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TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
BMTAIH. FRANCE DEHOIMCE GERMAN ACTION
Brief Sessions Are
Held By Assembly;
Local Bills Passed
House Gets 1 wo New
Bills and Pas ses Five
As Senate Approves
Eleven; Haywood
Liquor Act Repealed
as both Houses Con
cur
Raleigh, March 18.—(AP) —In brief
routine sessions today, the House re
ceeived two new bills and passed five
and the Senate approved eleven
measures.
The Senate passed and ordered
enacted into law’ a House bill to re
peal a 1937 act which permitted Hay
wood county townships to establish
liquor stores if approved by the
voters of the townships, whether or
not the rest of the county remained
dry.
Senator Cogburn. of Haywood, said
no liquor dispensaries had been es
tablished under the act.
Reported favorably by Senate Ju
diciary Committee No. 1 was a sub
stitute for Senate bill 19 to clarify
the bastardy laws.
Today's legislative calendar in
cluded: L
Passed by the Senate and ordered
enacted into law r :
House bill 579, relating to fees of
the Hertford county sheriff.
House bill 601 to repeal a law por
viding the establishment of liquor
stores in Haywood county.
House bill 661 to incorporate the
fund in the general fund,
fusd in the general fund.
House bill 754, relating to the
draw" of juries in Wayne county.
Vote Reform
Bill Being
Re-Written
Dally Dispatch Bureau
In the Sir Walter HoteL
By LYNN NISBET
Raleigh, March 18.—Avoiding a
vote on the Gardner motion to keep
the absentee ballot in primaries by
the ancient device of promising to
help him get the same subject mat
ter in a new bill, the Senate Elec- !
tions Committee yesterday approved
the w’ork of its sub-committee in re- j
writing the House bill. Liason offi- J
cers with the House suggested that
the Senate amendments would prob
ably be acceptable.
Most important of the changes
made are: Requiring identification
of absentee ballots by name of vot- j
ers instead of by number, requiring
that probate of affidavits in con- j
nection with absentee ballots must i
be under seal; and some liberaliza
tion in the penal section.
Senators Prince, Austin and
Lumpkin, who rewrote the bill, be
lieve that the Senate changes really
strengthen the law. W. A. Lucas,
State elections board chairman, was
present at the committee and agreed
that the Senate bill was better than
the House bill. But he very adroit
ly evaded expressing an opinion as
to what he actually thought about
either.
Senator George Ward, of Duplin,
doesn’t like even a little bit the re
quirement of an official seal on ab
sentee affidavits. He said that if
a justice of the peace without a sea]
could probate a deed that transfer
red ownership of your home, it look
ed like going too far to say that he
couldn’t swear to an election affida
vit. Mr. Lucas explained that the
reason he liked that provision is
that a seal is hard to forge. He cit
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Cotton Prices
Down Sharply
New York, March 18.—(AP) —Cot-
ten futures opened seven to eleven
points off under easy cables and
heavy Bombay selling in all de
liveries. Commission houses offered
contracts and there was some hedge
selling. Prices were eight to 13 points
net lower at the end of the first hour.
May was 8.14, off 13, while Decem
ber was off eight at 7.59.
Futures closed 8 to 13 points. Spot
nominal, middling 8.89.
Open Close
May 8.16 8.14
July 7.95 7.96
October 7.66 7.65
December 7.60 7.60
January 7.61) 7.58
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DR. J. HENRY HIGHSMITH
11 Percent
Hike In N. C.
Leal Crops
Flue-Cured Growers
Intend To Plant More
in 1939; Weather and
Supply of Plants To
Determine Result
Raleigh, March 18.—(AP)—Grow
ers of flue-cured tobacco in North
Carolina have indicated they intend
to increase their acreage this year
eleven percent above 1938, the De
partment of Agriculture reported to
day in its State-Federal intentions
to plant survey.
“Ability of Tar Heel farmers to
carry out their intentions will de
pend upon weather conditions in
April and May, and an adequate
supply of plants,” W. H. Rhodes,
chief of the department’s -statistics
division, said. “Prices of tobacco
have been conductive to larger
plantings and the withdrawal of con
trol measures will permit growers
to plant whatever acreage they may
desire. The effect of low prices in
practically all other money crops
will also have its influence.”
The report stated North Carolina
farmers intended to plant 663\000
acres in flue-cured tobacco, six per
cent above the State’s past ten-year
average. The department listed anti
cipated increases of ten percent in
Virginia, ten percent in South
Carolina, eight percent in Georgia,
and 15 percent in Florida.
The intended acreage were listed
by North Carolina belts as follows:
Eastern New Bright Belt, 328,000
acres, 14 percent above last year.
Old Bright Belt, 267,000 acres,
nine percent above last year.
Border, or South Carolina, Belt,
68,000 acres, 12 percent above last
year.
Governor For
Local Control
Over Relief
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY HENRY AVERILL.
Raleigh, March 18. Governor
Clyde R. Hoey concurs in a “gen
eral opinion” that relief could be
more economically and efficiently
administered through State and local
agencies, he told your correspondent
in connection with a national survey
of the governors of the 48 states.
He steered clear of expressing any
definite opinion on the merits or de
merits of the Woodrum and Byrnes
plans now pending in Congress un
der which relief would be placed un
der an entirely new set-up.
Discussing the whole subject in a
general way, the governor said:
“The question of reorganizing the
relief administration is essentially
the responsibility of Congress. How
ever, there is a general feeling that
relief couid be economically and ef
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Hoey Tells
Teachers Os
State’s Aid
Willing To Go To
Reasonable Limit of
Its Resources, Gover
nor Tells Meeting;
Highsmith Becomes
President of Group
Raleigh, March 18.—(AP)—Gov
ernor Hoey told North Carolina
teachers today that the General As
sembly “is determined to do all for
schools and for teachers that can be
done Within the limits of
the State’s resources.”
The chief executive spoke at the
concluding session of the annual con
vention of the_ North Carolina Edu
cation Association.
“I cannot subscribe to the doctrine
that a State can do anything it wishes
for education or anything else,” he
said. “The State must live within
its income, must keep a balanced
budget. It cannot print currency,
neither can it mint money and its
credit is not unlimited.”
The purpose of balancing the bud
get is not merely to protect its bonds,
but the prime purpose is to enable it
to properly function and meet its
obligations, including paying its
teachers, and providing for other
necessities of government.”
“There has never been in Raleigh
a General Assembly, according to
my judgment, more favorably in
clined to provide every effort pos
sible to promote the interests of the
public schools than the one now in
session in Raleigh,” Hoey said at an
other point. “It is only due to a limi
ta>!(on of our tax resources that we
are held to tbe present program. As
our per capita wealth apd our per
capita income increase, the State and
loealgcommunities will be able to do
more and more for the benefit of all
the' social agencies of the State, to
thf/ end that the common good of all
may be served.”
New officers were presented to
the association. J. Henry Highsmith
of Raleigh, was elevated to the pres
idency to succeed Ben L. Smith, of
Greensboro, and S. G. Hawfield,
superintendent of Cabarrus county
schools, was elected vice-president.
The association voted into its “hall
of fame” Alexander Graham, “the
father of our graded school system,
and Robert Herring Wright, found
er and one-time president of East
ern Carolina Teachers College at
Greenville.
Dr. Frank Graham, president of
the University of North Carolina, is
a son of Alexander Graham.
The following officers were nam
ed today by divisions of the North
Carolina Education Association:
Association of Class Room Teach
ers: Mrs. E. J. Bullock, Goldsboro,
vice-president and George Willard,
Wilson, treasurer.
Special class association: Miss Ada
Valentine, Spring Hope, vice-presi
dent.
Mathematics teachers: secretary,
Miss Claudia Hunter, Henderson.
Primary teachers: Miss Dotty
Jane Hadley, Greenville, vice-presi
dent.
War Scares
Slice Stocks
New York, March 18.—(AP) —
Traders subject to “war nerves”
dumped stocks in today’s market,"
and leading issues at the worst add
ed one to five points to their sharp
relapse of the preceding session.
Prices improved substantially before
the close, however, as the opinion
gained ground that the sell-off may
have been overdone. Pressure of of
ferings was pronounced at the open
ing, with blocks of 1,000 to 6,000
shares changing hands. Activity
dwindled somewhat subsequently,
but the turn-over of about 1,000,000
shares was one of the largest for
any Saturday since last November
12.
American Radiator 14 3-4
American Telephone 157
American Tob B 85 1-2
Anaconda 26 1-2
Atlantic Coast Line 20 1-2
Atlantic Refining 21
Bendix Aviation 24
Bethlehem Steel 65 3-8
Chrysler . . 74
Gas & Elec 7 7-8
Commercial Solvents 10 1-8
Continental Oil Co 8 1-4
Curtiss Wright 5 7-8
DuPont 146
Electric Pow & Light 9 3-8
General Electric 39
General Motors 46 1-2
Liggett & Myers B 105
Montgomery Ward & Co ... 48 3-8
Reynolds Tob B 38 3-4
Southern Railway 17 3-4
Standard Oil N J 46 3-4
U S Steel 56
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 18,1939
Roosevelt Accepts Team Work
Proposal From New Senators
President Supposed,
Under Agreement, To
Advise Senators of
His Proposals Before
Sending Them Up;
Tobacco Acreage Is
Increased
Washington, March 18.—(AP) —
Democratic senators reported today
that President Roosevelt had agreed
to a “team work” proposal by ad
ministration supporters in the Sen
ate. Under it, the chief executive is
supposed, they said, to apparies sen
ators of his party of legislative pro
posals he has in mind, and to give
them an opportunity of making pro
tects or suggestions before action is
taken.
This Democratic peace proposal
was agreed to, it was said, when four
first-term senators visited the White.
House last week-end. The four,
Schwartz, Democrat, Wyoming; El
lender, Democrat, Louisiana; Lee,
Democrat, Oklahoma, and Meade,
Democrat, New York, came out an
nouncing they were supporting the
President’s request for an additional
5150,000,000 of additional WPA
funds, which Congress refused re
cently, but now is considering again.
Other developments:
There will be 68,200 more acres
planted in tobacco this year than last
if an estimate of the Federal Crop
Reporting Board is correct.
Th& board estimated 1,694,000
acres would be grown in 1930. Under
the board's figures, North Carolina’s
production would jump from 693,000
to 672,000. South Carolina would
plant 112,000, an increase of 10,000
acres.
James Roosevelt, son of the Presi
dent, apparently was unperturbed at
being named defendant in a Justice
Department anti-trust suit against
the motion picture industry. At
Hollywood, 'Where “Jimmy” is a
board member of ynited Artists, his
only comment was:
“I believe I have been named in
the place of James Mulvey, whose
place I took on the United Artists
board.”
Administration supporters in the
Senate backed up the State Depart
ment’s condemnation of Germany’s
march into Czechoslovakia with pro
posals that the President be given
greater freedom to deal with the dic
tator nations.
They gave unqualified approval to
the statement made yesterday by
Under Secretary of State Welles that
“wanton lawlessness” and “arbitrary
force” were “threatening world peace
and the Very structure of modern
civilization.”
PEANUT WAREHOUSE
IS CONTRACTED FOR
Raleigh, March 18.—(AP)—Con
tract for construction of a peanut
warehouse on Roanoke farms in
Halifax county was awarded to A.
M. Atkinson, of Enfield, Leo Stock,
Farm Security Administration dis
trict engineer, said today. Atkinson
bid $3,345.
Mcßryde Now
Going After
Insurance
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter HoteL
By LYNN NISBET
Raleigh, March 18.—When fire in
surance companies collect approxi
mately three times as much in pre
miums as they pay out on loss claims
Representative Lacey Mcßryde j
thinks something ought to be done
about it. He offered a bill in the
House yesterday providing for a
three-man commission to be named
by the governor to study the insur
ance situation and to make recom
mendations before the next legisla
ture as to remedial legislation.
This bill was introduced just
about thirty minutes after the House
Public Utilities Committee had given
an overwhelming unfavorable vote
on Mcßryde’s Cape Fear Valley Au
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair, slightly colder in oast
portion; light frost in extreme
east portion tonight; Sunday fair,
slowly rising temperature in
central portion.
WEEKLY WEATHER.
South Atlantic States: Some
rain Monday or Tuesday and
again toward end of week; end
of present cold spell Monday,
with temperatures 2>p»'t or
above normal rest of week.
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After Czecho-Slovakia, what next? The world will have to wait Hitler’s
own answer, but observers point significantly to Europe’s map. With
Czech nation safely under his domination, and Russia ready to fight for
the Ukraine, Hitler is said to be casting eyes on Memel where Nazi agi
tation has already started.
Increased Duties Added
On German Imports Here
United States
Skeptical Os
New Accords
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, March 18.—Sir Sam
uel Hoare’s scheme for a quintuple
international conference to make
v/orld peace a per-
manency has evok
ed po wild cheers
in Washington of
ficial circles. Par
enthetically, for
the benefit of any
one who doesn’t
happen to know
who Sir Sam is,
he’s the British
minister of home
affairs, roughly
corresponding t o
our Secretary of
the Interior. Just
how the head of a
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strictly domestic cabinet department
chances to be butting into the for
eign situation isn’t quite apparent.
However, that’s immaterial; Sir Sam
is a thoroughly responsible func
tionary, anyway. Whatever he sug
gests unquestionably has Premier
Chamberlain’s wholehearted indorse
ment. It isn’t because of any suspi
cion of going off at half-cock that
Washington doesn’t consider his pro
posal very seriously.
True, he didn’t include the United
States among the countries to be re
presented at the gabfest he advo
cates. He spoke specifically of Pre
miers Chamberlain and Daladier of
Britain and France, Dictators Hit
ler and Mussolini of Germany and
Italy, and Boss Stalin of Russia;
those were the five he designated.
But that was because he was urging,
especially, a European get-together.
Still, he recognized that it’s hard to
consider European interests indepen
dently of this republic’s, and em
phasized his notion that we Yankees
would be welcome to a voice in the
discussion, giving the thing a sex
tuple aspect. In fact, I believe he was
outright bidding for American par
ticipation. I don’t imagine that he’d
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Treasury Department
Declines To Comment
on Relation to German
Seizure of Czechoslo
vak Region
Washington, March 18.—(AP)—
The Treasury Department announc
ed today the imposition of counter
vailing duties on dutiable German
imports.
This action, a Treasury Depart
ment official said, was taken with
the knowledge of the State Depart
ment. The Treasury official refused
to comment when asked whether the
action related to Germany’s seizure
of Czechoslovakian provinces.
The immediate effect the action,
it was stated, is to impose a 25 per
cent countervailing duty, in addition
to regular duties. The Treasury of
ficial said that “the action speaks
for itself.”
The Treasury’s decision, it was
stated, affects hundreds of products.
Leading German imports to this
country have been chemicals, toys,
medicine, paper and china. Imports
from Germany totaled $64,537,000 in
1938; $92,468,000 in 1937.
The Treasury official said the de
partment could not immediately state
the amount of dutiable goods which
would be effected.
MRS. ROBERSON, OF
CHAPEL HILL DIES
Heart Attack Fatal To University
Town’s Grand Old Lady” At
Age of 92
Chapel Hill, March 18.—(AP)—
Mrs. Cornelia Adeline Roberson, 92,
died here today of a heart attack
after a week’s illness. She was
known as Chapel Hill’s “grand old
lady.” The funeral will be held
here tomorrow at 4 p. m. at the
Baptist church. She was active in
church and civic affairs. Mrs. Rob
erson had lived here 80 years.
Survivors include a son, Dr. Foy
Roberson, of Durham; three daught
ers, Mrs. Roy Mason, New York;
Mrs. Charles T. Woollen and Miss
Nellie Roberson, both of Chapel
Hill; several grandchildren and a
great grandson, Charles Roberts, of
Washington.
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France Also
Calls Envoy
Back Home
Munich Agreement Is
Repudiated by Czech
Invasion, Notes Sent
to Berlin Say; Dala
dier Wins Vote of
Confidence by Big
Vote in Chamber
London, March 18.—(AP) The
British government, acting in con
cert with France, directed its am
bassador in Berlin to deliver a for
mal note to the German government
saying the invasion of Czechoslo
vakia represented “a complete re
pudiation of the Munich agreement.”
The British foreign office an
nounced also that the note, which
Ambassador Sir Neville Henderson
was instructed to present, would
state that “His Majesty’s government
regard as without legal basis the
changes effected by German military
action in Czechoslovakia.”
The French government announced
in Paris that a similar note would
be presented by the French ambas
sador in Berlin. The British announce
ment outlining the nature of the note
to be presented said “recent events
in central Europe represent a com
plete repudiation of the Munich
agreement and the undertakings of
peaceful cooperation exchanged at
that time by the parties to it.”
The announcement added that
“the British government further re
gards as without legal basis the
changes effected by German military
action in Czechoslovakia.”
Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary Vis
count Halifax consulted the Amer
ican, French and Soviet Russian am
bassadors. German Ambassador von
Dirksen also called, giving rise to
speculation that he might have been
ordered to return to Berlin in re
taliation for Britain’s calling home of
Ambassador Henderson “to report.”
Indicating the urgency with which
Britain considered the situation,
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Germany Will
Reply Hotly
To Protests
Berlin, Farch 18. —(AP) — The
German Foreign office spokesman
declared today that Germany would
meet with “sharpest repudiation”
British and French notes denouncing
the absorption of Chechoslovakia as
illegtl.
With Adolph Hitler on his way
home from Vienna and the pace of
his “march to the east” quickening
at the threshold of Roumanian oil
and wheat fields, Berlin officialdom
stood its ground and declared that
erasure of the Chechoslovak repub
lic was “done legally.”
Meanwhile, Hitler put Germany’s
authority over her new Bohemian-
Moravian protectorate in the skilled
diplomatic hands of Baron von Neu
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Hitler Tries
Intimidation
Os Roumania
Demands Economic
Cooperation as Price
for Guarantees of Ter
ritorial Security; Flat
ly Rejected
London, March 18.— (AP) A
spokesman of the Roumanian lega
tion said today that his government
had received and rejected sweeping
demands by Germany for complete
economic cooperation as the price of
guarantees of Roumanian territorial
security.
Diplomats here understood, al
though no confirmation could be ob
tained in Bucharest, that Dr. Wohl
that made demands while on a trade
mission to the Roumanian japital.
These proposals were said to be that
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