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fuBNDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL JcAROLINA I year SINKERS HUE ORDERED FROM Ml PUNTS Geysers Open In Cairo As Waters Rise Up In Citv “SAND BOILS” ARE OPENED INTO HEART OF BESEIGED CITY Emergency Squads Rush to Danger Points To Plug Holes Speedily With Sand Bags defenders prepare TO LEAVE THE CITY Boats Are Available To Carry Them Away If Mighty Floods Crash Through Levees; A1 1 Along Lower Mississippi Waves Stir New Fears ( By The Associted Press) Dread “sand boils” bursting up in the heart of beleaguered Cairo, 111, forwarned of deeply undermined barriers guarding the flood-seiged city today. Emergency squads rushed to the danger spot?, dumping hundreds of sandbags on the miniature geysers, boiling through the thin strata of pro ective surface over the city’s founda tion of sand. The eruptions, Major R. D. Burdick, U. S. Army Engineers, explained, sprang from the terrific pressure of the Ohio river waters, slowly eating their way beneath the man’s guard ed levees and seeping under the city to make it in time a virtual “floating island.” In the mounting emergency, 40 ex tra coast guard boats arrived to eva cuate the city's army of 6,000 defend ers if the river breaks through. All along the lower Mississippi be low Cairo the pounding assault of waves stirred fresh apprehension among army engineers and the 120,000 pick and shovel workers toiling day and night to save the cotton kingdom from the $500,000,000 scourge that has already blighted the Ohio river valley in the north. The fight along the Arkansas side of the Mississippi became hourly more desperate today. Lewis Goes Into Flint Strike Area Washington, Feb. 2 (AP) —John L. I,owis. whose movement for industrial organization of labor has met a cru cial test in the General Motors strike, decided today on a personal trip into the strike zone. His office said he would h ave here at 4:40 p. m. for De troit, having decided to go after study ln k reports of rioting yesterday in the ■trikr. front at Flint, Mich. Already at Flint was James Dewey, (Continued on Page Three.) McKeeChild Labor Bill Is bivenChance Defeat of Federal Amendment Held lo Clear Way for State Measure V Daily DiopHtch Bureau, In <he Sir Walter Hotel. I'.y HENTRY AVERILL. , ' i'Wh. Feb. 2.—The Federal child amendment is dead as an issue !" ' session of the North Carolina ! i din!. The House disposed of it . d'terday, voting 58 to 47 to lay upon “ ,:| hle a resolution ratifying tfie '' ,n ‘i drnent. It would require a two fllu| majority to take the resolution 'l'm the table and no one sees the ‘ possibility of such action. ' v,, n the clincher of reconsideration tabling the motion to reconsider dn h ut on with the aid of a very dub (Continued on Page Four.) lUmtiteramt Bathi leased wire service of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS House’s Committee Orders Substitute For Liquor Bills Sub-Group Told To Bring i n Measure Tomorrow To Displace Referendum and Liquor Manufacture Bills; Big New Commission In Raleigh Is Opposed Raleigh, Feb. 2 (AP) —The House Judiciary Committee No. 1, work ng on liquor legislation, ordered a sub committee today to prepare “another bill” and have it ready for study to morrow. The sub-group, Representatives Bryant, of Durham; Rouse, of Lenoir; and Gardner, of Cleveland, were told to take the Hutchins measure for a Statewide prohibition referendum and the Hanford bill to provide for State manufacture and sale of liquor to county-election-approved\ stores, and draft a substitute. Gardner had proposed favorable re Lindberghs Given Welcome By Rome Rome, Feb. 2.—(AP)—Excited Ro mans gave the Charles A. Lindberghs a “hide and seek” welcome today at the end of a leisurely flight from Pisa, second stage of the birthday air jaunt that seemingly leads to Egypt. In high spirits, they pursued the famous couple into a hangar, around the wings and props of planes, and finally into an airport office. The Lindberghs reached Littorio air port at 4:58 p. m. Colonel, and Mrs. Charles A. Lind bergh landed at Vittorio airport late today. It was about 10:58 eastern standard time. MILL TO GET IS. EVANS’POST 1 State Unemployment Ser vice Job Is To Go To Concord Editor Dally Dlapntrh Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Feb. 2—'William M. Sherrill of Concord, editor of the Concord Tribune, is expected to accept the ap pointment which has already been of fered to him by Governor Clyde R. Hoey and the Unemployment Compen sation Commission as director of the State Unemployment Service, although no official announcement of Sherrill’s appointment has been made as yet. But Sherrill is here today conferring with Governor Hoey and Chairman Charles G. Powell of the Unemploy ment Compensation Commission, and before the day is over Sherrill is ex pected to have accepted the post. He will succeed ,MraV. Mae Thompson Evans who has just resigned to ac cept a post with the National Demo cratic Committee as assistant direc tor of the women’s division. Although the appointment of Sher rill as director of the unemployment service is not occasioning much sur (Continued on Page Three.) SEEiGTOILD RELIEF BILL -DOWN t Administration Leaders In Senate Fighting Off Free Spenders Washington, Feb. 2.—(AP)—Admin istration leaders strove in the Senate today to keep the deficiency relief ap propriation at $790,000,000, and get en actment before the flood-pressed WPA spends its last dollar. They were Ibeset from two sides. Ad vocates of the retrenchment opposed the attempt to restore the $15,000,000 for resettlement work, which the ap propriations committee had clipped off. . ... While a vote was slated to settle .-that question, the Democratic com mand contemplated use of parliamen (Continued on Page Five) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH HENDERSON, N. C„ TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY ;2, 1937 ( port of the Hutchins bill, but Lumpkin of Franklin moved for further 'study and his motion prevailed. Representative Senteile, of Bruns wick, said he was opposed to creation of any new big commission in Raleigh to handle liquor matters, saying coun t.es should handle them. House Judiciary Committee No. 2 favorably reported HB 145 to create a commission to regulate the cleaning, dyeing and pressing business in the State, It also recommended pass age of HB 105 by Horton, of Martin, to extend time for tax sales in Martin and others. PAUSE FOR SIGHT-SEEING A WHILE IN FAMOUS PISA Pisa, Italy, Feb. 2. —(AP) —The fly ing Lindberghs paused for sight-see ing in famous Pisa today after a roundabout trip to avoid a “terrific storm” over the Italian Alps. The manager of the Hotel Vittoria, where Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh re gistered under their own names, quot ed the American flier as saying they landed at Pisa last night when their gasoline supply ran low during the long detour which they took to avoid the storm in the mountains. New Highway Bill To Oust Presentßody Measure Expected Daily To Mean Their Walking Pa pers; Waynick Stays Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. O. BASKER.VILL Raleigh, Feb. 2—The bill being drawn by the joint committees on roads as a substitute bill for the one introduced by Senator J. C. Pittman, of Lee county, is rapidly nearing com pletion and should be introduced al most any day now, according to re ports here today. The bill will for a sweeping reorganization of the State Highway and Public Works Commission on a district basis and probably call for a commission com posed of ten members and a chairman from the State at large. It is general ly agreed that this committee substi tute will be the “adminisration bill” and have the full support of Gover nor Clyde R. Hoey. It is known that the chairman of the roads committees —Representative Con C. Johnston in the House and Senator S. Gilmer Spar ger in the Senate—have held several conferences recently with Governor Hoey and that the bill when complet ed will pretty generally conform with the governor’s, ideas. Means “Walking Papers” The opinion in most political circles here is that the bill, if enacted will mean walking papers for most, if not all of the members of the present high way commission, with the exception of Chairman Capus M. Waynick. A Continued on Page Five.) OtJRWtfniEPMAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Wed nesday; slightly colder tonight. WAITING, HOPEFULLY, FOR SIGHT OF LOST ONES IWffF mSiIHI'P Ti| !■ f*!?:'! :: I Friends and relatives held from restricted area Standing at the edge of the flood line in Louisville, Ky., friends and relatives of lost ones wait anxious- “Too Moderate” ? General Hayashi Gen. Senjjuro Hayashi, ministei of war in two recent Japanese cabinets, was the second to ac cept the call of Emperor Hirohito to attempt formation of a new cabinet to replace that of Premier Koki Horota, forced out Jan. 21 by military-Fascist factions. It was believed, however, that Gen eral Hayashi would be considered “too moderate” by the military- Fascist group. —Central Presr Legislature Votes More High Judges Two New Justices on Supreme Bench Ap proved; Advertis ing Fund Asked Raleigh, Feb. 2, —(AP) —The legis lature voted the addition of two as sociate justices of the State Supreme Court today. The senators quickly passed the court expansion bill, already approved by the House. The court, after July 1, will consist of the chief justice and six associate justices under a consti tutional amendment approved in No vember after a number of defeats. Committee activity held the center of the stage throughout the day. Senator Gold, of Guilford, introduc ed a blind aid bill to conform to Fed eral social security requirements. It would provide an annual State ap propriation of $85,180, with counties to match State funds and with the Federal government contributing to the aid of the blind. Representative Siler, of Chatham, offered a bill similar to one already one introduced in the Senate to re lieve owners of cars from liability for (Continued on Page Three.) Hispatrb CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. I ly as flood victims are brought from a ravaged I district. River Breaking Through Dykes Near Memphis But Damage Is Not Serious Levee Workers Confident of Ultimate Victory Along “Main Line” In Flood Area TIPTONVILLE, TENN., MAY BE ISOLATED Fire Adds Destruction In Paducah, Ky., and Dyke Workers at Hickman, Ky., Are Encouraged As Winds Die Down and Waters Be come Calm Again Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 2 (AP) —Mis- sissippi flood waters, churned up by a cold wind throughout the night broke through the Bessie Landing Neck dykes for the fourth time today. Levee workers, confident of ulti mate victory along the “main line, yielded additional acres to inundation. A crevasse occurred near two miles above the Cates Landing mud box and threatened much of Lake county. Engineers said Tiptonville, fTenn., might be entirely isolated. Engineers on the scene said there was still no fear the river would cut a new channel through nearby reels foot lake, unless there was a break in the levee above the lake. Fire added its destruction to that of the flood in Paducah, Ky. A grain elevator, hosiery mill and two resi dences were damaged by flames. Re lief workers estimated the damage -at $75,000. At Hickman, Ky., an army in dun garrees, fighting to keep the river’s chilly hand from grasping 100 square jniles of western Tennessee took on new courage when the winds subsid ed and the waters calmed. FLOOOIsICTS JO BEREOCCUPIED City Dwellers Won’t Move Permanently from “River bed” Houses By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. 2.—Just as fast as the water runs off, flood sufferers alongside the Mississippi and its tri butaries will hasten to move back in to the erstwhile inundated areas. Such is the information available at the Washington headquarters’ of all relief agencies, from their field repre sentatives. Nowhere does there seem to be the slightest inclination to abandon their domicles so hazardously situated. Tq the contrary, force has had to be em ployed in many instances to evacuate (Continued on Page Three). PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Roosevelt Admits Foods “Duty Free” Washington, Feb. 2. (AP) President Roosevelt proclaimed an “emergency” today to permit the importation, duty free, of foreign donations of food, clothing, medi cal and other supplies for flood sufferers. Officials said several foreign countries, particularly Canada, had sent and were sending* relief sup plies to the flood zones. The President acted under a pro vision of the 1930 tariff law. STATE EXPOmN Conservation Committees Also Hear of State Ad vertising Proposal Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Feb. 2—Two special com mittees of the State Board of Con servation and Development met here this morning with the Senate and {House committees on conservation and development to discuss Governor Hoey’s proposal for a nationwide North Carolina exposition, the exten sive campaign for advertising North Carolina throughout the country and the proposal that North Carolina par ticipate in the New York World’s Fair in New York City in 1939. The committee from the conserva tion board which presented the na tional exposition and State advertis ing proposals to the legislative com mittees was composed of J. L. Horne, Jr., Rocky Mount; J. P. Rawley, of High Point, and E. S. Askew of Merry Rill. The committee on the proposal for State participation in the New York World’s Fair in 1939 was composed of J. Q. Gilkey of Marion, Santford Martin, of Winston-Salem, and Mr. Horne. , Senator L. B. Gravely, of Rocky Mount, is chairman of the Senate Committee on Conservation and Deve lopment, and Representative F. Webb Williams, of Elizabeth City, is chair man of the House committee. Nothing definite was decided as a result of the meeting, but it was evi dent that the two legislative commit tees were much interested in the data presented by the committees from the conservation board and especially in the plans for the advertising cam paign for the State. The Department of Conservation and Development is expected to ask for an appropriation of between $200,000 and $250,000 a year to be used in advertising the State, in seeking new industries to lo cate here and in a nationwide and even worldwide publicity campaign to (Continued on Page Three.) r| O PAGES 11 0 TODAY. FIVE CENTS COPY FLINT,JUDGE ALSO TO STOP PICKETING Sit-Downers Given 24 Hours in Which To Evacuate Factories at Flint, Michigan REFUSES MANDATE OF 1936 AS GUIDE Guardsmen, 1,200 Strong, Patrol Streets of Motors City and Disperse Pickets; Chevrolet Plants Protect ed by Soldiers’ Rings of Steel Flint, Mich", Feb. 2 (AP) Circuit Judge Hall V. Gadola granted an injunction this aft ernoon restraining strikers from occupying two General Motors plants here. The injunction also restrained the strikers from picketing and ordered the men to evacuate the plants within 24 hours. After citing numerous Michigan court decisions, mostly regarding the legality of picketing and on property rights, Judge Gadola said: “This court cannot take the man date of 1936 as a guide, but must follow the law of the states. “We, therefore, must grant the re lief asked by the plaintiffs.” PICKETS ARE DISPERSED B YNATTONAL GUARDSMEN Flint, Mich., Feb. 2. —(AP)—Nation- al Guardsmen, enforcing order in the strike zone here, seized the United Au tomobile Workers’ sound truck this afternoon, dispersed two score or more pickets, and set up machine guns in the middle of the street in front of Chevrolet plant No. 4. More than 1,200 National Guards men controlled the “trouble spot” of General Motors strikes today with a ring of steel bayonets and guns drawn taut that food-bearers were forbidden to pass the military lines. Inside the troop patrol, which stret ched about an 80-acre area, contain ing the huge Chevrolet Motor Com pany plants, were several hundred members of the United Automobile Workers of America, after a series of disorders last night started Flint’s third sit-down strike, occupying the “key” motor assembly plant. “When the men get hungrq they can go out and eat,” Colenel Joseph Lewis, National Guard commander said. “Nobody is keeping them from going out.” Judge Paul Gadola, who heard four hours of argument yeßterday after (Continued on Page Three.) Liberals In House Offer Peace Plan Restrictions on Ame ricans and Ship ments Would Keep U. S. Out of Wars Washington, Feb. 2—(AP) —A group of 31 House members proposed today immediate enactment of a cash and carry neutrality plan, with partial na tionalization of the munitions indus try and legislation to take the profits out of war. The 31, chiefly • members of the House liberal bloc, said in a statement that “war or peace at this time is the most important subject before the American people.” Adequate neutrality legislation, they said, should include: A mandatory embargo on all ma terials that might be used for war purposes, applicable both to belliger ent nations and to factions engaged in civil strife. A mandatory embargo on loans and credits to all belligerents. Equal application of embargoes to all parts in conflict. A cash and carry policy for trading in non-war materials with combatants Prohibitions of travel of American citizens in war zones or on vessels of belligerent nations, with American ships forbidden to enter war zones.
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