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SI lA k j 1914-1939 adƒasdfsaf His Hat is in the Ring * !>. Roosevelt does not run for President attain, my hat is in t Social Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt during a Vi ~;; ie iuw York with his wife. Observers believe Indiana’s favorite son will have FDR a sun /rt. (Central Press) New War Between States (hie ill Border Customs 4i ßa. Usnizing of America’ 9 Under Way, Bab- 1 sen Says; business I hroitlec 1 And Disheart ened by Myriads of Reports Now Necessary. B\ ROGER iV. GABOON, , (ej.vright 1939, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Sub, or. Park, Mass., Now 24.—A! :• • ■ b< :ag I'ougiit between the - ■ > far more threatening to t- . n .-vrm future of America tnan ; • - I from IS6I to 1863. Un taxes, truck restrictions, j . entry, agricultural quaran- 1 >ns. toll gates and other dis- j u. barriers are being erect-I .. idual states against their As Governor Stark, of rays. ‘‘America is rapidly Balkanized” by this un- C. r n policy. T • ...wement, which was born as • of the depression need to md v. ag< s at home, gain er .. ■ ; turn right up until 1939. To it- ■;.< mil effect of this torrent :r:g legislation, you have to r an inter-state business. Supreme Court has been history by extending the of the Federal law, the e been trying to isolate Residential T3> «•a Tj • ■j’ Bunding in Lead In State In tfce S«r Walter Hotel- j Daily Imoateli Biireitu. Nov. 24. —Report of build ued in 21 North Car daring the month of Oc b. it the big boom due ’auction has ended; but r hand construction of ductuif-.s has taken up i; • . to an extent well ko tlii.- ciear only a casual' > the figures is needed, a . the October report of aier of labor, shows :tion permits for non iding.- fell, in estimat li-. than 38 per cent j • ■ 338. a- compared with -d the increase in resi- j 1 Yl:.i p r cent) was suf axike die grand total show OVS ! the corresponding j last year. ' ar, tl year, as compar- j • precis; mg month.of Sep-I cowp-aison was even] . with cost of non-resi mure.' dropping no less) : vent only to be almost j ! jor by an increase of 1 - at ai cost of residential | away from percent-* ‘ ■ e-d on Page Four) Shopping | ! / ©AyS TILL ' 1 ! Hcttitersntt iLttht ilisiuitrli ~W IRE SERVICE OF I 11E AbbOCiATED PRESS. themselves in a sp : rit of un-Ameri can autonomy. Instead of standard izing their laws and making it easier for employers to expand and to hire new workers, t icy are returning to medieval practices. If this epidemic spreads much farther, it will either! destroy the ec; nomic basis of the Union or will force the Federal gov ernment to -take over states’ rights. Huge Staffs of Experts. These State barricades have not been wanted by the New Deal. Yet the latter, in putting into effect hun dreds of new Federal laws concern ing business and labor, has given State legislators a lot of ideas. Hence, instead Gs one set of hundreds of new laws, there have been 48 sets of hundreds of new laws. An employer who does an inter-state business to day must retain a staff of experts. These experts are not employed to search for new products or to im prove manufacturing technique. Their job is merely to keep their (Continued on Page Three) Hatch Law No Bar On Donations Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Nov. 23. —Federal officials and employees who have been chuck ling almost audibly over the Hatch anti-political activity bill are soon going to learn with a rude shock that it gives them no alibi whatever a gainst coughing up campaign contri butions when the party machine be gin to function in search of money ! to make the mare go in next year’s battles. At least that’s the considered op inion of Senator Hatch, .author of the much discussed bill. State Sen ator John D. Larkins, in charge of j North Carolina’s Jackson Day cam paign, has a copy of that opinion and I is prepared to Hash it in the face of i any Federal who, tongue in cheek I and repressing a desire to appear ] joyous on the surface, sadly tells how j glad he would be to give to the : Democratic campaign fund if it were I not for the fact that he is prohibited j by law from so doing. 1 “Restrictions on political activity '.Continued on Page Four) Japanese Occupy Nanning, Kwangsi Province Cpaital Hon? Kong, Nov. 21. (AP) j Japanese army headquarters here announced tonight that Ja panese forces had entered Nan ning, Kwangsi province capital, early this afternoon. The Japanese troops moved in to the city, which lies on a key supply route from French Indo- China, after artillery and air bombardments hid reduced its defenses, the announcement said. The way was further prepared by thrusts of Japanese cavalry units, which crossed the shallow Pearl river on which Nanning lies. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF AND VIRGINAL HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 24, 1939 FDR Talking Special Tax For Defense Question Is Whether To Borrow or Pay ai You Go, President Says in Interview at Warm Springs Press Conference. Warm Springs, Ga., Nov. 24. (AP) —President Roosevelt disclosed today that some consideration was being given the idea of a special tax to finance expenditures for national defense, which may be increased by $500,000,000 in the next fiscal year. These defense expenditures, the President indicated at a press con ference, will be in excess of $2,- 000,000,000, but probably not as high as $2,300,000,000. He differentiated, incidentally, between appropriations and expenditures tor defense. Questions about business and taxation led the President info a discussion of defense and its financ ing. ()!' course, he said, the objective of the administration was to cut down ail expenditures which possibly could be whittled at the present time. Assuming that reductions can be made in the budget, that Congress does not appropriate large sums be yond the budget estimates, and that tax revenues increase as they are now, the President said, the result would be a eduction in this year’s deficit. But undoubtedly because of the world situation, Mr. Roosevelt con tinued, a larger sum must be pro continued on Page Three.) Dr. James 1. V ance, High Presbyterian Leader, Dies at 78 Blowing Rock, Nov. 24. (AP) — Dr. James Isaac Vance, former mod erator of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, died at his home here early today after an extended period of declining health. He was 78 years old. Dr. Vance was moderator of the General Assembly of the Presby terian Church in the United States in 1917. He served later as chairman of the church’s foreign mission exe cutive committee. At the close of the World War, he became chairman of Protestant relief in Europe, a post he held for several years. Negro Gassed After Saving His Brother Raleigh, Nov. 24. —(AP)— Ray mond Williams, 20-year-old Negro murderer, whose confession saved the life of his brother, was executed by gas at State’s Prison today. The execution came a year to the day after Nathan Reif, a blanket sales man, was slain on Thanksgiving day in Sampson county by Raymond and Henry Williams, and their brother in-lav/, Lee Simpson. The brothers were both sentenced to be executed. Alter Raymond con fessed and took all responsibility, Governor Hoey commuted Henry’s sentence to life imprisonment. Simp son is serving a 30-year prison term. As Raymond started his “last mile” walk into the death chamber, he passed the cell in which his brother stood. They exchanged “goodbyes” but had no other conversation, War den H. H. Wilson said. Henry will be removed/from Death Row today or tomorrow to start his life term. Doesn’t Need Legs I Jessie Simpson ~vj Despite the fact she lost her legs in a train mishap two years ago, Jessie Simpson, of Hackensack, N. J., re ceives a driver’s license after a rig orous Her next license will be one for marriage, to James Stew ard, advertising man. i (Central Press) Mine War Worries Britain Allied Air Triumphs Grows Heavy Toll On Germans Is Claimed British And French Report Twe pt y Enemy Planes De stroyed in Three Days; French Lose One Craft And Brit ish None. Paris, Nov. 24. (AP) —The Allies reported today continuing triumphs in aerial combats on the western front as the war turned skyward in a manner reminiscent of the ,dog fights and flying circuses of World War days. In contrast with the grim waiting game on the ground, the French said that their aviators in American and French pianes had shot down eleven German aircraft in the last three days. Reports here also credited British fliers with destroying nine German planes in two days. (Germany confirmed the increase in aerial warfare, but disagreed on the results. Official news agency re ports in Berlin declared that Ger man fighters had shot down five enemy planes, v/ith only one German loss in six separate encounters over northwestern France in the last two days.) The French reported they ihot down two German planes yesterday, six Wednesday and three Tuesday, with only one of their own planes lost. The .British brought down seven Germans yesterday and two Wednes day without loss, correspondents with the Royal Air Force said. German planes flew over the Shet land Islands again today, resulting m a 90-minute air raid warning. Grange For Continuing Farm Funds Peoria, lill., Nov. 24.—(AP) — Continued Federal aid to farmers, pending establishment of a perman ent agricultural program, was de manded today by the National Grange at the final session of its 71st annual convention. Delegates representing 800,000 Grange members adopted a commit tee report which held that Federal benefit payments were justifiable until agriculture is accorded a big ger share of the national income. The report demanded adjustment (Continued on Page Three) Fritz Kuhn’s Lady Friend Makes Denial New York, Nov. 24. — (AP) Blonde Mrs. Florence Camp, once termed “my golden angel” by Fritz Kuhn, bluntly and repeatedly con tradicted the German - American Bund fuehrer’s testimony today when she was called as a rebuttal witness at Kuhn’s trial on a grand larceny charge. Both sides rested shortly after she left the stand. Mrs. Camp testified that Kuhn urged her to divorce her husband, Charles, and to bring her furniture to New York, so that they could use it after their marriage. Kuhn al ready was married and the lather of two children. She contradicted Kuhn's testimony that she hsd given the bund official $565.76 in cash in return for Kuhn’s financing the transportation of her furniture from Los Angeles to New York. Later, un der questioning by the court, how ever, Mrs. Camp acknowledged she had given Kuhn S6OO in three in stallments. Kuhn had thus account ed for part of the money which he (Continued on Page Three) LOmihsui FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight and Sat urday, followed by rain in moun tains on Saturday; warmer to night; colder in mountains Sat urday. How the Mine Patrol Works This drawing illustrates how a warship clears the seas of the mines which have sunk scores of Allied and neutral vessels. Paravanes are towed from the stem, one on each side., five feet below the surface. If the tow cable encounters a mine chain, the latter slides to the paravane slip wire and is severed by the cutter blade. The mine then bobs to the sur face and is destroyed by gunfire. (Central Press) Germans Claim Plotters Sabotaged Many Vessels Asheville Plans Greeting to FDR Asheville, Nov. 24. (AP) Final arrangements for the visit here Tuesday of President Roose velt will be made at a conference of State, Federal, city and county authorities Monday. A prelimin ary conference was held yester day by secret service agents at tached to the White House staff and Louis Padgett, of Charlotte, agent in charge of the North Car olina district. The President is expeeted to ar rive here Tuesday morning en route from Warm Springs, Ga., where he spent Thanksgiving, to Washington. He is expected to re main here most of the afternoon. Trade Pacts Peace Boost, Hull Thinks Washington, Nov. 24. —(AP) — Secretary Hull described the ad ministration's reciprocal trade pro gram today as being the chief cor nerstone of world peace. His press conference statement added official weight to indications that the administration wanted to retain the program as a basis for lasting peace when the war in Eu rope is ended. Hull asserted that the program, scheduled to expire next June, would be the foundation for any such real peace. He was asked whether he knew of suggestions in Congress that the trade program be vContinued on Page Seven) Many Injuries In Strike at Factory Os Chrysler Motor J Detroit, Mich., Nov. 24. —Two policemen were hurt and a number of other persons suffered black eyes and minor injuries in a melee at the Cnrysler Corporation’s main Dodge plant today as approximately 100 men sought entrance to the build ing. The officers, neither of whom was seriously hurt, were hit with bricks that were tossed freely. Po lice broke up the fighting promptly end took several men into custody h>r questioning. Police estimated 600 UAW-CIO pickets were on duty when the men tned to enter the plant. Approxi mately 83 gained admittance, they ‘.aid. It was the first incident of vio lence at the Dodge plant, scene of the original “slowdown” dispute be tween the CIO-UAW and the cor poration, with the exception of in dividual fist figMs at the picket i i ••. since the dispute began eight weeks ago. _ .. __ PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. German, Italian and Japanese Ships Re ported Victims; Lon don Says Stevens And Best Went to Border To Receive Peace Of fers. Berlin, Nov. 24. (AP) —Captain Richard Henry Stevens, held as a British spy chieftain, on charges of direct connection with an attempt on Adolf Hitler’s life, was represented officially today also as a director of British pre-war sabotage against German, Italian and Japanese ship ping. Hitler’s own newspaper, the Voel kischer Beobaehter quoted Stevens, who has been identified by the Ges tano as chief of the British intel ligence for western Europe, as con fessing he used an immigrant Ger man, Waldemar Poetzsch, in plots to wreck ships of the three totalitarian powers. Stevens was declared to have told Gestapo questioners that the sabo tage campaign was planned in a secret service office in London. An official statement charged that from November, 1937, to November, 1938, Poetzsch carried out#- acts of (Continued on Page Three) DIES WOULD SEVER SOVIET RELATIONS Washington, Nov. 24. — CAP) Chairman Dies, Democrat, Texas, of the House committee on un- American activities, declared to day that the United States should sever relations with Soviet Russia unless Russia gives assurances that it will put an end to activities which Dies al leged violates the 1933 treaty of recognition. 84 Deaths On Thanksgiving In 25 States (By The Associated Press.) At least 84 persons in 25 states were killed in accidents Thursday as the nation observed the first of its two Thanksgiv ings. Most of the dead lost their lives in highway accidents. Five v/ere killed while hunting. There were four fire victims and one died of drowning. In Cleveland, Mrs. Ida O’Laughlin, 59-year-old grand mother, heard the screeching of brakes, ran out on her porch and dropped dead of a heart at tack w 7 hen she saw a small boy lying in the street. The boy, Roger Krull, 7, struck by a motorist who did not stop, died later. The toll by states included; North Carolina I. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Big British Cruiser Is Hit Heavily London Silent on Ger man Report; 5,133- Ton Netherlands Tanker Sunk by Sub marine, And Five Survivors Landed. ANOTHER London, Nov. 24. —(AP) —Mines olf England’s east coast sank anoth er British vessel today, the 8,886- ton steamed Mangalore, as British naval experts struggled to check shipping losses. The Mangalore was the 83rd British vessel, naval and merchant, lost since the start of the war. Lr--rdon, Nov. 24.—(AP) —British naval experts shaped methods today to combat mines, which are taking a rising toll of merchant shipping along the British east coast. Britons, apprehensively watching the list of sunken ships grow, won dered whether the secret weapon, which Germany has hinted she po ssesses might have entered the war at sea. Within the last six days about 25 British and neutral ves sels have been sunk, some by Ger man submarines, but most by mines. The British press charged Ger many with sowing magnetic high explosive mines in shallow east coast shipping lanes, with mine laying airplanes and small sub marines. i Disclosure last night of two more sinkings raised those lor yesterday aione to eight. One was the 315- ton British mine sweeper Aragonite, which the Admiralty said struck a mine yesterday. The other was the 974-ton London steamer Lowland, which, it was disclosed, sank in the North Sea, with ten missing and one dead. The cause of the sinking was not given. BRITISH CRUISER DAMAGED i GREATLY IN FIRTH OF FORTH | Beilin, Nov. 24.—(AP) —The Ger | man high command reported today j it. had corroboration from a sub i marine of the reported heavy dam- I age to the 10,000-ton British cruiser (Continued on Page Three) Winter Olympics Set for Germany To Be Abandoned Berlin, Nov. 24.—(AP)—Cancella tion of the winter Olympic games scheduled for Garmisch-P/irtenkir chen was announced today by Hans von Tschammer Often, Reich sports leader. The German Olympic committee and the organization committee for the games took the action in view of a resolution of the International Olympic Committee that a bel ligerent country cannot hold the games. Tne statement said that “because Germany s proposals for bringing about world peace were declined by the English and French governments, and, therefore the war must be con tinued, Germany returns the com mission that was to conduct the games to the International Olympic Committee. Another Boy Is Rescued From Desert Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. 24.—(AP) Four-year-old Dale Smith, the sec ond boy to be lost in the sparsely populated Arizona country this month, was found unharmed early today ten hours after he wandered onto the desert. He was separated from his father, Kermit C. Smith, WPA timekeeper, as he attempted to follow him on a wood gathering expedition. While a posse was hunting for Dale seven-ycar-old Bruce Crozier, who wandered cold and hungry for seven days and six nights in a northern Arizona forest, bravely advised a group of business men not to get lost, because “it isn’t any fun.” Bruce received a hero’s greeting as he arrived with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Crozier, and his 11- year-old brother, Bobby, as the guests of W. Roy Wayland, Phoenix canker.
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