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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR “SET.IS'.-SS&V Exemptions Sought By College Groups From Security Tax Fraternity Men Claim It Will Help Many Young Men To Get College JC o u r s es; State FHA Charges Under Study; Bone Favors War Referen dum Washington, March 10.—(AP) — Undergraduate spokesmen for a claimed total of 100,000 college stu dents asked Congress today to ex empt student employees of fratern ities and educational institutions from social security payroll tax. W. W. Stifler, Jr., Amherst Col lege student, representing fraternity business managers, presented a brief to the House Ways and Means Com mittee asserting that such an ex emption would help poor students get a college education, which "in itself is the best security in old age.” Stifler’s brief asserted a poll con ducted by the Amherst College stu dent newspaper showed that 34 col leges in 20 states, with an enrollment of more than 100,000 students, favor ed the proposal. Other developments: North Carolina members of Con gress considered a personal state ment by J. L. Suiter, director of the Federal Housing Administration in the State, in behalf of his manage ment of the office in Greensboro. Suiter called individually members of the delegation yesterday to dis cuss a controversy which has arisen | over whether the State has received full benefits under the insured home loan program. Senator Bone, Democrat, Washing ton. asserted that “no force stands between the man in the White House and plunging this country into a bloody war.” Because of that, he said, the people should vote on any de claration of war. Bone, arguing be fore the Senate Naval Committee in behalf of a proposed war referen dum amendment to the Constitution, declared that the legislative branch (Continued on Page Two) Wm. T. Clark, T obacconist, Dies At 72 Wilson, March 10.—(AP) —Wil- liam Thomas Clark, president of the W. T. Clark Tobacco Company, here 1 and twice president of the Tobacco Association of the United States, died late last night in a Hot Springs Ark., hospital of influenza and pneu monia. He became ill Sunday. Clark was born at Pittsylvania, near Chatham, Va., December 4, 1867. Fie was educated at Lynch burg, Va., and at the age of 16 be gan work for a Lynchburg tobacco company. He came to Wilson 38 years ago, and shortly afterwards formed the W. T. Clark Company, one of the largest independent dealers in leaf tobacco. He was formerly chair man of the Wilson County Board of Commissioners and was active in trade and civic organizations. Clark served as president of the Tobacco Association of the United States in 1934 and 1935. He was a director of the organization when he died. Survivors include the widow, formerly Miss Mary Howard, of Tarboro, and one daughter, Mrs. Dave Woodard, of Wilson. Funeral services will be held from the home Sunday faternoon at 3:30 o’clock and will be conducted by Rev. E. C. Lynch, pastor of the Presbyterian church. Interment will be in Maplewood cemetery here. Hunt Votes Foe Diverting Road Funds Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, March 10.—Those who keep records of politicians with a view to using these records in the luture are carefully conning the roll call vote which anti-diversion ists finally forced in the house yes terday and which resulted in their being really “crushed,” 68 to 42, on that roll call. Chief interest of these record com pilers is to pick out of the list of those voting for the diversion of- $7,- 000,000 the names of those who had pledged themselves, some of them in writing, to vote otherwise. Those records, ’tis intimated, will rise in the future to plague those who per formed completed flip-flops between (Continued on Page Two) Hettiterscm -Daily Dispatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Flays FCC Jl ' - Hr ■■■ jjf| Elliott Roosevelt, son of the Presi dent, and a radio executive in his own right, appears before the Fed eral Communications Commission in Washington and accuses New Deal with retarding development of nation’s smaller radio stations. Congressional inquiry of FCC is seen as result of his criticisms. Big Tobacco Industry Is To Be Probed Justice Department Reveals Plans for Start of Investigation Into Operation To De termine Monop o1 y Status Washington, March I.—(AP) Justice Department officials said to day that an investigation of the one billion dollar tobacco industry will be started within two weeks to de termine whether the anti-trust laws have been violated. Ramification of the tobacco industry is wide-flung. Tobacco is raised on about 400,000 farms in the United States. Produc tion is concentrated mainly in North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, New Jersey and California. Statistics in the possession of the Justice Department indicate that to bacco provides the South Atlantic States with an agricultural income greater than cotton and that it ranks first in other important farming areas. Justice Department officials de clined to say what procedure would be followed in the inquiry. It was understood the anti-trust division has been giving close attention to a full report on the tobacco industry prepared by the NR A in 1936. Security Program Might In End Confiscate Wages America’s Latest Fad Leading in That Direc tion; Social Security Reserve Fund Myth As Money Is Spent as Fast as It Is Received BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1939, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Palm Beach, Fla., March 10. —In- surance and “guarantees” are the lat est American fad. The demand for old pensions, for a “guaranteed” wage, for unemployment insurance, for fixed prices, and the like means that America has come of age. Our pioneering days are over. Instead of pushing on to new frontiers, our peo ple are clamoring for stability and security. No matter how much we endorse and underwrite our own fu tures, however, we will find that the only real security is character. To want security is the most na tural of human desires. To believe, however, that security can be ac complished by simply “insuring every phase of human activity is tragic. A security program is only as strong as the character of its admin istrators and the adequacy of its re sources. Moreover, history teaches that government insurance is not HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 10, 1939 Mex Stormy Petrel Dynamic General Joaquin Amaro caused long-threatened rift in the military sector of the Mexican revo lutionary party by announcing his candidacy for the Republic’s presi dency. He is campaigning on policy disapproving abuse made of the governmental right of expropria tion, particularly of oil. Czechs Are Faced With New Rising Strike Called in Pra gue in Protest Against Violation of Auton omy; Martial Law In Places Budapest, Hungary, March 10. —(AP) —Reports from Brati slava today said that Czech Pol ice and troops had fired at Slo vak separatist demonstrators, killing one member of the Slovak peoples party guards and wound ing three others. A Slovak-lan guage broadcast *from Vienna said Dr. Joseph Tiso, Slovak parish priest-premier, had sent a communication to German Chan cellor Hitler. (Informants in Prague, where, Tiso was held under police sup ervision, said Tiso could not have communicated with Hitler.) Berlin, March 10. —(AP) —A DNB (German news agency) dispatch from Bratislava said today that Slo vak workers declared a general strike in protest against police ac tion by the Prague central govern ment, which they held to be in vio lation of Slovak autonomy. Public buildings were under guard of the Czech miliatry and gendormerie, as was the anti-comintern exposition, which was scheduled to open today. Martial law was said to have been proclaimed at Pistyan. where disord ers occurred recently, and other points. A DNB dispatch from Bratislava said martial law was declared there at 11 a. m. by Czech military au thorities. Thousands of Czechs gath ered in front of government build ings shouting in unison, “We won’t be slaves; we want a new govern ment.” CZECH PRESIDENT OUSTS THE SLOVAKIAN PREMIER Prague, Czechoslovakia, March 10. (AP) —President Hacha dismissed the premier of Slovakia today and sent Czech troops into the territory (Continued on Page Five) worth the paper it is written on when based on a flat rate from which every one benefits equally, irrespective of character. Consumer Eventually Pays. Take the social security program, for example. Under its provisions, employers are now taxed one per cent of their payrolls and employees are contributing a like amount. In addition, employers are paying three per cent for unemployment insur ance. These taxes are scheduled to increase until 1949 when employers will be paying six per cent and em ployees three per cent, or more. This will represent a six per cent excise tax on employers’ payrolls and a three per cent income tax on every gainfully employed worker. Naturally, this nine per cent tax must be added to the cost of goods. Therefore, it will eventually be paia —as all taxes are—by the consumer. The current five per cent tax is al (Continued on Page Two) FDR Envoy At Crowning Os New Pope First Time In History American President Has Been Represent- ; ed; Kennedy Named t Vatican City, March 10.—(AP) — For the first time a president of the United States will be renre'-ented of ficially at the crowning of a pope when Pius XII on Sunday receives his triple tiara amid of medaeval snlerdor on the Loggia of St. Peter’s basilica. The American to Lon don, Joseph P. Kennedv, is due in Rome tomorrow as the oflicial Amer ican representative at the ceremony, which is expected to draw the lar gest popular crowds ever assembled in the Eternal City. Vatican authorities expert more than 350.000 persons to jam St. Peter’s piazza and open spaces be yond to witness .the corona 45,- 000 may sit or stand inside the vast church the five-hour pontifical mass preceding the corona tion. It will be the first time in near ly 100 years that a pope has been crowned outside St. Peter's. The late Pius XI was crowned inside the basilica, but after the Lateran accord, by which Italy and the Vatican re conciled their differences, he made his first appearance. The coronation will be broadcast to the world, also for the first time, j Former King Alfonso XIII of Spain may attend. Tidewater Co. Again Lowers Power Rates Raleigh, March 10.—(AP) —Util- ities Commissioner Stanley Win borne announced today the Tide water Power Company had agreed to a reduction of SBI,OOO annually in residential and commercial electric rates in its territory. The new rates are effective for April 15 meter readings, he said, and following negotiations began early in January. He broke down the sav ings as follows, on a yearly basis: Residential for New Hanover county, $24,000; commercial for New Hanover, $18,500; residential outside New Hanover county, $24,500; com mercial outside, $14,000. In February, 1938, he said, the company made a reduction of about $56,000. “The commercial rates heretofore have had a demand charge,” he said. “This has been eliminated except where customers guarantee con sumption of 25 kilowatt hours per month, in which case he gets still lower energy rates and pays the de mand.” Skeleton Found In Gas Station Ruins Finally Identified Raleigh, March 10.—(AP) Coroner Roy Banks today said a skeleton found in the ruins of a filling station fire near he" 1 was that of Aston.;-Thompson, ' -of , Wadesboro. He said he was un certain whether to conduct an inquest and continued his inves tigation into the blaze on the Raleigh-Rocky Mount highway near here early today. Banks said Thompson had been in this section for two months and was employed at the station. Funeral arrangements were in complete pending word from re latives. Students At Pitt Protest Sutherland Pittsburgh, Pa., March 10. —(AP) —A noisy crowd of students staged a demonstration at the University of Pittsburgh today against the resig nation of “Jock’’ Sutherland, foot ball coach. About 50 from the dental and en gineering departments paraded about the campus, and edged into class rooms yelling for recruits to join. They picked up about 200 sup porters. Signs were carried read ing: “Wanted: Sparetime Football Coach, Must Be Stooge;” “Is The Panther Dead?” and “Today we strike for the glory of Pitt”. A majority of classes remained in session. Dr. James Charlesworth, 39-year-old professor, led a counter movement with his fists that sent demonstrators fleeing from his po litical science class room. One desk was upset in . the melee, and Dr. Charlesworth broke his blasses. A (Continued on Page Eight) House Refuses Hike In Advertising Fund Gets Reorganization Passed ■4 * J§|■, lit,-. % Representative Lindsay C. Warren of North Carolina, co-author with Representative John J. Cochrane of Missouri, of bill empowering the President to reorganize the executive branch of the government, appears mighty pleased as the measure is passed by House by vote of 246 to 153. The bill is less drastic than one killed last year after bitter fight Roosevelt To Ask Again For Further Huge Relief Grant Would Ban Over Gallon of Liquor Raleigh, March 10.— (AP) House Judiciary Committee No. 2 reported favorably today a bill to make possession off more than one gallon of whisky in a dry county prima facie evidence of possession for sale. The measure was a substitute for the Quinn bill to prohibit transportation of whisky into dry counties. As amended, the bill aims at the importation into dry counties of \vholesal3 lots of liquor for sale, but permits an individual to transport four quarts of legal liquor. Records of shipments of li quor are required to be filed by manufacturers and importers. Muzzling Os “Isms” Cited As Dangerous By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, March 10.—The fun niest feature of German and Italian reaction to speeches at our recent Sesquicentc n n i a 1 Congressional Cele bration in Wash ington was embod ied in the totalita r i a n governments’ super resentment at the suggestion that Nazi-ism and Fascism, far from being anything new simply are .rever sions of the dark ages, or even the pre-dark ages. Ber lin and Rome are prepared for at- fe'** |»lj fii f ' lB Hughes tacks on their re spective present system; they take the position that said systems are so young and original as not yet to be understood here or in other democratic countries. But it makes ’em boil to have it intimated that they’re mere copy-cats from the (Continued on Page Five) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy tonight and Saturday, with occasional rains; somewhat warmer in extreme north por tion Saturday. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. President Says His Early January Esti mates Still Hold Good and Cites Figures; Still Wants That $150,000,000 Con gress Refused Washington, March 10.— (AP) Representative Woodrum, Dem ocrat, Virginia, said today he thought President Roosevelt would renew, either Monday or Tuesday, his request for an ad ditional .$150,000,000 for relief. Earlier the President had told his press conference that his ori ginal relief estimates of early January still held good. After his group had seen Mr. Roosevelt, Woodrum said: “I think the President will send up a regular formal bud get request for $150,000,000.” Washington, March 10.—(AP)' — President Roosevelt said today that his original relief estimates of early | January still hejd good. The chiei | executive would not state, however, i whether this meant that in a special! relief message to be sent to Congress either Monday or Tuesday, he would | insist upon a supplemental WPA ap propriation of $150,000,000. About 850,000 needy persons are now on WPA waiting lists over the country. Mr. Roosevelt explained. He said that this an increase of about 100,000 o’ver the waiting list January 3. This increase, he said, was predictable, and he had expect ed it because of economic conditions (Continued on Page Eight) Noted Badman Dies > In Arkansas Pen Tucker Prison Farm, Ark., March 10. —(AP) —Joseph B. (Smokey Joe) Anderson, 37, confessed slayer of four men, died in the electric chair at dawn today for a murder of which he steadfastly maintained innocence. William Roberts and T. M. McDer mott, of the Wayne county, Michigan (Detroit), sheriff’s i; office, reported Anderson confessed just before he started to the death house that he fatally shot Robert A. Moulch, De troit salesman, 17 miles out of that city last summer. Officers said Anderson, also known as Buford Goad, had previously ad mitted killing three other men, but denied he was responsible in the case in which he was convicted. This was the slaying of Eldon Cooley, 26, grocery chain official of Hot Springs, Ark., who was abducted, beaten and robbed of nearly S4OO last Septem ber 8. Cooley’s nude body was found the next day in a ravine. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY $90,000 Sum In Budget Is Kept There Appropriations for Various Departments Approved as Contain ed in Bill; Senate Takes Up Revenue Bill on First Passage of Measure Raleigh, March 10.—(AP) —The House, by a decisive vote, 73 to 29 refused today to boost the $90,000 a year figure for State advertising as contained in the biennial appropria tions bill. Representative Cherry, of Gaston, offered an amendment to make the allotment $115,000 yearly, and led the fight for it. Before his proposal was defeated, the repre sentatives as a committee of the whole rejected on a voice vote an amendment by Johnson, of Ashe, to set the figure at SIOO,OOO a year. The representatives earlier had voted down by a wide margin an amendment by McNeill, of Hoke, to increase funds for the adjutant gen eral from $77,121 each year to SBB, 519 for 1939-40 and $88,639 for 1940-41. The solons appi'oved without change the allotments in the ap propriations bill for the Utilities Commission, Insurance Department, Labor Department, Industrial Com mission and Conservation and De velopment Department. Representatives Finch of Bun combe, Kimzey of Transylvania, Tompkins of Jackson, Clegg of Moore and Bryson, of Swain made vigorous pleas for more money to advertise the State. Mull, of Cleveland, Ross of Ran dolph, Roper of Lincoln and Stone of Rockingham led the opposition. (Continued on Page Five) ___________ f Brenau College Is Offering SSOO For Lost Colony Stone Edenton, March 10.—(AP) Dr. H. J. Pearce, president of Brenau College, Gainesville, Ga., has offered SSOO reward for a stone which he hopes will clear up a 350-year-old mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Dr. Pearce, an announcement here said, made the offer as an incentive to Chowan county residents to keep an eye opened for the stone mentioned on an other stone found last year and now at Brenau College. It is be lieved to be somewhere on the banks of the Chowan river near 1 here. The stone found last year on the river bank contained a terse message telling of the hardships the colonists experienced when supplies from England failed to reach them in 1585. Madrid Reds Smashed By Miaja Force Tanks Run Rough shod Over “Die-Hard” Forces in Eastern Part of Capital; Many Sur render Madrid, March 10.—(AP) —Me- chanized army units summoned to the aid of General Miaja’s govern ment today smashed their way with tanks into Plaza Manuel Becarra, strategic square on the east side of Madrid, crushing communist revolt ers in their path. There was no in dication immediately of the number of casualties, but it was announced officially that 14,000 rebellious sol diers had surrendered since yester day. Miaja’s supporters said they had uprooted “most of the communist nests” which had been holding out, including the hiding places of com munist snipers who had been firing at the approach of loyalist troops. Apparently the only means of de termining the size of the uprising » (Continued on Page Two)
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