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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-fourth year EARLY RULING ON TVA STATUS ASKED OFSUPREME COURT Government’s Utility “Yard stick” Wants To Know If It Can Proceed With Plans appeal filed from THE CIRCUIT COURT Lower Court Stood With TVA in Turning Down Ap peal of 19 Power Compan ies on Activities of Huge Development Affecting Many Southern States Washington, May 20. —(AP) — The TVA asked the Supreme Court today for an early ruling on its right to con duct its activities in the states of Ten nessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia It filed an appeal from part of a recent ruling by the sixth circuit court of appeals, sending back to the East ern Tennessee Federal district court for trial a suit brought iby 19 power companies to stop TVA’s program. The circuit court also ruled that a temporrrv injunction halting expan sion of the TVA granted by the dis trict court was against public interest. Meantime ,at the Capitol the Sen ate voted to cut the salary of Civilian Conservation Corps Director Robert Fechner from $12,000 to SIO,OOO an nually. The (amendment was adopted 44 to 29. It was offered by Senator Clark, Democrat, Missouri, to legislation for establishing the CCC on a permanent basis. A similar amendment already had been approv ed by the House. The Senate agreed to a conference (Continued on Page Six.) DUKE~AND WALLY TO MEET ROYAL FAMILY Several Members of British Rulers To See Them While on Their Honeymoon Trip Monts, France, May 20 (AP)—A close friend of the Duke of Windsor said today he and Wallis Warfield would be met on their honeymoon by several members of the British royal family. After June 3, when the former mon arch and Mrs. Warfield are married, this source said, they will leave the Chateau de Cande immediately by car for Biarritz. The reunion with Edward’s family will take place there, the informant declared, although he did not disclose what members of royalty would be present. After a tour of the Dalmation coast where Edward as king and Wallis as Simpson spent a vacation last sum mer, they will go to Wasser-Loenburg castle in Austria. Lindbergh Ignores His Anniversary Weald, England, May 20. —(AP) — Colonel Charles Lindbergh studiously avoided any of the fuss of celebration today on the tenth annvorsary of his now historic solo flight from New York to Paris. He pottered ajbout 'he garden of his country home, Long Ba«i, in the man ner of a man who has never achieved .fame and never wants to. “I did it. Why should I celebrate it?” Lindbergh was quoted by a friend aj having answered when questioned aDont his plans for the flight he made a decade ago. A steady stream of congratulatory telegrams poured in on the flying colonel, but there were no telephone calls. Lindbergh had ordered the tele phone disconnected, so even well wishers will have no chance to dis turb the peace and privacy which he tied from the'United States to Eng land to seek in December, 1935. 44 Persons Executed By The Soviets Moscow, May 20 (AP) —A communi que announced today 44 persons con victed of carrying out espionage and sabotage plots “according to the ord ers of the Japanese secret service’ were executed at Svobodny, in the Far East. The execution of the largest group °f oppositionists to be shot in many years was carried out May 9 immedi ately after conclusion of the trial be fore the military collegium of the Su preme court. The terse announcement of the mass i t (Continued on Page Six.), MEMORIAL UMrtfe idpfuiersnn Daily Dispatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. U. A. W. UNION OBJECTS TO THESE FORD CARDS J consider whether itj What was the result of these strikes I numbers of men put their. “Figure 1 \i out for yourself. It you §o| a un^m they have GOT YOU but | j : 1"" :y-;: • "We have- always mace a better bargains for our men. than an outsider COULD. i We have never had to bargain against our I t 1 men and we don’t expect to begin now,’'! ’‘Tbero is .mystery about the con- Officials of the United Automobile Workers’ union announced they might file a complaint with the national labor relations board over the distribu tion of the above cards carrying Henry F/vd’s own Germany Protests Slurs By Cardinal Upon:Adolf Hitler Catholic Prelate at Chicago Had Said Hitler Was “an Austrian Paper Hanger and Poor One at That”; Ambassador Told To Take No Insults Washington, May 20 (AP) —The German Embassy has made informal representations to the State Depart ment over criticisms voiced by Cardi nal Mundelein at Chicago against Chancellor Hitler and Germany’s Nazi regime. This was learned today coincident with a statement by Embassy offi cials that Ambassador Hans Dieck hoff had not thus far received instruc tions from his government to make a formal protest. Mundelein’s aTiti-Nazi remarks, in which he referred to Hitler as “an LIQUOR WORKERS IN “STRAIGHTiACKET” Rules and Regulations Gov ern Almost Their Every Movement Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, May 20— Employes of all county liquor stores will hereafter be held strictly liable for the breakage of any bottle of liquor in the store and will be required to save the necks of all broken bottles, with corks antFre venue stamps undisturbed until the auditor or inspector for the State hoard comes to check the stock, under the rules and regulations just promul gated by the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Store employes are also prohibited from answering ques (Continued on Page Four.) MANY DEAD IN BIG PHILIPPINES BLAZE Mining Town Swept By Flames Near Manila and Thousands Are Reported Homeless Manila. P. 1., May 20 (AP)— Fire .swept uncontrolled through the gold mining town of Taracale today, leaving thousands homeless and an undetermined number Ruffians were reported looting homes as terror-stricken residents fled before the wind-driven Barnes. Newspaper reports varied fr°m two known deaths to “many. A Manila Bulletin correspondent es timated 200 houses were destroy ed in a town of 10,000 peoPje an placed the loss at close to $500,000. LE ASUD WIRE SERVICE OF the associated pressl Workers reading the cards HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 20,1937 views on unions to workers in his plants. The U. A - W. A. is attempting to unionize the Ford Motor company. The photos show the card and workers reading it during their lunch hour. Austrial paper hanger and a poor one at that,” was called to the attention of James Dunn, chief of the State De partment’s western European divi sion, by Dr. Hans Thomsen, counsel lor of the German Embassy yesterday. AMBASSADOR INSTRUCTED TO ACCEPT NO INSULTS Berlin, May 20 (AP) —A “vigorous land energetic” protest to the United States government by Dr. Hans Dieck hoff, the German ambassador to the (Continued on Page Six.) YOUNG DEMfICRATI 10 MEETSATURDAY Dinner and Dance in Ra leigh; To Name Summer Convention City Dally Dispatch Bnreaa, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BA SKERVI 1,1, Raleigh, May 20. —The meeting of the executive committee of the North Carolina Young Democratic Clubs, al so the dinner and dance in connection with this meeting, will be held in the Sir Walter hotel ball room here Sat urday night, May 22, it was announced today by S. Brown Shepherd, presi dent of the Wake County Young Dem ocratic Club, which will be host to th£ executive committee. About 150 dele gates from Young Democratic clujbs in different sections of the State are expected for the dinner, which will start at 6:30, and for the dance which will follow. The meeting of the execu tive committee will be held between the dinner and the dance. The two principals tasks before the executive committee* are the selection of convention city for the State con vention. this summer and the selection (Continued on Page Six.) CAPE TOWN FLIGHT FORCIBLY DELAYED Croydon, England, May 20.—(AP) — Propeller troi ble today forced Flying Officer Davit, Llewellyn to abandon temporarily his attempt to break the record for a round trip to Cape Town, South Africa. He returned here at 2:15 p. m. after taking off this morning at 8:42 a. m. Llewellyn hoped to complete the round trip journey in five days. The card RASKOB DECLARES HE DID iT HAVE Former Democratic National Chairman Defends Cross Sale of Securities Made HE TRADED FREELY TO PIERRE DUPONT Internal Revenue Bureau Contends Transactions Were Fictitious Immedi ately Following Wall Street Crash in 1929; Law of 1928 Involved New York, May 20.—(AP)—John J. Raskob, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, de fended today the legality of the cross sales of securities he made with Pier re DuPont after the 1929 Wall Street panic, by which the two industrailists established losses of more than $7,- 000,000, which they deducted on their 1929 tax. Raskcib, testifying in the hearing before Richard Disney, of the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals, declared at no time was there any agreement or un derstanding between him and DuPont his associate for many years, to re purchase the securities they sold hack and forth on November 13 and Decern her 26 after the October crash. The government cases against the two, in which the Bureau of Internal Revenue, contending the cross sales were fictitious, and were accompanied by such a re-purchasing agreement within 30 days time, contrary to the revenue law of 1928, are being heard separately, and Raskob was called as witness in the DuPont case. COTTON IS FIRMER FOR DAY’S TRADING Market Closes Ten Points Higher After Mild Fluctuations During Session New York, May 20.—(AP) —Cotton futures opened steady up seven to eight points on higher Liverpool cables, trade and foreign buying. Oc tober eased from 12.74 to 12.71 and was 12.72 at the end of the first half hour, with prices 4 to 7 points net higher. At midday October was 1£.72. when prices were generally 3 to 3 points net higher. Futures closed steady, 9 to 10 points higher. Spot steady, middling 13.36. Open Close July 12.841 12.87 October 12.74 12.77 Oecember 12.74 12.75 January 12.76 12.78 Mrach 12.80 12.82 May . 12.86 12.86 Treasury Against Monetary Conference On Broad Scale To Involve All Big Powers Steel Company Workers Ballot On Some Agency To Do Their Bargaining Meantime, Bethlehem Company Faces Strike in Its Plants; Movie Crafts Say Their Strike Will Be Ex tended If Demands Are Not Granted Tonight (By The Associated Press.) Employees of the Jones & Loughlin Steel Company at Pittsburgh and Ali quippa, Pa., cast ballots today to de termine whether they desired a C. I. O. union to represent them in collec tive bargaining. The election, largest thus far su pervised by the National Labor Rela tions Board, was open to 27,000 work ers. The union, seeking exclusive bar gaining rights, was the Amlagamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America, operating hrough the steel workers organizing committee. Election results were expected to be announced tomorrow. The Bethlehem Steel Corporation, another large independent, was faced with the strike of several hundred workers at Johnstown, Pa. LEADERS PONDERING “NEXT DEPRESSION” More Thought on How To Get Through It Than To Prevent It Bv CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, May 20.—How will the United States meet its next depres sion? One hears this question asked with surprising frequency in Washington’s official circles. Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland recently put it with extraor dinary plainness. Another slump will be due in 19-39 or 1940, he said. He quoted Chairman Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, former Vice President Charles G. Dawes and “all economists” as predicting it. He agreed with them, too, “When it comes, as it must, what are we go ing to do?” he asked. AN EXCEPTION To me it seems queer that no pub lic man, with one exception, inquires: “How is another depression to be prevented?’’ The exception is Secretary of Ag riculture Henry A. Wallace. Wallace suggests the desirability of hitting upon some plan to end the (Continued on Page Four.) TWO DESPERADOES NABBED IN WAYNE Sawed Way Out of Pitt County Jail In January After Alleged Farmville Robbery Goldsboro, May 20.—(AP)—Wlayne county deputies arrested two men to day and booked them as Frank P. Simpson, 32, alias Dave Adams, of Georgia, and Randolph Marshburn, 28, who the officers said sawed their way out of the Greenville jail last Jan uary while awaiting trial for a S4OO safe robbery in Farmville. The deputies reported the men were emptying nitroglycerine into a sink when surprised at a tourist camp five miles from here. A shotgun and burglary tools, they said, were found in a suitcase they carried, including brace and hit, steel drill, hacksaws, pliers, two sets of South Carolina car license plates, one set of Georgia plates, dynamite caps and fuses, a quantity of ammunition and a 38-calibre pistol. Deputy Roy Pierce said Adams told him and Deputies H. B. Gardner and Bob Matthews he had served terms in Georgia and escaped from the Pitt county jail while waiting to begin a sentence of seven to nine years for larceny. Pierce said Marshburn es caped with him. The two will be re turned to Pitt county. <XI»VftCTHEPMAH FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Friday. PUBLIBHED EVERY AFTHKNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. A truce providing for immediate negotiation of differences over wage rates resulted in restoration of elec tric service in 13 Michigan counties. The Federated Motion Picture Crafts said its strike would be ex tended to 27 independent mill pro ducers at midnight unless they grant ed demands for a union shop. At Lumberton, N. C., Sheriff Mark Page said he expected “no further trouble” during the campaign of C. I. O. organizers to unionize cotton mills there, and added he had received no demands from Roy Lawrence, Caro linans C. I. O. administrator, for the protection of organizers there. Meantime, at Reidsville, N. C., the Edna Cotton Mills, employing 400 workers, closed for a week by a strike of doffers, opened after granting re cognition to a new textile union form ed there by C. I. O. organizers. HOEY URGES MORE Governor Speaks at Safety Conference Held at Winston-Salem Winston-Salem, May 20. —(AP) Governor Hoey urged North Caro linians today to exercise greater care and guard against accidents in all walks of life. The governor spoke at the eighth annual Statewide safety conference here. He came from Raleigh this morning and returned to the capital after his speech. “With the development of our com (Continued on Page Two» MODERATE ADVANCE SCORED BY STOCKS Spurt, Reaching Three Points Gain At Times, Attributed to Brighter Outlook New York, May 20.—(AP)—Steels, motors and coppers led a broad stock market advance today for upturns of fractions to around three points. The upswing, which was accompanied by a spurt which left the stock ticker behind for a time, was attributed in some Wall Street circles to a momen tary lifting of clouds on the labor horizon. Bonds were firm and transfers ap proximated 1,300,000 shares. American Radiator 22 1-4 American Telephone 166 American Tobacco B 76 1-2 Anlaconda 53 3-8 Atlantic Coast Line 49 Atlantic Refining 29 Bendix Aviation ... 20 1-8 Bethlehem Steel 84 3-8 Chrysler ..' H 3 1-4 Columbia Gas & Elec Co 12 1-8 Commercial 14 Continental Oil Co 16 DuPont ... ... , 156 3-8 Electric Power Light 17 General Electric .. * 54 General Motors 56 3-8 Liggett & Myers B 95 1-2 Montgomery Ward & Co 50 5-8 Southern Railway 38 Standard Oil Co N J 65 5-8 U S Steel 99 3-8 Papa Hughes, A Father Twice After Age 90, Is Dead At New Bern Home New Bern, May 20 (AP)—George Isaac Hughes, whose record of be coming a father twice after passing his ninetieth birthday astonished the medical world, died here today at the age of 97. His 28-year-old second wife and their two babies, Franklin Roosevelt Hughes, 28 months old, and Mary Gertrude, about a year old, as well as children by his first wife, were at the bedside. Hughes one of the county’s two sur viving Confederate veterans, had been in failing health several months. He became seriously ill after a heart at 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SEC’Y MORGENTHAU FAVORS INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCE PLAN Any Movement Toward Sta bilization Can Go Fur ther in That Man ner, It Is Held BIG CONFERENCES USUALLY BOG DOWN Differences Develop and Re sults Are Worthless; Capi tol Hill Has Heard Propos al Recently for General Conference To Redistri bute Gold Washington, May 20. —(AP) —Trea- sury authorities disclosed today Sec retary Morgenthau is opposed to any general monetary conference with other nations. The Treasury chief, inforihed offi cials said, believes any monetary agreements looking toward stabiliza tion or other ends should be worked out i.i talkfr with Individual nations. These persons said Morgenthau feels big conferences involving many nations customarily bog down in wide spread differences. They pointed out the td-power monetary agreement by Great Britain, France and the United States was affected last September after talks between representatives of the United States and spokesmen for each of the other countries. Recently there have been sugges tions this country join with Latin- American nations to work out some general monetary understanding in this hemisphere. On Capitol Hill a proposal has been advanced to hold a general monetary conference designed to effect a redis tribution of the world’s gold supply. CUMBERLAND BOARD REFUSES ELECTION Fayetteville, May 20 (AP) —The Cumberland County Board of Com missioners yesterday refused to call an election on a county ope rated liquor store system, refer ring petitioners, who presented 1,- 200 signatures, to the county elec tion board. Find Body Aged Lady In Stream Elizabeth City, May 20 (AP)—Fol lowing a preliminary examination of the body of Mrs. Mary Mettrey, 67, of 702 Southern Avenue, found floating on the water of Charles Creek a few hundred yards from her home today, Coroner J. B. Ferebee announced a second examination and inquest would be held this afternoon. Although unable to find any marks on the body which would indicate in jury other than simple drowning, the coroner commented "it seems strange the body should have floated when most bodies seem to sink to the bot tom, for a few days at least." The body was discovered about 150 feet west of the Southern avenue bridge by a delivery truck driver three hours after Mrs. Mettrey had been reported missing by her nephew, K. P. Azar, with whom she lived. tack last Sunday and his physician held out no hope for his recovery. After the birth of his baby daught er a year ago, the nonagenarian had a strenuous life for a time. He at tended a baby show at Goldsboro, in which his 16-months-old son, Franklin was entered, and later he and the boy v/ere attractions at a festival in Ashe ville. Afterwards, Hughes went to New York to appear on a national radio program. Hughes had 16 children by his first wife. The spread of time between his eldest and his youngest was a span of 63 years.
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