fHENUEKSON \* Ml™ CAROLINA YEAR HOUSE ACCEPTS SENATE REVENUE CHANGES Strike Epidemic Spreading To All Sections Os Nation Slowing Industry’s Output SCORES OF FIRMS ARE AFFECTED BY CONTINUED STRIFE / New Strikes Break Out or Old Ones Are Settled Somewhere Almost Hourly WOMEN PARTICIPATE WITH MEN WORKERS Walkout and Picket Method and New Sitdown Techni que; Many Diversified Pro ducts Affected by Strikes; Dozen Detroit Plants Closed Santa Monica, Cal., Feb. 25. (AlM—Doors of the Northrup Cor poration. subsidiary of the strike affected Douglas Aircraft Manu facturing company, were clojsed today to employees as picket lines formed around the place. . HHHHHgTO, ..*>*<* ' i ’■ * fiSSS«H»ra* > Edward T. Taylor With the death of Representative James P. Buchanan, 70, of Texas, the chairmanship of the powerful house appropriations committee passes to Representative Edward T. Taylor of Colorado,: above. Taylor, 79, the oldest member of the house, has not been in the best of health recently and is ex pected to pass on some of the chairmanship’s arduous duties to other committee members.! —Central Press 1 OGermans To Be Freed Byßussians Moscow, Feb. 25.—(AP)—Ten Ger mans arrested on suspicion of saba tage and espionage in November last year will be deported from Russia, immediately, the Soviet government informed the German Embassy today. The Embassy declared it “was not advised” on the status of 34 other Germans known to be held in Russian, jails. Four of the Germans facing depor tation are incarcerated in Moscow and (Continued on Page Six.) OURWyMIEPMAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Fri day; colder tonight; colder Fri day. Comes Nearer Balancing Budget Than Its Own Bill by Accepting Meals Taxes APPROPRIATIONS IN SENATE GOES SLOW Boosts Allotment to State Sanatorium by $18,000; House Committee Ap proves State Probation System; Many Local Bills Are Quickly Passed Raleigh, Feb. 25 —(AP) —The House, by an overwhelming oral vote, accept ed Senate amendments to the $76,- 000,000 biennial general revenue bill this afternoon. The House must now pass the amended revenue act on roll call votes tomorrow and Saturday. Leaders out lined plans to complete voting on it shortly after midnight Friday night. House acceptance of the Senate changes, especially a three percent tax on meals, which The Democratic party platform pledged to remove, came as somewhat of a surprise. More Han an hour was spent on de bate after Representative Bryant, of Durham, House finance chairman, moved for concurrence. Most of the opposition centered on the tax on meals. If the measure completes the read ings in the House in its present form, it will levy new taxes on intangibles, gifts and wines. It will continue the throe percent sales tax, except for basic foods, and re-enact most other present taxes without change. The Senate worked slowly on the appropriations bill, boosting allot ments to the North Carolina Sana torium about SIB,OOO, then recessed to continue deliberation tonight. Representative Bryant explained each of the Senate tax changes in de tail. The House-passed revenue proposal, he said, lacked about $600,000 meeting general fund expenditures for 1937 to 1933. Senate changes cut the gap to about $300,000 by reductions in taxes on building materials and chain fill ing stations, to reduce the estimated total ty $475,000 and an addition of SBOO,OOO by a three percent tax on meals. Thirty-two local bills were quickly passed as the legislature continued to keep calendars in good shape. Creation of a probation system for North Carolina won approval of the House Penal Institutions Committee today. The group amended the Ward bill so as to give the governor veto power (Continued on Page Eight.) TIHEIR PUN OF SPANISH BLOCKADE France and Russia Both Object to Certain Details of Neutrality Proposal BRITAIN FEARFUL v OF NEW SHELLINGS Others of Her Warships May Be Struck; Hope Now Is Only for Modified Blockade b y March 6 Deadline; Fighting Severe Around Madrid (By The Associated Press.) Delay in affecting a neutrality blockade of the Spanish civil war was forecast at London today. In Spain severe* fighting raged from the Madrid front, especially the Jarama sector to the torn city of Oviedo near the Bay of Biscay. French objections to details of a land patrol and Russia’s objections to her part of a sea patrol complicated the picture as six powers gathered for a neutrality sub-committee meet ing in London. An “act of God’’ shell ing of the British warship Royal Oak off Valencia Tuesday presented the possibility of other such incidents when the' powers begin to partlo Spain to keep foreign men and arms out. Although a full blockade was be lieved impossible by the deadline March 6, some hope was expressed a modified plan could Ibe effected by them. Amendment To Constitution Giving States More Power Offered By Senator Borah Rival for “Wally’s” Hand? I .y' I v#jr Nicolas Zographos, left, dining at Deauville, French resort Has Edward, the Duke of Windsor, a would-be rival for the affec tions of Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson? That is what the world wonders as the French Riviera bua#es with talk that “Wally” has been seen several times in Cannes, France, with Nicolas Zographos, •Greek gambling magnate. He is seen, left, above, dining with a friend at Deauville, France. Zographos has been termed "the world’s biggest gambler”. Chances Fade Completely For Compacts On Tobacco Murder of Farmer In Nash Unsolved Nashville, Feb. 25.—(AP)—Work ing without clues, Nash county of ficers pursued their investigation today into the death of Junie Fog leman, 30, farmer, whose body was found in a wood near his home with a shotgun wound in the abdo men and a badly bruised head. Sheriff C. V. Faulkner said evi dence pointed clearly to fold play, but said his investigation had pro duced neither motive nor clue so far. SMALL LOANS BILL IS DUEFOR DEBATE Industrial Banks Claim They Are Filling Needs Adequately Dally Dispatch Bnrenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Uy O. BA SKERVILt Raleigh, Feb. 25. —One of the hot test fights so far witnessed on the floor of the House was expected to develop this afternoon when the small loans bank bill, introduced by Representative R. T. Pickens of High Point, comes up for action. For more than two weeks, lobbyists for the in dustrial banks and for the “loan sharks” have been working against the bill and have been trying to con vince members of the General Assem bly that it is a “loan shark” bill be cause it permits the making of loans at the rate of 3 1-2 per cent per month Within the last week or so the in dustrial tanks have also enlisted the aid of most of the other ibanks in the State in fighting it and this morning the opponents of the bill were con fident they had it beaten. Good Chance Claimed. But the proponents of the bill, in cluding the State Federation of Labor and those favorable to labor, who have been working for the bill, be lieved there was a good chance for the bill to pass the House today, and that if it passes the House, it will also get by the Senate. They maintain that the bill is not generally understood (Continued on Page Eight.) PUBLISHED EVERT AFTEXNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Refusal of Georgia to Go Along With Other States Kills Laborious Process GROWERS TURN TO WASHINGTON AGAIN Hutson Says Something Might Be Done “If the Peo ple Press so rlt”; Soil Con servation Chief Hope Now, E. Y. Floyd, of State Col lege, Says Raleigh, Feb. 25. —(AP) —Chances for a flue-cured tobacco production control through State compacts for 1937 have apparently faded complete ly, farm leaders here said today. Some control, however, will be pos sible if farmers cooperate fully in soil conservation, E. Y. Floyd, N. C. State College tobacco specialist, said. Action of a Georgia legislative com mittee in killing a proposed compact measure for that State ended chances for control this year, E. F. Arnold, executive secretary of the State Farm Bureau Federation, said. The North Carolina compact law passed recently is inoperative unless Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia (Continued on Page Six.) W. D. HACKNEY, OF WAGON FAME, DIES Prominent Wilson Man Succumbs to Injuries Sustained When Hit by Motor Truck. Wilson, Feb. 25 (AP) W. D. Hackney, whose name was once fami liar throughout the South as the builder of the Hackney farm wagon, died here today, the victim of a motor truck injury. The 79-year-old retired manufactur er, was knocked down on a street here ten days ago and suffered a frac tured skull. M. L. Williamson, truck operator, was held in default of SSOO bond. Hackney’s father founded the wagon company here in 1854, and he succeeded to the presidency upon the death of the founder. Before the era of car and truck transport, the com pany conducted a thriving business in Wilson. Funeral services will ibe held to morrow afternoon at 4 o’clock from the residence here. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SEEK REPUL AND THEN RE-WRITING 14TH AMENDMENT Measure Would Make New York Minimum Wage Law Constitutional Immediately roosevellt^till HAS CONFERENCES President Now Talking With House Members; President Lunches With Justice De partment Lawyers in Draft ing of Wage and Hour Legislation Washington, Feb. 25.—(AP)—Sena tor Borah, Republican, of Idaho, in troduced today a constitutional amendment to limit the due process law of the fourteenth amendment so as to permit states to handle social and economic problems within their own fcorders. Borah’s proposed amendment would repeal the fourteenth amendment and re-write it to limit the due process clause to procedure rather than sub stance of laws. He told newspaper men it would make constitutional the New York minimum wage law which the Su preme Court held invalid last year. Borah tossed his proposal into the legislative hopper without comment on the Senate floor as the battle was faging warmer and warmer over Pre sident Roosevelt’s proposal to reor ganize the Supreme Court in an ef fort to broaden the Federal govern ment’s power to handle such problems Meanwhile, more White House con ferences formed the medium through which the President worked today for the success of his court reorganiza tion program. Continuing discussions with con (Continued on Page Six.) Senate Near Vote Now On Trade Pacts! Washington, Feb. 25.—(AP)— The Senate neared a vote today on the re ciprocal trade act after Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, declared it “burdened American agriculture with foreign competition.” Asked by Senator Harrison, Demo crat, Mississippi, a champion of the program, if he thought the Canadian treaty had seriously affected Amer ican cattle prices, Borah said: “If enough cattle came in to help the Canadian farmer, enough came in to hurt the American farmer.” Although his protest joined those of Senators Vandenibiurg, Republican, Michigan, and Capper, Republican, (Continued on Page Slx.> OFFERSIiON OF LABOR PROBLEM Toledo Man Would Make Capital and Labor Part ners in Busines By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. 25.—A reader of this column, one Harry Stoddard, ad dressing me from Toledo (O.) has, to offer, a solution of this country’s (and for that matter, the world’s) capital ani-labor problems, which he want 3 to publicize. He says it is a “simple solution.” I accept this assurance with my fingers crossed. Nevertheless, Mr. Stoddard evidently has done some thinking on his subject, which is more than most folk have done. He may bo a second Henry George, for all I know. Parenthetically, Henry George's plan never has been adopted. Any (Continued on Page Four.)