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[ ;liises Action Of
i Companies, Rul
?.t Government
:ity 1 erms of
Fur chases.
I 23.—(AP)—The
i •{ today that the!
er.joys the tin-1
■ produce its own
mine those with j
ilea!, and to tix the
upon which it
viv .\ercd the opin
• -< d an attack by I
res upon a la bur '
: t'.xing the mini-\
: ust be paid their |
.'i'der to obtain con- j
oileral government. j
d- dissented but
ui,,n.
• • "poned a decision ;
i'\: ?vlondav on litiga
, vrpretation »»t" the
ant:-tru>t act.
•wvver. to review a
. ::u the liability of
v nion to prosecu
•;-trust laws. In this
a Missouri federal
;ed on Pace Five)
Congressman
Linked With
Frontists
April 23.—(AP)—The)
vi cod a statement
16 men charged
i ns piracy in which
t was represented as
- saying that Rep
icob Thorkelson. Mon
.•an. was a member ot
•> : mi. it tee".
v.: was presented as,
g:vcn "voluntarily" to
I .c<t i ot Investigation
nettger.
<was q-'oted as say
Gerald B'shop. a
i Jleged leader of the
•tee. had t<«ld him ho •
ntana for the e'ection '
• Congres> and had
the congressman's •
. ?iie action committee.
Nazis Claim
hew Successes
3 (AP>— DNB to
t ■ i .ivy fighting was
• ' n Nazi and al
• eral points in the
maintains.
(r- • ".n news agency
n X<»ruay after;
in past weeks "ob
iv»»d orders to
:v>i-tan"e." but the
firmer British
?« d" Nazi drives,
ted thai the Nazis in
if' ? »na! Noruegian
• /fd 2M.o()l) artillery
•■umber of portable
'i other miscellan
•trrials.
•■••day claimed officially
district. which
• ' oi repeated Brit
r.; •• Nazis have taken
ricluding "'numerous
• nd 2.921 irten. The
i not say how many
• • s were Norwegians.
hew Liquor
Law Possible
' Meekins Says
i' umber of Liquor
£ a s e s In Federal
urt Have Increased.
.i 2!>.—(AP)—Federal
■ Meekins t..ld a federal
«-re today that the coun
■ ;.< possibility of another
"he Constitution un
liquor handlers make
:enforce laws curbing
. was legalized it was
'i- crease would be noted
" o{ liquor ewes in fecl
Kxactlv the opposite has
■ e >aid.
" • • is less excuse for vio
• act iti the eastern dU
other sections of the
I'd of the 42 counties
' have county liquor
. . *
Who Said "Beginner's Luck"?
"Good fishing," says young1 William Julius Waldrop, Jr., of Shelby,
North Carolina, one of the season's tirst and most successful fishermen
there. Yountf William made this catch himself, having started fishing
on his own hook last year. (Central IJres»)
Methodists Reject
Stand On Vatican
I
Norway Charges
Use Of American
Fla<j By Germans
Washington. April 29.— ( \I*> —
Secretary Uuil is awaiting a Inli
report on a charge by Norwegian
Prime .Vir.ister C. .1. llimbro
that a German supplv ship put
ting into Xarvik carried an Ame
rican flair.
The secretary of state toici re
porters today that hr c\pe« ted to
set the fact -rom American rep
resentatives abroad.
NLRBAndCIO
Relation Is
Charged
U"ash:ngt'April -!>. -' AI') -Ed
mund Tui rid. counsel lor the Smith
comnvtt'-:. attemptvd to show today
that a la!>> r board emplnyc had draft
ed a resolution favoring the LaFol
lette eivi! liberties committee for
consideration of a conference of the
CIO.
Heber I^.nkenK.m. XLHTJ spe
cial invi'>tigati.,'. denied he wrote tiif
re>oiution t>111 a-' i.iiow i» d^ ci thai .
memorandum attavhed to it was in
his handwriting.
Addressed t<< Chairman J. V.'ar
(Continued on Page Five
Vote Down Resolution
To Pass Judgment on
Relations Between
United States And
Vatican; Dies Com
mittee Stand Expect
Ai!•:!>»«•• C:-tv April 29—(AP)—A
pi- no..a. that the Methodist church
n;.-s iudgnu'iii on official relations
be'w-t it the United States and the
Veiliean \v;is overwhelmingly rejected
today by the general confercncc.
The r« solution called for appoint
ment of a ten-man committee to draft
a formal statement on the church's
;111itlit'e. !t was -ponsored by Dr. W.
F. Biyan. Ikmtsville. Texas, dele
gate who observed that the council
of in a report to the general
conference had protested against re
lation with the Vatican.
"I think any statement should be
made by the body as a whole," he
[ said.
Urging a vote against the resolu
■ lion. Dr. Harold Paul Sloan of New
: York said "at this time when the
Christian church i> being attacked on
j all sides, it does not seem becom
, ing for the greatest body in Protest
| antism to bccome so nervous over a
j small matter."
The resolution was termed "unncc
<•• ; ; v" bv the !t( \\ James Moore of
Xrw|. o 1 N.-w . who ^aitl "the com-I
miitet on : ti .-denominational rela
tors h. already prepared a report
r,n toe object "
Tlie conference al.o was expected
to take an oi'fin.:! stand on the Dies
commit tee investigating un-American;
i activities
Three-Way Split Of 'Regular'
Vote From Many Counties In!
First Primary Is Predicted
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Waller Hotel.
Raleigh, April —An almost even
three-way .split oi' the "regular" vote
between Allen J. Maxwell. J. M.
Brougnton and \V. P. llorton is going
to teature the returns from a .sur
prising number of counties when the
first primary vote is counted May 25.
This isn't going to be confined to
any one section either—it's going to
happen in the Ea.st, the Piedmont and
the West, even into the high hills
where the folks usually isII g;mg up
together and vot;r for one candidate.
Explaining this phenomenon is the
absence of any "Word'' and the in
tense fear of ti e county machines
that by picking the wrong man they
will find themselves barred from the
political feed trough in the very im
portant matter ot appointments by
the next governor.
The locals figure it this way:
"We've got Emergency .fudge Elmer
Zilch to look out for—he comes up
tor appointment again: and there are
other good jobs we can land for
our home folk- if we are on the right
side—but. darn it. we don't know
which is the righi side."
Thus they deliberate, and in mmiy
ca-cs the problem is solved bv a bril
liant flash of inspiration: "We'll just
fix this thing so that we'll have
somebody on the right side no mat
ter who wins. So here. Joe*, you come
out lor Maxwell and you, Jim, you
bach Hoi toil, and I'll take Broughton.
Then we'll just split up the vote
among mem so that some oi' us will ,
be in position to claim credit no mat
ter what happens."
There's nothing new or unique
about the plan; it's nothing more or|
less than the old army or percentage
game: but it's going to be played
more this time than in many years, j
It extends into the finances of the
campaign, too. according to appar
ently authentic report.- which have'
members oi the same group ol in- i
teiested persons contributing to each!
of the three men thought to be lead-!
ing the gubernatorial procession.
The one possible fly in the oint- \
ment lies in the chance that by di
viding up so evenly among the;
Broughton-Horton-Ivlaxwell trio, one
of the other and les.- lavorably re
garded candidates might conceivably
sneak into the second primary.
Few arc admitting it. but that pos-:
sibility does exist as can be definite
ly shown by any fair-minded analy
sis of the situation.
For all the talk about the local or
ganizations controlling the elections,
there is a great mass of voters who
listen to nobody lor orders about
casting their ballots: and should this
niiiss concentrate its strength on any
(Continued Page Five)
Britain Seeks
Better Trade
With Italy
Negotiations W i t h
Germany's Axis Part
ner Carried On As Al
lied Troops Are Re
ported Holding Fast
In Norway.
London. April 29.—(AP)— Allied
troops in Norway wore reported
holding last today against growing
German pressure, while Britain
sought to strengthen her hand with
better diplomatic and trade rela
tions with Hitler's axis partner, Italy,
and the British claimed that threi*
German supply transports had been
torpedoed and sunk.
Heavy German air attacks on the
coastal towns of Molde and Andals
nes used by the allies for landings
were reported.
The war office also said there had
been patrol activity in the Namos
area where the allies also landed.
An ad 111 ally communique ac
knowledged that two trawl°rs had
been lost to German bombs but
said there had been no casualties.
It denied German claims that two
British warships and 13 transports
had been sunk or damaged in the I
preceding 48 hours.
Germany's "determined attempts j
to render the waters of the Norwe- |
gian coast untenable have been at
tended with but slight results" the j
communique said.
In what the British described as
a "very friendly" conference foreign !
secretary Lord Halifax and Ualian j
Ambassador Guiseppe Bastianini on |
Friday discussed the resumption of
trade talks.
Diplomatic observers said that a !
British delegation might shortly visit
Rome.
Wage-Hour
Law Debated
Veto Predicted If
Congress Approves
Barden Amendments
To Wage-Hour Act.
Washington, April 29.—(A P)—j
President Roosevelt and Democratic j
leaders in Congress canvassed the!
legislative situation today in a dis
cussion so general that Senate Ma
jority Leader Barkley said it "cov-.
ercd everything and touched noth
ing."
Barkley said the White House eon-|
ference did include some mention of
such topics as amendments to the j
Wagner labor act and the pending
Logan-Walter bill to put a check on j
some administrative agencies.
On Capital Hill the issue of the
day wis whether to revise the wage- 1
hour act.
Barkley said he saw "no change in j
the general desire to get away the
first of June" and President Roose
velt's proposed swing around the
(Continued on Five)
Specialties Up
In Slow Market
New York, April 29.—(AP;—
Traders hid up a handful of special- !
ties m today's stock market and left
many leaders without much support.
Steels and motors did well for a •
while but even these slipped at the
tail end of the proceedings. Ad
vances mostly were in minor frac
tions at the close and negligible de
clines were plentiful.
it was one of the slowest sessions j
for more than a month, transfers j
running to around 600,000 sharks, j
American Radiator 8 1-4
American Telephone 173
American Tob B 89 3-4
Anaconda 29 7-8
Atlantic Coast Line 16 7-8'
Atlantic Refining 24 1-4
Bendix Aviation 34 3-8
Bethlehem Steel 83 5-8
Chrysler 86 1-8
Columbia Gas & Elec 6 3-8
Consolidated Oil 7 1-2
Curtiss Wright 10 1-2
DuPont 188 1-4 |
Electric Pow & Light .... 5 3-4 |
General Electric 37
General Motors 53 1-2
Liggett & Myers B 108 3-4
Montgomery Ward & Co .. 50 3-4
Reynolds Tob B 43 3-4
Southern Railway 16
Standard Oil N J 41 3-4 1
U S Steel 613-8 '
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IV&aiJwi
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Increasing cloudiness fevjwed
by scattered showers Tuesday.
Warmer t^nierht.
Allies Put Up First
Organized Resistance
To Germans In Norway
Poverty Amid Plenty
r. P. l'lwnci>li<>to
Deserted and penniless, her gas ail'! electricity cut oil' for non-payment
of biiis. Mr-. Caroline lJeilly is shown in her Chieat.o home. The esti
mated $<JO,OUO worth of furnishings in the house, including; many valuable
objects of art, will be auctioned olf to satisfy creditors.
c*>
£uS
rorces uecupy
Kvam, Near Dombas
New Italian Envoy
To Germany Named
Rome, April 2f).—(AF)—Dino i
Alfieri. h.ng considered here one
«if Italy's more strongly pro-Ger
man figures, today was appoint
ed ambassador to Germany, suc
ceeded Bernardo Attolico.
The two envoys exchanged
posts, Attolice becoming ambas
sador to the Vatican.
Alfieri. former minister of
popular culture, was designated
ambassador to the Holy See last
October 31.
U. S. Shipping
Sets Record
Washington. April 1'!). - (Al'j -Dis
closure lhat An ican hipping has
reached it hiL.in -1 pnint in u-n years
despite iii-'rir; : ly net i<- Tri»Mion;- n»
incid"d today v. • I h ll.i* err; it inn ni ;i
sjjecial H'-nii.,!.'y unit in the Justice
department.
Attorney General .Jackson align
ed to (lie new agency "responsibility
lor control" in pioserutiom r lating
tn n> ntrality, < , -eign « nli. Iments,
IIV. I.Sol i. .erh1f.il, espionage an.'l
"kind.-I'll ollen.-es
I,:iv.yer- of i!i<- new agency. .lack
soii said, will sillily ca. e.-, In Jeims of
"both 'flcqiiale protection of lie na
tional i11:f < mi'! the civil rights <>l
individual ."
Named as lead ul Inn unit wax
Lawrence !\i. ('. Smith of IVnnsyl
\i'iiia. v.'ho pre\ iouxly had made
:-tudi'S lor 11 m • SEC.
The Treasury gave out figure's to
show that more American hips are
carrying more American goods to
foreign ports than in a decade.
Stockholm Dispatches
Say Germans Repelled
In Violent Attack on
Steinkjer; Guerilla
Fighting Around Nar
vik.
Stockholm. A)>i iI 2!l.—(AP)—Ger
man forces wcii' reported tonight
to have occupied Kvam, 35 miles
south of Dombas. in their drive
toward Trondheim. hut t«• have been
repelled in a violent attack on
Stoinkjer.
The Germans earlier had been re
ported stalled in K.am 111 liieir .surge
north toward the vitai Dombas rail
road junction, one <»t the British
held harriers to Nazis attemj)ted
appi-acll to Trondheim.
FragmenPny dispale! i reaching
Stockholm gave no detail of deve
lopments either there or at Steink
jei.
Ileporl • fi mil Narvik, on the di:.
t.nil northern !r<:t. said lighting
ti;ere had rle. ehped primarily into
<-:i! m il-; '..Miai'e with the British
bo;i barding ihe force pei iodically,
apparently to pj • \»-nt the Germans
1 ;<i!,i ending reinforcements over
the railroad I' n.inal ing at Narvik.
Senator Simmons
Is Critically II!
Nev. Hi"'!. April 2'.). (AP) For
iiii i Senator F. M. Simmons was re-'
poj le.i cry low at hi home here this
morning. The henator, who is 8f!
y. old. was brought home Friday
Iron; I Juke hospital, where he had
been receiving treatment for some
time.
Dewey Lacks Support Of
Old Guard As Candidate
B; MiARLKS i'. STEWART
( entrul Press Columnist
Washington. Apr.] 2U.—" I'd rather
ee Tom Dewey." u Republican sen
ator remarked to me the other day.
•in the attoreny general's office, tin
ier a G. O. I'. pre.ident, than in the
irVhite House himself."
Rly interviewee wouldn't be thank
u! if I named hirn. He thinks that'
roui r.ds an exc'.lent chance of be-|
ng nominated, and he doesn't fancy
he chance of be it.-; in the doghouse
f so. and if the Xcw Yorker should
jo elected, and that he (this pre-j
.•onvention spokesman) snould be re-|
.•ailed as qualifying his commenda
ion of Thomas for first place on his:
jarty's ticket.
"All the soine." continued thi.c;
:ritic. "it's true that Tom is exeeu-!
i\ inexperienced. Nobody knows j
vhat kind of a president he'd make, j
-lis attacks on the Xew Deal are first
•ate. Vet the fact remains that a lot •
>f Republicans consider man; ul the.
New Dealers' intentions al! to the !
u. »ori. 'I'hoy say that the X< w Deal j
program would work out admirably,
under a G. O. P. administration.
Dewey has overpanned them, in prin
ciple.''
The l'act is that ultra-Republicans
have found considerable fault with
the G. O. P. national committee for
having (.so the "ultras" say) pulled
;• punches thus far in the pending
fight. More moderate Republicans
bring in suggestions for awful jabs at
today's administration and they com
plain that the committee turns them,
down, as injudiciously ugly.
As to Dewey?
But as to Dewey, proceeded my
Republican guesser:
"What kind of a national executive
Tom would make we don't know: he
never has been tried in that kind of a
job.
"But we do know this—he's a
'Continued on Page Five)
Sharp Fight
Reported As
Developing
Allies Hold Strongly
Defended Positions
Guarding Narrow
Mountain Roads; Ger
mans Reach Dombas
Storen Railway.
•Stockholm. Apiil 29. (Al') The
allies today put tip what they proved
to be the first really organized rcsi -
tar.ee to Germany's effort•; to nisii
troops across Norway to bolster
Na/.i-held Trondheim.
They were holding strategically
placed. sti ongly-defended machine
1 Rim nests and light artillery posi
j tions guarding narrow mountain
; roads northeast of Dombas in the?
Giidbraiui talen valley and between
Kotas* and Stolen in the Glumma
river vailev.
German "troops, driving over
snowy mountain loads, were report
I ed tu have reached the vital railway
linking British bases at Domhas and
Stolen. They weie said to have en
; gaged an allied force in the first
phase ol a battle expected to decide
' control o| southern Norway.
The fighting was reported sharp
and some observers expressed belief
a situation had been reached in which
allied troops may be able to take ad
vantage o! strategic deb use positions.
The Germans, however, already
have1 proved their ability to advance
.swiftly to outflank forces baiting
their way.
But tins has been largely depen
dent on protection Irom German
v.arplanes scouring a path clear lor
the motorized units, and Irom th*
allied viewpoint much depends on
their air defenses.
Report that the British have con
centrated lioops at Herkinn above
the Domba -Stolen railway and that
lighting already is in progress there
were interpreted here as evidence
liiat allied resistance is developing.
GOP Keynoter
Plans Address
W;i luiigton, April JAP)—
Goveinoi 11>it• tl<! K. St.i I'll <il Mm
nesotii : :>i<I today alter :i coitfeienee
Willi the lii publican high command
of lh<- Ifoiie that "on 11 mdainent a I
and con li'.ii'livc is IK lli> re i.s »1111 !»•
;i •»i«11 a/'.reenicnt" among inrin
Ijt'rs of riis party.
St."is en, .'/.''-year old keynoter for
llu1 I i * ■ pi 11»I if n ii.ilioii.il < oiivenlion,
jpent moil Hi,in two hours with IP
J 'I« :-» 11 lii 11 \ « Mill till of Mil.SMlCllUSC'ILS,
House Republican Nader, iind other
I I ic>pi 11 > I it mi bouse leaders.
Holding iin !tilonii.il press confer
< nc< , St.'i I'M predicted Ihiil. 11is party
would carry "tin; entire middle
W'f'y J."
lie Hfi today's meetings Willi con
gre* sioiinj leaders were pin t of a
• ries ill 11e'i eoiilerenee:, at which
!i<• hoped lo obtain .silage. lions P#r
the keynote . peecb.
"Alter a lew weeks of this," lie
said, "J it,lend lo .settle down and
write the keynote speech."
British Claim
Sea Victories
Report 28 German
Transports and Sup
ply Ships Sunk Since
April 8.
London. April 29.—(AP;—A I'rit
i.-h .statement tonight reported thai
23 German tran ports and supply
ships had been sunk since April ft.
In ;iddition, the statement said ten
German ships; were "hit by torpedoe
and probably sunk" and one was
scuttled.
It added "the German expedition
ary force also suffered losses due t«»
mines since the Nazis embarked upon
their Scandinavian adventure."
The air ministry reported that a
Sunderland flying boat .had bombed
and sunk a German submarine, trap
ped close to thi* Norwegian coast.