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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15
Registration
Purge Given
An Approval
Primary Date A d :
vance by One Week
Also Given Favorable
Committee r port;
Splitting of Larg e
Precincts Turne d
Down

Raleigh, March 15.-(AP)- The
House Elections Committee today re-
ported favorably a bill to require re-
vision of all poll books and re-list-
ing of all voters before the 1910 pri-
mary.
Also reported favorably was the
Vogler bill to advance the dates of
primaries by one week. The first
primary would be held the last Sat
urday in May, and the second, if
needed, the last Saturday in June, in
election years. The change was ia
vored so that persons planning week
end trips over the Fourth of July
period may vote. The House has ap-
proved a bill prohibiting absentee
voting in primaries.
The purge" of the registration
books was adopted as a substitute
for a measure providing for a new
Statewide registration Under it, the
poll books in each precinct must be
revised, and county boards Of cleo
ton may order new registrations
when they deem it necessary.
Another reform" bill, which
would have split large precincts, was
reported unfavorably upon motion of
the subcommittee which drafted the
purge" bill.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15

ratified into law a bill to permit
split ticket voting in elections.
The House tabled bill which
would have completely changed the
method of selecting justices of the
peace.
Many representatives sought to
exempt their counties and the COM
mittee handling the bill had already
approved exemptions for more than
a dozen, so the measure was killed.
1t would have provided for election
of limited number of justices each
two years, and ended gubernatorial
appointments except to continue
those, now serving
The House passed, SO to 2, on sec
ond reading the biennial revenue
bill. The action was necessary be-
cause of minor Senate amendment
permitting municipalities and coun-
ties to levy tax on peddlers. The
measure is set for final reading to-
morrow.
The Senate sent to it's appropria-
lions committee the biennial spend
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15
Hungary Is
Taking Over
Eastern Area

Budapest, Hungary, March Is
(AP)-The Hungarian government
today backed its armies which were
occupying Carpatho-UFraine by send
ing an ultimatum to the local gov
eminent of the territory demanding
that defacto power there be given
to the Hungarian general staff by 8
q. m. tonight.
Hungarian troops were within 10
miles of the Polish border in Car
patho-U Ukraine when the Budapest
foreign office sent the demand to the
premier of Carpatho Ukraine at
Chust, the capital. The ultimatum
demanded that he hand over all ac-
tual powers to the Hungarian gen.
cral staff, and said that prompt &C
ceptance would prevent blood
she'd"
This was the first hint that Hun
garian troops, who started their
steady advance yesterday might be
meeting some resistance from the
Carpatho-U krainians themselves.
Budapest sent 24-hour ultima
tum to Prague yesterday demanding
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15
Increase Of
100000 Ii,
Money Bill
Appropriations Meas
ure Is In Senate After
Passing House a n d
With Much Higher
Figures Written In
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In thu Sir Walter Hotel.
Rv HENRY AVERTLL

Raleigh, March 15.-The Senate
today began consideration of a
House-approved appropriations bill
which carries an increase of more
than 100000 from the recommended
tons Of the committee, which totall-
cd $154,36O,OOO for the biennium
which begins next July /.
The upper chamber goes to work
where the House left off, which is
to say right after the lid was almost
completely blown off the whole bill
1t was with considerable difficulty
and more than bit of quick vote
putting by Libby Ward that the
House leaders yesterday restrained
the rank and file from completely
abrogating and tossing into the waste
basket the so-called compromise"
with the governor which was outlin-
cd Monday night, and under which
about $4,000 was added in funds
for school teachers and the Univer-
sity of North Carolina.
As a matter of fact, only three
changes were made in the bill dur
ing yesterdays session, the sum total
of which will hardly amount to more
than 100000 for the tWo-year pc
Rod Chief of these was the addition
Of $4,000 to the amount recon-
mended by the appropriations COM
mittee for vocational education.
To accomplish this, an amend
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15
12O,OOO,OOO Paid Last
Year in That State
Alone, House Com
mittee Is Told; Taber
Says WPA Cuts Will
Hit Those Most In
Need

Washington, March 15.-(AP)-
William H. Bixby, personnel superin-
tendent Of William Filene's Sons
Company, Boston, said today he had
been informed that $120,OO0,O00 of
Massachusetts money went out of
circulation last year for deposit in
various social security funds.
This money represented consum-
ers' spending power, he told the
House Ways and Means Committee,
which is considering charges in the
social security system.
Bixby and l.. E. KRISTEN, repre-
senting retail merchants association
of all the New England States ex-
cept Connecticut, testified in support
of proposal to limit the taxable
payroll under Federal unemplOy-
ment insurance levies to the first
$4,000 of a persons annual wage
This proposal would place the tax
on basis similar to the old age pen
sion tax, and, KRISTEN said, make
possible consolidation Of tax reports
as we'll as a tax reduction.
Senator Lee, Democrat, Alabama,
proposed that Congress approve a
domestic allotment program for
wheat and cotton as substitute for
the present farm act.
Representative Taber, Republican,
New York, predicted that any WPA
cuts would be made on those in most
trouble ''for the purpose of creating
pressure on Congress" Taber is the
ranking Republican on the House
Appropriations Committee.
Other developments:
The Senate restored a $177,OOO
item in the Treasury Department APP
preparations bill for an additional
long range airplane for the coast
guard air base at Elizabeth City, ~
c. The House Appropriations Com
mittee had eliminated the expendi-
ture, contending one plane of this
type would be sufficient for rescue
work.
Representative Warren, Democrat,
O Continued on PaOa FOI1rl
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15
Mcdonald May Be Given
Office By Governor Hoey
Man Present Executive Defeated in 1886 Elk
pected To Be Offered Job, Which Would Be
Accepted Mcdonald, in Raleigh, Quiet About
Views

The young man who precipitated
his vital personality into the last
race for governor and waged one OF
the most vigorous campaigns of as
sault upon the laws, customs and
traditions which the Hoey group
holds almost sacred, is now silent.
In 1885 Mcdonald made the west
ern hills and the eastern plains echo
with his loud condemnation Of the
sales tax. In 1889 wnen questione'
about his feeling toward the ador-
ton of the sales tax into "perma-
nent" revenue measure he said thai
he was getting well and was not in
politics. Some of his 1886 disciples,
even some Of his lieutenants, looked
to him in vain for even moral sup
port in renewed attempts to get the
sales tax out of the States revenue
structure. DR.. Mcdonald could not
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15
Heavy Toll Taken
From Massachusetts
On Social Security
Freighter Safe,
Liner Proceeds

New York, March 15.-(AP)-
The Italian liner COntc di SavOia,
which stood by the disabled Nor
wegian freighter BelnOr, 1000
miles east of the Virginia capes,
all night, wirelessed its line Of
fices here today it had left the
frcighter at a. M, and was pro-
cceding to New York.
Captain Albert OttinO gave no
details, but Italian Line officials
presumed the freighter was no
longer in need of the liners aid.
Tire BelnOr ran into difficulties in
a gale. Her No. l hatch was
stove in and she reported her
cargo was shifting. The liner
liner turned back $50 miles to
stand by and take off the Bel
nor's crew of rs, if necessary.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15

On Spending
Is Resented
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY HENRY AVERILL

Raleigh, March 15.-The interven-
ton OF Governor Clyde r. Hoey in
the battle of appropriations bill,
which has been raging in the House
for several days, was at least tenn
porarily successful in that it caused
Gregg Cherry to dump his deskful
OF amendments into a figurative
waste basket; but it also aroused
considerable resentment in some
quarters, at least.
How deep and abiding this resent
ment will prove to be remains to be
seen, but it was made Immediately
evident in the House action yester-
day in increasing the appropriations
recommended by the appropriations
committee for vocational education.
Only open mention of this resent
ment on the floor came from Frank
Taylor, of Wayne, who attributed
this feeling to those who signed the
amendment, which he termed "round
robin legislation"
eff this amendment was introduce
ed because of any spite aroused by
the compromise of Monday night,
then this amendment ought not to
pass, ehe said.
But it did pass, and by a whop-
ping "a to 10 margin, with only a
few hardy souls standing firm for
going not beyond the bounds of the
gubernatorial recommendations.
And the resentment was unques-
tionablv present. Many of those who
had stuck manfu1ly with Speaker
Ward, Appropriation Chairman John
Caffey and other leaders in resisting
attempts of the Cherry bloc to in
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15

they please for all he cares. There's
another school of taxation thought,
however. Exponents of this other
school regard taxation penalties as
an ideal method of preventing bust
nessmens- from doing things that the
taxing authorities prefer that they
should not do. They also hold that
tax concessions will encourage bust
ness policies approved by the tax
ing-powers. These logicians have no
objection to the collection of revenue
but that isn't their first objective.
The late Speaker Henry T. Raj
ney of the House of Representatives
was one of the foremost argufiers
along this line.
"TaXation," he once assured me,
''can be made to do anything"
Then he proceeded to illustrate.
How 1t Worked.
early in the days when 1 was
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Bohemia and Moravia
Now Parts of Greater
German Reich; Hitler
Procession Like Con-
queror of Old, Oc-
cupying Presidents
Castle

Berlin, March 15-(AP)-Adolf
Hitler, protector of Bohemia and
Moravia, sponsor and guarantor of
SlOvallia, joined his vast cavalcade
Of soldiers pouring into shattered
Czechoslovakia today while Czech
guards cried bitter "Pfuis" at his
tanks rumbling through the streets of
Prague.
The swastika flies over Bohemia
and MOraVia, which have become.
in effect, merely parts of the great
er German Reich, and probably will
be less independent than most pro-
tectorates. They were shorn of
armies and power over their foreign
affairs and lack even a common
name.
Before the day is over, Hitler is
expected to proceed like a conqueror
of old into Hradceny castle, Prague's
famous fortress-reSidence of Czecho-
sloVallia's presidents, and the burial
vault Of women who made glorious
Bohemian history. His soldiers were
in Prague in the snowy morning.
They had occupied the castle. Their
war machines on wheels pushed
through streets packed with hostile
men and women who jeered or were
grimly silent, and some who cheered.
Hitler planned to duplicate his
grand entry into Austria just a year
ago yesterday. When he followed his
troops in the Austrian annexation,
he was hailed by Nazis as the great
liberator"; today his avoWed role was
that of protector.
German soldiers had already
reached Prague, capital of the fallen
republic, and their comrades goose
stepped into other sections of Be-
hemia and Moravia, which formed
the Czech part of CzechoslovalSia.
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15
Daily Dispatch bureau.
In tho Sir Wo,tnr Hotel.
BY LYNN NISRET


Raleigh, March 15.--Several sig
nificent incidents have givor rise to
the capitol rumor that DR.. R1lph Nc
Donald is being seriously considered
for one of. the major appointments
now at disposal of Governor Hoev.
The 1886 runner-up (and how he
did rup) for the states biggest job
has spent . good deal Of time around
Raleigh since he was diecharged as
cured from the Western North Car
Dina tubercular hospital at Black
Mountain about two weeks ago. He
has been around the legislative halls
and hotel Hobbies. He has been en-
tertained at Governor Hoey's break
fast table. But he hasn't been heard
to utter single word of criticism
of any of the Hoey administration
activities or policies.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15
Fuehrer In Triumph
Rides Into Prague
Following Seizures
Large Stake Held
By United States

Washington, March 15.-(AP)
Tho final breakup OF Czecho-
slovakia posed two direct cues
lions today for the United States
government:
1. What will be salyaged of the
trade promised in the reciprocal
agreement concluded last year be-
tween the United States and
CZechOsl0vakia?
2. 10 wl?o1n can the United
States Loo. for the $165, 100000
owed it by the postwar republic?
State Department officials were
watching Developments closely,
but it may be some time before
the answers become APPARENT.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15

Law VI VI 'oNd 'AOAi
for revenue only.
This is to say, his
department needs
money that only
tax collectors can
squeeze out of the
public. He must
have that money,
but the money is
all he wants. In
asking for it he
h a S no Interior
motives. If he gets
the d Q u 6 n the
folks who dig il
non 10 VIII 1fox1nr
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15
DR.. Brewer
Quits Post.
At Meredith

Raleigh, March 15.-(AP)-
Dr.. Charles E. Brewer, now fin
ishing Is years of service at
Meredith College, has resigned
the presidency of the school.
The executive committee of
the trustees was given the resig-
nation Monday night, it was
learned today, and the full board
will meet next Tuesday to take
action on it.
DIR. Brewer came to Meredith
after rs years of service at
Wake Forest College. DIR. Brew
er made no announcement as to
his future plans.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15
HUGE ALLOTMENT OF
WPA FUNDS is MADE

Rale Ugh, March 15.-(AP)-State
WPA Administrator George Coan
allocated $384,36O for eleven pro-
iects today, including a project in
Greenville for $27,033 for improving
streets.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15
Morgenthau
Asks Tax For
Revenue Only
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press C0IumniSt

: WaShlngtOn, March I5.-TreaSury
Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., is
making a very vociferous bid in
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA,

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, with light, scattered
rain; colder tonight; Thursday
fair and colder, preceded by rain
in morning on south and central
costs.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-15
Hitler Has
BrokenWor
Says
Czech Front RS
Agreed to at Munich
Violated by Germany
Viscount H a ! i f a x
Tells Lords; Cham
berlain Statement Is
Waited

London, March 15.-(AP)-
Prime Minister Chamberlain told
a tense House of Commons to-
day that 81 bitterly regret Ger
many's occupation of Bohemia
and MOravia," but added, edo
not let us be DETECTED from our
course Of trying to reach peace
by agreement"
He spoke few minutes after
Foreign Secretary ViscOunt Hal
flax told the House of Lords that
Germany's march into the Czech
area was "bOund to administer a.
shock to confidence, all the more
regrettable since confidence was
beginning TO revive"
Like Halifax, Chamberlain re-
fused to make charges of
breaches of faith" but he i'm
Piled criticism of Adolf Hitler'S
action when he sOlemnly de-
clared:
Hitherto Germany has only
incorporated in the Reich people
of the German race, but now
they are taking military Occupa-
ton of places where there are
people with whom they have no
racial relations"
London, March 15.-(AP)-For
eign Secretary Viscount Halifax de
clared today that Germany's marcel
into Bohemia and Moravia wa
bound to administer a shock t.
all the more regrettable
since confidence was beginning t
revive"
The foreign secretary, in solemn
tones, told the House of Lords that
"The German government ha
now, without, SO far as l know, an,
with the other sig
of the Munich agreement
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-21
War Loan
Continued From First Page.)

Reconstruction Finance Corp. re-
Gently lent Finland $100oO,00O for
the purchase in this country Of non-
war materials such as agricultural
SURPRISES. This money went to the
Finnish American Trading Corp,
organized by Hjalmar Procope, Fin
nish Minister to the United States.
Need War Supplies.
While the Firms welcomed this,
they were represented as contending
that their greatest need was for
battle planes, guns and other war
materials.
Preliminary discussions among
Congressman apparently brought no
definite reaction one way or the
other on the proposed loan because
of the complex questions involved.
Such a loan, it was pointed out,
would violate a principle which has
been laid down in this Governments
recent financial transactions with
other countries-that no money
would be lent for the purchase of
war materials.
This rule was followed when the
Export Bank lent $25,000,000
to China The money was used
principally to purchase in this coun-
try trucks and machined tools.
Russian Angle Seen.
In addition, it was pointed out, q
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lost heavily in men and tanks in
the isthmus front, the heel of the
Russian hand, but still were pound
ing Finnish positions.
Twenty heavy tanks advanced to
our positions and were captured, be-
sides which many were destroyed
In front Of our positions" Finnish
communicate said.
The action on the Isthmus front
was described by Firms as a repeti-
ton Of previous Russian onslaughts
with tanks of all sizes coming over
by hundreds.
The Finnish communicate esti-
mated more than 200 Russian war;
planes had droned over Finnish
territory Tuesday in what it called
the most active day in the air since
the outbreak of the war"
1t said Finnish losses were small
but that the Red air fleet had lost
IA planes shot down in combat with
Finnish flyers at least six others
shot down by Finnish ant-aircraft
guns.
Besides the total Of 20 from con-
firmed reports, the communique de-
clared, there were several uncon-
firmed accounts Of Russian planes
falling behind their own lines and
1T can be stated . with consider
able certainty that more downed
enemy planes will be found in our
territory"
On the Karelian Isthmus, where
the Finnish communique reported
numerous" Russian air attacks, II
Soviet and six Finnish planes fought
one thrilling battle behind the Man.
nerheim Line.
The Finnish fighter craft inter-
cepted four Russian boinbers SCREEN
ed by seven pursuit ships in roar
ing fight from which one Russian
and one Finnish ship slipped away
at low altitude although none on
either side was seen to fall.
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Reich Signs New PACT
With Rumania for
Increase in Oil
Boost Of Nearly 20 Pct.
In Purchasing Power
Of Mark Is Effected
~ the Associated Press,

~ the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, Dec. 21.-Granted
nearly 20 per cent increase in the
purchasing power Of the mark, Ger
many last night signed a new trade
agreement with Rumania.
In effect, the exchange concession
by Rumania represents nearly a 20
per cent reduction in the price Ger
many henceforth will pay for Ru-
manian raw materials-chiefly oil
and a corresponding increase in the
price Rumania will pay for finished
products in return.
The agreement increased the ex-
change value Of the mark from AS
lei ($.3028) to 40 lei ($.357D and the
German mission said the rate would
have to be altered again in Ger
many's favor unless Rumania took
steps to prevent her internal prices
from soaring.
Among other things the new pact
calls for Rumania to send Germany
10000 tons Of oil monthly. For the
first eight months Of this year Ger
many averaged 10000 tons monthly
but since the war, largely because Of
the allied blockade. the figure has
been cut to 10000 tons monthly.
The agreement ended months of
negotiations. The problem was re-
sponsible for a cabinet crisis which
resulted in resignation of the gov
eminent Of Premier Constantine
Argetoianu. who was succeeded by
George Tatarescu.
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Phoebe Hearst Pupils
acknowledgement
OF Toys for Needy
Schools Repair Shop
Closes Its Doors After
Finishing Job for Santa

Pupils of the Phoebe Hearst
School, Thirty-seventh and Quebec
street NV. were concentrating on
their own Christmas hopes today,
confident they had done their bit
to help some less fortunate children
realize expectations Of q happy
yuletide
The toy repair shop closed down
for the year yesterday, when a truck
collected the schools consignment
of reconditioned playthings. The
toys were added to the mounting
pile that will be distributed among
families Santa Claus might have
forgotten had it not been for the
generosity of Washingtonians will
ing to help the underprivileged.
Dolls, games and mechanical de-
lights of young children had been
repaired and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
out of retirement to do service once
more as joy-givers.
Resolved the older pupils would
not be possessed in greater measure
of the Christmas spirit, the 20 kind
ergarten children undertook the
painting of small toys and filling Of
colorful stockings. A large number
of these trinket-fllled containers
were dispatched with the toys yes
terday.
Nuts, candies, little china dolls and
other things designed to please the
very young had been assembled by
the tots.
Today. the kindergarten. which
had enjoyed its part in providing
cheer, returned to singing Christ
mas songs, admiring the big deco
rated tree in the classroom and
playing a Santa Claus game.