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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-05
N. C. Ballyhoo
Hits Reverse
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.

Raleigh, June 5.-Not one of them
will admit it; in fact you couldn't pry
it out of them with nut picker; but
officials of the Department of Con-
servation and Developments indus
trial division are beginning to learn
that this ballyhoo Of North Carolina
works with reverse English at least
once. in a while.
They are finding out that if you
shout too loudly about the value of
the States mineral deposits and
about the tremendous advantages
Tar Heelie had for industrial loca-
tions; then certain Of the citizenry
who own mineral lands and indus
trial sites are going to get an exalt-
ed idea of the selling price Of said
lands or locations.
Apparently authentic reports
which reach your correspondent in
dicate, for instance that the owner
of a large mineral tract in CASTOR
and Cleveland counties had flatly re-
fused an offer of a quarter million
dollars for land that cost him $11 900
and which is on the tax books of the
county alta rather nominal sum, con-
siderating the valuation the present
owner apparently sets on it. The
owner, Charlotte man, is just sit
ting tight, but while he sits tight
nothing happens on a front where
there might we'll be million dollar
a year mining industry. It is reliably
said that the concern which wanted
to purchase the tract Git is exceed
ingly rich in spodumene) was pre-
pared to begin active operations i'm
mediately.
Then there is a report of a case
from the Sandhills section that when
the representative of a northern in
dustrial concern sought to buy a site
for his principal, the owner Of the de-
sired land wouldn't even talk civilly;
and when finally prevailed upon to
talk at all, set price far beyond any
possibility of acceptance. Luckily for
the section as a whole, in this in
stance the industry found a location
nearby whose owner was not so
avaricious.
These cases are, it is conceded, ex-
ceptional and not the rule; but there
will as advantages in boosting North
Cardinals virtues and values to the
skies. !
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-05
Paralysis Society
Joins In Fight On
epidemic In S. C..

New York, June .5-Combatting
the first serious outbreak of polio to
occur since its creation 18 months
ago, the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis today opened a
broad attack against the epidemic in
South Carolina.
A grant to the State of South
Carolina of emergency funds totall-
ing $3.50 was announced by Basil
O'connor, president of the founda-
ton. This sum will make available
an equal amount of federal funds,
thus providing total of $15,300 i'm
mediately to fight the epidemic.
In addition to the foregoing, the
foundation granted $500 for the ship
ment of braces, splints and appli-
ances of different sizes and types to
be used in the early stages Of the
after-effects of the disease.
Over 1874 cases of the crippling
disease already have been listed
in South Carolina, mostly in Char
lesion, DR.. James A. Hayne, Of Co
lunlbia, South Carolina, State Health
Officer, reported to Mr.. O'Connor
The number is steadily increasing,
it was stated and the epidemic has
not yet reached its peak, DR.. Hayne
said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-05
Older Youths
At N. C.. State
This Week

College Station, Raleigh, June 5.
Toward a More Abundant Country
Life" is the theme of the third an
nual Older Youth Conference to be
held at State College Tuesday
through Saturday of this week
Personal Improvement, Increasing
the Farm Income, and Vacations of
Interest to Rural Youths will be
the three principal topics of discus
sion, according to l.. R. Harrill, state
4-H Club leader who will direct the
conference
Officers of the State Older Youth
Foreman Of Carteret County, pres
ident; Manley White, Jr., of Craven
County, vice-president; Kenneth
Huffines of Alamance County, sec
retary; and Miss Pauline Bower of
Pender County, historian.
Lecturers and their subjects will
be: Eugene p Merritt of the U. S
Department of Agriculture, Wash
ington, "The Place of Agriculture
in World Affairs" Prof. E. w. Bos-
hart of State College, Selecting a
Vocation;" Henry Johnson Of the
Federal Land Bank, Columbia, S
c., Farm and Home Finance" DR.
Hornell Hart of Duke University
Living With Others;;" Miss Ruth
Current, state home agent, every
day Courtesies;" Miss Marjorie Bea
state librarian, Reading for Sell
Improvement" and Miss Willie
Hunter, extension clothing special
ist, ''Your Appearance
Class instruction will be given by
J. F. Lutz, associate. professor O.
soils at State College; Manly C
Mann, general manager of the N. C
Cotton Growers Cooperative Asso.
citation; and r. w. Graeber, Mrs
Cornelia c. Morris, R. w. Shoffner
Miss Pauline Gordon, and J. 0
Rowell, all subject matter special
lists of the State College Extension
Service.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-05

increased revenue provided by the
1899 General Assembly.
sApchenaical process is used in soils
testing work to determine the CON
tent Of soils and the formation
found by chemists may be used as
a basis to determine the most suit
able fertilizer, and remove the "quess
work" in fertilizer grade buying
D. S. Coltrane, assistant to the
commissioner of agriculture, en-
phasized, however, that "at best, soil
testing work is but an effort to give
farmers additional information on
the chemical analysis of his land and
to help him to more scientifically de-
termine the amounts OF plant food
necessary for maximum yields at
minimum COSTS"
Meanwhile, the department is seek
ing competent agronomist and soils
chemist to head the new program.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-05
.CANTALOUPE CROP
PROBABLY SMALLER

Raleigh, June 5.-With favorable
weather, North Carolina canta1oupe
growers will be marketing their
crop the first week in July, A. B.
Hairless, senior marketing specialist
of the State Department Of Agricul-
ture said today
Eight or 10 federa1-state inspect
ors will grade the crop under the
direction of the Departments mar
keIs division.
The estimated acreage in the COM
mercial area at 2,055 acres COM
pares with 2,120 acres in the ecom-
mercial producing areas include
Laurinburg, Gibson, Johns Sta
ton, Norlina Ridgeway, Calypso,
Maxton, Faison and Mount Olive.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-05
BIG PEANUT SALES
FOR STATE SHOWN

College Station, Raleigh, June S.
Revised estimates of peanut pro-
duction in 1888 show that North Car
olina sold 23O,OOO,OOO pounds of nuts
last year, it was announced today by
DR.. I. 0. Schaub, director of the State
College Extension Service. The south
eastern area, which last December
was shown as having a production
of 1853 900, 900, pounds, now is credit
ed with only 100000 pounds
picked and threshed, and with a com
mercial production of 635, 100000
pounds. The difference is the amount
used for seed, the amount fed, and
the amount consumed on the farm.
Famous celebrities last words: 81
want Paul MUM to play the role.'
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-05
LIME Is EFFECTIVE
AFTER TWENTY LEARS

Roxboro, June Slime applied 20
years ago on the farm Of T. B.
Davis. of the Allensville community,
is still showing its effects, reports H.
K. Sanders, Person county farm
agent
This year the land is supporting
a good stand Of clover, and the same
has been true over the past two dec
AIDES. Each time this land has been
seeded to clover, there is a notice
able difference in the growth as COM
pared with clover growth on unlimed
fields.
Agent Sanders also said Davis
seeded 2 1-2 bushels of wheat to the
acre on one field this year to deter
mine if a thicker stand will give a
greater per acre yield. So far, the
experiment is looking good.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-05
SOILS TESTING is
PROVIDED FARMERS

Raleigh, June ,5.-A free soils test
ing program for farmers. to provide
information to be used in more, in
telligent selection OF fertilizer. grades,
will be provided by the North, Caro-
lima Department of Agriculture with
in the next 80 days.
The program will be financed with
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-05

If Diogenes were living today he'd
give up. hunting an honest man and
start looking for a radio announcer
who could describe the value of his
sponsors product in calm, we'll
modulated vC<~
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21
IL Biennial
Au0tmentS
Raised Some
S e ate Committee
Acts After Being Ad-
vised Tax Receipts
Will Be $1,825, 900
Above Original Esti-
mates for This Year

Raleigh, Marcr 21.-(AP)-The
Senate Appropriations Committee
agreed on a new comproimse plan to-
day to increase the record 1939-41
spending bill by around $75,400 a
year. The measure now alfots about
$155, 5,O0O,O0O
Eleven biennial allotments were
boosted by amounts ranging from
$4,000 to $4,000 to end the efforts
made by many committee members
yesterday to raise the ALLEGATIONS by
$513,195.
Efforts to increase the funds came
after the committee was told tax re-
ceipts this year likely would exceed
original estimates by $1,825, ,O0O
The committee declined to adopt
a recommendation of its subcommit-
tee that allotments for teacher pay
be designated as the first to be re-
duced to the extent of $25O,0OO or so
if the budget director found funds
for general purposes would not meet
appropriations. The matter was left
open for consideration on the Senate
floor. The provision would have ap-
piled to the compromise increase
voted by the House with approval
of Governor Hoey.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21

To Mussolinii
From Hitler
Fuehrer Takes N o
Chances of Misunder-
standing; Hitler Has
Not Sent Congratula-
tions; Japan Has

Berlin, March 21.-(AP9-Adolf
Hitler made doubly sure today that
his Italian axis partner, Premier
Mussolini, understands developments
of last week, when Germany absorb
ed parts of Czechoslovakia. The
Reichfuehrer gave Italian Ambas-
sador Attolico a personal letter to
Mussolini, persons close to the Italian
Embassy said, before the envoy left
last night for Rome to report to II
Duce. He was expected back in a
few days.
It was believed that the next ex-
pansion move would come from
Memel this week end.
Field Marshal Herman Goering
was due to leave for Italy late today
to resume his vacation on the Riviera,
interrupted last week, and later to
Continued on Page Three)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21
i. Tells Germany
Czech Occupations
Are Not Recognized
Berlin Advised N o
Legal Basis Exists for
Seizure of Bohemia
and Moravia; Income
Taxes $473,122,O52
First Twenty T wo
Days of March

Washington, March 21.-(AP)-A
United States note to Germany re-
leased by the State Department to-
day, said this government "does not
recognize that any legal basis ex-
ists' for Germany's protectorate over
Bohemia and Moravia.
Enclosed with the note was a copy
OF the statement Acting Secretary
OF State Welles made last Friday
containing this country's "condemna-
ton of what were described as Ger
manys ''acts of wanton lawlessness
and arbitrary force"
The United States note acknowl-
edged the receipt of the German note
Of last Friday informing this gov
ernment Of the terms of the decree
issued Man Is by the government
OF the Reich announcing the asSump-
ton of protectorate over the pro-
vinces of Bohemia and Moravia..
"The government of the United
States" the American note said, ''has
observed that the provinces referred
to are now under the defacto ad-
miniStratiOn of the German author
tiles. The government of the United
States does not recognize that any
legal basis exists for the status so in
dicated."
The note then said that the views
Of this government were made
known last Friday, and for the in
formation of the German govern
ment copy of Welles' statement was
enclosed This last paragraph had the
effect of placing Welles' statement,
which had been made to the public,
on diplomatic basis.
Meanwhile, the House Military
Committee recommended legislation
to permit the government to acquire
$100,000,000 worth of strategic war
materials by direct purchase, in ex-
change for surplus agricultural COM
moditieS, or as part payment for war
debts.
Other developments:
The Treasury announced it collect
ed $473, ,122,052 of income taxes in
the first twenty days of March, full
filling budget estimates. Collections
were about 80 percent less than last
year.
The Senate Labor Committee vot-
ed to delay until next Tuesday a de-
cision on when to start hearings on
proposed amendments to the Wagner
labor relations law.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
CONTINUED on Page FOur1
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21
One German
Shot otByJew
In Rcur1laniia
Bucharest w orrie d
Lest Incident May Be
Made Basis for Ger
man Advances; Rou-
mania Still Holding
Out Against Reich
Demands

Bucharest, Roumania, March 21.-
(AP)-The shooting of German
citizen by Jew at Brasov caused
concern today in the Roumanian cap
ital, where King Carol has taken the
lead in Balkan struggle to escape
complete German political and eco
nomic domination. The German was
reported in grave condition.
Some sources believed Germany
might regard the shooting at .Brasov
which is 100 miles northwest of
Bucharest, as an international in
cident." The wounded German, DR..
H. Krarzt, had gone to Jewish COM
munity house at Brasov, reports from
that city said, and an argument be-
tween him and the doorman's wife
developed, whereupon her husband
appeared and shot him. DR.. Krarzt
was taken to a hospital.
Officials, meanwhile, said trade
discussions with Germany would not
be concluded for several days. Rou-
mania, they said, has not granted
Germany any monopolistic rights
but instead will adhere to a free
commercial policy.
AS for Hungary, Germany's anti
comintern pact partner, authorities
said Roumania's relations with that
state were ''as good as can be ex-
pected." However, the spokesman
ADDED ROumania was prepared to
defend every inch of her territory
and regarded the present frontier
with Hungary as final.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21
Intangibles
Tax ToA Affect
Other Bills
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
BY LYNN NISBET

Raleigh, March 21.-One of the
biggest jobs still before the 1889 leg
islature is the writing of the revenue
machinery act Of almost equal i'm
portance is the school machinery
act. With the finance. bill, which says
how much the State shall collect
from its various taxpayers, and the
appropriations bill, which says how
much of the total collections any par
ticular department or institution
shall spend, always go the so-called
machinery acts" which set out in
detail just how the collecting and
spending shall be done.
The 1889 revenue bill, which has
been passed by both houses Of the
legislature, but which may have to
be revamped little by supplement
tary acts, has decreed that of the
tax collected on intangible personal
property sixty per cent shall go back
to the counties and cities and forty
per cent shall go to the State. The
original intangibles tax act Of 1887
specified that fifty per cent of the
tax levied that year should go back
to the local governmental units to be
applied to payment of interest and
principal of school Indebtedness.
After the tax was collected for
Continued on Page Three)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21
Judge Way Cuts
Lawyers Fees On
Norfolk Southern

Norfolk, Va, March 21.-(AP)-
Judge Luther Way in Federal dis
trict court today slashed by more
than one half the allowances asked
by counsel for the reorganization
manager of the Norfolk Southern.
j. Howard Lehman, who repres-
ented w. D. Dexter, Jr, manager
of the protective committee for hold
ers of Norfolk Southern first mort
gage bonds due in 1941 received $15,-
600 allowance for the work done up
to the present time, with the con-
dition that they remain in the serv-
ice of the manager and continue
with the plan of reorganization.
L. B. Wehle, counsel for Carroll
M. Shanks, the other manager, was
allowed $500 in addition to the
amount already received from bond
holders who made up the committee
he represented. Wehle resigned as
counsel for Shanks some time ago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21

London, March 21.-(AP)-Fresi-
dent Lebrun of France arrived in
London for three-day state visit to-
day as Soviet Russia's support for a
strong "halt Hitler" move became
highly uncertain
While British-French collaboration
in the face Of German expansion in
creased, Soviet support was consid-
cred doubtful after Britain's refusal
to accept for the present a Russian
proposal for a SiX-poWer conference
King George and Queen Elizabeth
welcomed President and Madam Le-
brun and accompanied them in an
open carriage through lined
flag-decked streets to Buckingham
Palace.
Prime Minister Chamberlain, For
eign Secretary Viscount Halifax,
most of the other cabinet ministers
and crowd of notables were among
those at the station. French Foreign
Minister Bonnet, who accompanied
the President, was. expected to have
important conversations with British
officials during the visit.
The steamer in which the French
party came from Calais was escorted
into the harbor by British war planes
and destroyers. They arrived as the
British government, reverting to the
policy of collective security, became
the rallying point for nations that
would like to halt the eastward
course of Adolf. .Hitler's empire.
Soviet Russia has urged Britain
and France to call a conference of
CT ixot0 fo4O ~
slider damages of German expansion,
while Britain was said to have pro-
posed that London, Paris and Mos
cow favor joint anti-aggressor de-
claration, in which other states might
confer.
The Soviet proposal was that
France, Russia, Britain, Roumania,
Turkey and Poland confer. A Mos
cow communique said Britain "found
this proposal premature"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21
Teacher Paw
17.77c Per
Student Day
State Figures Show
28. ~ Cents Per Stu
dent Per Day in Hen
derson and 31.35 for
County
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
liz the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY HENRY AVERILL

Raleigh, March 21.-North Caro-
lima paid the average teacher dur
ing the school year, 1937-38, 17.77
cents per student per day, according
to figures compiled in the office of
Lloyd Griffin, secretary of State
School Commission.
These figures show that during
the year 4,607 high school and 12,427
elementary teachers taught an aver
age daily attendance of SAT ,949 white
children, at cost to the State for
the average per child of $28.54 for
the year, this cost being for instruc-
tional salaries alone, without regard
to transportation or administrative
costs.
Reducing this to a daily basis per
child per teacher, the result shows
Continued on Page Two)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21
Rutledge Is
Given Court
Post By FDR

Washington, March 21.-(AP)-
w. B. Rutledge, Jr., dean of the
University of Iowa law school, was
nominated by President Roosevelt
today to be an associate justice of
the United States Court of Appeals
of the District of Columbia. This is
a new position created by the last
Congress.
Dean Rutledge had been promi-
nently mentioned for the vacancy on
the United States Supreme Court,
to which William O. Douglas, chair
man of the Securities Commission,
was nominated yesterday.
The Iowa professor, only A years
old, has been dean of the University
since 1885. He was native of Glow
export, Ky.
Attorney General Murphy recon-
mended him for the local bench.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel
BY LYNN NESRETl

Raleigh, March 21.-The fate of
several bills and of a whole type of
legislation during the present Cen
eral Assembly has proven the ac-
curacy of predictions made early in
the session that bills coming to Ra
leigh from Washington with demand
for passage were going to be scru-
tinized much more closely than dur
ing the past few sessions of the legis-
lature.
In the General Assembly of 1888
ard that of 1885 about all that was
needed to get bills enacted into law
was to say that they were sponsor
ed or approved by the national adj
1887, particularly in the special ses-
sions. But the 1889 North Carolina
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21
CrOats Determine
TOGain Autonomy,
One Way or Other

Zagreb, YugOSlOvaia, March
21.-(AP)-V. Watcher, presi-
dent of the CrOat party, asserted
today that CrOats were deter
mined to win autonomy, and that
it was immaterial to them
whether support came from the
demOcracieS or from Adolf Hit
Ier.
"A rapid solution is impera-
tive" declared the champion of
CrOat liberty. GAS far as the
CrOats are concerned, it is ir-
relevant whether their cause of
self determination is espOused
by Hitler or Roosevelt"
Croatia generally was orderly,
though in the past few days sew
eral small groups of extremists
held pro- Hitler demonstrations.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21
Latest Hitler
Coup Little
Known Here
By CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COltlmniSt

Washington, March 21.-The truth
is that American diplomacy has no
very clear idea of what has just hap
pened under Herr Hitler's auspices
in what was Czecho-Slovakia and
thereabOuts.
I'm certain that references to the
Czechs and Slovaks, to Bohemia
Moravia, to Ruthenia and to the Car
patho-Ukraine sum up as pretty
meaningless tumble to the average
citizen of this republic. He recognizes
the names of a few cities mentioned
in dispatches, such as Vienna, Buda-
pest, Pilsen Con account of its beer)
and Prague. But places like Svalava,
Kenderske, Torhegyalac and .Bratis-
lava? Naturally the signs on their
whistling posts don't mean thing.
Some of them are not even pro-
nounceable except locally For in
stance-the important city of Prz-
mysl? An eminent American geo.
grapher is on record to the effect
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21
MEEKINCS HANDS OUT
u. S. PRISON TERMS

MEEKINS HAND Zang
Fayetteville, March 21.-(AP)-
After having advised liquor revenue
defendants to bring their suitcases
to court ready to travel. Judge l. M.
Neekins, in United States district
court, today demonstrated what he
meant by sentencing seven out Of
the first eight to face him to terms
in the Atlanta or the Chillicothe pri-
sons. Average sentepce was the
time-honored year and day.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21
Six Burke County
Men Arrested For
Making Liquor

Shelby, March 21.-(AP)-Six
Burke county men were arrested to-
day in the Federal court room here
and chraged with conspiracy to
make untaxed liquor in the South
Mountains. The men were taken
into custody shortly before noon as
they listened to trial of another case.
Deputy Marshal John Edwards book
ed the six as Earl Abee, 26; Lee
Ernest Smith, 21; Walter Lowman,
0; Kermie Lowman, %; Garlic Lail,
%, and Odell Ray Cook, 20. Bonds
we're set at $500 each and April "a
set for preliminary hearings.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21
Lithuania To Surrender
Memel To Germany Soon

Kaunas, Litheuannia, March 21.-
(AP)-Ir. E. P. Neumann, Nazi
leader in Memel, announced today
that he expected Lithuania to sur
render the Memel territory in the
near future. The statement came as
Lithuanian officials were reliably re-
ported to be removing their families
from the little Baltic district which
was German before the World War,
and is now under Lithuanian SOW
ereignty.
DR.. Neumann declared that the
continued association of Lithuania
and Memels was economically and
culturally impossible"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21

In return for annexation to Ger
many, he said, Memel was prepared
to grant Lithuania ha1bor rights.
What was at first described as a
special session of the Lithuanian
Parliament called for today was later
said to be a secret conference of par
liamentary groups.
(Reports from Berlin indicated the
Lithuanian and German foreign min
listers, during a talk yesterday, reach
ed an agreement for uncontested
absorption of Memel in to the Reich.
When the Memel diet meets Sat-
urday, it is expected to vote ap-
proval of reincorporation into Ger
many.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-21
California Area
Shaken by Quake

Ell CentrO, Cal, March 21.-
(AP)-The second sharp Garth
quake of the day Jared portions
of the Imperial Valley at $3.50 a.
m. today, accompanied by clear
Iy audible roar. Police Sergeant
George Bucklin said the tremOr
lasted five seconds, ratified dishes
but did no damage. He reported
it also was felt strongly in Calex-
leo to the south of the Mexican
border, but not in Brawley, Ia
miles north. A One-secOnd GAR
ring" quake wa sfelt at 1885 a.
m.