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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
u. S. Boosts
Defenses In
Caribbean
N e w Puerto Rican
Military Department
Set Up as Nations De-
Tense Bill Reaches to
Unprecedented Peak

Washington, May 1.-(AP)-Sec-
rotary Woodring announced today
the forthcoming establishment of d
new military department embracing
the Caribbean area. 1t will be known
as the Puerto Rican department.
His action, taken by direction of
President Roosevelt, will bring under
control of the new department, be-
ginning July l, the Island of Puer-
to Rico, including all adjacent keys
together with the Virgin Islands, be-
longing to the United States.
. The new department is designed
to further United States defenses in
the Caribbean Sea. Secretary Wood
ding announced the department
would be under the command of
Brigadier General Edmund Daley,
with headquarters at the military
reservation of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Uncle Sans defense bill for the
year beginning July l appeared like
ly today to reach the unprecedented
peacetime total of $1,804, 458,552.
Congress already has made $578, $685.
III available to the army, the larg-
est sum that service has seen since
the World War, for acquisition of
new weapons and expansion Of the
air corps.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
Stock Prices
Are Irregular

New York, May 1.-(AP)-Stocks
drifted over an irregularly lower
route in today's market. Little sig
nificance could be attached to de-
clines ranging from fractions to more
than a point, inasmuch as the ses-
sion Was one of the sloWest in nearly
five years. Transfers approximated
275.OOO shares. A few issues, includ-
ing sugar company stocks, which
were aided by firmness of the staple,
worked counter to the trend for mod
est advances. Many traders continued
to remain aloof, brokers said, pend
ing further assurances that Europe
would manage to keep out Of war
at this time. The opinion generally
however, was that the latest sore
spot, the row between Germany and
Poland over Danzig and the cor
ridor, would be remedied possibly
without n NJ oinY Oy1or.o fiOy1
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
Two Prospective
Purchasers Kidnap
An Auto Salesman

Tarboro, May 1.-(AP)-Zeb Brin-
son, co-proprietor Of an automobile
agency, reported to officers today
that ne had been robbed by two I'M
identified men posing as prospective
customers, Wlo creed him at pistol
points to drive them into the country
and then get out of the car. Brinson
SAID one of the men showed a pistol
against his back as he was driving
lhem up main street to demonstrate
The automobile. He was told, he re-
lated, to drive out the Rocky Mount
highway and then into a siderOad,
where he was left He made his way
10 the nearest telephone and report
ed the robbery.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
OF
Nazii Arms
Is Boosted
Youth Group a n d
Worker Organization
Hear Sabre : Rafting
by Fuehrer; Germany
Trying to Isolate Po-
land

Berlin, May 1.-(AP)-Adolf Hit
Ter today proclaimed Germany zone
OF the most heavily armed nations
IN the WORLD, and Nazi diplomats
pressed eff Its to isolate Poland and
make her ripe for yielding to Ger
mand demands.
Hitler and his lieutenants seized
upon May Day celebrations to unity
the Nazi Reich and strengthen the
offensive against international
enemies" which Hitler began with
his Friday reply to President Roose-
velts peace proposals.
In two speeches, one to $4,000
boys and girls of the Hitler Youth
Organization, and another to Drawn
and Brain Workers, in a Berlin mass
meeting, he hit out at charges that
Germany desires war. He also took
occasion to strike at American ac-
ton against German goods, saying:
1.-The United States has organized
boycott against German goods. 1t
would have been better to import
German goods than German i'm
migrants" Campaigns against the
purchase of German goods in the
United States are unofficial. The
United States government has i'm
posed Is percent counter-vailing
duty against most German goods to
compensate for subsidy of exports by
Germany
German diplomacy is trying to
drive wedge between Poland and
Hungary in the hope of isolating
Poland, formerly partner with Ger
many in a ten-year non-aggression
pact which Hitler denounced Fri
day, it was said.
AS Hitler addressed the youths and
the workers he hammered away with
sentences like these:
Germany is one of the most
heavily armed nations of the world
today, thanks to our strength and
thanks to our friends
"On day like this, 1 look with
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL

Raleigh, May North Carolina
8ubernatorial race, definitely. in pro-
gfeSs right now although the pri-
mary isn't to be held for about thir-
teeh months, has reached the jockey
ing Tor position stage, with several
candidates importuning "the admin
iiSlerion" for support, others in a
hlghly receptive frame of mind
should such support be offered; and
sun others trying to devise ways and
means OF getting along without it.
me Importance attached to "the
administration" and its blessing lies
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01

engaging in or expanding private en-
terprise, thus classifying themselves
as business deterrents. The undis-
tributed profits tax notably las been
SO denounced This tax originally was
intended to prevent corporations
from saving up their profits, instead
of paying them out in dividends to
their stockholders, who, getting this
cash, presumably would have rein
vested it, CORRESPONDENCE stimulat-
ing commercial activity.
The complaint is that a corpora
ton frequently needs to hang onto
some of its profits for a while, in
order to accumulate funds for ex-
pansion Of its own production and
sales. But the tax restricts these
temporary economies, so that the
corporation can't expand, and may
be the stockholders don't invest in
something else but salt away their
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
RoperNa AIMED
u. S. Envov
To Canada
+ orm er Commerce
Secretary Given Post
BY Roosevelt; Quit in
December To Attend
to Private Affairs

Washington, May 1.-(AP)-Pres-
ident Roosevelt sent to the Senate
today the name of Daniel C. Roper
former secretary of commerce. to be
minister to Canada. Roper has beelI
out Of office since last December. His
nomination to the diplomatic posl
brought him into new field of serv-
ice, although he has been in govern
ment work almost continuously since
1894.
When he left the Commerce De-
partment post, later filled by Harry
L. Hopkins, the South Carolinian.
who has just turned 70, explained he
had to give needed attention" to his
personal affairs.
Born in South Carolina, Roper was
graduated from Trinity College, now
Duke University. He taught school
before entering the legislature at 25.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
Income of State
Declines Further

Raleigh, May 1.-(AP)-NOrth
Cardinals revenue collections
through April of this fiscal year
tOtaled $59,525,799.9O, or 2.25 per-
cent less than the $6O,894,585.15
collected by the same time last
year, Revenue Commissioner A.
j. Maxwell reported today.
Last months receipts were S4,-
478,C69.09, or III percent under
the $4,826,223.39 total in April.
1888.
Sales tax returns were up from
OS68,182 in April, 1888, to $780,
9O8.52 last month, though revenue
from the levy fell from S9,433,-
029.23 in ten months of 1937-38 to
S9,986,232.74 for the same period
this fiscal year.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
Green Backs
Changes In
Wagner Act

Washington, May l. (AP) =
Charging that the National Labor
Relations Board has distorted the
Wagner act into an instrument of OPP
preston, President William Green,
of the American Federation of Labor,
recommended todoy that the three
member body be displaced.
Appearing before the Senat Labor
Committee, Green proposed substi-
tuition of a new five-member Fed
eral labor board. He also testified in
support Of A. F. Of I. amendments to
the Wagner act, offered by Senator
Walsh, Democrat, Of Massachusetts.
Among other things, these amend
ments broaden the right to appeal
labor decisions to the courts, would
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01

lican, North Dakota, suggested that
Great Britain take up negotiations
for European peace within the frame
work Of Hitler's Reichstag speech.
They offered this prop in advance of
the expiration at midnight of the
Cash and carry neutrality provi-
sions, which regulate American trade
with warning nations.
Contrary to the opinion held by
George and Nye, some legislators De-
lieve Mr.. Roosevelt may discuss
Hitler's address in "fireside" chat
to the nation
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
Ickes Warns Employees
To Avoid Pending Fight

Washington, May l. (AP)-Sec-
rotary Ickes warned employees of
the Public Works Administration
today that any of them found to be
working against President Roose-
velt's government reorganization
plan would be ''disciplined." He did
not say what form of disciplining
would take, but veteran WPA en-
ployees said they believed it meant
they would be discharged.
Ickes' warning was contained in
memorandum to all employees.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
u. S. Is Warned Of Alliance
Between Russia And GERMANY

Washington, May 1.-(AP)-Phil-
ip Marshall Brown, representing the
American Peace Society, told the
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
today that an arrangement" be-
tween Russia, Germany and Japan
was perhaps an immediate possible
lity." He declared that such a line
up would result for an agreement
between Russia and Germany, which
he said is the aim of Russia's pre-
cent power politics." and from the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01

Mr.. Roosevelt's reorganization
plan No. l, submitted to Congress
last week, provided, among other
things, for establishment of a Fed
eral works agency which would take
over the PWA. The latter agency
has been under Ickes' administra-
ton since 1888
Aides said there had been NUT
terings of discomfort among many
employees, who feared reorganiza-
ton would mean GENERALIZATION and
mass rehabilitation in the field.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
.Pendergast
Aide Suicide

Kansas City, Kans., May lap
"A suicide note was found today in
the automobile of Edward Schneid-
Ell, secretary treasurer Of seven cor
porations headed by BOSS" T. j.
Pendergast. The car was parked on
the Fairfax bridge over the Missouri
river near here
Sheriff Frank thinner, of Wyan-
dotte county, found the car, and po-
lice made plans to drag the river
near the bridge.
Schneider testified four days last
week before federal grand jury
which is investigating business af-
fairs of the political boss. An in
come tax evasion indictment to
which Pendergast pleaded innocent
today in Federal court in Kansas
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
10000 Japs Flee
Severe Earthquake
InNOrthern Area

Akita. Japan, May 1.-(AP)-
Sixty thousand terror stricken
residents Of this northern jap
anese coastal city fled to the
open spaces today during series
of earth shocks described as the
most severe in Is years.
The home ministry'S official
report listed five persons dead
and scores missing, more than
400 homes demolished land about
200 others badly damaged. Parts
of nearby Okla peninsula and of
the southern coast line of Akita
prefecture were understood to
have sunk beneath the sea.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
Doris Dukes
Husband May
Go to Senate


Trenton, NJ j., May 1.-(AP)-A
source close to Governor Moore said
today that James H. R. Cromwell,
husband of the former Doris Duke,
tobacco heiress, held the inside track
for appointment as United States
senator in the event William H.
Smathers, Democrat, New Jersey, be-
came Federal judge.
Senator Smathers has been prom
inently mentioned as a successor to
J. Warren Davis, of Lawrenceville,
retired judge of the third circuit
court of appeals.
Cromwell has written on economic
and social problems. He served last
year on a State commission named
to study changes in New Jerseys tax
structure.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
Cotton Mart
Prices Mixed

New York, May 1.-(AP)-Cotton
futures opened unchanged to eight
points lower under Liverpool and
hedge selling in the October and De-
cennber positions. At the end of the
first hour, prices recovered several
points from the opening low. May
traded at 837, down one, and July
at 815, up three. Prices were four
higher to four lower around midday.
May traded at 1888, unchanged or six
points above the low, while July was
8.16, or four higher.
Futures closed II higher to nine
lower. Spot nominal middling 9.24
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
Methodists
Unite Their
Endownents

Kansas City, Kans., May 1.-(AP)
Three corporations of the previous
~ separate Methodist churches, with
endowment funds totaling $29,OOO,-
900 for pensioning ministers and
their dependents were federated to-
day in the first major business step
III the Methodist Uniting Conference.
The 900 delegates awaiting a
speech on foreign relations Wednes-
Day night by ALI M. Landon, 1886
Republican presidential nominee,
who is a conference delegate, p1ung-
ed into their second week of work
With heavy agenda ahead.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01

existing alliance between Japan and
Germany
"This may, if we become too an
tagonistic to these latter two coun-
tries, put us way out on limb in
ternationally," Brown said.
The only course for this country
to pursue, Brown continued, is to
adopt and stick to a policy Of ''real
neutrality
Declaring that President Roose-
welt could accomplish little by re-
ply to Adolf IIitler, Senators George
Democrat, Georgia, and Nye, Repub-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
Filling Station
At Walstonburg Is
Robbed of Money

Wilson, May l. (AP) Three
white men and Negro held up Woot-
en- Hobbs filling station near Wal
stonburg early today. An undeterm-
med amout of cash was taken.
Wayne Speight, said the three
white men searched him and five
other customers in the place syste-
matically at the point of pistols.
The Negro, Speight said, stayed in
the car with a shotgun.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
AGAIN NAMED
ON HIGHWAY BOARD

Raleigh, May 1.-(AP)-GOv-
ernOr HOey worked today on ap-
pOintmentS he must make due to
expiring terms, and said he had
decided to re-appaint T. BOddie
Ward, of Wilson, for a six year
term on the State Highway Com
mission. Other appointments pro-
badly will be announced within
"a hours.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
Jockeying For Position
Characterizes Race For
Governor At The Present

primarily in the fact that no cover
nor of North Carolina within the re-
cent memory of man has been elect
ed without it.
AS for Governor Clyde r. Hoey,
the personification of the admins
tration, he isn't saying thing, but
there are reliable indications that ne
has been doing some comforting as
to the direction in which he should
look for his successor in the Exc
cutive Mansion.
The governor, always a comprom-
User and conciliator to the very last
chance, is highly DESTROYS Of picking
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01

SyInpa | II y w l l II
Repres e n t a ii V e
Joseph w. Martin
o f Massachusetts,
Republican leader
in the lower legis-
lative chamber, in
the latter's demand
for tax revision SO
as to eliminate de-
terrent levieS. That
is to say, certain
impOSts are said to
have the effect Of
discouraging pri-
Vate capital from
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
GionhoA
FOR NORTH CAROL

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Tuesday;
slightly cooler tonight except on
southeast coast; light scattered
frost in mountains and north
west.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-01
Deterrent
Taxes Worry
Capital Now
By CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumnist

Washington, May PLENTY of
Democrats in Congress and high gov
ernmental executive positions are in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-07
YOUNGSTER STYLES
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Better Fat Than Wrinkles

Better Fat Than Wrinkles
 Leaving the arterscs out of it for the nonce, man is old when he stops looking and a woman Is as old as she feels.
 When doctor holds the feminine patients hand and gazes into her eyes and maybe strokes her cheek or chucks her under the chin the presumption must be that he is guaging the lady's anatomical or physiological age, for that is a bet ter guide in diagnosis, prognosis and treatment than the conventional lie about her chronological age. Of course he looks into her eyes for signs of the arcus senilis, or may hap the arcus juvenilis. and he holds her hand and strokes her cheek and chucks her under the chin in order to determine the ilu- tritional condition of her skin. Af- ter all, arteriosclerosis, hardening of the arteries, which is universally recognized as a characteristic of senescence, is . progressive nutri- tional derangement or deficiency, and the skilled physician can de- tect the degeneration in It's in- cipiency long before the patient her. self or even her cattiest acquain- tances become aware of 1t.
 I wouldn't mention such bit of bad news at all were 1t not for the cheering assurance I can conscien- tiously give the individual, man or woman, with incipient arterios- clerosis. namely, that if one with the early signs of this progressive nutritional derangement has the intelligence and the character to accept, adopt and follow consist ently or reasonably corrective regimen of living, as given here in series of articles and collected in the booklet "7 Keys to vite"-- there is always a fair chance to stay the progress of the degenera- ton and in some cases to reverse the process and bring about re- generation. actual physical or physiological rejuvenation.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-07
--- WE, THE WOMEN Slum Girl Awaits Rebirth
 As Operatic Cinderella
WE, THE WOMEN

When Cousin Cerano Corchia - who runs bar around the corner from the Corchia flat-heard about 1t he said he would fix everything.
 And he did--drawing his savings out of the bank to rent Carnegie Hall for the evening of February 20. That Is when Louisa steps out of her shsbby home into the lime. light.
 "Everything now depends on what happens that night" she says. If the critics are anywhere as enthus- iastic about her voice as her teacher, Donate Paradise, who thinks his young pupil has better voice than Galli- Curci. she'll tour this country in order to get enough money to sail for Milan--in order to come back to New York with "exper- ience."
 Copyright, 1899, NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-07

wasn't chance of my ever be-
 ing a singer" Louisa says smiling. But she
 didn't smile that day she heard the news. She was, in her own words, lawfully sad"
 But she wanted to sing and still believed that with train ing she would some day be great singer. Her mother believed t, too, and so she bought her daugh- ter some phonograph recordings by Galli-Curci and the little girl played them over and over until she could sing right along with her idol.
 She didn't do very well in school because her mind was al- ways singing" Her mother decided to have another teacher hear her voice. This one said, T think you have possibilities, If you are willing to work very hard" She did for five years.
 Then her teacher thought she was ready to be heard. But there was no wealthy patron to sponsor a recital. Being heard takes money. and the Corchias had practically none--only what the mother could earn doing housework.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-07
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Dipped Nuts and Fruits Popular


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 Now transfer the candies gently to a waxed paper or oilcloth and allow to dry.
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