HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
STEEL PUNT WATER SUPPLY DYNAMITED
Huge Relie f Bill Is Passed
And Sent To White House As
New Tax Dodgers Are Named
SPENDING BILL TO
BE LAW AS SIGNED
BY THE PRESIDENT
Compromise, Already Pass
ed by Senate, Forbids
Naming of Salaries
and Positions
ALFRED SLOAN HAD
HOLDING COMPANY
Committee Is Told He and
His Wife Saved $1,900,000
In Taxes in Three Years in
That Way; Raskob’s Wife,
Another DuPont and
Henry Doherty Cited
Washington, June 29. —(AP) —The
House sent the administration sl,-
500.000.000 relief bill to the White
House today for approval.
It completed congressional action
on the measure by adopting recom
mendations of conferees in settlement
of differences between the House and
Snate.
The recommendation struck out a
Senate amendment that would have
required the PWA to make public
names, positions and salaries of all
administrative officials.
The bill authorized extension of the
PWA for two more years and allot
ted it 5359,000,000 for grants for pub
lic works projects.
The Senate approved the confer
ence report yesterday.
SLOAN, DOIIEBTY, RASKOB
NAMED IN TAX DODGING
Washington, June 29.—(AP) —A Se
curities Commission attorney told a
congressional tax inquiry committee
today that Alfred Sloan, Jr., chairman
of General Motors Corporation, and
Mrs. Sloan had saved approximately
51.900,000 in taxes from 1934 to 1936
by the use of personal holding com
panies.
Abe Fortas, the commission’s ex-
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JONES AND PERSON
VOTING ON LIQUOR
Alamance and Stokes Counties Wait
Until August 17 To Make De
cision at Polls
Raleigh, June 29.—(AP)—Jones and
Person county voters decided today
whether ,they wanted liquor stores
and the Alamance and Stokes county
electorates waited for August 17 to
mark their .ballots.
In both Jones and Person counties
the campaign was listless. In neither
did the wets make a public plea. In
Jones county the drys held three ral
lies; in Person only one. The drys had
workers a all jjplls today, however.
Patrol Plan
About Spain
Is Rejected
Germany and Italy
Turn Down British-
French Scheme To
Guard Coasts
London, June 29.—(AP)— Germany
and Italy flatly rejected today a plan
by Great Britain and France to patrol
all of Spain’s coasts in the interest of
neutrality. , „
Soviet Russia, one of the “big five
on th<a European non-intervention
sub-cor.amittee, approved the proposal.
The blunt refusal of Count Dino
Grand i, Italian ambassador to Lon
don, and Joachim von Ribbentrop,
the Gentian ambassador, brought a
speedy end to the sub-committee s ses
sion, whi'*ch lasted less than two hours
The sG'b-committee is scheduled to
meet again Friday to consider fur
ther decisions of the various powers.
In addit ion to France, Britain, Ger
many, Italy and Soviet Russia, the
other members of the nine-power sub
committee are Belgium, Portugal,
Czechoslovakia and Sweden.
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LE t A h S I D a oq SERVICE OF
ASSOCIATED press.
Chautemps Ministry Is
Given Confidence Vote
In Grave French Crisis
Chamber of Deputies Backs New Cabinet 393 to 142 In
Efforts To Save Nation’s Financial Structure; Vote
Comes Amid Talk of Devaluation
Paris, June 29. —(AP))— The new
government of Camille Chautemps,
struggling to save France’s financial
structure, won a vote of confidence
today from the Chamber of Deputies,
393 to 142.
Chautemps won the vote on his
demand that Chamber questioning of
the government be postponed until
his urgent demand for sweeping fin
ancial powers is disposed of. This
demand will be voted on later.
He is asking for the “necessary
powers” to re-establish France’s fiscal
structure on a firm basis and restore
the country’s confidence in itself by
MO =X
Anglo - Franco - American
Pact Holds Despite
French Gold Suspension
Washington, June 29. —(AP) —Trea-
sury officials said today the mone
tary agreement ifcetween France,
Great Britain and the United States
remained in force despite temporary
suspension of the Frenchman’s right
to exchange his paper money for gold.
They predicted 'the participating
nations would act, if necessary, to
prevent upsets in the relation between
dollar, pound and franc during the
French crisis. For the time being,
the French government has stopped
the exchange of francs for other
monies, the process used in buying
and selling goods between nations.
Since this three-nation effort to
give money a steadier day-in and day
out value was launched last Septem
ber, some American authorities have
voiced concern over the heavy inflows
of money into the United States.
It was learned today that the Unit
ed States, Britain and France now
hold four-fifths of all the gold known
to be in the vaults of governments,
and their official or semi-official
banks, such as the American Federal
Reserve System and the Bank of Eng
land.
MODERATE GAINS IN
STOCKS ARE EVIDENT
Nearly All Divisions Share Mild Ad
vance But Profit-Taking
Pares Down Gains
New York, June 29 (AP) —The stock
market edged into moderately higher
ground today, with steel and rail
shares in the forefront of demand.
Nearly all divisions shared in the mild
advances. Toward the fourth hour
however, some profit-selling appeared
and gains were pared. France’s su
spension of gold payments seeme
to have little effect, the move long
having been expected. Brokers re
ported modest buying on balance from
abroad, but no evidence of a rush for
American securities.
Indications that backlogs of the
steel mills were larger than expected
aroused buying interests in this sec
tion. Carrier shares benefited from a
“sold out” condition, brokers said, as
well as from the belief new wage de
mands would be postponed until the
Interstate Commerce Commission had
ruled on requests from higher freight
rates.
Profit-taking in the final hours shav
ed gains somewhat.
Volume approximated 600,000 shares
American Radiator 18 3-4
American Telephone IJO
American Tob B ™ j"
Atlantic Coast Line - tt
Atlantic Refining
Bendix Aviation ... IT
Bethlehem Steel “
Columbia Gas & Elec 10 5-8
Continental Oil Co ... J" \ „
DuPont ... ••• ; “J
General Electric f
General Motors ... ... • ™
Liggett & Myers B ...
Montgomery Ward & Co ...... 54
Reynolds Tob B
U S Steel Jb **
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
ending speculation abuses, conserving
gold reserves, balancing the budget,
watching over prices and “reviving
national economy.”
The vote came amid talk of new
franc devaluation, with the country
temporarily and technically off the
gold standard.
The new Peoples Front government
was reported seeking aid of the Unit
ed States and Great Britain to stem
the flight of gold from France.
Parliamentary circles disclosed this
was one of the first acts of the week
old government of Premier Chau
temps to deal with the financial crisis.
Son relief
Many Southern Democrats
Oppose and Northern
Democrats Favor
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, June 29.—1 tis true
that President Roosevelt won his Sen
ate fight for a $1,500,000,000 relief ap
propriation by a 49-to-34 (13 absen
tees) majority, which was adequate.
But that doesn’t tell the whole
story.
If it had been strictly a party vote
the result should have been 66 Demo
crats versus 14 Republicans, not count
ing the absentees or three others who
did vote —a Farmer-Laborite, a Pro
gressive and an Independent.
That would have been more than
adequate; it would have been over
whelming.
One-Third Deserted.
Administrationists argue that the
President did win overwhelmingly (44
faithful Democrats against 22 Demo
cratic bolters).
Two-to-one. Pretty good, according
to the administrationistic reckoning.
Yes, but put it another way. One
third of the President’s own party
members deserted. That’s quite a
large proportion.
Southerners Bolt
That isn’t the whole story, either.
Southern senators, if any senators
at all, are supposed to be thick-and
thin Democrats—simply inseparable
from any Democratic administration,
regardless of anything and everything
Yet, of those 22 bolters, 15 were
from southern or border states —the
former, hitherto, always, and the lat
ter generally 100 per cent Democratic
President Roosevelt won because
he got the votes of most of the north
ern Democratic senators*
He got the votes of senators from
states which, in the past; generally
have been Republican. For example,
he got two lowa votes. I grew up in
that state. Until recent years it was
as Republican as Virginia always has
been deemed Democratic. Today Vir
ginia has two Democratic senators
voting against a Democratic presiden
tial policy. And two lowa senators
vote in its favor.
Roosevelt likewise got three New
England ballots, a couple from South
Dakota, one each from Pennsylvania
and Michigan—the votes of senators
frofn formerly (and recently) solidly
Republican territory.
Those are rather conspicuous in
consistencies.
Plenty of others are not much less
so.
It looks almost as if the North were
turning Democratic and the South
were turning Republican.
IP WEATHER MAN
,9*
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Wed
nesday, probably showers In south
and central poritions.
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 29, 1937
Men Return as Union Protests
As additional workers returned to Ohio steel plants, reopened under guard of
the Ohio militia, a delegation of union leaders from throughout the state
went to Columbus to riotest to Governor Martin L. Davey his use of the na
tional guard. This photo shows men entering a Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Company Plant in Youngstown.
Japan Again
Faces Crisis
With Russia
Evacuation of Amur
River Islands Is De
manded by Japa
nese Military
Tokyo, June 29.—<AP) —The Japan
ese government invoked the mutual
assistance pact between Japan and
Manchuokuo today and served a vigor
ous protest on the Soviet government
against the alleged invasion of the
Sennufa and Boshio islands in the
Amur river.
Members of the Japanese military
high command said they took a grave
view of the situation. Their action,
they added, would depend on the tone
of the reply from Moscow.
The protest was presented to the
Soviet government by the Japanese
ambassador to Russia.
Japan asserted the islands in the
river belong to Manchuokuo and she
their immediate evacua
tion.
'Sex Fiend*
HuntedFor
3 Murders
\
Ingelwood, Cal., June 29.—(AP) —
Search for a “sex fiend” who lured
three small girls from a park, at
tacked and choked them to death,
centered around fashionable Beverly
Hills today after a butler reported a
frantic blood-stained young man tried
to sell him an automobile for sls.
The butler, in a Bell Air residential
district adjoining Beverly Hills, said
the youth appeared desperate when
he rang the door bell last night.
“I’ve got to sell my car,” the but
ler quoted him. “I’ve got to sell it. I’ll
take sls and you can have it.”
When the butler hesitated, the man
added quickly, “All right, I’ll take
$10.” •
When the butler went into the
house, ostensibly to get the money,
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CIO UNIONS MAKING
LITTLE HEADWAY IN
STATE’S FACTORIES
High Pressure Organizers
from Outside Making
Little Impression
In Industry
WORKERS PARTIAL
TO OWN BARGAINS
Have More Confidence In
Employers, As Rule, Than
In Group, Some Foreign-
Born, From Outside .Try
ing To Dictate Policies of
Labor In State
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Itv J BASkvEfIVILI.
Raleigh June 29 —Labor in North
Carolina is refusing to get all het up
about the CIO and is not going to
plunge pell mell after John L. Lewis
and his organizers because it is too
intelligent to go into anything new
without investigating it, according to
the belief of those here who havelieen
keeping in close touch with the labor
front in every part of the State. If
most of the laboring classes in North
Carolina were composed of foreigners
with little or no education and with
highly infiammdble emotions, as is
the case in some other states, the sit
uation here would admittedly be dan
gerous. But most of the laboring
people in the factories and mills in
North Carolina are native born Tar-
Heels, who have gone to school in the
state’s public schools long enough to
learn something about the law of sup
ply and demand and that nothing can
be gained by biting the hand that
feeds them, it is pointed out.
So it is that most observers here
feel that North Carolina is not going
to have very much trouble with strikes
and labor disorders right now, despite
the fact that Roy R. Lawrence and
his CIO organizers are turning on all
the heat they can in a number of
sectors to compel mill employes to
join the CIO Union and thus compel
the mill owners to recognize the CIO
union as the only bargaining agency
between them and their employers.
It is pointed out that the Lumberton
strike, instigated by CIO organizers,
has almost completely fizzled out as
most of the mill employes have re-
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
CIO UNION LEADER
HUNTED BY POLICE
IN VIOLENCE DRIVE
Rules Louis Must
Fight Sclimelling
New York, June 29(AP) —Meet-
ing in solemn session today, the
New York State Athletic. Commis
sion decided Joo Louis must be
recognized as world heavyweight
champion, hut said the Detroit
Negro would he able to get a li
cense to fight In this State only If
he agrees to a title defense against
Max Schmeling.
“Os course, if Schmeling will not
fight him,” added Brigadier Gen
eral John Phelan, commission
chairman, “that puts another color
to the situation.”
Mediation
Unable To
End Strike
Steel Arbitration
Board Headed By
Taft Telis Perkins
Board Has Failed
Washington, Jane 29.— (AP)
Secretary Perkins said today the
government’s efforts to mediate
the steel strike had collapsed. She
added, however, she was studying
the industrial dk pute to deter
mine if further mediatory steps are
possible.
The Federal mediation board re
ported to Secretary Perkins that a
“man-to-man discussion around the
conference table” would be necessary
to break the steel strike deadlock.
The report was made ready for Miss
Perkins after Charles Taft, board
chairman and Assistant Secretary of
Labor Edward McGrady, a board mem
her, had conferred with her.
The labor secretary said that in the
report the board was reiterating its
opinion that a conference between
steelc orporation officials and leaders
of the Committee for Industrial Or
ganization would serve as a method to
break the stalemate.
Earlier Miss Perkins had told news
men that, although efforts to mediate
the strike, had collapsed, she was still
studying the situation to determine
if further nlediatory steps are possible.
SLIGHT GAINS ARE
SHOWN FOR COTTON
Prices Fluctuate Actively During Day’s
Trading on New York Cot
ton Exchange
New York, June 29. —(AP) —Cotton
futures opened barely steady, 9 to 18
points lower on easier Liverpool
cables, the French finance situation
and July notices. Shortly after the
first half hour, October sold at 12.19
and prices v/ere generally 3 to 11
points net lower. By midday Octob
er, which advanced to 12.26, sold at
12.22 and the general list was seven
points net lower to one higher.
Cotton futures closed steady, 4 to
6 points higher, Spots steady, mid
dling 12.56.
Open Close
July 12.02 12.16
October 12.12 12.21
December 12.11 12.17
January 12.15 12.20
March 12.20 12.25
May 12.21 12.25
MASS MOVEMENTS
Can’t Place Every Person on
Dead Level, He Says at
Macon Home
Buck Springs Plantation, Warren
County June *29 Hoey
warned here today that “mass move
ments cannot take the place of inde
pendence and initiative of the individ
ual, and we shall lose much when we
adopt a policy which seeks to place
every person on a dead level.”
Speaking at the old homeplace of
Nathaniel Macon, one-time speaker of
the national House of Representatives,
on the occasion of the 100th anniver
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Gus Hall Painted As Master
Mind Instigator of Des
perate Plot Os
Terrorism
STRIKE DEATHS ARE
TOTAL OF THIRTEEN
Bethlehem Plant At Johns
town, Where Water Sup
ply Is Dynamited, May Be
Forced To Close Two
Weeks as Result; State Po
lice Block All Roads
Warren,. Ohio,. June. 29. —(AP) —
Dynamite blasted the steel strike
wide open today.
It sundered two vital pipe lines
that feed water to Bethlehem Steel’s
Cambria works at Johnstown, Pa.,
threatening tremendous damage and
menacing thousands of jobs.
But at Warren, ricocheting from
last week’s violence, it impaled the
name of one CIO leader, the brawny
Gus Hall on a warrant that paints
him as the master mind and instiga
tor of a desperate plot of terrorism
and destruction.
At Beaver, Falls, Va., one more
death was recorded.
Operations were crippled at the
Cambria works.
Total of 13 Deaths.
Deaths now total 13 in the strike
called May 26 by the Steel Workers
Organizing Committee against the
Republic Steel Corporation, Youngs
town Sheet & Tube and the Inland
Steel Company, and two weeks ago
against Bethlehem Steel.
George Mike, 45, died at Beaver
Falls of a fractured skull received
yesterday in a clash between pickets
and deputy sheriffs at the Moltrup
Steel Products Company plant.
Frank Miltrup, president of the
company, said it was “too bad;” that
“the entire blame rests with the
pickets.”
There was no attempt to reopen
the Moltrup plant today.
May Close for Two Weeks.
The two explosions at Johnstown,
ripping away pipe lines suppjying
water to the big Franklin mill and
the Gautier plants, major units of
the Cambria works, may mean the
closing of the entire works for two
weeks.
General Manager C. R. Elliott, or
dered five blast furnaces banked, and
closed 15 open hearths and the Frank
lin rolling mill. Water was tem
porarily turned into the company’s
lines from the Johnstown system.
Two hundred State police closed
every road leading to the works.
Thus, on both the Pennsylvania
and Ohio fronts, quiet for days, every
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Robt. Erwin
Indicted By
Grand Jury
New York’s Triple
Killer of Easter Sun
day To Face Death
Chair Charges
New York, June 29
ten minutes after Mrs. Ethel Kudner
completed her story of the mad im
pulse which led Robert Irwin to kill
her mother, her sister and a lodger
last Easter Sunday, a New York coun
ty grand jury handed up three in
dictments today charging the eccen
tric sculptor with first degree murder.
Still showing signs of the fear in
which she had lived since the triple
killings on Beekman Hill, Mrs. Kud
ner went before the grand jury short
ly before noon. Five police officers
followed in quick succession, and Dis
trict Attorney William Dodge emerg
ed with the indictments.
Insanity, it was expected, would be
the defense of the 29-year-old former
divinity student and erstwhile mental
patient.
Dodge chose as his star witness Mrs.
Kudner sister of the beautiful “Ron
nie” Gedeon, artist model, and daught
er of another victim. Mrs. Mary Ge
deon. Irwin’s confession listed her as
the original sole intended object of
murder, and as one he “loved and
hated,” whose death he believed would
bring “the way out” of his mental
sufferings. He “borrowed’ ’the lives
of the two Gedeons and a roomer,
he said, in a plan to take the life of
Mrs. Kudner. _