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The Washington times., 1938-09-19
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Questions on Page 81
I. True. 2. True. 3. True. 4.
True (Justice Chase was acquit-
ted. 5. False (25 years ODD.
6. True (1664 to 168D. Z. False
(Delaware). 8. True. 8. True
(Article 8, Section 81. 10.True
Amendment XVD.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
FIGURES DIFFER

The controversy WaXed h0CCel
yesterday after Major Brown hat
challenged the associations eSti
mate that a 80 per cent increasC
in youths arrested for serious
crimes had occurred during th'
first six months Of the year.
II can't reconcile the figures
Of DR.. Nolan to those of the
statistical bureau" said Major
Brown. "The police statistical
bureau figures show a decline
Of juvenile crime"
Mr.. Nolan retorted with the
declaration that the police sta
tistics agency does not record ju
venile offenders with original Of
fenSeS in felony cases. He as
serted that first youthful Of
tenders under II on felony
charges are generally booked fol
miSdemeanorS.
MORE MISDEMEANORS
Brown conceded there might
have, been an increase in arrests
for miSdemeanors, but added he
was positive there had been a def
mite decrease in juvenile offenseS
Of housebreaking and joy-riding.
The controversy grew out o1
release Of the semi-annal report
of the Criminal Justice ASSocia
ton, which showed a 37.5 per cent
reduction in serious crimes by al
types Of offenders in the District
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
BROWN ASSAILS
NOLAN DATA ON
YOUTHFUL CRIME.
Denies Increase Ir
Young Offenders

Contention by DR.. James A
Nolan, director Of the Washing
ton Criminal Justice Association
that youthful crime was on the
uptide in the District was under
challenge today by Major Ernest
w. Brown, Superintendent oi
Police.
Major Brown and DR.. Nolan
yesterday issued statements re
flecting their disagreement and
indicated they would shortly hold
o conference. They seek to iron
out differences in statistical re
ports on offenders under II as
evidenced by association figures
against those Of the Police Depart
ment.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
STEEL HEAD VIEWS
FUTURE AS ASSURED
MyrOn Taylor, on Retiring, Has NO
Doubt About Nation and His
Own Corporation

Hoboken. N. j., April Aladdin
a. valedictory review of his ten year,
in high office with the worlds largest
steel maker, Myron G. Taylor retir-
ing chairman of the United States
steel Corporation, told stockholders
today: IT have no doubt whatever OF
the ultimate future of both the nation
and the corporation"
In a printed extension of his re-
marks given shareholders at the meet
ing. Taylor said of his career, which
has SPAWNED the best and worst year
of modern steel production:
"Out of these experiences and DIT
ficulties there arises within me great
feeling of gratitude for the loyalty
and the earnest cooperation that have
been displayed through the corpora
tion. I an sure that there is in Amer
icae today no body of men and women
more loyal to the country and it's in
terests. or more loyal and self-sac
rificine in the doing of their daily
tasks than those men and women who
labor in all the ranks of the United
states Steel Corporation"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
TV Inquiry
WithOutBias
Is Expected
Stand of Garner and
Bankhead in Nam
ing Go m m t t e e
BlastsSome Hopes

Washington, April 4 (AP)-Con-
gressional leaders said today Vice
President Garner and Speaker Bank
head were determined to appoint UNI
biased persons to investigate the Ten
nessee Valley Authority.
Gamers decision blocked the aspl-
rations of Senator Bridges, Repub-
lican, New Hampshire the Senate's
most outspoken critic of IVA, to
serve on the congressional commit
tee.
Bridges was one of the first to de-
nnand an inquiry into dissension
among the three IVA directors.
It was understood Garner and
Bankhead would not appoint any
members from the IVA area. This
would exclude. among others, Ma
jority Leader Barley, of Kentucky.
Also out of the picture were Senator
Norris, sIndependent, Nebraska, CO
author of the IVA act, and Senator
King, Democrat, Utah, an ally of
Bridges in criticizing the agency.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
Turmoil In
COn1n1OnSln
;: F.isticuHs

London, Apri. 4.-CAP)-Emanue
Shinwell, laborite member of Far
lament, strobe across the floor of the
House of Commons today and slapped
the face of Commander Robert Tat
ton Bower, Conservative member,
just before the opening of foreign af-
fairs debate.
The House was thrown into uproar
by the almost unprecedented scene.
Cabinet ministers Indignantly shout
ed at Shinwell, "Get QUIT" The la
oorite resumed his seat after admin
istering the resounding slap.
A remark by Bower, to which Shin
well apparently took exception, sound
ed like go to Poland" although
what was meant was not clear.
The disorder indicated the nervous
condition in the House arising from
laborite demands that the Chamber
lain government resign to permit an
election test between the labor policy
of collective security as against Prime
Minister Chamberlain's policy of
pickering with dictators.
Shinwell said he had acted "in fit
of temper" apologized to the speaker
and left the house. Bower also
apologized to the house.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
Comparison of Rates Given
Under Present Law, House
Measure and SEN
ate Schedule
SUMMARY USED IS
ON SIC, 900 INCOMES
Tax Would Be So, 1872 Under
Present Statute, $1,325
Under House Measure and
$3.50 Under Senate Pro-
posal. Now Completed by
Committee

Washington, April 4.-(AP)- TIE
Senate Finance Committee wrote into
final form today it's tax revision meas
ure, described by Chairman Harrison.
Democrat, Mississippi, as business
recovery bill"
Excluding special factors which
enter into tax computations, the 70.
lowing summary compares the rates
a corporation having $4,000 net in
come would pay under the existing
law, the House bill and the measure
approved by the Senate committee
Present law: If the corporation dis
tributed none of its profits, it woul
pay on graduated corporation in
come scale and graduated scale Of
undistributed profits levies. It's tax
would be $2,O82. If all net income was
distributed to shareholders, the cor
poration would pay only $1,O40.
House Bill: A modified form of the
-undistributed profits tax would apply
only to corporations having net in
comes above $4,000. The corporation
with $4,000 net income would pay
under a graduated scale of income
taxes, which would make it's total tax
$1,325.
Senate committee: The corporation
would fall in special category Of
corporations having net incomes IN
der $4,000 a year, It would pay flat
Is percent rate on income, but would
be entitled to apply formula of tax
credits. It's tax would be $3.50.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
Massed Armies of Insurg-
ents Strike Down Main
Highway to BARGE
Iona and Sea
VITAL STRONGHOLD
is NOW THREATENED
Francois Objective Is Sever
ing of Government Spain
and Capture of Barcelona,
! the Capital; Madrid Counts
Cost of Worst lombard
ment of War

Hendaye, France, April 4.-(AP)--
Insurgent General Francois offensive
entered it's decisive phase today, with
massed armies striking down the main
highway to Barcelona and the Ebro
valley to the sea, after having taken
two immediate detectives, Lerida AMI
Grandesa.
In the fourth week of the offensive
and the twenty-flrst month OF the
Spanish war, the insurgent legion:
drove into the city stronghold of the
government militia. They were cam
paigning to cut Spain in two and cap
ture the sea of the government, Bac-
celona.
General Garcia Valino's Navarrese
corps and the Italian black arrow di-
CONTINUED on Page Eighth
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
CASH FOR JObLESS
IS |NEXHAUST|BLE
State Unemployment Com
pensation Fund Grow
ing Despite Payments

Raleigh, April 4.-"Impossible, or
practically so,'' said Auditor w. Har
vey Pitman, of the N. G. UnemplOy-
ment Compensation, when asked a
bout the danger of exhausting ths
States Unemployment Fund, in the
face of the many claims that are being
presented to the Commission for pay
ment.
eff there is any way in which the
fund can be used up, I have not been
able to discover the process" said Mr..
Pitman. "For example, there will be
few occasions during the years when
the fund will be tested as much as It
CONTINUED on Page Four,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
Leaders Fear Effort To Pass
Labor Standards Meas
ure With House in
Present Mood
DEPARTMENTS FOES
ARE NOT SATISFIED
They Demand Still Further
Concessions Beyond Pre-
vention of Federal Control
of Education and Permit
ting Vote on Transfers by
the President

Washington, April ADAPTATIONS
opponents of the government reor-
ganization. bill won a new corcession
from administration leaders TODAY
when they agreed to an amendment
exempting the Veterans Administra.
ton from any merger
Representative Warren, Democrat.
North Carolina, author of the general
reorganization provisions, said he saw.
no objections to such an amendment
and that it probably would be ap.
proved.
Chairman Cochrane. Dcmoc rat. Mis-
souri,, of the reorganization commit
ee said he would not oppose it.
Fears of Veterans.
A member of the House veterans
committee, Representative Griswoll
Democrat, Indiana said demand for
exemption of the Veterans Admin,
tration were based on fears that =
might be placed in propo sed neg
department Of welfare, and put in a
test tube on a Shelf"
Some congressman said approval Of
an amendment excluding the Veterans
Administration from the measure
would open the way for proposals t.
exempt other agencies. They asserte
this raised the possibility of log-roll-
ing among various groups that do no.
Continued on Page -Four,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
ROOSEVELT TRADE
lab AT DIRECTORS
Slur About Buying of SEN
ate" Implies Voters Who
Also Protested
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COIumnist

Washington, April A. President
Roosevelt probably can afford to slur
his opponents in Congress. They arg
his opponents anyway.
It is more doubtful that he could so
well afford to slur the whole rank an
file of voters who found fault with
his government reorganization bill,
and besought their various states, and
districts senators and representative
to cast their ballots against it on Cap
itol HILL.
The President comes pretty close to
having a congressional majority a
gainst him. In fact, he does have suct,
a majority against him on some is
Sues However, the home folk have
stayed with him middling well. He
appears to have lost a bit of popular
support since last election day, but
CONTINUED on Page FourJ
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
WEAKNESS EVIDENT
COTTON TRADING
Futures Nine to Eleven Points Lower
at Midday; Selling Is
Factor in Decline

New York, April 4.-(AP)-Cotton
futures opened eight to nine points
lower on disappointing Liverpool
cables and under liquidation and fore
ign selling. July eased from $3.50 to
$50, and after the first half hour was
selling at 8.61, with prices generally
Is points net lower. July advanced
from 1856 to 1858, leaving quotations
nine to eleven points net lower around
midday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
HUNT BRUSH LANDS
FOR DUAL SLAYERS
Prominent California Wo-
man and Daughter Tor
tured and Murdered

Worn Horn, Texas, April 4.-(AP)-
Peace officers secured the sun-baked
west Texas country today for the
killers who tortured socially prom
inent California woman and her
daughter, dubbed them to death AMI
left their partially stripped bodies
side by side on the desert.
DR.. W. w. Waite, who performed an
autopsy on the body of Mrs. Weston
Frome, 46, and her ?3-year-old daugh-
ter, Nancy, reported each kruckle IF
the girls right hand had been burned
by cigar or cigarette. and that there
were four other br-ns on The back Of
he1 hand.
Marks upon ner back, he said, indi
Gated some one had jumped up and
Continued on Page Eighth
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
Japan Says
VitalCenter
IsCaptured
Cap
tured In Southern
Shantung Area but
at Terrible Cost

Shanghai, April 4 -(AP)-Japa-
nese, advancing under cover of artil-
lery and aviation through smoking
ruins and against raking machine
gun fire, reported today they had oc-
cupied Taierhchwang, in southern
Shantung province, on the central
China front.
Chinese were retreating south
ward to the ancient Grant Canal,
crossing into Kiangsu province, the
Japanese said. Chinese defense lines
on the north bank of the canal and
about Taierhchwang were said to
have been wiped Nout.
It took the Japanese nine days to
CONTINUED on Page Four.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
Premier Blu1n's Cabinet
Menaced By Deputies On
Drastic Finance Plans
Powers Sought Amount to Virtual Totalitarian Dis
cipline Over Nations Money and Industry; Cham
Der May Refuse Authority; Dissatisfaction Rises

+ Paris, April 4 (AP)-Premier Leon
Blum went before the finance COM
mittee of the Chamber of Deputies
today to plead for powers to impose
what financial quarters likened to to-
talitarian discipline over French fin
ance and industry.
He asked with the cabinets formal
approval for powers to effect by de-
free sweeping changes including what
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
Francois Offensive Enters
In Decisive Phase In Spain
NEGRO BOY RAP|ST
IS LIKELY TO PAY
Aggravating Circumstances
May Cause Governor to
Play Hands Off
Daily Dispatch Burean.

Raleigh, April 4.-Governor Clyde
Hoey, like Judy Canova's brother
Zeke, "ain't a-sayin'", but there are
strong indications that the chief exc
cutive will not interfere with the exc
cution of Mann (F1iawatha) Smith
Negro rapist and youngest person ever
to be sentenced to die in North Caro-
lima.
Unless executive clemency, in thu
form of a Communication, is exercised
Smith will die in the lethal gas cham
Continued on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
TWO PAROLES ARE
GRANTED BY HOEY

Raleigh, April 4--(AP)-Governor
Hoey today paroled LESSEE Lee, given
IS months in Johnston county in De-
cember for larceny of TOBACCO, and
Bill Cullifer, convicted of transport
in gwhisky in Pitt county in January,
and given three months.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
Naval Bill
Faces Fight
By Senate
Hull Advises Navy
Be Left Free To
Op te In All
Parts of the World

Washington, April 4.-(AP)-Con-
flict over the billion dollar naval
program shifted today to the COM
mittee which received from Secretary
Hull advice that the navy be left free
to operate in all parts of the world.
The naval committee met in closed
session to question high navy officers.
but first Chairman Walsh, Democrat,
Massachusetts, made public the Sec
rotary of states recommendations.
Hull declared that to restrict fleet
operations within a "naval frontier"
Continued on Page Four.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04

financial experts said was tantamount
to foreign exchange control and de-
valuation of the franc.
But while the socialist premier ar
gued that the danger of war had risen
to point demanding rigorous sacri-
fees, indications arose that he might
not be able to get his program APP
Continued on Page Four.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
Wa1ning1O
SOUietS By
absEnUoy

Moscow, April 4.-(AP)--Japan to-
day protested to Soviet Russia against
military assistance which she alleged
the Soviet government was lending
to China.
Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan's am
bassador, warned Maxim Lztvlnofr'
Soviet foreign commissar. that Rus
STA would have to assume respon-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04
WEATHER

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Tues
day; somewhat warmer in south
portion tonight; cooler in north
portion Tuesday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04

Employees Of the Consumers Pow
er Co. seized strategic plants of
the company in southern Michi-
gan following breakdown in con-
tract negotiations. The action
came after representatives of the
c. I. o. union walked out Of a con-
ference with company officials at
Jackson, Mich, when they were
told the management could not
renew it's contract with the union.
Union officers said 1.-THE consum-
ing public" would suffer no incon-
venlence. Photos show workers
on night watch at Milwaukee n.y.
dro-electric plant near Saginaw.
and plant at Jackson, which COM
pany said was unaffected.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-04

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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-01-21

japanese cherry trees next
spring?
CHRISTMAS HAS GONE, but
the memory of two beautiful
sights still remains. One-a
department store window, COM
pletely bare of merchandise,
but strung with three huge
bells with white velvet ropes.
People gaped at it by the hour,
and it was undoubtedly the
most beautiful window in New
York during Christmas.
Ny other vote goes to a dis
play in a jewelry store win
dow. On an oval of glass was
a figure of Santa Claus with
great whip in his hand, and
reindeer attached to a loaded
sleigh. This was done entirely
with precious stones, gradua-
ted in size, and the sight left
me breathless. Have you ever
seen reindeer and long float
ing whip made of diamonds?
Or the runners of a sleigh
built Of emeralds? Santa HIM
self consisted of rubies and
garnets, and the toys were
made of amethysts, sapphires
and topaZes.
The most enjoyable book
I've read lately is the W.P.A.
1898 Almanac for New York
ers." Humor, fact and fantasy
have been cleverly moulded to-
gether to make us see our
selves as we really are. 1t sells
for a quarter, and is the work
of the Federal Writer'S Pro-
ject.
The Stock Exchange has
been sluggish for too long a
time now, but they weren't
fooling back in 1880 when the
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-01-21

New York Stock Exchange had
it's dullest day, and only 81
shares were traded. So, cheer
up-according to history, 1929
was a lulu, in more ways than
one!
Elmer came up to see me
Saturday night, on clutches. 1t
wasn't what you think though.
He went skiing, all right, but
no fall caused his injuries
he's suffering from third de-
gree burns, caused by his heat
ing pad short-circuiting. How
ever, he's going back for more
next week, because the Bronx
Plumbers Union, Local 1882
1853, is having an outing up in
the Catskills, and they've made
him POSTMASTER.
He's invited me to go, and I
think I will. It will only cost
me carfare, and it will be
worth it, for laughs, because
he's going to speak on the
Unions slogan, "a Bathtub in
Every Home" Maybe he's not
so dumb, at that, because sta
tistics prove that more than
$4,000 New York apartments
are without this necessity.
I guess I'll go up and see
Carioca tonight. She's got so
high-hat since receiving two
new tires for Christmas that
there's no holding her, although
her battery isn't up to snuff,
even now.
A good thing to remember
when thinking that Japan needs
lesson and that maybe we
ought to be the teacher-it is
said to have cost $18,623.36 to
kill each of the ten million
soldiers who lost their lives in
the World War!
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-01-21

his four rebel SloopS, elghC
gondolas, three or four row.
galleys, his starving, diseased
militia and his ragged, footsore
Continentals.
AS for me, / was very much
excited about the prospects of
my first battle.
On the 18th of September a
transport fleet of nineteen sail,
conveyed by H. M. ships
Amazon and Garland. arrived
with the End Brunswick divi-
sion, Colonel Won Spccht. Well
then, now we were ready to
catch that vicious weasel,
Arnold, and old Granny Gates.
THE BRIEF autumn campaign
BEGAN slowly, amid the in
cessant hammcring and saving
in the dockyards.
Bligadier Frazier, with Eng
lish volunteers, Canadians and
filthy Indians, left Isle aux Noix
for Point au Fer (Sept. 28th).
Five days later a hundred boats
carried our General Johnny and
a German brigade to Isle aux
Noix.
Our honest Baron-and /, if
you permit the disrespectful
liaison-in one hundred and
three boats had reached Isle
aux Noix; the End English
brigade was marching to re-
lieve us; Captain Carleton's
savages came up yelling and
went on brandishing their
hatchets; and on October 4th
Sir Guy set sail to catch the
lively and dangerous Mr..
Arnold.
On October 18th our ST.
rerior naval fotilla caught
Arnold's near Valcour Island
and he fought us off and fend-
ed pretty well, but on the 18th.
in the night, his ships slipped
through the British fleet like
so many water snakes.
Then on the 18th, near the
Island of the Four Winds he
turned on us like a cornered
rattlesnake. Oh. Lord, had his
crews been of his kidney-had
they even been sailormen and
bred to the lakes and seas in
stead of being landsmen bred
to the pillow, l think, even with
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-01-21

FOR THE PAST two evenings
I've been porting over road
maps, so that even though |
don't go South, I'll know the
way backwards. Pm still hold
ing out for the same route
from Charleston to Florida, on
account of the razor-bark
hogs, my movie camera and all,
but I may relent and follow
new route that far, SO that
Missus Howe and l can see how
the other half lives in the lush
winter resorts of North Caro-
lima.
You'd never believe it was
necessary to travel miles from
Washington, d. G.. to find a
place to sleep. but that's exact
ly what we did, last year. We
arrived there on our way north
at five one evening of Easter
week. AS you know, at Easter
time every excursion train and
his little brother, the trailer,
head for Washington, to see
the cherry blossoms. Not that
they were out last year-the
night we arrived it was so cold
they were burning smudge
pots to keep the trees from
freezing!
But, hotel and tourists
places were taxed to capacity,
so I got the bright idea of driv-
ing to Annapolis. We'd GER
tainly find a place there, and /
could show Missus Howe
around the Naval Academy,
where I had gone once, in my
youth, to a dance, simply be-
cause "he" wore uniform.
Talk about desolate roads.
Try driving the one to Anna
polls, Maryland, some night!
Nary a single habitation for
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-01-21

less than half our number OF
vessels, they had driven us off.
God knows the strange feel
ing I had about this amazing
business, but / believe there
was an odd unconscious pride
in me, too, to see how adroit
Americans could be.
l fought no single combat; I
fired no shot on that campaign.
l made no prisoners excepting
three tired enemy oxen which
l came upon in forest trail,
and which l seized in the
Kings name; and made my
orderly cut a sapling for a
goad and drive the beasts to
my honest Baron with my COM
pliments. God knows he was
the man to dispose of beef.
whether rebel roasts or Tory
tenderloins.
Well, the rebels set fire to
Crown Point and left it to us,
and the fortress was still afre
when we reached it. 1t was no
good to us as it was and we
had no time to rebuild it, al
though Sir Guy established
headquarters there.
Once late in October I rode
with General Riedesel so near
to the formidable fortress of
Ticonderoga that we could soc
it from the top of a hill. We
got no nearer. And presently
General Johnny came blithelv
a-sailing on one of the can
tured rebel vessels to tell us all
that the play was over, the
campaign ended in the year of
'76; and that it was time to go
into winter quarters.
So we abandoned Crown
Point.
The Germans were posted on
the left bank of Lake st. Peter
between the st. Lawrence and
Richelieu Rivers, with the ar
tillery at Montreal and H. Q.
at Three Rivers.
General Johnny sailed back
to England to tell our good
King all about it; Sir Guy pre-
sided from Montreal.
But our honest Baron was
always a busy Baron, and he
and Cleve and Freeman and l
travelled nearly 1900 miles in
sleighs that winter visiting the