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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR ENVOYS TELL School Body Asks 12th Grade And Other Radical Changes In State System Os Schools Would Take $5,000,000 In Finances Higher Pay for Teach ers and Provision for Their Retirement Re commended; Voca tional Emphasis Urg ed; Would Subjugate School Commission Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL. tßaleigh, Dec. 6.—lmmediate inau guration of a program to give the public schools a twelfth .grade within four years, a two-increment salary raise for more experienced teachers, and a recommendation that “whatever else it may do” the J 939 General As sembly enact a retirement program for teachers with 35 years service stand out in bold relief in a compre hensive 18-section report submitted to Governor Clyde R. Hoey today by the commission authorized by the last legislature to “examine and report on the public educational system of North Carolina.” The report has many ramifications in the field of finance and politics as veil as education and is certain to furnish the basis of prolonged debate and discussion in the General Assem bly session opening next month. In releasing the report, the governor said he has not had time to give it study enough to express any opinion upon its recommendations. Cost of $5,000,000. Officials hesitated to make any de finite estimate of the cost of imme diate changes urged by the commis sion, but rough “guesses” placed the increased annual cost to the state at not less than $5 000,000 should all the recommendations be enacted into law fcy the Assembly. Recommendations which would in crease operating costs, in addition to the twelfth grade, salary raises and a retirement program included in creased appropriations for adult edu cation, establishment of industrial arts and pre-vocational program and change in the compulsory attendance age to 16. Political Dynamite. On the political side, the commis sion urged “immediate relief from scattered administration” and recom mended that the General Assembly Place administration of the public schools under the hoard of education, with the present school commission relegated to the status of an “ad visory” body. This section put again in the arena of fighting politics the long-standing battle of the Department of Public In struction, backed by the North Caro lina Education Association, to get con trol of all school “spending”, a field now within the jurisc’y.tion and veto of the powerful State School Commis sion, of which Lloyd Griffin, is head. On the subject of teacher tenure, the commission skirted the political whirlpools with a recommendation for further study and a dictum strong *y condemning “partisan politics, nepotism and personal favoritism call <!fl to its attention as existing here an d there in North Carolina.” Against Nine Months Term. The only definitely negative stand °f the commission was in the case °f the suggested nine-months State supported term. Here the members took notice of limited State means mid agreed that the extended term should be left to local units, with the fttulc undertaking operation of schools for only eight months. Vocational education, consolidation, transportation, certification and teach supply, local participation, higher 'plication recodification of school uws, a health and physical education P’ eg ram and a special governor’s com mission on education came in for dis cussion in the report. Among the high spots of its rec ommendations along principal lines For Twelfth Grade, welfth Grade: A flexible basis to r f ‘ s tublished which will permit stu . f \° Coßl Plete course in such time ' lf ‘ ir ability justifies. A period o* n ‘‘ .Year to he utilized for study and * xp''! imentation in a program of introduction, to the end that hin four years of September, 1939 m full program will be in effect in school systems. ucational Education: That the en \ - , e (Continued on Page Four ) ilrnttersmt Simla Slistratch I 'THE E ABsSoii T S # l f^g| s OF School Recommendations Presented By Commission Raleigh, Dec. 6.—(AP)—Far-reach ing changes in North Carolina’s pub lic education , system—including the establishment of a 12th grade in all State-supported schools—were recom mended to Governor Hoey and the General Assembly in a report made •public today by a special study com mission . The commission, authorized by the 1937 legislature and appointed by the Governor, drafted the report after a sweeping survey of North Carolina’s educational needs. The report recommended: 1. The 12th grade be added “gradu ally,” becoming a full part of the school system within four years after September, 1939. 2. The age for compulsory school at tendance be raised from 14 to 16, and that the compulsory attendance Uw be enforced. ?. The maximum salary of teachers with ‘‘A” grade certificates and n>ne or more years be raised immediately 4. No immediate action be taken 19 Miners Die And Many Are Hurt In Nova Scotia Shaft 26 Mine Cars Carry ing 250 Workers Into Mine for Work Break Loose and Crash Far Beneath Surface of Earth; Some Victims Decapitated. Sydney. Nova Scotia, Dec. 6.—(AP) —(Canadian Ih’ess) —Nineteen men were known to have been killed and many others seriously injured today in Nova Scotia’s worst coal mine dis aster in twenty years. Fourtee n bodies were brought to the surface two hours after a string of 26 mine cars, (Tarrying 250 workers, broke loose and plunged out of control down a mile-long incline into the walls of the main deep. Five injured died in hospitals later. The ‘tragedy occurred in the Prin cess colliery of the Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Company as a shift was.riding down to work. A haulage calhe snapped as the string of cars', known as a riding rake, was going down a ten percent grade. The cars gathered momentum rapidly, but some men were able to jump in the first few seconds. Most of these escaped serious injuries. Rescue workers brought out 14 bodies and returned to the pit. They said it was impossible yet to say how many more bodies might still be in the wreckage of the rake. Survivors said that some men in the wildly plunging rake, seeking to follow the few who escaped at the start, stood up and were decapitated by the jagged ceiling. Others remain ed on their seats and were buried in the wreckage as the train crashed. The roar of the crash echoed through the shaft and slopes that level off at a depth of 1,480 feet, far below the waters of Sydney harbor. The shaft througn which the cars plunged is only eleven feet in dia meter, and many men were thrown from the cars were seriously hurt. The crowd at the pithead grew rapidly as news of the tragedy spread, but there was hardly a sound except for the occasional voice of a child as relatives waited for some word from underground. There was little to do but wait. BIG GERMAN PLANE CRASHES AT MANILA Manila, P. L, Dec. 6—(AF)— Unable to hold altitude after one of its four motors stalled, the big German Condor monoplane made a forced landing and sank in Ma nilla harbor today as it neared the end of a non-stop flight from Tokyo. Its crew of * iv ® ® nd passenger were uninjured. ,Th plane had flown from Tokyo in ten hours, 52 minutes. _ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. toward increasing the terms of State supported schools from eight to nine months. 5. The State Administrative setup for schools be consolidated, with ihe school commission becoming an ad visory commission to the board of education. 7. More attention be given to voca tional courses in public schools and to the possibility of setting up State supported junior colleges to give ad ditional higher education of a voca tional nature. 8. A retirement fund be set up for school employes. 9. Practices indicating “partisan politics, nepotism, and personal fav orites” in the hiring of teachers in some school units be stopped imme diately. 10. The teachers’ certification pro gram be revised. 11. A halt he called to the multiply ing of school administrative units by (Continued on Page Four) Raps Power Rates HHi S; ik " 1 Rf - jt fBHBk J mW i HnHHHF ]g|® a Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, who was dis missed as the head of the Tennessee Valley Authority, is pictured as he appeared before the congressional committee investigating the TVA in Washington. Morgan challenges the assertion that present rates of the TVA are a yardstick for private utility tariffs, said TVA was “giv ing power away.” (Central Press) German Drive On Jews Hits King Carol Berlin, Dec. 6.- (AP)— Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels’ news paper, Der Angriff, pursued its anti- Jewish campaign today by publishing a photograph of Magda Lupescu, close friend of King Carol of Rou mania, only 13 days after the king was Adolf Hitler’s honored guest. A frontpage picture of Madam Lupescu and her father was captioned “Ugly Jews.” The remainder of the newspaper’s first page was devoted to “the story of a king and his Jew ish l'ady friend.” As related by the chief editor, the story was a modernized Nazified ver sion of the Bible book of Esther. At its conclusion, the writer averred “to n ypody who can read he twegn the lines the book of Esther reads like an actual occurrence of our time.” No modern name was mentioned, how ever. ) HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 6 1938 FDR ABOUT CRISIS IN EUROPE Germany and France Sign New Accord N • * Pledge To Seek Set* tlement of Disputes by Conference; ‘ ‘Catch" > in It, However I Paris, Dec. 6. —(AP) —France arid Germany today signed a pact which pledged them to seek settlement of fu ture disputes by negotiation, instead of war. * Joachim von Ribbentrop and Georges Bonnet, foreign ministers of Germany and France, put their signa tures to two cream-colored sheets of vellum, one inscribed in French, the other in German, concluding nego tiations for a good neighbor accord. German informants said Von Rib Denthrop expected to drive a hard bargain, however, for specific points ou.-side the treaty. The pact itself, three paragraphs long put in black and white Chancel lor Hitler’s often repeated oral renun ciation of a claim upon Alsace-Lor raine. This was achieved by a phrase •recognizing existing frontiers. On France's side, informed sources said, the pact constituted formal re cognition that Austria had vanished, and that Czechoslovak Sudetenlarul was German. Furthermore, the declaration con tained an agreement to submit any disputes to consultation. What the I act left unsaid was the subject for further negotiation between Von Rib benthrop .and his staff, premier Dala dier, Foreign Minister Bonnet and their veteran advisors of foreign af fairs. France wanted to know wheth er Germany backed the Italian agita tion for Tunisia and Corsica. France also wanted to know how determined was Germany on her own colonial demands. Premier Daladier- 5 fetipiself said yes terday that the French answer would be “No” to both colonial .aspirations. Business And Labor Oppose Profit Plans By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Dec. 6.—President Wil- ■ liam Green of the American Federa- j tion of Labor takes a very enlighten- , ed view of the pro posal to encourage j industrial profit; sharing—that is to ! say, the sharing of j profits by employers | with their employes. The A. F. of L.,, Green explains, is friendly to profit sharing in principle, but it opposes the suggested g'o vern mental method of encouraging it. The scheme, in short, is to make tax conces- Green sions to employers who split profits with their workers. The A. F. erf Li’s assumption is that the average em-1 ployer would take advantage of such | a system to hold wages to a mini mum, pointing out that his workers would more than make up the differ ence from their profits dividends. It’s agreed that this would be all right if the workers could be sure of getting their fair share. The trouble is that: 1— The employer would pare down wages. 2 Then said employer would get his tax concession. 3—The employer aforesaid would do his own profit reckoning and he might do it more than moderately. He’d have access to the books and the workers would have to take his word for everything. It’s true, funny things can be done by expert accoun tants. There’s a Difference. Net result: The employer could get about 10 per cent in tax concessions and the workers about one per cent as their share of the profits. Green’s notion is to have profit sharing dickers made, on a collective capital-and-labor bargaining basis, giving labor a look-in on accountancy, without any governmental interfer ence. Thus, he remarks, capital and labor might became real partners. Finance Committee Chairman H. Boardman Spalding of the National Association of Manufacturers raises another objection. In general the A. F. of L. and the National Manufac turers’ Association are poles apart but they concur in regarding profit shar ing, by the taxation method, skept ically. The plan’s to stimulate sharing by gentler taxation with profit sharing employers. v So far, okay. But if taxation can be employed to (Continued on Page Four.) Says U* S. Stopped Growing iff J®/- ** / JMpv mm Leon Henderson, economist and executive secretary of the temporary National Economic Committee, is pictured with one of the charts he used in explaining, to the congressional anti-monopoly committee in Wash ington, that the economic growth of the United States has stopped. Ha says any program for the rehabilitation of business must face that fact. (Central Press) Italy Will Acquire Tunisia, Students Are Told By Leader Rome, Dec. 6.—(AP) —(Several hun dred fascist students after an unsuc cessful attempt to reach the French .Embassy, demonstrated in the streets of Rome today in nupppej. of Italian claims to French controlled Tunisia. The students deserted class rooms of several Rome schools and trooped through the streets, shouiing, “Tunisia is ours.” Their path to the French Embassy was blocked by strong police guards established on the surrounding streets. Turned back, the students marched to the Palazzo Venezia, where they called for Premier Mussolini and sang fascist songs. II Ducc did not appear. The crowd then made a second at tempt to approach the French Em- France’s Defense Bill Near Billion Paris, Dec. 6. —(AP) —France to day earmarked approximately $686,000,000 for her army and navy in 1339, thus increasing such ex penditures $280,000,000 just before signature of a “no-war” agreement, with her traditional enemy Ger many. The Chamber of Deputies fin ance committee provisionally ap proved about $212,000,000 for both the ordinary and extraordinary na val budget. Previously the com mittee had approved $473)000,000 for the army. Aviation’s budget of $281,000,000, which has not been presented to the committee yet, is expected to swell the grand totai to $970,000,000 for arms during the coming year. U.S. Moves To Aid U. S. Jews In Germany Berlin, Dec. 6. —(AP) —United States (consular officials today sought offi cial German interpretation as to what effect the adti-Jewish restrictions might have on American Jews hold ing property in Germany. Liquidation of those holdings al ready is under way, and many Ameri can Jews have cleaned up their af fairs in Germany during the last few days. A German newspaper estimated at $3,080,000,000 dollars the total of Jew ish wealth which “must be moved” under the economic ministry decrees authorizing liquidation of Jewish pos sessions. German press commentators agreed foreign Jews were not subject to pro visions of yesterday’s decrees, which forbade Jews to sell or pawn jewel ly or other valuables without a govern ment permit, and ordered tnem to de posit all securities at banks. But some sections of the press were of the opin ion foreigners were included in the ban on Jews owning real estate in industrial undertakings, and it was this angle that United States offi (Continued oa Page Four.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY bassy, and again ran against the police line. • The students next marched to the Rome headquarters of the- fascist party. Their continued uproar brought the -provincial secretary, , Apdrea Ippollto, to the balcony. Ippolito told the students their demonstration was “more than legitimate,” and that they had “done well to show spirit.” “Once it was students who led a warlike people forward,” the fascist official continued. “But we have no need of such methods, for we have a chief who knows his people are ready for his call.” Again when the students raised the cry “Tunisia,” Ippolito roared back: “There is no need of talking of Tunisia—we will go there.” South Holds Answer For Farm Puzzle Vote Next Saturday M.ay Make or Break Administration Crop Control Program Washington, Dec. 6.—(AP) —The South, called by some the nation’s economic problem child, holds the power this week of boosting or blast ing the administration’s farm pro gram. Three separate regional ballots next Saturday “will determine whether cot ton, rice and tobacco farmers want marketing quotas for those crops next I year. From these referenda will come i answers to questions more sharply j stated, and with a more direct bear ing on administration policies than some presented by the November elec tions. The farmers will be asked, in effect: Do you want to go ahead with ef forts to get more for what you grow by holding down production? If two-thirds of those voting answer “Yes,” quotas will be set for the amount of cotton, rice and three types of tobacco to be sold next year. These (Continued on Page Four.) ADS 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COP Persecution Os Jews One Os Subjects Ambassadors from Germany, Italy and France Closeted With President for Serious Discussion of Interna tional Situation and U. S. Relations Washington, Dec. 6. —(AP) I-resi dent Roosevelt called q < ontoi ence with State Department officials and American diplomats for mid-afternoon today for what was described as a general discussion and exchange of views on the international situation Those invited to attend were Sum ner Welles, acting secretary of state; Hugh Wilson, William Phillips and William C. Bullitt, ambassadors, -e --spectively, to Germany, Italy and Prance. The conference was arranged short ly after the President arrived from Chapel Hill, N. C. In an address there late yesterday, he declared th» Unit ed States was “not only the largest and most powerful democracy jn -,.he world, but many other lemoc: acics I. ok to us for leaders* ip that world democracy may survive.” Mr. Roosevelt conferred witn Wil son and Phillips during his two weel s vacation at Warm Spring-., Ga., or* the persecution of Jews and other racial and religious minorities in Germany and other totalitarian states. Japanese Air Attacks Halt Chinese Plans Shanghai, Dec. 6. —(AP) —The Ja panese army spokesman said today intensive air raids against Chinese troop concentrations south of Lake Tungting, Hunan province, had shat tered Generulissimo Chiang Kai- Shek’s attempt to organize a counter offensive against the Yochow and Tingking sectors. The spokesman reported the Chi nese were digging in around Tingking in an effort to halt the Japanese drive. Foreigners at Nanking confirmed reports that n squadron of Chinese planes bombed Japanese military con centrations ait the former Chinese capital on December 3-4. The amount of damage was unknown. A Domei (Japanese) News Agency dispatch from Hankow said Chi Kuo- Chen, chairman of the Japanese-spon sored local government, and his wife narrowly escaped death at the hands of an assailant last night. The as sailant attacked the couple as they slept, stabbing both of them. Neither was wounded dangerously. Japanese reported they had occu pied Kongmoon, important treaty port 35 miles northwest of the Portuguese colony of Macao, further strengthen ing their hold on Canton. $551,500 Os Local Bonds Disposed Os Raleigh, Dec. 6. —(AP)—The Docal Government Commission sold 1 $551,500 worth of bonds for local governmental units today. W. E. Easterling, secretary, said ah issue of Robeson county school bullcl ing blonds brought an “excellent price,” and that the sale of four Lumberton issues also Was “unusual ly good.” Lewis & Hall, Inc., of Greensboro, took the $45,000 Robeson school build ing securities at a premium of $5, with the first $15,000 of maturities to bear two percent interest, and the remaind er 2 1-4 percent. The Wachovia Bank & Trust Com pany, of Winston-Salem, and Lewis & Hall bought the Lumbertoh issue. For $25,000 waterworks extension se curities the bid was par, with the first $12,000 maturities to bear 2 1-2 percent and the remainder 2 3-4 per cent; $25,000 public improvements went with the first $13,000 to bear 2 1-2 percent, and the remainder 2 3-4 (Continued on Page Eight WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair to partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; slightly colder m east portion tonight.
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