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HENDERSON'S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-sixth year ROOSEVELT SATISFIED WITH TAX CHAOSES Plans Are Begun For Raising Os Submarine Survivors of Squalus Rushed to Hospital » sPNe SSBHgggf jm T* s ' v \.'- - ■m.' KsSSHIk • --v ■■■, pp^pg”v* Hv . ~ \ i jßr\ I ':«Kf. One of the thirty-three survivor's of the Squalus is carried to ambulance and rushed to hospital at Ports mouth, N. H., after he was brought ashore by rescue ship. Twenty-six of his fellows died aboard the submarine, which sank in 240 feet of water. World Cotton Conference Will Be Called By U. S. Wallace Reveals Plan To Seek Improvement In Prices and Allotment of Markets To Chief Exporters; Subsidy and Processing Taxes Planned Little Rock, Ark., May 26.—(AP) —Secretary Wallace disclosed today that the United States would call an international conference this summer or fall to seek ways of improving cotton prices and dividing world markets equitably among all export ing nations. A State Department inquiry re garding desirability of an interna tional agreement, Wallace said, has brought favorable replies from all important cotton exporting countries. Until such an international agree ment is put into operation, the sec retary declared, it was necessary for the United States to embark on a program of exports to regain this country’s “fair share” of world mar kets. and to help dispose of a record Bund Leader Enters Plea Os Innocent to Charges Fritz Kuhn Denies Theft of $14,548 of Bond Funds; Claims Ignorance of Reasons for His Arrest by New York Authorities New York, May 26.—(AP)—Fritz Kuhn, national leader of the pre-Nazi Uertnan-Amorican Bund, stood stiffly erect today in court and pleaded in rioci nt to charges of forgery and grand larceny of $14,548 of bund funds. Campaign To Produce Foe Os Sales Tax Raleigh, May 26.— There will be a real dyed-in-the-wool anti-sales tax candidate for the governorship of North Carolina in the campaign of 1940, Paul Leonard, arch-anti of them all, asserts. The Fair Tax Association’s execu tive' secretary, concededly the most insistent and persistent opponent of the three per cent levy in the State, 1 not yet ready to identify the choice "I his association; but he is aggres 'l vely determined that there shall he given to the North Carolina elec torate the opportunity to vote for a gubernatorial candidate who en dorses the principles and legislative program of the F. T. A. Not so long ago this bureau com (Continued on Page Four) IHewiteramt Dathi tUsuafrlr o* surplus. Despite sharp opposition raised in the Senate and in the cotton indus try, Wallace indicated the adminis tration proposed to pay bounties on cotton sold abroad if Congress pro vides necessary funds. “Whatever may happen in the fu ture,” he said, “the export subsidy plan is very much alive today.” The plan is designed to expedite foreign sales of cotton which have slumped this season to the lowest level in sixty years, and to reduce surplus stocks of about 14,000,000 bales, of which 11,400,000 are stored under government loans to producers. In a speech prepared for a meet continued on Page Three) Earlier, he replied “No” in the same emphatic tone in the police line-up when asked if he had mis appropriated bund money and made false entries in the books. “Then why were you arrested?” Acting Lieutenant James Pyke ask ed. “I don’t know yet,” replied the 43- year-old bund leader. Kuhn was held in $5,000 bail, a figure recommended by the district attorney’s office because Kuhn waiv ed extradition and voluntarily re turned from Pennsylvania, where he was arrested yesterday. “I think the district attorney is very modest in asking that amount of bail,” said Judge Cornelius Col lins. “If it had been up to me I would not have been so modest. But if the district attorney is satisfied, it is all right with me.” In the police line r up Kuhn said he was president of the German-Amer ican Bund, a native of Munich, had been in this country fourteen years, and never was arrested before. He said he formerly was employed as a chemical engineer and last worked at that occupation in 1936 in the Dearborn, Mich., plant of the Ford Motor Company. (x}c£dJwi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight and Sat urday, with occasional thunder showers in extreme southeast portion Saturday. only daily State Keeps Close Watch \ On Paralysis State Health Board Warns Border Coun ties To Be on Lookout for Cases Entering from South Carolina; No Epidemic Here Yet Raleigh, May 20.—(AP)—Dr. Carl Reynolds, State health officer, said in a statement today that health au thorities in counties bordering on South Carolina had been urged to keep a careful watch for potential cases of infantile parlysis, but that “no quarantine regulations or restric tions have been advocated for the traveling public.” “North Carolina recognizes that an increase in the of polio myelitis (infantile paralysis) now exists in certain sections of South Carolina,” said Dr. Reynolds. “While we do not anticipate any widespread prevalence in this State, we wish to be on the alert for the development of any cases in our border counties which may have any particular epi demiological connection with the cases in South Carolina.” Reynolds said his office was en couraging local health authorities <f >* observe over a period of two weeks individuals coming out of areas where the prevalence of the disease, is high. If more rigid instructions are thought to be justified in any special counties of the State, this is a matter within the jurisdiction of the local authorities.” Meanwhile, Wilmington advices (Continued on Page Four) ‘Free Games’ Slot Divices Held Illegal Raleigh, May 26.—(AP) —Attorney General Harry McMullan ruled to day that slot machines which allow free games for certain scores are il legal under the 1939 revenue act, which provided for legalization of “amusement slot machines” after June 1. Revenue Commissioner A. J. Max well requested the ruling. Last week Maxwell said there were thousands | of slot machim V being operated il legally in the State, and that many of them would be illegal after June 1. McMullan ruled that the Flanagan act of 1937 outlawing slot machines was still in effect, and that it bans any machines on which varying scores or certain combinations o£ (Continued on Page Three), NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOrJh CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 26, 1939 Reason For jTragedy Not Yet Learned No Evidence So Far To Indicate Careless ness or Sabotage Aboard, Portsmouth Navy Yard Captain Declares; 26 Dead in Hull Portsmouth, N. H., May 26.—(AP) —Asserting that the cause of the sinking of the submarine Squalus Tuesday with the loss of was unknown, Captain H. R. Green lee, manager of the Portsmouth navy yard, said today: “Anything said about the “induction” valve is merely conjecture.” It originally was believed that an open induction valve allowed water to pour into the Squalus while she was making a fast dive. Yesterday Alfred G. Prien, 26, machinist’s mate asserted the control board lights in dicated the valve was closed. “No one knows what happened,” Greenlee declared, “because no one has gotten down there to see.” Two submarine experts, Com mander A. I. McKee and A. R. Mc- Cann, took off for Washington at 11:25 a. m., eastern daylight time, today for a conference with high naval officials, who will decide the method of raising the Squalus. Meanwhile, taking cognizance of rumors, Captain W. S. Amsden, cap tain of the Pc-tsmouth navy yard, issued this formal statement: “Despite certain statements in cer tain papers of the press, there is no evidence at this time to substantiate any rumor of carelessness and sabotage.” Admiral C. W. Cole, back aboard the rescue ship Falcon, alter a brief (Continued on Page Four) Virginia Area Hit By Flood Lebanon, Va., May 26.—(AP) — Residents of this Russell county sec tion in southwest Virginia endeav ored today to re-establish normal communication with the outside world after flood waters from sud den rains had drowned an elderly woman, away several -houses and halted highway traffic Rolling down the bed of Cedar Creek and its * tributaries west of here late ye.sterday, the high water caused heaviest damage at Bolton. The road to Hansonville remained blocked today as the result of dam ‘age to sections under construction. Mrs. Cleve Statzer, 83, was drown ed while trying to make her way from her l'lood-surrounded home at Eolton Vandenburg Is Gaining As Nominee By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, May 26.—Senator Ar thur H. Vandenburg of Michigan generally is recognized in Congress as having mater— ially improved his chances of secur- ; ng next year’s Re publican presiden tial nomination by victory in his fight against a two or three hundred mil lion dollar approp riation for the dig ging of a ship canal across the upper end of the Florida peninsula. The Senate vot- Sen. Vandenberg ed down the proposition by a suf ficient majority to indicate that the expenditure would have been beaten even if the Wolverine statesman hadn’t fought it. However, the fact remains that he did make himself conspicuous as the scheme’s most vo cal opponent. It was all the more not able a triumph in that Vandenburg is of the minority party on Capitol (Continued on Page Four) How 33 Lives Were Saved This self-explanatory diagram shows how the thirty-three trapped sailors aboard the Squalus entered the diving bell that brought them safely to the- surface twelve miles off Portsmouth. N. H. Tbs bell is tea feet high, holds eight persona. Pact With Democracies Expected Within Week Mrs. Roosevelt In Inn Hit bv Blaze * Arthurdale, W. Va., May 26. (AP) —A sleeping guest’s cigarette set fire to a mattress early today in the Arthurdale Inn, where Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt and her party from Washington spent the night. The blaze occurred in a second floor room, and Mrs. P. H. Meredith, manager of the inn, said the first lady and others in the Washington group, sleeping on the first floor, were unaware of it. Raymond Kenny, one of the four advisory board members of the Federal homesteads project here, smelled smoke about 2 a. m., and dashed into the hall. The smoke was seeping from a room. Kenny, finding the door unlock ed, aroused the sleeping occu pant, and together they extin guished the burning mattress. Mrs. Roosevelt had come to Arthurdale to address the gradu ates of the high school. Negro Dies In Gas Cell For Slaying Raleigh, May 26.—(AP) —Edward Lee Mattocks, 21, Negro convicted of the murder in Onslow county of B. F. Matthews, a store-keeper, died by gas at State’s Prison today after making a new complete confession. Mattocks confessed he killed Mat thews shortly after his arrest, then repudiated the story at his trial, and maintained he was innocent until this morning. He told his story to Chap lain E. C. Cooper immediately be fore the execution. The Negro expressed the belief he was saved, Cooper saiu. Mattacks, whose mother told Warden H. H. Wilson Wednesday that she would claim her son’s body if she could make financial arrangements. The man walked calmly into the gas chamber at 10:03 a. m., and two minutes later the gas machinery was started. He breathed the fumes 12 minutes and 15 seconds before Dr. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Britain Presents De tailed Formula to So viet Russia; Provides Joint Defense if Eith er of Group Is Attack ed from Abroad London, May 26.—(AP) —Great Britain today sent to Soviet Russia her detailed formula for a British- French-Russian mutual assistance pact, and invited Marshal Voroshil off, Soviet commissar of war, to at tend British army maneuvers. France arranged to hand the text of the proposed pact to Soviet Am bassador to Paris Surits at 3 p. m., the same time set for delivery of the British copy in Moscow to Premier and Foreign Commissar Molotoff. The invitation to the marshal was timed to strength the British-French front by indicating the friendliness between Britain and Russia. The mu tual assistance formula, which fol lowed a preliminary note sent to Moscow yesterday, was dispatched to Sir William Seeds, British am bassador to Moscow, for delivery. Since the proposals were worked out after a conferences in Geneva, British officials believed it would meet with Russia’s approval, at least in main points. Hope was expressed in official circles for a definite agree ment within a week or ten days which would add Russia to the Brit ish-French front. Informed sources said Poland, the United States and other countries which have been keeping in close touch with Britain, were told of the contents of the note. • The new pro posals reportedly included: 1. A mutual assistance pact which will come into operation in the event of direct aggression on the European territories of any one of the three signatories. 2. Provision for consultation in the event of direct aggression upon any territory of any state guaranteed by the three signatories. 3. Consultations among the general staffs of the three powers to insure efficient collaboration if they were called into action. Felaa Hightower, prison physician, pronounced his dead. . The execution was the 219th here since 1910. The execution of Mattocks on the original date set by the su perior court judge at the trial was unusual. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Labor Board Head Offers Amendments Madden Confronted by Barden With De nounced Procedure in North Carolina; With Bergdoll in U, S., Sen ate Drops House Bans Washington, May 26.—(AP) —Pres iclent Roosevelt remarked that tax discussions were getting along very well when asked to comment today on congressional efforts to speed a limited revision of corporate levies. He did not reply directly when ask ed whether projected tax legislation would be confined to so-called nuis ance and corporation taxes, or whe ther it would deal also with per sonal income taxes. He told his press conference, in stead, that he had better not go into details because things were getting along so nicely. Other developments: Bergdoll Ban Dropped The Senate Military Affairs Com mittee pigeon-holed a House-appro val bill which would have prohibit ed the return to this country of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, World War draft evader. Bergdoll’s return on the German liner Bremen yester day, and his prompt arrest by army officials apparently circumvented congressional efforts to keep him out of this country. Favors Labor Change Chairman Warren Madden, of the National Labor Board, suggested that Congress consider four major amendments to the Wagner labor act designed to benefit employers in controversies with their workers. While opposing specific changes put forward in the House, Madden told the labor committee Congress might well study these four possibilities: 1. The feasibility of granting em ployers the right of petitioning for a collective bargaining election, sub ject to certain safeguards. 2. Standards for the board’s de termination of the appropriate bar gaining units. 3. Clarification of the status of a contract where a majority of work ers change allegiance from one union to another. 4. Changing the time when hear ings on charges may be held from five to ten days after a complaint is filed. Cites Greensboro Case Repr< tentative Barden provoked a (Continued on Page Four) Pope Seeks Conferences For Europe Vatican Thinks Peace ful Solution of Pres ent Difficulties Is En tirely Possible; Gen eral Meeting Suggest ed Vatican City, May 26. (AP) —A Vatican news service said today that papal diplomats had suggested to Eu rope’s principal foreign offices that peaceful solutions to Europe’s difficul ties might be found through a “gen eral meeting of interested powers” or through a series of bi-lateral talks. ' The news service said that “the holy see has limited itself to using normal diplomatic channels to in vite-interested governments to con sider in a pacific spirit the present serious international moment, and to seek with peaceful intentions the solution of grave questions which currently hang over the world.” “The holy see,” it continued, “has not entered in any way into consid erations and specific appraisals of questions which are today subjects of discussion in international con troversy. But it has, instead, insisted for general and moral reasons, in spired by the well-being of hu manity, that the enormous trial of war, which there is reason to believe would be more homicidal than that of 1914, should be by all means avoided. “Regarding practical proposals, the holy see limited itself to recalling that the peaceful examination of the questions may be obtained either by a general meeting of the interested powers or by examinations, two by two, limited to the nations which are involved in various particular ques tions.”
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