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Many Baskets Distributed
To Needy in City at
Christmas Time
Santa Claus did not forget the poor
and needy in Henderson this Christ
mas. Countless numbers of baskets
were distributed by thoughtful, more
fortunate individuals and organiza
tions to add to the Christmas cheer
and to benefit those who would have
been without the good things of the
season otherwise.
• In addition to the 53 families that
were provided for in the Daily Dis
patch-fialvation Army Christmas Op
portunities offered through the paper,
the Army itself distributed a great
number of baskets.
Also some 500 children received
toys, candies and fruits from The
Salvation Army Christmas tree held
in the hall at South Henderson Fri
day night. It was one of the biggest
occasions of the kind the Army has
undertaken in this city.
Some 15 families of World War
veterans were given gifts of various
kinds and fruits, candies and nuts,
together with toys for the children,
by the ladies of the American Legion
Auxiliary.
It wag also understood that many
families were remembered by indi
vidual Rotarians, many of whom pro
vided for families themselves and on
their own responsibility.
TD START WORK ON
PRISON STRUCTURE
r
Industries Building Will
House Various Activi
ties at Penitentiary
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL,
Raleigh, Dec. 26—The State High
way and Public Works Commission is
going ahead with its plans for the
erection of a new building within the
State Prison enclosure to house the
various prison industries now estab
lished at the prison, and those which
will be established later, Chairman
Capus M. Waynick said today. It has
not yet been decided just how exten
sive this building will be or how much
of the $200,006 allotment recently
made by Governor J. C. B. Ehring
haus and the Budget Bureau will be
used for the building and how much
for industrial equipment, but present
indications are that at least SIOO,OOO
Will be spent on the building.
When this building is completed, it
will house the prison printing plant,
the mattress factory, the automobile
license tag factory, a chair factory
(for prison use only) and the other in
dustries already conducted at thie
Central Prison here. It is also plan
ned to have several other new prison
industries in this building, such as a
clothing factory, where all the cloth
ing needed to supply the more than
9,000 prisoners will be made, also uni
forms for guards and employers as
well as the “going away” suits given
to all prisoners upon their discharge,
and probably either a shoe factory,
to make shoes for the prisoners upon
their discharge, and probably either
a shoe factory, to make shoes for the
prisoners, or at least a large, central
ehoe repair shop.
Consideration is also being given
to the installation of cotton spinning
machinery and of looms, so that the
prison can spin its own yarn and
then manufacture it into cloth need
ed for clothing and into thousands of
blankets needed throughout the prison
system. No decision has yet been
reached with regard to this project,
but it is known that to have the in
dorsement of some of the large cotton
mill owners in the State.
Theee new prison industries are not
only being planned to provide goods
needed by the prison, but also to give
employment to the prisoners and to
teach them trades by means of which
they can earn a living after they are
dtiadharged from prison, Waynick
pointed out.
Car Owners Warned
To Get Plates
(Continued from Page One.)
000 to the same date last year, at
least 400,000 sets of licenses remain
to be sold between now and next Fri
day if every car owner in the State
expects to get new plates before the
time limit expires, it was pointed out.
“We are pleased, of course, that the
car owners have been buying the new
license plates as fast as they have this
year—but there is still going to be a
tremendous rush the last week,” Mc-
Laughlin said. “For while we are
equipped and organized to sell be
tween 50,000 and 60,000 new license
plates a day, we cannot possibly sell
400,000 plates in four or five days. Yet
it is evident that almost that many
car owners are going to wait until the
last week in the month, with o*iy four
business day s in it, to try to get their
1937 license plates. The result is go
ing to be that some of these car own
ers are not going to be able to get
their new plates »by January. That, in
turn, is going to mean that some of
them are either going to hav to do
without their cars for a few days or
else face the possibility of arrest for
driving with old license plates.”
1936 Total 550,026.
All records were broken for the sale
of automobile licenses this year, when
the sale of 1936 licenses went to 650,-
022, McLaughlin pointed out. It is not
expected that all of those who pur
chased 1936 license plates will buy
1987 plates right at first, of course,
aince the use of some cars is seasonal
so that some owners wait until spring
or summer before buying new licen
ses. But all cars in use after January
3 mils?, have no.v 19C7 .
“FORGOTTEN MEN”
ARE INVESTIGATED
Many in State Prison May
Get Time Shortened as
Result of Probe
Dally Dispntrh Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. UASKKKVH.iI
Raleigh, Dec. 26.—N|0l a single “for
gotten man” is left in the North Car
olina prison system. Every prisoner
serving a sentence in the prison for
a felony has been interviewed, his
case carefully investigated, his past
history and record checked so that at
the present time the office of the com
missioner of paroles has complete
files on 1,305 prisoners convicted of
felonies who had never applied for
paroles, and who had never been in
vestigated for paroles, Commissioner
of Paroles Edwin M. Gill revealed as
he closed his office for the Christmas
holidays. He expects to review the
last of three eases and submit his re-
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: HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1936
commendations to Governor J. C. B.
Ehringhaus before the governor
leaves office January 7. This inten
sive and exhaustive investigation of
the “forgotten men” in the State Pri
son system was started at the in
stigation of Governor Ehringhaus and
for the past several months virtually
the entire staff of the parole office
has concentrated on it in order to get
it completed before he retired.
The investigation of the cases of
these 1,305 “forgotten men” in the
State Prison, serving sentences for
felonies, was star-ted back in July,
some six months ago, Gill revealed.
Up to December 1, a total of 1,190 of
these “forgotten men” had been in
terviewed, their cases studied and
files set up on them. Since that date
115 men additional prisoners have
been interviewed by Commissioner
Gill and his assistant and complete
files prepared, so that there is no lon
ger a single felon in the prison sys
tem who lias not been personally in
terviewed, his case record and family
history studied and investigated and
ready for review by Commissioner
Gill and Governor Ehringhaus.
New Men Interviewed.
Since October 1, 1935, every new
prisoner admitted to the prison who
has been convicted of a felony, has
been interviewed as coon as admitted,
and a file .set up containing all desired
information concerning his past life
and record, Gill pointed out, so that
complete records are kept at all times
and are available at all times on all
felons admitted to prison. As a result,
1,576 prisoners convicted of felonies
have been interviewed and indexed,
with complete files on their cases,
since October 1, 1935.
Benefits of Inquiry.
“But this investigation has accom
plished several things. First, it has
shown these prisoners that the gov
ernor and tjie paroles office are in
terested in them, and that they are)
receiving the same consideration as
are all the other prisoners. In the sec
ond place, it has resulted in the set
ting up of complete files on every pri
soner in the prison system convicted
of a felony, and assures him that his
case will be carefully reviewed by the
paroles office at least once a year and
that as soon as he is eligible for pa
role that his case will be presented to
the governor on its merits.
Washington Fears
Inaugural Weather
(Continued from Page One.)
theless, it can be a-plenty uncomfort
ably cold here on Jan. 20. No specta
tors are likely to be found stiff and
lifeless in their $lO grandstand seats
after watching the marching columns
for a couple or three hours, but some
of them may contract pneumonia and
die a few days later.
WILL VISITORS COME?
Will the visitors come at such a
season? —or will they have sense en
ough to remain by their domestic fire
sides until some more auspices occa
sion?
I do not expect to get a vote of
thanks from the Washington Cham
ber of Commerce for raising this is
sue. Still, Ido hear it discussed by
men high in the municipality’s coun
cils.
A PARADE AFTER ALL
President Roosevelt did not want a
procession this time.
His idea was to renew his oath of
office with a maximum (or minimum)
of Andrew Jacksonian simplicity and
waive the parade as unseasonable.
Washington’s civic bodies immedi
ately let out a, terrific howl.
A compromise was effected—a com
promise giving the civic bodies prac
tically everything that they demanded.
It will be a corking big parade—
army, navy and marine corps; tanks
and artillery; cadets from West Point;
middies from Annapolis, and 48 gov
ernor-loads of state executives, each
executive-load with a couple of sup
plementary autos, carrying members
/of gubernatorial staffs —in all 144
loads of state executives and their
assistants, not counting the federal
military.
A SELL-OUT
The spectators' seats will be sold
out—but will they be occupied, if the
weather is fiendish?
Besides, how about the unpaid for
sidewalk crowds?
They will depend on climatic condi-
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Joe E. Brown in “Polo Joe” at
the Stevenson Monday.
Gladys George in “Valiant Is
The Word for Carrie“ Steven
son Theatre Thursday. .
John Boless and Bosalina Bussell
in “Craig’s Wife” Stevenson
Theatre Wednesday »
Martha Raye
in “Hideway Girl Stevenson
Theatre Friday.
tions.
Will the thing turn out to he a
dlHemendous popular demonstration?
Or will it be a flop, due to inclement
weather?
MCUNOra
Fight ini Prospect May
Reach Even to Demand
for Separate Unit
Dolly Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Dec. 26. —The three newest
developments in the intra-mural tem
pest which is still sizzling among
State College alumni, students and fa
culty members as a result of the ac
tion by President Frank P. Graham,
of the University of North Carolina
in refusing to approve the new con
tract offered Coach Heartly W.
(Hunk) Anderson by the athletic
council, are as follows:
1. The fight on the part cf the
alumni who want Anderson retained
as coach will be taken before the
•board of trustees of the University,
when it meets here in January.
2. State College alumni are going
to fight for complete local self-gov
ernment for State College both before
the board of trustees and in the Gen
eral Assembly, if necessary, so that
the actions of the administrative dean
faculty and other administrative
bodies will not be subject to veto by
the president of the Consolidated
University, as is now the case.
3. The State College alumni are not
going to join in any move by Univer
sity of North Carolina alumni or oth
ers either to oust President Graham
as president of the consolidated uni
versity or to fight consolidation.
The refusal by President Graham to
approve the new contract offered to
Coach Anderson by the Athletic Coun
cil is not the cause of this decision
by alumni to carry their fight for the
retention of Anderson before the
board of trustees or to seek to curb
the power which President Graham
is exercising or at least attempting to
exercise over affairs at State College,
many of the alumni who met here
Tuesday night to discuss the situation
pointed out. Nor were all of them
merely interested in the athletic pro
gram at State. Most of them were just
as much interested in the academic
growth and development of the col
lege as in the football team and ex
pressed the conviction that Colonel J.
W .Harrelson, the administrative dean
and the faculty, should be permitted
to work out the policies and future
program of State College without dic
tation and interference from Presi
dent Graham. It was intimated that
President Graham has overruled sev
eral recommendations made by the
faculty and Dean Harrelson with re
gard to academic matters just as he
overruled the election of “Hunk’’ An
derson by the athletic council.
There is now no doubt of the fact
that the athletic council, which is
charged by the board of trustees with
the management of the athletic de
partment of the college with power to
hire and fire coaches and award new
contracts to those in the department,
formally elected Anderson as coach
for another year at its meeting on
December 14, and that this action was
approved by Dean Harrelson. The
vote of the council was 6 to 3 in favor
of offering Anderson a contract for
another year, also in favor of mak
ing J. L. Von Glahn, Director of Ath
letics and Dr. R. R. Sermon, at pres
ent holding the title of Director of
Athletics, basketball and track coach
Virtually all of the alumni who at
tended the meeting here Tuesday
night agree with Dave Clark, Char
lotte alumnus who is leading the pres
ent fight to retain Anderson, that this
action by the athletic council and its
approval by Dean Harrelson, means
that Anderson has already been elect
ed for another year, despite the fact
that President Graham has set the
action aside and refused to approve
it. They also agree with Clark that
the matter must be taken before the
entire board of trustees, if not into
the courts, in order to test the author
ity of President Graham to overrule
official action taken by an official
•agency of State College.
The pro-Anderson and anti-Graham
faction, composed now of students
and faculty members, as well as of
alumni, maintain that President Gra
ham, when he realized that the An
derson faction had won in the ath
letic council, decided to air the entire
matter before the faculty council, in
the hope that faculty council would
overrule the athletic council and re
commend the ousting of Anderson.
It is now an admitted fact, however,
that after parading the entire An
deraon-Dawe Clark-Dr. Sermon fuss
before the faculty council for three
days, during which more than 30 wit
nesses were heard, the hearing was
adjourned before any vote wag or
could be taken, with the result that
the faculty council never passed on
the questions involved at all It is
maintained by those in a position to
know that the council OQd 7t04 in
favor of retaining Coach Anderson
“?uw V ° r ° f the * ction by
„ C ° U * nCi1 ’ but that Fresi
dent Graham refused to let the coun
cii vote.
Girl Saves Man
Injured In Airpla nc
(Continued from p age oue)
to the icy water.
■She reached Constance, untangled
a wire encircling his head and swam
ashore with him.
Without hesitation, the 12Q-pouad
brunette returned to the rapidly s/nk
mg ship to search for other occup
ants. She said she spent seyeral min
tes diving around the wreckage, but
y Up Urw * €r t*ie impression there
an ~een only one occupant. It was
ater established Sanders had been
j m a tangled mass of wire and
Ut l der His body was
recovered an hour Later.
January 1 j* Universal Fraternity
South Af’rlfa° Ut Portusuae 81881 Bni
HILL MAY FLOP TO
“DRY” CAUSE AGAIN
Durham Senator May Desert
Wets Unless State Gets
Liquor Money
Dally Dispatch Bureau.
Iu the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKEBVIIiL,
Raleigh, Dec. 24—Senator John
Sprunt Hill, of Durham, personally
“dry” and for years one of the most
liberal “angels” the prohibition forces
ever had in North Carolina, who led
the fight for a Statewide liquor con
trol law in the 1935 General Assem
bly, is reported to be threatening to
go over to the “dry” side again unless
this legislature enacts a Statewidb
liquor law that will give the State
some of the revenue from its sale.
Under the “Hill bill” which Senator
Hill introduced and backed all
through the 1935 General Assembly,
but which the Senate consistently re
fused to pass, the revenue from the
sale of liquor in the State liquor would
Flogged by Mob
William Inman
William Inman, 38-year-old Frea
land, N. CL, farmer, was one of
two men seized and flogged by a
hooded who termed them
selves “Christians”. Inman told
police that the hooded men ques
tioned him concerning “irregular
chureh attendance” and then beat
him severely. The other farmer
was Jesse Cox, 66.
—Central Press
Victims of Fraying Night Riders
William Inman (left), 38-year-old
farmer-fisherman, and Jesse Cox
(right), 66-year-old farmer, told offi
cers they were seized at Southport,
N. £., by 30 headed night riders who
England’s New Royal Idol
f/:8 *' '.ft/.
Here is a haopy picture of little Prince Edward, named or the former
Kins Edward VIII. The 14-months-old eon of the Duke anJ Duchess ox
Kent, new idol of the people of Great Britain, was photographed du =>
an outing in the gardens at Belgrave Square,
have gone into the State treasury
Under the two “local” bills enacted
during the last two days of the 193-,
General Tssembly, setting up countv
liquor stores in 18 counties, the stoi
are under the control of the counties
while the revenue from the sale'of
Liquor goes into the county treasm
ies, or is divided between the coun
ties and the towns, as is Pasquotank
and New Hanover counties.
President indications are that a nia
jority of the members of the 1937 J
sembly are inclined to favor the pu S '
under which the counties will ret n
all the revenue from the sale 0 f J"
quor, whether the system adopted \
a continuation of the present couJ?
control system, or whether a
nation state and county control pi*
is adopted. The siate-couniy contra
plan is recommended by the St t.
liquor control commission, i n ' '
cent report^
Some fear that if Senator Hill car
ries out his threat to go over to ,'t
“fry” forces and to aid them i n fo.tw
ing any sort of liquor control'bin'
drawn out fight in the 1937 General
/Assembly. Others* hbwever. mai ,
tain that the legislature is
pass a liquor control law regardw!
of Senator Hill, and that if he decide
he won’t play with the liquor force"
unless they pass the kind of bin h"
i wants, it will just be a case of SO ur
I grapes and that the legislature as a
whole will not pay much attention m
him.
Pledge of Hitler To End
European Fears is Demand
(Confirmed from Page One.'
of glory and prestige, was the driv
ing motive behind German “volun
teers” who are fighting for the
gents.
Germany needs these materials
badly.
Troubled Europe Waiting
Decision of Adolf Hitler
(Continued from Page One.)
Hitler.
Berlin Chancellor Hitler faced
grave decision of Spanish insurgent
demands for greatly increased mili
tary aid in his mountain retreat near
Bertchesgaden.
Wife Preservers
F- l^Pj
Cauliflower is very attractive
cooked whole, and served at the
table with cheese or butter sauce.
flogged them severely and then knelt
in prayer. The floggens, the two al
leged victims said, termed themselves
“Christians.” The new floggings fol
lowed a similar series last spring.