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Clipper Off
Upon First
Ocean Trip
Leaves Port Washing
ton for Europe With
100,000 Letters; Pas
senger Service T o
Start Shortly
New York, May 20.—(AP)—The
' ankec Clipper, carrying 100,000 let-
U. . look off from Port Washington,
1.1 .at 12:07 p. m. today, inaugurat
ing regular transport service be
r.vecn the United Stales and Europe.
Arthur Laporte, skipper of the
plane, which carried a crew of 14,
~rd two company officials, smiled
apologetically to newspaper men
jn:'t oelore tne take-off.
"Well,” he said, “this is pretty
i:.uch of a routine thing. Naturally,
Pie crew is pleased to be participat
jng in this first scheduled flight. We
expect to reach Horta, in the Azores,
m about 14 hours.”
There will be four other mail
nights before passenger service is
jailed. The 42-ton flying boat can
carry a maximum of 35 passengers.
The take-off from the bay requir
ed 55 seconds. Just before the en
gines were turned over, Harrell
Bianch, a member of the Civil Ae
ronautics Authority, presented Juan
Trippe, president of Pan-American
Airways, owner of the ship, with a
rate certificate authorizing the
flight.
Inauguration of the service came
or the 12th anniversary of the flight
o: Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh from
New York to Paris.
Three Drown
In Lake Near
Lexington
Lexington, May 20.
bodies of three Kannapolis textile
workers, Fletcher Shinn, 26; Ralph
Jameson, 24; and Horace Purvis, 20,
wire recovered today from High
lo ck lake near Linwood, where they
drowned when their small boat
capsided shortly before midnight
The three, with Bruce Haney, of
Kannapolis, were rowing across the
neck of the lake to set a trot line
when a gust of wind caused the
boat to capsize, Sheriff Raymond
Powers said. Haney swam ashore.
One of the others, unable to swim
nk quickly, the sheriff said, while
the other two swam away from the
near bank into the darkness. Shinn
and Jameson lived near Moores
viile; Purvis at Landis. Shinn
leaves a widow and child. The
others were unmarried
Agriculture
Committee Is
Capable Body
Daily DispatcTi Bureau,
lu the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, May 20. —Viewed a day
er o alter its appointment and aft
er time for some modicum of re
flection, the Co-ordinating commit
tee named simultaneously by the
Governor and the Commissioner of
Agriculture seems, in the eyes of
most Raleigh observers, to be a
group capable of doing much to
smooth out the ancient and peren
nial Department of Agriculture-
Slate College quarrel
Perhaps the most obvious and fre
q ent comment was on the fact that
o! the six members appointed only
one is primarily a politician —Robert
Grady Johnson, head of the prison
division of the State Highway Com
mission.
None of the other five can be en
tirely arid completely divorced from
the political picture, but only John
ron is a politician first, last and all
the time.
There .seems a general impression
that the Department certainly got
none the worst of it in the commit
tee selections; though there is a gen
crol disposition to credit all the ap
pointees with sincerity, impartial
ity and a willingness to give both
Cries of the controversial issue a full
hearing and just verdict
The gubernatorial appointees are
ml prominent and well known fig
ures in state government. Dudley,
ol Mayoek, is director of the North
Garolina Rural Electrification Au
thority, but he is also a farmer on
u large scale and is a leader in the
farmer’s cooperative movement. He
is reputed to have been a strong
supporter of Commissioner Kerr
Scott in 1936 but is generally re
garded as likely to be one of the
leal “balance wheels” on the corn
mil tee.
George R. Ward of Wallace, is a
Slate Senator and a lawyer by pro
fession, but he has farm interests
aud is closely identified wit ha whol
ly rural county. During the bitter
fighting of the recent session he
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opposite Formosa. Boasting one of the best harbors in the Pacific, it was recently invaded by Japanese
troops despite protests by world powers. But when the United States, Great Britain and France landed
an equal force of bluejackets and marines and posted seven warships in the harbor, Japan hastily withdrew.
(Central Press)
British Opinion Favors
Tie-Up With The Soviet
On Way to New Post
Laurence A. Steinhardt, newly
appointed United States ambassa
dor to Russia, is pictured with his
daughter, Dulcie Ann, arriving in
New York from South America,
where he was envoy to Peru. He
immediately made preparations for
departure to new post.
One Killed,
Three Hurt .
In Car Crash
Washington, May 20.—(AP)—Mrs.
Willis Ck Wollaver, 35, of Washing
ton, D. C., was killed instantly and
three persons were injured seriously
today v/hen their automobile over
turned one mile east of Blount s
Creek station.
Mrs. Wollaver’s husband, 53, who
Patrolman William Thompson said
was the driver of the machine, was
brought to a hospital here in a cri
tical condition.
J. S. Rowe, 26, and his wife, 18,
also of Washington, D. C., received
fractured skulls and were uncon
scious at the hospital. Rowe also was
believed to have suffered a broken
back. Thompson said the party was
enroute to Aurora to visit Rowe’s
father.
Mrs. Wollaver was an expectant
mother. The Wollavers lived at 2248
Shannon Place, in the capital.
Nine Negroes All
Escape In Tarboro
Jail; Re-Captured
Tarboro,. May 29. — (AP)
Nine Nesroes, using hand files,
sawed their way out of the
Edgecombe county jail here at 3
a. m. today. By 7 a. m., Jailor
G. M. Taylor and Deputy Sher
iff Tom Bardin announced the
capture of the last of the prison
erS,
Willie Sutton, Taylor said, was
the only one of the group to es
cape from the barbed wire fence
around the jail. He was caught
with bloodhounds at Ham’s is
land, in Tar river, four miles
from Tarboro.
ONLY DAILY
Popular 'Reaction To
Negotiations Is One of
Impatience for Re
sults; Dealings Shift
to Paris, Where
France Seeks an Ac
cord
London, May 20.—(AP) —Reliable
signs today indicated unusual un
animity of British opinion favoring
a tie-up with Soviet Russia as nego
tiations designed to bring Moscow
into the French-British front shifted
to Paris.
Significantly, only one newspaper,
the Daily Press, was cool to quickest
possible action, and it conceded that
“the public want an alliance.”
“Why don’t they get on with it?”
appeared to be the popular reaction
to the negotiations, which now are
more than two months old. In buses,
in shops and on street corners, con
versations showed that Londoners
were anxious for an agreement with
red Russia, whose communism no
longer seemed to cause misgivings.”
“The government would be believ
ed to be interpreting the general de
sire of the country if they rounded
off their other signal successes in
forming a peace front by coming to
an agreement with Russia with as
little further delay as possible,” said
the Daily Telegraph.
Agriculture Body
Appointments Are
Made by Governor
Raleigh, May 20.—(AP)—Gover
nor Hoey today appointed,Claude T.
Hall, of Woodf?dale, to the State
Board of Agriculture, and re-ap
pointed J. H. Poole, of West End,
and D. Reeves Noland, of Clyde.
Their terms expire May 22, 1945.
Kali suceeds T. G. Currin, of Ox
ford .
The governor also announced the
appointment of Dr. rrtn Royall of
Morehead City, to the board of direc
tors of the State Hospital for the
Negro Insane at Goldsboro to com
plete the unexpired term of Dr.
John G. Robinson, of Wallace, who
resigned
New Inquiry
In Goldsboro
Floggings
Raleigh, May 20.—(AP)—Gover
nor Hoey said today he would order
a further investigation of the flog
ging of two Wayne county Negroes
February 9.
“I think the case needs some furth
er study along some lines that haven’t
been developed,” the governor said.
A preliminary report in the case
had been submitted to Governor
Hoey by Frederick C. Handy, direc
tor of the State Bureau of Investiga
tion and Identification, whose organ
ization has been investigating the
floggings.
The two Negroes, Floyd Edwards
and Kirby Baldwin, were taken
from the Goldsboro city jail and flog
ged by a goup they described as
“several men.” The two were await
ing trial on charges of striking
white men, one of them J. H. Hill,
, Goldsboro mayor.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINDV
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 20,1939
Dr. Charles Mayo
111 of Pneumonia
Chicago, May 20.— (AP) —The
condition of Dr, Charles H. Mayo,
famous Rochester surgeon and
physician, was reported as favor
able today by attendants at Mercy
hospital, where he is being treat
ed for pneumonia. Attendants said
Dr. Mayo, who is 73, spent a com
fortable night, although he is not
out of danger.
Army Orders
Best Bombers
In The World
_______,
Washington, May 20. (AP)
The Army placed a $15,000,000 ord
er today for new mfdel attack
bombers, described as the world’s
best. The oi'der went to the Doug
las Aircraft Company at Santa Mon
ica, Cal. The number was not dis
closed, but more than 150 were
understood to be involved.
Major General Henry H. Arnold,
air corps chief, said this plane had
a “better performance than any air
plane in production or in service
anywhere in the world toriay.”
The craft, an all-metal plane, was
described as an improvement of the
attack planes ordered by the French
government from the Douglas com
pany last January. The speed of
the ships was kept confidential, but
was reported to exceed 350 miles an
hour.
Argentine’s
Beef Cheaper,
Not Better
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, May 20.—1 t was to
have been expected that President
Roosevelt’s approval of a big order
of Argentine canned beef for the
United States navy would evoke an
immediate howl from our own live
stock growers. But what seems to
have hurt even worse than the ac
tual approval of the Argentine or
der was the supplementary presi
dential remark to the effect that the
southern republic’s meat is “cheaper
and infinitely better” than ours.
Well, it is cheaper. That is to say,
the Argentinos considerably under
sold our domestic packers on this
particular order. We have a stiff
tariff on the South American prod
uct, but, tariff and all, they offered
to undersell us. Our cattlemen re
join that the Argentine government
subsidizes its meat exports. Possibly
it does. Yet the fact remains that our
navy saves money by taking that
canned stuff. Being personalty a free
trader, like State Secretary Hull, who
is said to have inspired the Argen
tine purchase, in connection with his
reciprocal commercial policy, I
haven’t much sympathy with the pro
tective argument against buying from
our Latin American neighbors.
But is Argentine canned meat bet
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy tonight and
Sunday, probably occasional
light rain in extreme west por
tion.
WEEKLY WEATHER.
South Atlantic States: Rain is
indicated at beginning and near
end of week, with fair middle of
period; temperatures near nor
mal.
SENA TE GROUP IS BENT
ON ANOTHER PROGRAM
OF RECKLESS SPENDING
King George
Celebrates
On Birthday
Traditional Trooping
of Colors Carried Out
by Two Regiments of
Canadian Guards;
Queen Looks on from
Parliament Building
Ottawa, Canada, May 20.—(AP) —
Two regiments of Canadian guards
performed the .time-honored cere
mony of trooping the‘colors today as
Canada joined King George VI in
celebrating his 44th birthday. The
king was born December 14, 1895,
but adopted May 20 for the celebra
tion of his birth
A bright sun brought out color
ful crowds that thronged the Do
minion’s capital for the most bril
liant pageantry the king and his
Scottish queen will see on their
month’s tour of Canada and the
United States.
The king was driven in an auto
mobile from the governor general’s
residence to Parliament Hill with
an escort of mounted Royal Cana
dian dragoons. He was alone. Queen
Elizabeth preceded him to the vast
square in an automobile with Lady
Tweedsmuir, wife of the governor
general, and watched from a window
of his chamber in the Parliament
building
Trooping the colors, a ceremony
whose origins lie deeply in English
tntiquity, was carried out by the
governor general’s footguards of
Ottawa and the Canadian Grenadier
Guards of Montreal
There were at least 60,000 per
sons in the milling crowds, the
largest ever to assemble on the hill.
Queen Elizabeth, whose friends
have said she made the king pro
pose three times before she mar
ried him, does the talking at to
day’s ceremonies of the royal tour.
Her Majesty’s pq,rt in the story book
pageantry, for Ottawa at least, al
though rcd-coated dragoons, shin
ing helmets and. state coaches are
quite the thing in London, was lay
ing of the cornerstone for the new
Supreme Court building
Little Island
Not Sinking
Manila, P. 1., May 20.—(AP) —
Governor Caedo, of. Batangas, pro
vince, tonight denied renorts tinv
Verde island, some 100 miles south
of Manila, was sinking into the sea.
The governor said he visited the is
land today, found its inhabitants
panic-stricken and abandoning their
homes. The,governor found no evi
dence the island was sinking and
urged the residents not to leave.
Earthquakes have terrorized the is
land’s 4,000 inhabitants for two
weeks, but the governor reported
there were no new tremors today.
The only evidence of past earth
quakes was several landslides. Repre
sentatives of the Red Cross were en
route to the island. The governor
sent a constabularly patrol.
Several hundred of Verde’s inhabi
tants already have crossed the chan
nel to the Batangas province coast
They reported more of the island’s
population was preparing to evacuate
Nazi Plot On Benes, Now
In United States, Found
Paris, May 20.—(AP) The
French cabinet approved today nine
new decree laws tightening nation
al defense preparations as French
diplomatic efforts were bent to
ward bringing Britain and Soviet
Russia nearer a triple entrance.
Foreign Minister Bonnet gave
particular emphasis to France’s posi
tion in. working for the success of the
British-Soviet negotiations during a
review of the international situation
by the ministers. The meeting pre
pared for conversations between
Bonnet and Premier Daladier will
have later in the day with Viscount
Halifax, British foreign secretary,
who is to stop in Paris on his way to
a League of Nations Council ses
sion in Geneva,
The new decree laws authorize the
government to requisition any build
ing in France for military use, set
aside colonial raw material for
manufacture of motor oils and gaso
line for national defense agencies,
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Fritz Kuhn
New York District Attorney;
Thomas E. Dewey was reported
ready to undertake criminal prose
cution of'Fritz Kuhn, leader of the
German-American Bund, and his
associates on charges of relief tax
law violations, at the request of
Mayol Fiorello H. LaGuardia.
Kuhn’s lawyer said the Bund
fuehrer was ready to surrender.
(Central Press)
80 Highway
Deaths' For
Past Month
Number Rises Sharp
ly Above 69 in April,
1938; Fewer Persons
Are Injured in
Wrecks
Raleigh, May 20.—(AP)—High
way accidents killed 80 persons in
this State in April the highest month
ly total so far this year, the high
way safety division said today. In
April, 1938, 69 persons died from ac
cidents.
Ronald Hocutt, director of the di
vision, said 546 persons suffered in
juries last month, 65 less than in
April, 1938.
Deaths from such accidents in 1939
totaled 257, compared with 248 for
the first four months of last year.
Motor vehicle accidents last month
totaled 575, or 103 less than April of
last year, while highway accidents
were 273, slightly less than last year,
and city and town street accidents
were 302, compared with 390 a year
ago.
38 MEN ARRESTED IN
HARLAN COAL AREAS
Harlan, Ky„ May 20.—(AP)—Ar
rest of 38 men a short time after a
brisk exchange of gunshots between
State troopers and a mountainside
ambuscade was reported today by
national guardsmen patroling Har
lan county’s troubled soft coal area.
and regulate working conditions on
the nationalized French railways.
Meanwhile, diplomatic sources here
said that S. Osuky, former Czecho
slovakia minister to France, had for
warded to ex-President Benes in
formation of a Nazi-fomented plot
to assassinate Benes during his.cur
rent residence in the United States.
Benes, who resigned as Czechoslo
vak president after the September
partitioning of that now vanished
republic at Munich, is lecturing in
the United States
Osuky was said to have turned
over all his information to French
and American police authorities,
who are making investigations. His
information * was described as com
ing from secret agents in Prague,
and was said to include charges that
the plot was fomented by the Nazi
secreet police in the Czech capital
No independent confirmation of
the reported plot was obtainable
from other sources.
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Pepper Will
Father Bill
If FDR Fails
Burke, of Nebraska,
Says Government
Spending as Aid To
Recovery Has Failed;
Lindsay Warren
Won’t Attend Party
for Sovereigns
Washington, May 20.—(AP)—Sen
ator Pepper, Democrat, Florida,
served notice today that he and other
administration supporters would take
the initiative in starting a new lend
ing-spending program through Con
gress, if President Roosevelt did not
come forward soon with concerete
proposals of his own.
“If the President doesn’t start it,
we will,” said the senator, who has
been active in efforts to work out a
new program for submission to Mr.
Roosevelt. Pepper said he thought a
plan calling for PWA expenditures
in the field of self-liquidating pro
jects, expanded old age pensions, and
federal grants for education, public
health and handicapped children
would win approval of the country.
Senator Burke, Democrat, Nebras
ka, an economy advocate, was quick
to disagree. “Government spending
as an aid to recovery has failed,” he
declared.
. Other developments:
Not even an invitation to a British
Embassy garden party for the king
and queen of England can make Re
presentative Lindsay Warren, of
North Carolina, break a longstand
ing rule of avoiding Washington so
cial activities.
Warren, as chairman of the House
Accounts Committee, received the in
vitation about ten days ago, but said
he did not intend to go. Mrs. War
ren, however, will be among the
guests. The party will be June 8 dur
ing the Washington visit of the king
and queen.
Deficit. Is Smaller.
Treasury officials estimated the
federal deficit this year would fall
$500,000,000 short of the $4,000,000,-
000 once expected. Expenditures
have been somewhat smaller and in
come slightly larger than they ex
pected when they mapped out the
$9,500,000,000 spending pro gram
about a year ago.
Dr. Clarence Poe, Raleigh, N. C.,
farm editor, endorsed the bill of Sen
ator Bailey, Democrat, North Caro
lina, to authorize an annual $5,000,-
000 appropriation for the develop
ment of farm marketing.
A compromise plan of revising
corporate taxes, which advocates said
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Duce Warns
All Hands
To Lay Off
Says He and Hitler
Have World’s Might
iest Armies, That
Can’t Be Stopped
Cuneo, Italy, May 20.—(AP) —
Premier Mussolini, addressing a
cheering mass meeting close to the
French frontier, tonight declared
the Italian-German military alliance
would give Europe a bloc of 150,-
000,000 men, “against which it will
be impossible to do anything.”
“This bloc, formidah*2 in men and
arms, wants peace,” he declared, but
he warned the great democracies
against any attempt to stop our ir
resistible march.”
The mention of “the great demo
cracies” brought prolonged booing
from the crowd. There were cries
of “Tun’sk , Nice, Savoy,” (all be
long now to France), and “we will
march.”
II Duce spoke in Cuneo’s main
square after a week’s tour of pied
mont, the northwestern part of Italy
which has borders with France and
Switzerland. Yells of acclaimation
went up as II Duce appeared in the
square and marched to the rostrum.
Speaking of his observations on
his tour during the week, Mussolini
declared, “Piedmont is strong,” and
“Piedmont is 100 percent fascist.”
“I say this to refute certain ridi
culous insinuations.”