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rSNDEKSONn gateway TO CENTRAL i j rAKOHNA’ | year jOSEVELT TENANCY BILL GOES TO HOUSE Senate Argues Referendum On Liquor Stores Proposal; Would Ban Marriages At 18 another hike of STATE SALARY NOW SIGHT IN SENATE Bill Would Pay Utilities Commissioner $7,500 An nually Instead of $6,000 Total REVENUE machinery BILL GIVEN HOUSE Anson Solon Tells Senators People of State Have Right To Voice on Liquor Issue; Beaufort Man Says Drys Have Had Chance and Have Failed Raleitrh, Feb. 16 (AP)—The Senate vigorously debated on an amendment this afternoon which would provide a State wide referendum on the ques tion of creation of county li quor stores. The House held a short session, •endau r the old age assistance and child qid bill to its committee. It was announced the administration free textbook lull, passed on second read in? by the representatives last night, had to L r o to the finance committee for approval of its bond issue features Senators received a bill to make child marriages unlawful by setting the minimum age limit at 18 years except for girls between 16 and 18 who have consent of their parents. Now girls 11 with consent and girls and hoys 16 without consent may marry. Senator Martin, of Davidson, of fered r>io liquor referendum amend ment md debate was limited to three hours. l iquor Debate Begun . I iy' ,1 of Anson opened the fight (Continued on Page Two) Three States Seek 40-Hour Textile Week Columbia, S. C., Feb. 16.—(AP)— 'Overnor Olin Johnston said today i’ n,, d to ask the governors of - " Carolina and Georgia to coop |N in an effort to establish a 40- i if wr. k in textile mills in the south east. lorn ton said he would continue port of the idea in South Car ! whether the other states acted hut declared “it would be 'i n better for all concerned if ' and North Carolina came alf,n h r with us.” ! rn oing to write to Governor (f'iiy of North Carolina and '' j; Rivers of Georgia to ■' i! rj out their sentiments,’’ Johnston f , 'tfoth the Georgia and North —aro!ii.a legislatures are now in ses '‘ 1 lf 'd it would be a good time for of us to get together.” tight Looms On Sales Tax Put On Building Materials Opponents Say It Is Unfair and Discriminatory, and I hey Are Sore at Maxwel 1 for Method in Which He l orced Levy Into Re venue Bill in House •‘nily niirrau, In tin- Sir Walter Hotel. **y HENRY AVERILL. r ' ' ; Feb. 16.—Adjournment of laMue by April 1 is freely pre t i ,l ' practically all political prop- I 'at before any adjourning is j m going to be one of the ; ‘«d bitterest battles of the j l 11 and it will not be over liquor th . proposition which may hold up j, ' A '’ ks is that sales tax on build tf ’ l j)il mbing and electrical oontrac- PPped into the revenue bill at 1 ‘ c venth hour and fifty-ninth mi . ' ! .y the finance committee and ’ riUQU fc'h the House despite a stub Utettiteramt Htttlu tHsuafrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE Ol? THE ASSOCIATED PRESS They Disapprove Court Changes -'.V... y vlilv; n 3088888S* \ A 1 MSsm? i : iPilllm ...vxvwvx^oooooows^ Robert L. Cummings (left), and John W. Bryant are shown at Cam* bridge, Mass., signing the written disapproval of 600 Harvard Law School students to President Roosevelt’s proposal to increase the mem bership of the Supreme Court. (Central Press) Patrol For Spain To Be Begun Soon Powers To Agree To Ban Supplies T o Either Side in Civil War Strife (By The Associated Press.) The international “hands-off-Spain” committee was called into session to day to confirm three recommend ations to insulate the rest of Europe from the Spanish civil war. Approved by a sub-committee with only Portugal dissenting, and Ger many and Italy in agreement with France Great Britain and Russia, the proposals were: 1. Each nation to ban voluntary aid (Continued on Page Three.) FOURTHSUSPECT IN SLAYING SET FREE Three Others Held But Not Thought Guilty in School Girl Assault in Mountains Sparta, Feb. 16. — (AP) Sheriff Walter Irvin said today a fourth man, arrested as a suspect in the Elva (Brannock assaiibVmurder case had been cleared of any connection, but had been turned over to Galax, Va., authorities to finish a road sentence there. The sheriff gave the man’s name as Rufus Garrell. He said after ques tioning Garrell he knew nothing about the case. The sheriff was still holding Everett and Delter Fortner and Sam Phipps, who were arrested in connec tion with the case, but he indicated they were not directly involved. born opposition led by Representative J. C. Hobbs, of New Hanover. Hill To “Talk a Week.” Beaten in the lower branch, foes of this extension of the sales tax into new fields promise to battle it out toi the bitter end when the revenue bill comes up in the Senate. Already John Sprunt Hill, of Dur ham has threatened to “talk for a week” on the subject and it is ad mitted on all sides that the senator from the Bull city is quite able to» make good his threat- Some cynical senators have even said that he’d »e (Continued on Page Three.) ONLY DAILY Three Are Killed In Boiler Blasts Winston-Salem, Feb. 16.—(AP)— Three men were killed and fourth injured in a boiler explosion today near Advance, in Davie county. ManDeadAnd Divorcee, 37, Found Shot Baltimore, Md., Feb. 16 (AP) —Mrs. Leonora Veil, 37-year-old divorcee, was found in her room here today criti cally wounded, a dead man lying across her body. She told police she had lain in that position for more than 12 hours. Mrs. Veil had been shot below the heart. Police officers summoned to the home by a phone call from an un identified person quoted her as say ing the shooting occurred about last midnight. She said the slain man was William Armstrong. Patrolmen Harry Miller and Or ville Cook, radio-car crew, and Ser geant George Dixon responded to the mysterious telephone summons. They said they found the house locked, but heard a wotnari scream, “I’ve been shot.” They broke in through a rear win dow and found Mrs. Veil on the floor ,of the front hall, her head on a pillow and Armstrong’s head on her breast. A nickleplated pistol lay nearby. Mrs. Veil told the offioers the man had called at her home last night and requested her to go out with him. When she refused, she said, he shot her, then killed himself. RAIDS MAY BOOST . LIQUOR’S PASSAGE Mecklenburg Seizures Twisted into Argument for County Stores Dslily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Waiter Hotel. By J. C. BASKKItVILI Raleigh, Feb. 16 —The raids made on “liquor joints” in Mecklenburg county last week-end, resulting in the seizure of $15,000 worth of Federal tax-paid liquor in only four places, was expected to be brought into the debate on the liquor control bill in the Senate this afternoon in support of the contention that “Mecklenburg is the dryest voting, wettest drinking couny” in the State. Since approxi maely 1,000 gallons of liquor was seiz ed from only four road houses, it is estimated that a full-sized warehouse would be needed to store all of the li quor actually on hand in the various bootlegging joints and filling stations in Charlotte and in Mecklenburg coun ty, if it could all be seized and taken to one place. It is assumed that Charlotte and Mecklenburg county are Continued on Page Two.) NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., FEBRUARY 16, «1937 i TUESDAY AFTERNOON, New Judge Is Young lL • L v ■' . v . I *> . Alfred P. Murrah Appointment of Alfred P. Mur rah, 33-year-old Oklahoma City lawyer, as federal district judge In Oklahoma is seen as the presi dent’s first step toward a rejuve nation of the federal judiciary. Murrah, the father of two chil dren, will hold a roving judge ship assisting Oklahoma’s three district judges. If the U. S. sen ate confirms the appointment, Murrah will be the youngest judge on the federal bench. —Central Press SireJai Army Engineers Assure Populace Dykes All Along River Will Hold Vicksburg, Miss., Feb. 16. —(AP) — Official assurances from army en gineeres the Mississippi river will pass its flood crest safety to the gulf shift ed attention today to the care of re fugees from thousands of low acres. Major Raymond Moses, of the Mis sissippi River Commission, told lower Mississippi valley residents there was no ground for fear because the Ifcat tle to get the Ohio flood waters down (‘the big Mississippi before possible rises of its other tributaries had been won. Nearly 3,000 refugees were quarter ed here and additional high water victims were expected as the crest ap proached, pushing back waters of the Yazoo river over new areas. ' JUDGES WILL GO Legislature Will Heed Dem ocratic Committee’s Re cent Vote Daily Dispatch Bnreaa, • In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Feb. 16.—A great deal was said both pro and con at the public hearing this morning, but when the Senate Committee on Elections Laws had finished the business it seemed more than likely that this legislature will abolish primaries as applied to judgships and solicitorships and re turned these court positions to con ventions to select nominees. First reason for this probability is the action of the Democratic State Committee in recommending it by an overwhelming majority. Too, there is the general feeling common to this and other legislative bodies that a convention gives more real thought to the qualifications of candidates than does the electorate as a whole. It seems to be the consensus that when the primary system is used there is scant attention paid to the ability or fitness of the candidates for judge and solicitor. It’s their popu- Continued on Page Two.) OURWE^niERMAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly Cloudy and colder to night, possibly with occasional rain; Wednesday fair. Escaped Prisoners Leave Stolen Auto Below High Point Asheboro Police Chief Re ports to Greensboro He Sighted Gang Cale donia Fugitives HOSTAGES DROPPED MONDAY AFTERNOON Two Guards and Boy Whose Car They Stole Told “To Get Out and Git”; Offic ers in Central North Caro lina Join Hunt for Des peradoes Raleigh, Feb. 16 (AD—The pen al division announced this morn ing that High Point police had lo cate! the automobile in which seven desperate convicts who es escaped yesterday from Caledonia prison farm in Halifax county had betsn traveling. The machine, Warden H. H. Honey cutt, of State’s Prison, said, was found stuck in the mud about two miles from High Point. No trace had been found of the convicts between 7 o’clock last night, when they released unharmed near Vass, three hostages they had car ried on a wild 200-mile chase, and the discovery of the abandoned car. Prison authorities, however, had ex pressed the opinion the heavily arm ed fugitives might turn from Vass, in the Pinehurst Southern Pines vicinity, toward Guilford county. Officers throughout central North Carolina were notified of the develop ment, and were asked to cooperate in running down the criminals. About T o’clock last night the pris oners told Captain I. D. Hinton and Steward W. L. Roberts, of Caledonia, Continued on Page Two.) ™eTadsd Gill Points Out That Paroles for Seven Escapees Refused Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By .1. C. BASKEttVILL Raleigh, Feb. 16 —The seven long term prisoners who escaped from Caledonia Prison Farm Monday, after kidnaping the superintendent and ste ward and using them for shields in making their escape, were already catalogued as habitual criminals and dangerous men in the files of the pa roles office and applications for pa roles for these men had all been turned down, it was learned today (Continued on Page Two). Germany Is Building For U-Boat Peak Hitler Driving Fast at Kiel for 35 Per cent of British Na val Strength (By The Associated Press) Trim U-boats with the Nazi swas tika fluttering from their flag masts knife the waters of Kiel harbor these days as Adofl Hitler’s third Reich de velops an arm of naval warfare that wrought maritime terror in the World War. But if the protocol for humaniza tion of submarine warfare —joined by Germany, the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan— holds force, the wartime use of sub mersibles will be shorn of most of its horror. The pact, signed by the powers last November would require submarines to conduct passengers, crews and ships’ papers to places of safety be fore sinking merchant ships. Even so, Kiel’s Baltic waters boil white in the wake of Germany’s prac tice maneuvering of newborn U-boats. Germany was 28 of them in the wa ter and eight under construction as she pushed toward the level of naval power permitted by the Anglo-Ger man treaty of 1935 — a percent, ratio to the British strength. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. New Yale Prexy ' . w. Hjjs • .-'Bill; u £ Dr Charles Seymour (above), noted historian and provost of Yale Uni versity since 1927, has been chosen president to succeed Dr. James Rowland Angell who will retire in June. Dr. Seymour, who will be come the university’s 15th presi dent since its founding in 1701, is 62 years-old. GovTloffman Will Resist ‘Sit downers’ Jersey Chief To Ban New Kind of Strike; Troops Still Hold Anderson (By The Associated Press.) Peace prevailed along the automo bile front today, but rumblings of dis cord over industrial union organiza tion continued. Representatives of both the Com mittee for Industrial Organization and the American Federation of Labor, however, joined in attacking, the statement of Governor Harold Hoffman, of New Jersey, that he would protect property from “sitdown strikers.” A spokesman for the New Jersey State Federation of Labor called it deplorable. He said, “We are not go ing to let ourselves be divided over? an issue of this kind.” At militia-ruled Anderson, Ind., Mayor Harry Baldwin asked the Unit ed Automobile Workers Union to re move Organizer Victor Reuther and (Continued on Pave Three). wSmg Folger Wants Big Outpour ings March 4 To Cele brate New Deal i i ■ Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Feb. 16.—The Victory Din ners which are to be held in prac tically every county of North Caro lina (as well as throughout the na tion) on March 4 are going to be the “biggest party events of the year,” to quote A. D. (Lon) Folger, Democratic national committeeman from Tar Heelia, who is in charge of arrange ments. With no election or primary of any real interest to the Democratic party in 1937, says Mr. Folger, every effort is to be centered on making the Vic tory Dinners real celebrations of the New Deal administration’s four years of power. In addition, of course, Mr. Folger hopes that the party deficit can be completely wiped out by proceeds of Continued on Page Two.) O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY TAX ON LAND SALE WOULD BE IMPOSED BY NEW MEASURES General Hugh Johnson Ap proves War Profits Bill For Industry Con trol in War APPROVE BILL FOR JUDGE RETIREMENT Senate Committee Would Let Supreme Court Justices Quit at Full Pay on Reaching 70 Years of Age; General Motors Chief Tells of Hiring Detective Washington, Feb. 16 (AP) The President sent to Congress today an urgent request for ac tion to restore security to the small American farmer. With his message went a report of his special committee on farm ten ancy. This recommended cooperative measures by Federal, State and com munity governments to solve the prob lem of farm tenancy. “Most Americans believe,” the Pres ident said, “that our form of govern ment does not prohibit action on be half of those who need help.” The tenancy committee suggested a “windfall” tax to check land specula tion and a farm security administra tion, and a farm security corpora tion to direct the vast program aimed at solving the tenancy problem. A Senate judiciary sub-committee approved a bill to extend full retire ment privileges to Supreme Court justices. The action was one of the day's main developments in the court reor ganization controversy. The bill, a part of the President’s program for reorganizing the judi ciary, would permit pudges with at least ten years service to retire upon full pay on reaching 70. Merle Hale, former Labor relations director for General Motors Corpora tion, testified before the Senate civil liberties committee he engaged the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in March, 1935, to “find out what was causing dissatisfaction among his firm’s employees.” He said . the United Automobile (Continued on Page Three.) Motor Parley Seeking Full Labor Accord Detroit, Mich., Feb. 16.—(AP)—Re presentatives of General Motors Cor poration and of the union whose: strike shut off its automotive produc tion for several weeks assembled to day for a conference aimed at final settlement of points at issue in the strike. The first discussion of the confer ences was said (by William Knudsen, the corporation’s executive vice-presi dent, to be determination of the order for discussion of six points omitted in the peace agreement that broke the strike deadlock last week and Started more than 100,000 idle em ployees back to their jobs. Homer Martin, president of the U. A. W. A., headed the union delegation of five, which was the first to arrive in the conference room. Lewis And Green Seek Labor Helm Green Bitter Over Expulsion by Min ers; Court Fight Rages in. Senate Washington, Feb. 16.—(AP)— William Green’s refusal to accept expulsion from the United Mine Workers brought his battle with John L. Lewis over methods of organizing labor to a new peak today. Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, called the ac tion of the union policy committee “Hitlerism.” It had voted to oust him on the ground he betrayed labor in (Continued on Page Three.)
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