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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-sixth year HITLER FORMING MEUTRAL BLOC IN NORTH Democrats In House Rally To Balk Move Against FDR’s Bill Negrin Visits U. S. — ißßr -x.;:-; Juan Negrin (above), former Pre mier of Spain, who fled his country upon the fall of Madrid to Franco’s troops, arrives in New York. Negrin refused to the last to approve the surrender of Loyalist Spain. (Central Press) Chandler To Keep Order For Strike Governor Chandler Says State Not Going To Be Upset by Coal Miners and Says Highway Patrol I s Prepared T o Keep Peace Harlan, Ky., May 3.—(AP)—Beat inq of a minor today and sheriff’s deputies last night in Harlan coal fields brought a warning from Gov ernor Chandler that the State High way Patrol is “prepared to keep peace; it can do it, and it will.” Captain Carl Norman, of the high way patrolmen on duty here, sent re dl icst to Frankfort “for additional nvii and more equipment.” More than 35 troopers are on duty at pres ent patroling the roads and keeping traffic moving. Norman said he had requested the < ailing of a meeting of union leaders, at which he would discuss the situa tion and ask the leaders to “demand peaceful picketing.” After five hours of picketing, the C lover Fori: oerd mine cut dov/n its ' oi k time. No workers had gone into the diggings and the pickets left. On ly one coal mine, that of the Goode ( oal Company at Lisle, eleven miles (Continued on Page Three) General Fund Revenues Above Estimates, Though Far Under 1937-38 Totals Daily Dispatch bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. riak-igh, May 3. — North Carolina’s £'ueia! fund revenues for 1938-39 V;| il be close to $2,000,000 higher ;, n estimated by the Advisory Bud- D 1 Commission last December; but v.iil be nearly $3,000,000 short oi fetal receipts lor the year that f eded last June 30; it appears from ;, i ( ' : "'<*l'ul analysis of the Department ,J [ iO‘Vf nue’s figures for the month ' ! April and the first ten months of b e present fiscal year Aa t year’s receipts, boosted by inheritance tax returns and an "'.pieeedented income tax collec 'v',n record, surpassed all previous (Mill Carolina years, with total ■■la ml fund revenues of $37,056,- o;; h’om the Revenue Bill of 1937. J-ast December the Tar Heel fiscal Tirttiicrsmt LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCATED PRESS First Reorganization Plan of President Is Debated; $153,000,- 000 Defense Bill Sign ed by Roosevelt; Wag ner Act Castigated Washington, May 3—(AP) —House Democrats rallied behind their lead . ers today to head off a move to block President Roosevelt’s first plan to reorganize governmental agencies. As the House commenced debate on a resolution of disapproval, the majority leadership confidently pre dicted the move would be beaten down, permitting Mr. Roosevelt’s plan to go into effect in June. The law provides that both houses of Congress must disapprove the exe i\.oiganization proposals with in sixty days after promulgation in order to stop them. Reorganization also was receiving new attention at the White House. The President called in for a lunch eon conference on a second reor ganization proposal Budget Director Smith and members of Mr. Roose velt’s special reorganization com mittee. Other developments: President Roosevelt signed a bill providing $153,000,000 immediately in appropriations and contract au thorizatipns for tanks, anti-aircraft guns and other army implements,, ileet expansion and seacoast defenses The House Naval Committee rec ommended legislation to authorize expenditure of $6,663,000 for com plete modernization or five battle ships. Roumania presented a formal note to the United States offering to set continued on Page Six) SLAYER OF OFFICER IS PLACED ON TRIAL Fayetteville, May 3.—(AP—Nine members of a jury scheduled to try young Lenward Hair for the slaying of Policeman W. J. Genes had been selected from a special venira of 75 plus the regular jury panel when superior court recessed for lunch to day. Judge J. J. Burney was on the bench. Hare is alleged to have shot Genes with Genes’ own pistol while Genes and two other officers were 1 attempting to remove him from the home of his father in connection with an alleged assault on a taxi driver. Speakers Listed For N. C. Doctors On Bermuda Trip Raleigh, May 3.—(AP) —Dr. A. F. Hartman, of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., and Dr. Benjamin P. Watson, of Columbia University, will be guest speakers at the annual convention of the medical society of North Carolina during its cruise to Bermuda next week. Dr. T. W. M. Long, of Roanoke Rapids, secretary of the society, re leased the program today. The doc tors from all parts of the state will leave Norfolk, Va., the evening of May 9 and will return May 14. Gen eral business sessions will be held May 10 and May 13, with the dele gates to devote the intervening days to sight-seeing and entertainment in Bermuda. Dr. J. B. Sidbury, of Wilmington, i president, will make his report May ! 10. bosses looked the field over and came to the conclusion that this years receipts would be $32,26,000. Now it appears they will reach approxi mately $34,215,629. This last figure is arrived at by adding to collections for the first ten months—shown in Commis sioner A. J. Maxwell’s April report— th’e revenue reasonably to be ex pected in the remaining two months of the year. In computing these ‘ reasonably to be expected” receipts, the total collected in May and June of 1939 has been used as a base, with allowances for the apparent increase or decrease in collections during this year This process gives the figures shown in the table at the head of (Continued on Page Five) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, MAY 3,1939 Soviet Pact To Be Topic At Geneva London, May 3.—(AP) —The for eign secretaries of Britain, France and Soviet Russia were reliably re ported tonight to have arranged to meet at Geneva May 15 in an ef fort to complete their projected al liance . The League of Nations Council is meeting there then, and it was stat ed authoritatively that Maxim Lit vinoff, of Russia; George Bonnet, of France, and Viscount Halifax, of Great Britain, had agreed to take the opportunity for negotiations to end the present deadlock over the extent of the present alliance. Gunmen Force Physician To Probe Bullet Chicago, May 3.—(AP) —Pals of a wounded gunman, one of two who killed a man and wounded two police men in an attempted tavern hold-up, forced a physician at pistol points today to remove a bullet from the robber’s back with a razor blade. Alex Ferguson, 57, a patron of the tavern at 4623 Northwestern Avenue, was killed, and two policemen, Ed win Mclntyre, 42, and Philip Kelly, 35, were wounded in the gun battle. Dr. S. Hirschfeld notified police he was summoned from his home, driven to an apartment and compell ed to extract the bullet from near the spine of the young man. When the bullet was removed, he said, the wounded man snatched it from the doctor and said: “I’m going to send it back to that guy that shot me and see how he likes it.” The physician said the wounded man drew a pistol and kept him cov ered, while the other man and an attractive blonde woman packed their clothes and apparently loaded their grips into an automobile. They helped the wounded man dress and left after warning the physician not to summon police for at least 15 minutes. Republican Will Serve on Council In High Point Now High Point, May 3.—(AP) —A Re publican will serve on the High Point City Council, the first since the city adopted the partisan form of govern ment in 1931, on the basis of com plete unofficial returns of Tuesday’s elections. Arthur Kirkman, Democrat, led the mayoralty race over his opponent, Willis H: Slane, by over 1,000 votes, and seven of the eight Council seats went to Democrats. Arnold J. Koonce. Republican, defeated Ed ward Gurley by 53 votes for the eighth seat. The average Democratic lead in the contest was 231 votes. The total vote was approximately 8,500. Hiller i ' ' ■ .. 11 1 ’ * - i , - Against the loud and insistent demands by Adolf Hitler (left) for Danzig i and for a fifteen mile wide right-of-way across the Polish Corridor' linking East Prussia and Germany, stands the Polish army, well equipped | (x)suaihsA FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Thursday; slowly rising temperature Thurs day. Batlu Slapafdi IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGD®?; Large Financing Program Apporved Raleigh, May 3.—(AP)—W. E. Easterling, secretary of the Local Government Commission, said to day it had approved a re-financ ing plan for the town of Troy, which would involve issuance of $335,000 refunding and $107,285 funding bonds. The commission also authorized Ahoskie to issue $51,500 public improvement bonds voted at an election, and Duplin county was given authority to issue $75,000 refunding securities. A $1,500 revenue anticipation note of PinetopS was sold to Pine tops Banking Company of Pine tops at par with interest at six percent. Banks Doing All Possible In Lending Washington, May 3.—Members of the United States Chamber of Com merce were told here today that the banks of the nation are doing every thing possible and reasonable to pour more credit into the business stream. The speaker was Robert M. Hanes first vice president of the American Bankers Association and president of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, Winston-Salem, N. C. “Banks are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars advertising for loans and are devoting much time to loan solicitation,” stated Mr. Hanes. “With all the multiplicity of credit institutions now competing lor loans from responsible borrowex - s of all kinds, I am convinced that adequate provision has been made for all credit needs. “Existing credit agencies, includ ing chartered institutions and’ gov ernment agencies, are geared to pro vide a much greater volume of credit than business is using. The (Continued on Page Five) METHODISTS PLAN 66 SUMMER CAMPS Kansas City, May 3. —(AP) —Ac- cepting the teen-age child as one “presenting a great opportunity rath ei than a problem,” the Methodist Episcopal Church will be host to thousands of boys and girls in 66 camps this summer. Miss Clarice Bowman, of Chicago, director of intermediate work for the Epwbrth League and of young peoples work for the church’s board of education, a delegate to the Meth .odist unification conference here, said camp life was designed “to em phasize physical health, social values and, above all, spiritual values.” MAN ON PROBATION FOR MAIL FRAUDS Raleigh, May 3.—(AP)—Judge I. M. Meekins placed J. W. Grady, of Goldsboro, on probation for five years today after the man entered a guilty plea l in Federal district court to charges of using the mails to defraud. A jury disagreed after hearing evidence in the case, Judge Meekins ordered a mistrial, and Grady then entered his plea. Government wit nesses testified that Grady ordered goods from mail order firms and would not pay for them. I res t 0 back countr y’ s adamant refusal to yield to Nazi pressure The soldiers at right are typical of the thousands Poland has rushed to* 1 her borders, ready for “any eventuality." (Central Presl) Britain Ready For Reciprocal Accords With German Reich London, May 3. (AP) —Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House o f Commons today that the British government “would certainly be ready to consider proposals for the exchange of reciprocal assurances with the German government.” Denying that there were any grounds for charges that the British government had adopted a policy of “encircling Germany,” Chamberlain said: “What President Roosevelt pro posed (in his April 14 peace appeal) and Herr Hitler offered (in his April 28 speech) was an exchange of as surance of non-aggression, rather than a guarantee on a reciprocal basis, such as was recently given by the British government to Poland. “The British government would certainly be ready to consider pro posals for the exchange of reciprocal assurances with the German govern Scandinavians Plan Similar Answer To Hitler Peace Offer Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland Ministers Confer by Telephone on Com mon Reply on Non- Aggression Idea Copenhagen, Denmark, May 3. (AP) —The foreign ministers of four Scandinavian countries discussed a common answer to Germany’s effort to erect a neutral bloc of northern European states in a series of tele phone conservations today. One usually reliable source said the foreign ministers of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland had intended to meet in Stockholm to morrow, but found difficulty in as semblying so rapidly, and decided to substitute the telephone talks on the sudden German offer of non aggression pacts to them There was still possibility of a face- to-face meeting before an ans wer to Germany is dispatched. The Danish foreign minister was engaged in the telephone conversation for three full hours today. Comment was withheld by all the ministers, but a statement was expected after further negotiations. The Scandinavian countries have long proclaimed their aloofness from European blocs. Responsible quart ers here, however, stressed the dif ference between the German non aggression offer and the type of guarantees which Britain and France offered Poland, Roumania and Greece. The same kind of French, British guarantees have been men tioned in connection with Scandin avia . PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. ment.” Chamberlain smiled and his an swer was inaudible when he was ask ed by opposition Laborite Arthur Henderson: “May I ask whether, in view of the importance of the statement which the.prime minister has just made, the British government will take proper steps to secure that this statement is brought to the notice of the Ger man government.” Chamberlain’s statement to Com mons came after a cabinet meeting, at which the government was repor ed to have rejected Soviet Russia’s proposal for a sian guarantee to all Baltic and Black Sea states. The cabinet was reported, however, to have decided to urge Russia to “reinsure” British-French commitments to Poland and Rou mania after Poland told Britain she preferred to make a separate agree ment with Russia. Congressmen Are Annoyed By Lobbyists By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, May 3. — Lobbyists around the national capitol period ically come in for a lot of bitter de nunciation from congressmen who disapprove of their activities. One of these outbursts seems to be devel oping at the legis lators’ present ses sion. Representa tive E. E. Cox of Georgia in fact went ‘ beyond mere denunciation of the activ iti e s of a spokesman of the organized relief workers, who had Sabath been teasing him in behalf of the set-up he’s connect ed with. Cox slapped his persecutor. The other day Chairman Adolph J. Sabath of the representatives' pow erful rules committee also exploded. He didn’t slap anyone, but, nagged beyond endurance by advocates of a law for the imprisonment of deport able aliens whose native countries refuse to re-admit them, he express ed his opinion of “paid lobbyists” (Continued on Page Four) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Aggression Ban Offered Six Nations One Object of Project Is To Isolate Poland and Another Is To Prevent Encirclement of Germany; Peaceful Motive Claimed BY LOUIS LOCHNER. Berlin, May 3.—(AP)—Chancel lor Hitler sought today to form a neutral bloc of at least six nations extending across northern Europe. He offered identical non-aggression pacts to Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, made similar approach es to Latvia and Esthonia, and there were strong reasons to believe that proposals of like nature had been submitted to a number of other Eu ropean countries. Lithuania was not included in the reichfuehrer’s projected northern combination, because her relations to Germany are regulated by a separate treaty, which contains non-aggres sion pledges. One object of this diplomatic ac tivity is to isolate Poland. Hitler al ready feels assured that Hungary has cast her lot with Germany, even to the extent of forsaking an historic friendship with Poland, as a conse quence of the Berlin visit of the Hungarian premier and foreign min ister last week. Another objective of the present maneuver is to prevent further “en circlement,” as the Germans call the British-French system of alliances. A third object is said to be to show that the Nazi government is animat ed only by peaceful intentions. Hopes were high in German quar ters, meanwhile, that Poland would have to come to terms acceptable to Germany. The press started at noon to bring reports from England and France, indicating that the British and French public were criticizing (Continued on Page Three) CHATTANOOGA VOTES RETURN OF LIQUOR Chattanooga, Tenn., May 3.—(AP) —Repealists who scored an easy vic tory here yesterday in the State’s first loca 1 p+ion liquor referendum, pushed i'orv. ard today for early opening oi package sale stores. With only eight small precincts in isolat ed mountain sections of Hamilton county (Chattanooga) not heard from, the repealist victory margin v/as 2,596 votes. The reported vote was 6,995 for repeal and 4,469 against. The 30-year-old State dry law was repealed by the recent leg islature. Japan Asks More Voice In Shanghai Demand for Greater Control Over Interna tional Settlement Pre sented U. S. and Bri tain Tokyo, May 3.—(AP) —R. Sawada, vice minister of foreign affairs, pre sented to the United States and Bri tish ambassadors today demands that the Shanghai municipal council, gov erning body of the Shanghai inter national settlement, be reorganized to give the Japanese a larger voice in its affairs, and to permit more complete control of “terrorism” in the settlement. The minister invited Ambassadors Joseph Grew and Sir Robert Craigie to the foreign office and asked them to communicate his statements to their governments. Sawada declar ed the structure of the Shanghai council was outmoded long ago, and 1 that “the Japanese community is not given due and fair expression jn the administration of the settlement.” He added that some measures must be taken immediately. (Japan now has two members of the council, Britain five, and the United States two. Before the Jap anese-Chinese war, there also were five Chinese members.) “The Japanese government cannot pass unnoticed the activities of anti- Japanese elements or those hostile to the new (Japanese-sponsored) regimes in China*,” Sawada told the ambassadors.
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