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propriations
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Again Slashed
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7'mrrf Termers Claim Initial Victory
Hail Choice
Of Convention
City
b- _-AP)—'The
I vratpresiden
. on in earnest
. :y - national coin
or ihe :u>m
. ..rid authorized
Fancy to i\
.vi\«>«. :e> hailed ihe
v la I v ictory .'or
fit. a no "avored
\>rce.- of Viee
. who is believed
II San Francisco or
described by
- .'."anting to have
• ; v t in picking the
does not run him
tor> at Hyde Park
! committee was in
• t- v .i- getting tired of
. • d term queries.
;■ when anything was '
the question he
; y t himself. ,
• -top third term talk
. * ti. however.
S .v.yer. member of the
.r.ional committee from j
p 'i ters that "the Pres
t-dcis is the most popu
i :e in Ohio."
• d term advocates con
■ Chicago's selections as
city played right into
- >ince they said that the
"..o draft Roosevelt" cam
represented there by
. i.\ard J. Kellv and Na
itteeman Jack Nash.
Compromise In
British-Jap !
Controversy
Feb. ti.—(AP)—Great Bri
«;reed to return nine of 21
-• .. en seized from the Ja
. Asama Maru. Foreign
. Arita announced today.
: • ct:«»n with this compromise
. dent which Japanese had
in affront. Arita said Ja
-Vv.r.-hip lines had been in-,
•-d " refuse to accept as pas
_ rent nationals who are
• military services and
y po.v-ibly be enlisted".
• :: inister expressed be- '
" - would prevent another
i-but told the parlia-j
nnot say that the case is
•• t-ed."
•i ' :red that Japan would!
" negotiate for the return of
They were seized by
• v:"U ser January 20 about
V <kohoina. and interned
- • British crown colony.
Haladier's Party
Asks French Aid
Be Given Finland
- < fj — Premier I
radical socialist;
• d'.pted a resolution call-:
1 French government "to
-*try measures to per
'■ '•< t 'litinue to fight and
against Russia.
'icialist parlimentary
outcome of the war]
that in western Eu
' * ■ -aid the party con- j
cieiinite defeat of the j
against Finland will'
'■ •- in their military;
ii in prestige."
Germany Sees
No Basis For
Mediation
K.—<AP>—The Ger
t :.: can see no basis tor
:ft the Russian-Finnish
authoritatively indi
•••r the Reich\s envoys
;t(i Helsinki had come
personal reports,
/•■'i >uices said that even
»ti Kallio's declaration
that Finland was
'• an "honorable peace*
■ ontrete basis for action
" : :.v
1 /'
• >.v. as before, is keep
the northern conflict,
although Russia is the
.1 incii.
Mardi Gras Queen
Katherine Phillips
To this lovely lady goes the highest
honor of New Orleans' debutante
world. She is Miss Katherine Phil
lips. who has been named queen of
the Mardi Gras. The monarch of
the annual fete is one of Louisi
ana's foremost horsewomen.
Balkan Policy
Opposed By
Two Nations
Budapest. Feb. 6.—(AP)—Hun
gary and Bulgaria today indicated
vigorous opposition to the Balkan
entente's newly proclaimed policy of
territorial independences by demand
ing explanations as to whether this
phrase means upholding the present
boundaries of southeastern Europe.
The two nations, which have been
campaigning for peaceful settlement
of their claims on Roumania for ter
ritories they lost to her in the World
War settlement, undertook to learn
from the foreign offices of the en
tente whether it had undertaken to
resist all possibility of territorial con
cession.
The entente—Roumania, Yugo
slavia. Greece and Turkey—conclud
ed a three-day conference at Bel
grade Sunday.
The Roumania press declared the
entente showed "the four states truly
were in unity in case of war" and
"this will have a good influence on
Bulgaria and Hungary, perhaps per
suading them to join the Balkan bioc
since their pretensions are postponed
until after the great powers' war.''
bishop Urges
Evangelism
Raleigh, Feb. 6.—(AP)—Bishop
Edwin H. Hughes of Washington
urged Methodism of eastern North
Carolina today to "preach the gospel
practically as well as publicly", and
revive faith in the church's cvange
iism.
More than 1.200 members of the
church from all party of eastern
North Carolina attended 'lie "Meth
odist Advance" rally. Bishop Hughes
traced the faith of the Methodist
church from all parts of eastern
counseled:
"We are here today at this meet
ing becauscof evangelism but we are
having a ^.-ase of evangelistic shivers
in ' these times and many of our
ministers are frightened. We are
just plain scared, that is all.
"We need a baptism of courage in
reference to evangelistic life. Public
evangelism is hard, not easy. If the
people do not come to us, go to them
and don't be scared of public evan
gelism." " *
BRITISH TO GUARD
AGAINST LEAKAGE
OF NEWS TO ENEMY
London, Feb. 6.—(AP)—Prime
Minister Chamberlain told the
House of Commons today that legis
lation providing for the death pen
alty for the disclosure or leakage of
information to the enemy was un
der consideration.
He declared there has been no
failure thus far to take vigilent pre
cautions against leakage.
The prime minister's statement
came as the government started a
campaign against gossip with the
slogan "careless words may cost
livCj". __ _
Nazi Peace Bid Is
Reported In Offing
| Prisoners
Escape From
Officers
Three of Four Con
victs Being Taken to
Central Prison Attack
Forsyth Sheriff And
Deputy And Escape
Near Nelson,
Raleigh, Feb. 6.—(AP)—Four pri
soners being brought to Central pri
son today by tv/o Forsyth county of
ficers attacked the officers near Nel
son and three escaped.
Sheriff Ernie Shore and Deputy
Walker Speas were understood to
have been the officers-.
George Cathey, the one that did no?
get away, was brought to Central
prison this afternoon and said the
three who escaped were McKinley
Roach, Lige Patterson and Doc
| Clark.
Relating his story to Deputy War
den Ralph McLean, Cathey describ
ed events as follows:
The four men "picked" their hand
: cuffs with a piece of wire. About ten
; miles "below Chapel Hill on this
side" Lige Patterson grabbed the de
1 puty sheriff sitting by the driver".
In the ensuing struggle the car
i overturned.
Cathey said he and Patterson
; "scuffled" with the officers while
! Roach and Clark ran off from the
other side of the car.
The prisoner said that one of the
• officers shot at Patterson as he es
■ caped and he expressed the belief
! the man was hit "because he limped
alter the shot".
Former Senator
Dies In Chicago
Chicago, Feb. 26.—(AP)—Funeral
j services will be conducted Thurs
i day for Charles Deneen, former
' United States senator and a domin
ant figure in Illinois politics for 20
years.
Deneen collapsed and died of a
i heart ailment at his home yesterday
1 a few hours after visiting a physi
j cian. He was 76.
Changes In
Wagner Act
Opposed
! Washington, Feb. 6.—(AP)—Philip
I Murray, chairman of the Steel Work
S ers Organizing Committee (CIO),
j charged today that proposed amend
| ments to the Wagner act, die motivat
i ed by a desire on the part of certain
i interests to reduce workers to their
| former status of weakness in pre
Wagner act days".
Testifying before the Senate labor
| committee Murray said he present
I ed the viewpoint of John L. Lewis,
i CIO chairman, as well as his own.
I The CIO's preference, the witness
declared, is that no amendments be
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Probable Size
Of Primary
Vote Disputed
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVEEILL.
Raleigh, Feb. 6.—This is such a
confusing, disputed primary cam
paign, that no two experts (so
called) can come to even approxi
mate agreement on the si;:e of vote
likely to be cast on the last Satur
day in May when the Democrats go
to the polls to nominate the Gov
lContinued on Page Two)
Six-Point Plan For J
European Peacej
Noted by Oslo News- j
paper; Said Ap - j
proved b y Goering
And Hitler.
Oslo, Feb- 6.—-(AP)—The Slock- |
holm correspondent of the news- i
1 paper Tidens Tegn suid today that
rumors of a German peace bid
were taking shape.
The paper said reports from The
Hague, Brussels and Berlin indicate
some neutral state would offer the j
peace plan reportedly drawn by a
committee established by Field Mar- j
shall Hermann Wilhelm Goering i
and approved by Adolf Hitler in i
The plan was reported t.o have six
points:
1. No country would claim war
damage.
2. Economic problems must be
olved immediately.
3. The Sudetan regions of the for- j
nrsr Czech-Slovak republic would j
remain German.
4. Poland would cede to Germany :
all territory which was German |
prior to the Versailles treaty.
5. A plebiscite would be held in \
Austria under Austrian-German
British-French control.
6. A British-French-German com
mission would decide upon the
Czech-Slovak-Polish state of the
future.
Opening Of
China River
Is Opposed
Tokyo, Feb. 3.—(AP)—Japan's
decision to reopen the lower Yangtze
river in China to third power traf
fic was attacked bitterly in the
Japanese parliament tonight ns
"obsequious diplomacy" aimed at
courting the favor of the United
States.
The leader of reactionary ele
ments said that the government had
announced the Yangtze step as an
effort to improve the attitude of the
United States toward Japan and
that the move had failed.
The speaker advocated outright
abandonment of the nine-power
treaty of 1922 which pledged its
signatories to respect the open door
policy of foreign trade in China.
WILSON BOND ISSUE
AUTHORIZED TODAY
Raleigh. Feb. 6.—(AP)—The local
government commission today au
thorized the issuance of the follow
ing bonds after approval by the
voters: Wilson, .$300,000. electric
light and power. •
Gives $5,000,000
To Wife, Children
Washington, Feb. G.—(AP)—Char
les Stewart Mott, vice-president and
largest single stockholder of Gen
eral Motors Corporation, has given
shares valued at more than 85,000,
000 to a trust established for his
wife and two children.
A Securities Commission report
today disclosed the gift, regarded
as one of the largest in recent years.
The motor executive was shown still
to be the owner of stocks valued at
823,000,000.
The gift consisted of 100,000 shares
of General Motors common which
closed on the New York Stock Ex
change yesterday at 852.50.
Treasury officials estimated that
the minimum federal gift tax on the
transfer would be more than 81.500,
000 and possibly much larger. The
amount will depend on what other
gifts Mott may have made since 1932.
More than a decade ago Mott
started the Mott Foundation minister
ing to underprivileged children and
has since contributed liberally to its
maintenance.
IOsaJthsh
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Rain this afternoon and to
night. slightly warmer in north
east. colder in extreme west por
tions tonight. Wednesday clear
ing. _ ,
Mutiny on the Halcyon
Police swarm aboard the Greek steamer Halcyon, anchored otf Brooklyn,
N. Y., to quell the mutinous crew of 29 members. First Officer Paul
Olandis said the men wanted to desert ship. The sailors claimed they
merely wanted to go ashore, for the first time in two months, and hav«
some beer. Two hundred cops answered the mutiny alarm.
Felley Says Dies
Letters Are Forged
3ellev Wanted By
Buncombe Sheriff
Asheville. Feb. 6.— (AP) —
Buncombe County Sheriff Laur
ence E. Brown today telegraph
ed the Washington I). C., police,
the federal bureau of investiga
tion and the Dies committee ask
ing that William Dudley Pelley
of Asheville be held for him.
Brown had a capias for Pol
ley issued in October of last year
by Superior Court Judge Zeb
V. Nettles.
The self-styled leader of the
Silver Shirt Legion was convict
ed in 1935 of violation of the
state "blue sky" securities law
and of a charge described by
Nettles as "making fraudulent
representations".
On the blue sky law charge
Pelley was. sentenced to one to
two years bul the judgment was
suspended upon payment of a
fine and upon condition that the
defendant remain "continuously
on good behavior".
Russian
Attacks Are
Repulsed
Helsini, Feb. fi.—(AP)--Red army
attacks, heavily supported by artil
lery using more than 100 armored
cars and lasting until midnight, were
officially reported today to have been
thrown back by the Finns.
The battle, which Icsted from
morning till midnight, occurred on
the isthmu:; of Karelia near Summa,
the army communique said.
The Finns said they destroyed 22
armored cars and that one Finnish
position was attaced five times by
the Russians.
The army reported that Finnish
troops northeast of Lake Ladoga re- 1
pulsed "continuous attacks" driving;
the enemy off "with several hun- j
dred killed".
Arrest Eleven On
Federal Charges j
Detroit, Feb. 6.—(AP)—The fed-!
eral bureau of investigation today
arrested eleven persons in Detroit
and one in Milwaukee on a charge of i
recruiting soldiers in 1937 and 1938 J
for the Spanish republican army. :
Ten men and one woman were,
taken into custody.
District AttLorney John C. Lehrj
said the defendants are accused of I
violating a section of the United I
States code forbidding citizens of the j
United States from recruiting for for
eign countries. (
Self-Styled Leader of
Silver Shirts Appears
Voluntarily B e f o r e |
Dies Committee;
Mayne Admits For
ging Letters.
Washington, Feb. b\—(AP)—Will
iam Dudley Pelley, leader of the
Silver Shirt Legion, dropped in on
the Dies committee today after!
months of silence to give its chair- J
man, Representative Dies, Democrat,!'
Texas, "an absolute clean bill of',
health" with regard to charges oi ;j
"collusion" between Dies and him-"
:;clf.
The slender resident of Ashevillc, .
N. C., who had long been hunted by
the committee, surrendered him
self to Robert Stripling, clerk, for
service to a subpoena and then went J
before a closed session of the group f
to tell what he knew about certain 1
letters allegedly forged with his <
name which recently were brought <
forth as evidence of a connection i
between Dies and the Legion chief- t
■ ain.
A few minutes later PMley talked |
with reporters:
"I'm giving Martin Dies an abso
lutely clean bill of health", he said.
"I admire the work he's done." j
He declined to discuss his brief '
testimony before the Dies com- '
mittec directly, but members told ,c
newsmen he had declared the let- ;
tors nnrnortine to link him to Dies j t
were forgeries. J
From the Dies committee room y
Policy walked over in si hearing |
being held by a rules sub-corn- j
mittee on whether the letters be :
expunged from the House record. :
Thoy were placed there by Repre
senlative Hook, Democrat, Michigan, I
during an attack on Dies and the
committee. : j
The witness said after he had t
been sworn in that "none of those
letters were written by me or
signed by me."
"I don't know anything about *
them," he added.
The letters, addressed to David
Mayne of Washington and bearing
the signature "Pelley". purported to <
link Dies with the chief of the Silver ;
Shirts.
Mayne appeared before the sub- ' 1
committee shortly after Pelley left,
the stand. He was shown the let- j <
lers. 1 j
"I manufactured these docu- (
ments", he declared. "These are not 1
signatures of Mr. Pelley. I traced
each and every one of them." 1 i
AYCOCK NAMED TO
STATE N. Y. A. POST
Pialeigh, Feb. 6.—(AP)—John A.
Lang, state N. Y. A. administrator, j
announced today the appointment of
William B. Aycock. of Selma, as
state supervisor of resident training
centers.
Aycock has been teaching in
Greensboro.
Economy
Hits Three
Departments
Total of $2,285,010
Cut From Budget
Estimates For State,
Commerce And Jus
t i c e Departments;
Grand Total $196,
300,000.
Washington, Feb. (i. (AC) The
House appropriations committee cut
52,28!5,010 today from President
Roosevelt's SI09.004,010 request for
expenses of tlm State, Commerce and
Fustice departments and the federal
courts during the year beginning
luly 1.
"Every unit of the government
nust bear some proportion of the
•etrenchment", said the committee in
iubmitting the revised figures.
The reduction brought to $196,300,
000 the amount slashed from presi
iential estimates in a half-dozen ap
propriation measures now before
Congress.
The $107,379,000 bill for the three
iepartments and the courts, reported
lo the house lor immediate considera
tion, contain lunds for such activities
as counter-espionage, anti-trust in
vestigations and the 1940 census. The
total was 53,442,859 below appropria
tions for the current year.
In one slash the committee refused
to allow more than 8175,000 for op
erating the reciprocal trade system
on the ground that Congress had not
yet authorized continuation of the
program beyond June 12. President
Roosevelt asked 8225,000.
Making small cuts in almost every
activity the committee allowed two
increases beyond what the chief exe
cutive had asked. One was an ad
ditional $41,000 beyond Mr. Roose
velt's request for the enforcement of
anti-trust laws, making the total pro
vided $1,250,000.
Bombings In
Britain Laid
To Irish
London, Feb. 6.—(APj—A new
vave of bombings attributed to the
li.sh Republican army swept Eng
and today as the government of
reland sought to stay the scheduled
(xecution of two IRA men in Birmi
ngham, tomorrow.
Explosions from balloon and acid
ight bombs used previously by the
RA in its campaign of teriorism
hook London's Euston railroad sta
ion, the Birmingham general post
iff ice and the postofl'ice at Man
:hestei\
Four were hurt in Euston's station,
wo in Birmingham.
As feeling ran high in Ireland af
er Iho British government's refusal
ast night to grant reprieves to the
ondemned men, Ireland's high com
nissioner in London was instructed
r> see Prime Minister Chamberlain
oday to press an appeal for clem
ncy for the two men.
The two are scheduled to be hang
d in Birmingham tomorrow for their
•art in a bombing in Coventry last
mgust 25 in which five persons were
illed.
Jap Control
Of Press Is
Attacked
Tokyo, Feb. 6.—(AP)—The Japan
ise government's control of the press
ind government secrecy on political
ntentions were attacked today in
>oth houses of Parliament.
The attack in the House of Peers
Irew from Premier Yonai an ex
iressicn of an agreement with crit.cs
>f press control and he said relaxa
ion would be attempted.
Speaking in the upper house a
nember declared that cooperation of
he government and the people never
I'ould be complete while newspapers
vere deprived of freedom.
"Unnecessary oppression of the
iress merely engenders suspicion" in
he popular mind", he said.
'"The government must acquaint
he people with developments and
>ermit them to have their own op
nions.
"Until such a condition prevails
piritual mobilization cannot be ful
iiied."