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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year Fred Erwin Beal, Convicted Gaston Police Chief Slayer, Arrested In Lawrence, Mass. PLANS 10 RESIST , ANY EXTRADITION INTO THIS STATE Seized by Police at Home of His Brother in New Eng land Manufactur ing Center FACES LONG TERM IN STATE PRISON North Carolina Will Fight To Bring Him Back Here To Serve His Time for Conviction Growing Out of Gastonia Cotton Mill Strike in 1929 Lawrence, Mass.. Jar.. IC. (AT 5 . — Lawrence nolice tod i\ r arrested Fred Beal. 41. labor organizer, for Gas tonia. N. C. police as a fugitive from justice in North Carolina. The arrest was made by Police Cap tain Daniel Kilier and Sergeant John Casey, of Lawrence on a North Car olina warrant. Beal was sentenced m 1929 to serve 17 to 20 years for cons: iracy with six others to murder Police Chief O. F. Aderholt, of Gastonia Released in 5500 bail pending m appeal to the X-irth Carolina huneme Court, he left the State and was missing when ♦he high court denied hie appeal. Taken into custody early today ♦> c home of a bo nt.i, William, He .i hid police he would fr-i t extradition to North Carolina. He said he had visited Russia after appealing his con viction and was unable to leave that country because of passport difficul ties when the appeal was denied. regular procedure will BE FOIXOWED, HOEY SAYS Raleigh, Jan. 19.—(AF)—Governor Hoey said today he had no comment to make on the arrest in Lawrence, Mass., of Fred Erwin Beal, wanted as Continued on Pare Phve ' Trawler Is AgroundOn N. C Coast Norfolk, Va., Jan. 19. —(AP) — A Gloucteser, Mass., fishing trawler, with a crew of nine, went aground on the dangerous North Carolina coast today. Even as the coast guard cut-, ter Dione was sent to the trawler, the Sebastian C., the cutter Sebago re ported a heavy sea and strong winds made towing of the disabled schooner Albert F. Paul dangerous and the Se bago hove to 180 miles eastsoutheast of Diamond Shoals light ship. The Sebastian C. grounded in a heavy sea two miles north of False Cape coast guard station on the North Carolina coast. A lifeboat from the Little Island station was sent to the rescue of the trawler’s crew. The cutter Dione will try to salvage the trawler, commanded by Captain John Nemus, and manned by a crew of nine Portuguese fishermen. ( Roumanian jews Seek New Homes Ordered To Leave That Land, but De prived of Money, Nowhere To Go Bucharest, Roumania, Jan. 19.- — (AP)—Several thousand Roumanian Jews sought havens abroad today while 16 political parties launched campaigns for new elections that were expected not to affect the govern ment's anti-Semitic course. King Carol’s dissolution of Parlia ment and orders for new elections March 3 gave Roumania a chance to approve or disapprove of the anti- Jewish, semi-fascist policies of Pre mier Goga. A coalition of other parties with identical anti-Jewish platforms was indicated, however, should Goga fail (Continued on Page Three.), UrttSrrSmt Bmht Sispatrh I ‘THir : AJnrw KVIOE OF L HB3 ASSOCIATED PRESS Hit "Enemies of Liberty’ 1 ffk Min: mh |||P3| Mm - _tl ini BqH&N&uv: ■**&> JEST ' Elisha M. Hanson (left), counsel for the American Newspaper Publish ers’ Association, and Gov. Lehman, of New York, are pictured at Albany, where Hanson, speaking at a Chamber of Commerce dinner, made a fervid plea for safeguarding the freedom of the press. He denounced as enemies of liberty all persons and governments curtailing that freedom. (Central Press) New Chautemps Cabinet Faces Further Troubles Fugitive Taken \ 11 FRED ERWIN BEAL KONSIDEOr WOMAN ENTERING « Mrs. Wohl Would Count on Lot of Votes That Nor mally Stay at Home Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Jan. 19—Those who are in clined to scoff at the prospective can didacy of Mrs. Helen Robertson Wohl foi the United States Senate are over looking one district angle of the situ ation. It is the possibility that the Guil ford-reared Quaker may be able to stir utp and get to the polls a tremen dous number of North Carolinians who usually don’t even take the trou ble to vote. If she gets into the race —and the odds are strongly in favor of her do ing just that—the whole strategy of her campaign will follow that line. (Continued on Page Five.) ADVANCES SCORED IN COTTON TRADE Undertone Is Steady in Forenoon Fluctuations Recorded on * New York Exchange New York, Jan. 19. —(AP) —Cotton futures opened two to four points off on lower cables and under southern and foreign selling. The undertone ruled about steady at declines of three to four points shortly after the first half hour, when May was 8.46. With May advancing from 8.44 to 8.57, the list established net advances of three to seven points by midday. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 19, 1938 pobub^wiiiutimoo. More Labor Disturbances Break Out To Plague Second Government of Premier ROCK UPONWHICH OLD CABINET LOST 18 of 20 Ministers In New Cabinet Are Radical So cialists; Cabinet Crisis Just Ended Longest In History of France Since Days of World War Paris, Jan. 19 (AP)—New labor dis turbances arose today to harass the remodeled government of Radical So cialist Camille Chautemps, and the premier at once called a conference of "his ministers to deal with them. The labor issue and accompanying fall of the franc forced out Chau temps’ previous people’s front cabi net, which included socialist ministers and had communist support in Par liament. Eighteen of the 20 ministers in the new cabinet are radical socialists; no socialists are included, and commun ist support apparently will be unne cessary to keep it intact. Radical Socialist Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos and Defense Minister Edouard Daladier retained their posts, assuring continuation of France’s vast defense program. Chautemps formed the government yesterday, the fifth day of the long est French cabinet crisis since the World War, when socialists in the Chamber of Deputies assured him their parliamentary support. The cabinet meeting was set for Thursday morning. The recurring la (Continued on Page Three.) FLETCHER DEFINES HOUR-LAW EXEMPTS Elaborates on Executives and Super visors, as Well as Merchan dise Employees Raleigh, Jan. 19 (AP) —Labor Com missioner A. L. Fletcher issued rul ings today defining persons exempted from the maximum hours law because of executive or office positions. “Manifestly the intent of the legis lature was to limit this exemption to persons who are in deed and in truth actual supervisors, executives, etc., said Fletcher. He ruled a “bonafide” offiqe worker or executive in a merchantile estab lishment was one who devoted 60 per cent or more of his time to office work or executive and supervisory duties and that the same rule should apply to make clerks in mercantile establishments exempted by the 1937 law. He said no hard and fast rule could be set for the number of persons in any establishment who might Ibe de signated as supervisors or executives, but few establishments will need more than one for each 20 employees. TSS Flight From San Diego Is Made in 20 1-2 Hours, New Record Time for Long Journey FLIGHT IS~BIGGEST OF KIND YET MADE Time Is Hour Less Than Mass Flight of Dozen Planes Last Year; Planes Alight on Pearl Harbor Waters in Bright Moon light of Hawaii Morning Honolulu, Jan. 19 (AP)—Eighteen big navy bombing planes from Cali xoinia swooped down through bright tropical moonlight into the glare of spotlights before dawn today and alighted on Pearl Harbor, completing the greatest mass flight in aviation history in record-breaking time. The first plane touched the water at 8:48 a. m., eastern standard time, *0 horns, 30 minutes after the “offi cial take-olf” time from San Cal. The second plane, the blue-flame of its exhaust flashing in the darkness, alighted two minutes later, and the other craft followed in quick succes sion. The official flight time bettered the previous naval mark of 21 hours, 23 minutes, set by a squadron of 12 planes in another “routine transfer” from San Diego nine months ago. Only 100 spectators lined the smooth waters of the harbor’s channel to watch the planes roar high over Hono lulu, head straight for the harbor and come down quickly in orderly fashion behind Lieutenant Commander S. H. Warner. Warner said tihe squadron flew through unfavorable weather on the first third of the trip. Fifty Killed In Air Raids In Barcelona (By The Associated Press.) Fifty mangled bodies were remov ed from wreckage in the southern part of Barvelona today after a heavy bombardment by insurgent airplanes. Officials expressed fears «s many a: 100 had been killed in the raid, in which at least 40 powerfol bombs plunged into crowded sections of the capital' of government Spain. Ambul ances took scores of wounded to hos pitals. Madrid was shelled !;y insurgent artillery for half an hour, also, the first bombardment of consequence there in almost three weeks. Several casualties resulted. Fiance, meanwhile, acknowledging her need for cannon, as well as but ter, sought away to wipe out limita tions on the size of her battleships. The first session of the supreme Soviet, Russia’s new red parliament, ended tonight on a martial note with government promises of a firmer at titude toward Japan and a spectacular display by red army warriors inside the parliament chamber. Deputies rose to their feet with pro longed cheering as aviators, tank drivers, soldiers and sailors, to the flourish of trumpets, filled the aisles of the chamber with marching files. Earlier the deputies had heard Presi dent of the Council of Comissars Molotoff pledge his reconstituted coun cil, or cabinet, to act on suggestions for “drastic measures” in the Far East. Japs Plan Hard Drive On Chinese Shanghai, Jan. 19 (AP)—A strongly reinforced Japanese offensive against China’s “lifeling” Lunghai railroad | was forecast today in intensive pre parations at Tsingtao, conquered Shantung province seaport as a base for a drive into the interior. A force of 400,000 Chinese along the Lunghai, China’s main east-west railway, blocked Japanese efforts to consolidate their North CJhina and Shanghai area conquests. Japanese columns, advancing from the north and south on Suchow, main Lunghai junction point, still were 200 miles apart. Japanese landed some 10,000 troops, large stocks of munitions, and artillery, horses and tanks at Tsing tao. The Japanese military spokesman said the Chinese had their strongest Continued on Page Five.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Cloudy tonight and Thursday; no decided change in temperature. Interior Department Laxity And Inefficiency Denounced By Pittman On Senate Floor' Held In Axe-Slaying Case Here CLARENCE FAIRBANKS Hearing For Fairbanks Set For Friday Morning Basketball Youth Dies From Attack Bailey, Jan. 19. —(AP) —Donald Lee Barnes, 18, Bailey high school basketball player, suffered a fatal heart attack last night as be sat on the players’ uemli af?«r being re move-1 from a game between the local highs and an independent team from Bailey. L. S. Inscoe, Nash county sehvil .superintin ient, said today. , Barhes had pia/. - 1 only five or six minules in the game, according to Inseoe’s investig.i’.h n, and :va« sitting on the hen-'h when h > sud denly callapsed. He was .dead on reaching a physician’s office. ..Inscoe expressed the opinion the youth’s physical condition was not good and he shouldn't have played basketball. Barnes was a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Barnes, of Bailey, and fun eral services were conducted this afternoon. mmm~ CREATED MONOPOLY Col. Frank Knox Has Idea Democrats Ought To Seize Quickly By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Jan. 19. —Col. Frank Knox, who i ran vice presidentially on the Republican Landon ticket in 1936, is out with an anti-monopolistic suggestion which many congressional Democrats are saying that their own party ought to grab at and make the most of. The colonel’s thesis is that exces sive tariff protection, more than any (Continued on Page Five) Sub-Zero Weather Sweeps Over East With Biting Cold (By The Associated Press.) Sub-zero cold hugged the east ern seaboard for the second conse cutive day today with the pros pect of rising temperature as the northwest’s blanket of frigid air crept over New England, New Jer sey, Pennsylvania and New York state. Up-State New York apparently registered the lowest below-zero figures. In some spots, it was 38 below. Berlin, N. H., examined with mittemed hands a thermometer reading 32»below. High Point, N* J., had 24 below, and many unof ficial readings in Connecticut skidded as far as 26 under the cipher mark. Axe-Slayer To Be Given Preliminary Trial Before Mayor Powell In Police Court TO BE BOUND OVER TO SUPERIOR COURT Still In Jail In Oxford; Fing erprints Sent to Washing ton for Comparison; Pris oner Fails To Amplify Statements or To Reveal Identity A hearing will be given Clarence Fairbanks, 21-year-old axe-slayer, in Henderson municipal court Friday morning before Mayor Henry T. Pow ell, the mayor announced today. He is charged with the slaying of Steve Good, 45-year-old itinerant showman, and critically wounding Mrs. Good, whose truck-trailer he drove as they traveled about over the country giv ing their bird, monkey and dog per formance in schools. Mayor Powell said that, on the basis of Fairbanks’ confession to the crime, the preliminary hearing will he largely perfunctory and the prisoner will be bound over to Vance Superior Court, for probable trial at a special term to be held here the week of Feb ruary 21. Meantime, Fairbanks was still in the Granville county jail at Oxford to day, and is expected to remain there until the date of his hearing here. State fingerprint experts were here Tuesday afternoon and went to Ox ford to make new prints of the con fessed slayer, and there were sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington for comparison in an ef fort to determine if the man can be positively identified. He has told of ficers the name he has given them is an alias, and that he is withholding his real identity. He has made no new statements nor amplified previous admissions to the officers. Mrs. Good continues conscious and is showing some improvement in Ma ria Parham hospital here, where she (Continued on Page Eight.) SHAD SEASON DATE CHANGED BY BOARD State Conversation Commission Also Considers Protest on Tucker town Ruling Raleigh, Jan. 19 (AP)—The Board of Conservation and Development moved up the opening and closing dates for the shad fishing season to day and adapted a number of new rul ings on fishing. The board went on record as oppos ing location of any new pulpwood mills in the State unless the man agement agreed to cooperate in stabi lizing and perpetuating the State’s forest resources. A committee working on a resolu tion charging that the Federal Power Commission over-stepped its author ity in assuming jurisdiction over the proposed $6,000,000 hydro-electric dam at Tuckertown, on the Yadkin river, had not completed its work. o PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SECURITY PROGRAM AND RAIL BENEFITS EXCEED REVENUES Two Projects Cost $294*- 681,343 More Than Taken In Up to January 1 This Year cromweTlseeks U. S. SALES TAXES Husband of Doris Duke Ad* . vocates Repeal of AH Forms of Income Tax and Revision of Estate and Gift Taxes; Roosevelt Sees Business Leaders Washington, Jan. 19.—(AP)—Sena tor Pittman, Democrat, Nevada, told the Senate today the public lands com mittee had received “astounding re velations in regard to the laxity arid inefficiency, if not criminal carelesa ness in the Interior Department. The committee has been holdng hearings on the nomination of E. I£. Burlew to be first assistant secre ary of the interior. Testimony has shown Reno Stitely, an Interior Department pay Clerk, defrauded the government of $34,001} . )f CCC funds. Pittman, a committee member, ad- Iressed the Senate before southerner? resumed the filibuster against the anti-lynching bill. The Treasury revealed, meanwhile, "hat the social security and railroad "etirement programs cost, up to Jan uary 1, $294,681,343 more than the in come from the taxes imposed to fin ance them. The total expenses were given as $960,975,659, and receipts $666,294,316. Other developments: , James H. R. Cromwell, husT:ahd/af "he wealthy Doris Duke Cromwell re commended to the House Ways ahd Means Committee immediate fedute , tion and ultimate repeal of all forttis of income tax. He also advocated .jfdi vision of estate and gift taxes dnd adoption of a manufacturers’ sales tax on finished consumer goods. He testified at hearings on propoeglil of a waps and means sub-coihmitwi for revising the tax structure. ■ y President Roosevelt, reporting pt - «Continued on Page Three.) G-Men Are MumAbout New Killer St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 19. — (API- Federal agents kept grim, close mouthed watch today over Peter An ders, brought here in a surprise move after his arrest on the west coast for the kidnap-killing of Charles Ross, re tired Chicago manufacturer. Led by their Chief, Edgar Hoover, the officers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation swept into St. Paul last night with their heavily-rtlanacled captive, who was seized Friday near Los Angeles. Anders, called by Hoover the con fessed kidnap-slayer of Ross and the (Continued on Page Three.) BIG TDRNOVEROF 1939 SENATE SEEN “Gentlemen’s Agreements” Will Keep Many from Returning Now Daily Dlapatch Rnrena. >n the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Jan. 19.— There is certain to be a big turnover in the 1939 State Senate. This is true of every new Senate be cause of the many “gentleman’s agree ments’’ in effect throughout the State whereby a system of rotation is ob served among the counties of many districts. A survey of prospective candidates indicates that at least 11 senators from the first fifteen districts of the State (districts which furnish exactly . half the membership) will be ineligi ble to stand for re-elfection by reason of pacts of this kind. Thus only 14 senators from these 15 district have a chance to come back in 1939 and many of these will fall by the wayside either SContfrued on Page Five)
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