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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-fourth YEAR BILLION DOLLAR Revenue »MFUSE TO REMOVE TAXES ON PUBLIC MEALS House Expected To Reject Senate Changes to Mea sure and Then Ask for Conference debate fo/Thour OVER MEALS LEVY State Insurance of Public School Buildings Provided in Bill; Elections Laws Committee Kills Absent Ballot and Primary Change Bills Raleigh, Feb. 24 —Senators refused again today to take the sales tax off meals in public eating places, then passed the biennial revenue bill and sent it to the House for concurrence in amendments. Senate F’inance Chairman Webb, of Lenoir predicted the House would re iect Senate changes and demand a confe/ nee committee to iron out dif ferences . Final passage was by a 41 to 3 vote, with Senators Brock of Davie, Long of Halifax, and Ewing of Cumber land opposing the measure, designed to raise $76,000,000 for the general fund during the 1937-39 biennium. The senators debated more than an hour after Johnston of Buncombe re newed his motion to strike out th e tax on meals, then refused 25 to 21 to do so. Gold of Guilford said “the director of the budget, (Governor Hoey) has business and political desires to take th e tax off meals, and other senators, argued the Democratic party had pledged removal of the present three per cent levy. Ingram, of Randolph, Hill of Dur ham and others, however, argued the (Continued on Page Six.) ENGINEER KILLED IN P. & N. TRAGEDY Taylor's. S. C., Feb. 24.—(AP)—T. G. Cobb, 30, engineer, of Greenville, was killed, and another man injured when a Piedmont & Northern freight train collided with a coal car that rolled off a spur track onto the main. l:ne at 5 a. m. today. SKs Levy of $250 Proposed on Merchants Setting Up Displays for Day I »i» 11 y IJiM|»ntch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Feb. 24—A1l the merchants in North Carolina should give three c hcers and a couple of good huzzahs for Democratic Senator L. Y. Ballen tine. of Wake County, and Republican Merchant Calvin Zimmerman, of Ra lf,‘Sh, as a result of the adoption by |hc Seante of the amendment offered '>y Senator Eallentine to the revenue oill, placing a tax of $250 on out-of- Stat,, concerns which have been send exhibits of merchandise into the aaf - e from fhoir stores, taking orders, -’iifl t h• ■ n sending the purchases back ,y observers here today agree. Continued on Page Two.) Governor Has Plans For Cutting Road Accidents ar »ts Highway Patrol Under His Control and Bureau °f Identification Set Up; Legislature To Be Ask ed To Order Confer ring of Authority Daily DlMpntch Bnrenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Hi J. C. IJASKKRVILL- Ti Feb. 24.—Governor Clyde Hooy has some very definite ideas , r [ )ut how to bring about greater <: ty nn the highways of North Car -0 lna ?,r ‘d reduce the number of acci in which approximately 1,000 •"■I sons a year have (been killed for " past several years. That is why he * advocating the transfer of the State «‘Bhway Patrol and the Highway ' Division from the Department 1 ,, fnue to a new department di r 'V under the control of the gov- Uur ’ under a commissioner of high ILiimiivrsmt imlu Dispatch Bill Goes Through Senate On Its Final Passage Tax Bill Passed, Solons Renew Drive For Close House Expected To Agree Promptly to Senate Amend ments; Restoration of M eals Tax Is Most Startling; Hoey Will Not Risk His Prestige On It Dally Dispatch Barca*, 1* the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Feb. 24—With the Senate back on the track and the revenue bill finally passed on third reading, the legislative express train, which for a time gave indications of becom ing a freight train, gives every pro mise of putting on speed under a full head of steam in an effort to reach an early adjournment. While the revenue bill as passed by the Senate contains a number of changes as compared with the bill that passed the House, the general belief is that these differences can and will be ironed out in the confer ence committee to which the bill will be sent, probably tomorrow, when it goes to the House for concurrence in the Senate amendment. It is already $50,000 Clevenger Suit To Stay In State Court State Supreme Court Rules for Plaintiffs in Ruling Appealed From Buncombe RESULT OF SLAYING OF HELEN CLEVENGER C. B. Clevenger, of Raleigh, Filed Suit, Alleging Fail ure of Hotel Organization To Safeguard Niece Prop erly; Opinion Is Written by Judge Devin Raleigh, Feb. 24.—(AP)—The State iSupreme Court affirmed this after noon the ruling of Judge Don Phillips i'n Buncombe county that the SSO 000 damage suit arising out of the murder of Helen Clevenger of Staten Island, New York, should tbe tried in State courts. The defendants, James Grove and the St. Louis Union Trust Company, trustees under the will of the late E. W. Grove, the Knott Hotel Corpora tion and P. H. Branch, manager of the Battery Park Hotel at Asheville, sought removal of the case to Fed eral district court. C. B. Clevenger, of Raleigh, filed the suit, alleging fa lure of Branch and the other defendants to exercise due care, enabled Martin Moore, Ne gro since executed for the crime, to murder his niece, Helen, in the Bat tery Park hotel last summer. Associate Justice Devin wrote the opinion denying the contention of the defendants that Branch was made a party defendant with the fraudulent purpose of preventing removal of this case to the United States district Continued on Page Two.) SAMPSON^FARMER IS DECLARED. SUICIDE Dunn, Feb. 24. —(AP) —Dr. Paul Crumpler, Sampson county coroner, said today the shooting of John Mack Blue, 51-year-old farmer, near his home last night, was a suicide. way safety to be appointed by the governor. But Governor Hoey is not stopping there. He is also convinced that the State needs a bureau of iden tification, including a force of plain clothes detectives, to work with the highway patrol and with sheriffs, po lice chiefs and law officers all over the State, including solicitors, when ever they may need special aid—and that this bureau should be a part of Highway Safety Commission. Act With Gloves Off. “I believe the time has come for Continued on Page Five.) only daily LEASED WIRE SERVIcm nv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, FEBRUARY 24,1937 conceded that in order to send the bill to conference, the House will re fuse to concur in the Senate amend ments. Whereupon a conference com mittee will be appointed to work out a compromise between the two houses. Three Changes Made The most important changes made m th e revenue bill in the Senate were: 1. Modification of the sales tax on building materials, exempting rough and dressed lumber, (but not mill work) sand, gravel, crushed stone and native building stone. 2. Extension of the sales tax to in clude meals in hotels, restaurants and case boarding houses, if they advertise for business. 3. Removal of the chain filling sta (Continued on Page Six.) Eats Through Tummy |H Tommy Lee Scott This little boy, Tommy Lee Scott* 3, of Chicago, hasn't had a bite t® eat for 16 months, but he doesn't care—he eats through his stom ach. Tommy has been in a Chi cago hospital since September, 1936, when he accidentally swal lowed poison which closed his esophagus. —Central Press Liquor Act Amendments Are Started Daily Dispatch Oureaa, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Feb. 24—The ink was hard ly dry on th e ratification signatures needed to make the county option li quor bill a law before amendatory bills began to be popped into the House. The bill was ratified Monday night and at Tuesday morning's sessidn first of the amendatory bills made its appearance. And so before any elections can be had under the bill (April 13 is the earliest date on which any county may vote) there are likely to be some few changes in what is now the liquor laW of the State. None of the changes however, is likely to have any mate rial effect upon its provisions. The first amendment to the law was one proposing that the sale of (Continued on Page Three.) HOUSING PROGRAM ASKED Lindberghs Safe At Bombay, India Bombay, India, Feb. 24.—(AP) — Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind bergh landed here at 1 p. m. today i - (3 a. m. eastern standard time) to- I day after being unreported for 48 houfS on an aerial jaunt over India. Little concern had been felt for the flying colonel and his wife whose insistence on absolute pri vacy has previously caused them tc be reported lost, although a wide spread unofficial search failed lo penetrate their mysterious two-day disappearance. They left Jodphur Monday after a week-end spent In sight-seeing in the Indian city. At the time of their take-off they were unreport- 1 ed en route to Delhi. Marine and Aircraft Cur tailed in Groton, Conn., and Santa Monica, California SITDOWNSTRIKES BREAKING AFRESH State, Troopers Eject Sit downers from Groton, Conn. t Plant; Government Submarines Under Con struction There; Union- Recognition Issue There (By The Associated Press.) Pickets awaited calls to shoe plants in the great Massachusetts manufacturing center today as labor rows brought numerous new walkouts or “sitdown” strikes in communities from coast to coast. Quick agreement, however, to demand of the United Shoe and Leather Union Workers Union for a 15 percent wage increase by more than a score of the Niew England shoe manufacturers mov ed Organizer William McMahan to assert, “I think we have al ready won this strike.” A 24-hour picket detail replaced sitdowners at the Electric Bolt Company at Groton, Conn., from which sitdowners were ejected by State troopers yesterday. (By The Associated Press.) Strikes at apposite ends of the na tion, Groton, Conn., and Santa Mon ica, Cal., curtailed production of the United States government marine craft and air craft today. Many other strikes, most of them sitdown, were in progress at widely scattered points in the nation. Settle ment of some was followed almost immediately by new labor disputes. More than 300 sitdown strikers oc (Cont*' wed on Page Five) CAST ALIA FARMER IS FOUND MURDERED Officers At Loss To Solve Crime, as Junie Fogleman Was Known As Good Citizen Nashville, Feb. 24—(AP)—Junie Fogleman, 30-year-old Castalia farmer, who was found dead in a woods near his home last night, with a* shotgun wound in his ab domen and his head badly bruised was declared by the Nash county coroner today to have been a vic tim of foul play. “Fogleman was murdered by an unknown party or parties,” Coro ner M. C. Gulley, of Nashville, de clared following his inquest. Sheriff C. V. Faulkner said he believed bruises on the back of the man’s head and on his fore head were caused by clubbing after he had been shot. The of ficer said, however, Fogleman had a reputation of being “one of the best men in the community,” and could give no reason for the act. OURWOTHEPMAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy (tonight and Thursday, with occasional rain tonight; slightly cooler tonight. Five Hurt By Rebel BombDroppedUpon British Battleship War Vessel in Valencia Ha rbor at Time of Attack by Insurgent Spanish Plane; Insurgents Report 2,500 Government Troops Slain At Oviedo London, Feb. 24.—'(AP)—The Ad miralty announced (,oday five mem bers of the crew of the British (bat tleship Royal Oak, including several ranking officicers, had been injured when a shell burst on the quarter deck during the Spanish insurgent air bombardment of Valencia yesterday. 2,500 GOVERNMENT TROOPS SLAIN IN OVIEDO BATTLE (By The Associated Press.) Spanish insurgents reported 2,500 government attackers slain at Oviedo today, while other government forces —“tired of the defensive”—pushed, widespread offensive operations. Conflicting reports were received Letters Congressmen Get Almost Entirely Opposed To Tinkering With Court Bulk of Letters from Rank and File and Remarkably Well Expressed; But Con gressmen Refrain from Taking Stand for Fear Sentiment May Change By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. 24.—The average American is, to a surprising extent, more interested in the United States Supreme Court’s fate than I, at least, would have expected. It is understandable that lawyers, for example, should be violently alert to such suggestions as President Roosevelt’s for liberalization of the high tribunal’s membership. Big busi nessmen, of course, are wide awake to all its implications. So are college professors; students in general. Labor and farm leaders naturally sense everything that the presidential plan means. These folk are especially trained to grasp the significance of a proposal as the White House tenant’s for re s 6 Minimum Auto License Is Proposed Dally Dlipatrb Burea*, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleih, Feb. 24.—Minimum price for the license tag on a passenger au tomobile will be $6, if the administra tion-backed motor vehicle act, just in troduced by Representative Con C. Johnston, of Iredell, becomes a law, as it is expected it will. The bi’l, which is extremely volum inous, re-codifies existing regulations and laws regarding motor vehicles, and sets up new license tag rates. It was introduced Monday night by its author, who expressed the opinion it will pass almost without amendment. License fees on private passenger vehicles would ibe reduced to thirty cents per hundred pounds, with the minimum, as stated of $6. Motor vehicle dealers would pay $25 for their first set of plates and $5 for each additional set. Rates on Haulers. The following rates would be appli- Continued on Page Two.) PEGGY GARCIA SUIT ON RUBINOFF ENDED Plaintiff’s Counsel Makes Motion for Dismissal While She Is Giving Testimony New York, Feb. 24.—(AP)—Peggy Garcia’s $500,000 breach of promise suit against Dave Rubinoff ended abruptly in Supreme Court today when Justice Salvatore Cottillo grant ed a motion to discontinue made by her counsel, Bernard Sandler. Sandler’s decision to drop tho ac tion against the radio violinist, oc curred while the plaintiff was on the stand relating the details of her mar riage in 1925 to Taylor Vance Guinn. Justice Cottillo 'broke in and said: “There is no desire on my part to continue this trial and drag in dirt have the names of innocent persons dragged into it. Why doesn’t counsel make a motion to discontinue?” PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. on the fighting at Oviedo. Bayonne dispatches said govern ment infantrymen battled their way to the center of the city. But General Francisco Franco’s high insurgent command, reporting rout of the Oviedo government troops, termed it “the most crushing defeat of the civil war.’’ The government has been besieging Oviedo near the Bay of Biscay, for months. There has been intense fight ing in the various streets of the city for four days. Reports from Madrid stated gov ernment and insurgent troops were locked in hand-to-hand combat for possession of a strategic hill on a river front southeast of Madrid^ organization of the nation’s judicial machinery. But I would have supposed it would; be too technical greatly to excite our average. HEAVY MAIL I could not have made a worse guess. The volume of mail and telegrams received by senators and representa tives apropos the President’s Supreme Court message has been absolutely unprecedented. I had had about a bushel (basketful of letters on the subject myself. The bulk of these communications are not from highbrows but from the rank-and-file of citizens (and citizen esses). They are expressed in remark (Continued on Page Five) LABOR.AWS READY FOR BOTH HOUSES Regulate Child Labor and Hours of Work in Va ried Industries Dally Dlapatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Feb. 24 —Action on two im portant items of labor legislation will be taken soon, and almost sim ultatneously, in both House and Sen ate, as two bills sponsored by labor were reported from committee Tues day—the McKee child labor law in the Senate and the Mcßryde-Uzzell maximum hour law in the House. Both have been changed from the form in which their sponsors handed them up, but both retain enough of their original provisions to muster support from labor and other organi zations interested in so-called ‘Miberal” legislation. State Child Labor Act The McKee bill marks up the child labor age two years to 16 and places children from 16 to 18 in the zone now occupied by thos e from 14 to 16. It is claimed by its supporters to be the answer of opponents of the Fede ral child labor amendment, who pro claimed during debate on that mea (Continued on Page Two). REFUGEE CAMPS IN LOUISIANA EXPAND Mighty Mississippi Pushing Its Flood Waters Down Into Gulf, Cov ering Lowlands New Orleans, La., Feb. 24.—(AP) — Refugee camps in Louisiana and Mis sissippi expanded today as a iback waters of tributaries spread out over farm lands and highways and the broad Mississippi pushed its flood bur den to the gulf. The great waterway itself caused little trouble, although 1,000 men con tinued topping the Black Hawk and Fairview dykes along a low stretch in Concordia parish on the Louisiana banks below Natchez, Miss. 8' PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY LOW RENT HOUSING AND SLUM PROGRAM BEFORE CONGRESS Senator Wagner and Repre sentative Stegall Auth ors of New Spend ing Scheme SECRETARY ROPER HITS SITDOWNERS Attempts To Take Over Pri vate Property Serious Thing, Commerce Chief Declares; Townsend Wins One Acquittal; Senators Debate Reciprocal Tariff Washington, Feb. 24.—(AP) —Two Democratic leaders aisked Congress today to set up a billion dollar low rent housing and slum clearance pro gram. Introducing a (bill to authorize Fed eral loans and grants to local author ities to aid in housing families of low incomes, Senator Wagner, Democrat, New York, and Representative Stea gall, Democrat, Alabama, declared they had the endorsement of “many sectors of the Federal government.” The authors of the measure would create a. new United States Housing Authority, under which they said the President could “gather the scattered organizations now empowered to en gage in Lousing.” They believe the Federal funds re commended would bring out about $500,000.900 of nor.-Federal loans. They figured 375.00.: family dwelling units, requiring about $4,000 each cc-uld be provided. “Any sitdown strike that under takes tc take over private property,” Secretary Roper said at a press con fernce today, “is a serious and funda mental thing, and in my opinion would not be long endured by the courts.” He stressed that the views he ex pressed were personal. Dr. Francis Townsend, originator of the S2OO old age pension movement, won acquittal on one count charging him with contempt of the House, but his trial on another continued. President Roosevelt asked Congress Continued on Page Two.) New Arrests Expected In Flog Cases Shallotte, Feb. 24.—(AP)—Sheriff J. A. Russ said today he expected ad ditional arrests immediately in hts investigation of a two-year series of floggings, despite the fact his first two suspects were acquitted in county at White ville yesterday. Russ said ir formation obtained at the trial, fitting in with what he had already earned, would provide him with sufficient grounds for “several more arrests.” “We re just getting started good in this thing,” he said, adding that his investigation had not been retarded by the acquittal of Rev. Vance Sim mons, missdonary Baptist preacher, and Garfield Simmons, his store keeper cousin. The men were accused of participat in the flogging of Will Inman and Jesse Cox last Thanksgiving night by a band of night riders, but were freed when the victims failed to identify them. Find Poison In Stomachs Mother, Girl Web of Evidence Is Tightening About Edgar Smoak I n Trial at Wilmington Wilmington, Feb. 24.—(AP)— Dr. Haywood Taylor testified to day in the murder trial of Edgar Smoak he found lethal amounts of a swift-acting poison in the vital organs of both the 16-year-old daughter and the second wife of the defendant. The Duke hospital toxicologist said his tests Indicated the child’s lx*dy contained 17 times that us ually given for medicinal or tonic purposes. After presenting the evidence of Taylor and other physicians, (Continued on Page Six.)
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