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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR ITALO-FRENCH CLASH IH AFRICA REPORTED Death List Reaches Four In Tornado Near Windsor Police and Anti-Nazis Battle at Bund Rally "V '" *■?*%,■ kJgBL **> 1 ® all ' - —_^H“ Trapped in melee between police and Nazi foes outside Madison Square Garden, New York, man in fore ground uses book to shield his face. Another in background argues volubly, but to no avail. 1700 police kept disturbances at a minimum as thousands of anti-Nazis protested the Bund rally inside. Woodring Asks Sky As Limit For Airplanes For The Army On Mysterious Trip Marshal Pietro Badoglio Mysterious trip of Marshal Pietro Badoglio, chief of the Italian gen eral staff, to Libya was believed to be in connection with troop reen forcements in that Italian territory adjoining Tunisia, French North African protectorate. (Central Press i Fresh Whine Rises After Fund Slash Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. (BY HENRY AVERILL) Raleigh, Feb. 22.—Another voice was added to the chorus of the ap propriations blues (a tune sung lust ly and in short meter) today when C. D. Baucom, of the Department of measures division, Department of Agriculture, predicted that activities of his unit will have to be reduced sharply if the legislature goes through with a reduction in his budget as proposed by the appropriations com mittee. “Protection against short weight and inaccurate measures will be re duced more than 40 per cent”, he wrote in a statement which fairly wailed with anguish. “As it is”, he continued, “the pres ent inspection staff can only check grocery scales every two years, cot ton and coal scales every two years while other weighing and measur ing devices must be relatively neg lected.” The weights and measures division (Continued on Page Six) HrttHcremt tlatln Bisnatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. House Gets Resolu tion for Recall of Am bassador Daniels To Tell Real Facts About German Inroads in Mexico; Vote Tomor row on Guam Defense Washington, Feb. 22.—(AP)—Sec retary of War Woodring has urged the Senate Military Committee, it was disclosed today, to take the limitations off the number of air planes that might be acquired by the army under new defense program. Woodring, writing to Chairman Sheppard, Democrat, Texas, of the Senate Committee, Woodring noted that the number would be limited to 6,000 planes under the bill as it pass ed the House. Meanwhile, the House, pausing briefly* before considering the $53,000,000 naval air base bill, heard participants in the recent German-Amencan Bund meeting in New York denounced as “traitors” to the United States. Representative Martin, Democrat, Colorado, described the Madison Square Garden meeting as a “mass demonstration of aliens, wearing the uniform of a foreign dictator, the enemy of everything that George Washington stood for and America typifies.” “God save America from Nazi Chris tianity,” the white-haired Coloradan shouted. Prolonged applause greeted his re marks at several points. ■"••Turning to the naval air base hill, the House heard Representative Taber, Republican, Nov/ York, de scribe as “useless and a waste” one section of it proposing a $5,000,000 harbor development at the Pacific is (Continued on Page Five) Gibbs Thinks State Has Reached Peak Os Taxing Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Tiv G. LYNN NISBET. Raleigh, Feb. 22.—The main pro blem confronting the General As sembly of North Carolina is not that of finding a balance for the budget for the next biennium, but of com pletely revising the taxation system of the State, according to Senatoi*s Frank Gibbs, of Warren, and Linton Ballentine, of Wake, Both are mem bers of the appropriations committee and have hesitated to impose their ideas upon the finance committees which must raise the revenue. But they are now convinced that a bal anced budget is a pipe dream unless some basic changes are made in the HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 22, 1939 Wallace Mayor Is Shot by Own Gun Kinston, Feb. 22.—(AP)—May or Aubrey Harrell, 52, of Wal lace, underwent an operation at a hospital here today for removal of a pistol bullet from his head. He was given an even chance to recover. j At the hospital, Harrell was quoted as saying he shot himself accidentally while dressing in his home at Wallace this morning. His pistol fell as he was placing it in his pocket, he was quoted as saying, and it discharged as it struck the floor, The bullet, which entered just back of his right ear, lodged in the back of his head. Harrell was conscious when brought here and placed on the operating table. Demand Vote On Reforms On Thursday Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Waiter lloteL BY HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, Feb. 22.—Definite and de cisive action will be flatly demanded at Thursday morning’s session of the House Committee on Elections and Election Laws, with Chairman George Phillips pressing hard for quick report to the floor of a bill em < Con tinned on Page Five) State’s fiscal policy. “We have reached the saturation point in taxes under the existing levies,” said Senator Gibbs last night “I would like to vote for restoration of teacher pay; I am intensely in terested in better library facilities; in fact, I want to see the State go iorward along cultural lines rather than backward. But it would be the height of folly to vote money which we know cannot be raised.” Ballentine went a little further than his colleague. “Senator Gibbs is entirely right in his position,” said the Wake county member. “Not-only " * \ (Continued on Page Six) Many Hurt In Serious Wind Storm Red Cross on Scene Rendering Assistance; Highway Patrol and Special Officers Keep Order; Hospital I s Crowded With Injur ed Windsor, Feb. 22.—(AP) —Red Cross workers gave assistance to day to at least a dozen farmers who saw their homes demolished by a tornado that killed fourperson s and injured an undetermined : umber last .light. The tornado struck Green's Cross Roads here, late yesterday and cut a path nearly three miles long through that rural area. Robert Lawrence, 90, and .J. F. Mizzelle, farmer, were fatally in jured in the storm. Police Chief John W. Brown, of Colerain, was killed when his car collided with a bus which highway patrolmen said stopped before a tree which had been blown over the highway. Mrs. George Lawrence, 66, died at the Windsor hospital early today of in juries received : : n die : torm. Dr. F. H. Garris, Bertie county health officer, said most of the ap proximately 25 persons brought to a hospital here and those who were removed to residences suffered min or injuries. The State Highway Patrol, police and residents of this area were pressed into service last night. School buses, automobiles and trucks went from farm house to farm house in search of victims. The town’s only hospital soon was over-crowded. Emergency cots and supplies were brought from storage and police were stationed in r'ront of the institution to keep a crowd estimated by sheriff’s deputies at 500 from getting in the way. Gladys Connor, who escaped with minor injuries, said she was stand ing in her home whpn suddenly it (Continued on Page Five) SALE OF VIRGILINI POWER LINE OKEYED Raleigh, Feb. 22.—(AP)—State Utilities Commissioner Stanley Winborne announced today that the commission had approved the sale that part of the Virgilina, Va., elec tric line in North Carolina to the Virginia Public Service Company, or Alexanderia, Va. Virgilina’s pow er system lias been municipally owned. Winborne said he did not know the amount involved. Wages-Hour Battle Will Be Hard One Employers Having Their Inning Now, But Labor Plans Big Manifestation When Its Turn Comes Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY HENRY AVERILL. Raleigh, Feb. 22.—Today’s session of the General Assembly in Char lotte brings a lull in heavy firing on the wage-hour bill front, after first guns of a campaign which promises one of the bitterest of the session started booming yesterday. Forces of labpr and advocates of a wage-hour bill for the State com parable to the Federal statute* more or less took to their dugouts as hotel and case operators and representa tives of retail furniture dealers open ed up with a verbal barrage directed at the proposal, sponsored by the State Department of Labor, that (Continued on Page Six) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, colder, below freezing to the coast tonieht; Thursday fair, .continued cold. Hoey at Charlotte Urges Business And Government Accord Billions for Arms ■P* J7 lip I fe: : $< : *gi§ : |B Sir John Simon Declaring England had reached a scale of armaments production never before touched by that nation, Sir John Simon, chancellor of the exchequer, moved a resolution in parliament increasing the govern* ment’s borrowing powers for de fense to four billion dollars. (Central Preen) Recognition From France, Britain Near They Sought Guaran tees from Franco, Were Refused and Will Act Anyhow London, Feb. 22.—(AP)—“Uncon ditional recognition” of Nationalist General Franco’s government in Spain within a “few days” was con sidered by the British cabinet today along with the Italian-French situa tion in northern Africa. The Earl of Perth said British Am bassador Grandi was understood to have told before going to Rome this week that Great Britain, hoped Ital ian territorial claims on France would assume a “reasonable tone”. A hint that Britain v/as commit ted to rending another large army to the continent in the event of war emerged from two days of defense debate in the House of Commons. The cabinet, meeting a day after it was disclosed that the British and French general staffs “were in con tinuous conversation” noted the ap parent failure of British-French ef forts to persuade the nationalist re gime at Burgos to abstain from re prisals against Spanish republican leaders in return for recognition. Regarding Spain, Prime Minister Chamberlain was said to have ex plained to the cabinet that Great Britain would have Jiked guarantees that Franco would remove* his for (Continued on Page Five) Hard Freeze For Tonight Forcast For This Section; Ralcish, Feb. 22 (kP)— Cold winds swept North Carolina to day and Weather Man Lee Denson forecast that hard freez ing weather would grip the State to the coast by morning. For Raleigh and vicinity he predict ed tomorrow of 22 degrees. Flood waters in Eastern Caro lina streams receded except in the lower portions. At Kinston, the Neuse was at 18.3 feet this morning, nearing a crest, and some four feet above bank level. The Roanoke at Williamston was falling. A rain of 1.16 inches at Goldsboro in the last 24 hours was not expected to affect the flood situation, Denson said. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Governor Urges Co operation of Two in Address to Legisla ture in One-Day Ses sion in State’s Metrop olis ; Other Dignita ries Speak Charlotte, Feb. 22.—(AP) —A joint session of the North Caro lina Senate and House, meeting in the Charlotte auditorium armory, heard Governor Hoey promise today that the State budget would be balanced, and express the belief that business and government should work together for the general welfare. A guest of honor at the ses sion was South Carolina’s youth ful Governor B. R. Maybank, who spoke briefly. He compli mented North Carolina for its “liberalism,” and said the Carhlinas had “gone along side by side for generations in a steady march to progress.” The joint session dissolved at 12:14 p. m. on motion of Senator Lumpkin, of Franklin, i Charlotte, Feb. 22.—(AP)—Gover nor Hoey, at a history-making joint session of the General Assembly here today, asserted “we believe that government and business should work together in harmony, with full cooperation upon the part Os each, and free from antagonisms by either” The governor defended the rapid increase in the State’s budget during the past eight years, saying the money “has not been extravagantly spent”, then counselled: “There can be no such thing as expanding pub lic service and contracting tax levies.” There is a general feeling, Hoey said, that conditions do not warrant major tendencies in tax policies now, either in the way of new levies or (Continued on Page Five) Mystery Ship Torpedoed, Is Radio Report Chatham, Mass., Feb. 22—(AP) — The torpedoing of a vessel believed to be of Dutch registry, about 2,000 ! miles east of New York, was report ed today in a message received by the Radio Marine Corporation sta tion here. The message, received from the American freighter Tulsa said she had picked up an SOS from a ship j giving the call letters PECC, report- j ing she had been torpedoed and was I sinking about 1,200 miles northwest i of the African coast. Naval headquarters at Boston said call letters beginning with “P” usually were assigned to ships of Holland registry. The ship gave her position, placing her about 550 miles southwest of the nearest Canary is lands, and 1,100 miles west of Madeira. Her position was consid (Continued on Page Six) Mussolini Leaves Troops At Disposal Os Franco Rome, Feb. 22.—(AP)—Pre mier Mussolini confirmed to Na tionalist General Franco today that Italian troops are at the Spanish leader’s disposal “until* final victory.” Mussolini made his re-affir mation in a telegram acknowl edging greetings from Franco on the occasion of a big military re view in Barcelona, fallen gov ernment capital. Italian legion naires marched past Franco in the parade. “Ending the campaign in Catalonia and after the victorious army, includ ing the valiant legionnaires, passed in review in Barcelona, the Spanish people acclaim Italy and her duce,” Franco’s message said. “With the enthusiastic greetings of 19 Pages Today TWO SECTIONS. FIVE CENTS COPY 80 Italians, Four French Listed Dead Strained Relations Between Two Govern ments Further Intensi fied; Italian Troops Said to Have Pene trated French Tunisia Paris, Feb. 22.—(AP)— Persistent reports of a clash oetween French and Italian troops on the Tunisian boundary, in which 84 were killed, brought strained French-Italian re lations sharpiy to the foreground again today. The reports were received in dip lomatic as well as private quarters in Paris, and came from Tunis. The foreign office said it could not con firm them, but did not issue an im mediate denial. The clash was said to have occur red Friday when Italian troops pene trated French territory from Libya at a spot about 25 miles southeast of the first French fortified line around Ben Gardane. French casualties were placed at four killed and Italian at 80 killed. The Italians were driven back into Libya, the report said. Friday night, French reinforce ments suddenly were shifted to a fortified zone. The French Mediterranean fleet had arrived at the Tunisian port of Bizerte the day before. A naval de tachment was reported to have be gun patroling immediately along the Tunisian coast. In recent weeks, other border in cidents had been reported, but none was confirmed officially. Three weeks ago an Italian airplane was reported to have flown over Tunisian territory and to have been shot down by French anti-aircraft gunners. There have also been round-ups of Italians in Tunisia, culminating in the arrest Sunday of an Italian con sulate employe. Hillsboro’s Jailer Hurt By Bad Trio Hillsboro, Feb. 22.—(AP) —Sheriff S. T. Latta disclosed today that Ralph Hanford, of Alamance county, attempted unsuccessfully last night to lead a break for freedom from the Orange county jail. The officer said Hanford, awaiting trial on charges arising out of a gun battle at Bur lington last December, that left two officers and a bandit dead, was knocked out by Jailor W. R. Roberts after three prisoners attacked him. The other two escaped, but one was captured about two hours later. Latta said Roberts was locking the prisoners in their cells soon after the supper hour last night, when Han ford struck the jailor with a bottle, inflicting a wound that bled profuse ly, but not seriously hurting Roberts otherwise. The jailor then felled Hanford for the count “with some thing”, the sheriff related. Mean while, two other prisoners attacked Roberts briefly, then made their get away. Sheriff Latta gave their names as (Continued on Page Five) the Spanish armies to its comrades, I send you my own.” Mussolini replied: “Thank you for having granted legionnaire troops the high honor of marching before you in Barcelona, reconquered for Spain, free and great, which you are constructing. I return your greetings with great cor diality, confirming that the Italian legionnaires are at your orders until final victory.” The Catalonian campaign began December 23 and reached a climax with the occupation of Barcelona January 26. (Previously Italian commentators, including the authoritative editor, Virginio Gayda, declared that Italian troops would remain in Spain until Franco won a political as well as military victory.)
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