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because Mayor Edward Kelly of
Flemingsburg, 26 miles to the north.
after trip to Morehead said some
looting already has been going on"
This towns population is $500,
but it is swelled during the winter
months by students at State Teach
ers' College. Morehead, like other
hill country localities, is built
mostly in the lowland-level ground
between mountains-but the school
was erected on high ground so
it escaped damage
The college is serving as refuge
for persons made homeless by the
flood. Refugees also were being
housed in private homes, opened
to them in true mountain hospi-
tahty.
Townspeople who survived the
raging waters, with expressionless
faces, YEARLY shoveled the muck
from their homes and business
houses. Merchants shook their
heads and asked: Who would have
thought we needed flood insurance."
Their new troubles obliterated the
memory of the fire Saturday which
destroyed the leading hotel at a
loss of $4,000
At Jackson, county seat of
Breathitt, w. H. Pelfrey, hill coun-
try shopkeeper, told how he watched
his store and home swallowed by a
20-foot wall of water. His son and
daughter-in-laW lived with him,
along with their year-old son. When
the house washed from its founda-
tions his son took the baby in his
arms and tried to swim to safety.
Driftwood knocked the baby from
him and its body has not been
found. The father and mother
made their way to safety.
Nine Bible Students Missing.
College buildings of the Mountain
Bible (Methodist) Institute were
carried away, including a dormitory
housing 25 boys and girls in
Breathitt County. Nine students
are missing. Three teachers bat
tied the waters for ~ miles before
being rescued.
Injuries, the Red Cross reported,
were negligible among the more
than 100 homeless in Morehead.
Rescuers told how Mrs. Harley
Boyd clung to the top of her home
in the flooded area for hours and
Evening star., 1939-07-06

just few minutes after she was
rescued the house collapsed.
Protection against typhoid was
being given by the State Board of
Health, which also chlorinated
water for drinking purposes.
Evening star., 1939-07-06
Flood Death List
Bodies of 81 Victims
Already Recovered
~ the Associated Press.

~ tHe AssOSldtcu Ilcses
LOUISVILLE. KY, July 6.-Bodies
of 80 victims of the Eastern Ken
lucky mountain flash" floods had
been recovered today. In addition
13 were feared dead in Rowan Coun-
ty and 50 in Breathitt County. The
list of bodies recovered:
In Rowan County (25:
Mrs. Mary Frances Salyers, 25, and
her three children, Ivan Eugene, 8;
Bobby Carl, 6, and Alberta Mae, g.
James Elmer Sparkman, g; his
brothers, Paul Edwin, s, and Bobby
Everett, Z months, and his sister
Thelma Lee, 4.
Mrs. Minerva Bogges, II.
Albert Porter, 46, ard wife, As.
Mrs. Mahala Mae Ratliff, 40, and
son Lorn, 8.
Mrs. Minnie Carter, 38, and son
Junior Bays Carter, II.
Mrs. Gamma Ambergey, as, and two
daughters, Marjorie, 13, and Evra
Lee. 6.
Mrs. Emma Toliver, II.
Mrs. Lula Mae Perry Collins, 80
and daughter. Maggie Frances, IL.
Sylvia Lee Perry, 16, sister Of Mrs
Collins.
Mrs. Walter McRoberts, "a.
Evra Lee Goebel, TO-
An unidentified woman about IS.
In Breathitt County CD:
Seldom Mann, so.
Mrs. Annie Mann, a..
Miss Bernice Childress, Is.
Mrs. Protsey Poison, As.
Miss Curtie Lander, As.
Miss Eva May Deaton, 16.
Roberta Rose, 40.
Evening star., 1939-07-06
Admiral Meyers Takes
Fleet Post July u
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
SAN PEDRO, Calf. July 6.-Rear
Admiral George j. Meyers relieves
Rear Admiral William c. Watts as
commander of the base force of the
United States Fleet at San Pedro
on July % in a ceremony aboard
the flagship Argonne. The shift
will terminate the annual wholesale
exchange of flag commands in the
fleet.
Admiral Meyers returns to the
fleet from duty at Manila as COM
mandant of the 10Th Naval District
Admiral Watts will go immediately
to Chicago, to assume command of
the 9th Naval District and the
naval training station at Great
Lakes, III.
On the same date Capt. Harry E.
Shoemaker will be succeeded as chief
OF staff of the base force by Capt
Charles w. Crosse, now on duty at
the Naval Academy. Capt. Shoe
maker will command the receiving
ship at New York.
Evening star., 1939-07-06
blamed his predicament on drink.
ing, the detective said

blamed his predicament on drink.
ing the detective said.
He told us he had been drunk
for three weeks" the officer as
serted
Robertson said he was a colonel
in the U. S. Army Reserve Corps. a
Yale graduate Of the 1929 class and
former football star. -,
He said he opened his own law
office in the Southern Building in
washington after working as law
clerk for Justice Hughes and the
late Justice Taft.
AT the Supreme Court of the
United States officials said that
John Reynolds Robertson had
served until -four or five years ago"
as law clerk to the Chief Justice.
Ihey said he had worked under
Chief Justices Taft and Hughes.
Evening star., 1939-07-06
Richmond Judge
Orders Numbers Probe
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, July 6.-Judge
John L. Ingram in a Commute
charge to the July Hastings Court
grand jury yesterday told the jurors
to make a thorough investigation of
the numbers racket here and said
the grand jury's powers to investi-
gate the police department were
limited strictly to criminal activity.
The judge told the jurors they
faced a difficult task in investigating
numbers game operations because
those who participate do so willingly
and there is seldom any one who is
willing to make charges or testify
He suggested that they first take up
felony and misdemeanor cases sent
up from Police Court and Juvenile
and Domestic Relations Court and
then launch the numbers investiga-
ton.
Evening star., 1939-07-06
Patents Head Urges Court
For Inventors Protection
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Contending inventors were at the
mercy of mighty and ruthless
corporations. Conway Coe, commits
sioner of patents, urged the Senate
Patents Committee yesterday to
establish a separate Federal Court
of Patent Appeals that would CEN
tralize and coordinate litigation
now contested in 10 circuits.
Mr.. Coe testified that at present
the poor inventor" was mot now
fully safeguarded" by Federal
patent because of the expense of
defending his exclusive rights in
the courts.
He said patent should have
the protective character of that of a
high-powered rife in the hands of
a puny man beset by a wildly
charging bull elephant"
William N. Cromwell, representing
the Chicago Patent Law Associa-
ton, opposed the bill, expressing
doubt that a single court would
speed up settlement of cases. He
added there was danger that such a
tribunal would build up a fixed at
titude which would unconsciously
influence its decisions.
Evening star., 1939-07-06
Roosevelt Comment
On Neutrality Bill
Irritates Nazi Press
President Hos Dug Up
War Hotchet Again,
| Says Hitler Paper
Bv the Associated Press

Bv the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July 6.-Nazi publica-
tions expressed great irritation to-
day over President Roosevelts July
4 comment on United States neutral
ity legislation.
Adolf Hitler's newspaper Voelkis-
cher Beobachter declared that
Roosevelt again has dug up the war
hatchet." The semi-official COM
mentary Deutscher Dienst said {:
THE intention of Roosevelt to line
up America in the encirclement
front does not lessen the danger of
world war, but on the contrary in
creaSes it."
Said Aim Is to Prevent War.
Mr.. Roosevelt said the first policy
of his administration was to prevent
war in any part of the world; that
the arms embargo section of the
present neutrality law should be
scrapped, and that press dispatches
from four major capitals and State
Department dispatches indicated
Fascist and Nazi nations welcomed
the action of the United States
House of Representative in writ
ing modified arms embargo into
the American neutrality law.
The commentary service said that
to maintain that Germany welcomed
the action was biased falsif1ca-
tion," and added the President
perhaps was under pressure of the
many exploding firecrackers" in
making his statements at his Fourth
of July press conference.
The Morgenpost pictured Mr..
Roosevelt as again on the war
path
Voelkischer Beobachter referred to
HltlerS answer to the President S
April Is cabled appeal to Hitler
and MuSsolini for 10 years of peace
and guarantees for smaller Euro
pean nations.
"POuted 21z Months
Herr Roosevelt pouted for two
and a half months" Voelkischer
Beobachter said, and reasonable
politicians of the United States
used this time to force out of the
so-called neutrality law-which in
reality would involve the United
States in every European war-some
OF its most yenomous fangs. -
mo reasonable man could really
take it amiss that the Rome -Ber-
lin axis partners are not exactly
sorrowful when a part of the North
American representative do not
join in the indecent war agitation
of their President.
However, TO make a Threatening
danger of war for the United States
out of this attitude is a maneuver
as shameful as it is stupid. -
Evening star., 1939-07-06
Those Who Mined
| Silver Saturday
| Are in q Hole
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Any one in the United States who
mined silver Saturday is in a hole.
That's no pun, Treasury experts
revealed last night.
They found out that the old 64 "a
cent-per-ounce Treasury price for
domestic silver applied only to silver
mined up until Friday midnight. BY
inadvertance, the new Till cents
per ounce fixed by Congress yester-
day applies only to silver mined
after Saturday midnight.
What's the Treasury going to do
about it?
I'VE hope nobody offers us any
silver mined Saturday." a spokes-
man replied.
Evening star., 1939-07-06
Bates Will Ask Conoress
For Funds for Victims

By the Associated Press.
Congress will be asked to make a
direct appropriation for the aid of
victims of Kentucky's mountain
flood.
Representative Bates, Democrat
of Kentucky, whose district was
heaviest hit by the surging noun
tain waters, said today he would
draft a bill for congressional aid as
soon as the extent of the loss was
determined.
The American Red Cross wired
chapters at Cincinnati and points
in the immediate flood area, asking
them to make newspaper appeal
for cash funds to be used in relief
The Cincinnati chapter also was
asked to ship any new childrens S
clothing available to Morehead, Ky
Red Cross officials here estimated
that 500 families, about $500 per-
sons, now need food, shelter and
clothing.
A shortage of undertakers in the
Kentucky flood section was re-
ported by Red Cross workers to
headquarters here.
Evening star., 1939-07-06
300 Stage Wa|kout
Al Five factories
OF General Motors
Production of 1910
Models Are Affected
yC.I.O.-U. A. w. Strike

~ the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July 6.-Five plants of
the General Motors Corp. were
closed today by strike of the c.
I. O. United Automobile Workers,
called to enforce a demand for an
agreement covering skilled workers.
The plants affected:
Fisher body plant No. 81, Detroit;
800 men affected.
Chevrolet gear and axle plant,
tool and die division, Detroit; 300
men affected.
Fisher body die and machine unit
Detroit; 1000 affected.
Fisher body plant, Pontiac, Mich;
$50 affected.
Chevrolet gear and axle expert
mental unit, Detroit; 160 affected
Walter P. Reuther, General Mo-
tors director of the U. A. VIC. I. O.,
said approximately 3,700 tool and
die workers. engineers and mainte-
nance men were idle in all.
Fisher body plant No. 81 was
closed yesterday and the remainder
early today.
Picket Lines on Hand.
Picket lines were on hand at all
affected plants early today. Pro-
duction workers and foremen were
allowed to pass the lines after picket
captains examined their union
badges, but all skilled workers, whose
work at present is chiefly in prepa-
rotio,, for ,roI,,ntio,, Of 1OdO MOD al
cars, were held back.
Union sources said men employed
on production of current models
would not be affected unless the
strike lasts more than a week.
At Fisher plant No %, believed to
be the largest tool and die plant in
the world, 700 strikers were march
ing in front OF the gates at am.
Union leaders said there had been a
report that huge welding machine
would be moved from this plant to
another, but that the machine was
not moved.
Federal Labor Conciliator James F.
Dewey, who participated in settle
ment of the 1887 sit-doWn strikes III
the automotive industry, and in sew
eral recent walkouts of auto workers,
was to arrive here today for a meet
ing with corporation and union
officials.
Mr.. Dewey succeeded in bring
ing the two sides together last
week, but the conference was ter
minated when he returned to the
East.
Willing to Negotiate.
Mr.. Ruther asserted the union was
willing to negotiate an agreement re-
lating to tool and die, engineering
and maintenance employees "on an
equitable basis at any time" The
U. A. VIC. I. o. is seeking a sup
Elementary contract on wages and
overtime provisions, among other
demands, for 5000 workers.
General Motors officials, main
tanning a strike would leave 100000
men idle, said they were willing to
negotiate grievances, but declared
they would not take sides" with the
U. A. VIC. I. o. against Homer
Martins rival U. A. W., an A. F. of
L. affiliate. The corporation has
petitioned the National Labor Rela-
tlons Board to determine with which
union it should deal.
Evening star., 1939-07-06
Census Bureau Adds
400 Special Employees

By the Associated Press.
The Census Bureau, preparing for
the 1910 census, added 400 special
employees yesterday.
Vanguard of some 1000 special
census workers, the 400 are mostly
craftsmen. They started mapping
out the 100000 districts in which
individual census-takers will make
the houseto-house canvass next
spring.
Evening star., 1939-07-06
Girl Hurt by BIust

ROCKVILLE, Md, July (Spe.
ciaD D.-Elizabeth Smith, colored, l6
is in critical condition at ths
Montgomery County Hospital today
with burns suffered in a gasoline
explosion at her home here yester-
day.
Evening star., 1939-07-06

Special TroveI Permits
Persons now travelling in Pales-
tine must carry special permits.
Evening star., 1939-07-06
Hughes to Experiment

SEATTLE, Wash, July 6 (P.-
Howard Hughes, famous flyer, who
went aloft yesterday in one Of the
Boeing stratoliners, revealed he
plans to use one of the ships for ex-
perimental work with special navi-
CATION eGEinnent, flying where such
~ ac radic beam -re unavailable
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-09
Wage-Hour Compliance
Sought, Fletcher Says

eral contracting business. Well, there
is not a great deal I can say about
that, for the construction industry is
not expected to be extensively affect
ed by the measure so far as it's re-
gulatory features are concerned"
Fletcher said he believed in obtain
ing compliance through cooperation
when possible, in preference to. pro-
secution.
Gas you know" said, within the
last few days we have asked the Unit
ed States Court for the eastern dis
trict of North Carolina to enjoin a
Fayetteville silk and rayon weaving
concern from violating the law. The
suit only asks that the corporation
be enjoined from paying less than the
minimum. It seeks no penalties from
the employer 1t does not ask for
fines or prison sentences. It contem-
plates no blacklisting. If the corpora
ton will agree to pay 25 cents an hour
in the future and keep accurate rec
ords of its waee payments, it will have
no trouble with U.s."
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-09

Charlotte, Feb. 9.-(AP)-Major A.
L. Fletcher, assistant administrator
of the wage and hour division of the
United States Labor Department, ex-
pressed the opinion today that deli
oerate evasions of the wage and hour
law were "the exception" and that
industry, labor and the public are
united in support of this program"
Fletcher, former North Carolina la
aor commissioner, was programmed for
he chief address today before mem
bers of the Carolinas branch Asso-
dated General Contractors of Amer
Ca, Inc.,. in convention here.
AS a matter of fact, Fletcher said
his prepared address, so far volun-
airy compliance is the most important
way in which the standards of the
act are being met. There seems to
,e an eager, yet sober, spirit among
BUSINESS men regarding the act"
The speaker said
"Now I know that you ask me to
,ome here to tell you in detail about
The application of the law. tc the gen
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-09
Two Negroes Taken
From Goldsboro Jail
By Mob and Beaten
Band of White Men
Flog Pair and Order
Them To L e a " e
Town; Struck Mayor
Hill and White Grocer
in Melee Last Satur-
day; Negroes Badly
Beaten

Goldsboro, Feb. 9.-(AP)-A hand
OF white men took two Negroes from
the jail here early today and carried
them to a deserted spot five miles
west OF here where they floggd
them and then released them
Graves j. Smith, foreman of the
wayne county grand jury, announced
that the jury would meet next Tues
DAY to investigate the case. He first
called session for this afternoon
put later postponed it.
Police Captain j. c. Edwards gave
the Negroes names as FLOYD Ed
wards and Kirby BALDWIN, both about
81. The officers said Edwards was
charged with striking Mayor J. H.
Hlll last Saturday and Baldwin with
striking Kirby Wells, a white grocer,
who seized + oyd Edwards after the
mayor was struck.
Police Walter Gurley, acting desk
sergeant during the night, said two
men came into police headquarters
and demanded the cell keys with the
statement they were going to take
the Negroes out and "beat them up."
One Of the men brandished a pistol.
A third helped seize the Negroes
Gurley reported. Several hours later
Baldwin was found at his home. He
was suffering from bruises and to d
officers he had been beaten with
"saplings and limbs of trees"
Baldwin said he and Edwards were
logged by five men, who then told
Edwards they didn't like to see him
around here, and he better get out
and stay out"
Baldwin added that he and the Ed
wards Negro walked back to town aft
er the beatings. Floyd Edwards was
not found Immediately, but officers
were told he had gone to the home of
MS father at Shine, about Is miles
from Go dsboro. They said he would
he returned here at once if the re-
ports were true.
Police Captain Edwards said Bald
wins condition, although apparently
not critical, was so serious that he
would not be taken to jail immedi-
ately.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-09
Justice Department
Bills Are Offered
In The Legislature
Bills Approved To Re-Write Compensation
Laws; Would Abolish Dry Cleaners Commits
sion; Reorganization of State College Is
Proposed.

Raleigh, Feb. 9.-(AP)-The admin
istration's bills to create a new de-
partment of justice by combining sew
eral existing agencies, and broaden
ing powers of the attorney general,
reached the legislature today.
Senators Joyner, Of Iredell, and
Rodman, of Beaufort, and Represen-
tatives Cherry, of CASTOR, and Bryant,
of Durham, signed the major measure
1t gives the attorney general control
of criminal investigation, statis.ical
and statutory codification divisions
not now under him.
Representatives without discussion
passed on second reading the Bryant
Pollard bill to regulate tourist homes,
tourists camps, dance halls and the
like. The measure comes up again
tomorrow.
The House also passed on second
reading three bills to re-write the I'M
employment compensation laws so as
to give employers tax reductions if
they stabilize labor, provide coverage
in seasonal industry and fix a new
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-09
Disastrous Blaze
In Business Area
OF Elizabethtown

ElizabethtOwn, Feb. 9.-(AP)-
A fire in the downtown section
shortly before last midnight
which destroyed three business
establishments, was estimated by
firemen today to have caused
$4,000 damage.
But for the sudden disappear
ance of high wind and the ar
rival of trucks from nearby towns,
an entire block probably would
have been levelled, town officials
said.
Lindwind's Department Store,
Elmer Kinlaw's notions estab-
lishment and the Duluxe cafe were
destroyed. The towns only theatre
was damaged and the Bladen
Journal office was saved in the
nick of time.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-09
Of
Spain Leave
Island Posts

London, Feb. (AP}-Spanish
government officials today abandon
ed Minorca, leaving aboard the Brit
sh cruiser Devonshire, giving rise to
belief that the strategic, well fortified
Mediterranean island has been sur
rendered to the insurgent regime.
British foreign officials said that
$50 refugees" were aboard the De-
vonshire when she put out to sea
from Port Mahon and acknowledged
that they probably were government
officials and "other persons wanted
by the insurgents"
Minorca, which a British armament
firm helped fortify, is the only prin-
cipal island of the Spanish Balearic
group which the government has held
since early in the war. The insur-
gents cary in the conflict seized
Mallorca, from which Italian air.
planes have operated, and Ibiza, 9TH
er islands of the group.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-09
Scott Won't
Collect Fund
For College
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY G.. LYNN NTSRET

Raleigh, Feb. 9-There have been
numerous instances of State depart
ments or officials asking for addi-
tlonal tax money and failing to get
it. There have been instances when
they did not know how to handle the
money after it was made available.
But it is unusual for a department
head to make a request, and to find
the suggestion well received by legis-
lators, taxpayers and tax collectors
and then to change his mind and de-
eide that he didn't want it after all.
Agriculture Commissioner Kerr
Scott has done almost that in revers-
ing his position on an extra ten cents
ton for inspecting fertilizer. At his
first appearance before the committee
on agriculture and appropriations,
Commissioner Scott asked fer a much
larger ALLEGATION for the purpose of
establishing and developing an ade-
quate marketing system for North
Carolina farmers. This week the COM
(COntinund on Page Two
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-09

scale of benefits. The Senate has pass
ed the measures.
Several representatives introduced
a bill to abolish the State dry clean
ing commission and turn any funds
it has over to the general fund. The
action came shortly after a House
committee heard Carruthers, of Gull
ford, and others charge that some re-
gulatory boards were illegal rackets."
The committee rejected a bill to re-
gulate painters, paper hangers and
decorators.
The Senate got a compa lion I'LL to
the department of justice measure,
providing that the legislative refer
ence librarian should be under the
secretary of state. Certain duties he
now performs would be transferred
to the justice department.
G. F. Gates, of Mebane Ole of the
trustees of the University of North
Carolina, and a member of the State
Board of Agriculture, told n legisla-
tive subcommittee that a reorganiza-
ton Of the agricultural set-up at N.
G. State College was much needed.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-09
Loyalists' Regime
Held as Vanished

Paris, Feb. 9.-(AP)-An inform
ant close to the foreign office said
today that the French govern
ment considers that the republi-
can government of Spain is "nO
longer in existence" since govern
ment Premier Negrin entered
France yesterday.
In foreign office circles, it was
said the reason for the govern
ment's new attitude toward the
Spanish government was Negrin's
flight" across the border at LIE
Perthus. French Officia now
hold that the Negrin regime has
left its own country. Today it
moved north further into France
as the Spanish insurgent govern
ment occupied further parts of
LIE PerthuS.