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HENDERSON'S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-sixth year Roosevelt Peace, Plan Is Rejected 'h tier Made Honorary Citizen Danzig On Birthday Answers Ickes’ Press Blast WimSm IML -- BR8& ■ *vi\ Av >y> 'W| Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson, publisher-owner of the Washington Times-Herald, broadcasts her reply to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes’ recent blast at newspapers and columnists. She charged the ad ministration with seeking “to discredit the press ... as a purveyor of the truth of what goes on in Washington.” (Central Pres*) 500 Miles State Roads Are Now Being Improved - j ■ Governor’s Allocation of $2,599,990 for Work Dispels Fears of Any General Fund Deficit; 76 Propects Under Way on Roads Daily Dispatch Bureau, , In the Sir Waiter Hotel. | tfaieigh, April 20. —Governor Clyde R. Hoey’s allocation yesterday of $2,500,000 to be used in “better ments” of North Carolina’s road system came at a time when there is actively under way the actual work of improving more than 500 miles of roads in the State. A compilation of figures in the current “Detour Bulletin” of the State Highway and Puolic Works Commission shows that the commis sion's forces are now actively en gaged in repairing enough hgihway to reach practically from Manteo to Murphy if collected into one road. There are actually in progress in North Carolina 76 repair and im provement projects affecting a to tal length of 517.4 miles, according to the compilation. The $2,500,000 which the governor made available can be figured in Confession Os Kelly Told Graham Jury Graham, April 20.—(AP) Roy j Koily, on trial for his life here along with Ralph and Wade Hanford and George Smitii m the killing of two officers during a robbery in Bur lington last December 7, admitted that he and the other defendants, and Roy Huffman, slain also during the robbery, plotted and executed the whole crime which led to the triple ■ ■laying, Sergeant Pete Davis, of the Burlington police force, told a jury in superior court here today. Sheriff M. P. Robertson and Bur lington Officer S. W. Vaughn were victims of the slayings. Officer Davis said that Kelly made a complete confession while he was being brought back from Virginia, ’where he was turned over to North (Continued on Page Two) Fleet Leaves Norfolk Area Norfolk, Va., April 2. —(AP) — The main body of the United States fleet left Virginia waters today for the Pacific. The Ar gonne flagship of the base force led the way out of the Virginia Capes on the first five-day lap to the Panama Canal. Behind her fame other sup ply ships, 12 destroyers, two cruisers, five battleships and finally three aircraft carriers. The last of the warships passed to sea at 8 a. m. rt 3H& ttifci*rsott jß&tlii SisMtdr leased Wire tr Tn THB ah S Jss t |f u ' i Xj I c ii s OF any further plans the Highway com mission has for this summer and it was in order to enable Chairman Frank Dunlap and his associates to do so 1 that the action was taken now rather than at the end of the fiscal year. The governor said, however, that the funds are amply available and that the budgetary outlook is such that the allocation could be made now with perfect safety and without imperilling the highway fund of ap proximately $3,500,000 it is always necessary to have on hand to carry on normal activities. The allocation, too, dispelled al most the last lingering fear that there will be any diversion of high way funds at the end of the cur rent fiscal year. Cautiously, the governor refrained from closing the door absolutely, but he did say that V (Continued on Page Two) Page Offer On Railroad Withdrawn Raleigh, April 20.—(AP)—Gover nor Hoey revealed today that Henry A. Page, Jr., of Aberdeen, had with drawn his bid for leasing of the State-controlled Atlantic & North Carolina railroad, but had a “sugges tion” to present the directors. The directors and stockholders went into executive session in the governor’s office, and Hoey said the meeting might be rather long. Withdrawal of the formal Page of fer left for consideration a proposal by H. P. Edwards, of Sanford, to pay at least $60,500 a year rental for the line. The Page proposal was based on a minimum rental of $56,000. The governor did not reveal the “suggestion” Page would make to the directors. Recently the directors voted un animously, Hoey said, in favor of leasing the line, but they postponed final action when they met in Golds boro ten days ago so that the gov ernor might be consulted. WARSAW ATTORNEY REPORTS LOBBYING Raleigh, April 20.—(AP) —J. T. Gresham, Jr., Warsaw attorney, re ported today to Secretary of State Thad Eure he had received $1,900 nufor lobbyist fees and expenses in 1939 General Assembly. Gresham’s statement said that the North Caro lina Burial Associations paid $1,400. He explained that he was attorney tor the groups, and the money repre sented his salary for the year. He reported getting SSOO from the North Carolina Funeral Directors Associa tion. ‘ _ - - ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED Aggression Bans Sought by France Paris, April 20—(AP) —Foreign Minister Bonnet urged all govern ments in a plea today to renounce military aggression, as suggested in President Roosevelt’s message to Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini. Addressing the American club in Paris, Bonnet declared “all governments could accept Presi dent Roosevelt’s proposal without losing a single bit of their au thority and prestige.” “Franco-American cooperation for peace and human welfare, finds in the American’s message a new base and a new expres sion,” he said. He described the present period in Europe as one of “tension of which every one senses the gravity.” Lindbergh’s Wife, Sons Sail to U. S. Colonel Himself Al ready in Washington on Government Duty; Young Son's First Trip Here Le Havre, France, April 20. (AP) —Mrs. Charles Lindbergh, her two sons and their nurse boarded the liner Champlain today for the Unit ed States, where they will join Colonel Lindbergh. Lindbergh sailed April 8. (He is now in Washington, where the War Department has call ed him to active duty to make a sur vey of United States aviation fa cilities.) Mrs. Lindbergh declined to talk to reporters who approached her on the deck. Boarding the ship, she and the family remained in their cabin. (This will be the first visit to the United States of Land, who was born May 12, 1937, in London. His broth er, Jon, who will be seven years old next August 16, has not been in the United States since he was taken to England in December, 1935, by his parents.) They went aboard the Champlain at 1 p. m., five hours before the ves sel was scheduled to sail as a replace ment for the liner Paris, which burn ed and foundered yesterday only a few hours before its sailing time. Mysterious Submarine • Off Canada Ottawa, Canada, April 20. (Canadian Press)-The Canadian government ordered naval pa trols to search today for an un identified submarine which was reported sighted in Halifax har bor yesterday. Defense Minister Mackenzie said no official information had been received to substantiate the reports of the submarine, but ad ded that “the utmost vigilance is being exercised.” There have been three reports within a week of a submarine be ing seen off Nova Scotia. Cap tain William Latter, harbor pilot, said he saw a partly submerged submarine entering Halifax har bor shortly after midnight Tues day. The captain said Pilot Pat rick Sullivan was with him and also saw the craft clearly. The watched for about 30 minutes, the captain said, and the boat moved further into the harbor to near Neverfail, three miles away, where they lost sight of it. It had swerved from its course to pass the pilot boat, the cap tain said, and once was only 30 , yards away. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 20, 1939 Might of Germany Is Paraded Before Fuehrer and World IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIROIN^ New Types of War Weapons Shown i n Berlin Line of March, Which Includes 40,000 Soldiers; Greatest Ever Witnessed I n Berlin _ Berlin, April 20. (AP) — | Adolf Hitler, the World War I corporal who became “augment or of the Reich,” today parad ed a cross of the armed might which gave him mastery of central Eifrope before dis tinguished foreign guests at tending the celebration of his 50th birthday. It was the largest military review ever witnessed in Berlin. Forty thousand soldiers, tanks, motorized equipment and artillery passed by in a parade whiim lasted four and one half hours, jjvhile air squadrons roared overhead.f Shortly before the parade started, Hitler became an honorary citizen of the Free City of Danzig, receiving the citizenship papers from the hands of Albert fperster, Nazi dis trict leader of the free city. There had been run that Danzig, Ger man territory before the World War, might be a birthday present for the fuehrer, but Hitler received only the honorary citizenship. Features of the parade were mam moth new types of long range air (Continued on Page Five) Television Is Now Fact New York, April 20. (AP) The advent of television, long heralded as the beginning of a a new American indn K t- v announced today by David Sar noff, president of the Radio Cor poration of America, in a televi sion broadcast from the RCA exhibit building at the New York World’s Fair grounds. “Today we are on the eve of launching a new industry,” Sar noff said, “based on imagina tion, on scientific research and accomplishment. We are now ready to fulfill the promise made to the public last October, when the Radio Corporation of Ame rica announced that television program service and commercial television receivers would be made available to the public with the opening of the New York World’s Fair.” Eight away in the RCA building in Rockefeller Center, an audience watched and heard the ceremonies. Man Admits Slaying Girl In Baltimore Baltimore, Md., April 29.—(AP) — Police Commissioner Robert Stanton announced today police had obtained a confession from a man held in the Baltimore torso murder. The com missioner said Inspector Stephen Nelson telephoned him the prisoner had given complete details of the killing of the woman, parts of whose body were found in the man’s back yard, and parts in various sewers. Stanton said he was informed that Aurelio Marcq Tarquinio, 45, a steel worker and former tavern keeper, had made a full confession that he murdered Evelyn Rice, a bar maid who formerly worked for him. The young woman’s head and oth er portions of her butchered body were unearthed in Tarquinio’s back yard early today. Police had gone to his East Baltimore home after ar (Continued on Page Four) tOmJUwi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Friday; slight ly warmer Friday. Hitler’s Birthday Gift? / (\\si ausN \XV n,ckelswalde \j3^^P' : L . V\Xga^AUM *• X'y r\\\*NE UTEIOI/. “ ...T- ■ TCZEW • V\Y> •fIARIENBURG • \ •11 ,£> Reports from Europe indicate Poland may present the-Free City ofi Danzig to Hitler on his birthday, as a peace move. This map of the city and its independent surrounding area indicates what he would get.: The area is 791 square miles, with a population of 385,000, of which 96 per cent are German. Annexation of the city would leave Poland only a thin sliver of the Polish Corridor for access to her sole seaport, Gdynia. (Central Press) Dollar Devaluation Called Worse Than Hitler Tax on Jews Washington, April 20.—(AP) — Representative Robsron, Republican, Kentucky, charged in hot debatd on monetary legislation today that the administration, in devaluing the dol lar, had treated American citizens “worse than Hitler treated the Jews.” Robsion’s protest, in House dis cussion of extending the President’s monetary powers, followed an as sertion by Representative Martin, Democrat, Colorado, that the dol lar today is “the safest in the worid.” Robsion said Hitler imposed only a ten percent tax on the wealth of German Jews, whereas the United I States, in effect, levied a forty per cent tEoc on all Americans when it lowered the gold content of the dol lar in 1934. While debate proceeded, members Iceland And ■ Andorra May Be Next Grab By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, April 20 —When Pres ident Roosevelt the other day listed thirty-one countries that he said he wanted Hitler and Mussolini to promise to let alone for at least the next ten years, he overlooked one or two bets. If be hadn’t he could have scored 32 or 33. The same editions of the news papers that published the text of the presidential appeal to Der Fuehrer and II Duce also published dis patches that Iceland is jittery over what’s regarded there as the threat of a German grab and that the re public of Andorra is worrying lest Italy make a swipe at it byway of Spain. To be sure, Iceland theoreti cally belongs to Denmark, and the (Continued on Page Five) Three Miss Death In Terrific Crash Near Rocky Mount Rocky Mount, April 20.—(AP) — Three persons narrowly escaped death early this morning when a truck-trailer and a passenger car sideswiped on U. S. highway 301, two miles north of Battleboro. Mrs. W. H. Hughes, wife of a local railway express agent, and described by State highway patrolmen as the passenger car driver, was in a local hospital suffering from a broken nose and other possible injuries, while a man booked as Jack Lane, of Marion, S. C., identified by officers as the truck driver, was held by police awaiting formal charges. Jack Sim mons, of Sumter, S. C., reported truck owner, was uninjured. State Patrolmen T. H. Griffis and R. L. Mashburn, who investigated the crash, said the truck trailer and the auto sideswiped, and that the auto, with Mrs.. Hughes as the sole occu pant, was practically demolished. Lane was treated for a cut on his head. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. of the Democratic whip organization acted to see to it that party support-,, ers were on the floor to meet any Republican sniping at the bill. Other developments: Navy Air Bases Voted The House completed congression al action on a $66,800,000 bill au- | thorizing a chain of new navy air bases in Alaska, the Mid-Pacific and Puerto Rico. The measure now ' goes to the White House. President Roosevelt signed the bill authorizing an increase from $49,- 000,000 to $80,000,000 in the annual appropriation to assist states in the adminisrtation of unemployment compensation laws. By a 234 to 118 roll call vote, the House refused to approve a bill ex (Continued on Page Four) A&NC Lease Favored By Directors Raleigh, April 20. —(AP) — The board of directors of the Atlantic & North Carolina railroad, controlled by the State, voted today to ask the stockholders at an afternoon session to lease the line, but left the name of the lessee blank in the resolution. It was indicated that H. P. Ed wards, of Sanford, would get the line as Governor Hoey told the directors he thought an arrangement for its' lease should be worked out at once. Edwards had the only formal pro posal still pending. Under the law setting up the rail road corporation, a limit is set on the State’s vote at stockholders’ meet ings, Governor Hoey said, and pri vate stockholders might outvote the State. Attorney General Harry McMul (Continued on Page Four) Mr; Alderman, Os Concert Class, Dies Greenville, April 20.—(AP)—Le roy A. Alderman, 64, Held agent and general manager of the Oxford Orphanage singing class, died yes terday after a heart attack at Stokes, near here. Three brothers and one sister rurvive. The funeral will be held near Dunn at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon. Surviving are three brothers, A. E. Alderman, Route 1, Dunn; Rev. J. O. Alderman, Dunn; J. E. Aider man, of Gastonia; one sister, Mrs. Lillie A. Mitchell, of Richmond,, Va.; 27 nieces and nephews. The funeral cortege left here this afternoon for Oxford where the body will lie in the main auditorium of the orphanage until 7 o’clock to (Continued on Page Four) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Duce Claims Appeal Made In Ignorance Proponents Lack “Even Rudimentary Knowledge of Euro pean Affairs,” Musso lini Says in Speech; Geographic Errors Exist; Pledge Un necessary Rome, April 20. (AP) Premier Mussolini today reject ed President Roosevelt’s plea for of peace by non aggression guarantees, o n grounds that they were unne cessary, and failed to take into consideration “pyramidal er rors of geography.” Caesar Looks Down. But, speaking in the shadow of the heroic statue of Julius Caesar in the Roman capital, II Duce cited Italy’s plans for a world exposition in 1942 as a “promising indication that we do not intend to attack any one.” His speech, broadcast in response to a report on the exposition’s pro gress, unexpectedly furnished Italy’s reply to the United States President in advance of the response which Chancellor Hitler of Germany in tends to make in Berlin April 28. While II Duce was speaking, Hit ler was celebr<jng his 50th birthday by watching a great martial display. in Berlin. Further Reply Unlikely. Indicating he might not make any further formal reply to Roosevelt who in messa£>Oast Saturday pro posed ten-year non - aggression pledges by Germany and Italy to 31 nations, to be followed by a disarma ment and economic conference, Mus (Continued on Page Four) World Crusade of Prayer in May Is Asked by Pius XII Vatican City, April 20.— (AP) —Pope Pius XII asked today for a “crusade of prayer through out the world during the month of May in behalf of “greatly longed for Christian peace a mong all nations and people.” The pontif made his xappeal in a letter to his secretary of state, Luigi Cardinal Maglione. He re- . called that immediately after his election as pope, and again in his Faster homily, he had exhorted “all nations and their govern ments, through sentiments of justice and charity, in order to consolidate profoundly and per manently greatly longed for Christian reace among all na tions and peace.” Chamberlain Announces Supply Post Mini; ster of Transport Put in Charge of Mob ilizing Munitions for Possible War Out break London, April 20.—(AP) —Prime Minister Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons today that a new ministry of supply would be es tablished to expedite the manufac ture of arms for Britain’s expand ing army. Leslie Burgin, at present minister of transport, was appointed head of the new ministry, with rank as a cabinet member. It had been general ly expected that Winston Churchill, wartime minister of munitions, who has been directing a ministry of sup ply for mbre than a year, would get the post. Presumably to quiet rumors that the new ministry would not have full (Continued on Page Six)
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