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■-RENDERS ON gateway to central CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR KMING THURSDAY ON COURT PROPOSALS ' || m ********** *********** Deadlock Continues In Motor’s Strike Parley WON RECOGNITION AS SPOKESMAN FOR WORKERSJS ISSUE Agency in Collective Bar gaining Is Only Point Discussed By Con ferees so Far ALL OTHER ISSUES EASY OF SOLUTION For That Reason Chief Bone of Contention Is First To Come Up; Flint and Other Motor Cities Heartened by Governor’s Statement of Definite Progress Detroit. Mich., Feb. 6 (AP) Conferees seeking an agreement that will permit reopening of all General Motors strike - bound plants throughout the country met in their eighth session to day, still apparently deadlock ed on the question of union re cognition as sole collective bar gaining agency in the 20 plants closed by strikes. There was no official statement of what constituted the stumbling block in the way of settlement, but the un ion demand that it be named the sole collective '.bargaining agency was known to have been virtually the only point discussed so far. A source close to the conferees said today they definitely were seeking a settlement rather than a truce, but that the collective bargaining issue was taken up first as the major sec tion. While the most cordial relations ap peared to prevail between William Knudesen. vice-president of the Gene ral Motors Corporation, and John L. Lewis, chairman of the committee for industrial organization, the discussion in the court room Chambers at times (Continued on Page Six.) State Bank Resources Reach Peak Raleigh, Feb. 6.—(AP)—State hank resources in North Carolina reached a new high figure on De cember 31. Commercial banks reported re sources of $344,008,321.40, compar ed with a previous record high of $341,750,696.53 on December 31, and a ten-year low of only $175,655,277.33 on June 30, 1933. Total hank resources, including national hanks, reached $447,263,- 3‘Jl.tO in the State December 31, a pain in a year of nearly $42,000,- 00. Gurney p. Hood, State bank commissioner, said “the increase in deposits and Loans in both oom nierical and industrial banks in dicates a continued upward trend in business,” in announcing the annual condition report. Social Bill IN ow Before The Senate Amendments to Old Age, Child Aid Bill Adopted; Counties Escape Burden Bnieigh, Feb. 6.—(AP)—The Senate committee amendments to i ’ rU!, uinistration-backed old age as di ance and child aid bill today, but T , not st art debate on the measure. S ,/ blouse passed and sent to the -'itc bin, s to prohibit sale and use to Unwor t ls in Buncombe county and ( x< mpt Transylvania county from Primary law. count,' t)r Johnson > of Buncombe 11 V introduced three measures to (Continued on Page Three.) iHrniirrßmt Batht tHsuafrli LEASED WIRE SERVICE nw THE ASSOCIATED PRESS° P Flood Waters In Mississippi Now Showing Increase Sand Boils and Seepage Fought AH Along Levee Bat tlefront and Becoming S erious Problem; Increased Water * Continues Threat to Valley Memphis, Tenn., Feb, 6 (AP) —An increased volume of flood water com ing out of the upper Mississippi river almost checked to a standstill today the slow recession of waters at Cairo, 111. Overcast skies and rising tempera tures, Lieutenant Colonel Eugene Rey bold, district engineer, said brought a threat of rain in the Mississippi, where the crest of the all-time high flood headed today. Sandboils and seepage was fought all along the levee line battlefront. A fresh out-cropping of boils in the new sub-levee area west of Dundee, Miss., caused a speeding up of pump New Revenue Bill Is Yet $2,500,000 Under Needs Still Higher Tax Levies Are in Prospect, With Income Tax Probably To Be Res orted to for Laying on Additional Claims for State Money Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKEItVILL Raleigh, Feb. 6—The revenue and appropriations bills are still out of balance by at least $1,363,000, on the basis of the most optimistic estimates made by the committee chairmen, while the more conservative estimates indicate that the finance committee still need to find $2,500,000 more reve nue than they now have in sight to make the revenue bill balance with the appropriations measure, on the basis of the budget recommendations. These estimates are based on the assumption that the appropriations bill when presented to the House will call for not less than $40,000,000 a year for the general fund alone, while at the present time the revenue bill will not yield more than $37,500,000 a year RURAL ELECTRICITY BATTLE INTO OPEfI ■ ) REA Chief in Washington Vents Anger at North Carolina Agencies Dally Dispatch Bnrean, In the Sir Walter Hotel By JT. C. BASKERVIIiIi Raleigh, Feb. 6. —The long-smould ering fight between Administrator Morris L. Cooke of the Federal Rural Electrification Administration in Washington and the North Carolina Rural Electrification Authority has broken into the General Assembly and lienee into the open, as a result of the bill introduced in the House by Repre sentatives W. E. Fenner and C. C. Abernathy, of Nash, and D. L. Ward, of Craven, designed to protect county membership corporations and muni cipally owned electric systems against privately-owned power companies and by putting them on the same basis with all other public utility companies All this bill does is to amend the present laws so that electric member ship corporations, such as those fin anced by the Federal Rural Electri fication Administration, must go be fore the North Carolina Utilities Com mission and obtain a certificate of convenience and necessity before they can build any line paralleling exist ing lines. Thi® certificate then auto matically protects them against any encroachments by private power com panies by preventing any private pow er companies from building any Continued on Page Five.) » FIND STABBED BODY ATTRACTIVE BLONDE Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 6.—(AP)—The stabbed and bruised body of a attrac tive blonde woman about 23 years old, was found in a field here today. Po lice said they were not able to iden tify her! They found her after an anonymous telephone tip “some chil dren have found a woman lying in a field.” : • ..:* ; ......ui : ONLY DAILY ing operations to drown out the boil spots. Sickness hampered work on streng thening the Reelfoot lake levee, where more than 70 WPA workers were re ported ill from dysentery from drink ing river water. A battle to prevent an outcropping of disease was under way all over the flood zone. , RECESSION OF CREST IS RETARDED BY NEW FLOW Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 6 (AP) —In- creased flow from the Mississippi above Cairo, 111., retarded recession of (Cent'- 'led on Page Five) on a conservative estimate, while even the most optimistic members of the finance committee agree that it will not yield more than $38,637,000, in cluding the estimated revenue from Loth the proposed tax on intangibles and the proposed seven per cent State tax on the sale of liquor in the county liquor stores, provided the liquor bill passes and at least 50 counties vote to set up liquor stores. Higher Taxes Coming This means that the finance com mittee must either provide enough new tartes or increase present taxes enough to provide betwen $1,363,000 and $2,500,000 in new revenue, or that the appropriations must be cut that much below the amounts recommend (Continued on Page Four.) TEACHERS ARDUST LIBBIfWARB’S IRE Mass Telegrams From Dur ham Laid Before House by Angered Chief Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Mr J O QASKEaviLI Raleigh, Feb. 6. —The groups of school teachers in Durham who sent Chairman D. L. (Libby) Ward almost identical telegrams declaring that the “teachers of the State are ready to act unless granted a 20 per cent in crease before the administrators re ceive any raise” and “demanding” a hearing before the appropriations committee, did not help their cause any, in the opinion of House members and other observers. Chairman Ward, rising to a point of personal privilage, read the telegrams to the House and pointed out that not only had the committee already extended a hearing to the school forces, including the (Continued on Page Three.) Second Wife Os Smoak’s Is Exhumed Wilmington, Feb. 6.—i(AP)—Solici tor John Burney announced today he had bad exumed the body of Mrs. Annie Mason Smoak, who died 18 months before her huabiand was in dicted on a charge of poisoning hia daughter. The husband, Edgar Smoak, already is scheduled for trial February 22, in connection with the death of his daughter, Annie Thelma, which was ascribed by Dr. Haywood Taylor, of (Continued on Page Three.). NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VISINIA. HENDERSON, N. C„ SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY& 1937 Flint Strikers Wait News of Parley Results Jamming the streets and even crowding the roofs in the strike zone of the General Motors plants at Flint, Mich., these strikers are shown as they awaited word of the results of negotiations for ending the sit-down strike in the motor plants. Five hundred vigilantes have been sworn in at Flint “to put down possible out breaks of rioting” in portions of the city where the NationjU Guard is not on duty. (Central Press) wSS GETNIONEY BILLS Finance and Appropriations Measures Expected To Be Reported During Coming Week TWO TOBACCO BILLS ENACTED INTO LAW Drys To Get Another Hear ing on County Option Li quor Bill Next Thursday; Hike In. Income Tax Im posed; Auto Liability In surance Is Proposed By RALPH L. HOWLAND Raleigh, Feb. 6 (AP)—The General Assembly cleared its major hurdles this week and started down the home stretch with money and liquor prob lems as the principal remaining stacles. The House killed by 58 to 47 a mea sure to ratify a proposed Federal con stitutional child labor amendment but a Senate committee still held the Mc- Kee bill for State supervision of child workers. The McKee measure has the approval of Governor Hoey and the State Department of Labor. Two Tobacco Bills Pass Two tobacco compact bills were passed. One, authorizing North Caro lina to enter into compacts with oth er tobacco-growing states, was fired upon in the House on the grounds it did not protect the “little man” and contained loop-holes. The House vote was 91 to 11. The measure passed the Senate unanimously. On Friday, a supplementary bill, creating the right of appeal and challenge was passed by the legislature under suspension of rules. Proponents of the original bill had agreed with advocates of the sup (Continued on Page Four.) OtJRWHTHEPMAN □ FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and warmer to night; Sunday mostly cloudy, war mer. V ■ ■■■■ ■ ■* WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST. South Atlantic States: Rainy period near beginning and toward end of week; temperatures above normal at beginning, followed by colder middle of week, warmer about Friday. Ships Sail Again From West Coast San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 6—(AP) —The first strike-bound American merchant ships sailed the Pacific today after three months in which the American ffag was scarcely seen on the world’s greatest ocean. The liner President Hayes put out from Honolulu at 2:15 a. m. today, Pacific standard time, the. first Tegular sailing of a merchant ship from a Pacific port since the 98-day maritime stukc was called. Taken off by Rescue Boat Off Charleston; Two. Ships Lose Rudders. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 6.—(AP) — The crew of a burning schooner, the Wlil liam A. Morse, was taken aboard the S. S. Tela in heavy seas off Charles ton, S. C., early today as coast guard cutters hurried to the aid of two ships with broken rudders. Coast Guard division headquarters here said the Tela reported at 5 a. m. the fire was still raging aboard the schooner, whose home port is list ed at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and it would be a total loss. Two freighters, the El Occidente and the S. S. Rigel, were drifting with oroken rudders in heavy seas running before a northeaster along this section of the Atlantic coast. TOLVOMD I ’ But Anti-Flood Folks Insist This Is Best Method Yet for Control By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. 6.—The curious argument again is heard that disas ters like floods have at least one com pensatory feature: ... Work is made for many hands ef fecting repairs. To all economists this reasoning gives an acute pain. Their contention is that a com munity which has accumulated a cer tain amount of wealth, only to see it wiped out by flood, fire, earthquake or some other catastrophe, is just that much poorer. It is as if an individual saved his money until he had a sub stantial nestegg and then had it “go bad“ on him suddenly; he might toil and save again until he had as gqod a nestegg or a ibetter one than he.bad before, but he never would consider (Continued on Page Six) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Spain’s War Fought Over Wide Region Meantime, Non - In terventionists Seek to Stay Out of Spain Altogether (By The Associated Press.) Spanish insurgents fought today to keep Cordoba, Socialist government troops fought to keep Malaga, non-in terventionists in. London fought to keep out of Spain. ‘ Russlian insistence, supported (by France, the Soviets he permitted to participate in an international patrol of the warring Iberian peninsula theatened somewhat a fresh start next Tuesday on non-intervention negotiations. Spanish Socialist ministers agreed conditionally to the neutrality plan. The negotiators want to set a dead line for the influx of foreign volun teers. Screened by cavalry and rumbling tanks, signalled over-head by ground strafing planes, the Spanish Socialist government troops tried to snatch the capital of Cordoba from their Fascist foes while the insurgents laid siege to the government Mediterranean sea port of Malaga. Far to the north on the Biscay front, Socialist artillerymen renewed an attack on the long-besieged insur gent stronghold of Oviedo. The Madrid fronts were compara tively quiet. President To Get Huge Relief Bill Likely On Monday Washington, Feb. 6. —(AP)—Spokes- men for the Senate and House reach ed an understanding today which they hoped would complete congressional action Monday on the $950,000,000 re lief and deficiency bill. The measure, carrying urgently needed funds for flood victims and unemployed, bogged down two days ago as a result of Senate amendments and conferees named by both bran ches have been trying to effect a com promise. Chairman Buchanan, Democrat, Texas, of the House Appropriations Committee, one of the conferees, said ■they had eliminated all but two points of controversy and had reached an 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY BITTER BATTLE ON CAPITOL HILL SEEN AS DEBATES BEGIN Democratic Leaders Stun ned by Sweeping Request of Roosevelt for Larger Powers PASSAGE OF PLAN FORECAST, HOWEVER Supreme Court Justices Si lent on President’s Propo sal; May Be Invited To Testify When Hearings Are Started in Committees of Congress Washington, Feb. 6 (AP) — A House committee today set Tuesday for first congressional consideration of 'President Roosevelt’s history- making court reform plan. Its tempes tuous reception foretold a bitter battle on Capitol Hill. “We’ll take their baby and look at it,” said Chairman Sumners, Demo crat, Texas, of the judiciary commit tee. He added two phases of the judi cial reorganization program, “those dealing with retirement of Supreme Court justices and intervention of the government when constitutional ques tions were involved, had started on their way to Congress before all this hell broke loose.” While stunned, Democratic leaders predicted an eventual, if hard won, victory, and pledges of support out numbered protests. Senator Van Nuys, Democrat, of Indiana, and Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska, said they would ask the Senate Judiciary Committee to invite Supreme Court Justices to testify. But they thought the jurists might withhold any views on the President’s proposal for a pos sible increase of the high court’s mem bership from nine to 15. The justices themselves continued a tight-lipped silence. Chief Justice (Continued on Page Six.) Love Flees Withßomeo Dozing On Excelsior Springs, Mo., 6. —(AP)— While Harold Hulen, the radiator Romeo, dozed outside a closed bed room door, his love flew out of the window—and boarded an air liner for; New York early today. Miss Florence Hurlbutt, 20-year-old brunette, slipped out of her bedroom window at the home of T. E. Craw ford, where she had taken temporary refuge, and fled without awakening her “sitdown” lover. She drove to Kansas City and boarded a plane ibound for New York at 4:29 a. m., eastern standard time, plane was due in New York at 10:53 a. m. The sudden departure of the object of his affections left Hulen in a pre dicament. He had started his strike chained to a radiator in Miss Hurlbutt’s apart ments, announcing he would not move until she made up her mind about a marriage proposal. But when the girl moved to the home of Crawford, who is Hulen’s uncle, the striker moved also, chaining himself to a radiator outside the guest bedroom. understanding on those. The conferees agreed to recommend use of departmental funds in connec tion with congressional investigations he banned beginning July 1. The Sen ate had stricken from the bill a House provision which would have prohibit ed this practice immediately. Buchanan said they also had agreed to regulation of congressional inves tigators’ salaries iby the classification act. The Senate had proposed eli mination of the $3,600 limit now ap plying to such salaries. Both branches will have opportun ity to vote on these adjustments be fore the measure goes to President Roosevelt.
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