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wenitersntt Batiy Dispatcfj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. V-SEVENTH YEAR LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 16, 1940 PUBLISHKl> EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COi'Y Finns To Fortify New Frontiers --*••*••*•**** *********** Rumania Refuses Nazi Terms t r» tp* 1 Mng Larol Incignant At Suggestion Of j Cabinet Shift AT. • rch 16.—(AP)— • to Kir;g Carol declared Ruman.j could not pay • ; : tor a security oner. .. A1: iced the terms loi ;i Bulgarian and .'ltee a< "intolerable and >f acceptance" and said as doomed unless CJer a it greatly. > it ion arose in high gov ..iters against every con t'd <>t Rumania. , s advisers were said to any Rumanian attempts any the virtual mono : ts she seeks would dis n try's economy almost 1 war it-elf. was pictured at; pnrti- ' -;nant over a reported ,qesticn that he take a guardist into his cabi- j CensusBattle into Courts? Senator Tobey's Of-1 lice Says Letters From! Citizens Are Being Studied -ton. March 16.—(AD—j "'.t of the census" may shift} -;e?s and the White House courts. rd came today from the : Senator Tobey. Republican, pshire. who is leading th« •event census takers from :izens ho wmuch money • :".a.<e. - Tobey. Jr.. the senator's secretary. told newsmen to " citizens in all parts of the had written in suggesting, ywere willing to seek in- j ..gainst the income ques - a violation of constituted letters were being studied. . oey saia. with a view to - - Hi;t in representative areas :t the country. Ccoper Has NewPropcsal e c. k s Agreement Among Gubernatorial Candidates Regard ing Organizations Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. - March 16.—Wilmington's ' r has just bobbed up with "oposal to his rivals for the .al nomination—a proposi ■ • he feels will help him ii ' : ■! and more or less em ' "ir. if they don't. ' campaign tour, winner P imary take all plan was declined by all of his op o answered at all: but that ' • hasn't even feazed the ir Tom. proposes that none of the ■> :-et up an organization in ' county of any other can •night get somewhere if it f the fact that Tom wants Wake county—and two of candidates are from the •■ty and State capital. > < bjection is easily dis -y Tom with the assertion < ooie aren't going to elect rom Wake county, any it doesn't make any dif ' .e text of the Cooper chal tav out of other folks back y suggestion that the can ■ i the race for Governor •;:;ong themselves that none 11! set up an organization nic county of any oi the 'I'iidates. • county, containing the capi .iiiut.cd on Pa^je Sex en) Finns Get News of Their Defeat None of the usual rejoicing which generally greets an armistice is visible litre as citizens of Helsinki soberly buy black-bordered extra edi tions ot newspapers announcing the end of the war with Russia, a war which Finiarid, after a heroic defense, was forced to admit she was too small to win. Photo flashed by radio from Berlin to ISiew York. Ohio Mine Explosion Traps Men In Shaft i • Nazi Ambassador Makes Surprise Call On Ciano Home, March 16.—(AP) — Gorman Ambassador Hans-Georg von Maekensen made a surprise visit to the Italian foreign office today while Sumner Welles and Foreign Mfristcr Count Ciano were conferring. The German ambassador's call lead to belief that he might have taken an urgent message he wanted delivered to Ciano be fore he ended his conference with President Roosevelt's fact finder. Welles will sa l from Naples Tuesday for the United States. Vote On Hatch Bill Monday Washington. M.irch 16.—(AP)— Senate opponents of the bill to curb political activities of state employee* who are paid in whole or in pari from federal funds gave up their two-weeks fight against the measure today. W'lh no senator dissenting. Dem ocratic Leader Barkley obtained ai agreement last night to vote on the controversial bill by 3 p. m. Mon day. Good humored banter in the clos [ ing hours of yesterday's debate gave I surface indications at least that the Democratic split which developec over the measure would not leave lasting bitterness like the party di vision in the hi t' r>e fight over Pres i ide.nt Roosevelt's court rcorganiza i tion plan. Two Hundred Men in Mine When Blast Oc curred, But First Re ports bays None Kill ed ; Mine Machinery Crippled. St. Clairsville, Ohio. March 16.— I (AP)—An undertermined number of I men were trapped today by an ex plosion in the Willa Grove mine of ine wanna coal company, four miles south of here. Two hundred men were in the mine when the blast oc curred. Five men walked out of the mine. Mine officials could not ascertain immediately how many men were in ! the section affected by the blast. First reports said no one was kill ed. Ambulances, fire ' department in halator squads, and rescue workers vverp called from surrounding towns. All surrounding mines were asked to send gas masks. The mine machinery was crippled, preventing the rescue <•! those vvho might not have been injured. Newspaper Vendor ! Held On Suspicion Of Robbery Charge Los Angeles, March lfi. --(AP)— ! A Santa Monica newspaper vendor ! was arrested at the home of film j actress Wendy Barric early today and booked on suspicion or robbery. Police Captain Grover Armstrong said Bernard Ronald Stone, 22. was • arrested after drooping a note into her mail box. Officers were "stak ed out" within the hou e after two 1 previous notes were left there. Armstrong said Stone assorted he had h;id "beautiful dreams" about Miss Barrie and had started to write a play about her. Maxwell Is Quoted As Being Opposed To "Contingent Diversion" Of Highway Funds I Daily lM.suat^n fiurf-a::. In tlie Sii Walter Hote' Raleigh, March 16.—Ciose 011 the 1 heels of publication of this Bureau's story that Anti-Diversionists would . net be srtisfied unless gubernatorial •"mdidpfes specifically oppose the Revenue Act's contingent diversion provisions, one of the leading as ! pirants h; s authorized use 'if a letter .n which he did exactly that. j Commissioner of Revenue Allen J I /Iaxwell. it seems, is flatly egainsl j he section which has been one of ihe biggest bones of contention in the last two legislatures; though his opposition appears to be based not so much on principle as upon the financial expediency. His idea, according to the lettei (Continued on Page Seven) Garner Stays Out Of Ohio President RcoseveL Given Virtual Assur ance of Big Delega'ior If He Seeks T: r Term; Garner In Ore gon Primary. Washington, inarch iG.—(AP) — 75— President Garner's ticci i n I hold alool' from the Ohio presidential primary gave President Roosevelt .irtual assurance today that he would have the state's big conven tion delegation if he seeks a third term. The Ohio deadline for filing past last night without a word from any of the chief contenders for the Demo cratic nomination. The only entry or the state's 52 convention votes "as Carles Sawyer, pro-Roosevelt Democratic national committeeman. Sawyer was expected generally to lead the delegation to support a third term at the proper moment. On the Republican side the dead line passing meant that Senator Tafl would get his home state delegation. He was unopposed. Although avoiding the May 14 Ohio contest Garner announced his entry into the May 17 Oregon pri mary. Friends declared he had decided to stay out of Ohio because he be lieved that state's political cards were stacked against him. Rivers Near Night In Jail Georgia Governor Ar rested Near Midnight on Stage of Municipal Auditorium Macon, Ga., March 16.—(AP)— Barely oscnping a night in jail, Gov ernor E. D. Rivers conferred unlil near dawn today with his attorney general concerning his federal con tempt conviction over the military lockout of evicted highway Chair man W. L. Miller. The Georgia governor was ar-, rested near midnight in dramatic fashion on the stage of the munici pal auditorium in which thousands of Georgia school teachers had ac claimed him the "greatest friend of education" in this state's history. The arrest was based on a writ by federal district Judge Bascom Deaver, finding the governor guilty of ignoring a previous order that he cease military interference with Miller's efforts to regain the office taken from him December 2. Deaver told the chief executive he arose from bed to grant the mid night hearing only to save him. a night in jail and exacted a promise that Rivers would appear in court next Friday to show cause why he should not be permanently adjudged in contempt of court. Two German Subs Are Sunk Paris, March 16.—(AP)—-Sinking I of two German submarines was re i ported by French naval sources to i day with the comment that Ger I many apparently was dispatching ? • new wave of U-boats to prey upon | shipping. j There were indications, naval men ! said, that the submarines which had : been at sea since February were ; returning to their bases and thai [ others were being sent to take their ! places. {jJgjclUwi for NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Sunday; slightly warmer extreme south west portion tonight. WEATHER FOR WEEK Fair with normal temperatures beginning and near end of week; rain and slightly colder Tues day and Wednesday. A Critical Once Over AH: 14:! '< < - Not the slightest details escape the critical gaze of Cadet Andrew .Jame* Paviour, 4, as he inspects men chosen from the ranks to be trained as officers in the English army. Cadet Paviour, mascot of the Officer Cadet Training Unit of the Eastern Command, receives seven ccnts a day lor his services. His father is an army veteran in service 41 years. (Central treat) Board Of Elections Busy On final Day Vance Elections Board Composed Of Same Members Raleigh, March 16.— (AP)—'The State board of elections today named county boards of elections. Included among: them was: Vance county—A. YV. Gholson, Jr., W. B. Daniel and J. F. Hicks, Sr., all of Henderson. The first two named are Democrats, the third a Republican. Air Raids By British And Nazi Bombers London, March 16.— (AP)—The British and German air forces ex changed raids within the last 121 hours with the British ir.hkin.ean "ex tensive" flight over Poland and a German bomber duelling with the Briiisji coast11 patrol in a running ri"ht, the air ministry announced today. A ministry communique said that air activities in the past 24 hours in {Continued on Page Seven) Three Republican Filers Bring to Twenty The Total Number ol Their Party Seeking Nominations To State< Wide Office ! Raleigh, March lfi.—(AP)—Thre< more Republicans and one Dcmocra paid filing fees to the Stato board ol elections today, bringing to 20 thi total members of the Republicar party who will seek nominations ir the May 25 primary. Forty-fiv< | democrats have tiled for the 2 state-wide posts. One other republican, C. T. Aller , of Aurora, decided to run for com I missioner of agriculture after hav : ,'i« filed for treasurer. j No more names will be c-dded aft ! i-r filing deadline at fi p. m. today. William B. Oliver, Fuquay Spring: j lawyer, filed for the Democratii | nomination for iirurancc coiv.tnis j sioner. The three Republicans who filet 1 are: < W. Downing of Faycttevi'lle, th< I only HepuHican seeking nomAia ♦ ion for attorney general: John A i Wiik'n: on, the only Republican file: : for Congress in the fir i district ;ind Lawrence •!. Pare of Ashevilk | on*-i>p,»ped tor the Republican nomi nation for superintendent of publii ' instruction. Teachers Adopt Platform Arid Pledge Erwin Support Iialcigh. March 1G.—(AP)—North Carolina .school tcachers planned to day a determined right during the corning year for higher salaries, bet ter equipment, sick leave pay, job security and a retirement sy.-tem. The teachers also pledged their support to Dr. Clyde A.. Erwin, sup erintendent of public instruction, in his campaign for re-election. Other resolutions called for rais ing the compulsory schoc.l attend ance age from 14 to 1G years and for the im.ertion of a new grade be tween the sixth and ninth, i Reports of the committees on ten ure and on resolutions containing the demands were adopted at the closing session today of the 56th an nual meeting of the North Carolina Education Association. S. G. Hawfield, vice-president, and principal of the Penderlea school in Pender county, was ele vated to the presidency without op position in accordance with an old custom. However, there was a three-corn ered fight for the vice-presidency with K. G. Phillips of Win ton-Silem coming out in the le.*'d over O. W. Carver of Hickory and M. P. Young of Princeton. S. G. HAWFIELD Mr. Hawfield, principal of th Penderlea high school at Willarc today assumed tho presidency of th North Carolina Education Associa tion. being elevated from ihe vice prc-.:dem:v of the organization. jArmyWillBe Reorganized Finland Will Go For ward "With a Sword in One Hand and a Trowel in the Other", I Premier Ryti Tells Parliament. Helsinki. March 16.—(AP)—I'in i i;md will begin immediately to fortify her newly narrowed frontiers and to reorganize her battered army despite j the non-aggression clause in her p. ace treaty with Russia, informed quarters declared today. There will be no general demobili zation of the army except for cer tain classes which will be released to j help with civil reconstruction work i after the costly 105-day war, these 1 sources said. ; The Finnish government attitude toward the future was suggested by Premier Risto Ryti, who told the diet last night that the nation would go forward "with a sword in one hand and a trowel in the other." Finland's proposal for a defense al liance with Sweden and Norway is another part of her determination to be strong. All of western civilization remains in the greatest danger and only the future can show whether Finland acted wisely in making jjeace with Russia, Ryti declared. ' ^ Ryti addressed the Finnish par liament following its approval of the peace terms by a vote of 145 to 3. 4 Men Held • i In Robbery One Confesses, Impli cating Others, In Broadway Kidnaping | and Robbery. (• , i Raleigh, March 16.—(AP)—Direc tor Frederick C. Handy and Agent James F. Bradshaw of the State Bu reau of Investigation said today that Clifton Anderson of Burlington had confessed and implicated three other men in the kidnaping of a Broad i way police office February 22 and tiic robbery of four Broadway busi ness houses. | Bradshaw said that Anderson and Harold Hanford, also of Burlington, ' ; wore heirs h^'d in the I-ee county j jail and that Nathan Cheek and Ivy 1 Heath were ip the Greensboro jail ,! where they were charged with an other crime. James Thomas, officer at Broad way. small Lee county town near Sanford, reported that lie was kid ' napped at 2 o'clock the morning of ' February 22 by two men who rode | hint around in the automobile while the business firms were robbed by , ! somebody else. Storm Over I British Supply Ministry • London, March 16. — (AP) — A i storm arising out of criticism of Bri tain's wartime supply ministry in i creased sharply today with a charge by a dismissed ministry official that he had been "sacrificed" by Supply Minister Leslie Burgin. In the midst of demands for Bur gin's resignation, Robert Behar, one of three ministry officials dismissed spectacularly March 5 without ex planation, issued a statement charg ing that Burgin "embarrassed by at tacks on his department and by ques tions in the House of Commons sacri ficed me in a miscalculated political maneuver." "Mr. Burgin's action" charged Be har, "was in violation of every prin ciple of natural justice". Behar's brother, David, one of I three dismissed yesterday, demand J rd his "rehabilitation" or a plain dcc | laratlon of the reasons for his dis ! missal. Burgin had refused to give these ! reasons to the house. e As this storm brewed, Britain or l, dered 600,000 more men to register e for military service and members of - Parliament prepared to press the - government for a more aggressive • ; policy in the ikans.
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