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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH year BRITAIN URGING GERMAN-POLISH PEACE Royal Farewell for British Rulers ?>■ .. ?y aro t vf^:'- i 7V. \ 'I! - JPfgiJ iJaßr |; ■Wj^m-j ® &§ jjfcfcL jH *t* IBi||||^^^,:. : ; 1 MM >. <*? •' sex ■ 1 11 ill , |feiiZ?\ jMSEm JiiP MV 1- x x |9H§h I|| v BUM HUHIff jjlp ' \ w • W i « mF Jw IIPhII B iti ij| ~ % «IH *■..'* m ■ P I '; 1 | I' || jgj gs i Central Press Cablephoto On eve of their departure for Canada and the United States, the King and Queen of England were dined by Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, in London, with an eight-course dinner of American dishes. Left to right: Mrs. Kennedy, George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Ambassador Kennedy. This photo was transmitted to New York via Western Union cables. Funds Approved for Air Bases For U. S. Islands In Pacific Record Fund | May Be Hit On Farm Aid Whether New. Spend ing Will Reach New Top Depends on $300,- 000,000 for Farm Benefits, Considered Likely Washington, May B.—(AP) —A Senate vote this week on an addi tional $300,000,000 for farm bene i.ts probably will determine wheth er total government appropriations for the year starting next July 1 will surpass this year’s expenditures The benefit funds are included in a record-breaking $1,216,000,000 bill for Agriculture Department appro priations, called up for Senate de bate today. At the same time, a §770,000,000 naval supply bill, larg est in peace-time history, came be fore the House. A survey shows that regular ap propriations bills, either enacted or well on their way through Con gress, carry $572,899,788 more than the same measure did this year Two rpore regular supply bills and next year’s relief program are still in the House Appropriations Committee. President Roosevelt has requested $1,763,000,000. for va-. rious relief agencies, against an ag gregate of $2,163,000,000 which Con gress voted for relief in the current year This potential saving in relief funds, however, would be more than oil.set if the dxtra farm benefits are | authorized on top of the increases already voted in other department al funds. The House approved $500,000,000 (Continued on Page Two) Cotton Price Badly Mixed New York, May B.—(AP)—Cot tun futures opened four points higher to two lower on Bombay and spot house buying in distant posi trons and selling by New Orleans brokers. At the end of the first hour, prices were four points up to one lower. Around noon, prices were two points higher to three lower. Futures closed seven higher to eight lower. Spot, nominal; middling 9.40. Open * Close May . 8.71 8.74 July 8.35 840 October 7.88 7.81 December 7.70 7.66 January 7.72 7.66 Marcb 7.71 7.66 Hrniiersmt lathi DtsfiSfrh LF iA?. I ? D WIRE SERVTPF ru* THE ASSOCIATED PRESsP^ Expect New Turn In Coal Parleys New York, May B.—(AP) —A possibility of imminent develop ments in the deadlocked contract negotiations between bituminous coal miners and operators was in dicated today by Dr. John Steel man, chief conciliator for the United States Labor Department. After the morning session, at which it was presumed Dr. Steel man presented a compromise pro posal, the conferees recessed until afternoon. Appeal For Peace Voiced By Ex-King Verdun, May B.— (AP)—The Duke of Windsor this afternoon complet ed the text of his “appeal to reason” in international affairs to be broad cast tonight to the United States. He seemed determined to make his ap peal, despite some advanced criti cism , After numerous telephone calls between the duke’s suite and Lon don, a member of his party said the former ruler had a “very good rea son” to proceed with his speech. The duke was informed that some British newspapers had criticized his plan to speak as “onopportune.” (Both the British Broadcasting Corporation and the • Canadian. Broadcasting Corporation announc ed that they would not carry the address.) The duke abandoned a tour ot World War battlefields to write the speech. The broadcast, the former King Edward VIII’s first since the historic abdication speech of Decem ber 11, 1936, will be made while his brother, King George VI, is on the high seas making a good will trip lo North America LaGuardia Seeks More Cash to WPA Washington, May 'B.—(AP) Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia ot New York advised Congress today that 750,000 persons were out of work in his city, and urged that the WPA be expanded until the social security program and the wage-hour law become fully effective Testifying before the House com mittee investigating the Works Progress Administration, LaGuardia said unemployment in New York City -had increased since January, and that it was only slightly less (Continued on page two) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGIN^. New Warning Given Against Giving Presi dent Power of Declar ing War, With Danger of Nation Immediate ly Becoming an Auto cracy. Washington, May B.—(AP) The House tentatively restored to the $770,000,000 naval bill today a $2,- 941,000 appropriation for air bases on Miday, Palmyra and Johnston islands in the Pacific Ocean. The approp riation committee had refused to ap prove a $3,959,000 fund for the pro jects on these islands as well as at Wake island. But, without a word of debate, the House approved restoration of the three items, at the request of Chair man Smigham, Democrat, Nevada, of the naval appropriations tee. \ Meanwhile, Senator Johnson, Re publican, California, presented to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a declaration by John Baskett Moorei former State Department oiticial, that to confer “ the power of peace or war” on the President “would at once make us an autocracy.” The statement was in a letter Moore wrote Johnson shortly after former Secretary of State Stimson advised the committee that should a war come, this country should take sides by aiding Great Britain and France. Moore, one-time American member of the World Court, and S-’+ote Department counsellor of 1913- 1914, asserted that “the agitation for me abandonment of our neutrality (Continued on Page Two) Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter HoteL By HENRY AVERILL . Raleigh, May B.—North Carolina’s 1940 gubernatorial campaign was all but stagnant last week, with the only outward interest shown in specula tion over Governor Clyde R. Hoey’s indirect appeal to all candidates not to made formal announcement until late this year. On the lieutenant governor front there was increasing evidence that State Senator Erskine Smith, of Al bemarle, is giving very serious con sideration to the matter of becom ing a candidate. Elsewhere there was little or nothing to point to any change in a situation which has de veloped to the point where Gordon Gray, Winston - Salem publisher, State senator and president of v the Young Democrats (not to say mil lionaire scion of a tobacco family); HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 8, 1939 Hoey’s Plea For Short Campaign Is High Spot Speculation on Effect of Governor’s Request Takes Many Angles; His Power in State Poli tics Is Marvel of Administration Prospect Os Crops Good, Prices Less 85 Percent of Farm ers Cooperating In Control Programs; Cotton Surpluses Con tinue Biggest Prob lem Washington, May B—(AP)—Amer ican agriculture moved well into the 1939 planting season this week with prospects generally favorable from a production viev/point, but less favor able from a standpoint of prices and income. Agriculture Department surveys indicate that at least 85 percent of the farmers will restrict planting op erations in accordance with Federal control programs, which are intended to reduce surpluses of some crops and to prevent accumulation of greater supplies in others. This cooperation by the farmers led many growers to hope for some improvement in the general farm price level, now at its lowest point since July, 1934. Department economists said in creased uncertainties in foreign mar kets had served to cloud the price outlook, but that they expect some improvement in domestic purchasing power this summer and la 11, a de velopment which should reflect fa vorably on farm prices. As far as cash income is concern ed, American farmers have not far ed quite so well this year as last year. The Agriculture Department estimates their income at five per (Continued on Page Two) Dull Day On Stock Market New York, May B. (AP) —You could take today’s market or leave it alone, and the exceptionally small volume combined with a declining shift apparently indicated that many traders followed the latter course. Losses running to two or more points at the worst, however, were substan tially reduced in most cases at the close. There also were a number of modest plus signs in evidence. Transfers for the five hours ap proximated 350,000 shares, one of the lowest totals since last June. American Raditor 11 1-2 American Telephone 158 7-8 American Tob B 83 Anaconda 24 1-4 Atlantic Coast Line 18 7-8 Atlantic Refining 19 1-2 Bendix Aviation 22 Bethlehem Steel 53 3-4 Chrysler 67 7-8 Columbia Gas & Elec 6 1-4 Commercial Solvents 10 1-4 Continental Oil Co 7 1-2 Curtiss Wright 5 7-8 DuPont 141 3-4 Electric Pow & Light v 7 5-8 General Electric 34 1-4 General Motors 44 3-8 Liggett & Myers B 104 Montgomery Ward & Co ... 47 1-2 j Reynolds Tob B 37 [ Southern Railway 14 3-8 Standard Oil N J 46 3-8 lU S Steel 46 7-8 Pat Taylor, Anson’s State senator, and Reggie Harris, one-time speaker of the House of Representatives; are looked upon as possibilities. For the minor State offices which will be at stake next year, there wasn’t even a ripple of interest, on the surface at least. Returning to the gubernatorial sit uation, it was naturally impossible to obtain any direct quotas with re ference to the Hoey idea that next year’s race should be a short, snappy one, rather than a long drawn out affair such as resulted in the Hoey nomination in 1936. v On the other hand, there was no difficulty at all in obtaining enough “off the record” comment to justify certain definite conclusions about the matter. From these off the record inter continued on Page Two) "You Can’t Start a Civil War!” Director John R. Steelman (second from right), United States conciliator, flatly/tells John L. Lewis (left), CIO chieftain, and Charles O’Neil, • spokesman for the coal operators, that “you can’t start a civil war!” in persuading them to resume negotiations in New York on the coai strike. The deadlocked factions were packing up to go home when Steelman demanded they continue the negotiations. Japan Desirous Os Military Alliance With Germany, Italy Tokyo, May B. (AP) —Domei, Japanese News Agency,, said today that Lieutenant General Seishiro minister of war, and Gen eral Kuniaki Koiso, overseas minister had told, the Japanese press they fa vored conclusion of a military agree ment with Germany and Italy. The agency guardedly quoted Gen eral Itagaki as saying that, if Ger many desired, “it is not impossible” for Japan to conclude an agreement similar to the Italian-German ac cord. Germany and Italy decided yes Two Held In Slaying Os Burgaw Chief Wilmington, May 8. —(AP) —Har- ry E. Fales, superintendent of the city-county identification bureau here, said today Arthur Walker, 57, Negro, of Burgaw, had named Thomas Bowden, 40-year-old white man of Burgaw, as the slayer of Sam Brothers, 51, night policeman at Bur gaw, Saturday morning at 2 o’clock. Walker, Fales said, admitted being a passenger in the car from which the fatal blast was fired, and said that Bowden, driver of the car, was the man who fired the fatal shotgun blast into the face of the policeman after calling him from the post of fice to the curb, where the car stood. Both Walker and Bowden are being held in New Hanover county jail pending the outcome of a coroner’s inquest to be held sometime this week. Clifton Moore, Burgaw attorney, who has been retained as private pro secutor, said tracks from Bowden’s car had been trailed from the scene of the slaying to his home, and that “there is some other evidence in the (Continued on Page Two) Flood Control In Neuse River Will Be Up Next Week Washington, May B.—(AP) —The army engineers board will consider a division report on a Neuse river flood control and navigation project in North Carolina at a hearing May 15, Representative Barden, Demo crat, North Carolina, said today The improvements would extend from the Johnston county line to New Bern. Barden said if the board approved the project, he would seek its inclusion in the riv ers and harbors bill at this session of Congress (jJsucdhsih FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, occasional rain tonight and Tuesday. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. terday to convert their axis rela tionship into a formal military and political alliance. General Koiso was quoted as say ing he believed negotiations were un der way for such a pact, but “wheth er such negotiations materialize de pends on whether Italy and Germany fully understand Japan’s position in east Asia as well as theirs in Eu rope.” Germany, Italy and Japan were understood still to be trying to find a formula on which to base a pact. Pull Needed To Get Jobs Non-Political By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, May B.—Washington is developing a peculiar employment situation. Jobs which never before were classed as the least bit political ip character are beginning to be re garded as within that classification. For example, stenographers, in en tirely unofficial employment, are finding congressional recommenda tions highly essential to find work. Switchboard operators’ positions are becoming political. Many another sort of work in the capital is best ob tainable on the strength of political pull. Possibly the same thing is true, to an extent, elsewhere. In Washing ton the development’s acute. As we know, senators and repre sentatives are swamped with appli cations, from deserving constituents, for government berths. There never are enough of them to go around. Just at present the dearth is worst than ever. Not only have all avail able places been filled in the last few years; governmental reorganiza tion promises a cutting down. Political patronage is on the wane, if not obliterated. They Get the Jobs. The harassed congressmen, be sieg ed, inclines to say, “I can’t get you a federal appointment to save my life. But suppose I give you my per sonal recommendation to some place I’m personally acquainted with, that needs help?” Generally this suits the applicant. A congressman’s indorsement is a pretty good thing. The congressman himself is substantial. Moreover, while in Washington, he’s a middling good customer of some nobby hotel or apartment house and of some re tail stores of consequence. Likewise the chances are that he has a pull with concerns in his home town. It’s particularly in Washington, however, that the system causes ill feeling. Washingtonians are the ones who complain. They have no congressman to appeal to. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that any of ’em have been fired to make room for outsiders, but (Continued on Page Two) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Settlement Is Desired By London Britain Ready To Lend Good Offices in Arbitration of Danzig Problem; Seeking Fullest Cooperation of Russia for Democra cies London, May B.—(AP) —The Brit ish government dropped a guarded hint today to her new ally, Poland, that she would “welcome amicable settlement”, possibly through arbitra tion, of Poland’s quarrel with Ger many over the free city of Danig. Both Richard Butler, under secre tary for foreign affairs and Prime Minister Chamberlain intimated to the House of Commons that Britain would be ready to lend her good of fices in establishing some form of in ternational machinery to arbitrate the Danzig question should Poland and Germany ask her to do so. Butler said the question of the fu ture of Dunzig was “primarily a mat ter for negotiation between parties to the Danzig settlement.” The prin cipal allied and associated powers undertook by the World War treaty of Versailles to establish Danzig as a free city under protection of the Lea gue of Nations. Aid of Russia Sought. In the Commissions session, Cham berlain also said the government was attempting to obtain fullest coopera tion with Soviet Russia in its present policy. Negotiations are under way to bring Russia into the British-French line-up. The House was in an uproar dur ing discussions of the Soviet negotia tions, when Laborite Leader Clement R. Attlee asked: “Does.the jprime minister not real ize that public opinion is disturbed by the contrast between the rapidity of acceptance of onerous obligations by this country and the dilatory methods in seeking for lateral se curity?” The opposition cheered Attlee, while government supporters shout ed for Chamberlain, when he re plied: “I do not agree there have been any dilatory methods.” “The British government,” Butler said, “stands for a settlement of in ternational questions by friendly negotiations, arbitration or other peaceful means.” Berlin Sees Italy Pact As Security Military - Political Al liance Bulwark of Eu ropean Peace, Is View Taken There; May Influence Russia Also Berlin, May B.—(AP) —Nazi offi cials haled a new German-Italian military pact as a “mighty bulwark of steel guarding European peace” today, and took the occasion parti cularly to direct Poland’s attention to its implications. Whether or not the new ideological re-shuffling is bringing Germay closer to Soviet Russia, the reaction to the agreement indicated plainly it was aimed not at the old Nazi buga boo of communism, but at what Nazis call the “encirclement powers”, espe cially Great Britain and France. The pact, the result of talks by the Italian and German foreign minis ters, was described by the news serv ice Deutsche Dienst as a “crushing blow against the aggressive encircle ment policy which England and France, with the cooperation of cer tain other states (Poland, Roumania and Gre; <•) have long pursued a gainst the owers of the axis—Ger many and Italy.” This service said that the speech last Friday of the Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Joseph Beck, offer ed Germany and Italy no occasion for revising their conceptpion of the character of that policy which Lon don and Paris seek to establish as something ominously defensive.” Meanwhile, in Milan, Italy, hope for German-Polish reconciliation grew in Italian political circles as Fascists pondered the implications of their new military and political al liance with Germany. Informed fascists who expressed (Continued on page two)
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