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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-sixth year ITALY Legislature Ends After Voting Peak Spending By State Louisburg Sells SIB,OOO of Bonds Raleigh, April 4.—(AP)— R. S. Dickson & Company, of Raleigh, and Southern Investment Com pany. of Charlotte, today bought St 13.000 Lenoir county court house bonds sold by the Local Government Commission. The firms paid a premium of $27 with interest on the first $33,000 of maturities, to be four percent, and 3 3-4 percent on the remainder. A Beaufort county $1,250 . six months revenue anticipation note was sold the Bank of Aurora at par with two percent interest. The commission approved issu ance of SIB,OOO municipal build ing bonds by Louisburg, which have been approved by the voters. Benny Pays SIO,OOO Fine In Smuggling Radio-Screen Come dian Pleads Guilty To Bringing-In Jewelry for His Wife and Part ner, Mary Livingstone New York, April 4.—(AP) —Jack Benny, noted radio and screen co median, pleaded guilty to smuggling charges today and was fined a total o SIO,OOO and given a suspended sentence of one year and a day in prison. He was placed on probation tor two years. New York, April 4.—(AP) —Jack Benny, radio stage and screen co median, threw himself upon the mercy of the Federal court today and admitted his guilt to charges of smuggling, based upon his purchase o’ $2,131 worth of jewelry as a gift for Mary Livingstone, his wife and partner. Benny’s New York attorney, C. E. Newton, approached the bench when court convened. He looked at Judge Vincent Leubell and sais: "The defendant asks permission t< change his plea.” The judge glanced down at him tind Benny, who was waiting ner vously. ‘ Is this the defendant?” he asked. "Yes, sir,” replied Newton, indi cating Benny. * The comedian was wearing a natty biown suit and wine-colored tie. How do you plead?” asked the judge. "Guilty,” said Hollywood’s fa mous voice in loud tones. ‘ To all three counts of the indict ment?” "Yes, sir.” Benny reached New York by Plane last night from California, and arrived at the Federal court house about 10 a. m. Few persons were immediately aware of his arrival, but when word spread a crowd of (Continued on Page Four) Legislative Pay Increase Bill Is Lost Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. By LYNN NISBET Raleigh, April 4. Evidently agreeing, for once, with Represen tative Page of Bladen in his state ment that the people of North Carolina don’t think the members of the General Assembly are worth Ihe money they are now paid, the House Monday voted down the pro posal to submit a constitutional amendment for increased pay Offered some time ago by Malli son of Pamlico, the bill would have authorized submission of an amend ment to increase pay of members of the General Assembly from S6OO lor the session to S9OO, and to in crease the pay of presiding officers 1“ SI,OOO. It was debated at length (Continued on Page Six) 3Hrn&ersmi Ll 'A?k D a W!R E SERVICE DP IHb Aba( *11 ATEO j-RiSs REPORTED $155,000,000 Appro priations Authorized f° r Two-Year Period; Stricter Election and Marriage Laws Enact ed; Governor Ap praises Session Raleigh, Apfjl 4. (AP) The North Carolina legislature ended at 2:30 a. m. today, a 90-day biennial session in which it passed a record $155,000,000 appropriation bill and stricter marriage and election laws. New laws will require men and women to have pre-marital physical examinations and expectant mothers to be given blood tests. The absentee ballot was abolished in primaries and its use restricted in elections. The “professional marker” will be eliminated in primaries. The new election law will allow election officials to mark ballots only if no other marker is available. It will al so a marker, other than an election official, from aiding more than one voter. New Hanover county and More head City were authorized to legalize horse-racing and pari-mutuel bet tmg if they were approved in re ferenda. Onslow county was given permission to have races and betting if the county commissioners approve. The legislature adjourned exactly. 90 days after it convened on Jan uary 4. Governor Hoey, in an interview yesterday, said the. General Assem bly, had done a “constructive” job, and listed the following as among “a few” outstanding accomplish ments:., , .... Substantial progress in public edu cation; enactment of a continuing revenue act; wide expansion of the health program; an agricultural pro gram which “very distinctly repre sents progress’ 1 ; an “entirely satisfac tory” department of justice at a post of “only $10,000”; an election law reform. Fayetteville Blocks Cut Freight Rate Fayetteville, April 4. (AP) Fayetteville and Cumberland county took a freight rate argument into the State courts yesterday when they secured a temporary injunction from Judge Henry Stevens in Raleigh re straining the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line railroads from putting into effect tomorrow new low rates on gasoline and kerosene out of Wilmington, to destinations in the interior of North Carolina. The plaintiffs alleged the proposed rates were discriminatory because they were not published from Fay etteville to the same destination points on the same mileage basis. A considerable gasoline and kerosene distributing business has developed at Fayetteville since the completion of the third lock and dam in the Cape Fear river. Hearing on the restraining order was set for April 22 at 10 a. m. be fore Judge Q. K. Nimocks, Jr., at Fayetteville. Few Candidates Out Yet For High State Offices Senator Spruill, of Bertie, Against Kerr Scott Only Definite Announcement; Most “Ins” Will Try To Stay In Next Year Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL • Raleigh, April 4.—Admitting that the 1940 primary election is still something more than a year off, it is still possible to say without fear of successful contradiction that can didates for the numerous statewide offices which will be voted upon next year are a bit bashful about tossing their candidatorial Read gear into the political ring. On the assumption that few die and none retire it can be set down as safe that seven of the nine big elective posts will be sought by the incumbents, unless one or more of them become a K mbitious to live lor four years out in the big house be ONLY DAILY NfiWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. * HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 4, 1939 Two Navy Planes Crash; Four Dead East Baintree, Mass., April 4. —(AP) Two navy biplanes crashed 2,000 feet in the air today and four men perished as they plunged in flames to earth. The dead were identified by navy sources as from greater Boston. Wes Williams, commercial avia tor and flying instructor, who was aloft nearby at the time, said the third plane of a group of six fly ing in formation- dived into one wing of the second plane. The second plane “fell apart,” he said, and plummetted into a house, set ting it afire. The other plane fal tered for a moment, and then went down in a power drive, ap parently striking a second house about half a mile away. Fire and smoke rose rapidly from the spot where the second plane fell. “I believe four men were kill ed in the crash,” Williams said, “because the shins are of a type which normally carry a pilot and an observer.” Chicago Is I Voting Upon Mayor Post Ambitious Y outhful G. O. P. Candidate Battling V e t e r a n Democrat Kelly Chicago, April 4. —(AP) —Chicago voters selected a new mayor today with the choice between an ambitious young Republican, Dwight H. Green, and the veteran Democratic leader, Mayor Edward J. Kelly. Dry weather and the computations of the election commission indicated the vote might reach 1,300,000 for a new* record in a Chicago mayoralty contest. Prepared to interpret in in national terms, party leaders from without the State awaited the result -as the first sample of how far the Repub licans may expect to get in the 1940 campaigns for Congress and the pres (Continued on Page Four) Winston Man Dies In Plunge Out of St. Louis Hotel St. Louis, Mo., April 4.—(AP) — A man identified by police as Virgil Otis Bodenheimer, of 948 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem, N. C., was killed in a fall or leap from his 13th floor room in a downtown hotel here today. Police said they believed he was connected with the Union Hosiery Corporation of High Point, N. C. 'in his room two sealed envelopes were found, one of them addressed to his wife. LEAVES WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN AT WINSTON HOME Winston-Salem, April 4.—(AP) — Virgil O. Bodenheimer, who fell or jumped to his death from a St. Louis hotel window today, had been a salesman for the Union Hosiery Corporation of High Point for only three weeks. Officials said Re was making his first trip for the con cern when he went to St. Louis. His widow and three children survive. tween Bloodworth and Blount streets Next year’s candidates will be re quired to file their declarations and pay their filing fees not later than Saturday, March 16, 1940, which will be the tenth Saturday before the primary election day, now fixed by law as the last Saturday in May. Yet so far only one aspiring poli tician not now holding down a job has announced his intention of trying to oust the present “ins”. That is Stale Senator C. Wayland (Rippling Waters) Spruill of Bertie, who has already declared he’d like very much to permit Kerr Scott to give up com missionering and go back to working his show farm in Alamance county. (Continued on Page Four) HEMDERSQIjUfr Uamt Btsrrotrh ABOUT TO GRAB ALBANIA WPA Probe Committee Named To Begin Work On Thursday Senate Economic Bloc! Challenges Adminis tration To Take SIOO Million for Relief or Less; Farm Blocs Are Uniting Washington, April 4.—(AP) —The House Appropriations Committee se lected a 12-man sub-committee to day to make the “thorough inves tigation” recently ordered by the House of the Works Progress Ad ministration. Chairman Taylor, Democrat, Colo rado, said the same sub-committee on deficiency appropriations which ha' 1 handled all relief bills, would make the inquiry. Taylor heads that sun-committee, but he said he would follow his usual practice of delegat ing much of the detailed work to Re presentative Woodrum, Democrat, Virginia, leader of the House econo my bloc. “This sub-committee,” Taylor said, “has showed itself to be independent. The country thinks it has been rath er critical of the administration be cause .it has cut down appropriations. So nobody in the United States can say its a white-washing committee. It’s more the other way.” The - sub-committee will meet Thursday, and, in the meanwhile, members will be considering the scope of the inquiry. The House has not yet voted money for the inves tigation. Senate economy advocates, mean while, virtually challenged the ad ministration to accept a $100,000,000 fight to prevent a cut below that amount. Other developments: Two powerful Senate farm blocs talked of compromising their differ ences by providing more than $415,- 000,000 for additional farm benefits and removal of cropp, surpluses. One group was from the South, and the other from the corn, wheat, diary regions. The War Department announced that contracts for five types of war planes were ready for signature as soon as Congress gave final ap proval to a $513,000,000 army supply bill. Industry Os State Shows Steady Gains Daily Dispatch Bureau. I»* the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, April 4.—Growth of em ployment, pay rolls, and value of products of North Carolina’s indus trial establishments, from 1935 to 1937 was “normal and healthy”, For est Shuford, State commissioner of labor, said today in commenting on Federal census figures just released from Washington. “The fact that there has been a steady increase in number of estab lishments, number of employees, total sum paid these employees, aver age wages of each employee, and value of products indicates that pro gress has been steady, normal and healthy”, said Mr. Shuford. “The department hasn’t any com plete figures on 1938 for these items” he continued, “but from those we do (Continued on Page Four) Say Fanners Would Stop Scrap Sales Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By LYNN NISBET Raleigh, April 4.—What turned out to be the last public committee hearing of the 1939 session of the General Assembly was that before the House Calendar Committee Mon day on the issue of an additional tax on scrap tobacco buyers. With independent tobacco buyers arguing against the tax and farmers arguing for it, the time for the hear ing was several times extended so as to give everybody a chance to be heard, Result of all the talk was that the SI,OOO tax imposed in the 1937 act on dealers in scrap tobacco was reduced to SSOO, and the new pro posed tax of $250 on truck opera tors meandering around over the country and buying scrap tobacco was imposed. Speaking against any tax on deal ers in scrap tobacco that v/as not im posed on dealers in other agricul (Continued on Page Four) Bullet Screen Shields Hitler Central Press Radiophoto Sheltered by a screen of bullet-proof glass, Hitler speaks before a crowd of 80,000 cheering Germans in the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven, at launching of the Von Tirpitz, second 85,000-ton battleship to be added to the German navy this year. He angrily denounced foreign attempts to “encircle” Germany, hinted at a naval race with Britain,declared Germany was ready for war “if it is forced upon us.” Photo flashed from Berlin to Naw York by radio. British Consul In Iraq Assassinated, Consulate Burned Iraq’s King Victim Os Auto Crash 27-Year-Old Monarch Loses Control of Car on Returning Home Around Midnight Bagdad, April 4.—(AP) — King Ghazi I of Iraq died early today of a skull fracture after his automobile crashed into an electric light pole. The 27-year-old monarch was return ing to the palace about midnight when he lost control of the car. Funeral arrangements were being made today. Ghazi’s four-year-old son, Crown Prince Feisal, promptly was proclaim ed king, but will rule under a re gency headed by the brother-in-law and cousin of the late king. The re gency was approved by the Chamber of Deputies, hurriedly summoned. The five physicians who signed Ghazi’s death certificate said part of the king’s brain had been crushed. Ghazi acquired a liking for motor ing during his three-year stay in England as a student at Harrow, one of the most aristocratic of Bri tain’s “public schools.” He liked to drive fast. During his five and a half year reign he did much to develop friend ly relations between Iraq and Great Britain. His Near Eastern kingdom controls the Iraq pipe line through which Britain receives much of her vital supply of oil, and the British have long maintained a large force of war planes in Iraq. (x)&cdh&)i FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, slightly cooler in north central portion; scattered light frost in north central portion to night; Wednesday generally fair. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Outbreak Occurs Aft er Death of King Ghazi in Auto Crash, for Which English Were Blamed Mosul, Iraq, April 4.—(AP) G. E. A. C. Monck,Mason, Brit ish consul at Mosul, was assas sinated at noon today by a mob which rushed on the consulate and burned it. Martial law was declared and order was restored four hours later at 4 p. m. (8 a. m. eastern standard time). The reason for the outbreak was not at once made clear. It occurred during freinzed mourning for young King Ghazi, who was killed in an automobile accident a few hours earlier. (British reports received in London said four men were ar rested after the slaying of Monck - Mason. They asserted (Continued on Page Six) Great Britain Is Ready To Fight For Gibraltar By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist - Washington, March 4.—No sooner had Gen. Franco’s forces occupied Madrid than British Gibraltar 'took . .alarm. The Fran- co-ites, it seems, immediately be gan a throwing up of defenses along Gibraltar’s edge in a very peculiar way. That is, are they intended for defensive purposes alone? Or do they contemplate an at tempted grab of this historic strong hold of John Bull? Here’s a fresh m Bowers headache for the London government in particular, but in general for 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Troops Held Ready For Quick Move Step Called “Streng thening” of Alliance With King Zog, De clared .To Have Ask ed Specifically for Mussolini’s Action Rome, April 4.—(AP)—An Italian government rdaio station announced today that negotiations were under way for the strengthening of the 1927 defensive alliance between Italy and Albania. The station at Bari broadcast that, “at the specific request of the king of Albania,” con versations were under way for the “strengthening of the defensive al liance between the two countries.” This announcement came as dip lomatic circles heard unconfirmed reports that 20,000 or more Italian troops were concentrated at Bari and Brindisi with ti*oop ships stand ing by, presumably to take them to nearby Albania. London, April 4.—(AP)—Uncon firmed reports that Italy planned to send troops to occupy Albania brought a British hint today that such action would violate the Brit ish-Italian friendship agreement. Informed British quarters indicat ed that the British government, while not planning to fight Italy over Al bania, would expect to be consulted over any disturbance of the “status quo regarding national sovereignties in the Mediterranean area.” The Bn't’sh view was expressed as Viscount Halifax, British foreign sec tary, ana Colonel Joseph Beck, Pol ish foreign minister, concluded, the first of talks designed to cement Poland into a European front against further German expansion. It was understood .that the British ambas sador to Rome, the Earl of Perth, had been instructed to seek clarification of the report of Italian troop move ments from Italian Foreign Secretary (Continued on Page Six) Marriage Law Brings State Uncertainty Raleigh, April 4—(AP) —The mar riage business apparently came to a standstill in North Carolina today, judging from action here and many inquiries to Thad Eure, secretary of state, about the new physical ex amination law enacted by the legis lature yesterday. Three couples seeking licenses from Hunter Ellington, Wake county register of deeds, were told they would have to await printing of the new law forms required by it. Eure said he had received numer ous long distance calls and telegrams from registers of deeds saying they did not know what to do under the new law, as they had not received copies. Eure got the law this after noon, and said copies would be printed as quickly as possible. The act requires applicants for marriage licenses to file certificates showing they are disease-free. Forms are to be supplied by the State Board of Health. The law became effective upon ratification, and any one violat ing any provision could be fined up to SSO or sent to jail for 30 days, or both. whatever else remains of the peace loving world. If it forecasts a move by the nefo Spanish government to gain possession of the famous rock at the western end of the Mediter ranean it means trouble compared with which the just-ending war on the Iberian peninsula will seem like small potatoes. Not that Franco sig nifies. But if he really plans the cap ture of that little corner of Spain, it necessarily follows that he has Italy back of him, and Germany back of Italy. It starts the threatened all around European war, in short. That Mussolini planned the early acquisit’> of Gibraltar wasn’t anti cipated. He wants it, of course, to give him complete control of the in land sea. Nevertheless, it wasn’t imagined that he’d act so soon. Sup posing that that’s his scheme, it’s (Continued on Page Four)
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