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Hpttiiersntt SJatly ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. W i:\TY-SEVENTH YEAR LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF the associated press. HENDERSON, N- C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 3, 1940 i'L'HMSHKI • KV1CIIY AKTKUNUUN* EXCfcJI'T SI.'NDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY FDR Asks Huge Defense Budget Soviets Massing 7 Divisions And Germans May Join Them; Finns Press Russian Defeat 18 Are Dead As Result n Blaze In Apartment i Marlborough Hotel in Minneapolis Burn? in Sub-Zero Weather; Fire Spreads Rapidly; Three Burned to Death in Charleston. Soviets Are By Defeats Losses Heavy in Cen traJ-E astern Area; Germany to Enter Baltic War if Eng land And France Send Forces to Finns. Helsinki. Jan. 3.—(AP)—Irked by setbacks. Soviet Russia was reported today to be massing seven army di visions—about 105,000 men—as the spearhead for a major offensive a gainst the Finnish Mannerheim line on the Karelian isthmus. Under a new Soviet commander, the fresh troops were said by Fin nish sources to be ready for a tre mendous push against the Finnish fortifications, which have been de scribed by the Russians as compar able to Germany's Siegfried line. Russia lust 400 tanks and 150 air planes in operations against Finland In December .a semi-official news agency reported. The agency asserted that Russia had used more than 1, 000 tanks on the Karelain isthmus alone, and added: '"At the end of the first month wl' the war. we are able to state the de fenses in Finland remain unshaken and there has been found a new striking power with which the enemy already has become acquainted." GERMANY TO ENTER WAR II ALLIES SEND TROOPS Berlin, Jan. 3.— (AP)—Authorita tive sources said today Germany would "be forced" to take an active part in the Russian-Finnish war if France sends Alpine troops to Fin . '.:s. .1 n:i . .fan. 3.—(AP) 13 and possibly twenty -t the::• Hves early today cti'Iy morning fire rav • o .-.larhorough apartment wh > .ought the blaze in weather, were still search b- -d.es four hours after the was sounded. the victims were killed ped from top windows ; .ee-story brick building. - v. ere trapped in blazing ■ < • d ished t" death when burned thr<. ;gh and fell, ber of injured was ten .y set at upwards of 23. - knew how the fire started, residents said they were; ened shortly before 6 a. m. by the sound of an explo. inn, but its source was not immediately dis covered. Most of the occupants awoke to find the 8.">-apariment building already an inferno, moke and flames blocking halls and stair ways. How the blaze spread so quickly through the structure puzzled fire men. The building is in three sec tions and firemen said liic fire ap peared to start simultaneously in all three. THREE LOSF. LIVES !\ BLAZE AT CHARLESTON Charleston. S. C.. Jan. 3.—(AP) —Three persons died in an early morning blaze here today. One other was painfully burned, and a fifth escaped by sliding down a guy wire strung by the house. Revenue Ut Mate bhows Upward Business Trends Daily Dispatch Bureau. [ lu the Sir Walter Hotel. 4:-.. Jan. 3.—Business was bet 1939 Inan in 1938. as every one tew !>• the most confirmed 1 :> will admit: but nothing' th.s fact more clearly than the; • crease in sales and gasoline ( 'ect <>n> in North Carolina dur-j •• year whose last leaf was just; rom the calendar. ti.e.-f two items which are! vd with hawklike keenness as d ees the ebb and flow of y and general business ac . «'j:ing 1938 neither showed j ^ approaching an ebb. as sales 1 >uues ciimbed almost nine peri . . 193o to a total of Sll.597.-j the twelve months: while 1 .■:■ o t:,ne gasoline gallonage j .ii-c.'-:;- rose slightly morel . |>( cent to $25,163,678.37.! ' • :ne :n the State's history! iune Rose Not Seeking Lrwin Job Daily DisuutrTi Bureau. In me !Sn Walter Hotel. ■ , Jan. 3.—If Superinten ' P ibhc instruction Clyde A. ••.•t been losing any sleep over > .oility Junius Rose, Green : choc.l superintendent and cnt commander of the Amer Lcg.'/n. intends to run for his o can now rest in complete •<rt and repose. '■ ha.-.n't even a remote idea of the campaign- and probably :.'i t be dragged into it under any able set of circumstances, veterans' leader told your :gh reporter a day or so ago that absolutely nothing in the rc v.hich he said emphatically (Continued on Page Four) U. S. Money F inancing irish Army ' Jan. 3.—(AP)—A charge outlawed Iri.-h Republican v:.is financed by money from i .'tited States was made in Par •Jit today. " ce Minister Gerald Boland. cubing a raid on the Phoenix • '•.utntad on Page Seven.) that tliis form of tax has ever passed the S25.000.000 mark for any con secutive 12 months. Business I'p Seven Percent. These calendar year figures, work ed out by your reporter from the De partment oi' Revenue's monthly col lection reports check very well with the cumulative totals on the depart ment's December statement, which showed an increase oi 8.71 per cent in general fund collections for the iirst six months of the current fiscal year, and an increase of 6.79 per cent m highway division revenues. Summing the whole thing up. it appears from these two indices that North Carolina enjoyed at least a seven and a hail percent increase in business over 1938: though the excess of sales tax increase over that shown by gasoline also indicates increased (Continued on Page Four) New Heavy Quake Hits Turk Areas Ankara. Turkey, Jan. (AP)— A new earthquake was reported to day to have levelled ten villages in the Yozgad area, adding to Turkey's quake damage of last week as the river Euphrates broke its banks, spreading terror in the region of southern Anatolia. The Yozgad, scene of widespread i suffering from previous tremors, was thrown into a panic by the latest shocks. Hundreds of dwellings col lapsed. Nearly 1.000 persons were made homeless. The death toll, how ever. was expected to be slight, since j the people Ijad sufficient warning I to flee to open spaces. [ With scores of villages in western Anatolian submerged, flooding of the | Euphrates valley was expected to in crease the estimated 46,200 dead in I the combined disasters. , P'in-t report- snid it was impossible I to estimate the damage or loss of life from the flood waters. The Euphrates 1 still was rising, sweeping houses, cattle and whole settlements south (Continued on Page Four) SWEDISH STEAMER SUNK; TWENTY LOST London. Jan. 3.—(AP)—The Swedish steamer Svai ton. 2,475 ! tons, was reported torpedoed today I by a submarine off the northeaast coast of Scotland and sunk in a i minute and a half. Twenty members of the crew were missing. Eleven survivors on 'a raft were rescued by a life boat (Continued on Page Seven) To Receive Bids Saturday, Jan. 16, On 17 Road Jobs Raleigh. Jan. 3.—(AP)—The State Highway a n d Public Works (Commission will reccivc bids on January 17 on sixteen road projects which will cost approximately S860.000. Projects included the following: Johnston and Wilson coun ties. surfacing 10.62 miles of Route 52; ('raven and PEit, grading and structures on 3.20 miles between the Pitt lin<* and Vanceboro: Johnston, surfacing i 13.34 miles between Route 70 1 and Wilson. Lenoir and Greene, surfac ing (J.96 miles of Route 258 near Snow Hill: and Wayne, con crete widening of 11.36 miles of Route 117. By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington. Jan. 3.—Politicians, reassembled in Washington for con gress' early 1910 session, have hit on ine express! on "nuisance c a n d i dates" — meaning candidates for pres idential n o m i na tion a few months hence. Almost any presidential can didate is a nuisance to his various rivals. To be a genuine "nuisance candidate" he must be a nuisance to «, . i ~ ui> puny uuiic Senatot Bridges generajly A "nuisance candidate" is different from a 'dark horse." A "dark horse" is kept in the background. He doesn't manifest himself unless there's a deadlock in his convention and he really is needed. Then he's hit on as a last chance leader and sometime Both Parties Afflicted By Nuisance Candidates Vance Negro Says He Did Robberies j Raleigh, Jan. 3.—(AP)—Di- i rector Frederick C. Iland.v. of j the State Bureau of Invcsliga- I tion. said today that Charlie j Watkins, Negro, had confessed I eierht robberies in ihe State I since his release three months , ago from u :.."son camp in the j Sbelb.v-Kings Mountain section, j Handy said Watkins had eon- i fessed to Sheriff VV. J. I'inneU. of j Warren county, and S. B. I. ' Agent VVillam I. Gatlinsr to rob- I berics at Kings Mountain, Shel- ! by. Henderson ar.d Norlina si nc? his release October 3. Watkins is from Halifax county, but was sent up from Vance county in March. lf)33. on an arson charge. ! Farm Drive As Choice Will Devote Energies To Campaign "For Balanced Prosperity In South" Rather Than Working For Governor. Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh. Jan. 3.—Dr. Clarence Poe. in formally renouncing his ambitions to become governor of North Caro lina, did so for the expressed pur pose of dedicating himself to a cam paign termed by its sponsors "for bal anced prosperity in the South." In a statement of something more than four typewritten pages, he out lined his investigation of the guber natorial possibilities and declared he reached the definite conclusion he; could be successful in the May and] (Continued on Page Seven) Two Negroes Dead, White Man Hurt, In Wreck of Auto | Fayetteville, Jan. 3.—(AIX) —Two Negroes were killed and a white man, Scott McDonald, critically injured when their automobile failed to negotiate a curve on the Lumberton Fayetteville (highway, near here, today. The machine over turned several times, coming to rest when it struck a telephone post, throwing its occupants high into the air. The dead were Sand .v Thomas and John Henry Rop er. Mrs. D. F. Wcstbrook. a wit ness, said Roper was catapulted to the top of a house nearby, the impact of his fall breaking a two by four beam. The Negro then hounded against a chimney, leveling it with the •'>of. she said. The body came to rest on a pile of lumber on the opposite side of the house. The other men were thrown j to the roof of a porch of the j house, a distance of around ten yards. The porch gave way un der the impact. | he proves to bo very serviceable— having caused no trouble meanwhile. I All M. Landon, for instance, wa< a \ "dark horse." To be sure, he was] badly licked, but he hadn't gummed 1 the G. O. P.'s cards in advance of his j nomination. He took what was of ! fered him and did hi.?'best. A "nuis- I j ance candidate" is a bird who starts' his campaign too soon and mixes up1 the situation prematurely with very few favorable chances ol his o'.vn. The Democrats are not much both ered with '•nuisance candidacies" as j to 1940. Of course John N. Garner j is a nuisance to the New Deal but he's a candidate not a mere nuisance | of a "dark horse." Ditto State Sec retary Cordell Hull. Senator Burton K. Wheeler and others. Paul V. Mc Nutt doesn't rate a joke, either. Bridges, Bricker. Gannett. The Republicans, however, have some nuisances, and Republican managers, confidentially, aie quite free to say so. Senator Styles Bridges of New (Continued on Page Four) Back for Opening Vice President John Nance Garner I (loft) frets the latest capital news j from Edwiii A. Halsey, secretary ! of the Senate, as Garner arrives in Washington for the new session of Congress. i Isms Wailing: Due To War, Dies States Not Over Million Americans Affected By Foreign Move ment, Committee Ad vises Congress; Much Communism in CIO. Washington, Jan. 3.—(AP)— The' Dies committee estimated today that j not more than 1,000,000 Americans i have been seriously affected by sub versive activities, which it said were j declining rapidly because of the in ternational situation. "May the time speedily come when they will cease to be seriously re garded by any one in the United Styles." tiip committee said in report ing to the House on it- two-year in vestigation of un-American activities. In a 15.000-word summary of its hearings, signed by all seven mem bers after a story meeting, the com- j mitteo drew these imijoi conclusions:! 1. The overwhelming majority of; CiU members, including President. John L. Lewis, .ire not communist; or comn.nni.--t s>mpathi/.'T>"-, but the ( (Contnued on Pn^e Seven.) English Girl, Hitler's Pal, Returns Home Folkestone. England. Jon. 'A.— j (AP>—Sen tires with fixed bayonets guarded the return to England to- [ d;iy of Unity Valkyrie Freeman- 1 Mitforri. the peer'.- daughter, whose ' blonde "Nordic beauty" charmed Reiehfuehrcr Adi;ll Hillei Lord Ii-.-de dole. her father, was waiting «>n the quayside with a I car and ambulance when 'he chan- j nel f team"!* from Calais arrived j shortly before 4 p. m. His daughter had been carried I aboard the steamer on a stretcher at the French port, and she was accompanied on her journey home by her mother. Miss Frceman-Mitford was re- j ported to have been M ounded j strangely in Vunich. The Evening j News, of London, asserted ^ur- ' geons would operate to remove a j revolver bullet from her neck. ' j LO&aihsbi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair and continued cold to nipht: Thursday increasing: cloudiness and slightly warmer followed by rain with sonw Thursday afternoon or nifht in mountain.*. ; New Taxes Proposed m f "s & *r* i o r inance Program For Army And Navy Prenaent Urges National Unity And Say6 America Must Be Prepared For Peace Role; Seeks Economy Elsewhere. Washing en, J;;n. •'».— CAP)—President Roosevelt coupled an impha'.ic |)Iea for national unity in the lace of war-born dis intc^rati; n abroad 'oilav with a recommendation that Congress vr:te iKAV uixc.s to f nance "emergency spending" for a "common — — I sense" national defense. To Supreme Court Hut, lie s;uci m ins annual mes sage, "the permanent security «>f America in the present crisis does not lie in armed force alone." He continued: "Wnat we face is a set for world wide forces of disintegration — vicious, ruthless, destructive of all HIGH SPOTS Washington. Jan. 3.—(AIM — Here in brief is the program re commended to C'oncrcss by Pres ident Roosevelt today: 1. Additional taxes to finance "emergency" expenditures for national defense. 2. Extension of the reciprocal trade agreement act as "an in dispensable part of the founda tion of any stable and durable peace." 3. Increased appropriations for national defense, but reduc tion "in practically all other im portant items of the Federal budget." 4. Continued search for a solu tion of the unemployment pro blem. 5. Development of a spirit of national unity, in Congress and out. the moral, religious and political standards which mankind, after centuries of struggle, has come to cherish." To this he added that "national unity, is in a very real and deep sense, the fundamental safeguard of all democracy." Personally delivering his annual message before a joint session of the House and Senate, the chief executive called for extension of the reciprocal trade treaty program —already under fire from Repub licans and some Democrats—"as an indispensable part of the foundation of any stable and durable peace." He disclosed that his budget mes sage to be submitted to the new session of Congress tomorrow, would call for reductions", in prac tically all important items except national defense. He asked for special taxes to meet that extra cost "in the hope that we can continue in these days of increasing economic prosperity to reduce the Federal deficit." And he declared that an answer must be found "in term:, of work ;-nd opportunity" for the unem ployment problem, because "we (Continued on Pane Five) CALI.S ISSUED FOR BANKS' CONDITION Washington. Jan. (AIM comptroller of the currency issued a call today for the condition of all national banks at the close of busi ness Saturday, December 30. STATE BANK ( ALL. Raleigh, Jan. 3.—(AIM—Gurney P. Hood, State bank commissioner, i - sued a call today for the condition of all State banks at the close of business Saturday, December 30. FRANK MIRPIIY Murphy Will Get Job On High Court I Left wing Robert; Jackson to Succeed j } Attorney General on Promotion by Ap pointments of Presi dent; Shift Long Taiked. Washington, Jan. — (AP)— Fnink Murphy will Iip appointed in the Supreme Court and Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson will sue cccd him iis attorney general. it was learned today on high author- I ity. This shift in the Justice Depart ment has been widely predicted »" er since the death of Justice Piercc Butler last November If). The reports increased yesterday ivhen President Roosevelt conferred ivith both Murphy and Jackson. Murphy became attorney general on January 2, 1939, succeeding Homer ['ummings. He had served two years I is governor of Michigan, and prior ' to that was high commissioner to the Philippines. Jackson has been with the Justice Department since 19."i6. After head (Continued on Page Seven) Eight Men Lose Appeals From Sentence Of Death Raleigh. .Tan. 3.—(AP;—The Statei Supreme Court today uplield death .sentences imposed on eight men in» five cases appealed from lour coun ties. The court granted one man con victed of murder a new trial. The court's rulings fixed Friday. .January 19. as the death date for the eight men. The Stale ha< never exe cuted more than three men on a sin gle day. The death sentences were affirmed on: Roy Kelly, Wade Hanlord and Ralph Hanl'ord. ail convicted in Alamance oi the murder of Sheriff M. P. Robertson during a hold-up; J. E Murray and Archie S. Stephens, sentenced in Durham for the rob bery-slaying of A. Al. Snipes: Robert Wiiiijjjjs. tuiiviclcd of rape in Cum borland; Glenn Maxwell, twice con victed of the murder of Charlie Shep herd in Alleghany county, and Clar ence Rogers, sentenced in Durham for the killing of'a newsboy. Rogers last week confessed, pri son officials said, that he took part in the strangulation and killing on Death Row of Guard J. S. Chesser, 56. William Young, under death sen tence from Hoke county for the dou ble crime of burglary and murder, also confessed that he look part in the Chesser slaying. Julius Buchanan, twice convicted in Forsyth of the killing of his wife, got a new trial on grounds the so licitor should not have read to the jury excerpts from the Supreme Court's ruling granting a new trial ji'ter the fii>t conviction.
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