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revolvers and clubs to put down the uprising,- (Central Press)
King And Queen In
Farewell Messages
To Canada And U. S.
A. & N. C. Lease To
Be Delayed Some
Raleigh, June 15.—(AP)—Gov
ernor Hoey said today he doubt
ed if it would be possible to com
plete plans for leasing the State
controlled Atlantic & North Caro
lina railroad to 11. T. Edwards, of
Stanford, by July 1. The Inter
state Commerce Commissiop has
not ruled on Edwards’ petition
for permission to take over the
line, Hoey pointed out, and an
audit of the railroad’s books by
the State auditor will not be
ready until July 1.
President 11. P. Crowell, report
ed to Iloey that the line had a
net profit of $4,078.59 in April,
an increase of about $3,900 over
April, 1938, figures. In four
months the line lost $3,232.07, but
that showing was about $6,400
better than for the period in 1938.
School Body
Faces Issue
On Its Money
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, June 15. —North Caro
lina’s School Commission is now
studying the problem of stretching
$275,000 until it wiil satisfy groups
which are seeking about ten times
that much. It cannot meet all the
needs and requests, that can’t be
done even with mirrors.
Wednesday’s hearing before the
special teacher salary committee,
headed by Dr. B. B. Dougherty, show
ed that there are live main proposi
tions which must be considered.
Here’s the long and short of the
alternatives before the commission
when it comes time definitely to al
lot the money available. At least
here are the five things it was urged
to do:
(1 ) To reduce the differential be
tween the salaries now paid white
and Negro teachers —a differential of
about 30 per cent under present sal
ary schedules. A group headed by
Dean J. T. Taylor, of the N. C. Col
lege for Negroes, asked that the ex
isting differential be reduced by ten
percent. To wipe it out would cost
$1,500,000, an obvious impossibility.
(2) To make provision for a ninth
experience increment. This would re
quire some $300,000, if S4O annual
ly is added to the salary of each
teacher with as much as nine years
experience. Greensboro’s Superinten
dent of Schools Ben Smith urged this
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DOCTOR NAMED FOR
PATROL EXAMINING
Raleigh, June 15.—(AP) —Reve-
nue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell
said today Dr. William H. Windley,
of Winton, had been employed as
physician to examine the 100-odd
prospective applicants for 50 high
way patrolmen’s jobs.
Maxwell said Dr. Windley would
hold examinations in various sec
tions of the State. He also will be
at the Highland Lake patrol ..train
ing camp. .. ; a.
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George Says Example
of Peace Between Two
Nations May Yet Be
Example All World
Will Follow; Sail To
night for Home
Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 15.
(AP) —King George and Queen Eliz
abeth today bade farewell by radio
to Canada and the United States,
which the departing monarch term
ed “a large part of the earth where
there is no possibility of war be
tween neighbors.”
‘‘By God’s grace, yours may yet be
the example which all the world will
follow,” the king said in a* broad
cast to the British Empire and the
United States, in which the queen
joined, making her first formal radio
address.
The broadcast speeches wore n r>art
of a busy “hail and farewell” visit to
Halifax, before the royal couple em
bark tonight for a brief stop in New
foundland on their way home to
England.
“I return to England with a new
sense of resources and of the respon
sibilities,of our British Empire,” sard
the king, expressing pleasure that
“we have had the opportunity also
of crossing our border and paying an
all-too-brief visit to Canada’s great
and friendly neighbor to the south.
“I go home with another thought
which is a comfort and an inspira
tion. From the Atlantic to the Pa
cific and from the tropics to the
Arctic lie the large part of the earth
where there is no possibility of war
between neighbors, whose noon in arn
wholly dedicated to the pursuits of
peace, a pattern of how all civilized
nations and men should live to
gether.”
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Air Line In
State Will
Be Surveyed
Pittsburgh, June 15. —(AP) —Offi-
cials of the Pennsylvania-Central AiF
Lines prepared today for a detailed
study of facilities along a proposed
new air route from Norfolk, Va., to
Knoxville, Tenn.
C. B. Monro, air line president, said
a survey flight was part of the com
pany’s expansion program. The com
pany just completed a preliminary
survey of a proposed route from
Pittsburgh to Birmingham, Ala., and
Atlanta, Ga., byway of Knoxville
and Chattanooga, Tenn.
The Norfolk - Knoxville route,
which would include stops at Eliza
beth City, Rocky Mount, Raleigh,
Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Hickory
and Asheville, N. C., will be surveyd
in a standard Boeing 247-D transport
carrying a large group of air line
officials, Monro said.
Stops will be made at each of the
intermediate terminal points.
In addition to interviewing local
civic organizations and local airport
executives, the company officials wiil
consider such details as the amount
of personnel that would be required
to staff each new Pennsylvania-
Central air line station. Monro said
local labor would be utilized.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Laud Dealey
For Part In
Paper Mill
Old Point Comfort, Va., June 15.
—(AP) —The Southern Newspaper
Publishers Association presented Ted
Dealey, of the Dallas, Texas, News,
a framed resolution today expressing
its gratitude for his work in promot
ing the newsprint mill now under
construction at Lufkin, Texas.
James G. Stahlman, publisher of
the Nashville, Tenn., Banner, in mak
ing the presentation, asserted that
Dealey deserved much of the credit
for the mill, which he said means
much to S. N. P. A. and the South.
Stahlman termed it the first move
in a tremendous development for the
southern states.
Newspapers which had applied for
membership during the past year
were formally elected.
President John Ewing, of the
Shreveport, La., Times, reported to
the association that the lony-dream
ed-of newsprint mill was almost an
actuality.
MRS. G. H. ANDREWS,
OF RELEIGH, DEAD
Wife of Raleigh Mayor and Daugh
ter of Ex-Senator F. M. Sim
mons Was Long 111
Raleigh, June 15. (AP) —Mrs.
Graham H. Andrews, wife of the
mayor of Raleigh, died at a local hos
pital this morning after a long illness.
Mrs. Andrews, a daughter of for
mer United States Senator F. M.
Simmons, and the late Eliza Hill
Humphrey Simmons, was born in
1883 at New Bern. She married here
in 1907, while her parents lived in
Raleigh.
Survivors include Mayor Andrews;
two daughters, Mrs. S. B. Shepherd,
Jr., of Raleigh, Mrs. H. V. Worth,
Jr., of Baltimore, Md., and two sons,
Graham H. Andrews, Jr., and Sim
mons Andrews.
Mayor Andrews is confined to his
home recuperating from a heart at
tack he suffered during the cam
paign for mayor two months ago.
Funeral plans had not been com
pleted today.
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 15, 1939
Power Company Charges
Far Under Cooperatives
And Municipal Services
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.
Raleigh, June 15.—This year’s re
ductions in electric power rates by
the major power companies have re
sulted in putting the average rates
of these companies far below those
charged by municipalities and elec
tic membership cooperatives back
ed by the Federal REA, an analysis
of the figures shows.
Edgar Womble, chief rate expert
for the Utilities Commission, is of
the opinion that the average of pow
er company rates in North Carolina
is now “lower than in any other
State”.
The average rate to residential cus
tomers of the power companies, fi
gured on a basis of 50 kilowatts hours
is 5.02 cents per kilowatts hours for
the five major company rates. These
five are the Carolina Power and
Light, the Duke Power Company, the
Durham Public Service Company and
the two rates of the Tide Water Pow
er Company (one in New Hanover
count.), lie other on the transmission
BRITAIN SEEKS U. S. AID
Unlimited Spending Is Urged
High Relief
Men Lid
Be Left Off
Germany Blamed for
Munitions Blasts I n
New Jersey 22 Years
After They Occurred;
Tar Heels Explain
Vote on TVA Limits
Washington, June 15.—(AP) —Two
high administration officials spoke
out today against restrictions of Fed
eral relief spending, proposed in the
$1,716,000,000 House bill to finance
1940 relief operations.
Secretary Ickes said a prohibition
against using future public works
administration funds to build indus
trial plants in competition with exist
ing private enterprise, “dictates to
municipalities what they should and
should not apply for, and in that it
distinctly traverses the democralic
principles of government.”
Colonel F. C. Harrington, WPA
chief, said after a conference with
President Roosevelt that “some of
the things in the bill are going to be
awfully tough to try to administer.”
Germany Is Blamed
Meanwhile, the mixed Claims
Commission held Germany respon
sible for the Black Tom and Kings
land, N. J., munitions disasters prior
to the entry of the United States
into the World War. The interna
tional tribunal, of which Supreme
Court Justice Roberts is umpire,
reversed its Hamburg decision of
1930, which accepted the “industrial
accidents” theory of the fires and ex
plosions which rocked the New York
metropolitan areq in 1916 and 1917.
American claimants who sought
damages of $50,000,000 from the
Reich have contended throughout 12
years of litigation that the destruc
tion of the Lehigh Valley railroad
terminal at Black Tom in 1916, and
the Kingsland assembly plant early
in 1917 was the work of saboteurs in
the pay of the Imperial German Gov
ernment
Germany was equally persistent in
her denials, advancing the theories
that the vast quantities of munitions
which had been destined for Allied
nations were destroyed by accident,
not design.
Other developments:
Warren Wants Fund
Representative Warren, Democrat,
North Carolina, sought to make cer
tain the relief bill now being debated
in the House would not contain a
restriction against use of WPA funds
for development of the coast guard
air base at Elizabeth City, N. C. He
told the House yesterday the meas
ure eliminated all federal projects,
and questioned whether it would
affect projects already authorized
by Congress.
Explain TVA VOTES
Two North Carolina representa
tives who voted with a House ma
jority to restict operations of the
TVA expressed the opinion, TVA
was an experiment to establish a
“yard stick” for power rates, and
not a “big stick” to run private uti
lities out of business. The House
adopted amendments to the TVA act
limiting its area of operation to the
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lines of the Tide Water outside New
Hanover.
The average rate to the same class
of customers of 10 municipalities, re
presenting all sections of the State
and all sizes of towns, on the same
basis is 6.758 cents per kilowatts
hour.
The municipalities are Greenville,
Apex, University, Gastonia, Kinston,
Concord, Louisburg, Southport, Wake
Forest and Bath.
It is quite possible that the aver
ages and other figures for this muni
cipal group are not truly representa
tive of present rates because of the
fact that the municipal plants are
not subject to regulation or control
by the Utilities Commission. For this
reason, it is possible that the last
rates filed with the commission are
not now in effect, and the figures in
this story are based on the Utilities
Commission files.
For three representative coopera
tives backed by the Federal REA
(Continued on Page Four)
Japanese Blockades
Further Broadened
At Ports Os China
International Settlement at Amoy and British
Shipping at Hankow Bottled Up in Tokyo’s
Drive for Domination of Coast
Shanghai, June 15.—(AP) The
new struggle over Occidental inter
ests in China was broadened today
by a Japanese naval blockade of the
international settlement at Amoy, in
addition to the police blockade of
British and French concessions at
Tientsin.
At the same time, messages from
foreign sources at Hankow said that
Japanese forces had blockaded of
fices, warehouses and docks of a
large British shipping firm, refusing
passage to British and Chinese em
ployees. The concern is located near
the Hankow customs house.
Foreign advices from Amoy said
that three Japanese warships had
isolated the island of Kulangsu which
is the Amoy settlement, halting all
traffic and preventing landing of
vegetables and other supplies.
A Japanese spokesman was quoted
Germany Is Considering
Retaliation On Britain
Berlin, June 15. —(AP) —An offi
cial announcement today said that
the German government reserved
the right to take retaliatory meas
ures in the case of its consul gen
eral at Liverpool, who was asked to
leave England because of alleged
complicity in a spying case.
The German statement denied that
the consul general, Walther Rein
hardt, was implicated in the case.
(British Prime Minister Cham
berlain yesterday told the House of
Common he had asked the German
government to withdraw Reinhardi
Excess Rain
Is Damaging
For Tobacco
College Station, Raleigh, June 15.
—A wet June is very unfavorable
to the growth of good quality tobac
co, and the crop in many sections of
the State will be damaged as the re
sult of recent heavy rains, it was re
ported today by L. T. Weeks, to
bacco specialist of the State College
Extension Service. He explained that
excess moisture at this season stunts
tobacco, causing it to turn yellow and
be hard in appearance.
Weeks said that the physical con
dition of some soils is helping the to
bacco to endure the wet weather with
out any severe damage, but lighter
soils cake and allow the root sys
tems to absorb too much moisture.
He said the condition can be lar
gely overcome by using a method of
cultivation which pushes soil around
the stalk and at the same time
breaks the middle of the al
lowing full root development.
“It is very essential to scatter the
middle each time the tobacco is sid
ed,” the specialist advised. “Oone
of the best methods of doing this is
to use a one-horse turn plow with
a second size mold board (wing) and
saetter the middle with two furrows.
“A plow should be used that will
throw the soil up around the plant
without disturbing the root system.
A one-horse plow is decidedly the
best for this. The attachment of a
sweep about 18 inches long and about
2 to 2 1-2 inches wide to the back
of the plow stock with the same bolt
that holds the mold board, will push
the soil to the stalks without damag
ing the leaves, and at the same time
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TOXICOLOGIST OF DUKE
GETS POST WITH BUREAU
Raleigh, June 15. —(AP) —Dr. Hay
wood M. Taylor, of the Duke hospital
staff, has been named consultant for
the state bureau of identification and
investigation, Director Frederick C.
Handy said today.
Handy explained Dr. Taylor, toxi
cologist at the hospital, would han
dle chemical, toxicological and sero
logical work for the bureau.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
as saying that the purpose of the
blockade was to “bring the (Kulang
su) municipal council to its senses,”
with regard to Japanese demands for
a greater hand in control of the set
tlement.
Before negotiations were halted
last week by the departure of the
Japanese consul-general from Amoy
for Tokyo, the council announced its
willingness to accept two of five
Japanese demands, holding that com
plete acceptance would give Japan
control of the Kulangsu government.
Last month, about the time the Unit
ed States, Britain and France match
ed a Japanese landing party three
to one with their own marines and
bluejackets at Kulangsu, the Japa
nese halted shipping between Ku
langsu and the mainland. However,
a few days ago a Shanghai spokes
man said that Japanese blockade had
been lilted.
from Liverpool. He said that, after
studying court records, he had to ac
cept the conclusion that the German
consulate general at Liverpool was
involved in the case of Joseph Kelley
30-year-old armament worker, who
was sentenced to ten years imprison
ment May 19 for selling Germany
vital secrets of the factory where he
was employed.)
“The charge that the German con
sul-general in Liverpool had had re
lations with Kelley or had made con
nections for Kelley with espionage
or intelligence organizations is false,”
the German statement declared.
Board Vote
By Proxy Is
Frowned On
Raleigh, June 15. —(AP) —The at
torney general’s office had a query
today regarding voting by proxy and
decided under certain circumstances
it was not legal.
Assistant Attorney General Robert
W. Wettach said Mrs. Annie E. Ful
ler, of Louisburg, wrote she was a
Franklin County Board of Education
member. Her board would meet June
30 with the county commissioners to
elect a chairman of the county board
of alcoholic control, she said.
She planned to be out of town that
day, she said, and, if permitted, de
sired to leave her vote in a sealed
envelope to be opened and counted.
Wettach said he was not ruling on
this, but that members of any board
exercising discretionary functions,
had to a’ttend meetings to vote.
Police Smash
CIO Group At
Auto Factory
Flint, Mich.," June 15.—(AP)—
Michigan State police broke up to
day a milling mass of United Auto
Workers (CIO) after Flint authorities
asked for help in clearing the streets
near the General Motors Fisher Body
plant No. 1.
Flint police said the crowd, num
bering about 800 men, was in a light
ing mood and might sack the head
quarters of the opposition union, the
UAW-AFL, which announced yester
day settlement of a General Motors
strike it called last week.
The State police, heretofore held
in reserve, rushed to the scene 100
strong in automobiles and quickly
dispersed the throng without cere
mony or violence.
“Come on, boys, break it up,” said
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Joint Front
Against Japs
London Aim
More Far - Reaching
Demands by Japan for
Control of Orient
Looked for; Chamber
lain Tells Commons
Situation Is Grave One
London, June 15. (AP)
Prime Minister Chamberlain
today indicated the possibility
of seeking joint action by Ber
lin, France and the United
States if Japan used the Tient
sin incident for more far-reach
ing demands against foreign in
terests in China. He told the
House of Commons that a Japa
nese spokesman at Tientsin had
said that the object of Japan’s
blockade of the British and
French concessions was to ob
tain “a much wider form of co
operation from British authori
ties in China.”
“It is clear,” the prime minister
continued, “that if this statement
represents the views of authorities
in Tokyo, the Japanese arc using the
incident to make demands wider
and more far-reaching than the
handing over of the four men.”
Chamberlain referred to Japan’s
earlier demand for delivery to Japa
nese authorities of four Chinese ac
cused of killing a Tientsin official,
and now detained in the British con
cession there. British rejection of
this demand led to the imposition
of the blockade early Wednesday.
“Such demands,” Chamberlain con
tinued, “would l’aise important ques
tions of policy in which other great
powers are concerned, no less than
this country, and the closest touch is
being maintained with the French
and United States governments.
“In the meantime, the British
government are considering the sit
uation created by the refusal of the
Japanese to accept a proposal for a
committee of inquiry and by con
tinuance of the bldckade of the set
tlement.”
Chamberlain said the situation
was “obviously a grave one,” but
added that “I am not prepared at
this moment to say what action we
shall decide to take.”
Dictator Os
Bolivia Not
German Tool
BY EDMUND A. CHESTER.
LaPaz, Bolivia, June 15.—(AP) —•
With a soldier’s frankness and a dip
lomat’s affability, President German
Busch, of Bolivia, in an interview to
day, said that he definitely was a
dictator, but that his government in
clined neither to the left nor to the
right.
Surrounded by none of the usual
pomp and gold braid, the 35-year
old president, who appears even
younger, received me at his office in
the presidential palace. He was dress
ed in a plain blue serge suit, with
soft shirt and a dark tie.
Explaining why he felt it neces
sary to dismiss the constituent as
sembly, and take all power into hi*
own hands April 24, President Busch
said: “You know Bolivia and yotf
can understand it was the only step
left for me. This dictatorship was
not born of violence, but the result
of more than two years of painful ex
perience in government.”
“To understand my action, you
must know that politics in my coun
try was filled with personal inter
ests and apoetities, which gave no
importance to the well-being and
progress of the country.”
President Busch said much had
been made of the fact his father was
a German, but he added: “I speak no
German. I never have been out of
Bolivia. I was born in Santa Cruz. I
am a Bolivian, nothing else.”
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy, with occasional
showers tonight and Friday.