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Cash Working Fund
Cannot Be Used For
I arm Expenditures
Secretary Morgenthau
2a> s Estimated Work-j
ins Balance in Treas
ury Gn June 30 Will
Be As Low As Would
Be Safe.
:i-vu March 22.—(AP)_ j
Morgenthau took the po
v rti a letter to Senator
at udci t'onal farm expen
vu*oved by the Senate could
a need lro:n the treasury's
. :;.4 balance.
senators have contended
•ivpriations could bo met'
the fund.
the opposite view and
•pinions from the gvneral
-4 .'itico and from V.orgcn
. ■ former reported that unin- [
a funds in the working bal
;d t"t;il $514,225,114 when'
t! year ends June 30.
• tau wrote Byrd that "it
•••.at the estimated working
: the treasury on June 30,
. ntemplated by the Vjresi
di,'et will be aoout as low
oe permitted to go."
• • isurv secretary has argued
\\ that a substantial work
..iv should be maintained to
e:r.ergency which might de- I
war conditions abroad.
Senate floor the S822.000.- i
11 was delayed by a wran- j
.*ugar benefits, but leaders!
■-■■v confident the measure1
i ce approved this afternoon. I
:: a-e committee investigating
. board released a contiden
rt prepared by board oi
fall which spoke of "in
i;: • vt administration.
ANOTHER BLAZE AT
THE BAXTER HOME
A >•>;' fire at the home of Dr. J. j
i! . <:er on North Chestnut street
semen out this afternoon at ;
c. ck. and Fire Chief Cooper
i.^ti.nated the damage done as I
ail for a report.
> . err.! shingles on the big. two
: use. scene of several alarms,
rned, while others were pull
•. the roof as the firemen put
- .e effective work.
JAPAN KEEPS ALOOF
FROM WAR IN EUROPE
... . March 22.—(AP)—Foreign'
-"f: Anta told the Japanese par-!
• today that "Japan will not j
:iy bstacles in Germany's way i
::::ig hands with Britain and!
cu" during the European war.
v.: added that Japan was "cer
: the ultimate outcome of the j
• but declared the matter was :
delicate to explain further.
Grand Dam
Gates Closed
n City. ?4arch 22.—(AP) I
"< nor Leon C. Phillips, who!
t the national guard last
'*> Drevcnt completion of the!
: cr dam. disclosed todav1
dam's gates were closed'
• '4 the night.
v/ithdrcw the guardsmen |
• civil suit was instituted to
' trie state's claims against
PW.A.
•j.' crn'»r said he learned th»»
- p in tiic mile ;md a quarter
. h,-,d been closed on 1 that
f . d farted backing up in i
' aero reservoir.
•• £.">•. ernor. ardent advocate of;
ahts. c.-ill'-d out the nation- i
<< March 13 to estanlish mil'--!
. ,irrr ti-ip |^-1 nncloTi-'d ga^ '
>'"■ noo hv",',o-"Mri'; pro
H-v rr iincji'i^hed military con-i
••v. days Is*t«r after a state 1
: %tied a restraining order j
•' ' the ijuard. I
Income Tax
Collections
Vary Widely
Washington, March 22.—(AP) —
Staie-by-siate figures showed loaay
that income tax collections in tht
tirst 2J uays oi March varied from
increases oi 81 percent in Michigan
to small decreases in Texas, Maine
and Oklahoma.
The comparisons were with the
corresponumg period of last year.
The average national gain was 31
percent.
Tne 20-day period representing the
buik of first quarter ledcial income
tax installments produced $611,447,
616 this year, compared with $473,
122.052 last year.
The variation in collections ap
parently bore no sectional charac
teristics. Thus states showing the
largest increases included Micnigan,
Rhode Island 77 percent; Delaware
73 percent; Ohio 62 percent.
New York state easily maintained
its first rank with $156,298,903.
Collection in Norv, Carolina for
the period were $3,2,5 <',749, as com
pared with $5,960,773 last year.
Campaign
Tempo Rises
Leading Republican
Contenders Plan
Speeches; Farley To
South Next Week.
Washington, March 22.—(AP)—
The tempo of the campaign for the
Republican presidential nomination
quickened today with Senators Taft
of Ohio and Bridges of New Hamp
shire embarking on fresh speaking
tours and Thomas E. Dewey of New
York preparing to visit Illinois and
Wisconsin next week.
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan,
who said Wednesday that the Re
publican nomination should not re
sult from the "transient impulse of
a campaign tour," will make a radio
speech here.
On the Democratic side Postmaster
General Farley will leave next week
on an extensive southern tour. It is
billed as a round of post office dedi
cations. but smcc Farley is an avow
ed candidate* for national honors the
trip will have more than ordinary
interest to politicians.
Senator 'laft, who has appeared
in 26 states thus far, would not com
ment on Vandenberg's statement
about campaign.ng but by announc
ing additional speaking dates indi
cated that he was ignoring it.
Two "Molls"
Questioned
New York, March 22.—(AP)—
District Attorney William O Dwyer
said today he was detaining two
young women whom he described
as "holding the key to ;it least three
new murders" by the Brooklyn
murder for cash syndicate.
The Kings couniy prosecutor siicl
the two women, both in their 20':;
had given him considerable infor
mation during on all night question
ing and showed they were "familiar
with many of the gang's secrets."
He withheld their identities, com
menting merely that they might be
typed as "gang molls."
The three new unspecified murd
ers, he said, were in addition to the
30 assassinations already linked
with the crime syndicate and rc
: t:lting so far in eight murder indict
■"-nts.
Newspaper Men Fail To
find Much Damage To Sylt
i'•* ALYIN J. ST£I.\KOIF
. i-land of Syit, Germany.
~2. (AP)—Throe American:
; t ; men, including this cor- i
< ::t. toured this island out- |
Germany's aerial front and
e were able to see tend- to
< : the German version that;
> even hours ot' British bom
ent had "little if any military |
'veness."
i- what we found:
■Sylt's lifeline railway across;
' -i.st'way apparently undamag
Shattered windows of airplane |
-••i but no evidence of direct •
.'.it:;.
3.—Sand dunes at the southern
end of the i land pitted with bomb
craters. Officer.; estimated that
about 43 bombs fell on airports in
the south.
4.—A building which Germans
identified as an infirmary with its
roof blown off.
5.—A small structure, identified as
a target range, extensively damaged.
6.—Evidence that an incendiary
bomb had struck a great steel crane
used to lift seaplanes from the wat
er but hud sputtered out on the iron
platform.
Authorities said that three civil
ians were struck by bomb splinters.*
I
Their Hopes Are Blasted
By New X-Ray Pictures
Mrs. E a r 1 e n e,
Cal la ha n. 22,
and her hus
band, Emory, H2.
i n set. acceptcd
p h i 1 usophically 1
the nrv/s that
the birth they
expect w i t h i n !
two months will
be a normal'
}ir<h of one
chiHd, rather
than that of
quintuplets !
which, they said,
X-ray pictures had lec! them to expect. New X-ray pictures made yester
day .showed only one embryo. Mrs Callahan is shown at her Miami home,
I her husband at his SI5 a week job in furniture factory.
Thousands Attend
Holy Land Rites
Jerusalem. March 22.—(AP) —
j Pealing church bells and sunny
I weather invited thousands of Holy
j Land natives and pilgrims to wor
! ship today on the day of Christ's
j passion.
In the early hours of the morning.
Christians of many nationalities
i gathered at Pontius Pilate's court for
j devotional processions along the Via
I Dolorosa "the saddest street in the
I world."
With the war's concentration of
thousands of British troops, Holy
Land disorders between Arabs and
Jews have almost disappeared and
the air of dignity and orderliness here
where the Nazarene burdened with
the Cross walked to Calvary was
typical of all Palestine.
The ancient shrine of the Church
, of tho Holy ScpuJchrc was an ani
! mated scene of devotion, reflecting
the abiding l'aith of Christianity in
the permanance of the principles of |
Christ.
Germany Quiet.
Berlin, March 22.—(AP)— Ger-|
many observed Good Friday today
in a quiet deepened by the war. Of- ]
lices and stores were closed.
Sermons were not specially in- j
fluenced by the war. although the
tone in many Nazified German
Christian churches in the last few
weeks has been fight to victory.
French Prayers.
Paris, March 22.—(AP)—Prayers
for peace—but only after victory over
Germany—were offered today in
Good Friday services throughout pre
dominantly Catholic France.
State s Principal Crops
To Claim Less Acreage
Daily Dispatch Bureau, .
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, March 22.—North Caro-i
lina's farmers do not intend to plant j
principal crops of the ttate on all the1
acreage which will be taken out of J
tobacco production this season; al-i
though they do intend to increase the j
rcreage of all other crops except!
sweet potatoe.; it is indicated by tnc!
Federal-State Crop Reporting Sci - j
vice's "Prospective Plantings for!
1910". just released.
The report gives tentative csti-'
j mates on ten main Tar Heel crops,
J with the figures showing that total j
i plantings in these ten will be K59.800I
| acres les.< this year than in 1940.
| Total tobacco plantings of this year j
i are estimated at 564.000, a decrease j
i of 25l.8;)0 ,1'rotn 1930 s total of 815,-;
! 800 acres planted.
Thu< it appears that Tar Heel far
mers intend to replace 112,000 acres!
of the tobacco land with one or an- '
other of the other main crops.
The total acreage which will be
put in these crops this year is csti- •
mated at 5,382,000 acres against 5,
521,8)0 ii.: t year.
Division t>l the intended planting
is: corn 2,491.000; oats 266,000; barley
125,000; tame hay 1,151,000; Irish po
tatoes 83,000; sweet potatoes 98,000;
tobacco 561,000; cowpcas 145,000;
toybeuns 318.000 and peanuts 275,
000.
The heaviest percentage of pro
posed increase is in the comparative
ly -mall barley crop, which will in
crease 2."> per cent in acreage over
1939. ln<Tr,j;rs of 5 per cent are in
dicated lor oats and peanuts; of 4
per cent for soybeans and tame hay;
(Continued on Page Two)
Candidates
Hit High Gear
In Organizing
Daily lnsiiatfn Burs:::;,
la tli<- Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh. March 22.—Commissioner
! of Revenue Allen J. Maxwell today
| harked back to his 1932 campaign for
j governor to name a county manager
i who eight years a^o gave him a big
j lead in his bailiwick.
Meanwhile headquarters of both J.
| M. Broughton and Lieutenant Gov
! cinor \/. ?• Horton, like Maxwell's,
, continued to function in high gear in
i die matter of lining up their or
| gunizations in all sections of the
j state. Broughton came through with
| something of an innovation by an
! nouncing that a twelve-man com
mittee will have active charge of his
! Caldwell county campaign.
The Maxwell manager who will
do a repeat performance of his 1932
act is Dr. O. C. McFayden of Fay
etteville. who put the Commissioner
in front in Cumberland eight years
ago and will try to repeat this time.
Other Maxwell managers named
today were George M. Fountain,
prominent Tarboro attorney, for
Edgecombe, and P. C. Froneberger,
i (Continued on Page Two)
Murder Case
To High Court
-
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the ^ir Waltf" llntM
j Raleigh, March 22.—Attorneys for
i Homer McManus, Cabarrus man un
| der death sentence lor killing the
I man who had been his bunkmate lor
| three months, will next wok s**»k:
| a new trial lor their client on the
1 grountis the sheriff oi Cabarrus
i county selected the .jury after having
| paid a S2i)0 reward out of his own
I pocket for McManus's arrest.
j The McManus case is the only j
: capital felony conviction from which
I an appeil will be heard by the Su
! preme Court when it takes up cases
i from the Sixth and Fifteenth juai
I rial districts next week.
j On the calendar is one other crim
j inal appeal, in addition to nine ap
, peals in civil actions—one of them j
from a decision by Judge R. Hunt j
( Parker refusing to hail the City of
I Kinston from proceeding with its |
• Continued on page two*
LOmlJwi
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair, much colder, with frost
freezing nearly to the coast to
night. Saturday, increasing
cloudiness., becoming unsettled in
the mountains.
Reynaud Pledges All
F rench Energies T o
Winning Of The War
British Sub
Sinks Nazi
Steamer
German Vessel Sunk
Off banish Coast;
Danish Merchant
Ships Kisnk By Ger
mans In Three Dayr,
Increased To Six
London, March 22.—f AP)—Tlir
first torpedoing of a German mer
chantman by a British submarine
and the increase oi six of thrt Dan
ish merchantmen sunk by German
submarines in the last two days, to
day marked the ceaseless sea war,
white Good Friday brought a lull in
fighting on land and in the air.
The British submarine's victim
was the 4.970-ton Hedderheim, which
the ndmi«"tltv announced '.vent down
off the Danish con^t last night. Of
the 36-man crew, 35 were rescued by
a Danish coast guard cutler and one
man was saved by the submarine.
Newest Danish losses announce'
by the British to have been caused
by German submarines were:
The 1.929-ton Christiansborg, re
ported torpedoed without warning.
>vhereabouts of the crew was un
known.
The 1.206-ton Charkow, sunk off
the Scottish coast with the where
abouts of her crew unknown.
The other Danish losses which
brought to 13 the number of British
or neutral ships sunk or damaged
in the last three days were reported
yesterday.
BRITISH PLANE IS
DOWNED BY GERMANS
London, March 22.— (AP) — A
Reuters (British news agency) dis
patch from Amsterdam reported that
a British fighting plane was shot
down at noon today in a battle with
two German planes over German
territory.
16 DIE IN TRAIN
WRECK IN BRAZIL
Rio de Janeiro, March 22.—(AP)
—Sixteen persons were killed and
more than lul) were injured louay
in a collision between two passenger
train; crowded with Easter week-end
pa scngcrs. The accident, at a rail
way junction, was tentatively at
tributed to confusion over signals.
FOUNTAIN JOINS
MAXWELL FORCES
Raleigh, March 22.—(AP)—A. J.
Maxwell announced today the ap
pointment of George M. Fountain,
Tarboro lawyer, to manage his
gubernatorial campaign in Edge
combo county.
Refund Of Old
Ginning Taxes
Is Opposed
Washington, March 22.—(AP)—
Secretary Wallace oppose:! today a
bill authorizing return ol more than
$50,000,009 to cotton producer> who
participated in the 1934-35 federal
crop control program.
He told a Senate agriculture sub
committee in a statement that the
legislation introduced by Senator
Russell, Democrat. Georgia, was
"not. in ac-ird "'ith President Roose
velt's program."
xhei-e is '"no equitable moral or
legal ground for the government"
making these refunds to more than
1.200.000 individual cotton produc
ers, Wallace said.
Advocates ot" the legislation con
tend that farmers seeking the re
funds paid the money to the gov
ernment in the form of cotton gin
ning taxes before the old Bankhead
irnes act was repealed by Congress
ps the result of a Supreme court de
cision.
Walter Randolph, assistant federnl
farm administrator for the south
ern reeion, testified it would be a
very difficult job to trace all these
individual transactions of five and
six years ago because many of the
producers were tenants nnd chare
croppers who sir.ee have moved. 1
Reynaud Considers
Dropping Reins Of
French Government
Paris, March 22.—(AP)—Pre
mier Paul Iteynaud won a one
vole majority of confidence in
t'jc chamber of der.u ies today
and immediately announced a
cabinet meeting to del'inline
u ether mc would d~op the reins
of soverrment wHch he has
i:r!;l ;or 21 hours.
The of iviai vote was 283 f«»r
and 15G against his cabinet, with
111 ah>;trntions.
There were rc.iort:; that Ray
naud ■» j-eveu radical socialist
nvnistfrs. including Minister of
Befeivc Fidonard Ralidier, whom
R^yraTjd ruce?^d~d as i»r°mier,
would resign from the govern
ment.
Cromwell Is
Secretary Hull Ad
monishes Millionaire
Diplomat Not To Re
peat Breach
Washington, Marcn 22.—(AP)—
Secretary Hull indicated at his press
ronWence today that h>s reprimand
of Minister James H. R. Cromwell
for making a pro-ally and anti
German speech in Canada closed
the matter—unless Cromwell does
it again.
Should the millionaire diplomat of
two months service repeat the of
mense, it was made apparent that
disciplinary measures of a severe
type will follow.
The secretary used straightforward
language last night in taking to task
the husband of Doris Duke, "world's
richest girl". Cromwell was ad
monished not to repeat the breach
of regulations. .
Cromwell was expected here either
today or tomorrow on a visit. He has
refused all comment on the reper
cussions from his speech, but when
he delivered it he announced his
readiness to "risk my official head"
on its contents.
Alice Faye
Gets Divorce
Los Angeles, March 2n —(AP)—
Alice Faye, blond film actress, w;>.
granted a divorce today from Tony
Martin, handsome screen and rndi
crooner, on her testimony thr»t lr
had been guilty of mental cruelty.
Martin suggested she should have
| married somebody else--' orrobody
j "mo.""j .settled" than hinvelf, the
ictrcss told Jud«e Sanvi' I H Filakr
There was no request for a'immy
: or approval or a nropcrlv "settlement,
't V7>s under'food a propyl ly agree
ment had been reached.
The couple was married S°n(em
| h"r 4, 1037, after an elopnr.cnt to
Yuma. Ariz.
New Premier
In Address
To Deputies
"France is Engaged
In a Complete War"
Against Germany,
Which Is "Aided By
The Treachery of The
Soviets", R e y n a u d
Says.
Paris, March 22.—(AP)—Paul
Roynand. in his first appearance as
premier before the chamber of depu
ties today, pledged in a ministerial
declaration "to direct all French
energies fo fight and to win" the war
against Germany, which, he said,
was "aided by the treachery of the
Soviets."
His government had only one rea
mn for existence, he said—"to win
the war."
"To win is to save everything" he
said. "To lose is to lose all "
In a short, blunt statement of
nolicy. the new premier declared
that "France is engaged in complete
war."
Reynaud faced the chamber of
deputies lass than 24 hours after the
rapid comnletion of his government,
renlacing that of Edouard Daladier.
j The text of the nremier-foreign
minister's statement follows, in part:
"France is engaged in a complete
war.
"A powerful enemy is transform
ing and concentrating all its human
activity into warfare in order to
triumph.
"Aided by the treachery of the
Soviets, it is carrying the fight into
^11 auarters and working out all the
blows which it is givine with a sort
of genius for d°struction that we
certainly do not fail to reAgnize as
not only awe-insDiring bi/ at the
same time hateful x x x
"Thus Ihe government which nre
sents itself before you has not othef
j reason for existence and wants no
I other than this: to raise and direct
! all French energies to fieht and win
j and tn crush treason from whatever
| angle it comes."
May Sue For
Penalties
Shelby. March 22.- (AT') — United
States IX •♦r'fl Attorney Lamar (.'un
file said today that his office might
st-ut civil proceeding to collect eot
i ton marketing penalties the govern
ment contends it has not been get
ting.
I He snid he was prepared to give
j the agriculture secretary "full coop
erition" in Ihe matter of collecting
| penalties.
| "The law," said Caudle, "is com
I paratively new and farmers who are
! not certain of it:; effect upon them
j ,'ire urged to visit the proper au
thorities and obtain the information."
Conflict Between Homes And
Autos Caused Economic And
Social Change, Babson Says
BY ROGER YV. BA"SON,
Copyright 1910, J'ublis .crs
P'nanchl Bureau.
Babson Park, Fla., March 22.—Fu
ture historians may well discus;; the
'•untiici now raging between home:;!
and automobiles. This conflict is
changing the manners, modes, and
morj!Is of America. Whether these j
"■f-1 »rd economic trends will
eventually turn out for the netter or j
t..v. v/oi!>e, only uie historians will j
be able to say. But without waiting,
for the judgment of Father Time wc
can safely predict that he will point j
to this generation as the wastrels of|
some of America's mo:,t precious re- ;
iourccs—particularly oil.
Few of us comprehend the vast:
changes the auto has brought in our
social, economic, and spiritual life.
It has been an evolution that has en
compassed hundreds of industries,
thousands of communities, millions
of people. From oat-eating horses to
gasoline-using machines is a changel
so startling, so widespread, so far-1
reaching, that we have just begun to J
realize it ourselves. One of Amer-!
ica's most vital problems is the gap
between farm product prices on the.
farm and factory product prices on
the retail counter. But I fear only
a spiritual revival will again bring
our people to buy milk for the baby
rather than gas for the car.
Farmers' Dilemma.
Thirty years ago, there were 25,
000,000 horses and mules in the Unit
ed St;ites. Every one had to be fed,
stabled, and harnessed. Each year
they ate billions of bushels of feed.
Today, there are only 15,000,000
draught animals. In 1910, the small
farmer raised his own feed. But the
1940 farmer can not raise gasoline
lor his tractor, auto, or truck. So he
has to market a "cash" crop to buy
gasoline. Production of farm pro
ducts has increased, consumption de
creased. Naturally, farm produce
prices have fallen far behind factory
goods prices.
Three decades ago, the average
working man had a savings account.
If he was not putting the cash into
ihe bank he was buying a home. The
country's savings backlog was grow
ing, the number of home owners were
increasing. Few people owned their
{,Continued on page two)