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ofs PERSON'S POPULATION i 3,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR In Blackmail Case VC tt: R. Cragg, (above), disbar y. and Joseph Brandino, nd his sister, Mary (below) ' n placed under arrest in ' Y : k City on charges of black -1 F. Donald Coster-Musica i ht id of the McKesson and .- Irug firm. They are alleged windled Costa-Musica of < over a period of years un c : • of exposing his identity as x-eonvict. , i j Premise New Arrests In Coster Case Two Men and Woman in Custody Under Charges of Blackmail ing Late Suicide Nf.v York, Dec. 29.—(AP)— A suppos 'd “key-witness” in the in 'estitration of the tangled trick ery of the late F. Donald Coster fusica was identified today as a I'ian. now dead, who two years ago claimed he was swindled out » I 5'20,000 by Coster-Musica, sui •■ide head of the McKesson' & Rob » ns drug firm. The man was A. •i. Vitale, Brooklyn insurance broker. 1 s ory came from Walter H. I . a disbarred attorney, and one < persons accused of systemat blackmailing Coster-Musica by ""toning to expose his criminal jg told Michael F. Longho, 1-ivyer, that in 1928 Philip ,Musica (Continued on Page Three.) Credit Limit May Restrict Year’s Crop Dally Dispatch Bureau, In 'I he Sir Walter «lotel. 1 loi;»*i, \)<". 29. —Farmers who re * I threw >ff government contro ‘ hr to: aceo crop are 'ikely to find (939 production oven more dras -1 ' ally limited by lending agencie -1" n over the Federal government un 'b rtook to do, iri .he opinion of J. M. (■ linger engineer of the State Rural 1 - 'll if ieat ion Authority. b'. Grainger, whose work keep 1 him constantly in touch with the (Continued on Page Five) V - - Batin 51 is patch _ L TH| E ; B r ( iS^«VICg a OF Fresh Cold Wave Much Worse Than First Heading This Way North and West Warn ed of 25 Below Zero Blast, With Zero In Parts of South Fore cast; “Much Colder” Weather To Be Gen eral. (B} The Associated Press) Another severe cold wave, more frigid than the first this Meek, rolled into the northwest from Canada today. It follow ed the path of the first, sweep ins’ across the western Cana dian p’ains and crossing the border in the region of the Rockies. The bitter chill was felt today in lowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Idaho Montana, the Dakotas, Kansas and western Wisconsin. Weather o,bser vers said the Arctic blasts would reach the eastern states by tonight or tomorrow. Forecaster J. R. Lloyd at Chicago said the new wave was really a “sec ond section” of the first, and that there was no indication of warme" weather for the rest of the week. The new wave, he said, will be more in tense because the first has already cooled the atmosphere. Shippers were told to prepare for temperatures of zero to 25 below in the northwest, zero to 15 below in the west and north and zero to ten above in the east and south. “Much colder” weather was the forecast for vitually every state east of the IRockies. Snow was predicted for most of the New England States, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Virginia. Ten nessee, West Virginia, Kentucky and the District of Columbia. At least 28 persons were victims of exposure or accidents attributed to weather conditions. Travelers Given Warning Os Slick Roads In Section Raleigh, Dec. 29.—(AP) —A cold drizzle which froze on highways and bridges over much of this part of North Carolina today brought warnings from State high way and safety officials for slow and careful driving. A low temperature of 24 degrees here early this morning was fol lowed by rain about 10 o’clock, when the mercury registered 31 degrees. It started getting colder at once, and at noon the reading was 28. Automobiles which were parked on streets soon were coated with ice and streets and sidewalks be came slick. Ronald Hoeutt. director of the highway safety division, and Cap tains Charles Farmer and L. R. Fisher, of the highway patrol, joined W. Vance Raise, chief high way engineer, in warning that bridges were becoming ice coated and dangerous. Highway crews were put to work sanding the worst spots. At Henderson it started sleet ing this morning. SEVEN OVERCOME BY COAL GAS IN HOME Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. 26. —(AP) —Three women, one man, a girl and two babies were overcome by coal gas which pervaded a two family house here shortly after 9 a. m. today. Two of the women, the girl and both babies were taken to a hospital, where it was said the condition of the women and one of the babies was “seri ous.” The eoa! gas got into the house when a pipe from the furnace to the chimney became dislodged. Garner Will Likely Win If He Can Be Nominated By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Dec. 29.-Ex-Senator Clarence C. Dill ventures the guess that Vice President John N. Garner that Vice c' might be elected tQ Vic© President Garner much difference because I don’t be "eve he can get himself nominated. ONLY DAILY the White House if the Democrats were to nominate him. In politics arl “ex” frequently is a bet ter judge than an in cumbent. He is freer to voice his honest opinions and he hasn’t any bias. So I was interested in Dill’s remark con cerning Garner “However,” added the former senator, “it doesn’t make NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINUL HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 29, 1938 Hitler To Relax On Aged Jews If Children Leave Wants U. S. Aid Former Premier Leon Blum of France (above), maintaining con trol of the French Socialist party, obtained a vote of approval at its annual convention in Paris for his program of seeking cooperation be tween France, the United States, Britain and Russia in opposition to the totalitarian states. Election Law Reforms Hinge OnCommittees Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. • Raleigh, Dec. 29.—The fate of ef forts to revamp and reform North Carolina’s fraud - favoring election laws depends as much upon the se lection of election law committees in House and Senate next week as upon eny other one ponderable f actor, ex cept possibly the vigor or lack of vigor displayed by Governor Clyde R. Hoey in urging correction of the abuses which are well nigh univer sally recognized. In other words, the responsibility for what happens to these laws is go ing to rest squarely upon the should ers of Lieutenant Governor Wilk’ns P. Horton and whomever the House chooses to be its boss for the com ing session. In 1937 these committees were de finitely and irrevocably “packed” from the very start with beneficiaries and advocates of the absentee baUot. Both chairmen were from Swam, a county in which the State Board of .'Continued on Page Three.) British Steamer Reported Bombed In Mediterranean London, Dec. 29.—(AP)— Lloyds’ agent at Gibraltar reported today that an SOS had been received from the 4,200-ton British steamer Marionga, which read: “Bombed. Crew took to boats. The steamer’s message gave its position between Castelion, on Spain’s eastern coast, and the Balearic islands. (Palma, on Mal lorca, largest of the Balearics, is a big Spanish insurgent air base.) And it is understandable why the Texan, who might be elected if nomi nated, probably cannot be nominated. As the Democratic nominee, being a southerner, he certainly would have the South 109 per cent behind him It would be solider than usual on ac count of his geography. Even New Deal Dixielanders couldn’t fail to vote for him. Os course, conservative northern Democrats would favor him and the last election indicated that there is an increasing number of them He also would be .likely to scoop in a goodly following of Republicans, un less the G. O. P. puts on a stronger candidate than there has been any great amount of talk of thus far. But nominating him is a differen* matter. Northern Democrats are surr to be jealous of him as a southerner Once nominated, he doubtlessly would be accepted, but assuredly he won’t (Continued on Page Eight Intergovernment Com mittee To Arrange for Migration of 150,000 Young Jews from Homeland in Few Weeks; But Hitler Puts “Catch” In It London, Dec. 29. —(AP) —Robert T. Pell, assistant director of the Inter national Refugee Committee, said to day that Adolf Hitler had agreed to relax his campaign against elderly German Jews, provided their children emigrate as soon as possible. Pell said he would go to Germany within the next two weeks to work out plans for the removal of “approxi mately 150-003 active young Jews.’ He said the refugee committee would ask specific assurances that elderlv Jews would be guaranteed a decent living. Fell will go to Germany as a mem ber of a delegation including George Rublee, director of the committee; Joseph Cotton, of New York, and a British financial expert. They will see Field Marshal Hermann Goering, us ing suggestions outlined recently in London by Dr. Schacht, president of the German IReichsbank, as a basis for negotiation. Under this plan, governments sym pathetic to Jews would be asked to increase their purchaser of German goods, and Germany, in return, would devote a fraction of the foreign ex change thus provided to enable Jews to transfer their money into foreign currency. Originally, the £schacht plan called for removal of all Jews—some 700,- 000—from Germany. But German lead ers were represented as feeling now that an attempt to remove 150,000 younger Jews with financial aid from foreign governments" and- rich Jews in Germany would be more practical. The problem has been complicated by a general hardening of opinion throughout the British Empire toward accepting Jews as immigrants. Rowan Woman Held In Death Os: A Man She Hit With Pipe Salisbury, Dec. 29.— (AP) — Moorcsville police today turned Myrtle Ar'ierson, 39, over to Ro wan county authorities to be held pending an inquest into the death of Elmer Sherrill, middle-aged Mooresville man, found dead near her home this morning. The police reported the Ander son woman said she had hit Sher rill over the head with an iron pipe when he threatened her with a knife last night, that he had left her home and she did not know he was dead until *slie saw him on the ground outside her home. Of ficers said the woman had noti fied them of Sherrill’s death. J. A. Sisto Is Expelled By Stock Board New York, Dec. 29.—(AP) The New York Stock Exchange announced today the expulsion from its member ship of J. A. Sisto, general partner in a brokerage firm of that name. The announcement of the expulsion was read to the members from the rostrum of the trading floor by Ed ward Bartlett, Jr., chairman of the governing board. The Exchange said Sisto had been expelled on three gen eral charges. The first charge said he had caused the Sisto Financial Corporation, of which he was president and a direc tor, and which he dominated and con trolled, to purchase from him at $23 a share a total of 1,000 shares of the stock of Sisto Financial Corporation, which he had purchased about the same time for $15.12 1-2. Sisto also was found guilty of hav ing charged “by erasure” his trading personal and corporation accounts during the last seven months of 1937 A third charge of which the exchange found him guilty asserted that on 30 different days in 1937 his firm had conducted transactions for Sisto Fin xncial in a cash account which “were not bonafide cash transactions. WEATHER for NORTH CAROLINA. Occasional rain tonight and Friday, mixed with snow or freez ing rain in interior; slightly war mer m east and extreme north portions tonight. Would Have WPA Select Own Boards If Local Groups Are Decided on, Barkley Wants WPA To Name Them; Roosevelt Works on Legislative and Budget Messages to New Congress Washington, Dec. 29. — (AP) —Sena- 3r-k'pv o r Kentucky, the majority leader, said today that if non-par tisan county boards were named t investigate cnmp’aints of disgruntled, relief applicants, he would be in favo” of having WPA select the boards. ’ Emphasizing that no legislation would h? needed to s°t up such appea board'. Barkley said he beh’eves any snob ac'-'en probab'y would involve a change in the methods of fi.ial deter miration of those eligible far relie jobs. He said that the eligibility list.-, from which relief workers now are hired by the WPA usually were com piled by a certifying agent appointed by the county judge or some other looai official. When relief applicants complaii that they have been denied a place or the rolls, their complaints eventuallv must be referred to the same certify ing officials. Other developments: President Roosevelt, anxious to re serve all possible time between now and next week for work on his legis lative and budget messages, made onlv two engagements today. In addition, he studied a long list of recommenda tions and background for appoint ments to many federal posts, includ ing the soon-to-be-vacated cabinet po sition of attorney general. While there were reports hat Gov (Continued on Page Five! Find Ornaments From Clothing Os Slain Girl Os 19 Kingston, Pa., Dec. 29. —(AP) - Ornaments on clothing stripped from pretty Margaret Martin, slain after being lured from her home with th.; promise of a job, were reported found today in an isolated mountain saw mill. State police disclosed the ornaments the 19-year-old business college grad uate wore were sifted from ashes in the firebox at the mill. Also at the mill State police picked up a few shreds of cloth which resembled the girl’s clothing. The mill is hidden in the Wyoming county backwoods. 18 miles from a creek, where Jie girl’s nude body was found in a burlap bag last Wednesday, four days after she left home with the promise to her mother, “I’ll be right back.” A coroner’s inquest last night dis closed only that Miss Martin was a , victim of murder “by strangulation at the hands of an unknown person or persons.” Plan For 1939 With Babson Roger W. Babson Every reader should base his year’s work on a definite plan. Yet, to have a plan, he must know what lies ahead. # To know what the New Year has in store, we recommend Roger W. Babson’s 1939 fore cast of business conditions. Business will be better, he says. But in what lines? Will prices work higher? Should you stock up on goods? Will your wages be increased? Get the best forecast you can and profit by it. Read Roger Babson’s 1939 Outlook Letter in this paper Tomorrow PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY ITALY WANTS TUNIS INTERNATIONAL LAND OPEN TO ALL ALIKE Court Possibility Harold M. Stephens (above) of Utah, member of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, is regarded as a likely appointee to the United States Su preme Court. He is 52. (Central Press) Rebels Drop 20 Loyalist Airplanes But Franco’s Drive on Ground Virtually Halts, According to Reports from Oppos ing Sides in Spain; Planes of German and Italian Make Hendaye, France, Dec. 29.—(AP) — An insurgent communique boasted to day 20 government planes were down ed in the greatest air battle of th?. massive offensive into Catalonia. De spite the aviation success, however the insurgent land drive slowed al most to deadlock. Gains reported were of minor consequence, although in six days insurgents have claimed con quests of 380-odd square miles of ter ritory. The air battle was over land lines near a road 70 miles to the west of Barcelona. Twenty-four of Insurgen* General Franco’s fastest fighting planes swooped down from a high al titude to a large government fleet which insurgent dispatches said con sisted of 55 fighters and six bombers. Land fighting in the a~ea dwindled as the bombers dropped their ex plosives and headed for their base leaving fast pursuit planes to fight it out. Brief government accounts said German and Italian planes made up the insurgent air squadron. At the end of the battle, insurgent dispatches said, 20 of the government planes had crashed, some of them in flames. KINGS MOUNTAIN MAN IS KILLED IN CRASH Kings Mountain, S. C., Dec. 29. (AP) —W. E. Owens, 50, mill mechan ic of Kings Mountain, was fatally in jured today in a collision between his light pick-up truck and an automo bile which State highway patrolmen said was driven by C. G. Luke, of Swansea, S. C. Bill Fenner Resents Dope Os Newsman Dull; Dl*>iatcb Itiirenn. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Dec. 29.—W. E. (Bill) Fen ner, candidate for speakership of the 1939 House, hasn’t the slightest in tention to trade, swap or deal with any person, living or dead, during the race, he indignantly informed your correspondent in a long distance call which fairly blistered insulat’on on wires along the' route from Rocky Mount to Raleigh. Bill bubbled and boiled as he com mented on an article from this bu reau in which it • was stated that he is in position to lose less than any other speakership candidate and can j get almost any important committee . chairmanship that suits his fancy. [ (Contin 1 id on Page Five.) O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Balked by Rising Tide of French Defensive Measures, Mussolini Forms New Plan To Put Before Chamber lain on His Visit Next Month Paris, Dec. 29.—(AP)—Italy was reported in diplomatic cir cles today to have indicated she will seek to internationalize Tunisia to remove the territory from strict French control. Apparently balked in any idea of winning territory for Italy ,by the rising tide of French defensive meas ures, Premier Mussolini was report ed in usually well informed circles to have formulated a new plan for presentation to Premier Chamber lain when the latter visits Rome next month. Sources close to the foreign office said simultaneously Premier Cham berlain had promised to keep the French-Italian fight over Djibouti off the agenda when he visits Rome. The British premier also was said to have promised to back up a French stand against transferring any territory to Italy. Nevertheless, it was foreseen that he would have a difficult time avoiding discussion on the status of Tunisia, which is inextricably bound up with any discussion of Mediterran ean problems. French thought that Premier Mus solini’s approach to Chamberlain will be based on the thesis that Tunisia is legally an independent country un der French protection, and that the Bey of Tunis is the independent sov ereign. The Italian argument might be that France had received an in ternational mandate to protect Tun isia and that she had abused that duty. ROBESON MAN DIES OF LONG EXPOSURE Burner ton, Dec. 29.—(AD—North Carolina’s first death from expos ure this winter was reported here today. Coroner D. W. Biggs, of Roeson county, said Wilton Baker 23, found dead yesterday in a field several miles from his home here, had frozen to death. Baker, who had been missing a week, apparently had been dead for several days, the coroner said. Funeral services were held today. Old Age Issue Might Explode in Assembly Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Waiter Hotel. Raleigh, Dec. 29 —There is a strange —perhaps it’s ominous—<juiet and a noticeable lack of pep, interest and enthusiasm in any revision or re vamping of North Carolina’s old age pension system during the coming session of the General Assembly. This is in such marked contrast to existing conditions in other states, and in the Federal Congress, as to suggest that it’s one of those vol canic issues which smoulder and smoke along quite sluggishly until all of a sudden the top blows off with a loud and boisterous bang. In short, there are all the poten tialities for a good, old-fashioned knock-down and drag-out battle if ever the legislators get into the no tion to start one. Supposing, for instance, that some fellow gets an idea that payments in North Carolina are entirely too low, he can toss a grenade of staggering and startling statistics to prove that, (Continued on Page Eight Representative Nicholson Os Franklin Dies * Franklinton, Dec. 29. —(AP) —C. T. NichcHson, 62, representative-elect from Franklin county, died suddenly this morning in his automobile while en route to Raleigh from his home near here. Nicholson was being driven by his daughter, Miss Rebecca Nicholson. He became lil at a filling station, and was dead when brought here. Phy sicians said he died of heart failure. Funeral services will be held at Franklinton at 3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. Surviving are the widow, the form er Mists Junie Gowder, of Clayton; r three daughters, Rebecca, Evelyn and l Betty, and a son, Edwin, as we'll as ; three sister's, Miss Evelyn Nicholson and Mrs. G. C. Mitchiner, of Frank linton, and Mrs. T. F. Gill, of Black stone, Va.
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