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hitler Withdraws From Versailles Treaty
II NOT LONGER
ACCEPT BLAME FOR
mm WAR
Versailles Pact, Ending
World War, Made Ger
many Admit Guilt of
That Heinous Act
DEPRIVED GERMANY
OF EQUALITY RIGHT
Assumes Sole Authority
Over Federal Railway Sys
tem and Reichbank; Der
Fuehrer Starts Second
Quadrennium of Rule of
Germany With Address
Btilin, Jan. 30 (AP) —Reichfuehrer
Adolf Hitler, starting to rule Germany
for another four years, today “with
drew Germany’s signature from the
Versailles peace treaty, in which the
Reich was declared “guilty” of
launching the World War.
Asserting Germany’s resumption of
military sovereignty was a matter af
fecting only the Reich, Hitler told his
Reich-tag:
■We have taken nothing from any
nation nor have we done any nation
wrong.”
He declared the German govern
ment from now on would exonerate
sole sovereignty over the Federal rail
way system and the Reichsbank.
Then he added:
“I hereby declare that through
these actions that part of the Versail
les treaty which deprived our nation
of equality and degraded it to a posi
tion of an inferior people has found
its natural end.
"About all, however, I hereby most
solemnly withdraw the German signa
ture from that declaration forced
upon a weak government against its
tetter knowledge—the declaration to
the effect Germany was guilty of
starting the World War.”
State Will
Take Over
State Fair
Raleigh, Jan. 30.—(AP)—The State
Board of Agriculture voted today to
take over complete operation of the
State Fair.
The board voided a five-year con
tract under which Norman Y. Cham-
Hiss, of Rocky Mount, and George
Hamid, of New York, have leased the
exposition and operated it under strict
State supervision.
Action of the Icoard followed a rul
ing bv Attorney General A. A. F. Sea
wall that the members would not be
liable personally for any deficit in
juried in operating the fair, except
in case of neglect or gross misman
agement.
Governor Hoey said he was backing
*be board and agriculture commis
sioner.
Herr Scott, agriculture commis-
Continued on Page Five.)
Compact Act
Is Puzzle To
Legislators
J hev Will Vote For
It Monday With
Maejue Idea of Its
I’r'n isions
Daily DiM|»at<‘h narenn,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENtftY AVERILL.
M, ’ lirh ’ Jan - 30 —The House will
ii, adopt a tobacco compact
' ! "- probably by an almost un
'll n on vote, but it’s dollars to
' n , u, ' s not more than half a
t(, ' !o ‘d»lators (or news commen
be' ‘ ilor . f or that matter) will ever
. '* l! ' to give an intelligent explana
? r>i what they voted for.
(jl ' ; 'h events, out of the welter of
1 u "m and conjecture, and asser
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ALL OUT? “SUPER” FLOOD COMING!
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Shaded lines show danger area
Although U. S. army officers expressed confidence that the 1,200 miles of
levees along the Mississippi from Cairo, 111., to the Gu’f of Mexico would
hold, despite threats of a “super” flood, army engineers and government of
ficials mapped emergency plans for a possible evacuation of 1,000,000 persons
in an area of 50 miles on each side of the Mississippi. Should it be necessary
to evacuate the Mississippi river valley, it would be the greatest peace-time
movement of population in the history of the U. S. Maj. Gen. E. M. Mark
ham, chief of U. S. engineers, is said to have stated that it was “absolutely
ridiculous to think there was any flood danger in the Mississippi river valley
south of Arkansas City, Ark.” The map shows the area being considered for
evacuation.
Dual Control
Liquor Store
Plan Growing
Developm e n t s In
General Assembly
Point to That Way
Out of Problem
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKEItVILIi
Raleigh, Jan. 30 —The trend is more
and more towards the enactment of a
Statewide liquor control law which
will permit the establishment of liquor
stores in counties following county
wide elections, under the joint control
of the State and counties, and under
which the State will get a small per
centage of the net profits, observers
here are convinced after watching de
velopment in the General Assembly
for almost four weeks.
While the bill which will eventual
ly be enacted has not even been writ
ten yet and probably will not be in
troduced for another week or more,
opinion in most quarters is that senti
ment among the members of both
houses has slowly but surely been
crystallizing in favor of a joint State
and county control system, with coun
ty option, under which the State will
get a part of the profits.
It is also agreed tht developments
during the past week or ten days have
been of a nature to pave the way for
Continued on Page Five.)
FEDERAL RESERVE
POSTPONES RULING
Regulation on Service Charges De
ferred from February 1 to May
1, Foard Says
Washington, Jan. 30 (AP) The
Federal Reserve Board has postponed
from February 1 to May 1 the ef
fective date of a regulation prohibiting
member banks of the Federal Reserve
system from absorbing check collec
tion and service charges.
The action today was taken at the
request of Chairman Stegall, Demo
crat, Alabama, and Wagner, Demo
crat, New York, of the House and
Senate Banking Committees. If they
are prohibited from absorbing service
charges some member banks’ contend,
they will lose accounts to non-member
banks which do absorb them.
- NLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN TllSf SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA
Roosevelt Now 55 >
Is Hale and Well
Washington, Jan. 80.— (AP)
President Roosevelt was 55 years
old today and more than 15,000
well wishers reminded him of it
before noon.
Pronounced in excellent health
by his physician, Captain Ross
Mclntyre, the President went
about his daily task in his cus
tomiry. systematic va>
He will entertain at t!ii.er to
night his “birthday gang”—news
paper men assigned to the Navy
Department when Mr. Roosevelt
was assistant secretary, and others
who travelled with him when he
ran for vice-president in 1920.
At .11:20 p. m., eastern standard
time, the chief executive will speak
by radio to birthday ball audiences
over the country in connection
with the campaign for funds to
combat infantile paralysis.
TRUSTEES DEBATING
COLLEGEAUTONOMY
Authority of President Gra-
Ham at N. C. State To Be
Defined by Board
Raleigh, Jan. 30 (AP)—The
board of trustees of the Greater
University of North Carolina to
day referred decision on athletics
matters at the institution back to .
the executive committee, with pow
er to act, after a long debate on
the question of President Frank
Graham’s powers in athletics mat
ters.
Colonel J. W. Harrelson, of the State
College unit, announced to the board
a contract to become head football
coach at State would be offered Wil
liam (Dock) Newton, now coach at
(Davidson, # but (the -trustees argued
over whether the dean and president
could select a coach not recommend
ed by the athletics council.
Trustees in Dark
Members of the executive group of
the trustees present for the full board
meeting said that they did not know
that they last week approved consoli
dation of the physical education and
inter-collegiate athletics department
into one department at U. C. State
and Chapel Hill, but Charles Whed
(Continued on Page Four.)
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, JANUARY 30, 1937
DEEPENS FLOOD HORROR
Memphis Believed Far Above Flood Height
Air view of downtown Memphis, with the Mississippi at a low stage
According to Edward J. Meeman, editor of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, “Memphis will not seriously be affected by
even the Jiighest possible flood.” Meeman, whose view is held by several other competent observers, say that “only
a small, low section could be affected. Most of the city is so safe that the Red Cross plans to take care of 50,000
refugees in Memphis”. Vast areas, both above and below Memphis, however, are subject to overflow and U. S.
army engineers are bending every effort to strengthen lev eos. This is an air view of Memphis, with the river at low
stage. . ...
LINES .UGH EN
Floor Fights on Major Prob
lems Drawing Near in
General Assembly’s
Sessions
REVENUE BILL IS
PARTLY RE-DRAWN
Vote on Prohibition Refer
endum Set for Tuesday;
Pensions Bill Offered and
Tobacco Compacts Meas
ure Is About Ready for
Vote in House
Raleigh, Jan. 30 (AP)—Repre
sentative Ward, of Craven, intro
duced a bill in the House today
calling for a nine-member State
planning board to be appointed by
the governor to work out pro
grams for the advancement of
North Carolina.
There were 27 House members
present for a five-minute session
and six senators attended a ten
minute meeting.
The House passed a local bill
and senators passed five bills, in
cluding one by Aycock, of War
ren, to fix the salary of a deputy
court clerk.
By W. JOYNES MACFARLAN.
Raleigh, Jan. 30. —(AP) —The legis
lature this week drew lines tighter
on tax, money-spending and lisuor
legislation as it neared floor fights
on major problems and killed tihe
perennial proposal to reapportion the
Continued on Page Five.)
OURWEATHEPMAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy, with rising tem
peratures, probably followed by
occasional rains Sunday, possibly
beginning late tonight.
WEATHER FOR WEEK
Generally fair, mostly mild tem
peratures in Florida: frequent
rainy periods elsewhere; tempera
tures above normal first half of
week, colder latter half.
Utatrafrh
General Motors Actions
Surprising Miss Perkins
Agreed Only Friday to New Peace Conference and
Sloan Cancelled Consent on Return to New York;
Anti-Strike Group Sta rts “Sitdown” Policy
Washington, Jan. 30.—(AP)—Secre
tary Perkins termed an. “extraor
dinary performance” today the Gen
eral Motors Corporation’s withdrawal
from a tentative agreement to hold a
peace conference with representatives
of the striking United Automobile
Workers.
“I had assurances and I gave the as
surances and then the assurances
were withdrawn,” Miss Perkins said
after Alfred Sloan, Jr., General
Motors president, notified her from
New York ne could not carry out the
tentative agreement.
After a long conference with Sloan
in her office yesterday afternoon,
Miss Perkins said she felt the long
deadlock in the strike had been brok
en. She was arranging with John
Lewis, chairman of the committee
for industrial organization, for the
13 Soviets
To Be Shot;
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Saveßadek
Moscow, Jan. 30 (AP) —Karl Radek,
prosecuted as the “blackest” of 17
convicted Trotzykist plotters against
the Soviet Union, today escaped the
firing squad deaths decreed for 13 fel
low conspirators.
The fiery Radek, who declined to
ask clemency and learned at the un
expected leniency of his judges, was
sentenced to 10 years imprisonment
and deprived of his political life for
five years more.
The whisker-fringed editor, once the
most authoritative voice in the Rus
sian press, strode off to prison be
tween two guards with his icy indif
(Continued on Page Four.)
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CHARLESTON FRAUD
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Charleston, S. C., Jan. 30. —(AP)—
A Federal court jury convicted Char
les Robinson, Arthur Happenie and
Samuel Allen today of conspiring to
defraud Frederick Tuttle, retired Cin
cinnati,, Ohio, munitions manufactur
er, of money later transported in in
terstate commerce.
AND VIRGINIA.
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
peace conference when she received
Sloan’s messages.
NON-UNION WORKERS AT
DETROIT START SITDOWN
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 30. —(AP)—Non-
union auto workers who “sat down”
in the Michigan State Capitol for ten
houi’s in protest against “sit-down”
strikes in two General Motors plants,
said today they would return to the
State House Monday if there has been
no “definite and satisfactory solution”
The 25 demonstrators, employees of
the Chevrolet gear and axle plant at
Detroit, occupied folding chairs just
outside Governor Frank Murphy’s of
fice after a conference with him, re
maining until shortly before last mid
night.
The governor, meanwhile, had come
(Continued on Page Four.)
T'AR.HEEL COAST
SURVIVES STORM
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65-Mile Gale Rakes Hatte
ras Island and Tide Rises
To Five Feet
Manteo, Jan. 30 (AP)—Hardy fisher
folk of Hatteras island went to work
today to repair damage, done by a 65-
mile gale and mountaineous tides
which swept the sparsely populated
area yesterday.
Several frame buildings were wash
ed off their foundations by the fury
of the sea. Highways were washed
out in spots and utility lines were
crippled. A freight boat was washed
ashore and its three-member crew re
scued by the Coast Guard.
The tides were described as the
highest in years. The water was re
ported to have riswi five feet in less
than fifteen minutes at Hatteras vil
lage.
FALLS OUT CAR AS
DOOR BLOWS OPEN
Roanoke Rapids, Jan. 30 (AP)—
Bill Rash, of Newton, was being
treated in a hospital here today
for head and leg injuries which
were suffered, he told officers,
when he fell from an automobile
after the door flew open.
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LEVEES CRUMBLING
AS WATERS RISE IN
EONGfLOOD TRAILS
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Over 100,000 Men Work
Frantically To Build
Dykes To Hold Back
Swirling Waters
BREASTWORKS RISE
IN MANY SECTIONS
Tiptonville, Tenn., Scene of
Earth Tremor in Early
Morning; Dramatic De
fense of Little Cairo, 111., at
Ohio - Mississippi Con
flueiice f Being Made
Memphis, Term., Jan. 30
(ALP) —A slight earth tremor
injected a new and fearsome
element into the Mississippi val
ley flood fight today near Tip
tonville, Tenn., where 115,000
men labored with shovel and
sandbags to hold levees against
a destructive “super flood.”
Dyke workers and townspeo
ple reported there was a brief
trembling of the earth about 3
a. m. in the area where a cen
tury ago an earthquake formed
the vast reelfoot lake east of
the river.
A hasty inspection by engi
neers indicated the earthen
walls were not breached.
WEARY STRUGGLE OF MAN
AGAINST RIVER GOES ON
(By The Associated Press.)
A fresh host of danger, earth tre
mors, crumbling levees and rising
waters punctuated the weary strug
gle of man against river along the
1,200-mile flood trail today.
. Brief-lived but terrifying, the earth
tremored ominously in Tiptonville,
Tenn., in the area where a century
ago an earthquake formed the vast
Reelfoot lake, east of the Mississippi
river.
With 60,000,000,000 tons of water
cresting down the Ohio river valley
in search of lower levels, the drama
tic defense of little Cairo, 111., a. river
girt city lying 60 feet below the level
of the flood tide, neared its climax.
Creeping near the top of the 60-foot
concrete sea wall, the water touched
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Goronerls
Arrested In
Wake Forest
Raleigh, Jan< 30.—(AP)—Chief of
Police W. O. Knuckles, of Wake For
est, said today he last night arrested
Elmer Warin, acting coroner of Wake
county, on a charge of drunken driv
ing when Waring went to Wake For
est to investigate two deaths.
The acting coroner was designated
by his father, Coroner L. M. Waring,
Wake coroner, who was ill.
The chief of police said he and
Clarence Smith, special town officer,
arrested Elmer Waring and a com-
Continued on Page Five.)
Flood Crisis
Speeds Work
In Congress
Question of Waning
Constitutional Gov
ernment Raised By
Senator Glass
Washington, Jan. 30.—(AP) —The
flood emergency and problems of long
range fundamental policy accelerated
government activities this week in a
manner reminiscent of the First
Roosevelt month in 1933.
Relief and rehabilitation in the suf
, sering midwest came first. Between
conferences on those immediate needs
the President began to crystallize hie
business and labor programs into
specific legislative proposals.
With at least 200,000 flood refugees
(Cont*r tied on Page Five)