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The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-02
AT THE HOTELS
Gastineau

Gastineau William Kruse; Jane Harrop; Mrs. Joseph Smith, Bettles, Alaska {; William Strandberg, Anchorage; w. J. Joones, Fairbanks; Mrs. J. O'Connor, Fairbanks, Walter Hall, w. J. Jones, Fairbanks; Mrs. J. Holdsworth; J. Peretti O. Miller, Fred Kubon, Nome; Nels Westlin, Fairbanks; w. C.. Heidinger, Sitka.
 Alaskan
 Alfred Tilson, Juneau; M. Saul, Juneau; A. c. Chapman, Menden- hall.
 Zynda Einar Olsen, Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-02
POPE FACING CANCRENE IN
 OPEN WOUND
Varicose Vein in Left Leg Bursts-He Discusses
 Church Affairs

VATICAN CITY, Italy, Jan. D. Weakened by lack of sleep and fac- ing danger from gangrene in an open wound, the burst of a varicose vein in the left leg, the Pope today insisted on discussing church prob lems with Archbishop Chollet of France.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-02
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-The New York Stock Exchange held a short session today, the first of 1887.
 Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock today is l4A American Can IF, American Power and Light 11M, Anaconda 53as, Bethlehem Steel 74M, Calumet and Hecla 15h, Commonwealth and Southern, 31a, Curtiss Wright 6A General Motors 62ls, International Harvester 105ss, Kennecott 61, New York Central 40h, Southern Pa cific 431a, United States Steel 76A, United Corporation 6%, Cities Ser vice A, Pound $491
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-02
175 Killed in Merrymaking
 on New Years

CHICAGO, Jan. 2-Fatalities and violent deaths claimed ITS lives throughout the nation in New Years merrymaking.
 About l50 of the deaths are re- ported to have been caused by auto accidents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-02
ESTHER MORRIS TO
 SPEAK, FORUM CLUB

Experiences on a recent trip to the interior will be related by Miss Esther Morris, Supervisor of Home Economics under the Territorial Department of Education, tomorrow night at the Forum Club.
 All young people in the commun- ity who have finished school are cordially invited to attend the meetings which are held every Sun- day evening in the Church Parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church.
 Lode and pIacer location notices sor sale at The EmDire office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-02

a new technique, the sit-down strike.
 Steel executives were notifying their employees they would protect them from intimidation and coer- cion. c. l. O's drive was starting. Farmers were fighting grasshop- pers.
 On June 30, Lehman said he'd run
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-02

The mid-south area, of which
 Memphis, Tenn, is the hub, is said
 to produce 36 per cent of the na- tion's cotton crop.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-02
IN HOSPITAL FROM sITKA

William G. Heidinger arrived from Sitka today and entered St. Ann's Hospital for medical attention.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-02

You know WILBUR IRVING and his extra special dancers. TOnights the night. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-02
JUNEAU MOTOR MANAGER GOES TO SEATTLE ON
 SHORT BUSINESS TRIP

Elroy E. Ninnis, manager of the Juneau Motor Company, is a south- bound passenger on the Princess Norah leaving Juneau this morn ing. MT Ninnis will be in Seattle about three weeks on business trip.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-02
DOW, JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 179.52, down LAO; rails 53.28. down .33; utiI- ities 34.66, down IT.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
EXPECTED
IN 1884 KIDNAPPING
Pair Responsible for Killing
of Disteihurst Child
Spotted

Rome. Ga, April 15.-(AF)-Ten-
nessee officers said here today they
expected to arrest within a few hours
two men charged with kidnapping and
killing six-year-old Dorothy Ann Dis
telhurst near her Nashville, Tenn,
home in September 1884.
Wade Thornton, county Identified
ton officer at Nashville, said war
rants had been issued charging the
pair with kidnapping and murder He
withheld the names of the suspects.
Thornton, who has been working on
the case for many weeks, came here
several days ago to question resi-
dent of Rome He was joined yester-
day by Robert Harrington, special
States investigator from Nashville.
Thornton said he thought one of
the suspects would be picked up in a
South Carolina city, and the other. a
resident of Nashville, was believed to
be near the Tennessee capital.
Dorothy Anne, daughter of A. E..
Disteahurst disappeared the after
non of September 10, 1884, while she
was walking home from private
school a distance of less than a mile.
The dead child's father was in New
York trying to establish a contact,
after receiving ransom demands,
when the childs body was found 55
days later.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
MRS. ROOSEVELT TO
VISIT BERRY FETE
Comes to Wallace for
Strawberry Festival About
Middle of May
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel

by Js u. BIAS EHt
Raleigh, April 15-The residents
of Penderlea Homesteads in Pender
county, North Carolina, will have a
leading role in the annual Strawberry
Festival to be held in Wallace, and
the surrounding area about the middle
of May, according to plans revealed
here today by Miss Martha E. Smith,
regional home economist for the rural
settlement projects of the Resettle-
ment Administration.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt wife of
the President, has accepted an in
vitation to visit the project during the
festival, and in honor of her coming
a pageant, a home improvement con-
test, hobby show and other features
are being arranged.
The festival date this year will be
made to correspond with Mrs. Roose-
velt's visit to Penderlea. Officials and
civic organizations of the surround
ing towns are cooperating in the
plans for the big celebration, which
is to last several days and nights,
with numerous entertainment feat
ures. On the day of Mrs. Roosevelt's
coming. a tour of visitors is to be ar
ranged from Wallace and other COM
munities to the Homesteads, and
large throng of visitors is expected
to overflow the project.
Most of the homesteaders have not
been in their homes long enough to
CONTINUED on Page Seven.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
PLOT FOR MUT|NY
IN ENGLAND N|PPED
Prisoners at Dartmoor
Planned Dash for Free
dom on Coronation

London, April f5.-(AP)-The Elk
change Telegraph Agency today re-
ported officials of Dartmoor, Eng
lands largest prison, located on the
bleak southwestern moors, had I'M
covered plot to stage mutiny on
coronation day. May II.
Despite an official veil of secrecy,
the agency reported it learned stern
measures had been taken to suppress
any outbreak at the lonely prison,
which houses hundreds of desperate
prisoners serving long terms.
The prisoners were believed TO
rave selected May IL, the day King
George vi will be crowned, for a bold
dash for freedom because they were
angered by the fact no amnesties Will
be granted or sentences reduced IN
ce' ebration of the event.
The agency said it was believed the
prisoner may have considered pos
sible reduced vigilance on the part OF
their guards on the national holiday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
Senator McCarran, Its Auth
or, Opposes Forced Re-
tirement of Present
Justices
TESTIMONY OFFERED
ABOUT COAL FIELDS
Witness Tells Committee
Mine Operators Raised
Fund To Fight Unioniza-
ton; Anti-Lynching Bill
Expected To Pass House
During the Day

Washington, April 15.-(AF)-Sen-
ator McCarran, Democrat, Nevada, in
troduced in the Senate today a sub
stitute for the Roosevelt court bill.
1t would provide for an uncondition-
al increase of two members in the
size of the Supreme Court.
In offering his substitute in the
form of an amendment to the Roose-
welt bill, McCarran refused to say
whether he would support the mea-
sure if his amendment were reject
ed. He did tell reporters, however
he did not favor any forced retire
ment'' from the court.
Elsewhere the Senate civil liberties
committee pieced together developing
evidence of possible new labor dis
putes in Kentucky's rich and some
times bloody Harlan county coal field.
Following by "a hours an announce
ment the United Mine Workers had
undertaken a new unionization drive
in Harlan county, an official of the
County Coal Operators Association
disclosed his members began four
months ago raising special funds to
resist uniOniZatiOn.
The O1f1Cldl, george WdIu dooOC1a-
ton secretary, said dues paid by the
26 member companies had been rails
ed from half a cent to one cent ton.
A similar method was used in 1888,
he said, to raise money for fighting
organization of workers under the
MIRA. The committee heard yesterday
some union organizers had been
threatened and fired upon during pre-
vious Harlan labor troubles, and at
least one was made the victim of
dynamite attacks.
President Roosevelt himself, giving
over more serious cares for the mo-
ment, received his annual American,
and National League baseball passes,
and assured Clark Griffith, of the
Washington Senators, he would pitch
the ball opening the American Lea
que season here Monday.
Speaker Bankhead and House Ma
iority Leader Rayburn said they
would oppose enactment of the
Cavagan anti-lynching bill, but join
ed House sponsors of the measure in
predicting it would pass by a two-to-
one vote, probably late today.
The speaker added that if the bill
came to a vote in the Senate he be-
lieved it would pass that body also.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
ANOTHER ATHLETIC
SQUABBLE ARISING
Centers This Time Around
DR.. Ray Sermon at N. {.
State College
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
~ r. EASK ER VIII.

Raleigh April 15.-AnOther athletic
squabble is smouldering at State Col
lege here and may result in the wash
ing of more dirty athletic underwear
In public unless President Frank +.
Graham of the Great University OF
North Carolina and Administrative
Dean J. w. HARRISON of State COL
lege decide to do something about 1t
before the next meeting of the exc
cutive committee of the board OF trus-
tees Considerable smoke has been
curling up from the State campus Tor
some time in spite of efforts to make
the public believe that everything Is
"hunkydory" now since Chunk" An
derson is no longer present. But lot
the last few weeks, this smoke mas
been getting thicker aid blacker ana
If the executive committee had met
here this week, as originally planned,
there is little doubt that the smoke
would have burst into flame.
This new squabble-or perhaps IL
Is just a renewal of an old one-cen-
ters around DR.. r. r. Sermon, former
director of athletics and former train
er, now merely basketball coach at
State, and generally regarded as the
storm center of the anti-"Hunk' An
derson sentiment on the campus prior
TO Anderson's departure from State
(Cfnnfirt1nI on SOVPn
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
AIMEE'S NIGHT OF
HORROR is RELATED
Los Angeles Evangelist's COnfidante
Testifies on Privileges in
Angelus Temple

Los Angeles, Cal, April 15-(AP)-
Nurse Ella Nordeen, confidante of
Aimee Semple Mcpherson, was call
ed to the witness stand today to tell
her version of the evangelist's self
termed might of horror" in a
Phoenix, Ariz., hotel last year.
That night, Friday, the 18th of
March. has become a pivotal sequence
in the S150,OOO SANDER suit brought
against Willard Andrews, Angus
Temple attorney, by Roberta Sem
ple daughter of Mrs. Mcpherson.
Mrs. Mcpherson testified Roberta,
her daughter, and another attorney,
Jacob Model, threatened her into
signing four contracts in Phoenix, two
of which gave them certified posi-
tons in the temple.
Mrs. Mcpherson insisted the only
reason she gave Model any legal
work was ito please Roberta" who
had fallen in love with Mr.. Model"
Subsequently Roberta left the tenn
pie
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15

Cleveland, April Is AP)-There
isn't any business boom, Col. Leonard
Ayres said today.
Instead 1--WE have not as yet defl-
nitely emerged from the depression
the Cleveland statistician and econo-
mist observed, charting general bus
mess as "15 per cent or more below
normal"
"A good deal of bad economics is
being talked in these days about
emergency measures to prevent bus
mess boom, extended controls to re-
strain bank credit expansion, and in
creased federal powers to restrain
commodity advances" he said.
"These discussions constitute kind
of locking of the stable door before
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
YOUTH is HELD AS
EXTORTION WRITER
Chicago Garage Mechanic Charged
With Trying To Get $500 from
Ginger Rogers

Chicago, April Is (AP)-John An
thony Buzas, 10, garage mechanic,
was seized by Federal agents today
and charged with sending an extor-
ton letter to Ginger Rogers, demand
ing $500 under threat of death to the
Hollywood actress cor any one else
who gets in the way"
Agents said Buzas enclosed a pic
ture of himself and wrote on the en-
velope a return address only a few
doors away from his home on the far
South Side.
diary seized there, they said, men
toned the letter to Miss Rogers and
Buzas indecision about sending a
similar one to actor Clark Gable.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
LIQUIDATION ENDED
FOR 169 N. c. BANKS
1856 Ceased Business i'm State Since
1927; Had Listed Assets of
$135,357 900

Raleigh, April 15-(AP)-Gurney
Hood, State bank commissioner, re-
ported today 1876 banks had been plac-
ed in liquidation in North Carolina,
since 1927, with 1863 completely Ii
quidated up to December 81.
Depositors and other creditors of
the institutions received 77.54 percent
of their claims and in 26 banks all
claims were settled In full and as
sets amounting to $814,547.31 were re-
turned to stockholders agents
The closed banks had listed assets
of $135, 357, 10000, including stock
holders assessments, on which $76,-
OF, 1861 was realized.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
METHODIST WOMEN
CLOSE CONVENTION
Fayetteville Meeting Pledges Halslhs
$4O,45O for Its Work
Coming Year

Fayetteville April 15.-(AP)-The
Women's Missionary Society OF the
North Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
closed it's 25th annual convention here
today after pledging itself to raise
$40, $50 for it's work in. the next year.
Pledges by district societies were:
Durham. $1,000; Elizabeth City, 81
300; Fayetteville, s6,25O; New Bern,
$1,000; Raleigh, $4,000; Rocky Mount,
Sc 400; Wilmington, $4,000, and the
baby department $500.
Mrs. H. L. Rivers, of Greenvllle,
was named superintendent of Chris
tian social relations, succeeding Mrs.
C. L. Reed, resigned, and Mrs. Roban
Baynes, succeeded Miss Elizabeth
Morris as editor Of the woman's page
of the Christian Advocate.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
Horrible Details" is Ban
ner Line Over Most News
papers in Cities of
Reich
CHARGES ARE MADE
UPON u. CHURCHES
Permitting "Vicious" Anti
German Vaccinations"
Story Says; Humane Ger
man Racial Laws" Held Up
In Contrast to Practices in
America

Berlin, April 15.-(AP)-The entire
German press appeared today with
banner lines atop Horrible Details of
the Negro Lynchings' in Mississippi.
The concerted publicity for the tor
ture and killing of two Negroes last
Tuesday by a Duck Hill, Miss, mob
which was enraged by the Staying of
a county merchant, conceded with
charges American churches were per-
hitting vicious" anti-German ina
chinations."
Officially sponsored comment on
the lynchings contrasted them with
humane German racial laws" but
refrained from direct attacks on the
United States in connection Herewith
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
Dominion Intervention To
Settle General Motors
st Ike Asked In
Z solution
STRIKES SPREADING
ON CANADIAN SIDE
Meantime, Arrests Are
Made In Detroit Strike
While Chrysler Signs
Agreement With Auto
Union; New Violence In
Munice Taxicab Strike
(By The Associated Press.)


The strike of General Motors work.
ers at Oshawa, Ontario virtually was
pushed into the background today by
tho schiem it created in the provin-
cial government.
Premier Mitchell Hepburn, who
forced resignation of two cabinet
menu ers for disagrceing with him on
the government strike policy, was as
sailed as a dictator in a resolution
adopted by United Automobile Work
ers Union members.
The resolution urged dominion in
tervention to settle the strike involv-
ing 1900 workers.
While the domestic strike front was
relatively quiet, several provinces
across the border were plagued by
labor disputes Five thousand Mon
treal garment workers were under
orders to strike today.
Fifteen union officials and SYM
pathizers arrested after police and
deputies evicted 12O sitdown strikers
at the Yale g. Towne Manufacturing
Company plant at Detroit were held
in jail, but the strikers were released
under bond. Most of the strikers a
gainst whom police used tear gas
were women.
An agreement on collective bar
gaining, seniority and procedure for
considering grievances was signed
last night by the Chrysler Motor Cor
poration and u. A. w. A. officials.
A bus driver and passenger were
injured by missiles thrown through
a bus windshield at Muncie, Ind, in
a new outbreak of violence in the
bus drivers strike.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
mo Arms, No Men" Ban
Becomes Effective at
Midnight Then, Com
mittec. Rules
PARLIAMENT BACKS
BRITAIN'S POLICY
Government Wins Big Vic
tory in Commons Vote;
Madrid Front Quieter and
Storms Bog Down Insurg-
ent Drive on Bilbao; Medi-
alton Talk Is Heard
(By The Associated Press.)

l.
European nations acted today to
enforce a. mo arms, no men, ban in
the Spanish war.
The non-intervention sUb-commit-
tee in London ordered a land and sea
patrol of SPANS frontiers put into
operation at midnight next Monday.
Warships of participating nations
in the hands-off" Spain agreement
will watch the coast to prevent land
ing of arms and men for either side
in the Spanish conflict Frontier
agents will keep a watch by land.
The subcommittee action follow
ed an overwhelming parliamentary
victory for the British government on
it's conduct of the Spanish civil war
negotiations.
Opposition forces have bitterly at
tackled the decision not to protect Bri-
fish vessels entering the Spanish port
of Bilbao, in northern Spain, where
Spanish insurgent warships have es-
tablished a blockade to "starve out"
government defenders.
Britain, however, renewed warn
ings to insurgents she would not toll
crate interference with her ships at
sea.
Heavy artillery fire on the fronts
around Madrid subsidized. Government
troops declared they had cut off g.
900 insurgents in the University City
sector from food and supplies.
Storms in the Bilbao section bog
ged down the big insurgent offensive.
Basque troops declared they had
cleaned out some insurgent strong
holds not far from Bilbao.
In Paris official circles heard talk
that the time may be ripe for media
ton of the Spanish civil war under
the sponsorship of great European
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
STOCKS ARE MIXED;
TRADERS ARE TIMlD

New York, April Is (AP)-The stock
market struggled feebly to maintain
it's balance today, but was only half
way successful.
Small declines were numerous near
the fourth hour in unusually light deal
ings. While trading forces were not
iceablv tinid on the buying side, they
were equally careful not to get too
far out on a selling limb.
Bonds were mixed, providing little
stimulus for stocks.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
MAGNET DISCOVERED
BY WAR GAS MASKS

Chapel Hill, April Is (AP)-Gas
masks for women, children and sol
diers in wartime have resulted in dis
covery of a magnet that extracts bad
tastes and flavors and unwanted doors
from food and drinks.
The taste magnet, described to the
American Chemical Society here today
by John Hassler, of the West Virginia
Pulp & Paper Company, Tyrone, Pa,
uses the same kind of carbon as gas
masks. It is "activated."
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
ROOSEVELT GIVEN
ASSEMBLY RESOLVE
Reynolds Accompanies State Delega-
ton to White House on APP
prevail for Court

Washington, April Is (AP)-Presi-
dent Roosevelt formally received to-
day a resolution adopted by the North
Carolina General Assembly endorsing
his court reorganization plan.
Presentation was made by State
Representative Brooks Price, of Wax
haw, N c., author of the resolution.
He was accompanied to the White
House by Senator Robert r. Reynolds
and Mrs Roy Lawresce, of Winston
Salem, wife of the president of the
North Carolina Federation of Labor.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
PLAN TO SEEK NEW
PARKER INDICTMENT

Newark, N. j., April Is (AP)-
United States District Attorney John
Quinn has been restrained from start
inc the trial of the Ellis Parkers,
father and son, int he Wendell kid
aap-torture case in Newark, but he
has the authority of Attorney General
Cummings to move the case to Brook
lyn.
Quinn said he would Immediately
seek the indictment of the Parkers
under the Lindbergh law in Brooklyn.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
SEARCH MADE FOR
ESCAPED CONVICTS

Raleigh, April 15.-(AP) Search
was made today for two prisoners,
Andrew MCGEE, 20, and Chester Bar
mes, 1S, who escaped from the Cary
prison farm near here yesterday after
chiseling a hole through two-foot
wall.
MCGEE was sentenced to eight to
ten wears for a. series of hold-ups in
New Hanover county, and Barnes was
serving IL to 10 years for murder in
Camden county.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
HoeyEnds Hearing
On Ne1v State Jobs

ed as a special superior court judge.
Larkins also headed a group recon-
mending E. v. Webb, of Kinston, for
the highway and public works COM
mission.
The governor said he expected to
name the new State liquor commits
sion and the new chairman and ten
members of the highway commission
before the end of next week.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
FORD IN POSITION
TO HALT THE c. |. 0.
Motor Concern Independent
OF All Outsider sand Has
Plenty Cash
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COIumnist

Washington, April 15.-The fight
between John L. Lewis c. l. 0. and
Henry Ford, when it get fairly started
will prove to be a different kind of
a fight from the fights Lewis already
has had or is likely to have with other
captains of industry
NV acquaintance with the Dearborn
motors magnate was not very long
about a fortnight. But it was fairly
intimate. The fortnight was the fort
night required for Ford's celebrated
Peace Ship to steam from Hoboken
to Christtiania (now Oslo). Norway.
The few newspapermen, of whom
was one, who accompanied him on
this cruise, visited with the wolverine
auto manufacturers constantly. FeE
low voyagers, bottled up together be-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
GRANVILLE WILT
RAvAGES TOBACCO
Has Become "Alarming
Threat" To Crop in East
Carolina, Shaw Says

College Station, Raleigh, April IS
Granville wilt has become IAN alarm
ing threat" to the tobacco crop of
Eastern North Carolina, DR.. Luther
shaw. extension plant pathologist at
State College, declared here today.
Unless something is done to check
the spread of this disease, he said, it
PROMISES to become as destructive
over the eastern part of the State as
il is in the badly infested areas of
Granville, Wake, and Durham coun-
ties.
At present, he continued, there is no
practical way known to check this
disease in an infected field, but the
Continued on Page Seven)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
START PLAN FOR
FREE TEXTBOOKS
Governor and State Super
intendent Begin Prelimi-
nary Surveys
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
- N a G " IND VIII

Raleigh, April 15- Preliminary
plans are being made by the State
superintendent of public instruction
and his staff for setting up the new
free textbook program, although Gov
ernor Clyde r. Hoey has not yet ap-
pointed the next textbook commits
sion which will administer the free
textbooks Jaw, superintendent Clyde
A. Erwin said today. The purpose of
this is to have as much information
available as possible when the new
commission is appointed.
One of the first things being done
is to make a study Of the require
oents of the various grades in an eff
fcont;nned on Page Ski
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-15
LOSSES ARE SHOWN
IN COTTON TRADING

New York, April Is (AP)-Cotton
futures opened steady to 7 points
higher on improved Liverpool cables
and trade and foreign buying.
July eased off from 1875 to 1851.
Shortly aftto- The first half hour the
market showed net losses of to 3
points. July declined to 1882 and
prices at midday were within a few
points of the lows and at net losses
of to 12 points.