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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24
MexicOW
PnyForOil
Properties

Mexico City, March 24-(AP)-V.
G.. Herrera, under secretary for com
munications, today was appointed
general manager of the new national
petroleum council to administer the
S4O0,OOO,O0O oil industry taken over
by the government.
AS the nation recovered from a
series of gala celebrations in major
cities, there were first indications of
a national subscription campaign to
pay the II British and American oil
companies for loss of their property.
President Cardanas pledged his gov
eminent to pay indemnity in speech
Yesterday during Mexico City's pa
rade of laIborers to signify their sup
port of the appropriation.
cit is opportune to assert in these
solemn moments" Cardenas said, CSC
that all the world may know it, that
Mexico will honor her debt with the
foreigner"
Answering Cardenas' appeal for eco
nonic sacrifices, without which he
said 1--WE cannot obtain the economic
independence that our people de-
mand." Alfonso Morentin, director
general of mails and telegraphs, gave
S212. equivalent of a months salary
and promised to devote half of his
salary each month to the national in
Identification fund.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24
FIVE CANDIDATES
FILE IN CAMPAIGN
Two for Congress, Two for
Supreme Court and One
for Solicitorship

Raleigh, March 24-(AP)-Two can
didates for Congress and one each for
the two State Supreme Court posts
and the goth district solicitorship filed
today with the State Board of Elec-
tions, making 95 candidates formally
in the States 1888 political campaign.
Hamilton Jones, Charlotte attorney,
filed to seek Democratic nomination
for the tenth district congressional
seat, now held by Congressman A. L
Bulwinkle, of Gastonia. Bulwinkle has
already filed.
w. O. Burgin, of Lexington, FLEE
for Congress from the eight district,
making the fifth Democrat to do SO.
Irvine B. Tucker, of Whiteville, Re
publican, paid his fee to enter the
race for the Supreme Court, along
with A. F. Seawell, of Moore county.
Baxter Jones, Bryson City, paid to
enter the twentieth district solicitor
ial race, which John M. Queen, OF
Waynesville, had previously entered
formally.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24
Paris District and Lille Re-
gion in Northern France
Involved In Out
breaks
WORKERS SEEKING
NEWER CONTRACTS
Chamber, Debating Total
Mobilization" In Wartime,
Approves New Govern
ment Department for Civil
ian Defense; Dictatorship
Warned by Group

T'aris. March 24.-(AP)-A sudden
outbreak of new strikes in the Paris
district and the Lille region ir north
ern France was added today to thu
financial and political difficulties Of
Premier Leon Blum's government.
The strikes came in the metallug
gical chemical and other industries
and included several nationalized fac
tories, where workers tried to fOrc2
employers to sign new collective con
tracts.
In parliament the chamber, debat-
ing a measure for total mobilization"
of the nation in wartime, approved a
now governmental department foE
civilian defense; Blum faced Senate
opposition to his financial proposals
socialists warned of plot to set up q
dictatorial public safety" cabinet.
The strikes, which embraced the
Citroen and other large factories II
the Paris district, were limited chiefly
to symbolic" movements, with work
halted only for few hours. Almost
all the strikers sought a clause in
their collective contracts plnnlng
wages automatically to any rise in the
cost of living.
The lower house resumed debate on
the total mobilization" bill and voted
to place organization of defense a
gajnst air raids and gas attacks I'M
der Defense Minister Daladier.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24
YOUTHS HELD FOR
BLACKMAIL. CHARGE
New Rochelle Boys Tried To Horn In
or Ransom Money for Hid
mapped Levine Lad

New Rochelle, N. Y, March "a
(AP)-Werner Luck %, and Edward
Penn, 18, were held for the west
chester county grand jury today on
charges of blackmail and attempted
extortion in the Peter Levine kidnap-
ing case.
At the same time Police Lieuten-
ant George Reifenberger charged
that Luck, who is married and has
an infant child, had planned to kid
nap an unnamed Pelham boy before
the Levine abduction offered q
chance to fake ransom notes on the
chance of collecting money.
Luck and Penn have denied any
actual knowledge of the Levine kid
naping. The 12-year-old boy, son OF
Murray Levine, a New York attor-
ney, vanished a month ago today.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24
MbArmies
HeZdAtBuv
By Chinese

Shanghai, March 24.-(AP)Chinese
counter offensives north of Suchow
extended lines of the ten-day-old bat-
tie today to a gigantic hairpin 80
miles deep and 80 miles wide along
the Tientsin-Pukow railway.
japanese, after a 375-mile march
southwark from Tientsin, tried to
force a crossing of the Grand Can1l
% miles north of the vital junction
with the Lunghai railroad at Suchow,
but Chinese attacks from both TANKS
threatened to force withdrawal.
The bloody battle ragged along the
shores of Lake Weishan to the west.
and elsewhere to the east. Chinese
claimed success in their attacks on
three points along the Tientsin-
Hukow railway.
But Japanese, admitting strong at
tacks on their communications route.
claimed a force of 5000 Chinese was
"decimated" when it attempted a cross
ing at Lake Weishan in a flotllla OF
Junks, for an assault on Lincheng.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24
Spokesman Says Fleet Size
Planned Here Not Need
ed But For Foreign
Aggression
JAPANESE AIM YET
is SELF-DEFENSE
Admiral Leahy's Statement
AS to Necessity for Anne
rican Aiming Program
Noted "With Interest" In
Japan; Leahy Urged De-
lenses for Both Coasts

Tokyo March 24.-(AP)-A Japan
csc navy spokesman said today he be
lieved the United States Nays ST.
121 100000 expansion bill shows the
United States is considering naval op-
erations against Japan.
The spokesman, speaking at press
conference, said:
"My own view is that if American
are not thinking Of overseas opera
tions, they would not need fleet OF
that size. Nor do l believe the objec.
of American operations could be any
other than Japan"
Self-defense still is the basic prin.
ciple underlying Japan's plans, he adj
ded, but he noted with interest Ad-
miral William Leahys explanation fol
the necessity of the construction
measure.
admiral Leahy, chief of naval op
erations, told the House Naval Com
mittee February 4 that the navy al
present was incapable of defending
CONTINUED on Page Four.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24
TWO NEGROES FACE
DEATHS TOMORROW
One North Carolina Negro and One
Virginian To Be ElectrOcut-
ed in Richmond

Richmond, Va, March "a (AP)-
Two Negroes convicted of murder
will die in the electric chair tomor-
row, upon expiration of the last of a
series of stays of execution.
Jasper Mcneil, Bladenboro, N. c.,
Negro, was convicted in Amherst
county circuit court in October of
murder in the killing of c. P. Styers,
Southern Railway flagman; and
James Jackson, drew a death sent
ence in Elizabeth City county circuit
court in February, 1887, for murder
in the death of Willie Kemp, Hamp-
ton grocer, in an attempted hold-up.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24
Swarms OF Flea Beetles
Ravaging Tobacco Beds
In Many Beds Bugs Start atng Young Tobacco Plants
soon As Leaves Begin to Form; Unusually Warm
Weather Contributes to Rapid Propagation

AS a contro. measure, he urged
growers to dust their plant beds with
one per cent rotenone dust at the rata
of half a pound to each 100 square
yards.
The dust should be applied with a
machine. A hand-operated machine
will give satisfactory results.
When the covers are dry, it is not
necessary to remove them, as the aus
can be blown down through the ciotH
covers in sufficient quantities to er-
radicate the beetles.
The busting should be repeated
everv four days or twice week, un,
til the BEETLES have disappeared. Ii
they should re-appear, start busting
again.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24
Byrd's Proposal to Exempt
Office from Reorganiza-
ton Rejected by
AZ to SO
COMMITTEE TO PLAN
AID FOR BUSINESS
Morgenthau Reveals Roose-
welt Appointments To
Make Study; United States
Decides To Evade London
Treaty and Build Much
Larger Battleships

Washington, March 24.-(AP)-The
Senate tentatively approved today
abolition of the office of comptroller
general. 1t rejected AZ to 26 q rorosal
by Senator Byrd, Democrat. Virginia.
to preserve the office intact.
Byrd had tried to knock cut of the
administration pending reorganZ =
ton bill a provision to eliminate the
compttoller and divide his duties Se-
tween the director IF t!c bud ct ans
a new officer the auditor general.
President Roosevelt has made no
appointment since J. r. McCarl COM
pleted his term about eighteen months
ago. r. N. Elliott has served as acting
comptroller.
Secretary Morgenthau announced,
meanwhile, the President has asked
committee of high Federal officials to
prepare a program of financial aid to
business.
The Treasury head, chairman of the
committee, said the group would go
over various suggestions for loans to
industry, including small business, AMI
try to put something together that
is constructive"
With Morgenthau on the committee
are James Roosevelt, the Presidents
son. Chairman Jesse Jones, of the Re
construction Finance Corporation;
Vice Chairman Ronald Ransom, OF the
Federal Reserve Board, and Chairman
William Douglass of the Securities
Commission.
The United States has decided to in
woke the escalator clause of the Lon
don naval treaty, and build battleships
larger than $4,000 tons, State Depart
ment officials said elsewhere in Wash
;ngton.
Secretary of State Hull said at his
press conference that recommends
tons to this effect were being receiv
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24
EUROPE'S CAULDRON.
IS HOT UNDERNEATH.
Seeming Calmness Only
Temporary; Germany
Can't Rely on Italy
his office just the same.
By CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press ColumniSt

Washington, March 24-When a
major war is raging or first class
catastrophe has just occurred there Is
no news except news of that war or
catastrophe. Events that in normal
times would splash themselves all
over all our front pages are lucky TO
get a paragraph each. Readers dis
regard even these skinny paragraphs.
Such a state of affairs has existed
lately, due to the European crisis.
1t seems to be subsiding temper
arily now, following Lithuanlas sur
render to Poland, but it was a num-
dinger while at it's maximum. 1t may
re-intensify itself any day, however.
DOMESTIC ISSUES FADE
We had plenty of redhot local con-
troversies pending while the old world
fuse sizzled-the IVA fight, our rail-
road problem, governmental reorgan-
ization, John L. Lewis demand for
three billions for unemployment re-
lief. This being a congressional cleo
ton year home politics should be the
topic of vehement discussion.
None of those questions, neverthe-
less, could get much of hearing with
Continued on Page Tv0l
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24

College Station, Raleigh, March "a.
-Swarms of flea beetles are ravas-
ing tobacco plant beds all over East
ern North Carolina, according TO re-
ports received at State College.
Unusually warm weather early TINS
season has contributed to the rapiH
multi plication of these pests, said D'.
z. P. Metcalf, head of the college de-
partment of zoology and entomology;
In many beds, the beetles started
eating the young tobacco plants as
soon as the leaves began to form
Although the damage done SO Iai
may not be heavy, DR.. Metcal1 salo
there is hardly a tobacco-growins
county in the eastern part OF the state
that is free from beetle attacks.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24
Roosevelt Seeks
SOuth's Reaction

Warm Springs, Ga, March a.
(AP)-President Roosevelt, estab-
lished at a vacation retreat here,
read editorial and congressional re-
action today to his Outspoken
enemy stronghold" plea for higher
wages in southern industries.
Secluded i'm his white cottage a.
mOng the trees on Pine Mountain
he called for newspapers of the
clover South" where opposition to
his wage-hOur bill has centered,
and whose Industries he declared
at Gainesville, Ga, yesterday are
paying their workers wages that
are "far too low"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24
Insurgents
Start New
Coast Push
Spanish Rebels Use
Smoke Screen In
Attack for F irs t
Time During War

Madrid, March 24-(AP)-The Span
ish insurgent army, for the first time
with smoke screens to cloak it's adj
vance, struck out today for the Medi-
terrean on a new course into the rich
and hitherto untouched Catalonia.
Shifting attacks north of the Eorc
river. after a two weeks cleanup cam
paign, insurgents fixed Lerida as thei,
first important objective. Lerida is ?
point to carry insurgents into the
northeastern corner of Spain. The in
surgents already have conquered
northern and western Spain.
Using the tactics by which they
came to the south bank of the river,
the insurgents are driving first at
I,erida communications with columns
Four
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24
Premier Refuses in Speech
To Commons To Give
Chechoslovakia Any
Guarantee
BRITAIN TO FIGHT
IF PRESSED TO IT
That Statement Is Cheered
In House; American Am
bassador Kennedy Sits In
Diplomatic Gallery To
Hear Historic Pronounce
ment of Policy

London, March 24.-(AP)-Prim
Minister Neville Chamberlain today
refused to give Czechoslovokio 81
prior guarantee" of immediate arm
ed help against German aggression,
but he warned Adolf Hitler that a
middle European war would drag in
other powers.
"Where peace and war are concern.
3D." he told a packed, intent House OF
Commons, illegal obligations are not
alone involved and if war broke out
it would be unlikely to be confined to
those who have assumed such obliga-
lions.
"It would be impossible to say where
it would end and what governments,
might become involved
"This is especially true of two cOun-
tries like Britain and France, devoted
to the same ideals of democratic lib
erty and determined to uphold them.
Prime Minister Chamberlain, begin
ming Britain's most important declar-
alton of foreign policy since the World
War, told the House of Commons he
was confident peace would be main
tanned"
CdIlIOt Inid6lHc tdAy Cr1ASS III
Europe which would change the fun
damental basis of British foreign po-
icy, which is the maintenance and
preservation of peace" he said.
However," he warned, that does
not mean that nothing would make
us fight"
Cheers greeted this declaration.
Chamberlain presenting his anxious
fCoot,Y,,.d IN Douo GiwNt
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24
Indictment
OF Sheriff
Is Quashed
Judge Grady Holds
Grand Jury In Pitt
County Was Chosen
Irregularly

Greenville, March 24.-(AP)-Judge
Henry A. Grady, presiding in Pitt
Superior Court, this morning quashed
bills of indictment against Sheriff s.
A. Whitehurst and Deputy Sheriff J.
H. Harris, discharged the present
grand jury and ordered the board of
county commissioners to draw an
other jury to be summoned to appear
at an April term of court.
Sheriff Whitehurst and Deputy
Sheriff Harris were charged with ac-
cepting brides, and an additional in
Continued on Page Two.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24
TRUCKS EXCEEDING
LOAD LIMITATIONS
Loadometer Surveys by
Highway Patrol Reveal
Some Startling Facts
Daily Dispatch Bureau
Tn Tho Sir Walter Hotel

Raleigh March 24-Recent activity
of the State Highway Patrol IN SET
ting up several loadometer WelgnlnE
stations at strategic points over tn.
State to apprehend overloaders OF
trucks and trailers is one OF the direct
and concrete results flowing from the
Statewide Highway Planning Survey,
joint project of the State Highway
Commission and the United States Blu
reau of Public Roads.
No complete analysis of data gats-
ered nv the survey through scientific
oneration of weighing stations thro-
Continued on Page Two)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24

Arthur E. Morgan chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority
pictured in Washington he told the press that he did
tend communicate with President Roosevelt the
utmatum Morgan "a hours withdraw his IVA
cooperate in presidential inquiry face removal Morgan
said he would not resign and that the President hasn't the
him. But the President ordered him ousted from
his office the
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-24

AazarO Cardenas Mexican oil fields JOsephus Daniels
mexican president u. s. ambassador
While President Lazaro Cardenas sought to Mexican bust
ness shaken by his decree xpropratng the
can and British oil firms $40OO0OOOO the
modification of MeScos Secretary State Corden Hull
expressed
arise from the seizure in long telephone conversation with Ama
sador Josephus Daniels Mexico City, defending his
seizure OF the petroleum industry perious necessity said
business had nothing to fear and invited the claims
ndemnzaton The Mexican
ton carried provides payment properties
United States contends this should
ship Meanwhile three executives of the
OH company seized at Tampico hostages Mexican
workers claiming back The American interviewed
&c tral Press
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Evening star., 1938-07-15

the people out at the airport looked
like pictures in the newspaper. From
the air, Europe and Russia look like
the Middle West About the only
foreign touch was at Yakutsk, where
we saw bearded people standing around
in blouses and high boots. like movie
extras, only not so handsome.
I'VE saw a powerful lot of scenery.
But it's all like dream. remember
the mountains of Kamchatka because,
when we passed over them, I said to
myself, remember that, you, you may
never see it again remember being
disappointed in the Ural Mountains.
They were so fiat. I remember feeling
how awful peculiar it was to stand
with bottle of milk in one hand and
an open can of peaches in another,
eating and drinking, while ice foes
down below slid across the Bering
Straits. And I remember the most
beautiful thing of all, just out Of
Yakutsk, the sun and the moon, both
hanging in the sky at the same time.
That was thrill"
American At lie 0OuFSct.
Mr.. Hughes and Mr. Lund both
agreed that, if they were going to
single out one unforgettable memory
of the whole flight, it would be a
certain United States Army mechanic
named Cook" Neither knew who the
man was or how he got there, but he
was on hand at the landing at LIE
Bourget Airport in Paris.
Taking off from Floyd Bennett
Field" said Mr.. Hughes, Il felt the
rear wheel hit a hole. When we
landed in Paris, we found we had
ruptured the fitting of the tail wheel to
the bulkhead of the ship. That fitting
is very near the elevator controls.
The French mechanics took one look
at it and threw up their hands.
'C'est fini.' they said. F,ini hell said
Edward. We amt even started He
tried to fixit with a piece of two-by-
four, but that didn't do so good. Then
this fellow Cook pitched in. He could
handle the French fine and he and
Lund got everything they wanted.
They fixed it up with some angle irons.
I'll never forget that fellow. If he
hadn't been hanging around, We might
still be in Paris
The men had money in their pockets,
but they didn't spend a penny of it
en- route. I'VE didn't have time to buy
any souvenirs" said 1t. Thurlow. Il
got some Russian matches that fellow
in Omsk gave me, and this here, We
all got that"
He pulled out of his pocket the
Paris soir with the eye-popping date
line
Copyright. 1888. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1938-07-15
TREASURY MARkSMEN
TO COMPETE IN MATCH
16 From Washington Units to
Meet SO Others in Annual
Small Arms Tourney.

Sixteen members of Washington
units Of the Treasury Departments
law enforcement agencies will be
among the expert revolver marksmen
to compete In the Treasury's third
annual small arms shooting tourna-
ment here August "a.
The Washington men, members Of
the White House Police, the uniformed
force of the Secret Service and the
Bureau Of Internal Revenue force,
will be in competition with 80 others
who are members of Treasury agencies.
Members of the local units in ths
tournament are White House Police,
r. G. Ford, ]. j. Cash, 3. L. Warden,
H. w. Francis. Earl Reynolds and r.
P. Hallion; Secret Service, H. w.
Arnold, H. r. johnson, r. j. Mansell,
T. r. Beck, c. P. Horner and H. F.
Stille, and Internal Revenue, E. A.
Ross. L. A. Barr, J. ]. Duffy and o.
T. Neal.
Other agencies entered in the tour
nament. authorized by Secretary Nor
genthau early in his administration as
a feature Of the firearms training pro-
gram,> are Alcohol Tax Unit, Bureau
of the Mint, Bureau Of Narcotics,
Secret Service plainclothes force and
the Public Health Service narcotics
force.
Capt. Harry M. Dengler of the in
telligence unit, Bureau of Internal
Evening star., 1938-07-15
FIELD TESTS HELD
TE[EV|S|0N NEED
Much Remains to Be Done
for Commercial Use,
F. c. c. Says.
BY WILLIAM ]. WHEATLEY

BY WILLIAM ]. WHEATLEY.
While television has been developed
for laboratory use, there is much to be
done in actual distance tests in the
field before the service can be COM
mercially feasible, it was indicated in
a decision of the Federal Communi-
cations Commission authorizing a con-
struction permit for a new television
broadcast station at Chicago, Ill. The
permit was granted yesterday to the
Zenith Radio Corp. of Chicago.
The commission said the evidence
showed that complete television sys-
TENS had been developed at the lab
oratory, but that such systems have
definite shortcomings in the field.
One Of the problems which must be
met, it was explained, in the further
development of television to q point
where it will be of practical use and
of sufficient merit to be sold to the
public, Is better understanding OF the
matter Of interference on the fire.
quencies which have been allocated
for television experimentation.
It has been ascertained that in many
locations satisfactory reception on the
short-wave bands is impossible because
of electrical interference. The COM
mission asserted that the whole prob
lem Of interference probably cannot be
properly investigated without trans
mitter for testing purposes.
The company informed the COM
mission that it felt that at least a
fairly satisfactory set Of standards
has been outlined for practical tele-
vision reception, but before this new
art is ready for public service it must
60 through many refinements and
much practical development. and
stressed the point that receiver and
transmitter development must go along
hand in hand.
1t was indicated that special receiv-
ing antenna will be required and that
research is to go forward looking to
a single antenna on apartment houses
to which several such receivers can
be hooked. Such an antenna develop
ment, it was said. will be needed
particularly in places where there Is
a large volume of automobile traffic
Evening star., 1938-07-15
PROFESSORS DUEL

szEaED, Hungary. July Is H9.-A
meeting Of szeged University's faculty
today broke up in . row which pro-
duced one duel and may lead to two
more.
A court Of honor Is to listen to what
passed in the conference Of professors
to determine whether there shall be
more fighting.
The trouble, It was said, arose while
the faculty debated who should occupy
the vacant chair Of Turkish literature.
Other professors were reported on the
verge Of duels, while the chair Of
Turkish literature remained unoccu-