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Evening star., 1938-12-02
Auto Club Takes Stund
On Sufety Activities

Capitalization Of al traf1c safety
activities In the Department Of Ve-
hicles and Tranac, rather than in
the proposed Traf1ic Safety Com
mission, was recommended today to
Commissioner Melvin G. Hazen by
the Advisory Board Of the Keystone
Automobile Club. The recon-
mendation also suggested that the
trafIic director be provided with suf-
ficient authority and personnel to
effect an enlarged safety program.
The board Offered no objection to
the reorganization and strengthen
ing of the present Trafhc Advisory
Council nor to the appointment Of
an executive onicer in charge Of
trafnc safety activities, provided that
the ofacer be appointed by the Com
missioners and be under the direct
supervision Of the director Of We
hicles and trafiic.
Evening star., 1938-12-02
Griffith Consumers
Election Ruled Out

Truck drivers and helpers Of the
Grifith Consumers Co., at odds with
the firm for more than a week, held
an election yesterday to determine
whether a majority favor union
affiliation. but the results were with
held when it developed the voting
was not done in accordance with
National Labor Relations Board
regulations.
A spokesman for the labor board
said that either "involuntarily or
accidentally" on the part of both
the company and the employees, a
pay roll list instead Of an eligibility
list was used as the basis for the
election.
Upon learning of the mistake. the
board left the election results un-
opened and today was to decide
whether another election was neces-
Sary.
Evening star., 1938-12-02
YaIe.in-China Work
Continued Despite
Troop Invasion < .
. Executive Secretary, Here
For PorIeys, Tells
Of Activities

The educational and medical
missionary work of Yale-in- China
is going on despite the Japanese
invasion.
Such is the message brought to
Washington friends of the work by
Robert Ashton Smith, executive Sec
retary Of the Yale-in- China Asso-
citation, who came to the Capital
yesterday for conferences with Yale
alumni.
Mr.. Smith said, "All necessary
steps to insure continued operation
have been taken. Our headquarters
remain in Changsha with the hos
pital and nucleus of the medical
work. DR.. Francis S. Hutchins. rep
resentative of the trustees, assures
us that he will do all in his power
to prevent the entry into the Yale
campus of any military or semi
military organization. Changsha
has been in the direct line of the
Japanese attack and for months
has expected to be thoroughly
bombed An American flag, painted
on wood, % by 80 feet in size, has
been laid out on the ground to
warn Japanese military flyers"
The Yale-in-C China Hospital, Mr..
Smith said, has four operating
teams for civilian relief constantly
available. There are 225 beds in use,
and we continue to maintain our
out-patient clinic, giving service to
an average of 500 patients day."
Approximately l20 students are
studying in the Yali Medical Col
lege and about the same number
of student nurses are in the nursing
school.
Mr.. Smith announced that Minotte
M. Chatfield, field secretary of Yale
in-China, would arrive in Washing
ton on Wednesday. He will bring
frst-hand impressions Of the war.
Evening star., 1938-12-02
U. S. Rests Case in Mail
Fruud Trial Of II
By the Associated Presa

6y the ASoocloteo fTe0. 49,
ST. LOUIS. Dec. 2.AAfter present.
ing II days testimony, the Govern
ment rested its case late yesterday
in the mall fraud trial Of Clarence de
Montreville and IL associates in the
operation Of the Public Service In
stitute, q correspondence school here.
Assistant United States Attorney
DayA M. Robinson presented lis
witnesses, many of them former stu
dents of the school, which Is now
closed.
The last witness, Henry Rempe,
manager of the st. Louis Office of the
Civil Service Commission, testified
that Miss Frances M. Grell, sister-in-
law of De Montreville, who was
"chief Of the coaching staff" Of the
school, had failed to pass q civil
service typing examination in 1896.
She is one of the defendants.
Counsel for the defense indicated
1t would take about a week to pre-
sent its case.
Evening star., 1938-12-02
Ease the Brokes.

The practice of applying the mo-
tor cars brakes suddenly is likely
to prove dangerous and costly, it is
pointed out by the service. depart
ment OF the Keystone Automobile
Club. Consistent "over-use" of the
brakes is a bad driving habit, the
Keystone experts say, which not
only brings excessive wear, but like
wise is conducive to mishaps.
Evening star., 1938-12-02
French Sea Patrol Sent
To End Ship BOARDING

PARIS, Dec. 2 R.-The French
government ordered a naval patrol
to the Strait of Gibraltar today to
end the frequent halting and board
ing of French vessels by Spanish in
surgent warships.
1t was announced that a French
destroyer would be on duty in the
strait at all times ready to 60 to
the aid Of any French ship calling
for help.
Evening star., 1938-12-02
Rebels List 100 Towns
They Intend to Bomb

HENDAYE, France, Dec. 2 (P.-
The Spanish insurgents, vaunting
the superiority of their air force over
the governments planes, took the
unusual step today Of announcing
the cities and towns they are plan-
ming to bomb.
Burgos authorities, after announc-
ing that 73 government planes had
been shot down in November, made
public list of nearly 100 localities
in government territory marked for
hombinp
Evening star., 1938-12-02
Summers Wants
| Election Held. I
| In October
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Representative sum n RS,
Democrat, Of Texas, proposed
yesterday that general elections
be held in October instead Of
November. .
The fact that presidential in
augurations now take place in
January instead of March al
lows little time for all the elec-
toral college formalities, he
pointed out.
Evening star., 1938-12-02
British Ship Struck
During Insurqent Raid

MADRID, Dec. 2 R.-The British
ship Surrey Brook was struck by
bomb fragments today during an
insurgent air raid on the Port of
Valencia. but nobody was hurt.
The five planes taking part in the
raid dropped about 100 bombs.
Three civilians on shore were
wounded.
Evening star., 1938-12-02
Volunteers
Continued From First Page.)

looks like a beardless Abraham Lin
coin.
Wolfe. reputed to have been the
youngest field officer in the Spanish
government army, would not dis
close his home address in the United
States.
The departing volunteers came to
this French frontier town by rail-
road from Catalan camps. They
had tickets for New York aboard the
Normandie, the American Trader
and the President Harding, all sail
ing within the next few days.
They were held at the border by
French authorities for vaccination
before being permitted to enter the
country
Evening star., 1938-12-02
Puper From Suour

Russia is planning factories to
produce paper from wild sugar cane
plants found growing in the basins
Of the Lii River in Kazakhstan and
the ANU Daria River in Turkmenia.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
POWELL'S BUREAU
PICKING UP SPEED
But Charlie Is Still Raleigh's
'Most Worried" Man
in Politics
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel

Raleigh, March lin selecting Sup
erlatives' these days do not overlook
Charlie Powell, chairman of the I'm
employment Compensation Commits
sion, as the States "most-wOrried,"
"most-harried" and ION the hottest
spot"
No big error could be made by select
ing him for all three of these titles
and perhaps it isn't Charles fault,
after all, that there is so much hull
aballoo and hubbub about delay in re-
ceipt of compensation checks by the
States unemployed who are, or who
think they are, entitled to benefits OF
the Federal-State venture into the
field of taking care of those who have
been thrown out of work by closing
of factories, etc.
There's no doubt that an unexpected
burden was thrown on the Poweii
set-up by the recession" which mas
caused so many textile mill workers
to be out of work in North Carolina
Back toward the end of last year,
Federal and State officials sat down
and estimated what the U. c. Q. Wou!o
be called on to do when it began put
ting out checks.
Thew figured that maximum OF
10000 checks a month would be sent
out in this State and as result that's
CONTINUED on Page Fo'r)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
Shooting of Chinese Within
British Defense Sector of
Settlement, Latter
Claim
CHINESE ARMY OF
100000 IN FLIGHT
Retreating Through South
ern Shansi Province, Leav-
ing Invaders lin Control of
Large Area; Many Troops
Trapped in Snow-Blanket-
ed Mountains

Shanghai, March 1.-(AF)-British
sentries guarding the international
settlement and foreigners nearby were
endangered, the British military char
ged today, by a Japanese sentry who
shot dead a fleeing Chinese.
The shooting, British army author
tiles said, was within the British de-
Tense sector of the settlement.
The incident provoked sharp ten
sion and barriers were let down along
the great western road boundary OF
the British sector during half hour
of bitter dispute. The British lndlcat
ed they were considering strong pro-
test to the Japanese command.
The Japanese version A Chlnese
was seen leaving Japanese-occupleo
territory, carrying a roll OF copper
wire. The sentry shot him as ne tree,
IN climb a barbed wire entanglemeEt.
Meanwhile, a Chinese army OF w.
oOo turned in flight through sout a
ern Shansi province, leaving the -
nanese in control of virtually ali the
Continued on Page Sikh
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
ChaMteWpS
Wins Vote
Of Senate.

Paris, March 1.-(AFD-The Senate
today voted confidence in the govern
ment of Premier Chautemps by adopt
ing the first section of his labor code
by 178 to So.
The premier staked the life OF MS
cabinet on the test, critical point in
consideration of his proposed labor
laws. The senator's declined to take re-
sponsibility for overthrowing the gov
eminent on this question.
Chautemps struggled to gain pas
sage of this code Immediately to re-
place old arbitration law contracts
which expired at midnight.
Parliament's calendars still READ
February %, so passage in this session
technically would mean there had
been no gap between old and new COR
tracts
Before the vote, Chautemps and the
Senate had compromised on disputed
sections of the code. The premier
agreed to recommend that the Cham
Der of Deputies withdraw provision
to extend collective contracts to far
mers The Senate consented to con-
slider d separate measure THURSDAY
extending benefits of the code to agrl'
cultural workers.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
.ife-Beater
In Baltimore
FloggedG Good

Baltimore, Md, March 1. CAP)-
TWENTY lashes from cat-o-nlne tails
scared the bare back of Clyde Miller
before so witnesses at the city jail to-
dav as part of his sentence of six
months Imprisonment for beating his
wife last Thursday night.
Sheriff Joseph Deegan, six foot, two
inches tall, and weighing 22O pounds,
welded the whip on the 37-year-old
145-pound printer
Miller cringed under the first blow,
hut gave no sound. At the third, he
whimpered and thereafter at each
blow he gave way to an uncontrolled
sob.
Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, 33, who had
said she would take some one along
to describe the flogging if her black
ened eyes still remained closed Was
not there.
"He is the only one I have ever
flogged that really showed the elIecls
and seemed to be in agony" SAID Inc
Continued on Page Four)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
100000 Raised By
Father T or Release
Of Kidnapped Child
Frantic Appeal To Abducto of 12-Year-Old Son IL
Made by Murray Levine, New York Attorney; Of
ficers Stand Off Wa iting Kidnapers' Word

New Rochelle, N. Y, March L.
(AP)-The frantic appeal of Murray
Levine to the kidnapers of his 12-year-
old son, Peter, apparently went unan-
swered today as the distraught fam
lily waited tensely for some word Of
the boys fate.
The harried father, New York lazy
yer, kept constant vigil at the tele-
phone, hoping the abductors would
contact him. A reliable source indi-
Gated he had raised the entire $780,
900 demanded for safe return of the
boy.
Peter, a precicious schoolboy, with
open admiration for the G-mens ex-
ploits, vanished mysteriously last
Thursday. A few hours later, his
mother, repeatedly found the ransom
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
FIELDS EMPLOYEES
VOTING UPON TWOC

Reidsville, March 1.-(AP)- En-
nlovees of the Marshall Field mill at
Draper turned out in large numbers
TODAY to ballot on whether they want
the TWOC to represent them.
Officials said voting by mid-morn-
ing was brisk but quiet and orderly.
The election is the first of five for
mills of Marshall Field & Company
The balloting at the Draper Sheet
ing Mill will be held tomorrow
Workers at the bedspread mill at
Leaksville and the Karastan mills
there will vote Thursday. The election
for the wooden mill at Spray will be
held Friday
In all, about 5000 workers are in
volved.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
SPIES and Traitors, Internal
Strife and Menace of
Invasion Torment
Nations
LONDON is FEARFUL
OF SPY ACTIVITIES
In Moscow Public Clamor
Grows for Execution of FL
Former Leaders Accused of
Treason; Goering Hints
German Invasion; Labor
Worries France
fBv The Associated Press.)

Tho sinister figures OF spies and
Traitors internal strife and the
n,ona,e of invasion claimed the at
tention today of Europe's war-worried
nations.
In Iondo1., spy-conscious members
- Parliament laid down a barrage
Of ouestions to find out how the gov
eminent intended to protect its re-
armament secrets. They covered a
lonq series of incidents of sabotage,
including damage to two new bombing
nlanes and the disappearance OF air
craft plans.
In Moscow, public clamor grew FOR
tho death of 81 former communist
leaders accused of treason, sabotage
and murder. who face public trial to-
morrow.
Germany's field marshal, Herman
Goering. intimated that the Reich
gigantic new air force may find its
first use for the protection of Germ ar
minorities outside the Reich'S Dor
ders.
His speech, celebrating the third an
niversarv of the new air force, coin
cided with the decision of troubled
Austria's disbanded fascist army, to
revive its organization against any
Nazi menace to Austrian indepen-
dence
The army, heimwehr, conference
was called at Graz, Austria, which
has become a virtual armed camp with
Nazis, allegedly $4,000 strong, in Graz
and the surrounding districts in con-
slant readiness for action, and gov
eminent army encircling the city. e
A compromise by the French Senate
commerce committee on Premier
Chautemps' labor code appeared like
" to end a parliamentary deadlock
over which hangs the premier's threa-
tened resignation.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
Seven Members of House
Labor Body To Meet To-
morrow To Canvass
Its Chances
BARUCH CALLS FOR
MONOPOLY OUTLINE
Wants Administration To
Clarity Atmosphere; Tax
Revision Bill Is Introduced
In House by Doughton;
$3O,OOO,OOO Experimental
Fund for Navy

Washington, March (AP)-Chair-
man Norton, Democrat, New jersey
of the House Labor Committee, ap-
pointed seven-man subcommittee
todav to draft a new wage-hour bill.
Representative Ramspeck, Demo
crat, Georgia, appointed sub-commit-
tee chairman said his group would
meet tomorrow without any pre-con-
ceived ideas" to "see whether we can
work out a bill that will be. satisfac-
tory"
A previous wage-hour bill was sent
back to the labor committee by the .
House at the special congressional
session last fall.
Before the reorganization debate
was resumed in the Senate, the Senate,
Unemployment Committee heard Ber-
nard Baruch, friend and business ad-
visor to President Roosevelt, call for
a clearer government definition of
monopoly.
Baruch said he did not urge repeal
of any government laws, but thought
some should be modified. He mention
ed the tax law as one that should be
changed.
Across the Capitol, the House COM
peted congressional action on the
$3.50, 900, 100000 emergency relief ap-
preparation, sending it to the White
Hoouse.
Shortly thereafter, Chairman Dough
ton, Democrat, North Carolina, form
ally introduced the administration tax
revision bill on behalf of the House
Ways and Means Committee.
He received permission to file a re-
port on the legislation at any time be-
fore midnight Members, he said, will
have all day tomorrow to study the
report.
Doughton said there will be IL hours
debate on the legislation, and Demo-
cratic Leader Rayburn said amend
ments would not be considered until
next week.
The House Naval Committee recon-
mended, meanwhile, a $30O00OO0 ex-
perimental fund for the navy. of this
sum, 100000 would be earmarked
for construction of a new dirigible to
replace the Los Angeles.
The committee took this action
early in the consideration of the adj
CONTINUED on Page ST.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
FARMERS ENTHUSED
ON CONTROL PLANS
Intense Interest F un d
Wherever Meetings Have
Been Held So Far

College Station, Raleigh, March l.
Intense interest in the new farm pro-
gram. especially the cotton and tobac-
co marketing quotas, has been dis,
PLAYED by farmers wherever mass
meetings have been held, E. Y. Floyd.
AAA executive officer at State Col
lege, declared today.
Work in carrying information ABOUT
the new program to growers will be-
gin Officially tomorrow when van
guard of AAA workers from state
College will invade the first ten OF
the 81 counties where the meetings
have been scheduled.
Each of the field workers Will con :
duct three meetings a day. OI1lce
workers connected with the work VIII
receive instructions on the Legislation
at 8 m. At 2 p. M, the A-AA rep
resentative will hold meeting WIZ
farmers with farmers of one county,
and at 7:3O p. m. he will move over
to an adjoining county for another OF
these gatherings.
In this whirlwind campaign, every
farmer affected by cotton and tobacco
marketing quotas will have chance
to hear details of the March IL re
ferenda and other provisions of thu
farm act of 1888 explained.
All mass meetings called before to
day have been unofficial, Floyd ex
blamed. Some of these were sponsored
fNonfin1,ed IN Pa1a Sixl
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
New York Doctor
Is Being Watched
In Spies Inquiry

New York, March 1 (AP)-Fed-
eral operatives seeking further
light on an alleged international
spy ring today we're reported to
be regarding with increasing in
terest the activities of New York
physician once questioned about
another espionage case.
The link between the physician
and the current investigation was
said to be his possession at the
time of the earlier inquiry of the
key to a code which was under
stood to be similar to one discOv-
cred i'm connection with the latest
probe.
The current code key was re-
ported by Reed Vetterli, local De-
partment of Justice chief, to have
been discovered on Johanna HOf-
mann, hair-dresser on the liner
Europa, and one of the three UNI
der arrest on an espionage charge.
Federal agents declined today to
discuss the physicians connection,
if any, with the present case.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
L. S. Collections
InNOrth Carolina
Are Off Slightly

Greensboro, March 1.-(AP)-
Federal revenue collections of $780,
577,461.5O for February in North
Carolina were announced today by
Collector Charles HI. Robertson.
The figure brought to $216,362,-
5O9.55 the collections for the first
eight months of the fiscal year,
which started last July 1.
Collections in February were
shown in the report to have been
more than $1,OOO,OOO short of
equalIing collections in February
a year ago. The exact difference
was $L269, O74.4O.
Total collections for the first
eight months of the fiscal year ex-
ceeded by $12,764,212.77 those for
the corresponding period of the
previous fiscal year, starting July
/, 1887, the collectors report re-
vealed.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
Slight Gains
For Industry
In N. c. Seen

Raleigh, March 1 (AP)-Payrolls of
20 North Carolina manufacturing in
dustries increased IA percent in Feb
ruary over January, Labor Commits
sioner A. L. Fletcher reported today,
and employment increased in each
group except textiles.
The report covering identical bust
ness listed 140 cotton mills with pay
roll increases from $55O,O54 to $751;
O87, though employment decreased
from 44,3O5 to 1859. The payroll in
crease was 81 percent.
In the furniture Industry, 81 plants
showed employment increases from g.
$50 to 1886 gain of 2.3 percent, and
payrolls increased.
Four tobacco plants listed an in
crease in workers from 2,316 to 1924,
and a payroll boost from $41,765 to
$42,492
The data covered one week in Feb
ruary and one week in January.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
FLARE OF WINTER
STRIKES BACK At
MUCH OF COUNTRY
Sub-Freezing Temperatures
Extend Into Deep South
In Nights Drop of
Mercury
PROPERTY LOSS IN
NORTHEAST is BIG
Two Deaths in Massachu-
sets and One in Washing
ton Attributed to Weather
Conditions; Florida Crops
Escape Damage as Result
of Cold
CBy The Associated Press.)

CBy The Associated Press)
A gale disrupted shipping along the
lew England coast and stormy waters
nenaced large areas of Los Angeles
county in California today after g
light which brought freezing tempera-
ures deep into the South.
Property damage was heavy in the
eastern Storm region and snow blar-
,eted much Of upstate New York and
lew England.
Three deaths were attributed to the
7eather. Forecasters promised quick
moderation in some parts of the coun-
try today.
The mercury dropped to 30 degree;
rs far south as Macon, Ca, indicating.
he Atlantic Weather Bureau sal !,
MINOR damage to peach trees forced
INTO early bloom by unseasonably high
temperatures.
Cold cost two lives in Massachu-
;etts, and in Washington, D. c., gale
vas banned for the death of Robert
A. Dulin, IS, who was blown from a
street car platform into the path of
passing truck.
Storm warnings flew from New
York to PASSPORT, Maine, high seas
holding coastwise shipping in port.
Los Angeles reported ZIG inches of
ain as the heaviest flood in four years
threatened several hundred homes in
the lowlands of Venice, Cal.
Scattered light frosts were predicted
for tonight in Georgia, the Carolinas,
extreme northwest Florida and other
southern states.
The weather map showed the cold
est spot at Montreal, where it was
zero.
Northern Florida reported light
frosts but no crop damage.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
HANCOCK PART|SANS
CLAIM ADVANTAGES.
One Anonymous Common
tator Ventures Admins
tration for Reynolds
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, March Maybe it was
lust because the sun was shining
brightly and there has been sort Of
springy feeling of optimism in the air,
but whatever caused it, there has been
noticeable perking up on the part Of
Frank Hancock's supporters to whom
your correspondent has talked in the
last two or three days.
In fact, it may now be said that
there is enough Hancock sentiment
to make itself noticeable in the fog
of apathy and indifference which has
covered the senatorial scenery so far.
Quietly, but with persistence, the
fifth district congressman has been
getting about the State, perking up
(Ccctinued on Page Six.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01

note hidden beneath a rock.
Despite the complete official silence
surrounding the case, reports persist
ed the family expected break to-
day. Whether that meant a contact
with the kidnapers was not known
Nearly "a hours AID elapsed since
Levine called on the abductor in a
public appeal to contact him. He prom
ed they could do so in safety, and
said the Department of Justice and
Westchester county authorities haG
agreed to stand aside while he tried
to negotiate.
This was the first word the boy had
Oeen kidnapped.
The Levine home in this fashion
able suburb again was barred to visi-
tors, the windows closely curtained
JAlnds pulled down.