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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27
Seriousness of Division
Among Democrats Ac-
knowledged General
ly Privately
ROOSEVELT COURSE
TO DECIDE RESULT
Belief in Some Quarters Is
Fight Will Be Carried on
More Openly in Next Con-
gressional Session; Roose-
welt Wants His Wage-Hour
Bill

Washington, Dec. 27.-(AP)-Some
Senate Democrats forecast today that
an open battle for control of the party
would develop between liberal and
conservative legislators during the
coming session of Congress.
Although unwilling to be quoted Ey
name, thew predicted the present diff
vision would carry over into the 1910
national convention.
Seriousness of the party split was
acknowledged generally by congress
sional Democrats in private CONVEX
sation. Most of them deplored it, but
some said they welcomed it as 4
means of bringing q realignment of
parties along more realistic lines.
Possible long-range results of the
division were outlined differently by
almost every one in discussing the
subject Many believed that President
Roosevelts course during the next
three years would be the determining
factor.
The belief in some quarters that the
fight would be carried on more open
ly during the next congressional ses-
sion was based on two factors: the
number of controversial issues COM
ing before the legislators and the ap-
preaching off-year elections.
Administration friends have made
no secret of President Roosevelt's in
tention to continue his fight for wage
hour legislation, blocked earlier this
month by Southern Democrats in the
House.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27
SIMPLE RITES FOR
NEWTON D. BAKER
Wartime War Secretary
Died Christmas Day of
Heart Attack

Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 27.-(AP)-
Simple funeral services will be held
tomorrow for former Secretary of
War Newton D. Baker, eulogized by
prominent Americans today as one Of
the nations great leaders.
Arrangements called for the body
to lie in state with a military guard
of honor in Trinity Episcopal cathed-
raj tomorrow morning.
Mr.. Baker died at his home here
Christmas afternoon. He had been
confined to his home by heart illness
for nearly month. He was sc years
old.
In Bakers service as secretary OF
war under President Woodrow Viii
son in World War days, few were
more closely linked with General John
J. Perishing. General Perisking said
today: "Mr. Baker was America:
greatest secretary of war;
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27
JACKSON ADDRESS
MAY BE FORECAST
Attack on Monopoly by Assistant At
tOrney General May Point
to FDR Program

Washington, Dec. 81 (AP)-Criti-
cism of monopolistic profiteering by
Robret Jackson, assistant attorney
general, received widespread interpre-
tation today as a prelude to broad
administration antitrust campaign.
Most observers expected President
Roosevelt to recommend specific leg
islation to strengthen the present anti
trust statutes. Some even have pre-
dicted congressional investigation OF
alleged monopolies.
Jackson, who has discussed the
monopoly with the President on seve-
raj occasions, said in a radio address:
"It is the monopolists and those sc
near monopoly as to control their
prices yho by their profiteering have
simply priced themselves out of the
market and priced themselves into a
stump"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27
Murchison
Sees Upturn
For Textiles
Returning Prosper
ity, Rising Prices
and Firmer Basis
Predicted

Washington, Dec 27.-(AP)- Claud
Jus Murchison, president of the Cot
ton Textile Institute, predicted to-
day 1888 would be year of return
ing prosperity, gradually rising prices
and establishment of a firmer basis
of operations in the industry.
'The foundation for greatly increas-
ed consumer buying definitely was
laid this year," he said. Murchison
said he believed the present down
ward trend in business would be halt
ed in a short time. Most factors which
had a destructive effect this year on
our industry have been taken out OF
the picture. We look forward to a
year with the least degree of inter
ference from legislation we have had
in many years"
Four factors, he said, have been re-
moved as ''handicaps" to the industry
during 1887. He listed them as
House action in sending the wage
hour bill back to committee; removal
of the threat of processing taxes; in
dication the undistributed surplus
profits tax would be modified; and
elimination of the threat of wholesale
labor disturbances.
The cotton textile industry, he de-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27
Eight Lynchings
For 1887 Same As
For 1886 Period

Tuskegee, Ala, Dec. 27.-(AP)-
Eight persons, all Negros, died by
lynching in 1887 the Tuskegee In
stitute department of records and re
search, reported today. The 1896 total
was also eight
Deaths by states this year: Florida
3; Mississippi, 2; Tennessee, Alabama
and Georgia one each.
In Sc instances, the institute said
officers of tn law prevented lynchings
Five of these cases occurred in north
ern states and 81 in the south.
The eight 1887 and 1886 lynchings
compared with 20 in 1895 and Is in
1884.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27
Eight Duplin Negro Tenant
Farmers Drown When
Car Goes Into North
east River
ROCKY MOUNT DEATH
DECLARED SUICIDE
Occasion One of Most Ex-
pensive Christmas Celebra-
tons for Nation at Large;
Highways Are Crowded
With Many Homecoming
Travellers
fBv The Associated Press

(BV The Associated PreSS)
Sixteen persons died violently lr
North Carolina over the Christmas
HOLIDAYS, eight OF them when an au-
tomoble plunged through a bridge
quard IA miles south of Wallace.
Eight Negroes, all Duplin county
farm tenants, drowned when the car
dropped 80 feet to a Northeast river
shoal and overturned.
His gun accidentally discharged and
w. G. Nixon, ten-year-old son of Ben
Nixon, hunting guide at New Holland,
near Washington, N. c., was killed
instantly.
Jake Horton, Negro, was killed
when ne fell or jumped from a pas
senger train near BonSal, in Wake
county.
Ashley Hawkins Crisp, died of in
juries suffered in an automobile acct
dent near Pinetops. His uncle, Thomas
Crisp, was killed in the accident.
Gwendolyn Avent, %, was found
dead in the kitchen of her home in
North Rocky Mount last night and
Police Chief o. P. Hedgepeth said it
was plain case of suicide by gas.
John Guthrie, A, a barber, was
fatally slashed in an alteration near
his shop at Hickory. Officers said
Marshall johnson, also of Hickory,
would be given a hearing January 5
on a charge of murder.
Virgil Bentley was fatally injured
in an automobile driven, officers said,
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27
INSURGENTS STILL
GATHERING MADRID
Christmas Weekend She'll
ing of Old Spanish Cap
ital Continues

Madrid, Dec. 27.-(AF0-Spanish in
surgent artillery batteries continued
today to shell Madrid, still shaking
from a Christmas weekend lombard
ment, the worst and most prolonged
the capital had suffered in a month.
Official figures said that in the last
48 hours, 400 shells had poured into
the city, killing eight persons and
wounding 60.
A government dispatch reported
four insurgent warships had lombard
ed Castellon and Vinaroz on the Spen-
ish coast Sunday without inflictine
much damaged.
The Smelling of Madrid followed one
last night in which two persons were
killed and IL wounded.
Meanwhile, insurgent troops and
CONTINUED on Page Eighth
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27
North Carolina Burning
Bonds; Faces Lower lax
Constitutional Amendment Prohibits Issue OF New
Bonds Above Two-Third of Liquidation Except by
Vote of People In an Election

divisions must reduce their bonded
debt before they will be permitted to
in incur any new one, or sell any
bonds except by vote of the people.
Thus if the State should want to
issue So, 100000 worth of bonds for any
purpose, it could not do so unless 1t
had paid off 100000 in bonds the
two preceding years, or it cannot issue
them without a special election. Like
wise, if a county, city or town snoulo
wish to issue 100000 for streets, sew
ers or new buildings. it could not 90
SO unless it had paid off 100000
worth in the preceding year, or unless
il called an election and won the peo-
pies approval.
BY compelling the State and It's SUD
divisions to hold all new borrowings
CONTINUED on Page Fourl
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27
FILMS OF BOMBING
RUSHED EASTWARD
Cameraman Took Movies of
Japanese Attack on
American Gunboat

New York, Dec. 81 (AP)-A spe-
cialty chartered United Air Lines
plane is scheduled to rush the first
news reel films of the bombing of the
U: S. S. Panay from Alameda, CAL, to
New York tomorrow, and the first
unedited print will be flown to Wash
irgton, it was announced today.
Norman Alley, Universal cameraman
who shot the dramatic scenes of the
bombing, standing on the deck of the
little American gunboat while it was
under fire, will accompany the films
on the flight.
Universal officials said the first
showing of the pictures would be
made within "a hours after their ar
rival in New York, probably late Wed
nesday night or Thursday morning.
Alley, formerly of Laconia, N. H..
and Chicago, was described by Univer-
sal officials as a soldier of fortune
cameraman," and zone of the top men
IN the profession.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In Tho Sir Walter Hotel


Raleigh, Dec. 27.-North Carolina is
burning it's bonds, not its bridges, be-
hind it,
AS result, the State faces the
cheerful prospect Of reducing taxes
in coming years, rather than raising
them, as so many other states are GER
tain to be forced to do.
AS the bonded Indebtedness OF the
State comes down, the sum needed
annually for interest and amortization
will become less and less.
That the trend will continue down
ward is assured by the debt and bond
limitation amendment to the Constl-
tuition adopted in 1886. North Caro-
lima is the only State in the nation
which has a section making this re-
duction mandatory through the pro-
vision that the State and all it's sub
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27
WAGES-HOURSB|LL
FOES ARE HARD PUT
Labor's Non-Partisan Lead
er Sees 1t AS Issue in
1888 Campaign
By CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, Dec. 27.-Representa
tives who voted to chloroform the
maximum hour and minimum wage
bill at the extra session of Congress
already realize that they will be en-
phatically on the spot in the 1898 con-
greSsional elections.
Parliamentary speaking, the bill, to
he sure, was not outright defeated. It
simply was sent back to the labor com
mittee to be rewritten. However, this
recommital practically amounted to
defeat. 1t is so spoken of and it was
so intended.
It was not very good bill, for a
fact Doubtless it was well meant, but
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27
Fish Hits
LundOn On
War Viez0S

Washington, Dec 27.-(AP)-For-
mer Governor ALT M. Landons recent
endorsement of President Roosevelt's
foreign policies brought sharp re-
Duke today from Representative Fish
Republican, New York, ranking min
GRITTY member Of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee.
Governor Landon, who knows less
than nothing about international is.
sues, and amply demonstrated that
fact in the last campaign" Fish said,
rushed to the defense of the Presi-
dent, slamming members of Congress
without the faintest knowledge of the
situation"
Although he asserted "all Ameri-
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27
PnmayL0Ss
Is SettI led
Definitely

PANAY LOSS 80. cmfwyp
Washington, Dec. 27.-(AP)- The
State Department reiterated today it
considered "closed incident" the in
ternational situation arising from the
boming of the gunboat Panay, al
though the indemnity remains to be
fixed.
Officials made it plain that this
agovernmnt would watch closely to see
that Japan carries out it's assurances
that there would he no unlawful inter-
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA

Mostly cloudy, scattered light
rain in interior tonight and Tues
day and possibly on coast Tues
day; slightly warmer tonight and
in central and northeast portions
Tuesday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27
New Years Resolutions
For Business Next Year
Labor Wars Must Stop and Administration Must Stop
Persecution of Business if Recovery Is To Be Re-
sumed. Babson Decla in Predictions
By ROGER w. BABSON,

Copyright Financial
BABSON'S HOPES
l. employers will
quarreling.
g. TAXES Congress modify
UTILITIES:
utilities.
a. RAILROADS: That grant
freight
building people will to
6. manufacturers will
negotiate trades agreements.
politicians will resolve half
spending laws
8. good
a
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27

Washington, Dec. 27.-The season
for resolutions is right at hand, so I
have prepared list of business re-
solutions" for 1888. This is not cata-
logue of trifling and annoying per-
sonal habits which must be abolished.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-27

1t js a list of basic national problems
which must be ironed out if you read
ers want business to start UP the
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Evening star., 1937-07-09
Terry BlameS Hubbell.

HIS statement seems TO imply
criticism of William Terry, who
managed the National League stars,
but Mr.. Terry defended himself Stout
ly after the battle
I'VE did what we could" said Will
liam. We got plenty of hits. but
their hits were longer than ours What
made the difference between winning
and losing for us was Hubbell He
didn't have his stuff-no control and
no speed. The minute he stepped out
there I could see he wasn't right. but
l was hoping he could get past Rolfe
in the fourth inning, and then I could
Use pinch-hitter in the fifth
IN tell you the best ballplayer in
the game-Joe Medwick. He did
everything. SO did our pinch -hitters.
OFT and Rip Collins, And Arky
/ Vaughan came through for me at third
base by getting his hits.
That was fine throw of Di Mag
gio's that caught Whitehead at the
plate, but what could We Go? Under
the circumstances we had to ask
Whitley to try and score from second.
You can't waste hits and bases when
you're three runs behind.
Concerning Hubbell Mr. Red Rolfe,
| tSee TERRY, Page B-8)
Evening star., 1937-07-09

the rural districts, this act aroused
antagonism and developed dlsinterest.
But the capacity turnout in Washing
ton the other day revealed that, fan
vote or no fan vote. people still are
willing to see the game.
Perhaps 1t might be well TO seek
happy and rational medium in
connection with the all-star
game outlook.
Let us assume that its opponents
are wrong and that it will not be
junked Let us. too, assume that
people who smugly say that it is here
to stay in its present state also are
wrong. Connie Mack is a notable
member of the latter group.
The game now is big grown
MP boy. but, withal, it still needs
a few final touches.
The question of how the players are
to be chosen still is paramount issue.
Definitely, fans are not satisfied to
have no say in the matter. And, too.
items such as Joe McCarthy's snubbing
Of the Ferrell brothers and Buddy
Myer the other day did not sit well.
Washington may not be full OF WASH
ingtonians, but there Is certain syn
thetic pride Of say, ownership con-
nected with seeing Myer play along
Evening star., 1937-07-09
Long Wait Ends for Hill.

WITH dismay, Harris watched fly
balls which should have been
caught drop safely in Sington's ter
ritory for costly base hits and runs.
He strung along with Fred day after
day. however, hoping that his big bat
would begin functioning again. In
the end, however, Bucky decided that
Sington would have to hit we'll over
300 to atone for his weak fielding
and Fred was giving no signs of bat
ting at such a clip.
Thus Hill, for the first time since
early in the 1886 campaign, becomes
a regular He started last year as
the left fielder. He became injured
and Johnny Stone stepped into his
place and did so we'll that only against
left-handed pitchers was Hill used,
Despite the fact that he batted over
300 the only year he had ever played
regularly-he then was with New
York--Jesse was typed as utility
player, and that was that.
Now, or at least until Simmons
return, he is regular against right
and left handed pitching. After Sim
mons gets back, it will be up to
Harris to choose between Hill and
Armada or to continue to alternate
them.
Evening star., 1937-07-09
Trenton Stoned by Jacobs.

In ROUTE to Gotham the Griffs
stopped at Trenton to go through
the motions of an exhibition game,
It was, generally speaking, a weak
exhibition, but Bucky Jacobs did
nothing to hurt his reputation as a
slab prospect.
Harris, changing his mind in typ
ical fashion about working Jacobs
against the Yankees. sent the skinny
recruit against the New York-Penn-
sylvania Leaguers, and Bucky re-
sponded with a four hit, 3 to l VIC
tory.
1t was under broiling sun that
Jacobs labored, too, and he was we'll
nigh all in at the finish. Tren-
ton used two left-handers, Kalfass
and Brown, and off them the Mats
got seven hits.
The Griffs were none too anxious
to face these lefties. The southpaw
swingers kept pulling away from
the plate, to guard against possible
injury. but in the end the WASH
ingtonians did not escape mishap.
Getting the Mats first hit, Johnny
M1halic tried to stretch a double into
a triple in the second inning and his
left eye ran into Third Baseman
Chapman's knee The eye lost the
decision and Mihalic left the game
With an artistic sinner.
Evening star., 1937-07-09

best defensive backs I ever saw"
Harold Parrot, Brooklyn Eagle
sports writer, has a bouncing he'll
.. Congrats, Pop :. Both father
and son are doing well)
Watch out, batters Cleve-
land sports writer's at the all-star
game say Bob Feller is faster and
has more stuff than ever A
prominent German sportsman is
quoted as saying the four best
drivers in the Vanderbilt Cup
race were Tazio Nuvolari, Richard
Seaman. Rex Mays and Rudolph
Caracciola Was that a slap
at Bernd Rosemeyer, who only
finished first?
The campaign of virtually every
New York fight manager to find .
new white hope is making no prog
ress rapidly :. At least three big
league pilots are not sleeping as
well as they should If anybody
knows what's the matter with the
Cincinnati Reds, please write
Charlie Dresser night quick.
Evening star., 1937-07-09
POPPING ~
OFF" ~JhGton. g


n yEW with a display of dsrespect for
~ au-sar
the that it will be scrapped and unked after 1883
requested the
Worlds Cincinnati
1888 New York 1889 That least what
found the of this kind Of
ball suspected
ball indifferent
club would whistle
After all alar
No collected by the
Of
during the al-star
National stated
the dream game than the American which natural under the
for the Nationals laugh
downright
Of five asar did builds
apainS
Evening star., 1937-07-09
Faded After Great Start.

EOR all of Sington's disappointing
showing at bat, the new outfield
of Johnny Stone, Hill and Almada
does not figure to add a great deal
of offensive punch. Stone is the only
established hitter of the trio and the
only man who is distinct threat to
Vallop an extra base hit.
Harris, however is playing the per-
centage Smgton had not been hitting
and Hill does not figure to be any
more feeble at the dish. And Sington
is not in Hills class as fly catcher or
as base runner.
Sington assumed a regulars status
on June 10, after Simmons finger was
broken by a pitch thrown by Oral
HIdebrand of the Browns For a
while, despite his poor fielding, he
was a definite asset. In his first five
games, Freddy drove II runs across
the plate and the GriffS forged ahead
to five-game winning streak.
Then. out of clear sky, Fred
stopped hitting. He drove into numer-
Gus double plays. In his last IL
games he drove over only four runs
His batting average, which rose with
his great start, dropped to .262 for
his l6 games as a regular.
Evening star., 1937-07-09
Ranger Out to Clinch Cup.

p ANGER had chance today to
clinch A cup offered by Former
Commodore George Nichols OF the New
York Yacht Club. II she should win
the race, the third Of a scheduled
series of four. and Yankee should nm
ish second, neither Of her rivals could
collect enough points to take the cup
even by winning a fourth contest.
Yankee switched booms before leav-
ing for the starting line. Her fat
topped Park avenue" spar was put
ashore and an ordinary hollow boom
shipped in its stead.
Lambert also has announced he will
return to the conventional sail plan
used by the other cup boat after the
current series and before he engages in
races with the New York Yacht Club
and Eastern Yacht Club cruises.
Evening star., 1937-07-09
Game Once a Great Tonic.

Game Once a Great Tonic.
NEARLY everybody in base ball who
really wants the game to stick
are trying to think up new wrinkles
Somebody suggests weird idea where
by each league is represented with
three teams, each to play three in
nings. This Is not recommended, ex-
cept to produce evidence of what is
going on.
Somebody else has an idea whereby
the fans choose IA players by a
Nation wide ballot. leaving the man
ayers to choose nine themselves. An
other is that the game be increased to
IL innings. thereby increasing the
chances Of everybody, or nearly every
body, getting into the game.
Similarly. 1t has been sus-
gested that two games be played
"A morning and afternoon
game. Yeah sarcastically
cracked one Of the Nationals.
upon hearing this idea, "thatl
make \ great h. ith the ball
players"
Another idea inventor wants 10
know why the fans not only cannot
determine the games players, but also
the managers. is Joe Mccarthy the
best manager in the American
League?" he inquiries. He managed
the All-Stars because he had the pen
nant winner. But that doesn't prove
he is the best manager. Maybe, in
the opinion of the fans, Bucky Harris
or Jimmy Dykes is the best"
In line with this it might be men,
toned that Mccarthy promises to
become an all-star graybeard. In
1886 he led the Americans because
Mickey Cochrane blew cylinder
head or something and was laid up
for repairs. Mccarthy, as manager
Of the second-place team in 1885,
substituted for him.
This year Marse Joe won the
assignment Of his teams pen
nant-winning campaign and
unless the Yanks are stopped in
4 hurry he will be at the helm
Of the all stars at least another
year.
Anyway, tn the opinion of this in
expert observer, the game will stick
around for q while unless the brass
hats become braver and bolder than
most of them are given a chance of
becOminr The all.Sfar pame has
been good to them. In 1888 and
1884, when the depression plagued
base ball. the magnates found the
all-star game A bonanza. q tonic that
popped up dull appetites in Mid
summer.
Some day they might need an
other tonic.
Evening star., 1937-07-09

latest dope says Rex Mays, the
Californian who finished third in
the Vanderbilt Cup race, is being
sought by the company making the
big auto unions.
Pennant tip, wise old Bill Nc
Kechnie of the Bees likes the Cubs
-. Says Bill: "They can afford to
make more mistakes behind their
hurting than the Giants can be-
hind theirs Arturo Godoy,
the big Chilean, has been matched
with Roscoe Towles at Detroit
July %.
Jim Mullen, Chicago promoter.
is in town to try to match Bob
Pastor and John Henry Lewis FIR
q bout in the White Sox ball park
the middle Of August Pastor,
by the way, has bought home at
Saratoga Springs, N. Y. An
other Chicago visitor is Barney
Ross, the welterweight champion.
Muscletone, Premier Mussolini's
trotter which will meet Greyhound