HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR,
DOUBLE LYNCHING
HERE PLAYED DIG
IN GERMAN PRESS
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“Horrible Details” is Ban
ner Line Over Most News
papers in Cities of
Reich
CHARGESARE MADE
UPON U. S. CHURCHES
Permitting “Vicious” Anti-
Germart “Machinations,”
Story Says; “Humane Ger
man Racial Laws” Held Up
In Contrast to Practices in
America
Berlin, April 15. —(AP) —The entire
German press appeared today with
banner lines atop “Horrible Details of
the Negro Lynchings’’ in Mississippi.
The concerted publicity for the tor
ture and killing of two Negroes last
Tuesday by a Duck Hill, Miss., mob
which was enraged by tbe slaying of
a county merchant, coincided with
charges American churches were per
mitting “vicious” anti-German “ma
chinations.”
Officially sponsored comment on
the lynchings contrasted them with
“humane German racial laws,” but
refrained from direct attacks on the
United States in connection therewith
AIMEE’S NIGHT OF
HORROR IS RELATED
Los Angeles Evangelist’s Confidante
Testifies on Privileges in
Angelus Temple
Los Angeles, Cal., April 15. —(AP) —
Nurse Ella Nordeen, confidante of
Aimee Semple McPherson, was call
ed to the witness stand today to tell
her version of the evangelist’s self
termed “night of horror” in a
Phoenix, Ariz., hotel last year.
That night, Friday, the 13th of
March, has become a pivotal sequence
in the 5150.000 slander suit brought
against Willard Andrews, Anglus
Temple attorney, by Roberta Sem
ple, daughter of Mrs. McPherson.
Mrs. McPherson testified Roberta,
her daughter, and another attorney,
Jacob Moidel, threatened her into
signing four contracts in Phoenix, two
of which gave them certified posi
tions in the temple.
Mrs. McPherson insisted the only
reason she gave Moidel any legal
work was “to please Roberta,” who
‘had fallen in love with Mr. Moidel.”
Subsequently Roberta left the tem
ple.
YOUTH IS HELD AS
EXTORTION WRITER
Chicago Garage Mechanic Charged
With Trying To Get SSOO from
Ginger Rogers
Chicago, April 15 (AP) —John An
thony Buzas, 18, garage mechanic,
was seized by Federal agents today
and charged with sending an extor
tion letter to Ginger Rogers, demand
ing SSOO under threat of death to the
Hollywood actress “or any one else
who gets in the way.”
Agents said Buzas enclosed a pic
ture of himself and wrote on the en
velope a return address only a few
doors away from his home on the far
South Side.
A diary seized there, they said, men
tioned the letter to Miss Rogers and
Buzas’ indecision about sending a
similar one to actor Clark Gable.
ANOTHERATHLETIC
SQUABBLEARISING
Centers This Time Around
Dr. Ray Sermon at N. C.
State College
Daily Dispatch Bnrenn,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
11 T J. C. lIASKERVILL
Raleigh, April 15.—Another athletic
squabble is smouldering at State Col
lege here and may result in the wash
ing of more dirty athletic underwear
in public unless President Frank P.
Graham of the Great University of
North Carolina and Administrative
Goan J. W. Harrelson of State Col
lege decide to do something about it
before the next meeting of the exe
cutive committee of the board of trus
tees. Considerable smoke has been
curling up from the State campus sor 1
some time, in spite of efforts to make
the public believe that everything is
“hunkydory” now since “Hunk” An
derson is no longer present. But for
the last few weeks, this smoke has
been getting thicker and blacker and
If the executive committee had met
here this week, as originally planned,
there is little doubt that the smoke
would have burst into flame.
This new squabble—or perhaps it
Is just a renewal of an old one —cen-
ters around Dr. R. R. Sermon, former
director of athletics and former train
ee, now merely basketball coach at
State, and generally regarded as the
storm center of the anti-“ Hunk” An
derson sentiment on the campus prior
to Anderson’s departure from State
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Substitute Bill Would Add
Two Justices On The Court
To Tariff Commission
By
% fj
William J. Sears
William J. Sear 3, former Demo
cratic congressman from Florida,
has been nominated by President
Roosevelt to become a member of
the U. S. tariff commission.
Sears, a Jacksonville lawyer, was
appointed to fill the unexpired
term of Raymond B. Stevens of
New Hampshire, who resigned.
—Central Press
MRS. ROOSEVELT TO
VISITBERRY FETE
Comes to Wallace for
Strawberry Festival About
Middle of May
Dally Dispatch Iliiroan,
In the Sir Walter Hotel
By J. C. BASKEIIVILL
Raleigh, April 15. —The residents
of Penderlea Homesteads in Pender
county. North Carolina, will have a
leading role in the annual Strawberry
Festival to be held in Wallace, and
the surrounding area about the middle
of May, according to plans revealed
here today by Miss Martha E. Smith,
regional home economist for the rural
settlement projects of the Resettle
ment Administration.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of
the President, has accepted an in
vitation to visit the project during the
festival, and in honor of her coming
a pageant, a home improvement con
test, hobby show and other features
are being arranged.
The festival date this year will be
made to correspond with Mrs. Roose
velt’s visit to Penderlea. Officials and
civic organizations of the surround
ing towns are co-operating in the
plans for the big celebration, which
is to last several days and nights,
with numerous entertainment feat
ures. On the day of Mrs. Roosevelt’s
coming, a tour of visitors is to be ar
ranged from Wallace and other com
munities to the Homesteads, and a
large throng of visitors is expected
to overflow the project.
Most of the homesteaders have not
been in their homes long enough to
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LOSSES ARE SHOWN
IN COTTON TRADING
New York, April 15 (AP) —Cotton
futures opened steady 4 to 7 points
higher on improved Liverpool cables
and trade and foreign buying.
July eased off from 13.75 to 13.60.
Shortly after the first half hour the
market showed net losses of 4 to 6
points. July declined to 13.52 and
prices at midday were within a few
points of the lows and at net losses
of 5 to 12 points.
STOCKS ARE MIXED;
TRADERS ARE TIMID
New York, April 15 (AP)—The stock
market struggled feebly to maintain
its balance today, but was only half
way successful,.
Small declines were numerous near
the fourth hour in unusually light deal
ings. While trading forces were not
iceably timid on the’buying side, they
were equally careful not to get too
far out on a selling limb.
Bonds were mixed, providing little
stimulus for stocks.
Hoey Ends Hearing
On New State Jobs
Raleigh, April 15.-(AP>-Toda*
Governor Hoey wound up hearing de
legetians asking appointments for
various State jobs and late next week
,he plans to start filling “major posts.
This morning D. L. Ward, of Ne
Bern, and John Larkins, of Trenton,
headed a delegation a skmg Luther
Hamilton, of Morehead City, be nam
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY (AFTERNOON, APRIL 15,1937
Senator McCarran, Its Auth
or, Opposes Forced Re
tirement of Present
Justices
TESTIMONY OFFERED
ABOUT COAL FIELDS
Witness Tells Committee
Mine Operators Raised
Fund To Fight Unioniza
tion; Anti-Lynching Bill
Expected To Pass House
During the Day
Washington, April 15—(AF)—Sen
ator McCarran, Democrat, Nevada, in
troduced in the Senate today a sub
stitute for the Roosevelt court bill.
It would provide for an uncondition
al increase of two members in the
size of the Supreme Court.
In offering his substitute in the
form of an amendment to the Roose
velt bill, McCarran refused to say
whether he would support the mea
sure if his amendment were reject
ed. He did tell reporters, however,
he did not favor any “forced retire
ment” from the court.
Elsewhere the Senate civil liberties
committee pieced together developing
evidence of possible new labor dis
putes in Kentucky’s rich and some
times bloody Harlan county coal field.
Following by 24 hours an announce
ment the United Mine Workers had
undertaken a new unionization drive
in Harlan county, an official of the
County Coal Operators Association
disclosed his members began four
months ago raising special funds to
resist unionization.
The official, George Ward, associa
tion secretary, said dues paid by the
26 member companies had been rais
ed from half a cent to one cent a ton.
A similar method was used in 1933,
he said, to raise money for fighting
organization of workers under the
NRA. The committee heard yesterday
some union organizers had been
threatened and fired upon during pre
vious Harlan labor troubles, and at
least one was made the victim of
dynamite attacks.
President Roosevelt himself, giving
over more serious cares for the mo
ment, received his annual American
and National League baseball passes,
and assured Clark Griffith, of the
Washington Senators, he would pitch
the ball opening the American Lea
gue season here Monday.
Speaker Bankhead and House Ma
jority Leader Rayburn said they
would oppose enactment of the
Cavagan anti-lynching bill, hut join
ed House sponsors of the measure in
predicting it would pass by a two-to
one vote, probably late today.
The speaker added that if the hill
came to a vote in the Senate he be
lieved it would pass that body also.
MAGNET DISCOVERED
BY WAR GAS MASKS
Chapel Hill, April 15 (AP) —Gas
masks for women, children and sol
diers in wartime have resulted in dis
covery of a magnet that extracts bad
tastes and flavors and unwanted odors
from food and drinks.
The taste magnet, described to the
American Chemical Society here today
by John Hassler, of the West Virginia
Pulp & Paper Company, Tyrone, Pa.,
uses the same kind of carbon as gas
masks. It is “activated.”
Has Become “Alarming
Threat” To Crop in East
Carolina, Shaw Says
College Station, Raleigh, April 15—
Granville wilt has become “an alarm
ing- threat” to the tobacco crop of
Eastern North Carolina, Dr. Luther
Shaw, extension plant pathologist at
State College, declared here today.
Unless something is done to check
the spread of this disease, he said, it
promises to become as destructive
over the eastern part of the State as
it is in the badly infested areas of
Granville, Wake, and Durham coun
ties.
At present, he continued, there is no
practical way known to check this
disease in an infected field, but the
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ed as a special -superior court judge.
Larkins also headed a group recom
mending E. V. Webb, of Kinston, for
the highway and public works com
mission.
The governor said he expected to
name the new State liquor commis
sion and the new chairman and ten
members of the highway commission
before the end of next week.
More Power Now
.'j
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J. Warren Madden
CJ. S. supreme court decision de
creeing the Wagner national labor
relations act constitutional gives
the three-man national labor rela
tions board, headed by J. Warren
Madden of Pittsburgh, above, new
wide powers. Madden, whose term
runs for five years, is a former
professor at the University of
Pittsburgh law school.
—Central Press
Pair Responsible for Killing
of Disielhurst Child
Spotted
Rome, Ga., April 15. —(AP) —Ten-
nessee officers said here today they
expected to arrest within a few hours
two men charged with kidnaping and
killing six-year-old Dorothy Ann Dis
telhurst near her Nashville, Tenn,,
home in September, 1934.
Wade Thornton, county identifica
tion officer at Nashville, said war
rants had been issued charging the
pair with kidnaping and murder. He
withheld the names of the suspects.
Thornton, who has been working on
the case for many weeks, came here
several days ago to question a resi
dent of Rome. He was joined yester
day by Robert Tarkington, special
State’s investigator from Nashville.
Thornton said he thought one of
the suspects would be picked up in a
South Carolina city, and the other, a
resident of Nashville, was believed to
be near the Tennessee capital.
Dorothy Anne, daughter of A. E.
Disite?hurst), disappeared the after r
non of September 19, 1934, while she
was walking home from a private
school a distance of less than a mile.
The dead child’s father was in New
York trying to establish a contact,
after receiving ransom demands,
when the child’s body was found 55
days later.
ROOSEVELT GIVEN
ASSEMBLY RESOLVE
Reynolds Accompanies State Delega
tion to White House on Ap
proval for Court
Washington, April 15 (AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt formally received to
day a resolution adopted by the North
Carolina General Assembly endorsing
his court reorganization plan.
Presentation was made by State
Representative Brooks Price, of Wax
haw, N .C., author of the resolution.
He was accompanied to the White
House by Senator Robert R. Reynolds
and Mrs. Roy Lawresce, of Winston-
Salem, wife of the president of the
North Carolina Federation of Labor).
HANCOCK CHILD IS
ILL OF PNEUMONIA
Washington, April 15 (AP) —Repre-
sentative Frank Hancock, of Oxford,
N. C., arranged to leave for his home
today where his young son, Robert, is
seriously ill with pneumonia.
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FOR north CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, slightly cooler to
night; possibly showers in north
east portion; Friday fair.
ONTARIO PREMIER
DUBBED ‘DICTATOR'
BY AUTO STRIKERS
Dominion Intervention To
Settle General Motors
.51 ike Asked In
R isolut’^n
STRIKES SPREADING
ON CANADIAN SIDE
Meantime, Arrests Are
Mace In Detroit Strike
While Chrysler Signs
Agreement With Auto
Union; New Violence In
Munice Taxicab Strike
(By The Associated Press.)
The strike of General Motors work
ers at Oshawa, Ontario, virtually was
pushed into the background today by
*hr. schism it created in the provin
cial government.
Premier Mitchell Hepburn, who
forced resignation of two cabinet
members for disagreeing with him on
the government strike policy, was as
sailed as a dictator in a resolution
adopted hy United Automobile Work
ers Union members.
The resolution urged dominion in
tervention to settle the strike involv
ing 7,300 workers.
While the domestic strike front was
relatively ouiet, several provinces
across the border were plagued by
labor disputes. Five thousand Mon
treal garment workers were under
orders to strike today.
Fifteen union officials and sym
pathizers arrested after police and
deputies evicted 120 sitdown strikers
at the Yale & Towne Manufacturing
Company plant at Detroit were held
in jail, but the strikers were released
under bond. Most of the strikers a
gainst whom police used tear gas
were women.
' An agreement on collective bar
gaining, seniority and procedure for
considering grievances was signed
last night by the Chrysler Motor Cor
poration and U. A. W. A. officials.
A bus driver and passenger were
injured by missiles thrown through
a bus windshield at Muncie, Ind., in
a new outbreak of violence in the
bus drivers’ strike.
PLAN TO SEEK NEW
PARKER INDICTMENT
Newark, N. J., April 15 (AP) —
United States District Attorney John
Quinn has been restrained from start
ing the trial of the Ellis Parkers,
father and son, int he Wendell kid
nap-torture case in Newark, but he
has the authority of Atorney General
Cumimings to move the case to Brook
lyn.
Quinn said he would immediately
seek the indictment of the Parkers
under the Lindbergh law in Brooklyn.
STARTMfOR
FREE TEXTBOOKS
Governor and State Super
intendent Begin Prelimi
nary Surveys
Dally Dispatch Bareaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, April 15. — Preliminary
plans are being made by the State
superintendent of public instruction
and his staff for setting.up the new
free textbook program, although Gov
ernor Clyde R. Hoey has not yet ap
pointed the next textbook commis
sion which will administer the free
textbooks law, Superintendent Clyde
A. Erwin said today. The purpose of
this is to have as much information
available as possible when the new
commission is appointed.
One of the first things being done
is to make a study of the require
ments of the various grades in an ef
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There Isn’t Any Business
Boom To Halt, Ayres Says
Have Not Left Old Depress ion Yet, and Business Is 15
Percent Below Normal, C leveland Economist Says;
Says Nation Must B e Self-Supporting
Cleveland, April 15 (AIP) There
isn’t any business boom, Col. Leonard
Ayres said today.
Instead “we have not as yet defi
nitely emerged from the depression,
the Cleveland statistician and econo
mist observed, charting general bus
iness as “15 per cent or more below
normal.” .
“A good deal of bad economics is
being talked in these days about
emergency measures to prevent a bus
iness boom, extended controls to re
strain bank credit expansion, and in
creased federal powers to restrain
commodity advances,” he said.
“These discussions constitute a kind
of locking of the stable door before
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“Historic” Figure
I*
<■ •. .v y / ragSSS
Morris Watson
Morris Watson, above, becomes
an historic figure because of de
cision of the U. S. supreme court,
declaring the Wagner labor rela
tions act constitutional. 'The de
cision was based on an appeal by
Watson. "'The court directed Wat
son be reinstated by the Associ
ated Press, wire news service, and
given back pay.
—Central Press
PLOTI MUTINY
IN ENGLAND NIPPED
Prisoners at Dartmoor
Planned Dash for Free
dom on Coronation
London, April 15. —(AP) —The Ex
change Telegraph Agency today re
ported officials of Dartmoor, Eng
land’s largest prison, located on the
bleak southwestern moors, had un
covered a plot to stage a mutiny on
coronation day, May 12.
Despite an official veil of secrecy,
the agency reported it learned stern
measures had been taken to suppress
any outbreak at the lonely prison,
which houses hundreds of desperate i
prisoners serving long terms. ]
The prisoners were believed to
Dave selected May 12, the day King (
George VI will be crowned, for a bold
dash for freedom because they were
angered by the fact no amnesties will
be granted or sentences reduced in
ce ebration of the event.
The agency said it was believed the
prisoners may have considered pos
sible i educed vigilance on the part of
their guards on the national holiday.
METHODIST WOMEN
CLOSE CONVENTION
Fayetteville Meeting Pledges Raising
$40,459 for Its Work
Coming Year
Fayetteville, April 15.—(AP)—The
Women’s Missionary Society of the
North Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
closed its 25th annual convention here
today after pledging itself to raise
$40,450 for Its work in the next year.
Pledges by district societies were:
Durham, $7,800; Elizabeth City, $4.-
300; Fayetteville, $6,250; New Bern,
$6,300; Raleigh, $4,600; Rocky Mount,
$6,400; Wilmington, $4,300„ and the
baby department SSOO.
Mrs. H. L. Rivers, of Greenville,'
was named superintendent of Chris
tian social relations, succeeding Mrs.
C. L. Reed, resigned, and Mrs. Robah
Baynes, succeeded Miss Elizabeth
Morris as editor of the woman’s page
of the Christian Advocate.
the family horse has even been ac
quired. . , , .
“The present discussions are baneful
because they divert our attention and
our efforts away from the three eco
nomic problems which really are of
pressing urgency. These are the reduc
tion of unemployment, the balancing
of the federal budget, and the restora
tion of harmony in labor relations.
“The chief reason why about 15 per
cent or more of our workers are idle
is that general business is still 15 per
cent or more below normal.
“At present our volume of industrial
production is about as large as it was
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“No Arms, No Men” Ban
Becomes Effective at
Midnight Then, Com
mittee Rules
PARLIAMENT BACKS
BRITAIN’S POLICY
Government Wins Big Vic
tory in Commons Vote;
Madrid Front Quieter and
Storms Bog Down Insurg
ent Drive on Bilbao; Medi
ation Talk Is Heard
(By The Associated Press.)
European nations acted today to
enforce a “no arms, no men” ban in
the Spanish war.
The non-intervention sub-commit
tee in London ordered a land and sea
patrol of Spain’s frontiers put into
operation at midnight next Monday.
Warships of participating nations
in the hands-off” Spain agreement
will watch the coast to prevent land
ing of arms and men for either side
in the Spanish conflict. Frontier
agents will keep a watch by land.
# The sub-committee’s action follow
ed an overwhelming parliamentary
victory for the British government on
its conduct of the Spanish civil war
negotiations.
Opposition forces have bitterly at
tacked the decision not to protect Bri
tish vessels entering the Spanish port
of Bilbao, in northern Spain, where
Spanish insurgent warships have es
tablished a blockade to "starve out”
government defenders.
Britain, however, renewed warn
ings to insurgents she would not tol
erate interference with her ships at
sea.
Heavy artillery fire on the fronts
around Madrid subsided. Government
troops declared they had cut off 3,-
000 insurgents in the University City
sector from food and supplies.
Storms in the Bilbao section bog
ged down the big insurgent offensive.
Basque troops declared they had
cleaned out some insurgent strong
holds not far from Bilbao.
In Paris official circles heard talk
that the time may be ripe for media
tion of the Spanish civil war under
the sponsorship of great European
powers.
LIQUIDATION ENDED
FOR 169 N. C. BANKS
185 Ceased Business in State Since
1927; Had Listed Assets of
$135,357,600
'Raleigh, April 15.—<(AP)—Gurney
Hood, State bank commissioner, re
ported today 185 banks had been plac
ed in liquidation in North Carolina,
since 1927, with 169 completely li
quidated up to December 31.
Depositors and other creditors of
the institutions received 77.54 percent
of their claims and in 26 banks all
claims were settled in full, and as
sets amounting to $814,547.31 were re
turned to stockholders’ agents.
The closed banks had listed assets
of $135,357,509.09, including stock
holders’ assessments, on which $76,-
071,766.37 was realized.
SEARCH MADE FOR
ESCAPED CONVICTS
Raleigh, April 15.—(AP) —.Search
was made today for two prisoners,
Andrew McGee, 20, and Chester Bar
nes, 18, who escaped from the Cary
prison farm near here yesterday after
chiseling a hole through- a two-foot
wall.
McGee was sentenced to eight to
ten years for a series of hold-ups in
New Hanover county, and Barnes was
serving 12 to 18 years for murder in.
Camden county.
FORDIPOSiIN
10 HALT THE C. 1.0.
Motor Concern Independent
Os All Outsider sand Has
Plenty Cash
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, April 15.—The fight
between John L. Lewis’ C. I. O. and
Henry Ford, when it get fairly started
will prove to be a different kind of
a fight from the fights Lewis already
has had or is likely to have with other
captains of industry.
My acquaintance with the Dearborn
motoi* magnate was not very long—
about a fortnight. But it was fairly
intimate. The fortnight was tihe fort
night required for Ford’s celebrated
Peace Ship to steam from Hoboken
to Christtiania (now Oslo). Norway.
The few newspapermen, of whom I
was one, who accompanied him on
this cruise, visited with the Wolverine
auto manufacturer constantly. FeV
low voyagers, bottled up together be
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