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utTNinEHSON’S population 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR FDR CULLS BIPARTISAN NEUTRALITY MEET Vandenberg Seeking Abrogation of 1911 Treaty With Japan In L. S. U. Scandal E. N. Jackson, business manager of Louisiana State Jniversity, who was indicted by a Grand Jury at Baton Rouge, is pictured above. The indictment was based on charges of embezzling and receiving embezzled goods. Jackson’s indictment is out growth of arrest of Dr. James Mon roe Smith, former head of university. (Central Press) WPA Chiefs Turn To Cut In Workers With Strike Ended, Officials Tackle Oth er Problems and Re strictions Imposed by Congress (By The Associated Press.) With the strike of WPA workers over the new 130-hour work month apparently ended, except in a few cities, relief officials turned their attention today to enforcing other re trictions recently enacted by Con gt'e-ss. State administrators struggled with the problem of trimming 300,000 names off the WPA rolls by August 1 to conform to a reduced budget. The law required furloughs of those on the rolls for 18 months, and Col. T. C. Harrington, the WPA commis sioner, said such persons would con stitute most of those dropped. In Washington headquarters, WPA chiefs studied means of eliminating geographical differentials in pay to (Continued on Page Eight) TOBACCO FESTIVAL OPENS AT WILSON Wilson, July 18. —(AP) —The an nua! North Carolina tobacco festival* 1 iiened here today with what was believed to be the first auctioneer’s contest ever held. Expert tobacco nists acted as judges. A parade and a baseball game this afternoon and a street dance tonight also were on the program. Three Negro Robbers Get SI,OOO FromMoyockßank Norfolk, Va., July 18.—(API— Three Negroes armed with pistols entered the bank of Moyock, N. C., today and forced the cashier, W. W. Smith, and his assistant, J. R. Thorne to lie down on the floor, swooped up all the ready cash outside the vault, and hacking out of the small bank, leaped into an automobile and head ed toward Norfolk. It is believed a fourth man was ■waiting in the automobile outside the bank ready to speed away. Reports said the car left the bank :, i a terrific rate of speed, and soon disappeared. It was reported that the robbers obtained between SI,OOO and $2,000. The men entered the bank while Idtuthcri rtt ikttlu tltsmtfrh SERVICE OF hie associated press. v Resolution in Senate Would Also Deal With Japanese Violation of Chinese Rights; Aid to Latin - American De fenses Washington, July 18. (AP) Senator Vandenberg, Republican, Michigan, offered in the Senate to day a resolution to require that Japan be given the specified six months notice of abrogation of the 1931 treaty of amity and commerce between that country and this. The resolution also would call for a reconvening of the Brussels con ference of 19;i7, now ui recess, to de termine whether Japan had been or is violating the nine-power treaty, pledging respect of the territorial in tegrity of China. At Vandcnberg’s request, the res olution was sent to the foreign rela tions committee. The House Foreign Affairs Com mittee voted unanimously to recom mend legislation designed to help Latin-American republics bolster their defenses. First, however, it made some changes to insure protec tion of this country’s military secrets. The House completed congression al action on a bill fixing average an nual cotton production under the Agricultui*e Department’s . control program at not less than 10,000,000 bales. The present minimum is 12,- 000,000 bales. The measure now goes to the White House for President Roosevelt’s signature. The new mini mum will become effective for the 1940 crop. Secretary Morgenthau praised the President’s $2,800,000,000 lending bill as a “real advance toward the goal of bringing our governmental expen ditures within out* receipts,’’ as he testified before the Senate Banking Committee. The Senate approved the resolu tion by Senator McKellar, Demo crat, Tennessee, authorizing an in vestigation of Superintendent Ross Eakin’s management of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Senator Vandenberg, who pre viously had objected to unanimous consent consideration of the . resolu tion, supported the investigation after McKellar amended the measure to provide that the inquiry include a survey of the alleged smearing of Eakin’s 1936 election ballot to deter mine how he voted. The resolution does not require House approval. One Coast Guard Flier Killed And Two Are Injured Fcrnandina, Fla., July 18.— (AP) —One coast guard flier was killed and two were injured here today when their seaplane hit a beacon in the Amelia river, while tkaing off in front of the coast guard dock. The dead man was F. Schwein ing, pilot of the plane. The in jured fliers were Max Kenzie, radio man, and Frank Dryden, mechanic. All came from the Charleston, S. C., base. SECURITIES SOLD BY STATE AGENCY #, Raleigh, July 18.—(AP) —The Lo cal Government Commission sold $51,000 worth of Caldwell county bonds and $112,000 worth of Rowan county, Randolph county and town of Elm City notes today. The Na tional Bank of Wilson bought a $2,000 Elm City note at par with » four per cent interest. several other customers were in side, and iwthout any delay walked up to the cashier’s cage and de manded that the two employees hold their hands up. Two of the trio walked behind the cage, and while one made the cashier and his assist ant lie on the floor, the other took all the money in sight, and, stuffing it into his pockets, backed toward the door. The others joined him. In the meantime, the customers who were in the bank left hurriedly. Several men standing outside the bank saw the three Negroes leave the bank, jump intathe car and de part. Some said thlre was a fourth man in the car, while others could not be sure. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED in THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Danzig Nearer To German Control Jews In Palestine In Strike Protest Jerusalem, July 18.—(AP)—- Jews throughout Palestine, in protest against Britain’s six months ban on Jewish immigra tion into the Holy Land, began a 10-hour strike today. At 2 p. m. (7 a. m. eastern standard time), they closed their shops and shut tered their windows. The National Council of Pales tine Jews called the strike in an admitted effort to influence de bate on Palestine issues in the British Parliament. Only a few Jews holding spe cial passes from their local com mittees appeared on Jerusalem streets. Mobile police took spe cial precautions in the city. Manchoukuo Asks Japan To Protest Hsinking, Manchoukuo, July 18. — (AP) —Japanese-protected Manchou kuo asked today that the Japanese government protest directly to Mos cow against recent Soviet Russian air raids on Manchoukuo railway centers. Previous protests have been sent by Manchoukuo to the Russian protected Outer Mongolian govern ment at Ulan Bator, with no appar ent effect. Japanese believe that some, if not all, the raiding planes are based in Outer Mongolia. The Japanese army in Manchoukuo reported that unusual military pre parations are in progress across the entire 5,000-mile extent of Siberia. Os more immediate concern to the Japanese command was a large Soviet-Mongol concentration north and south of Nomonhan Hill, on the disputed Manchoukuo-Outer Mon golia border. Fighting was said to have continu ed in the Nomonhan sector after two invading Mongol units were repulsed Monday. Other Mongol troops may have entered Manchoukuo north of this battle zone, where no Japanese troops were stationed. The border warfare between Soviet-Mongolia and Japanese-Man choukuo troops have developed into an extremely serious situation, Japa nese officials said. One authoritative source said the next two days would determine whether the fighting would flare in to the most extensive thus far. It has been continuing sporadically since May 11. Officials were awaiting a formal Mongolian reply to a protest against Soviet air forays into Manchoukuo before determining their course. It was believed officially that the severity of the protest would hasten a Soviet response. (jtfeaJJwi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, scattered show ers in northeast portion tonight and in east Wednesday; cooler in extreme northeast portion Wednesday afternoon. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 18, 1939 Dramatic Photo of Tragedy on the Atlantic 'liar* - This dramatic photo was made on the Atlantic Ocean, 160 miles southeast of New York, as the Coast Guard plane, V-164, sank. Members of the ketch Atlantis' crew, which lowered a lifeboat, worked quickly to pull “Peaceable Solution” Talked in Berlin Means German Occu pation; German Troops and Supplies Moving Toward Free City ; Free City of Danzig, July 18.— (AP) —President Arthur K. Greiser, of the Danzig Senate, and other members of the free city govern ment met at the Senate building shortly before noon today to discuss the next steps to bring about re union with Germany. Press officers said that members of the Senate, the ruling body in Danzig, would discuss any changes in Danzig-Polish relations resulting from last week’s conferences at Mun ich and Berchtesgaden between Adolf Hitler and Albert Forster, Danzig district Nazi leader. Offi cials, however, would not say wheth er the Senate had been called into session formally. Foster, who returned by plane last night, was not present at today’s meeting, but he was known to have conferred with party and govern ment leaders last night on sugges tions he brought back from Ger many. He is not a member of the government. Shortly before the home-coming of the Nazi leader, observers on a highway leading into Danzig from Marienberg, East Prussia, counted 40 military supply trucks being driven by men in uniform into the free city. Neither the nature of the cargo nor the precise destination of the truck train was known. “PEACEABLE SOLUTION’’ IS NOW EXPECTED BY BERLIN Berlin, July 18.—(AP) —A Ger man government spokesman said to day that Germany thinks the Dan giz situation is steering in the direc tion of a “peaceable solution.” “We are very optimistic,” he continued, but would not disclose on what the optimism was based. “By ‘solution’ you can mean only the incorporation of Danzig in the Reich,” one correspondent observed. “Our position on this question and (Continued on Page Eight) All of Negro Teachers Are To Get Raise Raleigh, July 18.—(AP)—The sal ary committee of the State School Commission has virtually agreed, it was learned today, to recommend that “A” grade teachers with five to eight years of experience and all Ne gro teachers get the biggest part of $269,000 available for salary in creases . The differential between pay of white and Negro teachers will be closed slightly, members said. Some thing lika $115,000 to $125,000 will likely be made to apply to pay for Negroes. Teachers with the “A” certificates Who have worked five years will be rewarded, but the majority of the committee expressed opposition in -1 formally to a ninth increment. aboard five survivors. Three died, one of them the stricken seaman they; were taking ashore from the Atlantis . Investigation was ordered. Skip-, per of the Atlantis reported hearing an explosion. 209 Os 212 Persons Saved In Japanese Sea Disaster San Francisco, Cal., July 18.— (AP) —The Marine Exchange said today 209 of 212 persons reported aboard the Japanese freighter Bo kuyo Maru were rescued shortly be fore the ship sank in flames 1,125 miles east of Yokohama. Earlier reports had placed only 110 aboard the 8,619-ton vessel. The Boquya Maru, operated by the N. Y. K. line (Japanese Mail Steamship Company) left San Pedro, Cal,, July 2. It had put in there after a cargo of nitrates loaded at Valparaiso, Chile, began in the for ward hold; The Maritime Exchange of the San Francisco Chamber of Com merce reported details of the dis aster were contained in a private Towns Which Do Not Report Lose Taxes Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 18.—Incorporated towns in four North Carolina coun ties failed to share in the distribu tion of the half million dollars in tangibles. tax lor the past year be cause of failure to report tax valua tions and rates to the State Depart ment of Revenue In seven counties, the towns and cities received more than the county itself because of the higher munici pal tax levies These somewhat incongruous con ditions are‘found by analysis of the revenue department’s statement of distribution made public this week. One other county failed to receive anything for municipalities for the perfectly good reason that no in corporated town is listed in the de partment’s files. That is Currituck county, which got $510.60 for the county treasury out of the distribu tion. So far as records show, it is the only county in the State without a corporate municipality. Camden, Hyde, Stokes and Tyrrell all have small incorporated towns, but since these towns failed to file reports of taxables, the department had to ignore them in paying back the money derived from intangibles taxes In the counties of Buncombe, (Continued on Page Five) SHIPMENT OF SPUDS SMALLER THIS YEAR Raleigh, July 18.—(AP)—North Carolina Irish potato growers have shipped 6,830 cars this year, com pared with 8,470 last year, A. B. Harless, marketing specialist, re ported today, and shipments, are practically over. Penns;<lvania buy ers took 1,820 carloads of North Carolina potatoes this year, Harless said, with Ohio buying 1.082 and New York, 1.044. . PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY radio message to the Associated Oil Company from its tanker Associated, which picked up the survivors. The 445-foot freighter sent out SOS calls for five minutes, then its signals were cut off, indicating the fire, which evidently started among the nitrates, may have disabled the radio. Her last reported position was latitude 36.38 north, longtitude 159.8 east, putting her directly on the regular steamship lane between Yo kohama and San Pedro. Officials said the Japanese line or dered four ships to the stricken freighter’s assistance at first reports of danger. The closest was expected to arrive at the scene later today. Two of the three persons un accounted for, it was reported, were a junior engineer and a stewardess. Liberals vs. Conservatives Now Talked By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Communist Washington, July 18.—Some Re publicans are as liberal as some Democrats. Some Democrats are as conservative as some Republicans. Next year’s presidential nomina tion may align lib- erals and conserva tives against one another. Then again, they may not. Suppose Franklin D. Roose velt is named once more on the Demo ! cratic ticket and j that Senator Taft, for instance, is named on the Re publican. That un | questionably would be interpreted as implying a liberal Democrat versus a conservative G. O. P. But suppose the Senator Vandenberg Democrats pick John N. Garner and the Republicans Fiorello H. La Guardia. The Republicans won’t do it. La Guardia is an American Labor party mayor. Still, he’s served in Congress as a Republican (as a Socialist, too, for that matter). And he’s mentioned by ultra-liberal Republicans as a suitability. That would mean a very conservative Democracy against a rip-snorting radical Republicanism. But suppose both parties com promise. Suppose the Democrats hit on State Secretary Hull and that the Republicans hit on Senator Ar thur H. Vandenberg—the former a moderate Democrat and the latter a moderate Republican; both extreme ly enlightened statesmen. The sit uation wouldn’t be a bit clarified. Old Lines Wiped Out There used to be a difference be tween Democrats and Republicans. The Democrats were states’-right (Continued on Page Five) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY GOP Chiefs Invited To White House Committee May Be Discharged, Measure Attached as Rider to Other Bill or Some Committee Member May Switch His Vote Washington, July 18.—(AP) —An extraordinary conference at the White House was arranged for to night by Senate leaders today ap parently to weigh chances for neu trality legislation at this session. The meeting, it was authoritative ly reported, will include President Roosevelt, Secretary Hull, Senate Democratic Leader Barkley; Chair man Pittman, Democrat, of the Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee, and three Senate Republicans, Min ority Leader McNary of Oregon, and Borah of Idaho, and Austin, of Ver mont. Invitations to the Republicans were said to have been telephoned last night and this morning by Sena tor Barkley. Senator Barkley said it was his un derstanding the President and Mr. Hull wished to learn the individual views of the members on efforts of the administration to obtain revision of the neutrality law before adjourn ment. Boi’ah was the only member of the group who voted with the majority of the i'oi’eign relations committee to postpone until next session. Three possible methods of reviv ing the controversial neutrality bill were under scrutiny by the admin istration’s congressional leaders. Barkley said that they were: 1. The Senate might be asked to discharge the foreign relations com mittee from further responsibility for the bill, which then would go direct ly to the floor for debate. 2. The legislation might be attach ed to some other pending bill as a rider. 3. Some member of the foreign re lations committee might be won over to the administration’s viewpoint, thereby reversing the 12-11 vote by which the committee recently shelved neutrality legislation until the next session. Submarine On Even Keel In The Ocean Portsmouth, N. H., July 18.—(AP) —The disabled submarine Squalus, in which 26 men died, was found to be resting on the bottom on an al most even keel today when a diver made the first descent since the un dersea craft tore away from its lifting pontoons last Thursday. The diver reported the submarine had only a slight list to port. A tan gle of lines about the Squalus’ deck prevented him making a complete inspection, pending which plans for a new salvage attempt cannot be made. Divers had been asking permis sion to descend to the Squalus ever since efforts to raise the craft failed, but until today, after several of the tangled lines and hoses had been cleared away, superior officers■ con sidered a descent too hazardous. Burgunder Is Given Death Sentence Phoenix, Ariz., July 18.—(AP) — Death in the State’s lethal gas cham ber was decreed for Robert Bur gunder, 22-year-old college sopho more, today by a jury which con victed him of killing Jack Peterson, Phoenix automobile salesman. The youth’s father, former Seattle prosecutor, had pleaded as head of the defense counsel, for a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity, and attempted to show his blame as a “neglectful” and “ignorant” parent. Peterson was one of two salesmen lured to death in the desert under the pretext that a customer wanted a car demonstrated. Burgunder’s divorced parents both came to his defense. His mother said she was to blame for his mental condition the day of the slaying.
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