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Henderson flatly Dispatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNOKi ti CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. iY-SKVKNTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 5, 1940 puuus"^cFKKL5EI?RNO<JN FIVE CENTS COi'Y 1 irst Lady at Migrant Camp C. P. Phoncpliolo y - Franklin P. Roosevelt, wife of the President, is accompanied by : Hardie. manager, as she inspects the federal migratory camp at i. Cal. She said the plight of the "Okies" was not exaggerated in ivorsial book and film. "Grapes of Wrath." Speaking of a third :or the President, she said, "Except in extraordinary circum stances we should stick to our tradition." Chi id Described By Psychiatrist as "The Cruelest -Blooded, Ccoiest Individual I Ever Met"; Two Mur ders Denied. .V'-^'es. April 5.—(AP»— Davis. II. described by an i-trist as "the crtielest • d coolest individual I • " ' " >Id polio* today with a slang that she beat to ■ her and baby brother •• : the fatal bludgeoning of, ger sisters was done pre-' y by the mother. •ins; only to demand bot and "lemon pie. the 80 4 led questioning officers c -nt lifting versions during -he referred to her grocery :• lather as "nuts" and her nothic as a believer in ( m" in E tear Edwards ex • i ••I "1 that the girl, an avid : with the mind of n 16 i. ai >r.e was responsible for <>t ?kT'.s. Lolita Da- is. 36: ! : Deborah. 7: and Mar . ' e blood-spotted Davis -est Los Angeles ves iatet tory was that her ; vd the iittle girls then r> hersoil' on a mattress. • »i i C'hloe then "conked" a i'11 ti claw hammer at • r> (['je r. After that, the ■le bi it her brother to held on a suspicion it »' 1 ■ -king. the questioning her ■!) Edwards Davis. 51. " nd obbrd "oh. my poor !: ("• !.« ■ replied: "Buck «i •:"t it t it got you down." uiaveiy is » ocky Mount Man Says He Will Be In Second Primary — And Will Win There. Daily l»ispatoh liureau l»i tlio Sir Hotel. i:< HfcNRY AVER ILL. . April 5.—Rocky Mount's :i;in" candidate lor Gov I.i-c Gravely, isn't at ail dis v c. ..r disheartened by the fact i ?he current campaign prac observers have selected J. «liton. Lieutenant Governor ' i' Morton and Commissioner Alien J. Maxwell as the ■*!'-< Three" in the race. ;i' ... I'm absolutely confident H"iny to be in the second pri told vi»ur Raleigh reporter ' ft added: "Aad I don't care who else gets 1 c;..m beat him in the runoff." ' c ■ according to all the rules • Uif ought to make Mr. Gravely g )\ernor of North Carolina ided. always, that he hadn't :"d j -! a i>11 astray by a brand \ v. Oii 1 a «u Morrison Gir! Bein<j Tried On Murder Charge Wilmington. April 5.— (AP>— The state be: an an attemnt in \ew Hanover juvenilis court today to show that Zelia Deloris Mor rison. 12. shot and killed her fath er. William H. Morrison, wealthy 64-year old Canadian last January °.l while he was sitting in a chair j in th^ bedroom of his rural home near here. The defense contends the slim, curly haired ?irl shot her father while he and her mother. Mrs. Grate A. .Morrison, were strug gling after a quarrel. The prosecution swore in 20 I witnesses at the beginning ol' the trial. Bogskar, 25-To-l Shot, Wins Grand National; Americans Lcse In Sweepstakes. Aintree. Knglnnd. April 5.—(AP) - Bogskiir. i) rank outsider. came from nowhere to w!n the 102nd Grand Notion.'!! steeplechase today. Mac M■•!'!• it was second and Gold Arrow third. Bogskar was a 23— to— 1 shot in the betting. Mac Moffat was held at 8 to-1 by (he crowd, estimated at more than 100.000. while Gold Arrow vvas considered to have no better than a 50-to-l chance. A.MLRH'AX LK'K FAILS IV STFKPLF'HASK WINS Dublin. April .j.—(A!>)—American luck suffered a complete blackout today in the running of the Grand National steeplechase at A in tree. Not a single American ticket in the Irish hospital's sweepstakes was held on Bogskar. Mac Moffat or Gold Arrow, and therefore none of the big prizes of 30,000 pounds. 15,000 pounds and Id.OOO pounds went to the United States. Twenty Atrei icans who had tickets on horses which failed to show or did not run will rcceive 625 pounds, about S2.2" 4 each. FR Opposes For Treaties President Believes It W ould Be Very Harm ful If Extension of Re ciprocal Trade Pacts Were Limiteci To One Year. Washington, April 5.—(AP) — ill'-'-* Hoocvclt said today he believed it world !»• vry harmful t<> the p;:t:cp if »<•>'• '•! I in " • he reciprocal trade treaty act were limited to one year. The Chief Executive spoke at a preys conference shortly ai'ter it was reported on excellent authority that Vice-President Garner was support ing an amendment to iimi! "%i ?v ion of t!ie adminlstration's trade agree ments program to one year. Legislation near fin:'l S'nni« ac tion, already approv ed by the House, would extend the program for three years from June 12. Mr. Ron ^velt said it was not good for the ceuntry to have :i strap over terirf ; coming up erery year. Such :i y.f|» n ',:d. is es entia'lv »vhat is involved in discussions in Con gress of the trade treaty act. When a tariff is up for considera tion. he said, agriculture and indus try are in a state of confusion, be cau. e they do not know what is go ip"f to be done, and economic acti vity of the country feels 1iie effect. Garner, it was said, held a series of conversations wit'.i senators to urge support of the one-year amend ment offered by opponents of the trade legislation in a last ditch ef fort to impose at leavt one restric tion on administration trade pow ers. Democratic Leader Barkloy pre dicted that the amendment would be defeated, however. Arbitration Of Mexican Dispute Asked Washington. April 5.—(AP)—See rotary Hull said today the United States had proposed arbitration to Mexico to settle the two-year old dispute over Mexico's expropriation of American oil properties. Huii said a note had been delivered by the state department to this ef fect to Mexico. The State department head said he could not say whether any ob servations had been received from Mexico on the subject. It is understood that the arbitra tion proposed was under the 1929 inter-American treaty of conciliation and arbitration. The United States proposed the same method in 1938 to Mexico to settle the controversy over the ex propriation of American agrarian properties. Mexico replied then by suggesting that a joint commission evaluate the claims and fix the com pensation. The State department agreed to this. British Raid Jade Estuary Successfully London, April 5.—(AF')--Hrilish aircraft bombed a German formation in the Jade estuary Thursday after noon, the air ministry announced to day. with damage to four destroyers believed caused. The Jade estuary is at the entrance to the strategic North sea German base of Wilhelmshaven, which the British also scouted. Tiic air ministry communique said: "During yesterday afternoon a for mation of British aircraft of the bomber command penetrated the enemy defenses ;n the Jade estuary and successfully reconnoitered the base of Wilhelmshaven. "An enemy warship was observed and attacked with bombs. Further south four enemy destroyers were also attacked and damage was be lieved to have been done." Carolina Playmakers Are Celebrating Anniversary Chapel Hill. April 5.—(AP)—Thei drama of the "small things of life" is being demonstrated before an au-! dienee fro:n i;il the nation in Chapel fTill this week. The occasion is the, 21st anniversary of the Carolina i Playmakers, Frederich H. Koch's fa- i nuus i>rgun.nation at tiie University) of Norih Carolina. "In t.'i:»e d.stent days of 21 years ;igo" >;ad Dr. Kodi tocl. v, "North publishers as a 'dead' state—so lack ing in dramatic interest that the en tire state had been struck from their mailing list as not being worth the price of postage to carry their catalogs. '•The immediate success of our first Carolina folk plays suggested to us t-u:t perhaps we might create here an ik.si in the South which then was cvilied 1 y H t Mencken 'the Sahara ji. ihc EozartY' Governor General The Earl of Ati'lone. new Governor General of Canada, is shown as an "fii>er of the Guards. Announce ment of his appointment to thv post left vacant by death of Lord T, Tord - nuiir came as a surprise to London. PeiSey Loses Court Tilt Federal Judge Denies Right T o Question Chairman Dies About ''Conspiracy". Washington. April 5.—(AP)— A lederal district judge ruled today that William Dudlrv Policy must return to Asheville, N. C.. to face possible revocation of hi< probation granted after his conviction about six years ago of violating North Carolina blue sky laws. The ruling was made by Justicc Jesse C. Ad kins al ter he had barred admission of testimony which T. Ed ward O'Connell, defense counsel, said would show existence of a plot to "railroad" Policy to jail. Immediately after Adkins' decision O'Connell sent notice that he would carry the case to the court of ap peals here. Justice Adkins continued Policy's $5,00(1 bond pending the appeal. O'Connell referred repeatedly in his argument to what he caiicd a con spiracy inspired by "mysterious forces" to send Pelley to prison. "They want to bring him back to the chain gang which was designed lor Negroes and Yankees," (J uon nell said. "That's a matter of com mon knowledge." 'i'. hdw; d O'Connell, attorney for Pelley, contended that with tc.ti niony from Dit>s, chairman of the house un-Arnericanism investigation; Robert 15. Barker. a Dies committee I *'estimator: Representative Dick Mein, Democrat, New York, chair man ot a former inquest; and some others he could show that a pl<;t de signed to "railroad" Pelley existed. Ju:'lice Adkins, howvver, ruled that (Continued on Page Three) Buchalter Lets 30 Years-Life New York, April 5.—(AP)—Louis (Lepke) Buchalur. notorious racke teer, tockiy was sentenced to 3U years to lil'e m state prison lor extortion in the bakery and trucking racket. General Sessions Judge John 1- res ell! uuccteu that the sentence should begin after Buchalter had served a 14-year sentence recently imposed in federal court for conspiracy to violate tne narcotics laws. XejJTo Executed At State Prison Raleigh, April 5.— (AP) — The. State executed Zeb Page. 29-year-1 old Negro, today for ihe rape of a ! white woman in Johnston, county, last year. The Negro had admitted his guilt. Ho entered the death chamber at; 9:59. the gas was started two min- ; utes later, and after it was ad ministered eleven minutes and 571 seconds he was pronounced dead. j Sheriff K. L. Rose and Deputy, N. M. Narron. who arrested Page a couples of hours after he had at tacked Mrs. Elizabeth Stancill, moth er of three children, witnessed the execution. Chaplain L. A. Watts quoted Page as saving he "acknowledged that he committed the crime. lie savs he i.; su.:y fw all of hie Jiu." British And F rench May Cap Unity With A Joint Parliament Ship Bombed IF3® is. V® Eight nines | By Germans ... i\oi Passenger Liiip -Mr. i/es at Oslo Vvith Two lassengers Mightiy injured After Sailing From England O !'>. Norway. April "• -'AP*— Combed eight times by German oi-iiu:., '.ic Norwegian passenger ship .yi; \iitl) two of its 107 passeng : :jurcd arrived today l'rom England. '1 no iu j passengers were injured by uoinu i-punters, otner passengers reported. The jVlyra, 1,152-ton ship, ..ailed in a British convoy. Pa sengcrs said the lint bomb ing occurred shortly after the trip started. •*'j lie following day we were at tacked anew, about 11:50 a. m. A violent battle followed and another plane seemed to fall. That same day about 1:55 p. m. we were at tacked again. "The Germans had several planes in this attack and came at us in pairs. About 4 p. m. Wednesday there was a new attack and three bombs were thrown at the ship. No body was hurt. "Exactly 35 minutes later five bombs were showered on us. All the passengers were standing on the deck ready to go into life-boats and had no protection against the attack. "The bombs rained on all sides of the ship and several of them ex ploded close to us. "At 4:50 p. pi., two passengers were hit by splinters from the boip.bs. We could see that a British destroyer hit one of the planes." 2 Communists Arrested Washington. April 5.—(AP)—-The i Dies committee announced today the arrest of two Boston communist; oarty leaders. Philip Frankfeld and Thomas F. P. O'Dea. who had been pi tod for contempt because of their refusal to answer committee ques- \ tions. The two were taken into custody J outside committee rooms in the! House office building. Red Diplomat 111 Maxim Litvinoff Former Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff is gravely ill in Kremlin Hospital, Moscow, accord ing: to a London newspaper dispatch. He is reported to he suffering from heart disease. (Central I'ress) Western Front Skirmish is Reported Berlin, April 5.—(AP)—Some 15 French soldiers were killed in a skirmish with German shock troops which raided an enemy position near Saarkmtern on the western i front, the German high command j reported today. The communique said: "In the west our shock troops raided an enemy position in the | border region southwest of Saarlnti- | tern. The enemy sustained losses j of about 15 dead. Otherwise no spe- I cial events." DNB, official news agency, de scribed the lighting as "very bloody." but said the Nazi casualties were limated to one dead and several wounded. In addition to the 15 de.id. the French left on the field, it said one wounded Frenchman who was; taken captive but died later in the | German lines. (French military sources reported repulse of a 1 tack- by Gorman pa-1 trols on Fmvh outposts. The dis- i patches madr no ivfm'ion of casual- , tics in infantry :■kinrii-lvs. Democracy Must Be R evised, Babson Says BV ROGER W. BABSOX, Copyright 1910, Publishers Financial Bureau. Washington, April 5.—Democraticy is lacing a purging of some Kind. Fur democracy to succeed, it must, in some way, oc revised. Otherwise, with those o:. relief propagating pro portionately more rapidly than the cinnloycd. with dependent wage workers increasing in percentage more rapidly than those willing to employ others, democracy—as now set up—is headed for the rocks. Some character and intelligence tests must be discovered and applied to separ ate the "fit" from the '•unfit" when it comes to voting. IVIy mail is crammed with letters suggesting that people on relief should not be allowed to vote while on relief. Some good citizens believe that government employees should not vote. Others even go so far as to say that only those who work either as wage workers or employ ers should vote. They point out that the Constitution prohibits the resi dents of the District of Columbia from voting. As I travel about the country. I find a strong and growing feeling on this franchise question. More and more people believe that unemployment will be solved only as it becomes a disgrace not to work in some capacity. One Vote Per City. I can't go so far as to believe we should disfranchise anyone. But. I do believe that we must adopt the unit voting system on state and na tional matters. Each citizen should directly vote for the officials of his own town or c!ty as he does now. In sti te and national elections, how ever. a city or town should have only one vote. As a man has only one vote irrespective o! hiw we*.,.!.*, « w«i* gres ion;il fi Srict h;« only on" vote, j irrespective of it acreage, so a |>«•]i- i tical unit should have only one v ote,) irrespective ol it population. liy «iv-J inu city voters freedom from state; interference in running their own at-I fairs, they would quickly agree to such ;i constitution'!! amendment. Another plan and one which is creating much interc. t in southern California our national political la boratory—is the double \ oting sys-, tem. This gives one vote to every citizen over 21 and two votes to all citizens who pay taxes. This new plan is being pushed hard by con servative elements in those states1 suffering from "ham and eggs'' and similar economic disea es. Without doubt, this plan has merits if if can legally be put into effect. Religious Test Proposed. There are other ideas today. Yes terday, a letter came to me from a group of minist'T.s sugge. tin;j a sort of religious test for the voting pri-_ vilegc. Their plan is wholly unde-: nominationa'. Protestant . Catholics, and Hebrews—ail would get the vote if they were members of the church. Yet. in the same mail I received a letter from a candidate for governor of a near-by state which shows clear ly that a church membership test for the vote would not necessarily solve our troubles. This candidate promises S3 auto mobile license tags. S40 monthly to! the aged, free medical aid, no toll roads nor toll bridges, protection for small business men "now losing j money", higher wages and lower prices. Among his "qualifications" for being governor, this man says he is "an active member o: the Methodist, church". With due rospoct to ?Jc th (Continued on Page Three > Alliance To Extend After End Of War Objective of Perman ent Partnership Stated To "Make The Two Great Empires S o Powerful" No Ag gressor Would Chal lenge It. London, April f>.—(AP)—The pos sibility »>i is joint parliament to cap growing British-French unity was mentioned today as the allies drove forward with their plans to buy up German markets they cannot bottle up by blockade. A fiont page story in the Daily Mail said the idea of a British French parliament to deal with ;i'oad questions of common concern already had been taken u» but that it s till was in a visionary stage. The newspaper, however, said dis cussions were understood to have taken place here and in Paris to atlain the most intimate coopera tion between the allies, to fuse them "into one military and economic force," not only during the war but also when peace comes. The objective, is said, is a per manent partnership "which would make the two great empires so pow erful a i'orce for peace that no ag gressor would $are challenge it". Georges Monnet, Fiance's new minister of blockade, was due here today to confer with Ronald H. Cross, British minister of economic warfare, as the two nations united themselves even more closely in economics and culture. The board of trade disclosed they had reciprocated on increased faci lities for importing the products of each other's empires. 'Hard' Stand Is Maxwell's Candidate Is Not Promising Reduction in Taxes, Because of School Needs. i I».iily l>i»|):itrh riiirpiiij. the Sir VV:ill«»r IIoJH. By IIKNRY AVKRIIX. Kalcigh. April 5. Commissioner of livvi nil'- Allen J. Maxwell is the first candidale for Governor lo admit frankly 1h;it ho i not promising ;my reduction in taxes, nor Ihe imme diate repeal rtf ;iny part ol the State's "IV H!'hl'dll|P.S. Hallier, lie boa: 1s, lie has chosen the "luii'd ;is ;i candidate; cind explain: he has been l"d to this «• < w hy hi deep inter'-: t in the pub lic schools. • J : m the only candidate who is uiv qu'voeally pledged to maintain our t;»>: struelure until it:; increasing yields have provided adequate sup port for ihis great cause, and other causes th;it reach every home in the Style." says Mr. Maxwell in an ar ticle entitled l,We Must Go Forward", which will soon be printed in the April issue of "North Carolina Edu cation." "In my judgment these are of vast ly more importance to the peopk; than any nibbling reduction in taxes that can but weaken our capacity to support them. The cause of public education requires maintaining a tax structure to support it, and the man who appeals to the populace by promises of tax reductions is not pursuing the course of a friend of public education. "You cannot maintain a progres sive school program on reduced taxes. We must remember the fact Mat Ay cock's zeal for public educa tion was not limited to glorified gen eralities. but that he constantly ap pealed to the people to pay taxes to .:u:;tain it." Copies of the Maxwell article were (Continued on Page Three.) (jJoailwi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair to partly cloudy tonight and Saturday: cooler tonight and in east and south central por tions Saturday: possibly light iro..t m mountain* tonight.
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