HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
twenty-sixth year
TAX LEGISLATION SHELVED FOR SESSION
Britain Again Hikes Spending
For Her Speedy Preparedness
Miner Fatally Shot In
Harlan, Ky., Disturbance
Four Others Wounded
In First Clash of Strik
ers and Troops in Cur
rent Strife in Eastern
Kentucky Coal Fields
Har'ian. Ky., Tuiy \l2. —(AP) —One ]
minor \va shot fatally, four others
wounded, including a national guard
officer, at a Harlan mine today, and
a few hours later a union miner and
his mother were wounded on the
streets of Harlan by the guardsmen.
Governor Chandler at Ashland, on
a tour of inspection of the eastern
Kentucky mountain flood area, ord
ered two tanks and a number of
machine gun units into Harlan coun
ty immediately. The governor said
two additional companies of guards
men already are on their way to re
inforce the approximately 300 mili
tiamen on duty here.
The earlier snooting was the first
outburst involving troops in the cur
rent labor strife in this eastern Ken
tucky soft coal field, resulting in
casualties. It occurred at the Ma
han-Ellison Coal Company’s mine
on a creek five miles southwest of
here. 4$
In Middleton, the county jailor
said George Titler, secretary-treas
urer of the Harlan district United
Mine Workers (CIO), and his wife
were jailed here shortly after the
shooting. He said they were brought
to jail by militiamen, but no charge
was placed against them. Lieuten
ant Dallas Keller, of the guardsmen,
reported “more than 100” men were
being brought to jail.
Major Fred Staples, in command
of the militiamen, left for the scene
of the affray.
Two men suffered minor injuries
at the time of the shooting. J. A.
Dickinson, an official of the Mahan-
Ellisnn Company, described the
shooting as a “pitched battle” be
tween guardsmen and union miners
he said were picketing the mine.
Couple Saved
On Parachute
Jump At Fair
New York, July 12. (AP) —A
pleasure-seeking couple who dangled
lor five hours on a board seat 125
feet above ground at the World’s
f air parachute jump were rescued at
dawn today after two daring me
chanics cut the jammed guy wire
which held them captive.
The aerial prisoners were Mr. and
Mrs. J. Cornelius Rathborne, socially
prominent couple of Old Westbury,
L. I. Rathborne is captain of the
United States junior championship
polo team. His wife, formerly Nancy
Nelson Huidekoper, of Ruxton, Md.,
was a Baltimore society belle before
their marriage at Long Branch, Va.,
November 23, 1935.
Their parachute, one of eleven in
operation from the 20-foot tower,
stuck at 10:25 p. m. last night. They
finally were rescued at 3:30 a. m.,
(Continued on Page Two)
Lawyers And
Accountants
Divide Spoils
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In t. he Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, July 12.—Tentative steps,
if there can be any such thing, have
been taken by the State associations
of lawyers and certified public ac
countants toward getting together on
an equitable basis for presentation
of evidence before administrative
boards on questions involving taxes.
Chapter 281, Public Laws 1939,
amends the act creating the North
Carolina State Bar, Incorporated, so
as to give the Council of the State
Bar authority to regulate unauthoriz
ed or illegal practice of law. When
the bill was pending in the legisla
ture it was vigorously opposed by
insurance companies and it had no
support whatever from certified pub
hc accountants.
Lawyers claimed then and now
that adjustment of insurance claims
(Continued on Page Two)
TUnthcrsmt SEI athi clisrratrh
WIRE SERVICE nw
IHB ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Promises a New Plane
1
Maj. Alexander de Seversky
Major Alexander de Seversky, noted
aviator and plane designer, return*
to New York after a tour of Europe.
He said he will build a plane with
a new wing design, and capable of
600-mile-an-hour speed.
Auto Strike
Settlement
Now Sought
Negotiations Get Un
der Way at Detroit as
State Police Move into
Pontiac Area in Wake
of Strife
Detroit, Mich., July 12.—(AP) —
Spokesmen for General Motors and
for the CIO automobile workers an
nounced today that negotiations for
settlement of a strike affecting 6,700
skilled workers in eleven of the cor
poration’s plants were scheduled for
4 o’clock this afternoon.
The announcement followed a con
ference between William Knudsen,
General Motors president, and Philip
Murray, vice-president of the CIO.
STATE POLICE ARE SENT
TO PONTIAC STRIKE AREA
Pontiac, Mich., July 12. —(AP) —
State policemen moved into Pontiac
today for General Motors strike duty
amid threats of CIO union men that
a citywide strike might be called
because of “interference.”
The trouble sport was the Pontiac
plant of the Fisher Body Company.
State police officials were reluct
ant to discuss their plans, but it was
understood 120 troopers had been
assembled in and near Pontiac. They
kept out of sight in line with their
policy against making a show of
strength until called upon by offi
cials for assistance.
Tobacco Export Outlook
Less Favorable For 1939
Washington, July 12. —American
exporters of flue-cured tobacco may
expect to find market prospects in
European countries during the 193y
-40 exporting season somewhat less
favorable than during the past two
seasons, according to a report re
ceived in the office of foreign agri
cultural relations from the Ameri
can Embassy in London. Conducive
to that opinion are the larger stocks
on hand in the principal importing
countries, increased British duties,
and increased competition from oth
er sources of supply. However, low
er prices for 1939 crop American
clue-cured leaf would tend to in
crease exports.
The United Kingdom, Ireland,
Sweden, and France, which together
took more than 90 percent of the
American exports of flue-cured leaf
to European markets, were unusual
ER PUBLISHEIWTHIS
$370,211,000 Added
To 1939-40 Budget for
Defense, Includ. in g
Army Expansion and
Conscription; Mass
Flights Anger Berlin
London, July 12.—(AP) —Britain
added tpday 75,105,000 pounds
(aoout $370,211,000) to her 1939-40
expenses for preparedness.
The government announced a sup
plementary estimate of that amount
to meet the cost of army expansion,
including the territorial army, which
corresponds to the United States
National Guard, and for the recently
launched conscription program.
The additional figure was issued
as Britain and France, having enter
ed cross-channel aerial maneuvers as
part of a consolidation of their aerial
might, were reported considering
flights to Poland and other British-
French allies.
The British press delightedly de
scribed yesterday’s .initial round trip
excursion of 200 Royal Air Force
bombers to French territory as a
“flawless” performance, and “an im
portant demonstration to the world
of British-French solidarity.”
The British flight wil be followed
by a return visit from French war
planes, with more or less regular
shuttle trips to follow.
The London Daily Mail said that
other British allies, chiefly Poland,
would be taken into the scheme aft
er details have been worked out.
French and British anti-aircraft
forces were tied into the exercises,
with reports to be exchanged or the
theoretical results of their “fire” on
each other’s aircraft.
BERLIN GREETS FLIGHTS
WITH ANGRY HEADLINES
Berlin, July 12.—(AP) —The mass
flight of British bombing planes over
France and French newspaper com
ment on the demonstration brought
a flood of angry headlines in the
Berlin press today.
Adolf Hitler’s newspaper inquired
“Is acquaintanceship with the Ger
man air force desired?”
EXTRADITION FROM
TEXAS IS HONORED
Raleigh, July 12.—(AP)—Gover
nor Hoey honored extradition papers
today from the governor of Texas,
which said that Walter Blake was
under arrest in Goldsboro and was
wanted in Hidalgo county, Texas, to
face charges of selling and disposing
of mortgaged property.
Graham Backs
Roosevelt’s
Arms Appeal
Washington, July 12. (AP)
Senator Reynolds, Democrat, North
Carolina, inserted in the Congres
sional Record today a petition signed
by Dr. Frank P. Graham, president
of the University of North Carolina
and others calling on the State’s
members of Congress to support neu
trality' legislation which would pro
vide for the naming of aggressor na
tions.
Reynolds said the view expressed
was contrary to his position.
‘I am against any proposal that
would permit the naming of an ag
gressor,” he asserted. “I believe that
extension of the power to name an
(Continued on Page Two)
ly heavy purchasers during the past
two seasons, importing over 239,-
000,000 pounds during the ten
months ending April 30, 1939, and
246,000,000 pounds during the cor
responding period of the 1937-38 ex
porting season.
These countries constitute “high
price” markets where manufacturers
normally purchase high quality leaf.
As a result of their heavy purchases
of such, leaf during the past two
years, their stocks are now at record
levels. It is not likely that these
countries will increase their imports
of American flue-cured leaf during
the 1939-40 season unless leaf prices
are reduced
The Netherlands, Belgium, Den
mark, Finland, and Poland, some
times referred to as the “low-price”
(Continued on page two)
SECTION OF NORTH CARONLY DAILY NEWSPAPOLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 12, 1939
To Strike Or Not To Strike On WPA Project
. ffjk k /i, j
~ ffff
Bottom, pickets with placards protesting against “working for scab wages,” march outside the North
Beach Airport project in New York, as AFL leaders claimed 68,000 out on strike. But, while the pickets
patrolled the airport, hundreds of WPA workers returned to jobs (top), and Colonel Brehon Somervell,
WPA chief, announced work was going on at about 80 percent of normal.
Expulsions
Are Ordered
By Mussolini
Duce Himself Com
manded All Foreign
ers in Bolzano Pro
vince o f Northern
Italy To Leave; Pro
tests Are Made by
Governments
Rome, July 12.—(AP)—The Italian
government disclosed today that Pre
mier Mussolini himself had ordered
all foreigners cleared out of Bolzano
province as a “political and military”
measure directed against anti-fascism
Two American women notified the
United States Embassy they had re
ceived orders to leave Bolzano with
in 48 hours, but representations by
Ambassador William Phillips brought
a promise of “every consideration” in
their case.
Dorothea Watts, of Newport, R. 1.,
maintained that to leave on short
notice would endanger her mother’s
health. Phillips discussed the case
with Acting Foreign Minister Bas
tianini, who promised that the Amer
icans would have additional time for
their departure.
Officials said that no exception,
was being made except in cases of j
illness. '
Among Americans vacationing in (
(Continued on Page Two)
\
Forest Fires
Again Menace
Three Towns
Pactola, S. D., July 12. —(AP) —I
Three small communities west of j
Rapid City again were threatened
early today by forest fires raging in
the Black Hills.
Mrs. Bernice Musekamp, tourist
camp operator, said a shift of the
wind began blowing the fire toward
Pactola, Silver City and Mystic.
“There’s quite a wind coming up and
the town is filling with smoke again,”
she said.
The blaze came within half a mno
of Mystic and two miles of Pactola
and Silver City before the wind
shifted late yesterday and pushed the
flames southward. Mrs. Musekamp
said residents of Sheridan, logging
camp south of here, piled all their
(Continued on Page Two)
(jJdoJJwi
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Fair tonight and. Thursday;
slightly warmer Thursday in cen
tral portion.
AFL Will Attempt
To Force Congress
To Cut WPA Hours
Washington, July 12.—(AP)—Wil
liam Green, president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, told 200
union leaders at a policy conference
today that the remedy for the spon
taneous protest against WPA hourly
wage cuts “lies through Congress”
rather than through strikes on WPA
projects.
He had summoned the officials
Here for an extraordinary session to
determine how to get Congress to re
store prevailing wage payments to
the new act as substitutes for re
quirements that all on WPA work
130 hours a month for a “security
wage”.
While thousands went on strike in
definance of WPA regulations, and
othei’s returned to work to avoid dis
missal, Green said:
Evangelist Takes
Life With Pistol
Forest City, July 12.—(AP)
Rev. W. B. Jenkins, Baptist min
ister and evangelist, was found
dead at his home here today of a
22-calibre rifle wound in his head.
Coroner R. L. Hovis, of Ruther
ford county, said the minister
committed suicide.
Sen. Guffey
Headache To
New Dealers
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, July 12. Senator
Joseph F. Guffey, of Pennsylvania,
is a good bit of a headache to some
of his fellow New
De a lers. They
don’t admit it out
loud, but they’re
more or less au
dible through key
holes on Capitol
Hill. Executive
folk and party
managers whisper
about it, too.
Not that the sen
ator isn’t a rip
snorting New Deal
er himself. Other
New Dealers are
Senator
unanimous that his heart’s 100 per
cent all right It’s his judgment that
they find fault with. He says tilings
that they consider indiscreet. They’re
afraid that anti-New Dealers will
quote him to the New Deal’s disad
vantage. If so, they can’t very well
(Continued on page two) •
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
“We are determined now to do all
that lies within our power to lift it
(the 130-hour requirement) and re
move it.”
“The officers and members of the
American Federation of Labor as
sumed that the government was
thoroughly committed to the estab
lishment and maintenance of the pre
vailing wage rate principle. We are
firmly convinced that recognition and
application of this principle by gov
ernment is necessary to the further
maintenance and preservation of
wage levels established as a result of
much sacrifice on the part of or
ganized labor in private industry.
“The solution of the problem pre
sented to this conference lies with
Congress.”
Paralysis In
State Under
Normal Total
Raleigh, July 12.—(AP) —Dr. J. C.
Knox, State epidemiologist, said to
day that the 25 cases of infantile
paralysis reported in North Carolina
this year through yesterday fell sev
eral cases below the normal average.
The normal expectancy by the end
of July, he figured, was 33 cases.
Dr. Knox said that Union county
authorities had been advised to post
pone opening of schools until Oc
tober because there were cases in
contiguous counties in South Caro
lina, though none have been report
ed in Union county.
On the other hand, Rutherford
county officials were told to go ahead
if they desired, and open schools, as
there were no cases in 50 or 60 miles
around the county. It was explained
that the health board could not fore
tell what happened, but that there
appeared to be no danger.
The 25th case was reported from
Gaston county yesterday.
SAYS TORSO SLAYER
IS ILLUSION VICTIM
Cleveland, Ohio, July 12.—(AP) —
Frank Dolezal, confessed killer in one
of Cleveland’s dozen “torso murder”
decapitations, appears to be a “vic
tim of illusion”, his attorney assert
ed today. Fred P. Soukoup, the law
yer, said after talking with Dolezal,
he found him “more or less confus
ed.” Soukoup also contended the
state had “no case at all” against the
52-year-old bricklayer, who, in a
confession announced by Sheriff M.
L. O’Donnell, said he killed Mrs.
Florence Polillo in an argument over
money after she threatened him with
a butcher knife.
8 PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
Requests By
ripi fwi
1 he 1 reasury
Are Ignored
Department Had Ask
ed Ban on Future Tax
Exemptions; Too Lit
tle Time Now Left,
Doughton Says After
Ways Committee Acts
Washington, July 12.—(AP) —The
House Ways and Means Committee
voted today to sidetrack until next
session legislation to prohibit future
issuance of tax-exempt securities
and to reduce surtaxes on individual
incomes in the higher brackets.
The Treasury Department had re
commended a ban on future tax ex
emptions on the ground that they
tended to deprive industry of much
needed investment capital and inter
feres with the government tax sys
tem. Treasury officials explained
that while surtaxes on individual
incomes ranged as high as 70 per
cent, investors were inclined to put
their money in tax exempt bonds
rather than risk it in venturesome
enterprises.
Chairman Doughton, Democrat,
North Carolina, said the committee
felt there was too little time left be
fore adjournment to attempt pass
age of the legislation at this session.
The committee’s action eliminated
another possible barrier to adjourn
ment.
Congressional leaders pressed for
ward with other work remaining to
be done before adjournment while
they watched the White House for
(Continued on Page Two)
801 l Weevil
Threatening
Cotton Areas
Atlanta, Ga., July 12.—(AP) —An
abundance of rainfall and lack of
sunshine in parts of Alabama, Geor
gia and Flo’rida this week favored
increased boll weevil activity in the
cotton fields, the Cotton Market
News Service reported today.
Temperatures were mostly above
normal in the cotton belt. Light to
moderate rainfall was reported in
the eastern belt and was highly ab
sent in parts of the western section.
Progress of cotton in various
states included:
Virginia, fair to good, but weath
er favorable early weevil activity.
North Carolina, condition gener
ally good.
South Carolina, weather favored
weevil activity; progress and condi
tion mostly fairly good, but too rank
in places; squaring and bloom sat
isfactory in north; many bolls near
ly mature in south.
Georgia, condition fairly good, ex
cept favorable for weevil act acti?
vity in west and south.
Relief Near
From Heat
In Midwest
Cold Air Mass Moves
in From Pacific To
Halt Menace That
Has Blistered Many
States; Showers To
Accompany Change
(By The Associated Press)
A cold air mass from the north
Pacific swung inland today to break
up a heat wave that blistered much
of the Middle West with tempera
ture in the 100’s.
Forecaster J. R. Lloyd, of the
United States Weather Bureau at
Chicago, said the area encompassed
by the heat was one of the largest
he had ever recorded. The break
up will occur in North Dakota, most
of South Dakota and northwestern
Nebraska, Lloyd said, and will reach
the Great Lakes region late tomor
row afternoon. He said readings
would remain in the middle or up
per 90’s tomorrow in southern Illi
nois, southern Missouri, southeast
ern Kansas, eastern and southern In
(Continued on page two)