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CENTRAL CAROLINA YEAR MH: RENEWED FOR MOTORS STRIKE END BILLS PRESENTED FOB REORGANIZING ROAD COMMISSION 1 Offered Simultaneously In Senate and House To I Carry Out Gover nor’s Proposals REVISION PROPOSED OF ELECTION LAWS Appropriation of $50,000,- 000 for Schools for Bien nium Approved by Sub- Committee; White Moves Adoption of Bill To Regu late Cleaners Raleigh, Fob. 9.—(AP) —Two iden tcal bills proposing- complete reor ganization of the highway and public works commission reached the legis lature today. Senator Sparger, of Stokes, offered one. and Representative Johnston, of Iredell, the other, to carry out Gover nor Hoey’s recommendation for en larging the commission to ten mem bers to represent specific districts of the State. The chairman would serve ful time, and the ten members on a per diem basis. The senators, without debate, and under suspension of the rules, on mo tion of White of Vance, quickly en acted the House-approved bill to create a five-member State commis sion to regulate the cleaning, dyeing and pressing business. The measure received Senate committee approval this morning. y Revenue Bill Pressed. This afternoon the finance commit tee continued its work on the finance bill, while the appropriations sub-com mittee sought to wind up its job by reach ng an agreement on highway allocations. Interest already was turning to the Thursday afternoon hearing at which drys will appear against the county option liquor stores bill passed by the House last week. The House got from Representative Blount, of Beaufort, a bill to require power companies and utilities to list for taxation the same property valua tion.- they used for rate making pur poses. The Senate also passed a (bill to amend the charter of Roanoke Rapids (Continued on Page Three.) CLGAREfTEIALERS RESENT, NEW LEVIES 'j Finance Committee’s Classi fication of Vending Machines Hurts llsilly Dispatch Iliirenn. In the Sir Walter Hotel. H> .1. V. IIASKKRVILL Raleigh, P’eb. 9 -Cigarette jobbers and retail merchants who sell ciga i'-tt( are up in arms at the action of ttlfl joint finance committees in clas hing cigarr £ e vending machines in !h< lowest brackets of the slot ma ehini section instead of the higher brackets and maintain that if the | w i enacted as now written that cigarette vending machines will v 'Otk a serious hardship upon legiti ■natc merchants and jobbers who pay : ‘ nt pay their licenses, spend money on advertising. ‘ maintained that the cigarette r ontinued on Page Flv*.> Retirement Os REA Head May Hasten Rural Lines Federal Administrator of Rural Electrification Was Continuous Irritant to State Authorities; His Poli cies Delayed Rural Service Here * »si 11 »• l>U|>fii<h Bureaiii *»• (hr Sir VA niter Hotel. p, . •< •' HASiv&UVILI p " ”' \ E. Cooke, as head of the I, l ' .‘ Electrification Administration. 1 ' f . , ' hin fft-° n is causing general sat r-U ls i° n ’ n governmental cir ;h. i ' l ' re * rom the governor on down vvith o ivin 2 to the hope that *l<o * f -'>°ke out of the way, it mav be " '•-! )!( to bring about cooperation ; ! " federal REA with the North ir ' i Rural El editrification Ad p‘j! ‘'' 1 ; " i° n and that the Federal viiiV ‘'trials will now try to work !• ini. NCREA instead of against ‘ose who have followed the inside 0 0i j the squabble between the TimtJirrsnn Batly Btspafrlr L ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS! Huge $950,000,000 Relief Bill Signed By Roosevelt Speaker Bankhead Signed Measure in Theatre Last Night Where His Daughter Played COMPROMISE MADE FOR RELIEF HELP Constitutionality of Wagner Act Argued Before Su preme Court, Whi c h Roosevelt Wants To En large; House To Pass Trade Pact for President Washington, Feb. 9 (AP) President Roosevelt signed the $950,000,000 relief - deficiency bill today. It carries $789,000,- 000 intended to keep at least 2,- 580,000 on WPA jobs until June so other funds provided in the bill are: CCC, $95,000,900; 1937 seed loans, $50,000,000; miscellaneous $16,000,000. Should any WPA money be used for emergency flood relief, Congress will be asked to reimburse the relief agency in a later deficiency measure. The House judiciary group began today to give its “most serious study” to President Roosevelt’s proposal for reorganizing Federal courts. Chairman Sumners, Democrat, Tex as, predicted the bill would not be re ported to the House today. The ses sion was behind closed doors. Among senators and representatives alike, informal talk centered on the President’s plan to put six new just ices on the Supreme Court, either by retirement of the half dozen over re tirement age or by appointment of six additional justices to sit with them. Washington, Feb. 9 (AP)—Authori zation for new Federal aid for flood sufferers needed today only the sig nature of President Roosevelt. The $950,000,000 relief deficiency bill ended its legislative career when Speaker Bankhead signed it last night in the theatre box where he had gone (PnrHnnoil on Pa?<> TVii-ap! Federal REA and the NCREA are convicted that if Cooke has tried to cooperate with the State rural elec trification authority half as diligently as he tried to fight it and discredit it that many more miles of rural elec tric lines would have been built in North Carolina with REA help than has been the case, also that Cooke would probably have remained as ad ministrator. While the wire reports from Wash ington were to the effect that Cooke had “resigned,” the prevailing. (belief here is that Cooke was asked to sub mit hie resignation —and to submit it (Continued on Page Three.) Possibilities for Supreme Bench if President’s Plan Is Approved sail ifpjj ||||i Dr. Lloyd K. Garrison . . . dean of law at Wisconsin, ex-National Labor board chairman. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY ’ AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 9, 1937 f - jjk Stanley F. Reed •., U. S. solicitor general, who has defended New Deal laws before supreme court. Waves Batter Levees But Old Man R iver Is Unable To Break Over Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 9. —(AP) —A wave bombardment helped ponderous crests sustain flood perils along the mid-M'ssissippi today but strained levees held and the Red Cross began mapping rehabilitation plans for the valley. Winds up to 38 miles an hour out of the Northwest rolled combers against the sturdy dykes, but army engineers reported no major damage, and, with the peak past Memphis, reiterated be lief the worst was over. Red Cross officials’ faith in this view was reflected in shaping of a tentative month-long rehabilitation program for 75,000 refugees in Ten State Liquor Board Power V ery Limited May Veto In Instan ces But Can Initiate No Policies of Own . Choosing Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Waiter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL. Raleigh, Feb. 9—Legislators who favor county control of liquor feel that they scored something of a vic tory in the bill passed by the House last Wednesday because of the very pertinent fact that practically all powers granted to the state liquor board are purely supervisory. They point out that their objections to centralization of power in Raleigh resulted in leaving virtually no initia tive to the state board. It can veto in many instances, but it will not be able to start anything of its own mo tion. .... Study of the provisions of the bill bear out these contentions to the full For example the State board will be able to approve or disapprove the prices at which the several county boards may sell alcoholic beverages, but it will not be able, on its own, to fix these prices. It can supervise purchasing by the county boards, but only when it has good reason to believe that such boards are purchasing or contemplate making purchases in violation of the Act • It can approve or disapprove regu lations laid down by county boards, but it cannot make any regulations of its own. It can approve or disapprove loca tion of stores, except one at each coun ty seat or at such places as the coun ty board directs, but it cannot direct (Continued on Page Four.) s " t Robert H. Jackson . * . assistant U. S. attorney general, who has prosecuted many tax cases. < nessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi ana and Western Kentucky. While the fight went on in the val ley, Washington surveyed the flood problem from all angles. Senator Bulkley, Democrat, Ohio, said President Roosevelt was sym pathetic for Bulkley’s bill to set up an Ohio valley authority empowered to reforest river slopes, build dams and check soil erosion. The President’s flood relief commis sion, headed by Harry Hopkins, re ported after a tour of the sector, an urgent need for housing to replace water-wrecked horn es ; liberalized credit and increased health protection. The death toll reached 431. CITIES DEMANDING This Group of Politicians Wants Division of Whis ky Revenues Dally Dispatch Bureau, By J. C. -itASKEitVILL Raleigh, Feb. 9. —Liquor control ad vocates are much less concerned over the “March on Raleigh” proposed by by the raging drys than over the pos sibility of recalcitrant cities tossing a monkey wrench into the machinery already geared to send the liquor bill through the Senate with a whoop. The bill as passed by the House gives the municipalities no claim to any part of the liquor revenue. It is a well known and universally con ceded fact that State, county and city can fight over a morsel of revenue more belligerently than a pack of hungry dogs over a choice bone. Hence the fear that ti e unprovided fur cities will prove a stumbling block in the path of liquor-contro.l progress. It is an open secret that the North Caroline. League of Municipalities—an organization whose members know politics and how 'it is played and whic) las one of the smoothest work ing laltoies in existence—isn’t a bit satisfied with the course of events. The cities had hoped that a definite division of profits between counties and municipalities would he laid down in the bill, but as written it gives a fee simple title in all profits to the (Continued on Page Four.) OURWE^njEPMAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy with rain, much colder tonight; Wednesday partly cloudy and colder. X'- : ! iBIr- ' Hr ** f|||L mm Milll l J Jl§| MM . JBBES :TOBBBSfi^BBBBsBBBBB^^ Senator Hugo Black of Alabama! . . . member of investigating committees, New Deal supporter. aSSSrin ROOSEVELT PLANS S Measure by Sumners Would Allow Attorney General To Intervene In Lower Courts CONSTITUTION MUST BE INVOLVED THERE Robinson Says He Thinks Roosevelt Supreme Court Retirement Age Should Be Made 75 Instead of 70; House Committee Omits Other Proposals Washington, Feb. 9. (AP) -*-The House Judiciary Committee approved today a measure to authorize the at torney general to participate InMGWer court cases between private parties where a constitutional question is in volved. The bill, sponsored by Chairman Sumners, Democrat, of Texas, of the committee, embodies one of the prin cipal proposals in President Roose velt’s broad court reorganization pro gram. No action was taken today on the other proposals. Senator Robinson, Democratic lead er, advocated a change in the retire ment age of judges under the Presi dent’s program from 70 to 75 years. Emphasizing he was speaking for himself only, and not the administra tion, Robinson told newspaper men: “I am inclined to think the age had better be 75 than 70. The measure approved by the House committee was amended to give the attorney general the right to appeal an adverse decision in district court directly to the Supreme Court for immediate hearing. irklisbill MIGHT! PASSED l, Governor Hoey Credited With Reviving It Aft er Committee Ban Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Feb. 9. —The outlook is re garded as being decidedly brighter for the bill limiting the hours of employ ment for labor in the various indus tries, despite the opposition to the bill from many of the textile manufactur ers and from many of the grocery stores operators, who much prefer to have the law remain as it now is, with no regulation on the number of hours per week workers may be em ployed. The bill as now written pro vides for a 40 hour week for the tex tile and tobacco industries and a 48 hour week for most other industries, including mercantile establishments, with certain exceptions providing for emergencies and seasonal peaks. But indications are that a compromise may be worked out with the textile interests so that they will not fight the fcill as bitterly as they have been doing so far. There is no doubt that this bill was virtually beaten last week when the House Committee on Manufactures and Labor, with Representative (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. ANSWER TO RIDDLE POSSIBLY EVOLVED AT NIGHT SESSION Senate of Maine Attacks Proposal Augusta, Maine, Feb. 9 (AP) — The Maine Senate today passed a memorial to Congress which said it regarded President Roosevelt’s proposed court reform legislation as a “covert attack” upon the Fed eral Constitution. The measure was passed on strictly party lines, 23 Republicans favoring it and four Democrats opposing it. It was sent to the House for concurrence. The memorial set forth the “cov ert attack” was a movement “whereby certain laws, the princi ples heretofore held to be in con flict with/ the great later may be enacted into the law by indirection through the control “of the Supreme Court by the President.” BeginningOf EndSeenFor Spain’s War Rebels Seize Malaga and Cut Supply Lines to Besieged Capital, Madrid (By The Associated Press) Fascism’s offensive in Spain, mired for more than three months, march ed across two fronts today, and seem ingly took two long strides toward the domination of Spain. Fascists said it was the beginning of the end. No sooner had a scarce ly resisted seaboard army seized com plete control of Malaga, second sea port of the land, than from the Mad rid front came the announcement the Madrid-Valencia road had been cut a few miles south of Madrid. That severed the main artery of supplies for Madrid and stopped direct com munication between the besieged cap ital and Valencia, wartime seat of the Socialist government. Again it ad vanced the slow and difficult Fascist encirclement of Madrid. Capture of Malaga is of consider able strategic importance. It is of aven greater importance for moral effect. uttleaHn Floods, Strikes and the Like, Then Roosevelt’s Court Message By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. 9.—Congress is growing tired ot floods, sit-down strikes, Spanish warfare, Moscow trials and miscellaneous other events which have monopolized the news columns lately. The legislators are getting into the second month of their current session and scarcely are being noticed; too much else has been going on. Not a speech has been made on Capitol Hill that the nation hag re sounded to. Doubtless it ought to have resounded to several of them, but how could it? —while resounding to ad vices from the accounts of first-class complications in domestic industry? RELATIVE VALUE It is true that big news occasional ly passes unnoticed for quite awhile because other news of relatively less importance but more immediate in terest, is “popping” simultaneously. For example: The ex-King Edward-Mrs. Simpson: affair was at publicity’s white heat at the same time that the Fan-Amer icas were effecting a historic get-to gether at Buenos Aires recently. The Edwardian-Simpsonseque mat ter did not really amount to much. The future of half of a world, or perhaps more than half a world may prove to hinge upon the semi-under standing that the Americas arrived at • But which got the newspaper columns? Edwardian-Simpsonianism, or Jan- Americanism? Echo answers that every one old Continued on Page Five.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY No Details Disclosed But One Official Thinks “Ray of Light” Has Been Found NEGOTIATIONS TO RESUME TONIGHT Lewis Reveals Proposal Al ready Being Considered To Resume Operations At Once if Corporation Will Accept Recognition of the Union Detroit, Mich., Feb. 9 (AP) —Renewed hopes for an agree ment ending the widespread shutdowns in the General Mot ors automotive plants found ex pression today during a recess of the peace conference of op posing leaders here. An authoraitative source indicated the negotiators, in last night’s extend ed conference, had found what they believed might, be the answer to the dispute between the gigantic corpora tion and striking members of the U, A. W. A. No details of the plan were disclos ed, but this source said, “I think we see a ray of light.” To Renew Negotiations. The General Motors Corporation consented today to continue discus sions to end the automotive strikes after indicating it saw no use in fur ther conferences. The almost complete silence that has marked six days of conversations between representatives of the cor poration and striking union members was broken last night with the is suance of a formal statement by the automobile company of its position. Until then, Governor Frank Mur phy, who called the parties together at the Itehest of President Roosevelt, had made the only public comments upon the proceedings. General Motors’ first statement was followed a few hours later by one from John Lewis,- director general of the strike. The corporation assured Governor Murphy of “our readiness to respond to an early call” by him to resume conferences, if in his judgment any good could result therefrom. Lewis revealed for the first time a proposal had been under considera tion to resume operations ini G-M plants immediately if the corporation would accept the union’s demand for recognition as the bargaining aency for employees in 20 plants. The governor announced the two groups would convene at 8:30 p. m. tonight. Peruvian Plot Alleged. La Paz, Bolivia, Feb. 9. —(AP) —Po- lice announced yesterday they had un covered a plot by Peruvians in Bolivia to overthrow the Peruvian Govern ment. A quanityt of arms was found, police said. Names of those allegedly involved were withheld. Detective ‘Shadowed’ U. S. Agent Pinkerton Sleuth Tells Senate Com mittee of Activities in 1935 Strike Washington, Feb. 9.—(AP) —Former Pinkerton Detective William Martin, JKold Senate investigators today ha was instructed to “shadow” Edward F. McGrady, assistant secretary of labor, while McGrady was trying to pettle a Chevrolet motor strike in Toledo, Ohio, in 1935. The disclosure was made by the for mer Pinkerton agent assigned to “shadow” McGrady. It followed testi mony by an official of the detective service he “had an informant” in the Fisher Body plant at Norwood, Ohio, as late as January 31 “to report union and radical” activities. The General Motors strike has struck Fisher body plants. The strike figured In White House developments when it became known President Roosevelt had made his po sition clear to the motors corporation, the U. A. W. A. and Governor Frank Murphy, who is conducting settlement negotiations.
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