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Ifeniiersntt Haifa Bispatrh - „ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER P7TRT.re»trp in thts SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA tut\t\ -^E\ ENTH \ EAR leased wire service op t * HE ASSOC,ATED PRESS- HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, F EBRUARY 2, 1940 cublishku every afternoon rnn? p™,.. rnvv ' EXCEPT SUNDAY. r 1V L LhN I b COrY New Balkan Entente Policy May Follow Program Of Nazis Representatives of Balkan States M.eet in Belgrade; Plan Calls For Roumanian Industry to Be Syn chronized With Ger many. i. \ I *) German :itim to obtain ac ■ < p.ng plan to moke . ' .>1011111 production ,-iruncts of the Reich . was reported by r.'day at the meet 's . Entente opened • • .nt'i»: mants said, al ^ , o concessions to > •I'kmg to her part ,: v -v Turkey. Greece. :•* support her. > :• 11:ca. or >nosed 'tor • • was lutile for KoU of'c.er memoeo ot . military alliance. :t> *.v 'u!d sell supplies <i •*•.>• and the Allies but vxtevt oi normal peace ;• n program, ir war industry would be (.1 v M that ot the Keich. . industry would discon • . mutacture duplicating Ger - .: i «ncentrate on products Gt • < ■'liU. Use. ..'•uid keep a steady . wheat and timber mov . • "• Keich—a.> much as could • i.-W'.ted. :• t:ie :vj»>rled plan virtually : :: vc.:e "Ut Britain and France . .ma and involve a written • ri German guarantee of Rou •. < i.ontiers. P. .;.i:ama's main fear of this pro , . .1- .viid to be that by becom - Gv ally's economic ally .-he . . je . itmg attacks by Britain L-" r.ce ar.d might become the . ... " aground of Europe. France I pholds Right Of Search Feb. 2.—(AP> -France's . nhtrv. in a communique -pported Britain's conten ' be Allies are within their examining United States -.d o'r.er neutral mail in their : contraband destined for G-:. any. mique said that allied band control had seized ••n- of dollars in currency. J eis and goods which it asserted 2er:t> and sympathizers had itched. Canada Has Weed Surplus d;i. Fel> 2—(AP)— ■ :< normally exports tobacco crop to Great casting about for new result of England's ! f't'oin the market. ■::u cement concluded '•:<* United Kingdom. I take about 3.000.000 ( 'idian tobacco this ii'o'it i',ii percent of exports during -• ' .'.o years. ■ '' in:id:i exporter' HI. 1 Tii.— f>; itain. In 1938 Brit ■" ..'{o.'i.ood pound*-'. Of the • i:e exports in both i amounts went to the •v Germany and The •n; has under con • disposition is to be balance of Canada's Ice Jam Breaks Wright Bridge An u n c o n f i r m e d report reached here this afternoon that the Wright Memorial bridge crossing: Currituck Sound and connecting the bland with the mainland had heen broken by an ice jam. No details concern ins the repot**ti ioss of the three | mile-Ions bridge were received. Sentiment For Third Term Is Reported Washington, Fob. 2 (A!')—! Early arrivals from the west for Mond-iv's meeting of the Demo- j era tic National committee reported today that strong sentiment existed in their states for re-nomination of President Roosevelt. Lynn Brodnck. Kansas national committeeman, said: "Kansas is strong for Roosevelt and 1 feel the same way." Ed A. Carroll, national com- j mittceman for the state of Wash- ! ington. expressed tiio belief liis state would "favor a third term if it were voting today". while Charles J. Vogel. new member for North Dakota asserted: "My state is very pro-Roosevelt but I have no statement further than that on a third term." The committee is slated t<> pick a time and place for the party's presidential nominating convention. As the western committeemen! talked of current trends, reports persisted that the convention date —many favor early August—should be selected by a sub-committee af- ! ter the Republicans choose theirs, February 16. Who Will Run Revenue Department? Daily Dispatch Bureau, Ij» the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh. Feb. 2.—Who's going to i run for the Revenue department j while Commissioner Allen J. Max-1 well runs for Governor? It may not be in accord with the i rules of journalism to make a ques- ; tion the lead paragraph of a story, \ but in this particular case a ques tion's the story. If your Raleigh re- I porter knew the answer the begin- [ ning would, of course, be different. [ The commissioner >ays ho has con- i I erred with Governor Clyde R. Hoey j "tentatively" concerning the matter! of his successor during the Maxwell leave of absence without pay which is expected to begin some time in ! March. He sayi. the governor was quite! "cooperative", and went so f ir as toj add that it would seem natural to turn the department over t-< "some one already familiar with work", which may be an indication, that tlx* temporary tax collecting head will be "from the ranks". In this case the natural and logical man would be \ Assistant Commissioner W. .J. Spain,! i although "Bill's" job is more con cerned as a general thing with per- ; sonnel than with policies. . | Your reporter ran into some folks j | who had a weird, but highly in triguing story th;it "Lo;i" Bolich ol Winston-Salem will get the place.| (Continued on Page Three.) tarty Counties Had 692 - ■ighway Deaths From Total Ot 943 Fatalities In 1939 Dail.v Dispatch Bureau. I" the Sir Walter Hotel. 1! Forty North Car H'.x-ounted for H92 oi. • : automobile deaths on; year, leaving only; er sixty local un:t.-. counties—Alexander, i •v. an, Hyde and Tvr-j 1 a special honor roll I <-y deaths at all with- | '•orders in 1939. "I ten counties, with i ":,:ng a pace much tooi '•• • others to follow, had' 294 dvuths. an aver;'P" 1 county. In this group I ' had more than 20 j v 'iup of 11 counties saw Counties in this group •"< ''» 19 deaths each. ' jf-ui- it II' wautic.. had from 10 to M deaths each and a group total of 17<>. Fifty-five counties hiici from < :\c to nine deaths each, while as relat ed five showed perfect records. These tacts and figures are glean ed from the Highway Safety Di vision's breakdown of its annual re port released last week, which show ed 943 deaths and 7,190 injuries in North Carolina last year. Guilford's 50 highway fatalities topped Mecklenburg by ten, while Wake ran third with 36. Cumberland, despite that it is not one of the morO populous counties, had 33. followed in order by Catawba with 26 (a rec ord which might have gone muck higher but for a concerted local drive which resulted in a deathless De cember). Wayne with 24. Forsyth (Continued on Page Two, Preliminary Tests Giveo J Army's New Super Plane Sam's New Airacobra Bomber. Tested Yesterday Washington, Fob. 2-—(AP)—The army took the wrap.-; .off one of its newest air weapons, a cannon-car rying pursuit plane designed to make 400 miles an hour, but delayed giving a complete te^t yesterday. Captain George K. Price, crack test pilot from Wright Field, Day toil. Ohio. took the small, swift fighter aloit, but landed within a half h<>ur and reported that until minor vibrations of engine and pro pellor were corrected the plane should not be flown at full speed. Mechanics went to work imme diately to prepare it for additional trials. The plane, known as the '"Aira cobra" and nicknamed a "flying bullet", is one of the fastest owned by the air corps. In addition to its six-mile-a-minute speed, it is cap able of attaining attitudes of I'fi.noo feet and bus a cruising range of more than 500 mijes with a full In,id It is designed to carry four ma chine guns and a 37-millimeter cannon firing higli explosive shells, ul! operated automatically by the press of a button in the pilot's cockpit. The craft was built by the Bell Aircraft corporation, Buffalo, N. Y. and production already has be gun on an unspecified number of planes of the same type under an I army contract. I Roosevelt Stands On His Budget Figures Snow And Colder W eather Forecast Raleigh. Fob. 2.—(AP)—The weatherman forecast snow flur ries for North Carolina today and tonight but expressed be lief "much colder weather" would be only temporary and "nothing like" last week's siege. II. E. Kichline. in charge of the weather bureau, said Ral eigh and vicinity would prob ably have a 20 to 25 degree tem perature tonight, and added "this is not a cold wave like last week." lie said he expected the snow to be "very light". Japan Policy In China Is Criticized Tokyo, Feb. 2. -(AP) The lowef house <>t" Japan's parliament was thrown into turmoil today when a member criticized the government's China policy and suggested that Jap anese troops be withdrawn to make possible a negotiated peace. Takao Saito, veteian member of parliament and a leader of Japan's strongest political party, pointe'-*?/ asked the government to explain the1 meaning of "the new order in east Asia" -the term used officially for the program of malvig China un eco nomic and military dependency of Japan. Cries of "no, no" greeted his as sertion that "peace can on.'y be in vited when a country keeps its arm ed power m the background". His hearers understood this io be a sug gestion that the army be withdrawn from China before tiny attempt to make peace with the proposed YVang Ching-We, regime. Gables Believed Caught In Storm Hollywood, Feb. 2.—(AP)—Clark Gable and his actress wife, Carole Lombard, apparently got caught in a storm in Baja. Cal., and spent the night in their station wagon but none of their friends here worried about their safety. "Those Mexican roads south of j Ensenada can get awfully muddy in no time at all with the heavy rains we've been having," said Dean Dorn, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio pub licity man," and it's likely their car got stuck. "But the station wagon is fixed uo with bunks, guns and supplies [and if they did get mired they're un doubtedly ui no distress" Says House Com mittee Made Perfect ly Terrific Cuts; Re fers to Excerpts From Budget Message in Volunteering Discus sion. Hyde Park, Feb. 2.—(AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt told reporters in firm ! tones today he was standing on his i budget and a S900.000.u00 agricul-; ture appropriation for the year be-, ginning July 1. lie said the House appropriations! committee which slashed the farm appropriation bill 20 percent below j budget estimates had made perfect ly terrific cuts. The oill is pending in the House. Volunteering to discuss the agri culture appropriation at a press con ference, Mr, Roosevelt said he saw no reason why some excerpts from his budget message should not be reprinted. He had had some excerpts typed out and he read them to newsmen. They said: "! have carefully checked Hip in- * dividual estimates under these ■ broad categories and I am satis- j fied that no lower figures can be I obtained except at the chance of j impairing the efficiency with which laws are administered or of work ing undue hardships on individuals or economic groups. I refuse to | accept the responsibility of adopting ; either alternative, xxx "We must not only guard the' gains we have made but wc must i press on to obtain full employment | for those who have been displaced ! by machines as well as for the 5,- | 000,1(00 net addition to the labor fcrce since 1929. Wc must therefore | avoid the danger of too drastic or | too sudden a curtailment of govern- 1 ment support, xxx "I do not believe that the t majority of people feel that the agricultural program should be re , duced below the figure of S90Q.000, | 000 because this figure, in itself a large reduction below the current j year, will be barely sufficient to carry out soil protection and sur ! plus removal operations." Income Tax Suit Against Capone Pends Washington, Feb. 2.—(AP)—The Justice Department said today that it would press a civil suit for income taxes against A1 Capone as soon as a process can be served legally on him. The suit seeks $350,000 in taxes plus interest and penalties. The department's comment was (Continued on Page Eigli'..; High Court Upholds Four-Year Terms Of Sheriffs And Coroners Red Patrols Dropped By Parachute ! Finnish Troops, How ever, Captured or Killed The Invaders, Finnish Army Com munique Stater; Five To Eight Planes! Downed. Helsinki, Fe!,. 2--CAP.'—Russian [ pi;,ncs v.-ere reported by the Finnish high command to have dropped ' n inv" patrols by parachute over Finnish soil but defense Iroops cap tured or killed the invaders. The new danger from the skies —introduced before by the Russians but always, the Finns say, without success—came on the Karelian isth mus where the Russians also showed another wrinkle of modern warfare in the use of tank-pushed armored fledges. After a battle on ihe isthmus far into the night, however, the high command .said, "the enemy was re pulsed". The communique governing yes terday's fighting al-o reported the Russians beaten back after attacks against Finnish-held islands in Lake Ladoga. In its announcement of the at tempt to hurdle Finnish defenses with troops from the air the high command said: "During the day enemy planes dropped many parachuted patrols. These were partly captured and partly annihilated." In the air warfare, the army an nounced that at least five and pos sibly eight Russian raiders were shot down yesterday while civilian casualties among the Finns were "one killed and some wounded". Lax Practice Blamed In Rail Wreck Washington, Feb. 2.—(AP)—The Interstate Commerce Commission criticized "lax practices" today in a report on ;i collision between a pas senger train and a freight train on the Atlantic coast line railroad at Wilmington, N. C., October 21. 1939. Forty-nine persons, including 41 passengers, were injured in the | accident. "It is recommended." the com mission said, "that operating offi cials of this railroad at mice take necessary measures to correct the lax practices which were disclosed by their investigation and give con sideration to the need for additional protection at this point". Reductions In Farm Budget V Defended Washington, Feb. V—(AP)— Representative Woodrum. Democrat, Virginia, contended in House de bate today that none of the •harp reductions proposed by the appro priations com nit tee ."or 'Jgrienlture I department funds would seriously: harm farm areas. "There isn't a member of the committee who is not willing to do what we can to help the farmer," he declared. Representative Woodrum dug up ;i statement of President Roose velt declaring that seven years ago Mr. Roosevelt said the government should balance its budget lest it be wrecked on the rocks of fiscal pol icy. "What he said then is doubly true today," said Woodrum. Farm members seeking to avert the cuts expressed confidence that their strength was growing. (jJ&aihsb'i FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Snow flurries this afternoon; partly cloudy and much colder tonight. Hard freeze in the in terior. below freezing on the coait. Saturday fail*. Colder. Big Verdict Awarded Son Of Kidnaper Mrs. Hauptmann and Son New York, Feb. 2.—(AP)—A Su preme court jury awarded Manfried Hauptmann, six-year-old ,on of ihe Lindbergh baby kidnaper $23,500 for injuries received when he was struck oy the automobile of Car toonist Frank Moser, May 5, 1938. The jury also awarded $2,000 to the boy's mother, Mrs. Bruno Rich ard Hauptman. Mrs. Hauptman had asked $100,000 damages, charging Moser with negligence .v. id contend ing the boy was rendered epileptic and permanently injured. Justice William F. Love, in his charge to the jury, cautioncd the members not to be influenced by "the name this boy carries". Justice Love^ reserved decision on a request by* Moser's lawyer that the verdict bo set aside as contrary t<> the weight of evidence and ex cessive. Fire Does $40,000 Damage At Sparta Sparta, Feb. 2.—(AIJ) -A fire which raged for two lumir ayd de stroyed three stores and thn Haptist church here laH night did damage estimated at more than $10 000. For a time the fire threatened th»* whole business district. Sparta has no fire department and the Galax, Va., and Independence. V;.., fil'e companies battled the flames. Harris Wins Appeal From This County State Supreme Court Declares Invalid The Act Regulating Dry Cleaners; Wilson Granted New Trial; Other Opinions. Raleigh, Feb. 2.— (Al'J—'Ij^e State Supreme Court ruled today that sher iffs and coroners are serving four year terms which started in De cember, 1938, and that they do not have to enter this year's primaries ana elections. The decision reversed a Superior court finding by Judge Leo Carr of Alamance county that the Alamance elections board should accept a filing lee from J. M. Freeman who'sought to enter the Democratic primary May 23 a.s a candidate for sheriff. Sheriffs and coroners elected in November. 1938, won office the same day that voters approved a constitu tional amendment extending their term to four years. The amendment was proclaimed into effect before the officers took their oaths. The court declared invalid the state act regulating dry clcancrs. A new trial was granted W. T. Wil son, former mayor of Winston-Salem, on charges of embezzlement of $700 while serving as guardian for John j P. Charles. Wilson was sentenced ' serve six to eight years in prisort! upon his conviction in Forsyth Sn-' perior court, in May, 1939. The high court held that evidence prejudical to Wilson was permitted in his trial. The court divided evenly three to three with Associate Justice A. A. F. Seawell not sitting on a second decision in tne suit of Best & Co., of New York to test the validity of a state tax on goods displayed in North Carolina for the purpose of taking orders for shipment into the state. The court's previous opinion holding the law to be valid was sustained/ but was amended to include the fact that Best & Co. challenged the act on grounds it violated not only the commerce clause but also thi pri vileges and immunities and equal practice provision of the Constitution. J. I*. Harris, convicted in Vance county of not having a license from the state dry clcan crs commission, appealed U> test the dry clcancrs regulatory act. Associate .lustier Seawell wrote: "The statute before ijs seems to overshoot the mark io several aspects: in the discrimi nation produced by its territorial limitations, in the attempted delegation of the legislative func tion to create standards and fail ure to fix limits with which the discretion of the commission may be exercised and in the more fundamental respect of its in vasion of personal liberties and freedom to choose and pursue (Continued on Page Fight; Economy Talk Is Sheer Hypocracy, Babson Says Declares Public Being Hoodwinked On Na tional Finances; See Economy Hope Fading And Business Risks Mounting. BY ROGKR W. BABSON, , Copyright 1910. Publishers Finaicial Bureau, Inc. Babspn Park, Mass., Feb. 2.—It is going full blast a^ain: The familiar seeds of New Year economy, budget balancing, pay-as-you-go- talk are being sown. As usual, the June har vest will be a big deficit, no real, economies, another attempt to per-j secute business. This year's econo my talk makes me sadder than evf>r. The sheer hypocrisy, the brazen ef frontery on budgetary and fiscal matters shocks me. How simple it is to hoodwink the public on finances— and it has oeen done shamelessly for eight years. The New Deal rode into Washing ton on an economy platform. "I ask j you very simply to assign to me fhe j task of reducing the annual operat-! ing expenses of your government —"It is my pledge and promise that rigid government eonomy shall he oiX'orced by a stern unreir..;tii:£ government policy oI living within our income " Thus .spoke Can didate Roosevelt in 1932. .\'o promises could have been more completely shattered lhan these. President Roosevelt promptly doubled .spend ing. As his eighth consecutive mid get deficit went to Congress I'jst month, hi.-; "rigid economies" hud succeeded in doubling the nation's debt. Economy Hopes Fade. Every January there has b'-rn much talk of economy, drastic paring down of expenses, cutting approp riations to the bone. Each January there is talk behind ine scenes ab"ut the need for new taxes. Then lute each session a huge deliciency bill is railroaded through. Late each session heat is put on the tax committee to prevent any increase in taxes except on big corporations and millionaires. Each year the national debt gets big (Coiitmueu oq Page Fh'ei
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