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Utenitettsott Hailij Hispatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. _ * THITT oo kha PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON FTVR CENTS COPY 'H YEAR L?iiIEAsSSATlDVpSI^P HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 23, 1940 except sunday. kiiish Open Fire On Narvik / nenberg Pleads Guilty In I rgest Federal Income Tax ( se For Evasion In 1936 c'iphia Publish au Associate Picas in Crim ;Vcsecution In Over Five Mil * " 11 > -Joliars. —(AP)—m. lJ nt in the largest • »me tax case in : •y today to ovad ticome taxes tor ♦ f v. althy Philadel i rormer head of an ' „ news empire was •J- cunt of an in-i _ evading $3. - . >r the years 1932 •■ilties and 6 per : . >r:ns to $5,548.- ! : which the fed-' claimed against' . to tr.e fifth count i . Joseph Hafner. (; ioiarb. a business \:uic:iberg who with . ocu.-ed of aiding ■ e publisher in the al ii. I'nited States formed Federal :I U'.ikerson before a! i vith defendants.' t-;-::itors that the at-1 u directed him to t "hat at the time of; ■ _ \m • nberg and Hafner J n" intended to dismiss) u*> of the indictment 1 ;coi::e tax indictments •. "int.*" Campbell con . agreed to make any us to the sentence to, 1 • m the foregoing pleas' Senate Effort At Economy Is Largely Offset i .'■i. April 23.—(AP)—The I ; ;■ orations committee' : '-ronomv effort today j .. >23.585.030 from the ■d $i.'»21.639.Tito ap- ; • e Labor department Security Adminis • . ri ction—S25.000.000 | • $2^0.000,U00 House I e Civilian Conser-! : hat and other cuts part by increases. ■ d-d a $1,045,000 ad- I -.V. ;">.00U House allot-; \V,-.'4e-Hour Adminis-j • ri ;rtii>n under the I ; /in the Senate com- I $99'!.054,670 was $32. P -esident Ro< iscvel t's and $24,746,800 nation last year. '<• smittee heard' noral H- H. Arnold | Miifactured for the i u delivered "on sche- j y foreign orders." j n« on the govern-! lane sale policy, told i i iitfee that policy in considerable ini of aircraft in tht I Belisha's Bride? Jacqueline Delubae Leslie Hore-Belisha, former British war minister, secretly married Jac gueline Delubae, French actress, according: to reports from Paris, and is now honeymooning with her at Cannes on the Riviera. She was the third wife of Sacha Guitry. French, actor and olaywrisrht. Nazis Admit Fighting Reports Recognize For First Time Direct Fighting in Central Norway. Berlin. April 23. — (AP)—Direct^ ighting between British and German roops in Norway was admitted here oday for the first time by authorized: German sources who previously had j ;poken only of sea and air battles, j The fighting was reported as ap pearing in central Norway. (The British war office said a ;harp engagement had been fought lorth of Trondheim.) DNB. official German news agency, j •eported that the greater part of a; Norwegian division surrendered to-: lay southeast of the Norwegian port [ •f Stavanger after heavy fighting in mountainous country. It was not possible immediately to I estimate the number of prisoners nor i the extent of the material taken. ; The destruction of Andalsnes by German war planes Sunday was achieved in an all day raid accord- j ing to information received by the; fiigh command. Andalsnes, a British | debarkation point, is south of Trond- ' rieim. The high command reported Ger- j man bombers raced over the port in; (Continued on Pace Three) (O&ailwh FOR NORTH CAROLINA Showers this afternoon and tonight and probably Wednes day: warmer tonight. i ogress Of Schools Shown % Rapid Increase In List ee ti ngMin im um Standa rds lJ:iiv Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Apr: I 2."'.— Progress ol :'• school system it »v the increase* in the i:st t"i" elemental-} 1924 to 1937-8 schoo • ident "I Public In -.lit as an analysis rl ted" statistics a- pub 1 nth's issue of "State show that in 1934 • dited" system was out ol 3,791 white qualified, while <>! 1.884 elemental} thi county and 25f ■'•ms> 578 are dulj ;!><> in the county. 181 ->-terns); anel what i: ' i. "Ii.it ."H ;>e> • eu of {ill white pupils are attending ac-| credited elementiy-y schools. This compares with 36.4 per cent for 1929 30. the first school year for which enrollment percentages are available. For Negro schools the progress has not been so rapid, yet even a casual glance shows that much has been ac complished. It was not until 1928-29 that any Negro school made the grade. In that year two out of 2, 240 attained it. In 1937-38 there were 27 accredited Negro schools out of 2.173. It should be pointed out that no less than 2.022 of those not making the accredited list for Negroes failed «>n the requirement that calls for at least one teacher for every grade anCs a six or seven-year course of study. (Continued on Page Three) Wheeler Says Roosevelt Will Not Run Greensboro, April 23.— (AT)—En route to Chapel Hill to address the Carolina Political Union tonight, Sen ator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana said in an interview here that he has j never believed that President Roose- j velt would'seek a third term, and' with reference to the European sit uation that he can conceive of no is sue arising which should draw Amer ica into the conflict. "I have never believed that Presi dent Roosevelt would seek a third term nor accept the nomination if it were offered to him. I believe that I he is as much in favor of maintain ing the American tradition in this eliect as I am or anybody else is." WITNESS TELLS DIES COMMUNISTS IN NEW YORK ARE STRONG Washington, April 23.—(AI*) —Thomas Humphrey O'Shea, former New York city subway worker, told the DS<es committee today that communists had pow er at the present time to par alyze the city's transport sys tem. He added that members of the transport union "domi nated by communists" had or ganized "gun clubs" for target practice. O'Shea, now a WPA worker, was j asked whether the communists could j paralyze the city's transport sys- J tem under present conditions. He ] replied: "Yes. The communist leadership! with its control in the union could stampede the men into a strike. ''They have the absolute power if they see fit to exercise it." In replying to questions by J. M. Matthews, committee aide, con cerning "revolutionary activities in the transport workers union" O'Shea asserted that gun clubs had been or ganized by union members for regu lar target practice. The committee met defiance today from another communist party lead er, Andrew Onda, of Cleveland, who refused to supply names of other communists lest such action subject them to "blacklisting" by employers. Bridge Project Is Approved Raleigh, April 24.—(AP)—The State Highway Commission announc ed today approval by the United States War Department of a bridge j spanning Runyan's Creek and link ing Washington, N. C., with Wash ington Park. The span, to cost an estimated $25,000, would afford a nine-foot clearance for pleasure craft entering a yacht basin on the north side of the bridge. Highway engineers now must make an allocation for the projeet before construction can begin. Huge British Spending Is Outlined Expenditures for War Cost and Government Estimated at $9y334, 500,000 for Current Fiscal Year; War Costs Rising. London, April 23—(AP)—Sir John I Simon, chancellor of the exchequer, i today told the house of commons that the expenditures for the cur rent 1940-51 fiscal year will be 2, 6(57.000,01)') pounds ($9,334,500,000). This, he said, would be the total of war cost and government expen ditures and he asked the nation to accept Die burden "for the sake of I victory." Calling his report "heartening" he ! said nevertheless, that Britain's war j expenditures for the first seven : months of conflict—down to the end of the 1939-40 fiscal year March 31 i —amounted to 905,000,000 pounds, i about $3,167,000,000. He said the rate of spending on j the war was about 1 .!V)0,000.000 pounds a year but was increasing, j Ho estimated that by next March | 31 Britain's expenditures for war j purposes alone would be 2,000,000,- • 000 pounds a year. Sir John cheerfully said that i Britain's first year at war cost less than was expected and that income j exceeded estimates as a result of large yields from tax boosts author ized by his September budget, just ' after the war began. Great Naval Battles Rage Swedish Newspaper Reports Two Battles In Skagerrak; Can nonading Is Heard. Stockholm, April 23—(AP) -The newspaper Allehande reported from the Swedish west coast that two vio lent naval battles were raging today in the Skagerrak with both surface and air forces involved. The thunder of cannonading, it said, indicated the severest fighting thus far off the Swedish coast. At least ten destroyers raced past the battle area with their guns roar ing, the newspaper said, and disap peared within a few minutes. The newspaper said that the bat tle apparently began with an attack j on a transport fleet. PROTEST OF JAPAN'S BLOCKADE IS MADE Tokyo, April 23.— (AF) — United States Ambassador Joseph G. Grew today made rep resentations to the Japanese vice-minister of foreign affairs charging that Americans at Tientsin were suffering hard ships as a result of a tightening of the Japanese blockade on the British and French concessions. Isolationists Take Exception To Roosevelt's Condemnation Of Norway-Denmark Invasion : By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, April 23.—Senators Gerald Nye and Lynn Frazier, both of North Dakota, naturally are the two solons who take the bitterest exception to President Roosevelt's public condemnation, recently of Germany's invasion of Denmark and Norway. Parenthetically, the president didn't actually name Ger many, but there was no doubt as to the country he was re ferring to. Of course, there isn't a lawmaker in Washington who isn't dead set against any Ameri can participation in Senator Ny» l''.e con llict, but some are more super-isolotutnists .lhan others. The extra-super group holds that j Uncle Sam shouldn't let out even a peep concerning the war, so long as it's raging. The less extreme element thinks we're entitled to express our j sympathies between the belligerents. It goes almost without saying thatj Senators Nye and Frazier belong in the former category. Senator, Nye, after a prolonged investigation j of the causes which, he believes, led us into the last war, was the author i of our original airtight neutrality j law. It was somewhat modified, at; this session of congress, but Nye; fought its modification like fury. "Unconstitutional" War Senator Frazier. several years ago. put up a stiff campaign for a United States constitutional amendment to mdke war outright unconstitutional, i so far as Uncle Samuel's concerned. How he figured that the United; States constitution could make it un-; constitutional for some other coun- 1 . (Continued on Page Three) "For Services to Humanity'* k$. I . f Gold medals will bo presented to this trio by the National Institute of Social Sciences "for distinguished services to humanity." Ceremony will take place at institute's annual dinner in New York. Top left, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, writer and historian; lower left, Wendell L. Will kie, utility president; right, Dr. James E. West, chief Boy Scout executive. Pennsylvania Primary Vote Shares Political Scene With Events Of National Interest Washington. April 23.—(AP)—. Primary election voting in Pennsyl- j vania with interest centering on the efforts of Senator Joseph Guffey to 1 win Democratic renomination was accompanied today by those deve lopments on the national political scene: 1—President Roosevelt disclosed plans for what the White House called a non-political 21-day trip j across the continent, at the time! when the Republican national con- j vention will be in session. 2—Senator Downey, Democrat, | California, joined anti-third term ranks in the midst of a California primary light among delegate slates supporting Mr. Roosevelt and Vice President Garner. 3—Senator Morris, independent, Nebraska, a third term advocate, told reporters that lie was "afraid" the President would not run again. "I charges disposed of by Hayor Henry a rest." Norris said. 4—Republican Chairman John Hamilton proposed that members of the party's platform committee meet well in advance of the June 24 con vention to begin their complicated task. Today's Pennsylvania balloting held no special significance from a national standpoint, although con vention delegates were being chosen j by both Democratic and Republican parties. The Republican ballot bore the name ol no presidential aspirant. President Roosevelt is unopposed, which does not bind the delegation. Senator Gufl'ey was opposed by Walter A. Jones. Pittsburgh oil man. Both arc New Dealers. No Politics In Meeting Roosevelt Says N o Significance Attaches; To Conference With Mackenzie King. W;irm Springs, G;t., April !?3.— [AP)—President Roosevelt author zcd ;i secretary to say th;it the visit »r W. I - Mackenzie King to the Little White House today had no political <ignifieaneo «md "no question of American or Canadian policy is in volved." Willii.'n D. Hassett, presidential iide, .made the statement lor Mr. Roosevelt shortly after the dominion official arrived at Warm Springs. Although the President sought to discourage speculation about his con ference, reporters thought it would je strange if some matters of inter national significance were not men tioned iiy the two. "The President has authorized me to say". Hassett a.-sorted, "he hoped) no unwarranted conclusions, deduc tions or assumptions would be drawn from Mr. Mackenzie King's visit." What Mr. Roosevelt and Macken zie King had to discuss was a secret I ind likely to remain one. Mr. Roosevelt announced Macken zie King's visit at a press confer-, ?nce yesterday and also disclosed i tentative arrangements for a trans- ; continental trip dotted with speech- ; »s which are sure to compete with | he Republican national convention. J The war and adjournment of Con- : jress permitting, Mr. Roosevelt said ie would set out in June on a. 21 iay tour. The Republicans meet in Philadel ?hia June 24. During their convention in Cleve and in 1936. Mr. Roosevelt captured! (Continued on Page Three) CROMWELLS EXPECT CHILD IN AUGUST Ottawa, April 2.1—(AD — James II. K. Cromwell, Cnitcd States minister to Canada, dis closed today tiiat he and Mrs. Cromwell, the former Doris I)i'ke„ expect the hirth of a child in August. Confronted with reports Ihi't j a child was expected Cromwell authorized his secretary to an nounce "(hat information can [ he confirmed." SHARP ENGAGEMENT j NORTH OF TRONDHEIM London. April ri.'i.—(AI*)—The Jlriiish w.\r office reported to da> t!:at a "sharp engagement" I w as being fought north c.f Trond- | lieim, German-held port on the Norwegian west coast. Administration Attacks Wage-Hour Law Changes Washington, April —(AP) — The administration directed a double-barreled attack on proposed, wage-hour amendments today in an , effort to offset farm state demands; for increased exemptions under the! 18-months old law. Col. Philip B. Fleming, wage-hour; administrator, and Secretary Wal-, lace criticized bill • by Representa-1 tive.s Norton, Democrat, New Jersey, and Bardtn, Democrat, North Caro- j lina. Wallace, objecting to suggestions1 for exempting farm operations be-1 yond the first labor of producing crops, said last night in a radio di.s- ' cussion with Fleming: ' "I think the wage-hour act is a 1 decided benefit to farmers. Not all i.. .unfurtunately, understand Fighting At Other Points Is Continued British, French and Norwegians Join Forces T o Encircle T rondheim; Air Forces Strike at Ger man Air Bases In Nor way. (By The Associated Press.) The Geruiiin high command ac knowledged today that the British navy had opened fire on the far northern Norwegian iron ore port of Narvik. The population of the town apparently and taken to cover in response to an earlier British warn ing that Narvik would he shelled. The Germans insisted that the British were making no effort to land troops, although it was presumed in neutral quarters that they would at tempt a landing following the bom bardment. Four hundred miles southward, British. French and Norwegian troops joined forces in an encircling move ment against Trondheim. To the east, near Hamar. fi() miles north of Oslo, bitter lighting continued with allied reinforcements arriving to relieve the embattled Norwegians. The British repeated their aerial blows at German air bases in Nor way and Denmark. As the allies increased their pres sure on the Germans in Norway, French military authorities in Paris said that the position of Sweden had become the "dark side" of the Scan dinavian war situation and that "im portant events are imminent". It was suggested Germany might invade Sweden. Meanwhile the British government issued a statement listing 24 German warship "casualties" since the start of the war, not counting "a large number" of submarines, and com pared this with only 18 British war ships sunk, including five submarines and an armed merchantman. As against the British claims of successes against German ships Ber lin said today that 14 British trans ports and war vessels had been sunk or damaged off Norway by Nazi bombers in the last 48 hours. War to the death against the wholS German people and not merely against the Nazi regime was urged today by Alfred Duff-Cooper, for mer first lord of the British ad miralty. Duff-Cooper, speaking before the royal society of St. George, said Ger man attacks upon Austria, Czecho slovakia, Poland, Denmark and Nor way were "crimes of the whole peo ple." WPA Funds For Highways Allocated Washington, April 23.—(AP)—The Works ProjrHs Administivition an nounced today President Roosevelt had approved a SI.i;049.300 allotment of WPA funds to North Carolina for a state-wide highway construction and improvement program. The North Carolina Highway and Public Works Commission would con tribute an additional $4,349,300 to ward the work, the WPA said. Execution of the project is up to the state WPA administrator. how the law works. Certain groups apparently have been able to con vince some farmers that the wage hour law will injure them." Fleming added: Regardless of what political spokesmen for certain interests may say I cannot believe that the pitiless exploitation of any group of our people can work out to the advant age of another group." Both officials pointed their re marks against three sets of wage hour amendments which will come up for debate in the House Thurs day. All three would exempt cer tain "white collar workers," employ ees in Puerto Rico and the Virgin is lands and telegraph messengers from the minimum wage and maximum work week standards.
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