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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
MILITARY ACTIVITY
RENEWED IN SPAIN
All Along Battle Front, Both Sides
Prepare New Drive; Gov
eminent Grips Teruel

Madrid, Dec. 29.-(AP)-While the
Spanish government fought to crush
the last remnants of insurgent resis-
lance in Teruel, improved weather
conditions in the upper Aragon today
permitted a resumption of military &C
tivity all along the battlefront
After three weeks of inaction,
troops from Huesca southwark to
Teruel were busy strengthening their
positions and repairing cOmmunica
tons damaged by recent floods and
snowstorms.
Government artillery shelled Huesca
yesterday, reporting several hits. In
surgents replied, but no great damage
was admitted.
The government said insurgent
troops made several desperate at
tempts to break through lines around
Teruei but were checked.
Government troops closed in for oc-
cupation of two manufactured
buildings from which the insurgent
garrison of Teruel had blazed defiance
for a week. At the same time the in
surgents, who lost the strategic pro-
vincial capital to the governments
surprise offensive, made desperate at
tempts to recover it by mastery of the
air.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
WOnanDies,
FourInjjured
InCarCrash
High Point Is Scene
of Tragedy; Tay-
louisville NJ a n | S
Burned to Death

High Point, Dec 29.-<AP'-Mrs. j.
F. Slate, Winston-Salem. was fatally
injured and four other persons were
hurt as two cars CRASHED here this
morning.
Those injured were: DR.. =. F. Slate,
Winston-Salem, husband Of Mrs. Slate,
fractured wrist and punct1red right
knee: Fred Slate, driver Of the car,
chest injuries, scalp wounds, and
broken ribs Mrs. Matte Slate, OF
King, N c., mother of Fred, and sis
ter-in-law of DR.. Slate, cuts and
bruises; and Leo McSwain, driver OF
the other car involved, decorations
and bruises.
McSwain was placed under $5,OOC
bond on a charge of manslaughter
The bond was posted by his father.
The accident occurred just at the
city limits on the Asheboro-H1gt
Point road McSwain told Investigate
ing officers he put on his brakes to
slow down and a front wheel locked
sending his car crashing into the one
one occupied by the States.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
JAMES ATKINS DIES
AT JUNALUSKA HOME
Was One of Promoters of Methodist
Assembly Grounds There;
Son of Late Bishop

Lake Junaluska, Dec. 20 (AP)-
James Atkins, SO, manager of the
Southern Methodist Church's assem-
bly, grounds here, died at his home
here last night of heart ailment.
Atkins, son of the late Bishop
James Atkins, of Waynesville, was one
of the promoters of the assembly
grounds, and when the enterprise met
financial difficulties few years ago
he was made receiver.
Surviving are his widow, two sons,
including Joe, Jack, of Greenville, N.
c., a brother and a sister.
His funeral will be held in Waynes-
Vile tomorrow afternoon.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
Attacks On
Business Are
Begun Again
New Dealer Jackson
S a y S Business Is
Trying To Liqui-
date That Program

Philadelphia, Dec. 29.-(AP)-Assis-
tant Attorney General Robert Jack.
son accused "big business" today of
going on a strike" against the gov
eminent in an effort Ito liquidate the
New Deal"
The administration snti-monopolv
crusader, in an adj 1ress prepared for
delivery before the American Political
Science Association, sa,d big business
had seized upon tho recession as a
'cudgel to whack &c acessiors out Of
government"
r. ey wish, he adc"d etc II 4r,tntc
TIC New Deal, and TO throw off al
2 ,vt rnmental interfe' re 18th thei.'
Incorporated initial -, AND their 'ari'-
tocratic anarchy"
Jackson said government was "thc
only agency with the power to con.
dition capitalism a'h industrialism
g survive" AID suggested business
was "blind to the al ,antsg"s it de-
~ es from the process
"The unvarnished TRUTH" he said,
Continued on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
TAR HEELS WORRIED
BY CONGRESS TEST
Fa1ghtist-Leftist Showdown
Has Already Divided
Bailey, Reynolds
Daily Dispatch Bureau.


Raleigh, Dec. 29.-A Showdown
between right and left-wingers of the
Democrats in Congress would worry
members of North Cardinals delega-
ton no little.
Such a showdown in the regular
session is being glibly forecast by
Washington's political commentators.
If and when such a situation comes
up, there's only one flat statement
which can be made about the Tar
Heel group-Senator Josiah w. Bailey
would be found among the leaders of
the "rightists," while Senator Robert
R. Reynolds would be one of the most
vocative "lefts." 1t is possible thai
both these doughty political warriors
would welcome a knock-known, raw
head-and-bloody-bo battle.
North Cardinals eleven congress
men, however, have given no indica-
ton of any desire to become en-
broiled in bitter internecine warfare.
Most of them are repeatedly conser-
vative at heart, but practically all of
them have 'gone down the line for
the President and his program except
in the wage-hour battle.
Gastonia's Bulwinkle and Durham
(Conf iuued on Page Eighth
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
FARN-LAB0R HAND
WILL Be REVEALED
1888 Elections Will Show
How Well Two Elements
Can Be United
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COIumniSt

Washington, Dec 29-The 1888 con
gressional campaign will begin to
show how effectively urban labor and
agriculture can be politically com
Oined.
To be sure, there has been a Far
mer-Labor party for a long time, but
heretofore it never has been potent
except rather locally. It's main streng-
tn has been in Minnesota, doubtless
due to the able leadership of Senators
Henrik Shipstead and Ernest Lundeen
of the North Star commonwealth. Be
sides these two senators the party also
has five representatives in Washing
ton-all Minnesotans.
Of course there likewise are many
Democratic and Republican legisla-
tors who are pro-labOr or proagricul-
tural, and, in a general way, mutually
friendly, but not actually allied.
Their Differences.
| would not say that urban work
ers and farmers have been antagon-
istic toward one another. Theoretical
ly they should have interests in COM
mon. AS a practical proposition their
respective interests do seem to con-
flict.
The farmer, if he is a good farmer
(COntinl1ed on Page FiVe.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
JUSTIN MILLER IN
FAVOR AS JUSTICE
Former Duke Law Dean
May Get Next Vacancy
on Supreme Court
Daily Dispntch Bureau.

Raleigh. Dec. 29-Justin Miller, a
North Carolinian by choice though
not by birth, is being groomed by Pre-
sident Franklin D. Roosevelt as the
next appointee to the Supreme Court
of the United States.
At least, that's the cross-my-heart
and hope-to-die tip recently given
your correspondent by government
employe here on his Christmas vaca-
ton. The informant is a former news
naper man and a fellow who is in po-
sition to learn a lot about what's
what in the Washington whirl. Ma
turally, he requested that his name
he not used in connection with the
story.
On the face of the record there
seems plenty of logic to support the
idea. While dean of the Duke Uni
versity Law School, Miller was sin
gled out for appointment as assls
tant to the attorney general. He was
absolutely without orthodox polltlca
backing and it is generally accepted
that his appointment was made or
the Presidents own motion ana WIFI
CONTINUED on Page Eight
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
Parks Denies
Charges Made
By Mrs. Ryan

Morganton, Dec. 20 (AP)-Ned A..
Parks. "a, came home today and sub
mitted to service of warrant charg-
ing him with non-support of son
born to Mrs Martin Barley Ryan
six weeks before her marriage to
Basil (Pat) Ryan, member OF a veal
thy New York family.
The warrant was served In the OF
flee of Erwin & Butler, law firm,
nv Chief Deputy Sheriff r. F. Berry,
and bond was set at $500 for Parks
appearance at Burke County Court
next Monday.
In a statement issued from the Of
flee of his attorney, j. Ed Butler,
Parks said he was innocent.
He had been employed in Wash
ington drug store for the past seve-
raj months. Neither Parks nor his
attorney would comment beyond the
prepared statement, which said:
1--WE are informed that the first
knowledge of our client had that he
was being accused of being the father
of Mrs. Martha Ryan's child was
while working in a drug store in
Washington. He saw it in news
paper. Mrs. Ryan had never told him
that he was the father of her child
and his whereabouts had never been
a secret. He has voluntarily return
ed home for the Christmas holidays
and if there is any one who desires
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
Scores Saved In.
Jersey City Fire
That Hits Hotel

Jersey City, Dec. 20 (AP)-A
spectacular three-alarm fire that
endangered the lives of scores OF
people i'm the city's largest hotel
today was brought under control
without fatalities.
Dozens of residents of the eight
story Plaza, situated on Journal
SQUARE, i'm the heart of the bust
ness section, climbed down fire
ladders to safety. At least two men
Jumped from the sixth floor into
life nets; firemen carried out sew
eral others.
Several, the number was not I'M
mediately determined, were TAX
en- to hospitals for treatment.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
Facts Are Facts, and u. S.
Must Recognize Them"
He Writes to House
Chairman
ADMITS FAILURE TO
HALT ARMS RACES
Developments Indicate Ad-
ninistration Plans Deter
mined Campaign Against
Its Critics In Big Business;
Roper Refers 10 Japanese
Boycotts

Washington, Dec. 29-(AP)-Presi-
dent Roosevelt, announcing the pro-
jected construction of two new bat
tleships and 16 lesser crafts, left A
distinct impression today his grow
ing concern over international con-
ditions might prompt him to ask Con-
gress for even more naval ornaments
Facts are facts, and the United
States must recognize Them he said
in a letter yesterday to Chairman Tay-
lor, Democrat, Colorado, of the House
Appropriations Committee.
Citing the failure of his own Efforts
to arrest the world armament race, he
added:
"The fact is that in the world as 4
whole many nations are not only con-
tinuing but are charging their ar
mament programs"
Three developments gave fresh sup
port, meantime, to the belief express
ed by many officials that the Roose-
welt administration would make an
active campaign against it's business
critics:
l. Reports reached congressman
from high administration sources that
the President at recent cabinet
meeting, endorsed 'the principle Of
the Borah-O Mahoney bill to license
interstate corporations.
2. Senator Norris, Independent, Me-
braska, a Roosevelt hacker, suggested
the Senate renew it's investigation
Of lobbying in an effort to offset what
he termed ~organized propaganda"
against the Presidents legislative
proposals.
3. Secretary Ickes announced he
would deliver a radio speech tonlor-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
DON MARQUIS, POET,
PLAYWRIGHT, PASSES
New Yorker Also Former Newspaper
Man; Was SO and IN LII
Health Several Years

New York, Dec .-(AP)-Don
MARQUIS, playwright, poet and former
newspaper man, died at his home in
suburban Forest Hills today after an
illness of several years. He was 3d.
MARQUIS health had been failing
rapidly, and for some months he had
been cared for by his sister and
male nurse Only a short time ago
he had suffered a severe stroke of
paralysis, and his doctor then said his
death might occur at any time.
Friends from literary and theatrical
worlds were organizing benefit 20
aid him financially when death came.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
Three Planes of
L ,atin-AmerlCanS
Fall In Colombia

BogOta, Colombia, Dec. 20 (AP)
Three planes of a Latin-Ameri-
can goodwill squadron, one OF
them in flames, crashed today
about 165 miles west of BOgOta.
The planes fell about IL miles
outside the town of Cali, said dis
patches telephOned from there.
The planes were members of the
Squadron Of fOur-three Cuban
and one Dominican-which have
been touring Latin-America to col
lect money for statue of Christie
pher Columbus to be placed in the
harbor of SantO Domingo.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29

Chicago, Dec. 29.-(AP)-The
National Safety Council predict
ed today that traffic deaths in
the nation this year would APP
proximate 10000, an all-time high.
Ever mounting, the traffic toll
was $1,000 in 1886 and $1,000 in
1885, the council said.
During the first eleven months
of 1887, traffic deaths numbered
$3.50, a six percent increase over
the toll in the corresponding pc
Rod in 1886.
On a mileage basis, the council
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
120, 900 Service Employees
Strike, 7iieing Up All Paris
1887 u. S. Traffic Deaths
To Reach 10000, New High

reported ,''there has been no ac-
tual increase in the traffic death
rate" Gasoline consumption, the
means of estimating mileage, in
creased six percent, approximate
ly the same as for the eleven
months period.
There were 1890 persons killed
in December, 1886. Traffic deaths
during the current month would
have to show so percent reduc-
ton to keep the years total as
low as that in 1886. The Council
said statistics showed such a de-
crease was "Out of the uestiOn."
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
AGED TAYLORSVILLE MAN
DIES WHEN HOME BURNS

Taylorsville, Dec. 29.-(AP)-Walter
Martin, 7O-year-old wood worker, was
burned to death today when fire de
stroyed the small house here which
he used as residence and shop.
He is survived by a son, William
Martin, an employe of the Philadel
phia Inquirer, and daughter, Mrs
Alice Martin Keever.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
SHARP DECLINE IN
COTTON QUOTATION
Partial Recovery Leaves Levels Four
to Seven Points off in Mid
day Prices

New York, Dec 29-(AP)-Cotton
futures opened 9 to IA points lower
on easier cables, foreign selling and
liquidation. BY the end of the first
half hour, March had recovered from
8.19 to 8.22, leaving prices six to 20
points net lower. March at midday
was selling at 1923. and the list was
four to seven points net lower.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
Three Die When
Plane Hits Lake

Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 20 (AP)-
Three persons were drowned today
when a plane plunged into Lake
Erie half mile off Putin Bay.
The pilot was saved. The dead:
Nancy Howard, AZ; Delbert Wat
kins, 80, and Albert Anderson, As,
all of North Bass Island.
Rescued: william SOmOgy, 80,
pilot.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29

Paris, Dec. 29.-(AP)-A strike of
100000 public service employees began
in the French capital today, forcing
upon the peoples front government
of Premier Chautemps a vital test
of strength.
Chautemps condemned the strike
and inferred hidden reasons lay be
hind it-especially significant in the
light of recent rightist allegations that
communists plotted to overthrow the
government during strikes in Novem-
Der.
The walkout, with the endorsement
of the French communist party, halt
ed bus and subway service for the
city's 100000 workers. Street clean
ers, sewer workers, water, gas and
electric employees and garbage col
lectors walked out
Taxi drivers did a rushing business
and created a traffic tie-up in TAX
ing Parisians to work. Others with
out normal transportation service
walked to their jobs.
The water, gas and electric services
ran on reserves, but there was danger
that by nightfall Gripping short
age would result:
Hospital maintenance employees
decided on two-hour demonstration;
dailv. Funeral workers on strike IL
mited activities to urgent" bur1alS
All struck in protest against a wage
Continued on Page Eighth
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
Vital Test of Strength Is
Forced Upon Chautemps'
Peoples Front
Government
COMMUNIST. BACKING
is BEING SUSPECTED
Walkout Is Endorsed By
French Communist Party
In Protest Against Halt to
Wage Increases Demand
ed To Meet High Cost OF
Living There

Paris, Dec. 20 (AP)-The
."peoples front" government an
nounced tonight it would "force"
public service workers to return to
their jobs if unions failed to call
off strikes spreading throughout
France.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29

(Con5r ued on Page Vive)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29

Continued on Page Five.)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-14
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
WHY DR.. DoDD LEAVES BERLIN

North Carolina news readers have been peculiar
~ interested in the announcement Of the resigna.
ton of DR. William T.. DOdd Us Ambassador To Der
lin because he is native of the state, having been
born and reared in Johnston county. His career as
an eminent educator and as professor m the Uni
verSity of Chicago has been watched with interest
by Tar Heels.
There was no ground FOR surprise in his rcsgna-
ton II had been forecast last summer. Reports
from Washington indicate his quitting the Berlin
post after -four years of rather unhappy service
was not entirely voluntary. although he was willing
to give up the bad job.
Well Informed persons in this country have rec
ognized the truth Of the statement Of a Washing
ton commentator that the Berlin enthusiastically
is IAN impossible post and bring only grief to
the American envoy"
That explains why q career man like Hugh VIII
son had TO be made the goat and promoted to the
place No big contributor To the Democratic cam
pagn fund wanted it. 1t is asserted in Washington
reports that Joe Davies could have had it.
He and Mrs Davies are said to have their eye
on the London ambassadorship if and when Am
bassador Robert W. Bingham quits. He recently
has been in Baltimore hospital and is not expect
ed to return to London. Incidentally, he also is Il
native of North Carolina a son Of the late and
honored Major Robert Bingham, Of Bingham School
fame.
The trouble with the Berlin post is that Hitler
and his Nazi government expect an American am
bassador to voice approval of and show sympathy
for the Fascist dictatorship. OF course no man like
Dr. Dodd, true to American ideals Of democracy,
can bring himself to say "lleil Hitler" with amy
show of enthusiasm sincerity.
President Roosevelt would be subjected to Sc
we're criticism and so would his appointec If ne
should accord the honor and prefcrment Of APP
pointnent to the Berlin ambassadorShip to the type
Of man Chancellor Hitler and his cohorts and aides
would like to have represent this government there.
The Berlin post is problem for the president
and for whatever true American may be sent there
Charlotte Observer.
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WROUGHT BY THE NEW DEAL

One foolish dream after another has been dISS!-
pated in the glare of reality and the duck is now
passed to industry with the threat that 1t must
produce recovery or the Roosevelt administration
will take over the job again, says The Manufactur-
ors Record.
THAT will be sad day for the country, because
the government failing in its attempts has left
terrifying bill TO pay and by discriminatory rcgu-
lation has crippled private ntiatiye-our only real
hope for substantial progress"
Notwithstanding the record, New Dealers stub
bornly refuse to recognize the faacy Of their
planned economy. II worked i'll the way they may
regard az successful if their objective was to bring
about confusion, but it has not worked to the ad-
vantage of the country in the eyes Of people who
have had most to do with the country's welfare.
The Manufacturers Record reminds that Walter
Parker economist, Of New Orleans, said:
Should President Roosevelt continue to give his
attention TO distributing wealth rather than to en-
couragin9 its creation recovery cannot proceed.
Brazs utter failure, after thirty years of effort,
to control coffee production and price. merely en-
phasizes Japan's failure to control silk. Cubas fail
ure to control sugar, and Brtain's failure to con-
troll rubber, and has placed Americas attempt to
control cotton in the class Of cock-eyed economy,
the nostrum advocates to the contrary notwith-
standing"
Congress at the behest of President Roosevelt
thrust aside the checks and balances, defied the
natural laws of supply and demand and went on
the greatest spending spree in all history. All sorts
of schemes to scatter the national wealth were
tried Notwithstanding denialS, the political ex'
perimenters undertook to regiment the American
people Their extravagant adventures have wrought
conditions which are causing the business recess
sion. Instead of carrying the United States to
prosperity, the meddlers have brought it to the
brink of bankruptcy.-The Charleston News and
Courier.
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OH, YEAH?

The governments attorneys argued before the
supreme court yesterday, in the Buzzard's RooSt-
Duke Power case. that the outright gift of $780,
600 and the lending of $220O,0OO to Greenwood
county was both justfable and constitutional in
that il would promote the general welfare by
relieving unemployment This II seems 10 rs, was
a swell opportunity for the power company'S at
torneys to nterject if the rules of the court per-
nit interiections, What unemployment"
There is a textile mill two in Greenwood
county TO be sure. and the chances are that the
workers are putting in only two or three days q
week at present. Otherwise, the county and the
counties surrounding it are predominanty rural
which is TO say that they do not suffer acutely
from unemployment Furthermore, if the textile
mills aren't running the countrys power plant Will
lose the very customers to whom it expects to sell
a great part of its current. And beyond that, the
application for this loan and gift, which the gov
ernments contends is for the purpose OF relieving
unemployment was made and approved and has
been fought for in the lower courts during times
of accelerated business activity. II would have
been the height of absurdity in those busy times,
as it borders absurdity now, for the govern
ment TO have attempted to convince the supreme
court that it wanted to build a power plant IN
Greenwood county in order to relieve the unem-
ployment that wasn't to be found there-Char'
lotte News.
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would you be any better OF lnon
you were before?
Deflation Of the dollar will
actually harm the farmer II will
not increase his buying power;
but it will decrease the buying
power of that enormously large
number of persons whose incomes
are fixed. If the value Of their
dollar is reduced, they must buy
less than they are now buying
Between those persons who
would initiate the dollar and those
who would debate it, we may find
ourselves i'm the fix Of the Turk
who had an old wife and q young
wife: The wives used TO take
turns putting him to sleep mess
ing around with his hair. The old
wife pulled out his black hairs
80 ne wouldn't look younger than
she, while the young wife pulled
out his gray hairs so he wouldn't
look older than she. And the next
thing the Turk knew he didn't
have any hair.
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Missssissip,pians' p
Motorcade Fetes
RoadCompletion

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Dee. ID
(UpD.-A caravan Of 80 aulomo-
bllcs bearing Sd MississipplanS led
by Governor Hugh White paused
here last night on the first IT," Of
y goodwill tour 10 thca"" adj
ycrtising completion Of the Mis-
sissippi portion Of the Guli-lo-
Great Lakes highway.
4 police escort, Mayor $. NJ.
OycrtOn and other city officials
met the Misunderstanding goodwill
tourists at tn" clty's edge.
The recently completed Missis-
sippi highway program was con
strmctcd al a cot Of yl2.O00.OO
The molurc,dv left here al Z
a. m. today and Will stop IN
Paducah. ky" for lunch and N.
rive in 81. Louis by night. The
group plans To reach 'hicay"
Thursday afternoon.