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ONE THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER -The Foremost Newspaper of The Two Carolinas- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1937 PAGE ELEVEN VAST BUSINESS PROGRAM PROPOSED DU PONT RAPS AT INSECURITY Expansion Awaits Stable Labor Outlook and Settled Regulations, He Declares. NEW YORK, Dec. of 3,000,000 new jobs, investment of $25,000,000,000 of capital in expansion of industry, and a new program over the next years were proposed to recovery, the nation's manufacturers today by Lamot du Pont, president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co.

Addressing the National Association of Manufacturers, meeting here in annual convention, Du Pont said such a program was "staggering in its size and complexity" but "neither hopeless nor impossible." To achieve it, he declared, government must give industry "a reasonable amount of certainty upon which it can count in planning current and future operations." Earlier the 600 executives of American business had heard William B. Warner, president of the association, plead for teamwork between labor and capital, manageand government, and appeal ment, latter for evidence of a "changed attitude toward FOG OF UNCERTAINTY. "The bulk of responsibility for future social betterment," Du Pont asserted, "should be placed on industry's shoulders. And industry accepts the responsibility. Even more, we welcome the responsibility with full confidence in our own and our nation's capacity to discharge it successfully.

All that we ask is the same fair opportunity that we believe should be given the humblest citizen." 11 New jobs, new wealth, and agricultural prosperity could be 'produced only through planned research, planned development, and planned 1 expansion of plant, and administrative facilities. That meant, he said, "planned expenditure of capital months and years in advance of any penny of Describing business as blanketed by a "fog of uncertainty" over future taxes, labor conditions, inflation or deflation, possible new restrictions on capital and profits, Du Pont demanded: "If industry is to be given the fair opportunity to work that it seeks, some definition should be given to what. to those of us i in industry, would constitute a fair opportunIty. "My own thought may be summed up in a sentence: Give industry a reasonable degree of certainty upon which it can count in planning current and future operations." To that end, he "the labor situation must be stabilized, the legal rules under which industry must operate should be stabilized immediately," and business given "positive and reliable assurance that the complicated terms and conditions under which it must function are finally determined, subject only to an unmistakable public demand for their amendment." The speaker, declaring that the purchasing power of a part of the population was too low. that "some parts of our agriculture are disorganized." and that "the whole future is a gigantic question mark." made it plain that he criticized one for the present industrial recession.

"What has been done. wisely or unwisely, is behind us. Let us leave it there," he said. OBITUARIES DAVID M. McDONALD.

Funeral services were held yesterday at Harry's Funeral home for afternoon David M. McDonald, 65. of 1009 West street, with Rev. S. Lockaby of Sixth St.

Andrews church officiating. Burial was in Elmwood cemetery. Mr. McDondied Monday night at the home. Surviving three children; Duncan Meaid are and J.

W. McDonald. both of Donald and Mrs. J. P.

Stevens of MelCharlotte, bourne, Australia; tour step-children. H. R. and H. E.

Jones, all of mond, and Mrs. Fred Drews of Charlotte. ERNEST WALTON MeCALL. CHESTER, S. Dec.

-Ernest Walton McCall, 57, Spanish-American war veteran, died at the Veterans' hospital Columbia Monday of heart trouble. at went to the hospital last Friday and He had been in declining health for a number of Funeral services will be years. Wednesday aftrnoon at 3 conducted at the home in Chester. Burial o'clock will be in Evergreen cemetery. He is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Flonnie Horton McCall and the following children: Mary Lou McCall, Miss Hazel Janet Miss and Clyde Churchill McCall. all McCall, Chester, Miss Ruth Ormand McCall of of Charlotte, N. Ernest Walton M. McCall, Jones of Jr. of Washington, Portola, D.

Chalmers Samuel Mrs. Hal McCall of Fort Belvoir, three brothSamuel Caldwell McCall, Luther ers, Pinckney McCall. both of Charlotte. N. Charles Ferdinand McCall of and and one sister Mrs.

R. M. Greenville, of Chester. He was a native of Lowry Rozzelle Ferry, Mecklenburg county, N. moving to Chester 22 years ago, where in various lins of business.

He he engagd member of the First Baptist church was a and was a Woodman of the World. MRS. WILLIAM ALEXANDER. Funeral services will be held this morning at 11 o'clock at the Sharon Presbyterian church, for Mrs. William Alexander, wife of William Alexander of the 80, Statesville road.

Rev. C. H. Little will Mrs. Alexander died at the officiate.

home Monday. She is survived, besides her husband, by three sons, W. P. Alexander of Asheville, J. M.

Alexander of Monroe, J. R. Alexander of Charlotte; and two daughters. Miss Lula Alexander and Mrs. J.

E. Morgan, both of Charlotte. MRS. CREACY MULLIS. Funeral services were held yesterday morning at the First Church of God for Mrs.

Creacy Mullis, 82, who died Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. K. S. Philemon, 140 North Pegram street. Rev.

J. W. Strotman officiated, assisted by Rev. B. B.

Sellers, and burial was in Mullis cemetery, Mrs. Mullis is survived by three sons. W. E. Griffin of Concord, J.

A. Mullis of Charlotte, and John MulHis of Union county; and one daughter, Mrs. Philemon of Charlotte. BUFORD C. ROBERTS Word has been received here of the death Sunday night In A Cleveland, Ohio, hospital of Buford C.

Roberts, 43, for many years a resident of Charlotte. Mr. Roberts died of a neart attack. Funeral services will be held in Hartville. Ohio, Thursday morning.

He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Roberts of this city, Surviving are four brothers, A.

C. Roberts, and V. G. Roberts, both of Charlotte: D. H.

Roberts of Baltimore, and F. Forbes of Roanoke Rapids; and one sister, Mrs. Thomas Baynard of Spartanburg, C. A HAVERTY'S CHRISTMAS A N. Y.

Man's Fate Is Still A Mystery ARTHUR FRIED. KIDNAP THEORY NOT ABANDONED Bronx Manager's Family Denies $100,000 Ransom Note, But Police Are Dubious. WHITE PLAINS, N. Dec. (AP) Arthur Fried, 32-year-old Bronx office manager who disappeared, Saturday missing today, night, and still West- was chester county authorities held conflicting views on what had happened to him.

District Attorney Walter A. Ferris, despite denials from Fried's family that a note demanding 000 ransom had been received, was reported unconvinced still that Fried was not kidnaped. On the other hand, detectives engaged in the investigation insisted they were making a routine inquiry into Fried's whereabouts. though they were unwilling to predict what would happen. Fried vanished after attending a movie with his wife.

his brotherin-law. Harold Daniels. and Mrs. Daniels, his sister. Later his ear was found abandoned.

Daniels reiterated his belief Fried disappeared voulntarily, but police were checking on various cars answering the description of one which Daniels said was in the neighborhood of the home of Mrs. Emma Fried. mother of the missing man, shortly before he was last seen. CONTRACT LET TO INSTALL A. S.

T. C. HEATING PLANT BOONE, Dec. an open bid letting here this afternoon, Bagwell Plumbing and Heating company of Durham was awarded a $31,707 contract to revamp the entire power plant and heating system of Appalachian State Teachers' college. Forty-five per cent of funds will come from WPA and the rest from the college.

Acting as officials for the letting were G. P. Hagaman, acting chairman of the board of trustees, Dr. B. B.

Dougherty, president of Appalachian State, T. R. Owen, resident engineer of the PWA, and R. M. Rothgeb, engineer for budget bureau at Raleigh.

According to the budget engineer, who conducted the bidding, Appalachian will have one of the few modern and up-todate plants under automatic control. Eight companies presented bids. 11 H. L. BIZZELL'S MOTHER DIES AT HOME IN KINSTON H.

L. Bizzell, Charlotte druggist, and Mrs. Bizzell of 1908 Lombardy circle have been called to Kinston because of the sudden death there yesterday of Mr. Bizzell's mother, Mrs. J.

J. Bizzell, who had visited a number of times in this city. children surviving Mrs. Gordon Mallard, Mrs. Marvin Baker, and Norwood Bizzell of Kinston and Mrs.

Grover C. Sanders of Portsmouth, Va. Several grandchildren had not been announced. also survive. Funeral arrangements Farley Is Elected.

NEW YORK, Dec. General James A. Farley was elected second vice president of the National Democratic club tonight. Russian Explorers Ready To Quit Floe Soviets Who Have Drifted 745 Miles Since Landing Near North Pole Describe Life in Tiny Hut. from the North Pole toward they were ready to be rescued possible danger.

In the 200 days since they at the top of the world, the campers have floated 745 miles and today reached the position 82.23 degrees north and 6.52 degrees west--off northeast Greenland. Otto Schmidt, bearded chief of the Soviet Arctic ventures, has indicated the men may be taken off the ice in January, when it is estimated they will have reached a point between Greenland and Spitsbergen. Ivan Papanin, chief of the camp, reported today by wireless that the "won't be ashamed to recampers, the mainland since we have collected much valuable data." ALL FOUR SCIENTISTS. His companions are Peter Shirshoff, marine biologist, Eugene Fedoroff, magnetologist; and Ernest Krenkel, radio operator--all engaged in scientific studies in the polar region. They landed at the Pole from an airplane May 21 with nine tons of food, and Papanin today indicated they expected to be rescued by airplane, instead of by icebreaker.

"When planes come get us," he messaged, "we probably will ask the pilots to wait a day longer in order to finish our explorations." Fedoroff has had to suspend measurement of magnetic variations as the campers' floe rotates six or seven degrees daily, Krenkel meanwhile has rigged up a spare radio set on a should sled in force a sudden ice jam explorers to move their camp hastily. Recently, when a strong wind generated enough energy for his windmill-powered wireless station for a detailed account of their life, Krenkel reported: "The last strong wind caused wide fissures and formed new piles of pack ice. DESCRIBES CAMP. (Our camp can be seen from a distance of 10 to 15 meters (32-50 feet.) Around the camp is a wide passageway. It is not particularly pleasant here during a snowstorm.

The fine snow penetrates even the thickest clothing. "Our hut is like a cake with lots of icing. The entrance is closed securely by a triple door--a curtain. "Each of us has mastered his catechism for getting dressed. I.

for instance, have the following rules: "When sitting up in one's bag, don't bump one's head against a corner of the table; when putting one's shirt, don't the inkwell and the bottles of Shirshoff: when one stands up, look out for the sharp screws in the roof; while putting on one's trousers, don't kick the lamp over with one's right foot or knock Shirshoff's desk out of his hands with one's left foot. Each of us has his own desk-a piece of veneer. "The small amount of wall space that is free is covered weapons, torches, and bundles of books." MORE ABOUT COLD WAVE STARTS ON PAGE ONE. death while he clung to a partly submerged boat in the icy Potomac river near Fairview Beach, Va. A companion was rescued.

A frozen pipe burst at Newport, and Charlie Gregory, 30, was fatally injured. A negro was frozen to death in middle Tennessee, and another perished of exposure in his flimsy house at New Orleans. Many of the southern Appalachian ranges blanketed in snow. It was "below zero on Mount Mitchell, in North Carolina. The minimum of 30 degrees at New Orleans was five degrees lower than the coldest day of last win- ter.

NEW ENGLAND COZY. In New England, temperatures were somewhat above normal. Boston was 20 degrees warmer today than Jacksonville. Heavy seas, whipped up by a 50- mile wind undermined of a wharf at Provincetown, and two buildings fell into the harbor. Fishermen valued cordage in the wreckage at $40.000.

Pacific coast temperatures in the 50's were about normal. There was light snow in the Rocky Mountain and Great Lakes areas. Cold. but normal weather was the rule in the Middle West. 12 S.

C. Church Group Meets. FLORENCE, S. Dec. 7-(P)- Rev.

J. T. Fowler of Orangeburg told the educational council of the South Carolina Methodist conference today that "leadership and interest are two essentials in Christian service." Seventy-five ministers and laymen of the six conference districts attended three sessions devoted to various phases of the church's educational program. Browning's Gross Estate Reported As $8,873,520 TEW YORK, Dec. 7-(P)- Edward W.

Browning, real operator who died Octoestate, 1934, left a gross estate of $8,873,520, it was disclosed today when an intermediary accounting was filed by executors in surrogate's court. Provision was made for payments of $6,000 a year to the realtor's first wife, Mrs. Nellie Adele Browning. Payments totaling $44,282 were made to Frances "Peaches" Heenan Hynes, representing dower interests as Browning's widow. Browning's will disinherited 6000 BUSINESS OUTLOOK SEEN Pontiac Automobile Official Says Prospects Are Good for Winter Months.

Prospects for good business during the winter months are very bright, D. U. Bathrick of Pontiac, Michigan, assistant general sales manager of General Motor's Pontiac division, declared yesterday, Mr. Bathrick was in Charlotte for a meeting at the Hotel Charlotte of the personnel of the Charlotte and Jacksonville, Florida, zone offices. Others taking part of the convention of zone executives were C.

E. O'Meara of Memphis, southern regional sales manager; E. C. Gouldman, Jacksonville zone manager; and D. B.

Whitfield, Charlotte zone manager. The meeting held here was one of 26 being held in various parts of the country, at which general sales plans policies for the winter automobile trade are being discussed The Pontiac dealers will start an intensive sales campaign of used cars on December 10. The purpose of this, according to the Pontiac executives here yesterday is to clear the lots of used cars, so that increased volume of new car sales will be within the reach of dealers during the late winter and early spring months. All indications are that the sales volume show a very satisfactory increase during the coming months. He does not believe that conditions in business generally will be such as to slow up automobile sales, and on the contrary believes will be a renewed buying tendency.

Plans the future discussed at tne conference yesterday will be carried to the dealers in a series of dealer meetings number of centrally located points. One will be held in Charlotte Friday, Others in this territory will be in Durbam, Winston-Salem, Asheville and Columbia, S. C. CHILDBIRTH PICTURE BANNED IN NEW YORK ers." 6 TWO ESCAPERS CAUGHT ALBANY, N. Dec.

7-(P)-The sound picture, "The Birth of a Baby," will not be shown in New York State if the State education department can help it. Education Commissioner Frank 1 P. Graves said today he had denied a license to exhibit the picture in the State on the grounds that the film was "indecent, immoral, and would tend to corrupt morals." He said the picture is a "medical treatise in pictorial form presented for the alleged purpose of enlightening prospective fathers and moth- Special to The Observer. SANFORD. Dec.

7-Officers of the local State prison camp were advised this afternoon by officers in Kinston that Marvin McLamb and Joe were the nine prisonerho who among escaped Sunday night, were captured there today. Monroe Hedrick, who also escaped, gave himself up at Varina on Monday afternoon. OfficeN throughout the State are still on the lookout for the remaining six who made a getaway at the time 6 City News FLASHES Peterson Class to Meet. Soviet explorers drifting the Atlantic indicated today as their ice floe approached HIGH ROTARIAN TO BE SPEAKER Intercity Meeting to Be Held at Belmont Next Tuesday Night. About 35 members of Charlotte Rotary club indicated at the weekly meeting yesterday their intention meetinen the inter-city Rotary at Belmont next Tuesday night, at which James M.

Walker of Memphis, a director of Rotary International, will be the chief speaker. District Governor Shep Bryan of Dunn also will have a part on the program, which is being arranged by J. M. Hatch. The occasion will be a joint meeting of Rotarians of Charlotte, Gastonia and Belmont.

"The Migration of an Industry" the subject of a talk at the luncheon of the Charlotte club by Rotarian Hugh Boyer, manager of the Caskie company, Paperles who described the development of manufacturing in the South, paper, he said $100,000,000 has been invested in three or four years, "the greatest amount ever spent by the industry in a similar period." DESCRIBES PAPER PULP. Mr. Boyer described the vast resources for paper pulp making in 11 southern states, mostly long leaf and slash pine. He said 90 per cent of the paper being produced in the South is Kraft, or ordinary brown wrapping paper. The southern pine requires only from 10 to 20 years to attain wood size, he said, while northern spruce requires about 40 years or giving the South great advantage.

However, he indicated that the northern mills have the advantage at present in the manufacture of newsprint, but predicted that they will lose it in a few years. Moreover, the southern paper manufacturers, he said, do not care to make newsprint at about $52 a ton when they can get $95 a ton for Kraft, which costs but little more to produce, and which is in great and rapidly growing demand. Everett Bierman, vice president and manager of the Charlotte Engraving company, gave the weekly talk on "How I Got Where I'm At." Vernon Porter, president of the Southern Radio corporation, was introduced by E. A. Terrell as a new member of the club.

Dr. V. K. Hart presided. 10 The Peterson Bible class will meet at 10 o'clock this morning at the home of Mrs.

W. T. Rowland at 1715 Winthrop avenue. Bridge Party Postponed. The bridge party planned by the Catholic Daughters of America to be held at the O'Donoghue school.

has been postponed indefinitely. To Open Bids Monday. Bids will be opened Monday on three stores to be erected on Pegram street for E. O. Cole.

Louis Asbury, local architect said yesterday. To Elect Officers Tonight. The annual election of officers of the Pritchard Memorial Baptist church will be held this evening in connection with the regular weekly prayer meeting at the church. Legion Unit to Meet. The monthly meeting of Charlotte post, No.

64, North Carolina department of the American Legion, will be held Friday evening at 6:15 o'clock at the Myers Park Country club. Program Chairman H. H. Baxter is arranging a Christmas program. Executive Board to Meet.

The Monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Family Service association will be held at Thacker's restaurant this afternoon at 1 o'clock. Miss Bernice Bish, executive secretary, will make her monthly report. Firestone Employes Meet. Service store and office managers of the Firestone Tire Rubber company North Carolina and South Carolina met in conference at the Hotel Charlotte yesterday. District Manager J.

K. Miller, presided. More than 60 were in attendance. Virginia Asher Class to Meet. The Virginia Asher Bible class will meet for supper at the First Presbyterian church at 5:45 o'clock this afternoon.

Mrs. E. A. Dillard, teacher, will conduct a study of the seventh, eighth, and ninth chapters of Jeremiah. Visitor at Enderly Park.

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Carl Timothy Jump, six-yearold son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Jump, 629 East Eighteenth street, was burned severely yesterday morning on the back and arms when a pot of boiling water was knocked from a stove and spilled on him.

He was taken to the Mercy hospital for treatment. The attending physician said that while the burns were severe the child should recover. Observe 150th Anniversary. The Parent-Teacher association of Alexander Graham Junior High school held a fathers' and mothers' night last night in the auditorium of school in celebration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the signing of the constitution. C.

W. Tillett, Charlotte attorney, spoke on "Loyalty to the Constitution." Dr. C. W. Durden, John's Baptist church, conducted the devotionals and the glee club.

and the chorus of the school sang several songs. Mrs. John P. Kennedy, president, presided. Poetry Society Meets.

The North Carolina Poetry SOciety held its monthly meeting last night at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Ed Summerow in Gastonia. There were eight Charlotte members present at the meeting. Nine original poems were read and the critic. Joe Halstead of Charlotte, gave his review.

Dr. Thomas McDill, president, presided. Election of officers for the coming year will be held at the January meeting to be held here at the Hotel Charlotte. LARGE PERCENTAGE OF '36 TAXES COLLECTED Special to The Observer. MORGANTON, Dec.

7. Ninetysix per cent of Burke county's 1936 taxes were collected by the sheriff's office, it was learned yesterday when Burke's woman sheriff, Mrs. Nina C. Ross, made the annual tax settlement with the board of county commissioners. This is the highest collection percentage in history, said County Accountant R.

M. Davis. The levy was collected by Mrs. Ross and her predecessor-husband, the late Sheriff Fred W. Ross under whom she earlier served as office deputy.

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