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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12
INSANE JAMMED IN
JA|LS IN COUNTIES
Feeble-Minded There, Too,
In Great Numbers;
Rightful State Duty
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Jan. 12-North Carolina's
governmental system places the duty
of caring for the insane and feeple-
minded squarely upon the State; but'
despite that fact, mentally SICK per-
sons in large numbers are confined
in county jails and county homes,
where there are practically none OF
the facilities necessary for their care
and treatment.
Recent publicity has featured con
ditions in the Mecklenburg county
home, but similar conditions exls'
throughout the State, with almost
every county having the same prop
lem on it's hands to a greater or less
er degree.
Figures from the State Board OF
Charities and Public Welfare for the
month of November, 1937-last month
for which complete data are available
show that 90 insane persons (this
does not include feeble minded, be ii
noted) were confined in AZ county
iails scattered all over North Caro-
lima.
No figures are available to show
how many insane and feeble minded
persons were being kept in county
homes, but present plans call for {
survey in February which will make
| available complete information re
garding the mental and physical sta
| tus of every inmate of every county
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12
Grady May
B1nGOd7ViN
Pur0lement

New Bern, Jan. 12.-(AP)- Judge
Henry Grady, presiding over superior
court here this week, planned the IS
suance today of an order requiring
attorneys representing Mrs. Sina Pope
Goodwin, twice convicted killer of her
third husband, to appear before MIN
in Greenville January II to snow
cause why the order signed IN IA
leigh and suspending her former sen
tence should not, be 'set aside, vacat-
ed and declared null and void.
Copies of the order and notice 10
show cause we're to be mailed to
Charles Ross, Raleigh; Robert Young,
of Dunn; I. r. Williams, of Dunn !;
Neil Salmon, of Ellington; Claude
Cannady, Benson; Jesse Jones, Kin
ston, and Edwin Gill, paroles commls-
soner at Raleigh, and to be served
upon the defendant by the sheriff OF
Harnett county.
Action in paroling the defendant
Judge Grady said, was taken on pc
tition of the sheriff, county clerk ana
chairman of the board of county com
missioners of Harnett county. 1t had
been represented to Grady that ths
cost of the case was about $7OO, ano
it now appears that the clerk had no.
included the cost of the special venlre
summoned from Wayne county 1ol
the second trial.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12
PARKS CASE ENDS
WITH SETTLEMENT
Morganton Youth Arranges
Out of Court For Care
Mrs. Ryan's Baby

Morganton, Jan. 12.- (AP) = A
charge of non-support of an illegi-
innate child, brought by Mrs. Basil
(Pa) Ryan against Ned Farks, Wash
ington soda dispenser, was dismissed
in Burke county court today after
Parks attorney informed the court
ga satisfactory financial settlement
had been made"
Parks, 24-year-old former Morgan
ton youth arrived on a warrant sworn
out by Mrs. Ryan about month be-
fore her marriage to the copper for
tune heir, entered plea of nolo con
tendere shortly after court convened
to hear the case.
His attorney, Ed Butler, submitted
a Judgment which was accepted by
the court and by attorneys for Mrs,
RYAN, the former Martha Barkley, OF
Morganton, who was married to Ryan
November 4.
Terms of the settlement were not
disclosed. The judgment set forth "a
satisfactory settlement for the sup
port. maintenance and education OF
the said illegitimate child has been
made by the said Ned Parks, ano
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12
Negro Saved
In Last Hour
Is COMMITTED

Raleigh. Jan. 12-(AP)-Governo
Hoev conmuted to life Imprisonment
TODAY the death sentence imposed on
Tommy Walls, Mecklenburg county
Negro convicted of first degree bur-
glary.
1887. The State Supreme Court upneld
the verdict, and the United States gu
preme Court declined to review the
case. Hoey granted two reprleVes'
one in December being given an nour
before time for Walls execution py
gas. +or.
The Negro was convicted OF enter
ing the home of Peter Gilchrlst' or.,
the night of September 2, 1850, anu
inflicting cuts on Peter Gilchrlst' ~.
when the young man grappieo WIZ
him.
During the trial and CONSISTENCY
since. Walls has contended he was IN
nocent. Eleven jurors signed a state
ment saying there was some oouD
about the identity of the burglar, ano
noting they recommended mercy II
their original verdict, with the be
lief that such a verdict would save
his life"
The prisoner had a bad previous
criminal record, and there were alegS
tions that he. had confessed the Gil
christ crime, but the purported con
fession was not used in court.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12
OFFERS PLAN FOR
NSTALLMENT TAX
District of Columbia May
Set Example for Cities,
Counties, States
By CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, Jan. r. Representa-
tive Ambrose J. Kennedy of Mary
land has evolved scheme to enable
District of Columbia property owners
to pay their real estate taxes in in
stalments-that is to say, in much
smaller instalments than they are
payable in at present.
Other representatives, and few
senators, regard the proposal with con
siderable favor.
The suggestion is made, however
by some of these others, that the plan
might advantageously be greatly
broadened-might be made to apply
to all sorts of taxes; not real esta.e e
alone. Also it is urged that it might
be extended away beyond the boun-
daries of the District of Columbia
that it would be a good system on d
national scale.
What To Divide?
Nationally speaking, the only tax
which could be cut up into smaller in
stalments is the income tax, in it,
various forms. Tariff taxation, excist
levies and similar indirect imposts
are on an instalment basis already
a pewee of an exaction on each
packet of cigarets, ct cetera.
But the federal income tax coulc
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12
Southern Senators Fighting
Anti-Lynching Bill May
Add Gangsters In
Provisions
LEADERS SEEK TO
AVOID OPEN BREAK
Fear Split in Democratic
Ranks AS Southerners Con-
tinue To Block Passage Of
Measure; Opposition In
Senate To Vote on Appro-
priations

Washington, Jan. II (AP)-Another
presidential conference with business
leaders was called today simultaneous
ly with disclosure that an American
Federation of Labor leader arranged
Mr.. Roosevelts meeting with five in
dustrialists last night.
Secretary Roper announced 30 prom
inent business men, members of the
administration business advisory
council, would meet with the Presi-
dent January 10.
At the same time, it was learned
that a laboS leaders self-assumed dip
lomatic role was responsible for the
White House visit of the quintette for
whom Alfred Sloan, Jr., chairman Of
General Motors Corporation, was
spokesman.
Meantime, southern senator's fight
ing the anti-lynching bin told the SEN
ate they would seek to expand it to
include gangsters and mob violence.
Senator Russell, Democrat, Georgia,
carried on the debate against the
pending lynching bin as the Senate
rounded out the first full week of dts
cussion of the measure without even
approaching a vote on any of num-
Der of amendments proposed.
Failure of administration leaders to
impose longer Senate sessions in or
der to wear out the opposition's speak
ers, led to the belief among some SEN
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12
Russian Dictator In Absolute
Command as New Body,
Elected Month Ago,
COnvenes
1T IS FIRST UNDER
NEW CONSTITUTION
Members Include Red Army
Commanders, Secret Police
Milk Maids, Tractor Oper-
ators and Factory Hands;
Come from Far-Flung So
Wet Empire

Moscow, Jan. 12.- (AP) = Soviet
Russia's new red parliament opened
it's first session today with Joseph
Stain and other government leaders
watching from seats of honor in the
rebuilt throne room of the Kremlin.
The parliament, or supreme Soviet,
began it's career when one of it's two
houses, the Soviet of the Union, met
this afternoon.
The parliament's LAB men and
women of undisputed loyalty to Stain
were elected last December IL in the
first elections under the Soviet
Unions new constitution. They
brought instructions from many parts
of Russia's vast area to tell Stain
"all his counsel and all his advice we
deem to be law
They included red army comman
ders, official chief of the secret police
milk maids, tractor operators and fac
tory hands.
Some of the Georgians, Armenians
and representatives of a score of 9th
er nationalities making up the two
chambered parliament left home b!
dog or camels and saw railroads and
cities for the first time on their TRIP
acre.
The main question as parliament
opened was whether Stain, himself
one of the deputies, would ASSUME
power openly as chairman of the new
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12
FnrmChiet
Urges Help
To Tenants

Raleigh, Jan. 12.-(AP)-Steps must
be taken to build up the South's
flower strata" families, counselled W.
w. Alexander, administrators of the
Farm Security Administration, said
today, as he asserted that from them
would come "the nations agricultural
industrial and political leaders of the
future"
The "lower strata" families, Alex
ander told agricultural workers of
North Carolina State College here,
"are of good, sound stock. Give them
adequate nourishment, physically and
mentally, and in a generation or two
they will produce men and women
who will mold the destiny of the Unit
ed States"
The rural regions of the South, he
said, are producing surplus of popu-
lation to offset deficits in areas where
the birthrate will not maintain popu-
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12
JOHN LEWIS MEETS !,
WITH STEEL CHIEF
Head of Coal Company, Subsidiary IL
~. S. Steel, Sees Him in New
York Hotel

New York, Jan. II (AP)-John
Lewis. CIO chieftain, and president
of the United Mine Workers, and has
aide, Philip Murray, today conferred
behind closed hotel doors with
Thomas Moses, president of the Unit
ed States Coal & Coke Company,
United States Steel subsidiary, on
what all three termed nothing of pub
lie interest"
Lewis, whose presence at the par
lev had been denied by Moses, finally
emerged from the Moses suite, and
said the meeting was routine" Lewis
denied it had anything to do with the
end of steel workers agreement two
weeks hence.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12

Dunedin. New Zealand, Jan. 12.--
(AP)-Rcports reaching Dunedin to
night said the Samoan Clipper hat
been sighted afloat "a miles due wes
of Apia, British Samoa.
The report did not mention when
the Clipper, missing on flight to
ward Auckland, New Zealand, wa
sighted.
(Previous reports not confirmed
said the big flying craft was down a.
Apia.)
A radio message from Apia, pick
ed up here near midnight 0:3O a. m
eastern standard time) said all aboard
the Clipper were well. She carried
crew of seven. commanded by the vet
eran trans-Pacific flier, Captain Ed.
win Musick.
The prolonged uncertainty over the
Clippers fate was believed due to the
fact that the western Samoan islands
under New Zealand mandate, are
sparsely populated and lacking in
communications facilities
It was pointed out the Clipper coulo
lie in some isolated bay long time
or taxi a long distance before beln=
sighted.
The Apia message relieved anxiety
nrovailing in New Zealand since ear
lier reports the Clipper was sighted
at Apia were found to be incorrect
The point at which the Clipper was
reported sighted IA miles west Of
Ania is off the southwestern coast o.
the largest Samoan island.
The Sydney, Australia, Herald.
Apia correspondent also reported the
Clipper safe. At Auckland it was sale
no further reports from Samoa wert
exnected for some hours. 1t was ther
earlv Thursday morning in New Zea
land. 16 IL hours ahead of eastern
standard time.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12
Tap-Dominated Government
To Seize All Taxes and
Customs Receipts in
Province
EIJRTHER ADVANCES
MADE BY INVADER
Tsining Is Captured and
Southern Baptist Mission is
Damaged by Bomb, But
All Americans Are Safe;
Japs Resist Chinese Count
er-Drive

shanghai. Jan. 12.-(AP)-The ia
ronese-dominated provincial govern.
r,ant at Peiping planned today to
Laen pace with Japan's North China
army by taking over control of Shan
tung China's sacred" province.
Reports through Japanese channels
told of the plan under which the
poining regime would assume collec-
tion Of taxes in the province of 34,-
nm 200 population, and receipts of Gus
toms at Tsingtao, rich port on the
Yellow Sea.
Ionanese Consul General Otaka re-
onpned the japanese consulate ut
Tsingtao. The Japanese had taken
over the Tsingtao government i'm
n,ediatelv after they occupied it with
ont resistance Monday. A highly
nIaced foreign observer said at Tokyo
Ianan soon would recognize the Pelp-
inc regime as the legal government OF
China.
Japanese forces driving south from
Tsinan. provincial capital, and thro-
uoh the area around the birthplace
of Confucius. captured Tsining. The
city's fall opened the way for a SWIFT
advance on Suchow, railway point
100 miles to the south.
Tsining was occupied after an ar
hombardment and handto-hand fight
ing The Southern Baptist Mission
was damaged by bombs, but all Amer
leans in the city were reported safe
On another front Chinese told of ap-
preciable gains by sharp Chinese
counter-attacks. They said japanese
were fastening new troops to Hang
chow to stem the counter offensive IN
which Chinese recaptured two vii
lageS.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12
Government
Makes Plan
For Victory
Spanish Loyalist Re-
gime Envisions De-
feat of Franco In
surgent Move

Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier
Jan. 12.-(AP)-The Spanish govern
ment army began maneuvers To-Day
looking toward an extending cam
paign by which it hoped to crush the
regime of insurgent General FRANCISCO
Franco and re-establish Madras pow
er over all Spain.
Firmly in control of Teruel, once
an important insurgent base to the
east of Madrid, the government army
was consolidating its positions to es'
tablish a strong front for the proJecc-
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12
France Will
BuildCouple
BigW arships
Answer Comes to
Mussolinii's Recent
Announcement BY
Outdoing Il Duce

Paris, Jan. 12-(AP)-Members of
the Chamber of Deputies navy COM
mittee declared today the French gov
ernment is considering construction of
two 42,OOO-ton battleships to meet the
that of Italy's new naval building
program.
Conferences of the naval general
staff, Cesar Campinchi, minister of
the navy, and the chambers commit
tee. were said to have resulted in a
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12
COTTON SLUMPS IN
MIDDAY QUOTATIONS
Easier Cables Partly Offset, However,
by Large Sales of Textiles
Reported

New York, Jan. 12.-(AP)-Cotton
futures opened unchanged to six
points lower today. Easier cables were
partly offset by large sales of tex
tiles. March was selling at $50, with
the list three to six points net lower
after the first half hour. March at
midday was $3.50, with the list six to
eight points net lower.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12
Thieves Get Coal
From Court House

Goldsboro, Jan. IL. - (AP) -
Thieves drove a truck up to the
back door of the Wayne county
court house in the center of town
last night, Sheriff Paul Garrison
reported today, and took two tons
of coal and quantity of light
bulbs.
The sheriff said the rObber blew
fuse to extinguish Jail flood
light before making the raid.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12
ALI on Board Trans-Pacific
Plane, Enroute to New
Zealand, Are Re-
ported Well
RESCUERS LOCATE
HUGE FLYING BOAT
Prolonged Uncertainty Over
Fate of Plane, With Sew
en- Men Aboard, Due to
Poor Communications in
Remote Area of South Seas
Ocean Wastes

Honolulu, Jan. 2.-(AP)-The
Navy received wireless message
today that the aircraft tender
Avocet was picking up wreckage
of the Samoan Clipper near PagO
Pago. There was no mention of
survivors.
"Avocet sighted heavy oil slick
latitude 14:06:20, longitude 170-151
(about 40 miles west of PagO
Pago); has motor launch picking
up parts wrecked plane" said
message frorl the navy launch.
The message added identification
satisfactory"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12
STOCKS HOLD NEAR
PREVIOUS CLOSING
Gains and Loses of Fractions 10
Around One Point Scattered
Throughout List

New York, Jan. 12.-(AP)-Select-
ed groups achieved narrow advances
in today's stock market, but most
leaders held about even. Near the
fourth hour gains and losses of frac-
tions to around point were scatter
ed throughout the list. Foreign mar
kets sagged, with transatlantic is
sues generally lower at the close.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-12

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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-01-14

read about yourself, but don't let it
fly to your head"
"Thanks for the advice" Frank
smiled again, differently. SNOW
about Tad's dog. When will he
get his license?"
'I'n tend to that first thing Mon
day morning." promised Hawkins.
"But l want my so cents just
the same, 'cording to the under
standing that I'd get it for every
dog / caught without a tag" said
Mike Dugan grinly. 'Tain't my
fault you forgot to notify the clerk.
Sid"
They were arguing over that when
Frank and Tad left the Office with
S'prise, joyously released from the
rope that had been hitched to his
neck, trotting at their heels.
"S'prise must have a collar to
wear his license tag on, Tad" said
Merry. "Where can we get one?"
"Fuller's hardware store. They
carry 'em long with sportin' goods.
But I amt got no dough to buy one
with"
"But maybe we can squeeze over
that bunch, old pal. Show me Full
ler's place."
Already Fardale's wide and we'll
lighted main street was beginning
to take on it's usual lively Saturday
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-01-14
Gretna Green, just Over Scottish Line,
Still Popular With the Runaway Couples

Gretna Green has about the same
relationship to England that Toledo
had to Detroit until the state Of Ohio
got tough about marriages, observes
the Globetrotter in the Detroit News.
It's a handy spot just one-quarter
mile over the Scottish border. In We
olden tymme, runaway couples who
couldn't wait for the bans to be pub
lished in England, or who wished to
avoid mention in the society col
umns of the day, or who feared to
face father, went swiftly to Gretna
Green.
There, according to the Scottish
law, they could be married by any
Mac, Jock or Sandy. But because
the Green smithy was the nearest
thing to the border, the Green smith
became the favored marrying priest
at the Green. It kept him busy in
between horses.
Time has wrought change i'll Gret-
ma Green. Though marrying is still
one of the principal industries, the
smithy has been outdone. We note
in sadness that this is no longer the
horse age, and that motor cars now
wear most of the laurels once re-
served for Morgans and thorough
breds. Statistics show that more
persons travel to Scotland by auto
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-01-14

night appearance. Everybody was
getting out in town early. Autos Of
every description and vintage,
bringing people in from the sur
rounding country, were finding
parking spots. The sidewalk would
soon be thronged. The big electric
signs of two movie houses made
splashes of color on opposite sides
of the thoroughfare.
In the hardware store Merriwell
selected and paid for the best col
lar that was adjustable to S'prise's
neck. He also bought a metal tag
to be attached to the collar, and
paid for the stamping which would
give the dogs name, the name Of
its master, and the license number.
Gee, Frank-gee!" gulped the
laughing boy. wiping something out
of his eyes. ''It's just swell. It's
just grand, amt it, S'prise?"
The dog barked and tried to wag
its tail off.
The big school truck, loaded with
a somber bunch of football players
returned to the academy, was rum
bling down the street as they came
out of the store. Nobody was cheer
ing the team as it passed through.
But suddenly girls cry, sharp
and startling, slashed the air;
"Stop, thief"
Nobody had to tell Frank Merri-
well who she was. He knew her
voice before he whirled and saw
Inza Burrage pointing at a man
who was running away with her
purse in his hand. He shot after
the fleeing rascal without a second
of hesitation, and the gaping wit
nesses were given a greater thrill
than either of the local movie the
aters could provide that night.
Pete Smith, who had come into
town in a private car just ahead
of the school truck, beheld some
thing that made another good story
for him. He was doing very well to-
day. Watching Frank cut down the
distance between himself and the
running thief, Pete knew just how
he would describe it. He. loved
strong phrases, hackneyed or not,
and he would say that Merriwell
burned the air." He hoped it
wouldn't get the blue pencil, for
nothing else he could think of fitted
quite so well.
Coming up behind in full stride,
Merry dove headlong and made a
flying tackle. His fingers, bent like
hooks, caught both of the mans
churning legs at the knees, which
was a trick to start future argu-
ments every time an eyewitness
should happen to mention it. Down
those hooked fingers slipped without
losing their hold, and down went
the man on the hard asphalt.
Frank had a knee jammed into
the small of the robbers back when
the fat night cop arrived. putting
like wood burning locomotive Of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-01-14
Strange Facts
! Italy Conquered
. with Chalk .

GLE CONQUERED Italy with
- a piece of Chalk" That is
what Machiavelli wrote of Charles
VIII of France. Two years after
Columbus landed in America, this
French king took soldiers into
Italy for the first time armed with
hand guns. Because Charles had
weapons fired by gunpowder,
Machiavelli meant that he could
60 where he pleased. All he had
to do was chalk off areas on map
and 60 there. Nothing could re-
sist these new weapons.
The earliest missiles were ar
rows padded to fit the bores of the
weapons. Gunpowder was first
used about 1881 to fire cannon,
but the hand gun did not exist I'M
til almost hundred years later.
The early hand gun consisted of
a short iron tube prolonged behind
into a rod. This rod was hitched
under the arm when the gun was
fred. The charge was inserted
from the muzzle. It was ignited
by a wick match applied to a
touch-hole on the side of the iron
tube. The match was held in q
hinged fork mounted on the stock,
enabling it to be brought into con-
tact with the gunpowder in the
printing pan. This match lock, so
arranged, was called the 'harque-
bus" The early hand gun was
called an arquebus.
Charles VIII set out for Italy in
1894 with 140 heavy cannon and
with one-tenth of his infantry
armed with hand guns. Before
the year was over his victorious
army had entered Rome.
The hand guns probably fright
ened more people than they killed.
The sn7ouldering wick match and
the powder in the firing pan were
exposed to rain so a gun often
misfired.
However, the new weapons were
effective and Charles VIII entered
Naples in May, 1495, in great
pomp and splendor to claim the
kingdom of Naples which his faith
er had inherited. Charles planned
to conquer Constantinople, but he
died three years after his famous
conquest of Italy, at the age Of
twenty-eight.
@ Britannica Junior.