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r’uEiVDEKSON ! gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA | vY FOURTH YEAR leased wire service op rr\\Ka i l-ruuiun iun.i.v THE associated press S TRIKE CROWDS ARRIVE FOR INAUGURAL AS PLEAS for WPA AID MOUNT Senators Join With Repre sentatives To Get More Than Roosevelt $790,000,000 TV A SNARL RISING TO CREATE ISSUES Valley Management At Loggerheads and Roose velt Is Faced With Neces sity of Taking Sides Be tween Them; Seamen Bring Their Claims to Capital Wa.-hii'-' n, Jan. 18. —(AP) — The Cipit 'il " 'earned the vanguard of i uirtti «n crowds today with bunting and flag.-, despite gray skies and a drizzling rain. Arriving Lv road, rail and air, the f::»t of an expected throng of 250,000 beian - ■ e: wd hotel lobbies and swell the sidewalk throngs. Start of inauguration week found one serious problem shaping up in President Roosevelt’s vast adminis trative staff. The widening policy rift otw -en Chairman Arthur Mor t,.in an d David Lilienthal, director of [he Tennessee Valley Authority over TV a power policies led informed ob server - to expect a crisis demanding early presidential attention. Mure than 1.000 rain-soaked seamen arrived for a demonstration on the -continuous discharge book” law, which requires a record be kept of each time a sailor has been discharg td. Halstead Ritter, ousted Federal judge of the southern district of Flor ida. attacked in the Supreme Court the right of the Senate to remove him from office. SEVEN SENATORS JOIN BLOC DEMANDING HIGHER RELIEF Washington, Jan. 18.—(AF) —Seven senator.- joined a small bloc of repre sentativc:; today in a demand for in erf 1 relief funds, In the face of a WPA ;■- pi .‘it of further curtailment of its jobs. \1 •> congressional activities slowed (Continued on Page Three.) TaxTChild Bill, Liquor Coming Up Rnh'igi:. Jan. 18. —(AP) —Legisla- 'iun ti.ucti ng taxation, Federal child ■ Lor hill md lifiuor control will ibe ' I'.u d out in committees of the Go-: i a.- embly this week. T hi ji.int finance and appropria tion "up- will continue their work t; revenue and appropriations ,J L' wit'; several hearings scheduled week. House Judiciary No. 1 will hold a public Thursday afternoon a dry I ,! W >1 if* hold a Statewide referen on the liquor issue and on a “wet'’ bill proposing that the State irture and distribute liquor 'Cone* ued on Page Five) Gill Fears State Facing Crisis Over Death Crimes AIM me Record in Capital Convictions During Eh nnghaus Administration; Growth of Gangs in State Blamed for Much of It by Paroles Head ■lan. 18 CAP)- —Edwin Gill, commissioner, warned to be that we are facing a 1 such an extended and ag • nature as to constitute a problem” as he reported punishment in North Caro ls 103J5 and 1936. 1 he referred two years ago and 1934 “as constituting a p‘ capital punishment” when (| ' were disposed of, and after ' 1 ”of 46 cases during the last was “compelled to say that continues” and to warn of Uu - problem. All-Time High Reached f ( . 11 -on of cases of 88 capital J, ing the Ehringhaus admin ne said, “constitutes an all- There were 55 cases in ' oduer administration, and 42 Hvntivrsnu Haifa HtsiJairh Roosevelt Ready To Battle Court Washington, Jan. 18 (Al*) —Sena- tor Minton, Democrat, Indiana, said after a White House confer ence today indent RooseveUijJ would hold a conference soon on possible legislation dealing with the Supreme Court. The Indianan said he had dis cussed generally the question of the court with the President, but not at liberty to disclose details. He said he himself would favor a bill requiring at least seven of the nine members of the court to concur before an act of Congress eould be held invalid. WOULD PAY ROADS DEBTM ROADS Ross Says It Would Be Dangerous To Turn Cash Over to Counties WOULD SET PRECEDENT Many Counties Claiming Refunds for Roads They Built Themselves for Local Trade Pur poses Years Ago Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Waiter Hotel. By J. C. BASKER.VILLi Raleigh, Jan. 18. —In his final ibrief to the special commission which has been investigating the claims of more than 70 counties for refunds from the State for road construction done be fore the State took over the roads, Charles Ross, counsel for the State Highway and Public Works Commis mission, continues to maintain that these claims are for the most part without any foundation or equity. But if the commission finds that some of the counties are entitled to some ad justment on these claims, Ross urges that the adjustment be made in the form of additional highway construc tion within the counties, rather than in cash. He further maintains that if any of these claims should be paid in cash, it would not only*reduce the likelihood of additional needed road construction and maintenance in these counties, but would also greatly reduce the amount of construction and maintenance needed in other counties. Time for Liquidation. “That your study of the claims sub mitted has led you to the conclusion that some of the counties have re ceived more or less than their share of highway construction, I do not doubt,” Ross said. “But I maintain the time has not come to draw a dead line in highway construction and to begin the process of liquidation. The way to adjust these inequalities is the further development of the highway system in the injured counties in or der that their patrimony may be in creased and their ability to carry their indebetedness strengthened.” Most Roads Are Local. Ross pointed out that in every case where the counties are asking for re (Continued on Page Three.) each in the McLean and Morrison ad ministrations. Under in the first degree, Gills re port showed, accounted for 74 of the cases before him, with 55 resulting in executions and 19 in commutations. First degree burglary accounted for seven death sentences, with all being commuted. Rape also accounted for seven capital convictions, with three of the men being commuted and four being executed. “The sharp increase of capital fel ons, from 55 under Gardner to 88 un der Ehringhaus,” Gill commented, is cause for grave concern. However, the increase in capital felons is no more alarming than the increase in criminal commitments generally. Gill added. “we see that the sharp (Continued on Page Two). ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PARLEY Free Texts Bill To Be Ready Soon Some Publishers To F ight Plan; Would Make for Efficiency In Schools Daily DUiiatdi Iture.'iu, In the Sir Walter Hotel, 11 v ,f t'. BASuvExtV 11,1. Raleigh, Jan. 18.—Preparation of a bill to • provide free textbooks in all the elementary grades of the North Carolina public school system is. go ing ahead rapidly and Governor Clyde R. Hoey and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Clyde A. Erwin are confident the bill will be enacted, despite the fact that some opposition is beginning to develop. This opposi tion so far does not seem to be very well organized but gives indications of (being fostered by a group of textbook manufacturers known to be unfriend ly towards the establishment of a free textbook system. In fact, it is gen erally agreed that most of the text book manufacturers would openly fight the free textbook movement if they dared do so, due to the fact that a free textbook system reduces the number of texts used in a school sys tem and hence reduces their profits from the sale of books. Would Have Old System. Most of the textbook salesmen and lobbyists, however, maintain they are in favor of the free textbook plan while there is no doubt that some of the larger textbook manufacturers are openly in favor of it, due to the fact that they will sell in large quan tities direct to the State and will not have to bother with distributing (books to hundreds of different units. A good many of the smaller compan ies, however, would like very much to return to the old system, with no State adoptions and no rental of free books, so that every county and city superintendent would be a prospective customer. • Will Raise Efficiency. But Governor Hoey and State Sup erintendent Erwin are convinced that nothing will help the efficiency of the schools more than free textbooks, also that free textbooks will relieve par ents of school children of a financial burden amounting to from $5 to $25 per child per year, depending upon the grade and the number of books required. “Judging from the fine results we have had as a result of the rental textbook system authorized by the (Continued on Page Four.) MISSING GOLDSBORO MAN REPORTED SAFE Sister of Roland Gardner, 31, Gone Since Dec. 19, Writes From Roanoke, Virginia Goldsboro, Jan. 18 (AP)—Miss Edith Gardner said today her broth er, Roland Gardner, 31, Dudley farmer who disappeared December 19, was safe.” She said shfe had received a letter from Mrs. Russell Vick, a sister, of Roanoke, Va., giving the information. The letter, Miss Gardner said, did not reveal the whereabouts of Gardner, or why he left his home. A SIOO reward offered for informa tion about him was withdrawn. Little Done At Sessions Os Assembly Raleigh, Jan. 18.—(AP)—' The leg islature abandoned its custom of re cent years of resting through the day Monday, when both divisions met for regular business today, but little leg islative work was accomplished. Interest centered on the afternoon meetings f the finance and approp riations committees, drafting the tax and money spending measures in ex cess of $70,000,000 per year for the 1937-39 biennium. A public hearing on liquor legisla tion scheduled for this week was post poned until January 28. A quorum of the Senate attended the meeting at noon, but no (bills were introduced, debated or passed. The House met an hour later and likewise did little. Five minor bills were passed and five introduced. One new measure by Best, of Wayne, would exempt Wayne county from the 1935-Statewide slot machine law. Dr. Clarence Foe, Raleigh agricul tural editor, sent letters to Governor Hoey and agricultural leaders of the State urging something “much better than the historic base plan” in mak ing tobacco acreage allotments. He said the 1933 allotments were “adopt ed in a hurry” of a crisis and everj» farmer got the “same rough meat axe cut.” He called for a drastic change in the method of allocation of acreage. HENDERSON, N. C„ MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 18, 1937 PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. itif * ■ & j-X- • ’*• • vgftSjS W. S. Knudsen . \ , General Mo tors vice president Long Expected “Break ”Near In The Mattson Kidnap Hunt Four Security Offices Provided In N. C. Cities Washington, Jan. 18.—(AP) — The Social Security Board an nounced today quarters have been leased in four North Carolina cities fob- the opening of addi tional field offices in that State. Cities and locations of the of fices were announced as follows: Asheville, Flatiron building Greensboro, Guilford building; Rocky, Mount, Planters National Bank & Trust Company building, and Wilmington, Tidewater build ing. CONGRESS OBJECTS TO REORGANIZATION i Too Much Centralization in Roosevelt Proposal for Departments By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Jan. 18.—Even Demo cratic leaders in Congress may clash with President Roosevelt' on his re organization program. The plan of reorganization has Con gress wondering. A reorganization has been urged for some time, but not one giving so much centralized power as does the President’s plan. The idea has been that emergency organizations have been created at a tremendous rate in recent years — first as a result of war and post-war conditions; then as a result of depres sion conditions —‘and that the time has come, said emergencies having passed or being in process of passing, to abolish at least some of them. SEPARATE INVESTIGATIONS The White House and Congress got to work on this task. The White House chose a commit tee under the leadership of Louis Brownlow, famed as an economist in the details of city government. Con gress named a parallel committee, headed by Senator Harry F. Byrd, who performed a wonderful task, as Continued on Page Five.) OUR WEATHERMAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy and colder tonight and Tuesday; occasional rain tonight. Leaders In General Motors Strike Crisis Spokesmen Agreed COLLAPSES j To Negotiate | Wages, Hours, : j ’ | | Working , I Conditions I I ::A | | ; ® Btev, drnm JH | 1 M Frank Murphy . . . Michigan’s * governor, who gains prestige by bringing about basis of settlement Offices at Charlotte, Raleigh and Salisbury are now in opera tion. The board said the staff in each of the new offices would be rel atively small, and the personnel would be drawn entirely from the civil service lists. The offices will help in the maintenance of wage records of workers for whom social security accounts have been set up, and in adjudication of claims for bene fits. Midwest Is Fearful Os Big Floods Chicago, Jan. 18. —(AP) —Rivers rose dangerously in the middle west today. Cincinnati suffered its 31st flood in 54 years, with the Ohio river rising a quarter inch an hour. If heavy rains continued, metorologists said, the Ohio would be six or seven feet above flood stage by mid-week. Chicago, Jan. 18.—(AP) —Turulent rivers, overburdened by winter rains, cut deeply into levees today to re vive fears of widespread floods in parts of the Middle West. Hundreds of men patched weakened sea walls in Missouri and Arkansas where flood conditions are acute. Many streams which broke their ban#? and inundated thousands of acres in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois last week, renewed a climb toward flood stages. Charles Blanton, WPA supervisor, termed conditions in southeastern Missouri critical. Fresh “shock troops” joined an army of 1,500 work ers in an effort to stem the raging St. Francis river assault on levees. Blaiii-.n reported levees near Hol comb, Kennett and Senath, Mo., were (Continued c*n Page Four.) SCHOOL BUS KILLS SNOW HILL INFANT Wilson, Jan. 18 (AP)—Three year-old Charles Beaman was kill ed by a school bus in front of the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Beaman, near Snow Hill to day. Coroner F. A. Moseley ruled that Charlie’s death was an un avoidable accident. The boy, he said, stepped in front of the bus just as it was started after tak ing on a number of pupils, and because he was so small he was not seen from the driver’s seat. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON IPTT7IP npumn nAT IV EXCEPT SUNDAY. J I VEI LENTS COPY y-- -' * ■ x: ’V? • ; filliPs JrayggL\ Homer Martin . . . Auto unioqY leader Federal Agents Suddenly Concentrate in Southern California About Los Angeles BIG DEVELOPMENTS LIKELY IMPENDING Federal Agent in Charge of Search at Tacoma Rushes 1,200 Miles to South To Assume Control of Hunt; Two Men Already Held in That Region Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 18 (AP) — —Harold Nathan, leader in the search for the kidnaper-slayer of Charles Mattson, conferred with Federal agents here today, but was silent as to the purpose of his sudden trip to Los Angeles. Nathan went by train from Ta coma, Wash., to Portland, Oregon and then took an airplane to Los Angeles, but whether this presaged a “break” in the brutal killing of the ten-year-old son of Dr. W. W. Mattson, officers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation declined to speculate. ■ “Mr. Nathan is here, but he is not here on the Mattson Case,” was the flat assertion of J. H. Hanson, agent in charge of the Los Angeles F. B. I. office. Los Angeles, Cal., Jan 18 (AP) — The long expected “break” was be lieved near today in the search for the swarthy kidnaper and killer of ten-year-old Charles Mattson as Fed eral agents concentrated suddenly in southern California. A dramatic swing in the manhunt to this region from the scene of the (Continued on Page Three.) SSOOjOTEIRAE MONEYFOR PARKS That Much Spent in State Since 1934, Forester Holmes Reports Dniiy Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel By Jf. C. BASKEttVILIi Raleigh, Jan. 18.—Nearly $500,000 of Federal funds have been expended in the development of five State parks in North Carolina since the beginning of work in 1934, according to J. S. Holmes, State forester. These expenditures represent only the estimated cost of improvement, supervision, equipmnet, materials, and the value of labor furnished by the Civilian Conservation Corps. This de development program has been car ried out under the joint direction of the National Park Service and the N. C. Department of Conservation and Development. “The entire cost of maintenance Continued on Page Five.) 8 PAGES TODAY MOTORS OFRCIALS BALK AT STRIKERS STAYINGJN PLANT Refuse To Negotiate As Long as Workers Occupy Two Fisher Fact ories in Flint PEACE MEETING IS CONCLUDED QUICKLY Five Minutes After Open ing in Detroit, Union Head Emerges To Announce Conference Is Off; Union Charged Bad Faith on Part Os General Motors (By The Associated Press) Peace negotiations in the giant General Motors strike col lapsed today. The third work week of 1937 opened with more than 210,000 unemployed because of strikes and shutdowns. Five minutes after he and other officials of the United Automobile Workers of Ame rica met at Detroit with G. M. C. executives, Homer Martin, union president, emerged to an nounce : “The conference is off.” The meeting had been agreed on last week as a start toward perman ent settlement of the General Motors strike, now involving 115,000 work men. His brief statement indicated the corporation had refused to open negotiations because strikers continu ed to occupy two Fisher Body plants at Flint, Mich. “BAD FAITH” IS CHARGED ON FART OF CORPORATION (By The Associated Press) New differences menaced proposed negotiations today between striking car workers and the General Motors Corporation, principles in a dispute involving the jobs of at least 115,000 persons. On the eve of the scheduled meet ing with the management at Detroit, the union accused the corporation of “bad faith” and cancelled scheduled evacuation by sitdown strikers of two Fisher Body plants in Flint, Mich. The union charged the corporation planned to resume operations at the Cadillac plant in De*- troit, evacuated by sitdowners, who were promised it would be kept closed during negotiations, and the corpora tion had agreed to meet with the anti strike Flint alliance. G-M officials declined to discuss im mediately the possible effect of the union action on the scheduled nego tiations . BASEBALL LEADER DIES IN ILLINOIS Rock Island, 111., Jan. 18. —(AP) —, Michael Sextion, honorary president of the National Association of Pro fessional Baseball Leagues, died to day in an apartment hotel. Death was caused by a heart attack while he wag recovering from influenza. Powers Balk On Blockade About Spain Russia, Germany, Italy Against Any Non-Collective/Pact Madrid Shelled (By The Associated Press). Peace-makers struggled in the new but still trying circumstances to keep Spain’s civil war isolated today at the half-year point of the conflict. Battles between Fascist insurgents and the Socialist government raged on the Mediterranean’s two coasts. The international non-intervention committee considered a revived scheme to blockade Spain with neu tral shore observers and a six-power warship patrol of peace. But Russia formally opposed any non-intervention action that was not collective, and Germany and Italy gave the same impression by their silence. The insurgents outside Madrid bombarded the city anew, but some of their number were trapped in a dynamited building at the capital’s edge.
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