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ZZARD BRINGS 12 INCHES OF SNOW HERE
British Destroyer
ginks; All Hands
Aboard Are Lost
mt- ir""*
;vcuih io Fifth De
ytr And 23rd Brit
j>ii f\avai Vessel
A Lncw'edged Sunk
xs War VV'ith Ger
r< ny Began; Nearly
_ 0 M.en Lost,
- —lAi'J—Sinking
..i'J'Cu £.xnioum u\
. m ttic ;\orm b<_n
. o: a;, nanus—neui\v
u-ported by the ad
clestroper and 23rd
acknowledged
;::e pre»ent war with
f, £>cpt. 23.
..a- of the Exmouth's
s fame as the nuns
\<\«vc .".as expected early
::an stayed up all last
' . or h-..oanas return.
. \ ed the admiralty's
:e was believed dead.
, •■.vas tne first in which
wa> reported saved.
- he <arne class as the
. ■. destroyer which sank
wirh a loss of 81 lives.
- :.r.g pushed Britain's
ut'd naval losses past 82.
Finns Score
Additional
V ictories
Jan. 24.—(AP)—Soviet
> smash Finnish defenses
•' Lake Ladoga by sheer
• of numbers again have
. v: L«ed. a Finnish communi
:v;j« rted today.
r.ew Russian drive was said
,..iy to have been ordered by
de:'> in an effort to save two
• div.-ioRs trapped near Aitto
danger of starvation,
reports said the famished
caught while attempting
the Mannerheim lino, were
horse meat.
Russian tanks were dc
on other sectors of the war
i rm>h dispatches said, and
y advance across the ice of
M'.iola was beaten oack. as
attacks on the Karelian isth
( -i inton \ outh
Dies of Injuries
Jan. 24.—(AP)—
2<i. ot Clinton, died at a
•.( t'.day of injuries receiv
day night when his auto
• »tu.*f* a carve on a high
• Warsaw.
i Mines, also of Clinton,
t.-'i -Oj ious head injuries and
was reported at the
.•■re as unchanged.
the son of the late Dr.
: Clinton, killed about
' in an automobile ac
I hird Term
Election
"Difficult"
• J it n. 2 J.—(AP)—
■ . Democrat. Mon
':> i. .: > f; hero ti.dny that it
'• .ei:.ely difficult" for
tie party to re-elect
< e.elt ;i he won the
< :'.n for a third term.
■ f ntioned as a possible
nte, made this state
ex pre-sing surprise at
'• r: ,;i of John L. Lewis.
Roosevelt's noir.ina
: i;lt in "ignominious
X • i i s. Independent,
• no '■( those favoring a
'•o.-. men ted that "Mr.
' '-.rely wrong in his
*> rue- of information
iit the present time
■ man in sight to take
• • •♦•hV) place in either
I'spi t» d a claim by
• i>emocratic party and
<"t on Page Four)
Russian
Attacks Are
Repulsed
buffer Heavy Losses
In Fierce Fighting
Around Lake Lado
ga; Finland Braces
Herself in Expecta
tion of Air Raids.
Helsinki. Jan. 24.—(AP)—Fierce
Russian attacks northeast of Lake
Ladoga, scene of bitter Finnish
Russian fighting for weeks, were re
ported today to have been repulsed
by Finland with heavy losses to the
: nvaders.
Meanwhile the Finns are bracing .
themselves in the expectation of
hundreds of air raids in the coming
week.
While civilians looked to the skies, j
military forces indicated that with
moderation of sub-zero weather !
Soviet Russia had opened a big push
against Finland's main southeast de
fenses.
The heaviest death toll of any
single bomb dropped on Finland in
the eight weeks old war was taken
at Xurmes. rail center in central
Finland. Nineteen persons were said !
to have been killed as they huddled
in an air raid shelter. Many more .
wore injured.
The Finns said rescue work was ;
i delayed as Soviet aviators followed !
up the bombing with machine gun i
| fire.
Among the victims. Finns said, j
were seven nurses and 1 doctor from i
a nearby hospital. Four hospitals
were reported damaged in vester- |
day's raids.
Finns say 102 cities and towns !
have been bombed in the war— j
I some of them as many as 35 times.
H. T. HICKS DIES
AT RALEIGH TODAY
Raleigh. Jan. 24.—(AP)—Funeral
services for Henry Thomas Hicks,
73. president of the Capudine Chem
ical Co.. and for 50 years a promi
' nent Raieigh businessman, will be
held at the First Baptist church at
1 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Hicks died at 3:15 o'clock this
morning. He entered a hospital Sun
day for treatment of illness due to
heart trouble and asthma complica
' tions.
German Planes
Raid Shetlands
London. Jan. 24.—(AP) —
Three German planes appeared
over the Shetland Islands to
day and were reported to have
droped bombs before being chas
ed of by British fighting: planes.
A witness said the ol.ines re
sembled Ileinkel ( C c rman )
bombers, ne dived toward a
steamer in an island harbor but
made no bomb attack.
The invaders flew into a cloud
bank, evading their pursuers.
They Pay Taxes on Salaries Totaling $1,202,492
~A _Jjk ' , "HI A jt - ; jmmm: •» ^
Highest salaried woman in the United States, as revealed by the Treasury Department's 1938 income
tax list, is Hollywood's Claudette Colbert. She paid $16J,000 tax on a 9*301,904 salary. Highest paid actor
is Warner Baxter, paying $lo0,00<> tax on a $279,807 salary. Fabulous salaries also went to other actresses
pictured. Left to right (top), Loretla Young, $181,615; Miss Colbert; Baxter; and Marlene Dietrich,
$130,000. Lower, Merle Oberon. $139,285, and Alice Faye, $109,791. (Central Press)
Senate Banking Committee
Approves Increase In
Export-Import Bank Capital
J. L. Lewis
Denounces
Roosevelt
Says That If Pres
ident Should Be Re
nominated "His Can
didacy Would Result
In Ignominious De
feat"; Charges Break
Of Faith With Labor.
Columbus. Ohio. Jim. 24.—(AI')—
John L. Lewis declared today th;it
.should the Democratic national con
vention be "coerced or dragooned"
into renominating President Roose
velt, "his candidacy would result in
ignominious defeat".
The statement was made unex
pectly before the United Mine Work
ers of America convention. He assert
ed it would be "unwise at this time"
to make any presidential endorse
ment. but suggested thiU the exe
tive board be authorized to take fic
tion later.
The United Mine Workers presi
(Continued on Page Four)
Hocutt Lauds Catawba For
' Safety Record; Has Good \
Word For Truck Owners
DaiJy Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL.
RaJeigh, Jan. 24.—Director Ron
ald Hocutt of the ffighway Safety
Division today handed out a couple
of nice verbal bouquets, in spite of
the weather and the now certain
fact that North Carolina's death toll
on the highways in 1939 will ex
ceed the grim 1938 harvest.
He lauded (1) Catawba county
for cooperative effort which
changed a bloody record for Novem
ber and preceding months into a
perfect slate for December and (2)
the North Carolina Truck Owners
Association for its "consistent ef
forts" for safety, especially its eo
operation in the recent school for .
truck operators at State collcge.
He cited the Catawba case as j
proof that an aroused public opinion
can achieve outstanding results.
"The people of Catawba county I
ure to be congratulated for one of |
the most drastic reductions in traf- I
fic fatalities which has been made |
anywhere in North Carolina", he
::aid.
'"The citizenship of the county was J
aroused to the grim urgency of the
problem. There was striking evi
dence on the part of law enforce
ment agencies, newspapers, civic
leaders and many other organiza
(Continued on Page Two)
George N. Peek, For
mer AAA Chief, Says
Reciprocal Trade
Treaties Are Making
United States "Santa
Claus For Rest of
World".
~
Washington, Jan. 24.—(AP)—The j
Senate bunking committee approved j
today un increase of $100,000,000 in
the capital of the Export-Import I
bank to permit a non-military loan I
io Xiniand.
In okaying the revised bill by I
Senator Brown, Democrat, Mich- I
igan. Ihe committee placed restrict- j
ions around future loans which j
would prevent the granting of more |
than S30,000,000 in credits to any i
<>ne nation.
The commitlee also amended the j
Brown bill to provide that no Joans '
could be made for the purchase of j
anus and no sum expended in viola- ;
tion of international law as inter- J
pre ted by the State Department.
Senator Taft, Republican, Ohio, j
said he and Senator Danaher, Re
p u b I i c a n. Connecticutt, voted)
against reporting out the bill be- ;
cause they were opposed to so j
large an increase in the capita Jiza- j
lion of the bank.
The committee previously , had j
rejected an amendment by Sena- j
tor Adams, Democrat. Colorado, to :
limit the increase to 875,000.000.
Finland was not mentioned in the
revised legislation and Senator
Brown said that additional loans to '
the Finns would be made at the dis- ;
erction of Jesse Jones, federal Joan ;
administrator, if the capitalization
(Continued on Page Four)
Three Escape
Carteret Jail
Beaufort. N. C., Jan. 24.—(AP)—'
Three men being held without bond
on charges arising from the death oJ
Charles Adams, Morehead City fish
erman. escaped from the Carteret
county jail during the .night by saw
ing the bars off the windows.
Sheriff C". G. Holland said they
were Harvey. Waddell and Charles i
Fillingame. arrested December 30 m!
connection with Adams' death.
A wide search over eastern North i
Carolina was started.
Holland said W. P. Smith's store
had been robbed and that he sus
pected the fugitives of the rubbery, j
tOecdthifi
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy and slightly
colder tonight: Thursday fair
and continued cold.
U. S. Trade
Policies Are
Denounced
Would Increase Cap
italization by $100,
000,000 to Permit
Loan to Finland;
Would Limit Credits
To Any F o r e i S n
Country.
Washington, Jan. 24.-- (AP) —
George N. Perk, former chief of the
Agriculture Adjustment Administra
tion, contended today that the New
Deal's foreign tradf policies were
making the United States "the SanU
Claus for the rest of the world."
The ruddy-laced retired manufac
turer who .'aid he left the adminis
tration because of "profound differ
ence of view" appeared before i
House committee considered Secre
(Continued on Page Two)
Schools Forced To Close
For Remainder Of Week
Due To Many Absences
Worst smm
iOf Winter
I
At High Point, 18
Inches of Snow Is Re
corded; Fall Varies
widely C-ver states;
Schools Closed; Trav
el Impeded hy Storm.
(By The Associated Press.)
The Carolinas brought out their
snow shovels today ancl started
digging themselves out of a blanket
of snow and sleet left by the win
• tor':: worst storm.
The depth ol the storm varied
widely over the two state-. At High
Point, lft inches of .' now was re- i
corded—-the heaviest in [' • year>.
Other snow depths included—
Greensboro. 9 to 1J9 inches; Chnr
! lotte, 7 inches; Asheville. 5 to 6.9
inches; Raleigh, 9 to 14 9 inches- :
Goldsboro, 2 inches; Wilmington 9
' inches.
Schools were closed in ome areas '
! because of dangerous, slippery j
roads. Travel was impeded but
i rapidly returning to normalcy.
Death and injury rode on the
i teeth of the near blizzard. One man
' was killed near Boone and another
injured in the blinding storm of ye?- 1
j t-rday. A highway accident near »
j Peidsville injured 13 school!
j children.
To Prosecute
Unions Under
Sherman Law
■
j New York, Jan. 24.— (AP) — A
j spokesman for the United States at- ;
t torney general office said today that
anti-trust indictments obtained a
gainst labor unions in New Yorl:,
Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans,
j Washington, Cleveland and Pitts
i burgh, were part ol a campaign to
! defeat union proselyt'iig through boy-j
cotts and threats of violence.
The 'J itement was made by Brand
W. Heneher, special assistant attoi
(Continued on Page Four!
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I Turkish-German
Pact Reported
London, Jan. 21. — (AIM —
Reuters British news agency re
ported today that Turkey short
ly would sign a trade agreement
with Germany. It quoted the
minister of commerce in Istanbul.
(Turkey has pacts of mutual
j assistance and economic agree
ments with Britain and France.)
City And County
Boards Order Suspen
sion Remainder of
Week on Account of
Heavy Absences.
Twelve inches of snow,
wept in on the wings of the
vorst blizzard in many years,
jlanketed this city and section
odav, forcing city and county
schools, the tobacco market and
>ther activities into suspension
ind slowing down business
generally.
Traffic was crippled and
n'nmst paralyzed, with com
paratively few motor vehicles
venturing on the streets and
highways, and with many of
those that did go slipping into
gutters and ditches and forced
to call for wreckers to get them
started again on their way.
One Font of Snow.
H. L. Allen, official Weather Bn
reriti observer, reported a reading
of twelve inches of snow, one of the
three or four heavies falls in a
quarter of a century. The minimum
temperature during the night was
21 degrees, following i high in the
afternoon of 32. the freezing point.
At 6 o'clock this morning, the mer
cury had risen to 24 degrees, and.
aided by the warm rays of a bright
sun, kept moving up dining much
of the forenoon and early after
noon.
While the general snowfall was
listed itt an oven one foot, it was
several feet deep in phires where
i? had been blown into drifts by
the high winds of the night.
Schools Are Closed.
So far as was known virtually no
students reported for work at any
(Continued on Page Two)
Lee Gravely Will Emphasize r
His State Pension Plan In
Making Gubernatorial Race •
' h
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Jan. 24—Leo Gravelv's
beiiet' that it is possible to reduce
the sales tux to two per cent "imme
diately" came in for most of the com
ment made on his announcement for
governor, but the Rocky Mount man
himself attaches great importance to
his plan advocating a pension plan
for all employees of the state.
There isn't any doubt that he is
going to emphasize the issue aii
through the primary campaign. Ho
told your reporter as much and in
considerable detail.
In the announcement here is what
Gravely had to say about it: "The
State of North Carolina has required
every industry within its borders to
set up a system of pension for its em
ployees and it is sheer hypocrisy for
the Mate lo do less lor those whom
, it employs."
A brief, pointed and inclusive j
statement of the principle Gravely t
will stress in every county of Nb'th ;
Carolina. In conservation with your i
reporter he made it plain he thinks f
, that every man and woman who |
works for the State of North Caro
lina—whether as school teacher, |
highway employee, stenographer,
clerk or what not—should be pro- |
te'cted by » n "adequate, sensible pen-I
sion plan."
The Gravely idea of such a plan <
one based upon the same principle of
, mutual contribution as has been
worked out for Federal Old Ag».
Insurance. He is inclined to feel lha*
the same rate of contribution (one
per cent each by employee and em- I
ployer) < would about do the trick '
Such a plan would cost the State
I
(.Continued on Page Two) , <
Highway No. 1
Closed In
Virginia
Raleigh, Jan. 24. — (AI'J --The ^
Highway and Public Works Com
mission reported today that Highway
No. I in Virginia wis dosed due to
snow and ice and would probably
not ho ready lor travel until tomor
row or later.
The commission said many miles of
,\'orth Carolina highway, even where
snow had b*>en removed by machin
ery. were covered with ice and that
driving was extremely dangerous on
such stretches.
Warning was given that many
stretches might have ice coating to
night and tomorrow because of seep
age onto the roads of melting snow
from th° shoulders.
Very little snow but some ice was
reported on roads on the eastern and
southeastern parts of the State. In
other sectors the snowfall ranged
from four to 24 inches.
False S. O. S.
Attributed
To Radio
Boston, Jan. 24.—(APj—The pos
sibility that a dramatized radio pro
gram based on a ship disaster might
have led to the false report of an
S. O. S.' which sent coast guard ves
sels scurrying, around last night off
Cape Cod was considered today by
authorities.
Several residents of Martha's Vine
yard, where retired army Captain
Byron Brown, 48. reported hearing
fin S. O. S. from a ship supposedly
sinking off the Cape said they had
listened to a "ship tragedy" at the
same time.
The retired officer was arrested
>n drunk charges by state police,
rn district court today he was con
victed and his case was continued
For one week.
The coast guard, when -appraised
}f Brown's arrest shortly after 5
i. m. feastern standard time) im
nediatelv called off half a dozen
esse!-; searching for signs of the re
lortedly distressed ship. They had
>een patrolling the seas more than
;ight hours.