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Excess Profits Tax Measure Passes House Today
i ongress Is
"i€p Nearer
^djournmeni
;.iii Now Goes to Sen
lc Where Approval Is
vpected Tomorrow;
vernment insurance
> • Fighting Men Set
Oct. I.—(AP)-—Legis
:on corporations an ex
*:• \ of L'~» to 50 percent
\ today l>v the House.
: ut Congress one step
• :vees< which Iead
" • start tliis week-etui.
i: e. put into present
n by a joint commit
and Senate had pass
, •. >n-.. t'"V ;;i>es to the
pproval. expected to
a -end ' ' the White
.riditiMp. t'» its tax sec
- •>:' >•- <i«>ns designed
•: - air*. n! production
y-teni of insurance for
• t ng t;".< n.
.. ' percent boost in the
.*;• »n int-nne tax. tiie
.a v. it was >aid. $500.
". <• the first year and
"■ thereafter Chair
De. ■ >crat. North
:he ways and means
'■ id the House that
• ie bill was necessary
need" "i the govern
> e n these days
:kunse spending. j
• tax bill clears the Sen-1
- will Lave only one
<-n its calendar—a Sl.
defer.se appropriation j
•h carries funds for the'
•gra; . and expansion
ling art tv. This has yet |
i by the Senate, but!
• - d c nt dence it could I
*.Vi ite H< use this week,
d-up provisions of the]
• manufacturers tr>
T.tii taxable income
t:~ per: >d the entire
i on Pare Three)
Lgg Thrown
At Wilikie
can Presiden
didate Greet
Boos and
at Pontiac.
•• Train En Route:
•4-ifu Oct. 1— (AP)—
V Mkie charged the
• Oration today with
problems by one
"appropriating more
• obing more power "
g'ed with applause
'd and while lie was
' the railroad station
./own into his car. It
' the bvfie of the front
•i.Ny. one of the nom
aid he saw another
• a woman spectator
'•walk.
' ..ir. left Pontiac. where
• ' ocr-uned. state police
t 15 officers to circulate
• ov.ds at later stops to
■ I recurrence of surh in
! "tofoi r> they had been
•'d about the speakers
. th crowd patrol left to
Wilikie Train En Route
i Mit'p^.n. Oct. 1.—(AP)—A
■ - ■ < ■■ paign tour of Mich
nd'^tria! centers, where the
• hr-avy today followed
14. Vv'iilkie's assertion that
• ['it administration is push
• . i : closer and closer toward
. cheering audience which
" »r '.nued on Page Tnree)
Llhntkcf)
l Olt NORTH C AROLINA.
(•«•»« rally fair in west, partly
• loialv in east portion tonight
•< W'flnesdav. pw'tled by
•vV.< r\!re:n- northeast por
. tonight.
Ex-U. S. Warships in England
,.v.-s®44n.- -
C. P. Cable photo
British seamen wave from the deck of one of four former U. S. destroy
ers as the first flotilla of overage warships traded to Britain arrive in
England. It was reported they beat off a submarine attack during their
crossing from Canada. Photo cabled from London to New York.
Muhienbroich Faces
Life Imprisonment
German Alien Enters
Plea of Guilty to Kid
napping of de Tristan
Child; Sentencing De
ferred Until Friday.
Redwood City. Cal.. Oct. i.—(AP)
—-U'ilhelm Muhlenbroich pleaded
guilty today to the kidnaping of Marc
de Tristan, 3. but sentencing was
deferred until Friday. Hf faces life
in prison without hope of parole.
The hearing took only four min
utes.
Joseph Bullock, one of the two
court-appointed attorney- for the
40-year-old German alien, told Judge
Maxwell McXutt that Muhl*. nbroich
had been informed of his '-ights. that
attorneys were careful to explain
to him the magnitude of his crime
and the punishment tiiat must be ex
acted but. Bullock continued. Muh
lenbroich insisted that there be no
delay and argued that he must plead
guilty at once.
"Is that correct?" the clerk asked
Muhlenbroich.
The defendant nodded emphati
cally.
The clerk asked for his plea.
"Guilty, sic." Muhlenbroich an
swered. He stood erect and was
completely composed.
Judge McNutt then set Friday,
October 4. at 10 a. m.. as the time
for sentencing.
Good Bids On
Road Projects
Raleigh, Oct. 1.— (AP) —The
Highway and Public \Vorks Com
mission received "generally unusu
ally good bids' today when it opened
proposals for construction of 19 high
way projects.
Commission members will canvass
the bids tomorrow. They surveyed
Hood damage at Caledonia prison
l'arm today.
The bid for the fill across Lake
Mattamuskeet iu Hyde county, de
scribed by Governor Hoey as "the
only road of its kind in the country,"
v/. Mir - ( —«»"rjci* i • 'i<-l
1 Merritt Dredging Co., of Charlcs
| t<». c.. w«j ..»,v iMuii'-i' tor die
7.60 mile long fill at $234,766.10. The
next bid was 281,1)99.50. by F. J. Mc
Guire of Washington, N. C.
Tabulation was slow on the other
I projects in the letting, which in
j volved nearly $2,000,000 worth of
i roads.
FIVE PAROLED
Raleigh, Oct. I.— t.\ 1')—Governor
Hoev paroled live prisoners today.
They included Burton Tyndall of
| Wilson county, sentenced in Raleigh
[June 3 to six months for drunken
ch iving and damage to personal prop
! ertv.
General Fund Revenue For
September Over 30 Percent
Above September Last Year
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, v >ct. I.—North Carolina's
general fund revenue for September
soared more than 30 per cent over!
the same month of last year, accord
ing to tho Department of Revenue's'
comparative collections report: as
practically all indices pointed to con
| tinned improvement in Tar Heel
business.
j The September increase was the |
I greatest (speaking in terms of per
[ centages) since December. 1939. and:
! has been surpassed only twice in the,
; twenty-one months since December,
I 1938. December 1939. was up 3(5.03
per cent over December. 1938: while
January. 1939. topped .January. 1938.
' by 39.17 per cent.
At tfv» s;mv time thai the general.'
.una tu.v c^ilcctiOiio ic^dicd ihioj
peak. highway fund collections prac
tically marked time—the seven-hun
dredths of one per cent decrease be
ing so small as to be negligible.
The general fund collections total
led $3,101,637.34 last month as com
pared with $2,370,243.97 in Septem
ber. 1939. Highway fund collections
amounted to $2,622,554.39 against $2,
624.382.87 for the corresponding
month last year.
Every category of general fund
taxes produced more money than last
year except the unpredictable in
heritance and gift levies. In the nigh
way division, gasoline tax collections
barely held their own. while there
were decreases in license taxes, driv
er licence sales and title fees.
The Revenue Department's month
(Continued on Pagi% Three.)
Mexico Ends
Old Friend of nosing
Presidential Cnniiidate
Is Shot to DcTith By
Police and Soldiers to
Revolutionary
Plot.
Mnntprcv, Moviro. Or* ' . ' AT1'' —
Pol ire :>nd <!oMioj-<s ♦ jn
death Iljo»- 1 A "•> 7 •• •
zosn, old friend of Jinn Andrcu Al- !
mnxrui. Iodine candidal'1 ror nre: i
dent. lo smash what d-clar^d
was a revolutionary n!'»< fho
garrison, governor's nnd other
state and local offices here.
Authorities said they r»* w had re
stored order and that :s'1 was qi.ict
in Monterey.
Several persons were reported un
der arrest.
The newspaper Tiempo s.-id ir>il
itary authorities descnc1"" •" Zar
zosa and his adherents pO«r m? of
the latter, alarmed by the propor
tions of the purported plot, had
tipped off police.
Zarzosa was reported to have en
tered Monterey secretly, timing his
coup for early this morning.
Zarzosa was commander r<r Tie 31st j
infantry battalion, but had been giv
en leave to help Almazan in his cam
paign for presidency against General
Manuel Avila Camacho. the admin- j
istration nominee.
Another man with Zarzosa also was
killed in the gunfight.
Holland Gets
New Reprieve
Raleigh. Oct. 1.—(AP)—Sheprose j
Holland, under sentence of death for
the murder of his stepson in Duplin
county, will get a new reprieve to set
his death date for January 24 due
to continuance of a ca?e in Duplin j
county against two men chargrd with
conspiracy to murder the child.
Parole Commissioner Edwin Gill
said today the new reprieve would be
necessary as Holland's death date
now was fixed at November 8.
Yesterday at Kenansville Judge
Leo Carr ordered the trial of Ralph
and Mott Sutton, charged with con- ;
' spiracy to murder Ray Goodman
Holland, the stepson, continued until ,
I a special term of court starting No
vember 18.
Poor Gracg
M.oral Effect of Dakar
Fiasco Worries Wash
ington; Dakar Is Im-i
portant Port.
i
By C HARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Oct. 1.—Pro-British j
, Washington is surmising out loud
! that John Bull must be thoroughly 1
j disgusted with Gen. Charles de i
i Gaulle, the anti-Petrain Frenchman 1
I who. from his haven of refuge in i
London, has been;
resistance in;
Franco's African
ind other colonies.
Lo their home gov- 1
•rnmcnt's attitude
•f submission to j
dictation from Ber
in and Rome.
It's agreed that
is intention doubt
less was good, but
is to his judgment
—oh. wow!
Gen. De iiaulle 11 wa® VVilu
convinced the Brit
ish that the Frencn.:
at the previously almost unknown i
but now well advertised African port
of Dakar, were simply dying to se
cede from Petainist, axis dominated
France. He. too, it was who led a
British-backed expedition to take
(Continued on Page Three.)
rmi
Youncr Britons Show Sounk
& i
Two little refugees from England greet New York with Britain's "all's
well" thumbs-up gesture. They are George Ilouton (left), sum of a
chimney sweep, and Arthur Mayes, both six years old. They and 11G
other refugee children were sent to New York from Montreal, Canadat
by train and will be placed in foster homes.
London Prepares
For Hard Winter
Reynolds Named
In Demo Drive!
New York. Oct. 1.—(AP)—Ap- j
pointment of R- J. Reynolds, tobac- j
eo manufacturer of Winston-Salem. !
N. C., as finance director in North
Carolina for the Democratic Nation
al committee was announced today
at the committee headquarters.
The appointment was made after a
conference attended by represcnta- 1
tive A. D. Folgcr of North Carolina,
Reynolds and A. J. Bolich, Jr., of ,
Winston-Salem. and Oliver A.
Quayle. Jr.. national committee
treasurer.
Wallace Lauds
Farm Benefits
Sacramento. Cal., Oct. 1.— (AP)—
Henry A. Wallace. Democratic vice
presidential ea:ididate, swung into
the agricultural Pacific northwe.-t to
day alter telling Californians that
"p')W( i ft11 financial interc.-t'-" in ?! .*
Republican pai tv promised much but
world deliver liltle to t!ie r.aliuii's
farmers.
President Roosevelt' running mate
stuck mainly to benefits which he
said had been brought to California
and the nation oy New Deal farm
measures in this northern California
(Continued on Page Threei
No End in Sight to
Bombs Which Have
Fallen on London For
25 Days and Nights.
London. Oct. 1.—(AP)—With no
cnc! in sight to the bombs which have
fallen on London day and night for
2a days. Britain's capital is prepar
ing for tiic severest winter of war in
its history.
Its plan is three fold—to combat
the German raiders with the strong
est possible defense weapons, to
speed up an exodus of women and
children to more sparsely settled and
thus le«s bombed areas, to give those
who must stay the utmost shelter.
After another night-long series of
attacks, bioken off just before dawn.
London's anti-aircraft guns roared
into action again this morning
against yafiered German bombers.
K.i'lv :his afternoon bombs fell in
;i ibid. • s'-t.tled southwest London
disirict .Mid thorp were believed to
have Ix-rn (".-ualtics.
Oik German plane, believed to
(Continued on Page Three.)
DOUGLAS GETS BIG
AIRPLANE CONTRACT
Washington. Oct. !—(AP)—Award
a S37.402.121 contract for air
planes to the Douglas Aircraft Com
;aiy of Santa Monica. C'aL was an
■iiainccd today by the War depart
ment.
No detail was given as to the
number or type of planes invoived or
their delivery date.
Three New Measures In
Conscription Program
Washington. Oct. 1.—(AP)— The
Wiir department incorporated in its
conscription program i 'i; 1 three
more measure- to facilitate the tr.fji
ing of men drafted for sorvice. to
encourage their initiative and to fos
ter their morale.
Top item was creation of an en
tirely new peacetime system of army
tactical corps commanders whose
"principal function" will be to train
regular Army. National Guard and
drafted troops.
The Army made known yesterday
its intention of giving trainees an
opportunity to qualify for oil iters"
commissions and al-o announced the
allotment oj S2.2S.1 1GH for athletic
equipment, book-: 'f-1 « ' 1. .•> i
motion p:c?n»v ]'■■■•: - ? •
additional entprta'or, "n* i't '
Disclosing for the first time that
dm I tees would be given an oppor-!
Uin'ty t'l promotion above a scr
geant's grade. Genera! George C.
Marshall said that plans are being
made ioi "candidates' schools" which
picked enlisted men might attend for
the last three or four months 01 their
veil's training to work for lieute
nant's commissions.
The chief oi staff also announced
that nine "tactical corps would be
created to control the training of the
regular Army and National Guard
units into which draft trainees will
be absorbed.
By that method training will be
separated from the supply and
"housekeeping" functions now per
iir.-d i;v the enmm uidfi's of nine
Army (mp> areas, v. hi<-h art* (■< <
graphical regions. The ! ••',•1! m
wiii consist ol aritiy div ;■.»■>. n..i
jc< irr-ph.c.-i rtc,. ,n.-.
No Pressure
Axis Powers
While Authoritative
Fascist Quarters Say
Entry Into War Is Not
Issue, Italian Press
Predicts Attack
Through Spain.
(By The Associated Press.)
Authoritative fascist <iuarlcrs
in Home, predicting that Kng
land would probably "shout vic
tory" and sa> that "Spain resist
ed axis pressure," acknowledged
today that immediate Spanish
entry into the war was not an
issue at conferences started be
tween Premier Mussolini and
Spanish Minister Ramon Serrano
Suner.
These quarters asserted that
no such pressure had been
brought to hear on Spain—de
spite an apparcnth synchronized
barrage of dispatches from Ber
lin and Rome recently statins:
that Spain was expected to join
the axis as a full-fledged partner.
Well informed sources in Ber
lin said meanwhile that German
diplomacy is lending a "helping
hand" to bring together the axis'
new partner Japan and her old
foe Russia in a non-aggression
pact.
While fascists east doubt on the
possibility of a formal Romc-Berlin
Madrid alliance at present, the Ital
ian press seemed to take it lor grant
ed that Spain could be used any
way for an exis base fur an attack
on Gibraltar.
By this means, the nazi-fascist
strategists apparently hoped to re
lieve Spain of a forthright declara
tion of war against Kngland — with
the inevitable consequence of a Brit
ish blockade being clamped on Spain
—and yet to utilize Spain for an as
sault mi Britain's great rock fortress
which guards the west gate of the
Mediterranean.
Italian circles in Rome indicated
that Spanish General! simo Francis
co Franco intended to keep Spain out
of the conflict "until the right mo
ment."
Amid this seeming reversal to
(Continued on P.agf» Three.)
Two Killed In
Plane Crash
Walterboro. S. C.. < >ct. 1.—(AP)—
Civil Aeronautic. Authority inspec
tors conducted an investigation to
day into a plane crasih near here last
night which kiiled a man and j
woman tcnlatr ely identified as Cap
tain C'liarie A. I.'') of Washington,
I). C. and his wife.
The plane, wrecked in a pine
thicket and with its no.->e buried in
the ground, wa found shortly after
11 p. m. last night by three Walter
bore* men. 11 apparently crashed
about two houi earlier
The machine was lound by the
men who set out to search for it
after it had circled the town and in
dicated distres.
T.\uj:oiio no.ms sold
Kaleigh. Oct. (AP)--The local
govcrniiif nt commit ion old S9.00U
worth ot Tarboro sewer bonds to
Kirchofer and Arnold. Inc.. of Ra
leigh today at 2 1-4 per cent inter
est with a Sl.'i.liO premium.
Einstein Is
U. S. Citizen
Trenton. X. J,. Oct. 1.—(AP) —
Federal Judge f -1:: 1 • r > Foreman wel
comed Prolessor Aii;ert Kinstein to
American citizen-hip today with an
observation that tin -cientist's ' pre
sence here become.- America'- gain."
Judge Fore» an. pointing out that
he himself wa- the -oil of immigrant
Jewish parents, said "1 am deeply
cognizant that only in An erica would
it be possible for me to occupy the
position which ! do • - the represen
tative ol my country."
"In our concept he was created
equal v itli ill men". ;>:d Foreman
;h< (Jt i inan-boi a cientist in re