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Leeway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
twent v - FOURTH year
amendment plan offered against COURT
House Refuses Senate Amendments To Liquor Bill
COUNTY OPTION IS
MCONFERENCE
FOR ADJUSTMENTS
Ban Against Drinking At
Games, State Supervi
sion, Uniform Prices
Objectionable
SENATE progresses
WITH REVENUE BILL
About Third of Measure Ap
proved With Only One
Amendment; Most of It
To Get Through During
Day; Record Number of
Bills Offered in House
Raleigh, Feb. 17 (AP) —The
county option liquor bill went to
conference today to adjust dif
ferences between the Senate and
House when representatives re
fuse! to concur in amendments.
Re; :* s* ntative Bryant, of Durham,
a co-authoi of the bill, asktd tht
House to refuse to accept changes vot
ed by the Senators late yesterday and
was sustained.
Speaker Cherry then appointed
Bryant. Blount of Beaufort and Coop
er of New Hanover, all vigorous coun
ty option backers, as members of the
Hous on the conference group.
President Horton of the Senate said
he had not decided on his conferees
Continued on Page Five.)
Parliament Opens
Debate Over Huge
Fund for Defense
London, Feb. 17 (AP) —Chan-
,pii„r of the Exchequer Neville
Chamberlain launehed today a
two tay debate on the $7,500,000,-
OOii British defense program, with
this declaration in the Commons:
Unprecedented condithVns of
the times have forced upon us this
vast expenditure.”
He then moved adoption in com
mittee on ways and means of the
resolution authorizing a $2,000,000,-
000 arms loan.
Labor and liberal leaders must
ereU their forces for a battle
against the government’s attempt
to float the loan and raise the
remaining 55,500,000,000 by taxar
lion in the next five years.
Lindberghs
Are Overdue
In The East
Bagdad, Feb. 17—(AP) —Airport
oHie'als awaiting the arrival of
L ionel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
•‘♦•rgh expressed anxiety today
when the fliers were half an hour
overdue from Cairo.
Officials said a sand storm was
blowing in the desert between
Damascus and Bagdad.
H e airport reported later vis
*'ilii> had been reduced to 200
yards as the sandstorm swept in
lr<>m the southwest.
1-1 ng non-stop from Cairo, the
Lindberghs might take a direct route
(Continued on Page Three.)
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CERTAIN TO PASS
Last of Hoey’s “Must” Mea
sures To Be Demanded
of Legislature
Hally Dispatch Rnrenn,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
«y .1. C. HASKKItVILL.
"igh, Feb. 17. —The free text
bill—the last of the “must”
a" jr.is advocated by Governor
lb. Hoey, both during his cam
-1 t; for governor and in his inau
' ' i ’' ip to the finance committee
<' i was placed on the House calen
-11 °day. But for the fact that it is
d call bill and must be passed on
Continued on Page Five.)
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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Elva Brannock (right), 16, who was ravished and slain while enroute to a
mountain school near Sparta, N. C., is shown in this recent photograph with
her 19-year-old sister, Ethel (left). County and Federal officers are pressing
an investigation into the slaying. (Associated Press Photo).
Discuss Plan To Settle
Future Motors Disputes
High Winds Rake
Portion of State
Charlotte, Feb. 17 (AP)—Cold
blusterly weather prevailed over
parts of North Carolina today,'
while stiff winds whipped the coast
causing small craft to seek shelter.
No damage was reported, how
ever. The highest wind velocity
reported was 30 miles an hour A
few utility lines were blown down
in some places.
Snow blanketed much of the west
ern part of the State.
School Group
Happy It Got
10 Pet. Raise
High Command
Knows When It Is
Lucky; They Gun
for Other Quarry
Dali? Dispatch Rnrena,
In the Sir Walter Hotel
By C. BA SKEBVILIr
Raleigh, Feb. fact that the
school forces made no fight whatever
in the House for a larger appropria
tion for schools and took the 10 per
cent salary increase recommended by
the appropriations committee with
out a murmur, although they had
been campaigning for a 20 per cent
increase, is causing some of the old
timers here to wonder what has hap
pened. For one of the thii gg always
expected in a legislative session is a
militant fight by the school forces for
a larger increase in salaries than is
recommended, no matter how much
may be recommended. Accordingly,
there are serrr who cannot yet under
stand how the appropriations bill
went through the House without a
single word being said advocating a
larger appropriation for schools than
had been recommended.
Know They Are Lucky.
In the first place, the educational
(Continued on Page Three.)
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED
Proposals Drafted To Es
tablish Tribunals To Ar
bitrate Differences
of Opinion
TWO CONFERENCES
DAILY BEING HELD
Union’s Six Demands Left
Unsettled When Strike
Ended Last Week Are To
Be Disposed of, Including
Work Hours, Wage Scales,
And Others
Detroit, Mich, Feb. 17. —(AP)—
Negotiators seeking final settle
ment of grievances involved in the
General Motors strike turned to
day to discussions of seniority
rights and speed or operations.
U. A. W. A. workers carried into the
conference room a proposal for a per
manent tribunal to decide “past, pre
sent and future” union! grievances in.
General Motors plants.
Wyndham Mortimer, first vice pres
ident heading the U. A. W. A. con
ferees, withholding details of the
union plan, declined to comment onj
reports it contemplated a five-man
national board composed of two repre
sentatives of the union and the cor
poration and one neutral member.
General Motor's was reported in
sisting that any settlement board es
(Continued on Page Three.)
Legislature
May Adjourn
By March 15
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILI.
Raleigh, Feb. 17— Final adjourn
ment of the General Assembly by
March 15 is now regarded as a dis
tinct possibility in most legislative cir
cles here, provided the Senate shows
as much disposition to do its work
and get through promptly as has the
House. So far, however, Lieutenant
Governor W. P. Horton has been step
ping on the accelerator just about
as heavily as has Speaker R. Gregg
Cherry in the House, with the result
Continued on Page Two.)
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 17, 1937
Batly Bispatrh
> IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
No Trace Yet of
Prison Escapees
High Point, Feb. 17.—(AP)
After an all-night search over four
counties, a group of 30 officers un
der the direction of Oscar Pitts,
acting director of the State penal
division, reported today no trace
had been found of the seven con
victs who escaped from the Cale
onia Prison farm in Halifax county
Monday.
Pitts said the party covered
every possible movement of the es
capees after the discovery of their
abandoned car near here yester
day. He aid the search was made
in Guilford, Forsyth, Randolph
and Davidson Counties.
OVER 40 COUNTIES
EXPECTED TO VOTE
1 LIQUOR STORES
Rush for Elections Looked
for Immediately Follow
ing Passage of Con
trol Bill
WANT REVENUE FOR
SECURITY EXPENSE
Reasons Why Drys Lost In
Senate Explained; Tre
mendous Pressure Exerted
on Wavering Senators at
Last Minute Just Before
Vote Tuesday
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Bv J r QASKEfIVILI
Raleigh, Feb. 17. —Any county in
North Carolina may now call an elec
tion on whether or not State and coun
ty-controlled liquor stores shall be es
tablished as a result of the action by
the State Senate late yesterday in
passing the local option liquor control
bill which had already been passed
by the House. These elections may
either be called by the (boards of coun
ty commissioners, or if county com
missioners fail or refuse to call an
elction, a petition signed by 16 per
cent of the registered voters in any
(Continued on Page Two)
Tarboro Child Is
Killed by Brother
Playing With Gun
Tarboro, Feb. 17 (AP) —Wilton Rose,
6, died today of wounds received yes
terday as he and a nine-year-old
brother, Burney, played with a shot
gun while their "parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George Rose, were away from
home.
Another of the Rose children was
killed several years ago in a gasoline
drum explosion.
SENATE® 10
SPLIT INTO BLOCS
Movement Is Gradual But
Perceptible Under Demo
cratic Majority
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Feb. 17. —The Senate
shows an increasing tendency to split
into blocs.
The same tendency is noticeable a
mong representatives, but not so do
cidedly.
This is partly because the Senate’s
comparatively sma 11 membership
makes its trends easier to calculate
than shifts in sentiment at the other
'Continued on Page Three.)
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight; Thurs
day mostly cloudy, with occasion
al rain and warmer.
RESIDENTS OF TERRORIZED SECTION
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G-Men were asked to probe the activities of mysterious hooded night riders
terrorizing Brunswick county, N. C., after two of the men shown above re
ceived threatening notes, a third said he expects one, and the other approved
the riders’ activities “if they can do any gbod.” Earl Fennell (top left), who
lives in South Carolina near the North Carolina line, and Rodney B. Long
(top right) of Hickman’s Crossroads, N. C., said they received warnings.
Codie Hickman (below left) 0 f Hickman’s Crossroads, said he expects a
warning note. Rev. Vance Simmons (below right) declared “If they (the
floggers) can do any good, they are all right.” (Associated Press Photos).
Ten Fall To
Death From
Frisco Span
Plunge 200 Feet
Through Safety
Nets While Remov
in g Construction
Forms
San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 17.
(AP) —Ten men were believed to
have been killed today when steel
and wooden construction forms
crashed from the vast Golden
Gate bridge today and plunged
the workers into the water.
The victims fell 200 feet and
bridge officials said they did not
believe the men could have sur
vived.
Eight bodies were thought to have
been swept to sea, and a report said
a Coast Guard boat had picked up
two men. It was not known whether
(Continued on Page Three.)
Two Freed
In Inquiry
Os Slaying
Sparta, Feb. 17 (AP)—Sheriff Wal
ter Irving said today he had released
two of the four men whom he detain
ed for questioning in the slaying of
16-year-old Elva Brannock, whose ra
vished body was found in a clump of
bushes five days after.
Released wer e Everett and Delter
Fortner, brothers, the first of the four
to be taken into custody. They were
allowed to go free under S3OO bond
each on an old assault charge for
which they had been sought for
months.
Still in custody were Paul Edwards
and Sam Fipps. Fipps is held on a
prohibition charge, and the sheriff
said he had checked Fipps’ story and
was certain he had nothing to do with
the crime against the girl.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Solicitor Burnev
To Attend Inquiry
Into Torch Death
Wilmington, Feb 17 (AP) —Dis-
trict Solicitor John Burney said
today he would go to Southport
tonight to attend the inquest
there at 7:30 o’clock into the torch
death of Hobson (Hobby) Sellers,
21-year-old truck driver of Supply
who died here early Sunday morn
ing of burns received a week pre
viously when his gasoline-soaked
body was set afire.
Officers alleged Irman Ckjtai
mons, 32, of Supply, soaked the
body of Sellers with gasoline the
night of February 6 at the height
of a beer-drinking party as the
young man lay ill beside th© Chal
lotte-Suppiy highway. Clemmons
is being held without privilege of
bail pending th© outcome of the
inquest.
He has stoutly maintained his
innocence.
REBEmNSPAIN
OPENJWO DRIVES
Isolation of Madrid Objec
tive of Offensives Be
gun by Insurgents
(By The Associated Press.)
Insurgent forces hurled strong of
fenses on two fronts of the Spanish
civil war today, both menacing the
core of government territory.
In the south the forces of General
Francisco Franco forged steadily to
ward Valencia, temporary seat of
the government, apparently with no
defensive troops to stop their path.
The insurgent army, fighting to
complete the isolation of Madrid, at
tacked by air and land to break the
Valencia highway line from Valencia
to the capital. Officers reported
heavy government casualties on one
stretch of the highway.
But the government said a counter
offensive on this front was turning the
tables.
At Valencia the government took
a new mandate of absolute power
from all popular front parties and
mobilized every possible unit of man
power to resist the insurgent offen
sives.
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RIGHT TO RE-PASS
lEGISLATION WOULD
BEGIVENCONGRESS
Could Override by Two-
Thirds Vote Under New
Plan Same As Veto
of President
BUT ALLOWED ONLY
IN LATER CONGRESS
Same Session Could Not
Overcome Supreme Court's
Adverse Decision; Wheel
er and Bone Offer Plan;
Norris Would Require
Seven to Two Vote
Washington, Feb. 17. —(AP) —Sena-
tors Wheeler, Democrat, Montana,
and Bone, Democrat, Washington,
.proposed today a constitutional
amendment which they predicted
would be “accepted as a compromise”
by both opponents and supporters of
President Roosevelt’s judicial reor
ganization program.
Their proposal—patterned after the
Madison amendment originally con
sidered during the constitutional con
vention—would empower Congress to
.re-enact by a two-thirds vote any Fed
eral law invalidated by the Supremo
Court.
No action would be taken, however,
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30-Hour Week Is
Asked by Miners
In New Contract
1
New York, Feb. 17 (AP)—The
United Mine Workers today de
manded a 30-hour work week for
400,000 miners in the soft coal in
dustry.
The mine union, opening nego
tiations with bituminous operators
on terms for a new wage and
hour scale agreement, also de
manded :
1. A wage increase of 50 cents
a day for miners paid by the day;
2, an increase of 25 cents a ton
for pick mining; 3, an increase of
13 cents a ton for loaders and two
cents a ton for cutters; 4, a guar
antee of 200 days work each year;
and, 5, two weeks vacation with
full pay—miners paid by the ton
to receive $6 a day during vaca
tion.
Gov. McNutt
Is Sent To
Philippin es
Washington, Feb. 17.—(AP)—(Presi
ent Roosevelt nominated Paul V. Mc-
Nutt, former Indiana governor, today
to be United States high commission
er to the Philippine Islands.
McNutt will fill a place that has
been vacant since late last summer
when Frank Murphy was given a
leave of absence from the post to run
for governor of Michigan.
McNutt completed a four-year term
as governor of Indiana last month.
The Indianan visited the White
House today. Later he said he would
remain here a month before going to
Manila.
Gale Sinks
Motor Ship
In Oregon
Italian Vessel Col
lides With Another
In Columbia River
Near Portland
Portland, Oregon, Feb. 17—
(AP)—The Italian motor ship
Feltre and the American freighter
Edward Luckenbach collided in a
gale on the Columbia river today,
the Feltre sinking up to her pro-
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