I HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
f\\ ENTY-FOURTH YEAR
Flood DEAD 111, WITH 550,000 HOMELESS
Secretary Perkins Attacks
General Motors In Refusal
To Attend Strike Meetings
MOTOR GIANT HAS
TAILED IN DUTY, IS
SECRETARY’S IDEA
Police and Pickets Clash
Again in Weeks-Old
Strike, With Many
Persons Injured
PLANT IN DETROIT
SCENE OF TROUBLE
One Woman and Four Men
Hurt; Labor Leaders De
clare “Tomorrow We Will
Have Real Picket Line and
Nobody Will Get In;”
Coast-to-Coast Spread
Washington, Jan. 26 (AP)
Secretary Perkins said today
the General Motors Corporation
had "tailed in its public duty”
in refusing to accept her invi
tation to attend a strike peace
conference.
POLICE ANI) PICKETS IN
FRESH CLASH AT DETROIT
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 26 (AP) —Police
and pickets clashed again today in the
weeks-old General Motors strike, five
persons being hurt as union men tried
to prevent office workers from enter
ing th Cadillac unit of the corpora
tion here.
The clash followed closely on a dis
turb; tnc( la-'t night at Anderson, Ind.
in which three persons were hurt.
One woman and four men hurt in
'in nude > at the Cadillac plant were
removed by union representatives for
pr.v, t( treatment. From the union
.'Uind truck at the scene came the an
nouncement:
("morrow we will have a real pick
et line and nobody will get in.”
1 G-M strike extended from coast
'''’ 1 s t today for the first time as
c< rporation finished plans to re
"i 39,900 of its more than 125,000
1c,1,, -‘ employees to work tomorrow.
Money Need
Big Ally Os
Liquor Folk
legislature Mav Re
sort to Statewide
levy To Solve Its
I’roblems
I>silly DlMpatch Huroiiu,
In the Sir Waller Hotel.
By 11entry averill.
- r h, Jan. 26. —Entering as it
'.to every activity and action
legislature, the pressing neces
-1 finding more revenue to meet
iog expenditures has become
or favoring the advocates of
of liquor in their battle a
-she drys who would retain the
if ion system in North Carolina,
'to same time that this need for
has driven State and county
•er.s much closer together, a,
l|:i appeared in the heretofore
oiks of the drys, this coming
Dorn differences of opinion over
' of strategy to be followed in
efforts to bring about a State
' ferndum and thereby they
outlaw the liquor stores now op
-1 in 17 counties.
' v day since the legislature con
ic re for its opening session it
f, ome clearer and clearer to all
'nod that the law-makers are
a herculean task to raise
v enough to take care of the
increased spending recommend
ih" budget commission, and
hoi institutions are seeking sll,-
'' more than the $70,000,000 rc
icnded in the budget, the task
1 come even more difficult.
1 follows, then, that anything
1 will bring in revenue is cer
u> get careful and painstaking
r ' on with the legislators already
1 f.v inclined toward it because
i evenue-raising possibilities.
(Continued on Page Two).
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Social Security Leader
Tells Legislature Task
Will Continue For Years
Act Not Perfect, But Most Effective Yet Found, Frank
Bane Declares; Draft To bacco Allotments; Retire
ment of Judges Orde red; Money Bills Up
Raleigh, Jan. 26. —(AP) —Frank
Bane, executive director of the Fed
eral Social Security Board, told the
North Carolina legislature, which is
grappling with measures to provide
old age and child labor aid, today the
problem would continue for years.
The legislature already has
for old age assistance, old age pen
sions and aid for indigent children,
and a measure to provide for assis
tance to the needy blind is due thi9
week.
Bane said “the Federal social se
curity act is not perfect, and probably
will be the most amended law passed
by Congress in a long time, but it is
a constructive effort in the right di
rection.”
“The Federal program is the most
effective of its kind yet found,” ha
Counties Would Pay Fourth
Os Old Age Pensions Funds
Federal and State Money Would Be Administered by
Counties, Whose Boards Would Pass on Eligibility
of All Beneficiaries; Bill Is Offered
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. V. BASKERVILI,
Raleigh, Jan. 26.—The counties
must share from one-third to one
fourth of the cost of old age pensions
and of aid to dependent children un
der the administration bill introduced,
in the Senate and House last night by
Senator L. L. Gravely, of Rocky
Mount and Representative Ernest
Gardner, of Shelby, But the counties
also have wide oowero in the admin
tration of the law, in that the county
boards of welfare and the boards of
county commissioners must first ap
prove all those found eligible for pen
sions or other aid before any of this
assistance can be given.
The maximum under the old age
pensions portion of the bill is S3O a
month to persons 65 years of age or
older, but any person with a monthly
4PRCT.SALES TAX
NOT EVEN LIKELY
Talk of Increase Grows Out
of Incessant Demand
for Money
Dnily Dispatch Bureau.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Jan. 26.—Some talk of the
possibility of increasing the sales tax
to four per cent instead of decreas
ing it to two per cent is being heard
in some legislative circles here un
less something can be done to stop
the present steady and upward trend
in requests for appropriations. But
most observers are confident that the
sales tax will not be increased, also
that it will not be decreased, but is
likely to remain at three per cent,
with the exemptions restored as re
commended ifcy Governor Clyde R.
Hoey and the Democratic platform.
Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Max
well .today expressed surprise that
any one was even considering sug
gesting any increase in the sales tax
and said that he was definitely op
posed to any increase in the rate of
the tax.
“I think it would he very unwise
to increase the sales tax beyond three
per cent with the exemptions restored
just as I am opposed to decreasing the
tax to two per cent without any ex
emptions,” Commissioner Maxwell
said. “No other State that I know
of imposes a sales tax of more than
three per cent and I think it would,
set a bad and dangerous precedent to
increase it. I doubt if the finance com
(Continued on Page Four.)
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 26, 1937
told the legislators. It is “an enabling
act” which leaves to them the ques
tion of determining costs by fixing
amounts of aid to be granted and re
quire State administration.
A sub-committee of the House Ag
riculture Committee met this after
noon to complete work on re-drafting
the allotment section of the proposed
tobacco compact bill to limit prduc
tion.
MONEY BILLS ARE BEING
RE DRAFTED FOR PASSAGE
Raleigh, Jan. 26 —(AP) —Faced with
ibills to provide for old-age pensions,
old age assistance and aid for in
digent children under the Federal so
cial security program, the legislature
Continued on Page Five.)
1 income of S3O a month or more is au
tomatically ineligible for the pen
sion. Os this amount, the Federal gov
ernment will pay the State
one-fourth and the counties one
fourth. The bill also provides that the
county welfare ihoards and boards of
county commissioners, in determining
the amount of pension to be allowed
any individual shall take into consid
eration his or her needs, expenditures
and stands of living, and that thq
pension may be scaled down accord
ingly. Thus, where it is found that a
person may get along on S2O a month,
instead of S3O a month, the smaller
amount will be allotted. No inmates
of State or county institutions will
be eligible to receive these pensions,
but can become eligible by leaving
Continued on Page Five.)
Child Bill
Vote Test
For FDR
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKEHVILL
Raleigh, Jan. 26.—How much weight
the “Roosevelt influence” really has
in the North Carolina legislature will
be tested within the next day or two
when action is taken by the assembly
on the proposal to ratify Ihe Federal
' child labor amendment.
! Os course, thers are many other
: factors in the question, but admittedly
' the amendment wouldn’t stand a
| ghost of a chance except for the fact
! that the President has so pointedly
’ appealed for its ratification. Even)
; with his endorsement, the amend
ment will go down to defeat, most
' observers agree, but it is likewise con
ceded even by its bitterest foes that
(Omt , '’ied on Page Five)
\ OUR WEATHER MAN
S FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
i Cloudy, occasional rain tonight
and Wednesday; somewhat colder
tonight.
dai;y
As Devastating Flood Rushes in on Helpless City
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First actual photo of the surge of the waters of the Ohio river over the top of the 62-foot flood, wall which has
protected Portsmouth in other flood years.
ROOSEVELT CALLS
MEETING OF LABOR,
BUSINESS LEADERS
White House Says, How
ever, Purpose Is Not Set
tlemeht of General
Motors Strike
DISCUSSIONS DEAL
WITH LABOR LAWS
Preliminary to Legislation
To Be Offered in Con
gress; Miss Perkins, Lewi..,
Green and Chamber of
Commerce Officials and
Others Are Included
Washington, Jan. 26. —(AP) —Presi-
dent Roosevelt has called three con
ferences of labor and business lead
ers for late today to labor
legislation.
White House officials, in announc
ing the meetings, said they were not
for the purpose of trying to settle the
automobile strike.
Asked if the President had for
mulated a program to place before the
conferees, the President’s aides said
the discussions would be preliminary
to legislation.
To the first conference at 2 p. m.,
the President invited Secretary Per
kins, John L. Lewis, chairman of the
committee on industrial organization;
Sidney Hillman, president of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and
Charles Howard, president of the In
ternational Typographical Union, and
secretary of the C. I. O.
Next to meet with the President
Continued on Page Five.)
Trial Bitter
Over Treason
Os Russians
Moscow, Jan. 26. —(AP) —The prose
cutor and the presiding judge clashed
heatedly today after mention of a
“certain foreign official” in the trial
of 17 confessed plotters for the over
throw of the Russian communist gov
ernment.
“I absolutely abject to restraining
the evidence of a defendant,” Prose
cutor Visiwinsky shouted, and then
argued bitterly for five minutes with
Judge Ulrich, presiding at the mili
tary collegium of the supreme court.
Ulrich allowed the testimony to con
tinue under stern warnings neither
the name of the official nor his na
tion be divulged.
The argument interrupted testi
mony allegedly implicating the “cer
tain foreibn official” in an attempt to
wreck stratebic coal mines in Siberia.
SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Fresh Rains Cause New
Floods For Rivers Over
Eastern North Carolina
Seven-Mile Dyke at Caledonia Prison Farm Not To Be
Menaced, However; Cape Fear, Neuse and Tar Riv
ers Will Rise Again; High Waters at Williamston
Raleigh, Jan. 26. —(AP) —Lee Den
son, in charge of the Weather Bu
reau here, warned today that “heavy
to excessive rains” during the last 24
hours would cause the fifth material
rise in a month of the waters of the
Cape Fear, Neuse, Tar and lower
Roanoke rivers.
The Roanoke rise, however, will
come below Weldon from present in
dications, Denson said, and will not
threaten the seven-mile dyke at Cale
donia prison farm.
“It rained hard yesterday and last
night at Caledonia and a material rise
in the river there now would doubt
less break the dykes,” penal division
TAR HEELS DONATE
Throughout Carolinas Citi
zens Spring To Aid of
Flood Regions
(By The Associated Press.)
Carolina citizens gave liberally to
day of their man power, navigation
facilities, money and other resources
to aid flood sufferers in the stricken
Ohio river valley.
, In dozens of communities through
out the two states Red Cross quotas
mere quickly over-subscribed and
goals doubled and more contributions
gathered.
Winston-Salem WPA sewing rooms
were mobilized, with 4-0 women on
hand .to bend every resources in mak
ing mattresses to send to the flood
area.
A special train bearing 25 surfmen
and seven motored surf boats from
North Carolina Coast Guard stations,
Continued on Page Flv®.)
tripleTnquTry” of
BUS TRAGEDY begun
Civil Authorities, State Commission
and Owners of Bus Line Are
Investigating
Miami, Fla., Jan. 26 (AP)—A three
way investigation was pushed today
into the disaster that brought death
by drowning to 17 passengers of a bus
crossing the everglades.
Expert mechanics sent independent
ly by civil authorities, the State Rail
road Commission, and the bus opera
tor, Tamiami Tours, Incorporated, ex
amined the big mudlcaked vehicle
that rolled into a roadside canal 25
miles west of Miami.
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Director Oscar Pitts said.
Denson said the Neuse, already
slightly out of its banks, would rise
a little higher at Goldsboro and Smith
field, and its flood would he prolong
ed, while new rises and possible floods
would occur in the Cape Fear and Tar
rivers.
At Williamston, where the Roanoke
has been in flood since January 7, the
water was 13 feet today and still ris
ing. Riverside terminals and lumber
yards were under water, but tne town
was not threatened.
A wind blowing water up the river
and two inches of rain forced the
stream higher than had been forecast.
Handful of Republicans In
House To Heckle Demo
cratic Majority
Washington, Jan. 26.—(AP) —The 8®
House Republicans embarked today
on a “militant” campaign of opposi
tion to any Democratic proposals they
deem inimical to the nation’s interest.
They instructed their leader, Rep
resentative Snell, of New York, at a
conference last night to name a nine
man policy committee to work out a
party program.
“We are attempting to organize a
militant, cohesive minority,” said Snell
Several made it clear they consid
ered this course the best basis for a
drive to regain lost party power.
They said their best orators would,
bombard administration action or leg
islation they considered unsound or
(Continued on Page Five)
GASTONIA MAN iT
ACCUSED OF DEATH
John Childers, 60, Charged With
Murder of George Hamrick, 25,
Fatally Shot Jan. 9
Gastonia, Jan. 26 (AP) —John Child
ers, 60, lumber plant employee, was
charged with murder today following
the death of George Hamrick, 25, from
bullet wounds allegedly inflicted by
(gliders January 9.
formed of Hamrick’s death until last
night, issued the murder warrant to
day.
Childers is still at liberty under
$2,000 bond, but may be rearrested to
day, police said. The shooting was
unexplained.
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TODAY
WORST LIES AHEAD
IN STRICKEN AREAS,
IS WARNING GIVEN
" ■ ' ’W*6s3|pri*'\l
Many Thousands Are Ma
rooned in Precarious
Places and Many Are
Refusing to Leave
TOWNS EVACUATED
BY THE WHOLESALE
Roosevelt Calls for Speed
in Congress in Furnishing
Relief as Lower Reaches
of Ohio and Mississippi
Rivers Are Further Menac
ed by Torrents
House Will Pass
Relief by Night
Washington, Jan. 26 (AP) —Con-
gressional leaders responded to
pleas of flood sufferers today with
plans to rush a $790,000,000 defici
ency relief appropriation bill
through the House before night
fall.
As much of the money as neces
sary may be used in the stricken
area until the administration gets a
comprehensive view of relief needs
and asks for special or supple
mental appropriations. The White
House said yesterday the govern
ment would share the cost of relief.
The members of the president’s
national resources committee call
ed at the White House. With a
national policy of water conserva
tion and flood prevention receiving
much emphasis among administrar
tion advisors, their visit was be
lieved to have considerable signi
ficance.
(By The Associated Press)
tens of "thou
sands cowered behind weaken
ing 1 levees or fled to higher lev
els today as the monstrous yel
low tide of the Ohio river swell
ed to record-breaking flood
heights on its sweep to the Mis
sissippi.
Eddying in muddy, slow ris
ing torrents, the waters spread
over an area of more than a
million acres, taking a toll of at
least 111 known dead, driving
550,000 from their homes and
leaving many thousands more
marooned in precarious straits.
$10,000,000 Property Ixjss.
Property damage was estimated far
in excess of $10,000,000, and on every
side came the warning:
“The worst is yet to come!”
Great Exodus in History.
Wholesale evacutions of flood-sieg
ed towns in Tennessee, western Ken
tucky, southern Missouri, Arkansas
and Mississippi, signalled the great
est mass flood exodus In history.
Refugees poured out of Paducah,
Ky., stricken city of 38,000, leaving
behind at least 20 dead, and a threat
of fire from gasoline-filmed waters.
Red Cross officials announced 14
persons drowned with the capsizing
of a rescue ibarge there.
Panorama of Devastation.
From Pittsburgh, in the north,
where anxious crowds watched the
flood relentlessly spread over the bil
lion dollar business district to the
(Continued on Page Six.)
Embargo On
Aid To Spain
Seems Sure
Neutrality Agree
ment Near To Let
Spaniards Fight It
Out Themselves
(By The Associated Press)
Heartened makers of neutrality
pushed ahead today to formulate a
working scheme for leaving Spain
alone.
Italo-German agreement to join a
general embargo of foreign volunteers
to the warring peninsula paved the
way for a practical plan to keep both
men and guns from Spain.
The London neutrality committee
was called to meet Thursday to ac
complish that purpose and to let
(Continued on Page Four.)