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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-sixth year BRITAIN TO LEND ALLIES $486 MILLIONS i hird Term Ban Is Defeated By Senate Committee Tie Vote On 6- fear Term Amendment Both Measures, How ever, Go to Senate Floor for Final Deci sion; Ban on Politics in Relief Gets Right of Way in House Washington, July 6.—(AP) —Amid cunvnt political speculation over a till'd term for President Roosevelt, ti : Senate Judiciary Committee vot ed d-'\vn today a proposal to bar any r.vAclent from running again. Ke.i< cted by a ten to two vote, was i constitutional amendment asked by Sen itor Wiley, Republican, Wiscon sin. which, it ratified, would prevent any one who had served as president o vice-president from serving in the x,; ,o office again. The committee also divided, seven to -even, on a proposal for a single six-year term for future presidents and vice-presidents. Senator Burke, De-.oerat, Nebraska, its sponsor, said it would not bar President Roose velt from a third term. After the tie vote on the single tc: ' propositi, the committee voted t( report both proposed constitution al amendments with a record of the committee vote on each. A tie vote on tiie proposal defeats it. On the House side, the rules com iv.;dee held a lively session on wheth er to give the Hatch bill, designed to b:politics in relief, right of way or the floor. Representative Demp -ey. Democrat, New Mexico, assert ed the bill had been “stalled” long enough. War Referendum Sent Up. Tiie Senate Judiciary Committee refused its approval of two war re ferendum proposals, but agreed to send them on to the Senate for con sideration. One proposal calls for a constitutional amendment requiring a popular vote on a declaration of war for “warfare overseas”. The other would put the final decision ova declaration up to Congress after a referendum was held. Hawks Norlina Postmaster. Meantime, the President sent to tire Senate for confirmation the fol lowing postmaster nominations: North Carolina, Hope Mills, Ila M. (Continued on Page Four) Treasury To Resume Its Silver Buying iiington, July 6.—(AP) —A be lotf d administration triumph in the S- .to put the Treasury in a position to resume silver purchases and of f« ;,I use of its $2,000,000,000 stabili ze: on fund as soon as President Roosevelt could sign the hard-fought monetary bill. Despite Republican arguments that the action was illegal, the Senate voted late yesterday 43 to 39 to re store these powers and the Presi d' nfs authority to devalue the dollar. Tiie decision, reversing an earlier S' nate stand, was, occasioned by a break-up in the'unique coalition of Republicans and silver state Demo crats who had fought the dollar de valuation power. Several silverites v ent over to the administration side (Continued on page two) SSO Million Four-Year Highway Program Without Bonds Asked By Maxwell Greensboro, July 6.—(AP) —Rev- enue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell told the Greensboro Kiwanis club to day that his proposed $50,000,000 tour-year highway improvement pro gram would not require issuance of any bonds, and in addition to mod ernizing of thousands of miles of paved highways would also pave ad ditional rural roads. The commissioner said the State is now putting $500,000 a year into a sinking fund to retire a $4,500,000 bond issue due in, 1961, and that this should be stopped, as there is already more than $9,000,000 in the fund. All other bonds, he said, are being Dailit SHsuatrii leased wire service op IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Hot Dogs and Hot News '' '' Smiling, President Roosevelt is seen as he told newspapermen at his Hyde Park home he would continue fight to change neutrality legislation. The President threw a picnic for the scribes with hot dogs and beer the main course. South Looks For Harvest Like 1938’s Generally “Fair” to “Promising” Crop Conditions Prevail; Tobacco and Cotton Outlook Good for North Carolina Atlanta, Ga., July 6.—(AP)—Agri cultural experts predicted today a harvest equal in most cases to 1938 in the South, as generally “fair” to “promising” crop conditions prevail ed. Clearing skies in most states led to optimistic view of crop prospects, while in Alabama and Mississippi continued rains worried farmers. Alabama and Mississippi agricul tural observers reported likelihood of only half a cotton crop in some areas, and in Arkansas county agents said the cotton outlook was “not as good as last year.” 801 l weevils were blamed for much of Alabama’s lint damage. Most states pictured prospects as “good” or “showing improvement.” Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina observers described cotton prospects as “very good” in some sections; “very well” in others. To bacco acreage in North Carolina was “very uncertain.” Georgia and Tennessee likewise re ported good stands of cotton, and there was an outlook for a “pretty fair crop” of Georgia flue-cured to bacco. U/snattwi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, scattered show ers Friday and in central portion tonight. paid out of current rcvenuqs. It would take legislative action to stop the annual contribution, as it was provided for in the 1920-21 bond act. Highway revenue is continually in creasing, Maxwell said. State and Federal construction funds, plus the increasing revenues, the sinking fund allotment and the $3,000,000 by which debt service payments will drop during the next four years, as compared with the last four, he said, along with reducing the amount of cash always kept on hand, should easily finance the $50,000,000 pro gram without bonds and increased taxes. _ _ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINUL HENDERSON, N. €., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 6, 1939 Seven Dead From Auto-Bus Crash Scranton, Pa., July 6.—(AP) Three women, two men and two babies were killed today in an automobile-truck crash on a Po coHo Mountain highway intersec tion at Daleville, 12 miles east of here. Only one of the oecupants of a small sedan escaped instant death when it collided with a 12-ton trailer-truck. The only passenger found alive, a woman, was so cri tically hurt physicians said she probably would die. The truck driver was only scratched. The party in the sedan appar ently bound for a picnic in the mountains. Only one of the vic tims was identified immediately. A driver’s license bore the name of Wilbert Francis, of nearby Avoca. The others, State police said, probably were his family and relatives. Three To Die On Tomorrow Are Baptized Raleigh, July 6. (AP) Three men condemned to die in the State’s Prison lethal gas chamber tomorrow had confessed and been baptized to day, Warden H. H. Wilson said. The executions will start at 10 o’clock, but the warden had not de cided the order in which the men would be killed. Only one will die at a time, though the gas chamber has room to handle three persons at once, and has three stethoscopes through which doctors could listen to the heartbeats of three men dying at once. Bricey Hammonds, an Indian, will die for the killing of Lacy Brumbies, and Alfred Caper, a Negro, for the slaying of J. C. McNeill, both crimes (Continued on Page Two) Safest 4th Is Source Os State Pride Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 6. —With reports at hand showing that the highway toll for the holidays just ended was only about half that taken a year ago, Ronald Hocutt, director of the High way Safety division, today said he is very proud of the State’s July Fourth record. At the moment he had reports on only five traffic fatalities in the en tire State, as compared with ten for the Firecracker Day holiday of 1938, when there was a full day less of the merrymaking because the big day (Continued on Page Eight) Huge Credit In Addition To Old Loans —T Proposal Approved by Cabinet and Money Will Be Used in Re- Arming Smaller Na tions To Help Fight for Peace Front London. July o.—(AP)—The gov ernment introduced a bill in Parlia ment today to provide a huge fund, probably 100,000,000 pounds ($468,- 000,000), to provide credit for Bri tain’s allies for arms. The text of the measure was not published immediately, but informed quarters mentioned 100,000,000 pounds as the amount to be provid ed. The government’s move was ap proved at last night’s cabinet meet ing, and was said to be intended pri marily to permit Poland, Roumania, Greece and Turkey to place large or ders with British merchants and in dustrialists. The new bill is an extension of a measure adopted last spring provid ing a 10,000,000-pound export credit for political rather than purely com mercial purposes. This was in addi tion to 75,000,000 pounds already voted for regular export credits. It was understood representatives of countries holding British guaran tees had urged British grants to aid (Continued on Page Four) Catholics In State Would Take Refugees Raleigh, July 6. —(AP) —The Most Rev. Eugene J. .McGinnes, bishop of the diocese of North Carolina, today voiced the “contempt” of the Catholic Church for racial persecution, and made the first offer in the United States by a Catholic orphanage to care for 200 German refugee chil dren. “We do this,” Bishop McGinnes said, in explaining that the Nazareth orphanage here would “gladly” take 200 if Congress permitted 20,000 to enter, “as an expression of our con tempt for the racial prejudice and national ideology that are responsible for the horrible situation in Germany and other countries today.” The bishop called on other or phanages to offer haven to German refugees. “If the government agrees to take these children into the country,” he said, “and they cannot all be given private homes, I think our orphan ages should be in a receptive mood.” The bishop revealed that h£ would ask a nursing sisterhood in his church to establish a hospital here on the Nazareth property. Reports Polish Stand HMB UIl T HP Sir Howard Kennard Sir Howard Kennard, British am bassador to Poland, returned from Warsaw in an unscheduled for important conference with Prime Minister Chamberlain in re gard to the Danzig situation and what stand Poland will take if Hit ler attempts to cut it off from th<‘ sei/ Smashing Victory Over Japs Claimed by Press In Moscow Nazis March in Danzig Central Press Cablephoto Nazi storm troopers march through Tiegenhof, a town in the territory of the Free City of Danzig, enroute from East Prussia to the fortifications which face the Polish Corridor. Thousands upon thousands of Germans entered the Free City, many in ihe guv -of tourism. WPA Group Warned Not To Walk Out Jobs Will Be With drawn if They Are Away Five Consecu tive Days, Administra tor Says; Strikers Re sent Lower Wages (By The Associated Press.) Talk of a nationwide strike against the new WPA wage scale mingled with reports of returning workers today as labor leaders strove to guage the momentum of a series, of sudden and apparently spontaneous walkouts. Meetings were called by American Federation of Labor strategists in Washington and New York to study the extent and effectiveness of the sporadic work stonpages and to con sider the feasibility of organized strike-action. Thomas A. Murray, president of the building and construction trades council of Greater New York (AFL) (Continued on Page Five) Britain Will Send Planes to France As Demonstration London, July 6. (AP) —The air ministry announced tonight that five squadrons of British planes would be sent to France to take part in Bastille Day exer cises July 14. The ministry did not connect the announcement with the European situation, but several quarters had been urg ing the government during the past w*ck to send air forces to the continent as a warning to Germany. There also have been sugges tions in the House of Commons that Britain send part of her navy to the Baltic as a demon stration of her determination to prevent changes in the status of that region, but so far the government bus announced no decision on this point. When Prime Minister Cham berlain was questioned about this risibility yesterday, he re plied that the government would take any steps which were con sidered “necessary or desirable” to make Britain’s position clear. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Pollution Os Water Open $r To Question By CHARLES F. STEWART (Central Press Columnist) Washington, July 6.—Do you fish? Lots of folks don’t. Do you bathe? It’s quite common. Do you, occa sionally, drink water? —even if only as chaser? It’s almost universal. Anyway you don’t want it pollut ed. Well, there’s an anti-pollution bill pending in Congress. General Manager Kenneth A. Reid of the Izaak Walton League of Ame rica recently broadcast a “press re lease” on the subject. I havent seen the newspapers picking it up much. This is an injustice to Manager Reid. I’ve seldom read a more snappy “re lease” by any press agent. Does Mr. Reid plug for the pend ing measure? Believe me, he does not. He says it’s pro-pollution. He says that, if we try to un-pollute our sJr earns by the proposed method, we’ll pollute the oceans that said streams trickle into. He says that sharks and whales and seals and walruses and clams and oysters, as well as trout and catfish, will suffer wholesale from the effects of that law, if it’s enacted. He says we’ll contract contageous diseases from washing ourselves with such water; that we’ll half-poison ourselves if we consume any of it internally. Newspapers Scared, What? I don’t wonder that the papers arc hesitant to print what Manager Reid alleges. He provides a list of our leading (Continued on Page Five) Tobacco Marketing Quota Amendments Expected To Pass Congress Promptly Washington, July 6.—(AP) —Spon- j sors of amendments to the tobacco; marketing quota provisions of the j 1938 farm act hoped the House would j approve them today, and that the changes would be enacted belore the adjournment of Congress. The amend ments were on today’s consent calen dar. Representative Cooley, Demo crat, North Carolina, said he believ ed they would be reached and sent to the Senate. The proposals, approved some time ago by of Congress from j tobacco growing states, would au- j thorize the secretary of agriculture to convert poundage allotments into 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Japs Killed Put At 800 Over 4 Days Tanks, Planes, Artil lery and Infantry Used, With Soviets Driving Japs Back Across River; Con flicting Reports Re ceived Moscow, July s.—(AP) —Moscow newspapers reported a smashing vic tory today for Soviet Russian-Outer Mongolian forces over Japanese- Manchoukuoan army units in a bat tle described as the largest yet fought on the Manchoukuo-Outer Mongolia frontier. According to the Russian account, the battle lasted four days, with tanks, artillery and infantry in ac tion, ending only yesterday when the Japanese were driven back across the Khalka river, with heavy losses. Japanese-Manchoukuoan losses were estimated at 800 killed, Rusian-Mon gol casualties at 100 killed, and 200 wounded. (Japanese communiques on July 3 reported a big battle on the Khalka, in which the Japanese took the of fensive, captured a fortified hill on the Khalka and took 30 Soviet tanks. (Continued on Page Five) Flood Dead May Be 100 In Kentucky Continued Heavy Rains in Eastern Mountains Hamper Rescuers; Streams Again Swollen b y Nightlong Downpour Morehead, Ky., July 6.—(AP) —- Heavy rains throughout eastern Ken tucky hampered rescue workers to day as they sloshed through silt and debris in a weary search for the bodies of* victims of a mountain flood that left scores of persons dead. Thirty-two bodies have been re covered here and at Jackson. Nearly 100 persons are still missing and feared drowned by the wall of water which swept down the Locking and Kentucky rivers valleys early yes terday morning following a cloud burst. Sheriff W. Deaton, of Breathitt county, said 69 persons were missing at Neck, and he estimated the death (Continued on Page Four) areas. This would permit growers in the event of imposition of quotas, to market penalty-free all tobacco produced on allotted acreage. The penalty for non-compliance with quotas would be changed from fifty percent of the sale price to ten cents a pound for flue-cured tobacco and five cents for burley and other types. The date for calling farmer elec tions on tobacco quotas would be changed from November 15, as stipulated in the present law, to any time during the marketing season, which begins as early as July 1 in the case ot flue-cured tobacco.
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