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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-sixth year ROOSEVELT ASKS THREEIiEVr AGENCIES Largest Defense Budget Since World War Given To House of Commons Sir John Simon Tells Commons Country Is “Fairly Aroused t o Further Sacrifice”, and “There Must Be Additional Taxation” London. April 25.—(AP) — Sir John Simon. Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced Britain’s largest budget since the World War in the House of Commons and announced the gov ernment would spend 630,000,000 pounds ($3,150,000,000) for defense and probably more. "The country is fairly aroused to further sacrifice,” Sir John said in announcing the huge total for de fense expenditures, “there must be additional taxation”, he told an in tent House. At least half of the defense costs will be met by loans. Britain will spend nearly 50 percent of an esti mated 1,300,000,000 pounds for de fense. So- John disclosed 5,000,000 pounds had been set aside for expenditure for food reserves in the new budget for the 1930-40 fiscal year which be gan April 1. Meantime, some form of compul sory national service—perhaps a re latively limited measure at first— was reliably understood to have been agreed upon by the British govern ment with the intention of making the decision known before Chan cellor Hitler answers the Roosevelt lan peace appeal Friday. An opportunity for announcement of the government’s decision will come tomorrow when a motion call ing ior conscription will be before the House of Lords. 0 Newspapermen Open Convention In New York City New York, April 25.—(AP) American Newspaper Publishers opened their annual convention to day with “improved and more op timistic” outlook than that prevail ing during the past two years. Vance Stahlman, of the Nashville Banner, president.of the association, pie ided. Only one session was sche duled for today to permit the visit- ( ing newspapermen to attend a pre-, view of the New York World’s Fair nnd participate in dedication exer cises in the fair ground on “freedom of press’ statue. Stahlman was to deliver the prin cipal address. The morning session was devoted to the problem of newspapers in small cities. John Stewart, Washington, Penn sylvania, Observer, was chairman nnd Talbot Patrick, Goldsboro, N. C . News-Argus, assisted him. i erracing Units Build Many Miles 48 Units in 41 Coun ties Have Made 10,- 000 Miles Terraces, Protecting 150,000 Acres of Land Daily Dispatch Bureau, Ip the Sir Walter Hotel. Haleigh, April 25.—Operating in a tics of the State, 48 terrac -1 mils available to farmers have ' 1 more than 10,000 miles of ter and made more than 150,000 r,i North Carolina farm lands vulnerable to erosion and resul decrease in soil fertility. hc.se figures are based on esti ’ ' made from the last available 1 of all units to the Depart ' nt of Agricultural Engineering at 'to College, of which David S. yever is in charge. I bis report, which included all ,: k through last October showed a tut;,! terraced of 136,291 acres, with linear miles of terraces built. ■ ' rage cost per acre terraced for b" entire state was $1.94 and aver :|b:> cost per 100 feet of terrace con acted under 55 cents. 1 he terracing units are under con h'o; of special cooperative organiza (Continued on Page Four) Hntiierscm £1 atlit Ufamitrii U %?S d a M.®««cb s of McLean Re-Eiecte( As AP President New York, April 25.— (AP) Robert McLean, of the Philadel phia Bulletin, today was reelected president of the Associated Press. At the same time, the Board of Directors announced E. Lansing Ray of the St. Louis Globe Demo crat, first vice President and Stuart A. Perry, of the Adrian Michigan Telegram, second vice president. Secretary Kent Cooper, as as sistant secretary Lloyd Stratton, and treasurer L. F. Curtis were reelected. Rigid Press Law Forbids Jew Attacks Government Express es Fear Some Section French Press Paid by Germany and Italy to Foster Attacks o n Race and Religion Paris, April 25. (AP) The French clamped down today a rigid press law forbidding publication of foreign propaganda and attacks on race or religion under the penalty of severe fines and imprisonment. The government’s sweeping con trol,, established under its Parlia ment, conferred dictatorial decree powers, were believed to be directed principally toward curbing a grow ing number of pamphlets attacking Jews and an increasing number of political journals accused of being subsidized from abroad. Members of the government in the past have expressed fear that money from Germany and Italy was being sent to some sections of the French press either as outright bribes or dis guised as advertising. Involved in the government’s con cern was a fear that color'ed news dispatches might divide French pub lic opinion in times of crisis. Leftist newspapers have accused Tightest sheets of being financed by German and Italian sources. The Rightists have been retorting that the Leftist press is being sub sidized by Soviet Russia. While the decree as now worded is the government’s power only to persecute government offenders in courts after publication, the anti propaganda law contains a clause which some sources said the govern men tmight hold as a club over newspapers. The decree said a future measure will regulate conditions for enforc ing a declaration of all funds receiv ed for publicity of any sort. It was pointed out that this might be amplified to give the government power to investigate the financial records of any newspaper. The decree, signed by President Leßrun last Friday, was kept secret until the publication of the official journal today. It was frankly de clared to be designed to ratify the French press liberties law, more than a half century old. Bolivia Calm With Busch As Dictator La Paz, Bolivia, April —Bolivia received with apparent calm today 35-year old President Busch’s assumption of dictatorial powers as “the only road toward re invigorating the republic internally and internationally.” A presidential manifesto yesterday condemned left and right wing “ex tremist tendencies” threatening to spread the country and divide Bo livia. He “saw with pain Nazi and Fascist “tendencies which are not acceptable in this country.” Interest in some circles centered on congressional elections. Those scheduled on May 4 will not be con ducted, but others may be held later. ONLY DAILY Elizabeth City Doctor Faces Indictment Wilmington, April 25 —(AP) —A federal Grand Jury here today re turned an indictment charging Dr. Claude B. Williams, of Elizabeth City, of 140 counts of violating the Federal Narcotics Act. Each count alleges that the doctor would “sell, barter, exchange, or give away” a quantity t.of 36 1-2 grains hypodermic tablets of mor phine sulphate to satisfy the craving of the person named as the recipi ent in that count, and not for the treatment of any disease. Persons to whom he allegedly gave the prescription are named in the indictments as: Helen Goodman, otherwise known as Jackie; Jennie Hucks, otherwise known as Virginia McCormick; Alma Knight; Elizabeth Mosker, otherwise known as Mar garet Mosker; Ellen Johnson, other wise known as Christine Stokes; A. L. Williams, otherwise known as Bill; and J. Milton, otherwise known as Milton C. Tilden. WILLIAM SERVES PASQUOTANK AS COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER Elizabeth City, April 25.—(AP) — Dr. C. B. Williams, at present Pas (Continued on Page Two) Tarquinio Pleads Insanity, Faces Charge of Murder Baltimore, April 25. —(AP)—Au- relio Marco Tarquinio plead inno cent by reason of insanity today to a charge he murdered his house keeper, Mrs. Evelyn Rice, and buried her head in his flower garden. The court set May 22 for the trial of the 45-year old steel worker and foreign tavern keeper, accused of killing Mrs. Rice and burying the body, parts of which were found in sewers. -« European War Would Not Disorganize U. S. As In ' 14 By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, April 25.—1 f war breaks out in Europe, economic ex perts are of the opinion that its im mediate effects up Woodring and Claude A. Swanson of the wax- NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOimT CAROLINA AND VIRGINLV. HENDERSON, N. C„ TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 25, 1939 Rumanian Diplomat in London ♦ S&i I HHf if MM St it 'US: ’ M .... V* 3§L 1 J.l -m iiiiiiß ' " iHliii t . ft ' r im Central Press Radiophoto Grigore Gafencu (left), Rumanian foreign minister, is greeted by Lord Halifax, England’s foreign secretary, upon his arrival in London from Berlin, where he was feted by Hitler and the German government. Britain, during Gafencu’s visit, will seek to strengthen the Rumanian link in the anti-aggression chain. Picture flashed by radio from London to New York. on American busi ness will by no means be as disor ganizing as was the case in 1914. An inter - depart mental conference of cabinet mem bers was held on the subject a few days ago and that was the consensus of judgments. May be such secretaries as Harry Woodring League Fate Debated By Methodist Epworth League Faces Extinction, Not Recognized Under New Methodist Church; Two Plans Are Offered * Kansas Cily, April 25. —(AP) — Fate of the Epworth League which numbers 350,000 Methodist Episco pal young people is one of the ques tions to be solved in the Methodist Uniting Conference here. The league is not recognized in the new Methodist church which leaders of three Methodist branches will meet Wednesday to set up. The Methodist Episcopal South church has a division carrying on all youth work in the church and the Protestant Methodists sponsored the Christian Endeavor society “Two plans are offered the Unit ing Conference" in regard to young people’s work,” Dr. Edward Staples, (Continued on Page Two) STATE ASKS BIDS ON VARIED PRODUCTS Raleigh, April 25.—(AP)—The state division of purchase and con tract Monday called for bids to be submitted by May 4 on soaps, shoes and pupils’ record envelopes. Other articles to be bought by the state at that time are corrugated me tal pipe, creosoted lumber, struc tural and miscellaneous steel, lubri cants, lima beans, discharge suits for prisoners, vertical stripe prison cloth, men’s cotton undershirts and fever therapy apparatus. and navy set-ups, Attorney General Frank Murphy and Postoffice Chief tain James A. Farley are no par ticular authorities relative to mar kets and trade. However, they’re the vital specialties of Secretaries of State and the Treasury Cordell Hull and Henry Morgenthau and they ought to be a commerce department specialty too, whether or not Secre tary Harry Hopkins knows much about them. Anyway “Harry the Hop” has competent advisers, who spoke for him. Likewise Chairman Marrmer S. Eccles and Jesse Jones of the Federal Reserve Board and R. F. C. respectively and Jerome Frank of S. E. C. were present at the confab. They certainly should under stand their jobs. ' The conferees went into a great (Continued on Page Four) Loan, Work And Security Be Created President Feels Some of These Economies Can Be Brought About Immediately; W ould Group Many of Relief Agencies Under Work Washington, April 25. (AP) — President Roosevelt submitted to Congress today a sweeping govern ment reorganization plan calling for creation of three new government agencies by merging welfare, works, and lending functions. A further point of the plan, first to be projected under the recently enacted government reorganization act, called for transfer of the Bud get Bureau from the Treasury to the executive office. A new federal security agency would be created as well as a fed eral works agency and a federal loan agency. Big Annual Saving. The first executive estimate the re organization plan would result in an annual saving of from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. He planned the present overhead of all the agencies concern ed at about $235,000,000. “Certain of these economies can be brought about almost immediate ly”, Mr. Roosevelt asserted. “Others will require a painstaking and grad ual readjustment in the machinery and business practices of the gov ernment.” The plan becomes effective at the end of 60 days unless both houses of Congress vote against it. New Agencies Include. Under the security agency would be groupde the social security board now an independent establishment; the United States Employment Serv ice, now in the Department of Labor; the office of Education, now in the Department of the Interior; the Pub lic Health Service, now in the Treas ury Department; the National Youth Administration, now under Works Progress Administration; and the Civilian Conservation Corps, now in dependent. In the federal works agency would be grouped the WPA except for the Youth Administration, the Public Works Administration and U. S. Housing Authority, now under the Interior; the Bureau of Public Rec ords under Agriculture; the public buildings branch of the treasury pro curement division and the branch of building management of the National Park Service so far as it is concern ed with public buildings which it operates for other departments or agencies now under Interior. The name of the WPA would be changed to Works Projects Admin istration, “in order to make its title more descriptive of its major pur pose”, the President explained. Other developments: The Senate approved $508,789,824 appropriation for army defense ac tivities during the next fiscal year beginning Juiy 1. Os the total $94,737,281 will go for the purchase of about 600 mod ern fighting planes. Another $51,- 173,100 will be spent for special equipment as semi-automatic rifles, tanks, and anti-aircraft guns as fin ally passed the bill $7,116,986 less than the sum recommended by the War Department, but about $53,000,- (Continued on Page Two) Bank Here Buys Notes From Warren Raleigh, April 25.—(AP) —The lo cal government commission showed $583,500 worth of bonds today for Perquimans county, Hickory, Frank lin and Nester consolidated school district of Buncombe county. Blythe, Inc., of New York, Kir eholer and Arnold. Inc., of Raleigh, bought the $463,000 Perquimans road and bridge refunding bonds at a $640 premium. The first $135,000 of ma turities to be paid 4 percent, the re mainder, 4 1-4 percent. The two is sues of Town of Franklin bonds went to Van. Young, and Hardin, Inc., and William Greene & Co., both of Win ston-Salem. The Citizens Bank fk Trust Co., of Henderson, took a $2,000 Warren county revenue anticipation note at par, with 2 1-2 percent interest. (jJmihcA FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy with scattered showers tonight; slightly warmer in north central portion tonight. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Ribbentrop In No Hurry lo Return to London As Ambassador of Germany Premier of Turkey Hr. Refik Saydam (above), as premier of Turkey plays an im portant role in the European crisis, with both Britain and Germany wooing his country, which controls the Dardanelles. Franz von Papen. Reich diplomat who laid the ground work for the Austrian anschluss, has been named envoy to Turkey. (Central Press) Naming Os Kimzey Fools Forecasters Appointment of Tran sylvanian to Industrial Commission Regard ed as Good One; Few Forecasters Picked Him for Job Daily DlspatcTi Bureau, In the Sir Waller Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, April 25. Appointment of Pat Kimzey, Transylvania legis lator, to the North Carolina Indus trial Commission shows the hazards, perils and pitfalls which beset the path of him who would be a political forecaster. And this story isn’t an alibi for a gum guess, either, be cause this correspondent almost re ligiously refrained from making any prediction of the new commission er because it could find nothing re liable on which to base one. The fact remains that those who did guess Kimzey as the appointee are able to point with pride only be cause the proffer of the Industrial post was declined by one whom no body even mentioned in pre-appoin tive speculation. And further fact is that not one single, solitary seer would have been correct if the place had been accepted by J. Wilbur Bunn, Raleigh attorney to whom it was offered according to informa tion of the utmost reliability. The post was among the most (Continued on Page Four) AP Discusses Broadcasting Os Its News New York, April 25. —(AP) —The question of broadcasting Associated Press news on commercially spon sored radio programs has been put before the organization’s board of di rectors for action at the request of Associated Press members. At their annual meeting yester day the members adopted a resolu tion urging the board to consider such broadcasts. They likewise approved an amend ment of the association’s certificate of incorporation which would assign as one of its objectives the supplying of news not only to member papers s ut to “others entitled to the use thereof.” The resolution asking a “full hear ing” concerning the broadcast of news was offered by Charles Man ship of the Baton Rouge State Times. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Foreign Minister Quite Busy Aiding Hitler in Preparing Speech Reply to Roosevelt and Nego tiations With Yugo slavia Berlin, April 25.—(AP)—Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop, taking the British prime minister at his worcf that Sir Neville Henderson is charg ed with no special mission, was in no hurry to receive his Britanical Majesty’s ambassador today. Henderson, who returned to Ber lin yesterday alter an absence since March 17—after Germany dismem bered Czechoslovakia—hoped to see Von Ribbcauop tiiis morning. But the foreign minister’s office informed the British ambassador that Von Ribbentrop would not be in to day. r A Wilhelmstrasse spokesman point ed out that the foreign minister is a very busy man these days, what with supplying information to Chan cellor for his speech Friday, prepar ing himself for negotiations with the Yugoslav foreign minister who is to arrive today, and arranging for an approaching visit of the Hungarian premier and his foreign minister. Meanwhile, Hitler’s newspaper, mockingly asked whether President Roosevelt would guarantee not to “attack Haiti and San Domingo in the next twenty-five years.” Renewing an intensive anti-Roose velt campaign, it ridiculed the Unit ed States President for worrying about “so many states, the names of which many Americans heard for the first time from the jolly non-ag gressive list”, in his message to the fuehrer proposing peace guarantees to 31 nations. Hoey to Reappoint Brower and Clark To Budget Group Charlotte, April 25.—(AP)—Gov ernor Hoey said today he planned to reappoint A. S. Brower, of Durham, and J. H. Clark, of Elizabethtown, as members of the State Advisory Bud get Commission when their terms expire in the next few weeks. The Governor said he would start immediate study of the list of ap pointments he must make before Juiy 1. It was indicated thyt he planned to reappoint Dudley Bagley as chair man and director of the State Rural Electril'icat : # n System, and that few changes would be made in other ap pointive posts. Army Service In Britain Is Compulsory Sharp Increase in Su gar and Tobacco Tax es; Automobile Own er Is Hardest Hit by Tax London. April 24. (AP) —The Br itish c. ; inet meeting in extra ordinary sc;- on was reliably report ed tonight to have outlined a new compulsory military service bill while the nation learned the vast in direct tax levy proposed to meet an arrns-swollen budget. It was understood that the new compulsory service bill would pro vide for: 1. Military physical training. 2. Enforced military training for men between 19 and 21 years. Sharply increased tobacco and sugar taxes were announced today by Sir John Simon, chancellor of the Exchequer, introducing the 1939 bud get in the House of Commons but the automobile owner was the hardest hit. It was believed the government was pushing its plans for a new mili tary service system with the inten tion of announcing them before Chancellor Hitler answers the Roase veltian peace appeal Friday.
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