HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
central
CAROLINA
twenty-third year
PANIC SWEEPS MADRID IS PEOPLE FLEE
Roosevelt Sails On Voyage
Os Peace To South America
As Charleston Guns Salute
THOUSANDS GREET
PRESIDENT DURING
DRIVE TO CRUISER
Leaves Behind Statement
Expressing Apprecia
ciation for Messages
of Congratulation
TO VISIT COLUMBIA
ON HIS RETURN TRIP
Will Then Go To Warm
Springs, Ga., Home For
Stay; News of Wage In
creases In Textile Indus
try In Carolinas Greatly
Pleasing to the President
Charleston, S. C., Nov. 18 (AP)-In
monious setting, President
R( ..sevelt embarked on the cruiser
jpolls here today for his good
will journey to South America.
Bound on' a fast 6.009-mile voyage to
Buenos Aires to open the inter-Ame
rican peace conference December 1,
he rode from the train to the dock
through two miles of streets lined
with thousands of citizens from
.South Carolina and neighboring
He was piped over the side of the
cruiser with two 21-gun salutes while
more than GOO officers and men in
blue manned the rails.
As the speedy gray navy craft pull
• d out of the harbor, a battery at Fort
Moultrie boomed out another 21-gun
salute.
One of the President’s last acts be
fore he left was to issue a formal
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More Jobs
For People
FDR Plea
Washington, Nov. 18.—(AP) —Presi-
dent Roosevelt called on industry to
day to "give a fair share” of jobs to
oieb r workers and to unskilled labor.
Ho df plo' eH the policy under which
he aid ' many of the largest indus
tries will not hire workers over 40
years of age.”
In •* statement issued at the White
He.iiso the chief executive travell
ed toward South America, Mr. Roose
v< It id ic-on.ployment has increased
rapidly with the result that relief
'Continued on Page Three.)
King Edward
Again Saved
From Crank
World War Veteran
Lays Hands on
Monarch as He Vis
its Mining Towns
Royerton, Wales, Nov. 18.—(AP)
King Fdward's alert bodyguard
•odiv seized a* d hustled away a
middle-age soldier who placed a
haml on tlm monarch’s arm in
iln course of his trip to the Welsh
•"iiong areas.
1 .oldier apparently wanted to
lvl I '> the king about his wartime
* x >>< i. noes in France.
1,1 over, the royal "bodyguard, key
‘ '■> extreme watchfulness since the
Con-:t button Hill parade of last July
• ben man threw a loaded pistol at
foot of Edward’s horse, rushed
,!I ‘‘ n mn away.
1 he i mg iust had finished inspect
-1 a Welch farm when the veteran,
11:11 " I Thompson, broke through the
< iov/d and touched Edward’s arm.
• ve);i] j n the crowd shouted an-
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and Ethel duPont
Following the announcement of their engagement and their scheduled
wedding next June, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., son of the president,
and Ethel duPont, daughter of Mrs. Eugene duPont, pose for their
first picture together on the duPont estate, at Greenville, Del., near
Wilmington.
Reclassifying Property
Big Job Os Legislature
Many Elements Must Be Sat isfied In Whatever Plan Is
Accepted as Result of Am endment; Rate on Money
To Be Reduced, But Many Will Oppose It
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By .1. C. DASKERVILL
Raleigh, Nov. 18. —One of the big
gest jobs the 1937 General Assembly
is going to have on its hands is the
enactment of legislation to put into
effect the recently adopted amend
ment providing for the reclassifica
tion of property, it is agreed in poli
tical circles here. This one amend
ment may cause enough trouble and
disagreement in legislative circles to
hold the General Assembly in session
for many weeks more than otherwise
might be necessary, many observers
believe.
The purpose of the property classi-
SEEKSPEEDY END
FOR AUTO STRIKE
Union Head Reaches South
Bend To Work for Peace
at Bendix Plant
South Bend, Ind., Nov. 18—(AP)
Homer Marlin, international presi
dent of the United Automobile Work
ers of America, arrived here today by
airplane with the announcement that
he hoped to “effect a speedy and
amicable settlement” of the combined
“sitdown” strike and lockout at the
Bendix Products Corporation.
The youthful labor leader, after a
brief conference with officers of the
Bendix union, said he would ask of
ficials of the company for a confer
ence to open negotiations.
Inside the shops the Bendix cor
poration a chilled group of workers,
estimated to number from 600 to 1.-
500 remained in defiance of the shut
down order issued Tuesday morning.
Martin declined to say whether he
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HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, NOVEMBER 18, 1936
fication amendment is to permit the
General Assembly to classify and se
gregate property for purposes of tax
ation, so that different types of pro
perty may be‘taxed at different rates
instead of at a uniform rate, as was
the case until this new amendment
was adopted. The general plan, of
course, is to tax valuable property at
higher rates and to put lower rates
of taxation on inactive property and
personal property, such as notes, bank
deposits and s o forth. Proponents of
the plan maintain that by reducing
the tax rate on personal and intan-
Continued on Page Two.)
Germany And
Italy Extend
Recognition
Rcme, Noiv. 18. —(AP) —Italy and
Germany, the world’s great Fascist
powers, formally recognized the in
surgent regime of Dictator-Designate
Francisco Franco in Spain today.
The joint action came on the Ital
ian “day of ignominy and iniquity,”
the first anniversary of the day on
which most of Europe’s powers—not
including Germany—resorted to Lea
gue of Nations sanctions in a futile
effort, to stop Italy’s conquest of
Ethiopia,
Tt followed by less than a month an
Ttalo-German agreement under which
the two countries, both accused by
the Spanish and Russian governments
of aiding the Spanish insurgents with
men and arms, agreed to work to
gether on major problems of Europe.
An official communique issued in
Rome stated:
“In conseauence of the fact that
General Franco has taken possession
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The Shattered Suburbs of Madrid
' - jj
This picture shows one of the many small towns immediately surrounding Madrid, which have borne the
brunt of the fierce fighting between Fascist rebels and loyal supporters of the liberal Spanish government in
the civil war. Artillery fire, clearly heard in the center of the capital city, demolished thousands of buildings
like this. (Central Press)
Berry Tells Labor Meeting
Court Will Yield To People
Believes Supreme Tribunal
Will Recognize Election
As Mandate From
The Nation
PERKINS OUTLINES
HER PROGRAM ALSO
vt .'V • ....
Cites Living Wage, Contin
ued Income, Stable Em
ployment, Reasonable Pro
fits, Utilization of Natural
Resources As Ideals To Be
Achieved
Tampa, Fla., Nov. 18. —(AP) —
George L. Berry, coordinator for in
dustrial cooperation, told the Amer
ican Federation of Labor today he
believed the Supreme Court would re
cognize the November election as a
“mandate” for “maintenance of lib
eralism in the United States.”
Berry said he hoped the Supreme
Court “will adjust itself to the will
of the people,” adding he ventured
“we will find a legal way of further
ing liberalism in this country if there
are further reversals.”
“I know that the Constitution grew
out of oppression and was never in
tended to work against human pro
gress in this great nation,” he declar
ed.
A national living wage, continuity
Continued on Page Two.)
Attack On
Court Made
By Hancock
Washington, Nov. 18.—(AP)—Rep
resentative Frank W. Hancock of Ox
ford,* N. C., said in a statement to
day “one cannot but seriously ques
tion the wisdom of permitting a dis
trict judge to, in effect, nullify an
act of Congress.”
He was commenting on the recent
action of Federal Judge I. M. Meek
ins at Raleigh, N. C., in restraining
operation of government tobacco
grading in four Oxford warehouses.
Hancock came here to confer with
Morris R. Clark, of the attoreny gen
eral’s office, about the case.
“Notwithstanding Judge Meekins’
decision with respect to the Oxford
case,” Hancock said, “government
grading will, in my opinion, be ex
tended from time to time to many
markets and tobacco growing states.”
Hancock said the Federal tobacco
inspection and marketing news ser-
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy and colder tonight
and Thursday. _ .
Tugwell Withdraws
From The New Deal
To Get Private Job
Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 18. —(AP) —
Rexford G. Tugwell announced today
he had resigned as under secretary of
agriculture and Resettlement admin
istrator.
In a brief statement, Tugwell said
Dr. W. W. Alexander, formerly of At
lanta, and now assistant administra
tor, will succeed him as head of the
Resettlement Administration. *
At New York it was announced
Tugwell would become an executive
vice president of the American Ma
lasses Company.
WASHINGTON FEARS
PAYROLL SLASHES
But It Reflects There Has
Always Been More Talk
Than Action
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Nov. 18.—Forecasts of
a government reorganization, calculat
ed materially to reduce the number
of workers on Uncle Sam’s payroll,
are disturbing to Washington.
It is to be considered that approxi
mately one-third of the Capitol’s popu
lation, exceeding half a million, is de
pendent upon salaries, drawn from
the Federal treasury. Not that 30 per
cent of Washington’s inhabitants
draw these salaries directly. The total
is inclusive of the members of fam
ilies of those who do.
But Uncle Samuel does support ap
proximately that proportion of the
residents of the District of Columbia.
(Continued on Page Three.)
SAYS~WAGE EARNER
MUST GET HIS DUE
Surgical Dressing Manufacturer Fav
ors Constitutional Amend
ment if Necessary
New Brunswick, N. J., Nov. 18 (AP)
—Robert W. Johnson, president of
Johnson & Johnson, declared today
that the United States, must “give the
wage earner his due,” and “fc-r* Am
plest way is to pass a constitutional
amendment giving Congress author
ity to fix maximum hours of work
and them pass legislation to carry this
out.”
Johnson, whose surgical dressing
company employs more than 5,000
persons, and who controls large cot
ton mills in the South, proposed, in a
public statement, that “American big
business give immediate considera
ton to the fixing of maximum work
ing hours for all classes of labor.”
He said this should be done “either
by industrial cooperation or, if neces
sary, through constitutional amend
ment” as a “means of broadening the
rising tide of recovery and perman
ently ending unemployment.”
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
This was announced by Cflarleg W.
Taußsing, president of the company,
with whom Dr. Tugwell was associat
ed in the Roosevelt “brain trust”
throughout the 1932 campaign and in
the early days of the New Deal ad
ministration.
“It is true that I have resigned,”
the New Deal executive told newsmen
before leaving for eact Arkansas for
an inspection of farm tenant condi
tions with Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace and others, includ
ing Alexander.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
ID ROLEDN CO-DPS
Regulation of Electric
Groups Involved in De
cision Now Sought
Dully Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By .1. C. BASKF.RVILL
Raleigh, Nov. 18.—Attorney General
A. A. F. Seawell hag been asked to
give an official opinion defining the
status of electric membership corpor
ations which have been or may be or
ganized in North Carolina with a view
to determining whether they have the
same standing as public utilities or
whether they are State agencies and
hence not subject to State supervision,
Chairman Dudley Bagley, of the
North Carolina Rural Electrification
Authority, said today. He indicated
that he had already talked with At
torney General Seawell informally con
cerning this and several other ques
tions and that he was submitting a
formal request for an opinion on this
particular suestion.
Chairman Bagley intimated that it
might be some time before the at
torney general could pass on this ques
Continued on Page Two.)
World In Tribute
To Schumann-Heink
Famous Contralto
Hollywood, Cal., Nov. 18.—(AP)—
Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink
belongs to the immortality of song to
day.
A world that loved a great artist
and a great woman paid the 75-year
old diva tribute in death. But at the
quiet hillside home above Hollywood,
where she died last night, her chil
dren arranged a simple private fun
eral to meet one of her last requests.
Death came peacefully. Weakened
iby a severe chronic anemia, despite
blood transfusions, the famous con
tralto lapsed into a coma at 3 p. m.
yesterday.
As her heart beat its last at 7:21
p. m., three sons and a daughter stood
weeping in. her Toom.
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BUILDINGS CRASH
THEN DIN UNDER
BUM SHELLS
Terrified, Men, Women and
Children Seek Safety in
Subways In Night
of Horror
rebels advancing
HOUSE AFTER HOUSE
Fires Blaze in Center of
Capital as Fascists Throw
All Available Forces Into
Desperate Effort To Cap
ture City; No Man’s Land
In Some Areas
Madrid, Nov. 18 (AP)
Wary thousands streamed out
of Madrid’s packed subway sta
tions after a night of terror to
day to view the blackened skel
etons of buildings and great
shell and bomb craters in the
heart of the capital.
A nightmare of bombardment and
great fires, which found whitefaced
Madridieons packed four deep in the
underground city, took many lives
and caused incalculably property
damage, gave way to a bright sun
shine and a lull in the battle for the
Spanish capital.
There was one early morning air
raid, but big guns of Fascist invaders
limited themselves to occasional shots
along the southern and western fronts.
HOUSE-TO-HOUSE BATTLE
RAGES IN PART OF CITV
Mad rick Nov. 18.—-(AP) Packed
four deep In subway stations, terri
fied men, women and children made
an underground city of bombarded
and besieged Madrid today.
Quarrelling and jostling for elbow
room, or even curling up on the plat
forms beneath the feet of the crowds
Madrilenos sought safe refuge from
aerial bombs and artillery shells, while
Fascist invaders and defending mili
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New Effort
Launchedln
Strike War
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 18.—
(AP) —A new meeting between
ship owners and striking mari
time unions was sought today by
a tireless assistant labor secretary
amid union charges that an “un-
American and arbitrary attitude”
by employers was blocking per
manent waterfront peace.
The 20th day of the coastwise
strike, affecting 37,000 workers
and at least 178 ships, found re
lief officials preparing to aid fa
milies of strikers here and in Los
Angeles.
Seaport mayors whose plea for
arbitration was rejected by sailors
and other strike leaders, planned
another meeting today in Wash
ington.
Minister Os
France Dies
As a Suicide
Cabinet Crisis May
Arise Over Cam
paign of Treason
Against Salengro
Lille, France, Nov. 18.—(AP)—
Roger Salengro, French minister
of the interior, died today in what
his brother Henri said was an act
of suicide.
The minister’s death was caused by
gas asphyxiation, his brother declared
The first announcement of Salen
gro’s death had declared it followed
a short illness from a heart ailment.
“The campaign of infamy recently
carried on against my brother drove
him to desperation,” Henri Salengro
said.
“Although he was completely exon
erated, he committed suicide.”
(The brother referred to revival by
rightists last month of charges Salen
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