HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
Maxwell Estimates
_ (
On State Revenues
To Be “Good News”
Maybank to Allow
Six Men to Die
Columbia, S. C., March 20.
(AP) —Governor Burnett R. May
bank refused today to extend
clemency to the six men condemn
ed to die for the December 12,
1937, slaying of Captain J. Olin
Sanders at the State penitentiary,
unless some unexpected court ac
tion intervenes, the six men will
die in the electric chair early Fri
day morning. The original death
date was March 10, but the gov
ernor granted a two weeks re
prieve in order to study the case.
Little Real
Progress In
Past Week
Half Step Toward
Election Reform Out
standing Legislative
Achievement; Reve
nue Bill Speeded.
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
(BY LYNN NISBET)
Raleigh, March 20. —Although the
Senate and House both passed on
final readings the revenue bill for
1939, together with a whole flock of
local measures, the only real progress
in legislation was a short step to
ward election reform.
The apparent speed on*The' rev
enue bill was entirely offset by ac
tion on appropriations. Amendments
to the finance bill cut several hun
dred thousand dollars off of prospec
tive revenue, on the basis of accept
ed estimates, and amendments to the
appropriations bill added something
more than half a million to the pro
posed expenditures. Not being will
ing to reopen the whole matter, the
Senate Appropriations Committee
just deferred action until Tuesday of
this week to/ give the budget com
mission boys a chance to re-figure
estimates and make the thing bal
ance. A large group in the Senate
isn’t in sympathy with any such syn
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Robeson Asks
King, Queen
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
BY HENRY AVERILL
Raleigh, March 20.—Robeson coun
ty, boasting the highest percentage
of Scotch descendants outside Scot
land itself, wants a glimpse of that
bonnie lassie, Queen Elizabeth of
England, herself a native of the larid
of Robert Bruce, Bonnie Prince
Charlie and Whitehorse Scotch.
To that end, Senator Robert Allen
Mclntyre, of Lumberton, will tonight
introduce in the upper branch of the
North Carolina General Assembly a
joint resolution inviting King George
and Queen Elizabeth to visit the
county of Robeson during their stay
in the United States. Senator Emmett
H. Bellamy, of New Hanover county,
is joining Mclntyre as co-sponsor of
the resolution.
Across the Bridge of Sighs in the
House, Representative Ippie P. Gra
ham and Frank McNeill (note the
names of the Robesonians—Mclntyre,
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Appropriations Bill To
Get Approval This Week
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Welter Hotel.
BY HKNRY 4VERILL.
Raleigh, March 20.—The General
Assembly should determine this
week the final form of North Caro
lina’s spending bill for the next
biennium. With that done and out
of the way, there will be no great
or insurmountable obstacles to a sine
die adjournment in the not too dis
tant future, say around April 10, or
' thereabouts. t
Os course, there are plenty of “ifs
and buts” about all this. It is quite
within the bounds of possibility that
the Senate will go to either of two
extremes after its appropriations
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Figures o n Income
Tax Receipts To Be
Furnished Appropria
tions Committee Be
fore Spending Bill Is
Acted on; Exact Fig
ure Uncertain
Raleigh, March 20.—(AP)—Reve
nue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell
said today “it wouldn’t be bad news’’
that he will present to the State Sen
ate Appropriations Committee this
afternoon on income tax receipts.
“The figures jfcdll first be given
to the committee,’’ said Maxwell,
“and I will sys working on them
right up to i*MiQrt time. But you
can say that *sywon’t be bad news.”
The commissioner this morning
was figuring cflfeat estimates should
be for receipts fter the coming bien
nium, in view of unexpectedly large
receipts last week.
Record incqmc payments of sll,-
296,381 last yefir had led to estimates
of $10,700,000 fbr 1939-40, and sll,-
000,000 for 1940-41, but for this year
the estimate had been $8,775,000, due
to last year’s recession. Last week
receipts passed the $7,700,000 mark,
however, and apparently are still
climbing.
Maxwell will present the figures
before the committee resumes con
sideration of the administration
compromise appropriations' bill, pass
ed by the House last week.
Just before the committee met, it
was learned that the tax picture was
so bright it was not expected that
any highway funds would have to
be diverted to the general fund this
fiscal year.
That would indicate an excess* of
nearly $2,000,000 in general fund
receipts over original estimates. The
1939-41 budget was based on figures
including a highway fund transfer
of $2,000,000 this year. The fiscal
set-up for the next biennium was
based on a $2,200,000 general fund
balance, including the transferred
funds, and contemplated transfer
fit ■ %- ’•
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Two Slayers Get
Paroles at Hands
Os Governor Hoey
Raleigh, March 20.—(AP)—Gov
ernor Hoey gave paroles today to two
convicted, slayers.
Richard Crockett, given 12 to 18
years in Wayne county in August,
1936, for second decree murder, and
Walter Dennis, sentenced to six to
nine years in Stanley county in
April, 1937, for manslaughter and
hit-and-run, both were freed on the
basis of excellent records and many
clemency petitions.
Legation Os
U.S. Closed
At Prague
Washington, March 20.—(AP) —
The United States closed its lega
tion in Prague today and ordered its
minister to Czechoslovakia to return
to this country. The minister, Wil
bur J. Carr, was directed to turn the
legation over to American consular
officials in Prague, capital of the
latest country absorbed by Ger
many’s “march to the east.”
The order went from Washington
in the midst of a renewal of con
gressional debate over American for
eign policy.
The State Department also releas
ed a telegram from Carr, dated
March 17, which said:
“There are no officials of the
Czechoslovak government to which
I am accredited with whom I can
maintain relations for the protection
of the interests of the United States
and its citizens.”
committee confers with Commission
er of Revenue A. J. Maxwell and
Budget Director Bob Dayton this
afternoon.
One possibility is that the senators
may become so impressed with the
new estimates of increased revenue
possibilities that they will not only
accept the increases made by the
House under the governor’s com
promise, but will carry through with
new and additional appropriations
not contemplated in that much-dis
cussed pact.
With hai’d-headed economy-mind
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HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 20, 1939
To Supreme Court
LEWIS O. DOUGLAS
Douglas Is
Chosen For
High Court
Securities Head Given
Post b y Roosevelt;
President Drops Lift
ing of Legal Debt
Limit; Senators Want
Business Aid Despite
FDR
Washington, March . 20. —(AP) - —
President Roosevelt nominated Wil
liam O. Douglas, his No. 1 stock
market regulator, to be a member of
the Supreme Court today. He
chose the former Yale University
law professor, now chairman of the
Securities Commission, to succeed
Justice Louis D. Brandeis, who re
tired recently after a long career
that made him famous as a liberal.
Mr. Roosevelt also transmitted to
Congress a report by Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau that there
was no need to lift the present $45,-
000,000,000 legal limit on the public
debt. The report added that the
$30,000,000,000 on long-term bonds
should be removed, however, and
the President asked that Congress
take “such action as may be neces
sary.”
The administration continued ef
forts to obtain an additional appro
priation of $150,000,000 from Con
gress to carry on the WPA to July
1. Colonel F. C. Harrington, WPA
administrator, made public a state
bv-state list of reductions which he
said would have to be made in WPA
job quotas unless more money was
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Columbia Lumber
Blaze Damage Put
At About $60,000
Columbia, N. C., March 20.—(AP)
—A fire which did damage estimat
ed at between $60,000 and $75,000
was discovered at the Tyrrell County
Lumber Company Sunday afternoon.
A hot box in the dry kiln was
thought to have caused the’ con
flagration. The planing mill, two dry
kilns and all the mill equipment
were destroyed. Flames were finally
brought under control late Sunday
afternoon through the combined ef
forts of the Columbia, Plymouth and
Edenton fire departments.
Two box cars on n siding, one
empty and the other lilled with pine
lumber, were also destroyed.
Jerry Davenport, and J. W. Col
lins, two members of the Columbia
fire department, were injured.
Davenport was carried to a local
hospital with a head injury, but was
later released. Collins received minor
cuts and bruises and a shoulder in
jury when struck by falling timber.
Uzzell And
Cassey Want
Speakership
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By LYNN NISBET
Raleigh, March 20.—. Unlike the
two past legislatures, the present
session has failed to develop any
one or two outstanding candidates
for the next House of Representa
tives.
George Uzzell, of Rowan, has
cherished speakership ambitions for
some time and has quietly and dis
creetly let the world out that he
would like very much to have the
No. 3 license plate on his automobile
in 1941 and 1942. He has gotten
considerable assurance of support
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Roumania To Make Concessions;
Hitler To Take Memel This Week
King Carol Reviews His Troops
_ ___ ______
p 9 J
ai v li 9 HfeMHBHHI
■U* i n
King Carol of Rumania (right) is pictured with his son, Crown Prince Michael, reviewing troops in
Bucharest. The Rumanian Monarch is reported keeping his troops in readiness for any eventuality fol
lowing reported rejection of Nazi ultimatum which would give Berlin control of Rumania’s industries
British Program For Defense
To Be Revised Upward Again
Congress Is
Aroused On
Neutrality
Pittman Plan To Re
lax Rigid Law Ban
ning Arms Shipments
Draws Fire of Foes
Washington, March 20.—(AP) —
Sweeping proposals to revise the
neutrality act, coming in the midst
of Germany’s eastward march, re
opened today the fiery congression
al controversy pver American for
eign policy.
Administration officials wore sil
ent pending disclosure ftf a formal
protest to Germany over its absorp
tion of Czechoslovakia.
On Capitol Hill, however, legisla
tors quickly were taking sides for
or against a bill by Chairman Pitt
man, Nevada Democrat, of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee, to
let warring nations buy arms in this
country if they pay cash and ship
them under their own vessels. The
present law bans shipments when
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Moscow Very
Calm, Despite
German Dash
Moscow, March 20.—(AP) —Al-
though the Nazi steamroller advanc
ed last week to within several hun
dred miles of the Soviet Russian
border, Moscow has remained, as
usual, one of the calmest capitals in
the world.
Soviet citizens learned that their
government had refused to recog
nize Adolf Hitler’s absorption of
Czechoslovakia and had condemned
it as “arbitrary, .violent and aggres
sive,” there was no hint of panic at
the near approach of German troops.
It is against this background of
calm confidence in Moscow that the
chances of Soviet cooperation with
the western democracies must be
considered.
Vice Defense Commissar L. V.
Mekhli’s prediction was recalled as
especially significant today. In a
recent speech' he said any attempt
to invade Soviet Russia would re
sult in “multiplying the number of
Soviet republics.”
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Partly cloudy and warmer to
night; Tuesday fair, slightly
colder in northeast and extreme
north portion.
1938 Cotton Crop
11,941,702 Bales
. - — 1 ---
Washington, March 20.—(AP)
—The Census Bureau, in its final
cotton ginning report of the sea
son, said today that 11,941,702
equivalent 500-pound bales of cot
ton, exclusive of linters, had
been ginned from the 1938 crop.
Ginnings were 18.945,028 bales
in 1937, and 12,398,882 in 1936.
The Agriculture Department, in
its final estimate in December, es
timated the crop at 12,008,000
equivalent 500-pound bales for
1938.
The ginners by states, in equi
valent 500-pound bales for the
1938 crop, with comparative fig
ures for 1937, included: North
Carolina, 398,365 and 781,483.
Drys Again
Are Gaining
In Congress
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, March 20.—Senator
Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota
and Representative U. S. Guyer of
Kansas have a bill
apiece in Congress
seeking to re-pro
hibitionize the Dis
trict of Columbia.
This is the same
old camel, trying
again to get his
snoot under the
tent flap. The
camel won’t suc
ceed this time, but
he’s a persistent
animal. The.D. C.
is a small area,
neverthelss it’s the
main entrance to
jill
—
Frazier
the national big top. With the crit
ter’s nose once intrenched in Wash
ington, the whole critter is in a fair
way to shoulder himself, hump and
all, into the whole country. It hap
pened thus in war days. There were
plenty of dry states even then —more
than at present. However, the dry
idea was only local—statewide, or
less so; —until the District Was offer
ed as a good or awful example (de
pending on how one \x>ks at the
matter)' of federal proportions!
No individual wet state previously
had considered itself bound previ
ously to. pay any attention to the dry
rule in Kansas for instance. The Sun
flower commonwealth, in fact, was
regarded as a freak area, not to be
taken too seriously.
But the District of Columbia, tra
ditionally, has been looked at as the
entire republic’s proving ground for
all sorts of experiments in legisla
tion, regulation and taxation. This
reputation has made it a weird place
to live in. Nevertheless, with no
voice of their own in their donjestic
affairs, Washingtonians have had to
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One of Three Steps in
Answer t o Hitler’s
March Eastward;
‘ Russia, Poland * and
Balkans Invited Into
Bloc To Stop Germany
London, March 20.—(AP) —Prime
Minister Chamberlain told the House
of Commons today that Britain’s
colossal defense program would
again be reviewed as one of the
three British steps in answer to
Germany’s eastward drive in Eu
rope.
The British cabinet, meanwhile,
was reported by informed quarters
to have decided to communicate im
mediately with Soviet Russian, Pol
ish and southeastern European gov
ernments on formation of a united
fiont against aggression in Europe.
Labor and liberal opposition lead
ers were understood to have pledg
ed support for the government’s new
policy of resistance to any further
Nazi move toward European domi
nation.
In addition ,to communicating
with Moscow and Warsaw, the cabi
net was said to have decided on ap
proaches to Roumania, Yugoslavia,
Turkey and Bulgaria in its attempt
to weld “anti-aggressor” nations in
to, a bloc.
Prime Minister 'fchamberlain dis
closed to Parliament that Britain
was consulting with other nations
over the consequences of Germany’s
absorption of Czechoslovakia. The
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Michigan Governor
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Pictured above is Luren D. Dickin
son, 79, governor of Michigan fol
lowing death of Frank Dwight
Fitzgerald, who died in office. Dick
inson, too, is reported ill.
(Central Press)
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RoumaniaTo
Keep Rights
Politically
Return of Baltic Area
To Germany Question
Only of Days; Meet
ing of Diet Friday Ex
pected as Signal of
Transfer
Berlin, March 20.—(AP) —
Germany and Lithuania were re
ported today to have come to an
understanding on Germany’s
possible annexation of Memel.
The outcome of conversations
between Juozas Urbsys, Lith
' uanian foreign minister, and
Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ger
man foreign minister, was de
scribed as:
1. Germany will receive
Memel with open arms if and
when Memelanders make khown
their desire to get “home into the
Reich.”
2. Lithuania will consider her
self rid of unnecessary ballast.
The ostensible cause for Me- '
mel’s reunion with Germany,
however, will be Memel itself
and not Germany or Lithuania.
The Memel Landtag, meeting
March 25, is expected to raise
the cry of self-determination
with a demand to “get home to
the Reich.” Then Hitler’s march
ing columns would enter Memel
as liberators.
Bucharest, Roumania, March 20.
(AP) —Roumania appeared ready to
day to make economic concessions
to Germany, but stood firmly against
surrender of~any political rights. Ne
gotiations between Dr. Wilhelm
Wohlthat, German trade expert, and
the Roumanian finance ministry,
were taking place here. The discus
sions were said to be approaching a
conclusion in an “atmosphere of un
derstanding on both sides.”
But it was also asserted that tio
political problems or German-Rou
manian relations were being discuss
ed. Roumanians admitted that their
trade with Germany would be in
creased to a marked degree, but they
said that the complete German de
mands were not being met.
There was to be no yielding of any
political points, they insisted. It
was revealed that the German ab
sorption of Bohemia-Moravia con
siderably affected the Roumanian
military position. This is because
many of Roumania’s guns and other
military equipment were built by
the Skoda works, now in German
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Britain Asks
Firm Stand
Toward Foes
Anti - Aggression De
claration Proposed as
Stall Toward Hitler;
Halifax Bitter
London, March 20.—(AP)—Au
thoritative diplomatic quarters said
today Britain had proposed an anti
aggression declaration by herself,
France,, Soviet Russia and any other
nation willing to join a common
“Stop Hitler” front.
These quarters said the anti-ag
gression measure was offered as a
counter proposal to a Russian sug
gestion for a joint conference of dem
ocratic nations to consider means of
resisting possible German aggression.
It was not clear whether the Rus
sian proposal envisaged participa
tion of the United States in such a
conference. The view in London,
however, was that American par
ticipation would be welcomed if it
could be obtained.
Viscount Halifax, British foreign
secretary, accused Germany of “de
liberately provoking incidents to
create an excuse for an invasion of
Czechoslovakia.” In a speech packed
with angry words, he virtually ac
cused Germany of fomenting the
secession of Slovakia from the
Czechoslovak federation. He told the
House of Lords:
“I find it impossible to believe
that the sudden decision of certain
Slovak leaders to' break off from
Prague, which was followed so close
ly by their appeal for protection to
the German Reich was reached inde
pendently of outside influence.”