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Freak tornado sweeping through Bertie County, North Carolina, resulted
in death to three persons and injuries to twenty-one, taxing facilities of
small county hospital at Windsor, Some of the child victims were forced
to lie on army cots (foreground), while it yras necessary for others to
double in beds (background). (Central Press)
Wages-Hour
Fight To Be
Very Bitter
Battle Over To Be
Hotly Contested on
Floor of Assembly
When Considered
Daily Dispatch Bureau
In the Sir Walter lloteL
By HENRY AVERILL
Raleigh, Feb. 25. —Proposals to
enact a North Carolina wage-hour
law seem to be generating as much
heat as any others before the Gen
eral Assembly, and it isn’t going a
bit too far to say that one of this
session’s briskest battles is going to
be fought around them.
There are two bills before the leg
islature, one of which has the nomi
nal endorsement of the North Caro
lina Federation of Labor, the other
eoncededly the utmost that the
State Department of Labor thinks
has even a remote chance of pass
age. The former follows almost to
the period and paragraph the Fed
eral statute. The other, in general,
goes along those lines except in its
treatment of “service and mercan
tile industries; for which a maxi
mum 48 hour week and a minimum
two-bit per hour wage are proposed.
Employer groups hostile to the
principles involved in the measures
have already opened fire before Jim
Volgcr’s House Committee on Labor,
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Finance Members Block
Railroading Money Bill
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By LYNN NISBET %
Raleigh, Feb. 25.—The ' budget
may be theoretically balanced and
the full joint finance committee may
make its report to the floor of the
assembly early next week, but the
committee late yesterday afternoon
declared with a chorus of loud Noes
that it is not going to hang a man
in his absence. A group led by Odus
Mull, of Cleveland; Fitzhugh Wal
lace, of Lenoir, bum Frank Taylor,
of Wayne, sustained the old com
mon law right of a defendant to be
given a bill of particulars and his
day in court, when they voted down
the proposal of Durham’s Victor
Bryant and the expressed wishes of
House Chairman Bill Fenner that
the amendment to the chain gaso
line station tax be considered imme
diately. _
Hntftcrsmt Daily Dispatch
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF CAROLINA AND
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vote Reform
Facing Test
Next Monday
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Feb. 25. —Monday night’s
session of the House will go a long
way toward deciding whether or
not a whole raft of divergent views
can be reconciled sufficiently to
give North Carolina some measure
of election law reform.
By persistent effort and by a se
ries of compromises and exchanges
a House committee of 35 members
finally reported out an election law
bill without any surface opposition
or discontent, prospects of a real
and close fight exap>*a.ting into thin
air at the very last moment.
Come Monday, the entire mem
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Rev. A. S. Anderson
Passes Suddenly
While on Visit
Gastonia, Feb. 25.—(AP) —The
Rev. Alden S. Anderson, 51, promi
nent Presbyterian minister and pas
tor of Baden church for the past 17
years, died suddenly of a heart at
tack this morning while visiting in
the home of his brother, Rev. Albert
S. Anderson, Presbyterian minister in
Cramerton.
Rev. Mr. Anderson was born at
Ivey Depot, Va., near Charlottes
ville.
Funeral services will be held in
Baden Sunday afternoon, and burial
will be in Lexington, Va.
Attorneys for the large oil com
panies protested upon the ground
that the amendment had not been
read until late Thursday, that they
had not had any opportunity to study
it, could not discuss it intelligently
until they had read it. Admittedly
it was an entirely new departure
from former revenue acts, and was
regarded as being vitally different
in many respects.
Thus went glimmering hope for
report of the bill this week. The
Senate is in Wilmington today, after
a very brief morning session at 8:30
B. B. (before breakfast) and the
earliest chance for a hearing is
Monday afternoon. Notice was giv
en that the Monday session will be
the “final” public hearing on the
item. Remote possibility remains
that the bill may be ready for re
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HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 25, 1939
Recovery, Not Reform Is
Sought For Business
Barkley Declares No Anti-Monopoly Legisla
tion to B(e Enacted by This Congress; Hopkins
Gives Business Encouraging Note
Washington, Feb. 25.—(AP) —The
Roosevelt administration endeavors
to quiet business fears and encour
age private investments gained im
petus from a statement today by
Democratic Leader Barkley in the
Senate that he had received word
that no anti-monopoly legislation
would be offered at this session of
Congress.
Barkley reported his information
from O’Hahoney, Democrat, Wyom
ing, of the special committee of legis
lators and government officials ap
pointed to investigate monopolies and
other economic subjects.
The Senate leader added, however,
the Senate would ask additional
funds, probably as much as the $500,-
000 appropriated for it last year to
continue its investigation.
Barkley’s announcement was one
Roosevelt Urges Labor
To Negotiate For Peace
Send Letters to John
L. Lewis and William
Green Asking Early
Settlement of Differ
ences; Lewis and
Green Decline to Com
ment *
Miami, Fla., Feb. 25.—(AP)—Pres
ident Roosevelt, in letters today to
the heads of the country’s rival la
bor organizations said “labor faces
a challenge in finding itself divided
into opposing camps,” and called up
on them to name a committee to
negotiate peace.
In letters to John Lewis, chairman
of the Congress Industrial Organiza
tion, and to William Green, presi
dent of the A. F. of L., identical ex
cept for the prima paragraph, he de
clared the American people “sincere
ly hoped that constructive negotiation
of peace with honor may come about
between the CIO and AFL within the
early months of the new year.”
“The secretary of labor,” he ad
ded to the letters made public at the
temporary White House here, tells
me “that after careful investigation
and prolonged conversations with
prospective leaders in both groups,
there appear to be no insurmount
able obstacles to peace, and in fact,
there is a real desire for unification
in the labor movement for all par
ties concerned”.
The President was still at sea
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PRISONER ESCAPES
FROM PITT CAMP
Raleigh, Feb. 25.—(AP)—The
penal division reported today the
escape of John Comer, 20, from the
Pitt county prison county. Prison
records say the man was sentenced
in Wake county in May 1937, from
five to seven years for house break
ing.
FDR Angers
Woman Group
By Meddling
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Feb. 25. The Na
tional Woman’s Party is a bad out
fit to get into an acrimonious argu
ment >with. Presi-
dent Roosevelt al
mo s t ce r tainly
wouldn’t have an
tagonized this par
ticular group had
he realized he was
doing so. As a mat
ter of fact, the
party’s members
don’t blame the
President as much
as tney do Mrs.
Roosevelt. Ho w -
ever, he was the
one who committed
the overt act, and
--r
Mary Winslow
whatever the con
sequences may be, he’ll have to take
’em.
The Woman’s National Party took
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of several apparent indications that
the crop of new laws at the present
congressional session might be com
paratively small.
Another statement from Secretary
of Commerce Harry Hopkins in an
address at Des Moines, lowa, that,
“With the emphasis shifted from re
form to recovery, the administra
tion is now endeavoring to promote
that recovery with all the vigor and
power at its command.”
Meanwhile economy advocates
joined in an effort to reduce the
$170,000,000 expenditure President
Roosevelt has proposed for new war
planes.
Several said that they believe a
substantial saving could be made by
supporting the house approved limi
tation of 5,500 planes for the army.
This limit has been raised to 6,000
by the Senate Military Committee.
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George Rublee, former head of the
international refugee committee,
arrives in New York en route to
Washington to confer with Secre
tary Cordell Hull. He indicated the
Committee hoped to arrange for
150,000 Jews to leave Germany in
next five years.
Senate Off To
Be The Guests
of Wilmington
Raleigh, Feb. 25. —(AP) —The Sen
ate in a five minute session passed
fivA local bills and left early this
morning for Wilmington to spend
the week-end as guest of the city.
The house, meeting briefly at 10
o’clock, received five new local bills.
Among the measures passed by
the senate and ordered acted into
law:
House Bill 191:—to fix court
terms in Currituck.
House Bill 376: To authorize
Washington county commissioners
to provide for a retirement for Miss
Augusta Carstarian.
Meantime, North Carolina, with
her financial cupboard, still was un
able to ascertain whether it con
tained a bone big enough for the
more-ever-broadening spending.
As the week ended, the joint fi
nance committee adjourned without
acting on sub-committee program
designed to raise all the $1,876,000
needed to balance the budget.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Rain tonight and Sunday
slightly warmer in the east to
night and Sunday.
WEEKLY WEATHER.
For South Atlantic States:
Rain period the' latter part and
some likelihood of scattered
showers over the north portion
Tuesday or Wednesday. Temper
atures average near normal, but
changeable over north portion.
Electioneering a la Mexico
v
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Not bullets, but biscuits were the persuaders used by opponents of Presi
dent Cardenas of Mexico as they staged this huge open-air lunch in
Mexico City in preparation for approaching presidential election. Diner*
beard Cardenas’ social innovations condemned.
RFC Officials
Confer Here
On A. & N. C.
Raleigh, Feb. 25.‘-—(AP) —Attorney
General Harry McMullan and three
representatives of the RFC confer
red with Governor Hoey today on
proposals to lease the State controll
ed Atlantic and North Carolina rail
road.
Hoey said the three RFC men had
inspected the road and would report
to Jesse Jones, RFC chairman.
The study was made, Hoey ex
plained, the RFC was considering
whether to attempt the propose lease
of the j;oad and whether to release
about SIOO,OOO held in railroad bonds
guarantee for Morehead City port
terminal bonds.
The railroad wants the bonds re
leased in order to use the money to
retire its debts.
The RFC representatives were
John Barringer, chief examiner in
the railroad division: T. A. Hamil
ton, examiner in that division and
C. M. Clay, assistant general coun
sel.
There have been two proposals to
lease the A. and N. C.. and the board
of directors has passed a resolution
caving it thought it best to lease the
line.
KINSTON WILL GET
DIAL TELEPHONES
Raleigh, Feb. 25. —(AP) —Utilities
Commissioner Stanley Winborne is
sued an order empowering the Caro
lina Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany to install a dial telephone sys
tem in Kinston to replace the type
now in use.
Survey Reveals Public
Wants The Chain Stores
Babson Gives Summary of Hundreds of Letters
Written Him; Southwest Alone Is Slightly
Against; South Six to Four for Them
BY ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1939, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
Babson Park, Mass., Feb. 27. —
America wants chain stores to stay
in business. This is the conclusion of
the majority .of people who wrote to
me in answer to my requst for read
ers’ opinions. The score was: For
chains, 59 per cert; against chains,
30 per cent; neutral, 11 per cent.
Hundreds of letters have been sent
to me. They represented all shades
of public opinion manufacturers,
farmers, salesmen, independent store
owners, chain store employees, wage
earners, white-collar workers, house
wives and students.
Sectionally, the chains are most
popular in New England, the Middle
Atlantic States and the Pacific Coast.
The South (about six to four in fa
vor of the chains) and the Southwest
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Fresh Attack
Is Launched
Against Jews
Hundreds of Jews
Will Be Forced to
Leave Germany In
Short While; Proper
ty Confiscation b y
Nazi to Pay Heavy
Fine
Berlin, Feb. 25.—(AP) —Berlin po
lice authorities today acted to speed
immigration of Jews by sei'ving no
tice on the Jewish community that
it must furnish the names of hund
reds of Jews who would be requir
ed to leave the country within two
weeks.
The order takes effect Monday.
Some new measures against the
alleged enemies of the Nazi regime
had been expected today following
a double barrel attack on “German
haters abroad” and for opponents of
the regime at home headed by Chan
cellor Hitler and Minister of Propa
ganda Goebbels.
Hitler spoke last night at a Munich
rally of his “own guarJ” for the 19th
anniversary of the founding of the
Nazi movements.
Goebbels blast appeared in Italy’s
newspapers. Both acknowledged
Nazi opposition to Jews in Ger
many.
Today’s police notice provided
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(nine to ten against them) are .the
two areas where “anti-chainism” is
the strongest. It is interesting to note
that Representative Patman, who is
sponsoring the chain store tax bill, is
from the Southwest.
Most Groups Favor Chains.
The clean, progressive stores ap
peal to the housewives. Low prices
appeal to the wage-earners and white
collar workers. Even in the South
and Southwest, consumers are strong
for chains. Naturally, independent
store-owners protest against “unfair
competition,” although many admit
ted the chains had been beneficial.
Chain store employees reflect little
dissatisfaction, although many un
doubtedly do not dare to write too
frankly. Students, not having seen
the transformation from independent
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Duce Orders
Italians To
Return Home
Two Views Express
e d as Trainloads
Leave France for
Homeland; Exodus
Comes at Crucial
Time in Italo - French
Relations
Paris, Feb. 25.—(AP)—Thousands
of Italian citizens living in France
were leaving for their homeland to
day in a mass exodus in response to
Premier Mussolini’s repatriation or
der for Italians abroad.
An Italian Embassy spokesman
said the exodus was “only a begin
ning”.
Italian officials said several hun
dred Italians were leaving Paris on
a special train this afternoon, while
“nearly 3,000” were returning to
their native land from Farseilles,
Bordeaux and other cities.
Although the movement was of
ficially in response to the repatria
tion order under which Italians in
all lands were being called home, it
was viewed in many quarters as a
direct slap at France.
Officially, the French government
accepted Rome’s official reason that
the repatriation followed a Fascist
plan to get most Italians living
abroad back to work in Italy, despite
the fact the repatriation came at a
crucial moment in Italian-French
relations was viewed by responsible
quarters was due to one of two
things:
1. Either Italy feared war with
France would come through;
2. Or Italy wanted to “frighten the
French” and it was preparing ot
back up colonial demands on France
with action.
Today, repatriation movement fol
lowed by a day a disclosure that
Italian residents of Corsica, French
island, near the Italian mainland
were returning home.
The Italian embassy estimated that
the number leaving Monday at
about 1,000 (Italy estimates the Ital
ians living abroad at 10,000,000, a
figure which does not take in. ac
count naturalization and included
the children born of Italians abroad).
U. S. Official
Succumbs To
Heart Attack
Berlin, Feb. 25.—(AP) —Prentiss
B. Gilbert, Charge D’Affaires, of the
United States Embassy, died last
night of a heart attack. He was 55
years old. Mrs. Gilbert, who was
vacationing in Switzerland, was noti
fied at once and started to return to
Berlin.
Gilbert was a native of Rochester,
N. Y.
Funeral arrangements will be
made after the return of Mrs. Gil
bert.
When last seen by friends at the
Embassy, Gilbert appeared in the
best of spirits. He has been in charge
of the embassy since the departure
of Ambassador Hugh Wilson on. Nov.
16 for Washington on summons from*
President Roosevelt and Secretary
of State Hull.
Gilbert was succeeded temporally
by first Secretary Jefferson Patter
son, who this morning notified the
U. S. State Department, the German
foreign office and Doyen (DCU)
members of the diplomatic corps that
Gilbert had died.
13 Hurt When
Train Leaves
Track In West
Laramie, Wyoming, Feb. 25—(AP)
—lnjured when five cars of the
Union Pacific “Pony Express” pas
senger “keeled over” a 20-foot em
bankment in southern Wyoming, 13
persons were under treatment here
and five others were in- a Rawling,
Wyoming hospital.
Three persons were able to leave
the Laramie hospital after receiving
I first aid.
W. W. Daever, one of several in
surance executives bound for the
Golden Gate Exposition at San Fran
cisco, said that the passengers “kept
their heads very well” when the
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