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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
OLD ROADS OR NEW
IS PRESSING ISSUE
Counties Can't Get New
Roads If They Demand
State Refunds
Daily Dispatch bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By Z. G.. S1[ERVILE

Raleigh, Nov. 16.-The big question
which the County Road Debts Ad-
justment Commission will have to de-
eide is whether the 70 counties which
have just completed arguing in favor
of their requests for a refund of SOL
100000 to pay for aid roads already
built, many of which have worn out
and gone to pieces, should be PAID
this money from taxes collected to
build new roads, or whether to disre-
gard these claims and spend this SOL
100000 building new roads in all the
counties, it is agreed in most circles
here following the recent hearings.
The counties asking for these re-
funds maintain the State should pay
them back the money they spent in
supplementing State expenditures for
roads when they were not satisfied
with the amount the State had to
spend and sold bonds and levied taxes
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
Case Coming Up From Vir-
ginia Challenges Frazier
Lemke Act In SUI
preme Court.
LEMKE HIMSELF is
AMONG ATTORNEYS
Roanoke Bank Claims Leg
islation Took Their Pro-
perty Without Due Process
of Law; Bank One of Cred
itors of Plaintiff In APP
pealing Decision

Washington, Nov. 16-(AP)-Anoth-
er case involving the constitutional
ity Of TIE Frazier-Lemke farm mort
gage moratorium act was filed in the
Supreme Court today py Robert Page
Wright, of Bedford county, Virginia
Attorneys filing the appeal included
Representative Lemke, of North Da-
kota, co-author of the legislation, and
the Union party candidate for Presi-
dent in the November 8 election.
Under the act farmers were grant
ed a three-year moratorium before
their mortgages could be foreclosed.
The petition arrived after the court
had held a session which produced no
opinions, and then started on another
week of arguments, including three
New Deal controversies.
Wright appealed from a ruling by
the fourth circuit court of appeals dis
missing his petition on the claim by
the Vinton branch of the Mountain
Trust Bank of Roanoke, Va, that the
legislation took their property with
out due process of law.
The bank was one of Wright's Gre
ditor.
In a session which lasted only a few
minutes, the court permitted the gov
eminent to intervene in a case intend
ed to determine whether the gold
clause" resolution barring payment of
obligations in gold applies to rental
contracts. q
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
Ne7U Peace
Sea Strike

San Francisco, Nov. 16.-(AP)-As-
sistant Secretary of Labor Edward F.
McGrady sought another peace pro-
posal today to present to employers
in the Pacific coast far-reaching mari
time strike.
The Labor Departments ace trou-
hle shooter called a meeting with
leaders of sailors and engine room
workers believed by observers to be
the key unions in the peace efforts.
He indicated he hopes to obtain at
least a tentative acceptance of pro-
posals "along lines suggested by en-
ployers" who rejected McGrady's ne
gotiations formula Saturday.
Rank and file seamen leaders who
picketed the transatlantic liner
George Washington by airplane and
motor launch when it locked at New
York Saturday, claimed the deck and
engine room crews would refuse tC
sign on for the scheduled sailing Wed
nesday.
Seventy of 700 ship passengers
stranded in Honolulu when the strike
was called October 20 obtained pas
sage on a Japanese liner. Those still
stranded started negotiations with
union leaders and ship owners for re-
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
Preliminaries Started For
Collecting Data for Old
Age Pension Sys-
tenn to Function
WORKERS EARNING
TO $4,000 BENEFIT
Mayor LaGuardia Wants
States To Contribute To
F e d eral Government,
Which Would Do Entire
Job; Governors of 20
States Study Set-Up

Washington, Nov 16 (AP)-The
Federal government began today the
most gigantic task of it's kind ever
undertaken-the job of setting up So
cial security accounts for some &c.
100000 workers.
From $4,000 post offices throughout
the country, postmen set out with
forms to be delivered to 100000 bus
mess establishments. Thus began the
unprecedented operation of collecting
the basic data for the old age pen
sion system applying to workers in
factories, shops, mines, mills offices,
stores and other such business estab
liShmentS.
The time for the creation of the
mountainous files of information was
growing short for the old age pen
sion DEMONSTRATING at one cent on
each dollar of workers earnings up
to $4,000 year, and one cent for every
dollar of the employers payrolls-
will go into effect January 1, 1887.
The taxes will increase gradually
until, beginning in 1949, they will be
three percent Of wages and three per-
cent of payrolls. The money is be-
ing collected to finance pensions
ranging from $40 to $85 month, to
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
TWO PERSONS DEAD
IN AIRPLANE CRASH
Ship Intended To Take Son To Bed
side of Dying Father Folds
Up In SnOWStOrm

Syracuse, NJ Y, Nov. 16. (AF)-
Two persons were dead today because
an airplane intended to carry a son
to the bedside of his dying father
crashed in a snowstorm 10 miles
southwest of Amboy airport, a few
minutes after taking off from re-
iuelling stop.
he victims we're:
Miss Priscilla Murphy, 16-year-old
Brt okline, Mass, high school girl and
an amateur pilot.
Henry Nadeau, 49, of Nashua, N.
H. who had chartered the plane for
flight to International Falls, Mimi,
where his father was reported to be
dying.
John H. Shobe, veteran Boston pill
ot was seriously burned in the crash
and was reported by hospital officials
today to be in a very. critical condi-
ton -
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
Jap Attack
Beaten off
By Chinese

Peiping, China, Nov 16.-(AP)-
Eight Japanese fighting planes bomb
ed provincial Notifications in eastern
Suiyuan province in an attack near
Taolin, Chinese sources reported to-
day.
Three thousand infantry troops
composed of Manchukuaons and Mon
gol ;rregulars assisted in the assault
against the defenders, the deport de-
clared.
The attack was reported to have
occurred yesterday at the Suiyuan
city, 100 miles north.
Meagre accounts said the attack
ers launched six separate drives, COM
bining Infantry aviation, heavy ar
tillcry and tanks.
Suiyuar. provincial troops repulsed
the offensive, the reports added, in
flicting "heavy losses" on the invaders
Suiyuan commanders acknowledged
Slight losses"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
Hoey Hunts
Tax Source
FOrRevenue
Gardner Sends His
One : Man Brain :
Truster To Raleigh
To Do Shopping
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
by J.. G.. RASKERV WILL

Raleigh Nov. 16-Dr. Fred w.
Morrison, tho one-man brain trust of
former Governor O. Max Gardner
who was SO valuable to him that nc
took him to Washington to do the de-
tail work in his law office there when
he retired as governor here, is back
in Raleigh. Morrison has been here
for week Or more, but no one seems
to know definitely what he is DONG
although he has been spending a
good deal of time in the Department
of Revenue, where he formerly was
executive secretary of the State Tax
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
NEW WORLD UNION
TO IGNORE CANADA.
Dominion's Ties to Britain
Exclude Her From
New Alliance
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer

Washington, Nov. 16.-As a one
time resident, for several years of the
Argentine Republic, the father of an
only child born under the Argentine
flag, and visitor, in my day, in half
a dozen others among the new
worlds Latin countries, l feel ma
tural interest in the movement to
bring the Americas as closely as pos
sible together.
There are Fl of us, big and little,
in process of effecting real union.
/ wish there could be %.
That would include Canada.
Unfortunately for the practicability
of welding all the peoples of both
western continents into an alliance
of the whole number Of them Canada
has overseas connections. Obviously
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
GASOLINE BODY IS
AFTER MORE DATA
All Hands To Have Hear
ing In Sittings of Com
mission In Raleigh

Raleigh, Nov. 16-(AP)- A. S.
Brewer, director of the State Division
of Purchase and Contract, gave the
State Commission investigating the
feasibility of establishing a State-own
ed gasoline terminal a complete re-
view of State purchases of gasoline
since 1881 today.
The commission opened it's final
public hearing this morning, but put
off hearing representatives of Will
mington, Morehead City, Fayetteville
Southport and other interested cities
until late in the afternoon. Whining
ton and Fayetteville filed petitions
seeking the proposed terminal.
Oscar Barker, of Durham, chairman
of the commission, explained that un-
der the law creating the group it was
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
Farm Demand Now
Best for 8 Years

Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 16.-(AP)
Demand for farm land is at the
highest level in eight years as the
result of rising agricultural COM
modify prices, and loans have in
creased accordingly, Governor w.
1. Myers, of the Farm Credit Ad-
ministration, told the 10th annual
meeting of the National Grange to-
day.
can 80 percent increase in farm
income since 1882, and more advan-
tageous farm credit terms have set
a premium on farm ownership"
Myers said. "VOluntary transfers
Of farm lands are now at the high
est level since 1929"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
$4,000 Votes Cast
By Absent Voters
y AtNOv. 3 Election

Raleigh, Nov. 16.-(AP)-Ray-
mond G. Maxwell, executive secre-
tary of the State Board of Elec-
tiOns, said today there were a
round $4,000 absentee votes cast
in the November election, which
was not out of proportion to pre-
viOus years."
There were approximately S4O,-
900 votes cast for the President.
County election boards had re-
quested $4,000 absentee voting
blanks before the election.
Ashe county voted the heaviest
percentage absentee with l,779
out of a total vote of 1O,1O9. Hen
derson county listed 1888 out of
1886.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh Nov. 16.-A Statewide Ii
quor control law, placing all liquor
stores in the State under centralized
State control and supervision, but
leaving most of the profits from the
sale of liquor in the counties, will be
recommended by the State Liquor
Fact-Finding Commission, of which
Representative Victor S. Bryant, of
Durham, is chairman, according to
those who havee been following the
work of the commission. The COM
mission has completed its public hear
ings, has held one or two executive
sessions and is now at work on the
report it will submit to the General
Assembly, it was learned from an au-
thoritative source today. There are in
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
State Control, But With
Revenue Kept Locally, Is
Liquor Plan Considered
Investigators Not Impressed With County Control Sys
tenn; Skeleton OF Law To Be Suggested Is Outlin-
ed; Would Be Uniform State Regulations

timations that the report of the COM
mission, together with it's recommen-
dations and the sample bill it is ex-
pected to draw up, will be submitted
to Governor j. c. B. Ehringhaus soon
after December 1.
May Not Be Specific.
While no member of the commits
sion has made any public statement
or given any indication of what the
commission will recommend, there
are intimations that the commission
may avoid making any definite re-
commentator that any law legalizing
the sale of liquor in North Carolina
be enacted, but rather say that if the
General Assembly decides to enact
law legalizing liquor in the State, il
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
New Crisis
F0rCermQny
And Russia

Moscow, Nov. Is (APO-The Ger
man government protested sharply to
Soviet Russia today against the ar
rest of % German citizens.
The protest followed Soviet an
nouncement to the German govern
ment that charges of espionage and
conspiracy had been lodged against
IA of those arrested.
Accusations against the other nine
Germans had not been disclosed.
Previously they were reported de-
tanned with a number of persons of
other nationalities in connection with
an alleged Fascist plot against the
Soviet government.
The German protest, delivered by
the German charge d'affaires, said
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
Had Previously Stated "Se-
ceders" Must Give Up
Movement Before
Peace Was Had
SENTIMENT AGAINST D..
EXPULSION GROWING
Many Delegates, However,
Cry for Custer of Unions
Even if 1t Meant Long and
Bitter War; Talk of Con-
tinued Efforts To Secure
Lasting Peace

Tampa. Fla, Nov. 16 (AP)-Wil-
liam Green, president of the Amerl-
CON Federation of Labor, today urg-
cd John l.. Lewis rebel unions to
come back and take your seats IN
the foderation's annual convention.
Il asked them to recognize the prln-
ciples of democracy" Green said in
his opening talk to the delegates. Il
asked them to come back and take
their seats with us and fight out our
differences in manly fashion in the
conventions of the American Fedora
ton of Labor"
Green previously had insisted, how
ever that the Lewis rebels, suspend
ed two months ago for "insurrection
would have to give up their commit
tee for industrial organization before
peace could be made.
GROWING SENTIMENT TO
PREVENT EXPULSION SEEN
Tampa, Fla, Nov. 16 (AP)-Grow-
ing sentiment against expulsion or
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
SIX PERSONS ARE
APPARENTLY SLAIN

Edmonton, Alberta, Nov. 16.-
Apply Canadian Press.)-The
violent deaths of six persons, WHIP
ing out the entire population of
inland. tiny railway settlement
mo miles north of Edmonton,
brought an inquest today.
OFFICIALS said they believed the
slayings occurred early Saturday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
At
Madrid Now
Is Violent
Defenders and Re
bells Lock in Despe-
rate Struggle For
Bridge to City

Madrid, Nov. 16.-(AP) - Violent
fighting ragged today for control of a
crossing of the Manzanares river and
"Frenchman's bridge" as insurgent
troops struggled to gain a foothold
in University City
insurgents have announced Off
cially that Moors and foreign legion
naires had occupied a position in
University City, a northwestern sec
ton of Madrid proper0
University City itself was under the
heaviest shell fire of the siege, now
in is eleventh day.
But the main battle lay between
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
ROOSEVELT DECIDES
TONIGHT ABOUT TRIP
President Definitely To Conclude
Whether To Attend Pan-Ame-
rican Peace Meeting

Washington, Nov. 16.-(AP)-
White House officials said today
President Roosevelt will probably
decide before nightfall whether to
extend his vacation cruise to par
ticipate in the opening session of
of the Inter american Peace Con-
ference at BuenOs Aires, Argen-
tine, December 1.
The President will leave here
tomorrow night for Charleston,
S. c., to board the cruiser In
dianapolis for month.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
GAS COMPANY CASE.
is UP FOR HEARING

Raleigh, Nov. 16.-(AP)-The
State Utilities Commission was to
hear this Afternoon the petition
of the Henderson and Oxford Gas
Company to discontinue it's opera
tions in Oxford except for the sup
plying of ssbottled gas to- present
gas users. The company contends
it is losing money.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
10 Killed, 43 Hurt
In the CarOlinas
(By The Associated Press.)

(By The Associated PreSS.)
An Associated Press tabulatiOn
today showed 10 persons killed and
43 injured in weekend automobile
mishaps in the two CarOlinaS.
North Carolina accounted for ten
of the dead and % of the injured,
while South Carolina had nine kill
ed and Is injured.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
In
STATE Nav
OzVmFn7o71S

Washington, Nov. 16.-(AP)-Work-
ing secretly, the Resettlement Admin
Mtration has started a Federal pro-
gram to make farm owners out of l.
700 tenants in ten southern states.
M. E. Clifford, assistant to admin
lstrator Bedford G.. Tugwell, said the
move was kept quiet in order to ac-
qulre farm lands at normal values.
1t was feared the price of land
would soar if it's projects became
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-16
MARY PICKFORD TO
WE'D BUDDY ROGERS

Hollywood, Cal, Nov. 16.-(AP)
Mary PickfOrd confirmed today
her oft-rumOred engagement to
Charles Buddy" Rogers, band
leader and actor.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-02
Senator Thomas AU Vet,
 Vote Mataluska COlOnists

PALMER, Alaska, Dec. 2.-The Matanuska Colonists, by a vote of 135 to 4, have plainly told United States Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, that he is all wet re- garding his recent statement the project is a failure.
 The colonists yesterday took a vote on the proposition as to wheth- CT the colony was a failure or suc- cess.
 Early in the morning busses and autos began operating throughout the colony, taking the farmers to the Community Hall where the vot- ing took place at noon.
 As newsreel cameras clicked, the farmers who declared the colony was a success and that they were well pleased and contented, stepped to the right on the platform. There were 135 of them.
 William c. Bowens, colonist who conducted the vote, caused sensa- ton when he stepped to the left with three other dissenters.
 Joe Flanke, agriculture agent for the colony said he knew all four men who stepped to the left, and said there was little doubt but that they did so as a joke as all were prosperous and contented.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-02
GARNER BLAMED FOR SUPPORTING
 TEXAS FRIEND.
Vice-President Accused of Interfering in House Af-
 fairs Over Speaker

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-Friends of Representative John J. O'Con- nor of New York have charged that Vice President Garner inter fered in House of Representatives affairs when he endorsed the can- didacy of Representative Sam Ray burn of Texas for Speaker of the House for which O'Connor also is a candidate.
 Representative Bingell of Michi- gan charged that Rayburn lis in partnership with William Randolph Hearst and that he conducted Gar ner's mpaig in 1892 for the Presidential nomination a. gains Roosevelt.
 O'Connor had no comment to make and Rayburn said he wei comed Gamers backing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-02
KING EDWARD MUST GIVE UP
 LADY FRIEND
Bachelor Monarch, Visited by Prime Minister
 Baldwin, Warned
CABINET READY TO
 RESIGN IS REPORT
Ruler Must Abandon Inten- tions to Wed Ameri-
 can Divorcee

LONDON, Dec. 2.-Prime Minis ter Stanley Baldwin has called upon King Edward at Buckingham Palace in what is reported to be showdown in the constitutional crisis caused by the Monarch's friendship for Mrs. Waffle Simp- son.
 The Prime Minister is believed to have informed the bachelor King that the British Cabinet, with the backing of Parliament, is prepared to resign unless Edward surrenders any plan he may have to wed the American born divorcee.
 It is the second time this week Prime Minister Baldwin has visited the King, after dark.
 The spokesman of the American Embassy, asked about published re- ports that the White House had given expression of opposition to the marriage, said: We know nothing of the alleged White House express sion of views"
 The Stock Market dropped slug gishly today, reflecting what the brokers said was the nations grow ing concern over the Kings affair with the pretty American divorcee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-02
FILIPINOS IN GUN FIGHTING
 DIE INSTANTLY

SEATTLE, Dec. 1.-Two Filipinos were shot to death and a third is critically wounded, as the result of a gun battle in south-end restau- rant last night.
 The dead are A. A. Simon, aged 40, and Virgil Duyanaga, also 40. Desaba Patron, 25, is wounded.
 Simon was killed instantly and Duyanaga died in an ambulance enroute to hospital.
 City Hospital physician, pr. J. O. Blende, said Patron muttered, en- route to the hospital: He did the shooting, then Virgil shot me. I have hiring hall and they are trying to cut in on me"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-02
CHARGE MADE AGAINST GOV.
 IS DISMISSED
Smith, of Vermont, Did Not Conceal Bank Book
 keepers Theft

RUTLAND, Vermont, Dec. D. Gov Charles M. Smith, 68 year old President of the Rutland Mar ble Savings Bank, won freedom late yesterday from the charge of con- cealing a bookkeeper's alleged theft from the bank.
 Judge John s. Buttles dismissed the charge against the grey-haired Governor, along with those against the other officials.
 John J. Cocklin, former book keeper, was convicted eight days ago for embedding sl24.O0O from the bank over nine year period and the charges were made that Gov Smith and other officials of the bank kept this from the public.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-02
Bridges Says 4 Companies
 Prolonging Present Strike

TACOMA, Wash, Dec. 2.-Harry Bridges, President of the Interna- tional Longshoremens' Association of the Pacific Coast, in an address before the Tacoma longshoremen last night, charged the American Hawaiian, Watson, Dollar and Swayne- -Hoyt steamship lines with the responsibility for continuance of the maritime strike.
 Bridges said the strike would be settled but for the demands of the four lines.
 "It just happens that there are the four lines that draw the heav- lest subsidies from the Government. They are putting pressure on other companies to prevent any settle ment.
 What we want to do is to get the Federal Government to with draw these fat subsidies until they treat their employees right Brid- ges said
 Bridges pointed to the wages and working conditions on the vessels being chartered by the Government to carry foodstuffs to Alaska as an indication of what the Govern ment thinks of our demands" He said the wages on the chartered boats are higher than those asked by the unions and working condi- tions are better.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-02
FLOATING NAVY
 DRYDOCK TO BE
 BUILT, PACIFIC
Bethleh em Corporation Submits Bid But Is
 Over Estimates

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. Rear Admiral Norman Smith, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, today said the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, sole bidder on the huge floating drydock in Hawaii, had exceeded the ten million dol lars available.
 Rear Admiral Smith said he would study the estimates submit ted by the Navy Yards at Bremen ton and Mare Island.
 The floating drydock must be built on the Pacific Coast because it is too big to go through the Panama Canal. The proposed dry dock is 1,016 feet long.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-02
MADRID GIVEN
 ANOTHER RAIN,
 FASCIST BOMBS
Upwards of 100 Men, Women, Children Be-
 lieved Killed, Raid
HOUSES REDUCED
 INTO SPLINTERS
Commissar Reports that Acute Food Shortage
 Has Developed

MADRID, Dec. 2.-Sixteen Fas- cist ping planes, smashing houses to splinters with shells dropped, killed known 30, possibly as high as 100. men, women and children early this morning.
 The Emergency Red Cross head r' arters reported close to fifty bombs were dropped.
 Two visiting British members of Parliament narrowly escaped flying shrapnel.
 Pablo Vague, Commissar of Food Supplies, reported to the visitors that an acute food shortage has de- veloped because of the siege.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-02
Murder Reunites
 Twelve Families

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Dec. a. Attempts to identify a tattooed woman found dered near Clarksville had an uusual by-prod- uct. Various parents wrote in de- scribing missing daughters bearing tattoo marks and the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation located 12 and put them in touch with their families.