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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-sixth year ROOSEVELT TO ANSWER HITLERON RADIO Berlin Marches on Hitler’s 50th i Adolf Jlitler, standing in first car, salutes the troops of his mighty war machine, which marched in gigantic military parade on his fiftieth birth day. Proclaiming the might of this military machine, the Fuehrer later answered President Roosevelt’s peace offer by declaring his armies stood ready to right equalities forced upon the Reich. Seek Rescue Os Russian Fair Fliers Doctor and Mounted Policeman Battle Ice Floes in Row Boat To Reach Disabled Plane Mi cou Island. Now Brunswick, April 29. —(Canadian Press) —A Royal Canadian mounted policeman and a doctor battled ice floes of Bay Chalewr in a row boat today to roach General Kokkinaki, Russian pilot, who suffered several broken i-ibv when his airplane made a forc er! lending here last night on a pro jected Moscow-to-New York flight. Con table Therriault and Dr. Bour gcoi. set out from Shippegan, on the ) siinland 25 miles away, for this iso lated St. Lawrence Gulf island, where the flier and Major, Gordineko hi radio operator-navigator, came down at 7:55 p. m last night in a wn-h five miles from the nearest house. The constable planned to return this afternoon and take the pilot to a hospital at Bathurst or ! C mpbeliton, New Brunswick, if j treatment were necessary. The Rus sian plane was wrecked. A Miscou merchant said this morn \ ior that he ! - 1 - ‘"rned from a trip j to the wreckage and that the navi- i (Continued on Page Eight) New Building First Quarter Sets Record C: :eago, April 29.—(AP) — Build -I!|g activity during the first 1939 T 1 i t,. r W as the best for the period ioi wen or eight years, a nation wide survey disclosed today. dollar valuation of residential and |nd u I ■| construction in 44 states ■’•'hich building permits w’ere is " o during the quarter was estimat ed $346,139,562, the National As '''■iation of Building Trades Em ployer reported. This compared with ;>t;> j n the initial 1933 quar tw. $721,439,136 in 1937, and $602,- in 1936, which up to that l!lK ' was the best in four or live ~ f ' 11 s ’ the association said. both,, building in 34 leading cities m,, roa.sorJ 119 percent during the I compared with a like 1933 Period. husilv available financing, govern ed, and replacement of ob solescent houses combined to aid the "I'dirn, said E. M. Craig, executive •-feci of the association. liruftprsmt HttUtt £1 t&iiatrh LEASED WIRE qpmrTCT, TI.K AS^ T SMtViCE g OP Roumaniaßeopens Debt Pledge Here Bucharest, Roumania, April 29. (Al*)—Roumania is • about to propose a new plan for regulation of interest payments on the Rou manian indebtedness to the Unit ed States, including war loans, a communique announced today. It was understood that the gov ernment hoped to revise these payments, which have lapsed for several years, to the extent of existing transfer possibilities. The extent of the payments, it wa 1 : pointed out, will be in pro portion to the trade turnover be tween Roumania and the United States under the new reciprocal trade agreement. (This World War debt owed to the United States by Roumania, as of June 30, 1933, amounted to $63,982,111.) Pendergast Is Indicted becond 1 ime St. Louis, Mo., April 29. —(AP). — “Boss” Tom Pendergast was indict ed for the second time by a Federal grand jury today on income tax violation charges. Meanwhile, R. E. O’Malley, who is under indictment with Pendergast in connection with a $9,500,000 State insurance settlement, was given a leave of absence as head of the city water department. Mayor B. B. Smith said O’Malley would remain out of office until such time as his name has been cleared of charges against him. O’Malley asked for the leave. He is the latest Pendergast-baeked official involved in a city hall shake-up recently. City Manager H. F. McElroy resigned under fire, leaving behind a year’s deficit of $1,750,000, and Police Di rector O. P. Higgins quit after his department had been accused by Governor Lloyd Stark of protecting a $20,000,000 a year gambling racket. O’Malley and Pendergast were in dicted by a Federal grand jury on April 7 on charges Ihey received more than $370,000 in connection (Continued on Page Eight) KINSTON WILL GET NEW BUS TERMINAL Raleigh, ‘ April 29.—(AP) — Con struction of a bus terminal at Kin ston will get undw way immediate ly. Utilities Commission officials said today. Brondus Glover, inspector for the commission, who returned this morning from Kinston, reported that Fred Sutton, of Kinston, would build the station and lease i f to the bus comnanies. 1 Utilities Commission recently or dered construction of a new terminal t at Kinston. ONLY DAILY J ohn Lewis Demands QuickShowdownOn Contract Os Miners Operators Withdraw Until Afternoon When Daily Session Is Con vened; Full Policy Committee of Miners Summoned New York, April 29.—(AP) —John L. Lewis, CIO chieftain, and presi dent of the United Mine Workers of America, today called for a show down in the contract negotiations between Appalachian bituminous coal operators and the union Shortly alter the committee of four of the operators and four min ers convened for their daily session, the operators withdrew until 4 p. m. to discuss the contract problem pri vately. Lewis a few minutes later told reporters it was his opinion that “this farce should be ended, and by next week the operators should have decided” whether they would make up their minds and sign a contract. The miners’ leader previously had recalled the full policy committee of 150 district U. M. W. leaders for a meeting here Tuesday prior to the time when contracts in outlying soft coal areas expire, and on the eve of the extension of the anthracite con tract While the operators were discuss ing the problem among themselves, the miners conferred with Dr. John Steelman, chief of the conciliation service of the United States Depart ment of Labor, sent here by Secre tary Perkins. Union leaders said the policy committee would decide whether the order to shut down mines outside the Appalachian area, when their contracts expire, would be rescinded, if at all, by the policy committee. “Daylight” Time Begins Sunday 2 A. M. New York, April 29.—(AP)—Day light savings time becomes effective in a number of states at 2 a. m. to morrow and will continue until Sunday, September 24, at 2 a. m. There will be statewide observ ance of daylight saving in New Jer sey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, and virtually state wide observance in Connecticut. Most of Maine will set the clock ahead, a substantial part of Vermont and those sections of Indiana and Il linois in the vicinity of Chicago. There will be limited observance of daylight saving m Michigan, Idaho, Georgia and Delaware. In New York State, 352 cities and towns will be on daylight savings, and 121 in Pennsylvania Names Mean Great Deal With Public By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, April 29.—A news paper friend of mine wrote a letter, early in Senator H. Styles Bridges’ term on Capitol Bridges ■ note to the latter, in which he said; “Dear Senator, don’t you realize that a public man who ‘parts his name in the middle’ (that is, starts it off with an initial) gives an impression of supposed superiority that has very undesirable and unpopular repercus sions for a politician? ‘H. S. Bridges’ would be all right, but just ‘Styles Bridges’ would be better. It isn’t a common name anyway; there’s no danger that it will be mixed wilh any ‘John Smiths’ or ‘Thomas Jones.’ Why not cut out that initial initial, j (Continued on Page Four). NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON , APRIL 29, 1939 Hill, to the New Hampshire solon, concerning some journalistic matter now immaterial in its nature. He re ceived a polite an swer, signed “H. Sty le s Bridges.” Now, my friend knows H. Styles well and wishes him similarly. So h e dispatched a confidential little Would Pay U. S. A •-/ #%' V Jkl / .-M sjljl Jean de Beaumont (above), French deputy from Inao-China, urged Premier Edouard Daladier to 1 open negotiations with the United States “to solve the problem of debts owed to America” and to give the United States “under one form or another, the legitimate satisfaction it has expected of us for six years.” (Central Frets) World Fair Set To Open Tomorrow 50,000 Workmen T oil on Far Incompleted Set - Up; Roosevelt Speaks on Worldwide Hook-Up at 1:30 p, m. New York, April 29.—(AP) —With the opening of the New York World’s Fair a scant 24 hours away, 50,000 workmen toiled today to put the vast exposition in shape for its debut. Out on the erstwhile Flushing marshland, part of the mile-square aggregation of the fair’s wanders still was short of completion, but the scores of finished buildings, thous ands of exhibits, together with a full program of opening ceremonies, promised plenty of attractions lor the expected million visitors tomorrow. Most of the commercial displays, and towering temples, dedicated to everything from beer and bread to cars and communications, were ready. The principal tardiness was in numerous national and state govern ment displays, some of which still disclosed incomplete exteriors shroud ed with scaffolding. Barren of its much-touted strip tcasers, the amusement area looked like a boom town on its first day, its streets echoing with the clatter of hammers nailing up wails and roofs. (Continued on Page Four) MRS. ROOSEVELT BIDS NEGRO SCHOOL CHOIR Goldsboro, April 29.—(AP) —Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt has invited the Dillard high school glee clud musi cal organization of the Goldsboro Negro high school to appear at a veterans garden party in Washing ton, D. C., May 18. H. V. Brown, principal, announced receipt of the invitation today. He said it had not been deciued wheth er the trip could be made. The club composed of 40 voices, will go to Newport News Monday for a recital. (jj&aikoji FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy; Sunday fair, slightly warmer in north central portion. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Fair, except scattered shower period in latter part of week; warmer at beginning', then above normal except cooler over north portion near close. Reich Press Opens Again On President Says Hitler Proved Untruths, Mistakes, Absurdities in Roose velt Peace Appeal; Says He Ought To Re sign His Office Berlin, April 29.—(AP) —Germany through her closely controlled press, strongly assailed President Roose velt today, underscored demands for Danzig and colonies, and differed on how far Chancellor Hitler had closed the door to peaceful negotiations. One newspaper, the influential Boersenzeitung, of Berlin, suggested that Mr. Roosevelt resign because of the “great number of historical un truths, political mistakes and plain absurdities” that Hitler proved yes terday existed in the President’s peace proposals, to which the fuehrer replied before the Reichstag. In his speech rejecting Roosevelt’s request for German-Italian non-ag gression pledges, Hitler scrapped his 1935 naval agreement with Great Britain, and his 1934 ten-year non aggression pact with Poland. Even well instructed Nazi commentators differed on the breadth of the Chan cellor’s answer to Mr. Roosevelt’s appeal of April 15, but all agreed it was at least a sharp rebuff, and some called it a “political execution” lor Roosevelt. The reaction in the free city of Danzig was immediate to Hitler’s re ference to that former German Baltic city as an open question, which soon er or later “naturally had to be solved,’ ’and his statement that “it should be beyond all doubt that Danzig will never become Polish.” Nazis in Danzig, which since the World War has been connected with the Polish customs administration, began to speculate on the date of their “return to the Reich.” SCHOOL TEACHERS INJURED IN CRASH Charlotte, April 29. (AP) Five young women sebool teach ers of Kannapolis and a Char lotte man were injured here to day when their automobile col lided. All arc expected to re cover. The women were all in the same car. The man was the lone occupant of the other machine. A preliminary police report said the automobiles collided head-on. $8,612 Lobby Fees By Mills Raleigh, April 29.—(AP) —Erlan- ger Cotton Mills Company of Lex ington reported today to Thad Eure, secretary of state, that it paid a total of $8,612.50 in lobbyist fees and ex penses during the 1939 General As sembly. The payments were all to Lexing ton attorneys or law firms and were listed by Stuart Rabb, vice-president and general manager of the com pany. The General Assembly killed a bill which would have incorporated with Lexington the town of Erlanger, in j which the mills are situated. New Chief of Staff Pictured above is Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall, named by President Roosevelt to succeed Gen eral Malin Craig as U. S. Army chief of staff. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Envoy to U. S. '•t'-yVtW 1 MJL *** M* The Marquis of Lothian (above), Lloyd George’s secretary *'at the Paris peace conference, appointed British Ambassador to the United States, succeeds Sir Ronald Lind say, who is retiring. The Marquis, 57, is said to have been author of many clauses of the peace treaty. | Italy Plans Much Bigger Army Power Mussolini Informs Cabinet of His Pro gram; New Appropri ations Allotted for De fense Strength Rome, April 29.—(AP)—Premier Mussolini informed his cabinet today the Italian army would be strength ened in size and equipment. II Duce gave his ministers a detailed report on his conference two days ago with the minister of finance, Paolo di Revel, Jr., and the chief of the gen eral staff of the army and under sec retary of war, General A. Pariana, at Mussolini’s country retreat. Plans were drawn at this confer ence for increasing the nation’s mili tary power. A communique issued at the close of today’s cabinet meet ing did not specify what measures were contemplated. “The new appropriations allocated to the army,” it said, “are designed to increase still further the efficiency both because of point of view of ef fectives and from the point of view of equipment and territorial defen sive organiations.” Italy now has an estimated 1,250,- 000 men under arms. At the time the last contingents of reservists were called for service, it was announced officially that the government had no intention of calling up additional classes except in “exceptional cir cumstances.” Methodists Upset Stand Over Bishops Kansas CRy, April 2y.—(AP)— The Methodist Uniting Conference reversed itself today on the so-call ed democratic system of assigning bishops Yesterday the 900 delegates of the three hitherto divided Methodisms voted to set up a committee of 70 se lected by ministerial and lay church members to assign the bishops. They turned down proposal to rest the assignments and a committee nam- j ed indirectly by the bishops them • eives. Today a group of 12 northern j church leaders, led by Dr. Fred Stone j of Chicago, voted to add 20 members to that committee from the two jur- \ isdictions of the new church in which the southern oranch will predomi nate. They argued the plan adopted yesterday gave the north an unfair control. After long debate the committee addition was voted, 407 to 360. Im mediately, however, the whole ques tion of committee assignments was brought to the floor again and the j plan turned down 463 to 361. The conference then referred the j assignment issue to a standing com- j mittee on the ministry and episco- I pacy. This committee was named ' in advance of the vonference by the ! interdenominational commission on church union headed by a northern and southern bishop and the presi dent of the Methodist Protestant church Meanwhile, 10,000 Methodist young persons from surrounding states opened a youth program, stressing the difference between j Christian and totalitarian doctrines 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY No Date Yet Is Arranged For Speech “Fireside Chat" Will Be Medium of Reply, W ashington Hears; Social Security Tax Boost Out for Next Year Washington, April 29. (AP) President Roosevelt may reply to Adolf Hitler in a ‘‘fireside chat” over the radio, it was said in usually well in formed congressional circles to day. Responding yesterday to Mr. Roosevelt’s recent plea that Germany and Italy promise not to invade or attack 31 independ ent nations for at least ten years, the German chancellor offered peace pledges to these states, provided they ask for therrq and accompany their re quests with proposals he con sidered suitable. To the President’s suggestion that disarmament and settlement of poli tical and economic difficulties be undertaken in international confer ences, Hitler replied that the Unit ed States itself had shown distrust of the conference method, and that Germany ■"’ould never enter an in ternationr parley without armed might to b;uup her claims. There was little expectation of an immediate presidential statement. White House aides said the speech which Mr. Roosevelt would deliver Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock opening the New York World’s Fair was written before Hitler began his address. President Roosevelt’s failure to re quest an additional public works ap propriation in his relief measure brought demands in the Senate for a $500,000,000 PWA allotment. Sen ator Mead, Democrat, New York, said he would seek to attack such an appropriation to the relief bill. Congressional leaders forecast clear sailing for legislation to post pone a scheduled increase in social security taxes for old age pensions. The House Ways and Means Com mittee voted unanimously yesterday to defer the increase which would go into effect next January 1 under present law. South Mills Hears Hoey South Mills, April 29.—(AP) — Governor Hoey told the dozen sen iors of the South Mills high school last night, before a crowd of approx imately 600, that they must abide by three ancient teachings—know thyself, from the Greek; control thy self, from the Romans, and deny thyself, from the Hebrews. He warned the graduates to “ex pect much in hardship and priva tion” but, he continued, “the reward will be worth the struggle, and you will be repaid in proportion to the elforts expended.” The governor arrived in Elizabeth City at 6:25 p. m. yesterday and was escorted in by a police motor cade. Rain prevented the high school band from preceding him into town. The governor returned to Eliza beth City, where he remained for the night. Roumania Is Hunting For Best Bargain Paris, April 29. —(AP) —The . French foreign minister announced today, after a final conference be tween the foreign ministers of France and Roumania on formation of a European alliance, that the two countries were “in perfect accord.” The announcement gave no indica tion, however, of whether Bonnet, France’s negotiator, had persuaded or even urged Gafensu, of Roumania to accept the British-French plan to enlist Soviet Russia’s aid for Rou mania in the event of war. Gafensu. who already has visited Berlin a r London, arranged to leave tonight for Rome, where he is ex pected to continue what some diplo mats describe as his efforts to find the best bargain before finally de ciding whether Roumania would line up with the London-Paris bloc or the Rome-Berlin axis.
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