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
<md as a national total or as 48
groups, by states, added altogether.
The summed-up cost would seem to
bo about the same, from which-ever
angle it is viewed.
But—
Each locality, from the states on
down, hopes to get more than its fair
bare of relief for less than its fair
share of contributions into the fed
eral “kitty."
NO CHANCE TO BE FAIR
In short, each state hopes to film
flam the other 47 states, proportion
ately, as to population. And each
county and city hopes similarly to
film-flam all other communities in
like proportion.
The administration has sense
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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