HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR ™
Cold Spell
In Northern
Part Os U. S.
Temperatures as Low
as Eight Above Zero
I s Experienced i n
Some Localities in
Northwest; New York
Has 38
Chicago, April 12.—(AP)—Abnor
mally low temperatures prevailed
over most of the nation east of the
Rocky Mountains today
The coldest spots were Park Falls,
Wis.. Memidji, Minn.; and Aberdeen,
S. 1).. each with eight above zero.
The mercury dropped to the low
20’s in northern Ohio and a bliz
zard whipped that section, including
Cleveland. Freezing temperatures
extended as far south as the Texas,
panhandle, also into northern Okla
homc, notrehern Arkansas and north
western Tennessee.
In the east it was below freezing
from Portland, Maine, north, and
snow fell in Pittsburgh, Buffalo and
northern New England. New York
City had a low of 38.
Court Will Rule
On Wachovia Bank
Job Tax Liability
Raleigh. April 12.—(AP)—The Su
preme Court took under advisement
today the appeal of the Wachovia
Bank & Trust Company from a su
perior court ruling that it must pay
unemployment compensation taxes.
W. P. Sandridge, counsel for the
bank argued that its membership in
the Federal Reserve System and in
the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor
poration. as well as its designation by
the government as one of its fiscal
agents made it instrumentality
of the federal government. This, he
contended, exempted it from the un
employment compensation act.
J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Jr., argued
the case for the Unemployment Com
pensation Commission. He said the
State laws under which the bank
was organized and operates make it
subject to State statutes, such as the
State employment law. Membership
in the Federal Reserve System, he
said, is optional with State banks,
and such membership should not
‘nullify and abrogate an authority
of the State.”
Bobby Furman Is
Now Flying Solo
At State College
Raleigh. April 12.—(AP) —Four
more students were flving solo today
as the result of aviation training
provided by the Federal government.
Prof. l. R. Parkinson, head of the
division of pilots and mechanics
training, said the new fliers at N. C.
State College were Robert L. F/r
--man. Henderson; Robert W. Brad
ham. Rocky Mount: Harold J. Pol-
P'cr, of Metawan, N. J., and Joe N.
Drum, of Conover.
Previously, five students had
soloed.
A. & N. C. LEASE UP
AGAIN ON APRIL 20
Raleigh, April 12.—(AP)—Attor
n(,V General Harry McMullan said
today that the board of directors of
t |:r ' Atlantic & North Carolina Rail
road would meet here April 20 with
Governor Hoey to discuss plans for
lease of the State-owned line
Proposals for leasing the railroad
v or', received ui, Goldsboro Monday,
dot the board decided to confer with
Governor Hoey before taking any
action.
Torrio Gets
2Vfe Years
In Tax Case
New York, April 12. —(AP) —John
‘ " rio, former notorious Chicago un
derworld leader, was sentenced today
to serve two and a half years in Fed-
G’al prison for income tax evasion.
• J udge .John W. Clancy first sentenced
; '-rrio to three years, but reduced
d mx months at the request of the
! n| ted States attorney.
i orrio’s face showed no emotion
when he heard the original motion.
'•Her two co-defendants were sen
t'need, Judge Clancy looked down
Pom the bench and said, ‘‘l’ll change
ttmt sentence for Torrio, and follow
die recommendation of the Unied
yddes attorney l . Make it two and a
"''ll years on the first count, five
>ears on the second, and two on the
‘Jurd count, with sentences suspended
° n hie second and third counts and
probation for ten years.”
fordo pleaded guilty Monday to
y n indictment charging he evaded
of $86,000 in income taxes.
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hat invasion of the island means war, and bolstered the warning by sending number
of warships to the vicinity of Greece.
FHA EXTENSION IS VOTED
8 State Convicts
Escape at Camps
Raleigh, April 12.—(AP) —Six
convicts escaped from a road crew
in Jackson county during a rain
yesterday, penal division Super
intendent Oscar Pitts said today.
One was quickly recaptured, and
officers scoured the mountains to
day for the others. Pitts said the
group escaped from under a shed.
Two other escapes also were
listed in the State. The Jackson
escapees still at large, Pitts said,
included: Leßoy Batton, about 27,
sentenced August 20, 1932, in
Moore county, to five to seven
years for breaking and entering
and possession of burglary tools;
and D. G. Traylor, about 29, sen
tenced September 7, 1933, in Pitt,
to 15 to 18 years for robbery.
P.-T. A. Meet
Breaks Calm
Os Capital
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, April 12.—Raleigh's post
legislature calm was broken today as
hundreds swarmed into the city for
the twentieth annual convention of
the North Carolina Congress of Par
ents and Teachers, a convention
which will continue through Friday
and which will be marked by attend
ance and addresses of noted educa
tors and laymen. *
Pre-convention activities began
yesterday with a meeting of the exe
cutive committee and a session of
the board of managers. This after
noon’s session, which v/ill be climax
ed with an address by Virgil Dahl,
assistant director of the recreation
division, Works Progress Adminis
tration, was preceded by a session
of the board of managers this morn
ing. ‘•i'll
Mrs. Doyle D. Alley, Waynesville,
president of the North Carolina Con
gress, is presiding this afternoon,
with the cooperation of Mrs. Fran-.
cis H. Blake, Albion, N. Y., vice]
president of the National Congress
of Parents and Teachers.
The session was opened with de
votional exercises led by Dean J. D.
Messick, of Elon College, state chair
man of character education. Mrs. T.
S. Johnson, president of the Raleigh
council, welcomed the visitors and
Mrs. W. W. Weant, second vice presi
dent for North Carolina, responded.
The afternoon session was to be
climaxed by Mr. Dahl’s address on
“Government and Recreation,” an
outline of the objectives and pro
gram of the Federal government in
its program for healthy, normal re
creation.
At the conclusion of the session
delegates and visitors will be enter
tained at tea at the Governor’s Man
sion, though courtesy of Mrs. Clyde
R. Hoey and the Raleigh council.
Tonight there will be. an informal
reception at Needham Broughton
high school, ‘through courtesy of the
Parents Teacher Association of that
school.
Tomorrow morning there will be
held, preceding the general session,
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JUDGE DANIELS HAS
HOSPITAL OPERATION
Goldsboro, April 12. (AP) —
Judge Frank A. Daniels, 81, who un
derwent an operation at a Goldsboro
hospital yesterday, was reported rest
ing satisfactorily today. Hospital at
tendants reported he spent a “very
satisfactory night.” / _ .
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED
House Approves and
Sends to Senate Meas
ure for $4,000,000,000
Guarantees; Judge
Thomas’ Resignation
Is Accepted
Washington, April 12.—(AP) —
The House passed and sent to the
Senate today a bill extending for two
years the powers of the Federal
Housing Administration, and rais- (
ing from $3,000,000,000 to $4,000,000,
000 the amount of mortgages it may
insure. ,
The FHA seeking to stimulate the
flow of money into the construction
industry, and provide low-cost home
financing, insures loans by private
institutions for home building and
renovation. Unless Congress con
tinues its powers, they expire June
30.
Before passing the bill on a voice
vot£, the House accepted an amend
ment by Representative Cochran,
Democrat, Missouri, designed to pre
vent what he said was the writing
up of land values by promoters of
apartment projects. He cited what
he said were two instances of such
write-ups in St. Louis.
The roll call vote on the Cochran
amendment was announced as 199
to 142
The Senate Finance Committee,
meanwhile, gave speedy approval to
an increase from $49.000f 0 sßo._
000,000 in authorized Federal ex
penditures to pay State administra
tive costs for unemployment com
pensation. The Senate committee
made no changes in an amendment
to the social security act passed by
the House Monday
Federal Judge Retires
Meanwhile, President Roosevelt
accepted the resignation of Federal
Judge E. S. Thomas of Connecticut.
A presidential secretary announced
that Thomas had resigned in a let
ter dated April 6 and the President
accepted his resignation, effectively
immediately, in a letter today.
Attorney General Murph.y issued
this statement: “It is well known
that for a number of weeks the
financial affairs of Judge Thomas
and his action in certain cases have
been under investigation by John
Cahill, United States attorney for
the southern district of New York,
and a special grand jury. The na
ture of the evidence abduced has not
been made public
“Due to a recent attack fef illness,
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N. Y. Woman
Is Robbed In
Fayetteville
Fayetteville, April 12.—(AP) —A
woman who identified herself •as
Noella Storm, an entertainer from
New York City, told police today she
was robbed during the night of
jewelry valued at SI,OOO or more.
State Highway Patrol Lieutenant A.
T. Moore and Police Chief Barney
Mcßryde expressed belief Frank
Gaddy, described as an escaped con
vict, was responsible for the theft.
They said Gaddy drove into a trap
shortly after the robbery report;
abandoned his car and outdistanced
the officers. Moore said the car was
stolen in Wilmington.
Miss Storm’s suitcase and clothing
were recovered. She said she locked
her valuables in her automobile,
parked near a tourist cabin where
she spent the night enroute from
New York to Miami. The officers
said Gaddy escaped a Monroe prison
camp last March 18. They said he
was serving 19 to 29 years for break
ing and entering and larceny.
HENDERSON, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 12, 1939
Halllf
IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
Albania Forming
New Government
Tirana, Albania, April 12.—(AP
—ltalian troops occupied points
at Albania’s Yugoslav and Greek
borders today as a constituent
assembly met to form a new gov
ernment under fascist rule.
One detachment in trucks reach
ed the Yugoslav frontier at a
point north of the Albanian
Adriatic seaport Soutari.
Foreign Minister Count Ciano
flew to Tirana to represent his
father-in-law, Premier Mussolini,
at the assembly. Ciano reviewed
Italian troops drawn up at the
airport, and then drove to the
Italian legation through streets
draped with the- Italian tri-color.
II Duce May
Never Pacify
Albanians
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, April 12. —When I
was in Albania it was under Tur
kish rule. That is, it was nominally
so. The Turks
didn’t exercise
Zog
much authority
over it outside the
city limits of Tir
ana, ,the capital.
The time I refer to
was back in the
dying days of Sul
tan Abdul Hamid’s
government in Con
stantinople (now
Istanbul). The
Young Turks’ re
volution being al
ready in its early
stages, afe Euro-
pean correspondent for an American
news association, I’d been down to
Constantinople to see about it. Re
turning to my headquarters in Lon
don, I thought it would be a bright
idea to chase out through the Sea
of Marmora and the Dardanelles and
thence up the Adriatic for a glimpse
of Albania. I got it and, from per
sonal observation, I will say this:
If Premier Mussolini thinks that
that country is a fair offset for Herr
Hitler’s grab of Austria and Czecho
slovakia, then Signor Mussolini has
bought a gold brick.
Theory Versus Practice.
Theoretically Albania ought to be
easy enough for Italy to gobble.
It’s right in the Italians’ door
yard. It’s not very big. It has a pop
ulation of a skimpy 1,000,000. King
Zog, the head of its present govern
ment, appears to be a monarch of no
especial consequence. The place
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GOVERNOR SETS NEW
RECORD FOR TALKS
Raleigh, April 12.—(AP)
Governor Hoey said today he
“set a little record” for sneech
making during a trip to and from
Swan Quarter Monday and Tues
- day. The governor made a for.
mal speech at Swan Quarter
Monday night. His other “talks”
were at or near Belbaven Slad
esville, Englehard, Fairfield, Co
lumbia and Plymouth, and he
made ten in all.
UJwlhjLfi
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair, somewhat colder; frost
nearly to the coast tonight;
Thursday fair.
Dispatch
BRITAIN TO ANNOUNCE
BROADEST GUARANTEES
TO GREECE AND TURKEY
France To Give Outline
Os Her Exact Position
Sudden Decision Is
Reached for State
ment to World; U. S.
and British Ambassa
dors Called In
Paris, April 12.(AP)— I The French
government decided suddenly today
to make a formal statement to the
world of its position in the inter
national tangle as most of France’s
Mediterranean fleet sped to a secret
destination.
The mission of the fleet, which
slipped out of Toulon naval base last
night, was not disclosed, but it was
believed the warships were operat
ing under a joint French-British
command.
The same cabinet meeting, which
unanimously adopted extraordinary
military measures, reinforcing the
French army and navy, approved a
frank declaration which Premier
Daladier will issue tomorrow.
In conferences at the war minis
try, after the cabinet meeting Dala
dier ruled against broadcasting the
statement. The premier declared it
would be a very brief communique,
defining the French position exact
ly. The final draft of the declaration
was to be agreed upon later today
in a conference between Daladier
and Foreign Minister Bonnet.
The foreign minister made ar
rangements to receive William Bul
litt, United States ambassador, and
Sir Eric Phipps, the British ambas
sador, before his talk with Daladier.
WPA WOMAN WORKER
RUNS DOWN NEGRO
Goldsboro, April 12. (AP)*
James Faison, a Negro, was injured
fatally when struck by an automo
bile near here today. James F. Brad
shaw, State highway patrolman, said
the car was driven by Mrs. Carolyn
Bonner, of New Bern, a WPA social
worker. He said investigation show
ed the Negro walked into the path of
the machine and that Mrs. Bonner
would not be held.
NOTED NOVELIST IS
DEAD IN NEW YORK
New York, April 12.—(AP)—Wil
lard Huntington Wright, who be
came famous as “S. S. Vandyne”,
author of novels
died here last night. He was 51.
Declines In
Cotton Mart
. New York, April 12.—(AP)—Cot
ton futures opened two to six points
lower, partly responding to weakness
at Liverpool. Bombay, Liverpool
brokers and commission houses sold
Prices showed net losses of four to
seven points by the end of the first
hour. May was down four to 7.95,
and October slipped from 7.47 to 7.42,
showing a decline of seven points net
Midday prices were three to eight
lower, and May traded at 7.96, off
three, and July at 7.71, off five.
Sharp Upturn
Lifts Stocks
New York, April 12. (AP) A
sturdy recovery today lifted the stock
market out of the depths of its fast
retreat on the European war scare.
Many shares were up one to more
than four, as rallying tendencies con
tinued to sway the market.near the j
fourth hour, but most of the upturn j
came in the early dealings, and trad
ing contracted on the advance. Cor
porate bonds joined stocks in the re
bound.
American Radiator 11 7-8
American Telephone ....... 152 7-8
A.merican Tob B 77
Anaconda 22 7-8
Atlantic Coast Line 17 3-4
Atlantic Refining 19 1-4
Bendix Aviation 19 7-8
Bethlehem Steel 57
Chrysler 59
Columbia Gas & Elec 6 3-8
Commercial Solvents ...... 10 1-8
Continental Oil Co 7 5-8
Curtiss Wright ?.. 5 1-8
DuPont .135
Elec Pow & Light 7 5-8
General Electric 34 1-8
General Motors 40 1-8
Liggett & Myers B 100
Montgomery Ward & Co ... 44 5-8
Reynolds Tob B 36 3-f)
South' it Railway ........ 13 5.8
Standard Oil N J 4 5 3-4
U S Steel 48
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Heinrich Jurges (above), former
secretary to Propaganda Minister
Goebbels of Germany, revealed to
Argentine officials an alleged Nazi
plot to seize the Argentine territory
of Patagonia. Jurges quit the Nazi
party four years ago and has been
living in Buenos Aires. He frequent
ly has been attacked by Nazis for
his counter-espionage and resides
at the police station as a protective
measure.
Fleet Is In
For Welcome
At Norfolk
104 Ships and 46,000
Officers and Men Ar
rive in Hampton
Roads
Norfolk, Va., April 12.—(AP) —
The United States fleet churned
white the waters of Hampton Roads
today as Uncle Sam’s war dogs
knifed between the Virginia Capes
for a 15-day concentration of naval
might.
The nation’s ‘’first line of defense”
entering and leaving Virginia waters
during the period will total 104 ships,
carrying more than 46,000 officers
and men. Arrival of the fleet’s battle
force today brought to 62 the war
ships already in the roads. A flotilla
of destroyers and smaller craft pre
ceded the battle force’s battleships,
cruisers and aircraft carriers through
the capes.
Battle force cruisers are the
Honolulu, Milwaukee, Nashville, and
Boise, Battleships are headed by the
California, flagship of Admiral Kalb
fus, senior officer of the fleet, under
Admiral Bloch, commander-in-chief.
The four aircraft carriers are the
Enterprise, Yorktown, Ranger and
Lexington.
Ashore, meanwhile, families and
friends of the navy personnel pre
pared a gala welcome for Jack Tar
as he landed for shore leave.
Try To Block
M. E. Merger
Atlanta, Ga., April 12.—(AP) —
Legal action designed to block the
merger of the three branches of
Methodism would be started before
the Uniting Conference opens April
26 at Kansas City, Mo., the Lay
men’s organization for Preservation
•of the Southern Methodist Churcd
announced here.
“Lawyers have been busily engag
ed for some days preparing bills”
for the suits, the laymen’s group
said in a statement issued yesterday.
Time of filing the suits, or the form
they, would take, were not disclosed.
Contributions that followed an ap
peal for a $25,000 to $50,000 fund to
contest the merger, “have not a
mounted to anything like what i 3
needed to carry on the large num
ber of legal battles before us” the
statement said, adding, however, that
confidence was felt that the “money
necessary will come in.”
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Chamberlain
To Warn Os
Aggression
Prepared To Accept
Mussolini’s Promises
To Preserve Present
Mediterranean Align
ment; Italo-Greek As
surances Exchanged
Tirana, Albania, April 12.
(AP) —The Albanian national
assembly today Offered the
crown of this Adratic kingdom
to King Vittorio Emanuele of
Italy for “a personal union” of
the two nations.
London, April 12.—(AP)—Prime
Minister Chamberlain is expected to
announce broad guarantees to Greece
and Turkey to Parliament tomorrow,
advancing another step the British-
French program to halt* aggression
that was begun after Germany broke
up Czechoslovakia last month.
The declaration, which Chamber
lain is to read in the House of Com
mons, is expected to state that any
act of aggression in the eastern
Mediterranean would be considered
“an unfriendly act.”
Political informants said Chamber
lain, meanwhile, was prepared to ac
cept promises attributed to Premier
Mussolini that, now that Italy has
occupied Albania, he is willing hence
forth to preserve present Mediter
ranean territorial alignments. As a
consequence of these promises,
Chamberlain is expected to condemn
the Italian invasion of Albania, but
not to denounce the Anglo-Ifalian
friendship pact concluded last year—
as some sections of British opinion
suggested.
The Italian government yesterday
announced a note of assurance to
Greece to respect Greece’s integrity
and independence. The Greek gov
ernment replied today that the guar
antees gave “full satisfaction”.
The Turkish ambassador called at
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SARCASM HEAPED ON
FDR BY GOEBBELS
Berlin, April 12.—(AP)—Pro
paganda Minister Paul Goeb
bels’ r spaper today charac
terized as “impertinence” Presi
dent Roosevelt’s “I’ll be back in
the fall if we don’t have a war”
farewell to friends in Warm
Springs, Ga., Sunday.
The newspaper said the Pres
ident’s remark was “coarse bark
ing up the wrong tree and im
pertinence.” <
THREE VILLAGES IN
EGYPT ARE BURNED
Qairo, Egypt, April 12.—(AP)—
Fire fanned by a gale was reported
today to have destroyed three vil
lages in lower Egypt, killing 21 per
sons and injuring 63. The fire start
ed yesterday from a spark blown
from an open oven onto the thatched
roof of a native dwelling.
Says Germany
Is Abler Now
Than In 1914
Berlin, April 12. (AP) — Robert
Ley, leader of the Nazi labor front,
declared today that . “.if England
wants a new war against Germany,
she will no longer find the old world
•order nor the torn Germany of 1914.”
The statement was contained in a
set of Nazi principles addressed to
German workers. It was issued as
Adolf Hitler’s newspaper ridiculed
Britain and France for “panic mon
gering out of weakness.” And an in
formed Nazi source represented Hit
ler as determined to do nothing in
the next few months to provoke the
two countries to armed intervention.
Ley, who visited England and had
an audience with King George on
February 7, asserted that “England
leads a league of German haters.”
He listed various Gilman complaints
against Britain, including the loss of
the Reich’s 1,000,000-rsquare mile
colonial empire in the World War
peace, the terms of the Versailles
treaty, and the wartime British block
ade against Germany. He complained
about the “dubious methods” with
which England gathered her empire,
and said Britain was “a newly-rich
parvenu .. who would like to play
world policeman.”