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TIIE DAILY TIMES NEWS Burlington The Hosiery MM Cotter of the South; VVith Numerous Other Progressive, Diversified Indus 4 NO. ASSOCIATED PRL BURLINGTON, N. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1939 FULL NEA SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS NEW APPROACH TO SPANISH PEACE SOUGHT FASCISTS SEND FRESH TROOPS TO Refugees Literally Choke Town Bricks Now Bombs Later, Maybe FRANCO IS READY TO PUT IN OWN Weather Cloudy and colder, showers near coast tonight and Tuesday, mist changing to snow. ji' 'f. Solons Speed Navy Air Base Defense Bill GOVERNMENT LIBYAN AREA Debate and Voting on Measure Is Given Impetus.

F. D. HINTING AT NEW MENACE Washington, Feb. 20 (AP) The $53,800,000 naval air base bill sped forward in congress today new evidence of a determination to bolster national defense. rv air raid shelters are.

thev had When British war office heads a brick wall pushed over on the bounced off harmlessly. wanted lo find ou how their conelike slrnctures, shown above just At the end of two and onc half years' resistance against the insur jtuo TCction of General Franco, the Spanish Loyalist armies marched out of Catalonia, and into France. Here the retreating troops choke fromi Cash Kidnaper, Head Shaven For Electric Chair, Given Reprieve Rairorri, Feb. 20. (AP) Franklin Fierce iUcCall, his heart shaved for the electric chair, v.is granted a.

stay of execution today until next Friday to permit an a a 1 to the United States supreme court of his conviction iu the death of 5 year old lames Bailey Cash. who was kidnaped and killed last May. McCall was lo have died al the i state prison larm nurc lonay. nuii F. Chapman of the prison jsaid he ordered postponement un Ucr authority given by the death waxnanl to hold executions any i day of the week set by tlic gov jernor.

He said he acted alter telephone conversation with Gov. Fred F. Cone. The slay was obtained after relatives bade tearful goodbyes yesterday to the youth who confessed kidnapinff the Cash child at Princeton, last Slay 2 and collecting $10,000 ransom after his victim was dead. C.

A. Avriclt of Jasper, Me Call's attorney, said he would to Washington immediately to present the case to the United Slates supreme court. Members ot McCall's family, irt cludinff his wife and his mother, were at the family home at Jasper. Prison officials carried out plans to execute I'aul Fried Bungo uf Tampa at 10 a m. Bunge was convicted for the mnrder of nis wife and two children.

The governor yesterday stayed the death of Clyde Ilysler, 22 of Jacksonville for 30 days because charges had not been finally settled against the convicted murder's two alleged accomplices, llys ler was convicted as the instigator of a holdup slaying. LIQUOR VOTE CALLED Rockingham, Feb. 20(AP Richmond county will vote tomorrow on the issue of whether the county shall operate ABC liquor stores. In 1933 the county voted dry 689 Jx 1,104. A spirited campaign has been conducted by the ministers and church leaders.

rail the narrow streets of U.S. POLICY IN EAST STUDIED Warning to on Invasion1, of Hainan follows uioseiy angm French Warning. Washiiicton. Feb. 20.

(AP) A parallel policy among the United States, Great Britain and France the Far East has devE'iopcu to thp nninfc where diulomatic repre sentatives here are giving it close attention. Diplomatic circle nuve been struck particularly by American Ambassador Grews demand on the Japanese foreign office last week to learn Japan's intentions in occupying the Island of Hainan. ot merely that it immediately fol lower a similar step by Britain and France. The significance is that is taken despite we met unai no such step was made when the Japanese occupied Canton, which actually is a little closer the Philippines than is Hainan, 750 miles away. Ambassador Grew called Japan's attention to the fact that there were Americans on the Island of Hainan but there were still more Americans at Canton.

Last year, when Ule Japanese art feint to take Hainan, the British and French wamsd her that they would stand togetner complications that might arise. And now. in effect, the United States has joined them. Hainan is ot more curaci. uilcibsi.

Britain and France because, as air base, it could threaten French Indo China, less than 200 miles away, or the British colon Honfftcmg, not mucu farther. But 750 miles is not a gTcat distance as flyin gplancs now go. are mukipiy.n.; o. i hnTwc nf information, Opinion and action among the three democracies with regard to the Far East. KINSTON AREA INUNDATED ftaVieVi Feb.

(AP) LoW lying areas around Kinston were ing Ncuse river and the weather Bureau warneu rranicuu livestock to higher ground. The weather bureau forecast the Neuse river would reach 19 feet, live leet aoove noou iwse, uy Brother in Law to Be Premier Under New Regime Plans. RECOGNITION OF HIM IS DEBATED Paris, Feb. 20 (AP) France and Britain today sought a new approach toward peace in Spain and a basis for recognition of Nationalist Generalissimo Franco's regime as the legal Spanish government. Ecu.

Lcoii Be raid, French emissary, and Sir Robert M. Hodgson. British commercial agent to nationalist Spain, conferred in Burgos after talks with the nationalists had snayged on persistent nationalist demands for unconditional surrender by the republican government. Recognition Sir Robert wa taking the lead tioas with Eur.cro: believed to bo i the conversa iuthorities while Berard primarily xupied the of ion; recognition of Franco by France and Britain. A showdown was expected on Wednesday when the two planned a further interview with Gen.

Count Francisco Gorne Jordana, Franco's foreign minister. Franco's representatives last night reiterated the generalissimo's ruling that only unconditional surrender of the republican government in the last one fourth of Spain it holds or final victory for nationalist arms could end the half year old Tne French had arcn promise Of ui; tructed to seek luiiwicy rard the republican as weu as assurances mat Spain would be rid of Italian and German forces as a basis of the recognition of Franco which is hoped would bring peace. Berard arrived Saturday night in Burgos. Franco's firm stand was said to have been communicated to him. Sir Robert saw the nationalist foreign minister, Count Francisco Gomez Jordana tn Burgos and left immediately for the French frontier where he was believed lo have made a long report to London by Meanwhile Berard negotiated with nationalist officials in what seemed to be a regular schedule of talks arranged with his British colleague.

Resume Talks Wednesday The foreign minister was reported to have gone to Barcelona, to consult Franco. Advices said there would be no further talks at Burgos before Wednesday. Then, diplomatic sources said, new efforts probably would be made by both French and British statesmen to win some concession from Franco which would facili tate the republican surrender. Officially, optimism was still expressed that Berard's mission would succeed and Premier Edouard Daladier's cabinet would be able to proceed soon to formal recognition of Franco as the ruler of Spain. President Manual Azana of the republican government remained tne spanisn emoassy nere, awaiting the outcome of the Burgos talks.

New Government Planned Perpignan, France (near the Spanish Frontier) Feb. 20. (Ar) Nationalist ueneraussuna F.ancisco Franco was said today, by informed border sources to plan naming: a new Government of eight cabinet ministers under the nominal diretion of his brothsr in errano sunner, as premier. GIRL MISSING IN CALIFORNIA SEEN AS KIDNAP VICTIM Pasadena, Feb. 20 (AP) Police launched a wide scale hunt today for an 8 year old Pasadena girl, Anne Louise Sweitzer.

feared kidnaped from her home. Iletective W. G. Collins said the child left the house yesterday morning, telling her parents she was going to play at a neighbor's yard. Collins said he was informed by Mrs.

Jennie Pureell that she had seen Anne Louise about noon in the automobile of her nephew, a 40 year old gardener. Mrs. Pureell reported the man, who made his home with her, removed his clothes and personal effects to the car and drove away. Police were told the gardener had become acquainted with the girl while working In the Sweitzer nclghbor The missing child's father, Ralph Sweitzer, is a disabled world war flier. Move Reported as British Argue on Defense Program.

COMMONSTOPENS TWO DAY DEBATE London, Feb. 20 (AP) An Italian decision to send "30,000 more troops" to Libya, in North Africa, was announced today in the house of commons as the British government sought approval of its costly rearmament program. R. A. Butler, undersecretary Tor foreign affairs, said Italy had informed Lord Perth, British ambassador to Rome, she was "sending more troops to Libya to provide for the security" of the North African territory.

Thirty Thousand Remain Thirty thousand troops had remained in Libya after in the force had been effected under the Anglo Italian accord ratified last November. (British officials on Feb. 15 had disclosed that Italy was sending reinforcements to Libya. They said Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeaazo Ciano had told Lord Perth the troops were being sent because of "information received" that French forces in Tunisia, neighbor of Libya, Had been increased.) Butler declined to agree with Laborite Arthur Henderson's suggestion that the Italian action was a breach of the pact "because the Italian government did reduce her troops in Libya" as prescribed by the accord. He added that Lord Perth had accepted Rome's reason for the move.

Opposition members laughed when Butler indicated Italy never had promised reduce Libyan garrisons "in perpetuity." Henderson asserted Butler's reply was unsatisfactory an dan nounced he would initiate a debate on the issue at an early date. King, Premier Confer King George VI and Prime Minister Chamberlain conferred with key defense chiefs today prior to a full dress rearmament debate in the house of commons set against a background of increasing European tension over Spain and Italian French differences. The monarch received Viscount Gort, chief of the imperial general staff who recently returned from a tour of Britain's near eastern defenses, and Chamberlain conferred with Admiral Baron Cliatfield and Admiral Sir Roger Backhouse, lord commissioner of the 'admiralty and chief of the naval staff. Lord Chatfield was named minister for coordination of defense in the cabinet shake up Jan. 28 and recently returned from a study of Indian defenses.

The British government asked parliament today to approve what probably Is the costliest peacetime rearmament program in history, its purpose strengthened by uneasy developments in the European straggle of Spain and the Mcditerran A two day debate on defense opened in the house of commons. It promised important revelations on foreign policy, Britain's present strength or weakness and the progress of rearmament. Staggering Expenditures The resolution to increase the government's borrowing power for defense from 400,000,000 pounds ($2,000,000,000 to 800,000,000 pounds (4.000,000,000 was to be moved by Sir John Simon, chancellor of the exchequer. Defense in the coming financial year will cost the staggering sum of 580,000,000 pounds ($2,800,000, 000), as announced in a government white paper Feb. 15.

The British public eagerly awaited possible hints as to how the money would be raised whether entirely by loans or partially through taxation. The opposition was not opposing a huge speed up in armament but nrenaTed a demand for fuller in formation on government's plans ana s. criticism oi giarmg weaknesses" in defense preparations. The socialists were expected to press for a government statement on whether a large expeditionary force would be sent to aid France (Continued oil page five) Hague's Son Is Appointed Judge Trenton, N. Feb.

20 (AP) Frank Hague, son of the Jersey City mayor and state Democratic leader, was appointed today by Governor A. Harry Moore as a lay Judge of the court of errors and appeals, New Jersey's highest law tribunal. He succeeded Thomas Glynn Walker who resigned to become a common pleas judge, of Hudson county. FATAL DASH OF ENGINE PROBED Two Killed, 23 Injured as Runaway Locomotive Dasnes Down uraae in Wtiird Accident. Harlan, Feb.

20 (AP) The wild down grade da sli of a "riderless" locomotive into a speed Minrieupolis boimd passenger train, resulting in two deaths and injury to 23 persons, claimed the attention of federal, staie and railroad investigators here today. Killed late Saturday night in the weird accident on the oveat Western line near here were Henry Miller, engineer and A. D. Sellers, fireman, both of Clarion, both on the pasNcnger engine. The stage for the terrific head on crash was set wnen a neini, locomotive sot away from its crew near TennanL, four miles from the scene of the impact.

John Anderson, Council Bluffs fi ciBtit engineer who was burned critically by steam, was piloting an extra" towards Omaha. He halted the freight near Tcnnant to pick up a car of corn. After seeing the car out. on the main line, he becked tne train on wj i ju ing to pick up a car of rail ties, rail employes said, a steam nine burst, Fireman Ed Sharp related, while he was ad lustmc; tne auwjnidui. iw i i the boiler.

Sharp said he was forced from the cab by escaping steam, Anderson was trapped. The fireman said he returned and dragffed the engineer to safety before the backing train, slowly gathering speed, crashed into some freight cars. This impact, Sharp continued, derailed five cars and apparently jolted back the reverse bar and jammed the throttle at Tull speed ahead. While the trainmen stood help lesslv by, the wild engine roared hy them, picked up the car of corn on the main track and sped throuch the darkness to meet the oncoming passenger train, which had left omana earner Cv Officiab estimated that the locomotive its light blotted out by the com car. was going 50 miles an hour when it rammed Into the passenger train.

TEMPERATURES for the LAST 24 HOURS and colder, possibly showers near omit intiiirM anH Tuesday, and I mist changing lo snow flurries. TEMPERATURES ftharlntle. Feb. 20 (API Offici al weather bureau records or the temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours ending ai r.iv a. tn inc principal cotton growing areas and Station Asheville II.

RL 70 56 03 Speaker Bankhead and Repre sentative Rayburn of Texas, the house majority leader, announced the house would devote tomorrow and Wednesday to consideration of the legislation. They acted after the rules commitiee votea unanimously to ask the house to start voting after six hours of general debate. Senator Nye (R ND) proposed meanwhile to write into law army and navy regulations against the release of military aircraft to foreign governments. Would Safeguard U. S.

Defense Wye introduced in the senate a bill designed to safeguard for the United States any airplane or airplane appliance built under government contract according iii n.r oniummont n. reearch chairman Vinson (D Ga) ot the naval committee and Representative Maas (P. Minn), rankiitf: minority member, said they would grant "ample time" for arguments of opponents of the S5.OO0.000 item lor developing a seaplane harlMi at Guam. Presidential hints of threaten ing developments abroad acted as a damper on congressional controversy over American foreign policy, but there was no doubt the Guam project would be criticized, Vinson told the rules committee the Guam item was the only controversial section of the 11 air base program. Even that, he said, constituted "no entering wedge' which might lead to actual fortification of the island.

"I wouldn't be here advocating development of Guam," he declared, "if I thought it would in volve us in the Orient." The Japanese press has looked with disfavor on any proposal to strengthen this far Pacific out post of the United States ana critics in this country nave declared it would be provocative to do so. Would Avoid Further Dispatch Discussing armaments with re porters. Senator Nye (R ND) offered the opinion that the senate military affairs committee should determine how adequately American airplane manufacturers were equipped to sell military planes to foreign governments. support from some Republican members the contention mat further dispute at this time should be avoided if possible. They acknowledged, however, that the foreign policy debate undoubtedly would break out when the senate takes up the $376,000,000 army expansion mil.

Senator Austin (R Vth declaring his party viewpoint was secondary to his patriotism, said a committee inquiry had convinced him that the administration's encouragement of French warplane purchases was not unneutral. Austin said he believed the transaction, center of the foreign policy dispute, "tended to promote our capacity to produce airplanes needed undsr the armaments pro Senator Logan (D Ky) concurred in this opinion, asserting that President Roosevelt did right in helping the French buy Douglas bombers manufactured for Ameri can army competition but not vet tested by the army. Senator Minton (D Ind) added: "If everyone knew what the senate military committee knows, there would not be a person the country who would criticize the president." May Cut Trip Short Testimony about the French plane sales was mad public Saturday by the committee about the time Mr. Roosevelt was telling re porters in Florida that he might have to cut short his Caribbean cruise because of information about difficulties in Europe, The information was discounted fey some sources here, although others pointed out that the president naturally had access to re ports not possessed by legislators. mere was increasmg evidence that the army expansion bill, carrying the bulk ol the president's national defense program and passed overwhelm ingly by the house, would go through the senate with little opposition, despite the foreign policy controversy.

House leaders expect to take up' late tne week: a navaj air base expansion bill. Before either chamber debates further defense legislation, it faces other controversial measures. At the top of the senate calendar is a billion dollar appropriation bill carrying funds for independent federal agencies. The major argument concerns $17,000,000 for TVA dams. REBELLION IN Government.

Lima. Peru. Feb (API Preautio.nary measures were enforced todtiv following' a shortlived attempt by interior si General Antonio Rodriguez seize the government tne absence of his old friend, President Oscar Benavides. General Rodriguez was killed by Sergt. Maj.

Rizo Patron who challenged Rodriguez' assertions that he was the chief executive because Benavides was sailing lor F.iirope. One police officer, two patrolmen and a Jananfi.se pedestrian were reported killed and persons wounded in the briet righting that followed. The attempted coup d'etat occurred at 2 a. in. yesterday when the general seized tlic presidential palace, proclaimed himself head or the government and issued manifestoes explaining his plans for far reaching measures to replace the Benavides administration.

Rodriguez ordered Captain Ismodcs, chief of the imichine gim section quartered ai. the palace, to relinquish the command to a new chief. Ismodcs, pretend ins to follow the orders, telephoned presidential quarlers for troops, locked himself in a lower and framed machine guns on the palace entrance until arrived to assume sU ategic positions about the palace. Rodriguez' death at the lianas of Rizo Fairon. leader of the first troops to arrive, apparently ende.l the movement.

The president hurried back to Lima when advised or the attempted coup, and called a special cabinet meeting. TO GUARD NAZI RALLY New York, Feb. 20 (AP) Police took extraordinary precautions against rassibk violence at a rally of the pro Nazi German American Bund Mauison square uaiaen tonight. A squad of 16 policemen remained on 24 hour guard after a search oi the hall following receipt of a at the mayors ouicc atwn. three time bombs would be hid den in the building.

Nothing was found. Atlantic. The scouiiiis for contacts was pected to cover a sweep of the South Atlantic extending over i 1,000 mile front, with particula. attention being paid to the three main passages Winward, Mona and Anegada between Cuba and the lesser Antilles. Warfare launched San Juan, Puerto Rico, Feb.

20 (AF) The roar of planes over the city and far out at st a. today warned Puerto Ricans that the United States navy's mimic warfare had started in earnest. Defense operations were begun with air patrols seeking the "white" fleet, the "enemy" that is to at trnnnf tn "sei7" this island and esablish a base for operations against the Atlantic Seaboard far south of the Panama Canal. Except for the appearance of the planes in the skies, civilians here knew little of what the naval problem was, but they definitely realized the "war" was on. For the first time in many days there were no white clad soldiers roaming th? streets.

Officers ships in the harbor ordered all men aboard last midnight. Collioure, a French horder ti GUARANTEED WAGE' UPHELD Andrews Sees Guaranteed Annual Wage in Seasonal Industries Boon for Worker, Washington, Feb, 2D (AP) Wage Hour Administrator Elmer F. Andrews predicted today that wider use of "guaranteed annual wage" contracts by seasonal industries might result from the fair labor standards act. A guaranteed annual wage contract is one under which employes are paid, on an annual or semiannual basis. Under the wage hVu act such employes cannot be re quired to work more than 1,000 hours in six mouths or more than 2,000 hours in one year.

Andrews based his prediction on formal memorandum prepared Calvert Magruder, general counsel for the wage hour division, interpreting two sections of the law. The memorandum was ill tended to serve, Magruder said, as a guide to the administrator un less the courts direct otherwise. Andrews Indicated the guaranteed annual wage basis would be come attractive to employers by civmc them the right to step up production in emergencies without payuig employes overtime. He emphasized that the exemption from overtime payments, however, applied only to industries whose employes worked under un ion contracts caning ior specuic wages and working periods over long terms. "Under collective bargaining agreements arrived at bona fide union and the employer," he said, "employes may be worked up to 12 hours a day and 56 hours a week without the payment of overtime." "It is apparent from the legislative history (of the section)," the memorandum said "that by requiring the employe to be employed 'on an annual congress intended that the employee be guaranteed either a fixed annual wage or annual employment.

sentee ballot regulatioi al elections. at in gener HearuiRS on the nroDOsed wage hour bills will also begin tomorrow. A number 01 businesses ana industries have asked to be exempted, from the measure. There are two wage hour bills before the legislators. Nearly Alike One.

backed hy the State Fed Bratten of Labor, would orovide 'a minimum pay oi cents an noui the first year, 30 cents the second year, and 40 cents after seven vAtirs. and maximum hours of 44 a week the first year, 42 the sec ond year ana 40 alter tne win Tne Otner DUi, Dacsea wie state Denartment of Labor, would provide minimum pay of 25 cents an hour the first year, 30 cents the next six years, and 40 cents after seven years, aim maximum hours of 44 a week the first year, 42 the second year, and 40 after the second year. The legislature will go to Char tni.t.p Wodnesdav for a one day session commemorating the signing of the Mecklenburg declaration ntteixTiaence. rue senat scheduled to to go to Wilmington Saturday for a session. Joint Committee Sinks Its Caribbean 'Warfare' Opens As President's Ship Arrives Teeth In Budget Balancing Atlanta Augusta Birminghar Charleston Galveston Greensboro Jacksonville Los Angeles Miami.

Feb. 20 (AF) The cruiser Houston, with President Roosevelt aooain, ainvea nnntanamo. tJuoa, waay as mntndinir "black" and "white" naval forces assumed positions lor one of the most significant war games in tne nistory oi me juneri can fleet. The first radio message from the Houston to temporary White House headquarters here said the 9.050 ton cruiser would visit bav this morning but the president would not go ashore. After circling the bay off the American naval base the Houston was to continue eastward while the first stage of the mimic battle to test the Panama coast defenses gets under way.

The Houston was heading for an initial position with the defending "black" fleet, composed of surface and air craft under comniBnd of kVice Admiral Adolphus Andrews, spread out from uuoa to Venezuela in the carioocan. The "white" attackers, hoping, to establish a base in the West Indies from which an attack might be launched on the navy's life line, were lying far eastward, out In the TJoirrri ThWi. 20 (AP) A jointl sub committee oi me applana tions and lmancc commmeus uuu tinued todav its task of trying to make anticipated tax receipts equal B.Twvriar.irms for the next bientiium and balance a tentative budget tnat is rKl An authoritative source disclosed t.v,t the. pfimmittee felt moTe in clined to provide additional taxes inan to cul oppiupuauiuiu, ing the" stand that apropnations have already been cut "about as much as can be. Added Liquor iax.r TIir committee was reported to be considering hiking the tax on liquor in the 27 wet counties from seven to ten per cent, as recom mended by the cuciget commission.

A bill is before the finance com mittee lo allow the State Board of Alcoholic Beverage control estab lish warehouses and do a mall order business "In liquor in the 73 dry counties, Froponents oi uie mil claim, it wouio. oring 000.000 a year In revenue. Tomorrow nleht a house sub committee is expected to report to tnc committee on ciecuon mws on ills to abolish absentee voting In the primaries and to tighten ab 76 54 .76 78 62 .00 76 50 .20 "4 62 .00 58 .18 76 62 .00 38 4 .44 50 38 1.98 66 36 .73 70 58 .12 74 60 .00 78 64 .00 56 48 .00 70 48 .70 74 46 52 76 72 .00 34 6 46 70 (12 .30 40 40 .20 62 54 .00 76 62 .00 72 46 .00 58 44 .00 76 58 .48 80 64 ,00 74 64 .00 72 58 .00.