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The Washington times., 1938-03-09
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with little more than q week
Of practice over, before a single
whacking fast ball or down
breaking curve has been thrown,
the performances Of Chase and
Krakauskas have been more
than satisfactory. Under the
tutelage of Nick Altrock, Chase
and Krakauskas have added
knowledge Of the art Of pitching
to their natural ability.
Buddy Myer is in fine physi-
cal condition for the first time
since 1885, when he won the
batting championship Of the
American League. If he hits
! $40 this season he will drive
IN q lot of runs.
AL Simmons is ready to play
ball. He says he is in condition,
and he looks like a man who Is
in condition. If he can get back
to a fair average, say .S15, which
would not be unusual for him,
he will help. Simmons might
bat fifth, behind Johnny Stone,
and YOU would have three men
IA the waist of the order-Myer,
Stone and SimmonS-who pack
q run.producing punch.
Monte Weaver Is In better
condition and farther advanced
with his pitching than ne has
been in the last several years.
Same Team, But -
By and large It IS the same
team that finished sixth last
wear, but despite this, there IS
reason for the optimism OF
President Clark c. Griffith and
his associates. Last year, you
may recall, the Athletics went
away from the barrier like War
Admiral and led the league for
a while. Their collapse was
sad as it was complete. They
Just didn't have the stuff.
The chances are that the
Washington club would make
far better use Of such a run
ming start. It might be the
means Of the Griffs finishing In
the first division.
It is my personal opinion that
the Griffs will have the fight
Of their lives to finish in the
first four, but in view Of the
developments of the past sew
eral days, their chances Of &C.
complishing this feat are far
brighter than they were when
training season opened.
Long distance telephone calls
continue to pour into-the Hotel
Angebilt for Bucky Harris and
Clark Griffith. An official
American League waiver list
was received by Griffith last
night. He and Harris ilnmedi.
ately went into conference COM
pletely disrupting the pinochle
game.
Calling All Catchers
"Claim all Catchers" is the
slogan Of the washington club
these days. Waiver lists at this
time Of year are merely feeler
lists. The Griffs have claimed
every receiver, including GULL
ano Of the Browns and Glenn of
the Yankees. But waivers have
been withdrawn, and trade
propositions made.
Just so far as natural ability
is concerned Mickey Livingston
looms as a major league catcher.
He is only 20 years Of age, but
he has the natural deftness Of
Q polished receiver. If he can
learn to hit he will win q regular
position.
Despite the high promise Of
Livingston, and at this writing
he looks like the best of the re.
crllits, the crying need Of the
Griffs is for q catcher. Rick
Ferrell must have experienced
help.
VWNW HHNO
The Washington times., 1938-03-09
Joe Baker Battles
Max harrington

Joe Baker faces Max Earring
ton in the opening semifinal match
Of the District badminton tourna-
ment at the Kensington Armory
at 8 o'clock tonight.
The Washington times., 1938-03-09
CLEVELAND GETS.
IN 0 WAX after
CLAN 7 BATTLE.

BATON ROUGE, La, March 8
UNSO.-Latest move in the bat
tie Of wits between the New York
Giants and Cleveland Indians over
Bill Nowak found the rookie sec-
ono baseman back in the Cleve-
land fold today.
Dick Bartell was scheduled to
work out today and also to palaver
with Bill Terry over his 1888 con-
tract.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
3 Children
Victims I'm
Dynanitiing
Mother Also Badly
Injured When Home
Is Blasted In Eliza
BEETHOVEN, Tenn.

Elizabethtown, Tenn, Jan. 7.-(AP)
Three children were killed and
their mother seriously injured early
today when dynamite wrecked their
home near here.
Deputy Sheriff Roy Asher said Of
ficers were working on the theory
the blast was the outgrowth of STAY
ing in 1896. A woman and three men
were held for investigation.
The dead: Sonia Gouge, 9; Luena
Gouge, z; and Roma Jean Gouge, s..
Mrs. Harmon Gouge, "a, was injur-
ed.
Asher said Sonia and Roma Jean
were killed instantly, and that Luena
died enroute to the hospital.
Harmon Gouge, IS, father and hus-
band of the victims, was at Johnston
City at the time of the blast.
There must have been a case Of
dynamite in the basement of the
house Just below the bedroom where
tie mother and children were sleep
ing Asher said. "The explosion shat
tered the house and caved in the
foundations"
Officers found a burned fuse street
ching from the house 80 feet across
a road.
"The fuse had been set on the road
across from the house, the deputy
said; "the children and mother ap-
parently all were asleep"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
Bank Robberies Admitted
In State Melted Two
Desperadoes $4,000
$to $4,000
DEAD PATROLMAN'S
PISTOL TURNED UP
Turner Leads Officers to
Lonely Biltmore Forest
Where They Find Weapon
Of State Officer Payne and
Turner Are Accused of
Staying

Washington, Jan. Z APP. Edgar
Hoover said today William Payne and
John Washington Turner, North Caro-
lima desperadoes, captured last Mon
day, had confessed to robbing several
banks, burglarizing a steam laundry
at Florence, S. c., committing hold
up and several safe burglaries, and to
stealing between 20 and 25 automo-
bileS.
Federal charges against Payne and
Turner would be held in allegiance,
however, the director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation said, pending
outcome of trial of the pair at Ashe-
vile, N. c., on State murder charges.
Payne told Federal agents, Hoover
said, that he, Turner and Robert
Smith, who is now serving life sent
ence for the Staying of South Caro-
lima policeman, obtained between $12,-
and $4,000 between February Is,
when they escaped from the Gale
doina Prison Farm near Halifax, N.
c., and January 8, when they were
captured at Sanford, N. G.
At the time of their capture, how
ever, Payne had only $40 and Turner
$53.
Payne confessed to participating in
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
Mussolini Determined To
Have Topnotch Navy
Among Continental
European Powers
CONSTRUCTION WILL
BE BEGUN AT ONCE
Two Giant Dreadnaughts In
cluded, With IL Destroy
ers and Number of Subma-
rines; Roosevelt's Aiming
Program Referred To-;
Peace Is Talked Also
CIV The Associated Press.)


Italy today announced enlargement
of her ambitious naval re-armament
program to a world plagued by war
fare on two continents and arming for
possibly more to come.
In the announcement, Italy disclos-
ed a determination to have continental
Europe's topnotch fleet.
This construction program, to be
started Immediately, was announced
in Rome:
Two 35,OCra1on hattfeships to be
named Roma and Imperial, giving
Premier Mussolini four first class
fighting vessels of the same tonnage;
~ destroyers, making a destroyer fleet
of Sc in ALL an "important' number
of submarines, the specific number
undisclosed.
But a plan for economic peace was
calling for Europe's attention.
Paul Van iceland, former Belgian
nremier, was in London consulting
Prime Minister Chamberlain on a
scheme to stimulate world trade.
Some sources said the Belgian eco
nomist had proposed pact to bring
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
FORD WILL RESIST
ANY UN|ON|zAT|0N
Motor Magnate To Defy
Unions and Government
Alike in His Fight
= BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COIumniSt

Washington, Jan. 7-Labor-ites &C..
J. Os and A. F. of LIS alike) seem
unable to believe that Henry Ford
will have the nerve to defy federal
law, economic trends, the pressure Of
public opinion and everything else in
his policy of resistance to the indie
pendent unionization of his plants.
Evidently they do not know Henry
Ford.
He may not succeed in preventing
his outfits Imitation, but he las the
nerve to try it. He not only has nerve
he also has what he calls faith.
Stewards Contact.
AS I have recounted heretofore, l
once spent couple of weeks in close
contact with Ford, as correspon-
cent. on board his celebrated peace
ship, the Oscar II (recently broken up
to provide scrap metal, for today S
military purposes.)
1 became quite well acquainted with
him. too, until finally he scratched
me off his list, because my pacifistic
"faith" was not as implicit as his own
But I am speaking of the initial IL
davs of the cruise, while he still con
sidered me friendly to the expedition
which 1 was, on the theory (cOn'
corning which I was very skeptica.)
that it could do any good.
To Neutral Lands.
Anyway, those peace crusaders set
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
Elimination of ''High Pres
sure Salesmanship" One
Method of Approach
Planned
LABOR CHIEF GIVES
.7-POINT PROGRAM
Green Declared Economic
Situation Gloomy" But
Mail Order Head Processes
Optimism; Kennedy Nom
mated as Ambassador to
Great Britain

Washington, Jan. 7-(AP)-Presi-
dent Roosevelt disclosed today, while
a congressional committee wrestled
with causes and cures of the present
slump, that he proposed a series Of
conferences with business leaders on
how to eliminate over-production and
glutted markets.
The main point of discussion in the
talks, the President revealed at his
press conference, will be attacking the
markets over-prodMction problem
through Kidding business of what ad-
ministration spokeAnVn calf "evil'
practices, such as high pressure sales
manship.
Mr.. Roosevelt talked with William
Knudsen, president of General Motors,
yesterday after Knudsen had told the
Senate unemployment Committee a
sudden drop in sales in November and
December had caused his company to
lay off 10000 men January 1.
The unemployment committee re-
ceived from William Green, president
of the American Federation of Labor,
suggestions for seven moves to end
the depression. Green found the eco
nomic situation gloomy, but Robert
E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck
& Company, saw cause for optimism
in declining inventories.
Meantime, the President acted to
switch one of his closest economic adj
visors, Joseph Kennedy, from the
domestic to the international field.
He nominated Kennedy to be ambas-
sador to Great Britain. Kennedy Is
chairman of the Maritime Commits
sion.
Other diplomatic moves he announc-
ed today included the transfer OF
Joseph Davies from Moscow to be am
bassador to Belgium. He sent to the
Senate the nomination of Hugh VIII
son, assistant secretary of state, to be
ambassador to Germany, replacing
William E. Dodd, resigned.
The WPA came forward with its
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
GERTRUDE BENNETT
AND HUBBY FOUND
Daughter of Ford Personnel Chief and
SchoOlbOy Husband Located
In Tampa

Tampa, Fla, Jan. 7.-(AP)-Police
Chief C. j. Woodruff said 17-year-old
Gertrude Bennett Hughes, missing
daughter of Harry Bennett, Ford
Motor Company personnel director,
and her college boy husband, were To-
Gated here today, honeymooning in a
modest apartment.
Location of the clipping couple end
ed a four-day search that began Tues
day when Bennett reported his daugh-
ter had been missing IL hours from
the Bennett home near YpSilantl,
Mich, where Miss Bennett was stu
dent in Michigan Normal College.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
EIGHT Safe When
Large Air Liner
Falls at Newark

Newark, N j., Jan. 7.-(AP)- A
transport air liner carrying five men
passengers and a crew of three squash
ed down in the mud and water of a
treacherous swamp today when is
pilot undershot Newark airport dur
ing the storm-swept early morning
hours
The plane came down shortly after
3 a. m, eastern standard time. Until
dawn the passengers stayed into the
protecting cabin waiting for help.
Pilot Usher Rousch, of Chicago, plOw-
ed through the marsh to the airport
three miles away and led a party back
tC return the passengers to safety.
Rousch suffered a cut over the left
eye in the bump landing but none
of the others, the airline said was
hurt.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
300 Planes, "a Warships
Search West Coast Seas
For Missing Big Bomber

Confidence the missing patrol bomb
err would be found was expressed by
Captain Alva Bernard, chief OF stair,
to Rear Admiral Ernest King, COM
mander of the aircraft scouting force.
Aboard the 3,000-pound seaplane, Of
ficers said, were emergency rations
and a small still for converting ocean
water into drinking water.
Fog hampered the search by battle
ships, cruisers, destroyers and two
Coast Guard cutters last night, and
partly cloudy weather was forecast
for today.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
Money Included in Appro-
priation Bill for Water
ways improvements
In State
MAINTENANCE AND
NEW WORK PUT IN
Inland Waterway from Nor
folk to Beaufort Gets Ma
jor Portion, With $780,
600; Other Projects In
clude Harbors, Rivers and
Creeks in Area

Washington, jan 7.-(AP)- The
chief of the army engineers recon-
mended to Congress today expenditure
of nearly $1,000 40 on rivers and
harbors projects in North Carolina
for maintenance and new work dur
ing the 1889 fiscal year.
Largest single undertaking recon-
mended was use of an unexpended
balance of $436,O00 and an additional
appropriation of $221,OOO for main
tenance and new work on the inland
waterway from Norfolk, Va, to Beau
fort Inlet, N. G.
Other expenditures recommended
included:
Cashie river, $500 for maintence
and dredging and $4,000 for a turn
ing basin at Windsor, and three cut
off channels below Windsor.
Roanoke river, $500 for mainten-
ance and dredging and $4,000 for
new work on the river between it's
mouth and Palmyra.
Waterway connecting Swan Quar-
ter bay with Deep river, $4,000 for
maintenance.
Belhaven Harbor, $4,000 for main
tenanc2.
Pamlico and Tar rivers, $4,000 for
maintenance and operation of govern
ment derrick boat Contentnea.
Silver Lake harbor, $4,000 for dredg-
ing.
Contentnea creek, $1,000 for main
tenance and $1,000 for new work be-
tween it's mouth and Snow Hill.
Tar river flood control recommend
ed allotment of $4,000 made in ALL
gust, 1887, be applied to completion
of project calling for clearing the
natural channel between Tarboro and
Rocky Mount of distractions to re-
duce flood heights.
Neuse river, $4,000 for maintenance
and $12,5OO for maintaining channel
at and below New Bern.
Beaufort harbor, $4,000 for main
tenance and SIT, 800 for new work.
Waterway connecting m leo
Sound and Beaufort harbOr, $11,9OO
COR maintenance and $1,000 for new
work.
Morehead City harbor, $4,000 for
maintenance and $4,000 for new
dredging.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
DISTRICT HOSPITAL
HOMES ARE TALKED
Mrs. Bost Offers Plan AS
Solution for Caring for
States Insane
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In fhe Sir Walter Hotel

Raleigh, Jan. IA system of district
"hosnita1 homes" is seen by Mrs. w.
T. Bost, commissioner of public well
fare and charities, as the longrange
solution of the chronic problem OF car
ing for North Carolma's teeDle-mlnd-
ed and insane.
Such a system, she believes, can be
v,orked out as the result of the Fed
eral and State Social Security pro-
gram, which provides funds for the
care Of aged people, dependent chill
dren and the blind. 1t would, in time,
do away with all county homes and
substitute for them the district hos
pital homes.
Mrs. Bost discussed the problem in
connection with the current acute cri-
sis presented by disclosure of the "ter-
rible" condition under which insane
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
TRIO NEGROES HELD
IN SUNDAY HOLD-UP
Aged Couple Beaten and Robbed OF
$27 at Filling Station Near
Town of Laurinburg

Laurinlburg, Jan. Z (AP)-Three Ne
groes were held in Jail here today
charged with robbing and beating an
aged couple who run a filling station
in western Scotland county.
The men, arrested yesterday, were
hooked as Elliot H. Hoston, 81 Fred
Douglas, II, and Boyd McLaurln. They
were arrested in South Carolina, near
the State line.
Four men held UP the filling station
of D. L. Broome Sunday, beat Broome
and his wife, and escaped with $27.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
Chemical Industry Picked
As The |Industry OF 1888"
Chemicals Mean Diversified on Every Industry Is Gus
TONER Labor-Proof and olitics-Proof and Hedge
Against Initiation War; Babson Says

panies in the industry My choice is
based on much more fundamental rea
sons. Moreover, the nomination of the
chemical industry is not any sudden
discovery by me of the tremendous
part it is playing in our modern age.
1t is simply recognition of the fact
that in a year of irregular business,
the short-term stability and the long
term growth of the chemical business
should make it an outstanding indus
try.
Chemicals Mean DiversificatiOn.
Our current civilization can truly
be called a chemical age. Every
large industry is a growing customer
of the chemical makers. Their sales
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
MEASLES LEADS IN
STATE CONTAGIOUS
538 Cases Reported Last Week;
ChickenpOx and WhOOping
Cough Also Run High

Raleigh, Jan. lap Measles
shot UP in frequency of occurrence in
North Carolina as 1887 ended, the
board of Health reported today as
538 cases were reported for the week
ended January 1, as compared with
243 the week before.
The board also reported increased
incidence was shown last week by
chickenpox, with 100 cases; diphtheria
with IS; and pellagra, with IA; scar
let fever, with SO; syphilis with 1O9
typhoid fever, with 8; and whooping
cough, with 1872.
Sampson county reported 224 of the
measles cases.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
BY ROGER w. BABSON,
Copyright 1888, Publishers
E:o:U Droon Inc

Babson Park, Fla, Jan. 7.-The
chemical business is my nomination
Tor the Industry of 1882. Each Jan
uary first l like to select an industry
Which will be leader during the new
year. In 1886, Building had my vote.
Last year 1 picked Aviation. Now, for
the year 1888 my choice is Chemicals.
Its research progress, it's all-inclusive
diversification, it's conservative man
agement, and it's protection against
war, initiation, politics and labor quail
lfy it for such a nomination.
The making of this selection is not
based primarily on the market perfor-
nance of stocks representing COM
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07

San Pedro, Cal, Jan. Z (AP)-Three
hundred navy planes and "a warships
searched the seas between Santa Bar
bara and San Diego today for giant
service patrol bomber, missing since
Wednesday with seven men aboard.
Meantime, naval officials disclosed
Seth Hawkins, cadet attached to the
cruiser Chicago, fell from the rear
cockpit seat of a light plane yester-
day and disappeared into the Pacific
100 miles off shore. The plane was
engaged in routine flight"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
ALEX S. WATKINS is
BUILDERS OFFICIAL
Elected Second Vice-President Oh
Carolinas Association in Co
Iumbia. S. G..

Columbia, S. c., Jan. 7.-(AP)-The
annual convention of the Carolinae
Retail Lumber and Supply Builders
Association gathered up odds ana
ends of it's business here today after
electing new officers for the year.
Robin S. Kirby, of Charlotte, was
elected president, and among the oth-
er officers was Alex S. Watkins, OF
Henderson, N. c., second vice-presi-
dent.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
SLIGHT GAINS FOR
COTTON AT MIDDAY
Higher Liverpool Cables Partly Offset
by Hedge Selling and Liqui-
datiOn Here

New York, Jan. 7-(AP)-Cotton
futures opened che to three points up.
High Liverpool cables were partly
offset by hedge selling and liquida-
ton. March reacted from 1852 to $40
leaving quotations net unchanged to
ono point higher at the end of the
first hour. By midday March recover
cd from 847 to $780, leaving prices
to three points net higher.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
GERMAN SHIPPING
MAGNATE IN JAIL

Hamburg, Germany, Jan. 7.-(AP)--
Arnold Bernstein, Jewish head of the
Red Star and Arnold Bernstein Ship
ping Lines who had been in Jail eleven
months, was sentenced today to eleven
months in prison and fine of 1,OOO.-
90 marks ($40O,00O) on charges OF
violating Germany's rigid foreign ex-
chaneg laws.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
u. S. Asking
Rubens Data
OF Souiets

Moscow, Jan. (AP)-The United
States Embassy today presented
formal note to the Soviet foreign Of
flee asking whether Ruth Marie Ru-
hens of New York, was under arrest In
Russia, and if so on what charges.
The note, delivered on instructions
from Washington, demanded full in
formation about the disappearance
from a Moscow hotel December 8, or
Mrs. Rubens, who had been known
here as "Mrs. Donald l.. Robinson"
She had arrived in Moscow Novem-
Der 6, with Donald L. Robinson" who
disappeared December 2.
The request for information was bas
r~~<a~Vad IN PaUA Tv0t
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
Insurgents
HaUeEdge
lnStruggk

Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier,
Jan. Z (AP)-The Spanish govern
ment appeared today to have gained
winning margin in the most inten-
slve fighting of the 17-day Teruel cam
paign.
The battle conferred about Concud to
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07

Shanghai, Jan. Z (AP)-Major Cen
oral A, P. D. Kelfer-Smollett, COM
handing British troops at Shanghai,
protested today an attack by japanese
soldiers on two British officers of the
shanghai municipal police.
The general accused japanese army
forces of invading the British defense
zone in the International settlement,
and was reported to have warned the
Japanese military that repetition
might result in the gravest conse-
quences.
A Japanese Embassy spokesman,
questioned about the attack, said: "We
have no information"
Inspector F. G. West, one of the Of
ficers, said he and Sergeant A. r.
Turner, were watching Japanese sol
diers search Chinese peddlers near the
line between the British defense zone
and the Japanese-occupied area, and
remarked that the peddlers were re-
ceiving unnecessarily rough treatment.
Twenty japanese cenxbrs and COM
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
NEW LEGISLATION
AFFECTING CITIES
Healev Shows Results OF
Laws Enacted by 1887
General Assembly
DAILY Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter HOtel.

Raleigh, Jan. THE course OF mo
nicipal affairs in North Carolina du"
ing 1897 was greatly affected by legls
lation passed by the 1887 Genera As
sembly, Patrick Healey, Jr., executive
secretary of the North Carolina Lea
CUE of Municipalities, points out IN
fContinued on Page Three.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
Major General Command
ing at Shanghai Warns
Invaders of Serious
ness of Act
CABLE LINES ARE
WATCHED BY JAPS
Communications Services at
Shanghai Censored by In
vaders; Japanese Planes
Make Raids on Chinese
Airport; Chinese Retalia-
ton Is Failure

Shanghai, Jan. Substantially
Shigeru KawagOe, Japanese am
bassador to China, declared today
peace negotiations were "out of
the question for the present"
He said Japan should "repudi-
ate, the Nanking government as
tho central government for China.
"A new regime is needed"
U.waeoe declared. 1T must be one
relying absolutely on the support
and guidance of Japan"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07

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