HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
LEWIS SAYS FORD IHTIHIDATING WORKERS
House Refuses Probe Os Un-American Activities
INVESTIGATION OF
PROPAGANDA MOVES
IS LAID ON SHELF
Dickstein Resolution Char
ges Foreign Spies Seek
ing To Undermine
Government
ROBINSON THINKS
NEW TAX UNLIKELY
Dies Urges Passage of Or
der for Deportation of
Criminal Aliens; Huge Fi
nance Program To Help
Low Income Classes To
Pass In House
Washington, April B. (AP) — The
House refused today to order a con
gressional investigation of un-Ameri
can activities and propaganda.
With the so-called liberal bloc as
the spearhead of the opposition, the
House, on a voic vote, agreed over
whelmingly to sidetrack an inves
tigation resolution.
Meanwhile, senators, studying civil
liberties violations, said they would
begin an inquiry next Wednesday in
to bloody labor disputes in Kentucky’s
Harlan county coal fields.
This announcement by the civil li
berties group was made a short time
before the House undertook consider
ation of requests for initiating various
investigations.
Chief of these would be an inquiry
into sitdown strikes, proposed by Re
presentative Dies, Democrat, Texas.
First on the House docket, however,
was a resolution by Representative
Dickstein, providing for a study of
whether foreign nations were using
spies and propaganda to undermine
the American government.
Senate Majority Leader Robinson
predicted relief funds for next year
might he curtailed to provide for oth
er government activities without ad
ditional taxes. Robinson told report
ers in an interview he hoped to avoid
YOor.t’nupd on Paer** Throp),
CHARLOTTESVILLE’S
DOCTOR SENTENCED
Dentist Given 16 Years for Chloro
form Death of Pretty High
School Student
Charlottesville, Va., April B.—(AP)
—Judge Lemuel Smith, of Albemarle
circuit court, today sentenced Dr.
Richard G. Miller, middle-aged den
tist, to 16 years in prison on his plea
of second degree murder in the
chloroform death of pretty Cleo
Sprouse, an 18-year-old high school
girt.
There was no demonstration in the
crowded court room as the judge pro
nounced sentence. Judge Smith as
serted, in fixing the sentence at 16
years, he took into consideration the
age of the defendant, 53, and his
education.
Dr. ?vliller, head bowed, wept silent
ly as sentence was pronounced. His
daughter, Lucy, sat 'beside him, while
a short distance away his wife listen
ed *o the sentence with her eyes
closed.
The mother and relatives of the
dead girl were also present and show
ed no outward emotion as the sen
tence was pronounced.
17Killers
Leave Jail
In Florida
Jacksonville, Fla., April 8 (AP)
Seventeen prisoners, including five
fillers, sawed their way out of the
Duval county jail early today and
sought hideouts from police patrols
quickly mobilized.
Chief Deputy Sheriff R. L. Bohon
s; *id one, Alvin Baker, was quickly re
captured.
I think we have James Tyler lo
cated," Bohon added.
Baker and Tyler were the confess
' d slayers of Mr. and Mrs. John Sur
*(r‘cy in an unsuccessful hold-up
last Thanksgiving day.
Another of the escaped Negroes re
ouned to the jail voluntarily, Bohon
Si J ld - This man, named McKinzie, told
0 ‘Cers he "woke up and saw an open
window, so he went to visit his wife.”
hree other killers were among
,, se escaped, Bohon said Two of
f m, Walter Wjilliams, alias Joe
and >res^on McDonald were
acting a mandatory death sentence
their conviction of slaying a
*’"6io taxicab driver in a hold-up.
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Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Chichibu, brother and sister
in-law of the Emperor of Japan, are shown at New York’s Pennsylvania
Station as they arrived from Montreal. After a day of sightseeing they
sailed on the Queen Alary for England, where they will represent the
Emperor at the coronation. (Central Prers)
LAYING PLANS FDR
OLD AGE PENSIONS
State Welfare Board Gath
ering Data on Which It
Is to Operate
TO NAME NEW BOARDS
All Applications for Aid To Be Pass
ed Upon by Local Boards To
Named Throughout •
the State
Dnilr Dispatch Bureau,
Yn the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. "AASKIOitVII.L,
Raleigh, April 8. —The State Board
of Charities and Public Welfare is
already busy making preparations for
putting the new old age pensions and
children’s aid law into effect, despite
the fact that the new law does not
become operative until July 1, and
that no applications for pensions or
aid for dependent children will be re
ceived until after .that date, Mrs. W.
T. Bost. commissioner of public wel
fare, said today.
The administration of both of these
new laws will he under the general
supervision of the Board of Charities
and Public Welfare and under the,
(Continued on Page Six.)
AURORA MAN HELD
IN MURDER AFFAIR
Norfolk, Va., April 8 (AP)—Detec
tives P. W. Adams and E. S. Dudley
said today a man listed as Clyde Till
mon Paul, of Aurora, N. C., was be
ing held today on a murder warrant
while they investigated the death of
a man believed to be Allen (Jack)
Miller, of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Miller was found beaten in an East
Main Street union mission and died
last night in a local hospital.
If State Can Get Grant
Building May Be Larger
Than Was Planned
Daily Dispatch Bnrena,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Bv J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, April B.—The possibility
of securing a grant from the Public
(Works Administration towards the!
erection of the new State office build
ing for which the 1937 General As
sembly appropriated some $600,000,
will be investigated this week, the
commission decided following its first
meeting here Wednesday. At this
meeting Judge Walter D. Siler, of
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Victory Is
Fickle For
Spaniards
(By The Associated Press)
Fighting behind a we? 11 of fire, Span
ish insurgent troops pressed their at
tack within 18 miles of the Basque
capital of Bilbao in northern Spain
today.
Far to the south, on the Cordoba
front;, government militiamen ham
mered at insurgent entrenchments in
Villaharta, trying to “bottle up” 15,-
000 troops of General Francisco
Franco.
International tension over repeated
attacks by insurgent ships on British
war and merchant vessels apparently
eased somewhat ar insurgent authori
ties “admitted they had made an un
fortunate mistake ”
Accusation by the controlled Italian
press of violation of the non-interven
tion agreement by France and Rus
sia by dispatch of arms and men to
(Continued or. Page Three.)
DONATES FORTUNE
TO CHARITY BODY
Munice, Ind., April 8 (AP) —George
A. Ball, millionaire Munice manufac
turer, is donating to the George ,and
Frances Ball Foundation his entire
common stock holdings in Mid-Ame
rica Corporation, an announcement
issued at his office today said.
The foundation was incorporated
March 22 with the secretary of State
at Indianapolis, and the purposes
given in the corporation were “reli
gious, education and charitable.”
Highway Commission To
I Han $500,000 Spending
On Strict Comity Roads
Dally Dlppateh Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, April B—The State High
way and Public Works Commission,
in session here today and tomorrow
in what is probably the next to the
last meeting of the present commis
sion—the new “reorganized” commis
sion will take office May I—is1 —is going
to program the spending of some
$500,000 for emergency work on the
county roads, Chairman Capus M.
Waynick said today. This amount
was saved hack from the last allot
ments made from the highway sur
plus to the commission by former
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, in the
event more severe road damage would
be done this winter by the weather.
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, APRIL 8, 1937
FOLGER PRESENTS
$1,323 CHECK FOR
‘VICTORY DINNERS’
But Does Not Represent
Final Contributions To
Democratic Committee
From State
EXPECTS STATE TO
REACH ITS QUOTA
Receipts Not Included from
17 Dinners Held In North
Carolina Last Month;
High Point’s $177 and Big
Winston-Salem Affair Not
Yet Counted
Washington, April B.—(AP) —A. D.
'Folger, North Carolina Democratic
national committeeman, presented a
$7,323 check today to National Chair
man James A. Farley, representing
proceeds from Victory Day Dinners
in the State.
Fo;ger said the check did not in
clude receipts from 17 dinners held
in the State, which he estimated
would put North Carolina’s total Vic
tory Dinner collection close to the
State’s $10,500 quota.
It did not include $177 collected at
the High Point dinner, nor receipts
from the dinner at Winston-Salem,
one of the largest in the State, Folger
said.
THINK DEATH MASK
MADE UPON MODEL
Further Ghoulish Aspects of New
York’s Triple Slaying Con
structed by Police
New York, April 8. —(AP) —To the
■extravagant details of an Easter
triple murder in a Beekman Hill
apartment, police added today the
weird and ghoulish possibility the
killer of Veronica Gedeon paused long
enough to press a plaster upon her
features for a death mask.
As Pennsylvania authorities check
ed the chance a sculptor suspect,
Robert Irwin, had been seen hitch
hiking near Stroudsburg, Alexander
Ettl, art supply dealer, and Irwin’s
former employer, said indications
pointed to such a mask having been
made.
Ettl explained the making of masks
is routine work of apprentice art stu
dents. Police scheduled another con
ference with him today in an effort
to obtain additional clues to the
identity of the man who slew “Ron
nie,” her mother, Mary, and Frank
Byrnes, a roomer.
Attack On
Austrians
At Berlin
y
Berlin, April 8. — (AP) —Berlin's
newspapers began a concerted attack
on Austria this afternoon for what
they contended was the placing of
gendarmine guards* at the graves of
Richfuehrer Adolf Hitler’s parents at
Leonding, Austria, and the punish
ment of a pensioned Austrian official
land his wife for placing a wreath
there.
The unusual tenor of the newspap
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(Continued on Page Three.)
“This $500,000 is hardly a drop in
the bucket and will take care of only
a very small amount of the work that
needs to be done on the county
roads.” Waynick said. “But it will
help repair some of the worst places
in many of the roads used as bus
routes —provided it stops raining long
enough for us to do this work. But
it would take at least $5,000,000 in
stead of only $500,000 if we were to
do the work that really needs to be
done on these secondary roads.”
Chairman Waynick pointed out that
last summer and fall, the highway
commission spent $3,600,000 allotted
to it by Governor Ehringhaus on only
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Grave Diggers On Strike
The last word in sit-down strikes was reached in North Arlington, N. J.,
when grave diggers and other laborers in Holy Cross Cemetery sat down
and refused to prepare graves for six scheduled funerals. In addition to
other demands, they asked a minimum wage of $5 a day.
Accuses Congress
Os Own “Sitdown”
Washington, April 8. —(AP) —Re-
presentative Rich, Republican,
Pennsylvania, accused congression
al leaders today of “sitting down”
en the sitdown strike issue.
Rich shouted to the House Presi
dent Rjmscvelt had invited Speak
er Bankhead, Vice-President Gar
ner and the Democratic leaders of
the Senate and House to discuss
sitdowns upon his return recently
from Warm Springs, Ga.
“Ever since,” he said, “they have
been sitting down.”
RECOVERBODIE^
Searchers Shiver Through
Night To Arrange For
Return of Corpses
McNary, Ariz., April 8. —(AP) —
Biers of aspin limbs were fashioned
today for eight charred bodies by
shivering men who stood guard all
night on the mountainside where a
luxurious 21-passenger sky liner
crashed into the snow and burned.
Undertakers began the task of load
ing the victims, two women and six
men, on sleds and bringing them out
—a torturous seven mile journey over
steep hills, snow-clogged ravines and
across roaring streams which caused
half of a searching party of 40 to drop
exhausted.
C. C. Cole, an official of the Doug
las Aircraft Corporation, which built
the plane, said the removal could not
he |compl'e|ted IbeJjore nightfall and
may require two days.
The sight of twisted metal and
death which greeted the searchers
and the ordeals they underwent on
the way were described by Jack Def
ier, a member of the party.
CALL ISSUED FOR
REPORTS OF BANKS
Washington, April B.—(AP) The
comptroller of the currency issued a
call today for the condition of all na
tional banks at the close of business
Wednesday, March 31.
CALL ALSO ISSUED FOR
REPORTS OF STATE BANKS
Raleigh, April 8. —(AP) —Gurney P.
Hood State bank commissioner, is
sued a call today for reports on the
condition of all State banks as of the
close of business Wednesday, March
31.
OtjRWUJHEPMAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Rain tonight and Friday.
PUBLISHBD EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
One Is Dead
in Tornado
In Alabama
First Report, Uncon
firmed, Is Four Are
Killed in District
Around Troy
Troy, Ala., April B.—(AP) —A tor
nado killed at least one person, in
jured numerous others and levelled
houses in a lumber mill village at
Brundidge, Ala., today.
Highway Patrolman Will Tatum,
who sped to the storm scene, reported
four bodies had been found.
Chief Walter McAdory, of the Ala
bama highway patrol, received the re
port in Montgomery, Ala.
“Tatum told me they knew four
were dead,” McAdory said, “but didn’t
know how many more. Telephone!
lines are down to Brundidge and he
ihad to go to Banks to call me. I’ve<
sent 20 patrolmen to Brundidge.”
Justice of the Peace L. R. Ray at
Troy said he was informed the storm
struck the mill village half a mile
from Brundidge first, levelled many
houses, then hit the edge of Brun
didge’s residential sections.
Fred Crowley, 12, was known to
be dead.
With communication facilities crip
pled, the highway patrolman’s report
of four fatalities could not be re
checked.
PLYMOUTH TO VOTE
ON LIQUOR STORES
Plymouth, April 8 (AP) —J. E. Dav
enport, of Mackey’s chairman, an
nounced today the Washington county
commissioners had decided to hold a
referendum on the liquor question,
and that the date would be set by the
county elections board.
Dark Strike Clouds On
Industrial Horizon Are
Again Very Threatening
(By The Associated Press)
Dark strike clouds rolled over the
industrial horizon again today.
While the U. A. W. A. pushed plans
for unionization of 150,000 Ford Mo
tor Company workers, a general strike
was called at plants of General Mot
ors of Canada, Ltd., in Oshawa, On
tario, and employees went out of the
buildings in response to the call.
Orderly picketing was reported es
tablished.
At Ways, Ga., Henry Ford, staunch
champion of the open shop said.
"We’ll never recognize the United
Automobile Workers Union nor any
other union.”
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GREEN WILL SEK
EXPULSION OF ALL
A. F. of LTT-tead To Call
Special Session of Fede
ration’s Executive
Committee
HOT CAMPAIGN NOW
ON IN OIL FIELDS
Rival Labor Organizations
Seek To Enroll Workers
There; Lewis Says Ford’s
Tactics Won’t Gain for
Him Ends He Seeks in. His
Auto Industry
Pittsburgh, Pa., April 8 (AP)—John
Lewis charged today the Ford Motor
company was preventing its men from
joining labor unions through a sys
tem of intimidation and coercion.
“Mr. (Henry) Ford’s River Rouge
plant in times past has been an arse
nal—and still is today,” said the chair
man of the C. I. O. “All of which, how
ever, will not gain him the end he
seeks.”
Lewis made the statement during
an interview in which he predicted
membership of his labor committee
within GO days would exceed the 2,-
250,000 members of the American
Federation of Labor. He declared his
leaders would halt any strikes in
plants of companies with whom the
union has contracts.
GREEN TO SEEK OUSTER
OF LEWIS AND HIS MEN
Washington, April 8 (AP)—William
Green, president of the American Fed
eration of Labor, said today he would
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Jewelry and Cash
Taken in Robbery
Charlotte House
Charlotte, April B.—(AP) —Mrs.
Lula Paxton, and her son, Joe, re
ported to police they were robbed
of SSOO and other valuables at
their home early oday by two
white men who first cut the tele
phone wires and locked the Pax
tons in the bathroom. The offi
cers’ report also said the loot in
cluded two diamond rings valued
at several hundred dollars, a
watch and a pistol.
Mrs. Paxton is the mother of
Misses Virginia and Frances Pax
ton, dancers at Hollywood, Cal.
25,000 Made
Homeless In
Manila Fire
Manila, P. 1., April B.—(AP)
Relief agencies cared today for
25,000 persohs left homeless by
one of the worst fires in Manila’s
history.
The Philippine army flung up a
temporary village of tents to
house most of the victims of the.
fire that raged through the north
ern section of Manila yesterday,
destroying. dwellings at an esti
mated loss of $1,000,000.
John Lewis, C. I. O. head, mean
while, asserted at Detroit:
“I have no doubt, however, that Mr.
Iford will change his mind ”
Governor George Earle, of Pennsyl
vania, issued a statement criticizing
the sheriff of Dauphin cotinty for not
enlisting the aid of State police to pre
vent bloodshed at the Hershey Choco
late Company plant.
Evacuation of the Covington, Va..
plant of the Industrial Rayon Cor
poration by “sit-in” strikers was a
source of “gratification” today to
Governor Peery, of Virginia, who ex-
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