HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
M. E. PASTORS GIVEN
THEIR ASSIGNMENTS
FOR ANOTHER YEAR
All Local Preachers Are Re
tui ned Except R. S. Rick
ard, Supply, at the
Mill Churches
BROWN, PETTY AND
MERRITT RETURNED
Earnhardt Back as Presid
ing Elder; Raleigh Minist
ers Sent Back; Changes at
Durham Made; Confer
ence Meets Next Year At
Edenton Street Church
Now Bon', Nov. 23. —(AP)—Raleigh
w;la chosen the 1937 conference city
at tho closing session of the North
Carolina Conforenre of the Methodist
Episcopal church, South, here this
n orning. EMooton street will be the
host church.
Parito’. l app< irtments in the Con
ference were announced for the com
jpa year by Bishop Paul B. Kern,
closing the 100th annual session, and
the following:
Henderson, First church, R. E.
Brown.
City Road and White Memorial, R.
S. Rickard, supply. 1
Loiii urg, J. G. Phillips.
Oxford, O. W. Dowd.
Oxford circuit, I. S. Richmond.
Middleburg circuit, D. A. Petty.
Tar River circuit, B. O. .Merritt.
Raleigh: Central. 5. J. Starness;
Edenton Street. E. C. Few.
Durham: Duke Memorial, H. C.
Smith: Trinity, G. W. Perry.
Rnckv Mount: First church, R.
Dwight Ware.
Warrenton, O. I. Hinson.
Goldsboro: St. Paul, W. C. Ball.
Presiding elder Raleigh district, J.
H. Barnhardt.
Fayetteville district, presiding elder,
D. E. Barnhardt.
Rocky Mount district, presiding
elder, J. M. Culbreth.
Aulander, J. T. Draper.
Wilson. First church, A. J. Hobbs.
“FORGOTTEN MEN”
TO GET HEARINGS
All Prisoners But About 15C
Investigated And Re
cords Filed
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Tiy J. O. IUSKKRVIM,
Raleigh, Nov. 23. —The records and
rases of 1,190 “forgotten men” in the
State Prison, for whom no one had
ever spoken a good word, either to the
governor or the commissioner of pa
roles, and whose cases had never been
presented or considered for possible
parole or pardon, have already been
given preliminary study with a view
to determining whether any of these
“forgotten men” now deserve paroles,
Commissioner of Paroles Edwin Gill
announced today. There are now only
a 1 out 100 to 150 prisoners left among
those convicted of felonies and now
serving sentences in the State Prison
whose cases have not already been in
vestigated, and these prisoners will
he interviewed and their cases studied
in the very near future, Gill said.
"When these remaining 100 to 150
prisoners have been interviewed and
thpir cases studied and files set up,
iho paroles office will have in its files
a detailed case history and study of
tbo past and present life and record
of every felon in the State Prison
kvstem," Gill said. “Every one of the
J-190 prisoners on whom a mile has
* ecu prepared during the last few
tenths, was given a personal inter
view by an investigator from the pa
i' Us office of from 45 to 50 minutes
and sometimes more. We tried to
r, iake every prisoner feel we were try
ing to help him and wanted to help
: ad that he could talk frankly and
lif . ly fibout his case. We did not tell
'into that they would be pairoled, of
course, but we did tell them that they
were being interviewed and their
case.; studied in an effort to deter
mine if they could or should be con
idered for parole. We received very
•bie cooperation from the prisoners,
rli “ prison officials and from county
welfare officers, also from local law
enforcement officials who were fre
•luently asked to contribute informa
-1 b and reports concerning prison
ers.’’
A statistical report on the informa
'ion obtained from these 1,190 “for
kc-tten men” in the prison is now be
ing prepared and will Ibe released
l ><:i by the paroles office, Gill said.
l !| c information accumulated as e re
"‘t of the interviews and studies
mod,: of these prisoners and their re
(f"ds will constitute an invaluable
source of material for the cause and
miio of crime, and every effort is be
ing made to collect and preserve all
the statistical iolormation possible
w ticn in the futuie may aid in a
’'Crnntific approach to the problem of
01 ‘me. Gill f ;nid.
This task juet completed, involving
tlic interviewing and settini up of
c: ’ < histories on 1,190 prisoners, was
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SERVICE OF
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Rebuilding G. O. P.
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John D. M. Hamilton
Preparing to rebuild the G. O. F.,
John D. M. Hamilton, chairman of
the Republican national committee
and campa gn manager for the de
feated Gov Alf M. Landon, is shown
at his desk in new headquarters in
Washington. Hamilton emphasizes
the need of an office in the national
capital, to be in tuch with the Re
publican nucleus in congress.
Ship Officer
Unions Order
Members Out
Strike Called In
Sympathy With Ma
rine Workers; Aid
Alaska and Hawaii
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 23.—(AP)
—Unions representing ship officers
called a walk-out for noon at all Am
erican ports today.
Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed
ward F. McGrady, meanwhile, pressed
efforts here to settle the far-flung
waterfront disputes and their attend
ant conflicts.
Colonel O. F. Olson, manager of the
government-owned Alaska railroad,
discussed with McGrady plans for
proposed chartering of ships to send ';
food north. Pleas of Governor James .
B. Poindexter, of Hawaii, for aid also ,
were considered Iby Federal agencies.
The nationwide strike call issued at,
New York Saturday by the president
of the enginerroom officers and the
president of the deck officers official
ly extended the scope of the Pacific
coast general maritime strike. :
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State Won’t
Lose Taxes
On Security
Dally Dispatch Ilurenn.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
11} J. C. BASKEBVILI.
Raleigh, Nov. 23.-—North Carolina
will not lose the approximately $3,-
000,000 which the Federal government
will collect in January from the em
ployers of the State for unemploy
ment insurance, Governor J. C. B. Eh
ringhaus reiterated again today, de
spite the fact that the State does not
now have an unemployment insur
ance law recognized by the Social Se
curity Board. He is more confident
of this than ever, following the two
days be spent in Washington last
week and intimated that the opinion
i s prevalent there that Congress will
so amend the Social security act when
it meets again that the states which
have not yet enacted satisfactory un
employment insurance laws will not
lose the amounts which will be collect
ed from the tax of one per cent on
payrolls during 1936.
“I have been confident for many
months that neither North Carolina
nor the 31 other states which do not
have unemployment insurance laws
regarded as acceptable by the Social
Security Board, would be penalized by
Congress and lose the proceeds of the
unemployment insurance tax merely
because they had net yet enacted the
type of legislation required by the So-
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HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 23, 1936
SCISSORS “LOST” IN BODY REMOVED
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X-ray reveals position of surgical scissors
A surgical scissors, six and one-half inches long, was left accidental
ly in the body of Mrs. A. R. Banks, 38, of Catoosa, Okla., following
an appendicitis operation. Now, two Tulsa osteopaths have removed
the instrument in a 55-minute operation. The photo above, an X-ray,
shows how the handle was lodged at the foot of the spine. The
scissors still were but a part of one handle was dissolved.
ECRI93] CARRIES
THIRTEEN PLANKS
Greater Growth and Pro
gress on All Fronts Pre
dicted for Year by
Master Taber
FARMER-CONTROLLED
SOIL SYSTEM URGED
Crop Itsurance Under Fed
eral Supervision on Vol
untary Basis and Sound
Currency With Stable Val
ues Among Proposals Os
Farm Fraternity.
Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 23 (AP) —
The National Grange announced to
day a 13-plank platform for agricul
ture in 1937.
L. J. Taber, master of the frater
nal organization, said, “We look for
ward to greater growth and progress
on all fronts in the Grange’s effort
to obtain equality for agriculture.”
The platform included:
A sound program of soil conserva
tion controlled by farmers.
Crop insurance under Federal sup
ervision, providing for voluntary par
ticipation by farmers to protect them
against drought, flood or other dis
aster.
A tariff designed to safeguaid Ame-
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0. PINiERINGEN
DIES ABOARD TRAIN
Death Comes Less Than
Year After Brother; Two
Were Rail Heads
Cleveland, Nov. 23 (AP)-Oris P.
Van Sweringen, Cleveland financier,
died today aboard a train en route to
New York. hu? offices here an
nounced today.
Van Sweringen, whose brother, M.
J, Van Sweringen, died less than a
year ago, leift fCleveland fr> New
York last night. Death occurred at
noon today, his offices here said they
were informed.
Van Sweringen, who was 57 years
old, boarded a Nickle Plate train at
6:01 p. m., eastern standard time
last night for the trip to New York.
Van Sweringen, who always lived
quietly and outside the eye of the
public, had appeared only infrequent
ly. in public here since the death of
brother, Mantis, December 12, 1935.
He apparently had been in good
health.
Confess To
Slaying At
Gas Station
Greenville, N. C., Nov. 23 (AP)—
Police Bowen Dorsey said today two
Robinsonville white men were arrest
ed here last night for the hammer
slaying of Thomas Holliday and that
one had confessed and implicated the
other.
Dorsey said the men, Willis Bul
lock and A. W. Watson, wore blood
splotched shoes and clothes when
they were arrested less than 12 hours
after Holliday, 24-year-old filling sta
tion operator, was found dying in his
station at Robersonville.
Dorsey said atson confessed and
implicated Bullock.
Britain Demanding
Apology from Japs
London, Nov. 23. —(AP) —Great
Britain has demanded an apology
from the Japanese government for
the heating and torture of three
British sailors at Keelung, For
mosa, Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden disclosed to the House of
Commons today.
Japanese police, officers of the
British Asiatic squadron reported,
jabbed a fountain pen under the
finger nails of a sailor and squirt
ed ink into the wounds to make
him sign a “confession.”
Fear Heavy
Casualty In
Landslides
Four Known Dead,
25 Trapped As Mud
and Rock Slide Off
Alaskan Mountain
Juneau, Alaska, Nov. 23.—(API-
Four dead, seven injured and possi
bly 25 trapped were unconfirmed es
timates today of a toll exacted by a
huge landslide of mud and rock which
fell with crushing force last night on
Juneau’s apartment house district.
Through disrupted communications
came reports of the dead and the
estimates of Fire Chief V. M. Mul
vihill that more than a score may
have been killed or trapped by the
100-foot-wide mass which rumbled
down from a rain-swept mountain.
Muffled cries from the debris were
heard as rescue workers toiled thro
ugh the night. The slide demolished
two apartment houses, a lodging
house, a two-story concrete store and
several homes.
It cut off powe r - jincs -.lunging the
city into darkness and disrupted tele
phone and United States Signal Corps
communications.
The reported dead were unidenti
fied. The heavy rains of the last few
days caused two slides. The first did
slight damage.
13-Man Jury
Tries Woman
In Harnett
Lillington, No". 23 (AP) —A 13-
man jury to hear and decide on
charges of murder against Mrs. Sina
Pope Godwin, 36, in the shooting of
her husband, Thurman Godwin, 40,
was selected in Harnett county Su
perior Court today.
With the jury in its box, Solicitor
Claude C. Cannady prepared to send
his first witness to the stand as he
began his announced efforts to prove
the woman shot hefrself after the
killing in an effort to “fake” a self
defense plea.
Otlß'VgtmPM^N
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Increasing cloudiness, probably
followed by rain late tonight or
Tuesday, in west and central por
tions and in extreme east por
tion Tuesday; warmer tonight,
colder in interior Tuesday after
noon. i
GERMANY MA Y BREAK
WITH RUSSIA TO GET
FREE HAND IN SPAIN
High Court Rules
New York Tax For
Unemployed Legal
U. S. Supreme Court Divid
ed Four to Four, With
Justice Roberts 111
and Absent
NO MORE’ OPINIONS
UNTIL TWO WEEKS
Justices To Devote Time
During Interim To Writ
ing Decisions, With Five
New Deal Acts Involved;
New York Act Supplemen
tary to U. S. Statute.
Washington, Nov. 23.—(AP) —With
surprising speed and Ihy an evenly di
vided vote, the Supreme Court today
held constitutional the New York un
employment insurance act, which
taxes employers to aid the jobless.
By a four to four vote, with Justice
Stone, who is ill, not participating, the
court affirmed a ruling by the New
York Court of Appeal upholding the
legislation.
If Justice Stone had been present,
it was generally assumed, in view of
his liberal record, that he would have
voted to uphold the law. When the
court divides evenly, It can only af
firm the action of the lower court.
The New York act was supplemen
tary to the Federal social Insurance
statute and was a model of legislation
enacted for the purpose by several
states.
The action in deciding the contro
versy without a vote by Justice Stone
was taken by some observers to in
dicate that five pending New Deal
cases might be disposed of in that
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Fist Fights:
By Students
At College
Greensboro, Nov. 23 (AP) —The
first sound of fisticuffs pervading the
tense atmosphere this morning as
striking Negro students at Agricultu
ral and Technical College here at
tempted to keep from the class rooms
a number of students who reported
for classes at 8 o’clock.
The general strike, affecting some
665 students, this morning entered
its fourth day.
When those students who wished to
attend classes reported for class, the
strikers attempted to persuade them
not to enter, and when refused began
swinging fists. Several fights were
reported by police officers, although
no arrests were made.
Wi.h the exception of exchanging
of blows, La;' situation remained
quiet.
President F. P. Bluford said this
morning around 200 students were
attending classes today. Student
leaders declared that not more than
25 persons were in attendance.
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LABOR THREATENED
Lewis Uniofis May Set Up
Entirely New Body Op
posing A. F. of L.
Tampa, Fla., Nov. 23. —(AP) —Out-
spoken threats of a rival organization
faced American Federation of Labor
leaders today while they neared a
showdown on future relations with
John L. Lewis’ rebel unions.
Charles P. Howard, secretary of
Lewis’ committee for industrial or
ganization, told reporters the rebels
would be forced to set up a rival or
ganization if the federation’s conven
tion backed up suspensions of the
rebel unions.
“We will be driven to set up more
than a committee without a constitu
tion, without dues, and without af
filiation,” Howard enlarged.
“It will mean a full organization
and that will mean a fight.”
Despite Howard’s threats, majority
leaders of the A. F. of L. were agreed
on a middle course —continued sus
pension of the ten insurgent unions
rather than the outright explusion de
manded in some quarters.
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New Russian Envoy
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Joseph E. Davies
Joseph 1
Washington attorney with an inter
national practice, has been appoint
ed ambassador to Russia, succeading
William C. Bullitt who recently was
transferred to Paris. Last year Davis
married Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton,
heiress to the C. W. Post millions.
Davis is considered a liberal in po
litical thought
Speculating
Over Naming
Os Chairman
Bell of Charlotte Be
lieved Likely To
Head Finance Com
mittee
Daily Dispatch liurean.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. O. BA.SKERVILL
Raleigh, Nov. 23.—Speculation has
already started as to what senators
and representatives will be selected
as chairman of the more important
committees in the Senate and House
of the 1937 General Assein/bly. This
is especially true with regard to the
finances and appropriations commit
tees, regarded as the most important
and powerful committees in the entire
assembly, since these are the commit
tees which must decide on all appro
priations and then provide the rev
enue with which to pay them.
For a long time now the belief has
been general in governmental circles
that Lieutenant Governor W. P. Hor
ton will select Senator James A. Bell,
of Charlotte, Meckenburg county, as
chairman of the Senate Finance Com
mittee. Those who followed the ac
tivities of Senator Bell in the 1935
session of the assembly remember
that he was one of the most active
members of the finance committee,
showed a very keen insight into tax
matters and was one of the outstand
ing members of that committee. It is
also known that Lieutenant Governor
Horton has a ve.y high regard for
Senator Bell and his ability and in
tegrity. So it will not surprise many
people here if Senator Bel) is named
chairman of the finance committee.
With itgard to the chairmanship of
the Senate Appropriations Committee
there is less unanimity, as there are
several experienced men in the Senate
rgarded as capable of heading this
important committee. However, sev
eral with long experience in political
and legislative circles here are of the
opinion that Senator Thomas J. Gold,
of High Point, is destined for a top
flight committee chairmanship and
that he has an excellent chance to be
named head of the finance committee.
It is known that God is very close to
Governor-elect Hoey and many here
believe he will become the spokes
man for the new administration in
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Nazi Envoy to Moscow Asks
Stay of Death Penalty
Until Protest Can!.
Be Lodged
GERMAN ENVOY AT
LONDON IS HEARD
Has Long Conversation
With Premier Baldwin;
Berlin Newspapers Warn
Germany Stands Behind
Every German Abroad;
Situation Is Considered
Grave
(By The Associated Press)
Unconfirmed reports circulated in
London diplomatic circles today that
Germany might be considering break
ing off relations with Moscow so the
Nazis could assume a free hand in
Spain.
The reports followed hard on the
heels of a 45-minute conference be
tween Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ger -
man ambassador to Great Britain,
and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
on an undisclosed subject.
Adding indirectly to the Russo-
German tension over intervention in
the Spanish civil war was sentencing
to death of a German engineer by a
Russian tribunal foranti-comihunist
sabotage. 4
Authoritative Berlin newspapers
warned that Germany stands behind
every German abroad. The Nazi am
bassador to Russia appealed for post
ponement of the execution until he
could lodge a formal protest. '
Labor Favors
License Bill
To Hike Pay
Tampa, Fla., Nov. 23 (AP) —Tho
American Federation of Labor went
on record today in favor of the O’Ma
honey industrial licensing bill an
NRA substitute.
The bill would compel all corpora
tions doing an interstate business to
obtain a Federal and to con
form to government-fixed wage and
hour standards.
Introduced by Senator O’Mahoney,
Democrat, Wyoming, the bill died in
(Sjanate committee. ’William Green
A. F. of L. president, said it would
be reintroduced.
While voting support of many leg
islative measures designed to 'better
labor conditions, the delegates await
ed a resolution committee report on
John L. Lewis’ revolt.
Submarines
Os Neutrals
Are Accused
Spanish Government
Makes Charges As
Fascists Renew
Their Bombings
Madrid, Nov. 23. —(AP) —Insurgent
air raiders attacked the Spanish cap
ital early today, dropping several
bombs on the ministry of war in the
heart of the city.
Windows in the war ministry, head
quarters for the emergency defense
council, were shattered when one ex
plosive missile fell in the patio of the
building.
Several other bombs fell in the cen
tral district in the renewal of air as
saults. which had been suspended for
three days.
Charges that two foreign submar
ines attacked two government war
ships in Cartagena harlbor yesterday
morning were made by the ministry
of air and navy in Valencia.
The government declared one of the
ships was damaged.
“This morning at 9 a. m. (Sunday)
several submarines —at least two of
which certainly must have belonged
to a foreign fleet, inasmuch as the
Fascists never possessed ships of this
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