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ROOSEVELT URGES COURTS 10 BE LIBERAL
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Legislature Gets Bills To Abolish Absentee Ballot
1 PRESIDENT THINKS
NO NEED TD ALTER
THE CONSTITUTION
“Enlightened” Interpreta
tion of Nation’s Organic
Law Is What Is
More Urgent
NRA PROBLEMS ARE
DECLARED PRESSING
Statute Outlawed, but Is
sues Remain, Roosevelt
Tells Congress in Annual
Message Delivered in Per
son at Joint Session of
House and Senate
Washington, Jan. 6 (AP)
President Roosevelt called today
for an “enlightened” interpre
tation of the Constitution to har
monize Congress and the courts
in meeting “present national
needs.
Standing before a joint session of
the overwhelmingly Democratic 75th
Congress, Mr. Roosevelt, without men
tioning the Supreme Court by name,
said "a liberal interpretation” rather
than "alteration” of the Constitution
was needed. He reaffirmed his be
lief NRA objectives “were sound.”
The itatute of NRA has been out
lawed. he told the assembled Senate
and House. “The problems have not.
They are still with us.’ ’
The President, greeted with shouts
and cheers by Congressmen elected in
the November landslide that returned
him to office, said it was “high time
for democracy to assert itself’ 'when
militarism was leaping forward
abroad, adding:
The process of our democracy must
not be impelled by the denial of es
sential powers of free government.”
As the first cargo of $7,284,000 of
munitions and airplanes licensed for
export to Spain slipped out of New
York harbor, Mr. Roosevelt urged
quick action to halt such shipments,
said some dying statutes should be ex
tended quickly and a deficiency ap
propriation swaftly made for relief
purposes.
2 Condemned
Men Fail To
Win Appeals
Raleigh, Jan. 6.—(AP) The
Mate Supreme Court found “no
error” today in two capital cases
and ruled unconstitutional a law
providing for the licensing by the
North Carolina Real Estate Com
mission of eight real estate brok
ers and salesmen.
The licensing law had applied only
in certain designated counties.
In declining a new trial to Alfred
Puckett, of Richmond county, een
>‘ i cud to asphyxiation for the murder
' f Roy Rhyne, the court automati
cally set his death date as January
22 unless the governor intervenes.
Charles Smith, Columbus Negro,
fnund guilty of first degree burglary,
v i" was refused a new trial, also will
din on that date.
Bitter Under-Cover Fights
For Agriculture Positions
Grange and Farm Bureau Have Their Men for Senate
and House Chairmanships; Compacts by no Means
Favored by All, Not Even All of the Farmers
Daily Dispatch Kureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
lly .1. C. IIASKERVILL
Raleigh, Jan. 6.—A bitter under
cover fight has been in progress and
i more and more intense for the
chairmanships of the House and Sen
ate agriculture committees, it was
learned here today. The reason for
'•bis unusual interest in the agricul
ture committee is the expectation that
a tobacco compacts bill will be in
ti oducod early in the session and the
forces for or against this bill are anxi
ous to have chairmen named who will
be favorable to them, according to
most observers here.
The two most influentail farm or
ganizations in the State, the Grange
and the North Carolina Farm Bureau,
aic already on record as favoring the
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only DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIISINIA.
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
France Ponders Mobilizing
Army On Spanish Frontiers
MOVING DAY FOR HOEY FAMILY
si I fciMIMP
Gov.-Elect Clyde R. Hoey, who will be inaugurated Jan. 7, is shown with
Mrs. Hoey and their daughter, Isabel, at their home in Shelby while mak
ing preparations for moving to the executive mansion in Raleigh.
EHKHAUS HELPS
AGRICULTURE WORK
Governor’s Administration
Also Noted for Friendli
ness to Labor
MANY PRISON REFORMS
Local Government Units Have Been
Assisted in Lifting Themselves
Out of Their Financial
Difficulties
Daily Dis|»iit«'h Riirenn.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
lly J. C. MASKER VI M,
Raleigh, Jan. 6. While the admin
istration of Governor J. C. B. Ehring
haus is pro:ably better known for its
fiscal and educational reforms than
for anything else, much has been done
for agriculture, labor, for local gov
ernments, highways and along the
lines of prison reform, those who are
evaluating the accomplishments of the
past four years point out.
The farmers have probably benefit
fed as much from the Ehringhaus ad
ministration as any one group. In ad
dition cO the large reduction in pro
perty taxes which resulted when the
State took over the cost of maintain
ing the schools, it is now generally
conceded that but for Governor Eh
ringhaus and the firm stand he took
with the AAA in Washington, the to
bacco farmers would not have been
(Continued on Page Six.)
enactment of a tobacco control and
compacts bill, while most of the iarge
tobacco farmers are also interested in
the enactment of a bill of this nature.
They believe that it will limit acre
age, hence decrease the size of the to
bacco crop and accordingly compel
the tobacco manufacturer to pay high
er prices for their tobacco. The com
pact and crop control movement is
also regarded as having the full ap
proval and cooperation of the United
States Department of Agriculture and
the Federal Agricultural Extension
Service.
Many Opponents.
But not all of the tobacco farmers
favor the bill, it is agreed. The smal
(Continued on Page Six.}
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 6, 1937
Bad Weather For
Hoey’s Inaugural
Raleigh, Jan. 6. (AP) The
weather Bureau today forecast
“cloudy weather with rain at in
tervals” for Raleigh tomorrow on
inauguration day.
Committees in charge of the in
augural ceremony! for Clyde Hoey,
of Shelby, who will become the 81st
governor of North Carolina elected
by the people, still predicted a huge
crowd would be here.
Farmßr reau
Seeks Quick
Control Bill
Speedy Action On
Tobacco Compacts
Is Sought in The
General Assembly
Daliy Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By •>. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Jan. 6. —The North Caro
lina Farm Bureau Federation is go
ing to seek to ram-rod a toibacco com
pacts and crop control bill through
the 1937 General Assembly as quick
ly as possible. This decision was
reached in a meeting of more than
100 directors and members of the Fed
eration here Tuesday, at which the
legislative program was outlined by
President J. E. Winslow and Execu
tive Secretary H. F. Arnold. Copies of
the model bill which will be present
ed, which was written in Washing
ton and which was said to have the
approval of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture and the officials
of the old tobacco division of the
AAA, was distributed to the members
present and they were urged to go
back to their home counties —32 coun
ties were represented at the meeting
—l<> call meetings of the tobacco far
mers in those counties, get them
indorse the bill and then apply pres
sure to the members of the legisla
ture from those counties in an effort
to force its enactment as soon as pos
sible.
Secret Committee Named.
At this same meeting a secret com
mittee was appointed to call on Lieu
tenant Governor W. P. Horton and
Speaker R. Gregg Cherry to urge the
appointment of chairmen of the Sen
ate and House agriculture committees
who are “dirt farmers,” and if pos
sible toibacco farmers, instead of to
(Continued on Page Four.)
Britain, Meanwhile, Hurries
Array of Fighting Ships
To Mediterranean
Region
RUSSIA AND SPAIN
HURL ACCUSATIONS
Bitter New Charges Aimed
at Italy and Germany; So
cialist Government Rushes
Reinforcements to North
west of Madrid as Fascists
Press Attacks
Madrid, Jan. 6, —(AP) —Fascist
artillery and air attacks disrupted
• tihe capital's celebration of the
Feast of the Magi today as insur
gent gunners dropped six-inch
shells into the central district and
airmen bombed University City.
Sixteen tri-motored bombers, es
corted by 24 pursuit planes, bomb
ed Socialist lines in the North
western University City area, and
a sector ten miles from the cap
itnL
(By The Associated Press).
Soviet Russia and Socialist
Spain launched bitter new accu
sations at Fascist Italy and
Nazi Germany today, while
France considered rushing
troops to her Spanish border,
and Britain shifted 172,000 tons
of fighting ships in the' Medi
terranean.
Another Soviet steamer, the ninth,
was seized by insurgent sea forces in
the Straits of Gibraltar.
' Geneva—The Spanish government,
protesting dual violation of her sov
ereignty by Italy and Germany sought
League of Nations action.
Moscow—A government spokesman
(Continued on Page Six.)
Hoey Off To
Raleigh For
Inauguration
Shelby, Jan. 6. —(AP) —Governor-
Elect Clyde R. Hoey, accompanied by
Mrs. Hoey and their daughter, Miss
Isabelle Hoey, left Shelby at 10 o’clock
this morning by automobile for Ra
leigh, where tomorrow he will be in
augurated.
Only one city traffic officer and a
State highway patrolman escorted
the car to the city limits in deference
to the wishes of the governor-elect.
“I want to leave Shelby as a private
citizen and Without; formaUfty’,’'’ he
said.
chilleMng
FOR MATTSON BOY
Intercede for His Safety;
Strangers Visit G-Men
Headquarters
Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 6.—(AP)-p
A visit by two southwest Wash
ington men to kidnap investiga
tion headquarters today revived
speculation the abductors of ten
year-old Charles Mattson may be
hiding near Shelton.
The pair was identified as a
Shelton business man and a resi
dent of Hoodsport, near Shelton.
They were closeted with agents
at the Federal Bureau of inves-
Continued on Page Five.)
OUR WEATHER MAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy tonight and Thurs
day; occasional mist and rain; not
much change in temperature.
Seizes Spanish Ships
' i
Admiral Carls, new commander of
Nazi fleet.
Disagreement over the naval pol
icy of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler in
reference to Spain resulted in the
surprise retirement of Admiral
Foerster, commander of the Ger
man fleet, and the elevation of
Admiral Carls, above, as new
commander. According to reports,
Admiral Foerster insisted it
would be disastrous to the small
German fleet to risk trouble with
the British and French navies.
Admiral Carls, however, has been
boldly seizing Spanish Loyalist
ships—carrying out Nazi policy
in a striking manner.
—Central Press
FOR Visions
Fast Rise Os
Militarisms
President Urges
Safeguards to Pow
ers of Free Govern
ment in U. S.
Washington, Jan. 6. —(AP) —Presi-
dent Roosevelt summoned the courts
today “to do their part in making
democracy successful,” and “within
the framework of the Constitution,”
“at a time when militariasm has leapt
forward” abroad.
Addressing a joint session of the
Congress from the speaker’s dais in
the House chamber, the President
said :
“The vital need is not alteration
of our fundamental law, but an in
creasingly enlightened view with re
ference to it.
“We do not ask the courts to call
non-existent powers into being, but
we have a right to expect that con
ceded powers of those legitimately
implied shall be made effective instru
ments for the common good.”
“The process of our democracy
must not be imperilled by the denial
of the essential powers of free gov
ernment.”
Many Sections Os
South Threatened
By Flood Waters
(By The Associated Press)
Thousands of southerners anxious
ly watched cloudy skies today while
dozens of streams on the Gulf and At
lantic watersheds rolled along in the
flood stage danger zone.
A week of almost ceaseless rain in
the holiday period submerged lowly
ing lands and did extensive crop dam
age.
A generally clear Sunday and Mon
day gave brief respites, but resump
tion of rain late in the latter day and
yesterday revived the threat. There
was some cessation overnight 4 but
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
One Bill Proposes
Electrocutions For
All Capital Cases
Business, Movies
Pay Highest Wage
Washington, Jan. 6. —(AP) —A
peek into the pay envelopes of
some of the nation’s b»g men and
women, afforded by a Treasury De
partment report to Congress, show
ed today that top salaries went to
movie stars and captains of in
dustry.
OE EArS IN
MOTORINDUSTRIES
Hopes for Settlement, How
ever, Turn to National
Capital, Where Plans
Are Talked
ALFRED SLOAN OFF
TO DETROIT OFFICE
Motor Giant’s President
Hastens to Seat cr Trou
ble; California Governor
Calls on Roosevelt To In
tervene in 69-Day-Old Sea
Strike
(By The Associated Press.)
Opposing leaders in the strug
gle between the United Automo
bile Workers of America and the
General Motors Company in De
troit showed no sign of a truce
today in the labor conflict which
has taken 50,000 men from their
jobs.
HOPES FOR SETTLEMENT
TURN TOWARD WASHINGTON
(By The Associated Press)
Hopes for settlement of the far
flung automotive and maritime
strikes centered today in the national
capital. ,
Government leaders considered
ways of adjudicating employer-worker
differences costing 90,000 workers
employment in those, two divisions of
business and industry.
President Alfred Sloan, Jr., of the
General Motors Corporation, left New
York for Detroit, where Federal con
ciliators sought to bring company of
ficials and union leaders together in
an accord which would put 50,000 Gen
eral Motor employees back to work.
Governor Frank Merriam, of Cali
fornia, w’-ed a request to President
Roosevelt tor his “personal interven
tion” to help restore shipping ope
rations on the strike-bound Pacific
coast, where a 69-day maritime walk
out made 50,000 men idle.
President Rooseveli and Labor Sec
retary Frances Perkins discussed the
automotive strike with the cabinet
Continued on Page Five.)
forecasts for scattered precipitation
over the entire southeast kept con
cern alive today.
Conditions were worse in mid-South
Alabama, where the Cahaba river in
undated thousands of acres and a fl r et
of small boats stood ready to evalu
ate hundreds of families in the Selma-
Uniontown area.
The Roanoke and other Eastern
North Carolina rivers also continued
a slow rise that has done consider
able damage to highways, crops and
a few sawmills. South Carolina
streams were receding after doing
minor harm.
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McDonald Men, Led by
Lumpkin, Move Early
for Election Law Re
forms for the State
BOTH HOUSES OPEN
SESSIONS AT NOON
Principal Clctks Named and
Hall Johnson Again Made
Senate President Protem;
Thomas of Again
Heads House lilies Com
mittee, Cherry Says
Raleigh, Jan. 6 (AP)—Bills
to abolish the absentee ballot
and generally tighten election
Yaws, as well as one to abandon
the use of lethal gas in execu
tions and return to the use of
electrocutions, were dropped in
to the legislative hopper today
as the General Assembly open
ed its biennial f ion.
The House was convened by Speak
er G. egg C nervy, qf Gaston, at 12:02
p. m., and the Senate by its retiring
president, Lieutenant Governor A. H.
Graham, of Orange, at 12:03 p. m.
The first three measures introduced
reflected charges of ’’•regularities in
last summer’s primai'oi, when Clyde
Hoey, of Shelby, defeated Dr. Ralph
McDonald, of Winston-Salem, for the
gubernatoiial nomination.
Two McDonald supporters, Repre
sentatives Lumpkin, of Franklin, and
Spiuill, of Bertie, sent them up in
the House. Besides abolishing the
use of the absentee ballot, in prima
ries, they wouid abolish the use of
markers and assistants in primaries,
and would prohibit entrance of per
sons into voting booths who are not
actually voting.
Representative Dellinger, of Gaston,
sent forward the bill proposing that
the lethal gas chamber, placed in
operation last year, be abandoned,
and that electricity again be used in
legal executions.
Without opposition, W. A. Baker,
former assistant clerk, was elected
principal clerk of the House, and Ray
Eyerly, received the same advance
ment in the Senate.
The Senate forr \lly elected Sena
tor Hall Johnson, of Buncombe, again
as its president protem.
Speaker Cherry announced Repre
sentative Thomas, of Anson, 1935
chairman of the rules committee,
would again head that, group.
NO REAL WORK PROBABLE
BEFORE FULL WEEK YET
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
My J. C. BASK Ell VILL
Raleigh, Jan 6—The 1987 General
Assembly convened in its regular ses
sion at noon today, with Lieutenant
Governor A. H. (Sandy) Graham pre
siding in the Senate, and with Speak
er R. Gregg Cherry, of Gastonia,
(Continued on Page Five)
Embargo On
Arms Pushed
By Congress
Washington .Jan. 6.—(AP) —Con-
gress rushed notion today on a Span
ish anno embargo, but turned aside
first to hear an optimistic report by
President Roosevelt on the state of
the union.
Differences over spending, mone
tary and other polic’’ s were forgotten
in a general desire to speed the ban
after the Slate Deportment reluctant
ly issued permits to export $2,784,000
in munitions and airplanes to bleeding
Spain.
[ Since the neutrality task will carry
into the week-end, the Democratic
majority gave enthusiasm the ascen
dency fur a final c vibration of the
November landslide.
The con ' ing of the electoral vote
before the Senate and House in joint
session provided tne opportunity.
From the way’- democrats and Re
publicans jollied each on returning to
work it was hard to believe the elec
tion had aroused any feelings.
All space in the House chamber had
been spoken tor in advance amid sus
pense over the projected embargo and
uncertainty about what the President
would say.