HENDERSON’S
COPULATION
13,873
twenty-sixth year
BRITAIN PUNS LAST WARNING TO GERMANY
Deaths In Week-End
Number 113 In U. S.,
As Holiday Nears
61 Traffic Fatalities
and 43 Drownings Re
ported; Five Acci
dental Deaths Shown
for North Carolina
(Bv The Associated Press).
At least 133 persons died in week
end holiday accidents as the nation
relaxed to begin its celebration of
the 163rd anniversary of American
independence. Traffic accidents
claimed 61 lives, and 43 persons
were drowned. Five were killed by
trains, two died in an airplane acci
xient. Three persons were fatally
shot. Other causes of deaths in
cluded fire, stabbing, a fall from a
horse, and a fall from a high build
ing
Ohio led the states with 18 dead,
and New York counted 17. The
deaths by states follow: Illinois, 8;
Indiana, 13; lowa, 3; Kentucky, 8;
Maine, 5; Maryland, 11; Massachu
setts. 6: Michigan, 7; Minnesota, 6;
Nebraska, 2; New Hampshire, 2;
New Jersey, 9: New York, 17; North
Carolina, 5: Ohio, 18; South Carolina,
4; Virginia, 7! West Virginia, 1; Wis
consin. 2.
FIVE ACC IDENTAL DEATHS
REPORTED IN THIS STATE
Charlotte, July 3.—(AP) —At least
five persons met accidental deaths
in North Carolina over the week
end
Malcolm James, 12, drowned while
playing in an indoor pool at Golds
boro. At Whiteville, Avery Gai'rell,
22. died of a broken neck suffered a
week ago in a dive into shallow wa
ter. Mrs. Melvin James Lamb, of
Thomasviile, drowned in High Rock
lake, near Thomasville, when a boat
she and several companions were
riding overturned.
Edgar Sumner, of Old Rural Hall
road, near Winston-Salem, was fat
ally injured at Winston-Salem when
the motorcycle in which she was a
passenger, and an automobile col
lided. A Negro man Coroner Roy M.
Banks identified as Herbert Booker,
20, was found on railroad tracks at
Method, near Raleigh. Banks said
the man apparently had been struck
by a train.
Cotton Is Up
At The Close
New York, July 3.—(AP) —Cotton
futures opened unchanged to three
points lower in response to Bombay
and Liverpool selling and some hedg
ing in new crop positions. Around
the end of the first hour the list held
unchanged to four points higher. July
at 9.33 was unchanged and May was
al ( rj four at 8.25.
Futures closed 1 lto 15 points
higher, spot nominal; middling 9.37.
Open Close
July 9.33 9.46
October 8.63 8.77
December 8.45 8.61
January 8.32 8.49
March 8.24 8.40
May 8.21 8.34
County Will
Pay Share
For Library
Commissioners Will
Use Other Than Tax
Money; City May Call
Election; County Bud
get Talked by Com
missioners at Meeting
Vance county may resort to liquor
money to keep the H. Leslie Perry
Library operating in the face of a
ruling by Attorney General Harry
McMullan at Raleigh that county
and municipal appropriations from
tax receipts for libraries, play
grounds and parks were unconstitu
tional on the ground that they are
not essential services.
The library, which is supported
jointly by the City of Henderson,
which contributes $3,000 annually,
and the County of Vance, which ap
propriates $2,000 for a total $5,000
budget, is still in operation after the
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'JiMSUE perry MEMORY
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TilE ASSOCIATED press.
Dempsey Stricken
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;
Jack Dempsey was reported grave
ly ill with peritonitis after removal
of a gangrenous appendix at New
York’s Polyclinic Hospital. The
former heavyweight boxing cham
pion at first diagnosed his ailment
as an upset stomach and delayed
entering the hospital.
Dempsey Is
Visited By
Daughters
New York, July 3. —(AP) —Jack
Dempsey was so far out of danger
from his appendicitis operation to
day that a Polyclinic hospital attache
announced “it looks like everything
is going to be fine.”
“His condition is very good,” the
attache said after Dempsey’s phy
sician examined the patient. “He
is still improving.”
Dempsey’s daughters, Joan, 6, and
Barbara, 3, each carrying a rose for
their father, visited the hospital with
their governess.
“We saw daddy and gave him a
big kiss,” Joan said on leaving. “He
told us he missed us very much, and
we told him we did, too. And so did,
Mac.” (Mac, Joan explained, was
their dog.)
BRITAIN AND FRANCE
PRESS SOVIET PACT
Moscow, June 3.—(AP) — The
British and French ambassadors
called on Foreign Commissar
Molotoff at the Kremlin this aft
ernoon, presumably to receive
the Soviet reply to the latest
French-British proposals for a
tri-power mutual assistance pact.
Few Congressmen Have
Nerve To Cut Spending
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, July 3. —Republican
and Democratic congressmen are
pretty much alike under the skin.
Theoretically the
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Joseph W. parently really be-
Martin uev , e in economy.
For example, Representative Joseph
W. Martin, of Massachusetts is fight
ing. undoubtedly in all sincerity, for
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINLY
average Republi
can simply is hor
rified by New Deal
extravagance - but
oh how he hates to
vote against any
financial s u gges
tion that promises
to bring public
money into his
bailiwick?
There are ex
ceptions. A very
fpw lawmakers ap-
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 3, 1939
Business In
N. C. Better,
Indices Show
Taxes, Bank Clear
ings, Postal Receipts
and Building Permits
All Up for Season,
Survey of Conditions
Indicates
Raleigh, July 3.—(AP) —Business
is better in North Carolina, if the
usual indices regarded as business
barometers are right.
Tax receipts, bank clearings, postal
receipts, building permits, customs
receipts, liquor sales and other fac
tors all indicate, practically without
exception, iai business is better
than in 1938, and in some instances
better than at times in any year.
The State’s fiscal year tax collec
tions showed that sales taxes were
rising steadily again after decreas
ing last year, and that gasoline taxes
were resulting in record returns. The
only items falling considerably be
low 1937-38 figures were inneru
ance taxes, always dependent on
deaths of wealthy persons, and in
come taxes, whicn reflected the ly3B
recession. June sales tax receipts
were up nearly SIIB,OOO, at $938,-
744.21 over -June, 1938, and for the
year they fell only about $146,000
below 1937-38, when it was estimat
ed back in December that they would
be off around $1,000,000.
Gasoline tax receipts for the first
time averaged more than $2,000,000
a month for a fiscal year during
1938-39, and June receipts of $2,-
114,485.04 were up more than $200,-
000 over June, 1938.
Three Sisters
Drowned When
Boat Capsizes
West Newton, Pa., July 3.—(AP)
—Linked arm in arm, three young
sisters who could not swim leaped
from a sinking skiff and drowned in
the treacherous, rain-swollen Yough
iogheny river Sunday.
A companion, 20-year-old Marga
ret Skrjanc, swept toward shore
by the turbulent current, grasped a
branch of an over-hanging tree and
pulled herself to safety. Then, half
exhausted, she stumbled and ran to
this western Pennsylvania commun
ity to gasp out news of the tragedy.
Under the glare of powerful
searchlights, firemen, equipped with
long grappling hooks, dragged the
muddy waters throughout the night
without finding trace of the pretty
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No Dispatch
Tomorrow
No issue of the Daily Dispatch
will be published tomorrow —na-
tional Independence Day. Since
virtually all business in the city
will be suspended for the day,
with nearly every concern closed
for a complete holiday, the Daily
Dispatch will join in the move
ment. The paper will be resum
ed on Wednesday as usual.
a 10 per cent cut in all of the present
Congress’ appropriations that are
“properly susceptible to such a re
duction,” as he expresses it.
This sounds all right, but the joker
is that most of the government’s
fancy figured supply bills already
have been voted. And a great many
Republican legislators voted for them
Now, Representative Martin is G. O.
P. leader in the lower congressional
chamber. How happens it that he
didn’t line up his following opposi
tion to all this spending?—while the
voting actually was going on?—rath
er than trying to get the program
modified at this late date?
The obvious answer is that he
couldn’t line ’em up. His rank and
file literally hadn’t the political nerve
not to vote for expenditures which
he says are excessive. He’s endeavor
ing thus belatedly to get some of
them to reverse themselves. It’s a
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Opposing Sides in Danzig Crisis
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«8«w In
Europe feared a general war as German and Polish troops marched within a few miles of each other
because of Hitler’s threatened seizure of the Free Port of Danzig, Polish outlet to the Baltic sea. At top,
Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, reviews an honor guard of Danzig’s armed Nazis. With
Goebbels, at left, is Alfred Forster, Danzig Nazi leader. Below, President Ignace Moscicki of Poland,
reviews some of his troons in Teschen 'Central Prcst)
Hitler Back
At Capital
For Parleys
Fuehrer Won’t Leave
To His Aides Matter
of Entertaining Bul
garian Prime Minister,
Whose Support He Is
Seeking
Berlin, July 3.—(AP)—Adolf Hit
ler suddenly headed back to Berlin
today to bulwark Germany’s policy
of making friends in the Balkans
during the three-day state visit of
the Bulgarian prime minister, George
Kioffeibanoff, starting Wednesday.
The fuehrer’s return to the capital
was the first since June 7, when he
moved his headquarters to Berchtes
gaden for the summer. Hitler attend
ed a funeral yesterday in Hamburg.
His return marked a change in the
original plan for receiving the Bul
garian premier and indicated the im
portance German leaders attached to
his visit. At first, Foreign Minister
von Ribbentrop was expected to do
all the entertaining while the fuehrer
remained in southern Germany.
Stocks Quiet
For Dull Day
New York, July 3.—(AP) —A hand
l'ul of stocks, led by American Tele
phone, got ahead today in one of the
quietest markets of the post-war
years. While most of the usual trad
ing favorites barely moved, dealings
in the fourth hour slackened to only
20,000 shares. Total transactions ap
proximated 250,000 shares.
American Radiator 11 1-2
American Telephone 160
American Tob B 84
Anaconda 22 7-8
Atlantic Coast Line 15 7-8
Atlantic Refining 20
Bendix Aviation 21 1-4
Bethlehem Steel 51 7-8
Chrysler 68
Columbia Gas & Elec Co ... 5 3-4
Commercial Solvents 9 5-8
Consolidated Oil Co 7 5-8
Curtiss Wright 5 1-8
Dumont 149 1-2
Electric Pow & Light 6 7-8
General Electric 33 1-2
General Motors 43 3-8
Liggett & Myers B 105 1-4
Montgomery Ward & Co ... 48 5-8
Reynolds \ Tob B 38 3-4
Southern Railway 13 3-4
Standard Oil N J 41
U S Steel 45
1940 Old Age Payments
To Exceed $lO Ave rage
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, July 3. —For the fiscal
year just begun, the average old age
assistance beneficiary in North
Carolina will receive a monthly pay
ment of slightly more than ten dol
lars ($10.16 is the exact average as
based on allotments), against a pre
sent average of slightly more than
$9.50, but there’s a catch in the ap
parent increase of four bits per
month per beneficiary.
That lies in the fact that there will
be on the rolls some 900 widows of
Confederate veterans never there
before and receiving not less than
$25 each per month.
For the rest, therefore, the aver
age beneficiary will get just about
the same nine-fifty he’s now draw
Smith Will
Fight Charge
In Louisiana
Brockville, Ontario, July 3.
(AP) —Louisiana authorities ar
rived here at 2:15 p. m. (1:15
p. m., eastern standard time) to
day to claim custody of Dr. James
Monroe Smith, former president
of Louisiana State University,
under indictment for embezzle
ment of SIOO,OOO of the institu
tion’s funds.
The officers, who motored here
from Ottawa, after flying there
from Louisiana, where Murphy
Roden, assistant superintendent
of State police, and Bryan Clem
mons, special investigator. Also
with them was Inspector Fred
Sims, of Ottawa, member of the
Canadian mounted police.
They conferred with Police
Chief W. F. Young, of Brock
ville,, before taking Smith and
his wife into custody. They were
believed planning to fly Dr.
Smith back, and take his wife
by automobile.
Brockville, Ontario, July 3.—(AP)
—Dr. James M. Smith, former Louis
iana State University president, said
today he was ready to .‘fight” an
indictment charging him with em
bezzling SIOO,OOO of the University’s
funds.
Breaking a silence which he had
maintained since his surrender here
Saturday night, Dr. Smith declared
he was “innocent of wrong-doing.”
OFFICIALS OF LOUISIANA
. . ARRIVE TO GET DR. SMITH
Ottawa, Intario, July 3. —(AP) —
Louisiana police officials enroute to
Brockville, Ontario, to take into cus
tody Dr. James Monroe Smith, form
er president of Louisiana State Uni
versity arrived here by airplane at
11 a. m. today.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCFPTSUNDAY.
ing
On a basis of allotments to the
various counties, however, there will
be this very substantial advance,
there will be about 4,000 more re
cipients each month than there are
at present, exclusive of the widows
mentioned already.
For allocations made on the present
cash availability indicate that there
will be 36,254 recipients, compared
with the present roster of slightly
more than 32,000. Total money al
located, exclusive of that which will
be paid widows, reached $4,259,289.
On the aid to dependent children
side of the picture, allotments by the
social security division of the wel
fare department list 23,488 children
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Survivor Os
Thetis Tells
Os Disaster
London, July 3.—(AP)— Captain
H. P. K. Oram, one of the four who
survived when the submarine Thetis
sank near Birkenhead June 1, said at
a public inquiry today “some major
disaster” must have happened to
those who died aboard to prevent
their using the Davis escape ap
paratus.
Ninety-nine men lost their lives.
He gave a vivid description of the
last hours aboard.
When he made his way to the sur
face the morning after the test dive,
he said, it was necessary to take
“deep and distressing breath,” and
in the submarine many men were
stretching and yawning. One felt
great latitude and it required distinct
mental effort to coordinate mind with
action.”
Oram explained that attempts to
use the Davis apparatus were delay
ed because the strong tideflow would
have meant death if no rescue ship
had been in the area. Oram, how
ever, shot to the surface with water
proof packets of plans and instruc
tions lashed to his arms in case he
died. He said two other officers pre
viously tried to force their way thro
ugh flooded compartments to close
the bow torpedo tube door, which
apparently caused the sinking, but
were kept back by the pains of water
pressure.
The captain added that when he
was saved, he felt entirely hopeful
that all the others also would be
able to use the artificial breathing
device, as it gave him no difficulty.
tOfuaihsik
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Partly cloudy tonight and Tues
day; scattered showers in west
portion Tuesday.
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Commons Is
Told Os New
Danzig Move
Intensive Measure of
Military Character
Taking Place, Cham
berlain Says;
Churchill To Get Cab
inet Post, Is Belief
London, July 3. —(AP) —Prime
Minister Chamberlain informed the
House of Commons today the British
government had received reliable
reports that “intense measures of a
military character” were taking place
in Danzig. His statement marked
the first time a British cabinet min
ister has mentioned publicly reports
of Danzig activity. In official cir
cles it was said Great Britain was
expected this week to tell Germany
directly that any attempt to annex
Danzig would be resisted by force.
In response to a question, the
prime minister said:
“Reliable reports indicate that in
tensive measures of a military char
acter are being carried out in the
free city. A large and increasing
number of German nationals have
recently arrived in the free city c os
tensibly as ‘tourists’, and a locaF de
fense corps is being formed under
the name of ‘heimwehr’.
“The government is maintaining
contact with the Polish and French
governments regarding develop
ments in Danzig.
(In Danzig, officials acknowledged
Saturday that “precautionary meas
ures” had been taken and black uni
formed Danzig S. S. men were in
complete charge of one hill and had
partial control of another. TTiX> po
lice force had been augmented and
men appeared wearing on their
sleeves little bands with the legend
“heimwehr,” which official quarters
said indicated they were Danzig S.
S. men, who had volunteered for po
lice service. Danzig officials insist
ed not a single German “with or
without a uniform” was on duty in
the free city.)
(An Associated Press dispatch
from the free city today said there
were no signs of new developments
of a military nature).
Before his appearance in the House
of Commons, Chamberlain spent an
hour in Buckingham Palace, in audi
ence with King George VI. It was
understood Chamberlain was consid
ering inviting Winston Churchill,
war-time cabinet minister, into the
government, and it was deemed like
ly that if he had come to a decision
it first would be communicated to
the king in an audience.
TRAIN HITS ROCK
AND THREE PERISH
Mount Vernon, Ky„ July 3.
(AP)—Three trainmen were kill
cd early today when a heavily
loaded freight train plowed into
an immense boulder that top
pled from a mountainside, over
turning the locomotive and nine
cars.
Warning To
Danzig Now
Is Planned
Joint Statement from
Britain, France, Po
land Likely, Advising
Against Turning Over
Free City to Germany
Paris, July 3.—(AP) —French po
litical circles suggested today that
France, Great Britain and Poland
make direct statement to the Nazi
dominated Danzig Senate, warning
against any move by that body to
transfer the free city to Germany.
French newspapers emphasized
the suggestion as a sequal to a
French warning to Germany Satur
day that the British-French front
was ready immediately to help Po
land if Germany forced her hands.
The independent newspaper, Paris
Midi, declared the earlier admoni
tion “stifled” a Nazi plan of having
the Danzig Senate demand the free
city’s union with Germany this
week-end.
The French defense forces were
being geared for a prolonged crisis
over Danzig, and the nation was
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