HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
twenty-sixth YEAR
Pepper Asks
Increase In
Relief Fund
Adams Charges WPA
Deliberately Increas
ed Rolls To Force
Congress To Vote
More Money; Army
Day Is Observed
Throughout
Washington, April 6.—(AP)—Sen
ator Pepper, Democrat, Florida, ask
ed the Senate today to increase the
$100,000,000 relief appropriation to
$150,000,000. The latter sum was
asked by President Roosevelt, but
tl’.e House approved $100,000,000.
Pepper complained that a un
animous Senate Appropriations Com
mittee report recommending SIOO,.
000,000 was based on an “agree
ment” designed to “avoid contro
versy on the floor.”
All session, WPA discussions have
aroused controversies, and Senator
Adams, Democrat, Colorado, was
disclosed today as believing that
WPA increased its relief rolls in re
cent months, “Almost deliberately
to force Congress to accede to an
increased appropriation.”
He was questioning Colonel F. C.
Farrington, WPA administrator, on
WPA cooperation with the economy
sentiment shown by Congress when
it appropriated $725,000,000 in Jan
uarv as a deficiency appropriation
for WPA.
In the House today there was also
criticism 'of WPA methods. Repre
sentative Ditter, Republican, Penn
sylvania, a member of the appro
priations sub-committee assigned to
investigate the relief agency, pre
pared to offer legislation to abolish
WPA, and in its stead create a bi
partisan federal board to allocate
relief funds to the states.
The Senate Civil Liberties Com
mittee reported that the National
Metal Trades Association, which in
cludes some of the largest manufac
turers, was increasing its “war chest’
for vise in fighting strikes.
Southern senators agreed to aban
don attempts to get special cotton
legislation and to cooperate in a
move to get more money for all
farm commodities under the present
administration program.
Chairman Steagall, Democrat,
Alabama, of the House Banking and
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Says Win By
Japs May Be
End Os China
Chapel Hill, April 6.—(AP) —T. L.
Tsue. first secretary of the Chinese
Embassy in Washington, said today a
Japanese victory “would snuff out
democracy in China, and add so
much more manpower and natural
resources to Japan and her allies.”
He spoke at a human relations in
stitute at the University of North
Carolina.
“In order to save her own exist
ence politically, economically and
culturally, preserve foreign interests
and maintain peace and order,. China
under the leadership of General
Chiang Kai-Shek, is continuing by
every possible effort her war of re
sistance,” he said.
He said China’s relations with
'Soviet Russia were the same as those
with the democracies.
"Naturally, Russia wants China to
win, for she will then have no more
trouble with Japan,” he said.
Rural Life Program Is
Quickened By New Laws
Daily Dteuatrti Bureau. I
In tne Sir Walter Hotel.
By J,YNN NISBET
Raleigh, April 6.—The most com
prehensive program ever promulgat
ed J'or the improvement of rural liv
ing conditions in North Carolina wss
that sponsored by the State Grange
•■luring the 1939 session of the Gen
eral Assembly. #
And the legislature time after time
gave evidence that it was cognizant
of the fact that North Carolina is
still a rural State, and when the
full story of the 1939 session corner
to be written and appraised in the
light of experience, it will be found
that agriculture and farm life came
out with mdst substantial gains ol
any industry or class.
The State Department of Agricul
ture and State College had definite
legislative programs, -but these dealt
almost entirely with the actual me
chanics of operating farms and de
veloping a more prosperous agricul
ture from the dollars and cents in
come viewpoint. The Farm Bureau
also had a program, but because in
so many instances it was in direct
conflict with that of the department
or the college, the success of the bu
£*• PERRY MEMORIAL
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“A?n« B AT i«HV;CE OP
1 Defense Agreement
With Poland Set Up,
Chamberlain States
Foiling a Suicide
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Florence Baker terrorized a Balti
more crowd for 15 minutes before
she was hauled to safety by two
men who crept up behind her. The
girl is shown, kicking wildly, on the
third-floor ledge off which she had
threatened to jump. Miss Baker
had been suffering from a nerv
ous breakdown.
Varied Issues
Before Court
Coming Week
i
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, April 6. —Next week’s
Supreme Court calendar will pre
sent to the seven learned justices
almost as diversified a set of legal
problems as the number of causes
to be argued allows.
Among the questions to be finally
determined (barring the unusual ap
peal to the U. S. Supreme Court)
are: (1) Can the State rriake an
escaped convict pay for his recap
ture, and, if so, is he entitled to a
SSOO personal property exemption?
A lower court held that the State is
entitled to get back as much as it
can of the $1,134.21 it spent in
nabbing Eddie Cobb, one of the bet
ter known Tar Heel desperadoes;
hut it added that he is entitled to
the SSOO exemption. When captur
ed, Eddie had a brand new automo
bile for which he had paid cash in
Virginia. That’s what all of the
shooting’s about.
(2) Can the State collect a $250
tax on those persons, firms or cor
porations who “shall display sam.
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reau program was negligible. The
State Grange early in the session
| outlined a general plan for better
country living conditions, involving
not only more direct appropriations
for agricultural work but also fur
ther extension of esthetic and cul
tural services to country people.
Analysis of the acts of the legislature
indicates that the Grange fared well.
One of the cardinal planks in the
Grange platform was exemption ol
homesteads from taxes, either on ab
solute exemption of S3OO or half rate
taxes on $750. This idea failed to
gain support in the assembly, but
in reduced exemptions in intangible
tax levies, and in the machinery act
provision for no increased assess
ments due to improved homes and
yards, large gains was made toward
eoualizing the tax load.
The demand for a balanced budget
and for elimination of overlapping
activities was only partially met.
But, taken together with the plank
calling for more liberal appropria
tions from the general fund for agri
cultural research, as well as adequate
funds for development of a real mar-
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN
Britain Moving To
Purge Nation of Ger
man Agents; Albania
Gives Assurances Her
Integrity Is Unimpair
ed in Italian Accord
London, April 6—(AP) —The Brit
ish government announced today a
mutual defense agreement with Po
land, a drive to rid Britain of Ger
man agents and assurances from Al
bania that her integrity was unim
paired, despite reports of pending
Italian military occupations.
The Polish-British agreement, still
to be signed and sealed, represented
the keystone of British efforts to
raise defense barricades against ag
gression in Europe.
The “purge” of German agents and
the Albanian problem were impor
tant side issues.
Britain’s part of the Polish-British
alliance was a week old, but Poland’s
promise to aid Britain against any
aggression was new—the product of
three days of conservations here be
tween British statesmen and Poland’s
foreign minister, Joseph Beck. Prime
Minister Chamberlain told the House
of Commons that “pending comple
tion of a permanent agreement, Col
onel Beck gave an assurance that
the Polish government would con
sider themselves under an obligation
to render asHstance to His Majesty’s
government.” , £
Chamberlain took note of the ar
rival of Italian warships at Burazzo,
Albania, but said all was quiet there,
and that Albania had denied she had
accepted any conditions incompatible
with her sovereignty and national
integrity.
Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare
told Commons that the government
v/as taking steps to deport members
of the German secret police and oth
er Nazi organizations from Britain.
He disclosed that “steps” have been
taken against three Nazis in recent
weeks.
POLAND STICKS TO POLICY
OF NEIGHBORLY RELATIONS
Warsaw, April 6.—(AP)—Despite
the new mutual defense accord with
Britain, Poland sticks to her tradi
tional policy of good neighborly re
lations, the influential Kurjer Czer
wony, often used as a mouthpiece of
the Polish foreign office, declared
today.
The newspaper interpreted the
agreement announced to the British
House of Commons by Prime Minis-
I ter Chamberlain as a “strengthen
ing, of Polish-British relations, which
without doubt, will have an in
fluence on the European situation by
cementing and increasing peace.”
Legislature
Voted More
Pay To Aged
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL
Raleigh, April 6.—The just-ad
journed Tar Heel legislature was
swept by no Townsend plan hysteria
or old-age pension hokum, but it did
make possible a tangible increase in
the number of old folks on the as
sistance rolls.
At least both Mrs. W. T. Bost, com
missioner of public welfare, and Na
than Yelton, director of the old age
assistance division, are of that opin
ion, although they haven’t yet work
ed out any figures showing just how
many will be added, nor where.
They base their belief on the fact
that the $4,400,000 which they will
have from all sources (Federal, State,
and County) for each year of the
coming biennium will be approxi
mately $700,000 greater than the rate
at which old age assistance is now
being paid.
That $4,400,000 will permit them
1 to pay out to the old people an aver
; age of something more than $3430,000
, each month, against the present rate
! of approximately $310,000 (it was
! just short of the figure in March).
They do not plan to increase the
present average payment to the bene
; ficiaries, an average which reached
. $9.54 in March, but rather to use the
: extra money to place on the assis
■ tance rolls Jhe aged who are eligi
■ ble' by all tests but who have been
! kept off by the lack of funds to take
> care of them.
“ Assuming that the average is kept
: at about $9 54, the $700,000 increase
_ in availability would enable the
j placement of approximately 6,000
new pensioners on the lists.
That is what the officials now plan
t to do.
r Both Mrs. Bost and Mr. Yelton
. view legislative action with relation
: to their department, with more than
■ rnild approval. Both said they feel
■ the assembly made substantial,
i though not too-extensive. contribu
■ tion to a well ordered, safely based
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HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY, AFTERNOON, APRIL 6 1939
Satin ilisuatrlr
THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Newest Sore Spot
*' V HUNGARY
Albania, just across the Adriatic
Sea from Italy, becomes Europe’s
newest sore spot with reports that
Mussolini has demanded Italian
troops be permitted to land there.
The action, seen as preliminary to
, making a protectorate of King
Zog’s country, met with vigorous
resistance from Albanian states
men at Tirana, the capital, and
strong protests by v France and
r Great Britain.
(Central Press)
Baruch Says
Trade War
Means Fight
„Wall Street Financier
and Confidante of
Wilson, Warns Senate
Committee To Beware
of Its Course
Washington, April 6.—(AP) —The
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
heard a warning today from Ber
nard Baruch, Wall Street financier
and confidante of President Wilson,
that an economic war against the
aggressor nations might lead this
country into a military war.
Endorsing the principle of plac
ing arms and ammunitions on a
“cash and carry” basis with other
products, when other countries are
at war and this country is neutral,
Baruch said he believed this could be
done without affecting this country’s
neutrality status.
“I understand that some of the
pressure for this legislation is the re
verse of a wish to treat all nations
alike,” Baruch told the committee in
a formal statement. “It has been sug
gested that the aggressor nations, if
not halted, will start a European war
—that if there is a European war we
can’t keep out of it, and that, there
fore, the only way to keep out of
war is now to engage in economic
war against them to prevent their
starfting European war.
“On that theory, if our economic
war fails, we will be in military war,
and I think that if we make econo
mic war that conclusion is inevit
able. I am hot sure that even with
the utmost economic pressure we
could prevent European war if it
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Strawberry Crop
Largest and Best
In Years In East
Goldsboro, April 6—(AP)—Re
ports received here today showed
North Carolina’s strawberry crop
would be the largest and best in sev
eral years. Markets at Mount Olive,
Wallace and other points will for
mally open- Monday. Buyers at Wal
lace estimated today that more than
250,000 crates would be sold there
under the open auction system in
stituted this year. They said approx
imately 200 crates sold this week had
brought an average of $4. Officials
at Mount Olive reported a few sales
this week averaged $5.
Officials Prepare
For Frontal Attack
On Trade Barriers
Chicago, April 6.—(AP) —Public
officials from 44 states, the Federal
government and four territories join
ed today to plan a nationwide at
tack on state trade barriers and dis
criminatory legislation.
Frank Bane, director of the Coun
cil of State Governments, which call
ed the three-day conference, said
“forty states have statutes establish
ing commissions of cooperation be
tween the states. The culmination of
six months research by state com
missions and the council was the con
sensus that the council go on record
as favoring constitutional free trade.”
Delegates divided into five gen
eral committees to draw up recom
mendations which were to be sub
mitted to the general sessions.
(i}\mifwi
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy, showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon
and tonight and probably near
the coast Fridav rP''”ning; cold
er tonight and Friday.
ITALIAN CRUISERS ARE
A T ALBANIAN PORTS AS
OCCUPA TION THREATENS
4 Die in Air Collision
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a Central Press Phoncphoto
Two Naval Reserve planes crashed in mid-air during ceremonies at
, launching of the aircraft carrier Wasp at Quincy, Mass. One plane
sheared off the roof of an East Braintree home, smashed into another
1 house and burst into flames, igniting the building, as shown. The body
of one pilot is in foreground (circle). Four airmen died in the crash
Heavy Snow Falls
In Colorado-Area
Denver, Col., April 6. (AP)
; Snow-drifted highways were open
to traffic today after a post-sea
, son blizzard which hampered traf
[ sic in three states abated. Dur
ing the height of the storm, when
: a 38-mile-an-hour wind was pil
ing drifts several feet deep, raids
, were blocked between Denver and
Boulder, Denver and Colorado
• Springs and Denver and Greeley,
; Col., and Cheyene, Wyo.
; The storm spread from the west
to North Flatte, Neb., arid cover
, ed all of Colorado east of the con
tinental divide. Temperatures
[ dropped to below freezing.
i
Comptroller
Appointment
Wins Acclaim
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, April 6.—President
' Roosevelt made a couple of excep
tionally interesting appointments a
few days ago—the
( a pp o i ntment of
Fred H. Brown to
the com ptroller ’
generalship of the
United States and
the appointment of
Leon Henderson 10
the chairmanship
of the Securities
and Exchange Com
mission. The posts
are intrinsically
import ant and
Brown and Hen
derson are an out- !
standing pair. The
1
IF
Henderson
General Accounting Office, which
Brown is to head, is a congressional
. pet. The White House doesn’t like
l it a bit in its present form and tried
. to get it modified into practical
. nothingness under the recently-adopt
. ed governmental reorganization bill,
but Congress wouldn’t stand for
. any change. The Securities and Ex- |
. change Commission is a White House
1 pet, regarded askance by many con
. gressmen. It’s pretty popular, though.
. Its legislative foes knew they were
f as powerless to abolish or cripple it
. as the executive mansion was to tie
. a can onto the general accounting
1 office.
’ The comptroller general decides
. whether or not items of government
. spending are legal. It can rule a
. gainst a certain item; whereupon the 1
government can’t go ahead with it.
• Naturally this enrages the executive
end of the government, which does
the spending. The SEC bosses the
stock market and corporations’ do
ings generally. Conservative law
makers complain that it’s unduly in
terfering—a business deterrent. But
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
'Report Italy
Still Sending
Men To Spain
Paris, April 6.—(AP) —France
and Britain joined in two requests
to the Spanish nationalist govern
ment at Burgos today. They in
structed their ambassadors to ask
for clarification of rumors that
Italy was continuing to send troops
to Spain, although the civil war was
ended, and to request permission
fer foreign ships to enter Alicante
harbor and take aboard 4,000 Span
ish republican refugees, now in the I
neutral zone of the eastern coastal |
city. The neutral zone was created j
shortly after the surrender of Mad- j
rid, with the approval of national- !
ist authorities. Former republican
officials who fled from the capital
were allowed free access to thest
zones.
It was understood the two govern
ments consulted each other before
the instructions were sent to Mar
shal Henri Petrain and Sir M. Pet
erson.
The rumors included one that
lc ; 000 Italian troops landed at Cadiz
in the last few days. There was no
confirmation, even in official
French quarters, where it was said
only that the rumors “persisted.”
ELECTRIC LINE IN
BRUNSWICK LARGER
Raleigh, April 6. — (AP) The
Rural Electrification Authority ap
proved today addition of 50 miles to
the 125 miles of rural electric lines
to be constructed by the Brunswick |
County Electric Membership Corpor
ation. The lines added will serve cus
tomers in Columbus county. ,
No action had been taken this aft
ernoon on the request of the Union
County Rural Electrification groun
to add 140 miles to serve customers
in adjoining counties.
| German Maid Squeals On
Burns And Benny To Get
Revenge For Herr Hitler
New York, April 6.—(AP) —The
: pro-Hitler huff that led Rosa Weber,
a German maid, to turn informer a
-1 gainst the smuggling conspiracy
which involved Jack Benny and
George Burns will net her at least
$6,714 in United States government
rewards, it was disclosed today. The
maid, employed in the household of
State Supreme Court Justice Edgar
Lauer, quit her job vowing “revenge”
at the height of a dinner party at
which the Lauers’ guests voiced anti-
Nazi remarks.
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Events Seen
As Warning
To Balkans
Yugoslavia and
Greece Feel Menace;
Mussolini Pilots Plane
on Trip to Military
Airport Facing Al
bania Across Adriatic
Sea
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, April 6.
(AP)—Reports reaching Tirana
today told of an elaborate Ital
ian naval display off the Al
banian coast. •
While private and diplomatic
reports agreed that there had
been no landing of troops. Ital
ian destroyers were reported
darting about the harbors of San
Giovannia and Di Medua. in the
north, and Valona in the south.
Three Italian warships were at
anchor at Durazzo.
Tirana, Albania, April 6.—(AP)
An Italian cruiser and two destroy
ers arrived at Durazzo, Albania, this
morning as Albania feverishly dis
cussed reports of an imminent Ital
ian occupation.
Many Albanian reservists have
been mobilized. Twenty truck loads!
of arms were sent yesterday to
Valona, the southern port of Albania.
There was some feeling in dip
lomatic circles that the Albanian
government might try to resist any
landing of Italians. There was a dis
tinct possibility, however, that the
goverm aunt might, on the other hand
find a formula under which Italian
occupation would be accepted.
Crowds of Albanians gathered out
side the foreign ministry seeking
some inkling of what was going on.
People in the streets freely express
ed their desire to resist any military
occupation.
Plane service from Tirana to Italy
was cancelled. Practically all Ital
ians in Albania had returned to Italy.
Negotiations between Albania and'
Italy, ostensibly toward strengthen
ing the ; 7 defensive alliance be
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Will “Teach
Chamberlain
A Lesson”
Berlin, April 6.—(AP) —Nazi
officials expressed the convic
tion today that British Prime
Minister Chamberlain’s attempt
to build a block of nations “en
circling” Germany failed, as
far as Poland was concerned.
They declared the British -
Polish mutual assisatnee pact
reached in London was far from
what Chamberlain had desired.
Nazi confidence was increas
ed by the fact that Colonel Gen
eral Wilhelm Keitel, chief of
the German high command, and
Chancellor Hitler’s closest mili
tary advisor, and General Al
berto ParianQ, Italy’s under
secretary for war, had confer
red at Innsbruck for the past
two days.
German diplomatic comment
centered on the implications that
their conferences were intended
“to teach Chamberlain a lesson.”
Berlin, April 6.—(AP) —Cautious
German diplomatic comment center
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u “Ladies and gentlemen,” the maid
; was quoted as telling the startled
| dinner guests, “I am a true German.
' I love Adolf Hitler. If you don’t
j stop speaking against him, I will stop
serving dinner right now.”
She went to government author
ities, with the result that customs
agents later raided the Lauer apart
ment, and afterwards arrested Al
bert Chapereau, confessed smuggler,
who had been one of the dinner
guests, thereby opening the trail that
[ led to Benny and Burns.