HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
twenty-sixth year
U. S. FLATLY REFUSES TO MOVE WAR CRAFT
Queen Return
dome Amid Rousing
Welcome Os People
Survey Route of
East-West Planes
Pittsburgh, l'a., June 22.—(AP)
Pennsylvania Central Air Line
officials will make a survey flight
Monday over their proposed route
lm; worn Norfolk, Va.. and Knox
\ilb\ Trim. An application to op
erate the service has been filed
with the Civil Aeronautics Au
thority.
The survey will he made to in
spect facilities for the air line.
Slops w ill be made at Elizabeth
City, lloeky Mount. Raleigh,
Greensboro and Asheville.
kail Permit
OnA.&N.C.
Applied For
H. P. Edwards, of San
ford., Asks State and
I. C. C. To Let Him
Lease Goldsboro -
Morehead Line from
State
RMeigh, Juno 22.—(AP)—H. P.
!>' itds, of Sanford, acting for his
Atlantic & East Carolina Railroad
C lapany, asked the State Utilities
C'" 'imission today to permit him to
lea » and operate the State-controll
ed Atlantic & North Carolina Rail
road.
Utilities Commissioner Stanley
Winborne, said he was “very favir
able" to the petition, and that its ap
proval here would be little more
than a formality.
Edwards advised the commission
er that he also was filing formal re
request with the Interstate Com
' i ((' Commission to take over the
I 1! -mile line between Goldsboro and
Morehead City.
I he railroad has been operated in
recent years by the corporation in
which the State owns control.
8 Counties
Have Perfect
Road Record
319 Deaths and 2,472
Injuries First Five
Months in State; Guil
ford Leads With 18;
Henderson Has One
Death, Two Injuries
Daily DispatcTt Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, June 22.—Eight North
C; rolina counties have perfect high
way safety records for the first five
months of 1939, according to a com
pilation of figures obtained from the
oilier- of Ronald Hocutt, director of
the Highway Safety Division.
in these eight counties—Alexan
der, Alleghany, Cherokee, Pamlico,
bulk, Swain, Tyrrell and Yancey—
there have been no highway fatal
ities and no injuries through May,
according to the records available
in the division.
In fifteen other counties there
have been no fatalities, but from one
to 22 injuries, reported so far in 1939
Three of them miss perfection by
a single injury (Camden, Jones and
Transylvania). The other dozen, with
the number of injuries reported in
the five months arc: Pasquotank,
Haywood and Gates, 2 each; Hertford
and Hyde, 3 each; Chowan 4; Jack
on. Pender and Person, 6 each; Wa
tauga 10; and Granville 22.
At the other end of the scale, Guil
ford county leads all in number of
highway fatalities so for this year,
but holds only the slimmest of mar
gins over Mecklenburg, 18 to 17.
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Two Little Princesses
Meet George And
Elizabeth at Sea;
Queen Mother Goes
Aboard When Ship
Docks; Crowds Nearly
Go Wild
Southampton, England, June 22.
(AP) —King George and Queen
Elizabeth returned to British shores
today from their glittering North
American tour amid the cheers of
thousands of proud subiects. Their
liner, the Empress of Britain, tied
up at her pier at 2:39 p. m. (8:39 a.
m., eastern standard time).
Beneath a drab and misty sky, the
king and queen gazed from the
bridge of the Empress on a brilliant
panorama of color beneath— waving
flags and the nennant’ of smaller
craft in the harbor, and flower-be
decked welcoming arches.
Their two children, 13-year-old
Princess Elizabeth, and eight-year
old Margaret Rose, who had joined
their parents at sea, were at their
side, tugging with excitement at their
father’s arms.
Cheers and sirens made a terrific
din as the king and queen waved
again and again.
Queen Mother Mary, walking ap
parently without any stiffness from
her automobile accident of May 23',
while her son and his queen were
away, led the royal party aboard
the Empress for a private half hour
of greeting before the king and queen
came down the gangplank.
The king wpre the uniform of an
admiral of the fleet, and the queen
was in powder blue.
Southampton, with a normal pop
ulation of 180,000 had an estimat
ed 300,000 people in the streets and
at the dockside for the welcome,
despite a heavy mist, which sprink
led rain at times.
Five More Os
UCC Workers
Prostrated
Raleigh, June 22. —(AP) —
more employees of the Unemploy
ment Compensation Commission suf
fered heat prostrations today, making
ten since yesterday’s opening hour.
Alfonso Lloyd, city prosecutor, told
newsmen he planned to confer with
Harry McMullan, attorney general,
to see if UCC officials could be
criminally prosecuted in connection
with the heat prostrations.
Governor Hoey said plans had not
been completed in which employees
engaged in federal-state work would
go to their jobs earlier in the morn
ing and quit before the hottest part
of the day. The commission is hous
ed in a downtown building pending
completion of its own office build
ing this fall.
The Transatlantic is Officially Named
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The Transatlantic, the American Export Airlines* first flying boat for surveying a commercial airway
over steamship lanes to Europe, is christened off the Battery in New York by Mrs. John H. Towers, wife
of the Chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. After two months of trials, seiri-weekly round trips
for mail and air freight service between New York and Marseilles will be begun, according to com
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION
Manton Gets Two Years
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Former Federal Judge Martin T.
Manton is pictured as he entered
Federal Court in New York City,
where he was sentenced to two years
in prison and fined SIO,OOO for sell
ing his decisions on the bench. Man
ton’s lengthy plea, made to Judge
Calvin W. Chesnut, asking that the
conviction be voided, was in vain.
France And
Turkey Will
Sign Accord
Paris, June 22.—(AP) France
and Turkey are ready to sign a de
claration tomorrow announcing their
determination to unite in maintaining
peace in the Balkans and the eastern
Mediterranean area. Informed sour
ces said today that the French-Tuf
kish understanding would signal
great hope in finally getting Soviet
Russian adherence to the British-
French front as a counterweight to
the Rome-Berlin axis. Turkey is a
close friend of Russia.
By the agreement with Turkey,
France will sychronize further her
diplomatic efforts with those of
Great Britain, which already has a
mutual assistance understanding
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RURAL ELECTRICITY
PROGRAM APPROVED
Raleigh, June 22.—(AP) — The
State Rural Electrification Authority
approved plans today of the Joncs-
Onslow Electric Membership Cor
poration to build about 250 miles of
rural power lines if it can borrow
$250,000 from the Federal Rural Elec
trification Administration. The cor
poration has 785 prospective custom
ers signed up for service. The lines
would be mainly in Jones and On
slow, but also in Duplin and Lenior
counties.
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 22, 1939
$3,860,000,000 Lending Fund
Is Latest Roosevelt Project
Business” Through
Proposal Brought For
ward as “Stimulant to
Self- Liquidating
Work; More Money
Sought for Little Busi
ness
Washington, June 22. (AP)
—President Roosevelt proposed
to Congress today a $3,860,000,-
000 program for stimulating
business through self-liquidat
ing projects and low-cost hous
ing developments.
The President estimated that
at least $870,000,000 would be
dispersed in federal loans dur
ing the year starting July 1.
The remainder of the program,
split into six heights of self
liquidating projects, would con
tinue for from two to seven
years.
The President said that in the long
run the program would not cost the
tax-payers a cent, so far as self-li
quidating projects were concerned.
He outlined his proposals in a letter
to Chairman Byrnes, Democrat,
South Carolina, chairman of Ihe Sen
ate unemployment committee, and
sent copies to other Senate and
House leaders.
Mr. Roosevelt explained that there
would be a limit on the sell-liquidat
ing projects of $3,060,000,000 over
the two to seven year period which
their construction would embrace,
and as money came in from loans it
would be put out again as needed
to stimulate employment and busi
ness.
Another $800,000,000 would be ad
ded to the borrowing capacity of the
U. S. Housing Authority under .the
President’s plan. Mr. Roosevelt said
he could not state how much of this
would be used during the next fiscal
year, but that the money would be
applied to providing low-cost homes
for persons with incomes in the sl,-
250 to $2,000 class. These are not
covered b£ either the present slum
clearance program or the FHA op
erations, Mr. Roosevelt said.
Meanwhile, at the Capitol, Senator
Mead, Democrat, New York, said he
had support of Secretaries Morgen
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Walt Mason, Famed
Humorist, Dead At
California Home
San Diego, Cal., June 22. AP)
Walt Mason, 77, humorist and poet,
died today in his home at suburban
La Jolla after an illness of several
weeks. Mason became ill a few days
before his birthday, May 4. He was a
native of Columbus, Ontario, and had
come to the United States in 1880.
That same he was launched on
his newspaper career when bo got a
job on a job press in St. Louis.
The poet’s newspaper experience
include.J jobs on the Atchison, Kans.,
Globe; the Lincoln, Neb., State Jour
nal; and Emporia, Kans., Gazette.
OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
German Troops On the Move
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Arrows locate, approximately, various shifts of German troops toward
Polish border. Extensive movements of the Nazi soldiers, estimated at
more than 1,500,000, brought rumor that Hitler was preparing for hit
long-expected move on Danzig,
Leche’s Retirement
As Governor Stuns
Louisiana Leaders
Baton Rouge, La., June 22. —(AP)
—An unheralded change in Louisiana
governorship will elevate Lieutenant
Governor Early K. Long, brother of
the late “Kingfish” Huey Long, put
the State in a political whirl today.
Governor Richard Leche announc
ed last night he would resign next
week with nearly eleven months of
his term unexpired. As lieutenant
governor, Long will succeed auto
matically.
Although Leche gave ill health—
two severe arthritis attacks—as his
immediate reasons, observers noted
the announcement followed days of
almost continuous conferences and
paralleled a federal investigation of
WPA activities in the State. The
Political Homesickness
Congressmen’sßig Ailment
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, June 22.—Dr. George
W. Calver specializes on congress
ional medicine. He’s physician in
attendance on the
H national 1e g i sla
makers’ building.
commander in Un
tablishment. How
ever, quite a long
time ago the legis-
Dr. George lators felt the-need
Calver of a competent
disciple of Aesculapius everlastingly
on the job to nip all their ailments
in their very incipiency, and Calver
got the assignment. Today he’s as
much an institution on Capitol Hill
as the dome’s statute of liberty. In
fact, more so. The statue could be
replaced if it were struck by lightn
ing or something, but there’s only
one “Doc” Calver. Os course he can’t
be immortal, but it will be a con
gressional calamity when he does
pass. It will take years to train an
other candidate up to succeed him—
anyone with his 100 per centedness
of efficiency.
Perhaps somebody fails to realize
that congressional medicine is a
specialty.
Political Anxiety.
Well, who but a specialist would
know in advance that a bit of delay
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Fri
day; scattered thundershowers
Friday afternoon and in interior
this afternoon.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
fiery, quick-tempered 43-year-old
lieutenant governor, whose career
has included staunch support and
bitter denunciation of the late Sen
ator Huey Long, immediately rush
ed to New Orleans for political con
ferences. He issued a statement he
would carry on “the fine work done
in the past ten years under my
brother, Governor O. K. Allen and
Governor Richard W. Leche.”
The unexpected development
threw several ambitious former
lieutenants of Huey Long and sup
porters of his still-injact political
machine into dismay, since they
were preparing to run for governor
next January. As incumbent Long
would hold a distinct advantage.
in the lawmakers’ adjournment date
inevitably must be accompanied by
a marked increase in sickishness a
mong his customers? “Doc” Calver
knows it. He knows by experience
that senators and representatives
want to get home in good season
to ‘tend to their political fences, and
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Dr. Highsmith,
Fayetteville,
Dies Suddenly
Fayetteville, June 22.—CAP) —Dr.
Jacob Franklin Highsmith, founder
and head of the Fayetteville hospital
bearing his name, died unexpectedly
today at his farm home in Sampson
county. He would have been 71 his
next birthday September 1.
Dr. Highsmith, one of the State’s
outstanding surgeons, and well
known throughout the South, had
been in failing health, for several
months. The specific cause of death
was not announced.
He was a past president of the
North Carolina State Medical Society
the Cumberland County Medical So
ciety, the North Carolina and South
Carolina College of Surgeons, and
for a number of years was a mem
ber of the State Board of Medical
Examiners.
His funeral will be held tomor
row afternoon at his home here. Sur
viving are three sons who are phy
sicians on the staff of the Highsmith
hospital, and five other children.
Dr. Highsmith was a native of
Sampson county. He was graduated
from Wake Forest College and Jef
ferson Medical College at Philadel
phia.
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Additional
Vessel Sent
Into Swatow
Two American, Two
British Destroyers
Standing by Despite
Jap Warning; Counter
Measures by Britain
Certain in China
Washington, June 22. (AP)
(The United States govern
ment has bluntly informed Ja
pan that, instead of clearing out
of Chinese harbors, its war
ships will stay in these ports “as
long as American citizens are
in need of protection or assist
ance.”
Told by the Japanese to take the
destroyer Pillsbury out of Stoatow,
Admiral Harry Yarnell, chief of the
Asiatic fleet, flatly refused. He went
even farther, the Navy Department
disclosed today, and brought in an
other destroyer, the Pope. The gun
boat Asheville will follow from Hong
Kong.
Some 40 Americans are at Swatow
rich south China port, which had
trans-shipped millions dollars worth
of war materials to Chinese forces
before the Japanese occupied it yes
terday.
Yarnell said that American war
ships would try to avoid interfer
ence with Japanese operations, so far
as was consistent with the duty of
looking after United States interests.
TWO U. S., TWO BRITISH
DESTROYERS STANDING BY
Shanghai, June 22.—(AP) — Two
American and two British destroyers
stood by in Swatow harbor later to
day despite a Japanese order or sug
gestion that foreign warships and
nationals withdraw from their new
ly-captured south China port.
Foreign naval sources were dou
bled during the day, and, except for
the departure of 20 British women
and children, the American and Brit
ish communities stood pat.
Japanese and Occidental accounts
differed as to the nature of the Japa
nese communications. British naval
quarters said foreign ships had been
“ordered” to leave Swatow harbor
by 1 p. m. (midnight Wednesday,
eastern standard time). A Japanese
spokesman in Shanghai said only
tne usual warning” had been given
to foreigners to leave the zone of
possible hostilities..
JAP GET OUT QUICKLY
ON ARRIVAL OF BRITISH
Tientsin, China, June 22.—(AP)—
The sudden appearance of British
bluejackets today halted Japanese
examination of cargo being discharg
ed by British lighters while block
aded British further were heartened
by a message of sympathy and hope
lrom the London government and
the ending of the milk shortage.
These developments occurred on
the ninth day of the Japanese block
ade of the British and French con
cessions:
A Japanese military patrol with
drew at the sight of the bluejackets
after the soldiers had begun inspect
ing the cargo being discharged at the
British Bund.
The message from London, from
Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax to
Consul General Jamieson, expressed
the government’s sympathy to the
blockaded British “for the difficul
ties and indignities they are being
made to suffer.”
Lord Halifax pledged that the gov
ernment would make “every effort to
protect their interests and terminate
the present crisis as soon as pos
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Won’t Be 6
Executions
On Same Day
Raleigh, June 22.—(AP)—Gover
nor Hoey said today that the State
would not execute six men for mur
der July 7, the date now fixed for
carrying out six sentences. The State
has never executed more than three
men in single day.
“There will not be sufficient time
to make a thorough study of each
case by July 7,” said Governor Hoey.
T have not studied any of them yet,
but there will not be six executions
that day. There will be developments
in a few days.”
The men facing death July 7 and
counties in which they were convict
ed are: Alfred Capers and Bricey
Hammonds, both from Robeson;
James Cureton, Forsyth; James God
win, Guilford ;J ames Henderson,
New Hanover; and Glenn Maxwell,
Alleghany.