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"HENDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA | twenty-fourth year t «g , WßSWß‘gstf r MURPHY * # * * * * * * liquor IYS CALLING FOR further hearings ON COUNTY OPTION Proposal of Death Penalty for Kidnaping Is Sent Back to Committee of Senate BAN ON DIVERTING ROAD FUNDS ASKED Bill In House Would Appro priate $150,000 for Promo tion of Public Library Fa cilities in State; Divorced Women Could Get Maiden Names Back Raleigh, Feb. 4 (AP) —The Senate sent the county option liquor bill to a committee today and debated and re-referred a proposed constitutional amend ment to authorize the death penalty for kidnaping, while the House killed a bill to prohibit fireworks in the State. Tho Senate Judiciary Committee No. 1 got the whisky measure, passed by the House with unprecedented speed yesterday, and Chairman Gold, of Guilford, said it would meet tomor row He said Cale K. Burgess, a dry leader, had requested another public hearing. The lengthy tobacco compact meas ure was not ready for the .perfunctory ratification ceremony, but profitably will become law tomorrow. The gov ernor has no veto power, and it will become law when signed in routine course by the presiding officers of the Senate and House. Senator Ballentine, of Wake, intro duced a measure proposing a consti tutional amendment to prohibit high way fund diversions. Representative Rouse, of Lenior, sent in a bill to provide an annual appropriation of $150,000 to be used in production of public library fa cilities in the State. Representative Mcßryde, of Cum berland, offered bills to make it un (Continued on Page Three.) Husband of Girl Only 12 Accused On Rape Charges Watertown, N. Y., Feb. 4. —(AP) — Stanley Backus, 19), factory worker husband of 12-year-old Leona Eliza beth Backus, wos formally charged with rape today while legislators at Albany discussed new laws to curb “cradle marriages.” District Attorney Carl Hines pre sented a warrant to City Judge Cran dall Phillips charging Backus, a $26- a-week core painter in an airplane plant, with rape, second degree. Hines said the warrant charged the offense was committed last Decem ber 20 at Camelia. Judge Phillips ordered Backus back to jail, meanwhile, in lieu of a SI,OOO bail. Backus’ child wife was in Mercy hospital in custody of the Jefferson county children’s agent, where she was taken for a physical examination decided upon, Hines said, after she told authorities she expected to be come a mother. Mrs. Cohoon Tells About “Kidnaping” Husband’s Brother in-Law, Wi 11 ia m Anderson Held Un tie r $2,500 Bond Chapel Hill, Ftb. 4.— (AP)—William Anderson, Elizabeth City radio dealer, held for superior court on ai charge of kidnaping his brother-in •'Wr wife, Mrs. Louise Cohoon, also ' lf Elizabeth City, after a hearing here f| 'lay before Recorder James Phipps, lbs bond wa s fixed at $2,900, which he posted. M's. Cohoon, blonde, 23-year-old (Continued on Page Three.) Hruiirrann Bill Given Senate Committee Where the Onrushing Ohio Meets the Mississippi Tides Os Battle Favorable . ' -v.:- ■ ■ " Against Peak Os Big Flood Windsor Tires of Monotonous Life Vienna, Feb. 4.—(AP) —The gay Austrian capital, emboldened by re ports Edward of Windsor was tir ing of his seclusion, sought today to draw the self-exiled former Bri tish ruler into the whirl of Vien na’s social season. “Enzosfeld can be dull, and some times I wish there were something snappy to do,” Windsor confided to a fellow guest at a music hall at the British legation last night, referring to his refuge at the Baron Rothschild’s chateau. He indicated, however, he did not plan to change his routine until legal formalities have made Mrs. Wallis Simpson’s divorce absolute, and she can join him somewhere for the wedding he gave up the British throne to gain. COMPACTS APPEAr BILL ISPREPARED Sub-Committee To Work Out Method of Security Small Growers In the Sir Walter Hotel. Daily Dispatch Bureau, By J. C. BASKEKVILL Raleigh, Feb. 4.—A supplementary bill to the tobacco compacts bill, which became law when it was pass ed by the Senate unanimously on all three readings Wednesday, is now be ing drawn by a special sub-committee of the Senate Agriculture Committee. This supplementary faill will set up machinery for hearing the appeals of farmers who may be dissatisfied with the quotas assigned to them under the main compacts bill and will take the place of several amendments offered to the main compacts bill and reject ed in both the House and Senate, Continued on Page Five.) (MJRWOTIIjjgMAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight and Fri day; occasional rain and warmer tonight, ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER SEEKS TRUCE IN MOTORS STRIKE This excellent air view of Cairo, 111., shows how the out the torrent. In many parts of the city the Ohio and Mississippi rivers meet at that point. water outside the dike is 20 feet above the level The photo, taken from an American Airlines plane, of the streets inside. Only persons necessary to shows the Kentucky shore in the background. protect the dike were permitted to remain within Cairo’s 64-foot protective dike has been holding the city. Air view of the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers But War To Save Lower Mississippi Valley from Untold . Disaster Not Ytt Won DANGER LURKS FOR EVERY RIVER BEND Cairo’s Struggle Is Far From Ended, But Water Is Three Feet Below Flood De fenses; Sand Boils Quiet Down and Engineers Are Cheerful (By The Associated Press) Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 4 —- (AP) —Levee defenders, relief workers and rehabilitation crews maneuvered today to meet shifting levels of the mid continent flood, weary but con fident the worst was over. The human toll stood at 368 dead and nearly 1,000,000 homeless. The Ohio remained stationary over night at Cairo, 111., lapping above the bulwarks at 59.6 feet. Eastward the waters fell. Southward they rose for a supreme test o fthe Mississippi val ley’s dyke system. Major General Edward Markham, chief of army engineers, and a mem ber of President Roosevelt’s flood re lief commission said: “Cairo is safe behind its seawall.” Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 4.—(AP)—The tide of battle against record flood crests ran favorably along the upper Mississippi today, but the war to save the valley from untold disaster was not yet won. Army engineers directing the na tion’s greatest anti-flood offensive re mained confident of victory, tout (Continued on Page Three.) Youth Says Was Forced To Kidnap Kansas City, Feb. 4 (AP) A gaunt young Ozark farm hand, charg ed with first degree murder in the kidnap-killing of Dr. J. C. B. Davis, insisted today the 67-year-old country physician was abducted and slain by a mysterious hill country acquain tance he dubbed “Night hawk.” . The slim 20-year-old prisoner, Rob (ConLiiiued on Page Eight.) PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY (AFTERNOON, JFEBRUARY 4 1937 Daily Hot Over Naming New Judges Dnilf Dispatch Bureau, By J. C. 'dASKEiIVILL Raleigh, Feb. 4. —The battle was on already, but action of the Senate Tuesday in passing the bill adding two members to the State Supreme Court added to the intensity of the al ready heated campaign. The upper body’s approval completed legislative action and put the selection of jusr tices squarely up to Governor Clyde R. Hoey. Os course, campaigns for judges’ (Continued on Page Two). Lindbergh Visits General Balbo and Talks Sea Flights Rome, Feb. 4 (AP)—Charles A. Lindbergh and General Italo Bal bo swapped tales of trans-Atlantic flying today—Lindbergh’s 35th birthday. The Rome to Chicago airman, who expects the Lindberghs to visit him in Tripoli soon, flew from North Africa to attend a wed ding. Shortly after his arrival he sent an officer to ask Lindbergh to visit him at his hotel. A half hour of cordial conversation fol lowed. When they finished their meet ing, Balbo smilingly insisted that they both be photographed. Bal bo will return probably tomorrow to his post as governor of the Italian colony of Lybia to make ready for bis distinguished guests. GOVERNMENT CANT FORCE LABOR,PEACE Insoluble Impasse Would Result If Either Side Refused To Go By CHARLES P, STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. 4.—Even if Labor Secretary Frances Perkins and Sena tor Rdtiert M. La Follette get all the legislation they desire it is not alto gether apparent ihow either Mme; Perkins or the Wisconsin solon will Continued on Page Five.) Dispatch as They Are Against Three- Year Blanket Extension of Authority to the President PASSAGE IN WEEK REGARDED CERTAIN Senate in Recess After Pass ing $950,000,000 Relief- Deficiency Bill, Which Bailey Sought Unsuccess fully To Amend; Money jßill Passes Washington, Feb. 4 (AP) — House leaders studying propos ed extension, of the reciprocal tariff law, heard the adminis tration trade policy closely link ed today with neutrality legis lation. Bernard Baruch, financier and war time chairman of the War Industries Board, told the House Military Af fairs Committee belligerents . should rot be barred from buying commodi ties, other than munitions, on a “cash and carry’' basis. He said a ban on sales of all com modities might influence nations to make trade agreements with coun tries other than the United States in order to be assured of non-military war supplies. Consideration of extension of the reciprocal tariff law Yor three years was the principal business on the , House calendar. Some Democrats joined the militant Republican minor ity in the House to oppose extension. Washington, Feb. 4. —(AP) —Some Democrats joined the militant Repub minority in the House today to oppose extension of the reciprocal tariff law three years from June 12, the expira tion date. Despite some objections, approval ; (Continued on Page Two) Suspect Held In Mattson Slaying Suicides In Jail Auburn, Wash., Feb. 4.—(AP)— John Johnson, 40, held since Fri day for investigation in connec tion in connection with the Char les Mattson kidnap-slaying, was found strangled to death in his city jail cell today. Chief of Police Ed Norris found the body lying on the ceil floor, a belt attached to the cot and around the man’s neck. Other pri soners, in a “bull pen” nearby, said they heard no struggling or outcries during the night. Night Jailor Charles Ludwig said he talked to Johnson about 11 o'clock last night and the man appeared despondent, even after Ludwig said he might be released today. Johnson, denying all knowledge of the affair, was arrested in the hobo jungles here Friday after some of the 100 other transsients complained to police the man act ed queerly and they thought he might know something about the Tacoma kidnaping. Liquor Issue Is Now Up For State Senate Action Statewide County Option Pi an Passes House After Re ferendum Is Defeated; St ate Would Get Its Fingers Into the Pie In D ividing Control Dally Dispatch Bareaa, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Feb. 4—Whether or not North Carolina will set up a combi nation State and county system of li quor control and liquor stores under a county option plan, is now up to the Senate, as a result of the action by the House Wednesday in definitely rejecting the Hutchins Statewide li quor referendum bill and adopting the committee substitute. The belief in most circles here which have been watching the liquor control fight with in the General Assembly is that the Senate will also adopt the committee PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON myn nniymo n/VITO EXCEPT SUNDAY. rlVr!j LENTS COPY Final Agreement Is Not Now Issue 4 With Negotiators Rules on “Sit-Down” I— r * ■**•**• .•. •••: v ■ jhh r y A 1 Judge Paul Gadola of the Gene see county (Flint, Mich.) circuit court, ruled on legality of “sit down”< strikers in two' Fisher Body Co. plants of Gene .-ai Mo tors in Flint Judge Gadola sum moned Homer Martin vid two other leaders of the United Auto mobile Workers to court to show cause why he should not grant an Injunction against the “sit-down ers”, who have held the plants f • \ since Dec. 30. Rebels Open Campaign to Take Malaga Spanish Insurgents and Loyal Troops Clash Along Medi terranean Coast Gibraltar, Feb. 4.—(AP)—Fascists and Socialists, contending for the oc cupation of the southern seaport of Malaga, clashed today along the Medi terranean coast. DRIVE BY INSURGENTS ON MALAGA PORT IS STARTED (By The Associated Press.) Spain’s insurgent legions—on land, water and in the air—started their “big push” against Malaga today in an effort to cut off that strategic Mediterranean shipping center from the remainder of government-held Spain. A comparative hush fell over Mad rid’s battlefront, 266 miles to the north, while practically every avail able Fascist resource of men and ma chine was shoved toward Malaga. The insurgent naval fleet steamed from Algeciras in the direction of (Continued on Page Five) substitute, with the result that any county in the State which wants li quor stores may call an election and if the proposal is approved,' open one or more liquor stores. The committee substitute presented to the House by Chairman Sam Blount of Beaufort county, and which was written by a committee headed by Representative Victor S. Bryant, of Durham, is essentially a compromise bill and was worked out as a result of numerous conferences between the advocates of both State and county Continued on Page Five.) 8 PAGES TODAY Third Meeting of Agents of Both Sides Is Convened by Governor of Michigan NEW OFFICIALS ON BOTH SIDES ASSIST Chambers Where Parley Is In Progress Are Closely Guarded by Police; Third Meeting Summoned “At Wish of the President of United States Detroit Mich.. Feb. 4 (AP) —The conference seeking a truce basis in the General Mot ors automotive strike recessed for luncheon at 2 p. m. (eastern time) today. William Knudson executive vice-president of Gen eral Motors, first to emerge from the chamber, announced the meetings were not over, “we have just recessed for lunch.” This action followed the statement of Roy Brownell, G-M attorney here, which said: “I believe the union will ask its men to leave the plants here peaceably,” and announced he would defer filing a petition for a writ re quiring their ejection. His announcement came after Po lice Chief James Wills resumed en listment of several hundred “reserve police” to remain on call for a pos sible emergency. Brownell said the writ would not be filed pending the outcome of the strike’s peace conferences in progress here. Previously he had said the writ would be filed between 2 and 3 o’clock this afternoon. PERMANENT SETTLEMENT IS NOT AIM AT PRESENT Detroit, Mich., Feb. 4. —(AP)—Gov- ernor Frank Murphy resumed his ef forts to find a basis for solution of the paralyzing General Motors strikes today as he again called to the con (Continued on Page Three.) Alabama Student Arrested Accused In Extortion Mail Washington, Feb. 4.—(AP)—Ji, Edgar Hoover, said today Federal agents had arrested Sidney Rey nolds, 19, Alabama University sophomore, on charges of at tempting to extort $7,000 from Mrs. H. D. Warner, wife of a Tuscaloosa, Ala., paper manu facture. Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said Reynolds was arrested by Justice Department agents and local po lice officers early today, and he had admitted writing three letters threateneing harm to Mrs. War ner. The first letter was mailed last Wednesday at Tuscaloosa, Hoover said, and demanded $6,000. A sec ond letter was mailed last Sat urday and demanded $7,000, the director said, and yesterday Mrs. Warner received third letter specifying the money was to be paid a messenger. Sea Strikers Wait Orders For Old Job Voting Favorable to Ending of We s t Coast Seamen’s 90- Day Walkout San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 4.—(AP)— Nearly 40,000 Pacific coast maritime strikers, considering-, their record breaking walk-out at an end, awaited a back-to-work summons today and the joint strike committee expected to meet at noon, presumably to issue the call. t * q With the exception of voting by longshoremen in the northwest, where severe weather delayed distribution of ballots, the seven unions had com- Continued on Page Two.)
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