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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR HALT BINDS HUNGARY TO Visitors Go Out to See a Battlewagon / \ *• - , - " ** mIK ? ShiP Tei } neßßße > at anchor in the Hudson River, 6hi p before sh e .&* to %£& t£SSZ^i^2E2^£tt& hurrying to San Pedro, Cal. Negro Is Killed And 15 Children injured In School Bus Crash Father and Son To Die In Chair ( olumhus, Ohio, April 19. (AP)—Partners in crime, a fath er and son steeled themselves in the solitude of Ohio peniten tiary’s death row today for a march to the electric chair. Harry and Henry Dingledine, of Springfield, Ohio, and Harry Chapman, of Chicago, were sche duled to pay with their lives shortly after 8 o’clock tonight for the slaying of two Spring field peace officers. It will be third triple execu tion since the chair was installed in the penitentiary in 1897, and the State’s first father-son exe cution. Before 56-year-old Harry Din gledine was the added ordeal of seeing his son’s march to the hrilliantly-lighted death cham ber. Chapman is scheduled to die first, followed by Dingledine’s 29-year-old son, and then the father himself. Fewer Born, Fewer Die In Quarter Highway Deaths Rise in First Three Months of 193 9; Suicides Fewer Than Period Last Year Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Kaleigh, April 19.—Fewer North Carolinians were born and fewer r!i(, d during the first quarter of '•'39 than in the same period of 1938, ;i compilation of State Board of Health vital statistics shows. Over same period, the death toll in f, rth Carolina from .automobile cidonts on the highways rose over lirst three months of last year, tho board’s figures reveal. During March, for the first time this year, deaths increased over, last year, while births, for the third consecutive month continued to de. ' >ne. Last month’s auto deaths (Continued on Page Two) BOSTON BEES WIN IN SEASON OPENING Boston, Mass., April 19.—(AP) —The Boston Bees opeiled their ma Jor league season today by taking a 12-inning Patriot’s Day looming game from Philadelphia 1 to 6. A1 Simmons, former American Leaguer, knocked in the winning run. Hettilcrsnn Ittilu OF Fertilizer Truck from Robersonville Bound for Henderson and Oxford Hits School Bus Near Rocky Mount; Driver Held Rocky Mount, April 19. —(AP) —A Negro was killed and 15 children were given hospital treatment today following a crash on the Tarboro highway near here between an Edge combe county school bus and a loaded fertilizer truck. State Highway Patrolman R. L. Mashburn, who investigated the ac cident, said the Negro had been iden tified as Harry Murphy, 36, from Robersonville, an occupant of the truck, which the officer said was driven by another Negro, Major Brown, 24, also of Robersonville. Brown was taken to Tarboro to be locked up awaiting a possible man slaughter charge The patrolman said that both the school bus, which was carrying around twenty children to the West Edgecombe school, and the truck apparently were headed toward Rocky Mount when the accident oc curred. The officer said his investi gation showed that the bus had stopped to pick up one of the chil dren when the truck rammed the bus from behind, instantly killing Murphy. After hitting the bus, the officer said the truck ran to the left of the road and into a field. Coroner J. G. Raby, of Edgecombe county, held Brown under SI,OOO on (Continued on Page Two) HUGH DORTCH WAS TEXAS CO. LOBBYIST Raleigh. April 19.—(AP) —H. P. Dortch, of Goldsboro, as a full-time employe, lobbied for the Texas Com pany of New York during the 1939 General Assembly, Secretary of State Thad Eure was informed today. In a statement filed in Eure’s office, C. E. Woodbridge, treasurer of the concern, reported that Dortch listed no additional expenses beyond his re gular pay. $2,500,000 Allocated To Road Work By Governor Raleigh, April 19. —(AP)—Gover- nor Hoey made $2,500,000 available to the Highway and Public Works Commission today for immediate ex penditure on road betterments. “The money will be available for use during the best season, from now until fall,” said the governor, “and may be used anywhere the commis sion feels it is most needed. It may be used on primary or secondary roads, and also for such purposes as surface treating existing roads.” The allocation made $9,000,000 turned over by the governor for im mediate use on highway betterment during this biennium, in addition to only daily newspaper published in THIS SECTION Britain Will Set Up New Supply Post Winston Churchill May Head ■» New De partment To Assem ble Provisions Against Outbreak of War London, April 19.—(AP) The British cabinet was reported today to have decided to establish a supply department to speed provision of war materials needed for Britain’s vast re-armament program. Establishment of an agency to co ordinate the purchase of war ma terials for the fighting services, army air force and navy, was known to have been considered by the minis ters in a session lasting more than an hour. Whether the new department would have the status of a govem ment ministry, headed by a chief of (Continued on Page Four) Wallace Lady Heads State Club Women • \ Raleigh, April 19.—(AP) —Mrs. John Robinson, of Wallace, was elected president of the State Fed eration of Women’s Clubs here to day. Earlier, the federation announced award of prizes for outstanding work during the last year in club projects. The list of winners included: The education awards for best work in youth conservation, to the LaGrange Junior Woman’s Club, first; Richlands Woman’s Club, sec ond, and Whiteville Woman’s Club, third. Mrs. S. Clay Williams cup for poetry, to Georgia Pearsall Hearn, of Greenville. The Martha Davis cup for best vo cal musical composition, to Mrs. I. M. Meekins, of Elizabeth City. the regular highway appropriation. The money was taken from the highway surplus and leaves an op erating balance of $3,000,000 or more Hoey said. The highway fund must have around $3,000,000 for operat ing purposes at all times. The governor said he had trans ferred the money for immediate use after conferences with R. G. Deyton, assistant director of the budget. He said the money could be used safely, apparently, even if it should become necessary before July 1 to transfer highway funds for general .State pur poses. He pointed out that there had been no such diversion since he as sumed office. —~"-w + - + HENDERSON, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 19 1939 U. S. Fleet To Leave Norfolk 8 A; M. Tomorrow For Pacific Flagship Pennsylvan ia Arrives in Hampton Roads from Annapolis and Admirals Confer Immediately; Shore Leaves End Tonight Norfolk, Va., April 19.—(AP) — The battleship Pennsylvania, flag ship of Admiral C. C. Bloch, arrived in Hampton Roads at 10 o’clock to day from Annapolis, and cast an chor off the naval base. Vice-Admiral King, commanding the aircraft squadrons of the battle force: and Rear Admiral Watts, com manding the base force; Rear Ad miral Johnson, commanding the At lantic squadron; Rear Admiral Sec ton, commanding destroyers of the battle force, and Rear Admiral Pye, commanding destroyer flotilla one of the battle force, went aboard the flagship soon after she anchored for a conference with Admiral Bloch; The movement of the fleet to the Pacific, ordered suddenly Saturday by the Navy Department, gets under way at 4 o’clock this afternoon with the departure of the supply ships Bridge, Arctic and Antares. Officers and men of the fighting craft are enjoying their last few hours ashore today before shoving off for the Pacific tomorrow morn ing. All leaves are in tonight at 6 o’clock. Although no definite hour of de parture has been officially announc ed, it is understood the ships will be moving out tomorrow morning at 8 o’clock. 11 Jurors In Burlington Killing Named Graham, April 19.—(AP) —Eleven of thirteen jurors had been selected today in the trial of four men here on a charge of slaying two officers last December at Burlington, when the venire of 150 was exhausted, and Judge N. A. Sinclair ordered a new venire of 25 to appear in court at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon to com plete the selection. The venire used up today was also from Orange county, a change of venire having been granted on peti tion of counsel for the defendants, i Roy Kelly, Wade Hanford. Ralph Hanford, and George Smith. The State contends they were companions of Roy Huffman, killed in an at tempted service station robbery. Sheriff M. P. Robertson, in office only two days, and Officer S. W. Vaughan died in the burst of gun fire. Two Offers For A. & N. C. Raleigh, April 19. (AP) — Governor Hoey will meet tomor row with directors and stock holders of the State-controlled Atlantic & North Carolina rail road to consider proposals to lease the line. Henry A. Page, Jr., of Aber deen, has offered to pay the State a minimum of $56,000 a year in rent for the road. H. P. Edwards, of Sanford, has offered to pay at least $60,500 a year, Raleigh Vote Shows Little For Reforms Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, April 9.—Raleigh’s muni cipal election Monday, first major polling held since adoption of the election ‘“reforms” of 1939, showed not too much of anythirig regarding effect of the elimination of absentees and tightening of provisions regard ing markers. One conclusion it probably justi fied is that the “reforms” will re duce the number of ballots cast and consequently, majorities. Even this (Continued on Page Two) UJsuaihsih FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Gibraltar—Crisis Center ON RONDS .1- v-sMf? t'*"* *r> • CROSSING 'os INTO SPfUN 1— M«w 1 £ shut N % y S \ J< „ Euoom This map of the Rock of Gibraltar gives a clear view of Britain’s famed fortress commanding the Mediterranean. Observers fear an attack on the Rock may precipitate a new world war, and England is hastily strengthening its defences while France sends warships to its aid. Gibraltar covers a two and one-half mile area on the southern tip of Spain. I (Central ?T99s) Foreigners Burned Great Liner Paris, Frenchmen Believe Le Havre, France, April 19.—(AP) —The liner Paris, one the flagship of the French merchant fleet, keeled over and settled in 36 feet of water today, burned through by fire which officials suspected was set by for eign saboteurs. Two persons were killed and two others seriously in jured in the night-long spread of the flames, which firemen said spread from two widely separated parts of the ship. One point of origin was behind locked doors. Deliberately Fired. Investigators said preliminary in vestigations strengthened the belief that the 34,000-ton liner was de liberately set afire. An Italian dock worker was held for questioning by Le Harve police. Airplanes made in the United States for the French army were taken off 1 Chiang Says Japan Cut To 2nd Status Chungking, China, April 19.—(AP) —General Chiang Kai-Shek says that “under existing circumstances peace is impossible” in the Chinese-. Jap anese war, now in its 22nd month. “In less than 22 months Japan has been reduced to a second rate pow er,” the Chinese leader told news men. “The moment surely is coming when she no longer can bear the strain. Then will the peace hope dawn.” Chiang said yesterday peace also would be possible if Japanese mili- • tarists abandon their “traditional aggressive policy,” but if Japan “per sists in her dream that the outcome of war will be a new order in the Far East, then a permanent pacific peace is impossible.”. . S) tßllatrh AXIS NATIONS only an hour before the vessel listed and sank at her dock. The Paris ar rived from New York Saturday. Stevedores also were able to save $500,000 worth of French art objects, which had just been loaded for ship ment to the New York World’s Fair. The art treasures were untouched by fire in a forward hold. Secret Police Warned. Mayor Leon Meyer, of La Harve, told The Associated Press that in his opinion incendiaries were respon sible. Two days ago the French secret police warned both the French Line, owners of the Paris, and the minis try of merchant marine, that an ef fort at sabotage would be made at Le Harve. ‘ Firemen remaining aboard the nearly subbmerged liner said they had succeeded in putting out last of the flames at 11:30 a. m., more than 13 hours after they had started. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Immigration Ban Held To Be Mistake i By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, April 19.—The theory that our present immigration restric tions are too strict for our own good at last is beginning to be argued quite audibly in Washington. A few of our law-makers and administrative offi cials have hinted all along that they thought we had left too narrow a crack in the door through which so many old worldlings used to get in to join Uncle Sam’s citizenry. How ever, these critics were pretty care ful not to speak over-loudly. The re strictions were slapped on with a view to protecting American labdi* from the competition of more and (Continued on Page Four) 8' PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Paris Hopes FDR Plea To Mean Peace Bonnet Praises Roose velt’s Initiative A t Length; Hungarian Premier Gives Toast i To . Mussolini, Pledg ing Loyalty to Axis , Home, April 19. (AP) —ltaly, maneuvering with Germany for po sition in the current European crisis, appeared today to have bound Hun gary firmly to the Rome-Berlin axis. The Hungarian premier, Count Paul Teleky, in an after-dinner toast to Premier Mussolini last night, declar ed his country was “faithful to the policy of the axis, which Hungary has spontaneously adopted.” II Duce, in a similar speech, re affirmed a friendship which unites the strength of each country in the defense of order and peace. The axis diplomatic campaign, which began last week-end, with German Field Marshal Hermann Goering’s visit to Rome, will con tinue after the scheduled Thursday departure of the Hungarian premier and his foreign minister, with Yugo slav-Utalian and Italian-Roumanian talks. FRANCE HOPES FOR PEACE FROM ROOSEVELT APPEAL Paris, April 19. (AP) —Foreign Minister Bonnet told the foreign af fairs committee of the Chamber of Deputies today that the French gov ernment had “steadfast hope that the road opened” by President Roose velt’s telegrants to Hitler and Mus solini would lead to peace. A communique said Bonnet prais ed the American President’s initia tive at length. He also told the de (Continued on Page Four) Cabarrus Man To Die After Losing Appeal Raleigh, April 19—(AP) The Supreme Court today upheld the conviction of James Dixon, in Cabarrus county, on charges of first degree murder. The court decided fifteen cases. Dixon, the opinion said, had a first fight with his wife, then later hit her in the head with an axe and set the house afire. A written confession was introduced in the testimony. Unless Governor Hoey extends clemency, Dixon will be executed May 5, un der State law. The list of opinions includfed: Vandiford vs. - Vandiford, Greene, venire de novo. State vs. James Dixon, Cabarrus, no error. Lamb vs. Smith et als, Sampson, affirmed. ' Tew vs. Hinson, administratrix, Sampson, modified and affirmed. Sansom vs. Warren, Sampson, re versed. Sparrow vs. John Morrell & Com pany, Lenoir, reversed. Croom vs. Petty, Wake, no error. Redwine vs. Bass, Franklin, no er ror. Farris vs. Banks et al, Wake, error. All Germany Celebrates Hitler Birth Rumors persist Dan zig Is To Be Handed Him as Birthday Pre sent Tomorrow Berlin, April 19.—(AP) —Germany relegated world-stirring politics to the background today and turned at tention to the two-day birthday cele bration of its leader. While official sources emphatically denied rumors the free city of Dan zig would be handed to Reichfuehrer Hitler on his 50th birthday Thurs day, and while the day will find 25 warships of the fleet steaming to ward Spanish waters, columns of re ports on the birthday preparations (Continued on Page Two)
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