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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02
Little Fellows" Gather to
Tell President Roosevelt
What Ais PrA,ent
Business
ANTI-LYNCHING BILL
is THOUGHT AS DEAD
Leaders Attempt to Find
Way to Side-Track Bill
Without Hurting Either
Side; Cummings to Press
Charges in M a d i o n
Against Oil Companies

Washington, Feb. 2.-(AP)-Oppon
ents of the anti-lynching bill invited
supporters today to take the Senate
floor in tehalf of the measure.
When the debate opened soon after
noon, Senator Connally, Democrat
Texas, asked Senator Wagner, of New
York, author of the bill, if he would
speak in support of it. Wagner replied
he expected to speak tomorrow
Senator Bilbo, Democrat, Mississippi,
who had the floor asserted
II have said that I might speak for
80 days against this bill but / would
be happy to yield the floor to it's au-
thors if they want to say a single
word in it's behalf
While the debate dragged on, lead
ers were trying to find way to side
track the measure without hurting
either one Opponents expressed con-
fidence it was dead.
Meanwhile, hundreds of small bust
ness men tried to out-talk and out
shout each other, endeavoring to set
down what they think President
Roosevelt should do to help business.
A disorderly, noisy uproar filled the
SOHluucICc Dcpdl tAlcHLS uuSe duuI-
torium, when scores BUSINESSES little
fellows" tried to talk at once, voted
to ban speeches when they could and
forced staid Secretary Roper to
shout in loud speaker in a vain EFF
fort to restore order Their first meet
ing ended in pandemonium. What was
scheduled as businessmen's general
session was broken down in an hour
after the starting of discussions. 80
Other Developments
Attorney General Cummings said
the Justice Department had to try
"a more major oil companies and 40
individuals in Madison, Wis, next fall
on further charges of antitrust law
violations
Admiral William Leahy, chief of
naval operations, told Congress the
Navy "is no place for combining with
any other nation" in a possible war.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02
SLOT MACHINE LAW
IS CONSTITUTIONAL
Supreme Court Upholds
Two Death Sentences;
Bar Durham Lawyer

Raleigh, Feb. 2Yr(AP)-The SUI
preme Court upheld death sentences
today which had been imposed in New
Hanover county, of E. l.. Smoak, and
in Wayne on Milford Exum.
The court decided "a cases and adj
journed it's fall session sine die.
The court reversed a superior court
ruling denying J. r. Williamson, in
junctive relief in an action contrasting
the right of the city of High Point for
construction of a hydro-electric plant.
A new trial was ordered in the dam
age suit of Nancy Flake, against
Greensboro News Company, in which
the defendant had been awarded &c.
500 for alleged damaged done her
when a photograph or likeness was
published in the Greensboro News.
Smoak was convicted of the muir
der of his daughter, Annie Thelma
Smoak Exum was sentenced for the
Shaving of James Williams. The court
upheld the constitutionally of the 1887
law prohibiting the glambling slot
machines from the State in affirming
a lower court decision in a case OF
Joseph Calcut, trading as the Vend-
ing Machine Company, against A. H.
McGheay, sheriff of Cumberland coun-
ty, and others.
The court upheld Judge Henry
Gradys ruling denying an injunction
of D. T. Bailey to prevent the direc-
tors of Johnston County Electric
Membership cooperation from enter
ing an agreement with Carolina Power
b. Light Company, to construct rural
power lines in Johnston county.
The appeal of A. E. Spivey, of Dur
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02
WALTER CHRYSLER, JR.
WILL MARRY SOON

New York, Feb. 2.-(AP)-The en-
gagement of Peggy Sykes, pretty New
York society girl, to Walter p. Chry-
sler, Jr., heir to motor car fortune
was announced Tuesday by the brides
mother, Mrs. Walter H. Sykes.
Chrysler, the elder son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter P. Chrysler is president
of a building corporation and direc-
tor in his fathers firm. He is an au-
thority on modern art, has q notable
collection of paintings, and is active
in Y. nj. c. A. work.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02
SIX NEGROES DIE
IN DWELLING FIRE

Hartford, Feb. 2.-(AP)-Coroner r.
e. Rawles disclosed Tuesday that six
Negroes persisted Monday night in 2
rural community in Gates county
when their dwelling burned.
The coroner said Hattie Hofflel
Freeman, As, and her four children
were burned to death in the small
house and that Jane Hoffler, Hattie's
73-vear-old stepmother, died today Of
burns. He said a defective flue prob
ably caused the fire.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02
HONEYMOON BRIDGE
LETTERING ON ICE

Niagara Falls, N. Y, Feb. 2-(AP)
The twisted skeleton of America s
honeymoon bridge" teetered tonight
in the grip of the Niagara river ice
lam as fears were expressed it would
soon slip into the depths of the river.
Tracy G.. Levee, chief of the Niagara
reservation police, said the bridge
has listed little further away from
the falls"
Near-zero temperatures strengthen
ed the ice about the crumpled arch
which last Thursday collapsed and
dropped 200 feet.
Meanwhile plans were pressed for
two new spans to bridge the gorge.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02
Won Blomberg Resigns
AS Hitler's War Minister

Berlin, Feb. 2.-(AP)-Marshal Wer-
ner Won Blomberg, minister of war,
handed his resignation to Reichs-
fuehrer Hitler before going to Capri
on his honeymoon, a highly reliable
informer disclosed today.
It had been indicated the officers
of the army were not pleased by the
marrying of the 59-year-old marshal
to Erika Groin, on January II.
Hitler and Won Blomberg conferred
at the war ministry January 81. The
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02
Eden Talks
OF Piracy
On High Sea
Confers With Am
bassadors of France
and Italy on Sub
marine Menace

London, Feb. 2 (AP)-Foreign sec
rotary Anthony Eden, summons the
French and italian ambassadors into
conference today to draft emergency
measures to rid the Mediterranean of
the recurrents submarine menace to
merchant shipping.
The menace grew from the Spanish
civil war, and resulted last fall in the
Nyon accord delegating Britain and
France, later italy to patrol the sea
and to sink any attacking craft.
Today's consultation was a direct
result of sinking the British freighter
Endymion off the southeastern Span
ish coast Sunday.
The Spanish government charged
that the submarine was an italian
fNnx,fan,,nd ~ Dorn TrnaspN
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02
DICK POWELL NOW
FATHER BY ADOPTION

Los Angeles, Feb. ESTABLISHMENTS
Dick Powell of the movies became a
father Tuesday.
Superior Judge Robert H. Scott ap-
proved Powell's adoption of Norman
Barnes, three-year-old son of his wife
Joan Blondell, film actress, and her
former husband, George Barnes
Cameraman.
This action makes me Supremacy
happy said Powell, taking the boy
in his arms and patting his cheeks
while Miss Blondell beamed approx
ingly.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02
COTTON ADVANCES,
CONTRACTS SCARCE

New York, Feb. 2.-(AP)-Cotton
futures opened three to five point
higher on trade and foreign buying
with contracts scarce.
Shortly after the first half hour
the list was one to three points net
higher with May 8.51. Around mid
day, May was 852, and the list was
three to five net higher.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02
Need OF Reorganization
OF Government Is Seen

reorganization.
So-called reactionaries say so, too
New Dealerishly speaking I think
Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virgins
classifies as conservative if not re
dictionary. Yet he is chairman of q
government reorganization commit
tee.
I do not believe there is any pop
ular disposition to reorganize the Pre-
sjdent or Congress out of business
Judicial reorganization has been sug
gested to be sure, but it failed tt
take" very well. 1t seems to me thai
our basic, triangular, executive-legis-
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02
MINISTER TELLS
DIET WAR EXISTING

Washington, Feb. 2 (AP)-State de-
partment officials said today they lack
ed information as to full implication
that Japanese foreign minister Hiro-
tos statement to the Diet that "a state
of war exist" between China and ia
pan.
In the absence of the complete of
fetal translation of the foreign minis
ter's remark aides of Secretary Hull
declined comment.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02

former was seen to enter with great
excitement and later emerged, appear
ing pale and grave. Soon thereafter,
Won Blomberg left for Italy.
An official announcement will not
he made before the end of the week,
and may take longer.
1t will be coupled, the most au-
thoritative informer said, with publ
cation scheme for conduct of military
affairs in the future. Won Blomberg
retained the title of field marshal,
there is no retirement from the rank.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COIumnist

Washington, Feb. 2.-"Shouldnt
there be government reorganization?
asked a querist.
I suppose he has noted some slur-
ring, comment relative to one or the
other of our pending two major re-
organization plans.
j Nearly everybody I meet believes
so-even prays for it," continues this
ouestioner. People believe their lib
critics are handicapped and abridged
without it, and that reactionaries are
trying to defeat it.
Needed-YeS.
We certainly do need government
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02
Progress In
N.C.Exceeds
Its'Dreams'
Progress in State / ar
Exceeds dreams
Pictured in Stroth-
er's Book
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel


Raleigh Feb. 2.-North Carolina
progress in the last dozen years has
been so much velvet over it's dreams
Back in November 1924, there ap-
peared in "The Worlds Work" IN ar
ticle by French Strother entitled
North Cardinals Dreams Come
True and in which the very remark
able progress of the State between
1900 and the then present was set OUT
at some length.
Mr.. Strother stressed, and rightfu.
ly, the great progress made and ratf-
er minated that the millennium o.
something like it had been reached
However, the remarkable progress:
of the State since it's Dreams Came
True" can well be shown by a re"
(CopfinuaSN m, Dooa E0ilr.1
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLYN

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Thurs
day, becoming unsettled Thurs
day; slowly rising temperature
tonight; slightly warmer Thurs
day. ----A---.-.---.l-.l..lss
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02

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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-02-02

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Evening star., 1938-07-18
Top Hat Brightens
The Little Scene.

SO NOW three weeks of Storm in a
Teacup" have gone by and the
Little Theater once more takes up
its career of bringing back the big
ones" The big one" brought back
this week is Top Hat" sprightly and
tuneful hit with lot of bright music
and pleasantly comic romantic antics
by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire,
and what with R-K-O Radio having
had the duo separated for long time
now, this seems an especially fine idea
on the part of the Little.
There's goodly supply Of gay dance
numbers by the starred duo, including
a lavishly staged version of THE Pic
colino." Also this is the one where
Mr.. Astaire got off that top-notch
sandman dance. as one Of his best
Top Hat. White Tie. etc" Remem-
ber? And all the dancing and the
romancing is done to bright Irving
Berlin score, which includes such
tunes as mo Strings" Cheek to
Cheek" TOP Hat" Isn't This a
Lovely Day?" and Get Thee Behind
Me Satan"
The supporting cast includes flock
OF scene stealers, among them Edward
Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Helen
Broderick and Erik Rhodes, and every
thing about the film is pretty fine
business. H. M.
Evening star., 1938-07-18

Roads Theater are having a fine old
time with The Ghost Train" and that
the audiences are. too, sort Of proving
a ripe and melodramatic mystery
thriller is fine midsummer diet
Another thing that is happening out
there is that The Ghost Train" is
going to leave poor George Finger a
mere ghost of his former self. And
that is no pun. George is the lad who
ton where all the mad doings occur,
a task which calls for him to wear
boots and heavy mackinaw. So
while you enjoy the comparative COOL
ness Of the country. George bounces
about the stage, sort OF simmering
down under the mackinaw and drip
ping into his boots.
This is not easy on the young lady
who sits in the wings holding the book,
either. When the heat slows Mr.
Finger to a walk in midspeech she
never knows whether or not he needs
prompting. No end hard on her
nerves 1t was hard on some one
else,s nerves the other night, too
when Peggy Johnston (please. Mr.
Compositor. use the "t') pulled that
magnificent faint that ends the second
act, waited few seconds, then rolled
over to grin toward the audience
Found 1t a bit disconcerting, she did,
when the fellow on the curtain was
slow and the audience was still staring
her in the face.
But this is all by-play and the main
point is that The Ghost Train" as
it is played by these above mentioned
people and by Charles Hohein, Don
Sisler. Charles Grunwell, Ted Field,
Evening star., 1938-07-18

might bear in mind as they seep
through the Holland Tunnel on their
way to Gotham to find an expert or
two to concoct this years production.
The history of the revue-a brief
sketch of which is an invariable part
Of the newspaper overture every year
discloses that many OF today's better
known Washington gifts to amusement
have been identified with the show in
the past. Names which flash in
stantly to mind include Arthur God
frey, Gordon Hittenmark, Arch Nc
Donald, Evelyn Tyner, Marjorie
Mitchell, Frances Rands, Julia Cum
ningham, Bill Brady. Johnnie Barnes,
Henry Nestor and others.
Applications for try-out may be
obtained from any of the Loew the
aters or any local drama critic. Age
limits are between 18 and so, which
makes a great many singers, dancers,
harmonica players, pianists. readers,
imitators and acrobats eligible.
FUNNY thing. show business. Al
most no other phase of human
activity can produce so many coinci-
dences to the week Take, for in
stance, the one involving ELISA Landi.
Once upon time. when she was in
the thick of the movies, Miss Landi
was reverent dream in many a local
heart, pleasant sound in the ear a
glorious image in celluloid for the eye
to linger on. Then Miss Landi, as
so many Of her Hollywood sisters have
done. developed a yearning for the
stage. She went to New York, and,
the perf1dy of human nature being
what 1t Is, she became merely a va
grant memory to her old public.
Whatever became Of ELISA Landi?"
is occasionally asked
Everybody, we'll at least two thea
tiers. seems about to provide an answer
all OF sudden. At the Metropolitan
on Friday, there will be a revival of
MISS Landi as a picture actress in
The Count OF Monte Christie" Then,
on Monday. if any member of the ex-
faithful desires to see how wonderful
she still looks. she will open in person
at the Olney Theater in The Lady Has
Heart"
The play Is a comedy, fashioned
OF the spirit of Vienna when Vienna
was the worlds capital of light-heart-
edness. Miss Landi has played it with
great success, we are informed, from
the northern boundary of the summer
theater in Maine right down to Steve
Cochrans tree-shaded theater in
Olney.
X X II
A WASHINGTON woman, who was
an OHara before she was mar
RED, still Is an O'Hara who will be
mighty angry if the part of Scarlett
Evening star., 1938-07-18

Janice Norton. Peggy Mansfield and
some others. has turned out to be
such fun that there are other thrillers
in the offing at the Cross Roads. And
the theater is not so hard to find as
lot of people have tried to believe:
so easy to locate, in fact. that the
variety OF license tags on the parking
lot one or two nights made it look
like = tourist camp.
MOT SO much can we tell you first
hand about the incidental by
play at the Roadside Theater, but
anyhow. as Mr.. Shakespeare said, it is
not the by-play but the play that's
the thing. In this case the thing
still is Engaged" going into its
second week and, according to all
reports, giving the people who see it
happy time.
Engaged is. as you probably know
by this time, one of Mr.. w. S. Gill
bert's efforts that was not set to
Sir Arthur Sullivans music. 1t is
all about how silly wedlock and its
preliminaries are when dominated by
considerations OF the cash involved
and Mr.. Gilbert, who happily was
lacking in the tender quality of mercy
that was not strained when he wrote
this, droppeth no mercy like gentle
dew upon the people involved.
The people involved to best ad-
vantage in the Roadside's case are
Mimi Norton who is reported to have
said she thought for a minute maybe
she was a burlesque queen when a
local paper called her Miami Norton)
Dick Walsh. Lansing Hall, Fred Has
kin, Howard Wierum and Jesse Veitch.
X X X X
nRAMA is forsaken for the moment
~ by the summer festival program,
tomorrow nights Sylvan Theater pres
entation being devoted to a recital
by Marion Chace and her dancers. In
addition to Miss Chace, featured
dancers will be Mary Williams. jeanne
Leasure, Louise Nagel and Ann Green,
and there will be several new num-
bers, especially created by Miss Chace
for the outdoor program.
NEXT week at the barn theaters:
Roadside Theater-Comes back
now the melodrama for which the
group is famed, this one reported to
be one of the best Observation-Disclosures
pieces in the books, The Miners
Daughter" or THE Fatal Confes-
sion" 1t has the necessary ruthless
villain, two pairs of young lovers, a
father haunted by the crime of his
youth and a number of other special
ingredients. Happy note in the in
formation about the play is the an
nouncement of the return to the fold
OF Frances Brunt. who has frightened
many a Roadside melodrama and
whose "on wheels" canter across the
stage never quite has been equaled by
any of the groups heroines. Others
in the cast will be Norman Rose,
Betty Gray, Ralph Fowler. Pryor Nc
Fadden, Betty Rice, James Crawford,
Rhodes Scherer, Robert Reid, Alice
Tams Ruffner and Jerry Sickler.
Cross Roads Theater-Next up here
is Noel Coward's Private Lives" with
Cross Roads favorites Catherine Ryan
Jack Wilson and David Kaigler the
three people principally involved in
the gay brawl.
Both OF these open two-week en-
gagements next Monday night.
England now has 1921 people with
incomes over $125,00 q year.
Evening star., 1938-07-18
|CarOle Turns
Press Agent
On Own Film
COmedienne Even
Has an Office for
Her Tub.
HOLLYWOOD
HOLLYWOOD.
: AROLE LOMBARD, one of the
screens most applauded COM
ediennes, has given Hollywood

eOlenneS mas given dOllyWOOO
~ the surprise of its life by be-
coming a press agent-at the Selz-
nick International Studios. Equipped
with a typewriter, four telephones,
two secretaries and an office boy, the
vivacious motion picture star will ac-
tually dig in and handle publicity her
self.
Miss Lombard, the press agent, will
not only write publicity features for
her forthcoming picture, Made for
Each Other" in which James Stew
art will be her leading man. but she
will also turn out stories about Janet
Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks. jr.; Paul
cite Goddard and others who appeared
in Selznick's The Young in Heart" "
The actress will originate the idea,
prepare the material and get the copy
planted.
This fact in Miss Lombard's career
IS not precisely new. Throughout her
association in films. she has taken a
lively interest in her own publicity
and press department heads have con-
stantly declared that she is the origina-
tor of some Of the best ideas for her
own publicity.
Both The Young in Heart" which
was directed by Richard Wallace from
the Saturday Evening Post serial: The
Gay Banditti.' by l. A. r. Wylie, and
Made for Each Other" are United
Artists releases.
Evening star., 1938-07-18
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Earle-"Tropic Holiday" musical
with Bob Burns, Martha Raye: II
am, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10 and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows: l2:45, $3.50, 615 and 9
pm.
Capitol-"Always Goodbye" Bar
bara Stanwyck in drama of the mother
love pattern: II am. las. 4:35, 7:25
and 10:15 pm. Stage shows: 12:45,
3:35, 6:25 and 9:10 pm.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Were You
Born?" astrology is employed in solv-
ing q crime: 1850 am, 1:50, $50,
$50, 7:5o and $50 pm.
Palace-"The Shopworn Angel"
daughter OF luxury finds love with son
of toll: 1920, 2:40, 4:55, tbs and
9:35 pm.
Columbia-"The Sheik," Rudolph
Valentino: 1905. 2:05. 4:05, sos. {
and 10 pm.
Keith's-"Having Wonderful Time
Ginger Rogers meets Douglas Fair.
banks, jr., on her vacation: 1l:24
am, Ill, 2:58, 4:45, 6:32, $40 ane
1906 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Con.
tinuous from 10 am. to midnight
Little-"Top Hat" revival of the As
taire-Rogers hit: 1920 am, 1:25
$3.50, 5:35, TAO and GAS pm.
Evening star., 1938-07-18
New Picture Teams
Judy and Freddie.

FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW and
Judy Garland will be seen as
brother and sister in their next ap-
pearance on the screen in Listen
Darling" Katherine Brush's comica]
romance of two children hunting fol-
a stepfather, and the complications
resulting from their attempts al
matchmaking.
The story was a recent popula,
magazine success.
Mary Astor plays their widowed
mother, who is courted by a man the
children don't like. They set out t.
find a man they consider a suitable
stepfather and promote romance
with their mother. Jack Cummings i
producing the new Metro Goldwyn.
Mayer picture, William Thiele. former
Viennese stage director, is directing.
Evening star., 1938-07-18

O'Hara is played by Norma Shearer
She called up to say so right at this
point in today's column, and if Metro
Mayer and Selznick had been
us, or vice versa. they would start
all over again on the casting Of Gone
With the Wind"
Another thing the former Miss
O'Hara 1--WE were too frightened to
get her married name) had to mention
was the stupidity of Metro in its use Of
Rosalind Russell. Miss Russell is a
comedienne with talents beyond those
of any other star on Metros pay roll,
We were told.
In the course of the conversation,
we discovered that we are practically
perfect Ashley Wilkes when it comes
to dealing wishy-washily with an
OHara.
A DDENDA: There's chorus girl at
the Earle named Honey Chanson,
which we can't get over thinking
sounds like something Percy Granger
could turn into companion number
to his Country Garden" composition
.. Whoever got the prize for winning
the Civic Theater's scavenger hunt
Saturday? That's small bit of knowl-
edge to ask in return for the service
of most of the staff of one large news
paper publishing enterprise with which
We are familiar -. And the place. one
master of over-statement tells us, was
practically sacked" Whether the
Hollywood phone company has sense
of humor is bit of wisdom filed no.
where about this Office, but the COM
pany just gave Jane Withers the tele-
phone number which Joan Crawford
discarded because too many people
knew it. Jane is practically hystericsl
with JOY answering calls from old
Crawford friends.
Evening star., 1938-07-18

almost pitiable memories of Gene
Ford perspiring at every pore, is made
by Carter Barron and Howard Burk-
hardt, the latter new manager of the
theater. Who will take Mr.. Ford's
place as producer, director and man
who-worked- -like-a dozen-men is one
Of those decisions which is yet to be
made. 1t will not be long delayed,
however, for the event is scheduled
for next month, and revues of such
elaborate specifications are not
whipped up overnight. If this cor
ner were allowed little private sug-
gestion on the subject. what's wrong
with stealing Mr.. Ford for the job?
He and the Going Native" revue
seem like the two wings of a great in
stitution, which, even if you never
knew Mr.. Ford, is practically terrific
wingspread. 1t is just thought which
the Messrs. Barron and Burkhardt