HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
AUTO MAKERS AGREE ON ROOSEVELT PLAN
AXE-KILLER WAIVES
HEARING, RETURNS TO
JAIL PENDING TRIAL
proceedings in Recorder’s
Court Last Only Five
Minutes as Court
Room Is Jammed
T. S. KITTRELL IS
NAMED ATTORNEY
Recorder Clements Appoints
Him To Represent De
fendant; Prosecution
Counsel Armed With Evi
dence Had Hearing Been
Carried on by Fairbanks
Police Chief John Langston this
afternoon had several letters from
Altoona and Philadelphia, Pa.,
which he thought might possibly
implicate Clarence Fairbanks, held
here for the axe-slaying of Steve
Good, showman in automobile
theft and forgery charges in Pen
nsylvania. The communications
merely said a man by the name of
Fairbanks was wanted there on
the charges listed, and sought in
formation as to the confessed
slayer being held here.
Chief Langston also had a let
ter addressed to Clarence Fair
banks and written by Miss Teresa
Russell, of Washington, D. C., in
which she enclosed her cheek for
$5 for his defense. She said she
had read of his case in a Wash
ington newspaper, and, being a
lover of dumb animals herself,
felt sure he would not strike with
out cause in defense of birds or
animals.
Clarence Fairbanks, 23, who con
fessed the axe-slaying of his employer,
Steve Good, 36, and the critical wound
ing of Good’s wife here last Sunday
night, was bound over to Vance Su
perior Court without privilege of bail
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Insurgents
Using Full
Air Forces
100 Planes in Air at
Time in Bombard
ments of Teruel
Battle Sector
Hondaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier,
The Spanish insurgent army threw its
aerial strength into the battle for
Teruel after air raids on important
government seaports which in two
days brought death or injuries to
many hundreds.
The raids aided insurgent troops
in fresh advances, which the Span
ish government admitted included
complete occupation of a hill on
Teruel’s western front, 160 miles east
of Madrid.
More than 100 planes were in the
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Revolution In Industry
Faces Vast Development
Inventions Bringing Greate r Progress and Greater Sav
ings, Babson Says; Lower Taxes, Encouragement
to Capital All That is Necessary Now
BY ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1938, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
Babson Park, Fla., Jan. 21.—New in
dustries are one of our greatest hopes
for solving unemployment. The in
dustrial revolution, with its inven
tions and the growth of new busi
nesses, has given America her won
derful standard of living. I am con
vinced that even greater progress lies
ahead if we can only solve our taxing
problem. New industries require new
money. Our present tax laws prevent
new industries from getting this new
capital. But while the capital is lack
ing today, the inventions are not.
Since the industrial revolution be
gan 150 years ago, the speed of in
ventions has constantly increased.
From 1881-1890, 218,000 patents were
mm* . "'‘inoerson, n. a, .
Jrmtitemm Hath} Htspamt
SERVICE op
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Waives Hearing
Jr w
CLARENCE FAIRBANKS
k F. OF L. PLANS
TO EXPEL COUPLE
OF LEWIS UNIONS
Lewis’ Own Mine Workers
and Hillman’s Clothing
Workers Slated for
Ousting
A. F. L. THEN WOULD
ENTER SAME FIELD
Lcirg as These Groups Are
Even Technically in Fede
ration It Cannot Compete
With Them, Under Its
Constitution; Decision At
Miami Next Week
Washington, Jan. 21.—(AF)—Unless
there is a last-minute change of inten
tions, the American Federation of La
bor’s executive council will expel at
least two of its CIO unions at its
Miami meeting beginning next Mon
day.
Definitely slated for the axe are
John Lewis’ United Mine Workers,
and Sidney Hillman’s Amalgamated
Clothing Workers. Federation leaders
are also talking of severing the last
technical tie between the AFL and
the ClO’s refinery and metal mining
union.
All sides agree that expulsion in it
self would be unimportant. Suspension
of the CIO unions a year and a half
ago amounted to expulsion. As long
as the CIO unions even technically
remain AFL members, however, the
federation could not start what it now
• Continued on Page Three.)
issued at Washington. In the ten years
from 1921-30 the total had more than
doubled to 442,000. The depression did
not put on the brakes. In fact, it
stepped up the tempo under the im
petus of the need for cost-saving de
vices and new products. Hence, the
Patent Office’s speedometer now reg
isters 50,000 patents yearly. And with
all the New Deal “reforms”, the next
few years will probably set a new all
time record.
Inventions Brinp Progress.
These new patents and their indus
trial offspring have had a tremendous
effect on our lives. The infant indus
tries of today will bring further
changes in our industrial progress.
They will throw millions out of work
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
FRANCE POTS ALL
NATIONAL DEFENSE
UNDER SAME HEAD
Centralization Decree Sign
ed by President Lebrun
Common Only in
War-Times
CHAUTEMPS SEEKS
CHAMBER BACKING
Takes New Cabinet Before
Parliament for Approval;
Extremist Parties Unwill
ing To Attempt To Over
throw Ministry in Present
Crucial Hour
Paris, Jan. 21 (AP) —France today
decreed centralization of all her army,
navy and air forces under the defense
minister, a measure usually adopted
only in war-times.
The coordination decree was sign
ed by President Albert Lebrun dur
ing a meeting of the government be
fore Chautemps presented his calbi
net to Parliament for approval.
Pierre Jacomet, army comptroller,
was named general secretary of the
defense ministry of Edouard Daladier
to aid in putting the almost unpreced
ented defense program in effect.
The decree made General Gamelin,
present chief of the army staff, chief
of the general staff of national de
fense, embracing army, navy and air
services. Air and navy ministers be
came subject to Daladier’s supervi
sion .
There were assurances that the
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HANCOCK PAYS HIS
FEE FOR CONTEST
Oxford Opponent of Senator Reynolds
Files With the State Board
’ of Elections
Raleigh, Jan. 21 (AP) —Frank Han
cock, Jr., of Oxford, paid the State
Board of Elections SIOO today to file
formally for the Democratic nomina
tion to the Unted States Senate.
Hancock, veteran member of the
lower house of Congress from the
fifth district, will oppose Senator
Robert Reynolds and Rev. A. A. John
son, both of Buncombe county, in the
June Primary. Other candidates may
announce later.
Hancock was the fifth candidate to
file with the hoard, Reynolds already
having paid his fee.
Slayers Os
Guard Were
Threatened
Columbia, S. C„ Jan. 21.—(AP)—A
story of threats from fellow convicts
to influence his testimony was told
today by George Wingrad, of Colum
bia, youngest of six defendants charg
ed with the murder of Captain Olin
Sanders in an attempted escape from
the State penitentiary.
“Woods said if any one told that
Suttles did any stabbing it would be
too bad for them,” Wingrad said after
he had contradicted the testimony of
William Woods, of Biloxi, Miss., in
which the latter shouldered all the
blame for the captain’s slaying.
Wingard testified Roy Suttles, of
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STATE REIING
U. S. POWER RULING
Assumption of Authority of
Commission Denounced
In Three Moves %
Daily Dispatch Unreal*.
I n the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Jan. 21.—North Carolina
officials are waging their strong fight
against federal “encroachment’’ upon
the State’s right to control its power
projects and sites on three separate
and distinct fronts.
(1) The attorney general’s office is
cooperating with lawyers for the Car
olina Aluminum Company in an ef
fort to overthow the Federal Power
Commission’s decision that the indus
try must have a Federal permit to
construct a power project at Tucker
town.
(2) In Washington Senator Josiah
W. Bailey is seeking to amend the
law creating the power commission in
such away as to make it plain and
certain that the State of North Car
olina shall have legal standing in
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HENDERSON, N. C„ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 21, 1938
Hudson River Ice Jam Traps Newburgh Ferry
An ice jam formed in the Hudson River off Newburgh, N. Y„ and trapped the Newburgh-Beacon ferry for
five hours. The twenty passengers aboard had to cool their heels until a change of tide jfilowed the skipper
to work the ferryboat free and steam it to the dock. (Central Press)
TWO ARMY PILOTS
DEAD AT FT. BRAGG
IN PLANE TRAGEDY
One Is Thrown Clear Os
Wreckage and Other Bad
ly Burned as Flames
Consume Wreck
FOUND FOUiTmILES
FROM POPE FIELD
Were Engaged In Routine
Flight; One of Victims
From Quincy, Mass., and
Other from Paris, Texas;
No Witnesses to Accident
Have Been: Found
Fayetteville, Jan. 21 (AP)—An army
airplane crashed and burned to death
here today, killing its two occupants,
Lieutenants Lewis fE. Countway and
Earle T. McArthur, both stationed at
Fort Bragg.
Countway was about 23 years old,
and his home was in Quincy, Mass.
He was a reserve officer, hut had been
on active duty at Pope Field, Fort
Bragg, since last July.
McArthur, about 28 years old, was
a regular army officer, and his home
address was given as Paris, Texas. He
is survived by a widow and two chil
dren.
Pope Field headquarters said no
witnesses to the accident had been
found.
The 'Charred wreckage of the plane
was discovered in a wooded place
about four miles from the flying field.
Countway had been thrown clear and
apparently had been killed instantly.
McArthur was trapped in the plane
and his body was badly burned.
The two were engaged in a routine
flight. McArthur was believed to
have been the pilot.
TRIFLING ADVANCE
IN COTTON PRICES
New York, Jan. 21.—(AP) —Cotton
futures opened one to two points high
er on trade buying. May moved from
8.61 to 8.66, leaving quotations one to
six points higher shortly after the
first half hour. At midday prices were
net unchanged to two higher.
Crime Trail
Revealed By
Ross Killer
St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 21 (AP) —An
amazing story of kidnapings, slayings
and bank robberies attributed to Peter
Anders, former lumberjack, was re
lated today after recovery of the
bodies of Charles Ross, abducted Chi
cago manufacturer, and James Gray,
from a cave deep in the northwestern
woods.
Whisking Anders hack to St. Paul
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Rain tonight and Saturday;
somewhat warmer tonight and on
east coast Saturday.
Puppet Regime Forming
Under Jap Sponsorship
To Rule Subdued China
Beal Freed From
Jail In Lawrence
Lawrence, Mass., Jan. 21. — (AP)
—Fred Beal, 41, labor organizer,
was released from the county jail
today after Dr. Albert Coolidge, cf
the Harvard chemistry department,
and Miss Jessica Hyland, of Way
land, furnished $5,0-30 bail on which
he was held for hearing January
25.
Beal is charged with being a
fugitive from justice in North Car
olina. Authorities in the southern
state have sought him eight years
in connection with the death of a
police chief during a labor distur
bance.
WIDELY APPROVED
Scarcely a Ripple of Oppo
sition to FDR’S Supreme
Court Choice
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Jan. 21 —Such adverse
criticism as I have heard concerning
Stanley F. Reed’s appointment to the
Federal Supreme Ibelnch has been
based solely upon the ground that the
appointee’s geography was not quite
right.
That is to say, since Reed is a Ken
tuckian the trans-Mississippi region
is left without a representative in the
high tribunal, which makes it a little
jealous, mayhap.
However, that is not much of a
count against Reed personally.
I do not discover that even the west
is seriously miffed, either. Its spokes
men’s complaints are mild. And all
of them supplementarily, include ex
pressions of good will toward Reed.
About the meanest remark that anti
New Dealers can think up, to make,
is that the presidential selection not
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BURY EDWARD NEIL
AT METHUEN, MASS.
Tributes raid Associated Press Cor
respondent Killed on Spanish
War Front
Methuen, Mass., Jan. 21. —-(AP) —
Edward Neil, Jr., 36, Associated Press
war correspondent, killed in Spain,
was buried in a snow-sovered hillside
here today while church bells tolled.
His last resting place was made a
mass of flowers, sent from many parts
of the world by men with whom he
had worked and others of his friends.
About 200 mourners gathered at the
grave as Neil’s body was carried by
six of his boyhood friends from here
and Lawrence.
Neil’s widow, his father, brother and
other members of the family stood
near the grave during the brief but
impressive services.
PUBLISHIDD IVIXT AFTBBNOOM
HXCB3PT SUNDAY.
“Lawrence of Manchuria”
Has Kept China in Tur
moil During Past
Ten Years
ENGINEERED TAKING
OF MANCHURIA AREA
Japanese Column North of
Nanking Pushes on Despite
Snow, Sleet and Cold; Out
er Mongolians, Backed by
Soviets, Arming Against
Japan
Shanghai, Jan. 21. —(AP) —Japan’s
“Lawrence.of Manchuria” was report
ed today to be setting up a puppet re
gime to govern the conquered heart
of China.
Chinese sources declared Lieutenant
George Doihara, political manipulator
for the Japanese army, whose efforts
launched the dismemberment of Man
churia and North China, was bring
ing in “acceptable” northern Chinese
to rule the Shanghai and Nanking
areas.
“I don’t think General Doihara is
in Shanghai at present,” said the Ja
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ROUMANIAN JEWS
MAY LOSE RABBIS
Government Orders Ouster of All Ex
cept Native Roumanians
From Synagogues
Bucharest, Roumania, Jan. 21 (AP)
—Orders which in their effect may de
prive many synagogues of their rab
bis were issued today by the Anti-
Semetic administration of Premier
Octavian Goga. Provincial and muni
cipal authorities were instructed not
to renew residence permits for rabbis
unless they held Roumanian citizen
ship.
The order is expected to affect
many Jewish communities, because
Roumania, with upwards of 1,000,000
Jews, has few native rabbis. Most of
them studied theology abroad, and
were called from other countries.
Sermons Is
Executed In
N. C. Prison
Raleigh, Jan. 21.—(AP)— James
Sermons died in the gas chamber here
today for the murder of Jesse Carlyle
Miller in Forsyth county as J. F. Mil
ler, father of the slain man, watched
the execution.
“I think it was right for him to pay
the penalty,” said the father after the
execution. He added he thought some
one else besides Sermons was involv
ed in the slaying of his son.
Also witnessing the execution, first
of the year in this State, was Grady
Swisher, of Kemersville. who was held
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
INSTALLMENT IDEA
HASANAOVANTAGE,
CAR BUILDERS SAY
Manufacturers and Finance
Company Heads Agree
in Alvin Macauley’s
Statement
NIGHT SESSIONS IN
SENATE WILL BEGIN
Leader Barkley Announces
Move in Effort To Speed
Disposition of Anti-Lynch
ing Bill; $1,000,000 Short
age In CCC Being Probed
Washington, Jan. 21.—(AP)—Lead
ing automobile manufacturers an
nounced after a White House confer
ence today they were in “hearty agree
ment” with president Roosevelt’s prin
ciples about installment selling of au
tomobiles.
However, Alvin Macauiey. presi
dent of the Automobile Manufactur
ers Association, said installment buy
ing, properly used, “had and would
continue to help millions of families
raise their standards of living, and
also that it had helped and would
continue to help increase employ
playment.”
Macauiey, spokesman for the group,
that included manufacturers and au
tomobile finance company heads, said
all concurred in his statement. He
said the group told the President they
were “hopeful a seasonal Increase in
sales in the spring will bring an im
provement in business.”
The President had said before the
conference he believed his confer
ences with business and other groups
were making satisfactory progress
and were clearing the atmosphere of
misunderstanding.
Democratic Leader Barkley served
notice in the Senate, meantime, that
he would call for night sessions, be
ginning Monday, in an effort to break
the filibuster against the anti-lynch
ing bill.
Barkley took the floor at the outset
of today’s session, the fourteenth
which the Senate has devoted to the
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Hartle Jury
Deadlocked
At Winstoh
Winston-Salem, Jan. 21.—(AP) —
Twenty-four hours after retiring to a
court house chamber, a jury of busi
ness men and farmers had failed to
decide the fate of John Hartle at noon
today.
Tense crowds milled around In For
syth Superior Court room during the
morning, waiting to hear the fate of
the 63-year-old groceryman, charged
with the murder of Walter Lee Smith.
As hours passed, the (belief spread
that the jurors were deadlocked be
tween verdicts of manslaughter or
acquittal and that a mistrial mi&ht
be declared.
Hartle shot Smith November 26
when he found the barber and Mrs.
Hartle in a darkened room of the
groceryman’s home.
Defense attorneys pleaded self-de
fense, contending Hartle shot Smith
because he thought the barber was
going to attack him.
Presiding Judge Donald Phillips
charged the jury to return a man
slaughter verdict if it found Hartle
killed Smith “in defense of his home.”
Weird Tale
Os Plots On
Jap Vessels
One Man Loses Life
Attempting To Dy
namite Liner in Se
attle Harbor
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 21.—YAP)'—A
bizarre story of ah Oriental plot to
blow up ships laden in American ports
with scrap iron and war materials for
Japan was checked by authorities to
day while steamships in Seattle har
bor were warned to beware of a crude
homemade floating bomb. .
Police Captain Marshall Scrafford
said George Partridge, 22, Canadian,
reported “orientals” had employed
him and R. M. Forsyth, school teach
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