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^For Education, Health
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College Mass Meeting
Here Urges Additional
Taxes If Necesary To
Meet Raines*.
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Raleigh, March 2. ? More than 200
collage and high school students,
representing institutions in all sec
tions of the State, voted unanimously
at a- mass meeting here yesterday to
ask the legislature to provide "ade
quate funds" for education and health
and to levy additional taxes if that
is miiSMaiji to secure the needed
fanda
The students,, headed by James
Joyner, Goldsboro, president of the
student body of the University at
Chapel Hill, adapted a resolution to
that effect. Copies of the resolution
will be submitted to the two branches,
of the General Assembly and to in
dividual legislators.
Bill Bailey, Richmond, Va., presi
dent of the State College student
body, presented the resolution.
Prior to the mass meeting, the stu
dents paraded with the U. N. C. band
aim] a sound truck, circling the Cap
itol and marching three blocks down
Fayetteville Street before veering off
to the Hugh Moraon auditorium.
Included in the parade were rep
resentatives of the University at
Chapel H8I, State College, the Wo*
man's College at Greensboro, East
Carolina Teachers' College at Green
ville and high school students of Ra
leigh.
The resolution stated that it is
"contrary to the interests and wishes
of youth to curtail" services of edu
cation and health at this time.
Cats Already Voted.
The appropriations committee of
the Legislature has voted to cut the
Advisory Budget Commission recom
mendations for the State Board of
Health and for the University and
the teachtrs' colleges and allowed
the budget recommendations for pub
lic schools only after classroom teach
ers waged a lengthy battle here.
The resolution requested this ac- j
tioa:
Health ? "Funds adequate for a
liberal expansion-"
Public Schools ? "It is imperative
that this State come to the rescue of
a most vital public instiution with in
creased funds for the remuneration
of teachers and improvement of edu
cational resources."
Higher education ? "That this
crisis in the life of the institutions of
higher learning be relieved by the
levy of additional taxes if necessary."
T*x HevMen Asked
Joyner opened the meeting, urg
ing "revision at the State's present
revenue system to the extent need
ed to give adequate funds for the
schools, health work and higher edu
cation."
He said the appropriations com
mittee "is crippling necessary and
needed agenciee end yet the revenue
committee has said that just sq much
fqnde will bp ^variable."
"It ip time that we as a youth
group had something to say," Jpyr
upr said- "There is a whole lot in
letting the legislature know how we
feel."
Robert Magill, Chapel Hill, a grad
uate student and director of the stu
dsat union there, spoke for *U star
dents "institutions qf higher
leamtag- He wid that the appropria
tions committee has not made avails
new being constructed and attacked
the committee's action in eliiginai
Pinpgeal higher tuition charges
t>$ ft 1ft* fftUU# WUl J11V? U* ll|LU
aftifeoppty ft ftcgre the revpuue
needed from that cIsm.
?Jab* Smms, Hugh Morson stu
ifee qf ourjeoblem iajmjft
i< * be said. "Our teachers are not
ilia to do their bat, as they are un
d rpeid and overloaded People cant
MM1 for returns from youth out of
pi to ^ji^y paying
Thomas Timnrton of Tiviotn v nin
Chapel 8ft?>-jH^ht for more money
- dspeod oa ^ health of He dtisgps^
, *?
up, yet the health work is not being
get what you
"Myml and county fweran^i
^ ? ?''Mi- ffwag TWjiQg fAt Afiftltil WOn ypr
MpHii its ooc& sots Karcnes j
jn nftmr ii?iL hiijirr J
, ... ^
litis Tm Near
Film tf 1938
February Collections on
ly 57,276.74 Down;
Other JKevenue In
creases Some.
Raleigh, March 1. ? The salestax,
one of the two major maiasfqgr ?f
North Carolina's general fund,
brought in $792,160.06 during Feb
ruary, only $7,276.74 less than the
amount tor February a year ago,
Rerenue Commissioner A. J. Max
well said yesterday. v .
It was the second consecutive
month during the first eight months
of this fiscal year that the sales tax
has comnared at all favorably with
collections for the same period a
year ago. During the first six months
of this fidcal year, the sales levy
slumped badly, hot collections dur
ing January were approximately
$32,000 greater than those for Jan
uary, 1988.
All general fund collections for
IFebruary totalled $2,989,324.34, an]
! increase at $182,689.79 over collec
I tions for the same month a year ago.
The increases came from these sour
ces:
Inheritance tax, $77,603.40 last
month and $34,48282 a year ago;
privilege tax, $104,624.12 and $72,
70280; franchise tax, $1,341,877.29
and $1,277,10280; income tax, $442,
203.57 and $415,990.80 and intangi
ble tax, $8^320.84 and $50401.12.
During the business recession of
last year, revenue department offi
cials revised downward their original
estimates on* collections during this
fiscal year. The upturn in the sales
tax ami other levies during the past
two months has led revenue -officials
to believe thSt the revised estimates
will be met and that total collections
may pass the re vised, total.
Collections from the income tax,
doe Mareft 15, win tea uie major
part ~of the story of whether revenue
will meet the revised estimates.
All general fund collections dur
ing February totalled $?939,384 com
pared with $2,745,634.55 a year ago.
General fund collections for the first
eight months were $19,166,1Q&29, a
decrease of $1,464,319.91 from the
$20,680,478^0 collections for eight
months a year ago.
Highway revenue during February
waa $2*,20&522?3, ?n. increase of
$106^29,2$ as winpatbd with Fbb
ruary a year ago. Highway revenue
for the first right months was $24,
121,182.78, hiffcfr by $970,569,95 than
the total for the same period In 1988,
The gasoline tax, as usual, increased,
February's total being $1J06,579^4,
compared to $M90r7M<97 ?
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Laws Requested
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Edison Talk Congreae
Subversive Agents Are
Active In Army end
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Washington, Feb. 2$. Actfog
Secretary of the NavyCWeeSdi
?n today. sriMd Congress tp enact
drastic anti-propaganda laws tp curb
activities of subversive agents, pa*
^cuiyjy ^Cpnun^^^y^^s^
army
disobedience.
In a letter to House Speaker Wik
^ . *rv^-,A yw t ? T*
lism B. Bankhead, Alp.), .W.
son submitted # -bill drafted by the
Navy Department, and giving the
I inifiMMma tfiaf mllitan aftI.
4fee * depone?
The meeafcre, which waoH provide
? fi^%e*n4**o
ment for- ng^nta indting qitabedience fl
Ha tljla m t ?? ? 1MB ? g ?? A I _n_ ?_ ?? j
of military orqen op regulations,
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woura ertssn W WS?ir 4?UViiiBi vum*^
T3* nwve follow? iManm lj
the Houae committee on uniAmeri-r
jj " t^BCIlt j*0,
tfanel funds fee aoanter-esDionajre
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Fur Chamberlain
I pMSfommoiis
British House Approves
Prime Minister's Rec
ognition of Franco Re
gime.
London, Feb. 28.?The House of
Commons tonight approved by a vote
of 344 to 137, Britain's recognition I
of the Nationalist Spanish govern
ment following a stormy debate over'
Labor's motion to censure.
Told by Prime Minister Chamber
Hun that Generalissimo Franco had
seat assurances that his regime
would remain Spanish "sovereignty"
against foreign intervention, Com
mon* nmrwhplminirlv refected a La
-bor motion which in effect called for
the government's resignation for
tendering recognition to the Nation
alist as the legal power in Spain.
, The caustic debate centered about
opposition charges that the Prime
Minister had "misled" Commons by
not informing it in advance that for
mal recognition would be accorded
the Burgo's government.
Even before the British Prime
Minister had rolled up his usual over
whelming majority against his op
ponents, the Nationalist flag was
flying over the Spanish embassy in
London?hoisted there after the Duke
cif Alba had entered the building as
General Franco's representative.
Sir George Mounsey, who may be
die British ambassador to Burgos,
gave possession of the building to
the Duke, who has represented Fran
co here since 1937, after the Madrid
ambassador had departed.
Asana .Resigns.
It appeared certain that the Mad
rid regime was disintegrating when
President Manual Axana resigned
earlier in the day, and Premier Juan
Negrin called a meeting of his cabi
net somewhere in central Spain to
decide whether to surrender or con
tinue an apparently futile resistance
to * powerful Nationalist army and
air force.
Just before the vote, Commons was
thrown into an uproar when" the La
bor leader, Clement Attlee, shouted
th^t the Ptime Minister "should tell
this house the truth.'1
Government supporters shouted
that. Attlee by implication had call
ed Chamberlain an "ugly name."
Answering. Labor's charges that
recognition of Franco amounted to a
"betrayal of Spanish democracy."
Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister of Do
minions, in summing up, childed La
bor with the assertion that when it
was in power, Britain had recognized
four rebel regimes.
Since 1920, he said, British gov*
ernments had recognised at least 22
"revolting parties."
' The elderly Chamberlain obvious
ly to8 angered when he arose tq
speak after a hitter personal attack
by Labor T siiil Attlee.
Attlee had called - Chamberlain's
statement yesterday announcing 'Brit
ish recogrftWh of General Franco
"a tissue of half truths which are
wona; than lies."
The burden of tha opposition at
tack was that Chamberlain had mis
led the House in a statement Thurs
day that no decision had been taken
on recognition^%iAJhat meanwhile
?h* Prime Minister had agreed with
France to grant recognition.
ftum qenerid Fr^ca, If
any foreign*^intervention^ which
might imp^ their (the Nationalist
govemnfeat^s) dignity or Rovereig
Chamberlain JPL Nationalist
fMIlBrWW Britain "as
surances against general reprisals for
strictly political offenses." He said
pointo^raised'^ by
mmtmrnrnrn^m*
i? tte Ckiteifam Qwrch,
Bev. C?*W?nrn ir*stor^?i
10:30 o'clock. & > Si :v-'V':"ri--!'-?-?? ^
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(Hugo 8. Sims, Waahrigton Carres
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U. S. BUILDING NEW MERCHANT
SHIPS TO STRENGTHEN NA
TION'S SEA POWER.
i
American citizens are once more
beginning to take great interest in
the ?ea power of thejnation. Most of
them think of the Navy as the full
expression of national sea power
without realizing that a nation, to be
effective on the sea, must have, in
addition to warships, an adequate
supply of merchant vessels and bases
for both types of vessels, including
ports, harbors, shipbuilding and dry
docking facilities.
The function of a Navy is to guard
the vital sea lanes of its country and
when necessary, attack the trade
routes of the ehemy and, upon oc
casion, blockade the enemy's seacost.
The Navy, In the eyes of experts, is
an economic weapon and the pressure
which it. ran exert upon a possible
foe depends upon the importance of
the external communication lines of
the enemy,
The people of the United States
sometimes lose sight of the fact that
this country is a great maritime na
tion, second only to Great Britain in
the tonnage of sea-going merchant
men. Our foreign trade totaled $6,
429,000,000 in 1987. While our ex-,
ports are not to be compared with
domestic trade, they, nevertheless,
mean the difference between profit
and loss to many citizens and our im
port trade adds to the comfort as
well as the profits of the nation.
Because of the importance of a
mAVitkenf mnvlnA H {a mnvth M M
mux wuaiu max me, iv jo vy v^lvu
that the privately owned shipbuilding
yards of #14 country are breaking
records in the construction of ves
sels. Excluding the World War per
iod construction underway or under'
contract is the greatest in the his
tory of the country.
The file of the United States Mari
time Commission shows a present ton
nage of merchant ships of nearly
615,000 and a program which will in
crease the tonnage to 1,000,000 before
the end of the year. Th^ bum of ac
tivity now is in marked cqntraat to
the lull that had existed for more than
eighteen years when the Commission
let its first contracts about a year
ago,
While our ocean-going v vessels
numbered 1,800, with a gross tonnage
of about 8,000,000, the fleet was more
than eighty per cent, obsolete and
included only 850 ships in the foreign
trade. . The Commission got under
way in the fall of 1987, beginning a
battle to restore the American flag
to the trans-oceanic sea lanes.
.flawing 'it# contracts far the con
struction of the Uner America, a 35,
000 ton vessel, the Commission last
January signed contracts for the con
struction of ^elve tankers of 16,500
tons each, th# largest, most modern
and fastest ever designed. Because
certain features were installed at the
instance of the Navy Department,
th? Government will contribute $10,
000,000 to construction coat of
these tankers.
. . .
In May, of last .year, a contract
was Jet for-the first of eight mod
ern 10,000 ton cargo carriers and in
the three months that followed, six
teen additional vessels were ordered.
Fourteen of these ships will enter
overseas service , this year, eight of
them in the spring in November, the
Commission *fllered ten 14,000 ton
cargo vessels which will be ready for
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Japanese Blast ^
^pLeaet 200 Others Re
ported Sirred In Dis
inter at Army Arsenal
Osaka, Japan, ^arch 2. ? Police
announced today that probably 200
persons were blown to bits and burn
an army arsenal in suburban Hirau
The police communique said 600
homes were destroyed by the flames
wh^ jvygpt, ttopugh the suburb from
Atf a result, 5,800 persons were
"Windows W6ft broken for. .miles
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NeaviRains Prof
ise Cut In 1939 j
Tobacco Acreage
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Large Plantings of Seed
Beds Partially De
stroyed In Several
Counties.
Wilson, Feb. 28. ? Farmers , in
this section of East Carolina feared
today that they would not have
enough tobacco plants to go 'around
this season despite the fact that they
started oat by planting* almost three
times as many as they did last year,
now that there will be no crop con
trol.
The reason for the predicted scar
city is the fact that literally thous
ands of young plants have been wash
a/1 k?v ^l< a 4- n liiifmftnl ?a 1m a 4kft4
cu VUV uj WQ VUIICWVUM 1WUP >uav
have pelted down on this section dar
ing February,
Reports from farmers not only in
this county, the third greatest to
bacco-producing county in the world,
but in neighboring oounties at
Greene, Johnston, Wayne, Nash and
Edgecombe ? indicate widespread de
struction of'plants, v ;
Farm experts in the office of Farm
Agent W. L. Adams here said that
the damage by rain to plants in the
county was bad and that in a number
of places rain has destroyed whole
beds. They also' said that a recent
freeze did-much damage to the beds.
The frost also hilled some early lea
ped eza.
Doane Herring, one of the best
known farmers in the section, said
today that a creek on his farm went
over its banks and flooded At least
niM n-f kin woma ka/ta aiul tliof mnnv
V?*4V V* ***W ffVVM V^W ?***?? 1MWHJ
of his other plants had been destroy
ed by the rains.
The situation is an Ironic one to
many an East .Carolinian, for a ma
jority of fanners, especially the smal
ler ones, had purposely planted more
tobacco seed than usual this year in
preparation for a big crop.
' But today It looked aa though the
| elements had conspired against these
farmers and that it was extremely
possible that they might not be able
to plant even as much as they did
in 1988.
Farm experts are prone ta look at
the situation with an optimistio eye.
They seem to feel that such a seduc
tion in propesed production for 1939 (
might do the farmers more good than
harm, and might keep tobacco prices
up.
A Capella Choir
III Concert Here
On March 24th
' ' ... ^ - '* ? ;J
Woman's Club To Act!
Ae Rnnnsnrs.
Max Noah, dynamic director- of ,
the unique choral group of Georgia,
has had years of experience in deal'
ing with choral groups. He consid
ers this year's choir, which will ap
pear here on March 24 at Perldn's
Hall, under the auspices of the Wo- j,
man's Club to be the finest he has
ever taken on tour.
He was trained under Dr. John
Finlay Williams, director of the
Westminister Choir of Princeton, New
Jersey. For eight years before
going to the Georgia State College
for Women, Mr. Noah was at Gml- ?;
ford. College,^North Carolina, where ''
he orgardsed an A Capella Choir [
which Soon became known throughout
the East.
Joining the faculty, of the Georgia !
'State College for Women in 1986 he ?
organized the Milledgeville College "
[ Choir in October.
Dr. Williamson says: "Your choir *'
sings with a delightful feeling for "
emotional values at all times guided ?
by your own sound musicianship and :
cultured taste . . . perhaps the great- ;
est achievement is the sense of aes- '
thetic value in the spiritual realm i;
that you: are building into their lives.
pie gain -from tt the inspiration that
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you'have given to me.
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Merchants Ask
For^xamptiong
Want To Be Excluded
From Ai^y Wage and
flour Bill Legislature
May Pass.
Raleigh, March 1. ? Appearing
singly and in large and small groups
North Carolina merchants yesterday
requested the joint committee on
manufacture and labor to kill the
pending wage and hoar bill altogeth
er or to exempt merchants entirely
from its terms.
The committee chairmen sought
to reach a definite end of all hear
ings by Thursday of next week and
the hearings for the 14 North Caro
lina bodies affiliated with the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, who wish
to be heard for the bill were tenta
tively set for that day. James F.
Barren;, Asnevitie attorney appeared
for the group, said he thought that
four hours would be required to
answer some of the "absurd" conten
tions that had been made against the
bill
Commissioner of Labor Forrest H.
Shuford said his statement for the
bill would consume only 80 minutes.
He will probably be heard next Wed
nesday. ? ?'.ft'
The committee will hold its next
hearings on Thursday, when bank
ers, bakers and manufacturers will
be heard in opposition to the bill.
Other opponents will be heard on Fri
day of this week and Tuesday of next
week.
I. N. Bridges:of Wilson appeared
alone for the cottonseed crushers,
who are now under the wage pro
vision but not. the hour provision of
the Federal act.
Willard L.~*Dowell, secretary of the
North. Carolina Merchants' ? Associa
tion, presented six members of that
body, all of whom asked for exemp
tion from the bill, should it be passed.
Oscar G. Barker, Durham attor
ney, appeared in behalf of the Dur
ham merchants and W. A. Hinton ap
peared for Chatham County mer
chants.
The other spokesman of a large
Chatham County delegation which
a T 1 TTT-lJ n
was present was juage waiter v.
Sfler.
"All we want is to be left alone;
we have been regulated to death,"
declared Judge SHer.'
Improvement
The U. S. Department of Agricul
ture looks for an improvement next
spring in the domestic demand for
farm products, but announced that
general foreign demand conditions
continue relatively unfavorable.
(Wtal Mine
Bill Approved
i
Makes Life Sentence
Possibly For Burglary,
Arson; Negro Gradu
ate Work Passed.
Raleigh. March 1. ? A bill revis
ing punishment laws, but actually not
having much effect, was passed by
the State yesterday and-sent to the
Bouse.
The Senate also enacted into law*
bill providing graduate and profes
sional couses for Negrbes of the
State.
The capital punishment measure
originally would havp allowed impo
sition of life imprisonment instead of
death penalty for all capital crimes,!
l? bio ' mmmniMflMl .mfinrv. and
^ ?V, ~
if the judge approved that , recom
mendation. Aa it finally passed, it
Indies only to burglary and arson.
First amendment was secured by
tauter Elmer J WelloM of John
aton, to make life aentence manda
ory if the jury recommends mercy#
[?hat would have applied to all four
ger seemed adoption , of an amend
p^^^tying the death sentence man
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Franco Wants Mussolini
To IVi^hdrQu?
I^rench Foreign Minis
ter, S a y s Insurgent
Chief Already Han Re
quested That Italian
Soldiers Leave Spain.
.
Paris, March 1. ? Generalissimo
Franco already has asked Premier
Mussolini to withdraw his Italian
Blacks hi rts from Nationalist Spain,
Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet told
a closed meeting of the French
Chamber Of Deputies foreign affairs
committee today.
Committee members said Bonnet's
disclosure was the high point of a
report on France's foreign relations
in which he gave a "glowing descrip
tion" of France's determination not
to budge an inch in facing Italy's
demands on her empire.
General Franco's request that his
review of Italian troops at Barcelona
last week be their last appearance in
Spain already had been transmitted
to Rome by General Gastone Gam
bara, Italian commander in Spain,
T> - A ? *
Bonnet saia
The for sign minister said certain
Italian circles appeared to desire a
prolongation of the warfare in Spain
in the hope that an excuse would be
provided for keeping Italian troops .
there.
Therefore, Britain and France were
doing their best to bring the war to
an end, he asserted.
Members of the committee said
this meant that Londoh and Paris
were trying to persuade Premier Juan '
Negrin to surrender the Madrid- Va
lencia zone immediately.
To soften Negrin's resistance, the
foreign minister was reported to\have
said France and Britain had obtained
a promise from General Franco that
he would not strictly apply the "law
of responsibilities" governing trial
and punishment of republican govern
ment leaders.
To strengthen France's diplomatic
representation at Burgos during the . *
critical months ahead, members Of
the committee said, Marshal Henri
Petain, 82-year-old "Hero of Ver
dun" in (the World War, had agreed
to become ambassador to Nationalist _
Spain. x v ? ? .
His name was. expected to be pre
sented at a cabinet meeting tomor
row when an envoy is to be chosen.
Indicating the earnestness with
whldi Tfrance nnnnarn TfnHfcn amlii.
tions in Agrica, 'Bonnet said French
troop reinforcements had been sent
to Tunisia to meet Italy's increased * ?
forces in Libya. * v
At Marseille, an unstated number
of fighting planes from the sixth air
squadron at Charters in northwest
France were loaded aboard the plane
carrier Commandaine Teste which
left tpnight for Algeria.
Navy orders also showed that the
French cruiser Jean de Vienne left
!its Toulon base Monday for Casa
blanca.
These land, sea and sir reinforce- ,
ments for France's North African -
[possessions tended to back up,'Bon*
net's assertion to.the deputies that' .
[France Will negotiate with Italy -only
on the basis of the 1935 treaty which
granted Italy some African territory
and other concessions.
That agreement already has been
denounced by Rome, and French
troops have reoccupied with perman
ent garrisons the strip of Northern
Somaliland cede to Italy.
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iMurphy of Rowan, the bill does not
carry a specific appropriation but aJ
ilows the Governor and Council of
(State to make necessary funds avail
able as needed.
Graduate work in liberal arts and
isciences would be offered at the
(C. .College* for Negroes in Durham
land agriculture at the A. and T. Col
liege in Greensboro.
photographic Repealer Killed.
- The. Senate Preferred to judiciary .
committee a bill which would repeal
the 1937 act Betting up a board to
license and regulate photographers.
That action apparently jtilled the* bill,
introduced by Senator Chester A.
Cogburn of Haywood sftio told the
Senate the 1937 act had granted a
monopoly to the photographic .board.
' Senator H. J. Hatcher of Burke,
(making the motion to re-refer, aaid
his idea was to "cut off th& bill's
1 tflck
?al of Columbus to repeal the I98T
law levying a tat of 11,000, for each
county in which they operate, on pur
chasers ofscraptobacco.
Ballentine aaid origin^de&^of the
RaIIptiHtia ' Rflifi Asp thti j