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meniterann Haily Dispatch __ __ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ' '' Nl Y">KVENTH YEAR pSs? HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, MARCH 21, 1940 published ^veryu,;ftkrnoon five CENTS COPY Reynctud Forms New Cabinei Income Tax Estimates Running 31.2 Percent Ahead Of 1939 Food Stamp Plan Lauded Senator La Foilette Asks increased Ap propriation To Extend The Program. i£t-.n. March 21.—<AP)— moving toward a vote on dollar farm bill, today - • .tor La Foilette, Progres _ asm, urge expansion of ■ li'.s tor the government's p system. ••rner asked that funds for •: surplus commodities be • :om S85.00U.000 recom y the Senate appropriations : to si 13.000.000. i >tamp plan was operat lou cities. La Foilette • - larger fund would make • •• addition of 60 cities. r* ..«'ite declared the surplus vity was "one New Deal •Jiat has worked and won ;> >upport". _-t«d that the food stamp plan •ost effective device yet to deal with the problem consumption of food pro a substantial proportion :> ouiation." O'Mahonev. Democrat, • tald the Senate that un nt ana farm tenacy were ..en might develop "a peas :n this country." •rig a proposal to expand . v. r.-neat's food stamp com •• c; -tiibution system, O'Ma . d that what was needed "real jobs at real wages will be a real market for nets of the farmer." :he food stamp program • sons may buy two orange . 25 cents each and then .thout cost a 25-cent blue The orange stamps may be for any groceries and the be u>ed for the purchase cv.;cts which the government ;_>;gnated as surplus. Baltic Bases Next Targets British Admiralty Be littles German Claim of Successful Raid On Convoy. Ma.ch 21.—(AP)—Ger gun-bristling submarine the Baltic arc the next • targets of British bombers. . • • ported today. 'h irai'y beljttled a Ger Mtention that nine British .•fid merchantmen had been tin air attack on a convoy 1 Scottish eoast yesterday. ' . v it said, only one Nor P had to be abandoned 'ner Norwegian and a Swed !,anier were hit. Two naval and anti-aircraft Runs drove German bombers, it asserted. < »« man communique said nine tot;« led 42,000 tons and - oi 11000 tons were dam bad.'y. The agency acknow t• it one German plane had ' '■ • • return. ' German raid was in reprisal ' •' bombardment of Sylt '■ Tuesday flight and Wednes ■ n:tg—a raid that was itself • •a! for Saturday*- German ' ins "f the British naval base S'*apa Flow. ,f>ig Letting Of Road Contracts Set For April 4 ./V'-gh. March 21—(AP)—The y Commission wil! opr?n bid * on 17 road building nrojects v ! cost approximately Sl, one "f the largest Icttings '•'•"fit months. '•t on which bids will be re "•) include: and Edgecombe counties. 1 - and ;>noroaehes o,-er r»il •!:r«e mil°« north of Rocky ' ' on route 9n. '"••'land and Harnett coun biadge Little River on U. S. Secretary M.orgen-i thau Says, However, j There is Not "A Chance" of Excess Equaling Emerbency j Appropriation Requests, —____ Washington Mavh 21.—(A P)— Secretary Morgenthau said today i <hat preliminary estimates of income tax collection? w^re running 31.2 per cent ahead of last year and "com fortably ahead" of President Roose velt's budget estimate. The treasury secretary said at a press conference that reports from regional offices showed collections of $621,000,000 in the first 20 days of March, compared with $473.000,0.10 in the some period hst year. Morgenthau declined to say by! what margin the collections would j exceed budget estimates, but addec j lhat there was not "a chanc" of the | excess equalling the S46n.on0.000 ofi additional revenue asked by the |, President to pay for emergency na- 1 tional defense costs and to help keepl the treasury under its 345.000.000.-! 000 statutory debt limit. Asked whether he still favored new i taxes despite comment of leading] congressmen that the higher tax col- | lections obviated the need for new} | taxes the secretary asserted: '"In words of one syllable I stand! on the President's message until nt j changes it." He rdded t^at he had r>n reasor to believe that the President would withdraw his request for new taxes At the same time Morgenthau re pudiated "proposals to use some ol the S2.000.000.000 in the treasury's stabilization fund. "I certainly am not going to use the stabilization fund or any other trick method to avoid the debt limit." the treasury head said. "It is stricMy up to Congress and; if they vote to spend money which j will exceed the limit it is up to them j to do something about the limit. j "I don't think the S45.000.000.000] limit is very important. There is no reason why it should not be 40. 4i or 48 billions. I would not worry if it were 50 billions.'" Less Money For Agencies Washington, March 21.—(AP)— Contending that the labor relations board was "overstaffed" and that a "confused administrative problem" existed in the wage hour administra tion. the House appropriation com mittee asked Congress today to trim next year's funds for those agencies. The committee proposed an ap propriation of $2,843,000—$337,000 under President Roosevelt's budget estimate—for the labor board, ann 55.105.000—or $1,080,000 les> than budget figures—for the wage hour administration. The recommendations were incor porated in a $954,189,700 bill for use of the labor department, the federal security agency and four other re lated agencies during the fiscal year beginning July 1. Most of the reduction below the budget was accounted for by a $10, 000.000 cut in a $245,000,000 item fo? grants to states for old age assistance, t The committee reported that until j Congress amended the wage-hour law "to clarify certain ambiguities" 1 and the administrator could simplify procedure, it would be "improvident" for Congress to approve in full the enlarged administrative setup the budget bureau proposed. Convictions For Six As Counterfeiters Durham, March 21.—(AP) — Judge Johnson J. Hayes sentenced six defendants in federal court here today to serve prison terms on I charges of conspiracy to possess and distribute counterfeit money. They were: Joey Ferrera of New York City, three years: Charley Olive of Dur ham, two years: Theodore C. Hest er of Roxboro, $500 fine and a , year and a day imprisonment, the j prison sentence being suspended: and William King. Andrew Wil liams and Ora Mclver. Durham Ne groes. a year and a day each in a United States reformatory. Trial of the case started Monday.: British Ships On High Seas M a u r e t a n i a and | Queen Mary Leave' he w York, Presum ably To Become Troop Ships. New York, March 2*.—(AP)—Two, >f the proudest liners of the British j merchant tleet plowed uncertain j waters today. Slinlitlv more than 12 hours after the 35,739-ton Mauretania slipped 1 .nit through a misty rain from the i )ier where she had been tied up for 1 three months, the giant Q'.ieen Mary losed out into the Hudson and pass ed down the bay. The destination of the two liners ,vas known only to their command os. who sailed under sealed orders, j lot to be opened until they were I .veil at sea, but presumably send- ' ng them on dangerous missions as ' troop ships. Roth liners were drab in their! camouflage grey, their windows j jlaekened and all signs of identity ; jlotted out. The Queen Mary had been at her j jcrth since September 4—the day i liter war started. Allies Want Speedy Plane Keen Interest In New Warplane May Speed; Showdown On Policy Toward Sales. Washington, March 21.—(AP)— <een allied interest in a seven nile-a-minute American warplane nay accelerate a showdown in the idministration policy in foreign pur chases of aircraft. The new plane is the P-38, a neavily armed two-motored Lock leed which the war department has lust released—in a modified version —for sale abroad. The catch in the •elcase is that without a secrct de vice the plane cannot make top ;peed. il appeared likely that the ques tion of the P-38 might bo raised .vhen the House military com mi t ee opens its investigation of war Mane purchases next week. How far negotiations on the (1-38 lave progressed was not clear. Spe cific types were not mentioned Alien Arthur B. Purvis, head of the British-French purchasing mission, reported continuing discussion of a potential $1,000,000,000 worth or American planes. Employment In South Gains Washington. March 21.—iAP)— Congress received testimony Thurs day tending to indicate that indus trial employment picked up relatively faster in the Carolines and other southern states than in the rest of the country after the wage and hour law became effective. The testimony came from Isador Lubin, commissioner of the labor de parement's bureau of statistics. Lubin, according to testimony re leased when the bill was reported to the House, cited the southern fur niture and knit goods industries. He said employment in the South ern furniture industry, centered in North Carolina, was as of November, 1939, about 10 percent above the highest level -reached in 1937, where as in the North it was not yet up to the 1937 level. "In the knit goods industry, em ployment was 4 to 5 percent above the average for 1937 in the South, whereas in the North it is about 3 percent below the 1937 average," Lubin added. (jJstaih&h FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, occasional rain Friday, probably beginning in mountains tonight; slightly cool er. Daladier To Be Minister Of Defense "Win the War" Coali tion Cabinet Is Drawn From the Socialists on the Left to Groups of the Right Wing. Paris, March 21.—(AP)—Energetic Paul Keynaud today formally iook the helm of the French govcinmenl as premier and foreign mini. r in a broadened "win the war'' cognition cabinet drawn trom the socialists on tne felt to groups of the right, baouard Daiactier, whom Keynaud succeeds as premier, stayed 111 tiic new ministry as minister 01 national defense. Iteynaud and live other ministers constitute the inner war cabinet. i lie socialist, largest party in the chamber oui without repieacinaiion m 'tne French cabinet since Daladier took power 111 April, 11)38, have three ministers. The cabinet was kept from being a real national union government bj reiusal oi the republication federa tion at the extreme light to be re presented. Keynaud also set up a ''war com mittee" and a separate "economy council." He called his first caoinei meeting for tomorrow morning u be followed by a meeting with Pres ident Aloeri i-<ebruii. AGE NO FACTOR IN WORKER'S ABILITY Washington, March 21.—(AP)— The House heard today that studies in the tobacco stemming and cigar making industries have disclosed no relationship between a worker s age and his productiveness. Isador Lubin, commissioner ol labor statistics, discussing the dis placement of the workers because ol hourly mmimums, told a House com mittee that in tobacco stemming about one sixth of the workers pro duce about 20 percent less than the average. 'This does not appear to be a matter of age," he said. Candidates Name County Managers Daily l^iHoat»*n Burr-s::. Ill tlie Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March 21.—First woman named to manage a county cam paign bobbed up yesterday in the person of Mrs. Myrtle Kins ol Bakersville who will lead the forces of Allen J. Maxwell in Mitchell county. Maxwell-for-Governor headquar ters announced her appom.inoni along with that of Calvin Graves, Jr.. as Maxwell manager for Forsyth. The Commissioner of Revenue thereby kept well ahead of the field (Continued on Page Two) Expectant Mother Of Quintuplets Is Taken To Hospital Miami, March 21.—(AT) — Enriched by an agreement that provides funds and medical care, Mrs. Catherine Callahan, who hopes to become the mother of quintuplets, rested today in a hospital suite far more luxuri ous than her one-room S2.50-a week apartment. But she was not a willing pat ient. Iler physician, I)r. Arthur \V. Wood, who earlier confirmed that X-ray photographs appa rently showed five distinct heads of unborn babies, had to persuade the mother that a period of rest was necessary. "I'm not sick", she asserted and demanded to be permitted to join her husband. Emory, 30 year old furniture factory work er, who earns S15 weekly. Today the Miami Herald, whose owner, John S. Knight, placed the Callahans under con tract for exclusive publication rights of photographs and news, planned to lease a new home for them where nursing and medi cal attention would be constant ly available. The Herald's agreement provid ed the prospective mother with an undisclosed sum of money, the services of Dr. Wood and specialists if the physician de sires to call them, and all hos pital expenses. Decrease Of Nearly One- Third In North Carolina's Tobacco Acreage Predicted For 1940 Succeeds Daladier? Paul Reynaud Former finance minister in the Da ladier cabinet and a champion of inflation, Paul Reynaud was asked by President Albert Lebrun to form a new cabinet and become premier I of France. Daladier resigned be cause a majority of Deputies re fused to vote confidence in his con duct of the war. (Central Prett) | Hanes Sees Regulation Of | State Banks | Denver, March 21.—(AP)— The | federal government may seek to re ! gulate state as well as national banks I "unless a high quality of bank super vision is maintained in every state," Robert M. Hanes, president of the I American Bankers Association, de | clared today. To forestall any such move, the Winston-Salem banker recommend ed that the ABA sponsor a program • "aiming at greater stability in our state bank departments." "The- assumption by governmeni I of the right to charter, supervise and, regulate banks constitutes a pledge to the public that government will do all in its power to insure the high est standards of bank management," Hanes said in an address prepared for presentation at a regional bank ing conference. F armers Apparently Intend To Increase Plantings of All Other Crops fc-xcept Sweet Potatoes, State Serv ice Says. Raleigh, March 21.— (AP)— North Carolina farmers apparently intend io meicHse their plantings of most grain crops exccpl tobacco and sweet potatoes, the federal-state crop re porting service said today. The report said that farmers of the slate "expect to decrease the tobac co acreage 31 percent Irom the rec ord acreage of last year. ••This is eleven percent below the average acrcage planted for 1929 a'nd would .jc me smaller.t acreage since 1934. A yield per acre in 1940 equal to Win ten ye;..- av P»29 39 would produce a crop of 440,000,000 pounds winch wouiu ui* tile snon/st in five years." The report said old belt tobacco i farmers apparently plan to reduce their acreage 26 percent, the new; bright belt by 35 percent to give the siiMiiest acrtage .-.mco 1U3-*, emu the I border belt 31 percent, third high est on record, despite the sharp re-' duction. Other states except South Carolina "are contemplating greater reduc tions than North Carolina," the re port said. The corn acreage is expected to be one percent higher than 1939 and the largest since 1917. Parliament In Recess Chamberlain May Re construct Cabinet While Parliament Takes Easter Recess. London. March 21.—(AP)—Parlia ment recessed for the Easter holidays today amid growing reports that Prime Minister Chamberlain would reconstruct his cabinet during the interval before sittings are resumed April 2. The house of commons session end ed with spoken criticism of two cab inet bigwigs—Chancellor of the Ex chequer Sir John Simon and Lord Privy Seal Sir Samuel Hoare—voiced by Goeffrey Mander of the liberal opposition. "It is widely frit throughoij the (■Continued on Page Four> Merchants Bloc Divided In . Gubernatorial Battle; No Sales Tax Plank Appeals Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Kalcigh, March 2':.- in somewhat glaring contrast to the last two cam paigns this year's guberna'oi ial bat tic in North Carolina will find th so-called Merchant's Bloc as badly divided as the general run of the electorate, according to present in dications. In 1932 A. -J. Maxwell, again a can didate this year, was the choice ol perhaps 85 per cent of the State's merchants, and it has been estimat ed that four years ago Dr. Ralph W. McDonald got an even larger pro portion of their votes. In each instance it was announced and reiterated opposition to the sales tax which influenced the merchants' choice; but so far in the current con trol no single candidate seems to have struck the proper chord to capture the ear of the men who sell at re tail to Tar Heels. It is quite possible that later in the campaign something may hap j ncn to change the status quo; with i Kenly's Paul Grady the most likely | beneficiary of any sudden change oi j cntiment. Conclusions set out above art drawn from the meeting here this week of the board of directors of the North Carolina Retail Merchants As ociation. All but about half a dozen of the 51 directors were present and it took only a casual poll to learn that every j one of the six major contenders foi j the governorship has supporter 1 among them. That, i:; .Loll' would in | d irate strongly that not ;i 11 lite mcr i chant-:—nor even any computable | majority of them—arc going to be | behind any one candidate. At the meeting, which was callcd ' primarily to select a convention city ■ for this year (Elizabeth City got it). I there wasn't a murmur of politics. 1 Nobody proposed endorsement ol any I c-ndid-le and in the course of the 1 whole meeting there was no guber natorial talk either in or out of lor ' mal session. I The Association has never en i dorsed an individual candidal**, but i it has endorsed, and will in the fu I ture endorse, principles; but in 1932 ! its endorsement of undying, unyield j ing opposition to the sales tax was i about the same as endorsement of Maxwell and of McDonald. The group is still as bitterly hostile 1 to the sales levy as it ever was—its executive Secretary Willard Dowell is your reporter's authority for this statement—but the platform declara tions of this year's candidates do not almost automatically make any one of them the darling of the merchants. Of them all, Grady is the only one j who even conditionally proposed im mediate repeal and his plank went no further than to say he will discuss the matter later in the campaign and make details of his ideas public, j Should he later advance a sub stitute plan for the <3le« tav "'Hirh strikes the merchants as adequate | and workable, it is probable that he | would thereby rally to his cause a (Continued on Page Fuui) Hull-Farley Combination AgainTalked Revived Discussion of Ticket Possibilities Follows Farley's Un reserved Announce ment of Candidacy, Made Yesterday. Washington. March 21.—(AP)— T;iik of a Hull-Farley Democratic ticket was revived on Capitol Hill today as discussion ol" the postmas ter general's unreserved announce ment of his candidacy ran the gamut ol interpretations. Most senators expressed the op inion that Ihe cabinet officer in say in? flatly his name would be present ed t« the Democratic national con vention did so believing that Presi dent Roosevelt would not be a can didate for a third term. A few interpreted the announce ment as placing Farley in the same category as Vice-President Garner— •i candidate whether President Roose velt runs or not. Farley would not clear up this point in talking to reporters yester day, at Springfield, Mass. One influential New Deal servitor from ihe eust( as close to the Chief Executive as anyone in Congress, said he did not know what was in Ihe President's mind but lie thought Farley had acted in the belief that Mr. Roosevelt wanted to retire. "I believe a Hull-Farley ticket would make a good ticket," added this senator. Like many others he felt Farley is not challenging the President in the sense that Garner is and has not closed the door to sup porting Mr. Roosevelt should the other run. Garner forces, however, expressed private elation over Farley's an nouncement. They voiced the opinion that Farley was in the race to stay, third term candidacy or not. WPA To Be Continued WPA Administrator, In State To Dedicate Aimorv, Sees Possible Chaoses. Pi'lrirh. Mnr-!i SM.—f Al'l —Col. i'1. f\ H:n;rinc1on, Federal Works nin joel: Ariioini* trillion nriministra <or. pviuf'vfd the opinion hero to ri**' that "the program of Iho WPA v:,l be continued for at least sev er"! more years." Harrington :-aid there might be •em'* ehnnges marie, but that some thing along similar lines would be ran-i'd fin because "those who can't «et jobs in nrivato industry will ha«"> to br> taken care of." The federal administrator said North Carolina hns a very fine pro cram wh'n asked how it compared wi*h other states. "Tho outstanding project in the c1ato. T am told, is the one we're go ing to dedicate today," he com mented as he got in Governor Hoey's automobile to go to Lumborton for the dedication of a WPA-aidod armr ory. Ihe largest of its kind in the South. Indictments Are Issued Detroit, March 21.—(AP)—A spe cial federal grand jury today indict ed 13 organizations and 18 individ uals for alleged anti-trust law vio lations in the electrical contracting business, and charged that agents for an electrical workers union were paid to hamper work attempted by contractors who refused to join the combination.
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