HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH year
Celebrate Birth of Flying
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IMhIhI m Bail
0n the ; ! .’ th anniversary of the first successful flight in a heavi?r-than
®ir m ?, chin f e ’ Orville and Wilbur Wright, Billy Cox and Jack Wilson
kL C ° Un 0 J KinbSmilN 3 ? ° n the g ™ nite Py lon memorial erected
n Kill Devil Hill, N. C., scene of the pioneer flight.
Vs inter Has
heavy Tolls
Over Europe
Many Lives Taken and
Great Property Loss
Results from Frigid
Temperatures Over
Most of Continent; 25
Belov/ Recorded In
Norway
London, Dec. 20. —(AP) —Winter
ro>d up a heavy toll of lives in many
European countries today.
A ferry boat, creeping through the
icy Tagus river at Lisbon, struck a
do-dye and sank, with 25 of the 70
ferry passengers believed drowned.
More than 20 deaths were attribut
ed to the cold, 23 degrees above zero
e England. A violent northeast wind
foiled relief for three keepers at a
lighthouse off the coast of County
Cotk, Ireland.
Paris and suburbs counted nine
d' d Hundreds of barges were
e.-oight in frozen north French canals.
R ih oad signals froze in Scandina
v. i delaying continental expresses.
.Norway had the lowest tempera
u.' yesterday, 25 below zero; Sweden
v. .second, with 20 below,
in Hungary, the cold snapped a
and derailed a train, injuring six
;■ “tigers. Several ships in the
R k Sea radioed distress signals.
Weather forecasts were for con
tinued cold.
Rural Anson
Offered Free
Electric Line
Dailv Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Waiter Hotel.
Raleigh, Dec. 20 —The North Caro- J
Rural Electrification Authority
1 other State officials here would
'• to know who are responsible for
*ecr nt sensational and decidedly mis
1'- ung handbills widely circulated
-i.o-ig Anson county farmers in an
effort to induce them to join the
A:, on Rural Electric Mutual Asso
ciation, Inc.”
These bills carried, in very bold
1 ■ ;<< . the statement “FREE —$400,-
F RFE for the Anson Rural Elec
-1 ' Mutual Association, Inc.” The
' of the handbills planted a most
Rowing picture of the benefits of
m r.il electricity as provided under
:i i ;spices and supervision of the Fed
,,:i Rural Electrification Adminis
-1 > tion.
odor ordinary circumstances, the
1 f t ihar some one grossly misrepre
'n>fd what the Federal government
will or will not do in the matter of
yiving ()r loaning (it’s a well-known
f:, 't that the Federal REA never
‘gives’’ anybody anything, it can
0,1 >.y loan” under the law) would be
matter of considerable unconcern
the State REA, but the Anson
unty circulars have brought to
Ludley Ragley, the State director,
more than a fair share of trouble and
a kgravation. Now everybody wants
I'' 1 '' K (; t some of that “free” money, and
- J • Bagley is forced to explain, as
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associated press.
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Pictured in his hospital bed at
Winston-Salem, N. C., is Dallas
Barr, 18, reported in danger of los
ing both feet from gangerene. Barr
charges he was kept in unheated,
unlighted cell six days, during which
he was fed one piece of bread and
one cup of water. He was serving
four months for larceny. Charges
of torture are under investigation.
(Central Press )
LaGuardia
Is Attacked
In New York
New York, Dec. 20.—(A*!*) —
Mayor LaGuardia was slugged to- ~
day as he mounted City Hall
steps by a heavy-set, gray-hair
ed man tentatively identified as
J. Hagan. The assailant who
ed upon the mayor from behind
and struck him down with a blow
of his fist, was set upon by by
standers and police and beaten in
sensible.
“He’s been hounding me for four
years,” said the mayor. He did
not amplify the remark, but it led
city hall employees to suppose
that Hagan was a disappointed
office-seeker.
The attack occurred in the pre
sence of hundreds of persons gath
ered in and near the City Hall to
watch the demolition of the old
federal building that stands there.
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Henderson’s
Bonds Sold
At Low Rate
3 1-4 and 3 1-2 Per*
cent Interest Given
With Premium of $1 IS
on $55,000 Sewage
Plant Offerings; Lyn
chburg Concern Buy
er of Securities
Raleigh, Dec. 20. —(AP)—The
Local Government Commission'
sold $220,000 worth of bonds for
local units today. The full com
mission met for its regular quart
erly session, and reviewed work
done since the last meeting. The
biennial report for the 1939 legis
lature was approved, Secretary
W. E. Easterling said.
The Federal Public Works Ad
ministration bought at par, with
interest at four percent, a $33,-
000 Princeton water and seweer
securities issue.
A Henderson $55,000 sanitary
sewer bond issue was sold to
Scott, Horner and Mason, of Lyn
chburg, Va., at a premium of
sll9, with the first $29,000 of the
maturities bearing 3 1-4 percent
interest and the remainder 3 1-2
percent.
The commission authorized the
Washington public school district
of Beaufort county to issue $lO,-
000 refunding bonds.
GREENSBORO DOCTOR
FIGHTS EXTRADITION
Richmond. Va., Dec. 20.—(AP)—
Governor Price was expected to re
turn to Richmond from Norfolk this
'’fterncon to resume an extradition
hearing for Dr. John W. Dyer, of
Greensboro, N. C., wanted in North
Carolina on a charge of escaping
custody of an officer.
After hearing Friday, the governor
announced that further hearing would
he held today. Dyer was jailed in
North Carolina last January for con
tempt of court in connection with ali
mony proceedings.
Think Burlington
Killer Is Held At
Hospital In W. Va.
Huntington, W. Va., Dec. 20.
*AP)—Federal agents announced
t'dev th" detention of a patient
at the WeVh State Hospital on
suspicion he was one of a band of
men which shot end t*-*e
Nrrth Carolina police officers at
Burlington, N. C., December 9.
Walter McLaughlin, agent in
charge of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation here, said the pa
tient was Wade Hanford, who was
found on a slag pile
. cn the outskirts of Welch, a south
ern West Virginia coal town, sev
eral days ago. He was taken to the
hosp’ta! suffering from carbon
nonoxide poisoning.
McLaughlin, ordering a guard
placed aroun l Hanford at the hos
pital sa : -jj Fedpra'; agentis had
identified the patient as one of the
hand which, in a gunfight, killed
Shor s ff M. P. Robertson and
P'-liceman S. Badger Vaughn, of
Burlington. The federal agents
said Hanford had been charged
with unlawful flight to avoid pro
secution for murder.
Hear Musica
Peddled Arms
To Kai-Shek
New York. Dec. 20.—(AP) —Federal
officials, delving into the fantastic
story that Philip Musica, as F. Don
ald Coster, respected president of
McKesson & Robbins, Inc., tried to
sell 2,000,000 rifles and 100 million
rounds of ammunition to some uni- J
dentified nation turned today to a
report that they might have been
destined for the Chinese General
Chiang Kai-Shek.
Under questioning by Gregory
Noonan, acting United States auor
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Trapper-Guide Freed. By
Jail To Save Shipwreck
Juneau, Alaska, Dec. 20.—(AP) —A
trapper-guide released from a city
jail on drunkenness charges because
he knew the perilous Cape Fair
Weather country, led 16 shipwreck
survivors toward Lituya Bay and ul
timate rescue today.
The guide, Nels Ludwingson, had
served six days of a ten-day sentence
when he was released so he could ac
company Pilot S. Simmons to the
scene of the stranded motorship Pat
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 20, 1998
Lima Parley
To Act For
Protection
Resolution Will Pro
vide for Joint Defense
of American Contin
ents Against All Ag
gressors; U. S.-Argen
tine Differences To Be
Settled
Lima, Peru, Dec. 20. —(AP) —A re
olution expressing the determina
tion of Pan-American states to de
fend one another against aggression
was sent to the Pan-Ameiican Con
'erence delegations today, with the
Ttelihood it would be acted upon be
fore the week-end.
The draft was prepared by A. M
Franco, the Brazilian chairman, and
presented a compromise between
:he United States’ wish for a decla
ration against incursion by non-Ame
rican powers and Argentine’s insist
e . ' oon con demnation of any ag
gression. The compromise was said
to be merely a stronger wording of
the 1936 Buenos Aires conference
agreement, which provided for consul
I Ljßcn of “pe ce or the American re
publics is menaced.”
I Dr. C. Concha, Peruvian foreign
| minister, and M. Franco, in frequen.
| contact with United States Secretary
| Hull, sought the wishes of the other
i delegations before the final draft is
i presented formally to the conference.
| Indications were adjournment would
be Monday or Tuesday and the 1943
conference would be at Bogota, Co
lumbia.
Coast Guard
Plane Falls,
Killing Four
San Antonio, Te?-, Dec. 20.—(AP)—.
A flaming United States Coast Guard
service plane crashed 30 miles north
west of here last night, killing four
men. The dead were identified as
Lieutenant P. S. Lyons, unit com
mander of the coast guard at El Paso;
Rupert Germaine, United States
Guard, El Paso; George Latham, en
listed man, Fort Bliss, El Paso; C. H.
(Peague, United States naval ensign,
El Paso.
The body of Peague was not located
until early today, although it was but
a few feet from the wreckage.
LYONS WON WIDE FAME AS
“MERCY PILOT” RECENTLY
Salem, Mass., Dec. 20.—(AP)
Lieutenant Perry S. Lyons, 34, killed
in a plane crash northwest of San
Antonio, Texas, last night, won wide
fame as a “mercy pilot” during two
and a half years as commander of
the Coast Guard’s air base here.
In dead of winter or in the middle
of the night, the service’s ambulance
plane frequently flew seaward to the
aid of some stricken seaman.
21 WPA Projects
Call ForSpending
Os $378,192 Sum
Raleigh, Dee. 20.—(AP)—Twen
ty-one projects to cost $378,192.64
and employ 859 persons got ap
proval today from State WPA
Administrator George Coan.
CherryvHHe got $122,128.34 to
improve town-owned streets, and
work 153 persons.
Other projects included:
Franklin county, $15,310 for im
proving roads; Wilson, $15,765 for
installing ar l connecting water
mains in Waterworks Road and
Goldsboro, Nash and Anderson
streets; Saratoga (Wilson county),
$6,581 for a home economics-com
munity building.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Increasing cloudiness and
warmer; Wednesday cloudy and
.unsettled; slightly warmer in
east. :*n*i
terson. Simmons returned two sur
vivors who needed medical aid here
in his plane. He left Ludwingson with
the others. Ludwingson immediately
organized the remaining survivors in
to a hiking party, and the men set
on their 30-mile trek to Lituya bay.
Today two navy planes from the
Sitka base were to take a landing
party of coast guardsmen from a cut
ter at Fort Althorp to establish a
camp at Lituya.
Modification Os Wagner Act
On A. F. Os L. Program To Be
Asked From Coming Congress
No Third Party, Says Lewis
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John L. Lewis, leader of the C. I. 0., is shown at Washington as he held
a press conference. He announced that the C. I. 0. will stick to the
Democrats and steer clear of third parties in 1940 “unless the Democrats
pick a candidate opposed to labor’s aims.”
(Central Press)
Medical Group And
Doctors Indicted
In Anti-Trust Case
Dodd Arraigned
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William E. Dodd, Sr., former United
States Ambassador to Germany, is
pictured at Ashland, Va., where he
was arraigned on hit-and-run
charges of having run down a little
colored girl while driving near Han
over Court House, Va. Trial was
set for Jan. 10.
(Central Press)
Pan-American
Axis Better
Than Europe
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Dec. 20.—The align
ment Secretary of State Hull has been
organizing at the pan-American gath
ering in Lima, Peru,
probably would be
referred to in Eu
rope as an “axis.”
Like the Berlin-
Rome axis, subse
quently inclusive of
Tokyo. Webster de
fines an axis as
something upon
w h i ch something
else turns some
thing like a globe or
wheel, though the
latter kind generally
is described as an
axle. A certain breed
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of deer also is called an axis. These
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY
Charged With Refus
ing Membership To
Doctors Giving Ser
vice to Health Groups;
Medical Association
To Fight To Last
Ditch, Fishbein Says
Washington, Dec. 20. —(AP) —The
American Medical Association, three
local medical societies and 21 indi
vidual physicians were indicted today
by a Federal grand jury for violation
of the Sherman anti-trust act.
The societies named were the Med
ical Society of the Distyict of Colum
bia, the Harris County (Texas) Medi
cal Society and the Washington (D.
C.) Academy of Surgery.
Among the 21 physicians indicted
were Dr. Olin West, secretary of the
American Medical Association; Dr.
Morris Fishbein, editor of the Ame
rican Medical Association’s Journal;
Dr. Arthur Christie, prominent Wash
ington radologist, and Dr. Prentiss
Wilson, who recently cooperated in
filing a suit against the Washington
Group Health Association, charging
that group health physicians had in
jured his practice in furnishing medi
cal service through the association.
Others indicted are officials qf the
American Medical Association or its
affiliated societies.
The Department of Justice institut
ed proceedings against the American
Medical Association last October,
charging that it was acting in re
straint of trade in violation of the
anti-trust act. Specifically, it charg
ed that the association, some local
societies and individual physicians
were preventing other physicians and
cooperative medical organizations
from supplying medical service by re
fusing membership in medical socie
ties to individual physicians who join
ed such groups.
Particularly involved were the af
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Frisco Dock Strike To
Protest
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 20. —(AP)
—San Francisco faced the possibility
of a waterfront shutdown today as
Chinese pickets, munching roast pork,
and American sympathizers eating
hotdogs spread their protest against
shipment of asserted war materials
to Japan to a second freighter of the
San Francisco Waterfront Employers
Association.
Whether the port would be tied up
was expected to be determined at a
meeting today of the labor represen
tatives’ committee of the employer
Housing And
Relief Also
Are Talked
Government Reorgan
ization Also Before
Agents of 102 Unions
in Federation; Ger
many To Allow Ame
ricans Full Share In
Inheritances There
Washington, Doc. 20.—(AP)— The
American Federation of Labor called
together today representatives of its
102 unions to survey its legislative
program for the next Congress, in
cluding revision of the Wagner labor
act. Housing, relief and the Presi
dent’s government reorganization bill
also were expected to be discussed.
Federation attorneys were working
on drafts of amendments to the Wag
ner act, approved at the annual con
vention. Their exact nature has not.
been indicated. The convention also
voted to oppose confirmation of Don
ald W Smith for another term on the
Labor Relations Board
The federation is expected to sup
port continuation of the relief pro
gram.
Other developments:
Germany notified the United States
today that all inheritance credits due
Americans on the estates of persons
deceased in Germany hereafter will
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Asks Receivership
For Wheeling, W. Va.
Investment Group
Clarksburg. W. Va.. Dec. 20.—1AP)—
A petition for establishment of a re
ceivership of the Fidelity Investment
Association of Wheeling. W.. Va.,
charged with fraudulent practices hy
the Federal Securities Exchange
Commission, was sent to the Federal
court clerk’s office in Wheeling today.
The petition was filed by the law
firm of IRay L. Strother, and O. L.
McDonald, in the Clarksburg office
of the Federal court late ye’sterday.
McDonald said his firm represented
a group of New York and Philadel
phia attorneys who would press for
the receivership.
U. S. Refugee
Head Invited
Into Germany
London, Dec. 20. —(AP) —Field Mar
shal Herman Goering today invited
George Rublee, American director of
the International Refugee Office, to
visit Berlin to complete the German
financial plan for getting Jews out of
Germany. Rublee is the permanent
executive in charge of the Interna
tional Committee assisting refugee,
a group whose principal efforts in
the past month have been spent to
ward aiding German Jews.
The invitation from Goering, chief
of the Nazi four-year economic self
sufficiency plan, came On the heels of
the visit to London last week of the
president of the IReichbank Schacht
on an unofficial mission attempting
to arrange the financial end of Jew
ish emigration.
It also came after Prime Minister
Chamberlain, in Commons yesterday,
said he was “still waiting for a sign
from those who speak for the Ger
man people,” that they were ready to
make “their contribution” for Euro
pean peace.
jCargo To Japan
group and CIO longshoremen, who
for three loading days have refused
to pass through lines of Chinese chil
dren to hoist Japan-bound scrap iron
aboard the Greek freighter Spyfos.
Picket spokesmen declared A. Roth,
association president, had threatened
to shut down the port if longshore
men did not return to work. But
Roth denied he had said just that.
“The condition is not that serious,”
he said. “The meeting today of the
joint labor relations committee will
settle the affair quietly, I am sure,
and without excitement.”
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