HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
COALSTRIKE
CALLED OFF
West Virginia Operators
Decide To Go Along
With Others In Meet
ing Demands
WALK OUT STARTED
AT LAST MIDNIGHT
400,000 Soft Coal Miners
Quit Work To Enforce De
mands for More Pay and
Shorter Hours; Time and
Half Overtime Chief Ob
stacle to Accord
New York, April 2 (AP)
The one-day soft coal strike was
settled this afternoon by
agreement between the United
Mine Workers and the opera
tors.
About 400,000 miners will
return to work Monday morn
ing. Tomorrow is a mine holi
day.
Terms of the final agreement
for a new wage and hour con
tract were not made public im
mediately.
New York, April 2 (AP) —Settle-
ment of the soft coal strike this aft
ernoon before the end of its first day
was predicted today in unusually well
informed quarters.
Southern West Virginia operators,
the last to agree to the United Mine
workers wage increase demand, had
decided to go along with the other
operators, it was said.
This word came from sources close
to both 'miners and operators just be
fore a meeting of the joint committee
of miners and operators to continue
the negotiations.
STRIKE BECAME REALITY
AT MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT
'By The Associated Press)
The ever-widening strike front oc
cupied a huge new sector today as
400,000 soft coal miners deserted the
pits.
Long considered a possibility, the
strike of the United Mine Workers of
America became an actuality when a
day of grace in negotiations for a new
contract passed without ending in an
agreement.
Expiration of the old contract be
tween the U. M. W. and operators at
midnight March 31 marked the tech
nical start of the strike, but yester
day's mine holiday postponed formal
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GOSSIPISWROMG
ABOUT ODUS MULL
“Shelby Dynasty” Talk Too
Strong to Permit Ap
pointment by Hoey
Dally Dispatch Bnrena,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKEKVILI
Raleigh, April 2—Odus M. Mull,
Shelby lawyer and industrialist, is not
expected to be offered any important
i appointment by Government Clyde R.
Hoey, or if offered a post, to accept
it, according to a number of observ
ers here known to be very close to
Governor Hoey. They are convinced
that the speculation which has been
going on for several weeks with re
gard to the possible appointment of
Mull to various posts is without any
actual foundation and that when all of
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Half State’s Employees
Have Already Received
Back Pay Assembly Gave
Daily Dispatch Bnreae,
?n the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. *3ASKEItVH.L.
Raleigh, April 2. —At least half of
the employes o>f the various State de
partments here have already their
checks for the back pay awarded
them by the 1937 General Assembly,
amounting to 25 per cent of their sal
aries for the months of April, May
and June in 1933, it was learned _ to
day from the office of State Auditor
George Ross Pou, When all of the
various State employes have been
paid the amount withheld from their
salaries for those months, the total
will amount to approximately $420,-
000, The 1935 General Assembly held
that this was nothing more than a cut
MttwvtKQn Haim Htspafrft
L^4^ E Vc.^ IRE SERVICE op
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Model’s Father Held
Joseph Gedeon
After lengthy questioning, Joseph
Gedeon, father of Veronica Gedeon,
beautiful artist’s model, and her
mother, was held by New York police
today in connection with the murder
of the two women and Frank Byrnes,
a roomer in their apartment in the
metropolis.
FDRSeeking
Result From
Textile Meet
President Greets
World Conference
That Involves Wel
fare of Millions
Washington, April 2 (AP) —Presi-
dent Roosevelt expressed confidence
to the world textile conference today
that its discussion of the industry’s
problems would have a “far reaching
effect upon the ultimate prosperity of
the industry and the well being of the
millions whose livelihood depends
upon it.”
The President’s message, a letter to
Harold Butler, conference secretary
general, was read at the opening ses
sion of the international group.
-I’m sorry that I am unable to be
with you in person,” wrote the Presi
dent. “I, therefore, take this means
of extending to you, and through you
the entire textile conference, my most
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EHRINGHAUS TO BE
FEDERAL ATTORNEY
Accepts Appointment as Special As
sistant to Attorney General
in Big Case
Raleigh, April 2.—(AP) —Former
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus said to
day he had accepted appointment as
a special assistant United States at
torney general to prosecute officials
of the Curtiss-Wright airplane inter
ests on charges of flying airplanes out
of this country in violation of a pro
clamation of President Roosevelt.
He said the assignment would not
interfere with his law practice and
residence here, and “in this particular
the employment now accepted differs
from that tendered and declined ear
lier in the week,” which was to pro
secute oil companies in anti-trust
suits now pending in Wisconsin.
in salaries made necessary by the de
pletion of the State’s revenue in 1933,
and refused to regard it as a debt by
the State to its employes. But the 1937
assembly took the view that the State
had only “borrowed” this amount
from its employes and that it was the
duty of the State to pay it back, now
that times were better.
The refunds*now being made to
State employes on the payroll during
April, May and June of 1933 amount
to 25 per cent of the salaries they
were then receiving, and will be paid
whether these are still on the State’s
payroll or not. As a result, several
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
REPUTED U. S. NAZI CHIEF IN COURT
EHfll
?V, J| kJt Jfc ~/•> HI
*
Maj. Julius Hochfelder Fritz Kuhn
Near riot was precipitated in magistrate’s court in New York when
followers of Fritz Kuhn, alleged head of a Nazi storm troop Or- ’
ganization in America, nearly clashed with followers Os Maj. Julius
Hochfelder, counsel fcr the anti-Nazi German-American League for
Culture. Kuhn, shown right, appeared to answer charges of violat-•
ing the U. S. penal code by allegedly failing to incorporate his or-:
ganization or the newspaper backed by it. Hochfelder is at the left.
—Central' Press
New Efforts Made
For Motors Peace
Detroit, Mich., April 2.—(AP)
High officials of General Motors
Corporation and the United Au
tomobile Workers met today to
seek a cure for a new epidemic of
sitdown strikers.
Resumption of strike settlement
negotiations between Walter
Chrysler and John Lewis was de
ferred today until Saturday, while
efforts to settle new disputes in
Employment Fund
Is Railroad Goal
Washington, April 2. — (AP) —In-
formed officials said today railroad
officials and labor negotiators were
trying to draft a broad new system
of unemployment compensation for
the nation’s one million rail work
ers,
The program is being formulated
in connection with a voluntary rail
pension system, officials said. It
would lift the railroads out of the
unemployment benefit system em
bodied in the social security act.
The program Is being studied by
Treasury, retirement board, rail
road and rail union representatives
Authoritative persons said the
proposed unemployment program
probably would be administered by
the retirement board and would be
uniform for all states.
T. J. MURPHY NOW
JALKEDFOR board
Former Greensboro Mayor
May Be Liquor Chair
man; Others Talked
Daily Dispatch Barena.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKBRVJLL
Raleigh, April 2.—The name of T.
J. Murphy, of Greensboro, is looming
larger among those being mentioned
for the appointment as chairman of
,the new State Alcoholic Beverages
Control Board, which Governor Clyde
R. Hoey is expected to name any day
now. A flood of indorsements has
been received by Governor Hoey in
behalf of F. Webb Williams, of Eliz
abeth City, author of the Pasquotank
act of 1935, and generally regarded as
the “daddy” of the liquor stores con
trol system in North Carolina; of W.
D. McMillan, of Wilmington, chair
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YOUTH HANGED FOR
ARKANSAS SLAYING
Fred Adams, 21, Was Convicted of
Killing Night Marshal In
Missouri Hold-Up
Kennett, Mo., April 2.—(AP)—
Fred Adams, 21, of Rector, Ark.,
was hanged here today for the
slaying three years ago of Clar
ence Green, night marshal at
Campbell, Mo., during robbery of
a filling station. The trap was
sprung at 8:05 am., central stand
ard time, and Adams was pro
nounced dead 13 minutes later.
Reiterating his claim of in
nocence, Adams went to his death
with a smile
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 2, 1937
General Motors plants were in
tensified
'William : Knudsen, executive
vice-president of General Motors
Corporation, and Homer Martin,
president of the United Automo
bile Workers, prepared to confer
today in an attempt to quiet spor
adic storms that beat about the
GM-U. A W. A., agreement reach
ed just three weeks ago today
Surplus Os
State Might
Be 7 Million
Means General Fund
Will Heave Plenty
and Highway Will
Keep Its Money
Dally Dispatch Bareaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVII.Li
Raleigh, April 2.—The collection of
more than $11,500,000 in State revenue
in the month of March has caused a
smile that won’t come off to spread
over the faces of Governor Clyde R.
Hoey and Chairman Capus M. Way
nick, of the State Highway and Pub
lic Works Commission, in addition to
the smiles worn by Commissioner of
Revenue A. J. Maxwell and Assistant
Commissioner W. J. Spain, For the
governor and ChairmanWaynick see
in this record the indication of a gen
eral fund surplus of between $6,000,-
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GEDEON CONFESSION
IS GIVEN IN PART
Father and Husband of Two Women
in Triple Slaying Admits Pos
session of Gun
New York, April 2 (AP)— Under
bright lights in the police line-up, sur
rounded by beggars, thieves and gang
sters picked up on suspicion, Joseph
Gedeon admitted today, after a brief
questioning, he possessed a gun illeg
ally and was taken off to felony court
for arraignment without being asked
a single question about the triple
murder on Beekman hill.
Headquarters were jammed with
detectives, some 200 of them, seeking
a glimpse of the 55-year-old upholster
er, who now has been questioned more
than 30 hours about the slaying of his
artist model daughter, Veronica, his
estranged wife, Mary, and
Frank Byrnes, in an apartment on
East 50th street Easter Sunday morn
ing. .
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Saturday.
Roosevelt Says Prices Are
Far Too High On Steel And
Copper And May Stop Funds
Government Troops Open
Land And Sea Attacks On
Spanish Insurgent Base
Government Planes Bom
bard Chief Supply De
pot of General Franco
* at Cordoba
ANOTHER TOWN NOW
NEAR CAPITULATION
Government Militiamen Al
so Press Into Heart of
Rich Mining Section Now
Held by Insurgents; Re
bels Advance, However, in
North Spain
■ (By The Associated Press)
'Spanish government troops laun
ched land and air attacks at insur
gent supply bases today. The insur
gents advanced upon the Basque capi
tal, Bilbao, in,northern Spain.
Government planes bombed Cordoba
chief supply base of General Fran
cisco Franco’s southern army, leaving
many dead and wounded.
A town 16 miles south of Cordoba
was momentarily expected to fall into
hands of government militiamen seek
ing to cut the main highway running
north northwest from Cordoba, and
isolate that provincial capital and
valuable suppliesf ro m forces com
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FRED FULLER SHEDD,
NOTED EDITOR, DIES
Philadelphia Bulletin Writer Suc
cumbs After Operation Re
cently at Pinehurst
Pinehurst, April 2 (AP) —Fred
Fuller Shedd, 66, editor-in-chief of the
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin since
1921, died early today at the Moore
county hospital here after an opera
tion Tuesday.
Shedd entered the hospital March
28, and his wife and son, Dr. William
Shedd, of Staunton, Va., were at his
bedside.
The funeral will be held at the
Shedd home in Philadelphia probably
Sunday.
Oil Blast
Sinks Ship,
Kills One
Norfolk, Va., April 2.—(AP)— An
explosion wrecked and sank the ftulf
Oil Company’s 33-ton fueling tanker,
Gulf Lass, at the dock here today,
killing its master and burning another
seaman.
Thomas Russell, 51, Berkley, mas
ter of the 57-foot boat, was killed as
the blast shot part of the deck house
upward and enveloped the tanker in
flames at 7:30 a. m.
Thrown overboard with Russell
Gideon Sawyer, his face badly burned.
An employee at the Gulf Oil Com
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Railroads Reviving But
Carriers Are Shackled
Good Investment for Immediate Future but Outlook
for Long Pull Is Much Blurred, Babson Warns;
Presents Balance Sheet of Industry
. By ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1937, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
Babson Park, Fla., April 2—Railroad
freight and passenger business is to
day the best since 1930. For the first
time in six years, this gigantic nation
al industry is operating in black ink.
Interest in rail stocks since the New
Year has lifted their value 20 to 25
per cent. Yet, at these higher levels,
carrier shares are only 20 per cent
above their 1933 highs, while indus
trial stocks are nearly double their
peak of four years ago! In view of
the current interest in rail problems,
I have prepared a “balance-sheet of
the industry:
“Current Assets” (favorable short
term factors):
(1) Business Expansion. These pes
simists who did not believe the rails
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Important Discovery
|||pr
rat ■ HHraj
Dr. Harry Goldblatt .
Discovery of the cause of high
blood pressure, a discovery that
may prove the most significant in
modern medical history, has been
made by Dr. Harry Goldblatt,
associate director of the Insti
tute of Pathology of Western
Reserve university in Cleveland.
High blood pressure, or hyper
tension, as medical men call it, is
the world’s chief cause of death.
In experiments, Dr. Goldblatt has
shown that hypertension arises
from an insufficient blood supply
t.o the kidneys.
—Central Press
V
That Is, If Nobody Else
Meddled in Such Con
flict Between Them
BRITAIN IS FEARFUL
Mediterranean Control Is Vital To
Both Nations; Washington
Would Bet on Britain
To Succeed
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, March 2.—ls Britain
and Italy should get in + o a war, and
if they conceivably could he left to
fight it out between themselves ex
clusively, American army and navy
men practically are unanimous that
John Bull would win. • • • •
This is not an officially expressed
judgment.
Our experts are mightily careful, in
discussing the foreign situation, not
to go on record within quotation,
marks. If one is well enough acquaint
ed with a few of them to be trusted
with their confidential opinions they
are very ready to bet on the British
against the Italians, always assum
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could ever come back are amazed by
today's freight and passenger traffic.
There is no miracle to it, however.
General business could not double in
four years without the railroads ulti
mately recovering a good part of their
traffic losses. Consequently, carload
ings are now running 60 per cent
above early spring of 1933, and 20
per cent above last April.
(2) Capital Goods Boom. Ship
ments of important freight items
such as coal, ore, and miscellaneous
goods depend largely upon the volume
of business in the capital goods in
dustries. The latter, after lagging for
three years of the recovery, have
sprung vigorously to life. Poor crops
would offset these gains, but the first
normal farm year since 1932 now
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ITS GOVERNMENT
MAY TURN CREDITS
MOTHER FIELDS
Consumer Goods Industries
May Feel Warmth of
Stimulus From Fed
eral Money
AVOIDS OPINION ON
SITDOWN STRIKERS
Senate Also Sidesteps Ex
pression on Situation for
Present; Debate Continues
In Senate and House, How-,
ever; Court Opponents
Still Firing
Vote Inquiry Os
Sitdown Strikes
Washington, April 2.— (AP) —The
rules committee voted today for a
House investigation of sitdown
strikes.
The action came after Chairman
<olConnor, Democrat; New York,
had conferred with President
Roosevelt. O’Connor said while he
had mentioned the proposed in
quiry, he did not go to the White
House primarily to do so.
The House may! have a chance to
vote on the resolution next week.
Washington, April 2.—(AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt revealed today a new
official attitude toward government
work projects involving different
types of structures from those here
to fore built- ~. ( •
The President told a press confer
ence prices of durable goods, such as
steel and copper, were far too high.
He added the time had come for the
government to discourage Federal ex
penditures for such goods and to en
courage expenditures for consumer
goods. .
The President’s lengthy informal
statement on the present trend of
prices was prompted by d. query as to
his position on future public works
expenditures.
He said he told the five White
House Democrats who called on him
yesterday to discuss the PWA, that
future Federal public works expen
ditures should not go for steel bridges
and other such permanent structures,
but for channel dredging and earthen
dams. • •
' This change, he added, would ere
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Big Shiloh
Tabernacle
Is Burned
Zion, DL, April 2.—(AP)—Fire
destroyed the Shiloh Tabernacle
and radio station WCBD today,
and Wilbur Vollva, overseen of the
Christian Apostolic Church, said,
“I haven’t any doubt it was In
tentionally started.”
The overseer estimated the total
loss at between $600,000 and $700,-
000. He said the tabernacle, built
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12 Dead In
Commuter’s
Train Crash
One Heavily Loaded
Car Plows Into One
Ahead On Viaduct
In London
London, April 2 fAP> —A crowded
rush hour commuting train plowed irt
to the rear of another on a 60-foot
viaduct between Battersea park and
Victoria Station today, killing 12
persons, injuring 40 and sending daz
ed survivors teetering like tight-rope
walkers along the narrow track way.
Even a worse tragedy was averted
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