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HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
New Suspect Is Now Sought
In Mattson Boy’s Kidnaping
And Convict Is Being Held
DICERS ATTEMPT
TO MATCH INK USED
ON RANSOM NOTE
New Clue Comes from
Olympia Where Myster
ious Man and Boy Are
Reported Seen
EX-CONVICT CLAIMS
HE IS ON STRIKE
Says He Has Been Doing
Picket Duty in Seamen’s
Walkout; Camp Site Lit
tered With Boy’s Clothing
Searched; Odd - Colored
Ink Used on Note
Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 2 (AP)—Sear
chers for kidnaped Charles Mattson
today sought a new suspect, held a
former convict for questioning, and
experimented with ink in an endeavor
to match the writing fluid used in
the abductor’s $28,000 ransom note.
An Olympia man started officers on
their newest query when he told po
nce a man resembling the descrip
tions of the ten-year-old boy’s abduc
tor had appeared at his home last
Sunday night about an hour after
Charles was seized here.
The man reputedly drove to his
home about 30 miles from Tacoma in
an auto which "made noises like an
old one."
After sitting in front of the home
ten minutes, the informant said, the
man came to the door and cautiously
asked directions to an abandoned tur
key ranch.
EX-COXYICT TAKEN WHILE
TRYING TO SELL A CAMEO
Tacoma. Wash., Jan. 2 (AP) —Ques-
tioning of a former convict, examina
tion of an abandoned camp site and
study of ink coloration sent officers
on new scents today in the search for
ten-year-old Charles Mattson, kidnap
ed Sunday night.
The 33-year-old former convict,
closely resembling Charles’ kidnaper,
was arrested last night when he at
tempted to sell a lady’s cameo ring
here. He was fingerprinted and ques
tioned by Department of Justice
Agents, then remanded to jail for in
vestigation.
Detectives reported the man claim
ed to be a striking seaman, saying
he had been on picket duty here the
last two nights.
The camp site, littered with parts
of a clothing, a detective maga
zine, and food, was discovered near
Olympia, where residents reported see
ins a man and a boy Monday. Though
Dftective Captain Ray Hays, of Olym
pia. -aid he doubted any connection
with the Mattson case, the clothing
was carefully scrutinized. The detec
tive magazine featured a kidnaping
article, and had various figures, such
a.s "S.OOO-5-S,” penciled on a margin.
Ink coloration entered the kidnap
hunt when it was learned the ransom
note left by the kidnaper in the home
of Dr. W. W. Mattson was printed
with an odd-colored ink, and inform
er! the family any further communica
tion..; would use the same color.
Union Won’t
Answer Auto
Chiefs Yet
Will Await U. A. W.
Conference in Flint
Sunday To Offer
Proposals
D'roit, Mich., Jan. 2. — (AP)
Horner Martin, United States Auto
ffi' tii , Workers of America president,
:, i(| today the union would not an
•'ll he latest communication of the
C", i 1 Motors Corporation until
offer the general conference of U. A.
\V representatives at Flint tomorrow.
! ’nion delegates from ten cities will
'"nfere Sunday on a collective har
ming proposal to be submitted to
1: neral Motors, the principal target
1 'he U. A. W. in widespread strikes
' u dosed seven of the corporation’s
| | ' ts, leaving 30,000 workers idle.
While the automotive factories re
r lined shut down for the New Year’s
Wfck-end, Rev. Charles Coughlin em
' ' g‘ <1 from retirement to make a New
Y, ; u’s radio appeal for industrial
Peace.
Ihe Royal Oak priest called upon
inhering men to be "sensible Chris
nmis," and upon industry “to let Jesus
Christ sit as chairman of your board
°i directors.”
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOCTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA * ’
She Slew Her Son’s Slayer
Bl
Mrs. Viola Wickline, shown with a jailer, shot and fatally wounded Johnny
Shepherd, 18, in the courtroom in Jackson, Ky., as the youth was being
tried for the murder of Mrs. Wickline’s son, Harvey Gabbard, 17. The
woman fired four shots, two of which wounded two other men.
(Central Press)
Legislature Now Divided
Three Ways Over Liquor
Present Whisky Counties, Those Who Want It Als**
and Drys All Have Spoke smen In General Asseii
bly, Merger of Two O nly Hope for Agreement
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Jan. 2. —Members of the
1937 General. Assembly are already
divided into three groups on the li
quor question, with the result that
the outcome of the prospective fight
over the liquor problem is regarded
as being considerably in doubt, ac
cording to those who have been study
ing the situation. The three groups
into which the General Assembly is
divided are as follows:
1. The county control group, com
posed of the 17 eastern counties which
now have county liquor stores under
the control of county ABC boards and
the other eastern counties which want
counTy groupls
QUIET! LIQUOR
Commissioner Body Neu
tral, but Skinner Strong
for County Rule
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Jan. 2—The North Carolina
Association of County Commissioners
is at the present time “neutral” with
regard to any particular form of li
quor control which is or may be ad
vocated, according to President Tom
Wolf, of Albemarle, Stanly county,
president of the association, and John
Skinner, of lattleton, Warren county,
secretary of the organization. There
is no doubt, however, that Secretary
Skinner is overwhelmingly in favor
of county control as it now exists in
17 eastern counties, including his own
county of Warren, and that he is per
sonally very bitterly opposed to any
State supervision of county liquor
stores, as is proposed in the model
liquor control bill recommended by
the State liquor fact-finding commis
sion.
“The State has already taken away
almost everything from the counties,
as far as revenue goes and has center
ed control of almost everything here
in Raleigh and now it wants to take
our liquor revenue away from us,’
skinner said. “I think the counties are
just as able to run their liquor stores
as the State and that they can run
them better without any inerference
from the State. I not only think the
counties should get all the revenue
from the liquor stores, but that each
county should have ful and complete
control of its stores, I am opposed to
any liquor control plan that deprives
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HENDERSON, N. C„ SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 2, 1937
this system extended.
2. The State liquor control group,
composed of most of the Piedmont
and western counties hich want li
quor stores, but whic want a joint
State and county coi 1 system, si
milar to that advocated by the State
Liquor Control Commission.
3. The bone drys who are opposed
to any form of liquor control and who
are generally conceded to be more nu
merous than either of the other
groups and who hence will hold the
balance of power in the legislature
as long as the two groups of wets fa
voring liquor control are unable to
Continued on Page Two.)
KERR SCOn GIVES
CIVIL SERVICE TEST
New Agriculture Chief Says
He Wants To Save
Money for Tax-Payers
Raleigh Jan. 2 (AP)—W. Kerr
Scott, who becomes commissioner of
agriculture January 7, gave a “sort
of modified Federal Department of
Agriculture civil service examination
here today to applicants.
Scott said he had about 1,000 ap
plications, with county agents giving
them for him if the applicants were
not here today.
Scott said he was “not as concern
ed about individual politicians as
about improved service to the tax
payers,” and it was his ambition “to
improve the services of the depart
ment as much as possible, and to fos
ter cooperation between all the agri
cultural services of the State govern
ment and the Federal-State agencies
at State College and elsewhere.
“You know,” Scott commended, dis
cussing his plans, “I’m not interest
ed in keeping this job forever.”
He added he had a good farm as a
sort insurance against unemployment.
50 MOTORISTS CITED
WITHOUT 1937 TAGS
Goldsboro Officers Crack Down and
Defenders Are Required To
Fay the Costs
Goldsboro, Jan. 2 (AP) —More
than 50 motorists of this vicinity
have been cited for failure to dis
play 1937 license plates. Local
magistrates said in most cases the
defendants were let off on pay
ment of costs and promises to ob
tain new tags at once.
Pope Is Weakened
By Loss of Sleep
Vatican City, Jan. 2 (AP) —Weak
ened by lack of sleep and facing
the danger of gangrene in an open
wound in his left leg, Pope Pius
insisted today on discussing church
problems with a French arch
bishop.
The pontiff, after suffering pain
from circulatory obstruction In
his leg, received Archbishop Jean
Chollet, of Cambrai, France. Vati
can officials reported “no material
change” in the condition of the
holy father after a recurenrce of
the affliction in his leg.
ROOSEVELT PLANS
WILL BE REVEALED
IN BIS INAUGURAL
After President Speaks Jan
uary 20, Country May
Know Which Way
He Will Travel
HE WILLIHAVE HIS
WAY IN ENTIRETY
Congress Will Be Hardly
More Than Rubber Stamp;
Administration Effecting
Readjustment T o w a r d
Conservatism from Radi
calism of First Term
By CHARLES P. STEtVART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Jan. 2—A forecast of
1937’s legislative trend in Washing
ton will be safer to venture on after
the country has listened to President
Roosevelt’s re-inaugural address Jan.
20.
The general supposition is that his
outline of policy on this occasion will
be even more comprehensive than his
talk at the reassembling of Congress.
It will sketch the administration’s
plans not only for 1937 but for the
full four years of its second term
in office. And, the administration be
ing now almost all-powerful on Capi
tol Hill, what it wants it is certain to
get, practically in its entirety at least
until the seventy-sixth Congress con
venes a day or two after Jan 1, 1939.
In the event of a super-sensational
flop in popular sentiment in the elec
tion of 1938, who can say what the
seventy-sixth Congress’ House of Rep
resentatives will be like? Meantime,
most of what President Roosevelt
dictates will be acquiesced in by both
houses of the lawmakers. There will
Continued on Page Two.)
PORTER GRAVES, OF
MOUNT AIRY, DIES
Distinguished Lawyer Was fqr 28
Years Solicitor of His Judi
cial District
Winston-Salem, Jan. 2. (AP) —Por-
ter Graves, of Mount Airy, 71, for 28
consecutive years solicitor of the
eleventh judicial district, retiring to
private practice of law in 1930, died
at his Mount Airy home early this
morning after a prolonged period of
declining health.
Funeral services will be conducted
at 3:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at
Mount Airy.
Graves went into office in 1902 fol
lowing a long line of Republican so
licitors and for 28 years was not seri
ously threatened with defeat. He was
opposed in the primaries by members
of his own party only a time or two.
FOOTBALL PLAYER
DIES AFTER GAME
Coroner at Elizabeth City Orders In
quiry into Death of John
Rex Mnnden, 21
Elizabeth City, Jan. 2 (AP)—A
coroner’s inquest was called for
this afternoon to investigate the
death of John Rex Munden, 21,
football player, who died last night
four hours after participating in
a game between the Cardinals, his
team, and an all-star outfit.
Teammates said Munden gave
no indication of being hurt in the
game, in which he played about
five minutes. One theory of his
death was that adute indigestion
was responsible.
OUR WEATHER MAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, probably rain tonight
and Sunday; somewhat warmer
tonight.
WEEKLY WEATHER.
South Atlantic States: Generally
fair most of week; colder at be
ginning, with temperatures there
after near normal over north and
near or slightly! below normal over
south portion of district
Germany To Continue Rough
Treatment Os Spanish Ships
Until Own Rights Accorded
AS TROOPS SOUGHT KAI-SHEK
i'i . -V. "v- G;! ••..
*
View outside wall of Sianfu as Kai-Shek was held
In this picture just received from China, traffic is seen halted out
side the walls of ancient Sianfu as loyal Nanking troops threatened
to attack the rebel soldiers under Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang in
an effort to free Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, Chinese premier,
seized by Marshal Chang and then finally released. In the back
ground are the barracks used by Marshal Chang’s men before they
retreated inside the walls and locked the gates.
—Central Pres a
Durham Barber Is
Held In Slaying
Durham, Jan. 2.— (AF) —Charlie
Brown, a barber, was detained on
a coroner’s jury recommendation
today while authorities continued
their investigation into the death
of his wife, Mrs. Leona Brown.
Mrs. Brown’s body, partly sub
merged in a creek, was found un
der a bridge near here about 300
yards away from her abandoned
car. An autopsy showed she had
been hit over the head several
times.
WOMAN MAYOR IS
CLINGING TO JOB
Daytona Beach Official Gets
Injunction Blocking Gov
ernor’s Order
Daytona, Beach, Fla., Jan. 2 (AP)
Defiant Mrs. Irene Armstrong clung
to her mayor’s job today under pro
tection of a court order which balk
ed Governor Dave Sholtz’s bayonet
backed effort to oust her.
Adjutant General Vivien CoWins
summoned 200 Guardsmen yesterday
to enforce the executive order seating
a new city administration, but the
soldiers were sent home soon after
Judge Herbert Frederick enjoined the
Sholtz appointees from taking office.
“Nothing can be done before Mon
day,” the adjutant general said in dis
persing his soldiers. The writ is re
turnable for argument in Judge Fred
erick’s court Monday afternoon.
Meanwhile, a detail of city police
remained on guard in city hall, which
was turned into an armed stronghold
when the governor’s removal orders
arrived.
EMPLOMNOB
CHOICE PLEASING
Appointment of E. W. Price
Is Recognition of Abil
ity, Fitness
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Jan. 2. —The appointment
of E. WL Price, as acting director of
the division of compensation of the
new Unemployment Compensation
Commission and his selection for this
post by the members of the commis
sion—after conference with Governor
elect Clyde R. Hoey, of course —is be
ing generally commended in both bus
iness and political circles here today.
For Price, who has been executive
secretary of the North Carolina In
dustrial ‘Commission since its crea
tion several years ago is regarded by
many as one of the best informed men
on compensation insurance in North
Carolina, as well as an able execu
tive. Much of the success of the In
dustrial Commission is frankly attri
buted to the work done by Price as
its secretary, especially in the man
ner he has supervised the keeping of
records and the collecting of statistics
Since Price has been given the title
of “acting director” of the compen
(Continued on Page Two)
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Army Plane
Crashes And
Three Perish
Ship Falls Near Mun
ford, Ala., After
Coming from Lang
ley Field, Va.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 2.—(AF)—
Major John Patrick, United States
Air Corps, said a seal citing party
found a burned army plane “with
two or three bodies” near Mun
ford, Ala., today, and a United
States Nfival Academy ring of one
of the victims bore the name,
“Howard Shelton, Jr.”
Naval Lieutenant Howard Shelton,
Jr., and Colonel F. I. Elgin, of Lang
ley Field, Va., disappeared on a Light
from Virginia to Maxwell Field at
Montgomery, Alabama, in rain and
foggy weather yesterday.
Major Patrick, Atlanta army air
station commander, said it was not
ascertain whether a third man made
the trip with it.
CCC CAMP MEN HURRIED
TO SCENE OF THE CRASH
Heflin, Ala., Jan. 2.—(AP)—Lieute
nant Carq<f Clarke, commanding a
CCC camp here, said today he had re
ceived a radio message from, a forest
service fire tower, that an army
plane with three officers dead was
found wrecked in woods near Mun
ford, Ala.
Clarke said he had sent four CCC
men to the scene of the crash.
The Maxwell Field dispatches said
Colonel Eglin’s plane nad fuel enough
to continue flying oily to 2:30 p. m.
yesterday. Maxwell Field officials said
their only theory was that the. plane
was down in an isolated section.
threeMpSes
AFTER SITES HERE
One Concern Would Make
Newsprint Paper from
Pine Pulp
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Bv J V BASKEBViIiI.
Raleigh, Jan. 2—At least ihree more
large concerns are seeking locations
for paper pulp plants in the eastern
part of the State, one of which plans
to manufacture news print paper from
pine pulp, it was learned today from
the Department of Conservation and
Development. A new paper pulp
plant has only recently decided to lo
cate at Plymouth, where a large iac
tory will be erected. Two large paper
pulp plants are already located in the
western part of the stale —at Canton
and Sylva —while a third plant is lo
cated at Roanohe Rapids in Halifax
county.
The probable locations of the new
plants could not be learned, other
than that all three are planning to use
loblolly pine wood in the manufacture
of paper and pasteboard pod that the
new plants, when completed, will offer
a market for several tl ousand cords
of pine wood per day.
“Two definite advantages will re-
Continued on Pago Two.)
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
ONE SPANISH SHIP
TAKEN IAWTAGE
Angry ThreaU and “Act of
War” Charges from
Spain Grow Out of
New Incident
EXTREME MEASURES
ORDERED BY BASQUE
International Neutrality
Committee i Apprised of
German Cruiser’s Firing
on Spanish Steamer; Lat
ier’s Boats Ordered To
Resist Foreigners
Berlin, Jan. 2 (AP) —Ger-
man warships will continue
“rough treatment’ ’of Spanish
shipping until Nazi vessels are
respected on the high seas, the
foreign office announced to
night through a mouthpiece.
The warning, apparently in
tended as a threat to Spanish
authorities at Bilbao, came on
the heels of an official announ
cement German warships had
‘ retaliated” against two Span
ish vessels.
TWO INSURGENT VESSELS
SHELL FORT: DRIVEN OFT
Gijon, Spain, Jan. 2.—(AP) — Two
Spanish insurgent warships, the Es
pana and the Velasco, bombarded the
port of Musel today, but were driven
off by government airplanes.
(Musel, the haxbor settlement of
Gijon, on the northern coast, was the
scene of thu Espana’s firing on the
United States gunboat Erie several
weeks ago.)
ANGRY THREATS OF WAR
GROW OUT OF INCIDENT
(By The Associated Press.)
Nazi shelling of one Spanish mer
chantman and what the Germans call
the “reprisal” detention of another,
drew angry threats and “act of war”
charges from Spain today.
Berlin —In “rep ■’'•■als” for Basque’s
retention of of the cargo and one
Spanish passenger from the seized
German freighter Palos, officials an
nounced the Germa- cruiser Koenigs-
Iberg had shelled the Spanish mer
chantman Soton and forced her
ashore on the Basque Bay of Biscay
coast. In an independent action, the
Nazis said, the pocket battleship Ad
miral Graf Spe ■ conducted the Span
steamer Aragon to an undisclosed
port.
Bilbao—Th.‘ Basque government or
dered “extreme measures” following
the Soton s shelling, and sent two
Spanish government submarines and
two airplanes to patrol the Biscayan
ccast and prevent a German blockade.
The Basque disclaimed knowledge of
the Aragon seizure, refusing to alter
their determination to retain “war
materials” and the Spaniard which
was aboard t. e Palos. The Palos her
self has been freed.
Paris The Spanish government
ambassador declared the Soton shell
ing was an “act f war,” anu announc
ed Valencia (Spanish government)
envoys would consul) t BifitUsh and
French government. The Basque gov
ernment already has informed the in-
Continu'’ 1 on Page Two.)
Three Towns
Captured By
Government
Madrid Forces Sup
ported by Aviation
Gunners and Ma
chine Gun Units
Madrid, J-m. 2.—(AP) —Madrid for
ces, supported by aviation machine
gunners, captured three strategic
town& in the Guadalajara sector, a
war office bulletin announced today.
The towns, situated along the high
way leading from Madrid northeast
ward, are Algora, Ahlenquest and
Mirabuero, the war minister report
ed. Socialist air squadrons reportedly
reinforc'd the frontal attack on Fas
cist concentrations by machine gun
ners, traducing of enemy cavalry and
infanrty columns.