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HENDERSONS POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR HITLER HINTS AT END OF HIS CONQUESTS Explosive Spots in Europe : * ea ~—liSll Uj:pdji c warsaw | . \d ’ [GERMANYI |£PJ-AN p | J> °toris_V 1 ? iF'RANCEI? @ 1 ~K >sr >/sWiT7EfeLl,!il:V'. U V *) a Belgrad^^^Ccfiores^© ■ ■■■ i ?jBULGARIA|g Return of Memel (A) assured to Germany following Lithuania capitu lation to Reich demands, leaves these eruptive points in a simmering Europe. Forty-two divisions of Germans were reported clustered in Moravia (B), Hungarians massed near northern Rumanian frontier (C), and Bulgarians near southern Rumanian frontier (D). Shooting of a German in Brasov (E), Rumania, stirred apprehension of an inter national incident. Legislature Gives Time To Local Bills Solely Act Naming Towns ville Road William S. Corbitt Highway Is Approved; Members Enjoy Fish Fry Honor ing Speaker Ward Raleigh, March 23.—(AP) — The legislature passed 61 local bills in one division or the other, and recessed today without acting on a single statewide bill, so the members could honor Speaker Ward, of Craven, at a fish fry. Several score Craven cit izens were here. Both divisions voted to hold late f3:30 p. m.) afternoon sessions to take up general bills on the calen dars. The House had just started con sideration of the important school machinery act when members decid ed it was time to stop. Representative Johnston, of Ashe, House education chairman, had ex plained the measure, designed to be come a continuing law instead of having to be enacted anew each bien nium, sets up the pattern for opera tion of all public schools. The House set for special order to morrow the biennial revenue ma chinery act, which permits the levy of taxes by the municipalities and 100 counties. The House received from its labor committee a compromise bill to re gulate hours of work in intrastate business. The group was told that the measure followed suggestions of Governor Hoey after conferences with labor and employer represen tatives. Senator Long, of Halifax, intro duced a bill to prevent indigent per sons from receiving treatment at State tubercular sanatoria unless they have been residents of the State (Continued on Page Four) BLUE MOLD FOUND IN WAYNE COUNTY Goldsboro, March 23. (AP) — Farm Agent C. S. Mintz said today blue mold had appeared in tobacco beds in northwestern Wayne county. He said the mold had infected small plants, adding that it was unusual for the disease to appear in the weed until after some growth. Place Check On New Bills In Assembly Daily Dispatch Burcan In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, March 23. Seventeen members of the current General As sembly were yesterday named to full time jobs, but unfortunately for this year a score of law-makers the posi tions involved nothing but plenty of hard work, a whole lot of criticism, no thanks whatever and, worst of all, no pay. The seventeen referred to are the nine House members and eight sena tors named on the calendar commit tees of the two branches yesterday. In the House they are:: Raymond (Continued on Page Four) lirunersmt Hailu Stsuafrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTHCAROLINA AND ' LEASEE) WIRE SERVICE OF iHJi, ASSOCIATED PRESS. German-Slovakia Treaty Is Signed Berlin. March 23. (AP) —A treaty concluded today between Germany and Slovakia provides tfiat Slovakia retain its status of an “autonomous sovereign state”. Germany establishes no formal protectorate over the region, as she did in the case of Bohemia and Moravia, but agrees to protect it in case of any attack from any side whatsoever. Slovakia will have its own foreign minister and diplomatic representatives abroad, according to the treaty. New Fuel On Fight Over Agriculture Daily Dispatch Bureau, Id the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, March 23. —Another bit of fire was lit under the always boiling kettle of discord between the Department of Agriculture and State College yesterday with in troduction of a Senate bill designed to set up a board to advice with the director of the North Carolina Ex periment Station as to policies. Composition of the board sought in this act differs radically from the personnel set up in a previously-of tered bill dealing with coordination of the activities of department and college, with the principal differ ence lying in the fact that yester day’s bill would specifically put Dean I. O. Schaub of State College on the board, while under the ear lier measure he not only wasn’t spe cifically put on, but the measure was (Continued on Page Three) ‘ “ " 5" Hoey Names Group For Fayetteville Event on Nov. 21 Raleigh, March 23.—(AP) —Gov- ernor Hoey appointed five men to day to participate in the celebration November 21 of the 150th anniver sary of the State’s ratification of the Federal Constitution. He selected former Governor Cameron Morrison, of Charlotte; At torney General McMullan; Presi dent Frank Graham, president of the University of North Carolina; Judge I. M. Meekins, of the eastern North Carolina Federal court dis trict, and Congressman Bayard Clark of Fayetteville. The governor commented: ' “It is interesting to note that -in November, 1789, many noteworthy things happened at Fayetteville, N. C., including the ratification of the Federal Constitution, the granting of a charter to the University of North Carolina, the ceding by the state of Tennessee and the meeting of the Grand Lodge of Masons. In addi tion to this, November will mark the 200th anniversary of the settlement of the Upper Cape Fear by the Scotch and Fayetteville is planning a great celebration.” HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 23, 1939 Delay Voted On Solution For Cotton Congress Will At tempt To Cooperate With Wallace In Handling of Huge Government Loan Surplus Washington, March 23. —(AP) — Senator Barkley, Democrat, Ken tucky, announced today that Sen ate and House agriculture leaders had agreed to delay legislation deal ing with the cotton surplus situation. The Senate majority leader said members of Congress would attempt to cooperate with Secretary Wal lace on some plan for creating the pioblem created by government loans on more than 11,000,000 bales of cotton. Barkley said Chairman Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, of the Senate Agriculture Committee, had agreed to delay consideration of Smith’s bill dealing with the prob lem which had been scheduled for today. Senator George, Democrat, Geor gia, however, said he would ask the Senate to record its disapproval of any export subsidy plan for cotton unless he was assured the adminis tration would drop such plans. Other developments: The House Appropriations Com mittee rejected President Roosevelt’s request to cut farm benefit pay ments thirty percent, and asked Congress to appropriate $750,000,000 to promote agricultural recovery, "essential to the complete restora tion of our national economy.” The item was part of $1,067,275,427 agri cultural appropriation for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1939. The Agriculture Department re ported American tobacco producers (Continued on Page Four) Fair Trade Act Killed In the House Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By LYNN NISBET Raleigh, March 23.—Being unable to determine whether Senate Billl 75, locally known as “Sandy Gra ham’s bill”, was an unfair sales act or a fair sales act, and if so, who it was fair or unfair to or with, House members just washed their hands of the whole business yesterday by re turning a three-to-two vote against it. Mr. Bryant, of Durham, adminis tered several knock-out blows to the (Continued on Page Four) OPEN BIDS APRIL 18 ON HILLSBORO ROAD Raleigh, March 23.—(AP) —Chief Highway Engineer Vance Baise said today that bids would be received April 18 for grading and surfacing of four miles of Route 57 near Hills boro, in Orange county, and for similar work on about four miles of a Pitt county road from Fountain to the Wilson line. South Factor In Sales Os New Pickles Washington, March 23. —(AP) — Congress learned today that the “bread and butter pickle” industry in the South is reaching “sizeable” proportions. Dr. Henry G. Knight, chief of the Agriculture Department’s Bureau of Chemistry and Engineering, told the House Appropriations Committee during hearings on the 1940 agri culture appropriations bill that cu cumber pickles from North Caro lina were now available all year. , , He said it had been found that by proper control of the brine, pickles could be produced satisfactorily in the South as far down as North C'arblina, whereas, five or six years ago it was thoroughly impossible to make pickles in the southern states. “The temperature is much high er in the southern states, and that was a problem that apparently‘could not be solved for a while,” Dr. Knight testified, “but now they are producing a fine grade of fermented pickle from that area.” Scores ''Lawlessness” of German Seizures B if It nk ' -188 w -v .£/ >-w Hr" mm jYr jfl ijyj Jiff ipf J|| iP*| Rlßyj '3m if 1 gWfaM W Sumner Welles (center), acting Secretary of State, is pictured in his Washington office as he received the P Czp?hn i^ de i? Üb | | C Co . nten J s of " ote sent t 0 Germany. The U. S., said Welles, considers Hitler’s taking of Lzecho-blovakia illegal, and condemns Germany’s acts as “wanton lawlessness and of arbitral./ foice.” Chamberlain Hints Hitler Is Aiming Beyond Rule of Europe London, March 23.—(AP) —Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons today that Germany’s recent diplomatic actions raised the question whether Germany were “perhaps planning to go even furth er” than to try to dominate Europe. The prime minister added: “Were this interpretation of the intention pf the German government to prove correct, His Majesty’s gov ernment bound to say that as similar attempts have done in the past, this would rouse the successful resistance of this and other countries who prize their freedom.” Chamberlain rejected a suggestion Slovaks In Protest To Hungarians Budapest, March 23.—(AP) —The Slovakian government today pro tested to Hungary against the entry of Hungarian troops into Slovakia and drew a reply that the vague status of the boundary was respon sible. The Slovakian protest said that Hungarian troops had crossed the frontier from Carpatho-Ukraine, oc cupied by Hungary last week in the break-up of Czechoslovakia, and had engaged in military action on Slovakian soil. Count Csaky, Hungarian foreign minister, in reply, told Slovakia, which is under Reichfuehrcr Hitler’s prot9ction as “an autonomous sov ereign state,” that her eadern fron tier had never been fixed and that (Continued on Page Three) Negro to Get Further Trial Raleigh, March 23.—(AP) —James Page, Negro, will get a new trial on charges that he raped Mary McGann, a showgirl, in Beaufort county. The State Supreme Court, in grant ing yesterday the appeal for another trial, held that some of the testimony on which the Negro was convicted was “harmful and prejudicial.” The prosecuting witness was de scribed in superior court as a young widow away from home, working to support herself and a small child. The Negro was described as a “fol lower of the show.” Associate Justice Schenck wrote in the opinion that “it would take little, under these circumstances, to arouse in the minds of the jury, sym pathy for the prosecutrix and to ex cite therein prejudice against the ac cused.” WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, not so cold in interior and north portion tonight; Fri day fair, warmer except i:i ex treme southwest portion. by Sir Alfred Beit, government sup porter, that he proposed to France, Belgium, Australia and the Union of South Africa that they incorporate tiie former German colonial posses sions which they now hold under mandate from the League of Na tions. Chamberlain’s reply was: “No, sir. I do not think the suggestion would have the effect that my friend has in mind.” Sir Alfred argued that his propo sal would be “an answer to German aggression in Europe.” Meanwhile, France is taking the lead in trying to get a wavering Po land to join France, Britain and So viet Russia in a united front against Roumanian Border Rocked by Quakes Budapest, March 23.— (AP) Earth shocks in the region near the Roumanian frontier threw Thousands of civilians and some of the soldiers massed on the borders into a short-lived panic today. The shocks continued for forty minutes. The center was at Debreczem, where many troops are concen trated. Several chimneys top pled, plaster fell from ceilings and pictures from walls. Excited villagers, thinking war had begun with a nearby bom bardment, leaped from their beds and ran to the streets seeking safe places. Some rushed into ceilers. Order was restored after a short time, and reports from the re gion said the earthquake had caused but slight damage. Funds Asked To Fight New Tobacco Pest Washington, March 23.—(AP) — Congress received today a warning that the tobacco industry will lose millions of dollars unless funds are made available for control of tobacco pests. Tne warning was contained in the published record hearings of a House sub-committee considering the Agri culture Department appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1940. It was given by representatives of tobacco states. Through tobacco state congressmen the tobacco industry has requested an appropriation of $25,000 to com bat a new pest, known generally as the tobacco moth. This insect, the committee was told, formerly was confined principally to storage ware houses of the large tobacco com panies, but in the last year has spread to pack houses drf individual tobacco industry was estimated by James L. Ficklen, president of the Tobacco Association of the United States, at $5,000,000. The $25,000 requested would be in (Continued on Page Four) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Germany, political circles understood It was said further that France, through her Foreign Minister Bon net, who is here with President Leb run of France, wanted Britain to agree to Polish demands for an out right military alliance with Britain as the price of Polish membership in the anti-Hitler front. (Germany and Poland now have an anti-aggression pact.) • France was reported in political circles here (although Paris lacked confirmation) to have given reassur ances that she was ready with Bri tain, mutually to protect, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland in west ern Europe in the event of aggres sion against those small countries. Hines Given 4 to 8 Years New York, March 23.—(AP) — James J. Hines, 62, a power in Tam many politics for 26 years, was sen tenced today to four. to eight years imprisonment, on his conviction on lottery conspiracy charges in connec tion with the late Dutch Schultz’s numbers racket. Judge Charles Nott, Jr., suspend ed sentence of one to tv/o years on the first count in the 13-count indict ment, a. misdemeanor charging, con spiracy. On each of the first four felony counts, Judge Nott sentenced the Tammany district leader to not •less than one year nor more than two years, the sentences to run conse cutively. On the last eight felony counts, Hines received one to two years to run concurrently with the pervious felony count sentences. “If it were pot for your age,” said the judge, in passing sentence, “I would not be so lenient with you. The evidence showed you were paid (Continued on Page Three) European Strife Makes Orphans of Ambassadors By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, March 23.—About as forlorn an individual as one can think of is a diplomat far, far from his native land, whose home gov ernment has just blown up, leaving him a foreign re presentative with nothing to repres ent. Minister Vladi mir Hurban, o f what was Czecho slovakia, is in this fix in Washington now. Uncle Sam has had a number of such derelects on his hands in recent years. A Hurban diplomat whose government falls out with ours, even to the extent of go- 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Memel Talk Viewed As Assurances Fuehrer Welcomes Baltic Port into Ger man Reich and Says No Power Will Dis solve New Union; Promises Protection to Area ’ Memel, March 23. (AP) Adolf Hitler concluded a two hour visit to this Baltic port, lat est addition to his expanding realm, when he departed at 4 p. m., today aboard a torpedo boat for an undisclosed destina tion. Memel, March 23.—(AP)—Adolf Hitler formally welcomed Memel ter ritory into the expanding German Reich today, after receiving a tre mendous welcome here. A few minutes after the fuehrer landed at his new Baltic port, he told Memellanders from a theatre balcony: “In the name of the entire Ger man people, I greet you and accept you into the great German Reich. Even if our course does not please another world, for this new Germany some 80,000,000 stand sponsor. “You are a frontier land and will best appreciate having a great nation behind you. A new community has sprung from need and aciversity. That no other power shall ever sub jugate us—for this we shall look out. “So I greet you today as members of the German community—and as the youngest citizens. And just as in this minute, throughout the whole (Continued on Page Three) Italy’s King Say.: France Knows Claim Has Been Advised of Italian Demands, Vit terio Emanuele Tells Nation’s Legislators; Pope Pleads for Peace Rome, March 23. (AP) —King Vittorio Emanuele told the new streamlined legislature today that Italy had notified France of questions dividing them, giving some of his lis teners the impression his government was awaiting French moves toward settlement. His Majesty, in a speech from the throne, also said Italy wanted peace to lust “as long as possible”, so she could develop her African empire, but he declared it was necessary to continue rearming “in the sky, on the land and on the sea.” Because the speech had the ob vious approval of Premier Mussolini, diplomats considered it of hopeful significance. “Regarding France,” the king said, “my government has made known (Continued on Page Three) ing to war with us, isn’t in such bad shape. In a situation of that sort it’s a point of honor for any government to see that the opposition govern ment’s emissary in its midst is sent home in style. Back in World War days, although we deported German Ambassador Count Von Bernstorff, we did it with every formal mark of respect; we treated him as a sure enough mogul so long as he was on the job. But a diplomat whose domestic .rulership pops overnight is left m the position of a man who has had the ground suddenly jerked from under Mm, with no place to land as he falls. He isn’t recalled. He simply is terminated. He goes to bed an am bassador or a minister (extremely prominent in official Washington) and he wakes up—nothing; country - (Continued on Page Three)
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