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French Submarine Goes Down With 63 Men On Board In East HKNOKRSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR BRITAIN WARNS JAPAN AGAINST BLOCKADE Roosevelt Says Income Tax Base Must Be Broadened No Action By Congress Likely Now President Says More Citizens Ought T o Feel Weight of Tax Load; New Industrial Lending Pro’gram Dis cussed by Executive Washington, June 16.—(AP) — President Roosevelt said today the income tax structure would have to be broadened at the base, but he doubted that Congress would take any action on it this session. Re sponding to questions at a press conference, the President said he believed the base should be broad ened a little bit to cover more tax payers. but he added this would not bring in much additional revenue. (Broadening the base means to lower salary exemptions so that more individuals pay income taxes.) Broadening, the President said, would give added responsibilities ot citizenship to a group not now cov ered by the tax laws. He also ex pressed the opinion that income tax rates in the middle brackets prob ably should be raised a little bit. Also the president said he was studying a new industrial lending program, embracing self-liquidating projects which would operate within the budget and add nothing to the public debt. He said he was study ing the question of increasing the present limitations on various fede ral lending agencies, with the view ol probably raising aid limits. Railroad equipment loans also were being studied, he added, in cluding the question whether to give the carriers legal title to equipment or to set up a new corporation with in the Reconstruction Finance Cor poration to build and lease equip ment to the roads. Germany Is To Deny New Claims Order Prague, June 16.—(AP) —The semi' - official announcement said today that the German gov ernment does not recognize the validity of the American Mixed Claims Commission decision holding the Reich responsible for World War Black Tom and Kingsland munitions disasters. WPA Changes In Relief To Be Modified Washington, June 16.—(AP) —The House Appropriations sub-committee in charge of the $1,716,000,000 relief bill voted today to modify some of its proposed changes in the WPA pro gram in an effort to head off an im pending floor fight. The sub-committee approved, in addition to some clarifying amend ments, four changes in some of the provisions which have aroused the most opposition. •Specifically, they propose to change the $25,000 limitation on WPA build ing construction projects so that the agency could spend up to $50,000 on federal buildings and $40,000 of federal funds on non-federal pro jects. Sponsors’ contributions would be in addition to the latter amount. The controversy complicated plans of the House leadership to whip the measure through before nightfall. Other developments: President Roosevelt told a press conference the administration was working gradually toward ending the practice of giving jobs in payment of political debts. That was his com ment on a speech by Attorney Gen eral Murphy at Asbury Park, N. J., best night. Murphy urged that this practice be stopped and also pro posed a $1,000,000,000 cut in the pub bc payrolls, federal, state and muni cipal. imtiirrsmt tlettfit isl tsuiifrh WIRE SERVK’F nw 1 he associated pre!sP F In Baltimore Branding Case W. : j§n Morton Rosen, 19 (center), faces trial on charges of assaulting Harry Ebberts, 15 (left), and Carroll Phillips, 17 (right), in the alleged anti- Semitic branding of Melvin Bridges, 15, Baltimore high school student. Rosen is said to have accompanied the Bridges boy to school after he had been attacked and branded by members of a “Junior Nazi Bund.” (Central Press) Business Has Hit Bottom For 1939, Babson Thinks Rise Should Be Better from Here on Through Year, Statistician Says; Finds Retail Trade Brisk; Most Industries Picking Up By ROGER W. BABSON Copyright 1939, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. STRAWS IN BUSINESS WIND 1. Pivotal steel industry busier. 2. Most industries feel upturn. 3. Building best in ten years. 4. Stocks of goods on hand low. 5. Retail trade at good level. 6. Sensitive commodity prices rising. 7. Farm income higher than in 1938. 8. European picture quieter. Wilmington, Del., June 16 —Dur- ing the past two weeks I have trav elled about 4,000 miles. It is very evident from my observations that business has started a new upward climb. It is a pecular coincidence, but it was just a year ago this week that business threw off the shackles of the 1938 recession. Trade reports pf the past fortnight indicate that many industries have rounded the turn and are now straightening out on the recovery trail. Summer busi ness should be better than at the current time, although I see no evi dence of a “boom”. For June ,the Babsonchart Index of Business stands at 96. A year ago New Efforts Made To Get Russian Aid Moscow, June I.—(AP) —In a fresh effort to overcome Russian re luctance to accept the latest British- French proposals for a tripower mu tual aid pact, envoys of Britain and France today had their second meet ing in two days with Premier-For eign Commissar Molotoff. Results of the conference were not disclosed. The western powers were represented by British Ambassador William Seeds, French Ambassador Paul Nagiar Naggiar, and William Strang, special envoy of the London Foreign office, who brought the new proposals to Moscow. Before today’s meeting, results of yesterday’s lengthy talk were char (Continued on Page Six) CONVICT ESCAPES FROM GATES CAMP Raleigh, June 16.—(AP) —Oscar Pitts, penal superintendent, said George Wade, 24-year-old New Han over county convict, escaped shortly before 9 o’clock this morning from the Gates county prison camp. Rec ords showed Wade was sentenced in March to three consecutive terms, seven to ten years for store-break ing and larceny, two years on the same charges, and six months for larceny _ __ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. it was down to 80. This means busi ness is 20 per cent above the low of last year. In my Business Outlook for 1939 I predicted that business would show a 25 per cent gain for the first half of 1939 over the same period of 1938. I was a trifle too optimistic. For the entire six months, the gain has averaged only 20 per cent. I had (Continued on page two) Durham Negro Is Gassed by State Raleigh, June 16. (AP) —Ed Alston, 29-year-old Negro, con fessed his guilt today just before being executed by gas for the rob bery-murder in Durham in De cember, 1937, of Janie Wilkerson, 103-year-old Negress. Chaplain L. A. Watts quoted Alston‘as saying, “I did it, and I want you all to forgive me. I am the one.” The slightly built Negro entered the death chamber at 10:02, and gas was started at 10:04. He was pronounced dead exactly 13 min utes later. His family claimed the body. L. H. Owen, Durham officer who investigated the killing of the Negress, and witnessed the execu tion, said Alston was known as a “pretty rough” man. Alston was the 221st person executed here since 1910. OHIO BABY KIDNAPED, FOUND SLAIN IN CREEK Home from where baby was taken Haldon Baker Fink .... Slain Police throughout northwestern Ohio launched a widespread manhunt for the kidnap-slayer of 10-month-old Haldon Baker Fink of Clyde, 0., kidnaped from the home of his grandparents and later found dead in a creek seven miles west of Clyde. The child’s mother, Mrs. Velma Fink, divorced from her husband, Ervin Fink, 23, had bwv living with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oren Baker. HENDERSON, N. C„ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE, 16, 1939 French Sub Sinks Off Indo-China Information Meagre, but Indicates Major Disaster Akin to U. S. Squalus and British Thetis Recently Paris, France, June 16.—(AP) —The navy ministry announced tonight that the French sub marine Phenix, with four officers and 59 men aboard, failed to re appear after a dive Thursday morning in the Bay of Camranh, French Indo-China. The communique read: “There is serious anxiety concerning the fate of the first class submarine Phenix, at present attached to Indo-China. After a dive carried out during exercises the morning ol June 15 off the Bay of Cam ranh, the submarine did not re appear. The Far Eastern naval forces, as well as unattached ships of the navy in Indo-China, immediately began searches which still continue. Seaplanes in the colony are also participat ing.” “Informed immediately, the navy ministry notified the families of the members of the crew.” (At Camranh bay, southeast coast of mcio-Uuna, iuemee is building a large naval base to bulwark the de fense of French interests in the Far East. Progress on the base has been speeded since Japan’s invasion of China began two years ago.) Navy officials said the Phenix car ried four officers and 59 men. They said the vessel sank in deep water, but gave no immediate estimate of (Continued on Page Three) F reak Hurricane Hits Golf Coast With Little Loss New Orleans, La., June 16. (AP)—A freak tropical disturb ance which remained almost stationary off the gulf coast sev eral days, moved inland today, with winds up to 50 miles an hour buffeting the Mobile-Pen sacola area. Early reports indi cated damage was confined to blowing down a few signs and tree limbs. A high tide was predicted at Mobile. A Weather Bureau advisory said the disturbance probably would be brief in duration. The storm, first of the “hurricane season,” arose last Monday be low Key West, Fla. iOsicdthsih FOR NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy tonight and Sat urday; probably showers in southwest portion. Japs Blockade in Tientsin - ll /W EAST CHE NO L* I / * '■*VV v 5 JO MUKDEN - \ FRENCH 'N* ( / * ~T: * :.<PNSUIAT| 1 \ w consulat ' s » I F •'* s t \) I \ D • STai Tientsin’s British and French concessions are shown on this map of the troubled Chinese area. Japan tightened her blockade on the Tientsin concessions following report* ths powers would take reprisal measures, and allowed no food to enter. Supreme Court Upholds N. C/s State Sales Tax Tax on Sales by Out of-State Firms Also Upheld; Four Death Sentences Likewise Approved as Court Ends Its Spring Term Raleigh, June 16. (AP)—The State Supreme Court today up held the validity of North Caro lina’s three percent general sales tax. The court upheld death sent ences in four criminal cases in volving Bricey Hammonds, of Robeson county; James Hender son, of North Hanover county; James Cureton, of Forsyth coun ty, and James Godwin, convicted in Guilford county. A new trial was granted James Buchanan, convicted in Forsyth of the murder of his wife. The court held that the State tax imposed on out-of-state firms who hire rooms or exhibit places at which to offer merchandise for sale to be delivered on order was valid, in reversing a superior court deci sion in Wake county, in which Best & Company of New York won a test suit against A. J. Maxwell, revenue commissioner. There were 33 cases decided. The court carried two over until its fall term, including one challenging the constitutionality of the State’s “fair trades act.” The court adjourned its spring term sine die Chief Justice W. P. Stacy wrote the sales tax case opinion. The suit was filed by J. Paul Leonard, seer (Continued on Page Six) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. U. S. Charge Talks Crisis With Japs Tokyo, June 16.—(AP)—The American charge d’affaires in Tokyo, Eugene Dooman, discuss ed the British-Japanese contro versy at Tientsin in a call at the foreign office today, and govern ment circles believed this might be a preliminary step toward med itation offorts by the United States. Dooman, however, said he took up the Tientsin situation “unof ficially,” since he had received no instructions from Washington, and declared he had taken no steps toward meditation. Dooman spent nearly an hour with S. Yoshivawa, head of the American section of the foreign office. Authoritative sources had indicated that Japan’s terms for settlement were capitulation by the British on all fronts. Farewells Sent To King By Roosevelt Aboard the Empress ol' Britain, June 16.—(Canadian Press) — Fare well wishes, coupled with an expres sion of the “extreme pleasure” with which the royal visit was received in the United States have been sent to (Continued on Page Two) Military “Swap” Makes U. S. Friends Os Latins By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist * Washington, June 16.—Whatever may be said concerning other New Deal policies, nobody who knows Latin America at all intimately can dispute that the Roosevelt adminis tration is doing a wonderfully good job of developing friendship between this and other New World republics. The other day the Wfish mgton War Department leaked (intention- Cordell Hull alJ y> IVe no doubt) the info rmation that eight of our southern neighbors are sending little groups of their 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Two Chinese Killed Near Concession Communique Says Japanese Action In China Affects Rights of All Powers Under Treaties; Food Situa tion Serious at Tient sin London. June 16—(AP) —The Brit ish government declared today that any attempt to restrict British rights in China would bring “immediate and active steps” by Britain. The foreign office took the unusual step of issuing a communique to express concern over statements by Japanese spokesmen that Japan demanded “that the British authorities coop erate with the Japanese in the con struction of a ‘new order’ in the East.” ) The communique said: “British cir cles cannot but take a most serious view of the further demands which have been made, and which raise the widest issues affecting the rights of all those powers which have treaty rights in China. They would mean the abandonment under threats of force of the policy which His Ma jesty’s government have followed in the past, which is the same as that of other great powers with interests in the Far East.” The communique was issued as the Japanese-British crisis in China con tinued, with the Japanese army blockading the British and French concessions in Tientsin. “It is still hoped that the Japanese authorities may not maintain their refusal to give further consideration to the proposals to localize the in cident,” the communique continued. But if, unhappily, the new demands (Continued on Page Six) Germans Speed Up Policemen’s Trial For Czech’s Death Prakue, June 16. (AP) —The trial of two German policemen on charges of slaying a Czech policeman, Johann Mueller, a week ago at Nachod, opened today before a special tribunal in Prague. Defendants and wit nesses were brought to Prague this morning for proceedings in the regular court building. The prosecutor said the verdict would probably be announced about midnight. A representative of official German and Czech news agen cies was permitted to attend. The names of the accused men were not announced. The sche duled swiftness in handling the case was regarded in Czech quarters as an effort to demon strate impartiality in the Ger man administration of the pro tectorate of Bohemia and Mora via following stern restrictions imposed on the town of Klando after the killing of a German policeman. The Kladno killer was still at large. picked military men to this country for instruction, along with our own experts in war-craft, in a program of joint defense in the event of at tempted transatlantic or transpacific interference in affairs in any of the Pan-Americas. The students are com ing from Brazil, Argentina, Vene zuela, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Chile and Haiti. Uncle Sam will foot the bill, too, a consideration well cal culated to weigh in our favor thro ughout thrifty Latin America. It won’t amount to much—one or two hundreds of thousands, a mere bag o’-shells to Uncle Samuel. Still, tPie Latins will appreciate it. On our part, v/e have several military missions in their midst, for which they’re sup posed to pay the upkeep. The War Department’s notion is to take that item off their hands also. It would (Continued on Page Two)
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