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Wilbur Shaw
While Wilbur Shaw, left, won first honors and first money in the an
nul Indianapolis Speedway Memorial Day race Tuesday in a field of 33
alters, Floyd Roberts, right, lost his life when his car crashed on the
aek and burst into flames.
Congress To Advise FDR
Monday On Adjournment
Leaders T entatively
Advise President of
July 15 Date; Roose
velt Anxious to Leave
for Pacific Coast Trip
and Fair There
Washington, May 31.—(AP) —
Congressional leaders told Presi
dent Roosevelt today they would
give him a definite prediction next
Monday on the date Congress might
bo expected to adjourn. Tenta
tively, they spoke of July 15.
The President has been with
holding a decision on whether to
start a transcontinental trip June ,
15 until adjournment prospects
have been determined. This morn
ing Mr. Roosevelt conferred with
Vice-President Garner, Speaker
Bankhead and the Senate arid House
majority leaders, Senator Barkley,
Democrat, Kentucky, and Repre
sentative Rayburn, Democrat, Texas.
The President told a press confer
ence yesterday he would go straight
to San Francisco after viewing the
Great Smoky Mountains National
Park in North Cardlina and Ten
nessee
Cotton Conference Called
Meanwhile, the United States ask
ed ten major cotton exporting na
tions to participate in an interna
tional conference at Washington
September 5 to consider possibility
o! a world marketing agreement.
Countries to which invitations have
been issued by the State Depart
ment, in behalf of Secretary of Ag
i'multure Walace, include: Egypt;
1 ranee for the French exporting col
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Wants Market
Allotment On
Farm Basis
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, May 31.—Dr. Clarence
Poe, eminent Tar Heel agriculturalist
<U‘d publisher, knows a, good thing
when he sees it and is quite a good
Pend at figuring, his recent call for
•tn endnient to the Bailey farm mar
ke(ing bill proves.
■ he bill, as introduced by Josiah
•ViJliam, would appropriate from the
Federal treasury $5,000,000 annual
ly to be “apportioned by the secre
tmy of agriculture among the sev
‘■eal states on the basis of popula
tion.”
“Hold on”, said Dr. Poe, in effect
h not in so many words, “let’s make
jP'P apportionment on a basis of
‘Pern population’.”
Which ought to be perfectly okay
w n North Carolinians, because un
fP the population plan proposed by
P " this State would receive $262,000
1 ■ < 1) year, more than twice the $129,-
per annum it would get under
Pollute bill 2212, as introduced by
Bailey.
there isn’t any indication yet what
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Hroiirrsmt Datln
Floyd Roberts
Former Broker Is
Under Indictment
New York, May 31.—(AP)
Stephen Payne, former partner of
Payne, Weber & Company, one
of the biggest brokerage houses
in the country, was indicted by
a grand jury today on 17 counts
of mail fraud and one of con
spiracy.
Payne, who was in charge of
the concern’s Boston office, was
suspended April 1 from the New
York Stock Exchange for three
years in connection with investi
gation of investment trust which
preceded the inquiry conducted
by the Federal grand jury.
Dr. McDonald
Slated For
Post At UNC
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, May 31.—For numerous
reasons thousands of eyes will be
turned toward Greensboro and next
Monday’s meeting of the University
of North Carolina trustees for their
regular annual session; and among
these reasons is the belief in many
quarters that out of the meeting will
come the answer to the future of Dr.
Ralph W. McDonald, the fellow who
all but threw the State machine com
pletely out of gear in 1936.
It will, at least, give an answer to
the question whether the doctor is
to be appointed to the head of a de
partment (probably a new one) at
the State University. Reports that
he would be so appointed were in
circulation as far back as the middle
of the General Assembly session.
In a definite and positive state
ment about that time, Dr. McDonald
removed himself completely from
the picture as a possible appointee
to any political post; but he left the
door wide open for employment by
the State in the capacity of a profes
sor.
In fact, he said flatly: “Frankly, I
hope to get back into teaching, a post
as far away from politics as can be
imagined.”
Since thdt time there have been
all sorts of reports and rumors about
his plans; but Dr. McDonald has dis
closed none of them for publication.
It has been bruited about that he
was offered a $15,000 a year post by
a national organization; that he had
a proposition to teach at the Western
North Carolina Teachers College;
that he was offered and declined to
become boss of the beer industry in
North Carolina. None was confirmed
or denied by the former Winston-
Salem legislator.
There is no doubt that his appoint
ment to the U. N. C. post would be
quite logical and would square with
all the known factors in the equation.
At Monday’s meeting the faculty
list will be submitted to the trus
tees. This list contains the additions
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Gen. Moseley
Warned Os
Enemy Plot
Tells House Probers
of Scheme To Over
throw U. S.. Govern
ment; Insists on Tell
ing All, but Commit
tee Limits Him to Ans
wers
Washington, May 31. — (AP)
—Major General George Van
Horn Moseley, retired, shouted
to a congressional committee
today that President Roosevelt
ought to use the army to fight
communism in the United
States.
“He ought to free the army
from the restrictions now im
posed on it,” the former com
mander of the fourth corps area
and one-time deputy chief of
staff told the House un-Ameri
can committee.
“The army can make plans to
fight Germany, but it can’t do a
damned thing to protect us from
the enemy within our gates.”
Washington, May 31. (AP)
Major General George Van Horn
Moseley, retired, testified today he
had repeatedly “warned” General
Malin Craig, army chief of staff,
about a plot to overthrow the govern
ment.
Moseley told the House committee
on un-American activities that he re
ceived information of the plot in so
called “music scores” sent to Ifhn by
James E. Campbell, of Owensboro,
Ky., a reserve army officer.
The committee had been told pre
viously the “music scores” contained
information picked up by a waiter at
the exclusive Harmonie Club in New
York and transmitted to Dudley P.
Gilbert, New York society figure.
Moseley clashed angrily with the
committee over the method of pre
senting his testimony. Protesting Re
presentative Healey’s insistence that
he confine his testimony to answer
ing questions by the committee’s
counsel, Moseley shouted, “I’ll bring
this before the American people from
coast to coast.”
The retired army officer, contend
ing he had been advertised from
coast to coast by the committee in
statements it released last week,
thumped the table repeatedly to em
phasize his demands for permission
to read his statement already pre
pared.
“The American people want to
hear this,” he said. “I have a lot of
good evidence. Aren’t you interested
in un-American activities?”
When Healey explained that the
committee felt the best way to handle
the injury was by questioning him,
Moseley finally acceded.
The general told the committee he
first heard of the plot from Camp
bell, who used to visit him at his
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Deckhouse
May Be From
Missing Boat
Manteo, May 31. United
States coast guard flier from Nor
folk, Va., aiding a search for three
crewmen for the Belhaven sloop
“Carrie Mears”, missing since Sun
day, reported today sighting a green
deckhouse afloat two and a half
miles south of the Chicamacomico
station.
The station, 20 miles south of here,
quoted the flier as saying he saw
men on the deck house. The cross
trees of the craft also were visible
above the surface, he said.
Boats from the Oregon Inlet and
Oc.racoke stations have been patrol
ing Pamlico Sound since yesterday,
wrien apprehension was expressed,
for the safety of the three men, Cap
tain Eddie Keech, Leslie Edwards
and Cecil Roberts, all of Belhaven.
The 60-foot sloop, owned by a Bel
haven hardware firm, was last re
ported seen Sunday afternoon trying
unsuccessfully to reach port at Hat
teras, across the sound, in heavy seas.
A power boat was dispatched from
the • Chicamacomico station to the
spot where the deckhouse was seen.
HENDERSON, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 31, 1939
BRITISH-FRENCH
Hunt Three Lost
On Hatteras Trip
Belhaven, May 31. —(AP)
Coast guardsmen hunted today
three crewmen of the 60-foot
Belhaven sloop “Carry Mears,”
missing since Sunday.
The men, Captain Eddie Keech,
Leslie Edwards and Cecil Roberts,
all of Belhaven, last were seen
when their craft was riding a
heavy sea near Cape Hatteras.
Keech is a brother of Captain
Jesse Keech, skipper of a boat
which sank Sunday night off
Englehard with eleven men
aboard. All of them were saved,
however.
Nazis Greet
Forces Who
Aided Spain
German Troops Given
T r iumphal W elcome
at Hamburg; Ciano
Reveals Italy’s Part in
Franco’s Civil War
Just Ended
Hamburg, Germany, May 31.
(AP) —Several thousand German
soldiers who fpught for General
Franco in Spain came home today
to a stirring Nazi welcome at this
German “gateway to the world.”
As five “strength through joy”
ships bore them siowly up the Elbe
after several hours of delay by fog,
the soldiers of the Condon legion
were saluted by Field Marshal Her
mann Goering on behalf of Reich
fuehrer Hitler. Goering stood on
the bridge of the yacht Hamburg,
beaming expansively, and obviously
proud of the men of his air force
who are being hailed by the press
as Franco’s mightiest arm “in the
defense of Europe against bolshe
vism.”
Six torpedo boats led the sea pa
rade into Hamburg harbor. The
homecoming troops in gray green
uniforms were lined up in precise
military formations on the decks.
Most of the men were of the ■*ur
force, which the German public was
just learning had been used to ferry
at least 15,000 Moors into Spain
from Africa in the first days of the
civil war, which ended two months
ago. Others were technicians and
instructors
There still was no official an
nouncement of the strength of the
German forces which started going
to Spain in July, 1936, the month
the war started, but Hitler’s news
paper said the legion was kept at a
strength of 5,000.
CIANO REVEALS ITALY’S
PART IN AIDING FRANCO
Milan, Italy, May 31.—(AP)—
Foreign Minister Count Ciano said
in an article in the political maga
zine Girarchia, published here, that
Italy intervened in the Spanish civ
il war on July 25, 1936, a week after
the outbreak
Ciano declared, however, that
Italy did not intervene until after
another foreign power—he did not
identify it—sent planes to assist
Spanish republican forces earlier on
the same day.
Hoey Urges
FDR To Back
Market Bill
Raleigh, May 31.—(AP)—Gover
nor Hoey today telegraphed Presi
dent Roosevelt asking him to support
a bill introduced by Senator Bailey,
Democrat, North Carolina, to ap
propriate $5,000,000 for marketing.
“Our farmers are vitally interested,”
wired Hoey. “Hope you may find it
possible to support this ’ appropria
tion, as I believe it will result in
great benefit to agricultural interests
generally.”
(jJcjaiPwi
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, occasional
showers in the mountains to
night and in west portion Thurs
day. i
OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Attorney General Frank Murphy and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, whe
head the United States Government’s anti-espionage forces, are shown
in San Francisco, where they mapped a war on what they termed an
“increasingly serious” problem on the West Coast. Left to right, United
States Attorney Frank Hennessey, Murphy and Hoover.
(Central Press)
British Sovereigns
Turn Eastward For
Trip To Washington
Victoria, B. C., May 31. —(AP) —
Britain’s touring sovereigns—all
Canada at their feet—about-faced
today for their return trip through
the broad dominion, with Washing
ton, D. C., their major objective.
Due in the United States capital
on the morning of June 3, the royal
train awaited King George and
Queen Elizabeth at Vancouver sta
tion to puli out at 2:30 p. m., Paci
fic time, on a more northerly route
than the westward trip
King George’s regret is that, al
though he has seen much of Cana
da’s vastness, and is going to see
more, he will have to skip the Arc
tic, which he said holds so much of
Canada’s future.
SCRAMBLE FOR SEATS FOR
KING’S CHURCH SERVICES
Hyde Park, N. Y., May 31—(AP)
—So many parishioners and their
friends and relatives want permis
sion to worship with Kitig George
and Queen Elizabeth at St. James
Episcopal church June 11 that the
Rev. Frank R. Wilson has had his
telephone service cut off during
Dies Inquiry .
Has Proved
Very Little
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, May 31—Congressman
Martin Dies’ committee on investiga
tion of un-American activities in this
country has un-
1 W
*Ma* tin Dies
For instance, the
attempt to identify Republican Na
tional Chairman John D. M. Hamil
ton with anti-Semitism fizzled the
minute the G. O. P. manager was
put on the Dies committee's witness
stand. Hamilton not only denied the
suggestion of bigotry on his part, but
he did it mighty convincingly by re
calling that he was opposed, as a
highly influential Republican, to the
gubernatorial candidacy of the Rev.
Gerald B. Winrod in last year’s Re
publican primaries in Kansas —and
he opposed the clergyman-aspirant
as an intolerant. Hamilton also re
minded the investigators that his
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SBisp uttH
Plan War on Espionage
covered consider
able evidence of
Nazi-istic, Fascist
ic and Communist
ic pro pa g anda
throug ho u t the
United States, but
it’s note worthy
that it hasn’t link
ed the names of
any very promin
ent ind i v iduals
with racially or re
ligious intolerant
philosophies in our
national midst.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
meals so he’ll have time to eat.
But while the communicants are
in a dither over the prospect of the
visit of royalty, Mr. Wilson is tak
ing it with clerical calm.
A tall, angular, middle-aged man,
who has been President Roosevelt’s
rector for ten years, he told report
ers with a smile:
“We realize it is a great honor
that our church will be the only one
in the United States at which their
majesties will worship. It will be
historic. But then the church is
already rich in history.”
Ail the 250 eligible parish mem
bers want to be on hand, and hun
dreds of other persons. But the two
sections of pews, separated by a red
carpeted aisle, will hold only 200.
And 80 seats have been set aside for
the parties of the British rulers and
the President
Members of the church who attend
most regularly will be allotted seats.
Others must stand on the law and
gravel drives and walks outside.
Each, whether he goes in or re
mains outside, must have a ticket
bearing his name
Conviction
Durham Negro
Is Sustained
Raleigh May 31. —(AP) —The State
Supreme Court upheld today a death
sentence imposed in Durham county
on Ed Alston, Negro, convicted of
the murder of Janie Wilkerson, 103-
year-old Negress.
The court decided 22 cases and an
nounced it would meet June 16 to
hand down opinions again. It has 34
undecided spring term cases.
Chief Justice W. P. Stacy wrote
the opinion finding no error in the
trial of Alston before Superior Court
Judge S. J. Ervin, Jr. The opinion
said the defendant failed to contend
at the proper time “on the prelim
inary inquiry” as to competency that
an alleged confession was involuntary
The court also found no error in
the judge’s charge in respect to a
possible manslaughter verdict. Al
ston robbed the aged Negress after
hitting her in the head.
The decision said sets Alston’s
■ %
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SPECIAL TERM FOR
WIFE KILLER TRIAL
Goldsboro, May 31.—(AP) —Judge
G. V. Cowper, presiding in Wayne
County Superior Court, today said
he would ask Governor Hoey to set
a special term of court to try Ray
mond Worley, charged with murder
in connection with the death of his
wife in April.
A hearing to determine whether
Worley is entitled to bond has been
set Friday before Judge Cowper.
ACCORD
Britain And
France Are
Much Upset
Molotqff Calls Mu
tual Aid Proposal In
adequate, but Leaves
Door Slightly Ajar;
Russia Will Defend
Outer Mongolia to
Bitter End
Moscow, May 31.—(AP) —
Premier and Foreign Minister
Molotoff tonight rejected as in
adequate the latest British-
French mutual aid pact propo
sal, but left the door slightly
ajar in case London and Paris
are willing to meet Moscow’s
position.
Skeptically and caustically,
he described British-French ef
forts to build a block of nations
as insufficient and ineffective,
and said: “It is impossible to
think now whether they want
to end aggression.”
At the same time, he made clear
that Russia is not rejecting in ad
vance any effort by Berlin for more
normal Soviet-German relations.
Trade negotiations with Berlin, he
said, “may be resumed.”
He outlined Russia’s position in a
long-awaited speech on foreign af
fairs to the Supreme Soviet or Par
liament.
Molotoff declared that Russia must
be vigilant and remember Joseph
Stalin’s warning “about pulling
chestnuts out of the fire” (for Bri
tain and France).
He announced the Soviet Union
would defend the frontiers of Outer
Mongolia “as firmly as our own.”
Among those listening to his ad
dress were the entire diplomatic
corps and—seated among the depu
ties of the Supreme Soviet—former
Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff.
Molotiff said that the largest Bri
tish-French offers showed that “the
principle of reciprocity with Russia
in any mutual aid agreement had
been accepted, but “modified by
many clauses, so that it may be only
formal.”
He said no progress had been made
with regard to the small countries
on Russia’s borders. Britain and
France, he stated, only think of those
whom they have guaranteed. The
Soviet Union is not what it was in
1921,” Molotoff continued. “We arise
compelled to remind the world of
this, for it seems that even our neigh
bors forget it. It is time to under
stand that w« will not tolerate viola
tion of our frontiers.
“Now about Outer Mongolia. Ac
cording to our mutual assistance
agreement, we must help guard her
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30 CHILDREN HURT
IN SCHOOL BLAST
Akron, Ohio, May 31.—(AP) —
An explosion blew out a wall of
a two-story frame schoolhouse
in suburban Barberton today, in
juring between 30 and 40 chil
dren.
Divers Place
Connections
On Submarine
Portsmouth, N. H., May 31.—(AP)
--Navy divers, toiling on the task bf
raising the sunken submarine Squa
lus and her 26 dead, descended 240
feet below the surface today, to at
tach connections with which to build
up air pressure in the submarine’s
water-free forward compartments.
The operation was one of the pre
liminaries to the salvage plan, which
called for attaching heavy chains
and pontoons to the sunken craft
forward and aft, and raising her a
little at _ the tirre, gradually moving
her to shallower water. Once in
water 100 to 120 feet deep, salvage
officials said, the problem of bring
ing the submarine to the surface
would be greatly simplified.
Building up of air pressure in the
forward compartments, which were
not flooded when the Squalus sank
May 23, was necessary, they ex
plained, to support not only the
hull, but especially bulkheads now
resisting water pressure of 109
pounds per square inch. The sal
vage workers are counting upon
maintaining the buoyancy of the
forward section in the task of rais
ing the Squalus to the surface.*
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