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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-20
Three Miss Death
In Terrific Crash
Near Rocky Mount

Rocky Mount, April 20.-(AP)-
Three persons narrowly escaped
death early this morning when a
truck trailer and a passenger car
sideswiped on u S. highway 301, two
miles north of Battleboro.
Mrs. w. H. Hughes, wife of a local
railway express agent, and described
by State highway patrolmen as the
passenger car driver, was in a local
hospital suffering from broken nose
and other possible injuries, while a
man booked as Jack Lane, of Marion,
S. c., identified by officers as the
truck driver, was held by police
awaiting formal charges. Jack Sim
mons, of Sumter, S. c., reported
truck owner, was uninjured.
State Patrolmen T. H. Griffis and
R. L. Mashburn, who investigated the
crash, said the truck trailer and the
auto sideswiped, and that the auto,
with Mrs, Hughes as the sole occu-
pant, was, practically demolished.
Lane was treated for cut on his
head.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-20
New Types of War
Weapons Shown in
Berlin Line of March,
Which Includes 40, 900
Soldiers; Gre at e S t
Ever Witnessed In
Berlin

Berlin, April 2O.-(AP)-
Adolf Hitler, the World War
corporal who became augment
or of the Reich" today parad-
ed a cross section of the armed
might which gave him mastery
of central Europe before dis
tinguished foreign guests at
tending the celebration of his
50th birthday.
1t was the largest military review
ever witnessed in Berlin. Forty
thousand soldiers, tanks, motorized
equipment and artillery passed by
in a parade which lasted four and
one half hours, While air squadrons
reared overhead.s
Shortly before the parade started,
Hitler became an honorary citizen of
the Free City of Danzig, receiving
the citizenship papers from the
hands of Albert Fperster, Nazi dis
trict leader of the free city. There
had been run sisr that Danzig, Ger
man territory before the World War,
might be a birthday present sor the
fuehrer, but Hitler received only
the honorary citizenship.
Features of the parade were MAN.
moth new types of long range air
Continued on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-20
A&NC Lease
favored By
Directors

Raleigh, April 2O.-(AP)- The
board of directors of the Atlantic &
North Carolina railroad, controlled
by the State, voted today to ask the
stockholders at an afternoon session
to lease the line, but left the name
of the lessee blank in the resolution.
1t was indicated that H. P. Ed
wards, of Sanford, would get the line
as Governor Eoey told the directors
he thought an arrangement for it's
lease should be worked out at once.
Edwards had the only formal pro-
posal still pending.
Under the law setting up the rail-
road corporation, limit is set on the
States vote at stockholders meet
ings, Governor Hoey said, and pri-
vate stockholders might outvote the
State.
Attorney General Harry McMul-
Continued on Page Four)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-20
Duce Claims
AppealMade'
- -
In Ignorance
Proponents l. a c k
even Rudimentary
knowledge of Euro
pean Affairs" Musso-
lini Says in Speech;
Geographic Errors
Exist; Pledge I'm
necessary

Rome, April 2O.-(AP)-
Premier Mussolini today reject
ed President Roosevelt's plea
for decade of peace by nom
aggression guarantees, on
grounds that they were unne-
cessary, and failed to take into
consideration "pyramidal er-
rors of geography"
Caesar Looks Down.
But, speaking in the shadow of the
heroic statue of Julius Caesar in the
Roman capital, II Duce cited Italy's
plans for world exposition in 1912
as a promising indication that we
do not intend to attack any one"
His speech, broadcast in response
to a report on the exposition's pro-
gress, unexpectedly furnished Italy's
reply to the United States President
in advance of the response which
Chancellor Hitler of Germany in
tends to-make in Berlin April 28.
While II Duce was speaking, Hit
Ter was celebrating his 50th birthday
by watching great martial display
in Berlin.
Further Reply Unlikely.
Indicating he might not make any
further formal reply to Roosevelt
who in messag>-last Saturday pro-
posed ten-year non aggression
pledges by Germany and Italy to 81
nations, to be followed by disarma-
ment and economic conference, Mus
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-20
Dollar Devaluation
Called Worse Than
Hitler Tax on Jews

Washington, April 20.--(AP)-
Representative Robsion, Republican,
Kentucky, charged in hot debate on
monetary Legislation today that the
administration, in devaluing the dol
lar, had treated American citizens
''worse than Hitler treated the Jews" I"
Robsion's protest, in House dis
cussion of extending the Presidents
monetary powers, followed an as
scrtion by Representative Martin,
Democrat, Colorado, that the dol
lar today is 'the safest in the
world"
Robson said Hitler imposed only
a ten percent tax on the wealth of
German Jews, whereas the United
States, in effect, levied a forty per-
cent tax on all Americans when it
lowered the gold content of the dol
lar in 1884.
While debate proceeded, members
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-20
Television
Is Now Fact

New York, April 2O.-(AP)-
The advent of television, long
heralded as the beginning of
a new American indust~v was
announced today by David Sar-
nOff, president of the Radio Cor
pOratiOn of America, in a televi-
sion broadcast from the RCA
exhibit building at the New
York Worlds Fair grounds.
To-day we are on the eve of
launching new industry" Sar-
nOff said, Chased on magma
ton, on scientific research and
accomplishment. We are now
ready to fulfill the promise made
to the public last October, when
the Radio Corporation of Anne
RIGA announced that televisiOn
program service and commercial
televisiOn receivers would be
made available to the public
with the opening of the New
York Worlds Fair"
Eight mileS> away in the RCA
building in Rockefeller Center,
an audience watched and heard
the ceremonies.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-20
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, April 2O.-Governor
Clyde r. Hoey's ALLEGATION yesterday
of S2,5O0,OOO to be used in better
ments" of North Cardinals road
system came at a time when there
is actively under way the actual
work Of improving more than 500
miles of roads in the State.
A compilation of figures in the
current "Detour Bulletin" Of the
State Highway and Public. Works
Commission shows that the commits
sion's forces are now actively en-
gagged in repairing enough highway
e reach practically from Manteo to
Murphy if collected into one road.
There are actually in progress in
North Carolina rs repair and i'm
pFovement projects affecting to-
tai length of STA miles, according
to the compilation.
The $2,500,000 which the governor
made available can be figured in
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-20
Might of Germany
Is Paraded Before
Fuehrer and World
Aggression Bans
Sought by France

Paris, April 20-(AP)-FOreign
Minister Bonnet urged all govern
ments in a plea today to renOunce
military aggression, as suggested
in President ROOsevelt's message
to Chancellor Hitler and Premier
MuSSOlini.
Addressing the American club
in Paris, Bonnet declared "alI
governments could accept PreSi-
dent ROOsevelts proposal without
losing a single bit of their au-
thOrity and prestige"
Franco American cooperation
for peace and human welfare,
finds in the Americans message
new base and new express
SiOn," he said. He described the
present period in Europe as one of
tension of which every one
senses the gravity"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-20
World Crusade of
Prayer in May Is
Asked by Plus XII

Vatican City, April 2O.-(AP)
Pope Plus XII asked today for
a CRUSADE of prayer through
out the world during the month
of May in behalf of greatly
lOnged for Christian peace a.
mOng all nations and people,"
The pOntif made his appeal in
a letter to his secretary of state,
Luigi Cardinal MagliOne. He re-
called that Immediately after his
election as pope, and again in his
Easter ho1nily, he had exhOrted
"all nations and their govern
nents, through sentiments of
justice and charity, in order to
consolidate profoundly and per-
manently greatly lOnged for
Christian reace among all ma
tiOnS and peace"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-20
Man Admits
Staying Girl
In Baltimore

Baltimore, Md, April 2O.-(AP)-
Police Commissioner Robert Stanton
announced today police had obtained
a confession from a man held in the
Baltimore torso murder. The COM
missioner said Inspector Stephen
Nelson telephoned him the prisoner
had given complete details of the
killing of the woman, parts of whose
body were found in the mans back
yard, and parts in various sewers.
Stanton said he was informed that
Aurelio Marco Tarquinio, As, a steel
worker and former tavern keeper
had made a full confession that he
murdered Evelyn Rice, a bar maid
who formerly worked for him.
The young woman's head and 9TH
er portions of her butchered body
were unearthed in Tarquinio's back
yard early today. Police had gone t6
his East Baltimore home after ar
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Iceland And
Andorra Nav
Be Next Grab
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, April 2O-When Pres
ident Roosevelt the other day listed
thirty-one countries that he said he
wanted Hitler and Mussollni to
promise to let alone for at least the
next ten years. he overlooked one
or two BETS If ne hadn't he could
have scored 80 or 33.
The same editions of the news
papers that published the text of the
presidential appeal to Der Fuehrer
and II Duce also published dis
patches that Iceland is jittery over
what's regarded there as the threat
of German grab and that the re-
public of Andorra is worrying lest
Italy make a swipe at it by way Of
Spain. To be sure, Iceland theoreti-
cally belongs to Denmark, and the
Continued on Page Five)
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Fleet Leaves
Norfolk Area

Norfolk, Va, April 2.-(AP)-
The main body of the United
States fleet left Virginia waters
today for the Pacific. The Ar
g0nne flagship Of the base force
led the way out of the Virginia
Capes on the first five-day lap
TO the Panama Canal.
Behind her fame other sup
ply ships, IL destrOyers, two
cruisers, five battleships and
finally three aircraft carriers.
The last of the warships passed
out 70 sea at 8 a. M.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-20
Confession
Of Kelly Told
Graham Jury

Graham, April 2O.-(AP) = Roy
Kelly, on trial for his life here along
with Ralph and Wade Hanford and
George Smith IL tne killing of two
officers during a robbery in Bur
lington last December 7, admitted
that ne and the other defendants, and
Roy Huffman, slain also during the
robbery, plotted and executed the
whole crime which led to the triple
Staying, Sergeant Pete Davis, of the
Burlington police force, told a jury
IN superior court here today.
Sheriff M. P. Robertson and Bur-
llngton Officer S. w. Vaughn were
victims Of the slayings.
Officer Davis said that Kelly made
a complete confession while he was
being brought back from Virginia
where he was turned over to North
Continued on Page TWo)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-20
WARSAW ATTORNEY
REPORTS LOBBYING

Raleigh, April 2o.-(AP)-J. T.
Gresham, Jr., Warsaw attorney, re-
ported today to Secretary OF state
Thad Eure he had received l,9OO
nufor lobbyist fees and expenses IN
1889 General Assembly. Gresham's
statement said that the North Caro-
lima Burial Associations paid 81 ,4OO.
He explained that he was attorney
tor the groups, and the money repre-
sented his salary for rthe' year. he
reported getting $500 from the North
Carolina Funeral Directors Assocla-
ton.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-20
500 Miles State Roads
Are Now Being Improved
Governors ALLEGATION Of 81, ,50e,o0 for Work
Dispels Fears of Any General Fund Deficit;
rs Propects Under Way on Roads

any further plans the Highway COM
mission has for this summer and it
was in order to enable Chairman
Frank Dunlap and his associates to
do so that the action was taken
now rather than at the end of the
fiscal year.
The governor said, however, that
the funds are amply available and
that the budgetary outlook is such
that the ALLEGATION could be made
now with perfect safety and without
imperilling the highway fund of ap-
proximately $3,500,O00 it is always
necessary to have on hand to carry
on normal activities.
The ALLEGATION, too, dispelled al
most the last lingering fear that
there will be any diversion Of high
way funds at the end of the cur
rent fiscal year Cautiously, the
governor refrained from closing the
door absolutely, but he did say that
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-20
Chamberlain
Announces
Supply Post
Minister of Transport
Put in Charge of Mob
ilizing Munitions for
Possible w ar Out
break

London, April 20.-(AP)-Prime
Minister Chamberlain announced in
the House Of Commons today that a
new ministry of supply would be es-
tablished to expedite the manufac-
ture Of arms for Britain's expand
ing army.
Leslie Burgin, at present minister
of transport, was appointed head Of
the new ministry, with rank as
cabinet member It had been general
ly expected that Winston Churchill,
wartime minister of munitions, who
has been directing a ministry of sup
ply for more than year, would get
the post.
Presumably to quiet rumors that
the new ministry would not have full
Continued on Page Six)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-20
MIR. Alderman,
OF Concert
Class, Dies

Greenville, April 2O.-(AP)-Le-
roy A. Alderman, "a, field agent
and general manager of the Oxford
Orphanage singing class, died yes
terday after a heart attack at Stokes,
near here. Three brothers and one
sister Eurvive.
The funeral will be held near
Dunn at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon.
Surviving are three brothers, A..
F.. Alderman, Route 1, Dunn; Rev.
J. o. Alderman, Dunn; j. E. Alder
man, of Gastonia; one sister, Mrs.
Lille A. Mitchell, of Richmond. Va;
81 nieces and nephews.
The funeral cortege left here this
afternoon for Oxford where the body
will lie in the main auditorium of
the orphanage until o'clock to-
Continued on Page Fourl
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of the Democratic whip organization
acted to see to it that party support
ers were on the floor to meet any
Republican sniping at the bill.
Other developments:
Navy Air Bases Voted
The House completed congression-
al action on a 66,8OO,OOO bill au-
thorizing a chain of new navy air
bases in Alaska, the Mid-Pacific and
Puerto Rico. The measure now
goes to the White House.
President Roosevelt signed the bill
authorizing an increase from $49,-
100000 to $8O,0OO,OOO in the annual
appropriation to assist states in the
administration of unemployment
compensation laws.
BY 234 to 118 roll call vote, the
House refused to approve a bill ex-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-20
GoaHU

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tOnight and Friday; slight
ly warmer Friday.
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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-09-15
KIMBALL HIGH school TJ
, HAVE MINING CLASS

Because of the interest Great
ed several years ago when Mr..
u. G.. Carter offered courses in
mining at the Kimball high
school that interest has reasser-
ted itself in the REQUEST for such
a cours to be offered this year.
In a conference with Princi-
pal u. Ii. Prunty, Mr.. Harris,
and the now Director of Mining
Extension Service, w. Va. State
college, in the person of u. c..
Carter, the course Of study was
outlined, and persons eligible
for the course were interviewed.
The course will be offered male
members Of the senior high
school. 1t is the hope Of the di-
rector of Mining Extension that
othe Negro high schools located
in the industrial centers Will Of
fer similar courses.
The Principal was enthusiast.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-09-15
The Public School and it's
Power in our Social and
Economic Democracy

Americas calendar year ha:
two very important years in one
One, the fiscal year, and the
other, the public school year
Both are important branches
of national defense. Someone
has said Eternal vigilance is
the price of Liberty" That
eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty" is a factual truth, and
applies to every phase of human
activity. A.
But aside from the wisdom and
far sightedness entailed in keep
ing track of the fiscal budgeting
and the business of keeping a
watch regIardhgl the national
debt limitation, t h e public
schools of the nation with their
human values of mass psyche
1ogy, are by far the most out
standing factors in American
life today. The trusteeship of
the public schools is potent
item : and weapon of national
security in the offing. When the
Congress of the United States
wakes up and creates depart
men of education at Washing
ton and commits the govern
ment to a larger federal partici-
patton in public school finances,
an important step in the right
direction will have been taken.
However, the United States
is waking up. There is now a
prevailing presumption that the
trend of our government at
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'ic about the course, realizing
that such training is in harmony
with the needs Of our industrial
communities for trained work.
erS.
Melvin Harris, a teacer in
the Kimball high school will con-
duct the course. Harris has had
both pratical and theoritlcal
training in mining given by the
Extension Service of w. Va.
State college. The work will be
under the supervision Of the
Mining Extension Service
Plans are under way for a
Mining Exhibit by the KimbalI
high school students at the COM
ing colored country fair. -,
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-09-15
Chicago Letter
BY VIM. 81. brewery

| Washington is decidedly to
ward the recognition of public
opinion and the public schools
of the nation in shaping and de-
veloping, to a very large extent
the composite characters of the
nations potential citizenship into
a national mind. The composite
view of a goodly number of
high school men and women is
that a fundamental purpose of
American education for citizen
ship in a representative democra
cy is the development of those
qualities in the character and
building of our growing citizens
that will insure the creation and
the perpetuation of social-govern
mental ideals known as the
American way of life. The orr
ginal intent of America was to
be free. But if America is ever to
plumbed to the end of freedom
in clear thinking and acting in
the American way, the work
must be laid in the public school
room. This can best be accomp-
fish by intensifying the study
of American history and govern
ment so as to give those down IN
the lower grades a better under
standing of American citizen
ship. The United States has let
things slide too long regarding
the education of it's citizenry.
Gross inequalities are found in
the education provided for the
young in the United States. BY
the use of federal funds these
could be eliminated
to a very large extent. Too often
when federal funds are mention
ed in connection with the better
ment of public school education
in the United States, the Con-
gress throws up it's hands in
excitement with the cry, dan
gerously radical"
Emotional Instinct
But in speaking of education,
where combining play with
study is emphasized, it is the
observation of the psychologist
that I'VE are all made by the
time we are six, and the ideas
we then have influence our whole
lives. The proper deduction
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-09-15

few years has far greater
bearing and influence on t h e
history of the whole human race
for centuries to come than most
of us now living can ever con-
ceive."
What President Roosevelt
says is true There is no time to
preach moral or economic isla-
ton. America holds the balance
between popular government in
the world today and dictator
ship. Though a few thousand
miles away, from the turmoil,
our government is still endan-
gcred by the "ethican disease"
of Europe. Stop Hitler in Europe
on prepare to defend the Mon
roe Doctrine in the western
hemisphere. CivIliz|tlon liz In
peril. Nothing today is secured
by international guarantee. Dur
ing the war of nerves in Europe
and the several bloodless victor
les on the continent, proir to the
invasion of Polad, there was Il
lot of international window
dressing but not much real pre-
paredncss to defend liberty and
freedom in the world. The pre-
sent challenge to the world and
threat to civilization bv one single
man in Europe, might have been
averted had the democracieS of
IiiC WOI III llNcu up W IflclI III
ternational obligations to de-
fend and protect the rights of
nations in their democratic
groups. The integrity of popular
government, depends OH the
determination of all the nations
belonging to the democratic
group to make it survive and |
function. The tolerant coopera-
ton on the part of the so-called
with dictator gov
errments is largely responsible I!
for the plight Of the world today
and the sabre rattling we now
hear in Europe.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-09-15

tiOn is to think of the fundamen
, ais of education as including TIVE
primary periods. The earliel
period, as involving the process.
, Of overcoming or breaking dowr
} the resistance at the snapsis
pass in the human mind (where
the image in the human mind be.
comes idea.) A very important
period, as it is here that the
habits Of mind and body con-
tact and become confirmed dur
ing the more adolescent life of
the individual. 1t was at this
perior, that Germany, twenty
years ago, on making up its
mind to fight it's way back to
world power took steps to &C
complish it by planting just one
idea in the curriculum of the
public school system of Ger
m amy, by splashing over the
Front pages of the text books of
| the primary grades "the Ger
man people Have not Been Whip
ped" In light of Germany's
meteoric rise to world power the
idea must have worked. But lets
go into the matter.
Giving the Devil His Due, Lean
ing Neither to the Right Nor to
the Left
When Germany, during the
world armed conflict, lost the
war by human and industrial
starvation and the British fleet,
stripped to the bone and it's peo-
pile put under a tribute by the
harsh terms of the Versailles
Treaty to satisfy a sixty billion
dollar reparation deh} the
German lords, then and there
with only one concealed alterna-
tive, agreed to the terms of the
reparation but sought recourse
and notification by turning at
attention to the graded schools
of the Empire. Throughout the
Empire, the text books of the
sixth and seventh grades were
revised and made to read on
the first page: "The German
people have not been whipped"
That did the work. After iii
teen years, more or less, OF IN
tensified training and propagan-
da, under that slogan the sixth
and seventh grades completed
their course of public school
training. And on being placed
under the inspiration and dyna-
mic influence of Adolph Hitler,
, rose to power, tore up pacts and
treaties, one after another, and
thus broke the economic chains
which the Versailles Treaty
sought to forge on the German
| people. And by a war of nerves
and a number of bloodless vic
tories, establised the hegemony
of Germany over continenta
Europe. That was the German.
way Of life.
! The American Way -
in the second period, of tn
more advanced grades, we thin
of education In the school roor
porper, where preparation J
made for consistent living an
difusive usefulness in the ser.
ivice o the state. -. for the goo