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service.
Britain Yet
Striving To
Stop Hitler
Chamberlain Tells
Commons, However,
Political Develop
ments Make Further
Progress Impossible in
Trade Talks With
Germany
London, March 28.—(AP) —Prime
Minister Chamberlain told the House
of Commons today that the govern
ment was actively continuing their
negotiations with other governments
on measures to keep Adolf Hitler
from further aggression. This devel
opment came after the government
had formerly announced to a cheer
ing House of Commons that “poli
tical developments made further pro
gress impossible” in trade talks with
Germany.
Oliver Stanley, president of the
Board of Trade, in discussing the
agreement recently reached between
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E. E. EUTSLER DIES
IN GOLDSBORO HOME
Goldsboro, March 28.—(AP) — E.
E. Eutsler, 63, veteran tobacconist,
died here today of paralysis. Funeral
services will be held here tomorrow.
Eutsler was manager of the Imperial
Tobacco Company’s Goldsboro plant
and had been located in Wilson and
Greenville before coming here. He
was a past president of the Golds
boro Tobacco Board of Trade. He
was a native of Virginia and grad
uate of Randolph Macon College.
New Plan Offered For
Extending City Limits
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.
BY IIENRY AVERILL
Raleigh, March 28.—There was un
animous agreement of the Senate
calendar committee that “there
ought to be a law” and so the Corey
bill providing ways and means of
extending city limits without re
course to the General Assembly re
ceived a one hundred per cent fa
vorable vote from that hard work
ing group Monday afternoon.
The measure sponsored by the
stout senator from Pitt, and endor
sed unofficially by the League of
Municipalities, would transfer the
biennial city extension headache
from the legislature to the Local?
Government Commission.
The only regret expressed by any
member of the calendar committee
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School Machinery Bill
Gets Favorable Sen
ate Committee Re
port; Both Houses
Hold to Ban on New
Bills After Last Mid
night
Raleigh, March 28.—(AP) — The
House today, 53 to 38, tabled and
killed the Senate bill to provide hos
pitalization for any person injured
in an automobile accident with funds
to be obtained by adding 30 cents to
the cost of automobile licenses.
Injured persons would have re
ceived $3 a day for 21 days toward
paying their hospital expenses.
The Senate received from its edu
cation committee a recommendation
that it enact the important school
machinery act just as it passed the
House. The bill sets up the pattern
for operating all public schools.
The House sent to the Senate the
Seeley bill to permit citizens of
Morehead City to decide at the polls
if they want to legalize pari-mutual
betting and horse and dog racing.
Whisky Bill Frowned On.
A second unfavorable report was
given by the Senate Finance Com
mittee to the measure by Represen
tative Quinn, of Duplin, which was
designed to prohibit wholesale ship
ments of tax-paid whisky into dry
counties.
Twenty-one counties were includ
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Firm at Winston
Buys County. And
City Obligations
Raleigh, March 28.—(AP)—Wil
liam B. Greene Company, of Win
ston-Salem, bought $71,500 of Ran
dolph and Town of Marion bonds to
day at Local Government Commis
sion sales.
The Scottish Bank of Lumberton
bought $25,000 Lumberton street im
provement bonds at a premium of
$9.25, with interest at 2 1-2 percent.
, Revenue anticipation note sales in
cluded, S7OO Bailey, to the National
Bank of Wilson at par with six per
cent interest.
State Bureau
Os Identity
Is On Trial
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
(BY LYNN NESBET)
Raleigh, March 28.—There is an
undercurrent of feeling around the
Capitol, cropping out in frequent con
versations about the probable fate
of the department of justice bill, that
the State bureau of identification
and investigation is sort of on trial
before the court of public opinion.
This is the newest major division
in the State government and is fi
nanced by the collection of fifty
cents on every bill of cost in every
criminal action in courts from jus
tice of the peace on up. JP courts
were added to the collecting agencies
by the present General Assembly.
The division has been of great help
to law enforcement officers in finger
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was.that it comes so late in the ses
sion.
The bill provides machinery for
holding elections at any time they
are approved and ordered by the lo
cal government commission, that
group to act under stated circum
stances and after public hearing.
In brief, here’s how a city would
go about extending its limits:
Each city would be mapped, with
areas immediately adjoining its
limits laid off in squares of 2,000 feet
sides.
Whenever twenty per cent of pro
perty owners within one or more of
these squares, or whenever the gov
erning body of any city, shall peti
tion the Local Government Commis
sion for extension to take in any
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND '
France Will Refuse
To Negotiate With
Italy On Territory
Paris, March 28.—(AP) —France
will refuse to negotiate if Italy ad
vances claims for French territory,
sources close to the government said
today. Furthermore, the French are
disinclined to open any negotiations
until Italy clearly states exactly
what she does want.
This, informed sources predicted,
will be the thesis of a speech Pre
mier Daladier is to make tomorrow,
and which, in effect, will be an an
swer to the speech by Premier Mus
solini last Sunday.
The Italian’s premier’s references
to problems with France in Djibouti,
the Suez Canal, Tunisia and the
Mediterranean, were considered by
many in France as vague references
Budget Will
Be $300,000
Over-Spent
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL
Raleigh, March 28—The current
General Assembly seems sui'e to
authorize expenditures of almost
$200,000 for each year of the com
ing biennium, over and above the
total carried in the big appropria
tions bill passed last week.
A brief summary made in calen
dar committee of the Senate during
yesterday’s session showed $589,000
already approved by the commit
tee or on the Senate calendar with
out formal approval of the group.
The sum is made up as follows:
C. C. C. camps $ 70,000
Department of Justice .... 20,000
Fish hatchery 60,000
Library 100,000
Cape Hattcras National park 20,000
Forestry service 10,000
Apprentice school ... 9,000
Eastern N. C. sanatorium . . 10,000
Japanese beetle extermination 30,000
Experiment stations .... 180,000
Bang’s disease control .... 80,000
Total $589,000
All of these items except that for
the *experiment stations have been
given favorable reports by the cal
endar committee, and the except
ed item is even nearer enactment,
having been placed directly on the
Senate calendar without committee
reference and having already pass
ed its second reading.
Chairman Bill Rodman of the
calendar group, who previously
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HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 28,1939
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Expressing her appreciation of American liberty, Elizabeth Zak, dressed
in the costume of her native Czecho-Slovakia, kisses the flag, while Marion
Fiala looks on. The ceremony occurred during the “Stop Hitler” parade
in New York City, in which 20,000 persons marched while 500,000
spectators cheered. (Central Press /
Also Disinclined To Open Any Negotiations
Until Italy States Exactly Just What She Is
After; Claim Mussolini Wks Not Specific
to demands which should be specific
before France would be willing to
talk over them. .If Daladicr’s speech
to the nation follows these lines, it
will consitute a radical departure
from the “Munich group” in the cab
inet, which was reported in the
minority at a meeting of the cabinet
yesterday.
The French press said that For
eign Minister Georges Bonnet and
four others advocated opening nego
tiations with Italy immediately on
the basis of Mussolini’s speech. The
majority, however, led by Daladier,
opposed such a move, which they
condemned as an exhibition of weak
ness before Mussolini’s boast ol
Italian strength. .
Pay Boosts
Voted State
Officialdom
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.
By IIENRY AVERILL
Raleigh, March 28. —The Senate
calendar committee maintained its
record of approving every official
salary increase asked of it, except
for Commission of Agriculture W
Kerr Scott
And even in his case there were
obvious signs of relenting, members
themselves pointing out the gross
inconsistency of the committee’s ac
tion in refusing to increase the Scott
stipend while at the same time (al
most in the same breath) hiking pay
for Farole Commissioner Edwin
GUI and providing very short there
after for “additional pay” of $1,500
annually for Utilities Commissioner
Stanley Winborne
There were also signs that the
committee can’t stand against the
pressure of superior court judges
who. are seeking $2,000 annual “ex
pense money” in place of the $1,500
now allowed them
The committee has reported un
favorably a bill to increase the Scott
salary and the judges expense bill;
but has reported favorably on a
measure allowing the governor to
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy, somewhat cold
er in east and central portions
tonight and Wednesday; oc
casional rains Wednesday.
Spanish War Ended
With Capitulation
Os Ancient Capital
White Flags Are Run
Up as Nationalist Ban
ners Appear; Repub
lican Leaders Are In
Flight; Populace Jub
ilant as Peace Returns
Paris, March 28.—(AP)—Na
tionalist leaders, broadcasting
from the union radio station in
the heart of surrendered Madrid
this afternoon, announced the
complete military occupation of
the capital.
Madrid, March 28.—(AP)
War-weary repußlTcan Madrid
surrendered to triumphant na
tionalist Spain today, and the
savage civil war which fright
ened Europe for nearly three
years was'all but over.
White flags of surrender, mingled
with nationalist emblems, broke out
throughout the city early today as
leaders of the national defense coun
cil fled. Not a shot was fired when
listless soldiers of the defeated re
publican regime laid down their
arms.
Capitulation in the conflict, which
lasted two years and eight months,
and cost hundreds of thousands of
lives, came on orders of Colonel
Adolfo Prada, the republican army’s
new commander. General Jose
Miaja, “savior of Madrid,” and his
war minister had gone to Valencia.
It seemed certain that no attempt
at resistance would be made.
An estimated 60,000 jubilant fas
cists celebrated in the streets of this
city, which had been under siege
since November 6, 1936. Madrid’s
famous “fifth column,” Generalis
simo Francisco Franco’s sympathiz
ers, who risked their lives to spy
for him during the war, came into
the open
Released from the strain of war,
people rushed frantically about the
streets, dancing and embracing each
other. Nationalist troops by noon
had not formally taken over the
center of the city
General Franco was expected to
make a triumphal entry after “clean
up” operations.
The surrender followed long and
secret negotiations with the nation
alist commander by a national de
fense council, which was formed to
succeed the republican government
of Premier Negrin after Franco had
oushed the Catalonian army into
France following his capture of Bar
celona.
Worst Fighting
For Five Months
Raging In China
Shanghai, March 28.—(AP)
The most intensive fighting of
the past five months in the China
war is in progress 120 to 150
milos southwest and southeast
of Haniow as the consequence of
a major Japanese offensive. Both
Japanese and Chinese accounts
today indicated that casualties
were very heavy.
Late last night the Japanese
army announced it had finally
taken Hanseling in a sffven-day
40-mile drive. Chinese insisted
the attackers were checked north
of the city.
The Chinese acknowledged
that hand-to-hand fighting con
tinued. They said they accounted
for more than 1,000 Japanese
casualties. Japanese said that in
three days of the offensive 3,-
700 Chinese were killed and 770
captured.
In northern Honan province,
west of the Peiping-Hankow rail
way, Chinese estimated they
caused 1,500 casualties in 40 en
gagements in the past two weeks.
Banker Indicted
With Judge Manton
Makes Guilty Plea
New York, March 28. —(AP) —
John L._ Lotsch, former executive of
the Fort Greene National Bank in
Brooklyn, who was indicted with
the former Federal Circuit Court
Fudge Martin T. Manton, on charges
of conspiracy to obstruct justice,
beaded guilty today in Federal
court.
Judge Murray Hulbert paroled
botsch in the custody of his attorney
T . Warren Lee, for sentencing May
15.
United States Attorney John Ca
hill told the court that Lotsch had
been of material help to the govern
ment, and that he “would be of
much more help before *the Manton
case is closed.”
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
DUCE WARNS FRANCE
ON AFRICA
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Premier Mussolini is shown as he
celebrated the 20th anniversary of
Italian Fascism by an address in
Rome in which he warned that Italy
is prepared to fight for recognition
of her “sacred rights” and called on
France for satisfaction of her Medi
terranean and East African aspira
tions. Photo telephoned to London
and flashed by radio to New York.
Spanish War
Ended, Says
Mussolini
II Duce Smiles as
Crowds Under His
Window Shout for
Tunisia, French Col
onial Possession i n
Africa That Italy
Wants
Rome, March 28.—(AP) Pre
mier Mussolini told cheering thou
sands gathered under his balcony to
light that the Spanish war “is fin
ished with the defeat of bolshevism”.
“Thus will all enemies of Italy and
ascism finished,” he declared.
Shouts of “Tunisia! Tunisia!” went
ip from the crowd when 11 Duce
appeared, and continued until he
spoke
Mussolini smiled and some pres
ent thought they saw him nod at
bis reference to France’s north Af
ican protectorate, where Italy wants
concessions.
NEGRO MAN BURNED ,
TO DEATH AT DUNN
Dunn, March 28.—(AP) —A 24-
vear-old Negro man was found
burned to death after a residential
ire here today from which six other
persons escaped. Coroner Melvin
McLean identified the man as
Booker T. Bethune
FDR Authorizes Two New
45,000-Ton Battleships
Washington, March 28.—(AP)
The White House announced today
that President Roosevelt had given
the Navy authority to build two bat
tleships of 45,000 tons each.
The Navy, which has authority un
der a 1938 bill to build three new
battleships, is asking Congress now
for funds to start work on two of
them.
The White House said the Presi
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Cox Claims
Sabotage On
Immigration
Georgia Democrat
Says Labor Depart
ment Tampering With
Legislation; Action
j Delayed on Release of
Government - L o a n
Cotton
Washington, March 28.—(AP) —
Representative Cox, Democrat, Geor
gia, accused the Labor Department
today of trying to “defeat” the im
migration law. He made the state
ment at hearings before the House
Rules Committee, of which he is a
member, on a‘ resolution directing
the immigration committee to study
fall immigration, naturalization and
j deportation laws and investigate the
I smuggling of aliens into the United
j States.
The Rules committee had endors
ed the measure previously, but re
considered it after opposition deve
loped in the House.
Cox sai J d there was talk that the
Labor Department was responsible
for the absolution. Representative
Schulte, Democrat, Indiana, author
of the measure, and prospective
chairman of the inquiry, said the de-
I
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Eight Women Are
Nabbed In Poland
As Propagandists
Warsaw. Poland, March 28.
(AP). —Polish authorities arrest
ed eight women at Bydgosz to
day on charges of spreading false
news about Polish treatment of
Germans. D. N. 8., official Ger
man news agency, published a
dispatch yesterday from Bydgosz
which said German women and
children were beaten on the
streets for speaking their mother
tongue. Polish authorities said
such stories were exaggerations.
Rallies were held throughout
the country to stress the people’s
readiness to defend Poland a
gainst aggression, and the press
reported many contributions to
the nation’s defense fund from
organizations and individuals,
including an unidentified fam
ily in Los Angeles, Cal.
I Slovaks And
; Hungarians
| End Parleys
Budapest, Hungary, March 28.
| (AP) —Boundary negotiations be
! tween Hungarian and Slovak com
missions were broken off today as
fighting broke out anew along the
disputed frontier between Slovakia
and Hungary’s newly-acquired Car-
I patho-Ukraine.
j The negotiations were interrupted
| suddenly when the Slovaks decided
to return to Bratislava, their capital.
I Artillery engagements broke out
! again in the Lahore river valley, and
at least two men of the Hungarian
forces, which marched into the dis
puted area last week, were reported
killed. Although clothed with full
power to enter into an agreement
with Hungary, the Slovak delega
tion refused *to accept the terms of
fered by Hungary before first con
| suiting with their government.
One report here was that the set
tlement suggested by Hungary was
dictatorial and involved cession to
j Hungary of a large section of the
Slovak state formed a fortnight ago
| when the Czechoslovak state col
lapsed.
The Slovak commissioners said
they would return to Budapest after
i consulting with leaders in Bratislava.
dent gave authority for the ‘45,000-
ton ships, largest ever to, be con
structed bv the United States, to Ad
miral Wiiham Leahy, chief of Qgval
operations, about two months ago.
At that time, it was said, informa
tion reached this country that cer
tain other nations intended to build
45.000-ton capital ships. Under the
1938 construction act, the President
had the discretionary power to meet
any such tonnage.