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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR BRITAIN. FRANCE TV Six Cars Plunge Into Torrent—Seven Dead 3jT • v y _______ . I | jraLg. Sf .mSMMWBKm mm .•;:'•;; ; MB|m1• <|B|BMp|B^^BH^Hff >** i|||| ■lr|-.~ F 9 Hr Ipyi® SH mt*-%m . jr mHw§ : '"\h? : W /Jp; : Jpt | \ : . s .;:;, , {MR.. T - ><ypr - :: ' 'JBmMHh f' —" II ■ ~ yßlSfe' ~ rfal FM^i^^^^^M^'in V| < mßii Mb? Ij&K&m .■jWeSfi V . . ~y; ''• v C3yc' v *s' v '^^^^S Here is the scene of tragedy eleven miles east of Vicksburg, Miss., after six automobiles, unwarned of the washed-out bridge (background) had plunged into the raging torrent. Seven bodies were recovered, with « others believed washed downstream. One of the victims can be seen in car. (Central Press)' Legislature Plans Final Adjournment In Early Morning Clipper Arrives In South France Marseilles, France, April 3. (AP)—The Yankee Clipper ar rived at the Marignane seaplane base here at 9:47 a. m. (4:47 a. in., eastern standard time) today after a brief flight from Biscarosse base, Bordeaux. The 42-ton Pan-American Air ways trans-Atlantic craft is due to fly tomorrow to Southampton, England, and then to the United States, completing a survey flight. Agriculture Row Believed Settled Now Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. (BY LYNN NESBET) Raleigh, April 3.—Officials of the State Department of Agriculture and of State College were happily con gratulating each other Saturday, and renewing pledges of further co-oper-* ative effort in working out a pro gressive program of agriculture in North Carolina. It appeared reasonably certain that the long months of disagreement and squabbling over duplication of effort control of test farms and supervision of marketing has come to an end. The legislature had just passed the bill carrying $165,000 for research work under direction of the college, and levying an additional fertilizer tax to yield $70,000 for the depart ment’s program of marketing, hog cholera control and soil testing. It has been evident all along that money was the root of the difficulty between the two State institutions. In the background, too, was some personal jealousy and political am bitions, the desire to control person nel and to claim credit for agricul tural accomplishments. The trouble started about the time the legislature convened with de mands from the Farm Bureau group in the east that the test farms now controlled by the department be turn ed over to the college for adminis tration, together with the money which the department collected from fertilizer inspection taxes for their operation. The department resisted the plan to make it just a tax col lector, and let the college expend the money. It was suggested that research money ought to come from the general fund of the State, but no serious effort was made in the early weeks of the assembly to obtain an appropriation for this purpose. Rath er a drive was centered on the agri cultural fund. When it appeared that personalities were jeoparadizing the whole program, one or two men step (Continued on Page Six) Mztwzt&mt Umlxt Slfsijatrh lrased wire mrpirmn TH,; Scrap Tobacco Fight Still Rages in Final Hours; Hike of Legis lators’ Pay to S9OO Is Proposed Raleigh, April 3.—(AP)—Legisla tive leaders laid plans today for the 1939 session of the General Assem bly to adjourn sine die at about one o'clock tomorrow morning. Lieutenant Governor W P. Hor ton and Speaker D. L. Ward said all legislative business should be out of the way a few minutes after mid night. Ward said he expected a new resolution to be offered this after noon changing the hour for ad journment from noon tomorrow to sometime around 1 a. m. The House Calendar Committee held a hearing this morning on a Senate bill to tax tobacco peddlers and itinerant tobacco dealers $250 if they buy scrap tobacco from farmers and truck it to market. The bill passed second reading in the House Saturday and will be up for third reading this afternoon. J. C. Lanier, of Greenville, ap pearing for independent . tobacco dealers asked that the SI,OOO license tax now imposed on scrap tobacco dealers be reduced to $250 to place them on the same basis with the peddlers and itinerant dealers. He said peddlers could truck any scrap tobacco they bought to out-of-State markets and escape any lax. Philip Whitley, Wendell ware houseman, contended that the bill was an effect to do away with scrap tobacco by taxation, and warned that elimination of scrap tobacco from the market might destroy the export tobacco business. Repre sentative Eagles, of Edgecombe coun (Continued on Page Four) Real Election Reform Made By This Assembly Daily Dispatch Bureau, Ii» the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, April 3.—ln past general assemblies election law reform, like the weather, was a subject for con versation rather than action; but the about-to-die gathering of law-mak ers this time translated a large part of the talk into accomplishment. In short, this time something : really was done about it. First and foremost, the absentee ballot law, cause of more than ninety per cent of the complaints of fraud, if not in fact the cause for much ac tual fraud, was completely and en tirely. wiped off the slate so far as primary elections are concerned. No more can Democrats or Repub licans vote in their party contests except by going to the polls in per son on election day. _ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED Soft Coal Mines Close From Strike 70 Percent of Work ers Remain Away from Jobs Pending Negotiation of New Contract ’ New York, April 3. (AP) — Seventy percent of the nation’s soft [ coal industry shut down today as ! more than 300,000 miners in the Ap . palachian area remained away from I work pending completion of negotia . tions for a new contract. Week-end attempts by a. sub-com ’ mittee of miners and operators to reach a new agreement to replace the old two-year contract that ex pired at midnight Friday were futile * despite an appeal of Secretary of Labor Perkins. J The works stoppage followed au | tomatically under the traditional | rule of the United Mine Workers, “no contract, no work.” J The 3,000-odd locals of the union ; were instructed to pull out all of the ; 338,000 miners affected, except for skeleton crews totaling 20,000 men. The daily payroll loss was estimated by Secretary Perkins at $1,500,000. [ The shutdown affected the bitu ! monu industry in Pennsylvania, West | Virginia, Ohio, eastern Kentucky, [ western Virginia, central Tennessee ' and some mines in Maryland and ! Michigan. Work continued under | temporary agreements in other soft ! coal fields except in Alabama, where an additional 20,000 miners faced ' idleness because of a deadlock over 1 a new contract. > ) (jJojcdhstii FOR NORTH CAROLINA. i Fair, slightly colder; frost in the interior tonight; Tuesday fair, continued cold. If the assembly had stopped right then and there, it would have done more than any other since 1929 when the . Australian ballot was adopted. But in addition to that radical re vision, the 1939 law-makers threw all sorts of safeguards around the use of the aosentee ballot in general elections. What the results will be in practice cannot be foreseen until after the 1940 pollings, but there is one thing certain, if there are any absentee frauds then the responsibil ity for them will rest squarely upon the shoulders of the county election board chairmen and nobody else. They are the key figures and there will not be any way for them to duck or dodge the onus of whatever real (Continued on Page Six) HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 3 1939 IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGIN^. BACK BERMAN FOES Congress Speeds Up Its Work To Hasten Final Adjournment 7 ~~ _ i_T Roosevelt Wants To Hurry Solons Away To Get Free Hand In Foreign Affairs; Sec ondary Proposals To Be Dropped by Lead ership. Washington, April 3. —(AP) — Congressional leaders began to speed up legislative machinery today in an apparent desire to sidestep con troversies and hasten adjournment. As the session began its fourth month, they noted that the Senate i and House have disposed of only five major bills, those authorizing gov ernment reorganization and army expansion and approving funds for the WPA, independent federal agen cies and for deficiency needs of va rious departments. Altogether, Congress has finished action on 45 measures out of 7,857, most of them minor ones, introduced in both chambers. As a result, leaders expressed de termination to drop secondary pro posals and stick largely to the pro gram outlined last week by Senator Barkley, Democrat, Kentucky. He estimated that at least two and a half more months would be required. This would mean side-tracking of some pet measure of anti-New Deal ers,including revision of the Wag ner labor relations act and of busi ness taxes. The rush for adjourn ment was said to result from seve ral causes, among them the fact that the New Deal legislative program was virtually completed last season, the increasing pressure of political considerations as 1940 approaches, and the factional differences among Democrats. - .. - Some legislators speculated, too, that the President might desire to end the session early in order to have a free hand in foreign affairs. Germany Accuses Chamberlain With Planning New War Berlin, April 3.—(AP) —A Nazi spokesman answered prime Minister Chamberlain’s new pledge to block European ag gression today with the asser tion that “England is attempt ing to lay the foundations for a new war which she will direct at the expense of others.” To the prime minister’s state ment that’ his policy was one of self-defense, the spokesman said: “The self-defense is on our side. Chancellor Hitler did not start a campaign for a preven tive war, but warned England and all others concerned that attempts to mix in Germany’s rightful spheres of influence would meet with resistance.” Glass Quick. To Defend Reserve Bank By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, April 3. —Any one who makes, in Senator Carter Glass’ presence, the slightest disparaging remark concerning | the Federal Re serve Board needs to have his guard up. The Virginia solon, as I guess most folk know, considers that he was the author of the law which cre ated that particu lar board. Various ot he r legislators have claimed to I have had a hand in it, but Senator! Glass always has | Glass insisted that it was his brain child exclusively. He loves it as a mother loves an angel baby. He’s positively ferocious whenever he’s on the war path, no matter on what subject, but when it’s the Federal Reserve Board he’s defending he’s downright tran scendent. I recall once when the late Senator Huey P. Long was panning the board. He certainly gave it all. The Virginian’s seat was a few desks removed from Huey’s stance. It was j evident that the former could barely I restrain himself from violence. Yet he was determined to appear so scornful as not to know even that anybody was speechifying. Accord ingly, he pretended to be reading a magazine, which he held bottom side-up in front of him. Clear up in . (Continued on Page Six) British-French Envoys To Return to Germany Paris, April 3. (AP) —£ircles close to the government said today that an early consultation between Britain and France was under con sideration for the return of the Bri tish and French ambassadors to Ber lin; The British ambassador, Sir i Neville Henderson, was instructed on March 17 to return to London “to report on Germany’s absorption of Czechoslovak territory.” Robert Coul ondre, the French envoy to Berlin, was summoned to Paris March 18 for an “explanation” of the Nazi coup. I The prospect of the return of the two ambassadors was generally in Senate Committee Won’t Increase Relief Figure Only Two Members Favor $150,000,000 Sum; Some Talk of Cutting $100,000,000 Voted by House i Washington, April 3.—(AP) A Senate appropriations sub-commit tee refused today to increase the $160,000,000 relief appropriation to $150 4 000,000, the figure recommend ed by President Roosevelt. The vote in the closed session reportedly was eight to two, with Senators McKel lar, Democrat, Tennessee, and Over ton, Democrat, Louisiana, supporting the higher figure. j After voting down the increase, the sub-committee deferred further action on the appropriation until to- Plan Renewal Roosevelt’s Money Power Washington, April 3.—(AP) —The House Coinage Committee approved a bill today to continue for two years the Treasury’s $2,000,000,000 stabili zation fund and the President’s pow er to devalue the dollar further. The measure also would renew for two years the presidential authority to provide for unlimited coinage of silver and the purchase of newly mined domestic silver at a price above the world level. Under present law, the three mone tary powers would expire next June 30. By approving the bill, by a vote which members said was nine to five, the committee wrote in an amendment to require the Treasury i to report to Congress once a year j on operations of the stabilization I fund. Committeemen said they expected j a fight when the bill reaches the - House floor against the silver pur chase and dollar devaluation pro- I visions. Opponents of the latter, chiefly Republicans, have contended the existence of authority to alter the gold content of the dollar had an unsettling effect on business. Voluminous Report j On German Bund Is Given by Murphy [ Washington, April 3.—(AP) —At- I torney General Murphy made public | today a 14-volume report on the German American Bund, which as- 1 serted that one of its principal ob jectives was “to foster Germanism and German ideals” in this country. The report was compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1937. It was given out at the sug gestion of Chairman Dies, Democrat, Texas, of the House committee on \ un-American activities. Dies, who has frequently charged Justice De l partment officials with failing to co j operate with his committee, has in troduced a bill which would require the department to make public all reports of Nazi and fascist activities in this country, but no action has been taken on the measure. The Bund report, which included 175 photographs, pamphlets and ex hibits contained no recommendations for action. _ L PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. terpreted as an indication of a reconciliation move. No further de tails as to the French-British inten tions or the possibility of develop ments to lessen the international tension were available immediately. Lebrun To Be Re-Elected Premied Daladier announced, how ever, that President Albert Lebrun would be a candidate for re-election in the presidential voting Wednes day. So much support for Lebrun was •apparent that his election for a second seven-year term by the na tional assembly of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies probably will become a formality. V morrow. Then, it was said, proposals to reduce the House-approved SIOO,- 000,000 appropriation will be consid- I ered. One member said that every sum from nothing to $100,000,000 was being discussed. Leaders conceded it was unlikely the Senate Appropriations Commit tee would increase the allotment, but they said a vigorous fight for the original sum would be made on the Senate floor. The President asked for the money to supplement WPA funds to provide for the fiscal year ending June 30. Belgium’s Fascists Are Beaten Brussels, Belgium, April 3.—(AP) —Belgium’s fascist party was shown by complete returns today to have i suffered a crushing defeat in yester day’s election. The party losts 17 of its seats in the 202-member Cham ber of Deputies, and seven of its 12 seats in the 167-member Senate. The pro-Nazi Heimattreue (faith ful to the homeland) front, which ran full tickets in the cantons of Eupen and Malmedy districts, ceded to Belgium by Germany at the end of the World War, failed to win a seat in either house of parliament. The liberal and Catholic parties each gained ten seats in the Cham ber and five and four seats, respec tively, in the Senate. The socialists lost six in the Senate and four in the chamber. The communists held their ground in the chamber and lost in the Senate. Continuing Education Study Asked Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter HoteL By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, April 3.—North Carolina’s future general assemblies, governors and educational departments will never be without benefits of the advice of a permanent commission which has made a thorough and complete study of the State’s educa tional system and needs, under terms of a joint resolution introduc ed by Senator Bob Mclntyre, of Robeson county, and approved by the current legislature Under it there will be appointed by the governor a commission of nine members, to be known as the commission on education, which will be a permanent body which can be terminated only by direct and spe cific action of some future Genera) Assembly. In addition, there will be an ad visory council of education “to con sist of twenty-five members, se lected by the governor as fairly rep (Continued on Page Six) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Denial Made Os Circling Os Germany Berlin Expresses Doubts if Britidh - French “Protection” for Poland and Rou mairia Will Win Those Nations; Rely on Hit ler Warning London, April 3.—(AP) —Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons today that the Anglo-French pledge of aid for Po land would be followed by similar commitments to other countries which stand in the way of any at tempt by Germany to dominate Eu rope. , . “I am no more a man of war today than I was in September,” Chamber lain said. “I have no intention and no desii'e to treat the German peo ple otherwise than I would have our people treated here. He said Britain was concerned to preserve not only the independence of this country, but of all states wnich might be threatened by ag gression. Chamberlain rejected a request for compulsory registration of Brit ish manpower, a step toward con scription, which he said would in terfere with the drive for recruits for an enlarged territorial army. London, April 3.—(AP)—Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax t6ld the House of Lords today that nothing could be further from the truth than German charges that Britain and France were trying to encircle her. His statement was made shortly after the British government indicat ed to the House of Commons that it was prepared to make a loan to (Continued on Page Four) FDR Watching Foreign Scene Very Closely Warm Springs, Ga., April 3. (AP) —President Roosevelt settled down to a vacation routine on the fourth day of his stay here today but continued his study of the inter national situation and important leg islation awaiting executive action. Among measures passed by Con gress on which he was waiting rou tine reports by government agencies before giving them expected ap proval were the $358,000,000 au thorization for strengthening the army and the government reorgani zation bill. The latter empowers the President to consolidate and shiff bureaus and to engage six more White House assistants to take much of the work off his hands. Thomas Corcoran, young presi dential consultant, ,who has been mentioned in speculation over the new SIO,OOO a year posts visited the President yesterday. TVA Given Clean Bill In Reports Dissension and Delays in Organization Laid on Ousted Chairman Morgan; Minority Re port Dissents from Findings t J.... —■i, ■ , Washington, April 3.—(AP) —The Tennessee Valley Authority won a clean bill of health today from a ma jority of the special congressional committee which conducted a year’s inquiry into the $500,000,000 New Deal agency. The bulky majority re port, filed today, ► declared that charges of dishonesty brought by for mer TVA Chairman Arthur E. Mor gan against the other two directors “are without foundation, not sup ported by the evidence, and made without due consideration of the available facts.” A minority report signed by Sen (Continued on Page Eight)
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