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Evening star., 1938-01-06

and public relations advisers. Among
them was John Thomas Smith, chief
counsel, and Donaldson Brown, finance
officers
Several Senators who are not men,
bers of the committee, including Van
denberg of Michigan, Townsend of
Delaware and Copeland of New York,
appeared for the hearing.
Outlining the extent of operations
of his company, MIR Knudsen said its
employment of 235,00O men in 1887
was an all-time record. with the
production representing about 40 per
cent of the total in the United States.
1T is the policy of the corporation"
Mr.. Knudsen explained, Ito control
its production through a record of
the retail sales of its dealers. this
record being tabulated after each 10
day period in each month The OBJ
ject of the frequent checks on sales is
to keep production in balance with
sales and to prevent an excessive
stock in the field, which throws en-
ployment out of balance.
The established custom Of trading
used cars in the purchase of new cars
has brought an additional responsible
ity on the corporation and its dealers.
The present ratio of sales is about
two used cars to one new car. This
makes it necessary to watch the stock
and sales of used cars as well as new
cars, and the same reporting system
used on new cars is applied to used
cars in order that the dealers capital
should not be impaired to an extent
which cramps his ability to do busi-
ness.
The corporation also receives VOL
untary financial statements from its
dealers showing profits of the years
operation. The year 1887 will show
that 81 per cent of the dealers,
handling % per cent of the volume,
made a profit. Total profit for Cen:
eral Motors dealers in the @Unitsas
States for 1897 will be about $55 ,000,-
900 in addition to the amounts with
drawn by the owners as salaries.
The inventory of materials at the
plants naturally varies with the de-
mand for cars. but in 1887 reached
an all-time high, being $3.50, 900 900,
or sos, 100000 over the same time last
year. This is due to an accumulation
of parts and sub assemblies on account
of progressive sharp curtailment Of
production schedules and generally
higher costs of material and labor.
Costs have increased sharply dur
ing 1887. Labor rates are 25 per cent
higher than in 1886, and material costs
rose sharply during the first half of
1887. The overall increase in car
Evening star., 1938-01-06
POWER CURB TIGHTENED,
Arrests of Madrid Violators Ordered
as City Shivers.


MADRID, Jan. (P).-Vigorous
steps to enforce a month-old decree
restricting the use of electricity were
announced today by Civil Gov. Trigo
Mairal. who ordered arrest of all
violators.
The order limits use Of electricity
for cooking, heating and running
elevators. 1t was explained that re-
duced flow of water in ice bound rivers
which furnish Madrid's power was the
reason.
The Governor said heavy household
use Of electricity had impeded the
work Of vital factories. Enforcement
OF the decree will leave the city virtu-
ally without heat, inasmuch as coal is
available only for hospitals.
Shivering Madrid, however, was
more preoccupied by the evacuation
decree announced yesterday which
would compel hundreds of thousands
to leave the capital if fully enforced.
1t provides for evacuation of all resi-
dents who cannot demonstrate that
their continued presence is vital to
prosecution Of the war.
The action followed more than a
year OF propaganda and other efforts
to reduce the city's population-esti-
mated at about 100000 persons
living almost in front-line trenches.
Evening star., 1938-01-06

has nullified to large extent the
value of the ruling in the Forte case.
There are two schools of thought
among law-enforcement officers con-
corning the best method of shattering
a racket like the numbers.
One contends: Get he big shots.
Don't bother with the small fry.
You've got to strike where the big
money is. Grab the racketeer who
meets the payroll and finances the
game"
The other position is: ARREST every
body in sight-writers. pickup men,
anybody you can catch. The big shot
who's running the mob is hard to
catch. But even if you don't get him,
you can run him out of business by
putting his employees in Jail every time
they show up. You'll chase the racket
under cover and eventually it will
die"
Dewey Broke Up Mob.
Well, in New York Prosecutor
Thomas E: Dewey drove the Dutch
Shultz mob out of the numbers busi-
ness with lottery indictments, virtu-
ally the same statute invoked in the
Forte case here. The Dewey indict-
ment, which linked together 13 de-
PENDANTS on conspiracy and substan-
tive offenses, has yet to be tried, but
each man who can be found and
brought to trial-several are still fu-
gitives-faces a possible maximum of
25 years.
1t is only fair to add, however, that
New Workers have not quit playing the
numbers. 1t goes on, but on smaller,
quieter scale, and in more peaceful
and civilized way than during the
reign of the late Mr.. Schultz and his
heirs. Mr.. Dewey was not particularly
interested in stopping everybody in
Manhattan or the Bronx from putting
dime on number. He wanted to
run out the racketeers-the ruthless
mob that controlled the game through
terror-and apparently he's done that.
Play Cut in Half.
A New York paper estimates that
Vic ooAiy play III CTedlcr new 1OTK
has been cut almost in half since the
mob was routed last summer. It has
dwindled until it's more like the old
policy game was in Harlem 20 years
ago. The big money no longer is
behind it. It's scattered among small
operators, whose scope is limited, the
police say.
In Washington, on the other hand,
the numbers is conceded to be still
"on the make" growing, spreading.
Violence, gunplay, crime of every
sort, increased in New York when the
numbers and the other rackets were
fourishing. 1t is dropping of now
that Dewey has sent the big-time rack
eteers either to the penitentiary or
scurrying for cover.
And the National Capitals crime has
increased by leaps in the last seven
years, during which the numbers rack
ct has grown to be the most profit
able business-legal or illegal-in the
city. Observers experienced in such
matters fear q wave Of racketeerins
here unless something drastic Is done
Evening star., 1938-01-06
Numbers
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cause they can't afford to be hit very
hard by lucky clients, and the Gus
toners prefer to deal with one of the
regularly established mobs, which is
sure to pay off. Naturally it's mat
ter of good business to pay off, and
the big shots can we'll afford to do IT..
An occasional off-day means nothing
to them.
The illicit numbers business, whose
influence and underworld connections
are blamed largely for Washington's
alarming increase in crime, is as we'll
organized as any legitimate business
, in the District and run almost as
openly.
Why?
The police say:
We've tried our best, but the
District law is not stringent enough.
Give us a free hand, and we'll smash
the numbers. Under present proce-
dure We are shackled."
And yet detectives can tell you
which mob's writer's are working a
certain section of town and when the
pickup man gathers their tickets.
mo evidence" they explain. Its
not enough to catch man with sew
eral hundred numbers slips. The
courts have so held"
Garnett Baffled.
Former District Attorney Leslie c.
Garnett waged four-year fight on all
forms of professional gambling in
Washington, but he admits the num-
bers game had him baffled. He urged
O law making possession OF slips or
other numbers paraphernalia evidence
Of gaming.
On January 3, 1885, an undercover
man made numbers plays and traced
his tickets to lunchroom in the HOO
block of Fifth street NV. A convic-
ton was obtained under the lottery
statute. This was the case of John
r. Forte and others. It was appealed
and the conviction affirmed by the
United States Court of Appeals.
In its decision the court held that
IcCCIpIS SlfCll JllC OAuCC1 WIZ AlduC Lllc
play were "unquestionably tickets in
tended to assure him of chance OF
obtaining a prize to be drawn in a
lottery"
But at the same time the court
conceded that the original slips-the
slips which the writer sent to his
headquarters-were not lottery tickets
Since then trial courts have thrown
out cases in which the player was given
no carbon copy of his bet and only the
original was offered in evidence. This
was in line with the position the
Court of Appeals too in the Forte
case.
And now members of the police
gambling squad say two-thirds of the
writer's no longer give black sheets to
customers. The players simply have
to trust the writer's to pay off If the
winning number is hit.
This practice, the officers point out,
Evening star., 1938-01-06
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish From
tier, Jan. 6.-Spanish government and
insurgent troops extended their lines to
the north Of Teruel today in what
military dispatches predicted would be
a decisive" battle before the gates Of
the provincial capital.
Both defensive and offensive opera
tions were widened after insurgents
captured two ridges, known as Ell
Petron and Ell Pozuelo, between Con-
cud and Teruel.
The ridges are west Of the secondary
highwey between Celadas and Teruel,
key point in any insurgent drive
toward government Valencia on the
Mediterranean.
Fresh brigades moved into the front
lines on both sides to relieve forces
tired by heavy fighting in the severe
cold and to fill ranks depleted by con-
slant attacks and weather casualties.
Planes Return to Action.
Clear skies yesterday brought into
action planes grounded much of the
time by fog and snow since the in
surgent counter offensive to recapture
Teruel, which they lost to the gov
ernment army December 2l.
A communique said insurgents shot
down five scouting and three pursuit
ships. The government pilots downed
two insurgent craft
Government flyers machine -gunned
1nsurgent concentrations of reinforce
ments at San Bias, Concud and
Celadas.
Operations in the Villastar sector
west or Teruel were slowed by tactical
maneuvers behind both government
and insurgent lines.
A general strengthening Of defense
systems to permit reinforcements to
move quickly into the trenches was
under way, and neither side claimed
marked advances in intermittent fight
ing in scattered sectors OF the l5-mile
front.
Not in Control Of Teruel.
From the insurgents chief military
radio spokesman, Gen. Gonzalo Queipo
de Llano. came the admission that
insurgents were not in control in
Teruel itself.
He acknowledged that bands of gov
ernment troops and insurgents, REM
nants OF the garrison which govern
ment troops caught by surprise two
Evening star., 1938-01-06
Fish Bites Man and Dog.

BY biting native and his dog near
Mombassa, South Africa, fish routed
them and escaped at its leisure. The
man was cornering and catching
flnny swimmers which had been left in
a pool by the receding tide. The dog
entered the water. but was immedi-
ately nipped by the cornered fish and
fed. When the native tried to grab
it he was attacked and bitten on the
hand.
Evening star., 1938-01-06
Color Television Here.

Real color in television has been
perfected, according to ]. L. Baird, the
Scotch pioneer in the field of visual
broadcasting This is the first time
that wireless television in colors has
been achieved, although I demon
strated the principles of it in 1928
before the British Association
Evening star., 1938-01-06
RO0SEVE[TSTAFF
MEMBER EXPIRES
Henry S. Nesbitt, II, Had
Been Custodian of the
White House.

Henry S. Nesbitt, u, custodian OF
the White House and one of the most
popular members of its household
staff, died last night at his home,
1850 Connecticut avenue NV. Death
was caused by heart ailment, from
which he had been suffering for
some time
After being informed of Mr.. Mes
bits death, President and Mrs. Roose-
Evening star., 1938-01-06

velt today sent
e X pr e S sions of
sympathy to his
W i do W. who is
h o u S e keeper at
the White House.
Mrs. r oSe elt
personally called
Mrs. Ne,Sbitt. Al
though he had
never fully recov-
e r e d from a n
operation m or e
than a year ago,
Mr.. Nesbitt was
at his desk yes
terday and ap-
peared to be in
Evening star., 1938-01-06

7hot is on important considerations
for they ore the woods which the Old
Masters themselves invariably used
never resorting to any substitutes;
never using any combinations that
cheaper cost to lower price-ond
never any imitation of finish.
Evening star., 1938-01-06
TERUE[ FOES WAIT
DECISIVE BATTLE
Operations Widened by Both
Sides After Rebels Take
Two Ridges.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Teruel has become scene OF bitter
struggles bet,Deen Loyalists and in
surgents in Spain. Capture OF LOU
er Aragon strategic city by govern
ment forces in mid December fore
stalled grand offensive of rebel
Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
Last Week insurgents claimed re-
capture OF city, but fighting still
goes on amid heavy snow and cold.
THO hundred thousand engaged in
battle.
Evening star., 1938-01-06
Masterpieces of
Mostercroftsmen

The work Of artists who toke their pro-
fession seriously, and put into every
detoil Of their hondiwork, from the
development Of the design to the ex-
quisite finish, that meticuIous care
which stamps each piece as of superior
quality
Evening star., 1938-01-06
COST 500 MILLION

Every year so million people lose
500 million dollars as result of colds,
but who can count the even greater
loss in health.
=. Start taking Father Johns Medicine.
For 49, years it has been recommended
and used successfully by one genera
ton after another as a treatment for
colds and proven body builder. It
must be good.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-13
Mine Sweeper Takes to Page
Pogo Clear Indications
of Tragedy of Air
Liner
INTERNAL BLAST is
SEEN IN FRAGMENTS
Plane Caught Fire While
Dumping Excess Gasoline
Before Landing To Repair
Broken Oil Line After
Starting Flight To New
Zealand

Page Pago Samoa, Jan. 13.-(AP)-
Clear indications that the gian4
Samoan Clipper and her crew of seven
were destroyed in fire and explosion
was brought to Pago Pago today by
the mine sweeper Avocet.
The naval craft returned to port
with charred fragments of the flying
boat after an all-day search of the oil
slick II miles off Pago Fago, where
the ali-metal trans-Pacific plane
crashed in flames Tuesday.
Every item recovered showed signs
of an internal explosion. All were
charred, burned and covered with
aluminium. powder.
Because of the condition of the frag-
ments, no hope was held of recovering
the todies of Captain Edwin Musick,
Pan-American Anyways ace, and his
crew of six from the shark-infested
waters. The Clipper carried no passen-
gers.
The plane caught fire while dump
ing excess gasoline before landing at
Page Page to repair a broken oil lin
after starting out on flight for
Auckland, New Zealand.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-13
Arkansas Lady Says Bill In
Senate Unconstitutional
and Direct Blow
at South
COMMITTEE CUT IN
POST OFFICE BILL
Reduced $6O,862,722 But
Deficiency Funds May Be
Necessary Later; O'Ma-
honey, Wyoming Demo
cratic Senator, May Get
Supreme Court Position

Washington, Jan. 13.-(AP)- The
Senate's only woman member, Mrs.
Hattie Carraway, Democrat, Arkan-
ses, denounced the anti-lynching bill
today as a "gratuitous insult to the
South"
Wearing, as usual, a simple black
dress and reading from a prepared
speech, Mrs. Caraway said she had
never approved or condoncd lynch
ings," and she had always been sick
at heart" on reading of executions
without trial.
She added, however, the bill was un-
constitutional and designed to destroy
,outhern influence.
II am bit resentful and fearful
that bad feeling engendered by such
legislation as this may retard the
good work being done to help and up
lift a people who have my sympathy"
she said.
The House Appropriations Commit
lee, meanwhile, approving budget cuts
and making some of it's own, turned
out a Treasury-Post Office Depart
ments appropriations bill that was
$50 1862, 722 less than the previous one.
The committee said, however, sit
should be horne in mind" several de-
ficiency appropriations might be nee
essary for the current fiscal year, and
it would correspondingly diminish the
saving.
The bill, carrying total of $1,515.-
552, 1856 for the two departments dur
(Continued on Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-13
Rector On
Mysterious
Long Fast
Rev. Israel Harding
Noe Refuses to Eat,
May C oil a p $ e;
Beaufort Native

Memphis, Tenn, Jan. l3.-'AF)-
Friends of the Very Rev. Israel HARD
ing Noe waited fearfully today, help
less to act, as the 46-year-old clergy
man neared the end OF the second
week without food or water
Although the dean of St. Mary
fashionable Episcopal cathedral has
Keen carrying on full schedule of
work. including church school lessons,
funerals and sermons, physicians a
mong his friends have expressed be
lief his collapse may come at any
horr. He has told them what he is
DOING is a spiritual demonstration be-
vond Their comprehension.
Friends said Dean Noe perhaps sub
sisted all of last year on oranges
alone. starting from December %
1926. This January 2, the first Sun
dav of 1888, he has taken only a tiny
wafer and sips of wine of the com
munion service he holds three times
weekly.
A man of unusually robust health
at the time he began his demonstra
ton, he is now only shadow of the
Continued on Paon EIGHT
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-13
Moves VIII
LenUe Post.
ASAPHead

New York, Jan. 13 (AP)-Frank B.
Noyes, of Washington, today an
nounced his retirement from the
presidency of The Associated Press
at the expiration of his present term.
He has held the position 38 years.
To the board of directors, in session
here, Mr.. Noyes disclosed his decision
not to accept reelection at the expira-
ton of his present annual term in
April He will be rs years old July
7, 1898.
The board unanimously expressed
regret at his withdrawal, which means
the end of one of the most notable
tenures in American journalism.
Mr.. Noyes will continue as presi-
dent of the Evening Star at Wash
ington. Asked today whether he
would permit himself to be consider
ed for continuing service on the board
Of The Associated Press, he said he
would leave that to the membership
at large, which will vote for directors
at the April meeting
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-13
TOBACCO SALES IN
STATE To JAN'Y |
ARE $136,634,0OO
Total of 554,727, 722 Pounds
Disposed of from 1887
Crop, State Figures
Reveal
AVERAGE is $24.81
PER HUNDRED LBS.
SO Percent of Crop Sold at
Years End, w. H. Rhodes,
Statistician, Reports; a.
O98,973 Pounds Producers
Tobacco Auctioned in De-
cember

Raleigh Jan. 13-(AF)- Farmers
tobacco sold in North Carolina ware
houses to January / brought $136,
634,O as 554,727,722 pounds sold at
S24.81 per hundred pounds, the State
Department of Agricultures Deem
Der warehouse sales reports showed
today.
's This average, the report said, was
$1O8 per hundred above the 1896 fig
ure for the corresponding time.
w. H. Rhodes, department stats
ticiann, said with. an ESTIMATED crop
Of 593, 745, 900 pounds produced last
year." SO percent Of the 1898 crop
had been sold in the State by the end
of last month.
He said the Asheville market, open
ing last month, had sold 2,119,51C
pounds for $24.25 per hundred, com
pared with $37.43 average for the open
ing month of the previous year.
Total producers tobacco auctione6
in December, the report showed, ag-
gregated 24,O98,973 pounds for $17.79
compared with 27,458,988 pounds fol
December, 1896, at 1892.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-13
Edgecombe Farme'
Shoots Wife, Self

TarborO, Jan. 13.-(AP)-Walter
Barnes, 38, EdgecOmbe county far
mer, ran amuck at his farm on the
Bethel highway today. Critically in
juring his wife, threatening her sis
ter, and finally inflicting a fatal
shotgun wound on himself, DIR. j.
G. Raby, county coroner, reported
this afternoon.
Barnes called his wife, LESSEE, in
to his house and as she approached,
he pulled a single barrelled twelve
guage shotgun and shot her in the
lower abdomen, with the words,
"ITI kill YOU" Her sister, Miss
Mary CoIey, also in the room, was
threatened with a gun, but rushed
out as he yelled after her, "And Ill
kill you, too"
NeighbOrs stated that Barnes had
been nervous and suffering for
some time with mental disorders,
and did queer things.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-13
ROOSEVELT TAKES
DIG AT THE PRESS
But Does 1t By Inference
Rather Than By Direct
Attack Method
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COiunn;St

Washington, Jan. 13.- President
Roosevelt has a way of taking an oc
casional dig at individuals, groups or
Institutions, against whom or which
he seems to harbor feelings of resent
aent, and yet doing it in such a fash
on as not to make him appear to be
iabbing at them, and consequently
without giving them much chance to
come back at him.
For example:
No one can say, definitely, that, in
his recent Jackson Day address, he in
tended to "pan" those newspapers Of
the present time that are critical of
his own New Deal policies.
jefferson Analogy.
Discussing President Jefferson's
program, the President said:
Against him (Jefferson) were al
most all the newspapers and maya
Continued on Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-13
STATE RESTS WITH
AUTO KILLING CASE
Defense Lawyers for Frank c. MOnag-
han Confer in Wake; Car KILL
ed Tobacco Man

Raleigh, Jan. 13.-(AP)-Defense
lawyers conferred at length today be-
fore starting their case after the State
completed it's testimony against
Frank c. Monaghan, charged with
second degree murder in the auto
mobile death of Harry H. Davis, Win
ston-Salem and Lumberton tobacco
man.
The State presented eleven wit
nesses in all.
Mrs. Monaghan was wheeled, into
the court room on cot to be the first
defense witness, but had not taken the
stand this afternoon.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-13
LIQUOR SALES HIT
NEW MONTHLY HIGH
S942,516 Worth of Alcoholic beverages
Sold in December, GUITAR
Moore Reports

Raleigh, JAM 13-(AP)-North Car
DINA county liquor stores sold $94z
$500 of alcoholic beverages in De
cember, State ABC Chairman Guitar
Moore reported today as sales mount
ed $195, 34725 above November to
new monthly high total.
Durham reported heaviest sales
with S137, 73O.45, up $25, 1925 over No
vember. and Wake came next with
S11O,81313, up $26, 40O.50.
Pitt listed sales at $59,933.75; New
Hanover had $50, 382.8O, and Halifax
59,O42.8O to take the next three places
in amounts sold.
Tyrrell county had least sales, 3d.
0O9.15.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-13
MiueBLnSt
Dead Total
Likely Ten

Pittsburgh, Pa, Jan. 13.-(AP)-
Thrilling stories were related TO-DAY
by % survivors of mine blast IL
miles east of here in which eight were
known dead and two others missing
and believed to be dead.
Weary rescue crews with masks still
were working their way slowly along
the 3,6GO-foot passageway, which was
partially wrecked shortly before noon
yesterday, seeking the missing TWO.
Three bodies were brought out ear
" today and identified by mine OF
ficials as John Kruszek, Fl; Joseph
Lerch, "a, and Doss Nicholas, A. all
of Harwick
CIV. Gibbs, general manager OF the
Continued on Page FourJ
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-13
PRICES OF COTTON
MIXED AT MIDDAY
Quotations Three Points Net Higher
To Four Lower at Noon
Hour of Trading

New York, Jan. 13.-(AP)-Cotton
futures opened today one point higher
to three lower in response to hedge
selling and trade buying. March cas-
ed from $50 to 8.55, and then moved
up to S57, leaving quotations net un-
unchanged to four points lower short
Nv after the first half hour. March
sold up from 1852 to $50, leaving quo
tations three points net higher to four
lower shortly after midday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-13
WOMAN MIGHT YET
JO|N SENATE RACE
Mrs. Wohl May Major on
"Peace Referendum" if
She Enters Contest
daily Dispatch Bureau,
IN the Sir Walter Hotel

Raleigh, Jan. 13.-Mrs. Helen Rob
ertson Wohl only woman ever to run
for q Statewide office in North Car
DINA, is a step nearer entry in the
United States Senate race as a result
of defeat of the Ludlow 'war referen-
dunn amendment to the United States
Constitution.
Mrs. Wohl, ardent New Dealer ir
notifies. Quaker in religion and active
campaigner for the United Dry cause
sees the keep America Out of War
movement just beginning, and de
clares she is giving grave consider
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