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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
Auctions Of
Tobacco Are
Investigated
Justice Department
Sends Sleuths Into
Kentucky To Watch
System of Sales

Washington, Dec. 9.-(AP)- The
Justice Department has assigned two
of it's Investigators 'to bend an at
tentative ear to the sing-song chant
ing of tobacco auctioneers."
ut may be legal to sell a farmers
entire tobacco crop in only eight or
ten seconds, bu, we are not sure"
one antitrust division official said.
''We intend to find out"
The departments current investi-
cation, chiefly of tobacco marketing
practices, involves by which Maryland
tobacco is sold in Baltimore by sealed
bids, and hurley tobacco is sold in
Kentucky by singing auctioneera"
Two members of the antitrust di-
Visions economic staff went to- Ken
lucky this week as observers of the
open auction system.
Department investigators also are
studying the methods by which flue-
cured tobacco, raised principally in
Virginia, North Carolina and South
Carolina, is being sold to the I'M
perial Tobacco Company of Great Bri-
tain. Approximately so to 60 percent
of that type is exported.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
Defense OF
Hemisphere
Is Big Goal
United States Lead
ing Way for United
Americas; Argentine
Holding Back; Econo-
mic and Political Steps
Against nictators Are
Planned

Lima, Peru, Dec. 9.-(AP)-Twentv-
one nations ofSth Western Hemis-
phere opened the eighth Pan-Ameri-
can Conference : here today. to work
for peace at home and against foreign
aggression, but without isolation from
the rest of the world.
The momentous DEVELOPMENTS in
Europe and Asia, in the past five
years, which have seen the rise of
Naziism, the intensification Of Fas-
clsm, and the Japanese invasion of
China, made the conference one of the
most important in Pan-American his
tory.
The delegates, gathering in the
Peruvian House of Representatives
for the Inauguration of the conference
had in mind economic and perhaps
political steps against the authorita-
tartan states. But from the United
States, Secretary of State Cordell Hull
who headed his delegation, came the
assurance the Americas did not seek
to cut themselves from the rest of the
world.
In a pre- conference radio address
last night, he declared that the Am
ericas ''do not seek regional solution
for economic problems, but that they
recognize the inter-dependence" of
all nations and are eager to see their
principles 'adopted by all nations of
the world"
Members of his delegation said the
secretary meant not to turn a back
on Europe and Asia, but to turn and
face it with eyes aware. His assur-
ances were seen as directed to Argen-
tine, wishing to retain Old World ties
and against some agitation that the
United States direct all it's foreign
trade toward Latin-America.
Hull said the Americas were deter
mined peace shall be maintained on
the American continents" that any
menace against peace was a matter
of concern to ALL" and that the con-
ference would seek to increase the eff
fectiveness of measures adopted al
ready to that end"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
Money
For Spy Work
To Be Asked

Washington, Dec. 9.-(AP)-Presi-
dent Roosevelt said today that United
States intelligence forces, spying on
foreign spies, had been coordinated
but still needed more money.
Announcing plans to ask for an
additional appropriation for counter
espionage, the chief executive said
spying had not been ended by the re-
cent conviction of four German agents
in New York. He emphasized in his
press conference discussion of the
subject that no OGPU, Soviet secret
police, was needed to watch the Anne
rican people, but there is need for
American people to watch the secret
police of other nations.
Declining to disclose details of how
coordination of intelligence units had
been worked out, Mr.. Roosevelt said
his stories were published on the va
rious steps it would destroy 80 per-
cent of the effectiveness of the set-up.
He added, however, tina ia great many
agencies were involved.
Discussions of the spy problem de-
veloped from a question concerning a
conference he had yesterday with
Lamar Hardy, Federal district attor-
ney for Manhattan, who obtained con-
viction of three individuals in New
York on spy charges. Mr.. Roosevelt
said they had discussed the whole spy
situation, with emphasis on what al
ready had been done.
The chief executive said Hardy had
repeated what he had been saying for
a year-that for personal reasons he
wished to resign as district attorney
The President added that Hardy
would retire some time in January.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
WPAChange
Is Left Up
To Congress
Roosevelt Says Solons
Must D e cid e on
Amendments To Eli
inmate Criticism

Washington, Dec. 9.-(AP)-Presi
dent Roosevelt said today it was up
to Congress to decide whether Fed
eral relief procedure should be modi-
fled to meet criticism of the WPA
That was his comment when asked at
his press conference for his reaction
to statement by WPA Administra-
tor Harry Hopkins that some changes
might be made.
Hopkins agency has been parti-
cularly criticized on the politics in
relief angle, and he said yesterday
he had some definite ideas about
amendments in mind. He said, how
ever, he wanted a meeting of minds
with members of Congress before dis
closing these suggestions.
The WA chief talked with Sena-
tor Byrnes, Democrat, South Caro-
lima, who proposes changed method
of distributing WPA funds to elimin-
ate what he called inequitable treat
ment of some states.
Neither Hopkins nor the senator
would disclose the results of theil
conference. Byrnes did say he was
confident a program could be worked
out along lines he discussed this week
in New York speech.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09

Cashier Herman Beam, of Shelby's
Union Trust Company branch at Fall
stOn, reported to the sheriff's office
here that two unmasked white men,
brandishing guns, walked into the
bank only few minutes after it open
ed for business at 9 a. M, and de-
manded the money. A third waited in
an automobile at the curb Beam
handed over the currency he said,
whereupOn the bandits drove away.
Citizens piled into automobiles and
gave chase, reports at the sheriff's of
flee here said. The fleeing bandits
crowded closely by their pursuers,
jumped from their automobile and
fled across the fields Sheriff Ray
mond Cline said the Fallston resi-
dents overlook one of the trio and
held him until officers arrived.
Cline said the man was brought to
the city jail and booked as Lewis
Childers, "a, of Morganton. The sher-
iff said the prisoner admitted his part
in the hOld-up.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
Lighting Of
Highways Is
Satisfactory
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Dec. 9.-First reports and
impressions seem unanimously favor
able to North Cardinals experiments
in highway illumination by means of
reflectors which pick up the beams
of automobile headlights and diffuse
them over the roadway.
The experiments are being carried
out by the State Highway and Pub
lie Works Commission. The reflectors
have been erected along a stretch of
highway between Raleigh and Gar
ner on U. S. 70, for a distance of APP
proximately four and a half miles.
The reflectors are placed along the
shoulders on both sides of the road
approximately 100 feet apart on
straight stretches and about SO feet
apart on curves.
A prism inside each reflector picks
up the light from approaching auto
mobile and reflects and diffuses it
across the highway at right angles
to the approaching cars, illuminating
the roadway almost as effectively as
if each reflector contained an cleo
trio light.
"While these reflectors make night
driving easier by providing better
roadway illumination, our interest in
/%..l:..o5 - Doon 6.iCof
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
Increase In
Patrol Will
Be Resisted
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter a1Otel.

Raleigh, Dec 9-When a proposal
is made in the 1889 General Assem-
bly,, as it will be, that the State High
way Fatrol personnel be increased to
about 300, it is going to bump square
ly into the fact that the Commission
er of Revenue A. j. Maxwell is gen
orally considered a candidate for gov
ernor in the 1910 primary.
It follows, just as certain as night
follows day, that there is going to be
more than formal and ION principle"
opposition to the proposed increase.
It will be contended with a great
show of righteous Indignation that
the increase is being urged in the in
terests of Mr.. Maxwell's political am
bition. It will be asserted with great
heat that to increase the patrol is SIM
ply to give the commissioner of rev.
enue a larger mobile force of political
henchmen.
All of which arguments will be adj
vanced by legislators who do not IA
vor the commissioner, but who would
rather see some other in the chair
now occupied by Shelby's silver-ton-
gued statesman, Clyde r. Hoey
There will be some who honestly fear
misuse of the patrol in the interests
of Mr.. Maxwell, but most of it will
(Noo+;Drod On PaOa EiVel
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
American and British
Ambassadors Told by
Tokyo Foreign Minist~
err Old System Has
V9nished Since japan
Conquered Most OF
China

Tokyo, Dec. 9.-(AP)- A source
close to the government said today
that Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita
had informed the United States and
Great Britain that The principle of
the 'open door" in China had vanish
ed.
The minister WIS said to have
spoken fully and frankly yesterday to
United States Ambassador Joseph
Grew and British Ambassador Sir
Robert Craigie. Leaving no doubt as to
Japans position.
The informant said his conversation
contained such phraseology as "hence-
forth you will be permitted x'
and you will not be permitted x,'
referring to conditiC/s under which
foreign commerce may continue in
China.
Concrete questions were not touch
ed, it was said, but Arita laid down
two general principles showing ia
pans line of policy. The civic question
will be determined according to the
following principles:
1. The Chinese-Japanes conflict has
changed the political situation in
China and has virtually dismantled
the nine-power pact.
China have become a new economic
bloc, but they do not intend to ex-
clude foreign trade.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09

Dodd Under
$4,000 Bail

Hanover Court House, Va, Dec. O.
(AP)-William E. Dodd, former am
bassador to Germany, will be given a
preliminary hearing December IL in
the trial justice court at Ashland, Va,
on charge of hit-and- run driving.
Dodd, who was returned here last
night, posted bond of $1,000, which
was furnished by T. Justin Moore,
Richmond attorney and friend of the
Dodd family.
The former ambassador is charged
with falling to stop after his car
struck and seriously injured Gloria
Grimes, four-year-old Negro girl.
When taken before Trial Justice
Robert T. Winston last night, Dodd
said the mishap was entirely an ac-
cident". Justice Winston reminded
him that a hit-and-run charge in Vir-
ginia involves a felony.
81 didn't stop, first" Dodd said,
because 1 wasn't sure [ had hit him
Ghe Negro girl was dressed in boys
clothing), and second, as an exam
bassador l didn't want to make sem
sation."
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
by ROGER w. BABSON,
Copyright 1888, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc!

washington, Dec. "a whole month
mas slipped by since the elections;
Congress will convene in less than an
o'her month. Hence, this is an ideal
1line Tor readers to look both back
ward and forward. What happened at
Ile polls last month was a tremen-
pous surprise to many people. They
ndu come to believe that Mr.. Roose-
YeiI and the New Deal were some
un'hg permanent. They felt that they
were not subject to the same funda-
mental Law of Action and Reaction
lnat applies to all spheres of human
acVlVlCy. They were, therefore, as
'ouhded by the huge New Deal losses
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
Serious Shooting
Occurs In Strike
At Oil Terminal

Wilmington, Dec. 9.--(AP)-R. L.
Johnson, driver for the Southern Oil
transportation Company, was he'd
under $500 bond today when his trial
on a charge of carrying a concealed
weapon was continued in recorders
court. Meanwhile, attaches at the
James Walker Memorial hospital ad'
minstered a blood TRANSMISSION to
Philip Morgan, striking driver at the
transportation company's plant here,
who was seriously wounded last night
when shot by a man who rode past
the plant in an automobile and fired
on a picket line there.
Y. T Moss, also shot at the plant
last night, and apparently hit by the
same bullet which struck Morgan IN
the groin, was said to be in a fair
condition at the hospital. Morga1's
condition was considered serious, the
hospital said
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
Dahlberg Claims
Wage-Hour Law To
Help Aall Groups

Raleigh, Dec. 9.-(AP)-Earl w.
Dahlberg, of Washington, southern
regional wagelhour administrator for
tho Federal government, said here to-
day that the new wage-hour act would
benefit labor, business and the pub
lie alike"
Dahlberg spoke at the 10th annual
convention of the Carolina Lumber
and Business Supply Association. He
explained the act, and said hat,
though the administrator sis required
RI define certain terms of the law"
the act is rigid and Eat every turn
limits and prescribes the discretion
arv authority of the administrator.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
Six Negroes
In
Georgia Pen

Reidsville, Ga, Dec. 9.-(AP)-
Six Negro murderers were put to
death in the electric chair i'm the
State Prison today in the largest
mass execution in GeOrgia's his
tory.
The electrOcutions required an
hour and FL minutes The first of
the prisoners went to the chair at
1l:O9 a. M, central standard time.
and the executions were cOmplet-
ed at 1880 p. M, central stand
ard time.
A seventh prisoner, white man
Tom DickersOnl convicted of
strangling the infant child of a
daughter, was granted a Iast-min-
ute reprieve.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
Japan Closes "Open Door" In China
Jap Drive Slowed
By Chinese Army

Shanghai, Dec. 9-(AP)-Cllinese
forces, which have been blocking
the way to Nl,nchang for months,
were reported to have crossed the
SiaO river today, and routed the
Japanese at Yungsui after a three
hour engagement.
YungSui is on the KiulSiang-Nan-
chang railway, 80 miles north of
Nanchang, important Chinese air
base and capital of Kangsi pro-
vince.
The Chinese have fought the in
vaders stubbornly every mile down
the railway since the occupation
of Kiukiang July rs, with the re-
suit that the Japanese have ad-
vanced only so miles in 1876 days of
fighting.
The Chinese also reported the
Japanese drive westward from
HankOw had begged down.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
Italy Can't
Take COLONY
If Resisted
ID e m o n S rations
Against France Con-
tinue In Italy; Paris
S e e S Propaganda
Drive Merely To Gain
Concessions in Tuni-
STA for Italian Benefit

Paris, Dec. (AP)-Sources close
to Premier Daladier said TODAY that,
France would fight, if necessary, to
defend Tunisia. The same sources said
that Italy's military chances of at.
tacking and Selling Tunisia from,
Llbya or from the sea were Zero"
They viewed the Italian campaign
for the French protectorate as sim
ply propaganda advance guard" for
other and more temperate demands
concerning the rights of Italians liv-
Ing in Tunisia. In Tunisia. armed
mobile guards, rushed from Algeria.
patrolled the streets while French
troops throughout Tunisia were held
In their barracks awaiting develop
ments in the French-Italian crisis.
Reports from interior cities indi-
Gated various Arab and native or
CARNATIONS had joined with the
French colony in demonstrations a.
galnst Italian demands for control of
Iunlsia. One person was wounded
gravely and three slightly in disorders
which accompanied mass demonstra-
tlons by Italians, French and Arabs
IN Tunis yesterday. Order was restor-
ed shortly before midnight
The disorders brought the arrest of
ten Italians for "seditious cries" and
caused France to rush three platoons
OF mobile guards, totaling 100 men.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
Bandits Get $500 From
Fauston Bank, Two Taken

Shelby, Dec 9.-(AP)-Three
bandits held up bank at Falls
ton, twelve miles away, early to-
day ana got about $7OO, but of
ficers and aroused citizens soon
captured two of the alleged rob-
bers and recovered almost all the
money.
Sheriff Raymond Cline said two
men who confessed were being
held in the city Jail, and a third
was hunted near the scene of the
captures.
The Two were booked, Cline
said, as Lewis ChiIders, "a, and
Frank j. Has!Zins, II, both of Nor
canton.
Shelby, Dec. 9.-(AP)-Three ban
Its held up a bank cashier at Fall
'ion, II miles from here, early today
orced him to hand over $1,000 in cur
'ency, and then fled, with irate cit
ZenS in pursuit
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09

Pa11-An1er1can Conference Opens In Peru
DarneIl Executed
After Confession

Raleigh. Dec. 9.-(AP)-Baxter
Parncl, 3G-year-OId Cabarrus cOun-
y farmer. died by gas ut States
prison today for the ice-pick muir
dor of his sister-in-iaw, jamie Fink.
ParneIl, Chaplain r.. G. Cooper
said, confessed that he killed the
Girl in fit of anger, and COM
rleteiy absolved Il Negro woman he
had contended had given him roots,
which had "heXed" him.
The man was the first to be exc
cutcd here from Cabarrus county
since the death chamber was in
stalled in 1910, Cabarrus officers
said. He was the ninth white man
executed by gas, the fOrtieth gas
victim ana the 2l2th person execut-
ed here.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
Holt Will Offer
Measure Against
FDR Third Term

Washington, Dec. 9. lap
Senator Holt, Democrat, West
Virginia, announced today he
would introduce in the next ses-
sion of Congress resolution Op-
posing a third term for President
Roosevelt. The Senate's youngest
member said he would use for his
anti-third term resolution the
wording of the resolution passed
Sc to 26 by the Senate on February
10, 1928, opposing third term for
President Coolidge.
The 1928 resolution was intro
duced by Senator LaFOllette, Pro-
gressive, Wisconsin, and supported
by leading Democrats.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09

profed a bit effective. Every one
knows that Italy waged war against
Abyssinia, that war is raging in
Spain and that Japan and China are
at war bloodthirstily. But none of
these wars was formally declared.
Theoretically they were not and are
not wars.
President Roosevelt could have de-
clared them wars, in fact, and slapped
embargoes on, but he hasn't seen fit
to do so. Technically perhaps he's been
right about it. The Nye law doesn't
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09

WA SAO1l W. W 5ANO
the President no
discretion in the
matter of keeping
the United States
out of foreign con-
flicts. Two or more
overseas nations hav
ing gone to war, the
White House tenant
is supposed to en-
barge American ship
ments of military
supplies to both or
all of the belliger-
ents. The act hasn't
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
Deadlock Between F.D.R.
And Congress Predicted
G. o. P.-Anti-New Dealer Coalition Cou'o
Block President, But His Veto Could balk
Them; Babson Sees U. S. Problem an Econo-
mic One

in November. 49,.
" rho election can be explained this
,,,av. The American people have oeen
sick for a. number of years. +. ~
n 9,on has been the family doctor
~, 49, Pc has refused to consult another
1 49, when some of the family de-
49, 49, - On November 8, the family
% aae ~ to call in another doctor
they did not discharge Or. 1S;ugs en-
hut they voted not to leave tnine s the
tirely up to him. They apPrecid.e 10
various shots-in-the-arm winch ne ae-n
provided. Nevertheless, the Anne Io,,
peonle are intelligent enough 70 Ano o,
mt the many brands OF New Dea
snend-and-lend therapy are not a.
<~o,,+;nued On Page Four.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.

Cloudy, showers this afternoon
and possibly in northeast portion
early tonight; snow flurries in the
mountains tonight; colder tonight;
Saturday generally fair; colder in
east and central portions.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
Neutrality
Laws Are To
Be Changed
By CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumnist

Washington, Dec. 9.-When Senator
Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota evolv-
ed our present neutrality law his in
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-09
FDR ToAsk
Reorganiiziing
Plans Again
President Announces
He Will Send Request
To Congress To Give
Him More Power

Washington, Dec. 9.-(AP)-Presi-
dent Roosevelt disclosed today that he
plans to send to Congress another
message recommending legislation
empowering him to reorganize gov
eminent agencies.
Washington, Dec. 9.-(AP)-A re-
petition Of the congressional battle
over government reorganization APP
peared likely today, unless the adj
mnistration accepts substantial modi-
tications Of its program.
Senator Byrnes, Democrat, South
Carolina, said after a White House
conference yesterday that he was GER
tain another effort would be made to
enact legislation empowering the
President to re-shuffle executive
agencies.
He declined to say, however, wheth-
ey the new legislation would differ
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Evening star., 1938-07-12
For a Perfect Cake.

This Is . plea for new pans to
cook and bake in. Warped pans make
wobbly cakes and waste heat n top,
stove cooking.
Evening star., 1938-07-12
DUTY
.TOBeLOvelv
AS Possible
Not Necessary to
Spend Big Sums
Gain Beauty.
BY PATRICIA LINDSAY.

SOME ONE has said, mo beauties
are born, all are made" And
what hope and encouragement to all
women lies in that statement!
True it is that few of us are born
beautiful but persistency in making
the most of what Nature endowed us
with does make us attractive. And
after all, it is the interesting looking
woman today rather than the pretty
pretty, who is recognized and toasted
as the modern beauty. The woman
who has developed her natural gifts
by being beauty-loving and beauty
seeking.
Gone are the days when ones
earnest devotion to good looks was
frowned upon, or when doctors voiced
their disapproval Of cosmetics. Today
1t is considered a woman's duty to
society to be as lovely as possible and
leading physicians believe strongly
that the healthy. normal woman
should make herself most attractive.
No matter what your age, your
occupation, your circumstances, you
owe it to yourself as a woman, and
to those around you, to make the
most of your feminine heritage. Hus-
bands and children alike unconsciously
dote on wives and mothers who have
not allowed themselves to become
duds. Proud Is the child who can
produce a personable mother to show
his friends and schoolmates.
But in seeking beauty, do not
advocate spending the rent or grocery
money on expensive treatments or a
flossy wardrobe. No indeed. II you
can afford such luxuries well and
good, but don't encourage frowns and
wrinkles and a distorted mind by
fretting over what you cannot have.
You can exercise your body into a
pleasing figure just as well in your
own home as you can in a costly
studio. Current newspapers and
magazines offer sound advice on
meticulous grooming and body care,
so there Is little excuse for you to
moan because you have not the
wherewithal for frequent visits to
beauty salons.
Every womans budget, however,
should allow for occasional visits to
reliable physician to check her
general health and diet, and also for
q few good cosmetics-specific aids for
ailing skin or hair and those neces-
sary to preserve personal daintiness.
To these every woman has q right
they assist her mentally.
But just as pertinent as cosmetics
to a woman's loveliness is the right
approach to living. Gracious thoughts
and characteristics, an active interest
in something other than herself and
her home, desire to be an inspira-
ton to society, rather than burden.
Such attainments certainly enhance
the charm any woman creates by be-
ing pleasing to look at.
Copyright, 1881