HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
COMMITTEE CALLS 111 ROOSEVELT NOMINEES
Prince and Peasant
Pay Final Homage
T o Deceased Pontiff
Throngs Pass Bier of
Pope Pius in Sistiiie
Chapel in Ro m e ;
Bishops Hear Message
He Had Prepared For
Them
Vatican City, Feb. 11—(AP) —Prince
ami peasant today joined in homage
to l ope Pius XI before his bier in
the Sistine Chapel, where he lay in
State.
Crown Prince Humberto was es
o ; ed into the chapel by the Italian
an.' assador to the holy see and thou
sands of rank and file Italians and
l'( 1 earners climbed the long stairs off
S’, “eter’s piazza and passed reverent
ly around the bier.
Ihe holy father's body, clothed in
while and wearing a priest’s red
chasuble, lay near the entrance of the
chapel. On his head, was a gold
bishop’s mitre. His hands enclosed in
nd gloves, were folded, and held a
small crucifix. Hi s feet were in red
slippers.
Uniformed noble guards stood at
the four corners of the bier. Papal
gentlemen in waiting were in med
aeval costumes with great lace ruff
collars. Swiss guards, in bright strip
ed costumes, designed by Michael An
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Budget Will Be Balanced
Fully When Time Is Ripe
Building Materials Tax Will Likely Be Restor
ed, With New Bottling Tax, and Tax on Fed
eral Incomes; Highway Diversion Seems Sure
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL
Raleigh, Feb. 11. —The boys who are
doing the figure-judgling in the great
budget-lbalancing act of this General
Assembly have been putting out
some rather pessimistic news in the
past few days.
As a matter of fact, they are both
eied some, but they still have several
aces up their sleeve, and when the
proper time comes, they wiL slip them
out, do a bit of addition, subtraction
and sleight of hand and come up with
the pleased assertion that the budget
for the next biennium is all hc.nky
dory, balanced and everything.
Friday afternoon, Senator H. P.
Taylor, chairman and real big-shot of
the finance committee, told the joint
group from Senate and House that
the situation is somewhat serious. He
outlined losses in revenue from Bud
get Commission estimates, set off
against them some few pick-ups in
anticipated col ections and arrived at
the none-too-cheering summation that
as of that moment the committee is
faced with the necessity of finding
some $600,000 extra revenue for each
year of the coming biennium.
This was worked out, he said, on
a foundation stone of advice from
the appropriations committee that
proposed expenditures for the next
two years will not be more than $50,-
000 per year higher than Budget Com
mission estimates.
Dewey Rests
Prosecution
In Hines Case
New York, Feb. 11.—(AP)— The
prosecution rested today in the re
trial of James J. Hines, Tammany
district leader on lottery conspiracy
charges in connection with the $20,-
000,000-a-year policy racket dominat
ed by the late Dutch Schultz.
District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey
wound up the State’s case in a whirl
wind climax to the three-weeks-old
second trial of Hines, whom he ac
cused of using political influence to
protect the iSchultz gambling syn
dicate.
Judge Charles C. Nott, Jr., adjourn
ed the trial over the week-end to per
mit Chief Defense Counsel Lloyd
Stryker time to prepare the defense
opening. Stryker indicated the first
move would be to ask for dismissal
of the charges involving a misde
meanor and 12 felony counts on the
grounds that the State had failed to
link Hines to the operations of the
policy racket- .
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May Succeed Pope
HiSSIIy
Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster
His eminence, Ildefonso Cardinal
Schuster, archbishop of Milan, has
been mentioned as a likely successor
to the head of the Catholic Church.
Cardinal Schuster, 59 years old,
was created cardinal in 1929.
That sounded bad and members
put on long faces and many took out
pencils to begin at once a great trea
sure hunt.
They can, and will, go on hunting
until the real leaders, Senator Taylor
and a few others, get around to tel.-
ing them what will be done, and it
might just as well be put down right
now that the most sizeable chunk of
the missing $600,000 will be supplied
by reversing the committee’s action
in taking basic building materials
out of the sales tax, in defiance of
budget estimates.
And another thing that’s going to
he p even up the expenditure and re
ceipts totals is going to be a tax on
soft drink bottlers.
Maybe it won’t be the crown tax,
though there is still a very distinct
possibility that it will; but in any
event the bottlers might just as well
get ready to pay into the State treas
ury—and pass on to their customers
—more money (maybe as much as
SIOO,OOO a year) than they have been
paying in the past.
Because if it isn’t a crown tax, it’s
quite likely to be a “case tax” with
an outside chance that it wi.l be only
.a “spout” tax.
For the benefit of the uninitiated,
it should be said that a “crown” tax
calls for payment on every bottled
“crowned,” the tax to be paid when
the crowns are bought and each
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Health Board
Seeks Right
For Own Sale
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Feb. 11. —The State Board
of Health is seeking exemption from
the bill introduced by Senator Um
stead, which would prohibit sale of
merchandise by any State agency in
competition with tax payers engaged
in private enterprise.
As a result, the measure, already
passed by the Senate, hasn’t beer
even referred to a House committee
and will probably be withdrawn from
the House and revamped by the Sen
ate before final enactment into law
The health board’s opposition is
not directed to the principle involved,
but i s designed to preserve for it
self the right to distribute, at nom
inal cost almost, certain prophylactic
and therapeutic products by the State
Laboratory head, points out that the
products so sold last year would have
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HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 11 1939
Legislature
Gets Bills
For Housing
Cities. Would Be Au
thorized To Go Into
Building Business,
With Some Restric
tions and Controls on
Rentals To Be
Charged
Raleigh, Feb. 11. —(AP) —The Gen
eral Assembly, in the busiest Satur
day of the 1939 session, today, receiv
ed five bills, which it was understood
would facilitate federal slum clear
ance and low rent housing projects in
the State’s municipalities.
The five measures were introduced
in the House by Representative Mull,
of Cleveland. One of them would au
thorize cities of more than 5,000 popu
lation to adopt ordinances providing
for repair, closing or demolition of
dwellings found to be “unfit for hu
man habitation.” The other four bills
would provide regulations for local
housing authorities and validate their
actions.
The House and Senate adopted a
joint resolution inviting Senator Rob
ert Reynolds of North Carolina to
address a joint session Monday night
at 8:30 o’clock.
The House received 15 new bills.
Mull’s housing bills would provide re
gulations authorizing local housing
authorities to require contractors on
the projects to comply with wage
hour regulations, and would specify
that bonds issued by the authorities
should not be construed as debts in
constitutional or statutory debt limi
tations.
The State would be committed to
a policy of fixing rentals of such build
ings at the lowest possible rates. The
housing projects would not be operat
ed by municipalities for profit, and
the houses would be rented only to
persons lacking sufficient income for
“decent, safe and sanitary” dwellings.
Sanford Coal
Mine to Open
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By LYNN NISBET
Raleigh, Feb. 11.—North Carolina
may never take rank among the lead
ing producers of coal, but the exten
sive deposits along Deep River, near
Sanford, though lying in Chatham
county, will soon be worked again, ac
cording to State Geologist H. J. Bry
son. . , .
The mine, with its equipment and
about 2,500 acres of land, was recent
ly bought by the Carolina Fuel and
Transportation Company, which also
has secured 25-year leases on more
than 5,000 acres of adjoining land.
As soon as the mine shaft can be de
watered and new machinery installed
operations will commence. The new
company is headed by Major W. H-
Cralie, of Fort Myers, Fla., as presi
dent and former Senator Frank
Gardner, of New York, as treasurer.
Major Cralie and Senator Gardner
will be in charge of operations.
The new owners expect production
of 1,000 tons a day or more. They
will employ albout 400, with an an
nual payroll of more than ha.f a
million dollars.
The mine was operated for many
years by the Carolina Coal and By-
Products Company. One or two ma
jor accidents, including an unex
plained explosion which cost ha.f a
dozen lives some ten years ago, clos
ed down the mine. New safeguards
have been devised, and there is be
lieved to be a minimum of danger
now.
“The coal fr9*n this mine is of ex
cellent quality and high volatility,”
said Mr. Bryson. “It is ideal for use
in p ants that use pulverized coal. It
is also good for railroad locomotives.”
It is understood that the producers
have prospective for all the coal
they can produce, many of the in
quiries coming from nearby plants
which are burdened with the exces
sive freight rates now applicable to
coal shipments.
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Occasional rain this afternoon
and in east tonight; colder to
night; Sunday generally fair, ex
cept clearing near coast in early
morning; colder near the coast
and in south central portion.
WEEKLY WEATHER.
South Atlantic States: Some
likelihood of scattered rain Mon
day or Tuesday, and rain period
again in latter half of week; cool
at beginning, warmer in middle
and colder in latter part of week*
Spain: To Be Used to Hem in France?
• *
If Spain now becomes fascist under General Franco, it, too, will have to be designated as black on the map.
Thus democratic France and its African colonies would be hemmed in by fascist nations. The only
_ .support would be from England. (Central Press)
Heads "Open Seat”
up p
*jpf
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli*
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli is head of
the “open seat” which exercises the
powers of Church sovereignty be
tween the death of the Pope and the
coronation of his successor
Attacks Upon
Radio Station
In Bucharest
Bucharest, Roumania, Feb. 11. —
(AP) —Soldiers firing rifles and pis
tols in a brisk clash with terrorists
last night repulsed what appeared to
be an effort to seize the Bucharest
radio station. An announcement of
the clash was withheld until this noon
and there was nothing in the brief
communique to indicate whether the
attackers were outlawed iron guard
conspirators, who have played major
roles in Roumania’s recent domestic
troubles.
The communique stated that one of
the attacking group was killed and
15 captured. Troops said the assault
was easily resisted.
In darkness, the fighting occurred
on all sides of the station, which is
in a sparsely populated district four
miles from the Bucharest city limits.
Wary because of excitement provok
ed by the trial of iron guard mem
bers who have fascist sympathies, at
Cluj, where a military court sentenced
two persons to death and 56 to prison
terms yesterday, the government
strengthened guards all about public
buildings and reinforced troops in the
radio district. \
New Hearing
Is Requested
By Teachers
Class Room Group
Wants New Say Be
fore Money Bill Is
Approved; Call on
Governor for Assist
ance [;
Raleigh, Feb. 11. —<(AiP) —Members
of the State Class Room Teachers
Association decided here today to ask
the joint appropriations committee
for another hearing on teachers’ sal
aries before it reports the appropria
tions bi 1 to the legislature.
This committee yesterday lowered
next biennium’s public school appro
priation by $241,313, apparently end
ing the possibility of two more pay
increments for teachers, as well as
ren. The town is nearer tc. Warren
and pension funds.
The approximately 400 teachers at
today’s meeting were told by Miss
Agnes McDona d, of Greensboro, pres
ident of the association, that the high
est paid classroom teachers get only
$2.71 a day figured on a year-round
basis.
A delegation was to call on Gover
nor Hoey this afternoon in the inter
est of restoring pay cuts taken by
teachers in recent years. The gover
nor had recommended a ninth and
tenth pay increment for instructors.
Highway Board To
Open Bids Tuesday
For Convict Camp
Raleigh, Feb. I.I.—(AP) The
Highway and Public Works Com
mission announced today it would
open bids Tuesday on construction
of prison camps in Ashe, Cherokee
and Vance counties. Each is ex
pected to cost alKtut $40,000.
Thirteen county camps already
are under contract in a SI,OOO 000
construction program, for which
the Federal government is fur
nishing $450,000. Two others yet
to be left to contract will be built
in Durham and Franklin counties.
CONVICT ESCAPEES
SOON RE-CAPTURED
Raleigh, Feh. 11 (AP)—Two con
victs who escaped from the Edge
combe county prison camp late Fri
day were quickly recaptured, Oscar
Pitts, superintendent of prisons, said
today. Pitts said the two were Willie
Lee, 28, sentenced in Bertie in No
vember, 1936, to one and a ha f to
two years for carnal knowledge of a
girl under 16; and Willie McKay, 22,
sentenced in January, 1935, in Har
nett county to 20 to 25 years for
second degree murder. _
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Rivers Continue
Rise From Rains
Raleigh, Feb. 11.—(AP)—East
ern North Carolina rivers con
tinued their steady rise to crests
today as rain im Virginia brought
indications the Roanoke river
would leave its banks at AVeldon.
Lee Denson, director of the
Weather Bureau here, said the
Roanoke was expected to go a
little ever” its banks at Williams
ton. More rain was predicted in
North Carolina this afternoon, fol
lowed by “much colder” weathtv.
Rain was widespread this morn
ing.
Floods in the Cape Fear and
Neuse rivers were described as
going over their banks.
Roberts Vote
Was an Issue
Os Patronage
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Feb. 11. —President
Roosevelt may be about as popular
as ever with the American puiblic in
general. The straw
Sen. Carter Glass
polls, for whatever
they may signify,
all indicate that he
does not .ose much
ground so far as
the average of folk
are concerned.
However, his in
fluence certa inly
was at low ebb in
the Senate the day
the solons rejected
his appointment of
Floyd H. Roberts to
the federal bench
by a majority of 72 to 9. The Sen
ate has turned down Presidential ap
pointments before, but that was by
the widest margin in American his
tory. On a strict party vote, the
White House tenant ought to have
won 58 to 23. In fact, he lost 50 to
8, counting only Democratic Senators.
'True, he picked up one independent
ballot (Senator Norris’). A 1 the Re
publicans were against him. Per
haps that was natural —though there
are some quite New Dealerish G. O.
P. Senators. Senator Shipstead (an
other liberal, as a Farmer-Laborite)
was against the administration, too.
And there were 15 absentees. If
these absentees had been pro-Roose
vlt and had tried very hard, most of
them could have been on the joib. The
truth is that they' did not want to
vote against the President, but they
did not want to vote his way either.
So they were not there.
The nub of it is that “F. D.” could
not control quite as many as 1 in 6
of his own Senate Democrats, regard
less of other partisans. He did not
even ho d his New Deal Democratic
alignment together. If he had been
able to do so, he could have squeaked
through.
llow Did It Happen?
In the first place, Floyd H. Rob
erts’ appointment to the federal
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One or Two
Are Accused,
Bailey Says
Purpose Is To “Get
Acquainted,” Tar
Heel Chairman Says;
President, 111 With
Grippe, Better and
May Leave Next Week
On Cruise
Washington, Fob. 11.—(AP)—A
Senate commerce sub-committee
approved today President Roose
velt’s nomination of six persons
to the Civil Aeronauties Authority,
hut withheld approval of six other
nominees. The committee confer
red with the appointees one by
one. Additional conferenees were
arranged for next Tuesday with
the nominees who were not ap
proved today.
Charges have been lodged
against two of the 12 nominees,
but neither their nature nor their
authorship was disclosed by corn
mil tee members.
Washington, Feb. 11.—(AF)— A Sen
ate commerce sub-committee called in
eleven of President Roosevelt’s ap
pointees for a “get acquainted’’ meet
ing today after receiving accusations
of an undisclosed nature against “one
or two” of them.
Chairman Bailey, Democrat, North
Carolina, of the full commerce com
mittee, said “no challenge” to the
qualifications of any of the men was
intended by the summons, but that
“one or two persons not senators
made accusations against one or two
of the nominees, and the committee
thought it best to get acquainted
with them.”
The eleven composed the civil aero
nautics authority and the maritime
labor board. Congress authorized the
creation of both agencies last session,
and the appointments made subse
quently by the President have yet to
be passed upon by the Senate.
Bailey declined to say what charges
had been made or against whom.
The appointments controversy kept
most other issues in the background
of the legislative scene today. Both
branches were in recess until Mon
day.
Meanwhile, President Roosevelt was
“better”, his physician reported, but
still confined to his bed at the White
House with grippe. Dr. Ross Mcln
tire said the chief executive’s tem
perature was down to 99.2 degrees, and
that “he feels much better.”
The White House physician gave
orders, however, that his patient
should not leave his bed or receive
callers today and said he would be
confined to the White House tomor
row. The physician told reporters the
President could, if he decided to, de
part as early as Monday night on his
projected two weeks trip south to wit
ness some of the fleet’s annual war
games.
Also, Representative Maas, Repub
lican, Minnesota, said he had “com
petent evidence” that Japanese and
German seaplanes made several
flights recently over the island of
Guam, American possession in the
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Attacks On
Rocky Mount
Women Made
Rocky Mount, Feb. 11. —(AP) — A
series of attacks on women in resi
dential sections here in the last few
days sent officers and bloodhounds in
search of the alleged assailant early
today. The latest attack occurred last
night, P'olice Chief J. R. Thomas said
when a Negro assaulted Mrs! Frank
E. Butler, 40-year-old wife of a public
accountant, in her home, beating her
on the head and dragging her into
the yard.
The night before, the chief said, a
Negro, answering the same general
description, attacked a 17-year-old
school girl near her home, and a few
days sooner grabbed a ten year old
child, but dropped her v/hen sho
screamed. None of the victims, the
chief said, was criminally attacked.
NASH SHERIFF REMOVES
NEGRO TO STATE PRISON
Raleigh, Feb. 11.—(AP) Warden
H. H. Wilson, of State Prison, report
ed today that Sheriff C. V. Falkner,
of Nash county, brought a Negro to
’he prison early today for “safe keep
ing.” The warden said the sheriff told
‘he officer in charge that the Negro,
whom he identified as Willie Richard
son, was being held in connection with
an attack on a white worrian.
Wilson said he did not know, how
ever, whether the attack was connect
ed with attacks on women in Rocky
Mount.