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Henderson flaiht Uispatrb ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. n -SEVENTH YEAR ITit?L"oIo.lTCDVpnlssF HENDERSON. N- C.. MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 22, 1940 PUBLISHED KVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY an 5-Year Tobacco Quolas 104 Lives Lost In y ruing ...I oi 9 Passen Ariii Crew Mem . of 6 \J Aboard en Liner Sailed, a » to Have Been ued; Others May : irtved, ■■'if. France. Jan. '2'-.— -!!■•• fire which burned th- Il.fi69-ton Italian v t» O-avio off the south j )>»" Fiance yesterday • %'• »t nearlv all the uent uo in flames '!;m could be launched. i-N di-."loscd here today. ■ pi;c the *pecd of the fire ; seas which tossed !■.>'!- hi:;h. houever. all 400 •.>. and all but a frw ! t.'.i I I crew were rescu-'d. <»iavi">'s sccoid officer. ( C«iorrI!'>. - a id that the j v s'd an explosion in < ■ i"c. II" said the caasc of I l.'^t ua> undetermined. • ;v. Jan. 22.—(AP>~ iis ann • :nced today j - persons, including j?--; 'i «'io i urn- ; ' >raz?o n die I .loci- j • :. i:e French coast! .... . i | . >.*ttimers and crew i . ci when the liner left ... y i total of 339 were j « have ceer. .esciiecl by j i-y. (6 .j. m. KST.) • .cuni were picked up by j i. . ■ :i vessels, and otiicial.- * others had possibly been i Seaplanes ilew over stormy j c looking tor survivors. I il!..n minister to B liv:a. j "erenze. the several mem- j ' t* italiar. diplomatic ;-er-j i .: d when the vessei j . . ie. r ranee, ursi sw- ; the liner reached heiv' . ;ii=5 stories of a sudden . :cn enveloped the ship' and destroyed all but if!' lifeboats. ti-.e Orasio's passengers r. rew the.nseives into the .Med:teiranean where they picked up by lifeboats 'i in... three Italian mer - -;ips ;;nn two French war \.nd;ng oy. . jv'cj and cat •. v.ido area the_sifc v.. .. h the passengers and v t . «• forced to escape j i >: .zio\- master finntly j .< d aa all day light against j .'jj. <.:ie ueCKj, Jtiu j ;. c. te. t care was necessary ■ running down the small I ' . , ain:les iy in the oea. | the tire which forced vi- of passengers and ■i I-* the open boats was ; vr.. j crew and passengers j ;>pa:entlv desiderate but I check the flames all j '.i i liner's master sent - - -it f> p. m. Sunday (1 | ■ •«ying: ' tii'- ooats—all ships ap-j oa rlitiess beware." ."!t Genoa Saturday ' tc'iorm. first stop on '< ■ Valparaiso, Chile. Cotton Market is Lower . J;.n. 12.—(AP>—Cot- t '-iH-ncri lour to six i Around mid-morning 1 « . <■ v t<> seven points j < ■ id-day were points t j« >\ ernor Hoey Is Reco\ erinj* From "Slight Relapse'| ham. fan. 82.—<AP)— | i "r Clyde R. llocv. who ru< at an operation for !>uke hospital January • a "slight respira ic. tirin" a few days ago much better and is '•ut\ i»i recovery, hospital 1 • -> >aid today. of the "relapse" r lloey may have to re • n tin- hospital a little iha:» the three weeks •t'JIy estimated. Attaches '"'it'll the relapse to j Recently the gover ^ att-mpted to carry on • the work of his office »'>-■ ital bed. Finns Fear I'"' If Frozen Cjuii Invasion From Rus sian Bases in Estonia May Be Made Over Frozen Gulf of Fin land; Finns Say They Are Well Prepared For f.ucSi An Attack. tirl ir.i.i. Jan. 22.— (AD—Freez ing of the Gull of Finland from the Estonian to toe Finns li hore ha; confronted Finland with che posi'.nluy of an over-ice attack i'rom So\ iet Ilu-sun i:a e- in Fsionia. Forcer. military nb-ervers pecu lated today on the chances of .iuc ces-< of such a thru t bt:t Finns n si.ted they weve w?il prepared iO meet it. The coast in ;on 1 ections at len>t has been fortified and barricaded with barbed wire. Almo t as though in ant cipation of such a Russian mow Finland wa. reported to iiave struck it T'"i■> ?:an aviation b ises on < nc rl' the lew tfteasion? in which 'he Fin-! nish airt'oi jo has challenged the big. Russian aerial armada. Overhanging clouds todny brorght ; Finland pn»>ii o of lessening Rus sian air attack:;. Accrrdint to scanty reports on yesterday's operations by the Reds several Finnish towns in- • eluding Uleaborg and vicinity on j the Bcthnian roast were bombed •. but the raid; apparently did lot 1 compare with the sweep of Satur- i day's attack.; when hundreds of i planes were sighted and thousands j of bombs were dropped. I Ambassadors Must Be Rich To Hold Jobs B.v CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Jan. 22.—Quite a batcli of American embassadorial posts in ' foreign countries were filled recently. The appointees were all rich men. Most of our am oassauors are. roi instance, the Ken nedys in London, i the Bullitts in Par is, and the Crom- ; wells in Canada— where James R. j Cromwell isn't an ; ambassador, but on'y a minister; however, our Ca nadian legation is as expensive to maintain as any ot *"• UUUH' *«*»» our where. We have a few legations abroad in which our ministers can support their establishments on the salaries they get from Uncle Samuel. But we haven't any such embassies. An American ambassador has to have dough of his own, or his job will banKrupt nrrn. A minister is some! little pewee of a Central American republic can get along on his salary from Washington. Some of our Bal kan and Scandinavian and a few other diplomatic assignments also are self-supporting. All our major incumbances, though, call for pluto crats or they may go bankrupt in short order. An American ambassador abroad gets $16,000 annually. It may sound liberal—but his expenses. How About Economy? Can't these chaps economize? Well, I never discussed the ques tion with an American ambassador but I did discuss it once with Dr. Julius Klein, when he was our em- : bassadorial commercial attache in Buenos Aires and when I lived there • as a Yankee newspaperman. Just after the last World wai the ' "doc" was sent to the Argentine ; capital, as a member of our diplo matic staff. He was a great success. (Continued on Page Five) Economic Czar? L. S. Amery Sometimes called the "pocket Her cules" because of his many athletic feats, L. S. Amery is sponsored by Lord Beaverbrook as the man who should heve the job of pushing Brit ain's economic war on Germany. Amery is a former Lord of the Ad miralty, Colonial Secretary and Do minions Secretary. (CeittruI Press) Association Representative Hook Of Michigan Places In Congression a 1 Record The Charge That Chairman Dies Spoke at Christian Front Meetings. Washington, Jan. 22.— vAi')—The House Kuies Committee, votea today for cont.nuation ol tne Dies commit tee investigation of un-American ac tivities amid charges of Kepresenta tive Hook, Dcnvjcri-!. Michigan, that cnairmi'.n Dies had actively associat ed with "a prominent collaborator" 01 tne Chi jo nan front. A lew mmutcs alter the rules com mittee action, Hook placed in the Congressional Recora a record tnai Dies frequently associated with Mer witi is., xiiirt. whom no uescrjueu as an energetic "feliow traveler" of the Cnnsiian Front. Seventeen mem oci's oi that organization, Hook ad ded, were arrested recently. niter reciting instance.-, when he said D.es spoke at meetings spon sored by Christian Fiont representa tives, liook said "the picture i nave panned tnus tar is clearly one that puts Dies in active association with a prominent collaboialor ol the christian front, For Merwin K. Hart is unmistakably that. "If he is not a member of it he is certainly one <>t the most energetic and cooperative 'leliow travelcrs'of the Christian Front 1 can hope to iind anywnere. Hart seems to be a kind of Park Avenue operator for the Christian Front with its tragical ly misguided young men trying to assemble caches ol arms and am munition." Browder Is Own Defender New York, Jan. 22.—(AP)—Earl Browder, national communist lead er, summed up his own case today in his trial on charges of passport fraud. Standing calmly before a jury of 11 men and one woman, browder said that he had no notion tnat he was a "better iawyer than my attor ney". -My own qualifications to argue the case are that 1 am infinitely familiar with the facts and that f have a law uegree," he said. Browd er took personal charge of his case after his attorney made a series of motions on the ground the govern ment had failed to prove its charge. All his motions were denied by Judge Coxe. Without calling a witness, the de fense in the Earl Browder passport trial rested as court opened today. The government, seeking to im prison the national communist lead for ten years, rested Friday. The trial opened Wednesday. Four British In Sea War Sinking of Destroyer Grenville Tops List of | British Losses Over Week-End; Three NcuSrai Victims of K.'nas Add to Losses. London, -Jan. 22.—(AP)- -'/our Briti.-!i ships. on** of thorn *1 .*lf".<r*>y : er, were sent to the bottom "n v. ave <ii' week-end shipping looses. Three neutral victim' n1'*o icH^d to the toll or nvn and peciallv in waters around the *Jrit j ish isles, which some sources *U tribi'tcd to mines. The sinking ef the GrenvMle. 1.48."-t«»n tlotiila leader, by "a mine of torpedo" was announced by the admiralty. She was the fourth de stroyer sent to the bottom and the j 2Nt m"I<nowledged loss of the Brit j ish "'eft. When she sank was not dis closed. The admiralty said 118 "ificers and men had been saved but "eight .••re known to have been killed -md j 73 are missing and must be lre i sumed to have lost their lives." Among survivors landed at an ' est coast nort were som" tr^'el*' 1 wounded and the commander. E. E. Creasy, who at first had been re i ported among the lost. To Britain the disastrous wek f end was a sad sequel to the words of Winston Churchill, first lord or the admiralty, who declared Satur day "plan; hrve never done so well in naval war." Stock Market Rally Fails New York. Jan. 22.—(AP)—At i tempts to dig up rallying anrnvni ; tion were unsuccessful in today's ! stock market r.nd leaders moved on ja slightly lower shell'. I Steels gave ground alter a mildly i mixed opening and issues up a ; trifle at the start reversed their j direction. The trading pace was i about the slowest lor the year to ) date. I Foreign securities markets were l'airly steady. j American Radiator 9 1-2 ! American Telephone 17] 3-8 i American Tobacco B ...... 87 3-4 | a ?6 3-8 j Atlantic Refining 21 1-4 I RfpHiv Avi;it;nn ?7 7-3 j Bethlehem Steel 70 1-2 Phryskr 81 ; Columbia Gas & Elec Co .. .6 1-4 | Commercial Solvents 13 3-4 j Consolidated Oil Co 1-4 I Curtiss Wright f) 1-2 1 DuPont 17$) 1-2 i Electric Power Light 6 7-8 ! General Electric 3'5 1-4 i General Motors fji 3-4 i Liggett & Myers P. ]ii7 7-8 j Montgomery Ward & Co .... 50 3-4 | Reynolds Tobacco 13 41 1-8 I Southern Railway 17 I SUmdard Oil Co N J 44 1-8 ! U S Steel 56 1-4 (jjsuodhsjt FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, not quite so cold in west and central por tions tonierht; Tuesday increas ing cloudiness, followed by snow Tuesday or or Tuesday ni^ht. 'Neutrality Proclamation' May Never Be Issued By | Governor Hoey Daily Dispatch Huronu. I In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Jan. 22.—A while back there was i great deal oi' talk about ( the "Neutrality Proclamation" Gov-J ! ernor Clyde R. Hoey planned to! ! make in order to prove to all and j sundry that the administration will J I take no active or official part in the > i current scramble lor the Hoey sue- j I cessorship. There was entirely too much smoke! | for no fire at all and it can be safely j j said that one one stage of the pro-; j ceedings the proclamation was sin-i j cerely considered and practically de-' | cided upon: but as indications now: . shape up. it is quite likely that the proclamation will just get lost, or mis I | placed, or something. Anyhow there | I isn't nearly as much chance now as 1 tiierc was a month ago that thene j ever will bo a hands-oil announce ment. The reason seems to lie in the fact that Lieutenant-Governor Wilkins P. Horton bluntly threatened to do a "True Confessions" kind of story about his relations with Governor Hoey and the Administration. There is more than a scintilla of evidence to show that "Our Nell," as played by the Lieut-Gov. was not "done right by-', and the Horton revelations would have kicked up something of vow, if not a stink, all over thf State. 2KH Up to that point it had been plan ned for the Hoey statement to hit the presses in rather short order, but the Hoey hand was stayed for l'ear he might "draw back a nub" if it wa* [Continued on Page Five; Slaying Suspect at Death Scene James Fink (bareheaded), 21, held in the slaying of his employer, Frank Teed, 08, his wife, Helen, 66, and their daughter. Ruth, 25, is shown with District Attorney Gleason B. Speenburg (left) as he allegedly re-enacted t.he crime. Handcutf'cd, at right, is Aubrey Scrum, 20, held as Fink's accomplice. The Teed family was found dead in the burned ruins of their Masonville, N. Y. farm-house. oap Manufacturer Highest Paid In *38 For Senator Borah Held President Roosevelt, Supreme Court Mem bers, Senators And Representatives A t ! tend Funeral Today For Dean of The United States Senate. I Washington, J;tn. 22. —(AI')— ; Leaders of tlio government iir- stvi"' (for more than throe dec.id -s joined , t'Hpv jp ihr solemn stale funeral for • the Senate's /treat oppositionist, Wil ' liam E. Borah. President f'oo evcll stood solemn 1 ly in the well of the Senate eham . ber for the services. Members of the Supreme Court, the cabinet and Ihe , diplomatic corps were seated nearby. Senators and representatives were seated nearly. Mrs. Borah was seated in the S< n ! ate lobby, jusf outside the Senate I chamber. I The Idaho Republican, 73-years j old and dean of the Senate, died last Friday after four days of virtually continuous coma as the rosult of a cerebral hemorrhage which he .sus tained last Tue. day. I President of Lever Bros. Co. in Mass achusetts Had Salary And Bonus of $469, 713; Cl&udette Col bert, Top Movie Star, Sixth On List. j Washington. -Jan. 22.—TAP)—A soap manufacturer shoved a^-ide all the fabulously paid motion picture colony to rank as the nation's high est paid corporation employee in 1938. Tho $469,713 salary and bonus of F. A. Countway, president of Lever Bros. Co. in Massachusetts topped all others in It t year's corporation incomo tax returns. Under a new law !.!ie treasury made public today the names ol thore who received more than ?.75. 00(1 instead of £15,000 as in oa.'.t years. This change cut the li-.t from 50.00(1 to an even 400. The li>t was not, however, the "400" of the nation's wealthiest people because it excluded divi dends. Thus name- like lleivy Ford and John I). Rockefeller, Jr. were excluded. Thomas J. Watson, head of In tel national Business Machines Cor poration, ratiked second with '•>43:5, 450, and not until sixth place did actress Cl.i'irielte Colbert's $rsrl 1,944 appear as the best that Hollywood could do. An unexplained technicality ex cluded from (he list ally the vvealthy executive" and olficers of Loew's Inc.. and its subsidiary Meti'o-Gold wyn-Mayer, Powerful Support For Budget Cut Washington, Jan. 22.—(AP)— Powerful bipartisan support de veloped today behind a Senatorial appropriations committee proposal to cut nearly S13|)00,000 from ap propriations for the army, navy, coast guard and federal bureau of nvestigation. The measure \va- whittled in the House S20,176.935 below budget bureau recommendations. As ap proved by the Senate committee it would appropriate S251.822.588. Democratic leader Berkley pre dicted Senate adoption of the re duced figure and said the chamber would take up the legislation to morrow. Both Senate and House were in recess today for the state 'uneral of Senator William E. lorah. Barklcy's forecast brought a comment from Senator McNary of Oregon, the Republican leader, that republicans generally would sup .j-u i the committee. Farm Bureau Leaders Say One-Year Marketing Quota Program Gives No Assurance Against Yearly Fluctuation in Prices, They Say; Embargo May Have Effect on Plan. Washington. Jan. 22.—(AP)— ; Hepresentatives of the North Caro lina Farm. Bureau said today the agriculture department had ap proved in principal a plan to per mit five-year marketing quotas for flue-cured tobacco. J. E. Winslow, of Greenville, N. C\. president of the organization, and E. F. Arnold, of Raleigh, was executive secretary, said a bill would be introduced for this pur pose soon by one or more North Carolina member of Congress. It would require an amendment to the farm act. which now pro vides for referenda to establish one ypr marketing quota on tobacco, cc'ton. corn, wheat and rice. W:ih quotas effective for vo a n^riod, th^v said there war. no assurance against year to year fluctuation of prices. They de clared a five-year control ptan would make for stabilization of the market. Win-low said they might be joined by producers of other types of tobacco who had expressed in terest in lengthening the quota period. He said a point yet to be settled was whether the period should be or five years. Winslow and Arnold said th^y also had received assurances from the Commodity Credit Corporation that unless something unforse°n Prevented it. would be willing to finance another year's agreement with foreign buyers. They pointed out, however, this had been thrown into uncertainty by the recently announced embargo on British purchases of tobacco in this |country. Th"v said a curtailment of :-s»1<js ' to Britain would be "disastrous" to North Carolina, which depends : heavily upon exports to Britain. Although the embargo was not a nrimary purpose of their visit hero. Winslow and Arnold spent part of the morning confering with mem bers of Congress who had discussed jt. Representative Cooley, Democrat, North Carolina, said ho had secre tary Hull's assurance the question " np|(i bee no ihc subject of imme diate negotiation with British au thorities. Hundreds Of Russians Die In Finn Drive Helsinki. J.-n. 22. (AC; Hun dreds of iiu^ iiins have been killed in rsich of :i number of futile iitlonipt:; to crack Finnish resistance on the Kan-lian i: (hinu.; and the eastern front. On the Karelian isthmus where tho p'inns have reported almost daily at taeks they .-aid the invaders ;ou5-;ht to give effect to their drive by loud \speaker exhortations for the Finns to surrender on the grounds that the Germans were coming to help their roes. Daughter, Wife Held In Shooting At Wilmington Wilmington. N*. C., Jan. 22.— (AP) — "William II. Morrison en me to his death as the result of a wound inflicted by a rifle bullet fired by the hand of either Zelcia Morrison or her mother'' ruled a coroner's jury conducting an inquest this morning into the death of the wealthy Canadian who was shot at the home of his wife early Sunday. The jury recommended that bo!b the 13-year-old girl and hrr mother be held for further inves tigation by the grand jury and bond for each was set at SS.OOO. Every witness testifying at the inquest told the jury that the child freely admitted to them that she did the shooting. The wit nesses also agreed thai Mrs. Mor rison was intoxicated at the time, adding th»t several bottles of wiu.jiiy were iouiu' in the house.
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