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ffIENDEKSON ] GATEWAY TO u central CAROLINA | YEAR SUM MOTOR WORKERS RETURN MOMMY County Options Liquor Bill Is Favorably Reported Into Senate, Despite Dry Protest Hit BILL IS PASSED ON SECOND HEADING IN HOUSE Will Be Given Third and Final Passage In Lower House After Mid night Tonight AMENDMENTS FAST ROUTED BY VOTES Only One Musters Strength That Relating to Highway Fund Diversions; Higher Tax on Power Companies Rejected; Meals Sales Tax Is Kept Out Raleigh, Feb. 12 (AP)—Sen ate Judiciary Committee No. 1 recommended today passage of the House-approved county op tions liquor store bill. The committee voted five to two for a favorable report, with Chairman Gold, of Guilford, not voting. The action was, taken in executive session and news men were pledged not to reveal the stand of individual commit tee members. Yesterday afternoon the committee members, except Senator Coburn, of Martin, and Joyner, of Iredell, heard dry leaders ararue against the bill as a crowd of around 1,100 packed and jammed the Senate chamber and cor ridors, Coiburn and Joyner were absent this morning, both being at home be cause of sickness in their families. Committee members present includ (Oontinued on Page Six.) exteHTalestax JN NEW TERRITORY t House Applies It To Build ing, Plumbing, Electrical Materials Daily DUpntch Dnrena, In the Sir Walter Hotel. „ I»r J. C. IIASKRRVILL Ralegh, Feb. 12. —The House ex tended the sales tax principle into territory-—wlhplesiale transact bom for production purposes—when it approved an amendment to the re v,nue bill levying the three per cent tax or > building, plumbing and elec uical materials bought (by contractors f° r use in construction. Approval of this innovation was ?iven overwhelmingly, but only after Representative J. C. Hobbs, of New Hanover, had led a vigorous fight a- Continued on Page Five.) Legislative Noses Held To Grindstone By Hoey’s Pledges •)nliy Dlavntrh Bureau. In (he Sir Walter Hotel < p. O. IIASKKKVILI' f , 1 ' - ! • Feb. 12.—The reason the (imhly is beginning to slow /j’ ;i,K - "og down, is that its nose is lri to the grindstone in trying * enough revenue to carry out p 11 ’ made by Governor Clyde " H y when he was a candidate for ■ "tfiocratic nomination for gov -01 ri good many observers, includ members of the assembly, are "mtidnsiy pointing out. Mot of these ref! ' course, that it would, have tttate a lot more to have car led °ut the multitude of promises m:tr]< by Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, and 1 11 tfood many of the Hoey prom w.-ii made in order to checkmate of the McDonald promises. But ' ,JU dt that, it is estimated that this Hvniieramt Daily Dispatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED WIRE SERVICE OTP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ponder Supreme Court Changes fp * r-y 1 mi H V' HBb ~ jflll {Representatives U. S. Guyer, Emanuel Celler and Hatton Sumners (left tto right), of the House Judiciary Committee, are shown as they conferred before the committee, of which Sumners is chairman, met behind closed doors to discuss changes in the Federal judiciary, including the Supreme Court, suggested by President Roosevelt. (Central Press) Revolt Over ‘Diversions’ Is Blocked Rebels Will Carry Battle to Senate To Save Money for Road Work Dnlly Disi»nt**h Bureau, By J. C. 'rfASKEitVILL Raleigh, Feb. 12—The House revolt against the diversion of $2,100,000 a year from the highway to the general fund, as proposed in the administra tion revenue bill, and which Thursday looked as if it might succeed, has bogged down as a result of adminis tration “influence” against it, and the fear on the part of large moneyed in terests that the defeat of the diver sion proposal would mean an increase in both the personal and corporation income tax rates to seven per cent in the higher brackets, it is generally agteed here today. As soon as it be came known that the opponents of diversion proposed to increase the in come and corporate income tax rates (Continued on Page Four.) General Assembly will have to pro vide $12,500,000 in new money in or der to carry out the promises made by Hoey before he /become governor. Explains Shortage. This is the reason that the revenue and appropriations bills are still $2,- 000,000 a year out of balance, even if the General Assembly decides to re tain the provision in the revenue bill for the diversion of $2,100,000 a year from the highway to the general fundi But if this provision should be eli minated and the finance committees attempted to get this money from other sources than the motorists of the State, who are already paying some $26,000,000 a year in gasoline and motor vehicle taxes, the finance (Continued on Page Three.) HENDERSON, N. C„ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY*I2,I937 Old Belt Markets End Their Season Danville, Va., Feb. 12.—(AP) Virginia’s bright tobacco markets prepared to end sales this after noon after a selling season marked by substantially higher prices than a year ago. Greatly diminished sales, 78,898 pounds, for $9.92 per hundred, here Wednesday, and 45,000 pounds for an average of $9.40 at South Bos ton yesterday, presaged the clos ing. Some bright leaf markets shut their doors February 4, but others continued through today. Through January 31, the season’s offerings of bright, or flue-cured tobacco totalled 86,194,244 pounds for an average of $22.48 per hun dred. This compared to 98,429,621 pounds for $20.61 by that date last year. Five Held In Mattson Kidnaping Seattle, Wash., Feb. 12.—(API- Four men and a sandy-haired woman were in jail in Washington today for questioning about the brutal kidnap ing and slaying of ten-year-old Char les Mattson of Tacoma. Seattle police held two ex-convicts from the San Quentin, Cal., peniten tiary and the woman, companion of one. A hitch hiker was detained by police because, they said, he resembled tihe kidnaper. A man was arrested at Dayton “on description.” No officer would say any of the prisoners had (been definitely connect ed with the kidnaping on December 27, or the slaying which came to light with the discovery of the boy’s naked, frozen body between Seattle and (Continued on Page Eight.) OURW^™y?MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and slightly war mer tonight and Saturday. Wendell Kidnaper Admits His Guilt New York, Feb. 12.—(AP)—Mur ray Bleefeld, one of three men on trial in King’s county court, Brook lyn, on charges of kidnaping Paul Wendell, former New Jersey attor ney, in a surprise ftiove entered a plea of guilty'to kidnaping. Counsel for Bleefted told the court he desired to make a mo tion for Bleefeld and asked for re moval of the jury. J. F. Fitzgerald refused to ac cede to the request and Burton Turkus, of defense counsel, joined in the plea for removal, explaining what was to be said was prejudi cial to Martin Schiossman and Harry Weiss, the other defendants whom he represents. The judge again denied the mo tion and Bleefeld withdrew his plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty. The defense then rested. onSram in I i. Opposing Sides Strengthen Their Lines As Congress Slows Its Pace Sharply COURT PARAMOUNT IDEA FOR FDR NOW Labor and Farm Legislation To Await Outcome of That Battle; Transfers Are Con sidered in Diplomatic Corps; Pinkerton Agency Further Probed Washington, Feb. 12. —(AP) — Roosevelt maintained a -smiling silence today on his strategy for bringing about reor ganization of the Federal courts. While administration leaders and reorganization leaders alike took ad vantage of slowing legislative activity to further consolidate their forces, Mr. Roosevelt genially told newsmen he preferred to make no comment on developments at either the Wlhite House or the Capitol. Informed persons expressed the op inion the President would let labor and farm legislation wait on his court bill. There was a growing belief, too, he would not yield to a compromise on his plans. Lincoln’s birthday found the House meeting briefly to hear an address about the Civil War President. The Senate was in recess. The Senate civil liberties group, however, pressed its investigation of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, an official of which testified when he learned the agency was to be subjected to the inquiry he removed “confidential papers from the files.” All were lat .r returned, he said, ex cept some personal p< j-trs At his press confctrcc, the Presi uont said he was considering some transfers and changes in the diplo matic corps, but did not disclose any details. He praised Governor Murph^ 1 of Michigan :or hi 3 work in settling the General Motors strike. Mass Production Houses Coming, Like Automobile Hand-Made Houses Doomed, Babson Says; Will Be * New Baby In Mass Production Family; Need Stand ards of Higher Living With Higher Standards BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1937, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. St. Petersburg, Fla., Feb. 12.—T0 get my idea, make two studies: First walk up and down ibeside the assem bly line of an automobile plant. Pick a day, of course, when the boys are not “sitting down.’’ Watch the steady flow of a motor car in the making. Like a river of manufacture, the job sweeps along, fed by tributary streams of engines, fenders, and other essentials, converging from the sides. Successive workers at their stations attach their respective parts and bolt them home. It is an amazing master piece of organization and a thrilling spectacle of mass production. Hand-Make Houses Doomed? Then make the second study: Stop at the nearest lot and watch the build ing of a house according to the best traditions of the trades. Observe the crude puttering of saw and plane. Mark the ancient rites of hammer and trowel. See the craftsmen swarming higgledly-piggJedy over the job. You $20,000,000 To Be Loaned Victims Os Flood By The U. S. New Agency, Subsidiary of R. F. C., Which Will Fur nish Money, Created by C ongress in Day and Signed by President; Rehabilitation Begun in Valley Washington, Feb. 12 (AP) —A $20,000,000 government cor poration will lend money to flood victims in the Ohio and Mis sissippi valleys and to sufferers in any further disasters this year. The new agency became law with President Roosevelt’s sig nature last night a day after it had been introduced in Congress by Senators Barkley, Democrat, Kentucky, and Bulkley, Demo- crat, of Ohio. Tire corporation will aim to provide credit for those sufferers unable to give sufficient guarantee for loans from other government and. private lending agencies. The proposal passed the Senate without dissent and won House ap proval on a voice vote. The only pause in its speedy enact ment was an attempt in the House to increase - the fund to $40,000,000 and to extend the loans to victims of dis asters in 1936. The corporation will be a subsidiary Britain Plans Spending Over 6 Billions For War Will Use New and Modern Defenses as “Big Stick” To Enforce Peace Over Europe BICKERINcTnATIONS WOULD BE HANDLED Largest Peace-Time War Plan Ever Outlined to Commons; Rate of Expen-, diture and Precise Pur poses Not Disclosed; Amount May Far Exceed Figures Londoi), Feb. 12 (AP)—Great Britain <vas reported in informed circles today to be planning war expenditures of between six billion dollars and eight billion dollars in the next five years as a “big stick” to enforce peace in Europe. The huge drive for armaments, launched by the government yester day, according to indications in par liamentary circles, would be used as a visible and invisible club over the heads of bickering European nations. The estimates for the long-term program followed quickly on the heels of the government’s request to Par liament for a $2,000,000,000 defense loan. How fast the money would be rais ed and spent for the largest peace time war plan ever outlined to Com mons remained undisclosed. The present rate, plus the request ed defense loan, would put the five year total at $6,250,000,000, but most informed sources expected the even tual amount would be higher. will soon conclude that today’s con struction methods are not far remov ed from the procedure of three cen turies ago. As a result of these two experiments, no thinking man or wo man can escape the conclusion that housing is due for revolution. That shake-up would have popped long ago had it not been for custom. Diving habits and housing styles are always the last to change. Hence, horrie building is among the last of the major industries to face the evolution: To stride from slow, costly inefficiency and waste, to the fast, cheap efficiency and economy of mass production. However, the time i® slowly approaching when a change is inevitable. Within the memory of the present generation, we have develop ed factory-built doors, window frames shutters, and other readymade build-. £ng materials. Those who write poetically of the coming glories of the prefabricated house overlook im portant progress already made by the (Continued on Page Four.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. of the Reconstruction Finance Cor poration, which will furnish the capital. Congress wag quiet today. The Sen ate did not meet, and the House as sembled only to laud Abraham Lin coln on the anniversary of his birth. SAND BOILS CAUSE NEW WORRY AT NEW ORLEANS Memphis, Tenn., -Feb. 12.—(AIP) — Forces of rehabilitation followed slug- Continued on Page Two.) Air Victim Recovers Mrs. Martin Johnson Mrs. Martin Johnson, heroic wife of the late explorer, is shown in bed at a Los Angeles hospital where she is recovering from injuries received in the crackup of a Western Air express plane Jan. 13, in which her husband was fatally injured. After the picture was taken, Mrs. Johnson told reporters she would return to the Congo as soon as possible. —Central Press iSSwAY Dr. Stanley High Was Re buked by White House for True Statement By CHARLES P. STF -T Central Press Colun n Washington, Feb. 12.—Dr. Stanley High, in his recent magazine article declaring that prominent Democratic politicians are wholly out of sym pathy with the New Deal, said noth ing that has not been common talk in Washington sinee early in New Deal days. It was only because High wrote the article that any sensational aspect was attached to it. That the doctor appeared to (be very much “persona grata” at the White House during the last national cam paign is undeniable. He may or he may not have been a “trusted presi dential adviser;” only the President (Continued on Page Six.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY fSSvE DRIVE TOT CATCH UP V Moves To Reopen Plants Closed Over Month Fol low Swiftly on Strike Settlement SITDOWN STRIKERS ARE ALL EXACUATED Clash Occurs Between Union and Non - Union Men at Anderson, Ind., Plant; Full-Time Work at Higher Wages Await Men on Resuming Their Jobs Detroit, Mich., Feb. 12 (AP) —General Motors Corporation today ordered more than 50,000 of its automotive employees, idle for from one to two months to return to their jobs Monday as the start of an intensive drive to catch up with produc tion lost on account of prolong 7 ed strikes. Moves to reopen plants whose ma chinery has been quiet because of ■strikes and their effects followed swiftly after the agreement that end ed the bitter labor dispute. Soldiers To Leavp. First announcing employees would return to work at increased wages, General Motors called for duty Mon day 12,500 workers at its Buick plant in Flint, Mich., 40,000 Chevrolet em ployees at Flint, Detroit, Bay City gurnd Sagfcnaw,| Mich..; (Ohio, and Munice, Ind., and! 2,000 workers of the Grand Rapids, Mich., stamp ing division. At Flint, trouble center during the long strike, officers of the Michigan National Guard announced plans to demobilize 1,000 of their troops to morrow. Others will follow- as thq plants will resume work. The first Fisher Body plant to get back into full-time operation appar ently was to be the strike-losed plant at Cleveland, Ohio, where the after noon shift was prepared to resume production. UNION MEMBERS EVACUATE ANDERSON, IND., THEATRE Anderson, Ind., Feb. 12. —(AP) —• Members of the United Automobile Workers of America ended today their occupation of an Anderson theatre in which they had entrenched them selves last night in a demonstration against city officials, whom they ac cused of having failed to give “civil protection for union assemblages.” THREATS ARE HEARD OF NEW STRIKE ON COAST (By The Associated Press.) A clash between union members and anti-unionists at Anderson, Ind., (Continued on Page Six.) Fortune Os War Varies Over Spain Death Stalks Earth, Sea and Sky As Civ il Strife Rages In, Flowing Blood Aimer ia, Spain, Feb. 12. — (AP) —The civil population of Almeria, greatly Increased by an influx of refugees from the Malaga sector, was ordered evacuated today by Governor Alonso Moroni in the face of the Fascist advance. (By The Associated Press). Spain’s seesaw of war tilted back and forth today for both Fascist in surgents and the Socialist government —one up and the other down, then around the other way. Death stalk ed earth, sea and sky. Shouting Moorish troops, in the ranks of Madrid’s Fascist besiegers, pointed an insurgent drive, which es tablished a new ten-mile front along a river southeast of the city. The move left still unsettled the question of which side controlled the Madrid-Valencia road. Each claims it. Complete encirclement of Madrid is the Fascist objective, Socialist artillery sought to break the incompleted Fascist ring on the northwest with a bombardment that failed to dislodge insurgents from positions in the University City sec tion. The government reported ita air fighters shot five Fascist planes out of the sky on the city’s outskirts.
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