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fIBENDERSON’S POPULATION 1 13,873 twenty-sixth year Poland Rejects Committee Approves Bill For Drafting Capital During War Find Body Os Pendergast’s Business Man Kansas City, May s.— (AP)~rThe body of Edward L. Schneider, 46, missing business aide of Boss J. T. Pendorgast, was pulled from the Mis souri river today. Schneider’s motor car. containing two suicide notes, was found Monday on a Missouri river | bridge. On the preceding Friday he tes- J lificd before a Federal grand jury which the following day indicted Pendcrgast on income tax evasion ' charges. The indictment alleged Pen dcrgast obtained money from busi ness interests under Schneider’s name. Workmen found the body near the Kansas City water department's in take. about two and a half miles downstream from the Fairfax bridge, where the automobile was abandon ed. The body was identified by a signet ring bearing the initials, “E. L.S." on a finger of the left hand. Schneider, secretary-treasurer of seven Pendergast business enter prises, disappeared Monday at about the same time Pendergast appeared in Federal court and pleaded in nocent to federal charges of evad ing taxes on $443,500 income in 1935 and 1936. In the automobile were found two notes, one addressed to his wife, and the other to a friend, Phil Abry. Both indicated suicide, but United States District Attorney M. Milligan at once expressed a doubt. He ordered an immediate investigation “to ascertain; whether his disappearance is a hoax, a suicide, or that he met foul play.” Missing Yacht Is Hunted off Coast North of Norfolk Norfolk, Va., May S.—(AP)—A coast guard cutter and patrol plane resumed search today for a missing yacht reported in distress off the Virginia coast Saturday. The yacht, believed to be the Caprice, owned by John F. Welch, of Buffalo, re ported to a passing ship it had lost its rudder. Coast guard cutters, » however, were unable to locate the \ ship in a wide search off the North * Carolina and Virginia coasts, and of .| bcinls asked the aid of a plane from Fiovd Bennett field. The hunt today was concentrated in the area 160 miles off Cape Hon i lopen, Delaware. I Gasoline Tax % Nears Record Top In State Daily DlspatcTi Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, May s.—North Carolina’s collection of 'rallonage tax on gaso lme, apparently well on its way to new record high, is quite likely to reach an average of two million a month for the fiscal year which will end June 30, according to estimates based on collections for the ten months ended" April 30. If collections average for the May and June what they averaged for these first ten months, then the final figures will be well above $24,000,000 while if collections for May and June are no greater than for the rume two months of 1938 the final returns will miss the $24,000,000 ny something like half a million. A total for the year of well above $23,000,000 seems absolutely assur ed, as compared with last year’s then record total of $22,747,032, For the first ten months of 1938- 39 collections reached $20,191,048.29, as com pared with $19,379,442.52 for the corresponding period in the pre vious year. If the average monthly collections i-rc maintained, the year would f how $24,229,247 for the year; but collections for May and June are usually something short of the usual monthly average. In the final two months of 1937-38 gasoline tax ed uctions amounted to $3,367,590. If the same sum is taken in this year during the two months, then the twelve month total will reach $23,- 558,638. In view of general in crease throughout the entire year, ■1 is logical to assume that this May end June will show a somewhat higher, total. The general rate of w. (Continued on Page Four) j(| p . .. 2 iiruhrrsnit Batin tlispatrlt LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIAED PRESS. Under “Wealth Cen sus , on Basis of Tax Returns, Citizens Would Be Forced To Buy Cheap Bonds; AAA Funds Hiked Sharply Washington, May S.—(AP) The Senate Military Committee approved today a bill to permit the govern ment to draft capital in event of war. The measure, proposed by Senator Lee, Democrat, Oklahoma, would call for a “wealth census” in the event of any defens* emergency in which the drafting of manpower was involved. On the basis of this census, citizens would be required to buy 50-year war loan bonds bearing one percent interest. The amount to be bought would be fixed on a graduated scale similar to that used for the income tax. A person with net wealth of SI,OOO to SIO,OOO for instance, would be re quired to spend five percent of his wealth on the bonds. The percentage would increase to 75 percent of net wealth in excess of $100,000,000. The committee action was taken without dissent, Lee said. The Oklahoma senator declared: “This measure does not call for a confiscation of wealth, but for a forced loan.” Huge Farm Bill. Sv/eeping aside economy pleas, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a farm bill totaling more than $1,215,000,000. The full commit tee recommended Senate passage of the increased appropriations decided on yesterday by a sub-committee after weeks of hearings. Mor'tT than $966,000,000 oT~the fund would be used in efforts to improve farmers’ incomes and purchasing power. Senators from agricultural areas won increases of more than $375,- 000.000 over farm funds approved by the House when it passed the annual supply bill more than a month ago. The Senate has passed and sent to the House a bill to authorize the sec retary of war to transfer certain sec tions of the Morehead City, N. C., target range to the Treasury, to be used as a target range for the Unit ed States Coast Guard. V/hen the Treasury ceases to use the property, it reverts to the War Department. The Senate has approved and sent to the House a bill to authorize the President to designate August 19 of each year as “national aviation day.” The day will commemorate the birthday of Orville Wright, who made his first flight in an airplane 36 years ago at Kitty Hawk, N. C. Fayetteville Man Gets Prison Term Fayetteville, May S.—(AP) —Len- ward Hair, young Fayetteville man who entered a plea of guilty yester day to second degree murder in Icon nection with the fatal shooting of Poliqe Officer W. J. Genes was sen tenced this morning by Superior Court Judge J. J. Burney to serve from ten to twelve years in State’s Prison. Stock Rally Fails Early New York, May s.—(AP)—Stock market traders today were unable to find much inspiration in happenings at home or abroad, and an early feeble rally gave way before the lightest kind of selling. While here and there resistance spots were in evidence, leaders generally were fractionally in arrears at the close. Transfers were less than 350,000 shares. American Radiator H 7-8 American Telephone 158 1-2 American Tob B 82 1-4 Anaconda 23 3-4 Atlantic Coast Line 18 1-2 Atlantic Refining 19 1-4 Bendix Aviation 22 1-8 Bethlehem Steel 58 Chrysler 87 7-8 Columbia Gas & Elec 6 1-4 Commercial Solvents 10 1-4 Continental Oil Co 7 5-8 Curtiss Wright 5 7-8 DuPont 142 Elec Pow & Light 5 7-8 General Electric 34 7-3 General Motors ... 44 1-4 Liggett & Myers B 103 1-2 Montgomery Ward & Co .. 46 1-2 Reynolds Tob B 36 1-4 Southern Railway 14 J-o Standard Oil N J 46 1-4 U S Steel 47 x - 8 ONLY DAILY Anthracite Men Defer New Strike But Soft Coal Industry Is Further Tied Up by Walkout o f 95,000 More Miners New York, May 5.—(AP) — Bituminous operators and repre sentatives of miners (CIO) agreed today to appoint com mittees to confer with Dr. John Steelman, of the Federal Labor Department, in an effort to end their long deadlock over a Aew labor contract. New York, May 5.—(AP) — The joint conference of anthracite miners and operators agreed today to extend until May 13 the present contract, thus averting a threatened work stop nage in the industry, which was to have started this week-end. * The contract expired last April 30. Today’s action was the second ex tension, pending further negotiations on a new contract, which has been in session since April 18. The con ferences thus far have agreed on on ly one of the 28 demands made by the union, and 12 counter-demands proposed by the operators. The goal is a two-year contract to expire April 30, 1941. Apnroximately 100,- HOO workers are affected by terms of the contract. Meanwhile, the nation’s soft coal industry, stagnant since April 1, was paralyzed further by the walk-out of 95,000 additional miners, bringing to 453,000 the number of men who are idle. In addition, 5,000 others were ready to join the walkout by mid night tonight. The walkout, bringing a coal short age sharply to the fore, was the big gest stoppage in the industx-y since 1922, when 500,000 men were out from April 1 to September 16. The 95,000 men who quit the mines last night and early today did so in response to orders from John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers of America and the CIO, after two months of negotiations with bituminous operators collapsed yesterday. Buying Helps Cotton Higher New York, May s.—(AP) —Cotton futures I'esponded partially to lower than due cables and opened one to two points lower. Offerings came from hedges, selling by the South and Bombay, while the trade and Wall Street bought. Prices eased up a point or two, holding around pre vious closing levels around mid morning. Futures closed five to eight points higher; spot nominal; middling, 9.31. Open Close May 8.52 8.61 July 8.23 8.31 October .. . 7.73 7.82 December 7.56 7.64 January 7.58 7.63 March 7.54 7.63 Labor Peace Not Likely This Year, Babson Thinks When It Does Come, AFL Will Be Chief Win ner at ClO’s Expense, With Both Green and Lewis Eliminated; Consumers Against Coal Strike BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1939, Publishers 4 Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Mass., May s.—There is no sign of peace this year between Mr. Green and Mr. Lewis. From 1935 through last fall the C. I. O. group steadily gained ground on the A. F. of L. A year and a half ago Lewis was so strong that he threatened to merge the less picturesque A. F. of L. into his C. I. O. Cagey old Wil liam Green, however, called time out to take the edge off the Lewis drive. Meanwhile, the breaks began to go against the C. I. O. and Lewis has since been on the defensive. How ever, he is not yet licked by any means. Moreover, if a consolidation ever takes place, I do not think either Green or Lewis will be in the saddle. The law of action and reaction works in human relations just as it does in physics- and in economics. The public is badly fed up on the NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORriTCAROLINA AND VIRGIIS. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON MAY 5 1939 Hitler Demands Headache? —. % rv rWm m * irtfflflfi Mgj miK^ William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, holds his head in his hands as he sits on sidelines at Senate educa tion and labor committee’s hearing on possible revision of the Wagner Labor Act, in Washington. Methodists, Money Short, To Quit Soon Kansas City, May 5.—(AP) — Dwindling funds forced the Metho dist Uniting Conference today to move up its adjournment date to next Wednesday, May 10 No defi nite adjournment time had been set previously, but conference programs had been planned through Sunday, May 14, and the session expected to last well into the following week. Dr. O. Grant Markham, of New York, conference treasurer for the northern branch, reported “avail bble resources” indicated a $5,000 deficit even should adjournment be taken Wednesday. Despite their financial situation, the Methodists hope to complete the bulk of their business, leaders said Much of the conference work is pro gressing more rapidly than expected. “The “declaration of union” ser vice, climax of the meeting, had been set for next Friday night. Dr. Markham said he based his financial estimate on an allowance of $4 a day for each delegate. Prior to the conference, he explained, offi cials had “assumed” expenses would be $3 a day. But there are 900 dele gates for the three branches—north ern, southern and Protestant. If convention funds are insuffi cient to pay delegates $4 a day, Dr. Markham said, they would be given traveling expenses, plus a prorated sum for their living costs here. WOULD MAKE BUYERS PAY TAX ON LIQUOR Raleigh, May s.—(AP) —Chairman Cutlar Moore, of the State ABC board, said today three counties had petitioned the board to allow them to pass on to purchases an increase of one and one-half percent in sales tax on liquor which became effective May 1. New Hanover, Greene and Beau fort boards filed petitions, he said, for consideration by the State board here May 23, 24 and 25, when it meets to compile price lists for the quarter starting July 1. C. I. O. and its tactics. Lewis’s move ment, popular when it started, has made enemies of many former friends. While the public is not in love with the A. F. of L., at least the methods used by Mr. Green’s group seem less obnoxious than those used by the more youthful C. I. O. crowd. This public reaction is, therefore, hav ing its effect on Lewis’s power. What hias happened the past week brings this out clearly. Recession Slows Down C. I. O. The business recession has given the Lewis unions some more bad jolts. The widespread lay-offs in the automobile and steel centers have strained the treasuries of the new C. I. O. unions. Because the A. F. of L. groups are older, they are richer than Uncle John’s new unions. Their fin ances can stand the gaff of this slow ing-down period of business better (Continued on Page Four) Soviet Plan Impractical, London Says Idea for British- French-Russian Guar antee of Baltic States “Sound in Theory,” Howe ve r; Polish Course Backed I n London London,, May s—(AP)—The Brit ish cabinet’s foreign affairs commit tee today approved a note to Soviet Russia saying Moscow’s propopsals for a broad British-French-Russian guarantee of the Baltic and Black Sea states was “sound in theory, but not practical at the present time.” Meanwhile, the British government fully endorsed Polish Foreign Min ister Beck’s offer to negotiate with Germany on a basis of peaceful in tentions and methods, while Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons he hoped for success in British-Russian security talks. In quarters close to the govern ment, the view was expressed that Beck, in his address to the Polish Parliament, had defined Britain’s as well as Poland’s position that the Danzig problem can be settled peace fully if Germany genuinely desires to negotiate on a basis of equality. His firmness, on the other hand, in refusing “one-sided concessions,” al so was considered to reflect the views of Britain and France, both of whom have promised to heip Poland resist any threat to her independence. Beck’s speech was regarded in both government and diplomatic quarters as firm but conciliatory, and design ed to show an unprovocative attitude on Poland’s part. An informed government source described it as “calm and soundly argued.” This source said it had the full approval of the British govern ment. The foreign office, however, said it had not received an advance copy. Negro From Cabarrus Is Executed Raleigh, May 5. (AP) —James Dixon, 38-year-old Cabarrus county Negro, died by gas at State’s Prison today for the murder of his wife October 9, 1938. Dixon had never denied the crime, but asked Chaplain E. C. Cooper, to “try to correct the impression that he was drunk,” Cooper said. The Negro entered the death cham ber at 10:29 a. m., and the gas switch was thrown at 10:31 a. m. Gas was administered 14 minutes, 42 seconds, befor-e Dr. Felda Hightower, prison physician, pronounced the man dead at 10:46 a. m. One newsman witnessing his first execution fainted. Dixon’s confession that he got an axe and waited two hours for it to stop raining before he hit his wife in the head with it proved premed itation, the State contended. He set his house afire after killing his wife. The boay had not been claimed, Warden H. H. Wilson said. Atty-General Swamped For New Rulings Daily Dispatch bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, May s.—Attorney Gener al Harry McMullan is as busy as the proverbial one-armed paper hanger with the w. k. disease for which scratching is about the only relief. Things keep piling up so fast that before he can finish with one, there’s another waiting. Omitting just ordinary routine work, here are a few of the things he’s wrestling with: (1) The High Point power issue. The point is whether or not the State ought to get into this action in order to preserve its claims to control of the Yadkin river against Federal agression. Mr. McMullan must keep his eyes and ears open for every de velopment in the some three or four pending suits in connection with the (Continued on Page Two) tOcaitWi FOR NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy tonight and Sat urday; slightly warmer tonight. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Door Is Left Open By Beck’s Address For Peaceful Talks Warsaw Foreign Minister Calls German De mands “One-Sided”; Unwilling To Accept Peace at Any Price, But Only With Honor; Hit ler Wants Danzig and Right-of-Way Across Corridor Warsaw, May s.—<AP) Poland’s Colonel Joseph Beck re plied to Germany today with firm rejectio of Adolf Hitler’s de mands for Danzig and a wide German right of way through the Polish corridor, but left the door open for further “peaceful nego- Hitler Maps Next Move With Poland Calls in Danzig Lead ers To Study Course After Polish Foreign Minister’s Speech at Warsaw Berlin, May 5. (AP) —Reich- fuehrer Hitler called his foreign minister and Nazi leaders of Danzig into conference this afternoon at his Bavarian mountain retreat to weigh the address of Polish Foreign Minis ter Colonel Beck. The men summoned for the talks were Joacbim von Ribbentrop, his foreign minister, who arrived at the retreat on his way for a conference in Italy; Albert Forster, Nazi dis trict leader in Danzig, and Arthur Greiser, a Nazi leader and Danzig Senate president. A slight indication of the German attitude toward Beck’s speech came in descriptive phrases incorporated in the BND (official German news agency) account of the address. It asserted “Beck put the reason for de clining the German proposals (con cerning German-Polish issues, includ ing Danzig and the Polish corridor) in, very brusque form.” DBN followed with a factual pre sentation of the speech. After the conference with Hitler, von Ribben trop was to go to Lake Camo, for talks with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano. Von Ribbentrop did not arrive at the Bavarian retreat in time to listen to Beck’s speech at Hitler’s side, but was able to tune in on the I broadcast from Warsaw in his hotel. In Berlin, officials in the foreign office and the propaganda ministry also listened eagerly to Beck’s words; and had them translated quickly by experts. MRS. LYDIA POOLER 90, DIES IN GOLDSBORO i i Goldsboro, May S.—(AP) —Mrs. Lydia McComas Poole, 99, died here today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William H. Smith. Funeral serv ices will be held late today and burial will be in Asheville tomorrow. Sur vivor's include a son, William R. Poole, of Asheville. 20 Indicted In Eastern Liquor Cases f Wilson, May 5. —(AP) —Twenty persons indicted, by a Federal grand jury last month ’on conspirrcy to violate the revenue laws were ar rested today and" held for the Oc tober court terms under bonds of S3OO each. * ■. . Revenue Department agents, after an undercover investigation of four months alleged the defendants par ticipated in a $500,000 a year liquor distilling and distribution business, The yalso alleged about $2,000,000 in l’evenue was due the government. Those named in the indictment were: J. T. Abernathy, L. C. Boykins, Robert Boykins, Arthur Laffter, George Laffter, Clifton O’Neal, Ofie Page, Frank Pittman and Hilton Thomas, all of Wilson; John Wynn, Dempsey Williams, D. N. Latham, Harvey Dixon, Robert Griffin, Jesse Hawkins and Elmer Ingles, all of Beaufort county; George Ballance, of Kenly; Earl Inscoe and Woodrow Lamm, of Rocky Mount, and E. T. Lovic, of Wake county. ' 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY tiations.” Speaking before the Senjm (Par liament), and interrupted constantly by thunderous applause, the foreign minister declared that Pomorze (the Polish corridor) and rights in the free city of Danzig belong to Poland and Poland would not give them up. He called Germany’s claims “one sided demands,” in which the ele ment of reciprocity was lacking. Poland is willing to negotiate, he declared, only on the basis of “peace ful intentions,” and “peaceful meth ods of action,” and only as regards matters not direotly affecting Polish sovereignty over the corridor and her right in Danzig. Memorandum to Berlin A memorandum to this effect, Beck announced, was being deliver ed today to the German Foreign of fice in Berlin. The German ambassador to War saw, Dr. Von Moltke, was not pres ent to hear Beck’s address. Among diplomats applauding Beck’s address, however, was United States Ambas sador Anthony Biddle, Jr. Beck began his address at 11:15 a. m. (5:15 a. m., eastern standard time), and for 20 minutes delivered a. calm, carefully worded declaration of Polish policy, which left no doubt ar. to the attitude of his country to . wai 'd Germany’s claims. He con ; eluded with emphasis on Poland’s ; desire for peace, but brought Polish deputies to their feet in cheers with this declaration: “We in Poland do not know the conception of peace at any price. There is only one thing in the life of men and nations and states which is without price. That is honor.” Aged Killer Gets Long Prison Term Down In Columbus Whiteville, May 5.— (AP) — John B. Stanley, 67, white-hair ed widower, was sentenced in Columbus County Superior Court today by Judge W. C. Harris to serve ten to twenty years in State’s Prison for the “jealousy slaying” last December, of Gen eva Grainger, 17, with whom hej had been keeping company, Stanley entered a plea of guil ty to second degree murder at the close of State’s evidence this morning. The defense had sought,.to show that Stanley was “mentally unsound.” The killing occurred op De cember 22. :* | Italy Boosts Defense For “Qujck War” Rome, May s.—(AP) —The Ital ian government announced today an $85,000,000 increase in army and air force estimates for the year begin ning July 1, and declared that Italy wanted to make any war she fought a “quick war,” with “certainty of victory.” The war ministry budget, intro duced in the fascist chamber, pro vided for an appropriation of 3,427,- 541,000 lire (about $171,000,000), representing an increase of 814,874,- 000 lire (about $40,000,000) over the amount allotted for the present fiscal year. The air ministry proposed expendi tures of 2,190,000,000 for the air force an increase of 905,000,000 lire over , the present year. The army budget figures include the annual installment of $25,000,000 of a new 10-year military expansion plan announced April 17. “A quick war has been determin ed upon as the type of war which fascist Italy, in case of war, would desire to impose on her eventual enemies,” the war ministry’s budget report sai£. The air ministry’s re port said the Spanish civil war de monstrated the superiority of Ital ian planes, and listed 250 Curtisses and 57 Martin bombers as among , the planes brought down by Italians.
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