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oftN'PERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH year NEUTRALITY BILL DROPPED BT COMMITTEE Ice Box Nearly a Tomb Climbing into an unused ice box and closing the doors almost cost the lives of these two Miami, Fla., boys, Horace Hurst, 7 (left), and Emory Andrews, 8. Trapped 40 minutes, Emory was unconscious and Horace near collapse when Horace’s mother found them after hearing their feeble cries. A four-year-old boy was recently found dead in the east, under similar circumstances. (Centra! Press) Negotiations Might Yet Settle Row Over Danzig Hint in Chamberlain’s Statement Monday May Prove Key; Po land Merely Wants Free City To Remain Demilitarized Region London, July 11.—(AP) — Prime Minister Chambei'lain’s hints of a po- ible conference table settlement ot the Danzig dispute, if there were a clearer atmosphere”, broadened today into an international discus sion of chances for negotiation. While the British press played up the prime minister’s avowal that any po'cmptory German annexation of th • Baltic free port would be a fight in;.; matter, there also was emphasis on the point that he left the door ajar for adjustments of Danzig’s status. In his statement to the Commons yesterday, Chamberlain defended the status of Danzig—a League-protect ed free city within the Polish cus toms administration as “neither basically unjust or illogical,” but “it may be,” he added, “that in a clearer atmosphere possible improvements could be discussed.” Semi-official French sources ad vanced a suggestion tha-t had Polish approval. It was that Germany be permitted to incorporate Danzig technically into the Reich upon guar anteeing that the free city would continue as a demilitarized zone, and that Poland could continue to navi gate the Vistula river and use the port as at present. They added that Poland, recogniz ing the Germanic character of Dan zig, always has been willing to nego tiate a solution, depending on Ger man willingness to cooperate, rather than use of force. Two Western Counties Vote About Liquor Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Waiter Hotel. Raleigh, July 11. —One week from today Swain county, in the far west,' will vote on the question of estab lishing ABC stores,. Just one week later, Buncombe county voters will decide the same issue for that coun ty. These elections hold more than usual interest because of two or three factors. In the first place, no western coun ty has adopted the legal sale of liquor although four or five counties west ol Durham have voted on the ques tion. Advocates of legal sales are hoping to break the western jinx, while so-called “dries” are determin ed to hold the lines unbroken west (Continued on Page Five) jS&rlf HintLirrsnn Batht Dispatch leased wire service OR llilO ASSOCIATED PRESS. Gas Masks for U. S. JR* " , f A worker at Edgewood, Md., la shown packing an assembled gas mask into its container before ship ment from the plant to the Army and Navy supply depots and to the chemical warfare school. Work on gas masks for the United States forces has been speeded up. (Central Press) Disorders In Pontiac Strike Area Pontiac, Mich., July 11—(AP)- Disorder broke out at the gates of the Pontiac Fisher Body plant today for the second straight day in con nection with a CIO-United Automo bile Workers strike and local police appealed to State police for aid. Five men were taken into custody. This morning’s fighting started when an attempt was made to carry production employees into the plant in automobiles. . Police said the UAW-CIIO pickets hurled stones at the cars and at tempted to overturn some of them The officers estimated about 30 cars had attempted to enter the plant in a body and about half of them got through the picket lines. The strike was called by the UAW-CIO in a demand for an agree i ment covering schedules of work Sheriff S. C. Howarth said State aid was being asked because of the (Continued on Page Five) (jrfsuriJwi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Wednesday; moderate temperature. ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAR ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP OLINA AND VffiGINUV. Discharge Os WPA Strikers Still Stands Ilarrisburgh, Pa., July Al. — (AP) —American Federation of Labor leaders called a strike to day of 25,000 unionized workers on Federal WPA projects in Pennsylvania, effective at 4 p. m. Friday. The strike was voted ’ by delegates from craft unions from all parts of the state as a protest against the new 130-hour work month. (By The Associated Press.) The hour fixed lor dismissal of the first WPA employes to go on strike against provisions of the new relief law arrived today, and Colonel F. C. Harrington, the national WPA com missioner, stood pat on his order re quiring the discharges. How many persons lost their places on the work relief rolls when they failed to report for work this morn ing was uncertain. Official at Wash ington declined to estimate pending reports from the field. Harrington had notified WPA em ployees striking against the new law’s requirement that they work 130 hours a month for their security wage, they > would be dismissed if they absented themselves from work for five consecutive days or longer. An unestimated number went back to work. The deadline arrived today for some of them to go back to work in localities where the project did not close down for the week-end. There was little disorder in most places, but several score of police were called out today in Minneapolis (Continued on Page Five) Upward Push Helps Stocks New York, July 11.—(AP)—With speculative eyes shifting from the cloudy foreign scene to encouraging business prospects at home, the stock market today put on a fair-sized re covery push. Gains ran more than a point for leaders in the forenoon. Prices were near the best at the close. Transfers approximated 450,000 shares. American Radiator 11 3-4 American Telephone 164 American Tob B 84 Anaconda 24 3-4 Atlantic Coast Line 17 Atlantic Refining 20 Bendix Aviation 22 1-2 Bethlehem Steel 53 3-8 Chrysler 8-8 Columbia Gas & Elec Co ... 5 7-8 Commercial Solvents 9 1-2 Consolidated Oil 7 7-8 Curtiss Wright 5 1-8 DuPont 149 1-8 Electric Pow & Light 7 1-8 General Electric 35 3-8 General Motors 43 3-8 Liggett & Myers B 107 3-4 Montgomery Ward & Co . . 51 1-4 Reynolds Tob B 38 7-8 Southern Railway 14 1-2 Standard Oil N J 42 5-8 U S Steel 45 33-4 HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 11, 1939 Administration To Continue Fight For Measure It Wants Administration To Continue To Urge Adop tion, Hull Asserts, in Interest of Peace; Com mittee 12 to 11 for Dropping Arms Repeal Bill Washington, July 11.—(AP) —Secretary Hull announced today shortly after a Senate committee had voted for postponement of neutrality legisla tion until next session that, in the interest of “peace and security,” the administration would continue to urge adoption of its program. U S Steel Voting House In Wake Is Likely Only One In State Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir -V-ilter Hotel. BY LYNN NISBET. Raleigh, July 11.—Some years ago citizens of Cairo precinct, in south ern Wake county, were confronted with the problem of finding some where to hold elections. After sev eral years of being shunted around between a country store and the front porch or “parlor” of a farm home, they decided to do something about it. As a result of that decision, there is now at Cairo a building, be lieved to be the only one in North Carolina, perhaps the only one in the Hull’s statement was made after he had conferred with President Roosevelt. It followed by about two hours a 12 to 11 vote of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in fav or of giving no further consideration to revision of the neutrality law at this session. Disclosure of the administra tion’s stand indicated to many that President Roosevelt had no intention of permitting the committee’s deci sion to stand in the way of new leg islation before adjournment if he can swing a majority of the Senate to his view. This would mean a possibly bit ter fight in the Senate over whether to force the House-approved Bloom bill out of the committee and to the Senate floor, where administra tion leaders claim they can obtain enough votes for repeal of the arms embargo provision of the present law. That repeal is the heart of the ad ministration’s program. Those, who voted to postpone in the Senate For eign Relations Committee meeting included Senator Reynolds, Demo crat, North Carolina. President Roosevelt .nominated Paul V. McNutt to be Federal se curity administrator. McNutt, who now is American high commissioner of the Philippines, has indicated he will retain his present post for sev eral weeks in order to clear up de tails . The nomination, if confirmed, will bring into the administration a Democrat whose candidacy for the presidency in 1940 has been openly advocated by his friends. Whether President Roosevelt is giving him a boost toward the Democratic nomi nation in 1940, or whether the Pres ident is merely providing him a chance to show what he can do, was an argued point. Ambassador Dodd Slightly Improved After Transfusion New York, July 11.—(AP) — A slight improvement in the condition of Dr. William E. Dodd, former Unit ed States ambassador to Germany, was noted by his doctor today fol lowing an abdominal operation and two blood transfusions. The 69-year-old retired diplomat, who is suffering from bulvar palsy, a disease affecting the lowest part of the brain, was reported “in good condition.” The blood transfusion was given by Dr. Dodd’s son, William E., Jr., and his son-in-law, Alfred Stern. Solon Passes In Washington Washington, July 11.—(AP) —Rep- resentative Sam £). Mcßeynolds, of Tennessee, died at 6:15 a. m. today. Mcßeynolds, 67, was chairman of the House Foreign Relations Com mittee, and stood high in Democratic oarty circles. Dr. George Calver, Capitol physician, said Mcßeynolds had been ill “off and on” all year, and that the immediate cause of death was a heart attack. He had been in the naval hospital for months, and only recently had been permitted to go to his home here. Mcßeynolds had been a member , 3f Congress since 1922. United States, erected specifically and used exclusively for the purpose of voting. Here is the throne room of a re public. The simple sign across the front reading “Cairo Voting Pre cinct” says so. When kings and prin ces promulgate their royal decrees,’ the incident is accompanied by pomp and panolply and splendid ceremony. When the people of an independent American State desire to make known their will it is done with the informal simplicity befitting. a real (Continued on Page Six) Confer on WPA Crisis BMP ... .-■■f-.-y-- United States Attorney John J. Cahill is seated at left in his New York office, conferring with Col. Brehon Somervell (right), WPA adminis trator in the New York area, regarding action to be taken against strik ing members of the A. F. of L. building trades unions engaged on WPA projects. Standing is Edward Ennis, attorney in charge of civil divisio*. ( Central Preaa) WPA Salaries Are Revealed For State In Washington List Washington, July 11. —(AP) — A House committee disclosed today that more than 180 WPA adminis trative employees in North Carolina received salaries of $l5O a month or more. The list, said by members to have been prepared by the WPA it self, and giving salaries as of April 30 was made public by the commit tee investigating the relief system. Highest of the North Carolina sal aries was that of Administrator C. C. McGinnis, who drew SSOO a month. The list included: Williarnston, Robert E. Smithwick, claim adjuster, $150; Conrad Bailey, engineer, $225; Benjamin Britton, Jr., engineer, $150; Allen L. Mid yette, supervisor $150; Hubert L. Raburn, supervisor, $150; Newton Shepherd, supervisor, $150; James Valentino, engineer, $150; Kathleen Canfield, social worker, $175; Con stance Rabin, social worker, $175; Emma Maurer, social worker, $165; Harold Hargett, assignment officer $150; Mary Hoilowell, social worker, $150; Olivia Hodges, supervisor, S2OO Washington—Lee A. Wallace, en gineer, $250. * Long Session Os Congress Helps G. O. P. By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 11.—It’s a mis take to assume that all Congress wants to adjourn and go home for is on ac c o unt of Washington’s well known hot sum mer weather. The longer the session strings along, the better the Repub lican senators and r e p r esentatives like it. To be sure, they pant and per spire and suffer p h ysically. But they realize that the Democrats are suffering a good Senator McNary deal worse politi cally. They can stand any amount of meteorological humidity in competi tion with the Democrats’ still more terrific degree of intra-party hu midity. The Democrats have been split wide open on: The money bill. Neutrality. Self-liquidating expenditures. Deficits and the 40-billion-and-odd national indebtedness. The third term issue. Also various other things too nu merous to mention. They desperately want to quit and scatter, leaving these disputes to siz (Contmued on Page Six) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, Windsor—Edward Winslow, en gineer, $225; Charles L. Cale, super-' visor, $150; Robert Riddick, engineer, $150; William R. Copeland, field re presentative $225. Morehead City—Philip K. Ball, supervisor, $l5O. Henderson —Thomas D. Heffner, engineer, $175. Clinton —Frances A. Jacocks, su pervisor, $l5O. Franklinton —Louise M. Moore, training directors, $150; Ronie Shef field, project director, $225. Wilson and Goldsboro —Smithfield WPA Supervisors and pay: D. B. Black, area head and chief engineer, $225; Laura K. Spicer, professional project supervisor, $200; Norris B. Alexander, $125; Lemay Haywood, $140; Margaret Oates, $100; Eglantine Merritt, $135; Elias S. Alexander, $175; William A. Hayes, $l5O, and Troy Pate, $l5O. Counties in area, Cumberland, Duplin, Harnett, Hoke, Johnston, Lee, Sampson, Wayne and Wilson. Rocky Mount —Hugh B. Hines, su pervisor, $150; Rosa W. Bullock, field representative, $225. Lawyers Ask Ban To Save Civil Areas San Francisco, Cal., July 11.— (AP) —A proposal to protect non combatants and civilian populations from horrors of agrial warfare was brought to the American Bar As sociation today. The association sec tion on international and comparative law asked the parent group to ap prove a worldwide appeal to “cease for all time” the aerial bombard ment of other than “strictly military objectives.” The 3,000 delegates at the 62nd an nual meeting of the barristers held (Continued on Page Five) Teachers’ Salary Scales Might Be Held Back Weeks Raleigh, July 11.—(AP)—The salary committee of the State School Commission resumes work here tomorrow on the 1939-41 teacher pay scale, with at least one member expressing the opin ion the schedules cannot be com pleted for several weeks. The commission will meet Thursday and the salary group hoped at one time to recommend pay schedules at that time, but it now appears doubtful. There is about $269,000 annually avail able to be used in salary increas es. 8' PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Cabinet Men Kept Close By Threats French Ministers Bar red from Trips Out of Paris During Urgent Crisis in International Affairs Paris, July 11.—(AP) —The French council ol ministers, meeting today with President Lebrun, voted to pro hibit “until further orders” all trips by ministers during Hie present in ternational tension. The order will have the effect of keeping 11 members‘of the cabinet on hand for immediate consultation. Similar temporary measures have been taken from time to time, but today’s decision was the first defi nite prohibition on ministerial trips. The action followed a long expla nation by Foi’eign Minister Bonnet of continuing negoliaitons for a mutual assistance agreement by Britain, Soviet Russia and France. He also reported on the Danzig situation. Find Dunn Lawyer Shot In the Head At Guard Armory Fayetteville, July 11.—(AP)—Ed gar Carr, 33-year-old Dunn lawyer, and lieutenant in the National Guard unit there, was brought to a hospi tal here today suffering from a bul let wound in the head. Hospital attendants said his condi tion was critical. Police Chief G. A. Jackson, of Dunn, said Ed Lee, custodian of The armory there, found Carr in the armory, a bullet wound between the eyes. A 22-calibre rifle of a type used by the troops in indoor prac tice, lay nearby, Lee said. Carr, who has a wife and several children, had been in ill health, Carr said. He was Dunn’s fire chief until about a month ago. Torso Slayer Is Declared Sane By Two Psychiatrists Cleveland, Ohio, July 11.— (AP) —Frank Dolezal, confessed slayer of one of Cleveland’s 12 “torso murder” victims, was de clared sane by two county psy chiatrists after two hours exam ination today. Dolezal, 52-year year-old former bricklayer and butcher, was examined by Drs. S. C. Lindsay and K. S. West. Sheriff M. L. O’Donnell said he was convinced Dolezal had disclosed last night the true hid ing place of the head of Mrs. Florence Polillo, victim No. 3 . in the series of headless dead, and that Dolezal would be ask ed to sign a new confession. Bids Received On Big Batch Os Road Jobs Raleigh, July 11.—(AP)—The Highway and Public Works Com mission ’today opened bids on 22 projects estimated to cost $1,800,- 000. Low bids tabulated this afternoon included: 1013—Beaufort county, concrete paving of 13.58 miles of Route 97 between Route 264 and Plymouth, William F. Bowe, Jr., of Augjista, (Continued on Page Five) Cotton Makes Slight Gain New York, July 11.—(AP)—Cot ton futures opened unchanged to five points lower under pressure from Bombay and New Orleans and hedge sales. Liverpool bought near months. New crop position showed losses of three to five points around mid morning. Around midday the market stead ied, five lower to two higher. Futures closed unchanged to four points higher; middling spot, 9.98. Open Close July 9.63 9.63 October 8.93 8.99 December 8.77 8.82 January 8.63 8.70 March \ 8.54 8.63 May ..' 8.47 8.53
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