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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-sixth year . LITTLE COUNTRIES DENT Senate Is Near ins Early Showdown On Neutrality Changes Committee Hearings To End Next Week; New Increased Tariff on Imports From Ger many Effective; M.ore Farmers Cooperate With AAA. Washington, April 22.—(AP) —Ad- ministration leaders moved today to ward a showdown on proposed chan ges in the neutrality law. They de cided to end hearings by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee next wee'; and to start committee con siderations of a half dozen proposals to amend or repeal the present statute. Johnson To Testify. Chairman Pittman, Democrat, Nevada, announced that Hugh John son. former NRA administrator, and now a newspaper columnist, would testily Monday. Pittman said he ex pected the committee to begin con sideration of pending bills later in the week. One committee member, who asked to remain anonymous, predicted the group would not be asked to vote its preference among pending bills until alter April 28, when Adolf Hitler is expected to answer the peace appeal made last week by President Roose velt. Higher Tariff on Germans. Customs officials will put into ef fect at dawn tomorrow the 25 per cent extra tariff duty which the Treasury t imposed on German goods during last month’s crisis over the seizure of Czechoslovakia. German goods, which already pay higher tariff duties than those of any other (Continued on Page Two) Social Services Conference Opens On Sunday Night Charlotte, April 22.—(AP) —The 27th annual meeting of the North Carolina Conference for Social Ser vice will begin here tomorrow night and continue through Tuesday, Among speakers will be Governor Hoey; Dr. M. W. Hodson, Sew York F. C. Harrington, Federal WPA ad ministrator; Dr. Justin Miller, now on the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Washington; former Governor Cameron Morrison, and Charles C. McGinnis, acting State WPA admin istrator. MAYOR PROCTOR, OF SPRING HOPE, DIES 61 -Year-Old Church and Fraternal Worker Had Been 111 In Hospital Seven Weeks Rocy Mount, April 22.—(AP) — John Joseph Proctor, 61, mayor and town clerk of Spring Hope for the last 18 years, died in a hospital here early today following an illness of seven weeks. His death was attribut ed to complications. Funeral services will be conducted from the First Baptist church at Spring Hope at 3 o’clock Sunday af ternoon, with burial following there. Survivors include his widow and one daughter, Mrs. Turner Moon, of Phil adelphia. Mayor Proctor had been active in church and fraternal work. Kelly And Hanfords Are Sentenced To Gas Chair Graham, April 22.— (AP)— Judge A. Sinclair sentenced Roy Kelly, Wade Hanford and Ralph Hanford to put to death in the gas chamber in State’s Prison June 16 after their conviction of first degree murder in hie killing of Sheriff M. P. Robertson oi.d Burlington Police Officer S. W. Vaughan in as. Burlington filling sta men hold-up December 7. George Smith, who turned State’s ' idence, and was allowed in return o plead guilty to second degree mur f*"i, was sentenced to from 25 to 30 years. An Orange county jury sitting iri Alamance “"county court house v iote finis, pending an expected ap ical to the Supreme Court by de -1 erve counsel to one of Alamance f c>unty’s most spectacular murder cases. four defendants, with Roy Brifoersmi Hatlu LEASED WIRE SEVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. . Beats Deportation i ; Austrian-born Joseph G. Strecker {above), of Hot Springs, ~ Ark., smiles happily upon learning the j U. S. Supreme Court has ruled against the Labor Department’s effort to deport him on charge he was an alien communist. He denied any affiliation yith communism and voiced allegiance to democracy. (Central Press) Democracies To Win Out, Benes Says Former Czech Presi dent Speaks as High Light of Duke Centen nial; Europe Will Not Collapse. Durham, April 22. —(AP) —Dr. Edouard Benes, former president of Czechoslovakia, said today, in a pre pared address, that Europe was en gaged in a fight that jWould end in “inevitable decisive victory” for the democratic principles. Dr. Benes, now a lecturer at the University of Chicago, was on Duke University’s centennial celebration program. He said the World War, “with all its far-reaching consequences, was a great step in the progress of the de . mocratization of the world,” but “to day we must* of course, admit that it was very soon followed by a re action . Durham, April 22. —Speaking at noon today on the program of the Duke university centennial celebra , tion, Dr. Eduard Benes, former pres ident of Czechoslovakia, expressed his belief in an eventual decisive ; victory for freedom and European democratic civilization. “If we have to answer the question L (Continued on Page Two! Huffman, escaped convict, as was Kelly, and the third victim of the blazing gun duel, had plotted the Burlington robbery as they “hid out” in various road houses and tourist camps of the county, evidence later presented indicated. A chance sus picion of a passerby, Norman Yates, brought police to the. scene and end ed in triple tragedy. Kelly was apprehended in Virginia after a southwide cha'-e, and Vir ginia authorities, holding him for the alleged shooting of a State trooper, surrendered him to North Carolina authorities to face murder charges. : Wade Hanford was taken by West Virginia police after he sustained cri tical injuries and illness by coal poi soning as he slept on a smouldering pile of slag outside Welch, W. Va. ■. Ralph Hanford and George Smith I were arrested by federal agents a ■' rooming house in Washington, D. C. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN SU’D FDR Agrees To Subsidy For Cotton Two Cents Per Pound on 7,000,000 Bales Provided, Bankhead Says, to Be Added As Rider to Agriculture Bill. Washington, April 22. —(AP) — Senator Bankhead, Democrat, Ala bama, announced today that Presi dent Roosevelt had agreed to a cot ton export proposal calling for pay ment of a subsidy of about two cents a pound on as much as 7,000,000 bales of this year’s cotton crop. The proposal revises somewhat the ad ministration’s original plan for sub sidizing the exportation of 11,000,000 bales of cotton held under govern ment loan. The Alabama senator added that the x’evised program had received al most unanimous support of the south ern cotton bloc at a conference to day. Under the plan, the secretary of agriculture would pay a subsidy on cotton during the twelve months season starling August 1 this year. Exporters could be paid in either cash or witn cotton from loan stocks. None of the loan stocks could be used however, until alter January 1, 1940, Bankhead said. The senator said the compromise provision would be attached to the agricultural appropriations bill now pending in the Senate. He said south ern and western senators would re (Continued on page two) ROOSEVELT VISITS ENDLESS CAVERNS Charlottesville, Va., April 22. (AP) —President Roosevelt, after a visit with junior Franklin D. Roosevelts in this historic col lege town, continued his role of private citizen on a sight-seeing trip today. Due back at the White House late in the day, he chose a homeward route that would per mit him to see the Endless Cav erns at New Market, Va. The President’s party left here at 10:25 a. m. The President dropped official cares and motored the 125 miles here yesterday afternoon, pic nicking at Manassas battlefield. Emphasizing the personal nature of the trip, he dispensed with a police escort. PRISONER ESCAPES; FOUR RE-CAPTURED Raleigh, April 22.—(AP) —The penal division reported today the es cape of one convict and the recap ture of four others. Posie Parker, sent up from Lenoir county to serve five years for breaking, entering and lar ceny, got away from the Hertford county camp, Oscar Pitts, superin tendent of prisons, said. Recaptures listed included: Wade Blackburn, who got away from Cale donia prison farm in July last year while serving 25 to 30 years for rob bery with firearms in Catawba coun ty. SOCIALITES WED Miami, Fla., April 22.—(AP) —Ed- ward drasselli, socially prominent in Cleveland and Miami Beach, and Mrs. Catherine Barrett Weed, of Miami Beach, were married today in the county judge’s office. They left by motor for a honeymoon in North Carolina. The bride and her first hus band, William Weed, of Miami Beach, were divorced recently. Year Trying One For Journalism, Is Kent Cooper Idea New York, April 22.—(AP)—Re -5 viewing journalistic achievements of ? the last year, Kent Cooper, general J manager of The Associated Press, ’ finds that at no other period has a t greater responsibility rested on the r shoulders of a profession vested with " something of the character of a pub > lie service. “The honest reporter found him self beset on the one hand by the 1 tremendous pressure of propaganda ” and attempted suppression, and on r the other by a widespread criticism of newspapers and their conduct,” . he said in his annual report to the t Associated Press directors. Describing 1938 as “a year of pas » sion and of crisis,” Cooper added: g “Not only the repute and the stand i. ing of the newspaper business, but T possibly the face of civilization itself a depended on straight-forward think ing.” HENDERSON, N. C„ SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 22 1939, THIS SECTION OF NORTH Hitler Views Birthday Parade Central Press Radiophoto Smiling, Adolf Hitler gives the Nazi salute as Germany’s armed forces parade before him along Berlin’s Unter den Linden in celebration of the Chancellor’s fiftieth birthday. Included in the military display were six anti-aircraft guns said to be largest ever made. Behind Hitler (left tc right) are Admiral Erich Von Raeder, General Von Brauchitsch and General Von Keitel. Pholo flashed by radio from Berlin to New York. Broughton Is Expected To Enter Governor Race Not Later Than May 10 Daily Dlspatcli Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, April 22. —Joseph Mel ville Broughton, Raleigh attorney, will formally announce his candidacy for the governorship of North Car olina, subject of course, to the Dem ocratic primary, within the next three weeks, perhaps about May 1. This will make him first in the field, according to the present out look/ although it is by no means im possible that some other ambitious candidate will beat him J,o the draw with notice to the public that he has heard the voice of the people and has at last yielded to the insistent pub lic clamor for him to do a bit of hat tossing. The flat and unqualified statement made in the opening para graph of this piece puts your cor respondent out on one of the kind A.&N.C. Lease Wise Course, I Hoey Thinks Daily Dispatch Bureau. Ii» the Sir Walter Hotel. \ Raleigh, April 22—Governor Clyde - R. Hoey thinks that lease of the At- ; lantic and North Carolina (Mulletj Line) Railroad to private interests! (the H. P. Edwards of Sanford group J j was nothing more or less than “good I i business” on the part of the stock holders,* which is to say on the part of the State, owner of 72 per cent of the shares. He scoffed at reports that lease of the road was “politics,” pointing out that a governor or other State offi cial wishing to play politics with a railroad can scarcely do so by re linquishing control over it. Without using just those words, he indicated that it would be nothing short of foolish to continue to cling to a proposition which, at its very ■ best, is nothing better than extremely I precarious as a money-maker. Ex-1 perience of the past has Shown, he (Continued on Page Two) UJ&aih&h FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Sunday; slightly cooler tonight in north i central and extreme northeast portions; warmer in extreme j west portion Sunday. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Fair weather, with normal tempera tures is indicated f«r the week, except for a rain period over north and central portions of the district Tuesday or Wednesday. [ Hismtirfal CAROLINA AND VIRGINM. FEAR OF GERMANY ol' limbs which have been known to break off short, thereby making Humpty Dumpties of those perched upon them; but it is made on the basis of information believed to be as reliable as any not coming direct ly from Mr. Broughton himself. It is not made, be it understood, with candidate himself as the source. If the Raleigh lawyer doesn’t get into the r&e with a formal announce ment before May 10, at the latest, then you can sue, though your chan ces of recovering anything on a judg ment are very, very slim. Mr. Broughton candidacy is going to be a formidable one, and there has been rfo effort whatever on the part of other potential candidates to laugh it off. Every political observer realizes that, and it is predicted in (Continued on Page Two) Congressmen Skeptical On Replies Sent Washington, April 22. (AP) Some members of Congress greeted wilh skepticism today reports from Berlin that that government was re receiving from smaller nations re plies indicating that these nations did not consider themselves menaced by Germany. “Any one who has studied the sit uation would expect that sort of an answer to any question from Hitler as to whether these smaller nations feared that Germany would attack them,” said Senator Bogan, Demo crat, Kentucky. “You can’t give of fense to a bully if you can help it.” On the other hand, Senator Clark, Democrat, Idaho, said he was inclin ed to beiieve that most of the smal ler countries were sincere in their replies. Noting that most of the ter (Continued on Page Two) Father and Five • Children Perish * When Home Burns Ottumwa, lowa, April 22. (AP)—A 41-year-old father and five of his children died in a fire which roared through their six room home here. Three other children are in a hospital, two of them near death, while the mo ther and two others escaped. The fire started in the kitchen about 6 a. m., they said, and burn ed out the interior of the house. The family was that of Charles Helmick. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Hitler Inquiry Is Sent To Get Data For Reply To FDR Visits Roosevelt - uMoj C. P. Phonephato Recently summoned to active duty in the U. S. army air corps, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh arrives at the White House for a conference with his commander-in-chief, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Reply From Hitler Will Be Vicious Fuehrer Will Reject Roosevelt Peace Ap peal ; Berlin Says FDR Trying to Establish in. Advance a War Guilt Thesis. Berlin, April 22.—(AP) —An au- ■ thoritative editorial service predict ed today that Chancellor Hitler would reject sharply President Roose veil’s peace appeal as a “crude at tempt” to establish in advance a war guilt thesis. “This much can already be said without anticipating Hitler’s speech next week-end. Mediation from over seas,' which in the opinion of many represents a crude attempt to estab lish a war guilt thesis of “a priori” will be rejected most sharply on the part of Germany,” said the thrice (Continued on Page Two) Franco Facing Uprising, Washington Reports Say By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, April 22.—50 soon after Secretary of State Hull’s rec ognition of General Franco’s new Spanish g o vern- ment (assuming that Franco really has established a gov e r nment in Spain and assum ing aNo that it’s Franco’s, such as it is) it will be a nuisance if that blows up, too. Nevertheless Wash ington rec e i ves diplomatic hints that another rebel lion threatens south of the Pyre- j HuU nees—a rebellion against the rebels ! who won (or thought they did) only | two or three weeks ago. In fact, 8' PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Roumania’s Answer Says no Nation Can Feel STfe in Europe at This Time; Ques tionnaire Is Presented Orally to All. Berlin, April 22.—(AP)—A list of negative answers began to arrive at the German Foreign Office today from countries which Chancellor Hitler has asked whether they con sidered themselves menaced by Ger many. Hitler was expected to use the re plies prominently in his reply Friday to President Roosevelt’s peace mes sage, which asked the fuehrer and Premier Mussolini if they were will ing to give assurances that their armies would not attack or invade 31 countries. (The German questionnaire was presented orally by German minis ters to various countries which were asked whether they had advance knowledge of the Roosevelt peace appeal, and whether they considered themselves menaced by Germany.) (The British Broadcasting Corpor ation, in a German language broad cast last night, carefully told Nazi listeners about the inquiry and quot ed observers as commenting that small countries obviously could not antagonize Germany by saying they did feel threatened. The broadcast was regarded as an attempt to fore stall an apparent maneuver by Hitler to discredit the Roosevelt appeal in the eyes of the German people, and was said by a reliable source in Lon don to have been suggested by the (Continued on page two) French Accidents In Air Kill 20 As Army Planes Fall Paris, April 22.—(AP) —One of the worst series of accidents ever suffered by Freneh avia tion cost 20 lives and four of France’s best fighting planes to day and yesterday. First of the fatal crashes oc curred yesterday when an army bomber burst into flames over a northern French Morocco spot and crashed killing all of the crew of six men. Shortly before last midnight, a second bomber, with a crew of five, crashed near Beauvais, while on night maneuvers. The entire crew was killed. This morning two heavy bomb ers collided in mid-air as they were preparing to land at the Tours military airport. Nine of ficers and men aboard the two planes were burned to death. FRANCE WILL RUSH BASE IN MOROCCO Paris, April 22.—(AP) —The French governemnt today order ed work rushed on a new naval base at Meres-El-Kabir, on the coast, opposite Spain, in a fresh step in its bread effort to strengthen France’s foreign and domestic position. In another action, following a series of decrees approved yes terday, it ordered new small ships for the navy. they’re not through celebrating their supposed victory yet. The State De partment is beginning to surmise that they’d better hurry their cele bration along or it may be some body else’s celebration. The Madrid republican government went flooey, to be sure. We were correct in rec ognizing that. But has it been suc ceeded by anything worth being rec ognized? That remains to be seen— perhaps speedily. To understand the situation, let’s take a look backward into compara tively recent Spanish history. Start with Alfonso. We’ll start with King Alfonso’s regime. It was so little to brag about that, a few years ago, a kind of mili tary dictatorship came into power under General Primo de Rivera. It didn’t dethrone Alf, but it reduced him to a figurehead, like the king (Continued on Page Two)
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