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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-sixth year HITLER MAY USE FORCE AGAINST POLAND RcperNamed U. S. Envoy To Canada Former Commerce Secretary Given Post By Roosevelt; Quit in December To Attend to Private Affairs Washington, May I.—(AP)—Pres ident Roosevelt sent to the Senate today the name of Daniel C. Roper, former secretary of commerce, to be minister to Canada. Roper has been out of office since last December. His nomination to the diplomatic post brought him into a new field of serv ice. although he has been in govern ment work almost continuously since 1894. \\ hen he left the Commerce De partment post, later filled by Harry L. Hopkins, the South Carolinian, who has just turned 72, explained he had to give “needed attention” to his personal affairs. Born in South Carolina, Roper was graduated from Trinity College, now Duke University. He taught school before entering the legislature at 25. Methodists Unite Their Endowments Kansas City, Kans., May I.—(AP) Three corporations of the previous ly separate Methodist churches, with endow.vent funds totaling $29,000,- 000 for pensioning ministers and their dependents were federated to day in the first major business step in the Methodist Uniting Conference. The 900 delegates awaiting a . poech on foreign relations Wednes day night by Alf M. London, 1936 Republican presidential nominee, who is a conference delegate, plung ed into their second week of work a heavy agenda ahead. iTiling Station At Walstonburg Is Robbed of Monev J Wilson, May I. (AP) —Three white mop and a Negro held up Woot en Hobb’s filling station near Wal tonburg early today. An undeterm ined amout of cash was taken. Wayne Speight, said the three white men searched him and five Tier customers in the place syste -1 'tically at the point of pistols. '1 he Negro, Speight said, stayed in the car with a shotgun. I wo Prospective Purchasers Kidnap An Auto Salesman Turboro, May I.—(AP) —Zeb Brin '•n. co-proprietor of an automobile egoney, reported to officers today that he had been robbed by two un identified men posing as prospective customers, w o .'tweed him at pistol Points to drive them into the country and then get out of the car. Brinson said one of the men shoved a pistol against his back as he was driving thorn up main street to demonstrate Pit automobile. He was told, he re lated, to drive out the Rocky Mount highway and then into a sideroad, where he was left. He made his way t' the nearest telephone and report ed the robbery. Jockeying For Position Characterizes Race For / Governor At The Present Daily DlspatoTi Bureau, In Ihe Sir Waller Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Itnloißh, May I.— North Carolina 'l'll-nnatorial race, definitely, in pro right now although the pri :":,,,y isn’t to be held for about thir '' ' onth.s, has reached the jockey - r 'H for position stage, with several '/’Hclidates importuning “the admin- for support, others in a 'dghly receptive frame of mind •‘■Mould such support be offered; and ‘‘'dll <<th(>rs trying to devise ways and •irans of getting along without it. Jht- importance attached to “the \ “difiiiUitraUun’’ and its blessing lies PERRY MEMORIAL Bat In Bisrratrfr LEASED WIRE SEVICE OF U. S. Boosts Defenses In Caribbean New Puerto Rican Military Department Set Up as Nation’s De fense Bill Reaches to Unprecedented Peak Washington, May I.—(AP)—Sec retary Woodring announced today the forthcoming establishment of a new military department embracing the Caribbean area. It will be known as the Puerto Rican department. His action, taken by direction of President Roosevelt, will bring under control of the new department, be ginning July 1, the Island of Puer to Rico, including all adjacent keys, together with the Virgin Islands, be longing to the United States. ' The new department is designed to further United States defenses in the Caribbean Sea. Secrtary Wood ding announced the department would be under the command of Brigadier General Edmund Daley, with headquarters at the military reservation of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Uncle Sam’s defense bill for the year beginning July 1 appeared like ly today to reach the unprecedented peacetime total of $1,804,458,552. Congress already has made $578,528,- 111 available to the army, the larg est sum that service has seen since the World War, for acquisition of new weapons and expansion of the air corps. 60,000 Japs Flee Severe Earthquake In Northern Area Akita. Japan, May I. (AP) Sixty thousand terror-stricken residents of this northern Jap anese coastal city fled to the open spaces today during a series of earth shocks described as the most severe in 25 years. The home ministry’s official report listed five persons dead and scores missing, more than 400 homes demolished ,and about 200 others badly damaged. Parts of nearby Oka peninsula and of the southern coast line of Akita perfecture were understood to have sunk beneath the sea. primarily in the fact that no gover nor of North Carolina within the re cent memory of man has been elect ed without it. As for Governor Clyde R. Hoey, the personification of the adminis tration, he isn’t saying a thing, but there are reliable indications that he has been doing some conferring as to the direction in which he should look for his successor in the Exe cutive Mansion. The governor, always’ a comprom iser and conciliator to the very last chance, is highly desirous of picking (Continued on Page Two) ONLY DAILY GREAT SPECTACLE LAUNCHED AT N EW YORK WORLD ’S FAIR The New York World’s Fair “World of Tomorrow,” which millions are expected to attend. The Trylon and Perisphere, theme of the Fair, stand at left. NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY, 1, 1939 U. S. Is Warned Os Alliance Between Russia And Germany Washington, May I.—(AP)—Phil ip Marshall Brown, representing the American Peace Society, told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee today that an “arrangement” be tween Russia, Germany and Japan was “perhaps an immediate possibi lity.” He declared that such a line up would result for an agreement between Russia and Germany, which he said is the aim of Russia’s pre sent “power politics,” and from the Green Backs Changes In Wagner Act Washington, May I. (AP) Charging that the National Labor Relations Board has distorted the Wagner act into an instrument of op pression, President William Green, of the American Federation of Labor, recommended todoy that, the three memoer body be displaced. Appearing before the Senat Labor Committee, Green proposed substi tution of a new five-member Fed eral labor board. He also testified in support of A. F. of I. amendments to the Wagner act, offered by Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massachusetts. Among other things, these amend ments broaden the right to appeal labor decisions to the courts, would (Continued on Page Four) Stock Prices Are Irregular New York, May I.—(AP) Stocks drifted over an irregularly lower route in today’s market. Little sig nificance could be attached to de clines ranging from fractions to more than a point, inasmuch as the ses sion was one of the slowest in nearly five years. Transfers approximated 275,000 shares. A few issues, includ ing sugar company stocks, which were aided by firmness of the staple, worked counter to the trend for mod est advances. Many traders continued to remain aloof, brokers said, pend ing further assurances that Europe would manage to keep out of a war at this time. The opinion generally however, was that the latest sore spot, the row between Germany and Poland over Danzig and the cor ridor, would be remedied possibly without a major operation. American Radiator 11 7-8 American Telephone 157 American Tob B 81 Anaconda 23 3-8 Atlantic Refining 18 3-4 Bendix Aviation 20 7-8 Bethlehem Steel 53 3-4 Chrysler 64 Columbia Gas & Elec 6 1-4 Commercial Solvents 10 Continental Oil 7 1-4 Curtiss Wright 5 3-4 DuPont 139 1-4 Electric Pow & Light 7 1-4 General Electric 33 7-8 General Motors 41 5-8 Liggett & Myers B 101 1-4 Montgomery Ward & Co .. 44 3-4 Reynolds Tob B .'... 36 1-2 Southern Railway 13 3-4 Standard Oil N J 44 7-8 U S Steel 45 i-2 existing alliance between Japan and Germany. “This may, if we become too an tagonistic to these latter two coun tries, put us way out on a limb in ternationally,” Brown said. The only course for this country to pursue, Brown continued, is to adopt and stick to a policy of “real neutrality ” Declaring that President Roose velt could accomplish little by a re ply to Adolf Hitler, Senators George Democrat, Georgia, and Nye, liepub Income of State Declines Further Raleigh, May I. (AP) —North Carolina’s revenue collections through April of this fiscal year totaled $59,525,799.90, or 2.25 per cent less than the $60,894,585.15 collected by the same time last year, Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell reported today. Last month’s receipts were $4,- 478X69.09, or 7.71 percent under the $4,826,223.39 total in April. 1938. Sales tax returns were up from 0568,182 in April, 1938, to $926,- 908.52 last month, though revenue from the levy fell from 59.433,- 029.23 in ten months of 1937-38 to 5 S 9 986.232.74 for the same period j this fiscal year. Deterrent Taxes Worry Capital Now By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, May I.—Plenty of Democrats in Congress and high gov ernmental executive positions are in sympa thy with Martin Repres e n t a ti v e Joseph W. Martin o f Massachusetts, | Republican leader in the lower legis lative chamber, in the latter’s demand for tax revision so as to eliminate de terrent levies. That is to say, certain imposts are said to have the effect of discouraging pr i vate capital from engaging in or expanding private en terprise, thus classifying themselves as business deterrents. The undis tributed profits tax notably has been so denounced. This tax originally was intended to prevent corporations from saving up their profits, instead of paying them out in dividends to their stockholders, who, getting this cash, presumably would have re-in vested it, correspondingly stimulat ing commercial activity. The complaint is that a corpora tion frequently needs to hang onto some of its profits for a while, in order to accumulate funds for ex pansion of its own production and sales. But the tax restricts these temporary economies, so that the corporation can’t expand, and may be the stockholders don’t invest in something else but salt away their (Continued on Page Jb’our) lican, North Dakota, suggested that Great Britain take up negotiations for European peace within the frame work of Hitler’s Reichstag speech. They offered this prop in advance of the expiration at midnight of the “Cash and carry” neutrality provi sions, which regulate American trade with warring nations. Contrary to the opinion held by George and Nye, some legisiators oe lieve Mr. Roosevelt may discuss Hitler’s address in a “fireside” chat to the nation Soviets Show Their Might With Pageant Moscow, May 1. —(AP) —The big gest military display ever seen on Moscow’s Red Square stressed Sov iet Russia’s preparedness today as Moscow celebrated the 50th anni versary of international May Day. Six hundred war pian ’' , - ing 360 massed two-engined bomb ers, 144 combat planes ana a num ber o: new tyocs sivL »■; r engined flying “battleship,” and var ious light bombers and puisuit types roared over the Kremlin. Artillery and tanks thundered across Red Square in numbers hith erto unequalled here, and bayonets of tens of thousands of red soldiers flashed in the sunlight. The hundreds of tanks included 38 which mounted four machine guns and one ttvo-inch gun, and 12 enormous, heavily arm ored tanks which mounted a one inch gun, front and rear, one two inch gun, and six machine buns. Several fast tanks raced across the square at 40 miles an hour. Joseph Stalin, according to Sov iet officials, reviewed the parade from the top of Lenin’s tomb. From the press and Miplocatic sections of the grandstand, however, he could not be seen. Cotton Mart Prices Mixed New York, May I.—(AP) —Cotton futures opened unchanged to eight points lower under Liverpool and hedge selling in the October and De cember positions. At the end of the first hour, prices recovered several points from the opening low. May traded at 8.37, down one, and July at 8.15, up three. Prices were four higher to four lower around midday. May traded at 8.38, unchanged or six points above the low, while July was 8.16, or four higher. Futures closed 12 higher to nine lower. Spot nominal, middling 9.24. Open Close May 8.38 8.47 July 8.10 8.24 October 7.63 7.70 December 7.50 7.53 January 7.51 7.47 March 7.50 7.48 U/caihcA FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Tuesday; slightly cooler tonight except on southeast coast; light scattered frost in mountains and north west. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Poland May Get Control Over Danzig May Ask Authority from League of Na tions in Effort to Fore stall German Seizure Warsaw, Poland, May L—(AP) — The possibility that Poland might seek control of Danzig free city to forestall any Germany action toward forceful annexation was raised today by the official Gazetta Polska. The newspaper, pointing to what it termed German violation of inter national agreements, said “the policy of Berlin creates a situation which will cause the Polish government to further its demands concerning es tablishment of n£*w guarantees for Polish rights and Polish property in Danzig.” The article was interpreted as meaning that Poland might ask the League of Nations, nominally the highest authority in Danzig, to trans fer certain of its rights to Poland. The League could invest Poland with police powers in the free city, which already lies v .Inin the Polish cus toms administration. Although Danzig, detached from Germany b}’ the treaty of Versailles, is predominantly inhabited by Ger mans, the port handles a great deal of Poland’s foreign trade and at the Baltic end of the Polish corridor would be invaluable for protection of Polish territory in face of conflict. I Pendergast Aide Suicide Kansas City, Kans., May I.—(AP) —A suicide note was found today in the automooile of Edward Schneid er, secretary-treasurer of seven cor porations headed by “Boss” T. J. Pendergast. The car was parked on the Fairfax bridge over the Missouri river near here Sheriff Frank Zimmer, of Wyan dotte county, found the car, and po lice made plans to drag the river near the bridge. Schneider testified four days last week before a federal grand jury which is investigating business af fairs of the political boss. An in come tax evasion indictment to which Pendergast pleaded innocent today in Federal court in Kansas (Continued on Page Four) kkes Warns Employees To Avoid Pending Fight Washington, May I. (AP) —Sec- retary Ickes warned employees of the Public Works Administration today that any of them found to be working against President Roose velt’s government reorganization plan would be “disciplined.” He did not say what form of disciplining would take, but veteran WPA em ployees said they believed it meant they would be discharged. Ickes’ warning was contained in a memorandum to all employees. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Strength Os Nazi Arms Is Boosted Youth Group and Worker Organization Hear Sabre - Rattling by Fuehrer; Germany Trying to Isolate Po land Berlin, May I.—(AP) Adolf Hit ler today proclaimed Germany “one of the most heavily armed nations in the world”, and Nazi diplomats pressed elf ts to isolate Poland and make her ripe for yielding to Ger mand demands. Hitler and his lieutenants seized upon May Day celebrations to unify the Nazi Reich and strengthen the offensive agai ns t “international enemies,” which Hitler began with his Friday reply to President Roose velt’s peace proposals. In two speeches, one to 135,000 boys and girls of the Hitler Youth Organization, and another to Brawn and Brain Workers, in a Berlin mass meeting, he hit out at charges that Germany desires war. He also took occasion to strike at American ac tion against German goods, saying: “The United States has organized a boycott against German gpods. It would have been better to import German goods than German im migrants.” (Campaigns against the purchase of German goods in the United States are unofficial. The United States government has im posed a 25 percent counter-vailing duty against most German goods to compensate for subsidy of exports by Germany.) German diplomacy is trying to drive a wedge between Poland and Hungary in the hope of isolating Poland, formerly a partner with Ger many in a ten-year non-aggression pact which Hitler denounced Fri day, it was said. As Hitler addressed youths and the workers he hammered away with sentences like these: “Germany is one of the most heavily armed nations of the world today, thanks to our strength and thanks to our friends.” “On a day like this, I look with (Continued on Page Four) WARD AGAIN NAMED ON HIGHWAY BOARD Raleigh, May I.—(AP)—Gov ernor Hocy worked today on ap pointments he must make due to expiring terms, and said he had decided to rc-appaint T. Boddie Ward, of Wilson, for a six year term on the State Highway Com mission. Other appointments pro bably will be announced within 24 hours. Doris Duke’s Husband May Go to Senate Trenton, N. J., May I.—(AP) —A source close to Governor Moore said today that .Tames H. R. Cromwell, husband of the former Doris Duke, tobacco heiress, held the inside track for appointment as United States senator in the event William H. Smathers, Democrat, New Jersey, be came a Federal judge. Senator Smathers has been prom inently mentioned as a successor to J. Warn n Davis, of Lawrenceville, retired judg<- of the third circuit court of appeals. Cromwell has written on economic and social problems. He served last year on a State commission named to study changes in New Jersey’s tax structure. Mr. Roosevelt’S reorganization plan No. 1, submitted to Congress last week, provided, among other things, for establishment of a Fed eral works agency which would take over the PWA. The latter agency has been under Ickes’ administra tion since 1933. Aides said there had been mut terings of discontent among many employees, who feared reorganiza tion would mean centralization and mass demobilization in the field.
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