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rBBNDEKSON‘I Lateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR (UK TO FIGHT ROOSEVELT COURT SENATE POISED FOR MONEY AND LIQUOR VOTES COMING WEEK I * Revenue Machinery Act Committees Are Named For Senate and House By Chairmen 21 BILLS PASS IN SENATE'S SESSION House’s Saturday Session Held Shortly After Mid night; Appropriations Bill Is Also Passed by House In Four and Half Minutes In Early Morning Raleigh, Feb. 13.—(AP)—The Sen ate parsed 21 bills today and prepared to act next week on liquor and money matters. After the unprecedented action of the House in passing and sending to the Senate the record of $145,000,000 appropriations bill and $75,000,000 gen eral fund revenue bill for 1937-39 with-, ing 48 hours after they were reported by committees, the joint finance ctt&ir men announced appointment of the revenue machinery act commitete. The machinery act sets up means for counties to levy and collect taxes. Senator Pittman, of Lee, will head the Senate group, with Representa tive Clark of Lincoln, chairman for* the House. Memlhers , are: Senators Hughes, of Pasquotarfk; Sanders, of Alamance; Larkin,, of Jones; Hutching of Madison; and Representatives Hobbs, of New Hanover; McDuffie, of Wilkes; Siler, of Chatham; Rouse, of Lenior; Fulghum, of Johnston, and Horner, of Lee. The huge appropriations measure passed in four and one half minutes late last night in a surprise move. The Senate will act on the local op tion liquor bill Tuesday, Lieutenant Governor Horton predicted, and then will take up the revenue measure Wednesday. All the bills passed by the Senate were minor in nature. The House and Senate meet next at 8 o’clock Mon day night, the House having held its night session a few minutes after midnight this morning to pass the revenue bill. Early End Likely For Assembly Holly Dispatch Burenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. «y .r. C. nASKRRVILL Rale gh, Feb. 13.—With the revenue bill alerady enacted by the House and due to the taken up by the Senate Monday, the General Assembly is well in its way towards an early adjourn- n ‘cnt, unless the Senate decides ta Pick the revenue bill to pieces and make changes in it that will serious ly delay its final enactment. What ever changes are made in the bill in, f be Senate must be approved by the House before the bill can become law. The House is just six weeks ahead of where it was during the 1935 ses sion, as far as the revenue bill is coav Cf;rn ed. While the House passed the revenue bill on its third reading a ■ ■ (Continued on Page Four.) Foes Os Road Diversion Score Victory In House Every Effort To Pilfer Highway Funds for Other State Purposes Routed, Except One; Chairman Waynick Elated and Says Peo pie Are Now Aroused , Dully Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. »<» J. C. BaSKEItVILL Raleigh, Feb. 13—The anti-diver- scored a bigger victory than ; “ ; y ha d hoped for in the House and 'Utnost completely routed the road unds raiders when Chairman Victor rr ,yant ’ ** ouse Finance Com- accepted without opposition , ‘‘ substitute amendment president j? f Representative Clarence Stone, of °ckingham county, expected to make ‘ impossible to divert any highway m<>noy into the general fund unless j,'., Unt * l all general fund revenues, eluding any surplus, are entirely f| u completely exhausted. The amend f:nl further provides that such an 4 a s may be needed to prevent a ~i*t:it in the general fund cannot Tirnttcrsmt Bailti Hiamtfrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE ov THE ASSOCIATED PRESS? P Wendell Jury Is Unable To Agree New York, Feb. 13.—(AP)—After deliberating since 2:47 p. m., yiea terday, a King’s county court jury at 10:51 today reported to Judge John Fitzgerald it was unable to agree on the guilt or innocence of Martin Schlossman and Harry Weiss, charged with the kidnaping of Paul Wendell. Judge Fitzgerald set the case for retrall March 1. BIGGEST PROBLEM OF ASSEMBLY MET DURING THE WEEK i With Revenue Bill Through House, Reasonably Early Adjournment Is Expected RECORD OF MONEY SOUGHT Free School Books Proposal Approved in Committee, and Re - Districting of Highway Set-Up Is Asked; $25,000,000 Road Bond Issue Strikes Snag By RALPH L. HOWLAND Raleigh, Feb. 13 (AP)—A hard driven legislature this week neared sine die adjournment as weary as semblymen apparently solved their biggest problems. The House early this morning pass ed and sent to the Senate the huge revenue bill designed to raise approx imately $75,000,000 during the bien nium—exclusive of the highway and agriculture funds. A treatsury sur plus of $3,000,000 as of June 30, 1937, would be employed to meet a total general fund appropriation of about $79,000,000 —a financial status which brought smiles to A. J. Maxwell, com missioner of revenue, and to Repre sentative Bryant of Durham, who were responsible mainly for the rapid report of the joint finance committee. Bryant and Senator Webb, of Lenoir, are chairmen of the revenue bodies. The Hanford liquor measure, allow ing counties to vote for control, which drys contended was “ramrodded” through the House, was set as a spe cial order in the Senate for next Tuesday. Wets claim a majority there Drys, led by Senator Martin of David son, are not inclined to talk —about their senatorial following. The old age assistance and child aid bill, calling for financial aid from the counties, passed the Senate with but cne dissenting vote, and many per sons conceded it would pass the House without difficulty. It provides that persons who prove their inability to support themselves may realize a maximum of S3O a month, while fami- Continued on Page Five.) be transferred except upon ordec of the governor as director of the bud get and then only such an amount as may be needed. Thumping Victory for Anti’s The adoption of this amendment is regarded as a thumping victory for the forces in the House opposed to any highway fund diversion and as going a long way towards driving the anti-diversion bunk back into the high way fund barrel. While the anti-di versionists had been ready to com promise Thursday by agreeing to the continued diversion of $1,000,000 a year from the highway to the general fund, whether it was heeded to bal ance the budget or not, in order to (Continued on Pa«e Four.) c ONLY DAILY Bills:: m ISh Bfl W* j IjyH raj^ili jg mm "4, y ymmlmlm WHm jp yMB <WSm vJIH mP' // M J inMl t m jAH i L Cheering in joyous frenzy, strikers at General Motors plants in Flint, Michigan, shake the hand of a national guardsman upon hearing news that the long “sit-down” strike has been settled through efforts of Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan and U S Con ciliator James Dewey. —Central Press Soundphoto. :* $ • Neutrality Over Spain Is Pressed Paris and London Anxious To Keep All Hands Out of Little World War Madrid, Feb. 13 (AP)—lnsur gent planes bombed Arganda, strategic point on the Valencia highway, 17 miles southeast of Madrid, today, killing three per sons and wounding 25 others. (By The Associated Press.) Spanish non-intervention moyes were revived in Paris and London to day as insurgent commanders report ed their troops had forged another link in the chain of steel which three (Continued on Page Four.) ROCKY MOUNT MAN SEEMING SUICIDE Herman Blount, 32, Found Dead in Car With Pipe Attached to Ex haust from Motor Rocky Mount, Feb. 13. —(AP) —Her- man Blount, 32, owner and manager of a local florist company, was found dead early today in his parked car five miiles from here, and a piece of garden hose fastened to the exhaust pipe of hie closed coupe and brought up behind the seat led police to be lieve he had ended his life by breath ing carbon nonoxide gas. The motor was not running at the time the body was found, after Blount had been missung since yesterday, but officers sand tlfc switch was turned on and the motor had apparently choked. Nk> reason for the act was advanced. Blount is survived by his wife, two children, his father J. D. Blount, pioneer merchant, one sister and two brothers. Sparta Girl Attacked And Then Killed • Sparta, Feb. 13.—(AP)—Sheriff Walter Erwin this morning ad mitted officers are not searching for a definite suspect in the at tack-slaying of Elva Brannock, 16- yeas-old high school girl, whose body was found 15 miles from here yesterday. She had been missing since leaving her home for school last Monday. “I’m no Sherlock Holmes,” said the sheriff, “and I invite any suggestions or clues any one may have. We are raising the amount of the reward and would appreciate any help of what ever nature." Earlier it had been reported Sher iff’s deputies sought a suspect. The sheriff this morning, said, however, his men were “covering the moun tain's," but that it was an aimless search with no indication of the identity of the criminal. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VUWINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY - AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 13, 1937 Strikers, Guardsman Happy As General Motors Strike Is Settled Motor Plants Reopening As Soldiers Halt Riots At Anderson, Ind., Plant Tension Eased After Clash Between Union and Non- Union Men; New Tie-Up of Pacific Coast Shipping Threatens; First Workers Return to Jobs Anderson, Ind., Feb. 13 (AP) — Indiana National Guardsmen sent into Madison county to enforce martial law after an early morn ing clash here between union and non-union car workers, helped; State police stop today an influx of union sympathizers from Mich igan. The Michigan sympathizers were halted north of Alexandria, which is eleven miles north of here, in the northern part of the county. Lieutenant Walter Metzner, of the State police, said 50 cars carry Work Hour Regulation Is To Pass Not Ideal But Start In Direction of Im proving of Labor Conditions t Dally Dispatch Burean, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL. Raleigh, Feb. 13.—This legislature ia going to enact North Carolina’s first lag regulating and limiting the hours which male persons over 18 years old may work. And for this achievement principal credit is due young George Uzzell, junior memlber of the Rowan House delegation. It is true that the solons are not going too far in the matter of regula tion or limitation. It is true that some parts of the bill they probably will pass arc nothing more or less than idle gestures and meaningless phrases (Continued on Page Eight.) OURW^jMERMAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Occasional rain tonight mid Sunday; wanner tonight. WEEKLY WEATHER OUTLOOK. Fair and colder at beginning; rain and warmer middle and fair and colder toward end of week. ing nearly 300 persons had been stopped before noon. He quoted occupants of the ma chines as saying they had come from Bay City, Flint, Detroit and other automotive centers “to see that these boys in Anderson get a square deal.” Detroit, Mich., Feb. 13 (AP) —Auto- motive plants reopened today to the vanguard of more than 100,000 Gen eral Motors employees, summoned Continued on Page Five.) DRY CAUSE DOOMED with mm Senate Will Pass Liquor Bill When It Comes To Vote on Tuesday Dully Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENIRY AVERILL. Raleigh, Feb. 13. —Despite a re prieve over the week-end, dry forces in and out of the legislature appear to be doomed to senatorial execution Tuesday afternoon when the House committee substitute county option li quor bill will be considered as a spe cial order of business. Minimum estimate of control strenr gth in the Senate is that 26 Senators will vote for the House bill. Maxi mum estimate gives 30 votes to the controllers. A leading county option senator claims 28 votes, which seems fair enough under the circumstances. In other words nobody now concedes Continued on Page Five.) NEW FIND MADE IN BUFFALO MYSTERY Blood-Spotted Shirt May Have Been Connected With Killing of Mary Babcock Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 13 (AP)—Po lice investigating the killing of 18- year-old Mary Babcock today announc ed the discovery of a blood-spotted shirt in what appeared to be a new clue to Mary’s activities on the night she was slain. The blood-stained man’s shirt was turned over to police by the proprie tor of a South Buffalo laundry. It appeared to have been worn only once. Efforts were immediately begun to trace it to its owner. The other clue, police said, was tak en from the soles of Mary Babcock’s shoes. Police said he believed they showed she had danced on the last night of her life. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. GRIPS WASHINGTON Main Topic at Capitol and White House Alike Is Merits of Roosevelt Proposals BITTER OPPOSITION TO PLAN IS RISING Roosevelt’s Opponents Call for Constitutional Amend ment and His Friends Say That Is Too Long Drawn Out; Capital Happy Over Strike End 1 ________ Washington, Feb. 13.—(AP)— The beginning of a historic dispute over enlarging the Supreme Court took form this week amid administration cries of “No compromise’’ and opposi tion predictions of defeat for the Pre sident’s proposal. Satisfaction over settlement of the General Motors strike, arguments about the Wagner labor act in the Supreme Court, a presidential recom mendation for long-time economic planning—each had its place in the developments of the week. The main topic at the White House and Capitol alike, however, was the merit of the President’s chosen course on judicial reorganization. Some of Mr. Roosevelt’s opponents called for a constitutional amendment instead, but his supporters called this a long process. It could be thwarted by action of 13 legislatures, they] pointed out. Sales Tax Bloc Holds Full Reins Daily Diapatcb Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Feb. 13.—Foes of the sales tax in the House have taken their worst beating since the much-assailed measure was first enacted into North Carolina law as “an emergency measure." Battling grimly, but hopelessly, they have 'butted their heads against a stone wall in every effort they have made to lift any substantial part of the tax. Their sole victory to date, out of enarly a dozen efforts, has been td .place bread in the exempt list along with lard, flour, meal and six othen staple necessities. So complete and utter has been their rout that their leader, Willie Lee Lumpkin, of Franklin, has been able to get a roll call vote only on a proposal to exempt agricultural im plements an amendment which lost on a recorded, vote of 49 to 47 only when Nash’s Bill Fenner and two others changed their votes from “ae” to “no” between completion of the roll call on Page Five) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY PUN PRESIDENT ARGUES WITH FIVE SOLONS; Virginian To Speak in Sen ate Against Plan To Pack Supreme Court by Roosevelt NEBRASKAN BLUNT IN HIS STATEMENT Rather Be Right Than Agree With President, Burke Says After Hearing Roosevelt Plead; King, Van Nuys, Byrnes and Harrison Call at White House Washington, Feb. 13 (AP) Senator Glass, Democrat, Vir ginia, said jtoday Roosevelt’s proposal to increase the Supreme Court unless just ices over 70 retire was “fright ful.” He added he was ready to speak in the Seante againkt it. The caustic Virginian, in his first statement on the President’s court program, said: “I am going to speak in the Senate to say that I am utterly opposed to it. I think it is a frightful proposal, unprecedented since the founding of the government. “I don’t mean to say it has not been suggested before to increase the num ber of judges, but just exactly this proposal is unprecedented since the foundation of the government.’’ Glass, a frequent critic of Roose velt administration policies, particu larly monetary, issued his statement at the same time as Mr. Roosevelt was conferring at the White House with five Democratic senators, three of them opposed to enlarging the Su preme Court. The conference was regarded as an other presidential effort to win sena torial support and solidify divided Democratic ranks. It produced, how ever, new evidence a vigorous Senate floor fight was in the offing. Emerging from the executive man (Continued on Page Five) Rumor Plati For Kidnap Os 2 Quins Toronto, Feb. 13.—(AP)—(By Canadian Press) —T he govern ment protectors of Canada’s fa mous Dionne quintuplets charged provincial police today with sift ing every shred of a story that “two foreign looking’’ men were plotting to kidnap two of the pretty'little sisters. Police and Attorney General Arthur Roebuck were inclined to think the tale a hoax. However* two extra guards were dispatched to the Callan der nursery, bringing to five the men who walk a waiy beat about the eight foot steel fence which guards thdot tle girls. “We think it extraordinary,” said Continued on Page Five.) Watch Flood As Red Tide Moves South Legion of Workers Mans Lower Levees on Mississippi; Ohio Cities Dig Out Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 13.—(AP) — The yellow flood tide that despoiled cities, towns and farms in the val leys of the Ohio and Mississippi cours ed toward the gulf today while an alert legion of workers manned the lower valley levees. Army engineers and veterans of many high water fights foresaw vic tory over the greatest flood in the nation’s history. The billion dollar levee line held firm. Stricken cities along the Ohio be gan to dig from under the slime of devastation, strewn, with the wreck age of countless homes and buildings. The death lists stood at 466.
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