"HENDERSON
gateway TO
U CENTRAL
CAROLINA
YEAR
MIEDOHIA FEUMIS SEIZE GUARDS. ESCAPE
MOST OF STRIKERS
IN MOTOR INDUSTRY
ARE BACK ON JOBS
75,000 Return To Work In
Huge General Motors
Plants Throughout
the Country
ALL TO BE BACK BY
MIDDLE THIS WEEK
Chevrolet and Buick Plants
Absorbing Most of Idle in
Six Weeks Strike Settled
Last Week; 135,000 Men
in All Are Returning To
Old Positions
Detroit, Mich.. Feb. 15. —(AP) —Fac-
tory whistles called about 75,000 men
back to work today in General Motors
plants, reopening throughout the nar
tion after settlment of the six weeks
strike.
Within a few days, the corporation
expects to have all of the 135,000 who
were idle at the peak of the strike
again at their work benches and of
fice desks.
The back-to-work movement started
Saturday with the return of 3,000 men
at Flint, Mich.
The Chevrolet Motor company, the
largest producing division of the cor
poration. ordered 40,000 workers to re
port today to plants in Detroit, Bay
City. Flint and Saginaw, Mich.;
Toledo, Ohio, and Munice, Ind.
The big Buick plant at Flint sum
moned 12,500 of its 16,000 workers.
It plans to have the full force on duty
by the middle of the week.
May Accuse
Detectives
In Contempt
Pinkerton, Firm Is
Probed by Senators;
Control of Coal In
dustry Planned
Washington, Feb. 15. —(AP) —A Sen
ate committee expects to vote early
this week on whether to prefer char
ges of contempt against Robert Pin
kerton, youthful head of the widely
known detective agency.
Pinkerton refused to name opera
tives who reported union activity dur
ing the General Motors strike.
The committee, investigating viola
tions of civil liberties, said its ex
posure of “more than 100 labor spies”
during the investigation of industrial
operatives, had helped to cripple such
activities.
At least one firm is going out of
business as a result of the inquiry, the
committee said.
While labor leaders prepared to
negotiate a new wage and hour con
tract between coal miners and opera
tors, House members sought a eolu
tion of the coal industry’s problems.
Ihe ways and means committee
considered the Vinson bill for Federal
regulation of the $11,000,000,000 soft
coal industry. The bill is based on a
price-fixing arrangement.
The Supreme Court invalidated the
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Legislative Speed Result
Largely Os Hoey*s Efforts
Governor Fires Furnace W hile Bryant and Ward Han
dle Throttle on Legislative Engine; All Three Share
Credit for Progress Already Made
lhilly Diupnti-h Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
n . I. V. HASH 1011VIlili
Ual,: ‘Kh, Feb. 15—With the legisla
'll‘‘ already two-thirds through its
,J,k _within 33 legislative days, and
, 1 1 indications that it may fold up
r adj', h n by no t later than the
( ! ‘ r |< ~f March—it can adjourn even
lf;r niany are wondering what
har>i«:ned to speed things up so.
n those who went through the 1931-
and 1935 sessions, which lasted
sur n, ° the s P r ing and almost into
?h, r m ’ the speed and progress of
i t .' f ‘ nt session is almost astound-
Tv, can ’t figure it all out.
, biggest factor in the present
is u. ° f le h r islative speed, of course,
tun ! this General Assembly has a
“iMi revenue market to deal with
Tirnitrrsmi Hath; Utamrfrh
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Plans Amendment
On Supreme Court
Washington, Feb. 15 (AP)—Sen
ator Burke, Democrat, Nebraska, a
leading opponent of President
Roosevelt’s court reorganization
program, said today he would pro
pose a constitutional amendment
to provide for compulsory retire
ment of Federal judges when they
reach 75 years of age.
LIQUOR,,MONEY AND
SECURITY BILL UP
WI T.H LEGISLATURE
Senate Tomorrow To Act
On County Option Li
quor Plan, With Pas
sage Expected
TO DEBATE REVENUE
BILL ON WEDNESDAY
$145,000,000 Biennial Ap
propriation Bill Is Also
Awaiting Action of State
Senate; Social Security
Set-Up To Claim Atten
tion During Week
Raleigh, Feb. 15.—(AP) —North Car
olina’s assemblymen returned to the
Capitol today to tackle liquor, tax,
appropriations and social security
bills. •
The Senate tomorrow will begin de
bate on the House local option liquor
bill, which wet leaders in the upper
chamber said would be passed by at
least three votes.
The Ifc'ill would set up a State board
of control for county-operated stores
and would allow any county to hold a
referendum on whether it wouted the
stores.
Eighten of the State’s 100 countieS|
now have liquor stores as the result
of local legislation rushed through the
1935 legislature in its closing minutes.
The Senate probably will start de
bate Wednesday on the $75,000,000 a
year revenue bill, which the House
passed in record time last week.
.Also before the Senate is the record
high $145,000,000 appropriations bill,
which the House passed in four and
one half minutes Friday night.
OURWEATHEgMAN
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
PrObably rain tonight and Tues
day; slightly warmer tonight.
and has the prospect of a steadily
increasing revenue yield to look for
ward to instead of a declining yield,
which was the case until 1935. The
result was that the finance commit
tees could count on the present reve
nue /bill yielding about $6,000,00k)
more revenue during the next two
years than it has during the past two,
without increasing any of the taxes
in it at all. In fact, present indica
tions are that the surplus at the end
of this fiscal year will be nearer $5,-
000,000 than the $3,000,000 estimated
by Commissioner of Revenue A. J.
Maxwell and the Budget Bureau. The
balance in the general fund as of to
day, according to figures obtained
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HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 15, 1937
The Army Tests Out a New Light Tank
r ,
Manned by soldiers of the 16th U. S. Infantry, this new light tank was put through its paces at Fort Meade, '
Md. f before a group of high army officers and engineering experts. The tank is shown performing on rough
terrain, and while no comment was made, it is understood that the tests were highly satisfactory.
(Central Press)
Amendment Os Constitution
Proposed In Court Argument
Wahington, Feb. 15.—(AP) —A pro
posal for a constitutional amendment
to compel retirement of Federal
judges at the age of 75 emerg
ed today from the welter of court
reorganization controversy.
Senator Burke, Democrat, Nebras
ka, a chief opponent of President
Roosevelt’s court program, said he
HIGHWAY DIVERSION
TRICK ARCHED YET
Both Diversionists and Anti-
Diversionists Claim
They Have Won
Dally Dispatch Bnreau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
:Bv ./ r RASKEfiVILI
Raleigh, Feb. 15.—A controversy is
still raging here between the anti
diversion ists and the diversionists as
to who slickered who in the fight in
the house over diversion of a portion,
of the highway fund to the general
Fund. Most of the anti-diversionisit
feel that they won a tactical victory
in the compromise, even though they
admit that the diversionists won out
in retaining the privilege of diver
sion as much of the highway fund as
may be needed to balance the budget,
if the revenue from the general fund
is not sufficient.
The diversionists, on the other hand
are confident that they are the ones
who -won the biggest victory in the
compromise, since they point out that
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I
Most Industry, Already on
40 Hours, Might Step
Up to Maximum
Daily Dispatch Bareaa.
In the Sir Walter Hotel
Ily JT. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Feb. 15.—Despite the fact
that they approve the principle un
derlying the 55-hour week bill intro
duced by Representatives Mcßryde
and Uzzell recently, advocates of a
Shorter work week and day in North
Carolina are a bit fearful that enact
ment of the measure may lead to a
lengthening rather than a shortening
of hours in such a key division as the
textile industry.
They have studied statistics issued
by the department of labor and have
noticed that there are at present only
12 mills in the State out of 382 re
porting to the department in which
the work week is more than 50 hours.
On the other end, the statistics
show that eighty per cent of all the
textile mills are operating on the 40-
hour week which was inaugurated un
der the Blue Eagle of NRA and its
now discarded codes.
Might Be Boomerang.
As they see the situation, enactment
of a bill specifying that 55 hours shall
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would propose such an amendment.
There “can be no compromise,” he
asserted, on the President’s plan to
increase the Supreme Court by six un
less judges over 70 retire.
While the reorganisation fight spill
ed over party lines at the Capitol, the
court itself met in its nearby marble
home for a brief session. It handed
down only one decision.
Wm. Green
Ousted By
Mine Union
Washington, Feb. 15.—( \P) —
The United Mine Workers policy
committee directed the union offi
cers today to expel William Green,
president of the American Fed
eration of Labor, from the Union.
In a resolution, the committee
found Green guilty of “treason”
and a “betrayal of labor, its prin
ciples and ideals.”
The miners’ union is affiliated
with the Committee for Industrial
Organization, which is seeking to
bring all workers in each indus
try into one large union. Such a
policy is opposed to traditional A.
F. of L craft unionization.
Last year the A. F. of L. sus
pended the miners’ union and
mine others for “insurrection.”
Green has been a member of the
United Mine Workers for aobut 40
years, and for many years was
secretary-treasurer.
HEARING TUESDAY
ON ELECTION LAW
i
Proposals of Democratic
Committee Involved in
Pending Bills
Daily Dispatch Bnrenn,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Feb. 15.—A1l those people
interested either in changing or not
changing the State’s present election
laws will have a chance to present
their v'ews on the matter next Tues
day morning.
Senator Kelly E. Bennett, Bryson
City, chairman of the election law
committee, has announced that a pub
lic hearing will be held then, and that
principal consideration will be given
the measures recently introduced ifcy
Senator A. Hall Johnston, of Bun
combe. These bills embody the chan
ges in the election laws recently re
commended by the Democratic State
Executive Committee.
While most observers feel that the
administration-hacked and Democra
tic committee-sponsored bills will go
through with a minimum of change
or amendment, they likewise believe
that there will be more than a little
argument before the committee. Cer
tainly therew ill be if opponents of
the absentee ballot law try to make*
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The House began del’cate on the sec
ond of the session's major supply
bills, a $1,500,955,151 measure for the
Treasury and Post Office Depart
ments for the fiscal year beginning
July 1.
Included in the proposed appropriar
tion was $750,000,000 to permit estab
lishment of trans-Atlantic air mail
service beginning about November 1.
JUSTICES DECLINE
4
Members of High Tribunal
Mum on Scheme to Oust
Them From Jobs
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Feb. 15—If any one has
an acute interest in the United States
Supreme Court’s future one naturally
might think that it would be a Su
preme Court justice.
these are the very folk who are
almost 100 per cent unquoted on the
subject.
Chief Justice Hughes was, indeed,
suggested in print as planning com
promise, on a 75-year-old retirement
basis, with President Roosevelt’s pro
posal for the semi-super annuation of
justices past 70. Since he repudiated
the idea, however, as one of his own,
it scarcely can be called a quotation.
Otherwise clams have nothing, for
silence, on the membership of the high
judiciary, as to the presidential
scheme to dilute their bench with
younger blood.
IN THEIR OWN CHAMBERS?
Suppose some president were to ad
vocate the addition of" a supplement
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rKSacross
Quick Passage Due to Fa
miliarity of Members
With Its Provisions
Dally Dispatch Bareaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL-
Raleigh, Feb. 15.—The ag>propriar
tions bill was in no sense “railroad”
ed” through the House when it wad
passed on all three readings at the
Friday night session last week, it wad
pointed out today by those who were
present. While it is true that the bill
was passed virtually without any de
bate or discussion, no “pressure” wad
put on the bill and it is recalled that
Chairman D. L. WJard, of the appro
priations committee, told the House
members present that if there was a
single memlbier who wanted the bill
to go over or who was not satisfiedi
with it or who wanted the bill held
over, he would not press for its pas
sage. Since no opposition was voiced
against the measure, the House pro
ceeded to enact it in record time. Ac
cordingly, Ward’s friends here feel
that those who have been intimating
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
State Desperadoes
Are Heavily Armed
And Flee Westward
Third Arrest For
Mountain Slaying
Sparta, Feb. 15 (AP)—Sheriff
Walter Irving announced the ar
rest of a third man today in con
nection with the assault-slaying of
17-year-old Elva Brannock, but
said apprehension of the principal
suspect “will come tonight.”
The third man arrested was
booked as Sam Phipps, who lives
in the area where the high school
girl’s body was found in an ivy
clump Friday after she had been
missing five days.
The sheriff said Phipps, like
Everett and Delter Fortner, was
merely being detained on a minor
charge while being questioned in
connection with the slaying.
He said he was convinced the
girl was ravished and strangled by
a resident of the area.
todemElimits
TO AID FOR SPAIN
I
Italian Ambassador In Paris
Tells Italian Envoy Italy
Has Violated
Agreement
BRITISH WARSHIPS
FIRE UPON PLANE
Believed Spanish Insurgent
Machine, Alleged To Have
Dropped Bombs at Two
Destroyers; Official Pro
tests Sent Insurgents by
the British
(By The Associated Press.)
France, with warning words to
Italy, prepared to demand interna
tional control of foreign support for
the Spanish insurgents by February
28, authoritative sources said today.
Authoritative predictions that a
Franco-Britih blockade of the Portu
guese coast will be sought if Portugal
remains adamant against supervision
of its borders, followed Premier Leon
Blum’s declaration France cannot ac
cept continued violations of noiii-in
tervention.
Blum told Italian Ambassador Vit
torio Cerruti that the landing of Ital
ian forces near Malaga, Spain, was a
flagrant violation of non-intervention,
and France will not tolerate “open
invasion” of Spain.
Two Britishers destroyed fired at
an airplane “believed to be a Spanish
insurgent plane,” official sources re
ported -in London, when it tried to
bomb them off the coast of /" geria.
The plane reputedly dropped six
bombs near the destroyers Havock
and Gypsy without damage to them.
t)ffs2ijajl protests fmmediaitely were)
sent to the Spanish insurgent head
quarters at Salamanca, Spain, and. at
Palma, Mallorca.
Supreme Court To
Review Processing
Taxes Os Old AAA
Washington, Feb. 15.—(AP)— The
Supreme Court agreed today to re
view litigation over the law prohibit
ing refunds of invalidated Agricul
tural Adjustment Administration pro
cessing and floorstock taxes unless
proof is given the levies had not been
shifted to the consumers.
The justices consented to pass on
an appeal filed by the Anniston, Ala.,
Manufacturing Company in its effort
to recover $270,000 paid the governr
ment. The company lost in the fifth
circuit court of appeals.
The court agreed to review this con
troversy after meeting briefly to hand
down one minor decision. It adjourn
ed for two weeks, therelby delaying
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FIVE CENTS COPY
Last Reported in Warren
, County Near Areola Aft
er Kidnaping Couple
Motorists
TELEPHONE WIRES
AT FARM ARE CUT
Guard Forced To Drive 12
Miles to Halifax To Report
Break to State Authorities;
Prison Farm Quiet at Noon
As Reinforcements Are
Sent There
Raleigh, Feb. 15 (AP)
Three men serving murder sen
tences and four long term felons
kidnaped two officials of Cale
donia prison farm and escaped
today, and at midday the penal
division received reports they
had kidnaped one or more mot
orists and split into two groups.
The fate of Captain I. D. Hinton,
in charge of Caledonia personnel, and
.Steward W. L. Roberts was unknown
as was that of red-haired youth the
convicts were reported to have forced
to accompany them after they seized
his car.
The escapees were announced as:
C. F. Yeager, sentenced to eight to
ten years in Union county in August,
1933, for breaking and entering.
Ralph Page, given a life term iri
Burke county in August, IS|33, as an
accessory before the fact in first de
gree murder.
Clark Yorke, sentenced in July, 1934
to 45 years for bank robbery in Dup
lin county, and to 30 years for second
degree murder in Surry.
Arthur Tettit, serving 45 years and
five to ten years for bank robbery in
Duplin.
Bill Payne, serving upwards of 40
for robbery and Ibank robbery,
convictions in Orange, Surry, Forsyth
and Richmond counties.
J. W. Turner, alias Jack Bardon,
given ten years in Richmond county
in April, 1929, for robbery.
Robert S. Smith, sentenced, in
Wayne in 1928 to six to nine years for
robbery and in Halifax to 12 to 15
for second degree murder.
One group of the heavily armed
men was reported to have wrecked
a car near Louisburg, and the men
took to the woods. Bloodhounds were
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Flood Tide
Flattens In
SouthArea
New Orleans, La.. Feb. 15 (AP)—
The Mississippi river flood crests were
reported flattening out today as they
rolled closer to Vicksburg in their
iourney to the Gulf of Mexico. The
flattening process, Meteorologist J.
T. Lindley said, would slow the move
ment of the crests, but would not in
crease the strain of the main line le
vee system.
Lower valley dwellers from Cairo to
New Orleans had new assurances
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decisions on constitutionality of the
Washington law establishing mini
mum wages for women and on wheth
er the 1933 congressional resolution
abrogating payment of obligations in
gold applied to bullion as well as coin.
Action also was postponed fir at
least two weeks on a petition for re
consideration of its recent four-to-four
decision upholding the New York un
employment insurance law, which
supplements the Federal social se
curity act.
The court refused to review litiga
tion brought by five Texas rice mil
lers and by the Sheridan, Wyo., Flour
ing Mills, attacking constitutionality
of the “windfall tax” provisions of the
1936 revenue act.