HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
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mTLER PARADES HIS MIGHT IH HEW DOMAIN
U. S. Condemns German Move
Seizures Os
Czech Land
Denounced
For ma 1 Statement
Calls Invasion “Want
on Lawlessness” and
“Arbitrary F o r c e”;
Shows Need of Neu
trality Revision, FDR
Says
Rome, March 17. (AP)
United States Ambassador Wil
liam Phillips today sought an
indication of official Italian re
action to German seizure of most
of Czechoslovakia and Italy’s in
tentions. Phillips made his in
quiries in a call on Count Ciano,
Italian foreign minister.
Washington. March 17. —(AP) —
The United States government ex
pressed today its “condemnation” of
Germany’s “wanton lawlessness” and
“ai'bitrary force” in occupying
Czechoslovakia.
With the approval of President
Roosevelt, Acting Secretary of State
Welles issued a formal statement, in
which he spoke of Germany's ab
sorption of most of Czechoslovakia
as a “temporary extinguishment of
the liberties of a free and indepen
dent people with whom, from the
day when the republic of Czecho
slovakia attained its independence,
the people of the United States hove
maintained especially close and
friendly relations.”
Welles declared: “It is manifest
that acts of wanton lawlessness and
of arbitrary force are threatening
world peace, and the very structure
of modern civilization.”
Welles made his statement after
conferring with the President, and
said his statement had received the
chief executive’s approval.
Earlier, the President told a press
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Diversion’s
Foes Facing
New Setback
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY HENRY AVERILL.
Raleigh, March 17.—Anti-diver
sionists have taken more punishment
than a Joe Louis opponent already
this Assembly session, but from all
signs and portents they are due to
get another resounding sock on the
jaw before this session ends.
It’s going to be in the form of a
measure which will authorize trans
fer from Highway to General Funds
of $2,00.0,000 at or near the close of
the current fiscal year.
Nobody will admit that this is go
ing to be done, but if Administration
spokesmen really mean what they
have said all along about the bud
get for the next biennium there isn’t
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Maxwell Comes Through
With Trick For Revenue
Reverses Himself and Finds Tax Receipts AVill
Take Care of Appropriations Over and Above
Revenue Bill; Senators Are Skeptical
Daily Dispatch Bureau
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL
Raleigh, March 17.—1 n the popu
lar paper-back weeklies of some
thirty years ago Frank Merriwell
became Young America’s hero
through his unparralleled ability to
deliver a home run in the last of
the ninth with the bases full, or to
fan the opposition’s famed slugger
under the same circumstances as to
time and condition of the sacks.
This byway of introducing the
Frank Merriwell of the administra
tion team, Commissioner of Revenue
Allen J. Maxwell.
Yesterday Allen Jay stepped gal
lantly into the box and threw a
high hardone right' past the sena
tors who had been preparing to
knock the compromise (and higher)
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Bill Bantling Absentee Voting
Given Senate by The House
. Prague Square in Nazi Hands
German troops marched into St. Wenceslaus Square, Prague’s main
thoroughfare (above), as Hitler completed dismemberment of Czecho
slovakia by establishing a “protectorate” over the Czech people. Thou
sands of residents crowded into the square to sing the Czech national
anthem and jeer the heavily-armed invaders.
(Central Press)
Guidance Os
Students Is
Urgent Need
Vocational Work for
School Youth Empha
sized Before Teachers
by Georgian
Raleigh, March 17.—(AP) — Dr.
Paul W. Chapman, dean of the agri
culture at the University of Georgia,
told North Carolina teachers today
that one of modern education’s
greatest needs is proper information
vocational guidance —for students
on what they must do in order to
get jobs.
In thousands of instances, said Dr.
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appropriations measure into the next
county. .
His pitch took the form of a letter
to Chairman Bill Rodman of the
Senate Appropriations Committee,
informing that worthy that income
tax revenues for the current year
are running so far ahead of expecta
tions that there probably will be
ample money on hand to close the
eight hundred and many odd thou
sand dollar gap existing between
the revenue bill, as passed by both
houses, and the appropriations meas
ure as passed by the House after
adding some $600,000 through the
Governor’s compromise and subbse
quent hike in vocational education.
That, of course, put an entirely
different complexion on the budget
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HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, M ARCH 17, 1939
U. S. Cameraman If
Killed At Battle
Bucharest, Farch 17.—(AP)
—The United States legation re
ceived reports today that Peter
Lissiuk, 19-year-old American
cameraman, had been killed
Tuesday trying to photograph
fighting in Chust, capital of Car
pa the-Ukraine. Refugees told the
legation this youth was killed
during a battle between Czech
genedarmes and Ukrainians be
fore Hungary annexed Carpatho-
Ukraine.
Lissiuk was employed by his
father’s film company of New
York City. Meanwhile, frontier
reports that lawless elements
were plundering Roumanian
communities on the Carpatho-
Ukrainian side of the borler
caused Bucharest authorities to
urge the Hungarian army of oc
cupation to send troops into those
villages as quickly as possible.
Kerr Shows
Dizzy Climb
Os Expenses
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By LYNN NISBET
Raleigh, March 17.—Although both
the appropriations and revenue bills
have passed the house, Representa
tive John Kerr, Jr., of Warren coun
ty, is not letting up in his “economy
bloc” activities. He is laying the foun
dation now for renewing the fight
when the appropriations bill comes
back from the senate if the house
raises are deleted by the upper
branch.
Mr. Kerr issued a statement today
accompanied by some figures he had
compiled for the past 20 years. These
figures show what he terms an alarm
ing rise in the cost of government,
not only for the state as a whole, but
for the counties and municipalities.
In 1920, said Mr. Kerr, the total
amount of taxes collected for both
State and local units was $34,135,-
850.00, while for the year 1937-38 the
total for both State and local pur
poses was $111,363,493.00.
In 1920 the total collected for
Sjtate purposes was $5,804,589.00
while in 1937-38 it was $68,855,834.
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New Bills Relate to
Unemployment Com
pensation; “L illl e
TVA” Bill Unfavor
a b 1 y Reported by
Committee of the
House
Raleigh, March 17. —(AP) —The
House Public Utilities Committee
reported unfavorably today the Mc-
Eryde bill to create a “little TVA”
for the upper Cape Fear Valley.
Only Mcßryde, of Cumberland, vot
ed against the rejection. The com
mittee had refused, six to four, to
postpone action after a hearing at
which opposition was expressed by
Andrew Monroe, representing the
Carolina Power and Light Company.
The Senate Elections Committee
today sent to the floor the House
passed bill to abolish absentee vot
ing in primaries and tighten restric
tions for elections.
Committee activity dominated the
legislative field, though tfye House,
in a speedy session, passed 31 bills.
Senators, in the absence of Long
of Halifax, the author, postponed
final consideration of the bill to re
quire physical examinations before
persons may secure marriage
licenses. The upper division killed,
to 5, a measure approved in the
House to permit municipalities to
•regulate taxicabs. It passed 23 minor
bills.
The Senate agreed to resume regu
lar business Monday night.
Senator Gardner, of Cleveland,
who favored retaining absentee vot
.ng in primaries, -told new. r nen dur
ing the Senate session that he could
have forced his proposal into the
aosentee bill in the committee by a
one-vote margin. He said he prob
ably would offer a separate measure
to give absentee voting rights, under
strict limitations, for primaries.
The elections measure was set for
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Plymouth To Get
New Paper Mill In
The Coming Year
Richmond, Va., March 17.—(AP)
—The Cherry River Paper Company
announced today that within the
next eight months it will move its
plant to Plymouth, N. C.
George M. Snyder, superintendent,
.said that the pulp supply in the vi
cinity of Richmood had been ex
hausted and for a time it had been
necessary to import pulp to keep
the plant operating. The company
has been located here about 30 years.
It has between 400 and 450 em
ployees.
BRICKMASON FOUND
DEAD AT PEMBROKE
Lumberton, March 17.—(AP) —A
young white man identified as Guy
Carver, about 26, Rutherfordton
bricklayer, was found dead early to
day in an automobile on a woodland
road near Pembroke.
Coroner D. W. Biggs said a pre
liminary examination disclosed no
evidence of foul play. He empanel
led a jury, but said no inquest or
autopsy would be ordered until re
latives of the dead man came here.
Two Prisoners Os
State Are Seized
In Distant States
Raleigh, March 17.—(AP)—Pen
al division authorities reported to
day the capture in Danville, Va.,
and the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., sec
tion of two escaped convicts. They
planned to send for the escapees,
listed, respectively, as Norman
Davis, about 28, who fled the Dup
lin county prison camp in June, 1937
while serving a 15 to 20-year man
slaughter sentence imposed in Rock
ingham county, and James Duncan,
26-year-old Columbus county es
capee, who was serving three years
for forgery in Columbus, when he
got away in November, 1937.
Danville authorities listed Davis.
Penal Superintendent Oscar Pitts
said, as John Henry Tyler. Duncan
served time on a chaingang, he add
ed.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair and continued cold, with
frost, light to heavy in extreme
ea«t portion tonight; Saturday
fair.
Nazis March
At Prague
And Brunn
Fuehrer To Display
Himself Also in Vien
na and Bratislava;
Huge Crowd Greets
Dictator at Brunn;
Movements Well
Guarded
V?enn*r, March 17.—(AP)
Adolf Hitler arrived in Vienna
at 5 p. m. today after a two-day
journey through his new pro
tectorate of Bohemia and Mo
ravia. A special train brought
him from Brunn and Moravia.
He was cheered by thousands as
he entered the Hotel Imperial
15 minutes later. He
went to his room on the first
floor, while the crow r l sb<' , > +oc l
repeatedly “Seig, heil!”—“Hail,
Victor,”—and “We want to see
our fuehrer.” He then appeared
on a balcony and gave the Nazi
salute.
Brunn, Moravia, March 17.—(AP)
—The first Nazi military parades in
Adolf Hitler’s new Bohemia- Mo
ravia protectorate were held at noon
today in ,Prague and Brunn, with, the
fuehrer himself reviewing his troops
in this Moravian city.
Hitler, following his armies east
ward from Prague into Moravia, ar
rived at Brunn at 11:30 a. m., and
half an hour later watched the sec
ond tank division of his armj r of oc
cupation rumble past. *
Nazi spokesmen said the new pro
tector of Bohemia-Moravia would
continue to Vienna late today or to
morrow. From Vienna, capital of the
Austria he added to his realm a year
ago this week, Nazis said he might
continue to Bratislava, capital of
Slovakia, which yesterday threw it
self under his protection.
The Germanic thirty percent of
Brunn’s population, plus Nazi sym
pathizers among the Czechs, turned
the main square into a sea of swas
tikas. Hitler reviewed German troops
lined up on the square and was re
ceived at the city hall by the Ger
man mayor and members of the
city’s German administration.
The fuehrer’s movements from
town to town were shielded in se
crecy, and by a corps of black shirt
elite guards. Armored cars convoyed
him when he used his big touring
car.
Officer Slain At
Fayetteville When
Youth Seizes Gun
Fayetteville, March 17.—(AP)—A
youth who was being taken to fail
on a drunk and disorderly conduct
charge was charged in a warrant to
day with killing one of the arresting
officers and wounding two others.
The prisoner was booked as Lynwood
Hair, 21, an employee of the State
Highway Department.
Frank Johnson, a traffic officer,
'■aid he and Officers Willis J.
Genes and Charlie Godwin, in ans
wer- to a call, went to Hair’s home
•ast night to take him to headquart
ers. In going down the step, he re
lated. Hair’s foot caught between
♦wo boards, and while the officers
T,7ere extricating the foot, Hair seiz
ed Genes’ pistol from its holster and
firing.
Genes, shot in the back, was kill
ed instantly. A bullet grazed God
win’s skull, and Johnson was shot in
the leg.
Judge Manton
Indicted For
Second Time
New York, March 17. —(AP) —A
second indictment containing three
counts of conspiracy was returned
today against former Federal Judge
Martin T. Manton by the same Fed
eral grand jury which indicted him
several weeks ago. The counts charg
ed conspiracy to obstruct justice,
conspiracy to deprive the United
States of the impartial service of a
judicial officer and conspiracy, to
bribe a judicial officer.
The indictment named William J,
Fallon, described as business agent
'or Manton, as the intermediary in
the collection of $67,000 allegedly
paid by Almon B. Hall and L. C.
Hall, brothers, and chicken raisers of
Wellingford, Conn. - ; to influence
Judge Manton’s decision in a patent
nfringement action involving a
method of incubating chicks from
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Daladier Asks For
Decree Powers As
London Calls Envoy
Never Misses
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Setting new world's record, Officer
Harry Reeves of Detroit’s police
department, made perfect score of
200 with a .38 calibre revolver in
competition with leading marksmen
in the country, in Miami pistol
tournament. He was in a competi
tion calling for firing of five shots
in twenty seconds.
War Would
Aid Fascist
Trend Here
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, March 17. “Strife
between the United States and Ja
pan,” remarked Executive Secretary
Frederick J. Libby
of the National
Council for Pre
vention of War. a-o
a witness the other
day before the
senate naval af
fai rs committee,
“can result in only
one way. Asia will
go Red; the United
States will go Fas
cist.” Seer etary
Libby was speak
ing in opposition
to American forti
fication of Guam,
Libby
as needlessly provoking to the Mi
kado. I’m a neutral on this issue. In
the first place, Guam’s fortification
isn’t urged at present. All that’s pro
posed is to improve its harbor and
landing-field facilities—for a meas
ly little $5,000,000, or just a small
fraction of what it would cost to
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Continued Low Interest
Payments For Depositors
Babson Explains Banking Revolution of Past
Few Years; Sees Government as Continued
Big Lender With Money Furnished by Banks
BY ROGER W. BABSON
Copyright 1939, Publishers Financial j
Bureau, Inc.
Palm Beach, Fla., March 17.—Few
people realize the terrific changes
which have taken place in the com
mercial banking business since 1929.
If some banker had Rip Van Winkled
himself in 1929 and awakened today,
he would scarcely recognize the in
dustry. Commercial banking has
been revolutionized.
The spectacular decline in interest
rates symbolizes this transformation.
In 1929, New York banks charged
their regular customers 5.88 per cent;
today the rate is only 2.24 per cent—
the lowest on record. The same trend
has taken plaee in banks throughout
the east and north of the country
where current rates are 3.33 per cent
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French Premier De
ni an d s Dictatorial
Powers to Nov. 30 in
New Crisis; Britain’s
Recall of Ambassador
Is Slap at Hitler
Paris, March 17.—(AP) —Premier
Daladier called on parliament today
for a free hand to govern France by
decree until Nov 30 to bolster the
nation’s defenses in view of the col
lapse of Czechoslovakia.
The bill to strengthen France
against any menace from expanding
Germany contained only the one
article authorizing decree powers for
the period of more than eight
months. It was approved by the
cabinet and sent to the Chamber of
Deputies. The chamber began de
bate on the situation arising from-
Germany’s bloodless conquest of
Czechoslovakia, once part of
France’s collective security struc
ture.
A vote of confidence conferring
the full powers asked by the Dala
dier government was expected to
conclude the debate.
Communist Deputy Peri started
the* foreign policy debate with an
attack on the government for yield
ing to Germany’s expansion in cen
tral Europe. Despite the hostility of
a strong communist and socialist
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Bulgar Students
Protest Seizures
By Hitler Regime
Sofia, Bulgaria, March 17.
—.AP)—Several thuosand Sofia
university students were chased
by mounted police from the
streets in front of the former
Czechoslovak legation today af
ter they had demonstrated noisi
ly against the dismemberment
of Czechoslovakia.
The demonstration occurred
just as German diplomatic offi
cials arrived at the legation to
take over Czech affafrs.
Two Men Are
Kidnaped And
Then Killed
Milton, Fla., March 17. —(AP) —
Kidnaped by a filling station robber,
two men were found shot to death
today 200 yards off a highway, tied
together face to face with cotton
ropes.
Sheriff Joseph Allen identified the
victims as Clifford T. Mann and
Charles Wilkinson, both of Mont
gomery, Ala. He said evidence in
dicated they had been tied together
and killed at the spot. There were
bullet wounds through the heads,
the breasts and the backs.
Mann, was a cashier for a life in
surance company, and Wilkinson, 23,
was a friend.
against 6.04 per cent in 1929; and
4.09 per cent in southern and western
districts against 6.14 per cent in the
“good old days”.
“Squeeze” on Depositors
As a result of the drop in rates
which banks charge, the squeeze has
been put on depositors. No interest
now paid on checking accounts,
which formerly received two per
cent. Savings deposits now get a pal-
S try two or two-and-a-half per cent
against three-and-a-half to four-and
i a half per cent in 1929. The loss of
j billions of dollars of commercial
i loans raised havoc with bank earn
! ings. There are two reasons why this
| loan business passed out; First, busi
| ness men have not wanted to borrow
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