was at 48
feet early today and dropping .25 feet
an hour. The stage at Cincinnati was
58 1-4 feet and falling slowly.
Election Law
Reforms Soon
To Be Ready
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL
Raleigh, Feb. 8. —Earliest birds of
the legislature are members of the
sub-committee from the House Elec
tions and Election Law commitee.
This group, headed by Guilford’s
Joe Carruthers, is meeting each morn
ing at 8:30 o’clock, and present in
dications are that it will have a re
port ready for the full committee by
the end of this week, always barring
more complications and arguments
over the absentee ballot than are now
looked for.
Already the seven-member unit
(Carruthers. Odus Mull of Cleveland,
Frank Taylor of Wayne, Lacy Mc-
Bryde of Cumberland, J. B. Vogler of
Mecklenburg, William Marshall of
Stokes, John Kerr, Jr., of Warren)
has about decided what to do with
the matters of less controversial na
ture than the absentee ballot.
The statewide registration bill,
“suggested” by the State Board of
Elections and introduced by Mr. Tay
lor, met with no opposition in prin
ciple, but has been amended by the
sub-committee so as to permit illiter
ates made eligible by the “grandfath
er” clause *to get on the new books.
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Republicans Fail In Effort
For Choking Off Labor Board
Spanish Government Is
Established On Border
As Fighting Is Renewed
Le Perthus, France, Feb. 8. —(AP)
—Spanish government Premier Neg
riri established temporary headquart
ers today in the “ ast house in Spain”
which is one foot from the French
frontier.
Accompanied by several members
of his cabinet and a military staff,
Negrin had to cross temporarily into
France to enter his new headquart
ers. But when he walked inside the
doorway, he was again in h s own
country.
The house is on the Span’sh side of
Le Perthus and is known as the
“last house in Sp&Tn.”
UNEXPECTED FIGHTING IN
BORDER AREA BREAKS OUT
Perpignan, France, Feb. 8. —(AP) —
Unexpected fighting broke out today
between Spanish insurgent forces and
retreating government troops in the
puigeerda region, near the French
Arguments On
Schools Soon
Are To Start
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Feb. 8. —For one reason
and another, maybe several others,
there hasn’t been a great deal of
noise about teachers’ salaries, retire
ment for teachers, ninth and tenth
year increments for teachers, the
twelfth grade, restoration of salaries
to pre-depression levels, and all the
other more or less controversial an
gles of school affairs.
But it’s just about time for these
subjects to get more serious consid
eration from the legislature, and it
won’t be long now before there’ll be
plenty of disturbance over all these
subjects.
Nobody is making any flat state
ments about the chances of any of the
many proposals. There is a general
belief that schools and teachers will
be lucky to keep what they now have
in the matter of salaries, while there
are those who see so many practical
difficulties that a twelfth grade at
this time looks very, very dubious.
Nobody can be found who doesn’t
favor “in principle” every single,
solitary request of the school teach
ers and of the schools. Everybody,
his brother, cousin and aunt, is for
everything that the scholastic folks
want, but when it comes to the very
practical matter of how to finance
them, the real hemming and hawing
begins.
Nevertheless, the super-lobby for
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WEATHEH
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Mostly cloudy, with occaisonal
showers tonight and Thursday;
slightly warmer in east and north
central portion tonight; colder in
north portion Thursday.
I reported from areas adjacent to tributaries flowing into the Ohio River
I from the south. (Central Press)
frontier.
The renewed fighting followed the
breakdown of peace efforts yesterday
and a declaration by Dr. Negrin" pre
mier of government Spain, that he
would fight to the finish rather than
submit to insurgent demands for un
conditional surrender.
The action drew artillery and war
p anes into battle in the snow-covered
Pyrenees, from which government
militiamen, including cavalry and in
fantry units, were withdrawing into
France. Reports reaching the border
said the battle started with an ex
change of shots between the govern
ment rear guard and insurgent field
gun units, which were approaching
Quicerda.
Shortly afterwards, insurgent planes
joined the fight, strafing the north
bound militiamen, while government
artillery poured shel s into insurgent
positrons.
Warship Os
Britain Sent
To Minorca
London, Feb. 8. —(Al*) —A Brit
ish cruiser arrived today at
Minorca*, disputed island in the
Spanish Balearies, while the Lon
don cabinet considered measures
to prevent Italy and Germany
from obtaining control of the is
lands. At the same time officials
acknowledged that Britain had
asked Spanish Insurgent General
Franeo to agree to a truce in the
civil war. But they declined to
disclose whether Franco had re
plied, or, if he had, what his an
swer was.
It was officially announced that the
9,750-ton cruiser Devonshire had drop
ped anchor at Port Mahon, strategic
and well fortified harbor of Minocra.
only island of the Balearies, which
the Spanish government has held
since early in the war.
Neither the Admiralty nor the for
eign office would discuss the Devon
shire’s mission at Minorca. However,
there have been reports that Britain
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Paroles, Probation
System Is Beaten
In South Carolina
Columbia, S. C., Feb. 8. —(AP) —
The Senate killed by a 22 to 13
vote today a proposal to set up a
State probation and paroles sys
tem in place of the present pard
ons board. Also, a proposal to re
peal the prohibitive license im
posed on operators of warehouses
handling ungraded tobacco, was
introduced in the House of Rep
resentatives.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Proposal Offered To
Withhold All Funds
Until Law Can Be
Amended in Fairness
to Industry; New
$150,000,000 Relief
Bill Waited
Washington, Feb. B.—(AP) —’The
House overwhelmingly defeated a
Republican attempt today to cripple
the National Labor Relations Board
by eliminating its $3,039,600 appropzia
tion for the next fiscal year. The
standing vote, announced as 186 to 5,
came after House Majority Leader
Rayburn had taken the f.oor and ap
pealed to the membership not to “as
sassinate” the board in such a man
ner.
Representative Tabor, Republican,
New York, senior minority member
of the House Appropriations Commit
tee, led the fight to strike out the
item with the declaration that the
funds should be withheld until the
labor relations law can be amended
so both industry and labor would be
assured a "square deal.”
Congress, meanwhile, awaited the
the introduction of legislation to .pro
vide the additional $150,000,000 asked
by President Roosevelt for work relief
The chief executive himself called to
the White House for a luncheon con
fer«nce Senator Byrns, Democrat,
South Carolina, and Colone. F. C.
Harrington, WPA administraton.
Other developments:
Thonjas R. Amlie, told the Senate
committee inquiring into his qualifi
cations to be an Interestato com
merce commissioner that he had ad
dressed the congress against war and
fascism in Chicago in 1934, where he
may have been introduced as “Com
rade Amlie,” hut he denied he was
ever a member of either the com
munist or socialist parties.
Secretary Perkins denied flatly
charges that she had failed to en
force the deportation laws. Appear
ing before the House Judiciary Com
mittee considering an impeachment
dec aration against her, the secretary
said:
“I feel confident that whether ex
amined minutely or at large, my rec
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Secret Conferences Make
Trouble for President
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Feb. B.—Of course
President Roosevelt should not have
made a secret of that conference of
his with the Senate Military Affairs
Committee. He might have known
that the senators who attended it
would tell about it to the newspaper
men as soon as they got out of the
White House. Maybe he did know it.
Plenty of commentators suspect that
he insisted on secrecy simply to in
tensify interest in the event, thereby
getting still more publicity out of it.
However, he evidently did not foresee
that the 16 or 17 senators present
would be fairly sure to disclose dif
fering and possibly conflicting stories.
II the whole out-doors had been
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Money For
Rebuilding
Is Offered
Franco Would Be Re
quired To Oust Italian
and German In
fluence, and if Dicta
tors Refused, France
and Britain Would
Then Intervene
Rome, Fob. B.—(Al*)—The fas
cist press declared today it is "too
late" for eleventh hour moves to
recognize Insurgent General Fran
co by nations wanting to get on
“good terms” with “new Spain.”
The press statements appeared
as reports were circulated abroad
that Britain and France might
offer loans to Franco.
Paris, Feb, B.—(AP)—France and
Great Britain were reported in dip
lomatic circles today to have offered
a bargain to Insurgent General Fran
co which would eliminate .Italian in
fluence in Spain after the Spanish
civil war is ended.
French Foreign Office quarters left
no doubt that they considered a Fran
co victory inevitable within several
months. As a consequence, it was in
dicated by diplomatic sources that
France and Britain have offered an
“understanding” in Burgos.
This understanding, it was indicat
ed, was the basis of talks between
Senator Berrard, semi-official French
envoy to the insurgent capital, and
Foreign Minister Bonnet on Berrard’s
return yesterday from Burgos, where
he sounded out insurgent leaders on
possible establishment of diplomatic
relations between France and Fran
co’s regime.
Berrard said he received an “excel
lent impression” there. The reported
understanding was said to include:
1. Franco would see that all Italian
and German influence be eliminated
from Spain as soon as the war is over.
If the Italians and Germans, in viola
tion of their promises to get out, re
fuse to go, France and Britain would
consider intervention.
2. As a reward for this, France and
Britain would grant Franco the
large loans that he must have to re
build Spain, after the devastation of
the war, and which, it was thought
here, Germany and Italy would not be
able to give the insurgent leader. f
Economy Bloc
Falters On
UNC Support
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY G. LYNN NISBET.
Raleigh, Feb. 8. —The so-called
“economy bloc” in the appropriations
committee ran into more resistance
on the part of friends of the Con
solidated University than they have
encountered on other appropriations.
The budget commission’s recommen
dations also fared worse on this point
than on several others. Net result of
committee deliberations yesterday
afternoon, culminating three weeks
more or less intensive study of the
proposition to increase tuition rates at
all State institutions of higher learn
ing, was an increase of about a quar
ter of a million dollars in the ap
propriation for* the university, over
budget commission figures.
The committee figures might havo
been larger had not Senator IRodman,
head of the Senate appropriations
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invited in, there could not be any dis
pute as to the correct answer to the
question, “Did or didn’t ‘F. D.’ say
that Uncle Sam’s ‘frontier’ or ‘first
line of defense’ is ‘on the Rhine’ or
in ‘France and England’?” Too many
people would have heard him say it
or not say it —and there’d be a steno
graphic record.
Driven to Extreme.
As it is, the President is driven to
the extreme of declaring that the
yarn referred to is a “deliberate lie”—
•middling strong language. “Teddy”
Roosevelt used to speak of “liars”,
but he was not quite that emphatic.
And an additional trouble is that at
least five of the 16 or 17 senators pre
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