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Uleniteramt Haily Htspatrij ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER phrt.ISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. y[;\TY-SEVENTH YEAR 'S® HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 18, 1940 pt'u'-'3HKfePxcEMRsuNDA?''N°0'' FIVE CENTS COPY Axis Partners Agree On Policy Senate Passes Hatch \nti-PoUtics Measure Amendment Curbs sessment of State Employees for Politi cal Contributions; Ap proval in House Be lieved Uncertain. .Yashinston. Mnrch 18.— (AP) ! i- Senate today passed legis r !i raakin.qr the Hateh anti law apply to an estimated .O' O employees in state and ii governments. 1 ;.e vote was 58 to 28. The bill now goes to the where onlv today Speak * lunkhead «aid he was "not in ! i. t>r" of it. There, opponents hope lo pigeonhole it for the ses sion. ■ t\l by Senator Hatch. Dem >;• ' Mexico, the measure y to state employees paid federal funds the same - against political activity! •v. are applied to terierall !I. which brought a sharp! Democratic ranks during two :;;er debate, contains: ision limiting individual 4 . contributions to $5,000 a sion against state-federal i using their official in- j to effect an election or | * heir subord inates. /.ation for the civil ser : isison to determine when !--tate worker has engaged •..cal activity and then to in ther government agencies ;;e loans and grants to ! !d a portion of the federal j : iess a worker who parti •i politics is dismissed. The . ithheid would be equal to e annual salary of the state- ; • rker involved. >rs. lieutenant-governors, j . • v-:ty managers and heads of i city executive departments, e exempt from the legisla- ^ ■yc^s accused of political ac-j \v would have the right to ap • the courts. ngton. March 18— (AD S' nate. moving toward a vote j , -!a\c>n to expand the Hatch j .tics law, approved today an! ir.ent to curb the assessment' ■ .le employees for political con • irons. . endnent offered by Sena-, y. Democrat. West Virginia.1 i prevent any employee paid :V(.'ir federal funds from r,~-j > influence to obtain political' •ions from other state work- j • Id the Senate the proposal uned to "stop those who are •in state employees as some i n \Vc..t Virginia." Morris. Independent. Ne . and Senator Hatch support ' amendment, Norris declar • t ,-ee anything wrong with ."•■posal. It i- a good one. All 1 c conscientiously in favor of j II will vote for it." • -President Garner then quiek • f'd of the proposal by an il "without objection the j :* .« nt is approved." t :'I would apply to state em-1 (Continued on Page Seven) increases In Farm Funds To Be Approved fitop. March I?!. (Al*)—On hunt. Speaker Bankhcad '< ci thiit the house would agree ;>■ <tive $300,000,000 increase ' year's farm supply bill which ' up in the Senate, probably I'.ri ow. ■> • carried $713,000,000 when "J the House but the Senate committee added .000 for parity payments and n funds for surplus com : 'y removal. 1 Creekmore, manager of the "•irs Cotton Cooperative asso rted a House agriculture "'<■ to approve legislation on Id authorize a $1,605,441 ation to discharge a federal to 13 cotton cooperatives d under the old farm board ago. S( .'i;,te-House conference corn led to reach an agreement '"t:.- which the Senate made !i" t deficiency bill which pro "iiji other items $60,000,000 i'yed soil conservation pay farmers who complied witl! :.£t-vulture pi^ruia. Seeks Defense Pact C. J. Hambro First definite step toward negotia tion of a Scandinavian defense alli ance is seen in the arrival at Stock holm, Sweden, of C. J. Hambro, president of the Norwegian Parlia ment. He represents Norway, seek ing a pact for mutual defense of Norway, Sweden and Finland. (Central Press) Congress Cool To Wallace Trade Plan By CHARLES P. STEWART Cenral Press Columnist Washington, March 18.—Farm Sec retary Henry A. Wallace's plan fur an increase in trade between the United States and the Latin Ameri cas seems likely to be up against a ueau t-'iiu u i una session of Con gress because the lawmakers are too economy - minded at present to fi nance it. They're a pe culiar bunch on Capitul Hill. They groan, to be sure, of dollars they're Henry A. Wallace called upon to ap propriate for other purposes. Never theless. they go ahead and do the appropriating. All Wallace needs, for his scheme, is a mere handful of a very few hundreds of thousands. But the leg islators can't stand that much. Of course the explanation's obvious. When the solons appropriate a bil lion, they do it under pressure from the voters. When something in six figures is asked for nobody's at hand to insist on it. True, it isn't worth Hope For 71 Miners Is Abandoned Rescue Crews Con tinue Efforts To Reach Trapped Men; Bodies of Two Men Recover ed; Two Rescue Workers Die St. ClairsvHle, Ohi». March IS. fAP)—All 73 victims of the Willow Grove mine explosion were Riven up for dead today and the state prepared to pay I death claims of nearly $400,000. Hope for 69 entombed coal miners faded 48 hours after the explosion. Four others were | known dead. Officials reported that in another 24 hours they could break through the poison ous grasses and rock barriers whivh blanketed the trapped dead. ?tfore than 100 other miners, I most of them gassed or injured, were rescued. St. Clairsville, Ohio, March 18.— (AP)—Hope virtually was abandon ed today for 71 miners trapped since Saturday in the Willow Grove coal mines. Nevertheless, rescue crews con tinued their efforts to penetrate the mass of slate blocking the chambers in which the men were caught by a ! mighty explosion attributed by mjne ! workers either to gas or to coal dust. The bodies of John Marks, a ■ motorman. and Boss McFadden were | removed from the mine early today. | They were the first of the entombed | men to be recovered. Coroner C. G. Hardesty imme diately began an inquest. More than 100 miners reached the surface safely shortly after the blast. Two men lost their lives breathing poisonous afterdamp fumes, in a , futile attempt to reach the others. John Ownes, president of the Ohio district of the United Mine Workers, I surveyed the wrecked tunnels last I night and declared he held "no hope ; whatsoever" that any of the entomb ! ed miners were alive. "However, nothing is being left i undone to recover the men as soon i as possible," he said, adding that they probably would not be reached l before this afternoon. J saving, but it isn't worth appropriat ing, either—not from the political I standpoint, anyway. The fact is that Secretary Wal i lace has a dandy idea, which would I pay hugely in the long run. And it could be developed by comparative ly so small investment that private capital (not to mention government money) probably would be attracted \Continued on Page Seven* Candidates Settle Down For Long Grind Leading To Primary Day May 25 - DiiiJy Dispatch Cureau, In the Sir Waiter Hold. By HENRY AVERILL Kaleigh, March Itt.—Candidates lor statewide offices today settled down, or came as near settling down as a candidate can, for the long grind between now and the first primary voting on May 25. The deadline for filing past, those who have opponents know their identity and can now lay definite plans for circumvcnting them. The few who find themselves unopposed can finally sit back and sigh with relief after having been literally on pins and needles for weeks. Opposi tion is always opposition, no matte how feeble it may appear on the surface, and there hasn't been a single state official up for re-election this time wno hasn't been growing a few gray hairs worrying about possible rivals. As of today four of the guberna torial candidates have their Raleigh headquarters set up and going about the business of organizing to get votes. From the bottom up—;pcuJ:in£ of the rfotel Sir Walter where the headquarters are loeatcd and not of their relative standings—are tound J. M. Broughton, Raieigh lawyer, on the mezzanine, with Emery Denny of Gastonia as state manager and John Peele of Elizabeth City as publicity chief. On floor five is Lee Gravely, with Crayton C. Efird, Albermarfe busi ness man, in active charge, and Vernon M. Secnriest as chief news man. Floor six has the headquarters of I Allen J. Maxwell, the on-leave Com | missioner of Revenue. Here Ashc 'ville's Burgin Pennell is field mar shal while Ronald Wilson and Lyn Nisbet do the press work. On the ninth is Lieutenant Gov ernor W. P. Horton with Judge Daniel Bell doing the mastermind ling and Granberry Dickson the pub licity chores. That's the 'physical setup and from now to then there will be more speculating, and planning and wor rying in this hotel than anywhere in North Carolina. Philadelphia First With Floods A turbulent Schuylkill River went over its banks rains battered the eastern seaboard. Pontoons might engulfed on the River Road near Flat Rock Dam. The at several places in the Philadelphia area after heavy have been more useful then wheels to this car, found water overflowed the banks tnrce feet in some places. Most Activity On W ester n F ront | Sunday Since Hostilities Began i State Income Tax Collections Set Record Saturday i„ Raleigh, March 18.—(AP)—In come tax receipts for the fiscal year today had reached S19.037, 348.99 to exceed by 8250,000 the 89,783,000 collected by the state during: the entire fiscal year 1238 39. Receipts tabulated through re ceipts Saturday put the total for March at $8,047,209.17, compared with S6,684,619.24 during the month last year. The record for income tax pay ments in a fiscal year was set at $11,385,000 in 1937-38 and rev enue officials expect this to be exceeded this year. Union Vote Is April 17 Is Estimated 125,000 General Motors Em ployees To Vote On Representation. Detroit, March 18.—(AT)— The National Labor Relations Bum id to day set April 17 for election at which an estimated 125,000 employees of 59 General Motors Corporation plants throughout the country will vote on bargaining representation. The election will be the largest in NLRB history. In most plants the contest for de signation as bargaining representa tives is between CIO and the AFL unions known as- the United Auto Workers of America. Workers also may indicate a desire for neither union. In some instances where AFL craft unions or independent group- have a place on the ballot a bargaining unit for a single department may be chosen. The NLRB regional office here said General Motors had agreed to set up booths in the plaift, employees casting their votes during working hours. The vole will be counted on the following day. Roosevelt Still Suffering From Cold And Fever Washington, March 1R.—(AP> —Still suffering from a head cold and a temperature. Presi dent Roosevelt was ordered by his physician today to remain in the White House residential quarters until he recovers. Dr. Ross Mclntire said the Chief Executive's condition was not serious but that "precau tionary" measures were neces «ary. German Attacks West of Vosges and East of Moselle Were Turned Back, French Report, With "Cruel Losses" To German Forces Paris, March lli.—(AP)—German attacks with the largest number of men put into action since the war started were reported by military quarters today to have been turned back by French machine gun and artillery fire. German patrols operating Sunday in separated sectors west of the Vosges mountains and east of the Moselle river sustained what mili tary sources described as "cruel losses" in extended operations. The first of three attacks came at dawn Sunday when French artillery observers moving forward to posts which are not manned during the night found Germans installed in them. The French attacked with automatic light arms. The Germans finally withdrew, it was said. Jn the second engagement the Gi**.i«-» * sent about 300 men to meet a French patrol operating in the Vosges. The French unit replied to enemy fire and repulsed waves of Ger mans seeking to take ontlying posi tions. Heavy bursts of machine gunning were succeeded by fire from the artillery which blasted German troops. Shell explosions ripped through the Germans causing a large num ber of dead and wounded. Military sources said Nazi losses were heavy. Concerning themselves the French reported "two disappeared." lOstcdh&A FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, probably oc casional showers in east portion tonight and Tuesday and in west portion tonisrlit; considerably colder Tuesday. British Ship Ministry Is Under Attack London, March 18.—(AP)—Assert ing that Britain may starve to death; unless her ship building program is | speeded up, Emanuel Shin well, la-; borite, member of parliament, asked the House of Commons today lor a j vote censuring the shipping ministry.; Shinwell took the floor to press his demand for a vote. He scored the shipping ministry for delays he said were due to lack of organization and declared that complaints were roll ing in. The effective cargo-carrying ton nage of the British merchant marine is only about 11),000,000 tons at pre sent, he said, and not "18,000,000 tons as Mr. Churchill (First Lord oi the Admiralty Winston Churchill) would have claimcd." He declared the available tonnage j had been depleted both because the Queen Mary and other large ships are now tied up and becau ;e a num-| her of other vessels h;ive been taken over by the admiralty. Former Missouri WPA Head Given Two-Year Term Kansas City, March 18.—(AP)— Matthew S. Murray, former Mis-1 souri WPA administrator, today was! sentenced to two years in federal prison for income tax evasion. Murray, who held a city position in the Tom Pendcrgast machine in addition to his WPA post, was con victed of evading taxes on $69,(591. At his trial before Judge Albert| Reeves lie claimed $49,300 of that amount was in "gifts" and "gra tuities" from Pendergast and J. J. Pryor, a contractor, and were tax exempt. Reports Of Wage-Hour Law Injury To Farm Income To Be Investigated At Once Washington, March 18.—(AP)— j C'.)l. Philip D. Fleming. wage-hour J administrator, ordered his I'icld force today to investigate complaints that the wage-hour act had reduced faim income. Fleming said the investigation would determine whether his agency should redefine the "area of produc tion". the area within which the pro ce-yintr of farm products is exempt from the act. The law set a minimum wage of 30 cents an hour and a maximum work week of 42 hours. Farmers have complained that processing houses outside the area of produc tion are offsetting their incr^sed labor cost by cutting prices to farm er-. Also, farm cooperatives are t-iuJ to liovc !iu3 their cot I reused. I "in my opinion," Fleming said in a statement, "Congress intended to protect the farmer from any direct adverse effect on his market by the fair labor standards act." The wage-hour chief said he wanted to re-examine the whole question of area of production ex emption to see if a flexible defla tion or definations could be worked out. In doing PO« he said, "I should like to emphasize we want to be care ful that every worker engaged in industrial operations who is now covered by the act remains under the act." Fleming said complaints had been received from citrus and fruit grow ers and the producers of dairy pro ducts. Italy To Join Nazis When Time Comes In the Meantime, In formed Sources Say, Italy Will Lose No Op portunity To Demon strate That She Is Ger many's Ally Berlin, March 16.—-(AP)—Exten sion of the Rome-Berlin axis to Moscow and possible eventual parti cipation of Italy in the European war on Germany's side were cited today by excellently informed Ber lin circles as the main apparent re sults of today's historic Brenner Pass meeting between Adolf Hitler and Premier Mussolini. The two statesmen appeared to have worked on plans for a com plete reorganization of Europe with soviet Russia as their partner. Berlin was filled with rumors that German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop would confer with Russian premier foreign commissar Viacheslaff Molotoff as soon as pos sible, either in Berlin or Moscow. Hitler and Mussolini were said to have agreed on ultimate partici pation of Italy in the European war on Germany's side if and when such a course should be deemed prefer able to the present status of Italy as "not neutral and yet not waging war." (The only interpretation given in Italy up to the same time to the meeting between the two leaders at the Brenner pass was that their con lerence was "cordial.") Until the time should come for filling in the date for a declaration of war, it was said, Italy would lose no opportunity to demonstrate to the western powers that she is Ger many's aliy economically, politically and ideologically. Jtaly, lor instance, abruptly ceas ed furnishing certain implements of war to France as she had done hitherto. The present German-Italian coal agreement will be followed by other agreements for putting resources of each at disposal of the other axis partner. * (The coal agreement to furnish the major part of Italy's coal needs by rail followed upon the British blockade of German coal being ship ped by water.) In the event of Italy's entering the war, it was said, Germany would supply her partner with all the (Continued on Page Seven) Allies Talk AidToTurks Britain, France And Turkey Consult On Aid To Be Given In Event of War London. March 18.—(AI')—Great Bntriin, France and Turkey are con sul tin?; on iho form of aid the west ern powers should give their eastern ally in event sho becomes involved in hostilities, Foreign Undersecretary I?. A. Butler told the House of Com mons today. The British governmentt at the same time turned down a suggestion that it ask the League of Nations to set up a neutral commission to ex amine responsible proposals for peace in the European conflict. The suggestion was made by Laborite Arthur Woodburn and But ler rejected it, declaring Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax is "not con vinced" that adoption of the pro posal "would be best in the present circumstances." Welles Calls On Pope Pius Vatican City, March 18.—(AP)— Sumner Welles was received by Pope Pius XII in his private library [ today at the moment that Adolf Hit ler and Mussolini were conferring I in the Brenner Pass. The possibilities of peace were be lieved to have been the principal topics of both conversations. Welles was accompanied to the last scheduled conference of his ! tour by Myron Taylor, the Presi dent's special ambassador to the Vatican.
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