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HENDERSON GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-fourth YEAR FIHAHCE AND APPROFRUTiON BILLS PASS Roosevelt Announces Appeal To Nation March 9 Union-Non-Union Frictions Shut General Motors Plant In Wisconsin; 2,700 Go Out MOWN STRIKERS USE GROUND WITH OUSTERS IN WEST I Picket Lines Hold Fast, However, in Stirke Situa tion Stretching Across Nation ABOVE 30 THOUSAND ARE REPORTED IDLE Some Sitdowners Jailed At Santa Monica Aircraft Plant; Connecticut Gover nor Warns Sitdowners Will Not Be Tolerated At All in His State Janesville, Wis., Feb. 26 (AP) -A labor dispute developing over fraction between union and non-union employes closed the Fisher Body plant and the Chev rolet automobile assembly plant today. About 2,700 men were thrown out of work. SITDOWNERS ARE JAILED AT SANTA MONICA PLANT (By The Associated press.) Strikes at a glance: Santa Monica, Cal.—Sitdown strik er- at Douglas Aircraft plant evicted and jailed. Minneapolis Electrical workers continue to picket two Northern States Fower dompany plants; elec trical service disrupted in part of city. (Cent 1 * - ’-led on Page Five) Telephone Lobbyists On The Job Dally DiMpntch flHrenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Feb. 26.—A1l of the high powered executives and lobbyists for the telephone companies in the State at'- here today to fight the bill which would permit municipalities to levy a tax of one per cent on the gross re cetpt.s of exchanges on inter-city bus ine.s.s in return for franchise privil ege:- Hearing on the bill is scheduled today before the Senate committee on public utilities. The bill was intro (Continued on Page Six.) W ould Have Slate Insure Every School Great Saving In Pre miums Would Re-! suit, Is Claim of Randolph Senator Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. »y IIKNIRY AVERILL. tel' igh, Feb. 16.—(Senator Ingram, ' Randolph, has introduced a bill to u * lot :ze and provide for the estab ‘yment of a State fund for the pur '<h" ~f insuring all pulblic school pro tn 'r U Carolina against loss its, tornado, lightning, hail and lnh «»nt explosion. 11 bill would “set up a scientific FOCCljlj;.,-, the ent . re g tatej » aC _ y u.y t 0 its author. Procedure now ac,ice d, he contends, “lag far be -1 Continued on Page Five) HJeniteramt Datht Btapafrhl 1 ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIMINIA * ' Pension And School Acts, Yet To Be Passed On, May Delay Final Adjournment HOUSE VOTE SETS RECORDONFINANGE Majority for Senate Amend ments Unexpectedly Large Thursday Daily Dispatch Rnrean, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Feb. 26.—Adoption by the House of the Senate amendments to the revenue bill, without sending it to conference, with the result that the bill is expected to pass its second reading today and third reading in an early morning session soon after midnight tonight, sets a new record for speedy action on revenue bills by North Carolina general assemblies. It is the first time in 15 years at least probably in 20 years, that the House has approved a revenue bill as pass ed and amended by the Senate with out sending it to conference. In the past* three sessions of the General Assembly the revenue till remained in conference anywhere from two to four weeks before the conferees could reach agrements acceptable to both houses. Sentiment Changes. Until Thursday night it was ex pected by a good many observer® that (Continued on Page Three.) “Gone With Wind” Read to Veterans In Soldiers’ Home Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 26.—(AP) The War Between the States is being fought again at the Con federate Veterans home here. A group of five or six of the old men, one at least past 100, sit tense in a little group near the fire and listen. At times the muscles of their lined old faces twitch, and gnar led fingers grip their chairs. Ex clamations sometimes of approval again of disgust then pass their lips. They are listening to Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind,” which is being read aloud to them. Each day young men and women from the National Youth Admin istration go to the home to read from the hook, the “whirlwind book,” as the veterans like to call it. Local Bank Stocks Good Investment, Babson Says Ideal Type of Security With Which To Hedge Against Changing Business Trends, Economist Says; Bank Profits Are Now on the Upgrade BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1937, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Fla., Feb. 26.—“A suc cessful man is one who can readily adjust his policies and viewpoint to changed conditions.” This ability is one of the fundmental essential® for success in business or investing. If a man cannot shift his policies with the tides and trends, he i® doomed to bus iness failure. For such a man there are only two alternatives: (1) Get out of (business and stay out of it, or (2) Hedge so tht whichever way the wind blows he is at least partially protect 6Cl* Always Wise To Hedge. As a matter of fact, only the best informed business men and investors are usually able to detect a shift in LEASED WIRE SERVICE dtp THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 0 HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 26, 1937 House Is Already in Open Revolt on Dividing Old Age Pensions on Counties MAY RESIST HOEY AND SCHOOL BODY Legislature May Buck Gov ernor a_n d Education Forces in Seeking To Give Superintendent Erwin Con trol of Allocation of School Funds Dally Dispatch Bnrenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Feb. 26 —The old age pen sion bill and the school machinery act are the biggest hurdles in the path of the General Assembly in its race for an early adjournment and a number of legislative toes are likely to be stub bed and some shins skinned before these two bills are enacted, a good many veterans political observers here agree. House in Open Revolt The House is already in open re volt against the administration-spon sored old age pensions bill, which pass ed the Senate with only one vote cast against it, largely because a number of House members, including Chair man D. L. Ward, of the appropriations committee, are opposed to the provi sions which would saddle $2,000,000 a year of the cost of the pensions and children’s aid upon the counties. A Continued on Page Two.) FARNSWORTH GIVEN FOUR TO 12 YEARS Former Navy Commander Accused of Conspiring to Sell Naval Sec rets to Japan Washington, Feb. 26.—(AP)—John Farnsworth, former naval lieutenan commander, was sentenced to from four to 12 year® imprisonment today on a charge of conspiring to sell naval secrets to the Japanese. Sentence wss passed by Justice James Proctor in Federal district court. Farnsworth had thrown himself upon the mercy of the court by plead ing nolo contendere to the charge. He later asked the justice to per mit him to change that plea to in nocent, but the justice refused. Farnsworth was arrested last July by Justice Department agents, who said they had conducted an extended investigation of his activities. the basic trends in time. Most conser vatives believe that the safest policy is to hedge against all probabilities. They never put all their eggs in one “policy basket.” For instance ,a con cern will often neglect one line to push another product; but will con tinue to manufacture the less popular item as protection against the sour ing of the leading seller. Similarly, an. investor may believe that the “bloom is off” a certain group of companies engaged in a stable business, but he will hng on to these staocks as pro tection against a slump in some vola tile securities. For four years amazed business men and investors have watched money rates sink lower and lower. In- Osctinued on Page Two.) PRESIDENT PUNS REPORT TO PEOPLE about conditions Courfj Reorganization Pro gram Will Be Discussed by Executive Dur ing Address COURT RETIREMENT BILL GETS PASSAGE Goes Through Senate, Per mitting Supreme Court Justices To Retire on Full j Pay at 70; Coal and Low Cost Housing Bill Wanted by President Washington, Feb. 26 (AP) President Roosevelt said today he would make a nationwide radio talk the night of March 9 on the state of the nation. It is expected by White House offi cials to include a discussion of his court reorganization pro gram. Although the President warned newspaper men at a press conference not to go out on a iimb in predict ing an address on the court issue, there were well founded indications he would touch on that subject. The speech will be for one half hour beginning at 10:30. The radio companies will broadcast it. March 9 is the day the Senate Judi ciary Committee is scheduled to start hearings on the President’s judiciary plans. Mr. Roosevelt said he had no idea what would go into his speech, except it would touch on many problems af fecting the state of the nation. While his program will not come before Congress officially until the Senate hearing starts, a supplemental measure providing for retirement of Supreme Court justices was passed to day by the Senate. The President told reporters Con gress must do something about stabi lizing the soft coal industry this ses sion. He said also some type of low cost housing legislation should be passed. Administration forces in the Senate had their forces lined up to back the Supreme Court retirement bill even though it is only supplemental to th e President’s proposals for general re (Continued on Page Four.) SCENARIO WRITER’S DEATH ACCIDENTAL Police Suspect No Foul Play In Bul let-Pierced Body of Late Humphrey Pearson Palm Springs, Cal., Feb. 26 (AP) — An autopsy showed today that the bullet that killed Humphrey Pearson, movie scenario writer, was fired from a gun held close to his chest, Under Sheriff Steve Lynch, of Riverside county, reported today. “We are of the opinion it was an accidental shooting,’ he said, adding, “I don’t think we will be able to get anything from the paraffin tests.” H e referred to th e paraffin tests made of the hands of Pearson and of his wife after the writer was found dead in the bed of Lis desert cottage Wednesday night. Investigators pre viously hinted the paraffin impres sions failed to show powder marks. DEATH OF SERGEANT THIRD FROM BATTLE Two Escaped Convicts Shot Dead In St. Louis After Escape from Michigan Pen St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 26.—(AP)—De tective Sergeant John Thomas Sul livan died today of bullet wounds suf fered in a gun battle in which two es caped Michigan convicts were killed yesterday. Sullivan, shot five tiroes, was paral zed by a bullet which lodged in his spine, and had he lived would never have been able to walk. He was 45 and had been a policeman nearly 18 years. The dead bandits, linked with a series of hold-ups here Tuesday and Tuesday night, were identified by fingerprints as Ray Rush, 19, and Alvin Mott, 19, who with Joe Scofick escaped from the Michigan State Pri son at Jackson last Friday. Rush was killed in a hotel room, where Sullivan and Detective Ray mond Rossler cornered the men. Mott escaped after bullets had felled the police officer and- was fatally wound ed a few blocks away as he fled in a commandeered car owned by Warren Scott, a salesman. Mott died last night Townsend Guilty of Contempt m ||| Hgplflfe 1 . :j Ik. - tsais wj I^JM hip • w IHHHHB mm || ■ n 'l raf '' I 1 If i msm ’ » Dr. Townsend, right, and Attorney Elisha Hanson outside court Dr. Francis E. Townsend, right, founder of the old age pension plan bearing his name, is pictured In this Central Press Soundphoto outside federal court in Washington just before he was found guilty of contempt of the house of representatives. Elisha Hanson, Townsend’s attorney, is shown with him. llhe charges grew out of Dr. Townsend’s walking out of a hous e committee’s hearing on the old age pension plan in Washington last May. Rebels Report Battalion Os Loyalists Wiped Out “Suicide” Strike In Hungary Mines Comes to an End Pecs, Hungary, Feb. 26 (AP) — A “suicide” strike of 250 miners collapsed today and the men, half crazed from hunger, and many bleeding from wounds suffered in an underground fight, staggered out of the shaft. Sobbing wives and relatives greeted them. Some of the grimy faced workers, too weak to talk, were carried on the shoulders of their comrades. One miner said they had eaten the last sack of oats intended for ponies used for underground haul ing during the two days they re mained defiantly in their strong hold. r Each striker, he said, received a handful of th© grain twice a day. Argentine’s Kidnap Pair Make Escape LaPlata, Argentine, Feb. 26. (AP) —Antonio Caprioli, Argen tine’s “Public Enemy No. 1,” and a companion, “Little Boy” Mar tinez, escaped today after a gun battle with police seeking the kid napers of Eugenio Oraola,. two year-old son of a wealthy family. Caprioli, known as a lieutenant of the dead gangster chieftain Continued on, Page Five.) OtJRWEAnjEPMAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy and slightly war mer tonight; Saturday cloudy. PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Government Offensive On Western Border of Mad rid Thus Crushed by Insurgents RUSSIA, PORTUGAL QUIT THE PATROL Four Other Powers Expect ed To Go Ahead, However, With Plans To Isolate Spanish Civil War by Shut ting Off Men and Sup plies from all Sources (By The Associated Press.) Annihiliation of an entire battalion of Madrid militiamen, insurgent of ficers declared today, wiped out a government offensive on the western (border of the capital. They said the government infantry men were mowed. down by machine gun fire and hand grenades as line after line surged against insurgent barricades in a frontal attack near a bridge. Russia and Portugal resigned from the projected six power patrol intend ed starting March 6 to prevent men and munitions from reaching the Spanish combatants. Their action, ap parently by agreement, left only France, Great Britain, Italy and Ger many to enforce the international non-intervention agreement. Informed sources said the with (Continued on Page Four.) . THREE INDICTED IN NEW YORK ROBBERY White Plains, N. Y., Grand Jury Acts Quickly in $18,726 Hold-Up of Katonah Bank White Plains, N. Y., Feb. 16 (AP)— The Westchester county grand jury today indicted Merle Vandenbush, 29 so-called “public rat No. 1,” and his two companions, in the $17,726 hold up of a bank at Katonah, N. Y., for robbery in the first degree. The’special grand jury acted speed ily, hearing only two witnesses and returning th© indictments 29 minutes after beginning its session. As the grand jury was acting, the three prisoners, handcuffed together and surrounded by guards, were rush ed from the Westchester county jail to East View to the court of County Judge Gerald Nolan. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SPENDING MEASURE PASSES IN SENATE, REVENUE IN HOUSE Completion of Finance Bill To Be Given by House Just After Midnight Tonight PHONE COMPANIES WILL RESIST TAX Argue Before Committee Against One Percent Tax on Receipts for Municipa lities; Durham Negro School Gets Its $155,000 For New Building Raleigh, Feb. 26 (AP)—The Senate passed the record $145,- 000,000 biennial appropriations bill this afternoon, and return ed it to the; House for concur rence in amendments. No record vote was taken as the rules were suspended to pass the measure. Funds for the State experiment sta tions were reduced from $36,675 an nually to $26,350 before the vote. A few minutes later, House mem bers approved the State’s biggest gen eral fund tax bill by a 90 to 5 vote on second reading and planned to enact it into law shortly after midnight. The proposal is estimated to raise about $76,000,000 for the biennium 1937-39. Five Vote Against It. Voting against the measure were Barnes of Wilson, Davis of Hyde, Mc- Bryde of Cumberland, Wilson of For syth and Haynes of Surry. The Senate added $13,500 annually to the funds for the State Hospital here on motion of Senator Clark, of Edgecombe, head of the board of di rectors for the institution. Clark said the money would allow 18.5 cents per day instead of 14 cents per day for food for each inmate. Senators passed without amend (Continued on Page Three.) smoakMnear NEW HANOVERJURY Defendant Is Accused of Poison Murder of His Young Daughter Wilmington, Feb. 26. —(AP) —Edgar Smoak was delineated both as a kind, provident father, beset (by circum stance, and as a prisoner who collect ed insurance on his wives and daugh ter before they were buried, in agru ments to the jury in his murder trial today. The defendant, a 39-year-old car penter’s helper, sat unemotionally through the opening statement of one of his attorneys, William Farmer, and the address of Solicitor John Burney, the State’s chief counsel. Smoak’s counsel, Clayton Grant, will make the closing defense argument this after noon. Smoak is on trial for first degree murder in the alleged poison death of his 16-year-old daughter, Annie Thelma, but the State claimed he also fed poison to his two wives to collect on insurance policies he carried on their lives. Soviets Will Press Battle If War Come Red Army Told To Crash Enemy Ter r i t o r y If Strife Should Break Out Moscow, Russia, Feb. 26.—(AP)— Revised general orders command the Soviet army to meet the enemy on his own territory in case of war, it was disclosed authoritatively today. The revised rules, already in effect, state: “Any attack on the territory of (Continued on Page Two)
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