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MICHIGAN GOVERNOR
REFUSES PROTECTION
TO MOTORS WORKERS
Murphy Tells Flint Alliance
Chiefs, However, He
Intends To Prevent
Bloodshed
V IOI F.NCE CHARGES
are to be probed
Secretary Perkins Sends
Representative to Ander
son, Ind., on Complaint of
Strikers That General Mot
ors Incited Trouble At
Plant There
Detroit. Mich., Jan. 28 (AP)
—Governor Frank Murphy re
iterated at Lansing today the
State’s intention to prevent
shed or violence in connec
tion with General Motors strikes
but told a delegation from the
Flint Alliance it was impossible
to answer their demand that he
‘yuarantee all workers full pro
tection in going to and from
work.”
INVFViKiATOR TO PROBE
(MARGES MADE BY UNION
\y hr.gton. Jan. 28 (AP)--Secre
iiv Pfi'kins dispatched a representa
tive to Anderson, Ind.. today to in
• charges by the striking
fnited Automobile Workers of Ame
rica that the General Motors Corpora
v.on had indicted violence there.
Porter, the investigator, will
arrive there tomorrow.
Th. union charged one of its meet
in".. i. id been broken up and union
hwidfiuarters raided and wrecked.
Shepard Is Given
7-Year Term For
Imprisoning Girl
Whit, ville. Jan. 28 (AP) — Al
bert Shepard, 44-year-old farmer,
w;;-, sentenced to seven years im
prisonment today for concealing a
14-year-old school girl several
weeks in a garage hide-out at his
home in the Evergreen community
last fall.
Shepard was originally charged
with kidnaping, hut the State sent
him to trial on a morals indict
nient involving a minor girl. Aft
er presentation of the prosecu
tion's testimony, he submitted a
plea jf guilty.
O.ti ers testified to finding the
im'l concealed in the garage, with
it; a stone’s throw of the house
"here Shepherd’s wife and nine
children lived. They said she had
h< ti enticed away from school.
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.REBUKED BY WORDS
Remind for Roosevelt
Backing in Strike Voice
of Labor Power
>'V CHARLES P. STEWART
( eotral Press Columnist
'■'gon, Jan. 28. John 1...
labor loader, undoubtedly
h table offense to the
M eby remarking that his
gave its whole-hearted
' ident Roosevelt in the
* campaign and conse
'idors that his forces are
'* presidential help in its
• “economic royalists.”
1 • not believe, as some com
-vo suggested, that Lewis
he thought.
with him ten days or so
broadcast this definite uit
-1 h<* said substantially the
then. 1 asked him what
' i could do. He was not
:i “T”, but he did make it
' thinks the President has
i-plenty—and ‘‘then some.”
A ( 1 ’ 1 : > NT VOICE
,p this is true.
idential voice is mightily
' n if it be just a voice;
more.
’ i ‘dr. it clear that he wants
it for the element he re
ub-oquently he has made it
A he not. only looks for pre
haeking hut he demands it,
wuhout delay.
' ■"(' numerous interpretations
’ et that the White House
j, ' 1 !| kml” him subtly.
Ilut a strained interpretation,
(Continued on Page Six.)
HritTirßsmt
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Envoy Honored
Hk . v iii liilffr j
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' X m
Fulvio Suvich, Italian Ambassador
to the United States, is shown as he
was awarded the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws at Fordham Uni
versity, New York. The occasion
was the inauguration of the new
Department of Italian Studies.
(Central Press)
Organizers
With Union
Badly Hurt
Bay City and Sagi
naw, Mich., Scenes
of Clashes With An
ti-Union Groups
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 28.—(API-
Three organizers for the United Au
tomobile Workers of America, who
encountered belligerent anti-strike
crowds in Bay City and Saginaw, were
in a Flint hospital today recovering
from injuries.
They were members o r a group of
five union organizers who set out
from Flint yesterday to carry on
membership campaigns among Gen
eral Motors employees in Bay City
and Saginaw.
One, John Mayo, of Pittsburgh, dis
appeared during a clash with a hos
tile Saginaw crowd during which
police took the union men to police
headquarters for safe keeping.
Robert Travis, U. A. W. A. organ
izer at Flint, expressed concern for
Mayo’s safety. State police were asked
to hunt for him. Saginaw police said
they had received no such request.
The climax of the anti-union demon
stration came when a taxicab in
which four of the organizers were re
turning to Flint was wrecked near
Flint. A deputy sheriff of Genessee
county said the taxicab was wrecked
“deliberately” by another car. All foui
were injured hut only three required
hospital treatment.
At Detroit the U. A. W. A. with
drew its pickets from the office en
trance to the Cadillac Motor Car
Company.
Hard Fights
Likely Over
Districting
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
fly J. C. IiASKERVILL.
Raleigh, Jan. 28.—First, and per
haps one of the bitterest, fights ofi
this session has been dumped square
ly on the floor of the House by that
body’s action in voting 53 to 51, to
take the reapportionment hill away
from committee and place it on the
calendar for action.
This action, taken after acrimoni
ous exchanges of repartee Wednesday
makes it probable that a vote on the
measure will be reached Thursday aft
fContinued on Page Six.)
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER
PEOPLE
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY'2B, 1937
Talks in Strike Probe
; \i
- ■ L.. t &■>
J. H. Smith, president of the Cleve
land branch of the Chrysler Corpora
tion, is shown as he test.fied before
the LaFollette Civil Liberties Com
mittee regarding thd' alleged use of
strikebreakers in the company which
he heads. The probe wa- held in the
Senate building in Washington.
ADVERSE REPORTS
LIKELY FOR BOTH
OF WHISKY BILLS
Bone Dry Measure and
State Manufacture of
Liquor To Be Smash
ed In Committee
CONTROLADVOCATES
SEEM SPLIT AGAIN
Apparently Merging at One
Time, They Have Parted
Now Over One Bill To
Solve Their Problem;
State Manufacture of Li
quor Strongly Opposed
Dully Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By .1. C. It ASKER VI LI,
Raleigh, Jan. 28.—Liquor was back
in the spotlight here today as a result
of the hearing in progress this after
noon before the House Judiciary Com
mittee Nfumber One on the two bills
introduced so far dealing with the li
quor problem. One of these is. the
Hutchins “bone dry” bill, calling for
a Statewide rt.'c: mdum and regarded
as having the support of all the “drys”
in the State. The other is* the Han
ford bill, which not only would set up
a State nonopoly sj :-tem with State
liquor stores, but would also put the
State into the liquor manufacturing
business as well.
The Hutchins bill, introduced by
Mrs. Charles Hutchins, the represen
tative from Yancey county and oth
ers, is f;eneiaily understood to have
been wiilten by Justice Heriot Clark
son of the State Supreme Court, and
is regarded as being what the dry
forces of the State want, in that it
requires a Statewide referendum on
the question as to whether liquor
shall be legally sold in North Caro
lina. If the “drys“ should win in the
election, this action would automati
cally close the 60 or more liquor stores
in the 17 counties which now have
legal liquor. If the “wets” should win,
it would then permit the sale of li
quor in every county of the State,
(Continued on Page Three.)
LIDETUINGFOR
, CIO LABOR BILL
Favorable Committee Re
port Came as Real Sur
prise In House
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Jan. 28—Results of the in
tensive drive for ratification of the
Federal child labor amendment are
apparent here on all sides, and since
the favorable report of the House
Committee on Constitutional Amend
ments was brought in there is an
undercurrent of opinion that the mea
sure isn’t as hopelessly outnumbered
in the Legislature as has been here
tofore believed.
Advocates of the bill were them
selves frankly surprised at the action
of the bouse group, of which Willie
Lee Lumpkin, Franklin’s extremely
liberal representative, is chairman as
the best they had hoped for was a
“without prejudice” report which
(Continued on Page Three.)
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IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
PUBLISHED
NOW HOMELESS
40-Hour Work Week Bill Is
Voted Down By House Group
James I. Miller Asks Com
mittee To Exempt Leaf
Tobacco Industry
from Provisions
OLD AGeTmEASURE
BEFQRE COMMITTEE
Hill Suggests Counties Will
Have To Resort to Adva
lorem Tax for Their Part,
But Gravely Says His
County Will Pay Cost W T ith
Liquor Profits
Raleigh, Jan. 28 (AP) —The
House Committee on Manufac
tures and Labor, voted 11 to 8
today against the Mcßride bill
to provide a 40-hour week in the
textile and tobacco industries
and a 48-hour week in general
industry in North Carolina.
An unfavorable committee report
usually kills a bill.
The joint public welfare committee
considered the administration old age
assistance and aid to dependent chil
dren proposals section by section, and
the question of counties raising their
funds from liquor sales was injected.
A. L. Fletcher, State commissioner
of labor, urged the group to approve
the labor bill, saying he was “getting
tired of being told that labor stand
ards in North Carolina can be no
higher than a highly competitive mar
ket will permit.”
Representative Barker, of Durham,
ins sted on action at once, moving for
an unfavorable report. A substitute
motion to appoint a sub-committee to
work on the measure was defeated.
Only one person spoke against the
bill, James I. Miller, of the James I.
Miller Tobacco Company, of Wilson,
who asked that it not apply to the
leaf tobacco industry.
Senators on the courts and judicial
districts committee deferred action on
the House-passed bill to add two Su
preme Court justices.
(The liquor question lentered the
(Continued on Page Six.)
MRS. OF
HAMLET, IS INJURED
Woman Democratic Finance Leader
Is Seriously Hurt in Automo
bile Crash There
Hamlet, Jan. 28. —(AP) —Mrs. Ar
chie McDougal, of this city, Demo
cratic party finance officer for North
Carolina during the last campaign,
was seriously hurt in an automobile
accident here early today.
Dr. W. D. James, owner of the
Hamlet hospital, said Mrs. McDougald
about 35, had an ear nearly severed,
and suffered a concuej on chest, back
and spinal injuries, but 'heir extent
had not been fully ascot? lined.
First examination, however, indi
cated she would recover, he added.
The doctor said he understood Mrs.
McDougald’s car and one driver by
Ernest Clayton had collided at a
street intersection.
Isolation
For Spain
Is Pushed
(By The Associated Press.)
International negotiators, spurred
by Italo-German promises to coop
erate, rushed plans today to isolate
Spain.
A neutral blockade of Spanish
coasts to halt spread of the war fevera
to the rest of Europe was planned
by the London # non-intervention com
mittee using fleets of four great pow
ers concentrated in the Mediterranean
Details of the plan, considered while
the Madrid government forces were
reporting new strategic victories, still
were indefeinite.
To holster the coastal blockade of
foreign arms and men, the non-inter
(Continued on Page Six.)
OURWyTHEPMAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, with, occasional, rain
and mist and considerable fog to
night and Friday; very slowly ris
ing temperature.
Bismitdi
ONE HEROINE OF THE FLOOD
% A
A telephone operator, Gellna Skeens, sticks to her post to keep the
last line open in Portsmouth, O. As she sits at the phone, wrapped
in a blanket, the water creeps up on the floor below.
—Central Press
Vance Group Asks
For County Roads
Raleigh, Jan. 28 (AP) — Twenty
one delegations, some with a score
or more members, asked the high
way and public works commission
today for various road improve
ments.
The (appearance of (the group
delayed the commission’s consider
ation of award of contracts for the
Albemarle Sound bridge in the Cur
rituck-Camden short cut.
Groups heard this morning, lead
ers, and work wanted included:
Vance county, J. C. Kittrell, im
provement of roads between Pop
lar Branch and Reed’s Bridge in
Granville eounty; a route to Po
well’s Mill and a connection to
Red Bud church.
u. plpposld 10~
CIVIL MICE BILL
Would Give 14,000 Demo
crats Postmaster Job
for Life, Is Charge
Washingtlon, Jan. 2&.—(AP)—Rep
resentative Edith Rogers, of Massa
chusetts, marshalled House Republi
cans today in opposition to a bill
which she contended would place 14,-
000 Democratic postmasters in office
for life. As minority member of the
civil service committee she was in
charge of Republican debate on an
administration proposal to put all
postmasters under the merit systems.
Incumbents would obtain civil ser
vice status through non-competitive
examinations. Mrs. Rogers proposed
competitive tests so that Republicans,
as well as Democrats, would have a
chance at the jobs.
The huge Democratic majority
sought to pass the bill this afternoon.
Echoes of the General Motors strike
reached Congress in a request by Sec
retary Perkins for legislation to em
power her department to ascertain
causes of strikes and to recommend
settlement.
She requested authority to take
sworn testimony and to subpoena
books and records.
The Senate Civil Liberties Commit
tee asked a $50,000 fund for a thor
ough investigation into the General
Motors situation.
The $790,000,000 relief bill now be
fore the Senate appropriations group,
forbids use of relief funds for inves
tigative purposes.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
4pportionin£
Bill Defeated
In The House
New $750,000 State
Office Building Is
Proposed; Liquor
Hearing Is Held
Raleigh, Jan. 28.—(AP)—Legis
lators by the dozens listened to
arguments on liquor legislation
this afternoon before a House
judiciary committee after doing
little business at the regular mid
day session.
The House debated more than
an hour over re-apportionment of
its membership to give Buncombe,
Guilford and Mecklenburg each an
additional representative, ant(
then refused to pass the Pickens
measure, 70 to 38.
This morning the House Manufac
tures and Labor Committee reported
unfavorably the Mcßryde bill to place
a 40-hour limit on the work week in
the tobacco and textile industries and
48 hours for general industry in the
State.
The liquor hearing was before
House Judiciary Committee No. 1.
(Continued on* Page Six.)
Masses in Russia
Demand Punishing
Os Other Traitors
Moscow, Jan. 28. —(AP)— The
Russian masses clamored today
for another trial to bring to jus
tice others they suspeet are in
volved in the alleged “Trotzkyist”
plot to overthrow the communist
government.
Workers meeting throughout
the nation adopted resolutions de
manding formal charges against
the so-called rightist center.
They named especially such
conspicuous figures In the Soviet
as Nichol’ai Bukharin, recently
removed as an editor of a news
paper, and Alexis Rykoff, who
was premier of the Soviet Union
for six years.
Both Bukharin and Rykoff
have been involved in the testi
mony of 17 confessed conspirators
whose trial for treason is being
heard behind closed doors is ex
pected to end soon.
IN FLOOD
LOSS IN PROPERTY
IS NOW ESTIMATED
, AT 400 MILLIBNS
293 Known Dead, With
Half Million People
Threatened in Addi- ’
tion to Others
REHABILITATION IS
NOW BIG PROBLEM
Old Mississippi Is Begin
ning To Stir Uneasily Un
der Vanguard Lash of Ohio
Waters; Louisville Sees
Hopes Darkened As More
Rain Falls
(By The Associated Press)
The flooded Ohio river, strug
gling like a serpent of fabulous
strength, sought escape against
weakening levees today on its
descent to the Mississippi.
The known dead stood at 203,
the homeless passed the million
mark and an additional 500,000
were endangered and property
loss wa sestimated at more than
$400,000,000.
Along the 1,000-mile ghost-town trail
the slowly receding waters lapped
idly at empty houses in the empty
towns.
The rehabilitation cost, now be
comes of paramount interest in north
ern Ohio river valley communities,
where the worst apparently has past,
drew estimates ranging into billions.
Officials said the average cost for
cleaning and drying out a flooded
(home was $250.
At Paducah Ky., Red Cross offi
cials hurried to evacuate thousands
of reluctant inhabitants in advance
of the oncoming flood peak. Colonel
Chat Rhodes, United States Army en
gineer, warned of a 61-foot crest with
in the next 48 hours.
Below, at Cairo, 111., only men re
mained in the island city to bolster
the 60-foot wall against an expected
four-foot rise in the river. Eight
thousand, mostly women, children and
the aged, had already fled.
At Mound City, 111., a iback leveo
collapsed routing 650 men, 50 women
and 175 CCC boys to higher ground.
On the Mississippi, now beginning
to stir uneasily under the vanguard
lash of the Ohios flood the Melwood
levee was threatened with collapse,
endangering two counties on the Ar
kansas side.
Louisville, Ky., with the highest
death roll in the 1,000-mile disaster
area, had its hopes darkened again
today as rain began to fall.
In Tennessee workers battled des*-
(Continued on Page Six.)
Chinese Factions
In Civil War Make
Full Settlements
Nanking, China, Jan. 28.—(AP)
—Military authorities of the cen
tral government announced today
the peaceful settlement of China’s
prolonged civil war crisis.
The rebellion of the northwest
armies and the former Manchur
ian forces, which started last De
cember 12 with the kidnaping of
Chiang Kai-Shek, was reported
completely liquidated.
Fresh Curb
On Holding
Firm Asked
Congress Also Seeks
Financiers’ Advice
on Taking Profits
Out of War
Washington, Jan. 28. —(AP)
Coaigress sought the advice of Uvo
financiers today on how it could
curb I'eiiain types of hiding com
panies i-»ul what it Roald do to
take the profits oout of war.
Appearing before the Senate rail
road investigating committee, Rich
ard Whitney, former president of the
New York State Exchange, testified
he would urge exchange officials to
formulate a “definite policy” on list
ing holding company securities.
He said it would be “extremely dif
ficult” to fix a standard by which
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