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The Washington times., 1939-01-19
Dies Fund Is Urged
By Church League

CHICAGO, Jan. 10 G.N.S)
Frank J. Loesch, president of the
Church League of America, today
disclosed letters had been sent to
all the organizations $4,000 mem
bers asking them to write their
Congressman urging new funds
for the Dies committee investigat-
ing unamericaniSm. Loesch said
he believed the committee had
"only scratched the surface" of
suhversive activities in the coun-
try.
The Washington times., 1939-01-19

London Daily Telegraph stated in
a Moscow message that Andrei
Vishinsky, state prosecutor, had
drafted new decree designed to
end loafing and absenteeism in
industry, warning all managers
and heads Of government offices
would be guilty of criminal of.
lenses if they failed to enforce the
DEGREES.
Factory managers now are
legally obliged to dismiss workers
arriving more than 2 minutes
late unless they have an excep
ltional excuse.
The Washington times., 1939-01-19
j. ). Steamer Loses
Propeller at Sea

HALIFAX, N. S., Jan. 18
U.N.SO.-The American steamer
Black Condor. of the Black Dia-
mond Line. en- route from Rot
terdam to New York, lost her
propeller and is drifting so miles
east of Sable Island. according to
radio calls for assistance tonight.
The steamer Foundation Franklin
sailed from Halifax Immediately
to her aid.
The Washington times., 1939-01-19
"Must Haze KnOlcn''

In direct reference to Hopkins
speeches during President Roose
velt's campaign to purge" con
servative Democrats from thu
party, Bailey said:
"Mr. Hopkins said his execu-
tive force in the field num-
bered fully $4,000 salaried en-
ployes. Each of these could
well have felt that it vas in
some degree his duty or to his
interests to uphold the views
as expressed by Mr.. Hopkins,
and it is only fair to say that
Mr.. Hopkins must have known
this and made his speeches
knowing this"
Bailey declared bluntly that
Hopkins, in his administration oi
relief funds, "set an example which
must be condemned by Congress,
and that che (HopkinS) shoulc
be commended for himself having
condemned the example that HI
set."
whether our condemnation
should go so far as to bar him
from the high office to which
the President has appointed him
is a question upon which I do
not pass" he added.
The Washington times., 1939-01-19
Officials Indicted

The DeutSche Nachrichten Blu
reau, official news service Of thI
Hitler government, yesterda!
stated:
According to announcement
In the Communist newspaper
Pravda, of Moscow, scores Of Of
ficialS and directors of indus
tries have been indicted, charged
with taking insufficient meas
ures to halt unrest among the
workers. In addition to upriS-
ingS in Moscow and Leningrad,
bloody clashes have taken place
between OGPU agents and So
Wet workers in several industrial
districts Of Siberia and central
and northern Russia.
The death toll is already in
excess Of 100. Acts Of revenge
by dissatisfied workers are in
creasing daily"
A few days ago the conservative
The Washington times., 1939-01-19
Russian Workers ReUOLt
As NeW Decree Cuts Pau
And Increases Production
By CHARLES A. SMITH


LONDON, JAM 19.-Behind the high walls of Bolshevist
censorship and but little known to the world large
heaVal OF regmened labor is taking place in Soviet Russia
today Its full extent and its gravity real potential
threat to the rule Of Josef Stain
The Washington times., 1939-01-19
NAVY ASKS z
new AIR BASES
AND GUAM FORT
u. S. Weakness Against
Plane Attack Barred
Continued from Page II

President Roosevelt's S552,000,-
900 rearmament program. the
Navy proposed that the Congress
appropriate S65.O0O,000 for the
construction of the vital bases,
with S5.000.000 of the amount to
be used over a four-year period to
establish a submarine and air
facilities at Guam.
The recommended bases:
Kaneohe Bay Hawaii; Midway
Island; Wake Island; Johnston
Island; Palmyra Island; Kodiak,
Alaska Sitka; San Juan, Puerto
Rico; Pensacola, Fla; Jackson
vile. Fla; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
and Guam.
A bill to carry out the Navy's
proposals was Immediately intro
duced in the House by Chairman
Virson of the Naval Affairs Com
mittee and he announced that his
committee would start public hear
lngs next Wednesday. Admiral
William D. Leahy, chief of naval
operations, and Rear Admiral
Arthur Hepburn, author of the
controversial Hepburn report
which proposed the fortification
Of Guam. will be the opening
witnesses.
Meanwhile a member of the
Army General Staff who believes
the opening days of any future
war will be fought in the air, to-
day asked Congress to allocate
100000 to strengthen anti-air-
craft defenses.
Brig. Gen. George C. Marshall,
deputy chief of staff, told the
House Military Affairs Committee
that the Army needs additional
"sub-stratosphere" anita ircraft
guns which can fire up to $4,000
feet and funds to build a new and
heavier gun for a 10,000-foot range
which the United States has de-
veloped as result of observations
in the Spanish and Sino-JapaneSe
conflicts.
Production Lags
He bluntly conceded that this
country is very weak" in anti
aircraft defense compared to other
major powers. He added, how
ever. that the United States has
developed the finest equipment
available, but the material has not
been made available in sufficient
quantities to the Army.
Another member of the general
staff, Brig. Gen. George Strong,
asked the committee to allot $6,-
$4,000 of the total to additional
Seacoast defense equipment.
Questioned closely by commit
tee members as to the true value
of anti-aircraft guns against mod
ern high-speed planes, the gen.
eral declared that their efficiency
has increased 500 per cent since
the World War.
Statistics on the Spanish war
show that half of the planes have
been brought down by anti-air-
craft guns and half by combat
planes, the committee was in
formed.
MOBILITY VITAL
Asked what the army believed
1t needed to give this country
adequate" anti-aircraft defense,
General Marshall declared that
"a mobile anti-aircraft regiments
would be required. The Army now
has IS regiments in this category.
The hazards of war are con-
Gtantly moving inland" he said.
"Our policy is now based on
mobile equipment that can be
freely shifted over the coun-
try rather than on the old sta
tionary type"
The new nti-aircraft gun de-
veloped out of the experiences of
the Spanish and Chinese wars.
has been perfected by the Army
and now awaits funds to produce
1t, he asserted. 1t is 37.mm gun
firing a 1-pound shell.
The Washington times., 1939-01-19

LII view O4 CI1G 1dCL G1ldG GI1c
Bureau Of Internal Revenue
will have no choice but to en-
force our income tax law as de-
clared in the latest decisions of
the Supreme Court, prompt
legislation is necessary to safe
guard against the inequities to
which I have referred.
The need, therefore, is for
the prompt enactment Of equit-
ables rules, prospective in opera.
ton, which the Bureau can
apply and taxpayers can OBJ
serve without that mass Of liti-
cation which otherwise is to be
anticipated. We are confronted
with a situation which can be
handled with fairness to all
and with reasonable administrar
tive conve%ience only through
the cooperation Of the Congress
and the Courts.
Unless Congress passes some
legislation dealing with this sit
uation prior to March fifteenth,
I am informed by the Secretary
of the Treasury that he will be
obliged to collect back taxes for
at least three years upon the
employees of many state agencies
and upon the security-holders Of
many state corporate instru-
mentalitieS, who mistakenly but
in good faith believed they were
taX-exempt.
The Washington times., 1939-01-19

Continued from Page u
the bulk of the cut, other items
in the bill did not escape pruning.
Wage-HOur Fund Cut
The wage-hour division of the
Department of Labor asked $780,
900 to carry it through the next
five months, but only got $780,
600. The Bureau of Entomology
sought $1,000, ,000-the committee
recommended $2,000,000.
The report asserted:
THE evidence is indiSputable
as to the urgent need of free
ing the wooded areas of the New
England States, some 100000
acres through which the storm
pasSed-of great quantities of
inflarrmable debris, constituting
serious fire hazard"
It also declared that there Is
need for assistance in reopening
blocked roads, clearing roadside
strips, restoring fire detection and
communication facilities, and sup
plying temporary essentials of
fire prevention, such as patrols
and posting.
Forest Plan Cut
Likewise, a request from the
forest service for 100000 for re-
Ihabilitating the White Mountain
National Forest in New Hamp
shire and Maine. as a result OF
the hurricane, was reduced to
$4,000
In taking its action on the
larger hurricane relief figure, the
committee in its report to the
House, made these observations:
THE committee is in thorough
sympathy with the principle
that the Federal Government
should step in in emergencies
of such magnitude and aid
local authorities to the extent
that the need may be evident.
The Federal Government al
ready has stepped in, in a very
large way To say nothing
of what has been done in set
ting up instrumentalities in aid
Of those whose timberlands were
in various degrees affected by
the storm,
The Washington times., 1939-01-19

Jectufe.
Reports reaching London and
Berlin talk Of a rebellion OF
peasants and workers" Dispatches
seeping 2cross the borders hint
darkly Of new "purges," tell Of the
desperate measures being taken
by the Soviet secret police to put
down what would appear to be
virtual inSurrection.
Less Money; More Work
These may all be exaggerated,
although the controlled Soviet
press itself has admitted disaffec-
ton in the Russian labor ranks.
What may be stated as an un-
disputed fact Is this:
The workers of the U. 8. S. R.,
not unnaturally, have accepted
with little grace Stalin's new
"work-discipline DEGREES" which in
volve wage cuts of as much as IS
per cent and demands for increases
in production approximating IS
per cent.
The following, received in Paris
today from Moscow by q circuItouS
route, is typical picture Of work
ing conditions:
THE Moscow courts yeSter-
day sentenced five offending
workers to terms of imprison-
ment ranging from three to five
years. They were convicted Of
assaulting the directors Of their
factory, who had discharged
them for failing to fill the re-
QuirementS of the new DEGREES.
Death to Be Penalty
"Orders have been issued for
the immediate execution of all
workers participating In terror
ist activities. The OGPU
(secret police henceforth will
vigorously supervise the applica-
tions of all workers eligible
under the new decree laws"
The dispatch declared that the
execution order had come from
the new mystery man" of Soviet
Russia, the recently-appointed all
powerful commissar for internal
affairs, whose cabinet post auto
matically gives him command Of
the dreaded OGPU.
He is Lorenti Birea, who only Q
few weeks ago was lifted from an
obscure post In the Transcaucasus.
Resentment or rebellion Is par
ticularly evident in the western
part of Russia. There also is re-
ported concerted new action by
dissatisfied peasants against the
whole scheme Of collective farm
ing.
The Washington times., 1939-01-19
T ext of Roosevelt
Message on T axes

The tert of President Roosevats message urging tar
on Federal and State salaries foZlouS:
The Washington times., 1939-01-19
SENATE STAGES
BITTER BATTLE
OVER HOPKINS
Bailey Flags Appointee
on Relief Politics
Continued from Page II

Continued from Page II
before the Commerce Committee
during hearings on his appoint
ment, but said he could have
taken a sterner attitude towarc
subordinates who we're accused OF
using relief funds for political
coercion.
"Laxity" Alleged
"It seems to me-" Bailey said,
"that he should have known
more as to what was being done
than he admits that he knew
and, certainly by the exercise OF
due diligence, he could have
known more, and that he might
have made much more emphatic
efforts than he appears to have
made to repress political activity
in the Works Progress Admins
tration organization and on the
part of those, who were not in
the organization.
"One cannot avoid the belief
that Mr.. Hopkins did not exer-
else himself in this manner to
the extent that he should have.
There were many things one
really deSirous Of eliminating
politics from the Works Progress
Administration might have done,
many things that Mr.. Hopkins
seems not to have thought of
doing"
The Washington times., 1939-01-19
HOUSE GROUP
SLASHES AID

Continued from Page u
the bulk of the cut, other items
in the bill did not escape pruning
Ho,,, Eual r,G
The Washington times., 1939-01-19

derived from securities hereto
fore issued.
In the light of those decisions
there are, among the taxpayers
of the nation, inevitable uncer-
tainties respecting their tax liza
bilities. There is uncertainty
whether the salaries which they
receive are not taxable under
the existing provisions Of the
revenue acts; there is uncer.
tainty whether the interest
which they receive upon the OBJ
legations of governmental in
strumentalities is similarly not
taxable: and there is an un-
certainty whether the salaries
and interest which they have
received for past years will
create an unanticipated source
of tax liabilities and penalties.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-04-06

Katherine O'DonneI will have as
guests for Easter Miss Miriam ODon-
nell, Washington, D. c., and John
Martini, of Detroit.
Richard Ream, who has been in
Macon ILL.,, has returned to Loeb Lynn
for a short stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Sisk, QUAINT
co, Va, spent Sunday and Monday
here with Mr.. Sisk's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Morris Sisk.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. E. Paugh were
visitors to Swallow Falls on Sunday.
D. E. Calls was a business visitor
in Keyser on Friday.
Roland Ready, Baltimore, is here to
spend Easter with his mother, Mrs,
Walter Ready.
Mrs. Charles May will have as
guests for Easter her son, Arden May,
and daughter, Mrs. Flora Jones, of
Washington, D. c.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Stansburg, Wash
ington, were guests over the weekend
with Edward SembOwers.
Mrs. Maude Junkins had as guests
the past week her granddaughter,
Miss Nancy Petit and Miss Alice
Lear, of Arlington, Va.
Junior Tichnell was a weekend
visitor to KitzmiIler
Miss Millicent Wilhelm and J. j.
Mars, Of GrantsvilIe, were Sunday
visitors to the Park.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-04-06
GORTNER

The volunteer Missionary band of
Bridgewater College, Va, will conduct
services in the Union church on Sun
day evening at 1880 p. m. You are
invited.
The Lutheran sewing circle will
meet at the home of Mrs. Ray Mosser,
at Red House, on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Wotring, East
Liverpool, o., were weekend visitors
at the home of their uncle, Walter
Schlossnagle.
Miss Josephine Stahl was the
guest Of Miss Kathleen Dodge on Sun
day.
MIR. Harvey Swartzentruber accom-
panied Warren Caplinger, William
Strickland and Andy Patterson, of
Friendsville, to Bloomington on Tues
day where the latter three, cap, Andy
and Flip" rendered a program.
Mrs. Albert Sisk spent Sunday after
noon with Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Dodge.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Spoerlein were
in Cumberland on Saturday and were
accompanied home by Miss Dora
Louise Spoerlein, who spent several
days here.
Lawrence Bittinger, Miss Ruth
Railey, Mrs. Anna Bittinger, accom-
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Gort-
ner. of Grantsville, were in Pittsburgh
on Sunday. Mr.. and Mrs. Gortner con-
tinued on to Michigan.
Mrs. Harvey Swartzentruber and
daughter, Deloros, We're visiting at
Leroy Whites last Wednesday.
Mrs. John Kitzmiller and son, Asa,
attended the funeral of Mrs. Charles
Jorden. at Dodge on Sunday.
Frank Lichty, Berlin, Pa, visited
his relatives last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sisk and Miss
Lena SIabach spent Sunday evening
at the home of John Shaffer.
Miss Eleanor Friend visited hel
sister, Miss Laura Alice Friend, al
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Friend
on Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hervey Roth were
guests Of Mrs. Roth's home folk at
Red House, on Sunday.
Mrs. Ray Yoder and Mr.. Irwin Yo-
der visited Ray Yoder in Memoria
hospital Cumberland, on Tuesday
Ray is improving.
Miss Louella Yoder has returned t.
her home at GrantSVille.
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and Mary Dieling, Mrs. Arthur Broad
water and Mrs Lee BroadWater.
Miss Beulah Wiley and Mrs. Claude
Adkins visited Mrs. Ira Broadwater
recently.
Grant Feight, Cresaptown, is spend
ing some time visiting friends in this
community.
Mrs. Floyd Broadwater visited Mrs
Lee Broadwater in this community on
Wednesday of last week.
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and daughter, ZelIa, Clarence Clark,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Stephen, Mrs.
Claude Adkins, John Merrill, Mary
and Anna Dieling
Frederick Rounds and Mrs. Alice
Warwick visited the latter's daughter,
Mrs. Milton Railey, at GrantsviIle.
Mrs. James Stephen entertained
with a quilting on Thursday Those
present were, Miss Beulah Wiley, Min
ME Wiley, leila Broadwater. Anna
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MT. LAKE PARK

And I, if l be lifted up from the
earth, viii draw all men unto me-
John 1872.
Tomorrow is Good Friday. No mat
ter what else you may take time for
on this day you will surely read the
whole story of the crucifXion. We
wish that we had the space to give
YOU what we have read in the last few
days At least we shall quote it, or
part of it. First, let US say that the
life of Jesus often seems far away in
time and place. The story Of his death
seems even father away-remont
from US in its great tragedy.
There is little chance thatyOu and
will be executed as common criminals.
In the mode of it's actual ending the
life of Jesus passes beyond anything
we may normally expect. The cross
stands in history as the supreme sym
Dol of pain and injustice-and as such
it stands alone But it stands also as
an inalicnable pledge that earth hath
no sorrow which Christ hath not
shared
In other words, there was no
"aristocracy Of suffering" in the death
of Jesus. That seems to US worth
while thought.
A very happy Eastertide to you all.
Easter Services
Rev. Harold Gamblin, pastor, an
nounced the regular worship service
for Easter at ten o'clock. Sermon,
.Thc Eternal Symbol" Special music
by the choir.
Communion at Pleasant Valley at
11:15. In the evening at 1880 at the
Park. with continuation Of the study
of the history of the Methodist church.
Sunday afternoon at the Steyer
school house there viii be an Easter
service at 2:30.
Our first duty seems to be a cor
rectiOn regarding the Mickey Band.
We have been informed that the cost
of the uniforms will run in the neigh
borhood of 5000 to $3.50 in place Of the
$3.50 we gave last week. The greater
part of this has been arranged for but
at that the band will have plenty to
do to pay off all of this Indebtedness,
which means that the whole com
munity will have to get back OF this
group and help them to the limit. And
we should.
Several property sales are reported
pending. Added to this the garbage
collection actually happened the other
day. So it's looking like the summer
season has really gotten off to a good
start.
Can't say that the weather man has
given much encouragement. The
winds are sharp and piercing and it's
cold. Better not take your stoves
down for a month or so.
The Mountain Lake Library is a
busy spot on Friday. Formerly it was
Library Day here on Saturday, but
this day was changed by the librarian,
Mrs. Gay Hayden. A number Of new
books have been received. To the
detective readers there is a new crime
club story sent by Mrs. Anstruther
Schmidt, who is in Los Angeles. The
title Warrant for X" by Phillip
Mac Donald. A number of other fine
titles have been received.
Birthday Party
A lovely birthday party was given
by Mrs. A. E Brown on Monday after
noon in honor of the fifth birthday of
her daughter, Anne. The guests were
all members of Anne's Sunday school
class. Assisting Mrs. Brown in enter
tanning the young people were Miss
Ethel Turney, teacher of the class
and Mrs. A. V. Schaeffer, grandmother
of the honor guest.
Personals
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Miss Mary ODonnell and Miss
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-14
Vance County Cases Will
'Highlight Supreme Court
Continued From Page One)

stitutional government in this coun-
try, under which individual effort
and initiative have been fostered and
encouraged, and the people generally
have enjoyed a degree of liberty o.
persons and security Of property un-
known to the rest of the world"
And besides all that, argues the
brief, the law does not set up any
standard or generaM principle by
which action under this delegated
legislative power should be exercised
or measured, and is,a therefore, an
unWarranted delegation of legislative
authority, and is void.
Furthermore, it is contended, the
act cannot be supported on the
ground that it is a paramount in
dustry and comes within the law
enunciated in the milk cases.
Not only that, but in addition the
defendant further contends that the
act is repugnant of the Constitution
of the State and of the nation in that
it is (a) an enactment Of a local and
special law regulating a trade, and
(b) lit is arbitrary in classification
and denies equal protection of the
laws to persons Of the same class.
For all of which, as set out in 53
pages of mimeographed matter, iii
is submitted that the ruling of the
Court below should be reversed"
Gholson and Gholson and Ira
Julian are on the brief for the ap-
pealing Of Mr.. Harris.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-14
FORECLOSURE SALE.

BY virtue of authority conferred in
a certain deed of trust executed by
Louhazel Steed on the 18th day of
May 1885 and recorded in book 1874
page 105 register of deeds office for
Vance County, North Carolina, de-
fault having been made in the pay
ment of the debt therein secured and
the owner thereof having requested
foreclosure, 1 will on Monday the
7th day of August, 1889, at the court
house door in Henderson, N. c., at
II o'clock offer for sale by public
auction the following real estate:
Begin at a stake on the Kittrell
road, 300 feet from Sue Cooper's cor
ner, run thence along said Kittrell
road, SO feet to a stake; thence at
right angles with the Kittrell road
l62 feet to a stake 40 feet from the
center of the S. A. L. Railroad rieht
of way; thence along said right Of
way SO feet to stake: thence
parallel with the second line 16O feet
more or less to the place of beo;nN
ming. This deed of trust being eiyen
to secure the balance due on The
purchase price. VIC
This the 5th day of JULY. 1929
% ,ooo A. A. BUNN, Trustee.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-14
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of Mrs. Maggie I'm
stead, deceased, late of Vance Coun-
ty, N. c., this is to notify all persons
having claims against the estate Of
said deceased to exhibit them to the
undersigned at Henderson, N. c., on
or before the Oath day of August,
1910, or this notice will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery All per-
sons indebted to the estate will
please make immediate settlement.
This Oath. of August, 1889.
J. C.. MANN,
Administrator of Estate of
Mrs. Maggie Umstead.
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