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History making in the financial world is this meeting in Berlin of Mon
tagu Xorman (left), governor of the bank of England, and Dr. Hjalmar
Sehacht, president of Germany’s Reichsbank. They are reported to have
discussed loan for Germany in return for letting the Jews go free
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Get Committee Aprovai
Girl Bludgeoned
To Death In Home
Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 16. (AP)
Eight hours after the battered and
partially nude body of 16-year-old
Ruth Scott was found tied to her
blood-stained bed today, a Milwau
kee man arrested at Racine sign
ed a confession that he slew her
with a hatchet during an attempt
ed burglary, Sheriff Miles llulett,
or Racine county, said.
Hulett announced that Ernest
John Mahr, 24, willingly dictated
the confession after his arrest by
two deputies.
Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 16.—(AP)
Ruth Scott, l(Vyear-old high school
student, was killed with an axe
early today by an intruder who
broke into her home asd slew her
after tieing her arms together and
partially stripping her of clothing.
Mrs. Scott, who is hard of hear
ing. woke up and saw the shadowy
figure of a man standing in her
bedroom, a hand-axe in one of his
hands, and a butcher knife ini the
other, she told authorities. He
struck Mrs. Scott on the head as
she struggled with him, and then
one of the passes be made with the
knife hit her right hand, gashing
it.
The woman broke away and ran
into the kitchen, where .she turned
on the light and saw the body of
her daughter lying on a blood
stained bed in the adjoining room.
Ruth had been struck on the head
severa times- She was lying
face upward and arms tied above
her head to the back of the bed.
Legislative
Trend Away
From Hoey
Sales Tax Foes Re
si s t i n g Administra
tion; Tuition Hike Ex
pected To Fall; Op
ponents of Highway
Fund Diversion Appa
rently Are Gaining
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY G. LYNN NISBET.
Raleigh, Jan. 16.—As the General
Assembly enters upon its second week
of actual work tonight, the program
outlined in the governor’s biennial
message and in the budget commis
sion report will find much more de
finite opposition than had been an
ticipated.
Outstanding developments of la,,
week indicate clearly that members
have minds of their own on many
of the items which had been expected
to go through smoothly. Chief among
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Former to Supreme
Court and Latter To
Be Attorney General;
Both Expected To Be
Confirmed by Full
Senate Vote Early
This Week*
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Washington, Jan. 16.—(AP) — The
Senate Judiciary Committee today
approved the appointment of Felix
Frankfurter to the Supreme Court
and Frank Murphy as attorney gen
eral.
This action sent President Roose
velt’s appointments to the Senate
floor for expected confirmation early
this week.
The full judiciary committee acted
at a closed session after sub-commit
tees had conducted hearings and un
animously approved both appoint
ments.
Murphy, former governor of Mich
igan, who was defeated in the Novem
ber election, was named attorney gen
eral to succeed Homer Cummings
who resigned.
Frankfurter, a noted liberal and
Harvard law instructor, was appoint
ed to the vacancy resulting from the
death of Associate Justice Benjamin
N. Cardozo.
P. L. WOODARD, 69, OF
WILSON PASSES ON
Wils'on, Jan. 16.—(AP)—P. L.
Woodard, 69, wealthy Wilson merch
ant and manufacturer, died in a Rich
mond hospital of pneumonia today.
He is survived by his widow and one
sister, Mrs. Roger Smith, of Golds
boro. Funeral services will be con
ducted from the home at 3 o’clock
tomorrow afternoon.
Showdown On Diversion
To Be Sought This Week
Resolution To Be Offered in Legislature Com
mitting That Body, in Sentiment, Against Use
of Highway Funds for Other Purposes; To Be
Resisted
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY HENRY AVERILL.
Raleigh, Jan. 16. —Friends and foes
of diversion —contingent or uncondi
tional, disguised or unashamed—are
marshaling their forces for a show
down in the legislature this week.
First move in this direction is likely
to be made at tonight’s House ses
sion through introduction of a re
solution that it is the sense of the
legislature that it is “in favor of us
ing all money derived from gasoline
sales and automobile license fees on
the public roads.”
Those may not be the exact words
(your correspondent hasn’t seen them)
hut that will be the general tenor of
the resolution. The words are taken
from a statement by Governor Clyde
R. Hoey quoted in “The Car Owner”,
Carolina Motor Club publication, in
connection with the club’s referendum
oil the diveifaion question.
ONLY DAILY
Italy Threatening
War For Vengeance
For French Insults
Anti - French Cam
paign Takes on Im
pet u s Following
Chamberlain Visit;
Hatred of Each To
ward Other Intensi
fied; Wait Outcome in
Spain
Rome, Jan. 16. —(AP) —Italy’s anU-
French campaign gained new im
petus today with newspaper threads
that Italians might avenge “French'
insults with guns.”
The press attacks came as Italy
made an insurgent victory in the
Spanish civil war the price for settling
her quarrel with France over colonial
influence in the Mediterranean.
Newspapers unanimously publish
ed defiant protests against statement
attributed by a Paris newspaper to
an anonymous French officer that ten
Italian soldiers were hardly enough
to fight one retired Frenchman.
Virginio Gayda, one of Italy’s most
responsible editors, wrote that French
hatred of Italy was breeding Italian
hatred of France until “finally the
rifles will go off by themselves.”
Italy’s determination not to settle
her quarrel with France until the
Spanish war ended successfully be
came appai ent with publication by
the foreign office of a bulletin out
lining what Mussolini told Prime Min
ister Chamberlain in their conversa
tions last week.
Some diplomatic circles thought
that the stiffening of Italian attitude
was a consequence of encouraging in
surgent advances in the Barcelona of
fensive. They also saw again a dan
ger that the Spanish conflict could be
come a general European conflict.
Mussolini told the British premier
said the foreign office bulletin, that
specifically the Italian quarrel with
France could not be settled until
after the Spanish war, because “the
Spanish question has divided and still
divides profoundly the two countries.”
Vote Reform
Drive Starts
Coming Week
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Jan. 16.—The real push for
reforming North Carolina’s election
laws will be launched this week, with
introduction of the “suggested” State
Board of Elections measure scheduled
for Tuesday or Wednesday, according
to all present indications.
So far, the only concrete proposals
to hit the legislative hopper have been
a bill by Mecklenburg’s J. B. Vogler to
amend the absentee ballot law and
jointly-introduced House and Senate
measure to require a new registration
of voters every twelve years, with new
listings to be held before 1940’s elec
tions in all counties where there has
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Buckingham Man Sponsor.
Most likely introducer of the resolu
tion is Representative Clarence E.
Stone, of Rockingham county, chair
man of the House Roads Committee.
Logical disposition of the resolution
upon its introduction is reference to
Mr. Stone’s committee for study and
report. No motion to suspend the
rules •(which would require a two
thirds vote) is probable.
Its ultimate fate is unpredictable,
but if it should come to a record vote
in the House, it will be the first out
and-out test on diversion ever had in
the legislature. In previous sessions
the question has always been tied to
the revenue bill or some other vital
question of financing the State.
Strategy No Surprise.
• Strategy behind the resolution is
obvious and it will not take admin
istration supporters of the budget plan
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NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 16, 1939
Fights "Seizure”
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Governor George D. Aiken, of Ver- !
mont, voted a defense fund of
$67,500 by the state legislature to
fight encroachment of state prop
erty by the federal government,
urges congress to amend the fed
eral control act to prevent the tak
ing of state lands and waters with-'
out consent. The cause of the action
is a proposed federal flood-control
dam across the Ompompandosuc
river at Union Village, 50 miles
from Montpelier.
(Central Press)
Insurgents
In 50 Miles
Barcelona
Franco’s Forces Ham
mering Away at Gov
ernment Defenses on
Mediterranean
Lerida, Spain, Jan. 16.—(AP) —
Generalissimo Francisco Franco
appealed to government Spain to
day to lay down its arms, warn
ing that an insurgent victory was
now inevitable. Franco’s mes
sage was broadcast by the insur
gent radio.
lie declared that insurgent
troops were marching against
Barcelona, tile government capi
tal, “not to destroy her, but to
save her.”
Hendaye, France, Jan- 16. —(AP) —
The Spanish insurgent command to
day reported capture of Cervera in a
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Legislature
Progress Is
Up With 1937
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh. Jan. 16.—The current ses
sion of North Carolina’s General As
sembly has accomplished as much and
seems to be about as far along its
normal path as the 1937 Assembly
at the corresponding period of its
session, in the opinion of most legis
lative leaders and observers.
Typical of this view is the opinion
of Victor S. Bryant, Durham, who
was finance chairman in 1937, and
who has taken an active part in out
lining and explaining this session’s
fiscal policies.
‘‘l don’t think we’re much, if any,
behind our 1937 pace,” he said.
Mr. Bryant said this session should
be concluded in reasonably short or
der, provided there is no drastic de
parture from the revenue and appro
priations bills as outlined in the bud
get recommendations.
Depends on Diversion.
When his attention was called to
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Benefits In
Old Age To
Be Speeded
Greater Protection to
Dependent Children
Sought and Unem
ployment Protection
Would Be Expanded;
Warns of Untried and
Unsound Panaceas
Washington, Jan. 16.—(AP) —Pres-
ident Roosevelt recommended to
Congress today wide expansion of the
social sscuiity act, and warned
against “turning to untried and de
monstrably unsound panaceas.”
The expansion program he called
for included beginning old age in
surance benefits sooner and liberal
izing them in the early years, afford
ing greater protection to dependent
children, extending unemployment
and old age protection as rapidly as
possible to “all of our people,” and
increasing in some instances federal
grants and aid to states.
He also proposed that states re
ceiving federal aid be required to in
stitute merit systems for the person
nel of the agencies handling social se
curity funds. His message made no
direct reference to old age pension
proposals.
The president emphasized the de
sirability of affording greater o'ld age
security. He described as sound a
“two-fold approach” recommended by
the Social Security Board on th.s
point. '
“One way,” he said, “is to begin th*
payment of monthly old age insur
ance benefits sooner, and to liberalize
the benefits to be paid in early years.
The other way :s to make proportion
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Dodd Indicted
For In juring
Negro Child
Hanover Court House, Va., Jan. 16.
—(AP)—Dr. William E. Dodd, for
mer United States ambassador s o
Germany, was indicted by a Hanover
county grand jury today on a charge
of hit-and-run driving and causing
injury to Glois Grimes, a four-year
old Negro child. His trial was set for
March 2.
Visibly nervous, the 69-year-old Dr.
Dodd entered a plea of innocence
when the indictment was read at his
formal arraignment. He attempted to
explain his plea, but at the repeated
insistence of his attorney, Leon Bazile
Dr. Dodd took his seat after the plea.
Brazile sought unsuccessfully to
have the trial delayed until the next
term of court in order that the vic
tim could be in court. However, Corn
wealth Attorney Edward Eimpkins,
Jr., objected strenuously, and the
court set the trial for Thursday,
March 2.
Brazile pleaded that Dr. Dodd was
in a very poor physical condition, and
had been suffered from a severe at
tack of laryngitis, and was in no con
dition to stand trial in the near fu
ture. But the commonwealth attorney
argued that Dodd had appeared in
court three times within six weeks in
connection with the case, and there
was no medical testimony brought for
ward to show that he was unable to
stand trial.
Americans At
Lima Parley
Were Spied On
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Jan. 16.—Secretary of
State Cordell Hull’s first interview,
following his arrival in the United
States from the Pan
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Cordell Hull
Vmerican confer
ance in Lima, Peru,
vas funny in away.
but in another way
it was unfortunate.
As previously has
been remarked, that
conference, while
not 100 percent sat
isfactory from Uncle
Sam’s s t andpoint,
was about 85 or 90
percent satisfactory.
Eighty-five or 90 was pretty good,
and Secretary Hull doubtless consid
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Japan Determined
To Smash U. S. Fleet
If It Intervenes
"Inside” Story
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Before a Senate committee, Attor
ney General Frank Murphy explains
that as Governor of Michigan he
never sanctioned sit-down strikes,
and that he withheld literal en
forcement of law in order to pre
vent bloodshed and bitterness which
might have lasted for years.
Snow Covers
Large Fart
Tar Heelia
White Manlle From
Asheville to Elizabeth
City, Rather Heavy in
Some Places
(Raleigh, Jan. 16. (AP) —Snow
blanketed most of North Carolina to
day except on the coast, where it
rained. Weather Man Lee A. Denson
said the snow was recorded all the
way from Asheville in the mountains
to Elizabeth City and Norfolk, Va.
The airways weather station here
reported scheduled flights were being
maintained in this area, but that fly
ing at most stations north of Raleigh
was by instrument, as snow was con
tin,uing. Around two inches of snow
covered the ground and roofs here
this morning, when the fall stopped
but it quickly melted from pavements
and streets.
A low temperature here of 31 de
grees was listed by the Weather Bu
reau, while the airways station, five
miles from here, recorded 29.8 de
grees.
Elizabeth City reported heavy snow
falling this morning. Fayetteville got.
two inches during the night, blit as
at Raleigh the sun was shining this
morning.
Charlotte had its first snow of the
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Two Agencies Ask
Lease Upon State
A. & N. C. Railroad
Raleigh, Jan. 16. —(AP)— The
directors of the
Atlantic & North Carolina Rail
road were notified today to meet
at Goldsboro Friday to consider
proposals for leasing the line from
Goldsboro to Morehead City to
private interests.
A committee of the directors
studied two proposals for lease of
the line this morning, asked that
some ehanges be made in them,
and voted to have the full board
hear a recommendation or con
sider the two proposals in their
entirety Friday. No details of the
terms were i*evealed.
H. P. Edwards, of Sanford,
headed one of the groups seeking
the lease, and Henry A. Page, Jr„
and Junius Page headed the other.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Tuesday, fol
lowed by rain or snow Wednes
day; somewhat colder in north
west portion and in the mountains
tonight.
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Tokyo Newspaper.
Creates Sensation In
Japan in Discussing
American Plans To
Defend Guam and
Wake Island in The
Western Pacific
DEMOCRACIES UNIT E T I.
London, Jan. 16. (AP) —The
United States, Great Britain and
France were believed firmly allied
in a mutual stand against recog
nizing Japan’s “changes by force”
in China.
Just as Prime Minister Cham
berlain returned from what many
observers called his fruitless talks
in Rome with Premier Mussolini,
the British Foreign Office re
leased the text of its strongest
note to Tokyo since the Chinese-
Japanese conflict broke out. The
communication resembled the one
sent by the United States on Oc
tober 6 charging “unwarranted
interference” with American
rights in China, and asking the
Japanese government to “imple
ment its assurances already given
with regard to the maintenance'
of the «ij n door and non-inter
ference v. sii' American rights.”
France, informed persons said,
was expected to follow in the foot
steps of the other two democracies
with a similar note as a signa
tory of the 1922 part in which
China, Japan, the United States,
Great Britain, France, Italy, Bel
gium, Portugal and The Nether
lands pledged respect for Chinese
territorial integrity and mainten
ance of the open door for trade.
Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 16.—(AP) —The
newspaper Kokumin declared editor
ially today that the “Japanese people
are determined to smash the Amer
ican fleet” if the United States in
tends to get a political foothold in
China” by fortifying the Guam and
Wake Islands.
The article, which caused a sensa
tion in Tokyo, demanded to know
“the real intention of the American
people in the western Pacific, not
those of the President or the State
Department.”
(Washington reports last week list
ed among proposals for new naval
bases the long demilitarized island
of Guam, 1,500 miles from Japan and
said an air and submarine base there
would outflank any Japanese advance
to the south or west, but would call
for a basic decision on* national po
licy, in view of resentment likely to
be aroused in Tokyo.)
Flans have been drawn for improv
ing the lagoon at Wake island for
surface craft of tonnage under
cruisers.
The newspaper, which has consider
able circulation in military circles,
said that if the United States wants
only to increase trade with China,
then Japan would assist, but if Amer
ica seeks to interfere with Japan’s
China policy, even resorting to arms,
then Japan must be ready to crush
the American fleet.
Would Unite
U.S. Defense
For Control
Senator Drafting Leg
islation To Put Army
and Navy Under Same
Cabinet Head
Washington, Jlan. 16.—(AP) —A pro
posal to reorganize American military
control by placing the army and the
navy under a single cabinet officer
was revived in Congress today in con
nection with the President’s $552,000,-
000 defense program.
A Democratic senator, who declined
to be quoted by name, said he was
drafting 1 'station to create a secre
tary of national defense. Several
House members are said to have been
contemplating such a move.
Similar moves heretofore have been
meeting opposition from army and
navy leaders, but the senator contend
ed the strengthening of the army and
navy was a propitious time to make
the change. The administration’s at
titude has not been disclosed.
Senate and House committees were
ready to return to a study of the
armament program this week. Chair
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