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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH - - - OUiNUAI, JL JL ▼ JLJ VUII 1U W1 JL BRITAIN, FRANCE TO HELP SHALL NATIONS Dictators Blamed For Blocking U. S, World Trade Pacts Slated for Senate rfJI ———————— James M. Slattery (above) asked by Governor Horner, of Illinois, to fill Senate post made vacant by death of J. Hamilton Lewis, is chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission. Appointee will sit in Lewis’ seat during next 18 months until next regular election in 1940. Membership OfP.-T.A.lsj Record Peak State Organization Now Has 69,382 En rolled; Erwin Praises , “Power” of State P.-T. A. Ikik-igh April 13.—(AP)—A rec. I ' .cl membership of 69,382 for the ’ '-teacher movement in North ( was reported today oy Mrs. J C. Parker, of Fountain, c hairman o; the State membership committee. ?*!:• . Parker told the delegates at -1 nding the 20th annual congress of parents and teachers that memoer ■ P was up six percent, or 3,500 ever last year. Numerous conferences on educa- j l were held. Dr. Clyde Erwin, State i forin t' ndent of public instruction, told ti conference on parent education t.’at ‘undoubtedly the rent-teach fi association is one of the most powerful influences in the develop 'Continucd on Page Four) N. C. STATE ALUMNI IN PITT TO MEET n- i»>gh, Ap.-:i :s.— <ap> —Pitt r " ’ty alumni of N. C. State College Will moot in Greenville next Mon-: d v night. Coach Williams Newton, ; \! mnj_ Secretary Dan Paul and Wade Ison, athletics publicity man, v. i! I attend the gathering. Marker Bill Has Teeth, Attorney General Says Daily Dispatch Bureau. li» the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, April 13. —Attorney Gen -i'll Harry McMullan has iound H'■ <t the newly-enacted marker bill la ting to primary elections has iciaily stringent provisions and ha.: ruled that under its provisions n< body can claim to be an “illiter ;,te for the purpose of getting help m marking his ballot unless he was ogistered under North Carolina’s notorious “grandfather clause.” "Under the Constitution every per ■fn presenting himself for registra hf,n is required to be able to read d write any section of the Consti tution, except those »persons who are entitled to register under what I ■ v.ell known as the grandfather c .'“use. Therefore, it is my opinion II at only those persons who are reg istered under the grandfather clause H LEsi •; •: *ER MEMORIAL. miht Btspnirh EAR Wallace Brings Charge Before Senate Committee in Asking Government Subsidies for Wheat and Cotton; Roosevelt Signs Em ploye Tax Bill Washington, April 13.—(AP)—As serting that “dictator nations” had blocked success of the administra tion’s trade pact program, Secretary Wallace urged* « Congress today to back government subsides of wheat and cotton exports. Wallace testified at a closed session of the Senate Ap propriations sub-committee consider ing demands for a $400,000,000 in crease in funds to bolster the admin istration farm program. In a 24-page prepared statement, Wallace praised the administration crop control and benefit payments for farmers and also the reciprocal trade program—during normal times. "But actions of the dictators have kept that policy from meeting full success,” Wallace said. President Roosevelt has signed the bill wiping out immunity of Federal and State employees from income taxation. The measure, which a sec retary said the President signed last night, permits the Federal govern ment to tax the salaries of State of ficials and employees, and State gov ernments to tax the salaries of fed eral officials and employees. The new law carries into effect the policy which the Supreme Court approved in a recent decision. High officials met to discuss meas ures to keep American business ‘’go ing as usual” in the event of a Eu ropean war. They said .they did not necessarily expect war nor any other serious disturbance, but felt it their duty to be prepared. Those attend ing the meeting included Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. Secre tary Wallace, Mariner Eccles, of the Federal Reserve Board and others. Edward J. Noble, who will be sec ond in command of the Commerce (Continued on Page Five) CHILDREN HURT IN SCHOOL BUS CRASH Roanoke Rapids, April 13. (AP) —Several children were in jured early today when a school bus enroute from the South Rosemary section to Roanoke Rapids high school was in col lision with a fertilizer truck. The children received hospital treat ment. None fpi the injuries was considered serious. U. S. Employees In State Subject To State Levies Raleigh,* April 13. —(AP) —All fed eral employees in Noi’th Carolina be came subject to State income tax laws today when President Roose velt signed a bill permitting federal income levies on State employees The 1939 legislature included a provision in the continuing revenue law that the State should tax in come from Federal employees if the government taxed the income of State employees. Revenue Commissioner A. J. Max well said that a broad guess was that SIOO,OOO would be received year i ly from persons previously extempt ed. i are entitled to claim the right to em i ploy a marker by reason of illiter ! ncy.” He made the ruling in respons i to a request from the Wake County Board of Elections regarding the Raleigh municipal election to be held soon. . Another fact which stands out m the McMullan opinion is that in the future there will be disturbing the time-honored customs of a man and his wife, or other members of a family, going into voting booths to gether. ' ■ . . This is made clear by the final clause of the new act: “Provided, further, that any .voter may upon his request be accompan ied into the voting booth by a near relative and obtain such assistance from said member of the family as he may desire whether disabled or not.” " _ _ _ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN Snow And Freezing W eather Overspread Big Part Os Nation Chicago, April 13.—(AP) —Snow and freezing weather gave a mid winter aspect to a large section of | the nation today. The United States Weather Bureau reported that the i worst of the cold snap was over, but I that no real balmy weather was in I sight. Extensive damage to budding fruit and some grain crops was reported in agricultural areas. Smudge fires burned through the night in the Vm-j cennes, lnd., fruit belt. Orchardistsj said the apricot, plum and pear crops I in Pike county were almost a total loss. Northwest Arkansas fruit growers feared apples, grapes and berries, al ready in bloom, had been injured by the unseasonably low temperatures.; Big lettuce and onion crops in Long 1 $50,000 Suit Near Jury At Oxford I Oxford, April 13.—(AP)—John ’ Grissom, truck driver, lestilied in superior court here today that the automobile in which Miss Ray Og- 1 den Francis, was riding wlien she was injured came over a hill crest in the center of the highway just before it collided with his truck. ! Miss Francis, 21-year-old Richmond dancer and model, is suing the Creed moor Supply Company, owner of the truck and John Long, driver of the car, for $50,000, alleging she was paralyzed from the waist down as the result of her injuries. Grissom was sent to the stand as the first defense witness after Judge j Leo Carr had overruled a motion I for a non-suit. Coach Wallace Wade, of Duke 1 University, appeared as a character ! witness for Long and his companion ; at the time, Herbert Hudgins, for- ! mer football star Oxford, April 13.—(AP) —The $50,000 damage suit brought by Miss Ray Ogburn Francis, 21, of Rich mond Va., again -t John W. Long, of j (Continued on Page Three) FAYETTEVILLE LAD DEAD IN MILL POND Fayetteville, April 13.—(AP) — The body of 10-year-old Gene James was found in a mill pond here today by searchers who had hunted him all night. Coroner W. C. Davis was un decided whether to order an inquest. HENDERSON, N. C., THURISDA)' AFTERNOON, APRIL 13, 1939 Hughes, 77, Goes for Stroll .axv-xJaLv.-.-. P SIB I D m 08l H Ip i ' 'tic WBm Imm ■ flHHajpjK *** I mSm •* m <■-- ]K KyjL^'' Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes observes his 77th birthday in Washington by taking a stroll. As he stepped from the door he faced a battery of cameramen, for whom he obligingly posed. He said he has n% intention of quitting the High Court. THIS SECTION OF NORTH Island, N. Y., were similarly threat ened. More than a score of states shiver ed in freezing temperatures. Wiscon sin, Minnesota aud the Dakotas, with readings near zero, were the coldest spots. Snow fell in several states, notably Ohio, Pennsylvania, Con necticut, Vermont and up-State New York. Brief blizzards swept Pennsylvania Winsted, Conn., reported a three inch snowfall, while there were eight inches in up-Statc New York. Fresh snows brought the total depth in the mountain areas of Vermont to four feet and in northern New Hampshire to 30 inches. There were slight snow flurries in New York City last night, while the temperature skidded almost 30 de grees in ten hours.' Party Lines Collapse On World Policy By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, April 13.—Ex-Secre tary of State Henry L. Stimson and Bernard M. Baruch, as the Senate • Foreign Relations x : - '*" v '■real Baruch Committee’s initial witnesses at its neutrality investi gation, disagreed in a very peculiar way. Stimson, as everyone knows, is a lifelong Repub lican. who might reasonably have been expected to deprecate Pre si ae n t Roosevelt’s argument that the White House ought to be allowed to take sides (not nec essarily in military fashion but in an expression of America’s sympathies between belligerents) in conditions of warfare involving foreign coun tries. Baruch, a veteran Democratic counselor, might just as reasonably have been expected to indorse the chief executive’s contention that the administration should be permitted (Continued on Page Four) LOmtiwi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, scattered frost; Friday increasing cloudiness, slightly warmer m interior. CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Chamberlain Tells House 01 Promises Negotiations for Rus sia n Alignment in Anti-Aggression Bloc Continuing, Commons Is Advised; Italian Accord not Denounced London, April 13.—(AP) — Great Britain and France pledged ‘'all the support in their power” today to Greece and Roumania if their inde pendence were threatened. The action, announced to the House of Commons in emergency ses sion by Prime Minister Chamber lain, widened the anti-aggression front started by the two powers with a similar pledge to Poland after Germanv absorbed Memel. Chamber lain made it clear the extension was me sequel to Italy's Good Friday seizure of Albania. The prime minister made it plain that Turkey was included indirect ly in the new guarantees, stating that the assurances to Greece and Roumania were being communicated “especially to Turkey, whose closet relations with the Greek government are well known.” Chamberlain declared anti-aggres sion consultations with Soviet Rus sia were continuing when members of the House shouted: “What about Russia?” The prime minister, who spoke for (Continued on Page Four) 32 Are Killed In Wreck of Train In Mexican Province Mexico City, April 13.—Mexi can railroad officers here said they had reports of 32 persons and 42 injured in a pas senger train collision near Quer etaro early today. The first re ports were that one train crash ed into the rear of the second on the Guadalajara-Larido line. First reports said all the deaths occurred in the Guadala jara train. The collision took place at 4:10 a. m. It was the latest of a series of wrecks on the worker-operated national railways, the management of which recently charged there were efforts at sabotage to dis . credit the railway and the gov. ernment. Hydrogen Balloon At Zeppelin Works Lost In Explosion Friedrichshafen,* Germany, April 13—(API—A weather observation balloon filled with hydrogen •■'xplod- M today at the Zeppelin works, de stroyin'? a smMl wooden hangar which housed it. No one was injur . d The balloon contained 80 cubic meters (2,825 cubic feet) of the ih fjommable gas.. Its hangar, or bal loon room, of the observatory caught fire quickly, but city firemen quick ly brought the flames under con trol. France Joins Pledge Made For Britain Anril 13.—(API —Premier Daladier announced today France ( vns militarily- for emergen cies and, v/ith Britain, bar! 1 her aid in case of need to Greece and Roumania, as well •as Poland. His declaration, made in a bluntly worded statement, came onlv o tew! minutes after British Prime Minister Chamberlain announced similar com mitments to Greece and Roumania in London. It was accepted here as de signed to serve two major purposes: One. To tell Germany and Italy that any act of aggression would bring a serious risk of war. Two. To bolster the determination of those countries which feel them selves menaced and are inclined to resist. The premier in person read a state ment to the press declaring that “without verbal manifestations and without vain provocations,” the na tion has heinforced its defenses “to! guarantee the frontiers of France and its empire agains> any surprise.” The premier added that France! would go to the aid of Roumania if j that Balkan kingdom considered its j vital interests in jeopardy. J PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. British Guarantees To Little Nations Surprise To Berlin Bows to Hitler nmF ' fli sllilfk Grigore Gafencu (above), Ruma nian foreign minister, is reported to have bowed to ceaseless pressure j and consented to obey a German summons to Berlin. Britain fears the pilgrimage, like those of Aus trian and Czech statesmen, will end in subjugatior of the country before she can negotiate an Anglo-Ruma nian mutual defense pact. (Central Press) Pcles Will Return Home From Reich All Diplomatic and Consular Officials In Germany Told To Send Families Back to Poland Warsaw, April 15. (AP) —The Polish foreign office was reported today to have instructed officials of the Polish Embassy and consular of ficers in Germany to send their fam ilies home. The report was heard as Poland apparently ignored German pressure to keen her out of the “anti aggression” bloc of Britain and France, and the entire Warsaw press published editorials supporting Po land’s recently -, announced defense alliance with England. Officials took no public notice of a Nazi newspaper campaign, which in formed quarters here said was in tended to “intimidate” Poland and prevent her from signing the pact. But the pro-government newspaper Kurjer Porrany declared that “re garding ‘encirclement’, Poland has much more to say than Germany, be cause German troops are concentrat ed all along the Polish frontier from Slovakia to Memel.” TWO COUNTIES ASK SCHOOL DISTRICTS Raleigh, April 13.—(AP) —Dele- \ gations from Bertie and Davie counties today asked the . State School Commission to set up addi tional school districts in their areas. State Senator W. C. SpruiU head ed the Bertie group, which asked separate districts for Mars Hill, Powellsville and Colerain, which are now in one district, though a high school is maintained at each place. No aciion had been taken this afternoon. Goering Will Visit Italy In Week-End Rome, April 13. (AP) Field Marshal Hermann Goering, No. 2 Nazi, will arrive here tomorrow night for an official visit, which will ex tend through Sunday. Goering, who had been in Italy a month on vaca tion before going to Libya, was ex pected to see Premier Mussolini. His (Continued on Page Five) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Inclusion of Turkey Taken To Mean Pro tection of Dardanel les; Guarantees Un necessary, Is Reaction In Rome Berlin, April 13.—(AP))—Indica tions were given in official German circles today that Nazi leaders were unprepared for the inclusion of Roumania as well as Greece in the Anglo-Frer . i pledges of protection announced o Prime Minister Cham berlain in London. Chamberlain’s reference to Tur key, indicating the prospect that the pledges might be extended to the guaf’dian of the Dardanelles also caused surprise. “The declaration will be taken apart, phrase by phrase, and closely analyzed before our position can be stated,” one official said. Foreign office officials began study of the speech as soon as its text was available here. CHAMBERLAIN STATEMENT CONSIDERED UNNECESSARY Rome, April 13.—(AP)—Fascists regarded Prime Minister Chamber lain’s announcement of Anglo-French guarantees to Greece and Roumania today as “unnecessary and gratui tous” because, they said, the inde pendence of neither of these two powers had been threatened. They called attention especially to the fact that Premier Mussolini had given assurances on Monday to Greece that Italy had no hostile de signs agm'nst her and that the Greek government had accepted those as surances Danzig City In Protest To Poland Danzig, April 13. (AP) —The Danzig free city government hand ed a note today to the Polish envoy here protesting against “Polish pro vocation.” The cooling of diplomatic relations between the free state, at the head of the Polish corridor, and Poland has been noticeable in the last few days. The official press announcement of the note said that in the last few days anti-Danzig leaflets had been thrown from Polish trains passing through the Danzig territory. The leaflets were said to have contained a Polish song demanding incorpora tion of the free state into Poland. The note referred to the “danger ous results ot the Polish provoca tions.” Germany To Deny Blame If War Come Faur Will Lie With Democracies, ' Berlin Says; Fuehrer Pictur ed as “Pleading” for Peace Benin, April 13.—(AP) —Official Germany took the position today that if the world should be plunged into war the fault would lie with the democracies for not heeding Reichfuehrer Hitler’s “pleas” for peace and his warnings against “bi tel national war-mongers.” The United States was presented as an example of a nation which fosters the “war psychosis.” Com menting on the decision of American insurance companies to cancel war risk insurance for German and Ital ian ships, a government spokesman said, “If a people is being urged into war the way the American people are, nobody need be surprised if business gets jittery. This is a typi cal example of panic politics. Six to eight times a day news is given out in the United States of America of the kind that only can be called war correspondents reporting. We con (Continued on Page Five)
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