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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13.873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR RECORD TAX BILL PASSES SECOND READING Two Killed as Plane Hits Water Tower fIy—jSSBEeMM. CmwIIFTB Two men, pilot and passenger, were killed when a small monoplane crashed into a water tower (seen in background) on outskirts of East Northport, N. Y., bounced off and hit a telephone pole and finally smashed to pieces in a grove of trees as shown. The plane was so badly wrecked that rescuers had to chop through the fuselage to extricate the bodies. The aviator was identified as A1 Beech, Roosevelt Field, N. Y„ pilot. (Central Press) Revolt In Madrid Is Put Down By General Maiji Tanks and Hand Gre nades Used to Blast Communists Into Sub mission; Fight Made Against Nationalist Government Madrid, March B.—(AP)—General Maija’s national defense government announced by radio today the sur render bf the republican army in volved in a communist uprising and cessation of fighting, indicating com plete suppression of the revolt. The announcement came shortly revolting communists surrendered strategists points in the face of tank and hand grenade attacks by Maija forces, trying to put down the local war in Spain’s civil war. The communists had risen against the national defense government be cause, they said, it intended to per petuate the nationalist government of General Franco, which holds three fourths of Spain. Maija has sent an ultimatum to the rebels, demanding a surrender by noon today, otherwise, the ultima tum said, they would be bombed until they surrender.. Fresh disturbances developed in Madrid about 8:30 last night with sniping in the north and eastern sec tion of the city. , Carabineros, forming a uniform court which acted as custom police before the civil war started, and which has remained loyal to the re public throughout the conflict, were used by the Maija regime to attack the rebels with hand bombs. Pickets Circle 13 Washington Hotels Today Washington, March 8. —(AP) — Pickets circled in front of Washing ton hotels today, protesting the re fusal of managements to agree to a closed shop for kitchen, dining room and bar employees. Union officials who ordered lines thrown around 13 major hotels after a five a. m. vote to strike, said 2,- 200 workers were involved. Hotel management said patrons were not inconvenienced. “I hope the strike will be over by sundown,” said Representative Bank head, Alabama, who lives at the Mayflower. That was in a reply to a question whether he would cross picket lines to return to his apart ment tonight. Senator Glass, of Vir ginia, another Mayflower resident, said he had noticed no interruption in service. Osgood Roberts, public relations director at the Mayflower, said the 13 hotels, which have negotiated with the union officials, had refused to agree to a closed shop, but had of fered to continue a union referen tial hiring agreement. _ Hrnfirrsmt Satin Dispatch . ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ' ' LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF * she associated press. W. T. Clark Is 111 f Hot Springs, Ark; Wilson, March B—(AP)—Mem bers of the family of W. T. Clark, Wilson tobacconist and former president of Tobacco Association of the United States, were called today to his bedside at a Hot Springs, Ark., hospital, where he is critically ill with pneumonia following the flu. Sales Tax Foes Licked In Massacre House Refuses T o Trim Levy to Two Cents Without Any Exemptions Whatever Daily Dispatch Bureau In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL. Raleigh, March B.—Anti-sales tax ers in the North Carolina House— thirty of them, a roll call showed— were wiped out yesterday in a vot ing massacre in a class with Sitting (Continued on Page Six) Party Splits Delay Close Os Congress By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, March B.—New Deal leaders in Congress want to adjourn early in June. It’s good betting that they fail to do it. Scrugham and to sidetrack non-essential items, (Continued on Page Four) However, it’s easy to understand their desire to do so. The longer the session spins itself out the more no ticeable in tra - Democratic dissen sion is pretty sure to become. Hence, the recent meeting of the party’s steer ing committee to hasten enactment of key legislation HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 8,1939 Positive Acts Cooperation Are Promised Secretary Hopkins Declares Statements of Government Heads to Be Backed With Action Washington, March 8. (AP) — Secretary of Commerce Hopkins, promised business today positive ac tion to make up promises of coopera tion in statements of administration leaders. “Life is just too short,” Hopkins said, “to make speeches unless you are going to do something about it.” He ascribed to political rivals, he said “criticism” many doubts which might have been raised about the ad ministrations’ sincerity. He referred to his own cooperation speech in Des Moines, lowa, the “no new tax promise of Secretary Morgenthau and the new business legislation statement of the President. He said he was conferring daily with officials in various agencies in the government on means of helping business but did not want to talk about the details until something was actually done. HEAD OF RAILROAD DIES IN CHICAGO Chicago, March B.—(AP) —Samuel T. Bledsoe, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Kansas City Railway, since 1933, died at his home early today. He was 70. Ward Argues $20,000 Out Os Money Bill Daily Dispatch Bureau, li> the Sir Walter Hotel. BY LYNN NISET Raleigh, March 8. “Speaker” Ward, theoretically doesn’t have any more influence in a meeting of the committee of the whole House than “Representative” Ward of Craven county. But the prestige of the speak ership enabled Representative Ward to take on in debate and to thoroughly vanquish Representatives Gregg Cherry and Victor Bryant at Monday night’s session. The item under consideration was the tax on dealers in installment paper. The finance sub-committee, on which both Cherry and Bryant sat, had included State banks in the bill, which boosted last year's tax from one-quarter of one per cent to one-half of one per cent. Mr. Ward offered an amendment exempting banks. The fact that this cuts about $20,000 out of prospective revenue, and further upsets the very precar (Continued on Page Four), Efforts Made For Changes In Tax Items Measure Designed to Raise $150,000,000 Next Biennum for State Purposes; News paper Defined in Bill; Highway Anti-Diver sion Effort Fails Raleigh, March B.—(AP) The House passed a record 1939-41 tax bill on second reading today by a 97 to 14 vote. The representatives voted to except Bibles from the gen eral sales tax but refused to make any further changes in the measure adopted last night by the House as a committee of the whole. There was a new effort to except taxes and to prohibit license of slot machines that might be for gambling “per se” as well as new efforts to add to the sales tax to prevent highway fund tax diversion, but all lost on oral vote. The measure, designed to raise $150,000,000 for the next bien nium will come up for final passage in the House tomorrow. Senators in the meantime, passed and sent to the House a much-amend ed bill which had defined and had announced as required that legal ad vertisement which must be given openly to newspapers which have been regularly published in the 25 of 26 weeks previous to the ad. The Senate also passed and order ed ratified into a law an administra tion bill to create a new State ad visory commission to replace the present one. A hearing was held on the Quinn hill to prohibit the shipment of legal (Continued o£ Page Four) -i State Court Hands Down 20 Opinions Raleigh, March B.—(AP) —The Su preme Court decided 20 cases today, 18 of them civil, actions. The Wilson Board of Education lost its appeal from an adverse su perior court jury in its suit to get for school purposes $1,701.30 turned over to the town of Wilson as its share of intangibles tax collected by the State. The court held that the legis lative act did not designate school boards, as “only county and muni cipalities remain recipients of the State prorata. It also said that it was admitted that no school debt of the town of Wilson to which the school board could apply the money. W. L. Tanner, convicted in Nash, with E. B. High, of assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced to two years, lost his appeal but Steve Nor (Continued on Page Four) Large Loan Made China By British 10,000,000 Pounds Loaned to Stabilize Chinese Dollar ; Banks Make Half of Loan London, March B.—(AP) —Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Ex chequer, announced at the House of Commons today that the Chinese government had borrowed 10,000,- 000 pounds, ($50,000,000) currency stabilization fund to which British banks had contributed 5,000,000 pounds. “The stability of the Chinese dol lar,” he said “is a matter of great importance to this country in view of our financial and economic rela tions with China.” He .estimated 'the British chancory would guar antee 5,000,000 pounds subscribed by the British banks, and seeks Par liaments approval of the loan. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy and changed to rain in east late tonight and Thursday; slightly warmer on coast tonight. British Minister Outlines Empire Mobilization Plans In Event Os War To Commons Franco Becomes an Admiral '*' ” % mmm W m i ISf ;1 % 1 Hr - , . ■" 1 t ■ ' - When General Francisco Franco, head of Nationalist Spain, reviewed his navy in the Mediterranean recently he doffed his familiar army uniform and wore the blue and gold braid of an admiral. He is shown (right) with aides aboard the cruiser Canarias during the review. (Central Press) Leadersßally rorces lo Push Bill Republican Barrage of Amendments to Re organization Bill Brings Hasty Call for Support Washington, March B. (AP) — House . Democratic leaders rallied their forces today in an attempt to drive the government reorganization bill through a barrage of Republi can amendments. Outnumbered by Republicans on the floor just before, the bill was taken up for amendments, they de manded a quorum call to luring ab sent. members into the chamber. The Democratic whip organiza tion issued immediate orders for all Democrats to be on hand while the hill was in the amendment stage, hut some where late in arriving rom committee hearings. Representative Dirksen Repub lican of Illinois, stood by to amend the controversial amendment and to substitute for the house bill, a measure sponsored by Senator Byrd. Democrat of Virginia, fidence. however, in defeating the Democratic leaders expressed con- Dirksen amendment, and then quickly passing their own by virtu (Continued on Page Five) Punchboards, Slot Machines Cause House To Abandon Jewels Os Consistency Daily Dispatch Lureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, March B.—The House is quite obviously no believer in the old proverb that consistency is a jewel, or else it is no lover of pretty gewgaws and trinkets. Its diametri cally opposed actions on slot ma chines and on punchboards pltove this thesis. Monday night the representatives disregarded the solemn warnings of Gregg Cherry, Lacy Mcßryde and others that levying taxes on slot ma chines is the equivalent of legalizing them and thus abrogating the Flana gan law. Less than twenty-four hours later, the same House turned completely around and knocked out of the reve nue bill section 167 which leviel a PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON Except Sunday. Labor Peace Committee Meets Friday Sessions in Washing ton Recessed. After Preliminary Canvass of Problems; Lewis Proposes One Big Union for All Washington, March B.—(AP) The A. F. of L. and CIO peace com mittees recessed their first joint conference on a settlement on the labor war today with agreement to meet again in New York City March 10. Harry Bates, a member of the A. F. of L. negotiating committee, disclosed the action of the conferees in a prepared statement to the press The statement said: “The conference made a prelimi nary canvass of its problems and met briefly with the Secretary of Labor. “The conference recessed and agreed to meet in New York City Friday, March 10 at 8 p. m., at which time it would'consider pro posals made yesterday by the CIO or any other suggestion that might be made before it. JOHN LEWIS PROPOSES ONE BIG UNION FOR ALL Washington, March 8. (AP) —John (Continued on Page Six) tax on punchboards. This time it gave an approving ear to the advice of the Messrs. Cherry, Mcßryde and others. Thus in theory the House com pletely reversed itself, its Tuesday decision being unqualified opposite to its Monday night action. There were, however, very practi cal differences in the situation which completely explain the seeming about-face. First and foremost is the fact that on the punch board ques tion an “Aye and No” vote was de manded and accorded, thus making advocates of taxing illegal devices go on record. The vote, incidentally was close, 56 to 52. On the other hand, the Monday night 54 to 24 count by which taxa (Continued on Page Four) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Coast, Air Defense To Be Increased Reorganize Methods of Drafting and Equip ping Army; Reserves to Participate in Great Yorkshire Maneuvers in September London, March B.—(AP) —A com prehensive plan to expand and equip the British army was forecast im mediately on outbreak of a war and to build adequate reserves of mili tary powers throughout the British Empire was outlined today by War Minister Hore-Belisha. Before the House of Commons, he described the program for the crea tion of a reserve of man power in the east and in India, and establish ment of an anti-aircraft command for the defense of Great Britain and reorganizing of methods of drafting and equipping units, thus speeding wartime mobilization. The war min ister said 1,000 officers and 16,000 men of the regular army reserve would be called for training in Sep tember, when the greatest maneuvers in British peacetime history are to be conducted in Yorkshire. Anti-aircraft and coast defense batteries are to be increased 50 to 100 per cent, he continued. The minister announced that local troops for defense of ports, except those in India, would be increased from 3,766 in 1937 to 9,500 in 1939. These measures, the minister said, would not jeopardize the British field force of 19 divisions, but “train and equip in the event of war in European fields.” SlovakHopeOf Independence Easily Fades Prague, March B.—(AP)—Any im mediate hope of any Slovak political faction for an independent Slovakia had vanished in the face of any Ger man disinclination to take on a new economic burden, informed sources believed. However, autonomous Slo vakia, with its recurrent demands for full independence, will remain a major problem for the diminished republic of Cechoslovakia, according to these sources, unless Germany de manded her program in eastern Eu rope. The swift development, which fol lowed dismemberment of Czechoslo vakia after the September war scare, gave Slovakia and Sapratha—Uk raine, autoonomous government but did not quiet the clamor in Slovak circles, for complete independence. Test Seen Os Japan’s Power In North China Shanghai. March B.—(AP) — Japan’s power in North China ap peared to be headed for a test in a vital fistal battle between Chinese government dollars and the Japa nese forces federal reserve bank notes today. The climax was expected on Fri day when the circulation of the Chi nese dollar will be prohibited in North China. The outsoce of this contest, re moved from the far flung military battleline, foreign observers believ ed, hangs the decision whether Ja pan will be able to complete eco nomic denomination of North China. They believed it would decide, also, whether Japan can manipulate cur rency and pricfc to an extent not only to Japanese denomination of markets in the vicinity, but to force North China to pay a part of Japan’s costly martial ambition.
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