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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06
Pepper Asks
Increase In
Relief Fund
Adams Charges WPA
Deliberately Increas-
ed Rolls To Force
Congress To v ote
More Money; Army
Day Is Observed
Throughout Nation

Washington, April 6.-(AP)-Sen-
ator Pepper, Democrat, Florida, ask
ed the Senate today to increase the
SlO0,O00000 relief appropriation to
Sl50,000,000. The latter sum was
asked by President Roosevelt, but
the House approved 100000, 900.
Pepper complained that a un-
animous Senate Appropriation Com
mittee report recommending $780,
100000 was based on an "agree-
ment' designed to "avoid contro-
versy on the floor"
All session, WPA discussions have
aroused controversies, and Senator
Adams, Democrat, Colorado, was
disclosed today as believing that
WPA increased its relief rolls in re-
cent months, almost deliberately
To force Congress to accede to an
increased appropriation.
He was questioning Colonel F. c.
Harrington, WPA administrator, on
WPA cooperation with the economy
sentiment shown by Congress when
it appropriated SIPS, 100000 in Jan
uary as a deficiency appropriation
fer WPA.
In the House today there was also
criticism of WPA methods. Repre-
sentative Otter, Republican, Penn
sylVania, a member of the appro-
priations subcommittee assigned to
investigate the relief agency, pre-
pared to offer legislation to abolish
WPA, and in its stead create a BIZ
partisan federal board to allocate
relief funds to the states.
The Senate Civil Liberties Com
mttee reported that the National
Metal Trades Association, which in
cludes some Of the largest manufac-
turers, was increasing its "war chest
for use in fighting strikes.
Southern senator's agreed to aban-
don attempts to get special cotton
legislation and to cooperate in a
move to get more money for all
farm commodities under the present
administration program.
Chairman Steagall, Democrat,
Alabama, of the House Banking and
Continued on Page Six)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06
Rural Life Program Is
Quickened By New Laws

State Grange early in the session
outlined a general plan for better
country living conditions, involving
not only more direct appropriations
for agricultural work but also fur
Their extension of esthetic and Gull
tural services to country people.
Analysis Of the acts Of the Legislature
indicates that the Grange Jared Well.
One of the cardinal planks IN the
Grange platform was exemption OF
homesteads from taxes, either on aD-
solute exemption Of $500 or half rate
taxes on $3.50. This idea failed to
gain support in the assembly, but
in reduced exemptions in intangible
tax levies, and in the machinery acl
provision for no increased assess
ments due to improved homes and
wards, large gains was made toward
eoualizing the tax load.
The demand for balanced budget
and for elimination of overlapping
activities was only partially met
But, taken together with the plank
calling for more liberal approprla-
tons from the general fund for agrl-
cultural research, as we'll as adequate
funds for development of real mar
Continued on Page Six
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06
Legislature
Voted More
Pay To Aged
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL

Raleigh, April 6-The just-ad-
journed Tar Heel legislature was
swept by no Townsend plan hysteria
or Old-age pension hokum, but it did
make possible tangible increase in
the number Of old folks on the as
Sistance rolls.
At least both Mrs. w. T. Bost, COM
missioner of public welfare, and Ma
than Yelton, director of the old age
assistance division, are Of that opin-
ion, although they haven't yet work.
ed out any figures showing just how
many will be added, nor where
They base their belief on the fact
that the $4,40O,000 which they will
have from all sources (Federal, State,
and County, for each year of the
coming biennium will be approx
mately 100000 greater than the rate
at which old age assistance is now
being paid.
That $4,4OO,OOO will permit them
to pay out to the old people an aver
age Of something more than $4,000
each month, against the present rate
of approximately $4,000 Git was
just short of the figure in March)
They do not plan to increase the
present average payment to the bene-
ficiaries, an average which reached
1884 in March, but rather to use the
extra money to place on the assis-
lance rolls the aged who are eligi-
BILE by all tests but who have been
kept off by the lack of funds to take
care of them.
Assuming that the average is kept
at about 60 81, the 100000 increase
in availability would enable the
placement Of approximately 5000
new pensioners on the lists.
That is what the officials now plan
to do.
Both Mrs. Bost and Mr.. Yelton
view legislative action with relation
to their department with more than
mild approval. Both said they feel
the assembly made substantial,
though not too-extensive contribu-
ton to well ordered, safely based
Continued on Page Four)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06

General Accounting Office, which
Brown is to head, is a congressional
pet. The White House doesn't like
it bit in its present form and tried
to get it modified into practical
nothingness under the recently adopt
ed governmental reorganization bill,
but Congress wouldn't stand for
any change The Securities and EX-
change Commission is a White House
pet, regarded askance by many con-
gressmen. It's pretty popular, though.
Its legislative foes knew they were
as poWerless to abolish or cripple it
as the executive mansion was to tie
can onto the general accounting
office.
The comptroller general decides
whether or not items of government
spending are legal It can rule a
gainst a certain item; whereupon the
government can't go ahead with it,
Naturally this enrages the executive
end of the government, which does
the spending The SEC bosses the
stock market and corporations do
ings generally. Conservative law
makers complain that it's unduly in
terfering-a business deterrent. But
-. DoaA Civil
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06
Officials Prepare
For Frontal Attack
On Trade Barriers

Chicago, April 6.-(AP)-Public
officials from A states, the Federal
government and four territories join
ed today to plan nationwide at
tack on state trade barriers and dis
criminatory legislation.
Frank Bane, director Of the Coun-
Gil Of State Governments, which call
ed the three-day conference, said
"forty states have statutes establish
ing commissions Of cooperation be-
tween the states. The elimination of
six months research by state COM
missions and the council was the con-
sensus that the council go on record
as favoring constitutional free trade. y
Delegates divided into five gen
eral committees to draw up recon-
mendations which were to be sub
mitted to the general sessions.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06
Barucfl Says
Trade ar
Means Fight
Wall Street Financier
and Confidante of
Wilson, Warns Senate
Committee To Beware
of Its Course

Washington, April 6.-(AP)-The
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
heard a warning today from Ber-
nard Baruch, Wall Street financier
and confidante of President Wilson,
that an economic war against the
aggressor nations might lead this
country into a military war.
Endorsing the principle of plac-
ing arms and ammunitions on a
"cash and carry basis with other
products, when other countries are
at war and this country is neutral,
Baruch said he believed this could be
done without affecting this country's
neutrality status
Il understand that some of the
pressure for this legislation is the re-
verse Of wish to treat all nations
alike" Baruch told the committee in
a formal statement "It has been sug-
gested that the aggressor nations, if
not halted, will start a European war
that if there is European war we
can't keep out of it, and that, there
fore, the only way to keep out of
war is now to engage in economic
war against them to prevent their
startling European war.
''On that theory, if our economic
war fails, we will be in military war,
and / think that if we make econo-
mic war that conclusion is newt
able. l am not sure that even with
the utmost economic pressure we
could prevent European war if it
Continued on Page Three)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06
Strawberry Crop
Largest and Best
In Years In East

Goldsboro, April 6-(AP)-Re-
ports received here today showed
North Cardinals strawberry crop
would be the largest and best in sew
eral years. Markets at Mount Olive,
Wallace and other points will for
mally open Monday. Buyers at Wal
lace estimated today that more than
100000 crates would be sold there
under the open auction system in
stituted this year. They said approx
imately 200 crates sold this week had
brought an average of 81. Officials
at Mount Olive reported few sales
this week averaged S..
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06
Says Win By
Japs May Be
End Of China

Chapel Hill, April 6.-(AP)-T. L..
Tsue, first secretary of the Chinese
Embassy in Washington, said today a
Japanese victory "would snuff out
democracy in China, and add so
much more manpower and natural
resources to Japan and her allies"
He spoke at human relations in
stitute at the University Of North
Carolina.
In order to save her own exist
ence politically, economically and
culturally, preserve foreign interests
and maintain peace and order. China
under the leadership of General
Chang Kai-Shek, is continuing by
every possible effort her war Of re-
sistance," he said.
He said China's relations with
Soviet Russia were the same as those
with the democracies.
Naturally, Russia wants China to
Win, for she will then have no more
trouble with Japan" he said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06
Heavy Snow Falls
In ColOrado-Area,

Denver, Col, April 6.-(AP)-
Snow drifted highways were open
to traffic today after a pOst-sea-
son blizzard which hampered traf
fic in three states abated. Dur
ing the height of the storm, when
a mile-an- hour wind was pill
ing drifts several feet deep, raids
were blocked between Denver and
Boulder, Denver and Colorado
Springs and Denver and Greeley,
Col, and Cheyenne, WyO.
The storm spread from the west
to North Platte, Neb., and cover
ed all of Colorado east of the con-
tinental divide. Temperatures
dropped to below freezing.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06
Will ''Teach
A Lesson"

Berlin, April 6.-(AP)-NaZi
officials expressed the cOnvic-
ton today that British Prime
Minister Chamberlain'S attempt
to build a block of nations "en-
circling" Germany had failed, as
far as Poland was concerned.
They declared the British
Polish mutual assistance pact
reached in London was far from
what Chamberlain had desired.
Nazi confidence was increaS-
ed by the fact that Colonel Gen
eral Wilhelm Keitel, chief of
the German high command, and
Chancellor Hitler's closest mill
tary advisor, and General AL
bertO ParianO, Italy's under
secretary for war, had confer
red at Innsbruck for the past
two days.
German diplomatic comment
conferred on the implications that
their conferences were intended
ito teach Chamberlain a lesson"
Berlin, April 6.-(AP)-Cautiou
German diplomatic comment center
Continued on Page Four)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06
Varied Issues
Before Court
Coming Week
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In tho Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, April 6.-Next weeks
Supreme Court calendar will pre-
sent to the seven learned justices
almost as diversified a set of legal
problems as the number of causes
to be argued allows.
Among the questions to be finally
determined (barring the unusual ap-
peal to the U. S. Supreme Court
are: Cd Can the State make an
escaped convict pay for his recap
ture, and, if SO, is he entitled to a
$500 personal property exemption?
A lower court held that the State is
entitled to get back as much as it
can of the $1,134.21 it spent in
nabbing Eddie Cobb, one of the bet
ter known Tar Heel desperadoes;
but it added that he is entitled to
the $500 exemption. When captur-
ed, Eddie had brand new automo-
bile for which he had paid cash in
Virginia. That's what all OF the
shooting's about.
(2) Can the State collect $3.50
tax on those persons, firms or cor
porations who "shall display sam
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06
German Maid Squeals On
Burns And Benny To Get
Revenge For Herr Hitler

New York, April 6-(AP)-The
pro-Hitler huff that led Rosa Weber,
German maid, to turn informer a
gainst the smuggling conspiracy
which involved Jack Benny and
George Burns will net her at least
S6,714 in United States government
rewards, it was disclosed today. The
maid, employed in the household of
State Supreme Court Justice Edgar
Lauer, quit her job vowing revenge"
at the height of dinner party at
which the Lauers' guests voiced anti
Nazi remarks.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06

Tlrana, Albania, April 6.-(AP)-
An Italian cruiser and two DESTROY
ers arrived at Durazzo, Albania. this
morning as Albania feverishly dis
cussed reports of an imminent Ital-
ian occupation.
Many Albanian reservists have
been modified. Twenty truck loads
OF arms were sent yesterday to
Valona, the southern port of Albania.
There was some feeling in dip
lomatic circles that the Albanian
government might try to resist any
landing of Italians. There was dis
tinct possibility, however, that the
government might, on the other hand
find formula under which Italian
occupation would be accepted.
Crowds of Albanians gathered out
side the foreign ministry seeking
some inkling of what was going on.
People in the streets freely express
ed their desire to resist any military
occupation.
Plane service from Tirana to Italv
was cancelled. Practically all Itai-
1ans in Albania had returned to Italv.
Negotiations between Albania and
Italy, ostensibly toward strengthen
ing the 1887 defensive alliance be-
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06
ELECTRIC LINE IN
BRUNSWICK LARGER

Raleigh, April g. (AP) = The
Rural Electrification Authority ap-
proved today addition of so miles to
the 1875 miles of rural electric lines
to be constructed by the Brunswick
County Electric Membership Corpor-
alton The lines added will serve Gus
toners in Columbus county.
No action had been taken this aft
ernoon on the request of the Union
County Rural Identification group
to add 40 miles to serve customers
in adjoining counties.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06

Ladies and gentlemen" the maid
was quoted as telling the startled
dinner guests, II am a true German.
love Adolf Hitler. If you don't
stop speaking against him, 1 will stop
serving dinner right now"
She went to government author
tiles, with the result that customs
agents later raided the Lauer apart
ment, and afterwards arrested AL
bert Chapereau, confessed smuggler,
who had been one of the dinner
guests, thereby opening the trail that
led to Benny and Burns.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06
POLAND STICKS TO POLICY
OF NEIGHBORLY RELATIONS

Warsaw, April 6.-(AP)-Despite
the new mutual defense accord with
Britain, Poland sticks to her tradi-
tional policy of good neighborly re-
lations, the Influential Kurjer Ger
wony, often used as mouthpiece of
the Polish foreign office, declared
today
The newspaper interpreted the
agreement announced to the British
House of Commons by Prime Minis
ter Chamberlain as a ''strengthen-
ing. Of Polish-British relations, which
without doubt, will have an in
fluence on the European situation by
cementing and increasing peace"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06

a p p o i ntment of
Fred H. Brown to
t h e co m ptroller
generalship of the
United States and
the appointment Of
Leon Henderson 10
the Craftsmanship
of the Securities
and Exchange Com
mission. The posts
are intrinsically
i m p or t ant and
Brown and Hen
GersOn are an out
standing nair Tho
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy, showers and
thunderstOrmS this afternoon
and tonight and probably near
the coast FRIDAY morning; cold
er tonight and Friday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06

Appointment
Wins Acclaim
By CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, April 6.-President
Roosevelt made, a couple of excep-
tionally interesting appointments a
few DAYS agO-the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06
Events Seen
AS Warning
To Balkans
Y u g os | avia and
Greece Feel Menace;
Mussolini Pilots Plane
on Trip to Military
Airport acing AL
bania Across Adriatic
Sea

Belgrade, YugOslavia, April 6.
lAP-RepOrts reaching Tirana
today told of an elaborate ItaI-
ian naval display off the AL
bantam coast.
While private and diplomatic
reports agreed that there had
been no landing of troops. ItaI-
ian destrOyers were reported
darling about the harbOrs of San
GlOvannia and Di Medua. in the
north. and ValOna in the south.
Three Italian warships were at
anchor at DurazzO.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06

Albania, just across the Adriatic
Sea from Italy, becomes Europe's
newest sore spot with reports that
Mussolini has demanded Italian
troops be permitted to land there.
The action, seen as preliminary to
making a protectorate of King
Zog's country, met with vigorous
resistance from Albanian states
men at Tirana, the capital, and
strong protests by France and
Great Britain.
Central Press)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-06

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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
PUBLIC Welfare
BOARD IN SESSION

The Territorial Board of Public
Welfare was in session this after
noon at the office of Gov John
w, Troy. Members present were: the
Governor, who is Chairman Miss
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
ALASKA WOMAN
TESTiFIES IN
FRAUD TRIAL
People Gas and Oil Case
COMPOUNDED by An
sWers OF Witness

TACOMA, Wash, March 22.-The
testimony of Isabel Mitchell, An
chorage school teacher. ran contrary
today to two salient points stressed
by defense attorneys in the mail
fraud trial of eight officials of the
Peoples Gas and Oil Company
Miss Mitchell testified she bought
Frenchman Hills oil leases while a
resident of Alaska, and also declared
she had been induced to contract
for an additional block of property
after she had held what the COM
pany claimed was the maximum al
lowance permitted single lease
holder.
Defense attorneys in previous
questioning, hammered the fact that
statesmen had been instructed to sell
leases only to Washington residents.
The Anchorage school teacher
said, Il quit making payments on
the lease when I came to the con-
clusion that the company was crook
ed l."
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
Girl Scout Council
Discusses Plans for
Summer Activities

A meeting of the Girl Scout Coun-
Gil was held yesterday afternoon
at the home of Mrs j. E. Neate, a.
which time plans for the summer
activities, mainly the summer camp
were discussed.
There are approximately sixty
Girl Scouts in Juneau who are ell
igible each year to attend the sum-
mer camp at Eagle River, which is
supervised by COMPETENT director
from the states.
In previous years donations for
the camp activities have been re-
quested, but during the last year OF
two this has been dismissed, and the
only way the scouts raise money
for the camp is by the show sponsor
ed by them, and their goodie sales.
Saturday at Hollmanns Pharm-
acy, the Scouts are holding their
goody sale, and everyone is invited
to inspect the home cooked delicac-
les which will be on display, all
money derived from this being put
towards the annual camp funds.
Members on the board, present
at yesterdays session, included
Mesdames Waino Hendrickson, H. s
Graves, x. C. Talmadge, and H. G.
Wilcox.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
Frontier Defenses Fill with
Soldiers as DAN
gers Grow
SECRET MODELLING
OF MEN WIDESPREAD
Many Little Nations Keep
Wary Eyes on Hitler,
Neighbors

BUCHAREST, Rumaria, Mar.
22.-It is apparent today that
the nations of Southeast Europe
are ready to defend their many
frontiers.
No country will admit II is
mcbilized. but there are soldiers
on every border and hundreds
of thousands Of men have been
called from their homes 20 fill
frontier Notifications.
Rumania, alarmed by troop
concentrations in Hungary, call
ed cut special tcOps of several
yearly classes, and over in Bull
garia, more military activity
prompted Rumania to call out
Reservists Of the Bucharest reg
ion.
The General Staffs of Turkey,
Yugoslavia and Greece, watch
the military mcves intently, and
military preparations are yelled
in secrecy.
Each little Balkan state is
watching its neighbors and also
Germany, each well acquainted
with what the ether is doing and
making secret military moves
accordingly.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22

Sparks as saying when cornered.
He did tell, signing lengthy
statement before u S. Marshal Ma
honey and Deputy Marshal Walter
G. Hellan this morning.
Articles Recovered
Later he led officers to a cache
in his home on Willoughby Avenue
where various articles stolen from
the building this winter were re-
covered. The list includes two sill
yer fox skins, a silver bracelet, 10
ivory bracelets, seven ivory neck
laces, five ivory cigarette holders,
one steel tape, one glass brooch, 16
coins, &c pieces Of miscellaneous
ivory handiwork and three foun-
tain pens.
Re ivory pieces had disappeared
from the Office of Indian Affairs
Istorerocm. Almost every office in
the building had reported thefts
recently, Vile said. In addition, a
number of inquiries for lost mail
were beginning to come in.
Sparks told officers he took only
currency out Of the letters, burn
ing checks, lots of them" along
with the envelopes and letters.
Every time Sparks went on
shift, things disappeared" Vile
said today, in telling how he had
decided the little fireman was the
guilty man.
Had Master Key
Sparks had a master key to all
offices in the building. His regular
shift, the one he was on last night,
began at u midnight.
One clue to the disappearing mail
was uncovered several days ago
when the Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff
reported finding a cache of I'M
opened mail in one of the files in
the museum.
Among letters opened and de-
stroyed by Sparks. he admitted,
were many from the Marshafs Of
flee containing checks as fees to
witnesses and jurors.
The envelope which was rescued
from the furnace was addressed to
Forrest Lien, Battle Lake, Min
nesota, and was postmarked March
81, yesterday A charred Happy
Birthday" card also will be evi-
dence
Sparks, an employee in the Fed
eral Building for many years, was
married last September for the
second time.
A complaint was being drawn up
this afternoon in the office of Dis
trict Attorney William A. Holz-
heimer, who said Sparks would be
charged with a number of offens-
Ies, all serious. Robbery of the mails
will be among the charges, he said.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
AIR INSPECTOR
GOES TO Scene
OF PLANE WRECK

Inspector OF Aeronautics 1. K Nc
Williams, who arrived in Juneau
from Fairbanks yesterday by plane,
went by boat to the scene of the
Cope plane accident to make his
Investigations.
With McWilliams was Alex Hold
en-, A. B. Hayes, Stacey Norman, AL
aska head of the Federal Commune
cations System, and Bert Lien, Pa
cific Alaska Always pilot.
The party went to the scene on
Cash Coles boat Jazz and expect to
return here this evening.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
ALL EUROPE NOW MUSTERS T0BAY0NETS
FRANK DUFRESNE
BACK FROM TRIP
TO WASHINGTON
Commission Game Regu-
Iaiions Before Seere-
tary Of Agriculture

Executive Officer Frank Dufresne
was back at his Alaska Game Com
mission desk today after six weeks
trip to Washington to deliver the
commission regulations to the Sec
rotary of Agriculture.
AS soon as the regulations are
signed, which it is expected will
be within a few days, they will be
announced. They go into effect for
the fiscal year beginning July l.
Dufresne visited game farms in
the northern States searching for
game birds which can be planted in
Alaska.