HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
ITILO-GERMAN MILITARY TREATY IS SIGNED
Roosevelt Talk Outline Business Policy
Oklahoma Errored
In Denying Negro To
Register Says Court
Nabbed by G-Men
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Rose Carina, 35, notorious as “Rose
of death” member of the murder
for-insurance gang, is pictured in
G-men’s car as she was returned to
Philadelphia from New York. She
had been a fugitive for more than a
month. Mrs. Carina is known to
have had at least five husbands.
Pendergast
Enters Plea
01 His Guilt
Kansas City Political
Boss Admits All
Charges in Tax Frauds
and Asks M,ercy of
Court
Kansas City, May 22. —(AP) —Tom
Pendergast, political boss plead guilty
today to evading taxes on $443,550
and was sentenced to one year and
three months in prison.
federal .Judge Merrill Otis sen
tenc'd the political leader to one year
end three months on the first count
of an indictment charging that he
dodged• taxes in 1935 and 1936.
On the second count the judge sen
tencod Pendergast to probation for
three years and fined him SIO,OOO.
At the plea of Pendergast attor
ney, the judge allowed the political I
bo s a wee.. L • g,.L his business af
fair.-. in order,before beginning the
sentence.
Kansas City, May 22.—(AP)—Tom
Pendergast, boss of the city’s toppled
Democratic machine, pleaded guilty
today to violating the federal income
tax laws.
Pendergast, one of the few remain
ing old-line political bosses in the
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Exchange Os
Gifts Between
Queen, Quints
Toronto, May 22.—(AP)—Queen
f 3/.a belli exchanged gifts today with
tin Dionne quintuplets in a private
reception before the royal couple.
Queen Elizabeth gave the girls five
little white coats she had brought to
them f rom London.
In return she received photo- 1
graphs of each of the little girls.
The audience with King George
and his queen, arranged in a private
ceremony to spare the quints from
stage fright, was held in a room out
de the legislative chamber before
the king and queen went before the
provincial parliament.
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1031 Oklahoma Sta
tute Unconstitutional,
Court Holds, Requir
ing Registration as
Condition to Voting
Washington, May 22.—(AP) —The
Supreme Court held today that Okla
homa unconstitutionally denied a
Negro the right to register for the
November, 1934 elections because of
his race and color.
Justice Frankrurter delivered the
decision on a suit brought by I. W.
Lane against election officials.
Justice Mcßeynolds and Butler
dissented. Justice Douglas did not
participate.
Frankfurter said a 1931 Oklahoma
statute requiring registration as a
condition to voting was unconstitu
tional.
The ruling reversed a decision be
tween the tenth Federal Supreme
Court against the Negro.
Lane contended that a precinct
registrar told him he was “instructed
by the highcr-ups not to register any
colored people.”
The court decided 5 to 4 to rule
that the 1933 “gold clause” law void
ed contracts for optional payment of
already issued gold bonds in the for
eign currency.
Justice Black delivered two op
inions that held such payment may
be made in present day devalued
United States currency at tc face
value of the bonds. Chief Justice
Hughes and Justices Mcßeynolds,
Butler and Stone dissented.
Dies Committee
Hears Talk Os
Redßevolution
Washington, May 22.—(AP)
Dudley P. Gilbert, New York socia
list, told the Dies committee on un-
American activities today that he
had been trying for months to or
ganize a campaign to “help the Ame
rican people be ready” for a “red
revolution.”
/Examined closely about letters he
wrote to J. E. Campbell of Owens
boro, Ky., with whom he was asso
ciated, Gilbert told the committee
that “I figured that very shortly
we would be faced with a civil war
from the left.”
“I read that if they took over the
country—what was left of it—the
country would have to rise up un
der the Franco method,” Gilbert
testified
Representative Healey, Democrat.
Mass., inquired whether Gilbert
meant military dictatorship
“If something like that would
take place we would have to do
something like Franco,” the witness
replied. “We did not advocate a mil
itary movement but only that the
people would have to fight back.”
Gilbert said he was afraid that
the revolution would be accomplish
ed either directly or through a
scheme of conducting raids on gov
ernment bonds and cutting off the
nation’s supplies of food and water
and “bringting the country to its
knees.”
Power Board
Times Tirade
About Rates
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
* Raleigh, May 22.—Latest figures
of the Federal Power Commission,
which has made a thorough analysis
of power rates in all communities,
show that of all the electricity users
in North Carolina cities of more than
30,000, Wilmingtonians pay the most,
closely pressed by High Point’s resi
dents.
The vagaries of varying rates in
varying consumption brackets cause
Durhamites who use more than 500
kilowatt hours per month to pay
more than is charged either in Wil
mington or High Point. Residents of
the Bull City are also soaked hard
est when they use as little as 15
kilowatt hours, but in the middle
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ONLY DAILY
Tycoon Testifies
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
This informal picture of Alfred P.
Sloan, Jr., was taken as the Detroit
motor magnate testified in Wash
ington before the Senate Monopoly
Committee. The chairman of Gen
eral Motors expressed his views on
putting idle money to work de
clared, “We can never have confi
dence in the economy if the budget
is unbalanced.”
Six Killed
On Highways
In Week-End
Serious Injuries to At
Least Five Others In
State; Adults and
Children Are Included
Charlotte, May 22.—(AP)—High
way accidents killed at least six per
sons in North Carolina over the
week-end, and causqd serious in
juries to at least five others.
Persons identified as Willis Wol
laver, 53, his wife and Mrs. J. S.
Rowe, 18, all of Washington, D. C.,
were fatally injured near Washing
ton, N. C., when their automobile
overturned. Mrs. Rowe’s husband
suffered a fractured skull, but hos
pital attendants said he had a good
chance to recover.
Carroll Leonard Henderson, 38-
year-old Gastonia garage owner, was
killed when his automobile hit a tele
phone pole on the outskirts of Rock
ingham.
At Charlotte, Lowell Davis, 22, was
killed and Joe Grier, Jr., was serious
ly injured when their motorcycle
and an automobile collided.
Four-year-old Virginia Drake Ben
son was killed and two of her play
mates seriously injured when an
automobile driven by a Negro book
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Shirt Company
Indicted For
Holding Pay
Raleigh, May 22. (AP) —The
Federal grand jury returned here to
day what was said by government
lawyers to be the first indictment in
the United States charging that a
company wrongly withheld the wages
of its employees by compelling them
to buy stock in an “employer cor
poration”.
Named as defendants were the
Morehead City Garmet Co., Inc., and
its president and manager, J. W.
Jackson, both of Morehead City.
Douglas Magg, Duke university
professor now acting as special assis
tant to the United States attorney
general in charge of criminal prose
cutions under the wage and hour law,
said the indictment was also the first
in the nation to charge a delivery
of goods within the State to a per
son who the defendants knew in
tended to ship the goods in interstate
commerce.
“Earlier indictments”, Maggs ex
plained, “have charged that the de
fendants themselves shipped in in
terstate commerce goods manufac
tured in violation of the law. The
present indictment contends counts
charging that the Defendants deliver
ed goods in North Carolina to the
Beaver Shirt Manufacturing Co., a
New York corporation with knowl
edge that the company intended to
ship the goods out of the State.”
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HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 22, 1939
FDR Speech
Tonight Is
To Retailers
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President To Give
“Little Business Men”
His Ideas for Better
Relations Between
Business and Govern
ment ; Other Leaders
Speak
Washington, May 22. (AP)
President Roosevelt is expected to
give an organization of “little busi
ness men” tonight his ideas for bet
ter relations between business and
government.
The circumstances surrounding
his speech before the American Re
tail Federation and the make-up of
the association itself set business
men and public officials to predict
ing that the message would be an
important one on economy policy.
It will be broadcast nationally at
9:30 p. m., eastern standard time
President Roosevelt, informed
sources said today, will discuss tax
revision in tonight’s speech before
the American Retail Federation.
Whether Mr. Roosevelt would give
any concrete proposals which might
be used as a basis for tax law
changes or merely reaffirm his stand
that any alteration must result in
no loss of revenue was not disclosed.
Mr. Roosevelt lessened his calling
list to give him time to polish the
final draft of his address in which
he is expected to give his ideas for
better relations between business and
government
... Two cabinet officers and at least
three others who in various capa
cities have been associated with re
cent administration efforts to stim
ulate business will speak during the
tw o-day meeting.
Secretary Hopkins, scheduled on
this afternoon’s program, tried to set
the business drive going with a
speech last winter at Des Moines,
lowa. Illness caught up with him
soon afterwards and he had to for
get about the condition of business
to recover a measure of personal
health. He has returned to work
only recently.
Spotted through the sessions also
are speeches by Secretary Wallace,
Robert E. Freer, chairman of the
Federal Trade Commission, Sena
tor O’Mahoney, Democrat, Wyoming
chairman of the federal monopoly
inquiry, and General Robert Wood,
chairman of the board of Sears, Roe
buck & Company, who recently re
signed as an aide to Hopkins.
The lone Republican official on
the program is Representative Mar
tin, of Massachusetts, the party’s
leader in the House.
Industry And
Agriculture
To Cooperate
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, May 22. It was
about time for American manufac
turers and farmers to get together.
Os course, their in
terests t basically
are interdepend
ent, but, for a long
time (perhaps al
ways) they’ve pull
ed largely at cross
purpose s. Now
they’re trying to
hit on a partner
ship. If they suc
ceed, it not only
will be a corking
good thing for
agriculture and in
dustry, but for
everybody. In fact
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Agriculture and Commerce Secret
taries Henry Wallace and Harry Hop
kins are quoted to the effect that the
movement is the most promising de
velopment that has manifested itself
thus far in the direction of real and
permanent national economic re
covery.
Dean W. W. Burr of the Nebraska
College of Agriculture appears to
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA
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Tuesday; occasional thunder
showers in the mountains tonight
and in the north central portion
Tuesday.
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Dudley Pierrepont Gilbert (right), New York socialite, is shown as he
gave interview to a Washington reporter in connection with revelation by
Representative Martin Dies that an organized anti-Semitic plot has devel
oped in the United States. Gilbert, 44, has been revealed as the national
commander of a secret political organization incorporated under the
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Danzig Waits Move
From Berlin After
Killing Os German
Danzig, May 22.—(AP) —Danzig
Nazis eyed Berlin today for reaction
to the killing of a German citizen
of Wanzig by a Pole in the first
fatal border inSdent of current
German - Polish tension. Whether
the slaying would have serious re
percussions depended more upon
Berlin and Warsaw than upon the
free city.
Marion Chodacki, Polish commis
sioner to Danzig, reported the inci
dent directly to the Polish Embassy
in Berlin, and it was understood
Labor Head
Strikes Out
Against Foes
Daily DisjiatcU Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, May 22.—Clear-cut indi
cations that the North Carolina Fed
eration of Labor meant exactly what
its official said about a more ag
gressive legislative campaign and at
titude are contained in the current
issue of The Federationist, federa
tion publication.
In it, AFL President C. A. Fink,
of Salisbury, speaks right out in
meeting about some of the legislators
who opposed labor in the recent Gen
eral Assembly and in it he calls for
a three-point program high-lighted
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Secretary Wallace
Blocks Changes In
1939 Farm Program
Washington, May 22.—(AP) —Con-
gressional sources credited Secretary
Wallace today with a clearcut vic
tory in his attempt to block major
changes in the farm program this
year.
Senator Lucas, Democrat, Illinois,
leader of a newly formed farm bloc
in the Senate, said, “There is not a
chance for any revision of the farm
plan in this session.”
Even critics of the present pro
gram conceded that it probably
would carry through next year.
Lucas, a leader in the drive to in
crease farm benefit funds, said in
creases voted by the Senate would
“bring additional support for the
present program”.
He estimated that the present farm
program provides direct benefit for
about 6,000,000 of the 7,000,000 farm
families, and indirect aids for the
others.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
that Danzig Nazis were in close
touch with German officials. Offi
cials of the free city said measures
had been, taken to prevent a recur
rence of mob action against Polish
customs officials, which followed
incidents at Kaloff, in free city ter
ritory, opposite Marienburg, East
Prussia
Both the Danzig Senate and Poles
awaited answers to demands they
had made on each other in formal
protest after the incident, the de
tails of which differed widely.
Anglo-French
Accord With
Soviet Near
Geneva, May 22. —(AP)—British
Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax
was reported today to have decided
to submit to London a plan for a
three point alliance among Britain,
France and Soviet Russia as the
only means of lining up Russia with
the British-French coalition.
Informed sources said Halifax
would ask the British cabinet on
Wednesday to decide whether to ac
cept an alliance drawn along these
lines, the minimum provisions ac
ceptaole to Moscow:
1. The three powers to come to
each other’s aid automatically if any
one of the three were attacked di
rectly
2. If any state guaranteed by the
signatory powers were attacked and
asked help, the three signatories to
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Elizabeth City Man
Ordered Held On
Narcotic Charge
Raleigh, May 22.—(AP)—A fede
ral grand jury today returned a true
bill of indictment charging Sidney
G. Etheridge, of Elizabeth City, in
134 counts with violation of the Fed
eral Narcotic Act
The indictment said Etheridge
operated a place of business in Eli
zabeth City known as the Apothe
cary’s Shop.
Etheridge was the third Elizabeth
City resident to be indicted en nar
cotic charges in recent weeks. The
others are Dr. Howard J. Combs and
Dr. Claude B. Williams
A special time of federal court
has been ordered at Elizabeth City,
June 19, to dispose of the cases.
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Two Powers
Become Unit
In War Move
Hitler and Mussolini
Agree To Go to Each
Others Aid and if War
Comes Will Make
Peace Only in Com
mon Cause
Berlin, May 22.—(AP) —Germany
and Italy today signed a terse mili
tary pact of seven articles agreeing
tc pool all their military and econo
mic resources in the defense of a war
in which either might be involved.
They further agreed, even in ad
vance of war, so to deepen their mu
tual military and economic relations
that both could strike effectively
and quickly in case of need.
An official communication describ
ed points of the pact as follows:
1. Both contracting parties agree
to “consult with and arrive at an
understanding on all matters touch
ing their common interest or the
general European situation.”
2. Should their common interest
be endangered in any way by inter
national events, the two contracting
parties “will immediately enter
upon consultations concerning the
measures to be taken for safeguard
ing their interests.” Should the se
curity or other essential interests
of one of the contracting parties be
threatened from the outside, the oth
er partner will “give the threatened
party his full political and diplo
matic support in order to remove
this threat.”
3. If contrary to the wishes and
hopes of the contracting parties, eith
or of them should become involved
in a “military entanglement with
one other power or with other pow
ers,” the other contracting party
will “immediately rally to his side
as an ally and support him with all
his military resources on land, at
sea and in the air.”
4. I‘n order to make quick effi
cient action possible in case of need,
the two governments will “further
deepen their cooperation in the realm
of the military and of military eco
nomy.”
“In a similar manner they will
a.«so constantly arrive at an under
standing concerning other measures
necessary for the practical execution
of the provisions of this pact.”
5. Both parties agree in the event
of war “to conclude an armistice
and peace only after arriving at a
full mutual understanding with
each other.”
6. Conscious of the importance of
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Secret Part
Os New Pact
Is Withheld
Germany and Italy
Not Revealing All of
Accord Signed for
Mutual Assistance In
War, Gay da Article
Asserts
Rome, May 22.—(AP) —Virginio-
Gayda, authoritative fascist writer,
reported today the existence of secret
clauses in the German-Italian mili
tary pact igned in Berlin.
(By tht . clauses, Gayda may have
meant com ntions to be drafted by
standing commissions to be set up
under the pact and which may never
be made public.)
Writing from Berlin, Gayda de
clared:
“The public document signed, to
which are added other conventions,
naturally reserved, which will be fi
nally drafted by specific commis
sions, is composed of two parts.
He did not disclose the nature of
the reserved conventions.
At the same time, it was learned
that Italy has accompanied the sign
ing of the pact by a reduction of the
number of men she has under arms.
The size of the reduction was not
known immediately.
Many of those relieved from duty
were from rural areas and the action
was presumed generally to have
been taken mainly to supply needed
labor for the coming grain threshing
season.
Italians also regarded the diminu
tion of the great armed force mus
tered gradually during February,
March and April as an indication of
reduced European tension.