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H r N {)ERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-sixth year House Kills Lending Bill, 193H66 Senate Votes Bill For An Immediate Tobacco Balloting Slain in Gun Fight Jm Central Press Phonephoto George M. Dickey Police Chief George M. Dickey, 7S, of Cynthiana, Ky., was shot and killed by Charles Allen, 70, retired fanner, when Dickey tried to in vestigate report that Allen had lured a girl into his barn. Allen then stood off an attacking army of hundreds in a three-hour gun battle, wounding eight, and escaped. Portion Os Workers On Their Jobs I Non-Striking Auto Employees at Cleve land Allowed to En ter Under Law Pro- 1 tection; Clash Occurs At Detroit Factory. Cleveland. Aug. 1. —(AP) —Non- striking employees entered General Motors’ .sprawling Fisher Body plant today through a cleared and quiet "riot zone” to relieve some of nearly 3<'o bebsieged workers who spent the night at the plant. Company officials refused to say how many had reported on the re vi.t d day work shift starting at 7:30 a. m. Their passage through a dwind h d crowd of strike sympathiers was without incident. With pickets limited to five at each gate, under a police-enforced pro clamation prohibiting ‘‘riotous as ' inbly or inass formation” within ooi) yards of the plant, strikers picket ‘-d behind the lines. The restriction, ordered after clashes between police hikers, sent 46 persons to hos iW is yesterday, brought a charge of delation oi civil rights” from an ok "ial of the CIO United Automo bil' Workers, sponsoring the strike. After a closed union meeting at a haii outside the restricted zone, Paul (Continued on Page Five) Industry Is Moving Into This State Daily Dispatch liureau, In +h« Sir Waiter Hotel. Raleigh, August I.—A steadily in <;“u mg movement of industrial Wants into North Carolina is in pros !'"ct lor the rest of this year, J. T. ■Anderson, industrial engineer and R mi of the Department of Conser vation and Development’s division of industry and commerce, said on the ’ ” of his departure today for New England and New York. "There is a growing spirit of op btnism throughout this State, as well : ' s in industrial circles of the east,” iH‘ 'wiid, “and there is every prospect Wat for the rest of the year there v - ! i be a steady increase in the num - (Continued on Page FiveJ Hrttiirrsmt TUtUit tUsuatrlr LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Measure Goes to White House for President’s Approv al ; Georgia Growers Cheered by Prospect Os Conference With Buyers. Washington, August I. (AP)—-The Senate acted quick ly today to give flue-cured tobacco growers in southern states an opportunity to hold an immediate farmer election on invoking marketing quotas on their 1940 sales. It approved without debate and sent to the White House amendments to the 1938 farm act which would authorize Secretary Wallace to call a referendum at any time during the marketing season, instead of waiting until No vember 15, as provided in the present law. Marketing of flue—cured tobacco started last week in Georgia and Florida, and begins Thursday in South Carolina and a few North Car olina markets. Tobacco growers, meeting here yes terday, expressed belief an early re ferendum would help bolster prices on the Georgia markets. Flue-cured growers, in an election last winter, rejected imposition of marketing .quotas on their 1939 crop, the largest on record. The amendments also would change the basis for sales quotas for selling in excess of allotments from three to ten cents a pound. GEORGIA GROWERS CHEERED OVER MEETING WITH BUYERS Douglas, Ga., Aug. I.—(AP) Georgia bright leaf tobacco growers (Continued on Page Four) 55 Hurt In Bombay Riots Over Liquor Bombay, India, August I.—(AP) —Fifty-five persons, including 27 policemen, were injured today in rioting that followed a demonstra tion again enforcement of Bom bay’s new prohibition law. Six persons in a crowd which at tacked ooiice were wounded by bul lets. Most of the others were hurt by flying stones. Since last mid night, the 8,500 bars and liquor shops of Bombay and its suburbs have been closed to natives, and liquor for foreigners is rationed. A Moslem procession protesting (Continued on Page Five) State’s Tax Revenues Soar In Month Os July Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Waiter Hotel. Raleigh, August I.—North Caro lina’s tax-payers turned in to their treasury last month a grand total oi $6 008,084.31, a tremendous increase of more than 27 per cent over the $4,714,104.78 they paid in July, 1938. The revenue division showed the most startling increases, with its nine items going almost 40 per cent (39.1 1 to be exact) above last July, with $3,533,580.41 against $2,510,979.42 up $1,022,600.99. So uniform was the Revenue Division: July, 1939 July, 1938 Revenue Division. 25,874.42 $ 38,213.92 Privies? Tax 521.221.68 455,773.24 Franchise Tax '' 1,767,550.60 1,018,q98.66 Franchise iax 91,740.90 55,119.92 Income-Tax 926,640.18 813,457.40 o tqv 166,429.10 121,339.11 2 G X er J g T 892.81 621.34 r* \tVA; 6.213.73 7,737.71 Intangible Tax 17.00 18 .12 Miscellaneous Total , $3,53^580 A1 $2,510,979.42 L3cen^e V Tax le i 160,180.57 146,319.47 trLf 13,838.50 11,145.93 Bus and Franchise i69,701'.26 ' * 1,933,570.01 S ’99,532.12 89 > 87i -°° ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA^ HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 1, 1939 WAR MENACES BALKANS New WPA Chief ii Elk Jr® Hi Dennis W. Delaney Dennis W. Delaney, of Lawrence, Mass., a war veteran, rose from a pick and shovel job to independent contractor and has just been made Works Progress Administrator for Massachusetts in a nomination sent to the Senate by President Frank lin D. Roosevelt. Chamberlain Is To Keep Cabinet Near British Ministers to Stay Close By For Crisis During Two Months Recess of Par liament; Chamber lain Is Pessimistic. • London, August 1. —(AP) — The British cabinet will remain within easy call of Prime Minister Cham berlain throughout Parliament’s Au gust-September “danger” holiday. Taking their cue from the prime minister’s dark but still hopeful view of the international picture, the min isters, for the most part, have decid ed to spend their vacations at nearby country homes or on short trips. Britain’s discussion of the Far Eastern situation with Japan and negotiations for a British-French- Soviet pact are expected to keep both the prime minister and Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax close to their offices after the scheduled recess, be ginning Friday. Chamberlain has made no vaca tion plans, and Halifax said he would take trips to his country place in Yorkshire “whenever circumstances permit.” Supply Minister Burgln ex pects to be busy with inspection of industrial works until early in Oc (Continued on Page Eight) improvement that only two minor items —intangible taxes and a pit tance of sl7 yielded by “miscellane ous” —failed to join in the ascent. Those two taxes regarded as the best business barometers —sales and gasoline gallonage—set dizzy paces, the three per cent sales levy yielding 1 a jackpot of $926,640.19, an increase of more than SIOO,OOO over last July’s $813,457.40; while the six-cents-a gallon gasoline impost produced $2,- 169,01.26, up more tnan $200,000 from last July’s $1,933,570-01. A comparison of all items: Yugoslavia Is Scene Os New Threat Croatian Peasant Leader Hints at Se cession * Under F orce Os Serb Treatment; Hints at Invitation to Germany to Come in. Kupinec, Yugoslavia, Aug. I. (AP) —Charging interference by the “Belgrade clique”, threatening home rule aspirations of his people, Dr. V. Machek, the Croatian leader, declar ed today that Croatia would secede from Yugoslavia unless his autonomy demands were met. To the question “Won’t that mean revolution?” the peasant leader an swered, “It will mean more; it will probably mean a world war.” Asked how he believed an inde pendent Croatia with 5,000,000 in habitants could live apart from the Serbs, he leader acknowledged there probably would be a protectorate over the Croats. Yugoslavia’s total estimated population is 15,630,000. As for Germany, bordering Yugo slavia on the northwest since the an nexation of Austria, Machek said: “All right, Germany then; let her come and make order. Some one must make order in Yugoslavia. If Belgrade cannot make order in Yugo slavia, Germany can.” The 60-year-old leader declared, “there is an analogy in our situa tion and that (^Czechoslovakia.” He remarked that “the same ele ments are present in both states. I hope there may yet be time to save us, but I am afraid it may be too late.” ‘Gray Mouse' Execution Set Friday Raleigh, Aug. 1. —(AP) —Arthui* Morris, 24-year-old Negro who be came known as the “gray mouse” and “the eel” during a career in burglary, which ended in a sentence of death, said today he had never hurt any body, and would have run if dis covered in a home. Morris is scheduled to be executed Friday. Governor Hoey is studying the case. He was convicted of first degree burglary of the home of Dr. W. B. Dewar here. Raleigh police have about 50 bur glary charges pending against Mor ris, 1 and in Durham he was sentenced in February, 1938, to 50 to 80 years for robberies. The Dewar case was pending at the time of the Durham conviction. Morris escaped four months after entering prison, and, after he was caught in Henderson, he was tried in the capital case and convicted. Attorneys for Morris contend he is a harmless kleptomaniac. Roumanians Turn Guns At Hungary Budapest, Aug. I.—(AP) —The of ficial Hungarian news agency said today that Roumanian artillery was drawn up on the left bank of the Pisza river in position to bombard a Hungarian village on the opposite bank. The agency said the action fol lowed the woqnding of a Hungarian frontier guard by a Roumanian guardsman at that village, in south eastern Hungary, early today. Two clashes were reported from that sec tion Saturday and Sunday night. The Hungarian agency said the clashes came after Roumanian guards had fired on Hungarian raftsmen on the river, and shots had struck a Hun garian customs house. Last night, the statement continued, a Hungarian guard patroling the bridge was shot. Sporadic shooting was reported through the night until 7 a. m. (jJsLcdfaih FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; somewhat unsettled Wednesday. j j Going Somewhere, Mrs. Garner? JraMßlir jjpjilj || j j.M I jif A H§ & pF m Wmmm There’s nothing like being prepared, believes Mrs. John N. Garner, wjfe of the Vice President, as she starts packing her bags in Washington. As soon as Congress adjourns, whenever it be, the Garners are off to their native Texas. Large Lending Bill Passes The Senate By Convincing Vote Washington, Aug. I. (AP) House leaders, stepping up their legislative machinery to a fast pre adjournment pace, sidetracked the administration housing bill today in a drive for prompt enactment of the Senate-approved lending program. The Senate passed a sharply cur tailed version of President Roose velt’s lending bill by a vote of 52 to 28 late yesterday. A smoothly working combination of Republican and anti-New Deal Democrats repeatedly overrode the administration forces to batter down the lending total from $2,800,000,000 to $1,615,000,000. Hoey Urges Charlotte To Further Vote Raleigh, Aug. (AP) Governor Hoey advised Charlotte and Meck lenburg officials and members of the Charlotte library board today to try to secure another election on a tax so the library by circulating peti tions. The governor said he thought the proposal should be based on the idea o levying a flat three-cent tax for library purposes. He expressed belief contributions could be secured to operate the library during the next year if a tax were approved to be come effective July 1, 1940. Mayor Ben Douglas, of Charlotte, told the governor: “If there is any legal way in the world we can work (Continued on Page Eight) Florida’s Health Officer, Native Os This State, Dead Jacksonville, Fia., Aug. I.—(AP) Dr. W. A. McPhaul, Florida State health officer since 1936, died in a hospital here today. Dr. McPhaul, 60, had been in ill health for several months. First stricken last February, he was forced to relinquish a part of his duties. A native of Robeson county, North Carolina, Dr. McPhaul had held pub lic office in his home state and Ala bama. The first county health unit law in the United States was enecated through the efforts of Dr. McPhaul while a member of the North Caro lina House of Representatives. Thro ughout his life, he advocated full time county health units as the only adequate protection for the public. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. The House leadership set midnight tomorrow as the deadline for a final vote. There was no certainty that the chamber would approve the legisla tion, which differs slightly from the Senate bill and authorizes loans of $1,950,000,000. Repeated decisions to delay action on the housing bill, which would double the $800,000,000 borrowhig power of the United States Housing Authority, indicated to some congress men that it would be shelved for the session. With the session obviously nearing an end, the capital continued to play its guessing game. Farm Folks Told To Grow Food Supply Raleigh, Aug. I.—(AP)—Dr. E. V. McCullom, food chemist at Johns Hopkins University, urged North Carolina farm folk today to produce their own food supply “and improve the diet of their families.” “Eat what you want after you eat what you should,” counseled the dietary expert. “Foreign nations are more and more subsidizing home production of cash crops such as wheat and cotton,” Dr. McCullom said. “They are especially urging food crop production because mal nutrition is a menace to national safety.” “We have lost many of our mar kets,” said Dr. McCullom, “and will continue to lose them under the pre sent trend of foreign affairs. So, I advise the farmers of North Caro lina to produce their local food sup ply and improve the diet of their (Continued on Page Eight) Steamer Aground In the Cape Fear Near Wilmington Norfolk, Va„ Aug;. I. (AP) The American steamer Illinois is aground off Beacon No. 14‘, in Cape Fear river, according to reports received by coast guard headquarters here today. Commander R. S. Lucas stated that he had received a message to the effect that the steamer was not badly damaged. Crews from the Oak Island coast guard station are standing by to render any assistance. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Huge Margin Is Against Considering Coalition o f Demo crats and Republicans Defeats Resolution For Procedure and Majority Leadership May Drop Housing Bill, Too. Washington, August I. (AP) —The House refuled to day to consider the adminis tration’s $1,950,000,000 lend ing bill, a decision which some members said killed the measure for the session. The vote was 193 against consideration to 166 in favor. A coalition of Democrats and Republicans successfully fought adoption of a resolution setting forth procedure for for mal consideration of the bill. Already passed by the Senate in a somewhat different form. Refusal of the House to con sider the m'easure came over the vehement opposition of Majority Leader Rayburn, Democrat, Texas, against such arbitrary action. Whether the leadership would at tempt consideration through other parliamentary tactics was not im mediately known. The shattering blow the adminis tration suffered on the lending bill was expected to prove a severe dis couragement to the House leader ship in seeking to obtain action this session on the $800,000,000 housing bill, a companion measure, which likewise already has Senate ap proval. Early Close Os Congress Less Bright Washington, Aug. I.—(AP) —The House buckled down to work today on the administration’s lending pro gram today, but even with passage possible by tomorrow midnight, the possibility of prospect of an early adjournment appeared to be dim ming. On the Senate side, weher the sl,- 615,000,000 lending bill was passed yesterday. Majority Leader Barkley said it seemed to him that it would be impossible for Congress to quit Saturday because of the difficulty of cleaning up odds and ends of legisla tion. Tentatively, he picked Wednesday as a new adjournment date. In beginning work on the lending (Continued on Page Five) Irvin Cobb 111 In San Francisco Os Gastric Disorder San Francisco, Aug. 1. —(AP) — Irvin S. Cobb, the rotund writer, actor and mint julip expert of Holly wood, was ill in a hospital here to day with what physicians described variously as a “gastric upset”, and “the summer flu”. He was stricken five days ago at the San Francisco Bohemian club’s resort on the Russian river, but his condition did not become known un til he came here yesterday. Cobb is 64. “He’s not in bad shape, but he’ll have to stay in bed three or four days,” Dr. Joseph McGuinness said. Two Marines Admit Killing At Norfolk Norfolk, Va., August I. —(AP. Noroflk Police Chief John F. Wood said today two young Marines, Wal lace E. Miller, 18, and Lawrence M. King, 19, had admitted to him that they kille F. T. Jennings, 49-year old, Augusta, Ga., salesman, in a hotel room here July 24. The chief’s statement came after he had ques tioned the ewo enlisted men in the office of Captain Ralph Wood, who (Continued on Page Five)
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