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UNITED STATES SENATOR
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0 The next four months may
prove to be one of the most event
ful periods in the Seventy-fifth
Congress. The legislation passed
and the issues raised will certainly
have a sweeping effect on the
whole functions of the Federal
Government. Few can predict any
where near accurately what that
effect will be.
£ Will the President’s Supreme
Court plan pass through opposition
which, to say the least, is for
midable? Will reorganization of
the executive branch of the Gov
ernment, as recommended by the
President, withstand objections
raised, or will it survive? Will the
new farm proposals solve agricul
tural ills in the way proponents
claim? Will the President’s ideas
for relief funds prevail or will the
bloc seeking larger amounts win
out?
^ Let me hasten to say that I
cannot answer those questions.
Weeks of committee studies, hear
ings, public sentiment and many
other factors enter into the situa
tion and must be considered before
the answers are found. However,
it may be said that the individual
members of Congress, perhaps as
never before, appreciate the grave
significance of the questions and
“behind the scenes”—in the quite
of offices and committee rooms—
are giving all facts studied atten
tion.
^ At the moment the Supreme
Court proposal is far and away a
head of all other issues from the
standpoint of importance and pub
lic interest. Throughout our whole
history any suggestion affecting
the nation’s highest tribunal has
brought a barrage of public state
ments. Fortunately, the radio of
fers a new form of discussion and,
with the press, gives our people
ample means of hearing and read
ing both sides of the question.
• Whatever may be said, for or
against the President’s court plan,
there should be kept in mind the
fact that the Chief Executive was
given a tremendous vote of confi
dence last November. The majority
of our people tendered this vote of
confidence. Therefore, any recom
mendation made by the President
deserves to be weighed on its mer
its and given the acid test of “value
to the public good,” rather than be
affected by snap judgment. The
people, with their views reflected in
Congress, will be the final arbiter.
It is an axiom in political economy
that the masses wi,l in the final
analysis, find the correct answer to
any question.
0 For the moment, the proposal
for reorganization of the executive
branches of the Government is in
the background. Directly, it may
carry as much significance to our
people as the Supreme Court plan,
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although it does not stand out near
so high in public interest.
• With regard to the agricultural
problem, messages already sent to
Congress by the President and re
ports of those yet to come indi
cate, that from the standpoint of
agriculture generally the “ever
normal granary” idea—a plan for
storage of surpluses in normal
times to meet times of distress—
and an effort to solve the far ten
antry conditions will be the high
lights. The latter plan may go so
far as to include all rural citizens
now suffering low standards of liv
ing.
^ In connection with these situa
tions and problems, it seems un
usually significant that the Con
gress should be considering grave
constitutional questions in the same
year we begin observance of the
150th annivarsary of the constitu
tion. It may be that the Seventy
fifth Congress may leave its foot
prints on the sands of time from
the standpoint of constitutional ac
tion.
m inciciuic, uieae piuuiems
should be considered without hys
teria, without swayed public opin
ion, and without political bias.
What is best for our people? How
can that best be attained? Those
are the real questions as Congress
comes from around the curves of
organization and preliminaries and
enters the the gruelling speedway
stretch of the next four months.
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Mt. Airy Convict Hit By
Buckshot; Fail To Use
Guns; Take To Heels
Wilmington, Feb. 20.—City and
county officers today hemmed in
and captured Clark York of Mount
Airy and A. W. Pettit of Charles
ton, S. C., two of seven long-term
convicts who escaped from Cale
donia Prison Farm last Monday,
kidnapped three hostages, and sped
on a wild dash through Eastern
North Carolina in a commandeered
automobile.
York was wounded in the back
by a single buckshot, but Sheriff
C. Davis Jones said the wound was
not serious enough to necessitate
hospital attention, and both men
were lodged in the New Hanover
County jail. Sheriff Jones and his
deputies were assisted in the cap
ture by E. L. Aiken, superintend
ent of the New Hanover prison
camp.
Jones said his men fired into the
air and into the ground when the
fugitives ran after being surprised
while standing beside an automo
bile on a side road near the Wil
mington Country Club’s golf
course. It was a wild shot, he said,
that struck York.
Both York and Pettit were armed
with .38-calibre pistols, the officers
reported, but neither used his wea
pon.
Others Missing.
No trace was found of the other
five convicts. The seven escaped by
covering guards at the Caledonia
prison farm with a pistol, sup
posedly smuggled to them, and
forcing two camp officials to ac
company them in a prison laundry
truck. Before leaving the camp,
however, they armed themselves
with pistols from the prison ar
senal.
a rew miles away from the pris
on, they commandeered an auto
mobie driven by Walter Willard,
19-year-old Raleigh youth, and
compelled him to accompany them.
The youth and the two camp of
ficials were freed unhurt about 7
p.m. Monday night near Pinehurst.
Early Tuesday morning, Willard’s
automobile was found abandoned
about two miles from High Point.
Search for the fugitives centered in
that vicinity but there was no def
inite report of their whereabouts
until the capture of York and Pet
tit today.
York was sent up from Mount
Airy under a 45-year-sentence for
bank robbery and a 30-year sen
tence for murder. Pettit, originally
from Charleston, S. C., had a 45
year sentence for bank robbery fac
ing him.
The others who escaped were:
Robert S. Smith, Goldsboro, 15 yrs.
for murder; Bill Payne, High
Point, 40 years, robbery with fire
arms; Ralph Page, Drexel, life for
murder; C. F. Yeager, Norfolk, Va.,
10 years for larceny and safecrack
ing; and J. W. Turner, Marion, 10
years for storebreaking.
Capt. I. D. Hinton, personnel of
ficer of the Caledonia farm, and
Steward W. L. Roberts, the two
hostages besides Willard, returned
to their duties after the convicts
had put them out of Willard’s au
tomobile near Vass, in the Pine
hurst-Southern Pine community.
PITTS SAYS CONVICTS NOW
HAVE COME OUT OF HIDING
Oscar Pitts, acting director of
the prison division, predicted cap
ture of five Caledonia convicts re
maining at large following the ap
prehension of two of their fellow
prison-breakers Saturday near Wil
mington.
“It looks like they’re traveling in
pairs,” he said, “and since they’re
on the move, and apparently not in
hiding any longer, we’ll get ’em
sooner or later.” The seven crim
inals “broke” from Caledonia Pris
on Farm Monday, Feb. 15.
Pitts said the car the men were
using when they were caught was
from Lexington, according to his
first information. He said it would
be checked to determine whose it
was. The men were Clark York
and A. W. Pettit, the latter being a
well-known desperado in the south
eastern part of the State, the pris
on officials said.
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