HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
U. S. Legation in Albania
Here is the United States legation in Tirana, capital of Albania ft i,
here that American nationals fled for refuge during the present Italian
campaign of conquest. Several members of King Zog’s royal family are
reported to have sought refuge in the building y
Wallace Tells View
Os Administration
On Huge Farm Fund
$1,235,000,000 More
i n Farm Payments
Proposed as Senate
Agriculture Commit
tee Begins Hearings on
Big Supply Bill
WALLACE TELLS . cmfallyuzsa
Washington, April 10.— (AP)
Senators sought today to learn from
Secretary Wallace the administra
tion attitude toward a $400,000,000
boost in government outlays for the
fanner.
Wallace and other administration
farm executives were the first wit
nesses summoned by a Senate ap
propriations sub-committee as it be
gan hearing testimony on the annual
Agriculture Department supply bill.
The measure, as approved by the
House, provides for the expenditure
of $835,000,000, but a group of sena
tors representing nearly all agricul
tural sections wants to increase this
to $1,235,000,000.
Senator Lucas, Democrat, Illinois,
a leader in the new corn, wheat,
dairy bloc, was trying to muster sup
port for the increases today at a con
ference of 16 senators from northern
and western states. He later called
olf the conference, however, on ac
count of the death of Senator Lewis,
Illinois.
Southern senators have offered an
amendment to the bill for a $250,-
000,000 increase in farm benefit pay
ments. These would be in addition
to the $500,000,000 by the House for
cotton, corn, wheat, tobacco and rice
growers under the administration’s
crop control program.
Northern senators offered a simi
lar amendment for $150,000,000 to
supplement the crop surplus dis
posal program, which is financed
through annual diversion of $90,000,-
000 of customs receipts. This boost
would be of chief benefit to dairy,
livestock, fruit and other producers
who receive no direct payments un
der the crop control set-up.
Hopkins To
Tell Labor
Acts Views
Commerce Chief May
Inform Senate Com
mittee of Administra
tion Attitude On Re
vision
Washington, April 10.—(AP) —
President Roosevelt may depend on
Secretary of Commerce Hopkins to
•et Congress know how far the ad
ministration is willing to go in re.
vising the Wagner labor relations
act.
Honkins and several high admin
istration officials, including Secre
tary of Labor will appear
o ( fore the Senate Labor Committee
which begins hearings tomorrow on
proposed amendments to the much
debated law.
Committee members indicated
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'H-- A.s"t5 E vl Sf u KVICE s OF
Huge Government
Deficit Is Rising
Washington, April 10.—(AP)
The Federal government spent
$7,011,037,580 between last July
1 and April 7, the Treasury re
ported today. This was $2,547,-
351,635 more than the revenue
for the same period.
President Roosevelt has esti
mated that by June 30 the defi
cit will total $4,072,259,000.
The federal debt now is $40,.
040,876,750.
Legislature
Set Up Few
Job Openings
Governor Got Practi
cally N o Political
Plums With Which To
Reward Faithful
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
li* the Sir Walter Hotel.
By LYNN NISBET
Raleigh, April 10.—Although the
governor is credited with having ex
erted more influence over the recent
legislature than any governor in his
mid-term session in years, the fact
is Governor Hoey got out of the leg
islature no important political plum
to hand but to some friend, or to use
as a trade for legislation.
It is further true, despite the popu
lar belief, that the State is overburd
ened with superfluous commissions,
that this legislature was not very
commission-minded. Fewer good jobs
were created by the 1939 assembly
than by any session in many years.
Eight Senate bills and five House
bills providing for commissions or
appointments by the governor were
enacted into law, but only one of the
appointments carries any full time
salary and that is in the lowest State
salary bracket. All of the others
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Torrio Income Tax
Evasion Trial Ends
With Guilty Pleas
New' York, April 10.- (AP) —The
income tax evasion trial of John
Torrio, former Chicago underworld
leader, came to an abrupt and
dramatic close today when Torrio
and two of his four co-defendants
pleaded guilty.
Pleading guilty with Torrio were
his brother-in-law. William Slock
bower, and James LaPenna.
When their pleas had been record
ed, Federal Judge John Clancy de
clared a mistrial for the other two
defendants, Louis LaCava and John
D’Agostino.
Torrio was a one-time crony ot
A1 Capone during the early days of
the prohibition era in Chicago.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED
BRITAIN TO PLEDGE FREEDOM
OF BOTH GREECE AND TURKEY
Albanians
Give Pledge
To Mussolini
Provisional Officials
Become Supplants Be
fore II Duce in Lauda
tions of their Conquer
or
Tirana, Albania, April 10.—(AP)
—The provisional government pledg
ed today the loyalty of the Alban
ian people to Premier Mussolini and
formally accepted Italian rule on
their behalf.
The president and secretary of the
administrative committee broadcast
loyalty addresses to Albanians and
to Italy
Contrary to expectations in Tir
ana, Mussolini had not arrived in
time, for the broadcast and it was
doubted that he would come today.
The “appeal” of Albanian leaders
to Mussolini to permit them to found
an Albanian fascist party also was
read over the radio.
“We express our thanks for your
(Mussolini’s) sacrifices which have
saved the Albanian people from so
many dangers,” the appeal said.
“For the past 26 years we have
had a bad administration in Albania
and have shown that we have been
incapable of governing ourselves,”
said the president of the provision
al Albanian committee spt up by the
Italians. “This state of things led
us to peril, that of Albanian dis
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Albanian Refugee
Royal Family May
Reside In Egypt
Athens, Greece, April 10.—
(AP) —Albania’s refugee royal
family arrived today at Volo, on
its way to Portaria, a Greek
summer resort, where it was ex
pected to await arrangements
• for going abroad, possibly to
Egypt.
With exiled King Zog were
Queen Geraldine, their five-day
old son, Skander, and the king’s
three unmarried sisters: • ‘ ]
Chinese and Japs
Claiming Victory
In Latest Fights
Shanghai, April 10.—(AP)—Stra
tegic victories were claimed by both
Chinese and Japanese after heavy
fighting in Kiagsi province, south
ern China. The Chinese reported they
had stopped a Japanese advance near
Wuning, 70 miles northwest of Nan
chang, the provisional capital, and by
counter-attacks on the" Nanchang-
Changsha highway had recaptured
Kaoan, which the invaders occupied
a week ago at great cost.
The Japanese attempted to follow
up the recent capture of Nanchang
with a thrust toward Changsha,
Hunan provincial capital, in order to
open the way to possible invasion
of the southeast, where Generalis
simo Chiang Kai-Shek is centering
Chinese efforts to carry on the war.
The invaders said that one step of
this plan was achieved when their
forces southwest of Nanchang sur
rounded several Chinese detach
ments. Several hundred Chinese were
reported slain.
Higher Increments Pay
For Teachers Doubtful
Daily Dispatch Bureau
In the Sir Walter HoteL
By HENRY AVERILL
Raleigh, April 10. —Increase in ap
propriations “for instructional serv
ice” voted by the General Assembly
for the public school system was gen
erally heralded as assuring addition
al pay increments for teachers, par
ticularly white teachers, with more
than eight years experience; but as
a matter of fact the chances are bet
ter than ever that there will be no
additional increments whatsoever.
The increased appropriations, it
seems almost certain, will be used in
narrowing the wide gap which now
separates the pay of white and Negro
teachers holding the same certifi
cates. There has been a distinct un
willingness on the part of school com
mission officials to talk about this
phase of the matter, but every in
dication points to a strong, deter
mined movement to pay the Negro
HENDERSON, N. C„ MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 10,1939
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IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINLY
Congress Turns To Roosevelt
In Alarm Over European Turn
President Invited To
Assist in Drafting New
Neutrality Policy;
Temporary Re-Enact
ment of “Cash and
Carry” Arms Policy
Sought
Washington, April 10.—(AP) —
Alarmed by unsettled conditions in
Europe, congressional leaders turn
ed to President Roosevelt today for
help in drafting a new neutrality
policy. They decided to lay the con
troversial problem before the chief
executive as soon as he arrived from
a vacation at Warm Spiings, Ga.,
where he told a crowd at the rail
road station festerday, “I will be
back in the fall if we don’t have a
war.”
As the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee resumed hearings on
neutrality proposals, lieutenants de
cided that war threats abroad neces
sitated the temporary re-enactment
of the “cash and carry” provisions
of the present law before they ex
pired May 1. :
Today’s session was postponed be
cause of the death of Senator Lewis,
of Illinois.
There was a wide divergence of
congressional opinion over a per
manent neutrality course ranging
from a ban on all arms shipments to
broad authority for the President in
regulating commerce with warring
nations. :
The House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee will begin neutrality hearings
tomorrow.
Lindbergh May Appear
Acting Chairman Bloom, Demo
crat, New York, invited Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh to present his
views when he reaches the United
States late this week. Bloom sent a
radiogram to the aviator, who sailed
from France unexpectedly on Sat
urday. Chairman Sheppard, Demo
crat, Texas, of the Senate Military
Committee, also was considering
Lindbergh to testify before his
group.
Under the “cash and carry” sys
tem, belligerents can buy certain
American products only by paying
cash and transporting them in for
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Six Holiday
Deaths Over
State Listed
Charlotte, April 10.— (AP) A
least six persons were killed in
North Carolina highway accidents
during the week-end.
Fifteen-year-old Cole Denton, of
Asheville, was killed when his auto
mobile and a car collided.
At Hertford, W. E. White, Jr., of
Edenton, was killed. A car ran over
him after he alighted from a bus
with his mother.
A car hit a bridge abutment on
the Durham-Oxford highway and
three Negroes, occupants of the car,
were killed. They were identified as
Clarence Harris and Louis Horton,
both of Richmond, Va., and Joseph
Horton, of Raleigh.
Raymond Lee Grimestead, 28, of
Knotts Island, Currituck county, a
service station operator, was a hit
and-run automobile accident victim.
teachers nearer a parity with that
of white teachers.
There are absolutely no strings
whatever tied to the increases made
and nothing whatever to prevent the
School Commission, in its discretion,
from using every penny of it to in
crease the rates now paid Negro
teachers. The commission may not
go quite that far, but it is going a
large part of the way unless all signs
prove misleading.
So far there has been definite legal
move made by Negroes in North
Carolina to force equality of pay
ment to teachers with identical cer
tificates and experience, but there
is now pending in Virginia an ac
tion aimed .at compelling Old Dom
inion schools to pay Negroes equal
salaries for equivalent positions. It
is due to be tried about the twen
tieth of this month and upon its out
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Map shows theatre of operations in the Italian invasion of Albania.
Troops landed at San Giovanni, Durazzo, Valona, and Santi Quaranta,
to blast their way into the interior, making Tirana, the capital, their first
objective. Albania is mountainous country, however, and may prove hard
nut to crack.
Funeral For
Lewis To Be
In Senate
Illinois Senator Strick
en on Way to Wash
ington from Home;
Burial in Arlington
Washington, April 10. —(AP) —A
state funeral in the Senate chamber
was arranged today for Senator
James Hamilton Lewis, who died
last night of a heart ailment. Sen
ate officials said the funeral would
be held tomorrow or Wednesday,
probably at noon. Burial in Arl
ington cemetery will follow.
President Roosevelt, members of
the cabinet, the House and the dip
lomatic corps have been invited.
Leaders arranged to adjourn the
Senate at noon today out of respect
to the veteran Illinois senator, who
served as Democratic whip. The
chamber will not resume legislative
business until Wednesday or Thurs
day
Lewis was stricken with a heart
ailment yesterday on a train enroute
here from his Chicago home.
THOMAS H. WEBB, 68,
OF CONCORD, DEAD
Retired Cotton Mill Executive Dies
In Atlanta on Way To New
Orleans Meeting
Concord, April 10. —(AP) —Thos.
H. Webb, 68-year-old retired cotton
mill executive died of a heart at
tack in an Atlanta hospital early to
day.
Webb, a former president of the
American Cotton Manufacturers As
sociation, was on his way to New
Orleans, accompanied by Mrs. Webb,
to attend the annual convention of
the organization. He became ill at
his hotel last night and was remov
ed to a hospital.
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Increasing cloudiness and
warmer tonight; Tuesday most,
ly cloudy, possibly showers in
west and central portion; cool
er in the mountains.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Seantor Stricken
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JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS,
of Illinois
Japan Seeks
Renewing Os
U. S. Goodwill
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, April 10. —Politeness
certainly does pay. When Japan’s re
cently retired ambassador, Hirosi
Saito, died a short
time ago in Wash
ington the United
States government
assigned a cruiser
to take the late
diplomat’s ashes to
his home country.
This smallish act
of courtesy evi
dently touched'
Tokyo to an extent
out of all propor
tion to what might
have been expect
ed. The fact is that
the tribute was
Saito
paid not to the Japanese so much as
to the former ambassador personal
ly. Japan has not been over popu
lar here of late, but Hirosi Saito was.
At the time of his resignation as the
mikado’s envoy here gossip was to
the effect that he quit his job large
ly because he was oufof favor with
Nippon’s military clique for being
too pro-American. The cruiser had
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FIVE CENTS COP
Mussolini Is
Advised Os
War Menace
Attempt To Seize
Strategic Greek Is
land of Corf us Would
B e Invitation T o
Fight, Chamberlain
Says; Emergency
Fleet Orders Issued
London, April 10.—(AP) — The
British cabinet in emergency session
was reported reliably today to have
decided to offer to gsjrantee the in
dependence of Greece and Turkey.
Earlier, Prime Minister Chamberlain
was said to have told Italy that any
attempt v seize the strategic Greek
owned island of Corfu would be in
terpreted by Britain as an invitation
to war.
Parliament Called Back.
The urgent cabinet session coin
cided with emergency movement of
British warships in the Mediterran
ean. It was announced officially that
both houses of Parliament would be
convened on Thursday, breaking the
Easter recess which began last
Thursday and was to have extended
until April 18.
Issuance of emergency fleet orders
at Malta and the sailing of the bat
tleship Malaya from Menton, France,
indicated to some observers that Bri
tain might be preparing to protect
the Greek coast. All British naval
officers on holiday in Tangier,
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Britain And
France Plan
Naval Show
Paris, April 10.—(AP) — France
and Great Britain were reported to
day to be considering joint military
and naval demonstrations to back up
their eastern European allies against
further Italian-German expansion.
A two-hour extraordinary meeting
of the French defense council on
Easter day, when Edouard Daladier,
premier and national defense minis
ter, consulted commanders of the
French army, sea and air forces was
said bv informed sources to have
been demonstrations. There was no
hint in the press or official quarters
as to what form such measures might
take.
It was said that the defense chief
tains met to plan “preparations for
all eventualities”, and that “this is
not the time for statements but for
military measures to complete pre
parations.”
After the meeting, Daladier con
ferred with British Ambassador Sir
Eric Phipps and Foreign Minister
Georges Bonnet.
Greek Head
Says Nation
Is Prepared
Gives Assurance To
Nation That Greece
Can Defend Itself;
Nearness of Italian
Troops Frightens,
However
Athens, Greece, April. 10.—(AP)
—Premier George Metaxas hinted
today that Greece was prepared to
defend her territory against any ag
gression. In a message to the people,
Metaxas said Greece possessed every
means of assuring the national in
dependence and integrity and told
them:. >
“The Greek people can quietly go
about'their business* confident that
the government will be continiously
vigilant to guard their safety am>
honor.”-
The recent landing of Italian troops
and large consignments of munitions
on all islands of Italy’s. Dodecanese
group was reported at Pireaus.
Conservative estimates said Italian
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