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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR FDR RELIEF DEMAND EXPECTED TOMORROW Receiving Obeisance of Cardinals HHEJnSnIM Wf yygyl| Bj ■r m v. By 49H8 [ipp % ’ J|p % f ? iB *>'■ R ... * muni 3i This striking photo of Pope Pius XII, wearing robes and pontifical mitre was made as he performed first official act. He is receiving Solemn Obeisance from the Sacred College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican. Legislator's Are Against New Dealer Informal, Cross - Sec tion Poll Indicates Sentiment Fairly Well Crystallized on That Point In tne Sir Walter Hotel. Daily Dispatch Bureau, By IIENRY AVERILL Raleigh, March 13. —North Caro lina’s legislators, men who keep their ears to the ground in an ef fort to detect the slightest change in shades of opinion back home, are widely split on their choice for a presidential nominee in 1940, if a survey of more than half a hundred of them, chosen at random and rep resenting every section of the State, is any true criterion. From the poll of this typical cross section only one other fact seems to stand out clearly—the lack of en thusiasm for any New Dealer. Pres ident Roosevelt, who was the choice of eight out of 54 legislators, being the only one of that ilk to get even one vote. North Carolina’s popular Gover nor Clyde R. Hoey led the poll with 14 votes; but there is more than an even chance this only goes to show that the Tar Heels haven’t really made up their minds and are wait ing to see just which way the politi cal cat will jump. Os these who voted for the gov ernor, only on~ any indication he thinks the Hoey name will be seriously considered at the Demo cratic convention of 1940. This one, an astute and veteran Fiastern North Carolina politician, said: “We have better than an even chance to get (Continued on Page Four) Changes Made In Security Board Set-Up Charlotte, March 13.—(AP) —Ben M. Williams, manager of the Charlotte field office of the Federal Social Se curity Board, said today he had re ceived a communication from Wash ington announcing these changes in the North Carolisa set-up: Williams will be promoted March 27 to assistant representative of the bureau of old age insurance, with headquarters in the central office of region four at Washington. * George N. Adams, manager of the Rocky Moust field office, will suc ceed Williams here March 20. Marshall Barsey, assistant mana ger of the Raleigh office, will become assistant manager here to replace P. S. Marshall, who will become manager of the Rocky Mount office. « Henderson Batin Dispatch LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP fHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. House Course On Spending Speculative Raleigh, March 13.—(AP)—Legis lative observers fried to figure out today what course the House would take at an afternoon session when it reaches controversial sections of the biennial appropriations bill. Representative Cherry, of Gaston, 'leader of a faction which has been seeking consistently to have allot ments boosted from committee re commendations to those of the Ad visory Budget Commission, said there was “no way to tell what will happen.” It was learned that Cherry had conferred with Representative Ward of Craven, House speaker and a leader in the fight to keep the ap propriations at House levels, but ap parently nothing concrete developed. Governor Hoey also apparently was trying to effect some sort of compromise, but whether he had been successful or not, or what his plan was, had not been revealed. Cherry has served notice that he planned to lead a fight for more funds for school teachers when the House resumed committee-of-the whole consideration of the appropri ations bill this afternoon. Rayon Worst Danger To U. S. Cotton Washington, March 13.—(AP) —N. C. Williamson, president of the Amer ican Cotton Cooperative Association, told the House Agriculture Commit tee today that rayon and other sub stitutes constituted a grave danger to the cotton industry. “These substitutes form a more serious threat than foreign produc tion in our foreign markets,” Wil liamson said. “And when we raise artmcialiy the price of cotton, we are encouraging these substitutes.” He saih rayon was replacing mar kets for about 3,500,000 bales of cot ton and added that development of the southern pine industry was cut ting cotton accreage appreciably. He strongly endorsed the program ap proved by a conference of growers with Secretary Wallace here January 6. It included appropriation of be tween $400,000,000 and $500,000,000 annually for parity payments to cot ton growers, reduction of the gov ernment holdings of about 11,000,000 bales of loan cotton, and transfer to the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation of 1,500,000 bales from the loan holdings. Under questioning by Representa tive Coffee, Democrat, Nebraska, a committee member, the witness a greed that the program of benefit payments and subsidies had tended to increase cotton production through increased yields per acre. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, March 13.—North Caro lina’s General Assembly has now reached the point where final enact ment of both big money bills (rev enue and appropriations) is within the bounds of possibility this week. That both, or either, will be so en acted, however, is not probable, in view, of amendments made in the Senate to the House version of the revenue bill, and to the further like lihood that there will be differences in the appropriations measures adopt ed by the two branches. The revenue bill will come up in the Senate for third reading tonight and will no doubt go through with out change from its second reading contents. It will thus vary from the House bill by providing an estimated $143,000 more in revenue. Thus on Tuesday the bill can go back across the Bridge of Sighs to the House for concurrence or dis- Record Set In Speed Os Revenue Bill Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY LYNN NISBET Raleigh, March 13.—Setting a record, not only in the amount of money involved in the bill, but in the speed with which it went through the Senate, that branch of the General Assembly last Friday adopted the bill on its first and second readings in a few minues less than ten hours— seven hours of actual consideration. Chairman Pat Taylor, of the fi nance committee, had said that if left to him he would put the bill through in half a day. Not many folks believed him. I wasn’t left to him exactuly, for there was rather desperate effort of a minority group materially to amend it, but all such attempts were frustrated. The anti-diversionists knew they were waging a hopeless battle but they kept fighting. Ballentine offered the amendment that would have pre vented taking five million dollars of highway money for general fund pur poses. He spoke rather listlessly for it, then looked around the chamber to find that two or three of his “sup porters” had lost all interest in the matter. Vote was 28 to 10—and the five million was gone. Sales tax opposition also bobbed up, but like the anti-diversionists, the anti-sales taxers were just keep ing their record consistent. They didn’t have the remotest idea that (Continued on Page Four) HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 13, 1939 Germany Will Take Hand In Slovakia, Berlin Now Admits Kind of Intervention May Be Merely Diplo matic or May Be by Force; Czechs Protest to Germany Over Activities of Minorities - Berlin, .March 13.—Chancel lor Hitler received Dr. Joseph Tiso, deposed, Slovak premier for an “extended” conference to day amid acknowledgement by official sources that Germany would make some sort of inter vention in the Czechoslovak sit uation. Tiso, who was ousted from the premiership of autono mous Slovakia by the Prague central government Friday, be cause of agitation of Slovak in dependence, arrived here late this afternoon. Dr. Nazi guard troops with a band accorded him honors usu ally extended to a premier in office. He was driven directly to the chancellory. Berlin, March 13.—(AP) —Official sources acknowledged today that some sort of intervention would be made by Germany in the Czecho slovak situation, which involves agitation for the independence of Both Money Bills May Become Law This Week House May Accept Without Conference Amendments to Revenue Measure in Senate To Boost Income $143,000; More Money Is Really Needed Slovakia from the rest of Czecho slovakia. The mildest form would be dip lomatic representations, but the pos sibility of “stronger action if neces sary” was also mentioned by a for eign office spokesman. On Wednes day the spokesman said Chancellor Hitler will appear at a parade in Vienna, just 34 miles fi'om Bratis lava, the Slovak capital. When asked whether army units and detachment of Nazi uniformed guards were moving to the south east, he replied affirmatively, but simply insisted they were enroute to participate in the Vienna parade. He indicated that German officials were in constant touch with Italian of ficials, their partners in the Rome- Berlin axis. In Prague, Czech official quarters reported that the Czechoslovak gov ernment had decided to protest to Germany against activities of minor (Continued on Page Four) agreement with the amendments. Or dinarily it would be safe to predict that the House would reject at least some of the Senate changes, thus nec essitating a conference, but in the in stant case circumstances are such that it would be no complete or as tunding surprise if the House should concur. Reason lies primarily in that $143,- 000 added revenue in the Senate ver sion. That’s enough money to take care of the $35,000 annual increase voted the Health Department by the House and w :i l help take care of any increase the University of North Car olina may wrangle out of the repre sentatives. Wherefore members of the lower branch are looking with some degree of favor on the changes. Arguing against this action is the vigor with which the House voted down the tax on headache remedies (a tax aimed very largely at the B-C company of Durham) when it (Continued on Page Six) FDR Blocks Economy Wave In Congress By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, March 13 —While the cat (President Roosevelt) was away on his Caribbean cruise the nice (pro economy members of Congress) play ed like fury. By the time the Pres ident got back to Washington it look ed as if the econo mists really had stirred no a situa tion calculated to cause him a lot of trouble. Chairmen Pat Harrison of the Senat n Finance y : . and Robert L. Pat Harrison Doughton of the Means Committees are a couple of very formidable mice, especially when they are playing in partner ship. They also appear to have plenty of other mice in sympathy with them Approximately half of the Democrats . (Continued on Page Six) WtATHfR FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, somewhat colder in ex treme east and extreme no’th central portions; scattered frost in the interior tonight; Tuesday fair, rising temperature in after noon in west portion. Mission a $20,000,000 Success Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil’s minister of foreign affairs, is shown aboard ship in last press interview before leaving New York for home. Dr. Aranha returned with a signed and sealed commercial agreement between this country and Brazil and a credit of $20,000,000. Wheeler In Warning On Spendings Senator Wants Spe cial Committees To Determine For Them selves How Much Money Is Needed Washington, March 13. —(AP) — Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon tana, suggested today that special congressional committees be created to study government fiscal and ad ministrative policies, with a view to promoting - economy and efficiency. “We as Democrats or progressives must admit that there is a lack of confidence on the part of business, both big and little,” Wheeler said. “It is caused partly by threats of war in Europe and the situation in the Far East, and partly by internal con ditions. “Unless the liberal forces of the country recognize the facts and seek to regain the confidence of the peo ple, we will be supplanted by a re actionary republican administration in 1940.” Wheeler voiced the belief that “Congress should find out for itself how much money is necessary to cover the needs of the unemployed under a coordinated, well-administ ered agency.” President Roosevelt is expected this week to renew his request for an emergency $150,000,000 appropria tion to operate the WPA until June 30. His recommendation already is encountering criticism from congres sional economy advocates, including Chairman Harrison, Democrat, Mis sissippi, of the Senate Finance Com mittee. Pope Voices Admiration Os Roosevelt Vatican City, March 13.—(AP) — Pope Pius XII was quoted today by Joseph P. Kennedy, United States ambassador to Great Britain, as ex pressing “great admiration for Pres ident Roosevelt,” because he “al ways admired his stand for reli gion.” The pope received Kennedy, who was President Roosevelt’s personal representative at yesterday’s coro nation, Mrs. Kennedy and eight of the nine Kennedy children in a pri vate audience. “The pope expressed gratitude to President Roosevelt for having sent a representative,” Kennedy said. Pope Pius opened his summer es tate in the Alban hills to the envoys of 41 nations who saw him crowned in St. Peter’s yesterday. Diplomats, prelates and princes were among the 500,000 or so persons who wat ched the resplendent scenes of reli gious pageantry and enthusiasm in the vast mother church of Catholic ism when the tiara was placed on the>head of the 262nd pope. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Coan Successor Man From Ranks Washington, March 13. (AP) —Senator Reynolds, Democrat, North Carolina, said today he had been informed by Colonel F. C. Harrington, WPA administrator, that a successor to George W. Coan, Jr., who has resigned as North Carolina WPA administra tor, would “come from within the ranks.” • Reynolds said the names of C. C. McGinnis, assistant adminis trator, and Fred J. Cohn, infor mation director for the North Car olina office, had been mentioned. “Both are fine fellows,” he de clared. Coan’s resignation, announced over the week-end in Raleigh, will become effective April 1. Propose New $200,000,000 Panama Locks Washington, March 13.—(AP) — Addition of a third set of locks in the Panama Canal will be consider ed by the House Merchant Marine Committee tomorrow as a link in the administratica’s defense pro gram. On the eve of congressional hearings on a variety of proposals for supplementing the nation’s “life line” between the Atlantic and Paci fic, indications today were that the administration had turned down plans for a canal across Nicaragua. Secretary Hull Told Chairman Bland, Democrat, Virginia, of the merchant marine committee, that the $1,000,000,000 Nicaragua propo sal was not in accord with the Pres ident’s program. The exti’a set of locks for the Panama Canal would cost about $200,000,000. Experts said it would do much to minimize the danger of (Continued on Page Four) New England Has Hardest Snow Storm (By The Associated Press). The worst March snowstorm since the blizzard of 1888 spent its fury in the New England States today and moved northeastward over the Atlantic, ending a varied week-end storm which brought snow, sleet or rain to most of the northern United States, and left at least 27 dead. The weather moderated over the middle west today and clearing skies were predicted in the east this aft ernoon. Snow fell today over Massachu setts, Vermont, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine, leaving at least ten dead. New York City dug out of about three inches of snow, which brought three deaths. Three died in storms in up-State New York where snowfall ranged from three to 14 inches. The storm caused six deaths in (Continued on Page Six) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY New Fund Is Talked With Congressmen Conferees Refuse To Say How Much Money Roosevelt Will Ask; State Department Says Japan Has Not Fortified Pacific Is lands. Washington, March 13.—(AP) — President Roosevelt discussed with Democratic leaders of Congress to day how much additional money would be needed to operate WPA until July 1. The leaders told newspaper men afterwards that the President would send a message to Congress tomorrow on the subject. White House officials had said ear lier that it was problematical wheth er it would be completed by then. Asked whether the message would request the full $150,000,000 which Congress cut from the President’s original $875,000,000 request in Jan uary, Speaker Bankhead replied: “You will have to wait and see.” Others present at the conference were Vice-President Garner, Sena tor Barkley, the majority leader, and Representative Rayburn, tfie House majority leader. STATE DEPARTMENT SAYS JAPAN IS WITHIN RIGHTS Washington, March 13.—(AP) — The State Department informed the Senate Naval Committee today that so far as it knew Japan had not violated a treaty forbidding fortifi cation of former German islands in the Pacific, which are now under a Japanese mandate. This information was conveyed to the committee in response to an in quiry which it sent the department recently after hearing charges that Japan had excluded Americans, from the islands in violation of the same treaty. There have been many rumors re (Continued on Page Six) Tobacco Plants In State Are In Critical Plight ... Raleigh, March 13.(AP)—To bacco plants are in a “critical condition” throughout North Car olina because of nearly continu ous rains, the N. C. State College Extension Service reported today. It was said that a number of growers had reported that their plants were yellowing and dying. Lloyd Weeks, assistant tobac co specialist at the college, recom mended application of about 15 pounds of a mrxture of organic and inorganic nitrogen as a top dresser to every 100 square yards of bed where plants are small. He urged growers to wash the plants with at least two barrels of water per 100 square yards to prevent burning. i - ? / Loyalists Prepare For Quick Peace Miaja Puts Down Communists in Read iness for Uncondition al Surrender to Franco Madrid, March 13.—(AP) — The defense council, as a pre-condition to seeking peace with nationalists, re moved communists from civil posi tions today to consolidate a military victory over them. The council an nounced that it had crushed military units of the party, and had wiped out the six-day revolt of the com munists against the peace policies of General Jose Miaja, head of the council government. The number of casualties suffered by communist soldiers was not known, but was said to be great. It was understood that many com munists hunted by the council were in hiding. Some sought refuge in for eign embassies and legations. The government reported two chief lead ers of the revolt were captured. The last communist stronghold in (Continued on Page Six)
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