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rHENDEKSON catewayto CENTRAL CAROLINA | YEAR MOTORS PARLEY EXPECTED TO COLLAPSE Investigations Begun Into Louisburg Air Tragedy plane crash .near GOLD SAND SCHOOL IS FATAL 10 FOUR Jhree Akron, Ohio, Men and One Woman Killed as Ship Hurtles to Ground Sunday bodies are badly MANGLED IN CRASH All Prepared for Shipment to Homes, Woman’s Body Being Brought Here; U. S. Department of Commerce Expert and County Coro ner Investigate Louisburg. Feb. 8. (AP)—North Carolina’s worst aviation tragedy, which killed four yesterday, today was unde” investigation by county and FHeral authorities. Relatives from Ohio and West Vir ginia came *o claim the mangled bodies of three men and a woman. Franklin county Coroner R. A. Bob bitt, established early today the wo man first identified as Miss Caroline Hanley, of Miami, Fla., was Mrs. Dan ley, a daughter of Mrs. J. W. Car penter, of Box 25, Villa Route, Char leston, W. Va. The other dead are Arthur Conn, president of the Motor Sales and Taxi cab Company in Akron, Ohio; Daniel L. Breen, of Akron, vice-president of the Motor Sales concern, and Chet Betz, the pilot, also of Akron. The coroner said Joe Conn, a brother of one of the men killed, left Akron by plane to fly here. He had not arrived here nor at Raleigh’s air port this morning. J. G. Nall, Department of Com merce inspector at Charlotte, joined Bobbitt in an official investigation, today, finding the plane scattered over ten to 15 acres of a farm near the Gold Sand school, 13 miles north of there. MANY HENDERSON PEOPLE ATTRACTED BY TRAGEDY The tragedy of the northbound air plane was learned here in mid-after (Continued on Page Three.) Every Sort Os Weather Over West 'By The Associated Press) Th western half of the United Stales was a mixing bowl for every variety of mean weather over the week-end dust storms, cloudbursts, blizzards, floods and temperatures ranging from 82 above to 18 below zero. Swollen e.ght times its normal size, the Colorado river put to a severe t'.t a coffer dam for Parker dam in northern Arizona. hour known deaths were attribut 'd to storms and a fifth person, miss tog. was feared dead. During a 30- houi downpour that soaked southern California, a car was swept down ‘ rori > «■ bridge, drowning W. K. IJu ber!, coroner-carpenter. Louis Dress "> was drowned in a San Jacinto mount ain stream, and Walter Ander- ; on of exposure in a canyon near ‘San Diego Burst Os Speed Halts As Budget Fails Os Balance Two Alternative Sources of More Money Are Liquor Profits Grab from Counti es and Statewide Property Tax; Could Cut Down Funds for Schools •hilly l)iis»at«-h Itur«‘»u» In Uic Mir Walter Hotel. r , >l} J. C. MASK i:it VIM t / *'' Feb. B.—The legislative Winery which has been whizzing in high gear for the past four ;inf l which gave promise of the appropriations and rev -11 u ' b.lis into the House from four to _ lx wci'ks ahead of the usual schedule, 1,1 to a stop as a result of , ' ~;i 'ization that the revenue and ' Ppiopriations tbills are from $1,500,- t , u> $2,500,000 out of balance and t,/’ _ a^rn t3sion by the finance commit th <S the y see nc way to obtain ' additional revenue needed with :r 'ci using taxes still higher. i ear Higher Income Tax. auiiTuin Victor S. Bryant, of the EmiirrßLm Bailti listKttrbl LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two Navy Fliers Perish In Crash Pensacola, Fla., Feb. 2 (AP)— Two United States navy fliers were killed today by the crash of a plane in which they were making flights to obtain flying condition infor mation for the Weather Bureau. The victims were Carl Lind, 29, pilot and mechanist mate first class at the naval air station here, and William Schnooberger, 39, of South Haven, Mich., chief aerogra pher for the stations Weather Bu reau. A naval board of inquiry was appointed to investigate the crash, near the country club north of here. Lind’s home was in San Diego. Cal. OLD AGE PENSIONS UP BEFORE SENATE Appropriations Committee Works Hard To Balance Bill With Finance Measure THREE BUXSARE PASSED IN HOUSE Six New Ones Introduced; Tribute Paid to Late Clem G. Wright, of Greensboro, Former Member of House; Organized Drys Prepare for Hearing Raleigh, Feb. 8. —(AP) —Legislative attention centered today on opening of consideration by the Senate tonight of the old age assistance and child aid bill, and the House held a per functory midday session. Teh appropriations committee con tinued work this afternoon on trying to put the money-spending bill in ap proximately balance with the one in the revenue measure. House members introduced six new bills and passed three. One sent to the Senate would pro vide that stripes be worn by prisoners only after the felons have broken prison rules. The House paid tribute to the late Clem G. Wright, of Greensl-oro, a for mer member, by adjoining in honor of his memory. Representative Mur phy, of Rowan, said Wright was "one of the sweetest characters I have ever known.” Bills passed by the House included HB 189, Royster of Granville, to amend the charter of Oxford. Members of the General Assembly returned to the Capitol today for an other week’s work, expected to in clude action on the old age assistance and the county option liquor measure and introduction of the revenue and appropriations bills. The Senate will take up the old age assistance bills at a session tonight. Under the measure the State and counties would pay half the cost of the old age assistance program and an equalization fund would aid the poorer counties in footing their share. Organized dry leaders prepared to fight the county option liquor bill, passed by the House last week, be fore Senate Judiciary Committee No. 1 at a committee hearing Thursday t Onnt.lnijort on Lap•«» TVirpp* House Finance Committee, admitted today that he and his committee have considered and investigated every possible source of new revenues they could think of, that the bill was still about $1,300,000 short of producing enough revenue to balance with the appropriations bill, on the basis of present estimates, and that they were up against the proposition of "find ing the money where the money isn’t." He admitted that the commit tee might have to go back and con sider a general upward revision of the income tax schedules, both personal and corporate, unless some new and as yet undiscovered source of addi (Continued on Page Three.). ONLY DAILY REVISED PENSIONS BILL JO SET UP NO ; NEW DEPARTMENTS Supervision Would Be Un der Department of Wel fare With Mrs. Bost Remaining MANY WANT A MAN TO ADMINISTER JOB Would Let Governor Ap point Chairman of State Board; County Boards Will Be Selected by Local Agencies and State Board, Under New Proposal Dully Difcpatrb Bureau, In the Sir \% alter Hotel. Bv .1 r UAS-viS:iVII,T Raleigh, Feb. B.—The old age pen sions bill as revised by the joint com mittees on public welfare and which is now in the Senate as a committee substitute for the Gravely old age pen sions and children’s aid bill, contains a number of important changes as compared with the original bill, it was pointed out today by Mrs. E. L. McKee, chairman of the Senate Wel fare Committee, which reported the bill favorably as amended. It is ex pected that the Senate will take up consideration of this thill either to night or at the Tuesday morning ses sion. Senator McKee is hopeful that the Senate will pass the bill on all three readings by not later than Wed nesday. Under Present Board. The committee bill places the ad ministration of the old age pensions and aid to dependent children under the supervision of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, with (Continued on Page Three.) H °timelyinflooo Relief Administrator Well Qualified for Relief Needs in West By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. B. Chief Harry L. Hopkins of WPA was made to or der to meet such emergencies as re lief of the thousands of sufferers from thiß year’s floods. Admiral Cary T. Grayson of the Red Cross, Gen. Malin Craig of the United States army, Gen. Edward M. Markham of the engineers and Dr. Thomas Par ran, Jr., of the federal (Continued on Page Eight.). NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C„ MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 8, 1937, Six Supreme Court Justices Affected by President’s Plan |C v ,I', V'- ✓ :« .1 vv'A *' Cv ■'.j ;<' if. I ff Jk- i BSHH - rHHI * ■F t S. BWH k v IL-jl WJm |Ly| W jJ/K Six of these nine justices of the U. S. supreme court would be af fected by President Roosevelt’s plan of naming an additional justice when an incumbent has reached the age of TO, has held office 10 Roosevelt’s Radical Plan: I For Court Up In Congress Washington, Feb. 8. — (AP) House and Senate leaders charged with directing the course of the President’s court reorganization bill through Congress lunched at the White House today. Invited to the White House table were Senators Ashust, Dem ocrat, Arizona, anid Representa tive Sumner, Democrat, Texas, judiciary committee chairmen. The Supreme Court, which has re mained aloof from the controversy developing over the President’s pro posal, which would permit an increase in its membership, met today, but re turned no decisions. The Senate Civil Liberties Commit tee resumed its nvestgation of labor espionage and ran into a refusal by the Pinkerton national detective agency to furnish the names of its agents engaged in such work. Am agency attorney said such disclosures “would lead to violence and even mur der.” The committee reported to the Sen ate today “espionage has become the Mississippi River Crest Moving Off Civic Group Charges Official Blundering In Reckless Warn ings Sounded Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 8 (AP) — High waves churned waves against the* levees system here today while the crest of the Mississippi’s greatest flood pushed slowly southward. From one source came charges of “official blundering” in the handling of the valley’s high water fight The Weather Bureau guage at Mem phis showed 48.4 feet today. Metreo logist F. W. Grist said the high wind was responsible for a tenth of a foot of the rise because it. held back sur face waters, and that the crest was near at hand. Wind and rain handicapped the levee force at Tiptonville. A large section of Reelfoot levee at Mile Seven slipped off into the water last night. The section, seven miles below Hick man, Ky., was reinforced immediate ly. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. B.—(AP)—Re cord flood crests, apparently tamed by the river’s sturdy levees, pushed slow ly down the Mississippi today while a (Continued on Page Three.) years and has neither retired nor resigned within six months after reaching 70. There is a rumor that Justices Van Devanter and Me Reynolds would resign immediately if the president’s bill is passed.; •—Central Jt’rcss habit of American management.” The stock exchange firm of WL E. Hutton & Company asked the Se curities Commission to quash an or der directing it to show cause why it should not be suspended from 14 ex changes on charges of having mani pulated Atlas Tack Corporation stock President Roosevelt appointed an emergency three-man fcoard, headed by Chief Justice John Devaney, of the Minnesota Supreme Court, to study a dispute between the Chicago Great Western railroad and union employees The secretary of agriculture, Henry Wallace, proposed to a conference of national farm leaders an “ever normal granary” plan for controlling major crops when supplies become excessive. One way would be to insure an even supply of farm produce in both good years and bad. Washington, Feb. 8. —(AP)—Mem- bers of Congress turned today from animated private discussions of the President’s court reorganization pro posals to the long formal process of deciding whether to enact them into law. Rebels Are Determined In Attacks (By Associated Press.) The insurgent armies of Spain at tacked on Malaga and Madrid fronts today in a stage of the civil war quite without precedent and not entirely ex plained. Confident of quick capitulation, they invaded the outlying precincts of Malaga and announced the popu lace of that Mediterranean seaport was starving and menaced by blood thirsty anarchist bands within the streets. They moved through difficult mirt southeast of Madrid toward the road which runs to Valencia, temporary seat of government, and which car ries supplies to the real capital—be leaguered for threo months. Capture of Malaga would mop up a section of the Mediterrean coast (Continued on Page Three.) OURW^njERMAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, rain and colder Tuesday. . „ PUBLISHED EVERY AFTEKNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Even before the administration measure was before it, the Senate Judiciary Committee was ready to talk it over at a morning session. Some comments showed the commit tee was divided on the President’s recommendations, particularly on his proposal an additional justice be nam ed to the Supreme Court whenever a member over the age of 70 did not re tire. Mr. Roosevelt suggested 15 as the maximum membership. It was introduced in the House on Friday by Representative Maverick, Democrat, Texas, and the House Judi ciary group will begin studying it to morrow. Although regular debate will not be gin in either branch of Congress until the committees report on the legisla tion, discussion has been so wide spread many members predicted it would break out on the floor at any time. x In the Senate there were already expressions of opposition from Sena tors Borah, Republican, Idaho; Glass, Democrat, Virginia; Vandenburg, Re publican, Michigan; Bailey, Democrat, North Carolina, and others. Court Again Defers Rule On New Deal Minimum Wages and Gold Boullion Issue Deferred at Least Another Week Washington, Feb. 8 (AP) —The Su preme Court deferred today for at least another week decisions on the two major pending controversies. Those involved the Washington law establishing minimum wages for wo (Continued on Page Three.) ROCKY MOUNT MAN COMMITS SUICIDE J. H. Lamb, 53, Traveling Sales Man ager, Fires Shotgun Charge Through His Heart Rocky Mount, Feb. 8 (AP) —J. H. Lamb, 53, traveling sales manager for a Pennsylvania mill machine company died instantly at his home this morn ing from a shotgun charge through the heart. M. C. Gulley, Nash county coroner, pronounced the death as a suicide. The coroner produced a note he said was written by Lamb and addressed "to my friends,” but the contents were not revealed. Lamb’s wife and daught er survive. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY ralpSi Tries by Telephone And Telegraph To Share As Party at Interest in Conference MURPHY REJECTS A. F. OF L. REQUEST Day’s Meeting Admittedly Crucial Session; Some thing Important One Way or the Other Expected; Governor Remains Out wardly Optimistic Yet Detroit, Mich., Feb. B.—(AP) —Near- ly two hours after they had gathered for another effort to reach a settle ment of the General Motors strike, re presentatives of both the corporation and the United Automobile Workers were still in separate group meetings today. A development today was the dis closure in an informal source that re quests by telephone and telegraph from William Green, American Fed eration of Labor board, for recogni tion of the party at interest in the conferences, had brought a threat from John L. Lewis, C. I. O. leader, to immediately walk out of the meet ing. The A. F. of L. has suspended C. I. O. unions. Green, it was learned, telephoned Governor Frank Murphy Saturday and sent him a telegram Sunday. Murphy did not disclose his response, but it was indicated Green’s request had been rejected. The expectation was generally that the conferences here would break down on the question of collective! bargaining recognition. An authoritative source said Gen eral Motors and union representatives discussing a settlement of the auto motive strike with Governor Frank Murphy, faced a crucial session in their tenth meeting today. "This will be a very important con ference,” the spokesman said. “It may be the most significant one so far. Something important may come out of it.” He declined to divulge whether ho (Continued on Page Three.) Lindberghs Pay Visit To Sicily Palermo, Sicily, Feb. 8 onel and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh land ed at Palermo at 3:10 p. m. today, (9 a. m., eastern standard time) after fighting a 65-mile an hour gale in their flight from Rome. Their flight from the capital took slightly less than five hours, with an average speed of only 60 miles an hour because of the heavy wind blow ing near the Isle of Utica Shortly before their orange and black monoplane was sighted over Bocca di Falco airport, officials ord ered emergency landing fields to be on the alert for the American fliers whose ultimate destination was re ported to be Cairo, Egypt. Regional air squadrons had been ordered to be ready to give assist ance to the Lindberghs if they were forced down. PARKED®! ,BY OYSTER TRUCK Roanoke Rapids Man Is Badly Hurt on Road North of Garysburg Roanoke Rapids, Feb. 8 .AP) —Ben Vester, radio repair man, was in a hospital here today suffering from severe back injuries sustained last night when his car, parked on a high way north of Garysburg, was struck from the rear by an oyster truck of ficers said was driven by Roy Cal cutt, of Florence, S. C. Vester’s machine, reported out of gasoline went over a five-foot em bankment about 50 feet from where the collision occurred. Ed Moseley and Constance Penland, Vester’s com panions, escaped without injuries.
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