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Marie, an eight-year-old refugee from Germany, wrote a letter to
Santa Claus from the Shelter for Catholic Refugees in New York, she
didn t ask for toys or dolls or any of the things most little girls long for.
merely asked Lieber Kristkind” to arrange for her uncle and aunt in
Germany to come to the “truly wonderful" United States. Marie’s parents
fled with her to America when threatened with imprisonment in Germany.
(Central Press',
Election Board To Ask
Sweeping Vote Reforms
Repeal of Present Absentee Law and Enact
ment of New One Proposed, With, New State
wide Registration, and Limitation of Precinct
Votes
Daily Dispatch Bureau, r
In the Sir Walter Hotel, j
Raleigh, Dec. 7.—North Carolina’s
State Board of Elections will recom- j
mend to the 1939 General Assembly a I
thorough-going revision of existing 1 ,
election laws which will include at
least three salient points:
(1) Repeal of the existing absentee
statute and substitution therefor of
a new absentee law so full of teeth
that it will bite on suspicion.
(2) A new statewide registration of
voters.
<3i A limitation on the number of
voters at any precinct in the State.
Nobody on the board is publicly an
nouncing that these points will be
stressed in the report and recommen
dations required by law to be sub
mitted to the General Assembly, but
Chairman Will A. Lucas and other
members have so frequently given
voice to their convictions that they
are certainties and not long shots.
Recommendations of the board will
not, however, be unanimous, as
George McNeill, Democrat, Fayette-
Friends Urge
Hoey To Go
To Rose Bowl
Daily Dlspaxcfi Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Dec. 7. —A really earnest
and sincere effort has been launched
to have Governor Clyde R. Hoey at
tend the Rose Bowl game in Pasa
dena, California, on January 2, when
Duke University’s Blue Devils mix
and mingle in football fray with the
Trojans of the University of Southern
California.
Representative . Clarence E. Stone,
of IRockingham county, appears to
he sponsor of the movemnet, which
he says is based on the principle that
the governor’s presence at the grid
classic would really climax the ad
vertising program of North Carolina
foe which the last General Assembly
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Negro Is Sought
For Dual Assault
Near Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, Dec. 7.— (AP)—A
posse searched today for a Negro
w ho a 15-year-old white girl said
forced her at pistol point to sub
mit twice to his advances.
I he girl told police that she was
returning yesterday to her home
oear Orange church, where the
\^ r o attacked her at Steel Bridge
about a m ii e north of here. She
Na, d that she never had seen her
assailant before, but thought she
could identify him.
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a °sociated press.
ville, and the two Republican mem
bers, Adrian Mitchell, of Windsor, and
L. V. Hall, of Charlotte, will not go
along with the chairman in recom
mending any provision for absentee
voting to replace the present law.
They are on record in favor of com
plete abolition of the absentee ballot.
The third Democrat, J. O. Bell, of
Hendersonville, has consistently made
it clear he favors the absentee in prin
ciple, but has equally consistently
stood for such reforms as will prevent
the wholesale frauds such as marked
and marred many 1938 primary elec
tions.
The Lucas view, in which Bell will
probably concur fully, is that the ab
sentee ballot can be so protected as
to make its fraudulent use almost im
possible, or at least so dangerous that
nobody will attempt it. He will recom
mend that complete authority be cen
tralized in the county election board
chairman for the issue of absentee
ballots, would make it certain that
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Composit Os
N. C. Farms Is
Os 82 Acres
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Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter HoteL
Raleigh, Dec. 7.—The State Depart
ment of Agriculture has calculated
just what the composite or “average”
North Carolina farm would have—if
such a farm in fact existed.
The composite farm, according to
the department’s census, would mon
tain 82 acres, of which only 25 acres
would be cultivated.
Five persons would live on the farm
and would use three tons of fertilizer
in cultivation of their crop. Four acres
would be cleared pasture land for
grazing only.
The composite farm would have one
cow and 17 hens of laying age.
Corn would be the largest single
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH"CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
j Wife Found Dead,
fiusband Wounded
Newton, Dec. 7.—(AP)—Mrs.
Essie Lane, 32, was found choked
to death ani her husband, Ernest.
36, seriously wounded in* their bed
room at her parents’ home at
Conover, three miles north of here,
early today.
A jury empanelled by Coroner D.
A. MeCreight returned a verdict
that Mrs. Lane had been choked to
death by her husband and that the
latter. had attempted suicide.
Lane was taken to the Catawba
county hospital, where he was sai 1
to b eiuffering from a wound in
the abdomen made with a sharp
instrument, and gashes on one of
his wrists. Notes found in the room
indicated the couple had made a
suicide pact, Coroner McCreigbt .
said.
The tragedy was discovered by
oijc of the Lanes’ two small chil
dren, who was sent tt> call them
for breakfast about 7 a. m.
Anti-French
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Outbursts
Areßenewed
Naples, Genoa, Milan
and Turin Scenes of
Demands for French
Colonies; Newspapers
Keep Agitation at Fev
er Heat Among Italian
Youth
Rome, Dec. 7.—(AP)~A new anti-
French demonstration in Naples to
day continued the noisy Italian agi
tation for African and Mediterranean
territories held by France.
Classes were suspended at the Uni
versity of Naples as several’ hundred
students walked out to march on the
French consulate. At the consulate,
however, strong police guards turned
them back. The demonstrators then
paraded through the main streets,
waving flags and shouting claims to
Tunisia, Corsica and Djibouti and ac
claiming Premier Mussolini.
A similar student demonstration oc
curred at Florence. These manifes
tations followed anti-French* outbursts
yesterday in Rome, where the French
BmJbassy still was strongly guarded
today; Genoa, Milan and Turin.
Italian afternoon papers kept the
agitation boiling. 11 Piccolo publish
ed nn account of alleged anti-Italian
measures in Tunisia under headlines
such as:
‘‘New Series of Disgusting Incidents
in Tunisia; Fifty Italians Moibbed and
Beaten; Physician and His Wife and
Daughter Injured; School Teacher
Punched; Police Intervene To Arrest
Victims.”
Anna Hahn’s
Death Set
For Tonight
Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 7. —(AP) —
Anna Marie Hahn’s 12-year-old son
went to her side to comfort her to
day as her scheduled hours of life
dwindled away.
At the same time, the convicted
prisoner’s counsel planned a possible
appeal to another woman—JudgtJ
Florence E. Allen, of the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals*—in a
last ditch effort to prevent Mrs.
Hohn’s death in the electric chair to
night.
Seeking a writ of habeas corpus in
Federal district fiourt here, Attorney
Joseph H. Hoodin said he would ap
peal to Judge Allen if the district
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Daladier Faces Victory
In Parliament Thursday
Paris, Dec. 7.—(AP)— Premier Dala
dier, continuing his strong action to
halt strikes by manning the liner
Paris with- navy men, whipped to
gether today demands for parliamen
tary control of his administration.
“You wanted a strong government
y OU got it,” will be the essence of
his words to the opening session of i
Parliament tomorrow.
Political observers said the premier
stood a good chance of smashing
hrough the Chamber of Deputies with
a margin of 100 votes in favor of his
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, DECEMBER 7,1938 pdbus 2xcept e s r unday ernoon
Sheriff, On
Job 2 Days,
Gun Victim
Policeman Also Killed
by Fugitive from Pri
son Camp; One Con
vict Escapes; Two
Were Robbing Filling
Station When Surpris
ed by Officers
Burlington, Dec. 7. —(AP. —A blazing
gun duel ended abruptly the two-day
old career of M. P. Robertson, former
veteran police officer here as sheriff
of Alamance county, and took with
him in bloody death Officer Sonnie
Vaughn, of the Burlington police
‘orce, and Roy Huffman, identified as
a from an Anson county prb
Nm ramp.
Summoned to a filling station on
Church street here, just east of the
city underpass, by the report of a
truck driver that mysterious lights
were burning inside, Sheriff Robert
son, who had just stopped in the police
office on his way heme, took Officers
Vaughn and F. B. Bailiff with him.
Bailiff said, in reconstructing the
spectacular tragedy, that, the sheriff
told him to wait outside while he and
Vaughn, with drawn guns, entered the
elation.
A volley of gunfire, allegedly from
the revolver of Huffman, felled the
two officers at the threshold. Bailiff
said that he then knocked out a win
dowpane and fired at. the two men
he saw inside. Huffman dropped, but
the other robber, identified through
pictures found in the clothes of Huff
man afterwards as Roy Kelly, anoth
er fugitive from the Anson camp, es
caped, fleeing in what officers de
scribed as a “new Pontiac with Geor
gia licenses,” headed toward Virginia.
Before winning the Democratic
nomination for sheriff that ousted
veteran Sheriff J. H. Stockard and
that carried him into office over his
Republican opponent in the Novem
ber elections, Sheriff Robertson, who
took the oath of office December 6,
had served on the Burlington police
force nine years, five years of that
time as a captain.
Vaughn also was a veteran police
officer of nine years service.
The sheriff’s office reported that
Huffman was sentenced in April of
this year in Guilford county to six to
ten years on charges of breaking and
entering and larceny and robbery. He
escaped with Kelly on October 23.
Negro Taken For
Assault In Pitt
Is Called Suicide
Greenville, N. C., Dec. 7—(A V)
—James P. Gray, Negro about 2.*
%rars old, killed himself today.
Sheriff J. Knott Proctor *ai«i, as
officers surrounded him to *i»ies*
tion him in connection with a
criminal assault on Mrs. Sam Jolly
Mrs. Jolly, wife of a farmer liv
ing about four miles from Grewv
ville on the Falkland highway, re
i orted she was attacked by a
Negro last night about 7:45 o’clock
after she had shot the man in one
finger. Sheriff Praetor said he and
his deputies had traced Gray by
blood dripping from a wounded
ringer. The Negro had been caught
placed in a car and started to
town for questioning. He jumped
from the machine and when he
saw he was surrounded in a field
Sheriff Proctor said, jerked out
a knife and killed himself.
Coroner A- A. Elwanger said it
was a clear ease of suicide and
that no inquest would be held.
Sheriff Proctor said Mrs. Jolly
was badly injured. She is an ex
pectant mother, he said he was
told by her doctor. She received
medical treatment here and re
turned to her home.
regime, which he has pledged to the
rehabilitation of a weakened French
economy and the strengthening of
armaments.
The Senate appeared to be almost
unanimous for him. Bitter criticism
was expected from communists and
socialists on three points of the Dala
dier program his use of mobile
guards and P olice to strikes he
held to endanger air upward economic
climb, decree laws imposing new
taxes and the French-German friend
ship agreement.
Pair of Aces Compare Hands
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Two of football’s most brilliant forward passers, Davey O’Brien (left),
of Texas Christian, and Sid Luckman, of Columbia, compare hands, as
the All-America stars met. Davey was in New York to receive the Heis
man Trophy, presented to the outstanding college football player in the
United States.
Jews in Austria
Must Wear Marks
Berlin, Dec. 7.—(AP)—Jews do
ing compulsory labor or construc
tion jobs in Gaenserndorf, near
Vieimu, were ordered today to wear
on their right arms a yellow badgj
similar to the badge worn by Jews
in the Middle Ages.
The order was issued by Josepf
Burckel, Nazi commissioner of
Austria, to avoid “contamination”
of Aryans who recently had been
put to work with the Jews.
The Jews working on the pro
ject have been at Gaenserndorf
since the anti-Semitic campaign
started November 10. Most of
them were handicraftsmen, and
they had been conducting a camp
like school for young Jews learn
ing trades preparatory to emigrat
ing.
Thinks Dies
Too Hard On
Ickes, Perkins
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Dec. 7.— The contro
versy between Interior Secretary
Harold L. Ickes and Representative
Martin Dies, chair-
man of the Congres
sional committee on
investigation of un-
American activities,
is undignified but
rather entertaining.
Ickes says, for ex
ample, that Dies is
“the world’s fore
most zany,” Dies
that Ickes “reeks
with poison hate.”
These are not the
only compliments
t*: ; : ; .-• •••>!
Perkins the two have ex
changed be t w een
them, either, but they’re a couple of
the most recent ones. Ferhaps they
both exaggerate. Ickes can’t possibly
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Japs Claim
Control Over
10 Provinces
Shanghai, Dec. 7. —'(AP) —'With
Japanese war planes based in the
heart of China, Japanese authorities
asserted today their aerial supremacy
had given them control of ten of
China’s provinces, even though their
infantry does not hold the territory.
Since the occupation of Hankow,
former provisional capital, Japanese
planes were said by these authorities
to have destroyed 104 Chinese planes
at yridely separated cities.
A majority of China’s key defense
points were said to be within range of
Japanese bombers. The Chinese re
ported, meanwhile, that they had
stood off a series of Japanese at
tempts to land at Takhoi, on the
south China coast, east of French
IndoChina. They admitted, however,
that the invaders had occupied King
moon, between Canton and the Portu
guese colony of Macao.
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Thurs
day; somewhat unsettled Thurs
day; slightly wanner tonight.
GerimanyAnd
jpa pel vs
Trance lalk
Agreements
Germany Makes
Pledges to France In
, Return for Hands-Off
Policy in the East
Paris, Dec. 7. —(AP) —Paris and
Germany, having signed their agree
ment to try to avoid war, today talk
ed over differences which might lead
them to break that promise in the
future.
Tift talks, between Foreign Min
ister Joachim von Ribbentrop and
George Bonnet, which began yester
day and were to continue this after
noon, were said in informed quarters
to have established Germany’s posi
tion as follows:
1. Germany will not immediately
press any colonial demands for her
self.
2. Germany will not at present back
Italy’s loud, though unofficial, de
mands for Tunisia or Corsica.
3. Germany now has no desire to es
tablish herself south of the Pyrennes
and is supporting the Spanish insur
gents chiefly because of Italy’s de
mands on her as an axis partner.
In exchange for these pledges, well
informed French sources said, Ger
many wants France to do nothing
to stop her economic political drive
in eastern Europe, bringing her ever
closer to the Russian Ukraine.
Chamberlain
Shakes Blame
As To Eden
London, Dec. 7. —(AP) —Prime Min
ister Chamberlain told the House of
Commons today that Anthony Eden,
former foreign secretary, had gone
to the United States “to present the
British point of view”, but that here
would be no “official significance” in
what he said there.
The prime minister’s remarks were
in answer to a series of questions on
a statement by Foreign Secretary Vis
count Halifax on December 1 that
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Think Farmers Resent
Keeping Payroll Taxes
Washington, Dec. 7. —(AP) —'Some
senators professed today to see ob
stacles in the path of anti-administra
tion proposals to extend social secur
ity benefits to farms and household
workers.
Senator Norris, Independent, Ne
braska, an administration supporter,
said he feared such a step would be
impractical. It is being considered
by President Roosevelt and his ad
visors. Norris said he believed it
would ‘be “next to impossible” to re
quire farmers and housewives to ket-p
payroll and tax records similar to
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Roosevelt
Hoping For
No New Tax
Expects To Cut Relief
and Other Costs To
Pay for Huge Arma
ment Increases; Total
Expenditures To Be
Held With the Present
Levels
Washington, Dec. 7. —(AP) —The
administration expects to hold ex
penditures in the next fiscal year lo
the same level as 1938-39, it was dls
cl'.osed today, even though the outlay
for defense probably will be much
larger.
A high official said that the Presi
dent’s advisors were confident the in
creased armaments costs could be off
set by reduced expenditures elsewhere
such as relief. The figures for the
next fiscal year, beginning July 1,
have not yet been announced, hut
President Roosevelt’s forecast of ex
penditures for the current fiscal year
was about $9,000,000,000 when he re
vised it last July.
At his press conference yesterday,
Mr. Roosevelt said he favored a “pay
as-you-go” policy for the contemplat
ed increase in armaments, even if a
tax increase should be necessary. He
added, however, that new levies might
not be needed, because certain gov
ernment expenditures are self-liqui
dating.
Stephen Early, presidential secre
tary, told reporters afterwards that
“budgetary adjustments” might make
higher taxes unnecessary,
Jewish Rules
In Germany
May Hit U. S.
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Berlin. Dec. 7.—(AP)—The United
States Embassy was understood today
to have, sent a detailed report to'the
State Department expressing belief
that the anti-Jewish property decrees,
announced Monday. by Economics
Minister Walthe*' Funk, may affect
American property rights.
The Embassy was said to have ask
ed Washington for Instruction's. Since
publication of the Funk decrees, Unit
ed States officials have been trying
to obtain official German interpreta
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Garner’s Role
For Congress
Big Mystery
Washington, Dec. 7. —(AP)— John
Nance Garner is likely to treat the
Capitol to a fine brand of political
poker during the next two years.
He will bring expert knowledge to
the game. Garner not only knows po
litics, but he knows all the ins and
outs of poker, although he has re
tired from active practice. None of
those who know him expect the vice
president to come back to Washington
and engage in a discussion of his plans
and hopes for the next two years. He
does not work that way, either in po
litics or in poker.
His friends believe he will keep
silent about the presidential boom
started for him in Texas yesterday.
What his friends do along that lr.ie
they do on their own responsibility,
without the advice of the fisherman
from Uvalde. He will not stop them.
Neither will be encourage them.
those now used by businessmen in
making social security reports.
On the other hand, Senator Green
Democrat, Rhode Island, also an ad
ministration backer, was inclined to
discount this difficulty. He said- he
had not made up his mind on pro
posals to broaden the protective base
of the law, but added that they must
be considered from a financial stand
point as well.
An influential southerner predicted
that resentment among farmers jever
any proposals to make them liable for
payroll tax payments would be t felt
in political circles immediately. >