HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-SIXTH year
ROOSEVELT PLEDGES AID TO PAN-AMERICA
FDR Pays Tribute
To Geo. Washington
As First President
James M. Slattery
Illinois Senator
Springfield. 111., April 14—(AP)
—Governor Henry Horner today
appointed Chairman James M.
Slattery, of the Illinois Commerce
Commission, to the United States
Senate, to succeed the late James
Hamilton Lewis.
Slattery. CO-year-old Chicago
attorney, had been a close per
sonal and political friend of the
governor for a quarter of a cen
tury. He managed the 1936 and
1038 campaigns of Governor Hor
ner's Democratic organization in
Cook county.
The senatorial appointment is
effective immediately and is for
the period until the election in
1010. Lewis died last Sunday in
Washington.
P.-T. A. Has
Speaker On
Recreation
f
District Award Goes
To This Area Under
Mis. Wall; Other
Prizes Awarded at
Convention in Raleigh
Raleigh, April 14.—(AP)—Arthur
H. Jones, of Charlotte, field repre
sentative of the National Recreation
Commission, told the annual State
Congress of Parents and Teachers
today that public schools should be
the basis for public recreation pro
grams "to achieve happiness.*’
“Happiness must be the goal of
our work, our industry, our educa
tion. our play,” said Jones. ,
Schools, he said, should have fa
cilities for recreation in the curri.
culuin. Boys and girls should be
taught skills, development of .life in
terest and hobbies, and recreation
training should be a part of the
training of each school. .
The congress recognized outstand
ing work in its activities during the
last year by awarding four cyps
given annually.
District three, headed by Mrs. G.
S. Horne, of Charlotte, and district
ten, with Mrs. Raymond Busong, of
New Bern, in charge, tied for the
Ryn im cup, given the district get
ting the largest number- of life mem
berships, valued at $25 each.
The Aycock cup for the largest
percentage increase in membership
v.ent to district eight, under Mrs.
C E. Stevens, of Council. Mrs. I.
A. Ward, of Hertford, chairfnan of
district nine, received the national
Parent-Teacher Magazine cup for
gating the mos t subscriptions to the
publication.
Exhibit av/nrtV announced includ
ed general excellence, winner, dis
tort six, under Mrs. L. D. Wall, of
Henderson.
South Today Is Solving
Its Problem, Babson Says
Is Nation’s “Possibility No. 1,” Not “Econo
mic Problem No. 1”; If Freight Rate Discrim
inations Were Removed, It Would Lead Nation
By ROGER W. BABSON
Copyright 1939, Publishers Financial
Bureau, Inc.
Savannah, Ga., April 14.—After a
'winter spent in the South, it is hard
to be pessimistic on this section even
though cotton is selling for only eight
tents a pound! Far from being ec
onomic Problem Number One, I
think the South is possibly number
One of the United States. Eliminate
height rate differentials, speed up
the diversification of the farms, uti
lize the water-power developments,
;, nd Dixie can life the United States
into a prieod of business prosperity.
The South is making huge progress
e ° f ‘h year The fastest growing states
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AhhoCiATIOD PRESS.
Voices Gratitude of
Tens of Millions of
Americans to Colonial
Leader; Roosevelt
Signs $100,000,000
Relief Bill; Ship Canal
Favored
Mount Vernon, Va., April 14.
(AP) —President Roosevelt stood
on the poren of historic Mount Ver
r.on today and voiced the gratitude
of “tens of millions of Americans”
that 150 years ago George Washing
ton bowed to the demands that he
became the first President.
It was April 14, 1789, that Charles
Thompson, secretary of the Contin
ental Congress, rode into Mount
Vernon with an official notification
of Washington’s election by the Con
gress.
Washington “rightly” must have
felt, Mr. Roosevelt declared, that he
was entitled to rest, that “he had
rounded out his contribution to the
public weal.” The soldier-patriot
could have refused the call to the
Presidency, Mr. Roosevelt said he
had always believed, had it not come
“in a time of real crisis” for the re
public.
Washington developments includ
ed:
President Roosevelt signed the
measure making available an addi
tional $100,000,000 for relief. The
amount, recently approved by Con.
gress after long controversy, was
$50,000,000 less than the President
originally had asked.
The House Rivers and Harbors
Committee approved a bill by Repre
sentative Mansfield, Democrat, Tex.,
to authorize completion of the $200,-
000,000 Florida ship canal. It was
said the vote was 10 to 6. The action
was in closed session.
The National Labor Relations
Board, storm center of a congres
sional drive to modify the Wagner
act, renewed its stand against
amending the law, and termed most
proposed changes “definitely objec
tionable.” Denying that it favored
the CIO, and criticizing some of the
amendments proposed by the Ame
rican Federation of Labor, the board
said in a four-volume report to the
Senate Committee:
“The board is not persuaded by
its experience or by any arguments
which have to come to its attention
that the act requires amendment at
the present time.”
President Roosevelt called on
Federal department heads to submit
by April 25 plans for reorganizing
government bureaus. The action
was his first step toward exercising
the reorganization powers recently
granted him by Congress after two
years of bitter controversy.
Slight Drop
For Cotton
New York, April 14.—(AP) —Cot-
ton futures opened unchanged to two
points higher on buying by local,
trade and spot houses. The bulk of
selling was in the form of hedging
against Brazilian cotton. Around mid
morning, losses ranged from one to
three points. At the noon hour, prices
were unchanged to three lower.
in the union are nearly all in the
South. Texas, Florida, Louisiana, the
Carolinas are boosting their popula
tions about three times as fast as the
North. Litterally hundred of commun
ities that were unheard of ten years
ago are thriving towns today. Every
one of the chief cities in the United
States whose populations have doub
led since 1920 is below the Mason
and Dixon line.
Has One-Quarter of Industry
The story of the South’s industrial
growth is even more sensational.
More than half the new factory de
velopment of the entire country in
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reasons why the democracies are ready to go to war to prevent further
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and commanding entrance to the Adriatic, is center of the dispute. Con
trol of Gibraltar and Suez, both threatened by Italy, is essential to Britain
because they command her chief route to India and the Orient. France
and Britain, furthermore, are jealous of their Mediterranean power
because of colonial empires in Africa. Italy, on the other hand, grabbed
Three Fatal
Wrecks Over
State Occur
Sailor Killed at Man
teo, Lawyer Near Wil
mington and Printer
at Newton
Manteo, April 14.—(AP) —George
Weston Cothran, about 21, fireman
second class aboard the U. S. S.
Nashville, was killed and C. L. Scar
borough, a shipmate, injured, when
their automobile overturned near
Wanchese at 9:30 a. m. today. Naval
authorities made arrangements to
take Cothran’s body to Norfolk, Va.
SALISBURY ATTORNEY IS
KILLED NEAR WILMINGTON
Wilmington, April 14. (AP)
John L. Randleman, Jr., an attorney
of Salisbury, was almost instantly
killed near Maco early this morn
ing when a car driven by a man of
ficers identified as G. L. Long, 19,
left the highway and overturned in
a ditch. 1 “
Long, formerly of 4 Salisbury, and
now a resident of this city, was
slightly hurt. His uncle, R. E. Long,
third occupant of the .Car, also re
ceived cuts and bruises. Highway pa
trolmen were investigating the mis
hap.
NEWTON PRINTER KILLED
IN TRAGEDY NEAR THERE
Newton, April 14.—(AP) — Opie
Travis, 23-year-old Newton printer,
was fatally injured and two com
panions were painfully hurt in a
truck-automobile collision early to
day on the Newton-Conover high
way. Travis died about two hours
after the accident.
Loy A. Simmons and Lois Sim
mons, no kin, suffered severe bruis
ers and shock. The latter was uncon
scious when taken to a hospital, but
regained consciousness after a short
time. Connelly Sigmon, driver of the
truck, was placed under technical ar
rest while officers completed their
investigation.
Desperadoes
Who Escaped
Re-Captured
*
Raleigh, April 14. —(AP) —Oscar
Pitts, superintendent of prisons, said
this morning that four prisoners who
escaped earlier this week, including
Sam Lineberry, who wrecked Pitt’s
State-owned car, had been caught.
Officers from Leaksville-Spray, Pitts
and Warden H. H. Wilson of Cen
tral Prison here, caught Lineberry
near Leaksville-Spray early this
morning and brought him here.
There was no trouble taking the es
capee, Pitts said.
Lineberry was serving 20 to 25
years for murder. He was sentenced
in Columbus county. Lineberry dis
appeared after wrecking Pitts’ car.
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25 German Warships
To Hold Maneuvers
Off Spanish Coast
Berlin, April 14.—(AP) —An offi
cial communique disclosed today that
25 German ships, exclusive of auxi
liaries, would leave their Kiel and
Wilhelmshaven bases Tuesday.
The maneuvers, the communique
said, would revive an “old tradition
of the German navy,” interrupted by
the Spanish civil war. Reports that
some vessels already had left Kiel,
and were enroute today for a ren
dezvous off Spain’s Atlantic coast,
were said to have resulted from “con
fusion” over the status of the
maneuvers.
Ports in Spain, Portugal, Spanish
Morocco and Tangiers will be visited,
the communique said. The maneuver
ing force will include two battle
ships, two cruisers, six destroyers, 15
submarines and auxiliary craft.
Albania Grab
Puzzling In
Washington
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, April 14. —Officials of
the State Department’s division of
eastern European affairs are getting
pretty sick of their
jobs. Be tween
the activities of
Herr Hitler, and
now of Signor
Mus so 1 ini, too,
they're getting
jfractically no rest.
Bob Kelley, the
division’s chief has
been working al
most aa y and
night for weeks
and weeks. The
whole State De
partment is kept in
a fermfent, but that
Kelley
especial di v ision
naturally is particularly everlasting
ly on the qui vive. Office hours mean
nothing. Even in his own home Chief
Kelley’s telephone is jingling nearly
all the time. They’re not merely lo
cal calls, either. They’re from over
seas and everywhere. In its way
Signor Mussolini’s Albanian opera
tions are more puzzling than were
Herr Hitler’s Austrian and Czecho
slovakian grabs.
Der Fuehrer tnoved suddenly, to
be sure, but II Duce jumped on Al
bania still more abruptly. The for
mer, moreover, wasn’t quite so ob
viously violent. The later started off
with out-and-out fighting. True, the
Italians fought in Ethiopia and have
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair, warmer to
night; Saturday increasing cloud
iness, warmer in east and central
portions.
the Dodecanese Archipelago from Turkey in 1912, fortified the islands
and won control of the Aegean Sea. With the island of Rhodes and bases
on Libya s coast, Italy matches British bases around Suez. Sicily, Sar
dinia and Pantellaria balance Malta and give Italy a hold on the central
Mediterranean area. A base in the Balearics threatens Gibraltar, Algiers
and Tunisia. Should Italy defy Britain and seize Corfu, it would give her
the balance of power in the Mediterranean, which Mussolini calls “Mare
Nostrum,” or “Our Sea.” (Central Press ;
Paris and London were said to
have been advised of the maneuvers.
Plans for the exercises were carried
forward while the Nazi press assailed
Britain anew for her policy of guar
anteeing eastern European nations
against any aggression of the Rome-
Berlin axis.
Commenting on yesterday’s guar
antees to Greece and Roumania, the
newspapers declared Britain was
bluffing.
Although in official comment, the
British policy has been described as
driving Europe toward a new “peo
ple’s murder”, unofficial but au
thoritative quarters interpreted the
naval movement as a sure sign the
German government did not regard
the present European situation as
critical.
Hoey Opposes
Yielding To
Power Bureau
Raleigh, April 14.—(AP)—Gover
nor Hoey said today he “very de
finitely opposed yielding to any con
tentions that the Federal Power
Commission has control of the Yad
kin river.”
The government made it clear iri
discussing pending litigation over a
pending hydro-electric development
for High Point that if the State tried
to become a party to pending suits,
“it would not be in connection with
the merits of the controversy, but
only to protect the State’s rights as
to the Yadkin.”
Yadkin county commissioners and
tax-payers and a number of citizens
and businesses of High Point have
filed separate suits seeking to re
strain the municipality from proceed
ing with the power plant. The lake
impounded by the dam would cover
a large area in Yadkin county. Plain
tiff’s in both, actions have been ask
ed that the State intervene in their
behalf.
SIO,OOO Reward For
Matson’s Kidnaper
Is Now Withdrawn
Washington, April 14.—(AP) — A
Justice Department official said to
day that J. Edgar Hoover, Federal
Bureau of Investigation chief, with
drew several months ago the $10,030
reward for the apprehension of the
Matson kidnaper.
Ten-year-old Charles Matson, son
of a Tacoma, Wash., physician, was
kidnaped from his home on the night
of December 27, 1936, by an ab
ductor who dropped a note demand
ing $28,000 ransom. Fifteen days
later the boy’s beaten body was
found in a thicket.
FBI officials refused to comment
on reasons for withdrawing the re
ward. - .
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Britain Now
Seeks Quick
Staff Talks
Joint Military Plans
Urged by War Ex
perts of Anti-Aggres
sion Bloc in Europe
London, April 14.—(AP) —
British efforts to bring Russia
into a grand alliance against
Nazi-Fascist expansion were re
liably reported to have made
good progress otday after a long
conference between Foreign Sec
retary Viscount Halifax and
Soviet Ambassador Maisky.
London, April 14.—(AP) —Britain
was reliably reported today to be
urging military staff talks among
Polish, Roumania, Greek, French and
British experts to put sharper teeth
in new “anti-aggression safeguards.”
This was said to be the first move
in the general attempt to translate
British-French guarantees of military
aid to Poland, Roumania and Greece
into potential planes, soldiers and
strategy.
Envoys of the guaranteed states
have been told of Britain’s desire,to
expedite detailed military arrange
ments, one well informed source said
Meanwhile, United States Ambas
sador Kennedy called on Prime Min
ister Chamberlain, congratulating
him on the declaration in the House
of Commons yesterday in which he
extended pledges to Greece and
Roumania.
The commitment to Poland was
two weeks old.
Following the conference with
Kennedy, Chamberlain and his wife
left for the week-end at his country
estate. The prime minister’s relaxa
tion was broken a week ago by the
Italian invasion of Albania.
Eastern Air Lines Keep
Service, Despite Strike
Newark, N. J., April 14.—(AP)—
Eastern Air Line officials today said
company operations and flight sche
dules had not been affected by a
strike of an undetermined number
of line service employees of the
mechanical department, who walked
out at four “key” bases in Newark,
Washington, Atlanta, Ga., and Miami
Fla.
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, pres
ident and general manager of the
air lines, estimated 52 out of a total
of approximately 250 maintenance
men throughout the system had
walked out at 12:01 a. m., and said
strikers, all members of the Air Line
Mechanics Association International,
ar. independent union, had been re
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Aggression
Once Again
Condemned
American Interests
Worldwide FDR Says,
Envisioning Planes
Crossing Atlantic and
Pacific Freely in Few
Years
Washington, April 14. —(AP) —
President Roosevelt pledged the na
tion’s economic strength today to any
Pan-American country whose econo
mic structure is threatened by pres
sure from abroad.
Condemning aggression as “ridi
culous” and “criminal,” Mr. Roose
velt extended this government’s
promise of protection for the West
ern Hemisphere, already given for
military attacks, to ini'oads on busi
ness and commerce.
On annual Pan-American day, the
President gave the Old World a “liv
ing message” from the New World
of a “will to peace”, which “will have
a voice in determining the order of
world affairs.” Mr. Roosevelt spoke
to the governing board of the Pan-
American Union in the Pan-Ameri
can building. Without naming the
aggressor nations or their dictators,
but referring to statements recently
made by Hitler and Mussolini, the
chief executive stressed the ties bind
ing Europe and the Americas.
His words, as if a reply to advo
cates of American isolation, weret
“The American family of nations
may also rightfully claim now to
speak to the rest of the world. We
have an interest wider than that of
the mere defense of our sea-ringed
continents. We know now that the
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IMPERIAL TOBACCO
EXECUTIVE IS DEAD
Charles W. Shuff, 47, of Greenville,
Had Been 111 for Several
Months
Greenville, April 14. (AP)
Charles W. Shuff, 47, manager for
the last 17 years of the local branch
of the Imperial Tobacco Company,
died in a hospital here today after
several months of failing health. His
funeral will be held here tomorrow
morning.
Surviving are his widow, a daugh
ter, two sons, two brothers and a
sister. Shuff had been in ill health
since he suffered a stroke in Decem
ber, 1937.
Germans Say
Roosevelt Is
Pulling Wires
Berlin, April 14. (AP)
German government circles said
President Roosevelt’s address to
day before the Pan-American
Union clearly reveals him as the
“maste: wire-puller” behind
the auti-G<*rman encirclement
policy. They said official Nazi
reaction to the President’s Pan-
American Day speech in Wash
ington indicated that sharp re
joinders probably would be
made.
“To assert that the encircle
ment of a peaceful nation was
impossible,” they said, “was a
negation of history. Before 1914
Germany was encircled through
a Franco. Russian alliance behind
her back while she was pursu
ing peaceful aims.”
placed by mechanics from company
overhaul ‘s.iops at Miami.
Meanwhile, at Chicago, Robert H.
Stoy, editor of Air Line Mechanic,
monthly publication of the associa
tion, said a canvas of Eastern Air
Line airports disclosed a 100 per
cent walkout at Newark, 90 percent
at Miami, 100 percent at Atlanta,
and an indicated 100 percent at
Washington and Chicago.
David Bechncke, president of the
Air Line Pilots Association, said at
Chicago the members of his organi
zation were “watching very closely”
the developments in the strike, hut
added it was too early to predict
what action the pilots association,
an A. F. of L. affiliate, might take.