HENDERSON'S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
FDR SENDS NEW SILLS DEFORE DEPARTURE
Life Term Options
In Capital Cases
Would Be Provided
Administration Bill
Reached Legislative
Hopper; Delegation
o f Law-Making t o
Bureaus and Commis
sions Killed by House
Raleigh, Feb. 16.—(AP) —The ad
ministration’s bill to permit judges
and juries to impose life terms in
stead of death sentences in cases
where first degree convictions are
obtained hit the legislature today.
Senator Boyette, of Moore, intro
duced it. It provides for discretion
ary life sentences for all crimes now
punishable by death.
The joint finance committee held
an afternoon hearing on the bill to
permit mail order liquor shipments
to dry counties.
Amateur and newspaper photo
graphers would be exempted from
the State law regulating photo
graphers, under a bill introduced by
Senator Gray, of Forsyth.
Another effort to amend the laws
on liability in automobile accidents
came in a bill by Senator Joyner,
of Iredell, to ban suits by depen
dent relatives against persons hav
ing automobile accidents.
Representatives debated heatedly
the bill to extend the powers of the
labor department to promulgate and
enforce regulations.
Bryant, of Durham, told the House
he opposed any measure which
would permit a bureau to make rules
having the effect of criminal law.
“One of the most alarming ten
dencies of the times,” said Bryant,
“is the willingness of the people to
give up the rights our forefathers
fought and died for. It is contrary
to the concepts of a free and un
shackled people. I appeal to this
House to stop this delegation of its
constitutional authority.”
Abernathy, of Nash, supported
Bryant’s position. Cherry, of Gaston,
and Johnston, of Ashe, spoke for the
bill, saying it was aimed at “those
who would chisel on labor,” and it
was “for the poor man.”
The bill was defeated 70 to 37.
The State Farm Bureau Federa
tion appeared before a joint agricul
ture sub-committee to deny thai it
had stirred up a controversy over
alleged duplication of farm services.
It said its interest was the 301,000
farm families of the State. The bu
reau, insisting duplication did exist,
urged the committee to define clear
ly the duties of each and definitely
allocate funds to the agriculture de
partment and the extension service
of N. C. State College.
SUB-COMMITTEE TO AMEND
STATE DRY CLEANING LAW
Raleigh, Feb. 16. —(AP) —A House
Judiciary committee appointed a sub
committee today to draft a bill in
tended to amend the law under
which the State regulates the dry
cleaning industry “to make conces
sions to disgruntled persons.”
The committee rejected a motion
by Representative Moore, of Wilson,
to report unfavorably the Wilson bill
to abolish the dry cleaning commis
sion. Wallace, of Johnston, suggested
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Bryant Fights
Delegation Os
Law-Making
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel. ,
Raleigh, Feb. 16.—Efforts to dele
gate any part of the General As
sembly’s law-making powers to
state boards will meet with deter
mined opposition from Representa
tive Victor S. Bryant, it became evi
dent when a “bee culture” bill spon
sored by the State Department of
Agriculture came before the House.
The Durham law-maker’s stand
seemed to strike a responsive chord
in the membership, too, so much
so that Agriculture Chairman W. W.
Eagles quickly moved to withdraw
the bill from the calendar and re
fer it to committee in order to try
for changes which would meet the
objections.
The measure itself met with no
opposition, in principle. It provides
for the encouragement, regulation
and inspection of apiaries and for
general control of the bee-raising
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair, continued cold tonight;
Friday increasing cloudiness and
slightly warmer.
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IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Earns Flying Cross
Major C. V. Haynes
In recognition of achievement in
piloting a huge plane load of Red
supplies from Langley Field,
Virginia, to Santiago, Chile, to re
lieve earthquake sufferers, Major
C. V. Haynes received the distin
guished flying cross on return to
Langley Field. This is an official
War Department photo.
Drys Aren’t
Raving Over
Referendum
Little Interest Devel
oped by Withrow Bill
in House, Which No
body Expects To Get;
Approval; All Sorts of
Rumors, However
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
Tn the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY HENRY AVERILL.
.Raleigh, Feb. 16.—Dry leaders com
pletely dried up, conversationally,
as ter Grady Withrow, vocative re
presentative from Ruthereford, in
troduced a bill “to prohibit the sale
of intoxocating liquors in North Car
olina ar-*i £0 provide for a statewide
referendum.”
They are startlingly silent so far
as any quotable comments are con
cerned, but those who did talk “off
the record” were unbridled in con
demning the Withrow action as un
wise and the poorest of poor stra
tegy.
For the first time in many years,
the introduction of a referendum
measure failed to stir up any real
excitement. Drys, as indicated, l'elt
they had been done no good service.
Wets were apparently unconcerned
about it and practically to a man dis
missed the bill as hardly worth com
ment.
It seems safe to say that the mea
sure did not have, in advance of its
introduction, the sanction or support
of any recognized dry leader or or
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Vanishing of Big Surplus
Draws Senator’s Warning
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Feb. 16.—The dramatic
incident in joint appropriations com
mittee Tuesday, when House Chair
man John Cassey took the floor to
oppose the policy of Senate Chair
man William B. Rodman, Jr., got
so much attention that a very sig
nificant statement by Senator Rod
manwas overshadowed.
Mr. Rodman had begged the com
mittee to leave teacher pay to the
State School Commission, not to tie
their hands by ear-marking the edu
cation fund for any specific purpose,
such as ninth year increments. Mr.
Cassey pleaded with the committee
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 16, 1939
Chief Kills
Objection In
Plane Sales
Overrules Army Chief
of Staff and Permits
Sale of Newest Type
Airships to France;
Wants Energy Re
sources Saved and
Water Purified
Washington, Feb. 16. (AP)
President Roosevelt, his bags pack
ed for a vacation cruise, gave Con
gress two more problems today to
work on while he is gone.
Preparing to depart tonight for
Key West, Fla., to board the cruiser
Houston for a sail into the Caribbean
Sea, the President sent special mes
sages to Chapitol Hill on the con
servation of energy resources and
the elimination of water pollution.
Both messages were accompanied
by reports of the National Resources
Committee and proposed studies and
formulation of policies on the two
subjects.
Capitol Hill, busy with several na
tional defense matters, heard, mean
while, from the Senate military com
mittee about testimony that the Pres
ident overrode specific objections
from General Malin Craig, army
chief of staff, to permit a French air
mission to buy 100 American-made
planes of the latest type.
Senator Austin, Republican, Ver
mont, said Secretary Morgenthau
told the committee that the Presi
dent overruled Craig’s objections
after a conference with Morgenthau,
Craig and the secretary of the navy.
Other developments:
Domestic Allotments Bill.
Senator Lee, Democrat, Oklahoma,
proposed a complete revision of the
(Continued on Pag** Four.)
Business Better
In North Caolina,
Job Office Finds
Raleigh, Feb. 16—(AP) —Busi-
ness conditions in North Caro
lina are improving, the State
Employment Service reasoned
today on the basis of increased
placements and fewer .job hunt
ers during January. Last month
was 215 percent better than Jan
uary, 1938, in job opportunities,
the service said. Placements rose
72 percent in private employ
ment and 181 percent on public
construction. There were 7,152
persons put to work last month.
There was a 36 percent drop in
job applicants, as compared with
January, 1938. Os the 32,765 ap
plications, 15,742 were new and
17,023 were renewals. A year ago
there were 50,890 applicants.
Neuse Is In
Heavy Flood
At Goldsboro
Raleigh, Feb. 16. (AP) The
Neuse river went into heavy flood
today at Goldsboro as the result of
rains yesterday when the river was
already out of its banks.
Most of the State had additional
rains, as high winds did untold dam
age at many places yesterday.
Weather Man Lee Denson here
said the Neuse stood at 19.6 feet this
morning after rising rapidly last
night, and would probably go to a
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to restore the $241,000 appropria
tion, primarily for this ninth incre
ment. It was the first time the co
chairmen had admitted any diver
gence of views on appropriations.
Mr. Cassey had a popular theme;
Senator Rodman didn’t. It is always
more pleasant to give people what
they ask than to have to say “no” to
requests admittedly worthy. Trouble
is there just isn’t enough money to
go around. The most significant part
of Senator Rodman’s statement was
this:
“On July 1, 1937, North Carolina
had a $5,231,000 surplus. Now, it is
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High On Court List
%
Prominently mentioned as possibilities to succeed resigned Associate
Justice Brandeis of the Supreme Court are these two candidates from the
west. Left, is William 0. Douglas, chairman of the Securities and Ex
change Commission, educated in the schools of the State of Washington.
Right, is Dean Wiley B. Rutledge, of the University of lowa law school.
Spanish Government Is
Split Over Question Os
Peace With Insurgents
Two Known Killed
In Head-On Crash
Amory, Mass., Feb. 16. (AP)
—The Sunnyland, fast Frisco pas
senger train, collided head-on
with a northbound freight train
at Quincy, nine miles east of here,
early today.
E. L. Buren, Frisco agent here,
said George W. Bowers, of Bir
mingham, engineer of the Sunny
land, and Laddie Ivy, porter were
killed.
The Gilmore Sanitariaum at
Amory issued a list of seven who
were treated for injuries there.
Attendants said the seven prob
ably would remain in the hospital
for treatment. Doctors there said
they had treated “two or three
others” for minor injuries.
Hitler Hints
Type of Pope
To Cardinals
Vatican City, Feb. 18.—(AP) —
Reichfuerher Hitler’s ambassador to
the holy see informed the col
lege of cardinals today that the hew
pope they are to choose would play
an important role in the develop
ment of a new world.
The ambassador, Diego von Ber
gen, spoke when he led the diplo
matic corps, of which he is dean, to
call upon the cardinals lor formal
presentation of condolences on the
death of Pope Pius XI. He express
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Italian Soldiers
To Stay In Spain
To Complete Job
Rome, Feb. 16.—(AP) —A for
eign office bulletin said today
that Italy’s legionnaires would
remain in Spain until General
Franco had announced that the
Italians’ task was finished. The
statement said that until then
the Italian troops fighting with
Franco w r ould not be withdrawn.
It was issued by the foreign of
fice service.
It also said moves by Great
Britain and France toward re
cognizing Franco’s regime as
Spain’s legal government were
viewed in Rome with “absolute
tranquility.”
“Those countries,” it declared,
“must realize that existing solid
arity between Spain and Italy
would continue as strong as
ever.”
Under the British-Italian ac
cord, negotiated last April and
put into effect last November 16,
Italy promised Britain to with
draw all Italian combatants and
war supplies from Spain at the
end of the civil war unless they
_ were previously withdrawn.
Self-Exiled President
Azana Wants Peace
Now, While Premier
Negrin Seeks Con
tinuing of War;
Franco Is Hurrying
Troops to Central
Sector
Paris, Feb. 16.—(AP) —Peace or
more war in Spain appeared today
to depend on high officers of the
Spanish republic.
The first parley, between the mod
erate wing of the Spanish govern
ment, suing for peace with the in
surgents, and the die-hards, trying
to carry on the civil war, ended last
night in deadlock. Further talks were
anticipated.
Behind closely guarded gates of
the Spanish Embassy, Manuel Azana
self-exiled but still president of
Spain, held out for peace. With him
were his two highest ranking envoys,
the ambassador to Paris and the am
bassador to London.
The foreign minister, Julio del
Vayo, arrived by plane yesterday
from Madrid to act for Premier Neg
rin, who wants a continuance of the
war.
FRANCO’S BEST SOLDIERS
MOVING TO CENTRAL FRONT
Perpignan, France, Feb. 16.—(AP)
—General Franco’s seven best army
corps, which recently completed the
conquest of Catalonia, were reported
in dispatches today to be moving to
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Job Holders
Reminded Os
Dinner Fees
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Feb. 16.—A friend of
mine who holds a job on the federal
payroll (not a civil service job, but
one he can be fired from with pre
cious little ceremony) received a let
ter the other day that he thinks has
quite a bit of political significance
in it.
It is on the engraved stationary of
the “Democratic National Commit
tee. National Press IJuilding, Wash
ington. Office of the Treasurer.”
Then follows the address (I can’t
give my friend’s name, for obvious
reasons). “Dear Mr. So-and-so”—
Then the letter:
“In a conference with . Chairman
Farley yesterday (the letter’s date
was January 31, 1939), wherein it
was decided to submit to Pr-esident
Roosevelt a financial report of the
Democratic National Committee, we
noticed, in going over our records
that you have not as yet completed
your pledge made at the time of the
1938 Jackson Day Dinner.
“Before submitting the final report
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Hitler’s Newspaper
Says U. S. Meddling
In Europe’s Affairs
Favors Euthanasia
■W3M BUI
m mm i mil
' Dr. Foster Kennedy
Director of Bellevue Hospital's de
partment of neurology, New York,'
Dr. Foster Kennedy told Society of j
Medical Jurisprudence he is will-i
ing to risk jail should any of the
sufferers under his care want to die.
He urged that proposed law mak
ing euthanasia legal be extended to
include thousands of malformed
persons.
(Central Press)
Arctic Cold
Overspreads
Eastern U.S.
Comes in Wake of
Freak Weather Con
ditions Claiming Toll
of 13 Lives
(By The Associated Press)
Arctic cold spread over the east to
day in the wake of freak weather
conditions that claimed at least 13
lives in the eastern half of the Unit
ed States. Abating winds that had
reached a 71-mile-an-hour intensity
yesterday, ended the threat of serious
floods along sections of New England
coasts, not yet recovered from last
September’s disastrous hurricane.
Snow and swiftly dropping tem
peratures accompanied the storm as
it moved eastward from the midwest.,
freezing rain swept highways but
lowering the flood menace in the up
per Ohio valley.
Effect of rainfall in the lower val
ley, still unreached by the flooded
Ohio’s crest, remained doubtful. Low
landers along the river and its un
ruly tributaries, the Tennessee and
Cumberland, hoped the cold wave
would check rising waters.
Red Cross officials, however, pre
pared to move many families. Ohio
river waters, already seven feet
above flood stage Ft Paducah, Ky.,
overflowed several streets there.
Gales which struck the midsouth
yesterday left two dead in Alabama.
Five persons died in three auto ac
cidents in central Pennsylvania at
tributed to blinding snow and slip
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Five Bandits Get $35,000
From Messenger of Bank
Norwalk, Conn., Feb. 16.
(AP)—Five bandits held up two
bank messengers and a police
man today and escaped with an
estimated $35,000 after firing at
the officer and then slugging
him with a pistol butt.
The messengers and their
guards had just got the currency
intended for the City National
Bank, from the post office, when
on the street ‘outside, four men
alighted from an automobile and
commanded: “Give us that
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Levels -Sharp Thrust
at Washington for
Permitting Sale o f
Planes to Britain and
France; Says U. S. In
creasing International
Tension
London, Feb. 16.—(AP)—The an
nouncement of the vast increase in
Britain’s re-armament drive was
welcomed here today, but in Ger
many it produced a sharp thrust at
the United States.
Chancellor Hitler’s own newspaper
scored the United States for “in
creasing international tension” by
selling war materials to European
countries.”
Presumably the newspaper refer
red to the sale of airplanes to Bri
tain and France.
Commenting on the announcement
to Parliament by Sir John Simon,
chancellor of the exchequer, that
British re-armament this year would
cost $580,000,000 pounds ($2,900,000,-
000), an increase of 175,000,000
pounds, the paper regretted that the
tempo of re-arming was determined
by states whose national require
ments, in the German view, did not
justify such measures.
The paper said:
“We are thinking primarily of the
United States, which has not only,
under a deliberately false pretext of
the ‘threatening of America,’ increas
ed its own armament by leaps and
bounds, but also today, in the midst
of peace, the United States appears
in Europe as supplier of war ma
terial on a large scale, and thus in
creases international tension emanat
ing from this wave of armaments.”
The new defense loan Sir John
said the British government would
seek to double its borrowing power
to 800,000,000 pounds, was welcomed
by British newspapers. They predict
ed the public, convinced of the need
for re-arming, would not grumble.
Miami Robbery’s
Solution Depends
On Lady’s Memory
Miami Beach, Fla., Feb. 16.—(AP)
—Detective Chief Earl Carpenter to
day said solution of the daring raid
on Hotel Blackstone strongboxes for
an approximate $125,000 may depend
on the memory of wealthy Mrs. An
tonia Marco, New York widow.
Carpenter said Mrs. Marco, prin
cipal victim, had been asked to re
call any names or faces of persons
who might have seemed unduly at
tracted by the jewelry she wore in
public places. Mrs. Marco reported
loss of some $75,000 in cash and
jewelry. Five unmasked bandits
trussed up five guests and employees
of the hotel at 4 a. m. yesterday, then
chisled into 16 selected boxes.
Foreigners
To Leave At
China Resort
S
Shanghai, Feb. 16.—(AP) —After
many days of silence, 12 Americans
and 53 other foreigners stranded on
a mountain in central China in the
path of an imminent Japanese on
slaught, made contact today with the
outside world;
They acknowledged receipt of
radio broadcasts containing a Jap
anese warning to leave their isolated
haven in the summer resort at Rul
ing, on a mountain southeast of Han
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money.”
Two of the bandits snatched
the money, contained in a leath
er pouch, from the messengers,
while two others set upon the
policeman. During the struggle
one of the gunmen fired a shot
at the officer, but it missed its
mark. A fifth man stayed be
car wheel. The money was a re
gular shipment received twice a
week fro mthe Federal Reserve
Bank in New York City in a re
gistered package.