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\ Henderson 51 a tin IHsiiatrb \ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOR1 H CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ,.\'l \-SEVENTH YEAR LtoeEasSciatI:d pSIsSp HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 19, 1940 ruBLISH mcSrsundI?knoon FIVE CENTS COPY increase In Size Of Labor Beard Asked House Labor Commit tee Recommends Heard be Increased| prom Three to Five Members; "Absolute-; lv Necessary" Change • ::on. March 19.—(AP)— .«•■ 1 >bor committee voted 14 •o recoil':mend to Congress National Labor Relations r. creased from three to five ;n Norton. Democrat. New | •nounced the decision at thei l\v—hour closed commit- 1 i*. She said it was decided -e vote" to reject proposals i the present board anc» r r'.v one. •: v members studying the ■ ..hor act scction by section :t any changes in th? of policy which had been • led h" special House investigating the act and , d. ,:S the increase in the | "bershtp. Mrs. Norton said:: vp seems absolutely neoes- > I • many people take the; ■ it if two more members I : d to the board a lot of; •plaints would go out the That seems to be where they. ::;!y there has been more; a deadlock in the board j •-iriing two members we cer >u!d destroy the effect of . there is such a thing." Nine Ships Nazi Victims ! i. March 19.—(AP)— The *y announced today that nine; ,.:id neutral ships were lost; y action in the week ending tonnage totaled 23,992. the casualties were iistcd i u> ""illegal" mines v.ith only I by German submarine.-. I February 24. v. eek's losses were described | 0 British ships, two French j . ur neutral. . "ative British naval sources ' • " > amplify the admiralty's j . tatement that one British] :t; was slightly damaged by j in Saturday's air raids at I ■ Flow. I - urce said the admiralty's; of allied and neutral ship- : ~>es "is the British answer to "c and untrue statements of. . . .-es constantly being made 1 nemy. v ery often in order to r; formation." MRS. ROOSEVELT, JR. HURT IN ACCIDENT 'csville. Va.. March 19.— Franklin D. Roosevelt, | te ''1 the president's son, suf fn.ctured pelvis and brain j '•n in a fall from a horse I dmu with the Farmington here today. "lending physician at Univer pital. where Mrs. Roosevelt I •ught for treatment, said her; ' "M was satisfactory. PRESIDENT RESUMES WORK AT HIS OFFICE ■ March 19.—(AP)— i ' tit Roosevelt still had a j * • <-h of fever today but he i 'i to resume work at his of- i •'t limited schedule including: 'ime discussion of budgetary j "priation problems with ' b rector Harold Smith. House officials said the ■ f.'-"rutive, suffering with a ■ i week, had a temperature | little more than half a i >ove normal. Hatch Suggests U. S. Finance Campaigns r.gton, March 19.—(AP)— Hatch. Democrat, New Mex-j t:t over Senate approval; . extending the present anti .V. recommended today that | government finance poli-1 iiipaigns. an innovation. Hatch said. :j ' v v.-ould cost less than the; ; ethod of raising party funds dual contributions. sot a new thought" he ad •i .. 1907 message to Congress • t Theodore Roosevelt advo .rii legislation. Several states vii-.u-.ucd on Page Seven) At Base in Antarctica Official Phototrraph U. S. Antarctic Servic# Left on the ice at Admiral Richard Byrd's United States Antarctic Expe dition's West Base, the explorers who will man the base wave farewell to the ship North Star as she sails further south. In background are some of the planes being used by the expedition. Funds For Parity Payments Is Urged French Chamber in Secret Meet Paris. March 19.—(A P)—The chamber of deputies today voted ;n "mmediate secret sesjion to di«cu? the government's genera1 conduct of the European war ?r.d rrporenssinn; of the Finnish-Rus* inn pe;;ce. The chamber had its last secret session in February and the senate ?nied such a session last Friday with unanino'is vote of confidence in Premier Deladier. The chamber debate was expected to continue without interruption un-1 tH a vote is taken on the question 3f confidence in the Daladicr gov ernment. Farmers Find AAA Program Safest Course Washington, March 19.—(AP)— Most American farmers apparently prefer to go along with the crop program, federal official:; said to day, than to gamble on expanding production f'ir a pox-ibly enlarged European market. An Agriculture department re port on" farmers' planting intention; indicated todav that the if)in corn acreage would-be the i in.-'Hc-t :n more than 40 year;, th-.it tobacco plantings would bo 21 percent small er than last year, and that the wheat acreage would he no larger than a vear aco despite a sharp advance in prices. The renort did n>t include cotton but unofficial surveys have indi cated that the area to bo planted for this year's crop world be well within the AAA program. Looming large in the farmers' thoughts, officials said, w-ro re ports showing that the war h*'d re tarded exports of American farm nroducts and the AAA statement that there was nothi"" to indicate foreign markets would improve this reason. Judge Scores Jury Verdict Media, Pa., March 19.—(AP)— William J. Larkin, 25-year-old ship yard worker, was convicted ol volun tary manslaughter today and sen tenced to six to twelve years im prisonment for strangling his 20 months old son. He also was lined $6,000 and prosecution costs. The sentence was the limit allowed un der the law. . PoJice had quoted Larkin as say ing he killed his son February 25 to "spite" his estranged wife and pre vent her from taking the child away. Judge Albert Dutton McDade w*.s so dissatisfied with the verdict that he turned to the jurors and said: "I don't know what were going to do with a verdict like this when the defendant confesses a first degree murder. God save the commonwealth j if all jurors are like you. I don't see: how a jury can render a verdict like this when a child's life lias been snuffed out by a father who should have pi elected it." Senator Bankhead Says Roosevelt Recog nized Thai Congress Might Have To Make Provision For Such Expenditures. Washington, March 19.—(AP^— Senator Bankhead, Democrat, Ala bama. tolcl the Senate today tnat President Roosevelt, although he d-d not ask for '"parity" payments to farmers when he submitted his bud get. had recognized that Congres.s might have to make provision for such expenditures. Benklead un.'c-d that the Senate approve the action of its appropria tion coi lmittee in abiding S212,000. 009 to the agriculture department bill to aid farmers in raising their purehas r.g power toward the pre world v ar levels of 1909-14. The Alabama senator said the President's views had been made known i i his January budget mes sage when Mr. Roosevelt pointed •>ut that while he had made no pro vision fur payments such outlays might be found to be necessary if farm prices did not advance as ex ptc ted. "The President, among others, ap parently thought that the war in Europe might raise farm prices to the point where parity nayment would not be needed" Bankhead said. "This has not yet taken place and ivay not." he said, urging that the money be made available for any emergency. Bankhead contended fhat the income of rakers of cotton, wheat, corn, rice and tobacco last year still was $600,090,000 below pre-world war levels despite pay ments made in 1939. Smith Advises Rivers To Stay In Ga. Court Washington. March 19.—(AP)— The advice of Senator Smith, Dem ocrat, South Carolina, to Governor E. D. Rivers of Georgia is to keep his case away from the Supreme Court. Rivers is under orders to appear in federal district court Friday to an swer to contempt charges in using military force to defy state and fed eral courts. Rivers' counsel indicated the case would be taken to a judge of the cir (Continued on Page Three.) Welles' Farewell Lunch With Ciano j Rome. March 19.—(AP)—Sumner j Welles had a farewell luncheon to-1 t'ay with Foreign Minister Count Ciano and diplomats believed impos sible that Ciano gave the American an idea of what occurred in the Brenner Pass meeting of Adolf Hit ler and Benito Mussolini yesterday. Later at a press conference Welles disclosed that he had a talk during his Rome vi-it with Frederick P Hib*>a'"d. first secretary of the Unit r<l Slates legation in Rumania, who ri! d < ■ 't ii'" European picture for j him \vi>.h Balkji; 'background. Britain Will Fight Until She Secures A Moral Peace, Prime Minister Chamberlain Declares Rivers Must Face Court Georgia Governor De nied Direct Appeal to Circuit Court of Ap peals March 19.—(AP)— Federal district Judge Bascom Deav er stood pat today on his decision to .. • nvir i«. I J. Hi vers annear before him next Friday to be "dealt 'th fr>r contempt'' after holding the Georgia executive defied state and federal courts by military force. The governor sought ye'"1crd:<v to take his case directly to the circuit court of annuls a1 New •• petitioning .Tud^e Deavcr here for a supersedeas order. *,v»is Judge Deaver denied last night. The jurist held that W. L. Miller, highway chairman, was en titled to the office from which the governor had him removed bodily l?"t Oecember and that use of troops at the state highway building to orovont Miller's reinstatement. '"When the state and national courts break down and can be pre vented from enforcing their orders then no citizen has any rights be cause rights are nothing if there is -o machinery to enforce them," ~>\-ivcr said. Rift In NLB Opinion Aired Washington. March 19.—(AP)—! William L. Leiserson accused his two colleagues on the National Labor; Board today of upsetting rather than encouraging collective bargaining re- i iationships by one of their decisions. Leiserson dissented from a major- j ity opinion ordering the McQuay-j Norris Manufacturing Company of Indianapolis to incorporate in a sign- J ed agreement with United Auto Workers (CIO) a clause giving the union exclusive recognition as bar gaining agent. The board majority—Chairman J. Warren Madden and Edwin S. Smith —held that the company had failed to engage in collective bargaining as contemplated by the Wagner act through refusing to write such a clause in the agreement. The union's majority status, they said, was con ceded by the company. The two board members said the j company agreed in 1938 to a con- j tract clause recognizing the union as; sole bargaining agent for its mem bers anu promising to deal wuii no other agent except individual or groups of employees. Peace Reports Discounted By FDR Secretary * Washington. March 19.— (AP) —Stephen Early, the presidential secretary, said today that on the basis of authoritative reports re ceived by the American govern ment "peace headlines would ap pear to be very empty." The White House aide asserted; that no information had been trans- j initted to this government to sup- j port published stories that eleven | points had been suggested as a basis | for European peaco at ye-t~rday'fc conference between Hitler and Mus solini. Asked whether he could say any thing about reports from Rome, Early replied: "Nothing more than that T think you can say on the basis of ail auth orized reports received by this gov- | ernment which have been made available to the President and have 1 been carefully read and analyzed by I him, there seems to be no basis in i fact for reports published in Rome,' Paris, Berlin or other capitals that, give an authoritative basis for peace: ; that the publication of those report' i should not change the opinions of \ newspaper readers of this country or others by giving them hone f^r peace or cause for dispair for pe=>c3." j "In other words." Early continu- ! ed. '"on the bacis of authoritive re ports this government has received \ from representatives throughout the world, peace headlines would ap pear to be very empty." tOnathsiA FOR NORTH CAROLINA Generally fair, somewhat cooler tonight, light scattered frost in interior: Wednesday fair slightly warmer in extreme west portion. Held in Counterfeit Raid Plaster casts and other equipment for counterfeiting 25 and 50-cent pieces are examined by a reporter at U. S. Secret Service office in New York, following raid on an East Side apartment. Agents reported finding $200 in fake coins at the plant. Six persons were arrested including Mary Mannaro (inset), 25, and Nancy Mannaro (right), 20. wt A y • fo Align Balkans Probable Mine Explosion Death Toll Now Is Fifteen Men I St. Clairsville, Ohio, March 19. — CAP)—Rescue crews removed seven more bodies from the Wil low Grove coal mine before dawn today, bringing to 13 the known dead from Saturday's el plosinn. Rescue crews removed six I'odics at 1:30 a. m. (EST) and t'-.e seventh a few* hours later. Previously six others were brought to the surface and two men died from sas fumes when ; they rushed into the mine with out masks. Soldier Sent | Up For Murder | Fayetteville, March 19. —(AP)— | Federal Judge I. M. Meekins sen-j teneed Pvt. E. M. MeEwen of Fort I IJragR today to V.~> years in the gov- I eminent prison ;it Atlanta for the | lalal last September of j Teehnic-il Sgt. Harold F. Carlow. I MeEwrn pleaded guilty to a sec ond degree murder charge. Carlow was killed, Mrs. Carlow. testified, when he refused to let Mc-' Ewen '-ome into the Carlow home in! pursuit of Mrs. Leona Flowers. MeEvven said liiat he remembered i drinking the night of the shooting but that his mind was a blank until hej came to in a hospital where he was1 earned for tie.iiment of a leg wound' inflicted by Sgt. J. P. Garrett of the j military police while an e.sting Mc Ewen. Talk of Balkan Situa tion in View of Ger man Offensive o n Western Front Sug gested as Subject of German-Italian Meet ■ Rome. March 19.—(AP)—The pos- , sibility that Adolf Hitler and Benito I Mussolini are considering ways oi' "neutralizing" Germany's Balkan fiank so as to free her lor a smash. on the western front emerged today as the chief point ol diplomatic spe culation on what transpired in their, historic Brenner Pass rendezvous. ( There was taik, tco, of a possible: rapproaehement between Italy and Soviet Russia before any three-way division of Balkan spheres of in Jlucnce. Diplomatic observers saw "neu tiahzation" of tiie Balkans, not only as a flank protection for Germany but also as a means of assuring her j ;.n unoroken flow of supplies to c-HiiuiT tin; ailied navai blockade. | Tiu>e sources believed that Hit-1 Icr, in his two and one-half hour ; conference yesterday with ii Duct-, •o'.giit assurance that Italy stands rc:;dy to consider throwing her ac-, live military support to Germany it i the Reich should sustain too heavy io. se.s in a smash on the western i i i out. The clo.-est to an authoritative ac count of the Hitler-Mussolini confer-j ence came from the editor of For eign Minister Ciano':; newspaper. He denied that the conference meant a change of Italian attitude or that it' was "linked with any inter-eontiijen tal ini sion or any peace plans ela- j bora led by the ministries of the 'two Romes' — fascist Italy and the: Vatican." North Carolina's Gains In Rural Electrification Are j Greatest In United States Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh. March 19.—North Cam illas t- ns hi rival electrification since 1935 have been the greatest,! from a percentage viewpoint, in the i entire United States, according to figures of the Federal Rural Electri fication Administration. Those figures give 516 per ceni as the proportionate growth, the actual number of farms receiving central station service jumping from 9,672, on December 31, 1934, to 59.580 on; June 30. i 939. In percentage of frnms eie-trific1 the state ro.e from 2.1 per cent in 1935 to 18.6 in the middle of 1939. ' Dudley Bagley. head of the State Rural Electrification Authority, said i that growth since the middle of last I year has been rapid and he estimat- ; ed that by the end of this year elec tric power will be available to at least 100.000 rural customers of all so/ts—a figure which indicates that about 87,000 farms will be getting central station service. As of the middle of last year the jtate stood ninth in the nation in1 number of farms served. California,! Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New (.Continued on Pu^e Three) Account Of Aid Tc Finns Given House Chamberlain Says Al lies Prepared To Send Force To Finland At Time Requested; Sar castic On Rome-Ber lin Meet London, March 19.—(AP)—Prime Minister Chamberlain declared today that Britain had taken up arms to obtain a moral peace as defined Sat urday by President Roosevelt and added that "we intend to light until it has been secured." The prime minister told a packed and frequently cheering House of Commons thai Sumner Welles, the President's emissary, had been able "to see for himself the unity of pur pore with which we all arc inspired." Whatever the outcome of yester day's meeting of Adolf Hitler and Eenito Mursolini, Chamberlain said Brtain is prepared to meet it. He gave a graphic account of Bri tain's help to Finland and prepara tion-; to send a British-French ex peditionary force of about 100,000 men. "Wc are not likely to be diverted from The purpose for which we en tered this war," Chamberlain said. Then, in a sarcastic tone, he added of the Hitler-Mussolini meeting: "For all I know these gentlemen •nay have spent their time discuss ing the conditions under which an Italian ship was destroyed yesterday by a German mine." The prime minister said the Fin nish expedition had been approved by the allied supreme war council on February 5 and was ready to leave at the beginning of March — two months before Field Marshal Baron Mannerheim, the Finnish comman der, had asked for it to arrive. Chamberlain said that Manner heim in mid-January informed the British he did not require men then, as his resources were sufficient to iast until the spring thaw. NewOrderln Europe Seen Germans Look For ward to Forging of Rome-Berlin -Moscow Axis Agreement Berlin, March 19. -(AP)—Ger mans look forward to "a new Euro pean order" to come from the forg ing of a Rome-Bcrlin-Moseow axis. After Reich fuehrer Hitler returned to Berlin today from his historic meeting with Mus-olini, authorized Gorman sources commented to this effret: "We are determined to end this war victoriously and thereafter to make sure that Germany s essential life and interests are secured for all t'tri" and never again threatened by pi utocratic democracies". They neither confirmed nor de nied previous intonations that a Rus sian-Italian accord, extending the Rome-Berlin axis, was impending but in resnonse to one question the sources left no doubt that they be lieved neace would be preserved in the Balkans. Murder Case Is Reopened New York, March 19.—(AP)—Dis trict Attorney William F. O'Dwyer said today he was reopening the murder case of Frankie Yale, Brook lyn gangster and friend of "Scar face" A1 Capone who was blamed by Chicago police for the slaying ol' "Big Jim" Colosimo in 1920 and the killing of Dion O'Banion in 1924. O'Dwyer's unamplified announce ment came as the Brooklyn prose cutor rourred his investigation of at least 30 gangland assassinations at 'ributed to a "murder for cash" syn dicate uncovered in Brooklyn.
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