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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-sixth year BRITISH-JAPANESE CRISIS GROWS W ORSE Finland Pays Up Again '' IF" 4ifk. flilli '■wafnaT? MhH 'tj® - - - Hjalmar Procope (right), Finnish Minister to U. S., hands Secretary ?! Henry Morgenthau a check for $160,000, which includes 7, .noT 60 under the fundln S agreement of 1923 and $19,030.50 under the 19oL moratorium. The little country was the only nation to pay ud as yearly installment of war debts to the United States came due. Relief Bill Is Passed By Big House Majority Air Base Saved By Warren Move Washington, June 17.—(AP) Representative Warren, Democrat, North Carolina, may have saved the coast guard air base at Eliz abeth City, N. C., and hundreds of federal projects now under way from being cut off from WPA funds. Warren was one of the first to discover that the provisions in the 1910 relief appropriation bill as it came from committee, prohibit ing grants for federal projects, would affect those already under way and projects for which fed eral funds had been appropriated for materials with the expectation WPA money would be used for labor. Elizabeth City air base, now under construction, came in the latter classification. As a result of Warren’s discovery, the House Appropriations Committee agreed to amendments insuring WPA funds for such undertakings, and they were quickly agreed to by the House. Electrical ! I Co-Op Runs Into Trouble Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter lloteL By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, June 17. —All is not sparkle and glitter along the 966 miles of line operated by the Cald well Electrical Cooperative. There is considerable woe, and some indig nation among its more than 5,000 customers because there has recent ly been levied against each and every one of them a monthly “amor tization” fee of 75 cents. The first bills onto which this 75 cents was tacked went out a couple of days ago and it is receipt of the nnwelcome duns that brought into the open the fact that some of things said about the coop a couple of years back were not put unadulterated meanness and power company pro paganda. Notice of the “Amortization fee” was mailed in a circular letter to customers some time ago; the let ter being in the nature of an ad mission by the co-op's “board of di rectors,” as the circular was signed, that the management was all wet when it insisted that the project could be operated without a mini mum charge. When organization of the co-op was under consideration, application wa*; made to the State Rural Elec trification Authority for approval, but when Dudley Bagley and his associates begin to dig into the feas ibility of the set-up as presented to them, sponsors, egged on by the Federal Rural Electrification Ad (Continued on Page Five). ... •sa3s»i imtitersmt <3 at lit Dfemtirh WIRE SERVICE ni? iHE ASSOCIATED PRESS° P Vote Comes After 14- Hour Session, Longest In Recent Y ears; Roosevelt Determina tion for Huge Spend ing-Lending Sure Washington, June 17. —(AP) — A weary House put an emphatic “okay” early today on the bill to provide $1,735,000,000 for relief during the year starting July 1, abolish such WPA projects as theatrical produc tions and otherwise restrict work re lief spending. The bill was passed at the end of a tumultuous session which lasted more than 14 hours, one of the long est in recent years. Speaker Bank head announced the roll call vote was 373 to 21. Nine Democrats and 12 Republicans ballotted against the measure. It now goes to the Senate, where leaders promised swift con sideration, in order to replenish WPA coffers when current appropriations run out. A smooth-working coalition of Re publicans and some Democrats, aug mented by a sprinkling of members who usually are administration sup porters, beat back repeated efforts to eliminate or modify some of the pro posed restrictions on the relief agency and to increase the funds for various phases of the relief program. Other developments: Belief that President Roosevelt will propose to Congress a new pro gram of federal lending to stimu late business was strengthened by the action of one of his foremost fin ancial advisors, Marriner Eccles, in strongly advocating such outlays. Ec cles, chairman of the Federal Re serve Board, took the lead in an ef fort to muster public support for the new lending proposals. A. F. PHILLIPS, OF WILKESBORO, DEAD North Wilkesboro, June 17.—(AP) —A. F. Phillips, for 30 years identi fied with business interests here, died today in a Richmond, Va., hospital, friends here were informed. He had been in ill health for some time. 30 Aboard Clipper Upon Preview Hop To Europe New York, June 17.—(AP) — Thirty persons, the largest number ever to set out on a trans-Atlantic flight, headed for Europe today on a “preview” flight on the Pan-Amer ican Airways Atlantic Clipper. The journey, especially for the benefit of newsmen and radio repre sentatives, is a prelude to regular passenger service scheduled to start in ten days. News stories and broad casts will be sent from the four motored 6,000 horsepower plane en route. The clipper will carry 18 pas-, ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION King, Queen In St. Johns, Final Visit Newfoundland Pays Homage to British Rulers Before They Set Sail Finally For Ho m e ; Fisherfolk Give Warm Welcome St. Johns, N. F., June 17.—(Cana dian Press)—King George and Queen Elizabeth rode into the capital of their empire’s oldest colony today to receive the homage and acclaim of Newfoundland on the last stop of i iheir North American tour. Their majesties reached the gaily decorated capital after a 26-miic drive across a peninsula from Con ception Bay, where the liner Em press of Britain, serving as a royal yacht on the return trip to England, anchored last night after a 25-houi voyage from Halifax. Governor Sir Humphrey Walwyn, of Newfoundland, welcomed them aboard the liner. A few moments later the king and queen, refreshed by two nights and a day at sea, step ped ashore from a royal barge which brought them from the liner. Fishermen lined the decks of their schooners to shout a welcome Crowds massed along the shore took up the cry and a 21-gun salute boomed while a band played, “God Save the King.” In a brief radio address to the colony, King George recalled his pre vious visit in 1913 as a naval cadet aboard the cruiser Cumberland. STRANGE MAN DEAD ON LEADING STREET Moncks Corner, S. C., June 17. (AP) —A man apparently between 30 and 35 years old was found dead today on main street here. Police said it appeared he had been struck by a hit-and-run motorist. He was dressed in white summer clohes and white shoes. He wore a pin bear ing the letters, “C. P. C.” and on the shoes was the name Thalheimer’s, Richmond, Va. The officers said they were told the man was seen in a dancing place last night, and was heard to say he had come from Charleston. Ickes Blocks $36,000 Fee On WPA Job Washington, June 17. —(AP) —Ad- ministrtaor Ickes disallowed today a $36,000 tee for the L. W. Robert firm of architects and engineers, At lanta, in connection with PWA con struction of a $4,881,000 Georgia hospital for the insane. Robert, secretary of the Democra tic National Committee, recently was cleared of charges of “lobbying” for the institution by a special investi gating committee of the Georgia leg islature . Ickes said the Georgia State De partment of Public Welfare, spon sor of the construction project at Milledgeville, Ga., might pay Rob ert the $36,000 from its own fund if it so chose, but that no PWA money was “promotion” activities contained in the Robert contract in the State, and it was “to be paid upon ap proval of the federal agencies and upon federal aid being made avail able to the State.” This provision, he said, violated the letter of the contract between the applicant and PWA, which pro vided that the offer of a $2,381,400 grand was made “subject to the ex press condition” if Ickes found that the applicant had agreed to pay a bonus commission or fee to any one for attempting to procure approval of the work. sengers and a crew of 12. Taking off between 1 and 2 p. m., Captain W. D. Culbertson planned to reach Horta, The Azores, about sun rise Sunday, then go on to Lisbon to spend the night. Then on Monday the plane will fly to its ultimate destina tion, Marsellies. Five of the passen ■ gers are women. Pan-American Airways has operat ed a mail service over the route since May 20, but today’s flight was the first in which any but company ein , ployeeu A articipated. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 17, 1939 Reports on Japan Joseph C. Grew, United States am bassador to Japan, arrives at White House to report on the situation in China, where the Japanese have laid down blockades against inter national settlements. • (Central Press) Road Deaths 62 In State During May Five Percent Less Than May, 1938, To tal in Five Months 319, Compared With 313 Same Period Last Year Raleigh, June 17.—(AP)—Sixty two persons died as a result of North Carolina traffic accidents during May a decrease of five percent under the 65 of May, 1938, fatalities. This year, however, 319 persons had been killed up to June 1 in automobile accidents, compared with 313 a year ago. Ronald Hocutt, director of the highway safety division, pointed out that 19 of the May fatalities occurred within city limits, and that 145 of the 506 accidents reported took place within municipal boundaries. He re asserted that more attention should be paid by municipal authorities to the traffic problem. Eighteen pedestrians, an increase of two over May, 1938, died of traf fic accidents last month, but only four child pedestrians were killed, as compared with five a year ago, The fatalities, accidents involving injudies to persons, and accidents all decreas ed in May as compared with May a year ago. Court Omits Rulings Upon Live Issues Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Waller Hotel. . Raleigh, June 17.—Only two cases remain in the breast of the court” after the Supreme Court of North Carolina yesterday gave its okay to the sales tax; said that the State can levy a tax on the display of goods in hotel rooms; killed the last legal hope of four men convicted oi capital crimes while it gave one a new lease on life; handed down opin ions in 26 other cases; and knocked off for the balance of the summer. One of the hold-overs is Lilly vs. Sanders Drug Stores, in which the constitutionality of North Carolina’s 1937 “fair trade” act is at stake; the other is Tickle vs. Hobgood, from Alamance, in which the plaintiff below got a verdict for being made sick by a “foreign and deleterious substance” in a bottle of coca-cola. In the Lilly case, Judge Henry L. Stevens, Jr., in one of his first de cisions after ascending the superior court bench, held that the State can not forbid sale of “trade marked” and Rationally advertised goods at less -than the price fixed by makers o# the products. Litigants in these two cases must, (Continued on Page Three) (O&aJthsUi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and somewhat unsettled, possibly showers in central portion Sunday. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Partly cloudy, with temperature near normal to somewhat above, ex cept for occasional scattered day time showers. OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA 71 Men Lost Aboard French Submarine At Indo-China Base Craft, One of Finest In French Navy, Not Even Located Yet, and Death of Entire Crew Is Certain; Water Is Very Deep Saigon, French Indo-China, Juno 17. (AP) —An official French govern ment communique said today 71 of ficers and sailors were lost aboard the French submarine Phenix, which disappeared Thursday off Cam-Ranh naval vase. Death for the men, whose number previously was given by officials as 63, was considered “certain,” the communique said. The depth of the ocean and two days’ failure to lo cate the submarine were advanced as reasons for lack of hope. Naval authorities calculated that the Phenix’s air supply was exhausted today. Disappearance of the Phenix, one of the fast submarine units in the French navy, marked the third great submarine disaster in less than a month. It followed loss of the American Squalus with 26 lives, and the British Thetis, which was the sealed tomb of 99. Even if located, naval authorities expected great salvage difficulties would be encountered in attempting to learn the secret of the sunken craft. In places, the China Sea is more than 300 l'eet deep, and pressure on the submarine, lying on the ocean floor, would give salvagers and div ers an immense task. Authorities kept in constant touch with homeland officials. Families of the victims were notified yesterday that hope had been abandoned for the crew, commanded by 43-year-old Lieutenant Bouchacourt. The area where the Phenix made (Continued on Page Five) French Hint At Sabotage Paris, June 17.—(AP) —Hints of suspected sabotage began to creep into sections of the Paris press today as the nation mourned the disap pearance of the 2,000-ton French sub marine Phenix with 71 men aboard off the coast of Indo-China. Writers in several newspapers asked questions like, “Can this be the law of average, that three demo cracies lose three submarines in less than a month?” The communist paper, L’Human ite, said: “This commands suspicion”. It linked three submarine disasters suffered by the United States, GreSt Britain and France, with the loss of the 34,000-ton French liner Paris, which burned April 19 at her Le- Havre dock. French authorities have worked on the theory that the fire was set by foreign agents. Warns Japan ft:; Sk J •••• Sir Robert Craigie Sir Robert Craigie, British ambas sador to Japan, warned the Tokyo government that danger of “provo cative action” in Tientsin and other blockaded British concessions in China, might lead to a “regrettable incident,” PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Jap Danger Spots VSs.sg/»"‘-y~ !E_ /iiLSHANGHftI =N : : -*** 'o- V AMOYfJjjjjl - "" New struggle over Occidental inter ests in China broadened to include these three cities, as Japan began blockade of foreign settlements, no tably those of Great Britain. Block ade began at Tientsin, when British refused to relinquish four prisoners, and spread to Amoy, where Japa nese warships congregated. Brit ish shipping firms at Hankow re ported they were cut off. (Central Preset Plot Found For Killing King Carol S.even Alleged Mem bers of “Iron Guard” Held in Roumania; Premier and Foreign Minister Reported Al so “Marked” Men Bucharest, Roumania, June 17. (AP) —Discovery of a widespread plot to assassinate King Carol was announced by police today. Seven men were under arrest charged with preparing quantities of hand gren ades for the attempt. The police said the arrested men were identified as members of the outlawed iron guard. The government surpressed news of the alleged plot in Bucharest. Premier Calinescu, Foreign Minis ter Gafencu and other members of the government also were reported marked for death by the band. Police said that a “half hundred” arrests were expected shortly. Scores of detectives started raids on homes of former iron guard mem bers. Twenty-two hand grenades were reported discovered in the home of one of the arrested men. It was the third assassination plot reported against Carol or members of the government since the first of the year. In January a premature bomb explosion led to the arrest of iron guard members, who police ac cused of plotting to kill Carol. Twenty-five guardists were arrested early in February on the charges of plotting to kill Calinescu. Great stocks of firearms and explosives were found in the home of one of the arrested men. Today’s arrests came as a surprise to the capital, for the government had boasted that the iron guard, had been liquidated. Slayer Dies By Guillotine Versailles, France, June 17. —(AP) Eugene Weidmann, 31-year-old mass murderer, falteringly went to his death on the guillotine this morn ing. The man who killed the young Brooklyn dancer, Jean Dekoven, and five others, suddenly, rebelled at death with his head on the block, and tried to withdraw. It took the aged strength of 70- year-old “Uncle Leopold” Desfour neaux, chief headman, and one assis tant, to unbuckle Weidmann’s knees. “Uncle Leopold” then pushed Weid mann flat, and his assistant pulled (Continued on Page Five) o PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Japs Arrest Briton In Angry Row T rouble Occurs At Tientsin, Which I s Blockaded; Jap Sol diers Beaten Off In Attempt To Seize Po lice Station at Shang hai Settlement Tientsin, June 17.—(AP) —Tense British-Japanese relations were ag gravated today when Japanese sol diers arrest G. A. Smith, a British exporter, following an argument be tween him and a Chinese policeman outside the British concession. Smith allegedly struck the Chinese in the face. An unidentified com panion then circulated a story, later disproved, that a Japanese sentry shot dead a man believed to be a White Russian. The British consul general took steps to obtain Smith’s release. Informed persons said they were preparing for a long “siege” in the belief that only the solution of the larger issues between Japanese and foreigners could end a British-Japa nese crisis arising from a Japanese blockade of Tientsin’s British and French concessions, imposed four days ago. A definite air of pessimism and a fatalistic acceptance of their situa tion was noticeable among foreigners as food prices soared, a milk short age caused hardship among children, and Japanese urged the Chinese to bring independent pressure on the British to accede to Japanese de mands. In qualified British quarters, the (Continued on Page Three) State Liquor Sales Higher Raleigh, June 17.—(AP) — North Carolina’s 27 “wet” counties sold $493,002.40 worth of liquor last month of liquor last month, an in crease of $36,869.73 over May, 1938, Cutlar Moore, chairman of the State Board of Alcoholic Control, reported today. However, Moore said, sales for this fiscal year through May total ed $6,397,131.15, compared with $6,- 530,209.30 for the same period last year. Receipts during the first five months of this calendar year were $2,572,738.80, as against a total of $2,- 567,455.20 for the same period in 1938. Wake county led in May, with $76,- 481.65. Durham was second, with $76,167.90. Escapee Recaptured. Raleigh, June 17.—(AP) — Oscar Pitts, penal superintendent, reported today that George Wade, who es caped yesterday from the Gates coun ty prison camp, was captured lr.st night. Prison records said Wade was serving terms of two years and seven to ten years for store-breaking and larceny in New Hanover county. Local Lady Honored At B. P. W. Meet Winston-Salem, June 17.—(AP)— Election of officers today climaxed the convention of North Carolina Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, attended by 250 delegates from 26 clubs. An unopposed slate of officers was nominated in the morning, with the last major item on an afternoon bus iness session being the election. Mrs. Dess M. Gurganus, of Raleigh was unopposed nominee for presi dent; Mr 3. Frances Hoffman, of Ra leigh, corresponding secretary. Mrs. Ruby Day, of Barfield, of Durham, and Miss Genevieve Rutherford were nominees for first and second vice presidents . . Miss Annie Marshall LeMay, of Henderson, was slated to become re cording secretary, and Miss Marga ret Thompson, of Thomasville, treas urer. District directors unopposed for election included: Second district, Mrs. Lillian Hoffman, of Charlotte; third, Miss Marian Steadman, of Asheville; fourth, Miss Eunice Cook, of Clinton; sixth, Mrs. W. E. Porch, of Goldsboro. The delegates met at a “dawn of a new day” breakfast, at which Mrs. O. B. James, president of the High Point club, served as hostess.
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