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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR Green Urges Rebel Unions To Return Into Federation And Iron Out Differences POSITION CHANGED By LABOR CHIEF AT TAMPACONVENTION Had Previously Stated “Se ceders” Must Give Up Movement Before Peace Was Had SENTIMENTAGAINST EXPULSION GROWING Many Delegates, However, Cry for Ouster of Unions Even if It Meant Long and Bitter War; Talk of Con tinued Efforts To Secure Lasting Peace Tampa, Fla., Nov. 16 (AP)—Wil- Vu\m Green, president of the Ameri can Ft'dei ation of Labor, today urg ed John L. Lewis’ rebel unions to •voine back and take your seats” in the federation’s annual convention. I a eked them to recognize the prin ciples of democracy,” Green said in iiis opening talk to the delegates. “I asked them to come back and take their seats with us and fight out our differences in manly fashion in the conventions of the American Federa tion of Labor.” Green previously had insisted, how ever, that the Lewis rebels, suspend ed two months ago for “insurrection” would have to give up their commit t for industrial organization before peace could be made. GROWING SENTIMENT TO PREVENT EXPULSION SEEN Tampa. Fla., Nov. 16 (AP)—Grow ing sentiment against expulsion of (Continued on Page Two). 34,000 Votes Cast By Absent Voters At Nov. 3 Election Raleigh, Nov. 16.—(AP)— Ray mond C. Maxwell, executive secre tary of the State Board of Elec tions, said today there were a roiind 34,000 absentee votes cast in the November 3 election, which “was not out of proportion to pre vious years.” There were approximately 840,- 000 votes cast for the President. County election hoards had re quested 99,000 absentee voting blanks before the election. Ashe county voted the heaviest percentage absentee*, with 1,779 out of a total vote of 10,109. Hen derson county listed 1,238 out of 10,846. TWO PERSONS DEAD IN AIRPLANE CRASH Ship Intended To Take Son To Bed side of Hying Father Folds Up In Snowstorm Syracuse, N’ Y., Nov. 16. (AP) — Two persons were dead today because an airplane intended to carry a son to the bedside of his dying father crashed in a snowstorm 15 miles southwest of Amboy airport, a few minutes after taking off from a re fuelling stop. ’the victims were: Miss Priscilla Murphy, 16-year-old Brookline, Mass., high school girl and an amateur pilot. Henry Nadeau, 45, of Nashua, N. H who had charatered the plane for ; flight to International Falls, Minn., where his father was reported to be dying. John H. Shobe, veteran Boston pil ch was seriously burned in the crash and was reported by hospital officials today to be in a “very critical condi tion.’’ Tenants In State May O wn Farms M t Kington, Nov. 16. —(AP) —Work- L, T i<■ "ctly, the Resettlement Admin rat ion has started a Federal pro • 'em to make farm owners out of 1,- '• K H tenants in ten southern states. M. E. Gilford, assistant to admin t 'rator Rexford G. Tugwell, said the move was kept quiet in order to ac- Huire farm lands at normal values. H was feared the price of land would soar if its projects became (Continjued on Page Two) HntiU'rsmt BatUj Dtsuafrlr ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASKI) WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. SOLONS TO INSPECT ARMY POSTS Senators Sherman Minton, Robert Reynolds and F. Ryan Duffy These three members of the U. S. senate military affairs committee, left to right, Senators Sherman Minton of Indiana, Robert R. Rey nolds of North Carolina and F. Ryan Duffy of Wisconsin, sail from New York for the Panama Canal Zone. They will inspect U. S. army posts. State Control, But With Revenue Kept Locally, Is Liquor Plan Considered Investigators Not Impressed With County Control Sys tem; Skeleton Os Law To Be Suggested Is Outlin ed; Would Be Uniform State Regulations Dully Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir XVsitter Hotel. «*v .1. C. It ASK Hit VI 1,1. Raleigh, Nov. 16.—A Statewide li quor control law, placing all liquor stores in the State under centralized State control and supervision, but leaving most of the profits from the sale of liquor in the counties, will be recommended by the State Liquor Fact-Finding Commission, of which Representative Victor S. Bryant, of Durham, is chairman, according to those who havee been following the work of the commission. The com mission has completed its public hear ings, has held one or two executive sessions and is now at work on the report it will submit to the General Assembly, it was learned from an au thoritative source today. There are in OLD ROADS OR HEW IS PRESSING ISSUE Counties Can’t Get New Roads If They Demand State Refunds Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Ily J. CL RABKERVILI, Raleigh, Nov. 16. —The big question which the County Road Debts Ad justment Commission will have to de cide is whether the 79 counties which have just completed arguing in favor of their requests for a refund of $61,- 000,000 to pay for aid roads already built, many of which have worn out and gone to pieces, should be paid this money from taxes collected to build new roads, or whether to disre gard these claims and spend this $61,- 000,000 building new roads in all the counties, it is agreed in most circles here following the recent hearings. The counties asking for these re funds maintain the State should pay them back the money they spent in supplementing State expenditures for roads when they were not satisfied with the amount the State had to spend and sold bonds and levied taxes (Continued on Page Four.) SIX PERSONS ARE APPARENTLY SLAIN Edmonton, Alberta, Nov. 16. (By Canadian Press.) —The violent deaths of six persons, wip ing out the entire population of Tiland, tiny railway settlement 100 miles north of Edmonton, brought an inquest today. Officials said they believed the slayings occurred early Saturday. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 16, 1936 timations that the report of the com mission, together with its recommen dations and the sample bill it is ex pected to draw up, will be submitted to Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus soon after December 1. May Not Be Specific. While no member of the commis sion has made any public statement or given any indication of what the commission will recommend, there are intimations that the commission may avoid making any definite re commendation that any law legalizing the sale of liquor in North Carolina be enacted, but rather say that if the General Assembly decides to enact a law legalizing liquor in the State, it Continued on Page Two.) Hoey Hunts Tax Source For Revenue Gardner Sends His One - Man Brain - Truster To Raleigh To Do Snooping Dally Dispatch Itnrpau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Uy J. C. BANK Kit VI 1,1. Raleigh, Nov. 16 —Dr. Fred W. Morrison, the one-man brain trust of former Governor O. Max Gardner who was so valuable to him that he took him to Washington to do the de tail work in his law office there when he retired as governor here, is back in Raleigh. Morrison has been here for a week or more, but no one seems to know definitely what he is doing, although he has been spending a good deal of time in the Department of Revenue, where he formerly was executive secretary of the State Tax (Continued on Page Four.) GAS COMPANTCASE IS UP FOR HEARING Raleigh, Nov. 16.—(AP)—The State Utilities Commission was to hear this afternoon the petition of the Henderson and Oxford Gas Company to discontinue its opera tions in Oxford except for the sup plying of “bottled gas” to present gas users. The company contends it is losing money. Farm Demand Nov* Best for 8 Years Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 16.—(AP) —Demand for farm land is at the highest level in eight years as the result of rising agricultural com modity prices, and loans have in creased accordingly, Governor W. I. Myers, of the Farm Credit Ad ministration, told’ the 70th annual meeting of the National Grange to day. “An 80 percent increase in farm income since 1932, and more advan tageous farm credit terms have set a premium on farm ownership;” Myers said. “Voluntary transfers cf farm lands are now at the high est level since 1928.” LEMKE MORTGAGES FARM MORATORIUM JO GEIJEW TEST Case Coming Up From Vir ginia Challenges Frazier- Lemke Act In Su preme Court LEMKE HIMSELF IS AMONG ATTORNEYS A Roanoke Bank Claims Leg islation Took Their Pro perty Without Due Process of Law; Bank One of Cred itors of Plaintiff In Ap pealing Decision Washington, Nov. 16 —(AP) —Anoth- er case involving the constitutional ity of the Frazier-Lemke farm mort gage moratorium act was filed in the Supreme Court today by Robert Page Wright, of Bedford county, Virginia. Attorneys filing the appeal included Representative Lemke, of North Da kota, co-author of the legislation, and the Union party candidate for Presi dent in the November 3 election. Under the act farmers were grant ed a three-year moratorium before their mortgages could be foreclosed. The petition arrived after the court had held a session which produced no opinions, and then started on another week of arguments, including three New Deal controversies. Wright appealed from a ruling by the fourth circuit court of appeals dis missing his petition on the claim by the Vinton branch of the Mountain Trust Bank of Roanoke, Va., that the legislation took their property with out due process of law. The bank was one of Wright’s cre ditor. In a session which lasted only a few minutes, the court permitted the gov ernment to intervene in a case intend ed to determine whether the “gold clause” resolution barring payment of obligations in gold applies to rental contracts. © MARY PICKFORD TO WED BUDDY ROGERS Hollywood, Cal., Nov. 16. —(AP) —Mary Pickford confirmed today her oft-rumored engagement to Charles “Buddy” Rogers, band leader and actor. GASOLINE MDYIS AFTER IRE DATA All Hands To Have Hear ing In Sittings of Com mission In Raleigh Raleigh, Nov. 16. —(AP) — A. S. Brower, director of the State Division of Purchase and Contract, gave the State Commission investigating the feasibility of establishing a State-own ed gasoline terminal a complete re view of State purchases of gasoline since 1931 today. The commission opened its final public hearing this morning, but put off hearing representatives of Wil mington, Morehead City, Fayetteville, Southport and other interested cities until late in the afternoon. Wilming ton and Fayetteville filed petitions seeking the proposed terminal. Oscar Barker, of Durham, chairman of the commission, explained that un der the law creating the group it was Continued on Page Two.) for NORTH CAROLINA. Fair and continued cold tonight, with light to heavy frost on coast and heavy to killing frost in interior; Tuesday fair, with slowly rising temperatures. Government Begins Big Job Os Setting Up Security Act F0r26,000,000U.5. Workers HOOVER HELPS OPEN BIG BRIDGE 111 l ihmßl / | ® % | 'I jjp | i i .( Top, Hoover, left, Merriam, right; below, first traffic across bridge With former President Herbert Hoover, left, and Gov. Frank Mer riam of California participating, above, first traffic crosses the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge, below, marking the official opening of the $77,000,000 eight-and-a-quarter-mile long structure linkins the two cities. New Peace Proposa l In Sea Strike San Francisco, Nov. 16. —(AP) —As- sistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady sought another peace pro posal today to present to employers in the Pacific coast far-reaching mari time strike. The Labor Department’s ace trou ble shooter called a meeting with leaders of sailors and engine room workers believed by observers to be the key unions in the peace efforts. He indicated he hopes to obtain at least a tentative acceptance of pro posals “along lines suggested by em ployers” who rejected McGrady’s ne gotiations formula Saturday. Rank and file seamen leaders who picketed the trans-Atlantic liner George Washington by airplane and motor launch when it docked at New York Saturday, claimed the deck and engine room crews would refuse to sign on for the scheduled sailing Wed nesday. Seventy of 700 ship passengers stranded in Honolulu when the strike was called October 29 obtained pas sage on a Japanese liner. Those still stranded started negotiations with union leaders and ship owners for re- Continued on Page Two.) New Crisis For Germany And Russia Moscow, Nov. 16 (AP)—The Ger man government protested sharply to Soviet Russia today against the ar rest of 23 German citizens. The protest followed Soviet an nouncement to the German govern ment that charges of espionage and conspiracy had been lodged against 14 of those arrested. Accusations against the other nine Germans had not been disclosed. Previously they were reported de tained with a number of persons of other nationalities in connection with an alleged Fascist plot against the Soviet government. The German protest, delivered by the German charge d’affaires, said Continued on Page Two.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. 19 Killed, 43 Hurt In the Carolinas (By The Associated Press.) An Associated Press tabulation today showed 19 persons killed and 43 injured in week-end automobile mishaps in the two Carolinas. North Carolina accounted for ten of the dead and 28 of the injured, while South Carolina had nine kill ed and 15''injured. ‘NEW WORLD’ UNION TO IGNORE CANADA Dominion’s Ties to Britain Exclude Her From New Alliance By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Nov. 16.—As a one time resident, for several years of the Argentine Republic, the father of an only child born under the Argentine flag, and a visitor, in my day, in half a dozen others among the new world’s Latin countries, I feel a na tural interest in the movement to bring the Americas as closely as pos sible together. There are 21 of us, big and little, in process of effecting a real union. I wish there could be 22. That would include Canada. Unfortunately for the practicability of welding all the peoples of both western continents into an alliance of the whole number of them Canada has overseas connections. Obviously Continued on Page Two.) ROOSEVELT DECIDES TONIGHT ABOUT TRIP President Definitely To Conclude Whether To Attend Pan-Ame rican Peace Meeting Washington, Nov. 16. —(AP) White House officials said today President Roosevelt will probably decide before nightfall whether to extend his vacation cruise to par ticipate in the opening session of of the Inter-American Peace Con ference at Buenos Aires, Argen tine, December 1. The President will leave here tomorrow nigfht for Charleston, S. C., to board the cruiser In dianapolis for a month. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY FORMS DELIVERED TO FIVE MILLIONS BUSINESSKES Preliminaries Started For Collecting Data for Old Age Pension Sys tem to Function WORKERS EARNING TO $3,000 BENEFIT Mayor LaGuardia Wants States To Contribute To Federal Government, Which Would Do Entire Job; Governors of 20 States Study Set-Up Washington, Nov. 16 (AP) —The Federal government began today the most gigantic task of its kind ever undertaken —the job of setting up so cial security accounts for some 26,- 000,000 workers. From 45,000 post offices throughout the country, postmen set out with forms to be delivered to 5,000,000 bus iness establishments. Thus began the unprecedented operation of collecting the basic data for the old age pen sion system applying to workers in factories, shops, mines, mills offices, stores and other such business estab lishments. The time for the creation of the mountainous files of information was growing short for the old age pen sion taxes —starting at one cent on each dollar of workers’ earnings up to $3,000 a year, and one cent for every dollar of the employers’ payrolls— will go into effect January 1, 1937. The taxes will increase gradually until, beginning in 1949, they will be three percent of wages and three per cent of payrolls. The money is be ing collected to finance pensions ranging from $lO to SBS a month, to Continued on Page Two.) Jap Attack Beateii Off By Chinese Peiping, China, Nov. 16. —(AP)— Eight Japanese fighting planes bomb ed provincial fortifications in eastern Suiyuan province in an attack near Taolin, Chinese sources reported to day. Three thousand infantry troops composed of Manchukuaons and Mon gol Irregulars assisted in the assault against the defenders, the deport de clared. The attack was reported to havo occurred yesterday at the Suiyuan city, 120 miles north. Meagre accounts said the attack ers launched six separate drives, com bining infantrly, aviation, heavy ar tillery and tanks. Suiyuan provneial troops repulsed the offensive, the reports added, in flictmg “heavy losses” on the invaders Suiyuan commanders acknowledged “slight losses.” Fighting At Madrid Now Is Violent Defenders and Re bels Lock in Despe rate Struggle For Bridge to City Madrid, Nov. 16.—(AP) Violent fighting raged today for control of a crossing of the Manzanares river and “Frenchman’s bridge” as insurgent troops struggled to gain a foothold in University City. “Insurgents have announced offi cially ’that Moorg and foreign legion naires had occupied a position in University City, a northwestern sec tion of Madrid proper.) University City itself was under the heaviest shell fire of the siege, now in ts eleventh day. But the main battle lay between Continued on Page Two.)
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