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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR SkiTAIH urged to join On First Transatlantic Mail Hop ' j&fm >''■', *#flpMßr *■**"' HHH^jwHH jggr. B|> •>•• 1 < £>*.s : ■ w | «*V %*,, >, ry *' <,: ' -■' * u?^^HHßi|jia g % iu :o is a dream come true, as the iour-motor Yankee Clipper inaugurates regular transatlantic air mail senice to Europe. Ihis airview shows the forty-two ton ship speeding away from Port Wash ington, N. Y., bound for Southampton, England, with 150,000 letters, a crew of fourteen and two Pan- American Airways executives. It departed Saturday and reached Marseilles, France, Monday. Harrington Says Upturn In Business Will Lower Burden of WPA Rolls Relief Director Urges Spending Committee To Approve Roosevelt Request for $1,500,- 000 WPA Fund for 1940; Protest to Bri tain. Washington, May 23. — CAP) Colonel F. C. Harrington, WPA ad ministrator, predicted today that fur ther improvement in private business would enable the WPA to reduce its rolls from ivn average of 3,000,000 povons in the current fiscal year to an average of two next ypar. He made this forecast to reporters after appearing before a House appropria tions sub-committee, whieh is con sidering President Roosevelt’s request for $1,500,000,000 to operate federal work relief in the next twelve month period starting July 1. Harrington said the sum asked by Mr. Roosevelt was one-third less than the $2,250,000,000 received by WPA during the current year. Other developments: Acting Chairman Bloom, Demo crat, New York, and Representative 1 h. Republican, New York, of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Joined in a request that the State Department protest to Great Britain mn- change in the status of the Jew ish national home in Palestine. Chairman Warren Madden, of the labor relations board, told the House Labor Committee that A. F. of L., (Continued on Page Four) Cooper Sure As Candidate Daily Disputt-n Bureau, In Uie Sir Walter Hotel. H dcigh, May 23. —At least one lily-probable candidate for gover ' r in next year’s Democratic pri -1 oy is in complete harmony and ( ord with Governor Clyde Hoey’s leas regarding deferred announce ents and a short campaign. Tom Cooper, Wilmington’s color ;u! mayor, came to Raleigh from the Capo Fear section, went into a hud dlu with the Governor and almost mmediately thereafter told all who would listen to him that he agrees ith the idea of putting off formal announcements until around the end of this year. hum just barely stopped short of 'nuking the flat, unequivocal state ment that he is going to run, and on occasion seemed to realize that he was all but violating the principle ot the same time that he advocated it. He did catch himself every now mid then and added “if I run” to "me flat statement he had just nbout what “I’m going to do during the campaign.” ' Mayor Cooper refused to appear "l ious about the subject for longer Wan a minute or so at a time as he talked to your correspondent: but un derneath the surface there was clear _ (Continued on Page Four) G* tfSIIF PERRY MEMORIAE WBKArtl . W- HENDERSON. *O. Mttmtvmn Stetlu Btamti th D A sWS service op 11 *' associated press. Two Trusties Kill 2 Negro Fugitives Little Rock, Ark., May 23. (AP) —Two Negro convicts who escaped with eight or ten others when wind demolished their stockade were shot to death by trusty guards in a hand-to-hand fight near the Cummins State Prison farm today. The casual ties came in the wake of a spring storm which killed four persons, injured scores and caused pro perty damage of more than sl,- 000.000 elsewhere in the State yes terday. Prison officers said the two men were killed by two Negro trus ties w'hen they sprang upon one who was heating through the dense woods between Cummins and Gould, Ark. FDR Claims Nation Ready To Advance Washington, May 23. —(AP) — President Roosevelt left with the American Retail Federation today assurance that America “is in an excellent position to move forward” impelled by “the principles and ob jectives for which we have strug gled the last six years.” In a broad re-statement of his bus iuess and financial policies, the cnief executive last night told a banquet audience of 1,000 small town and big city merchants: “Today, with no danger of a sur plus of goods overhanging the mar kets, just because we have tried to keep consumer purchasing power up to production, the nation is in an excellent position to move for ward into a period of greater pro duction and greater employment.” CUTTER MODOC FAST IN MUD AT BEAUFORT • Beaufort, May 23— (AP) —The Coast Guard cutter Modoc, out of Wilmington, was aground to day on a shoal just west of the channel leading to Beaufort In let. She was in no immediate danger. Captain Fred Gillikin, of Fort Macon, said the vessel came in to transfer a crew member to a patrol boat at Morehead City, when she ran aground about 11 p. m. last night. APPOINT FOUR NEW DRIVER EXAMINERS Raleigh, May 23.—(AP)—Reve ■ nue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell announced today that four new auto mobile drivers’ examiners had been named, to make 16 persons serving as examiners. The four included: John P. Hollis, of Wayne county. Maxwell said he did not know at once where Hollis will he placed. ONLY DAILY Royal Pair Travel Over Frigid Area George and Elizabeth Enroute to Winnipeg Through Desolate Re gion, With No House or Road in Sight Aboard the Royal Pilot Train, En route to Winnipeg, May 23. —(AP) — The temperature was at the freezing point today when the royal train carrying King George and Queen Elizabeth to the west sped past On tario’s famous cold spot, White River. As the special rolled through the rugged country between Toronto and White River, there was a nip in the air and still some snow on the giound. White River, gaily decorated with flags and burning, welcomed the roy al pair with a cheering demonstra tion at the station. A 25-piece band was sent from Chapleau, 130 miles away, and every settlement near the railroad line was decorated for the occasion. For miles today t! = «ang and queen saw no houses ( ..* other signs of habitation as the ’~ain sped through the plains country At .one point wiic 'e no houses showed on the skyl -ie and there were no roads, am; n and woman stood by the tracks waving at the king and queen. Evidently they had walked some dMiance Abernathy Is UNC Prospect Daily Dispatch liureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, May 23.—When Univer sity of North Carolina trustees con vene early in June to elect a comp troller they will have one certain nomination before them—that of Leroy F. Abernathy. The Asheville oil distributor will be placed before the trustees for con sideration by Representative and U. N. C. Trustee Marvin L. Ritch. This isn’t guess work, it’s the unequivocal quotable announcement of the stormy petrel of politics from Mecklenburg who surprised most people by keep | ing exceptionally quiet during this year’s General Assembly session, and who amazed even more by getting himself elected a trustee. Mr. Ritch, vigorous and even viol ent in all his actions and announce ments, minced no words about the thing. “I don’t care who the committee (Continued on’Page Five)* NASH YOUTH KILLED IN CRASH ON CURVE Wilson, May 23.— (AP)— Stephen J. Edwards, 22, of Nash county, was killed early today when an auto mobile turned over on a curve near here and was smashed up. D. A. Poythress, said by Coroner M. C. Gulley of Nash to have been driv ing the car, escaped serious injury. Gulley, after an investigation, de i cided Poythress was not blamable for 1 tiie wrecK. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY >23, 1939 Poland Will Drop Fight Upon Accord Halifax To Insist Lon don Cabinet Accept Mutual Aid Pacts Quickly as Possible; France Pressing for Action; Poland Ac quiesces Geneva, May 23.—(AP)—British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax was reliably reported today to have decided to champion, in tomorrow’s British cabinet meeting, a closer form of mutual aid pacts among Britain, France and Soviet Russia than Brit ain has hitherto found acceptable. Lord Halifax’s decision was said by informed observers to have been reached after last-minute round robin talks among delegates of the three great powers here for the Lea gue Council session. These informants said he had been influenced by Russia’s refusal to con sider any essential deviation from its insistence on comprehensive mutual assistance guarantees, and by strong French pressure. The inflence of the French gen r eral staff, and especially of its chief, General Maurice Gamelin, probable generalissimo of French and British land forces in any major war, was said to have been thrown in favor of early conclusion of a pact., Lord Halifax’s talks in Genevia with the Russian delegate, Ambas sador to London Maisky, French For eign Minister Bonnet and the Polish, Turkish and Roumanian delegates were understood to have convinced him that the projected three-power combination must be concluded as quickly as possible. (Prime Minister Chamberlain, in the House of Commons, has insist ed that Britain always has advocated “reciprocity” in the mutual aid nego tiations, but that “misunderstanding” had kept “a sort of veil or wall” De f Con tinued on Page Four* Negro Sought In Alamance Burlington, May 23.—(AP) —Ala- mance county officers, aided Dy Guy Scott, a special investigator from the State Bureau of Indentification and Investigation, were on the lookout today for a Negro allegedly guilty of criminal assault on Mrs. J. C. May, of Brookwood extension, this city. Sheriff W. V. Copeland refused to divulge the name of the suspect, but said all clues so far investigated point “to the man we are now hunting.” The alleged assault took place just after midnight Sunday, Mts. May told police. She said she was asleep in bed when a Negro entered through the bedroom window, woke her up and threatened to kill her with a knife if she made an outcry. Then, she said, he accomplished the assault. Her husband was not in the house at the time, she said, hav ing been unable to sleep and hav ing gone uptown for a “bite to eat.” Siam Raises Tariffs On U. S. Tobacco Washington, May 23.—(AP)—The Agriculture Department reported to day increased tobacco duties in Siam combined with an imposition of an excise tax on cigarettes and the es tablishment of a monopoly for the sale of leaf tobacco probably would have unfavorable repercussions on consumption of American flue-cur ed leaf in that country Siamese consumption of flue-cur ed leaf, largely of American origin, increased from 5,000,000 pounds in 1933-34, to approximately 8,500,000 pounds in 1937-38, with actual im ports of American leaf of that type jumping from 1,000,000 to 5,000,000 pounds. The department said the import duty on leaf tobacco was increas ed in February from 37 to 45 cents a pound, and in the following month the Siam government placed an ex cise tax on both domestic and manu facturered and imported cigarettes. These developments, it is ex pected, will not only increase the price of leaf tobacco and of ciga rettes, but will tend to encourage the domestic production of flue-cured leaf and its substitution for. Ameri can, the department said in a state ment. RUSSIA SPEEDILY U. S. SUBMARINE AT BOTTOM AND 621 MEN ABOARD 9Hp +. • TfSP »/*»jo i .Sfflßß&ggS&g ..... . Bgg|glߧi|M . • Uhl George Deatherage George Deatherage, of St. Albans, W. Va., head of “The KnigFcs of the White Camellia,” an alleged anti- Semetic and fascist organization, has been subpoenaed to appear be fore the Dies Committee in Wash ington, probing sensational reports of a nation-wide anti-Semetic plot. (Central Press) Tax Revision May Prolong This Session By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, May 23. —It’s an odd situation when as dyed-in-the-wood a Democrat as Senator Pat Harrison is placed in the po- sition of having to be thankful for a promise of Repub lican support to jam through Con gress a tax re vision program that Fat has his heart set on. The Mississippi solon not only is a Democrat. He’s a corking important one. He’s chairman of the Senate Fin ance Committee, a [Bp : M Senator Harrison key group in the congressional or ganization. And it was by only one vote that he missed being chosen as his party’s floor leader in the law makers’ upper chamber at the be ginning of the current session on Capitol Hill. Furthermore, the Dem ocrats have approximately qulrwo to one majority in the Senate. It would seem as if any bit of legislation which he recommends should go through a kiting. Nevertheless, all the indications were that he couldn’t get away with his tax revision plan before Con gress’ adjournment, some time dur ing the summer. That is to say, such were the signs until the other day, when Republican Senate Leader Charles L. McNary agreed to help him. It isn’t a cinch that even the two of them can do it, but Pat’s chances are improved materially. Probably the pair can swing the Sen ate. They can’t be so sure as to the House pf Representatives. Anyway, it’s a weird partnership. “Deterrent” Taxation. What Pat, and his anti-New Deal Democratic following, plus Charley McNary and most of the Republicans, are trying to accomplish is the eli mination of so-called “deterrent” taxation. This taxation is levied principal ly upon big business—corporations. Theoretically, taxes are supposed to be imposed exclusively to raise money to support the government. However, they also can be so pre scribed as to prevent certain big businessmen from doing, various things that the government doesn’t want them to do—by making these things taxably unprofitable for them. (Continued on Page Four) (jJaaik&Ji FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; thundershowers this afternoon. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Squalus, In Service Less Than Year, Sinks off New Hampshire Coast and Is in Trou ble; Contact Made With Submerged Ves sel U S SUBMARINE Mary?x Portsmouth,..N. H., May 23. (AP)—The United States navy submarine Squalus, with 62 racn aboard, was reported ‘down’ and “in trouble” in 240 feet of water today off White Island, about five miles southeast of the Isle of Shoals, off the New Hampshire coast. The naval tug Wandank and the submarine rescue ship Fal con were immediately dispatched to the scene. The Squalus went out with 62 men aboard on a routine “dive” at 8:40 a. m., today, and failed to come up after an hour, usu ally a dive limit under trial cir cumstances. Admiral C. W. Cole, com mandant of the navy yard, ord ered the submarine Sculpin to try and make contact with the submerged ship, and at 12:15 p. m. the first contact was made after the Sculpin discovered a red smoke bomb signal on the surface of the water, indicating the Squalus was in distress. The Sculpin learned in a tele phone conversation with the Squalus that during a deep dive the induction valve was not closed and water entered the crew’s quarters in the after en gine room. The Squalus was launched last September. It is 292 feet long and 26 feet in beam. • .Hoey Won’t Stop ; Execution Friday Os Negro Slayer Raleigh, May 23.—(AP)—Gover nor Hoey announced today he would not intervene in the case of Edward Lee (Kaiser) Mattocks, 21, Negro , sentenced to die Friday for murder j in Onslow county. I If Mattocks dies Friday, his will’ j be one of the few cases in which the death sentence is carried out on the I day originally set at a first trial in superior court. The Negro was con victed of the axe murder of B. F. Matthews at a store operated by Matthews. Paroles Commissioner Edwin Gill said Mattocks confessed his guilt at the time of his arrest, but I denied any connection with the ; crime when he testified at the trial. Cotton Prices Change Little New -York, May 23.—(AP)—Cot ton futures opened two points high er to one lower in a small trade, re flecting trade and foreign buying and selling by southern cooperative in terests and spot houses. Prices at the end of the first hour ranged from unchanged to five points net higher, j Around noon, prices were one to six points higher. Futures closed unchanged to two points higher; spot nominal; mid dling, 9.74. Open Close July 8.73 7.74 October 7.95 7.94 December 7.75 7.75 January 7.67 7.68 March 7.68 7.68 May 7.65 7.66 65,000 Motor Workers Idle Result Os Strike Detroit, Mich., May 23.—(AP) — Approximately 65,000 auto workers were thrown into idleness today as a strike in seven plants of the Briggs Manufacturing Company caused widespread lay-offs in the highly integrated motor industry. Chrysler C jrporation announced it would shut down ten plants in De troit, Newcastle, Ind., and Kokomo, Ind., and would be unable to ope rate any of its units here except Dodge trucks The spread of idleness resulted from the cutting off of automobile 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Queen Mary Hurt In Car, Is Report London, May 23.— (AP) —Queen Mother Mary was officially an nounced to be suffering from “considerable bruising’’ from ef fects of an automobile accident this afternoon, and to have been ’ ordered “some days complete rest.” The queen, mother of King George VI, was authoritatively re ported “bruised and badly shaken” but otherwise unhurt. After a brief time in a doctor’s house, she was driven from Putney, the west London suburb, where the acci dent occurred, to her Marlborough House residence. London, May 23.— (AP) —The British press association circulat ed an “unconfirmed report” that Queen Mother Mary was injured in an automobile crash in Putney, a ondon suburb this afternoon. The agency added: “The report, at present unoconfirmed, states that Queen Mary received treat ment at a local doctor’s surgery.” Little Steel Sues CIO In $7 Millions Republic Names John Lewis and Other Lead ers in Action Growing Out of 1937 Strike; 700 Ohioans Named in Litigation Cleveland, May 23.—(AP) — The Republic Steel Corporation, principal target of the industrial organization in its 1937 strike against “little steel,” struck back today with a $7,- 500,000 damage suit.’ Republic, the nation’s third lar gest steel producer, in a Federal court action, named John Lewis, CIO chieftain; Philip Murray, CIO vice president, and other officers of the CIO and its constituent steel work ers organizing committee and Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America. These organizations also were named defendants, as were ap proximately 700 Ohioans whom Re public identified in a statement to the press as “individual strikers and (Continued on Page Four) Fort Bragg Balloon Is Recaptured . Raleigh, May 23.—(AP) —Raleigh airport officials reported about 11 o’clock today that a sausage type captive balloon, which broke from its moorings at Fort Bragg earlier in the day, had been sighted over Dunn, headed north. (Later Fayetteville reports said it landed near Dunn.) BALLOON OVER MILE HIGH WITH NO ONE ON BOARD Fort Bragg, May 23. —(AP) —A Sausage type captive balloon used for observing firing on the Fort Bragg range broke from its moorings at 10 o’clock this morning, and was report ed drifting toward Lillington and Raleigh at a speed estimated at about five miles an hour. Its altitude was reported about 7,000 feet, and it was trailing about 200 feet of wire cable. There were no occupants in the bas ket. A ground crew was trailing it by auto. bodies, which the Briggs Company supplies to a large part of the motor industry. Only 15,000 men were directly af fected by the Briggs strike, which was called Monday by the CIO- United Auto Workers Union. The Chrysler shutdown, however, af fected about 43,800 in Detroit and 3,400 in Indiana. In addition, the Lincoln division of the Ford Motor Company, which employs 5,000 cur tailed operations. James Dewey, federal labor conciliator, arrived here today and made immediate arrange ments for attempting a settlement.
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