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twenty-sixth year
HALT’S
Albanian Invasion j
By Italy Condemned
By United States
Lauds industry’s Aid
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Acting Secretary of War Louis
Johnson is pictured as he spoke at
the American conference on na
tional defence, at the Waldorf-
Astoria in New York. Quoting tha
President, Johnson thanked the na
tion’s industrial leaders for •whole
hearted cooperation with the War
Department in preparing for in*
itant mobiliz' ' u <y»«i of was.
Spending Is
Net All In
Money Bill
Huge State Outlay
For Special Purposes
is in Addition to $155,-
000,000 Appropria
tions Bill
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Waller Hotel.
BY LYNN NISBET
Halcigh, April B.—The recent Gen-
Assembly adopted the biggest
appropriations bill in the history of
11 ' State, carrying in round figures
000,000 for the biennium be
gun ing next July 1. But that doesn’t
I ' ii the whole story of money spent,
besides the big bill, the legislature
'-ted nineteen supplemental or
•< iliary appropriation measures.
1 d these, twelve bills carry speci
‘ c appropriations of $428,000 for
Pat two years, three others re-allo
( ia about $90,000 on an “if and
hen” basis, and the other carry
!! finite or indeterminate amounts.
• A P told, the supylemental approp
riations will exceed four hundred
; nd fifty thousand dollars for the
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Three Chief Changes In
Machinery Act For Year
I)atly Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL
Haleigh, Aphil B.—The school ma
chinery act enacted by the 1939 Gen
et';! Assembly contains three main
departures from the law previously
in effect.
These changes, which do not radi
antly alter the general nature of the
inw, may be briefly listed as:
(1) A clarification of the division
"t funds, other than State money, be
tweon county and city administrative
school units.
(2) Grant of authority to all
school districts with a school popula
tion of 1,000 or more to vote local
supplements for specific purposes.
Establishment of authority to
iirnilersmt
LK A?I ED w WIRE service of
AH E <» lA’IED PRESS.
“Unquestionably Ad
ditional Threat T o
Peace of World,” Hull
Statement Says; Ap
proved by Roosevelt;
Relief Hike Still
Sought
Washington, April B.—(AP)—Sec
retary Hull, in a statement approv
ed by President Roosevelt, said to
day “the forcible and violent invas
ion of Albania is unquestionably an
additional threat to the peace of the
world.”
The invasion, Hull said, violates
the will of all peoples in the world
that their government shall lead
them not toward war but along
paths of peace.”
The state secretary condemned
Italy’s action alter consulting with
the President by telephone. The
chief executive is in Warm Springs,
Ga. Hull said the chief executive
agreed the statement should be
made.
Another high government official
said, meanwhile, that the admin
istration considered Mussolini’s - Al
banian coup a prelude to a more
serious European crisis. This offi
cial declared that both the State
and War Departments were inclined
to the view that Hitler, possibly in a
few days, might precipitate a crisis
over Danzig
(At Warm Springs President
Roosevelt gave full endorsement to
Secretary Hull’s statement that
Italy’s invasion of Albania consti
tuted an “additional threat” to peace,
while at the sajne time it was made
known officially here the situation
presented a serious problem for the
future of American world trade. The
President told a press conference he
had talked by telephone with Eu
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Lindberghs
Start Back
To America
Cherbourg, France, April B.—(AP)
- —Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh sailed today for New York on
: the liner Aquitania.
The American airman took un
usual precautions in an attempt to
. avoid being seen as he embarked,
s The Lindberghs hurried from the
* second special boat train from Paris
directly to a tender which took them
• to the liner ahead of other passengers
Newsmen who managed to talk
■ briefly with Lindbergh before he left
l the dock, received only the answer,
r “I am sorry,” to their questions.
■ They attempted to persuade him to
■ inspect a plaque in the maritime
1 station commemorating his 1927 solo
J flight from New York to Paris. Their
efforts were repulsed with the same
response.
| pay teachers on a 12-month basis and
enactment of certain changes in the
rules and regulations for hiring
teachers.
The first of the changes mention
; ed deals with technicalities surround
ing the division of local funds be
tween school administrative units
j and is of practically no interest to
the general reading public; though
of course in its ultimate effects may
be great.
, The second change is subject for
considerable disagreement in opin
. ions as to its wisdom. Superinten
dent of Public Instruction Clyde A.
I Erwin sees it as “one of the great
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED
ARMT TAKES CAPITAL OF MJMNM
HENDERSON. N. C„ SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 8 1939
J Ready for Nazi Submarines
Keeping her navy at the peak of preparedness, as announced by Earl
Stanhope, First Lord of the Admiralty, Britain trains her sailors in the
use of the depth bomb, most effective weapon against submarine warfare.
This picture of a bomb explosion was taken from the deck of the
destroys .• Wessex (Central Press;
Garner And Farley Are
Most Likely Candidates
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, April B.—Guessers on
probabilities for the next Democratic
presidential nomination seem to bei
• settling down to
the verdict that it’s
about a stand-off
betv/een James A.
Parley and John
N. Garner. I can j
believe that either J
of this pair might
be tolerably satis
factory to more or
less conservative
Democrats but I
can’t see that
either of them
could suit even
moderately out
and - out New
Farley
Dealers. The vice president nearly is
Bailey Says
Unemployment
No. 1 Problem
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By LYNN NISBET
Raleigh, April 8. —Senator Josiah
W. Bailey, resting at his home for a
few days, thinks that there isn’t
much prospect of the current in
vestigation into political activities
of WPA showing up any bad situa
tion.
“It is impossible to have any set
up like WPA in a democracy and not
have some politics in it,” he said.
“My criticism was of the manner in
which Mr. Hopkins just bodily in
jected the whole thing into a poli
tical campaign by his public
speeches.
“You cannot deny people the right
to vote just because they are WPA
clients, and you cannot blame them
for voting for the friends of the
program which gives them a sub
sistence wage.”
The real problem, the senator
thinks, is to 'find genuine opportun
ity for the eleven million people
how without opportunity. WPA
work is not an opportunity, but is j
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S 3 atm
IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
aggressively anti-New Deal. In fact,
he is aggressive something less than
under the skin. Nobody doubts that
he keeps a semi-husher on his anti-
I New Dealerishness with considerable
difficulty, or that he’d be definitely
old-fashioned, once in the White
House. He’d be acceptable to the
“antis” (and a lot of Republicans)
down to the ground, except for one
j thing; he’s a bit too old for them.
Farley gets along fairly well with
the Roosevelt administration, but it’s
recognized that he isn’t altogether in
sympathy with it. He isn’t trouble
somely lukewarm, though. The
Rooseveltians can afford to ignore it.
Indeed, they can’t afford not to ig
nore it —in the chairman of their
own national committee. Nor can the
postmaster general afford to be too
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23 Men Saved
On Ship With
Scrap Cargo
Quillayute, Wash., April B—(AP)
A coast guard crew brought 23 of the
29 men aboard the wrecked British
freighter Templebar safely into this
station, and reported the rest were
“safe on the beach” after the freigh
ter smashed hard against the -rocks
early today off the Washington.coast.
CREW ABANDONS VESSEL
SPEEDILY AFTER CRASH
Seattle, Wash., April B.—(AP)
The British freighter Templebar
smashed on a rock near the Washing
ton coast early today and the crew
of 29 reported it was abandoning
ship hastily. Coast guardsmen speed
ing to the scene sighted the ship high
and dry on a jagged rock three hours
after the freighter sent out SOS mes
sages at 4:05 a. m.
The freighter, with L. W. Tucker
as master, was reported carrying a
load of scrap iron for Japan. The dis
j aster scene is near Quillayute Need
] les. two miles south of a Washington
1 costal Indian village.
Mx&tx&tth
Invasion Os Albania
May Be Boomerang
For II Duce In End
*
British and F rench
Empires Believed
Strengthened in Medi
terranean as Result;
Syria Turning to
France for Protection
Now
-
Paris, April B.—CAP) —ltaly’s .in
vasion of the Moslem kingdom of
Albania was reported in Paris to
day to have ro strengthened French
and British empires in the Medi
terranean that it may prove a
boomeerang for Premier Mussolini.
“This means the end of Italy as
the self-styled protector of Islam,”
said a high official of the French
colonial office.
In Syria, where French failure to
push through a 1936 Syrian inde
pendence treaty led to disorders and
strikes which French troops had to
quell, the reaction was immediate.
F. El. H. Khouri, president of the
Syrian parliament, an outstanding
leader of the nationalist bloc which
has led the anti-French agitation,
issued a scathing attack on Italy. He
indicated his bloc would now co
operate with the French.
“Italy’s pretentions of protecting
our Moslems now reminds us of the
story of the lion which defends the
prey he does not intend to divide
with others,” El Khouri said.
Italy Fostering Revolt
Even as Italian troops fought
their way into the little Mohamme.
dan state on the Adriatic, the Ital
ian station at Tripoli, Libya, broad
cast an appeal in Arabic for Moslems
in Tunisia, France’s protectorate, to
make a demonstration next Sunday
against the French. French observ
ers interpreted «?ie broadcast as a
call for an Arab revolt
, Chamberlain
Is Hurrying
Into Capital
L
Albanian Situation
Creates New Problem
for Britain; Cabinet
Meets and May Meet
Again in Week-End
London, April B.—(AP) —Prime
, Minister Chamberlain will return
tonight to London from Forbeshire,
Aberdeen, Scotland, to confer with
his ministers on the Albanian :;itua
■ tion, it was announced this after
noon. The prime minister left Lon
don for Scotland Thursday for a
fishing Easter vacation.
Announcement of Chamberlain’s
return followed quickly an emer
gency meeting of the cabinet in
. London. After weighing the impli
cations of Italy’s invasion of Al
-1 bania, the ministers issued a formal
statement declaring that the Alban
i ian situation was “still obscure in
, regard to a number of important
factors.”
In informed quarters, this state
: ment was interpreted as indicating
, that the government had not decided
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. iOsucdthsUi
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Cloudy, rain in east and cen
r tral portions this afternoon and
r in north central portion and near
the coast tonight; Sunday part
i ly cloudy, slightly warmer in
; east.
WEEKLY WEATHER
South Atlantic States:
i ed showers in, north portion about
Tuesday and another shower
period latter part of week; tem
l perature normal to somewhat
above.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Airman’s Reward
f* ~: - ' yP
Premier Mussolini embraces an
Italian airman after presenting him
I with a medal for bravery as the
fascists celebrated Air Force Day
in Rome. Medals were given to
106 flyers for heroism in Ethiopia
and Spain.
(Central Press)
British Aid
Is Now Myth
In Balkans
Little Kingdoms Be
ginning To Feel They
Can’t Rely on Eng
land’s Promises for
Their Security
Budapest, Hungary, Tpril o.
(AP) —Little kingdoms of the Balk
ans, worried by Italy’s invasion of
Albania, today were re-examining
the possible effectiveness of any
British-made system of security.
Foreign offices in the countries of
southeastern Europe had been con
sidering the advisability of associat
ing themselves with the British,
French, Polish front against aggres
sion. But some observers [believed
that Italy’s move against Albania,
driving a wedge between Yugoslavia
I and Greece, had reduced greatly the
attractiveness of the British plan
for ihe Balkans
Officially all countries of the re
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PRESBYTERY NAMES
ITS NEW OFFICERS
Tarboro, April B.—(AP) —Mrs. J.
C. Gardner, of Tarboro, was elected
president of the Woman’s Auxiliary
of Albemarle Presbytery here today.
Mrs. Ford S. Worthy, of Washing
ton, retiring president, was named
vice-president at large; Mrs. L. E.
Barnes, of Wilson, vice-president,
and Mrs. J. Howard Brqwn, of Tar
boro, corresponding secretary.
Easter Finery To
Be Safe Tomorrow
Raleigh, April B.—(AP) —East-
er finery should not be in danger
in North Carolina tomorrow, the
Weather Bureau forecast today.
It promised “partly cloudy and
warmer” weather for Easter day.
Herbert Kichlinc, first assist
ant director of the bureau, re
ported it was raining “lightly” in
most of North Carolina and South
Carolina todav. The rain extend
ed from Norfolk, Va., to Raleigh
and Charlotte, and to Columbia
and Charleston, S. C.
“It may not be as warm as
some people would like tomor
row, but the rain probably will
not last after tonight.”
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King Flees
Into Nearby
Greek City
II Duce’s Men Find no
Resistance as They
March Into Tirana;
Opinion in Rome Is
Albania Is Nearing
End of Her Independ
ence
Athens, Greece, April B—(AP)
—King Zog, driven from his Al
banian kingdom by his Italian
invaders, was reported tonight
to have reached Fiorina, north
western Greece, where Queen
Geraldine already had taken re
fuge with their three-day-old
son.
Rome, April B.—(AP)—An Ital
ian army marched unresisted today
into Tirana, capital of leaderless
and defenseless Albania.
The Italian forces entered the city
at 9:30 a. m. (3:30 a. m. eastern
standard time) and were followed
by Count Ciano, Italian foreign
minister and son-in-law of Premier
Mussolini. An official Italian dis
patch said Count Ciano arrived by
airplane at 11 a. m.
Italian entry ended a night of dis
order and looting in excited Tirana.
Albanian King Zog had fled. An
Italian dispatch said he had crossed
the frontier near Koritza, Albania,
into exile in Greece, and was head
ing toward Athens. Zog’s small,
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Germany Puts
- Pressure On
■ Poland Again
r
Berlin, April B.—(AP)—Ger
many brought strong diplomatic
pressure on Poland and publish
ed newspaper threats against her
£ today_ while most of Europe’s
y attention was centered on Al
’ bania.
The campaign coincided with
[ the ret. heme of Polish For
eign Ji i ,s«or Joseph Beck from
London, where he concluded a
defensive alliance with Britain,
which Nazis considered aimed at
j Germany.
The Polish Ambassador Joseph
’ Lipsky was given a full hour’s
; talk by Foreign Minister Von
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Albania’s
, Queen Tired
V
i From Flight
•y
Geraldine, of Ameri
can Descent, Prays
World May Be ‘Shock
ed Into Action” by
Italy’s Invasion of Her
\ Little Country
Athens, Greece, April B.—(AP)
! Queen Geraldine of Albania, who
i fled Tiarana with her three-day old
! son when Italian troops invaded her
; country, rested today in a primitive
; inn at the little town of Fiorina, ten
miles from the border, in Greece.
The 23-year-old queen, of Amer
ican-Hungarian parentage, was tired
and weak lifter a 14-hour, 160-mile
ride over torturous mountain roads
in an ambulance. She was attended
by two doctors and three nurses.
She planned to continue to Salonika
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