HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR G-MEN ORDER HALT FOR KIDNAP SEARCH FOR TACOMA YOUTH Observers Feel Sudden and Unexpected Move Indi cates Fears For Safety of Lad CLUE TOTDENTITY OF MAN IS SENSED Believed Same Suspect Who Recently Attempted Other Snatches in Tacoma Area; Principles Reside in Pro perty Connected 1 With Weyerhauser Family Tacoma. Wash.. Dec. 29.—(AP)—A theorv that the kidnaper of Charles Mattson. 10. was the man foiled twice in recent apparent attempts to ab duct a six-year-old nieghbor boy was divulged today when Tacoma police renewed examination of a ladder used in the previously undisclosed kidnap effort. Search for the boy, meanwhile, was halted. Unofficial observers believed authorities were afraid for his safety. The ladder wag seized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Franklin, Jr., late in November. The Franklins, by a coincident, lived in the mansion for merly owned by the grandparents of George Weyerhauser, 10, who last year was kidnaped and ransomed for $200,000. The ladder was used there in an apparent attempt at kidnaping and may become an important link of evi dence in the Mattson case, although the family and quotable authorities declined to comment upon it. Dr. Mattson, the boy’s nounced publicly he would make no attempt to communicate with the kid naper until advised by authorities to do so. Search Halted. Department of Justice agents, tak ing full charge of the widespread search for ten-year-old Charles Matt son and his bearded gunman kid naper, brought all apparent activity to a halt today. They directed Dr. Mattson, wealthy physician, whose son was snatched from his home Sunday night for $28,- 000 ransom, to make no effort today to contact the kidnaper until told to do so. They halted a search of police in a nearby ravine, protesting the kid naper might kill his captive if he had him hidden there, and heard his pur suers approaching. Most of the prowler care, foot po lice and private boats which had been searching the Tacoma arek for signs of the kidnaper, also ceased activities. No Explanation Given. The Justice agents, under C. C. Sears, of Portland, with customary taciturnity, offered no explanation of the sudden cessation of the activities. Dr. Mattson told newspaper men: "I haven’t made any contacts.” Things are just as they were when the man loft. There is an absolute stalemate I just feel helpless." UNLOAIfIUEF WORRIES CONGRESS 1 timing Job Back to States and Local Governments Is Proposed By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Dec. 29.—The 1937 ses •ion of Congress will see no tougher fitrht than the one involved in the na lional administration’s plan to turn a much larger share of the burden of work relief back from the federal gov ‘ rriment to local governments—state, '•aunty and municipal. It may seem queer, in away, that local communities should so much prefer to pass the relief load on to I 'nolo Sam rather than take care • ir:h of their own proportion of the u hole country’s needy. In the long run the bill must be footed by taxation anyway. What difference does it make say to a given city whether it pays direct h to meet its domestic requirements o’ pays into a common federal fund, fairly contributed to the entire re public's taxpayers, for indirect distri bution by Uncle Samuel? TIIE WHY OF IT Either way the problem is looked d, the number of folk to be relieved identical—whether they arc consid •••. ' J r [ v. it- ■ ’ jj i Prince Yoshi-No-Mlya Masahito This photo of his Imperial high ness, Prince Yoshi-No-Miya Ma sahito, second son of the Emperor and Empress of Japan, is the lat est portrait made of the young prince. The boy is now two. —Central Press Autonomy Is Desired For U.N.C. Units Graham’s Attitude Believed Losing Strength for Him Among Trustees Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKEttVILL Raleigh, Dec. 29 —Sentiment in favor of local self-government for the three units of the Greater University of North Carolina has been growing rapidly since the meeting of State College alumni here last week in which it was decided to make an ac tive fight to give more authority to the administrative deans and faculties of the respective units and to curb the present dictatorial powers of {President Frank i Graham* undd|p which he can virtually veto any acts of the deans faculties of the other units. Reports indicate that a large number of alumni of the Chapel Hill and Woman’s College units are join ing hands with the State College alum ni and wil lback up the State alumni in asking the board of trustees to give each unit full autonomy and local self-government over its own af fairs . Under self-government over its own affairs. Under the present setup,- the ad ministrative deans of the State Col lege and Woman’s College units, as well as members of the faculties, can be fired by President Graham almost at his pleasure, it is pointed out. It is also maintained that the recom mendations of the administrative deans and of the faculties are fre quently disregarded by Graham, with the result that both State and the Woman’s College in Greensboro are virtually run from the office of the president in Chapel Hill. Autonomy Desired What the alumni and many of the faculty of State and the Woman s College want is for the board of trustees to make each of these units (Continued on Page Two). TVA Report Claims Trail Is Blazed In New Economic Era Washington, Dec. 29 (AP)— The Tennessee Valley Authority, in its an nual report, said today said it had blazed a trail for a new economic era based on electrici;y. This possible key to the future, it said, was found by applying the prin ciples that have become the badge of success for many American indus tries, “mass production and mass con sumption.” A financial statement disclosed the cost of the whole program amounted at the end of the last fiscal year, to HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 29, 1936 Talked to Death W \ ■'e,/" • y. ’ •..% More than two weeks after he had started almost constant talking which only sedatives could halt briefly, Howard Stillman, 40 (above) of Ocala, Fla., died when physician? were unable to stem the flood e words. (Ceni.-.-J r HELD BY SPANIARDS IS SPEEDILY FREED Curt Demand of Reich Cruiser and Threat To Halt All Ships Gets Quick Results INTERNED VESSEL’S CARGO IS DEMANDED Also Spanish Passenger On German Ship Is Sought for Release; Another Cruiser and Torpedo Boat of Ger mans Is Rushed to Spain By Berlin Order * Berlin, Dec. 29.—(AP) —The curt de mand of the German cruiser and a threat to halt and search the ship of any nation heading for Bilbao won freedom today for the interned Ger man freighter Palos. The Palos, sequested by Basque au thorities at Balbao last week, was li berated “upon demand of the cruiser Koenigsberg,” an official announce ment said, but part of her cargo and one unidentified Spanish passenger were retained by the Basques. Nazi naval might immediately was pressed toward /the Bay of Biscay to free the Spaniard and the rest of the cargo. The cruiser Hoeln and a torpedo boat, rushed to Spain to protect Ger man shipping soon after the Palos was captured, were due in the bay today. Berliji authorities expressed con fidence their presence would add em phasis to the Reich’s demand for un conditional release of the Palos pas senger and the rest of the cargo. GREENVILLE TAXI DRIVER IS ROBBED G. L. Pleasants Tells of Being Forced On Lonely Road and There Clubbed and Shot Greenville, N. C., T i. 29. (AP) G. L. Pleasants, sto' operator and operator of a taxi sen me here, was in a local hospital, in a critical condi tion today from being beaten and shot late last night by two unidentified men he said hired him for a trip. Pleasants said the two had him turn off the Bethel-Greenville high way about four miles from town. After they had gone a*bout two miles on the side road, Pleasants said one of his passengers hit him in the head with a hammer, and, in a semi-con scious condition, he was dragged from his car, robbed and shot through the eye and left lying on the ground as the two men drove off in the taxi. The injured man walked to the highway, he said, and a passerby pick ed him up and rushed him here. He gave officers a description of his pas sengers and related details of the at tack. No trace of his car or attackers had been found this morning. a'bout $100,000,000 in congressional ap propriations, after deducting “appro priations not advanced” on June 30, of about $17,000,000. “Within the space of three years, the (TVA) mass consumption pro gram has gone far enough to have important meaning not merely for the Tennessee region but for the entire United States,” the report said. “These results are based not upon the extent of the Authority alone, but on that of privately-owned utilities which have cut their rates and entered up on a program of wider use. VICTIMS DF PUNE ARE RETURNED ON BACKS OF HORSES All 12 on Board United Air Lines Ship Are Killed In Crash in Cali fornia Sunday MOVING OF BODIES TAKES MANY HOURS Huge Liner, Lost in Terrific Coast Storm, Was Ap proaching Los Angeles, Its Goal, When it Crashed 20 Miles Distant, In Desolate Mountains Burbank, Cal., Dec. 29 (AP)—Twelve horses, each carrying a blanket-wrap ped body, plodded over eight miles of muddy, twisting trails today, bring ing from the moutnains the victims of a transport plane crash Sunday night. The first body brought out to the Los Engeles-Bakersfield highway was that of Alex Novak, 22, of El Centro, Cal. It was placed in a waiting am bulance. Officers estimated it would require several hours for eleven more horses, each carrying a blanket-wrapped bur der, to complete the task. Clearing skies this morning herald ed the end of the storm that began Sunday, caused $500,000 damage along the coast to beach cottages and small boats, and engulfed the United Air Lines transport Sunday night when it was only 18 miles from the airport here. Almost Inaccessible The grim task of bringing 12 bodies from a crashed air liner was tackled in rain-soaked, almost inaccessible (Cont 5 ” Med on Page Five) Pope Still Suffering Great Pain Vatican City, Dec. 29. —(AP)—Phy- sicians attending Pope Pius, serious ly ill with paralysis and old age com plications, searched today for mild sedatives to relieve the pontiff’s pain. The holy father’s condition was de scribed as “unchanged,” a report which inspired hope in prelates sim ply because no new crisis has arisen. Officials declared the excruciating pain the pope has been suffering in his paralyzed left leg cannot be re lieved with ordinary opiates. The holy father slept fitfully thro ugh the night, his attendants said, but was able to listen to morning mass, recited by his secretaries. Train No. 3 Derailed At Greystone A locomotive and tender and five express cars of the Seaboard Air Line fast southbound passen ger and express train No. 3 were derailed a quarter of a mile south of Greystone shortly after three o’clock this afternoon as the train was enroute here. No one was in jured. The derailment occurred on a section of main line that was paralleled by, a pass track and the cars piled up on the opposite side of the roadway, preventing a blocking of passing trains. The derailment was said ’by railroad men to have been caus ed by an axle breaking on the second of two locomotives pull ing the long train, that engine going off the rails and being fol lowed by the five express cars. All of the passenger cars re mained on the track, and the first engine, which also remained on the rails, moved up and back in over the pass track to pull out the passenger cars and then con tinue on its run. The train was delayed about half an hour. It was in charge of Conductor E. W. Meacham. It is regularly due in Henderson at 3:19 p. m. The train’s regular run is from Washington to Hamlet and Columbia, with con nections from the north and for Florida points. OUR WEATHER MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, occasional mist tonight and Wednesday; slightly colder tonight. Congress To Rusk New Law To Ban Munitions Shipment To Warring Spanish Groups CUBA’S DICTATOR CONFERS i u J&SS I s.— , : ' : ~ ■ ; ; 11 1 i in. Hi Col. Fulgencio Batista, center Cuba’s dictator and president-maker— I> s well as presidcnt-breake? - Coi. Fulgencio Batista, is seen conferring in the field with some of is political aides. Batista caused impeachment proceedings to be brought against President Miguel Gomez for opposing his bill assess tag a nine-cent sugar tax for military-taught rural school —Central Pres : Mother Os Slain Youth I ’ ' Shoots Up Jackson, Ky., Court And Wounds Three Jackson, Ky., Dec. 29 (AP)—Before a court room crowd, Mrs. Viola Wickline today shot and critically wounded Johnny Shepherd, If., accused of the Christmas eve slaying of her son, Harvey Gabbard, 17. The woman, pale and with eyes bulging, fired three times at Shep her, a cripple who had just taken the witness stand to testify at his examining trial on a charge of murdering Gabbard. Moss Noble, attorney, and a bystander named Moore were wounded by the shots that terrorized the crowd partly filling the circuit court room. Noble was shot in the leg and Moore in the body. Their wounds were not believed critical. The Breathitt county court, scene of bitter feud trials in the old days, had just been called to order by Judge George Little for Shepherd’s examining t)riaL A deputy sheriff said (Mrs. Wickiine opened fire without a word, her eyes bulging and face pale. George Shouse, 27, a spectator,, was critically wounded; Moss Noble, an attorney, fell with a bul let in his leg. A bullet bruised the knee of Howard Moore, a spectator. Mrs. Wickline, and three others / were jailed. Gabbard, a son by a former marirage of Mrs. Wickline, was shot to death Christmas eve. Shepherd was accused of murder, and his brother, Noah, of being an accessory. MISS PARKER WILL LIKELY GET POST Gatesville Woman To Suc ceed Mrs. Spilman as Vice-Chairman Dsiily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Hy J. C. BASKEKVILI, Raleigh, Dec. 29.—Miss Ethel Par ker, of Gatesville, for years one of the outstanding women Democratic lead ers in the eastern part of the State, is regarded in most circles here as more likely to be selected vice chairman of the State Democratic Executive Com mittee than any one else, when the committee meets to elect a new vice chairman to succeed Mrs. J. B. Sp li man, of Greenville, who has just re signed. Mrs. Spilman resigned as vice chairman following her appointment as one of the two appointive mem bers of the new Unemployment Com pensation Commission. Chances of Opponents. ■Miss Parker will not be without op position, however, since it is already understood that Mrs. C. W. Tiilett, Jr., (Continued on Page Five) PUBLISHED BVBRY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FOLGER TO RESIGN AS SUPERIOR JUDGE Thinks National Committee man Job Offers More in Many Ways Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILI. Raleigh, Dec. 29 —Judge A. D. (Lon) Folger, of Surry county, has just about decided that he would rather ,be Democratic national committee man from North Carolina for four years than a special superior court judge for six months, witn the result that he is expected to submit his re signation as a judge to Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus within the next ten days, according to reliable reports heard here for Severn! days. If Judge Folger submits hi? resigna tion, as he is expeeted to any day now, it will make i. possible for him to continue to hold his job as na tional committeeman without further bombardment from the press and public and silence the demands heard from both since he was appointed judge that he °ho’’ld resign either as judge or as natii nal committeeman and not try to hold two oifices at once It will also make it possible for Gov ernor J. C. F. Ehringhaus to a uint another special superior tour, judge— this time perhaps with the approval of Governor-elect Clyde R. J' oey—and thus help, relieve the pressure on Mr. Hoey as a result of the two posts on the State Supreme Court which he must fill. Folger Changes 5! aid. Until recently Judge Folger was de termined to remain a judge and also as national committeeman, regardless of the criticism which ha- heen heap ed upon him both in the press and in private, those who know lum main tain. But recent developments are un derstood to have changed his attitude so that he has about decided to give (Continued on Page Four.) Lq RACES FIVE CENTS COPY SENATOR PITTMAN DRAFTS BILL FOR QUICK ENACTMENT Congressional Demand for Stiffening Neutrality Act Prompted by Air plane Permit LICENSES GRANTED FOR BIG SHIPMENT Speedy Move To “Plug Loophole” Forecast By Congressmen Already In Washington for Opening of New Session on Next T uesday; Department Blameless Washington, Dec. 29.—(AP)—’Leg islation to halt American munitions shipments to bcuh sides in the Span ish civil war -«ca drafted today by Chairman Pit* man, Democrat, Nev., of the Senate Foreign Delations Com mittee, who .'aid he hoped to rush his bill througn Congress immediately it convenes January 5. Ho acted shortly after Waltoa Moore, acting secretary of state, de plored the lack of a statute to pre vent *he export of airplanes to gtrrfe torn fc>pain, and regretted “the money mailing in -unet continues to assert itself in time of war.” Congressional demands for swift amendment « f the neutrality act were prompted ( by a State Department grant of licenses to export $2,777,000 of secondhand and engines to the Madrid government. Senator Duffy, Democrat, Wiscon sin, Senato Foreign R Nations Com mittee member, forecast immediate action after 'Congress convenes to “plug the loophuic” which compels licensing of arn, s shipments for use in civil conflicts. At the same time the legislative as pects of the problem were discussed at a conference between Moore and Chairman Mcßeynolds, of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The licenses were issued yesterday to Robert Cuse, president of the Vimalert Company, Ltd., of Jersey City, N'. J., after he insisted on his right under the neutrality law to make such shipments. The State Department had no choice but to grant the licenses when Cuse applied. URGES OPPOSITION TO POWER COMPANY Alabama Mayor Wants Municipal Ownership ol Utilities To Be Allowed To Proceed Decatur, Ala., Dec. 29. —(AP)— Mayor Roy Ingram, of Tarrant City, Ala., urged representatives of Tennes see Valley municipalities today to co operate in combatting the “opposi tion” of private companies to “municipal ownership of utilities.” Mayor Ingram was named perma nent chairman. Opening a conference o fthe valley city officials, Ingram said a major purpose wq|s to lucflitate effective cooperation with the TVA and Presi dent Roosevelt. Mayor Ingram was named perma nent chairman of the meeting. Battles In Spain Shift Into South Government Forces. Claim Important Gains; Planes From America Cheer Madrid. Dc.. 29.—(AP —Fresh bat tles in south ex a Spain shifted the cen ter of the bitter civil war today from fortified lines around the capital. Andujar dispa: v .. ?s declared So cialist militiamen made important gains in what is I 'own a» the Car doba sector. Enemy losses were set at 5,000 ir._a during fighting in two sections, t c reports sai l. Four battalions of Geiman soldiers and seven ""uadrnng of cavalry par ticipated i -he insurgent defense a yainst go\ernment attacks, the ad vices stated. The v-cxr ministry us informed So cialist troops had captured a ceme . Continued on Pa*e Five.)