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jHeniterantt HaUjj Hispatrlf ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. yi V-SKVENTH YEAR l?hIeSssoiciatIdvpb1ss1' HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 2o, IMP. PUBLISHKD EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY ICC Orders Increase In1 ass'9 Rates Of Railroads Within North Carolina es C ommission vVinborne Says Ap to United States rio Court May cide: Rates Set In ■nc. 1937. April 25.—(AP>— i' merce Conunis ■ 1 railroad "class" farolina increas •. -;a?e Unci. t ' : \itod the North . • 'tv causins loss to • 557.000 annually v: *h tho interstate ww North Carolina ■:Lvd by the State's - ,<n in June. 1937. ••'.at there were no • petiti-.e or other v !• rh would justifv ntrastate in I^orth pplied on interstate v., - ji l»5.—(AIM—I'tili Stanley Winborne iy would be given to ' the United States • t an ICC order that C< ission put intra ,:e< at the same level !:>»ad freight rates. H-.l to the United • • and that i.~ be .t;'»n." Winburne British Guard Against Subversion April 25.—(AP) — Sir •• M,n. :\:nister of home se mecd today ho has con • agent nicasures against e elements including the ty and fascist organs ] i intern even members of • : "dr-irable." -. .-poke in the house of i wing indignant infor- j - • - by members ot par- j i trie public of alleged j activities in Brhr.in. j suppression of the Brit-| nist party have been! question whether he ■ der making the commun- ' gal. Sir John replied that : -n had been taken. ■ ..ber of parliament is a * ; " -t. : - , r for home security I ■ carefully watching the : cer'.tin small groups of' some appear to be ••.'y anxious to hamper the . who also is home seere ri'.-i-'-ircd to a cheering house • nal resolution that the be waged with all our U'h that these activities ; <>j far little practical ef More Red Hois Aired Witness Tells Dies Committee Commun ists Plan Strikes In Basic Industries. April 25.— (AP) — who said he had been /i ■ >t the communist party it!<•.-, told the Dies com v -hat the party intended 1 ■ country into civil war •"kes in basic industries. - identified what he said . tes of the Los Angeles • "nist party convention .-aid. showed that the id adopted resolutions ;ti-.t communists organize e caucus" in the Los •vntral labor council and ■ u;. t units bo formed es :i CIO organizations, n irjoa of the party, Chase v.as to rally tho entire Los Angeles behind the '•p. movement and parti i;fi CIO organization ef H- industries like auto ' el. aircraft, rubber and ' :eat ions. • ' purpose of this policy, iimist party ;s an or iiaving a revolutionary is to take over this : urnent and install one interest in basic indus ' through union organiza . f- ntrol them and bo in uli -i i'vJc.'c.' Census Lists Condemned Man Condemned to death for murder of his wife, Warren Abby, 57, neverthe less receives a call from census enumerator Dr. Vernon Bee (right) in the death row at Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAIester. Dr. Bee spent 14 days taking the prison census, although he says the prisoner* were completely cooperative. Georgia Delegation Pledged To FDR Democratic Executive Committee, Ignoring Appeals For Primary, Names Delegates, Who Urge Roosevelt T o Run. Atlanta. April 25.—25.—(AP^— Georgia's Democratic executive com mittee today elected to the party's national convention 72 delegates who promptly urged President Roosevelt to run for a third term. By naming the delegation itself, the committee ignored appeals for a presidential preference primary, one of which came from a group embrac ing advocates of Vice President Gar ner and outspoken anti-New Dealers. Committing themselves to support Mr. Roosevelt snould u«e seek re election, the delegates empowered Governor E. D. Rivers to cast Geor gia's 24 votes for them at Chicago as a unit and "as directed". As Georgia's Democratic commit teeman. Rivers presented to the dele gation a resolution of allegiance to the President, which said "it would seem as unwise to deprive ourselves of the asset of our army and navy or air force as to deprive this nation of the asset of Franklin D. Roosevelt. "We know the President is not a candidate lor renomination. We know he will not accept that nomination if it be tendered unless it should i come under such circumstances at I to make it an imperative duty." Five Negroes Arrested In Probe Of Fire Natchez. Mi.s., April 25.—(AP)— Natchez officials speeded prepara tions today for burial of 198 Negroes who lo.;t their lives when flames, racing through festooned Spanish moss, trapped them in a one-exit ! dance hall. The bodies, most of them still un [ identified, tilled three Negro undcr j taking establishments. Police Chief Joe Serio said he had arrested five Negioes suspected ol { setting fire to the building, but he i declined to give their names. Sheriff , Hyde Jenkins said his investigation i indicated the fire was set accident j ally. [ UJcaUwi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday, possibly occasional driz | zle or liffht showers near coast: Oid Heads To State Senate Although Only Few Will He Repeaters, Many Experienced Men Will Be Included. Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh. April 25.—The 1941 Sen ate will have no more than one third repeaters from the 1939 session, but it will be a body composed of experienced legislators just the same. A summary of candidates for the 50 scats shows that only 16 members of the 1939 Senate arc again can didates, but in addition there are several 1937 Senators, six 1939 House members, three 1935 House members and one 1933 Senate member, run ning for nomination. Only five of the 1939 incumbents are unopposed for renomination, but the other sitting members are gen I orally regarded as favorites to win j out this year. The favored five who don't have ; to worry about the May primaries ; arc W. G. (Cousin Willie) Clark, of hdgccombe who has been a Senator 1 for years and years; Dr. T. W. M. j Long of Halifax who recently ef lected a peace pact with his inveter ate political rival Julian Allsbrook; Willie Lee Lumpkin, energetic liberal from Franklin who can lose in Ra leigh but never in Franklin; Joe Blythe of Mecklenburg, whose prowess as a vote getter scared off all rivals; and Gordon Gray, Forsyth publisher and financier who impress ed as a freshman last term. There probably isn't any intended opposition to Brad Fearing of Dare or John D. Larkins, Jr., of Jones, but both are in multi-county districts which elect two Senators and where the voting is general and not con fined to one county—as it is in many other cases. | 1937 members who couldn't run (Continued on Page Four) Allies Buy Many Planes Washington. April 25.—(AP)—The allied purchasing mission announced here today contracts for $200,000,000 worth of American airplanes and en gines had been made within the past two weeks. Arthur B. Purvis, British, and Rene Pleven. French, representatives of | the mission told reporters that these j conii acts included large quantities of I Bell p»os planes, Curtis pursuit ! pl.in.es. Iwmjl bombers and Allison, i and Ho.' Wjjitaey nvitcrv Senate Will Probe Vote In 5 States Complaints of "Slush Funds" and Other Po litical Misdeeds To Be Investigated; G - Men Called To Aid Com mittee. Washington, April 25.— (A P) — The Semite campaign investigating committee begun running down com plaints of "slush funds" and other political misdeeds in five stales as Senator Neely, Democrat, West Vir ginia, sought G-men to assist gov ernment agents already ordered in his state. Senator Gillette, Democrat, In diana, in announcing that the com mittee had sent or was dispatching investigators to Nebraska, West Vir ginia. Missouri, Maryland and Kan sas, would not disclose the source of complaints. But it was an open secret around the Senate that in most instances they originated with sitting sena tors. Neely confirmed this as far as West Virginia was concerned. Gillette said investigators had been ordered into that state to look into complaints of improper use of funds in the Democratic senatorial pri mary. He added that if the charges were substantiated even in part they would reflect a condition "relative to the control of the election ma chinery which is subversive and de structive of the opportunity of the electorate to register its opinion at the polls." Neely told reporters later that he had requested the inquiry to "pre (Continued on Pago Five) Deadlock Over Farm Funds Washington. April 25.—(AP)—A joint conference committee abandon ed efforts today to break a month's deadlock of the agriculture approp riation bill. It reported a hopeless disagreement on Senate additions ol 8347,000,000 to the bill. Senator Russell, Democrat, Geor gia, one of those who have been working in an attempt to iron out Senate and house differences on what to include in the bill, saici the effect of today's action would be to send back to the House for a separate vote Senate amendments providing for $212,000,000 in parity payments .$85,000,000 lor disposal of surplus farm products and $50,000,000 for loans to farm tenants. Russell said Senate conferees re fused to yield on the Senate action in adding these amounts to the S714, 000,000 in agriculture appropriations approved b ythe House on February 2. The Senate voted $922,861,088 in farm funds with $80,000,000 addi tional provided in loans for agricul ture purposes. In conferences lasting about a month many compromise proposals were offered and rejected. Russell said that the conferees finally con cluded th;it they could not come to an agreement today when a House compromise to the parity payment proposal was rejected. Methodists Oppose Vatican Relations Atlantic City. April 25.— (AP)— The council of bishops of the new Methodist church expressed opposi tion today to "any establishment of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the United States." The statement was contained in the bishops' quadrennial message to the church's general conference which began sessions here yesterday. It did not mention by name President Roosevelt's personal peace envoy to the Vatican, Myron C. Taylor. 116 Arrested In Liquor Ring New York. April 25.—(AP)— A federal grand jury today indicted 122 individuals. 116 of whom have been rounded up by treasury agents, j on charges ol operating a vast five state illicit liquor empire and de frauding the government of 51,600, 000 in taxes during the past ten months. Treasury department spokesmen said this was the largest federal in dictment ever returned in any fed eral court and the roundup one of the greatest mass arrests in history. William E. Dunnigan, head of the treasury's alcoholic tax unit enforce- J ment agents, said the arrests were restricted to principals in the vast ring. "If we had arrested common boot leggers we would have had to in clude a 'housand or more," said Dun nigan. "V\ i arrested only heads of the combine"i w holesalers and dis-1 ♦ribu'ors " Germans Advance To> Positions North Of Norwegian Capital England Collects Scrap, Too Although not as cut. off from ore supplies as Germany, England is follow ing the Nazi example by appealing to her people to save old scrap metal. These bedsteads, stoves, perambulators and even a wringer, collected in Maiden, may some day be fired at Germany in the form of shells. (Central Prest) Fortune In Swedish Gold BroughtT oU.S. Ship With Gold Hid den Aboard Leaves Trondheim After Ger man Capture of Port and Arrives Safely At New York. New York, April 25.—(AP)— A hard-bitten skipper, back in the safety of American waters, disclosed today that he fled the port of Trond heim with a fortune of $4,500,000 in Swedish-owned gold hidden ;n the hold of his ship, the 4,955-ton Amer ican freighter Mormacsea, after the Germans had captured the port. The skipper was Captain William McHale, who served with the British mine sweeping forces in the World war and was four times decorated for bravery. Captain McHale revealed that a skeleton force of about 500 Ger mans seized Trondheim in a pre dawn raid on April 9 "and walked in unmolested." The Gorman invaders, he said, landed from Ihe battle cruiser von Hipper and from three destroyers seizing the strategic Norwegian port at 5 a. m. "The people appeared to be stun ned*' Ihe captain said. "They offered no resistance. There wtrc no Nor wegian soldiers in sight.'' Captain McHale said the German troops as they went ashore carried machine guns and thousands of boxes apparently containing ammunition. One German plane roared over head as the troops landed. Captain McHale brought his ship into New York harbor after a peril ous voyage through the mine-infested North sea. Nazi Troops Near Swedish Frontier Stockholm. April 25.— (AP)— t'ndcr a protective aerial bar rage, German troops pushed to ward Roros on the Glommen river near the Swedish frontier today in an apparent effort to reach Trondheim with new rein forcements. This column was hurrying by forced marches toward the vital west coast sector where a major battle for the Trondheim region is being waged. House Votes To Override FDR's Veto Washington. April 25.—(AP)— The llou.se voted today to override President Roosevelt's veto of a bill to grant ;m estimated $7,000,001) to some 15,000 officers and men who were held in Philippine Island serv ice after the Spanish-American war h.'iri ended. The roll call vote was announced by Acting Speaker Kayburn as 274 for and i>2 against. A two-thirds majority of those voting was required to pass the measure over the veto. In disapproving the measure, sim ilar to two others he previously vetoed, the President said it would constitute an inadvisable "gratuity" since those affected already had re ceived just compensation. Washington Ponders Hull's Warning Over Dutch Islands I By CHARES P. LSTEWART j Central Press Columnist Washington. April 25.—State Sec-j rotary Cordcll Hull's warning to! Japan to keep out of the Dutch Indies even if Ger many invades n>n land has been the talk of Washington ever since the cab inet chief broad cast it recently. Just how much it meant is what the capital would like to know. It wasn't ex pressed like a j threat. Perhaps it's a Jittlc too strong; Cordell Hull to call it a "warn ing." But it was "advice" anyway, I and maybe rather more than that,; considering that it hadn't been asked for. Congress has reacted in three oif-j ferent ways. Of course the extrcim isolation!?'t.- ji'e horritied. They :ay .at;- \ fc oclie . cd all alouo 'bit tbo administration's tendency is toward1 involving us in some sort of war and tliat that utterance by Secretary Hull was quite a long step in that direc tion. A second group of lawmakers hold that it was on ideal expression of Uncle Sam's view of the situa tion. A third group is simply puzzled. Washington diplomacy is split up about as might have been expected. The British and French embassies are all smiles. The Netherlands lega tion is jubilant. The other little neu trals are gratified. The German and} Japanese embassies arc glumly silent —the Japanese embassy especially. Our Navy's View. One Washington newspaper headed its story of the Hull statement thus: "Stay Out of Dutch East Indies, Hull Tells Japan; Navy Asks 3 Billions to Build Up to Britain." That combination of ideas is rath er suggestive. "Hull tells Japan: three naval bil lions." A yarn was published the other j day to the effect that the Japanese. '.Coutiiiued ou Page Allies Admit Withdrawl Of Forces On Far Northern Front, British Shell Narvik and Engage Nazi Troops On Land; Increased Activities Feared. Berlin, April 25.—(AP)—Gorman troops pushing along parallel rail road linos north of Oslo have reach ed Tynset and Ringebu in long strides beyond their former outpost, DNB, official German news agency, reported today. Tynsot is about 150 miles north of Oslo on the railroad along the Swed London, April 25.—(AP)—The allied forces in Norway have been compelled by "increased enemy pressure" to withdraw from the positions previously held near Lillehammer, north of Oslo, a war office communique said to day. ish frontier and Ringebu is about 110 miles from the capital. (Ringebu is 30 miles beyond Lille hammer, pivotal point in the fight for control of Oslo's gate). DNB also said German soldiers were sealing Steinkjer, on the Nor wegian west coast, against a British attempt to advance south on Trond heim by occupying strategic passes 1 and roads. | Allied resistance, DNB declared, was "without plan." On the far northern front it re ported British ships again subjected Narvik to "very active" shelling while strong allied forces engaged Nazi troops 19 miles to the northeast in fighting which still is in progress. Forebodings of increased German activity on both the military and dip lomatic fronts were contained in two news items made available to the foreign press today. 1—The high command's flat claim that England has begun war on non military objects in bombarding a vil lage near lleida, northwestern Ger many. 2—The statement of one outhoriz ed source that the hour for Sweden's "decision" is approaching. "The en<*ny thereby opened aerial warfare on undefended, militarily unimportant localities," the high command said of the Hcide bombing. it may therefore be assured that Germany will immediately or at least soon attempt to bomb open British and French towns. FDR Opposes Wage-Hour Amendments Washington, April 25.— (AP)— President Roosevelt said today "it would be a great mistake" to enact legislation proposed by Representa tive Barden, Democrat, North Car olina, to exempt Jfj farm processing operations from the wage-hour law. A letter from Stephen Early, a sec retary to Mr. Roosevelt, to Chair (Continued on page two) Neutrality Law Invoked President Roosevelt Proclaims State of War Between Ger many and Norway. Warm Springs, April 25.— (AP) —President Roosevelt proclaim ed today a state of war in exist ence between Germany and Nor way and the neutrality of the United States in the conflict. Another proclamation barred submarines of the belligerents from American ports and terri torial waters. In an executive order, Mr. Roose (Contiautd on Page Two) **
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